Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ The Black Queen ❯ Go in Circles ( Chapter 15 )
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By: Violet_Nyte 
Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Psychological / Drama / Angst | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 03.18.2003 | Pages: 5 | Words: 2.8K | Visits: 301 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Psychological / Drama / Angst | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 03.18.2003 | Pages: 5 | Words: 2.8K | Visits: 301 | Status: Work In Progress
LSE // 3-17-03
(The Black Queen - Chapter Fifteen: Go in Circles)
rated: PG13 - violence, language, content
shounen-ai/yaoi
Go in Circles
From the looks he had been receiving and the persistence of the
questioning, it was clear to Heero that the police suspected him of
knowing more than he was telling. What was true, but still a
disconcerting assumption for them to have made. As a result, Heero
knew that the phone lines were tapped and, if he should leave
Relena's mansion, a cop would be following him.
Which made it impossible to send word to Duo. Maybe he'd get lucky
and they would move to a different hiding place. The police had,
somehow, dragged up files on Natasha and come to the same conclusions
Heero had already reached. The Double Phoenix, very much alive and
operational, had a meeting house somewhere in the area. Natasha,
somehow connected to the group, was seeking asylum with them.
Fortunately, the police had yet to actually locate the group's hiding
place and that meant there was still time. How much time remained to
be unknown, but at least...
Relena dismissed her assistant and turned the full force of her
attention to him, "Heero, she began, then pausing and lowering her
voice to a conspirator's whisper, "What are we going to do about Duo?
Have you found someone to accuse of my maid's death. They've proven
that gun Duo had... his finger prints are all over it, and the
matched the bullets to the gun, so we know that's the gun that killed
Galina..."
"Galina?" Heero repeated, the name, for some reason, making all the
fine hairs on the back of his neck stand on end.
"Galina Nikolaevna. A good maid, too, despite being new..."
Relena continued rambling about something (he wasn't listening) and
eventually, discovering that her intended audience was actively
playing minesweeper, wandered out in search of a more attentive
listener. As soon as the door closes, Heero inputting the name into
Relena's personnel database. He didn't like coincidences, and that
name... it sounded familiar for some reason.
The girl's file was pristine. Too perfect. Why did the name strike
him as so important? On a hunch, Heero brought up some of the reports
he'd found on the Double Phoenix and skimmed over them. "Among the
bodies not accounted for in the raid of one of the known safe houses
of the group..." with a frown, Heero gave the list of names more than
just a cursory glance.
Towards the bottom, he found what he was looking for. Galina
Nikolaevna, clearly listed as not one of the captured or killed
members. He looked again to the maid's file, then ran several checks
on all the information listed. Unfortunately, he couldn't find a
single fault in what was given. Galina, the maid, had all the right
background information to separate herself from the Double Phoenix.
And, if she was really an ex-fanatic and could arrange to get all the
right paperwork to prove she wasn't Galina Nikolaevna, why keep the
same name? It was dangerous, foolish, to keep the name. Although,
neither the surname or the given name were exactly unique or
uncommon. She might have assumed there would be no danger in keeping
her real name, even if she did change her entire past.
Or, it could just be a coincidence and these were two different
Galinas.
Except, Heero didn't believe in coincidences.
--------------------------One Week Later------------------------------
When I wake to the sounds of typing, I almost expect to find Heero
sitting beside me, hunched over his laptop. It takes me nearly a
minute to fully wake up and figure out that, of course, its not
Heero. Natasha glances over and, seeing me watching her, visibly
starts. Whatever she was working on closes with a few keystrokes and
she casually leans back in her chair.
I've been doing nothing but sleeping it seems, and every time I wake
up its either Sally, Wufei or Natasha sitting there watching over me.
Sally usually checks me over, then manages to slip me something that
makes me go to sleep again. Wufei just glares, so I usually pretend
to be asleep when he's around.
Natasha is oddly quiet, though, and has been since she told me all
that stuff about her past. I haven't exactly asked her to elaborate
any, either. I want to know why she's so sure I didn't kill Amy and
the maid, but she hasn't told me that either. Whenever I ask she just
changes the subject, or gives me a distant look. That's okay, though,
because I've been doing nothing but sleeping.
Natasha smiles slightly, "How do you feel?"
"Good. Is he gone yet?" Yesterday, we agreed that, since Sven was
supposedly going to be leaving the complex today, we would leave.
