DISCLAIMERS: GUNDAM WING AND ITS CHARACTERS AREN'T
MINE.
AN: THIS IS REVISED. WHEN I READ IT AGAIN, I BEGAN TO
SEE I WAS GETTING TO NO WHERE, SO I KINDA ADDED SOME
WORDS AND CLARIFICATIONS...SO THERE...A SECOND TIME FOR LOVE
by:sereace
 

PART II
Papers were scattered around her desk. All were either waiting for her to sign or read them. She looked calm
outwardly, but inside, she was a mess. /Damn it, Heero. Get out. Get out./ She cringed. She loved him,
She LOVES him. Even after his lack of faith in her, in her love, in her fidelity.../All that I had given, all
that I resigned...they were all for you, Heero...for you...why couldn't you see that? Why CAN'T you see
that?/ She closed her eyes, the images of that fateful night still very well imprinted in her mind. Relena
went out for a business dinner with a man named Jason Eloques. He was the French Ambassador, and was a
former classmate of Relena when she was in junior high. He was also her suitor, and he was her first
kiss. But all was over for Relena, since they hadn't stayed in contact. The last Relena saw him was her
birthday, and she had not even acknowledged him, since she was busy running after Mr. Mysterious Heero Yuy.
 

Now that Jason had succeeded his father who died recently of cardiac arrest, their paths couldn't help
but cross again, since she was the Prime Minister of the Earth, and her brother being the Vice Foreign
Minister. He showed up suddenly in front of her office door, and surprised her with a bouquet of white Roses.
Without further ado, he had asked her to discuss his country's problems over dinner, and she had agreed
without reluctance, ultimately forgetting that Heero is somewhere in the dark watching her. Jason escorted
her to her car. They discussed business over a hearty dinner. They managed to catch up on each other's lives
over the past 9 years. Relena had mentioned it was getting late and he had volunteered to take her home.
She said yes. When they reached her house, even before Jason could open his door, Heero had punched the
window, and his fist met directly with Jason's face. That night, their relationship ended with a messy
separation, Relena asking Jason to bring her to her brother's house, and Heero breaking every single thing
he had ever laid his eyes on. She had never seen him like that before, not even when he's on the
battlefield. She knew what he was capable of doing, and she also knew that it would be towards Jason that
his anger would be directed. The best course of action at that particular time for all the three of them
would be to have things their own way, and she was up into seeing Milliardo and Lu anyway.

She did not see the look in his eyes, the expression of his face, when she had asked Jason. She did not see the life being
drained out of his soul as she left their love nest for 5 months now. /It's funny, really. I chased you for 3
years, then gave up on you shortly after, then loved you openly for 5 months, then leave you again./ She
smiled at the irony of events. /Back then, all I could dream of was your smell...your touch...and how you're
body would feel against mine. Now I'm yearning to have you in my arms again, to feel you move within me.../
 

She closed her eyes. This isn't good. / I can't get any work done because of you. Shit./ She was about to
curse again when the phone rang. She grabbed at it, without looking at the caller's identity. It was her
private line, after all, and the only people that lived to have this number were the gundam pilots,
their wives, her brother and sister-in-law, Lady Une and Treize, and... she paused. Heero Yuy. Not that she
expected him to call. A lapse of time before she heard a clearing of a throat. "Yes?" She answered
immedietly. "Relena? It's--" A voice she knew too well. She smiled, cutting him out.

"Duo. You think one can actually forget how your voice sounds?" A laughter erupted from the other side of the line.

"Well, well, well...isn't it the Vice Foreign Minister working. You could never forget, could you, Relena? Not one single
thing. From the tone of the voice, to the way of speaking, you could never forget." Relena smiled at that. /But I could forget how Heero watches over
me...How jealous he could get.../

"Relena...you still there?"

Relena shook herself to the present. "Yeah... so why did you call? Any Problems? And stop calling me
the Vice Foreign Misnister, will you? That's Milliardo now."

"Hey!! You'll always be Vice Foreign Minister for us, you know. You're the one who established
peace...and 'sides, I wanted to check on you..." the trailed off sentence left them both silent for a
while.

/After the break-up.../ she finished for Duo. She plastered a smile on her face. "I'm ok. Good, I
guess..." She heard Duo smirk.

"You guess."

"Yeah..." she answered back, unemotionally. On the other line, Duo took a deep breath. Relena sensed the tension
building. she cleared her throat. "Duo? You didn't call to check on me, did you?"

Duo chuckled at that. "I did call to check on you...only, the reason's not only checking on you..." Relena sat up straight.
 

"Something did happen, didn't it, Duo?" Duo took a deep breath... again. Something that rarely happens.
 

Relena raised her brows. "Duo...Duo, you can tell me anything...you know that, don't you?" Duo could feel
himself relaxing somehow. That's how it is with this woman. Anyone could relax just by listening to her
speak, even those staring at death in the face. She was one of a kind, all the good were there, and the
bad, though just a few, were covered with charm.

"It's about Heero..."

She suddenly sat up straight, all senses alert. "About Heero...??"

Duo cleared his throat, again. "You know Philippe Von Lucan?"

Relena nodded her head, all the while answering, "yes, yes, yes."

"He's after Heero."

She nearly fell off her chair. "What?! He'll get hurt! Doesn't he know that Heero's a gundam pilot? Damn, don't answer that,
everybody knows you guys."

Duo had to smile. "Did you also know you're his lost cause?"

This nearly made Relena shoot off to the colonies. "You've got to be kidding me. He was the one who broke up with me, now
I'm his lost cause?!!??"

"Apparently...he joined the New Oz."

Relena raised her brows. "He WHAT? Oh, God. Shouldn't you guys be with Heero right now? I
mean...this is Oz we're talking about. Nothing is an obstruction." Relena let the information sink in
before making any further comments. The worried lover temporarily slipped behind the now pacifist. "How are
the undercovers doing? Any problems? I really don't think we could handle a new war, really...."

Duo grinned, and Relena heard. She joined his merrymaking. "Exit worried lover, enter Prime Minister."

"Really, Duo. I can't help it. I mean, that's my life purpose, remember? You said it so yourself."

"Relena, I wish you really wouldn't take this in any other way, but...no wonder you and that Yuy fit together so much.
You can always manage to squeeze in work with pleasure. Literally."

Relena was about to respond, when the door suddenly opened. It was her secretary. She saw the
fear and confusion in her eyes, and when she stepped inside even more, what was unveiled to her caused her
to drop the phone to her lap.

"Relena. Come to me, my love."

She really had no other option. Deliberately, she spoke his name. "Philippe."

"I said, come to ME. NOW!!"

Her shock caused her to stand up, and knock her chair over. Startled with the noise, Philippe
instinctively pulled the trigger, shooting her secretary, his shirt smeared with her blood. Relena
started to back off. Then quick as a desperate lunatic, the man she once knew threw the lifeless body
like a piece of scrambled paper across the room and lunged for her and injected her with something.
Whatever it was, it quickly took effect, she could feel her lids drowsing down. Her last coherent thought
was of her lover, and beloved. "Heero...ai..."

Philippe looked at her. "You will be with me, love. With me." He went out the way he went in. The building
was full of passageways, and only 5 people knew about it. Relena, Heero, Milliardo, Lucrezia...and the most
recent..../Me./ He thought idly. /Me./ He went out through the sewer system. then after closing the lid,
he disappeared into the night.