Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ How Can Words Describe ❯ Hope and Dispair ( Chapter 1 )

How Can Words Describe

Chapter 1

Relena sat uneasy in her office chair. She would have been in a meeting, but had canceled it for an important call she was expecting that day. A week ago she had gone to the doctor's regarding her 'stomach flu'. They took a few tests and told her they would call in a week with the results.

Suddenly the vidphone rang causing her to almost fall out of her chair. Then Duo's usually cheerful face popped up on the screen. But Duo didn't look cheerful, which was odd for him.
"Relena, I have some bad news. It's Heero..."

On L5 in a dark alleyway a few hours earlier.
Heero stood quietly in the shadows watching two men in trench coats talk in privet. He had heard most of their whispered conversation about war and recorded it for proof to take back to the Preventers. He finally decided that he had heard enough and left before he was caught. As he quietly started to walk away he heard one of the men yell.
"What was that?" Heero turned to see if they had seen him.
"Look," the other one yelled as he pointed at Heero. Heero saw them reaching in their coats, for what he was sure were guns, before he turned and ran for his life. Then two gunshots could be heard as they echoed off the walls of the empty alleyway.

Back in Relena's office
"No!" Tears started to fall from her eyes as she shook her head. "No! NO! He promised me! He promised that he would come back to me."
"I'm so sorry, Relena, but he is gone and he is never coming back." Duo said to Relena as she collapsed onto her desk. Duo looked away from the screen. It was hard to watch her collapse like that when she always seemed so strong and steady.
"I'm sorry. Good bye Relena." Duo whispered, then the screen went blank. Relena didn't hear Duo say good-bye or notice that the line was dead. She just sat there and cried. After a few hours of crying she fell asleep. She was awoken from her sleep by the vidphone that was beeping. She lifted her face to see Doctor Smith on the screen smiling broadly. Dread quickly filled her again. She had completely forgotten about the call she had been waiting for before Duo called.
"Congratulations, Ms. Peacecraft! You are going to have a baby!" With those last words Relena's fears were confirmed. Her world, as she knew it, came crashing down on her. What was she going to do know?
"Thank you, Doctor." She managed to crock out. Then she cut the connection before the doctor could respond.

Three days came and went. Relena had not cried since she found out Heero was dead. She was in denial and kept on thinking that one day he would walk though her front door and say, "I'm back". But that never happened.
It was the day of his funeral and everyone stood out on the green grass of the cemetery as a priest read his memorial service to the people standing around his casket. The weather did not match the grim scene as the sun shone brightly making their thick black cloths very uncomfortable. It was a privet service and only Heero's dearest friends attended. Relena, Duo, Quatre, Trowa, Hilde, Noin, even Milliardo and Wufei showed up to pay there last respects.
When the service was over people slowly left, leaving only Relena and Duo. Duo put his hand on the casket and a lone tear fell from his eye to hit the mahogany wood.
"Good-bye my friend", he said before turning to leave.
"Are you coming Relena?"
"Just give me a second Duo, please," she said not once looking at Duo, just staring at the casket. Duo nodded in response then left to join the others. She just stood there for a few seconds then let out a sob as tears started to flow from her eyes for the first time in three days.
"You're really dead aren't you?" She asked the casket. After getting no response she started to talk again as a steady stream of tears fell from her eyes.
"It's hard to believe that you are dead. It seems like just yesterday you were here with me." She paused for a moment to take a deep breath. "What am I going to do without you? I'm pregnant with your child and I always hoped I would be able to tell you that, but it's too late now. I haven't told anyone else and I'm not going to. I'm going to leave. I hope you're not mad, but I can't stay here. It's too sad here, everything reminds me of you. Not only that, but I don't want our child to grow up in this miserable place. Please forgive me." With that she leaned down and kissed the wood. Then she stood, wiped away her tears and walked away never to return.