Natasha doesn't like staying here with Sven, and I'm inclined to
agree. Whenever Natasha isn't around, I sometimes catch him talking
to Wufei or Sally. Afterwards, I can't help but notice them looking
at Natasha suspiciously.
She nods, "I think we'll leave here in a minute. Listen, Duo... What
do you remember from when Amy died? Do you remember shooting
the maid?"
"Wha.. what? I thought you said I didn't do it!" I can only gape at
Natasha, horrified by the prospect that I actually did commit murder.
I've killed before, but during the war, enemies, doesn't count--!
"No, no," she hurries to add, "I know you didn't kill the maid or Amy.
I was just wondering why you think you might have."
"Isn't it obvious," I say, "I had the gun... and I don't remember..."
Natasha gives me a sly smile, "Think carefully... Tell me, what do
you remember?"
I just stare her, not entirely sure what she's getting at, but I have
a feeling she's going to tell me what really happened, so I obey. "I
was asking her..." I frown, staring at my hands and struggling to
remember. It seems so long ago. A forever age ago...
//"Are you hiding from the same people Nata was?"//
//The fine hairs along the back of my neck slowly stand on end. "I...
don't think so. I don't know, who was Natalie hiding from?"//
//Amy pales, "I can't tell you. Bad people, though."//
//"Please? I might be able to help her better if I know."//
"I asked her who you were hiding from... She was telling be about the
Double Phoenix!" I grin triumphantly, "And then... someone shot her.
In the head, she just fell over dead..."
//Amy's big brown eyes are already clouding over in death, her
features frozen in a look of bewildered astonishment. At least, as
much of her face that isn't covered in blood, gore and fragments of
her skull.//
//I stare down at her in shock, unable to figure out why she's dead.
Slowly, I turn my head to find the barrel of a gun aimed down at her
body. A third shot rings out.//
"It was the maid. She shot Amy! The maid," I spread my hands, then
look up to meet Natasha's eyes, "the maid shot Amy, right?"
She nods, "And then, do you remember who shot the maid?"
I shake my head, "I just remember grabbing the gun. And then, the
guard came in and shot me, but I don't remember that. Heero was there.
I think I was going to shoot Heero, but I don't remember it."
"When I was hiding," she smiles, as if amused by the word, "with Amy,
walking the streets as a prostitute, I met some interesting men. One
of them worked on Relena's security team. I got a disk from him that
has the video of that day."
I stare at her, "You mean, Relena had this whole thing on tape?" my
voice flies up a few octaves. "She could have easily shown it to the
police and it would have proved that--"
"No, Duo, your room wasn't on tape. But, the corridor was... here,"
she turns to the laptop and quickly loads up the disk. A grainy video
shows the maid walking up to the guard, the one that shot me. Natasha
narrates, "Watch carefully... see how she's flirting with him? He
doesn't even notice when she... see?" Natasha points.
I watch, stunned, as the maid clearly lifts out the guard's gun from
its holster and slides it into her apron. She takes out a duplicate
of the gun and puts it right back where the original one sat before
breaking the kiss with the guard and sauntering off.
"I assume the gun she gave the guard had nice, lethal-poison loaded
bullets, since that's what ended up inside you." Natasha pauses the
video and looks to me to see if I'm following.
"But, why would the maid want me dead?"
She smiles, "You weren't her original target. More of just a bonus.
Here... fast forward the video about and hour and here the maid comes
again, but see how she's walking?"
I peer at the laptop's screen. The video isn't of the best quality,
but I can make out the painful gait. "She's limping," I look to
Natasha for confirmation, "but why is she limping...?"
"She'd been shot."
"What? But, she's just now going into my room... How..."
Natasha turns away from the video as the rest of the scene plays out;
Heero running down the hall, the guard following a minute later. She
reaches out and closes the video, "You never fired a bullet from the
gun you picked up, Duo. The maid shot herself before going into your
room to kill Amy."
"But... why would she do that? Why shoot herself?"
"To frame you for both murders, and possibly kill you in the process.
It's a brilliant plan, really. She was wearing gloves, so the only
finger prints would be yours, and it'd be so obviously your fault
they would never think to check for gunpowder residue. I'm sure if we
went and hunted down those gloves, assuming they haven't been messed
with, there would be gunpowder residue."
"But, I still..." I look to Natasha imploringly, "Why did she do it?"
She sighs, "It's my fault... When I knew you were trying to find me,
I asked Amy to masquerade as me for a while. I'd hoped you'd give up
and go back into space. I never thought... Amy was killed because the
maid mistook her for me."
