Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Perfectly Broken ❯ Chapter 25 ( Chapter 25 )

Chapter 25

 

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'BANG! BANG! BANG!'

 

That was the first sound my aching head registered that morning when I returned to base. It had been a week later after seeing Quatre and my doctors were still testing me for everything they possibly could. The voice still wasn't happy with me after my conversation with Quatre and sent my mind spiraling as I went through my early morning routines before I had to go meet with Relena. She was a nice enough girl but I couldn't help but notice how she would lean toward me when it wasn't necessary to and made sure her father allowed her to go to any political events that were going on just so I had to stay at her side.

 

I thought at first she was a bit dense, making sure she was always seen and even going so far as to wanting to go about and patrol the crowds with me at one of the events I had guarded her at the week before. The other men on the unit told me it was just the way she was, a bit of an airhead and naïve for even her age. I thought she was a nuisance and definitely needed the protection just the same as anyone, but due to the fact she was a Vice Foreign Minister's daughter made her more knowledgeable to those that weren't too keen on her father's ideals.

 

I had to snicker at myself for all the things she had done to her guards in the past. She seemed to always develop a crush on whoever was guarding her for the time being, but what was even more frightening was the fact that the men thought she was trying to win me over more than any of them had ever seen her do. There was just no way she could though, I still loved Duo even though he probably thought I was the scum of the earth by now. After what I had done to him, I couldn't blame him. He had every reason to hate me now, if I ever had the chance to apologize to him, I would make sure he knew that I had never wanted to hurt him that way or any way for that matter. Still... it was in the past now. I had my duties and Duo had probably got on with his life like he should have.

 

H was waiting for me as I finished up on the bench press and handed me a towel to wipe the sweat off my face. He seemed more pleased than I had ever seen him be with my results, so before he even spoke I knew he had something to tell me that I wasn't going to like.

 

“ZERO, how are you doing today?” He smiled at me giving me time to answer even though a reply was no where near what I wanted to say to him, but I knew better. So I simply shrugged. He took it as an answer though and continued on without a care. “Well, I am glad you are fine. I have a new assignment for you. One that I think will help us gain what we are trying for just in a better direction than before. I want you to get closer to your charge. Seduce her, fuck her, do whatever you have to but gain her trust in you as much as you can. I want her to confide in you everything she can possibly tell you without raising suspicions.” I nodded thinking H was done with me and prepared to leave for my shower. “Hold on for one more moment, there is one more detail that I need you to take care of. Once all her secrets are revealed to you, kill her at the most opportune time. That'll be all ZERO.”

 

H left me then and the voice raised it poisonous head and began to make all kinds of plans that I took note of while in the back of my mind laid a part of me that wanted the rest of me to wake up from the nightmare H and S were making me live through. It wept bitterly for not having the will to make the rest of me listen to it as the sinister voice gave me suggestions and I threw out the ones that wouldn't work and considered the other ones that had the possibility of having the best success of completing my set task.

 

Needless to say I knew it would take a while to learn all of the girl's secrets but that just meant she got to live for a bit longer until she was no longer useful to me.

 

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Three weeks had passed and I was growing more irritated the longer I spent with the girl. She was still as annoying as ever and even though she told me many things of relevance, she still proved to be useful at times. The fact that she was still alive angered H. He wanted her dead, although I never found out why, my mission had finally found its ending by week's end as H had finally gotten all that he wanted to learn from her.

 

She had a speech that she need to deliver to the masses in the afternoon in a not so secluded location. It was more like the most open one she could possibly find and it made her an even more prone target. It made trying to off her so much easier. I had arrived there early that morning to do my duty and check out the surrounding area where her speech was taking place. I only had to slip away for a moment and set up the weapon that would be sure to take her out any which way and end her pitiful life. When I was all done I quickly went back to guard her as she got ready, talking to me non-stop and giving me a pounding headache. I was glad she would be dead in a matter of a few hours, good riddance to another blasted politician that never really cared what the common masses thought even when they got to share in her vision as she called it.

 

By the time I escorted her to the podium there was a crowd of her adoring fans waiting for her to speak. My stomach churned with the sight of them all but no more so than the walking vision before me that I hadn't seen in so long. Duo stood in the crowd along with Quatre and Trowa standing next to one another. Their eyes locked with mine. Trowa's with anger, Quatre's with pity, and Duo's... Duo's eyes were full of hurt, disbelief, and fear. I had put those emotions in his eyes. I had hurt him, someone so beautiful that it should have been a crime to look upon his beauty. Those eyes would haunt me as I knew that they would and even as I looked away, I could feel his eyes following my every step.

 

Relena didn't seem to notice my lack of attention, she was readying her speech and trying to quiet the crowd as I tried to avoid looking at those eyes, but I could only hold out so long before my eyes were drawn back to his. The question within them hurt me so much even though my face stayed the cold mask it always was. My suffering would never end because of the way he looked at me then, so confused and hurt. I wished that his eyes held anger for me, but they didn't. Only I could hate myself in that moment before the voice took over and began the count down to Relena Darlian's death.

 

The voice was utterly joyful while I moaned in the painful memories of what I had done to my lover. The count down was ending when I realized two things; one Relena was still alive even though my count down had ended and two more guards were arriving left and right interrupting her and pushing her away from the stage. I quickly followed them and demanded an explanation of why my charge was being taken away. The leader of these new guards stated they found a sniper rifle set up to fire on a set timer in one of the buildings and were still searching the following places for the one responsible. The voice screamed at me even though I breathed a sigh of relief and thanked them for their help as I approached Relena's side. She clung to me as we went back with the new guards and they announced her speech was over. The rest of it, they said, would be televised later that night if the crowd was so inclined to watch it, but a live production was no longer an option.

 

Relena was a little shaken once she learned the reason the guards didn't let her finish her speech about peace and having an open mind. She remained tangled around me until she was safely with her father once more. Her father thanked me and the team for keeping her safe then let us leave for the evening.

 

H wouldn't be happy once he learned what had transpired at the speech and I was sure the voice would be coming up with new plans for the rest of the night, but I couldn't have cared. With the failure of my mission the little voice in the back of my mind began to get my attention and I listened to it even as the other voice rattled on about how much more gruesome we could make Relena's death.

 

I was so preoccupied with my thoughts I didn't notice I was being followed until I was almost back to the house. There was no way I couldn't know who it was that was following me as I quickly got to the porch and got into a position to watch as my stalker's form slowly appeared, most likely to see where I had gone. My breath caught in my throat as I took in the long braid of chestnut hair and those expressive eyes. There was no mistaking him for anyone else.

 

Duo had followed me here and I had let him.

 

He stayed to look around to see where I had disappeared before noting the address and quickly leaving. I waited a full ten minutes before heading inside to give my report and tell of the failed mission. H was enraged and throwing around anything that got in his way. S couldn't have cared less and went about his research as if H wasn't even in the room. I went to do my nightly rounds and exercises before letting a smile come to my face even as the voice babbled on plans of death for Relena.

 

Duo had found me.

 

That thought alone made the little voice grow even more and quieted the angry plotting one for a while that night making my dreams peaceful and filled with the sight of Duo coming to see me over and over. If only my dreams were reality, I would embrace them without another thought. But they weren't and I knew that once I woke up from them H would have another assignment for me and would give me no more room for failure.

 

It would make me or break me but at that point, I didn't see a clear path to either one ever since being taken from Duo. He was the only thing that mattered to me and he was still the only constant thing my mind couldn't break away from. Maybe I could find a away around my training even though I knew it could end in my death. It was worth it. To be with Duo once more would be worth any price.

 

 

TBC...