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After a brief stay in their bedroom, the pair of former Gundam pilots walked down to the kitchen, a short meal in mind. At least Heero walked - Duo practically bounced, flushed and somewhat mussed. Quatre intercepted them as Heero began pulling together a few sandwiches, grinning at the kindly cook's attempts to make something for them instead.

Duo hugged the blonde, who sniffed a little, then rolled his eyes at them. Heero smirked slightly, and Quatre spread his hands. "Might you be interested in giving another person a shot at her, just for a few hours?" Duo released him, scratching the back of his neck and blushing a little, then turned to look at his lover. Heero grunted in an affirmative fashion, and Duo replied to the gracious little blonde, "I don't mind, I mean, we gotta eat and stuff. Who is it? Tro-kun got a hidden sadistic streak or is it you?"

Quatre blushed at his friend's teasing, and retorted playfully, "And *stuff*, of course. Anyway," he giggled as Duo stuck his tongue out at him, sitting down at the kitchen table beside Heero, "It's Wufei. He took the day off and came over."

Duo smirked as said Chinese youth walked into the kitchen, his face pleasantly neutral. "Have your way with the bitch, Wu-man," Duo answered the silent query. Wufei smiled, almost innocent in the rarity of the gesture, and nodded to Heero before turning on his heel. Heero called after him, "Turn the ventilation on - there's ammonia fumes." Wufei quirked an eyebrow, and replied, "Acknowledged. Thank you."

The Chinese boy left the surprisingly bright laughter of the kitchen as Heero pulled Duo onto his lap so Quatre could sit, chattering happly with the American. He mused upon the situation, almost grinning in delight. Relena was certainly doomed with Heero and Duo in control - he only hoped that he could prolong her misery before they killed her.

He firmed his shoulders, and strode down to the basement where Quatre had indicated his destination lay. He found a metal door inset into the corridor wall, more like the sliding doors as found upon the Libra Moon Base instead of the normal doors of a house. He surveyed the panel beside the door, and smiled as he set it to ventilate the room within.

The door slid open with the impress of his hand upon a scanner, and Relena screamed hoarsely as light poured in with sickening speed into the room, mostly upon her hanging form. Wufei blinked, and nodded appreciatively at the damage already done to her body. He chuckled, a sinister, menacing sound to the bound, bloody girl, and flicked the lights on.

The princess whimpered at the sudden brightness, and Wufei nodded, impressed with Duo and Heero's work. Her skin was a mass of fine red cuts and brown drips of blood, occaisionally covered by recent bandages, stained a bright red with blood and severe irritation about them. He saw faint trails of golden, stinking liquid that he assumed was urine, dripping from the sunken eyelids of her left eye down to her mouth and over her battered torso. Fresh vomit stained the floor below her, some traces spattering her skin. He eyed her groin, and was startled to see a long clump of bloodied golden hair, as if cut from her head, dangling from within her. Her breasts were in crude condition, one sliced in deeply upon one side and the flesh hanging open to reveal pale white flesh beading with thick red blood, and yellow globules of fat.

The truly awful part, Wufei decided, was her eye. That cornflower orb that had seen so much violence, had pleaded for so much peace before she had begun chasing Heero, that had begged the Japanese pilot for some small gram of attention was gone, leaving only a ruined, wrinkled set of lids, filling slowly behind with urine, pus and blood. It gaped darkly along the edge every now and then, a thin trickle of dilute blood running forth down her face.

Wufei smiled as Relena spotted him, adjusting to the harsh blue-white lights, and exclaimed at his Preventers' uniform, "Oh, Wufei-san! Please, please let me down! You are here to help me, aren't you? My brother must have sent you - did you have to hurt Heero? He's not hurt, is he? That Maxwell street rat convinced him to torture me so...he must have..." Relena trailed off desperately, watching the small smile on his face as he strolled towards her, taking in the garish red walls full of implements that would ensure her slow death.

"Relena, do tell me...what did they do to you?" Wufei requested, sitting on a clean portion of the floor. She sniffled dramatically, and choked, "Duo h-hurt me...he cut me..." Wufei held up his hand, carefully not touching her fouled flesh, and corrected, "From the beginning, please." She nodded, almost smiling but for her jaw, which hung at a peculiar angle, and spoke again.

"I came over to declare my love for Heero yesterday - I think it was yesterday, to help him escape from that horrible relationship with Maxwell, and the brat made Heero stab me with something, a needle I think. I woke up chained to the wall...I was bleeding all over, so Maxwell must have cut me," she shivered slightly, babbling further, her words fast and hysterical.