"You? Natasha, why would the maid want to kill you?"
"She was told to," Natasha replies cryptically, glancing sideways at
me from a veil of her hair. It obscures her face, so I can't read her
expression.
"But... How am I ever going to prove this to anyone, though?"
Crystal blue hues reguard me quietly for a moment before Natasha
says, "I have some papers, some computer files... Give them to the
police and it'll prove Galina was told to kill Amy. If you can find
the gloves, they'll have the gunpowder residue... these security
tapes. As far as proving Galina shot herself, it's all in her orders."
"...Galina?"
Natasha blinks, then nods as if to herself, "I'm sorry, I didn't tell
you, that's the maid's name; Galina."
"Relena said she could make me out to be a hero. But, Natasha, I
still don't understand why ...Galina?" she nods, "why Galina would
want to kill you, even if she was told to do it. Who wanted you dead?"
Natasha starts to answer, but then swiftly stands as a metallic sound
rings through the air. I glance over, seeing the door open, and just
barely manage to keep from doing a double-take. Standing there in the
doorway is Sven, the look on his face that of... a father, maybe,
catching his daughter with her hand in the cookie jar.
"Get out," Natasha orders, eyes narrowing, but by the way she's
fiddling with her shirt hem I can tell she's... scared?
Sven says nothing, and the two of them have a fierce staring contest.
I look warily between them, not entirely sure what's going on. Did
Sven find out somehow that were planning to leave?
Suddenly, Natasha begins to speak in a voice filled with spite,
"You're just in time, Sven," she spits the name as if its poison, "I
was telling Duo about Galina Nikoleavna."
I expect Sven to smile innocently and ask 'who is Galina, my darling
Tashka?' or something else affectionately, but instead he surprises
me by sardonically lifting one eyebrow and merely going, "Oh?"
"You remember Galina, don't you? I do. I remember her. Surprised,
Sven, that I remember the names of all the little whores you brought
to bed? Oh, don't give me that look, I might have been a little girl,
but it wouldn't take a genius to know out you were sleeping with half
the females, even if they were married."
And still, Sven says nothing in return. Natasha keeps talking, her
voice just getting angrier, "When did you finally accept the fact I
would never, ever be part of your schemes? What made you decide I was
no longer worth the risk? I use to think maybe you loved me, maybe
even thought of me as more than just some heiress for your power...
but if you loved me, why would you keep me in those horrible
hospitals? Why, when you visited, didn't you see how miserable it was
for me in there?"
"Natasha," Sven says wearily, not bothered by the accusations, "what
lies have you told yourself now?"
They're both pretty much ignoring me and don't notice when I slide
out from the covers to, instead, sit cautiously on the side. I can't
help but feel something bad is about to happen. Natasha looks mad
enough to... kill.
"Galina was a member of the Double Phoenix. Sven ordered her to kill
me," Natasha says, looking to me at last.
------------------------------------------------------------ ----------
Heero studied the wooden wall across the street with a look bordering
passive boredom. It looked innocent, but everyone around him knew
better. One of the panels, if someone knocked on it, would actually
be metal and, if that someone had the password, they could enter into
the labyrinthian complex of the Double Phoenix.
His hopes the police would never find the complex had died yesterday,
when Relena had gently broke the news that the police had definitely
found Duo. Before the hour was over, a squad of well-trained
operatives would burst into the complex to break up the potentially
dangerous and highly illegal underground group.
And Duo would be found. With Heero no closer to finding out who had
actually committed the murder and with Relena's hands tied by the
evidence, the future looked bleak. Unless, through some miracle, Amy
or the maid rose from the dead and politely informed everyone of who
had killed them, Duo was going to prison.
Unless he plead insanity. But, Heero wasn't sure if that was really a
better alternative that jail.
"It's all over..." Heero whispered, looking around at the anxious
faces of the policemen. They'd allowed him this close to the
operation because of Relena's arm-twisting. Maybe if Relena broke a
few arms... No, he couldn't ask her to cast aside all her morals just
to save Duo.
"It's all over," he repeated silently. Then, feeling as if such
negative thoughts were a betrayal to Duo, he took back the words.
