To those of you who didn't already know this, I do not own Gundam Wing or any of it's characters. I wouldn't be freezing my (place choice word here) off in Northern Ontario if I did. Oh, and there's a really kawaii scene in here for all of you Trowa x Quatre lovers, and to everyone who doesn't like the pairing well too bad cause I think they go well together. Anyway, on with the fic.
The Dark War
by: Discorde
Relena sat in her limousine looking out of the tainted window, barely noticing the scenery that was passing by. Her shuttle from L2 to earth had arrived a few hours ago and Pagan was now driving her home while she reflected on the events that had taken place at the ceremony on L2. 'Why? Why is everyone leaving me? Do they know, could it be.......but I was so careful and Milliardo wouldn't tell anyone would he....No! Of course not....but then how could they have found out....or am I the one who's driving them away, I'm the one they don't like. It has nothing to do with the fact that I'm....' The sound of her vidphone swiftly brought Relena from her thoughts. "Hello" she said as she answered.
Two young men appeared on the screen. ONce with short blond hair, blue eyes and a face that had a look of innocence to it, the other had short rusette hair and his longs bang covered one of his emerald green eyes and half of his expressionless face.
"Hello Relena, it's been a while since we've last talked. How have you been?"
"I'm doing fine" she replied as she replaced her frown with a fake smile "What about you Quatre, how have you and Trowa been?"
"Things here have been wonderful, actually we were on our way to earth on some business matters and I was wondering if you'd be free for lunch tomorrow."
"I'd love to go to lunch tomorrow but I'm afraid that I'll be tied up with meetings all day."
"Maybe next time then."
"Yes perhaps. Goodbye Quatre, Trowa."
"Goodbye Relena" Quatre answered, then shut the vidphone.
"You realize that she was lying to us" Trowa stated, "Yes, I know I could sense it. We'll visit her tomorrow to make sure she's alright. But right now we have to stop on L2 to see what it is that Duo wants to talk about." Trowa nodded his agreement "We better get some rest then, there's still a few hours till we reach L2 and with Duo around we probably wont be getting any rest later" as he spoke Trowa took Quatre's hand and helped him out of his seat. "Your right, knowing Duo he'll want to stay up all night and we'll be stuck playing I Never till we leave" Quatre replied, letting his lover lead the way to their bedroom. Upon entering their bedroom Trowa quietly closed the door behind him and both men stripped themselves of all their clothes excepts their boxers, then they slid under the dark green satin sheets that covered the king sized bed. Trowa placed his arms around Quatre's waist and pulled the young man closer to him. The little blond angel looked up into his lovers eyes and placed a gently kiss on his lips before laying his head down on Trowa's chest enjoying the warmth of the body that was laying beside him. Trowa sighed, content and they both drifted off into a peaceful sleep.
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The limousine pulled up to the Peacecraft mansion and Pagan made his way out of the drivers seat to open the door for Relena. She sat there for a few moments without making any effort to move but eventually her long slender legs slowly made their way out followed by the rest of her body. Relena took a few steps forward, her high heeled shoes making a scrunching sound in the snow, she stood in place staring at the large mansion that stretched out before her. The 3 hour drive from the space port to her home had been a long and quiet one and all of her thoughts had managed to slowly lull her into a state of depression.
"Miss Relena, are you alright?" Pagan inquired.
"I'm fine Pagan, I'd just like to stand here for a few minutes if you don't mind, I don't wish to go in right away."
"As you wish miss Relena." Satisfied that she didn't need his services for the moment, yet still worried Pagan reluctantly made his way back to the limousine and drove of towards the garage.
Relena's hair danced in the cold winter wind and her knee lenght skirt joined the dance. The feel of the wind going through her hair brought her a sense of peace that she enjoyed, put her moment of peace would not be long lived. She knew she couldn't stand outside like this for much longer, she would have to go inside soon and the minute she would enter her home all her troubles would begin once more. The endless discussions or meetings that seemed to be the only constant in her life would once again take over and there was nothing she could do about it. Even if she didn't want this life anymore, if she was sick of the arguments, the debates and the endless crushing of her very soul she would hide it beneath her mask of hapiness. The people of the world expected so much of her, too much, yet she couldn't dissapoint them. Today however, was different, she had enough of it all and she wasn't going to be pushed around, 'not today' she thought squaring her shoulders against what she knew was ahead 'today I'm doing things my way and I don't care what anyone says, I've already been through too much today, I'm not going to take anything more from anyone in there'. She marched up to the mansion and the few steps to the front doors with determination and swung open the doors.