"Then that bastard...he pulled out my eye...and oh, please don't make me repeat it! It was horrible!" she whimpered, imploring his blank features with her one eye. He simply stared at her until she spoke again. "He...he - sliced it up in front of me, then I- I ate it when he pulled my jaw out," she whispered. Wufei nodded - so that was why her jaw looked off.

"Then Heero whipped me...Maxwell must have coerced him! You must save my koi Heero-kun, can't you see what Maxwell's doing to us?" she cried pitifully, beseeching Wufei with her words. He smiled inwardly at her terror and gestured vaguely with one hand, "So what happened today?"

She quivered, and grimaced, "I woke up, hanging like this. I was so thirsty, I hadn't drunk anything in my haste to talk to Heero, you see...and somehow Maxwell had convinced Heero...he - he...he pissed - on me, made me drink it..."

She was trembling, her eye closed as if reliving the humiliation, her face flushed with shame underneath the grime of urine and smeared blood. Wufei smiled, and pointed at her bandages. "What are those from?" She nibbled on her lip, quivering as she sobbed, "Heero...he sliced...then...ammonia - bandaged in!"

Her body wracked, hanging and twisting obscenely with each wrangled cry of mournful abuse. Wufei merely smiled, and crept up to her, holding her shoulders roughly. She shuddered as she looked up wanly at him, hope beating torn wings hopefully in her one eye, then her head fell backwards as he shot a small amount of liquid through the bandage into her flesh.

Wufei nodded, and withdrew the needle, placing it upon the nearby metal table. He checked his watch, and pulled out a small pumice stone from his pocket. He paused as he spotted latex gloves upon the desk of chemicals against the wall, and walked over to get a pair, slipping his elegant hands within their confines. He began crumbling the pumice stone in one hand, and rummaged in a pocket with the other, returning to the princess' side.

A faint light graced his face as he pulled out a bag of whitish powder. He knelt and poured the bag's contents into his palm with the crushed pumice, sloe eyes searching out their destination between her legs. He pushed aside the dark golden thatch of hair, and frowned at the wrinkled red flesh hidden there, probing with a slim finger until he found the opening he has searched for, and rammed the finger within. Relena moaned softly in her unconscious state, and tried to close her legs and thrust out his intrusion, but for the spreader bar so conviently between her thighs.

Wufei's eyes narrowed with concealed glee as he placed an amount of the grey and white mixture in his other palm on the tip of his finger, then pushed it up inside her. He repeated the action until all of the powder and pumice was within her channel, then he stood, withdrawing a surgical needle and thread from within the metal table after a short search. He knelt once more, and with a skil belying many injuries during the war, tugged the flesh out and sutured it shut.

He replaced the thread and needle, watching Relena as she began to stir, thrashing her head from side to side. He pulled a red penlight from his pocket, and leaned against the door, sliding down to sit comfortably on the floor as he flicked off the lights, plunging the room into unrelenting darkness.

Relena awoke within the seconds after the lights plunged to nonexistence. She whimpered, and whispered, "Wufei?" Said Chinese boy, invisible in the darkness as his eyes adjusted, offered no reply, remaining silent. "Wufei?" she called again, louder, then mumbled, "I thought he was here...I told him everything that they did to me...oh! My poor Heero!"

She sniffled, then hissed, "Ohh...oh dear. I need to use the bathroom..." Wufei stifled a snicker, and she called out sharply, "Who's there?" He remained silent, and she shook her head, the chains rattling, "I thought I heard someone..."

Wufei flicked the penlight on and off above his head at her, and she gasped. "What was that?" Silence and darkness reigned once more, until Wufei flicked the penlight again, and she suddenly screamed. Wufei listened to the shrill, fearful sound, and decided he liked it and so flicked the light again, tearing another pained shriek from her throat as panic and repeated terror overtook more rational responses in favour of sheer horrified screaming.

He spent about an hour tormenting her, as she screamed between mostly incoherent pleas, until he became bored, and walked up to her suddenly. She sniveled, her head inclining in a desperate attempt to see past the all encompassing darkness towards him, and he punched her out, her nose snapping under the force of his attack.

Wufei smiled and walked back to the door just as it opened, allowing a disheveled Duo and Heero to enter. Duo flicked the lights on, nodding in approval at the damage done to her face, then peered closer. "Saa, Wu-man, what'd you do to her legs?"

Wufei replied calmly, smirking at Heero, "Ground glass and pumice in her uretha. Have fun with that and a dildo later, na?" Heero gazed at him, then grinned evilly as the Chinese youth walked out, leaving Duo laughing behind him.

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