What was it the baka had once said? It's not over until the fat
lady...
sings? dies? explodes? No, sings. Definitely sings. Until she sings.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
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(The Black Queen - Chapter Fifteen: Go in Circles)
rated: PG13 - violence, language, content
shounen-ai/yaoi
Go in Circles
From the looks he had been receiving and the persistence of the
questioning, it was clear to Heero that the police suspected him of
knowing more than he was telling. What was true, but still a
disconcerting assumption for them to have made. As a result, Heero
knew that the phone lines were tapped and, if he should leave
Relena's mansion, a cop would be following him.
Which made it impossible to send word to Duo. Maybe he'd get lucky
and they would move to a different hiding place. The police had,
somehow, dragged up files on Natasha and come to the same conclusions
Heero had already reached. The Double Phoenix, very much alive and
operational, had a meeting house somewhere in the area. Natasha,
somehow connected to the group, was seeking asylum with them.
Fortunately, the police had yet to actually locate the group's hiding
place and that meant there was still time. How much time remained to
be unknown, but at least...
Relena dismissed her assistant and turned the full force of her
attention to him, "Heero, she began, then pausing and lowering her
voice to a conspirator's whisper, "What are we going to do about Duo?
Have you found someone to accuse of my maid's death. They've proven
that gun Duo had... his finger prints are all over it, and the
matched the bullets to the gun, so we know that's the gun that killed
Galina..."
"Galina?" Heero repeated, the name, for some reason, making all the
fine hairs on the back of his neck stand on end.
"Galina Nikolaevna. A good maid, too, despite being new..."
Relena continued rambling about something (he wasn't listening) and
eventually, discovering that her intended audience was actively
playing minesweeper, wandered out in search of a more attentive
listener. As soon as the door closes, Heero inputting the name into
Relena's personnel database. He didn't like coincidences, and that
name... it sounded familiar for some reason.
The girl's file was pristine. Too perfect. Why did the name strike
him as so important? On a hunch, Heero brought up some of the reports
he'd found on the Double Phoenix and skimmed over them. "Among the
bodies not accounted for in the raid of one of the known safe houses
of the group..." with a frown, Heero gave the list of names more than
just a cursory glance.
Towards the bottom, he found what he was looking for. Galina
Nikolaevna, clearly listed as not one of the captured or killed
members. He looked again to the maid's file, then ran several checks
on all the information listed. Unfortunately, he couldn't find a
single fault in what was given. Galina, the maid, had all the right
background information to separate herself from the Double Phoenix.
And, if she was really an ex-fanatic and could arrange to get all the
right paperwork to prove she wasn't Galina Nikolaevna, why keep the
same name? It was dangerous, foolish, to keep the name. Although,
neither the surname or the given name were exactly unique or
uncommon. She might have assumed there would be no danger in keeping
her real name, even if she did change her entire past.
Or, it could just be a coincidence and these were two different
Galinas.
Except, Heero didn't believe in coincidences.
--------------------------One Week Later------------------------------
When I wake to the sounds of typing, I almost expect to find Heero
sitting beside me, hunched over his laptop. It takes me nearly a
minute to fully wake up and figure out that, of course, its not
Heero. Natasha glances over and, seeing me watching her, visibly
starts. Whatever she was working on closes with a few keystrokes and
she casually leans back in her chair.
I've been doing nothing but sleeping it seems, and every time I wake
up its either Sally, Wufei or Natasha sitting there watching over me.
Sally usually checks me over, then manages to slip me something that
makes me go to sleep again. Wufei just glares, so I usually pretend
to be asleep when he's around.
Natasha is oddly quiet, though, and has been since she told me all
that stuff about her past. I haven't exactly asked her to elaborate
any, either. I want to know why she's so sure I didn't kill Amy and
the maid, but she hasn't told me that either. Whenever I ask she just
changes the subject, or gives me a distant look. That's okay, though,
because I've been doing nothing but sleeping.
Natasha smiles slightly, "How do you feel?"
"Good. Is he gone yet?" Yesterday, we agreed that, since Sven was
supposedly going to be leaving the complex today, we would leave.
Natasha doesn't like staying here with Sven, and I'm inclined to
agree. Whenever Natasha isn't around, I sometimes catch him talking
to Wufei or Sally. Afterwards, I can't help but notice them looking
at Natasha suspiciously.
She nods, "I think we'll leave here in a minute. Listen, Duo... What
do you remember from when Amy died? Do you remember shooting
the maid?"
"Wha.. what? I thought you said I didn't do it!" I can only gape at
Natasha, horrified by the prospect that I actually did commit murder.
I've killed before, but during the war, enemies, doesn't count--!
"No, no," she hurries to add, "I know you didn't kill the maid or Amy.