The moment she stepped inside two preventer agents quickly made their way to her. "Onna where have you been, we've been trying to locat you for the past 5 hour!" one of them said, he was a young chinese man with jet black hair pulled back in a short ponytail and was dressed in the usual navy blue preventers uniform. "He's right Relena, we were worried sick about you when we heard about the shooting, you should have called us." the young woman at his side said, her hair was dirty blond, went down to her shoulders and curled at the ends, she was dressed in the same outfit her partner was wearing. "Sally's right you should have called onna, you need to learn to be more responsible."
Relena's blood had started to boil the second they had approached her and this last comment had pushed what little patience she had left to its limit. "RESPONSIBLE!" she screamed out "how dare you even talk to me about responsibility Wufei! I have been working hard at keeping the peace between earth and the Colonies since I was fifteen and everyday that I make a decision, everyday I sign my name on a piece of paper I have to live with the knowledge that my decisions could be saving millions of lives or destroying them. I'm responsible for any war that might break loose and if war were ever to erupt I'd be responsible for every life lost. While I'm making these decisions you are doing what your told to do and you are never responsible for the consequences that your actions bring about, I am. You have absolutely no right to talk to me about being responsible". With those last words Relena ran up the flight of stairs to her bedroom and slammed the door shut behind her, leaving a a room of very shocked and silent people.
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A few hours later the two lovers were rudely awaken by a very annoying braided Gundam pilot "Hey! Wake up lovebirds!" Quatre's eyes immediately snapped open when he heard Duo's voice and his cheeks took on a rosy hue. "D-Duo, h-how did you manage to get, past the guards, to our room?" Quatre managed to choke out as Trowa simply looked on. "He got all the guards asleep with the help of some sleeping gas" a very embarrassed Hilde answered as she stepped out from behind Duo, smiling shyly at the two men still in bed and in each others arms. "We'll uh... we'll just leave and give you time to get up now" she turned around quickly and grabbed Duo's arm and tugged on it lightly. Duo whined about her not letting him tease Quatre and embarass him further but followed her anyway. "Note to self" Quatre said as he got up from the bed "never land on L2 unless fully prepaired to face Duo..." Quatre pause as he was puting his pants on "Who am I kidding, he'll probably figure out some way to get on the shuttle even if we don't land."
A few minutes later Quatre and Trowa emerged from their room and joined their guests/intruders in the space shuttles dinning room. "Well it's about time!" Duo whined once the two arrived. "Duo, stop whining, we haven't been waiting that long, besides we had no right to barge in here uninvited anyway." Hilde chidded, slightly frustrated that the whole thing hadn't effected him in the least. Sure the guards had, by now, woken up and were fine but the fact that he would even break into a friends shuttle and drag her into the whole mess bothered her.
"Oh, umm... it's alright Hilde..." Quatre tried to assure her. "Besides" Trowa added "we've come to expect it from Duo" he finished as a smile crept it's way to his lips and remained there for a brief moment. Both Hilde and Quatre laughed at his statement and the tension eased out of the room, Duo however hung his head and pouted "one of the rare occassions where Mr. silence here decides to speak and it had to be at my expense" he mumbled, which only made Quatre and Hilde laugh even harder at his expression of defeat.
Once the laughter died down and the tension completely obliterated Quatre regained his composure and turned to face Duo, "so what is it that you wanted to talk to us about?" he questioned. "Aw, it's not that important it can wait till we get to earth" Duo replied as he quickly glanced at Hilde to let both his friends know that he didn't wish to discuss the matter in front of her. "Well then I suppose we should get going then" Quatre stated and Trowa left the dinning room to get the orders across to the crew that they were leaving immediately. "Meanwhile, why don't we go over to the foyer to catch up on things and then we can have dinner" he said, Duo's eyes immediately lit up at the mention of food, making both Hilde and Quatre chuckle a little on their way to the foyer.
After having had their meal and catching up on the events that had occured in their lives following their last meeting the group went to their rooms to sleep.
The shuttle arrived on earth, in the Sanq Kingdom the next day at around 11 o'clock and all four made their way to the Peacecraft Mansion.
AN: So what do you think? I know it's not very interesting at the moment but it will get better. I'm not very big on giving long descriptions of locations either so your just going to have to use your imagination till I get the hand of doing this. This is also probably as far as I'm gonna be going with Quatre and Trowa's relationship, but I'm not sure yet, we'll just have to wait and see what my muse has to say about it. Anyway, thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed it.