AN: Sorry for the late post and I'll try not to let it happen again. Thank you to Fate Lowe for sticking with me this long. The next chapter should be up sometime in the next two weeks.
Chapter Two: Something I Can Never Have
?Explain.? Heero?s one word demand came across gruffly.
?First of all you should know not to just barge into my office uninvited.? Une calmly stated as she put the pin down on the paper she closed the screen to her laptop computer looking Heero in the eye with an annoyed look. ?Second of all there should be nothing to explain. You will be guarding her during the Christmas holiday during which time she will be visiting her mother as she does every year.?
?Can?t you send someone else? Don?t you have another job for me?? Heero asked looking for a way out.
?That is out of the question. If you had been at work last week I had a job for you then however your primary assignment with Preventers is the protection of the Vice Foreign Minister and that is what you will do like it or not.? Suddenly her facial features softened a bit. ?Heero I understand how you feel. We all lost somebody that day, some of us more than the rest. However you must move on with your life. Move on but at the same time always remember where you are now and those that helped you get here.? In an instant her facial features were back to normal, stern and cold.
Heero stood there for a second, barley registering Samantha standing next to him. He simply stood there, mulling over Une?s words. Finally something clicked as he stood there thinking. Une had lost a daughter in all that mess. Heero had spent this whole time thinking about the fact that a child could be replaced. But maybe it wasn?t that simple, and in this line of thought a newfound trust was born. ?Ok?. He stated.
Une smiled, ?Thank you, Heero. Check your computer for mission parameters and discuss every thing with the Vice Foreign Minister. Now if that?s all, I have a meeting to get to.?
?Ma?am.? Heero said before turning around and exiting the room, the Vice Foreign Minister in tow behind him.
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Samantha stood in the doorway of her new home. She still felt uncomfortable being here, knowing she had taken the place of the deceased Relena Peacecraft, and the disdainful look she was being given by Heero didn?t help her feel any easer. She had just now begun to put things in her suitcase for the trip, feeling rather embarrassed with Heero in the room as she put her personals in the case. ?Does he have no shame whatsoever? she internally asked herself. Heero got up from the wall he was leaning on and exited the room, as if he could read her mind. This caused her even more embarrassment for some unknown reason.
As soon as she had finished packing her suitcase she picked it up from the bed and stepped out of the room expecting Heero to be waiting right outside the door. But he was not there. ?He must have gotten tired of waiting and went to the car?. She began to walk down the hall of the mansion when she noticed one of the rooms had a faint light coming out of the ajar door. ?That?s funny, all the servants have the day off and security left a little while ago?. Samantha walked over to the door and opened it without even thinking about it.
She didn?t expect to find anybody in the room. But when she opened the door the first thing she saw was Heero standing by the wall across from the door. Before she could apologize for disturbing him she picked up on something, he hadn?t moved from where he was. Normally Heero would at least turn around to see who was there, usually starring that person down as if they were some threat. But instead he just stood there starring at the wall. No he wasn?t starring at the wall, but instead something on the wall, a picture.
Fascinated by this odd display Samantha was drawn in closer. She slowly walked forward to see what had captivated Heero?s attention so, part of her feeling wrong for intruding and the other part feeling curious, curious not just about the picture he was looking at but also about the man she was looking at. He was so secretive and distant even though they were around each other quite frequently. She realized that part of this was probably due to whose place she was taking, but then again most of the other people had treated her with a little bit of kindness. Even Relena?s own brother had shown her some compassion at the predicament she had been thrown into. But Heero had always been cold, ever since the first day they had met, he had always treated her the same. Or maybe it was just the opposite, maybe it was the fact the he had never treated her any way at all, instead always acting either indifferent or at the most hateful towards her.
Samantha was close enough now that she could see the picture, but what she saw just about shattered her heart. It was a picture of Relena and Heero dancing. But what she saw over everything else was the smile in Heero?s eyes, as well as the smile on Relena?s face. That was when she realized it. Heero was crying. Not on the outside, but instead on the inside, and he had been since the first day she had met him. With this realization came another, on far more saddening than the last. Samantha realized it just by looking at him, he had loved her, and when she had died he had lost everything. Tears began to form at the tips of her eyelids, ?Heero, I?m so sorry.?
Heero turned around startled for a second, and then in the blink of an eye he had regained his composure. He looked her dead in the eye as if daring her to say anything, ?Save you pity for someone who gives a damn.? Then he began to walk away, ?Lets go.? and just like that the incident was through. Samantha followed him out of the room, trying her best not to think about what she had just discovered, but failing at the same time.
Life's Sweet Lies Chapter Two
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