I was just wondering why you think you might have."
"Isn't it obvious," I say, "I had the gun... and I don't remember..."
Natasha gives me a sly smile, "Think carefully... Tell me, what do
you remember?"
I just stare her, not entirely sure what she's getting at, but I have
a feeling she's going to tell me what really happened, so I obey. "I
was asking her..." I frown, staring at my hands and struggling to
remember. It seems so long ago. A forever age ago...
//"Are you hiding from the same people Nata was?"//
//The fine hairs along the back of my neck slowly stand on end. "I...
don't think so. I don't know, who was Natalie hiding from?"//
//Amy pales, "I can't tell you. Bad people, though."//
//"Please? I might be able to help her better if I know."//
"I asked her who you were hiding from... She was telling be about the
Double Phoenix!" I grin triumphantly, "And then... someone shot her.
In the head, she just fell over dead..."
//Amy's big brown eyes are already clouding over in death, her
features frozen in a look of bewildered astonishment. At least, as
much of her face that isn't covered in blood, gore and fragments of
her skull.//
//I stare down at her in shock, unable to figure out why she's dead.
Slowly, I turn my head to find the barrel of a gun aimed down at her
body. A third shot rings out.//
"It was the maid. She shot Amy! The maid," I spread my hands, then
look up to meet Natasha's eyes, "the maid shot Amy, right?"
She nods, "And then, do you remember who shot the maid?"
I shake my head, "I just remember grabbing the gun. And then, the
guard came in and shot me, but I don't remember that. Heero was there.
I think I was going to shoot Heero, but I don't remember it."
"When I was hiding," she smiles, as if amused by the word, "with Amy,
walking the streets as a prostitute, I met some interesting men. One
of them worked on Relena's security team. I got a disk from him that
has the video of that day."
I stare at her, "You mean, Relena had this whole thing on tape?" my
voice flies up a few octaves. "She could have easily shown it to the
police and it would have proved that--"
"No, Duo, your room wasn't on tape. But, the corridor was... here,"
she turns to the laptop and quickly loads up the disk. A grainy video
shows the maid walking up to the guard, the one that shot me. Natasha
narrates, "Watch carefully... see how she's flirting with him? He
doesn't even notice when she... see?" Natasha points.
I watch, stunned, as the maid clearly lifts out the guard's gun from
its holster and slides it into her apron. She takes out a duplicate
of the gun and puts it right back where the original one sat before
breaking the kiss with the guard and sauntering off.
"I assume the gun she gave the guard had nice, lethal-poison loaded
bullets, since that's what ended up inside you." Natasha pauses the
video and looks to me to see if I'm following.
"But, why would the maid want me dead?"
She smiles, "You weren't her original target. More of just a bonus.
Here... fast forward the video about and hour and here the maid comes
again, but see how she's walking?"
I peer at the laptop's screen. The video isn't of the best quality,
but I can make out the painful gait. "She's limping," I look to
Natasha for confirmation, "but why is she limping...?"
"She'd been shot."
"What? But, she's just now going into my room... How..."
Natasha turns away from the video as the rest of the scene plays out;
Heero running down the hall, the guard following a minute later. She
reaches out and closes the video, "You never fired a bullet from the
gun you picked up, Duo. The maid shot herself before going into your
room to kill Amy."
"But... why would she do that? Why shoot herself?"
"To frame you for both murders, and possibly kill you in the process.
It's a brilliant plan, really. She was wearing gloves, so the only
finger prints would be yours, and it'd be so obviously your fault
they would never think to check for gunpowder residue. I'm sure if we
went and hunted down those gloves, assuming they haven't been messed
with, there would be gunpowder residue."
"But, I still..." I look to Natasha imploringly, "Why did she do it?"
She sighs, "It's my fault... When I knew you were trying to find me,
I asked Amy to masquerade as me for a while. I'd hoped you'd give up
and go back into space. I never thought... Amy was killed because the
maid mistook her for me."
"You? Natasha, why would the maid want to kill you?"
"She was told to," Natasha replies cryptically, glancing sideways at
me from a veil of her hair. It obscures her face, so I can't read her
expression.
"But... How am I ever going to prove this to anyone, though?"
Crystal blue hues reguard me quietly for a moment before Natasha
says, "I have some papers, some computer files... Give them to the
police and it'll prove Galina was told to kill Amy. If you can find
the gloves, they'll have the gunpowder residue... these security
tapes. As far as proving Galina shot herself, it's all in her orders."
