Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Piano Revelations ❯ Chapter 1

AN & Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing or the song. They belong to Sunrise and Tony Braxton. Okay, first I needed to take a break from my story A Place in the Darkness. I get sad just THINKING about what's going to happen next! Go read it, I'm extremely proud of it. Enough self-promotion. Warnings? Hmm... let's see. I wrote this in about thirty minutes. I think it took me longer to type the lyrics than to actually write the fic. So that means lots of grammatical errors that I don't feel like fixing.

Piano Revelations

By Oyuki

Heero stopped and turned abruptly to face her. His eyes glared daggers at her, but he didn't say anything. For a second she felt like a coward, she took a step back. The uncertainty was clear in her sky-blue eyes. Her strong resolve fought back and determination came back to her eyes; she could not give up, she had to ask. Heero surprised her by speaking first and saying harshly, "Why do you insist on following me? Haven't you gotten it into your head that I don't want you!"

The words cut deeply into her gentle heart. Her vision blurred but she blinked the threatening tears away. "So you have decided? You'd rather be with Sylvia Noventa than with me?" she asked quietly, looking directly into his Prussian blue eyes. There, she'd asked the question, she'd thrown down the gauntlet. It was up to him now. There was nothing more she could do. She had been dying to ask the question for so long, and now that she had she felt vulnerable, naked to his chilling gaze. She'd decided to ask when she'd heard his friends talking about his dates with Sylvia Noventa. She'd hoped it was not true, but his silence proved her wrong.

He shook his head and rubbed his face with his hands. "You, Relena, were never in the race!" he informed her. Before she could say anything he continued by saying, "I never debated this issue. If you had been one of my potential dates I would have at least asked you to go out with me once! But I didn't, did I? I went out with Sylvia because I like her and it is none of your business!" He'd yelled at her. He'd never yelled at her. He had always been so quiet and mysterious with her. Maybe that's why she like him because he was mysterious and he didn't fall at her feet like all the other men in her circle. Well, he wasn't in her circle, in Sylvia's either, but he wasn't totally out of the loop. He sighed and was in the process of asking her to leave, but then he realized this was her garden, her house.

"I'm sorry I bothered you then, Heero. I'm really sorry I pestered you with my silly little school girl crush all this time. I'll leave you now, I have to get back to my duties and I'm sure you have things to do also," she said stiffly. She turned away from him and walked rigidly and as fast as her high-heeled feet could take her on the soft green grass. She walked fast but not fast enough to make her look un-lady-like.

"Rel--" he called after, but she had already walked inside the large oak doors of the mansion. 'Girls are complicated, especially this one,' a voice in his head said.

'Well, what would you expect? She's carried the weight of peace of the world and the colonies solely on her shoulders since she was fifteen,' another voice in his mind told him.

Heero sighed deeply and walked to the mansion. He had to apologize for his harsh words and for yelling at her. He had known she like him for a while, but he didn't like her... like that. She was nice and pretty but something just didn't click with him. He nodded to the two guards on either side of the heave oak doors before he pushed one of them opened and stepped inside. He thought about where he could find Relena. He went up to her room but she wasn't there, to the library but she wasn't there. 'That's strange,' he thought. 'She's usually in one of these places. Then he remembered something. He'd heard from her brother that Relena used to play the piano when she was still in school. He walked to the music room on the first floor of the house. He pushed the door slightly open so he could stick his head in and see if she was in there. Sure enough she was sitting at the bench of the white, grand piano. A present from her brother. She hardly ever used it, she never had time to.

Heero saw her sitting at the bench with the strangest expression on her face. It looked like one of happiness but at the same time of sorrow. She caressed the black and white keys with the touch of a lover. As if relearning the smoothness and the every curve of the keys. Her hands started to glide over the keys with clumsy, and at the same time expert hands. She didn't play anything, she just softly touched random keys. She stopped and stroked the keys once again. She sat up straight on the bench and began to play the notes to a haunting song. They were soft and gentle. As she played for a few seconds she seemed to remember the exact notes of the song so she closed her eyes.

She played for a few more seconds and then began to sing in a strong, yet extremely feminine voice. Heero realized she sang the song that went with the music she was playing. He listened intently to her song.

I heard he sang a lullaby
I heard he sang it from his heart
When I found out thought I would die
Because that lullaby was mine
I heard he sealed it with a kiss
He gently kissed her cherry lips
I found that so hard to believe
Because his kiss belonged to me

How could an angel break my heart
Why didn't he catch my falling star
I wish I didn't wish so hard
Maybe I wished our love apart
How could an angel break my heart

Her eyes hadn't opened. She knew this song well. Both the lyrics and the music on the piano. Her head moved gently with the song. The song was about someone who was suffering. In pain because of love. Her beautiful voice embedded itself deep into his brain. The haunting lyrics attacked him with the force of the zero system. He couldn't understand how a simple song could portray her emotions so strongly and provoke his own with the same force. He didn't move, her voice, the lyrics, and the music filled his mind and his very being. He was rooted to the spot, as if God himself kept him there to torture him with Relena's song; her beautiful song.

I heard her face was white as rain
Soft as a rose that blooms in May
He keeps her picture in a frame
And when he sleeps he calls her name
I wonder if she makes him smile
The way he used to smile at me
I hope she doesn't make him laugh
Because his laugh belongs to me

How could an angle break my heart
Why didn't he catch my falling star
I wish I didn't wish so hard
Maybe I wished our love apart
How could an angel break my heart

Relena, of course, was oblivious. She was in her own world. The song and the whim to play the piano had come out of no where. She hadn't played in years, hadn't had the will to play since her father died. He was the one she played for when she was younger. He had been the one to sit down on the chair in front of the grand piano at their house and listen to her playing for hours.

And today had been Heero to invoke this desperate feeling to play the piano. She hadn't touched it at all since her brother had given it to her on her eighteenth birthday a couple of years ago. It had been Heero who didn't love her. Who had not given her a chance to prove her love for him. Heero who had totally dismissed her earlier in the garden.

Oh, my soul is dying, it's crying
I'm trying to understand
Please help me

How could an angle break my heart
Why didn't he catch my falling star
I wish I didn't wish so hard
Maybe I wished our love apart
How could an angel break my heart

Relena sang the last lyrics and she played the last notes of the song on the piano. She stopped playing and opened her eyes slowly to see Heero's eyes looking at her. He closed the distance between them and touched his lips gently to hers. He knew what he had to do now.

The End


AN: I decided to use all the lyrics because I was lazy and didn't feel like cutting and pasting... you get the idea. This is dedicated to my mom because this is her favorite song, although she has no idea who Heero and Relena are! Please be nice and review! Sorry about the grammatical and spelling errors! Read and review please.