"...Galina?"
Natasha blinks, then nods as if to herself, "I'm sorry, I didn't tell
you, that's the maid's name; Galina."
"Relena said she could make me out to be a hero. But, Natasha, I
still don't understand why ...Galina?" she nods, "why Galina would
want to kill you, even if she was told to do it. Who wanted you dead?"
Natasha starts to answer, but then swiftly stands as a metallic sound
rings through the air. I glance over, seeing the door open, and just
barely manage to keep from doing a double-take. Standing there in the
doorway is Sven, the look on his face that of... a father, maybe,
catching his daughter with her hand in the cookie jar.
"Get out," Natasha orders, eyes narrowing, but by the way she's
fiddling with her shirt hem I can tell she's... scared?
Sven says nothing, and the two of them have a fierce staring contest.
I look warily between them, not entirely sure what's going on. Did
Sven find out somehow that were planning to leave?
Suddenly, Natasha begins to speak in a voice filled with spite,
"You're just in time, Sven," she spits the name as if its poison, "I
was telling Duo about Galina Nikoleavna."
I expect Sven to smile innocently and ask 'who is Galina, my darling
Tashka?' or something else affectionately, but instead he surprises
me by sardonically lifting one eyebrow and merely going, "Oh?"
"You remember Galina, don't you? I do. I remember her. Surprised,
Sven, that I remember the names of all the little whores you brought
to bed? Oh, don't give me that look, I might have been a little girl,
but it wouldn't take a genius to know out you were sleeping with half
the females, even if they were married."
And still, Sven says nothing in return. Natasha keeps talking, her
voice just getting angrier, "When did you finally accept the fact I
would never, ever be part of your schemes? What made you decide I was
no longer worth the risk? I use to think maybe you loved me, maybe
even thought of me as more than just some heiress for your power...
but if you loved me, why would you keep me in those horrible
hospitals? Why, when you visited, didn't you see how miserable it was
for me in there?"
"Natasha," Sven says wearily, not bothered by the accusations, "what
lies have you told yourself now?"
They're both pretty much ignoring me and don't notice when I slide
out from the covers to, instead, sit cautiously on the side. I can't
help but feel something bad is about to happen. Natasha looks mad
enough to... kill.
"Galina was a member of the Double Phoenix. Sven ordered her to kill
me," Natasha says, looking to me at last.
------------------------------------------------------------ ----------
Heero studied the wooden wall across the street with a look bordering
passive boredom. It looked innocent, but everyone around him knew
better. One of the panels, if someone knocked on it, would actually
be metal and, if that someone had the password, they could enter into
the labyrinthian complex of the Double Phoenix.
His hopes the police would never find the complex had died yesterday,
when Relena had gently broke the news that the police had definitely
found Duo. Before the hour was over, a squad of well-trained
operatives would burst into the complex to break up the potentially
dangerous and highly illegal underground group.
And Duo would be found. With Heero no closer to finding out who had
actually committed the murder and with Relena's hands tied by the
evidence, the future looked bleak. Unless, through some miracle, Amy
or the maid rose from the dead and politely informed everyone of who
had killed them, Duo was going to prison.
Unless he plead insanity. But, Heero wasn't sure if that was really a
better alternative that jail.
"It's all over..." Heero whispered, looking around at the anxious
faces of the policemen. They'd allowed him this close to the
operation because of Relena's arm-twisting. Maybe if Relena broke a
few arms... No, he couldn't ask her to cast aside all her morals just
to save Duo.
"It's all over," he repeated silently. Then, feeling as if such
negative thoughts were a betrayal to Duo, he took back the words.
What was it the baka had once said? It's not over until the fat
lady...
sings? dies? explodes? No, sings. Definitely sings. Until she sings.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Author's Notes: I was so glad to see that people still remembered
me after my long removal from writing. Thank you SO much! (Chiizu,
Diviny, ect!) I wish I had finished this chapter sooner, but at
least I did technically finish it on Monday (it's 11:56) and I won't
go to sleep tonight until I post it up!
It's getting to the end of the story, folks. I have very high
hopes for actually pulling off the finale before spring break ends.
Maybe... maybe you'll get a new story out of me? Who knows. Please,
please, PLEASE feed the muses with some lovely comments!
...gah, both MediaMiner and FFN aren't working. I'll have to post
later tonight or just wait for first-thing tomorrow! Sowwwwy!!
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