Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ The Elements ❯ Chapter 7 ( Chapter 7 )

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Pairings: 2x1 (eventually), 6+1, 5+1, implied 3+4, R+H, H+9+H, others to be named Rating: NC-17, probably Warnings: AU, OOC, probably lemon, semi Duo- bastardization (don't worry, he gets over it), I should probably add angst, NICE RELENA

The Elements Chapter 7

Heero smiled as he saw the familiar blonde hair flowing past his best friend as she ran toward him. "HEEROOO!" she shrieked in her ear piercing way as she tackled him.

The two fell to the ground, the momentum of her attack causing them to roll. They ended up with Relena hovering over Heero, somehow facing the outside entrance to the lobby.

"Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God!" she squealed, hugging Heero tightly. "I can't believe you're here!" She dropped him and he fell back, catching himself on his elbows. Relena stood up and offered him her hand. He took it and rose from the floor. "And I can't believe you didn't tell me you were coming." Saying this, she pouted.

"Relena?" Heero asked, rubbing his head; the knock he had gotten on it when she tackled him to the floor hurt. "What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be at some girl's boarding school?"

Relena ignored him. Instead, she pace back and forth in little circles, talking and gesticulating wildly with her hands. "So, my best friend -- that'd be you, Heero dear -- comes to live in a boy's boarding schools *right next* to my girl's one, and does he tell me? Oh, no. Who, instead, do I hear this tidbit from? None other than my brother and his R.A., Milliardo Winner." She put her hands on her hips and glared at Heero. "Why didn't you tell me you were moving to Shady Oaks?"

Heero looked at her, trying to follow what she was saying. "Huh?" he asked. "What are you doing here?"

"Haven't you been listening?" Relena said. She grabbed his shoulders and punctuated each word with a shake. "You're going to Oaks for Boys. I'm going to Oaks for Girls. We're going to get to see each other all the time now." She stopped shaking him, and pulled him into an embrace. "Isn't that great?"

A smile broke out on Heero's face as he finally comprehended what Relena was saying. "Yes, it is," he replied, as he realized that he could talk to her, his best friend who he hadn't seen in person for four years, any time he wanted.

Heero looked away from Relena, and noticed the crowd gathering around them -- it wasn't every day a girl tackled somebody in the middle of the lobby. "Uhh, how about we go somewhere more private, to talk?" he asked her.

She looked at the crowd around them before nodding. "Okay," she said, and he took her hand and led her out the door.

***

Heero took Relena to the grove; it was safe because of the closing ritual he and his brothers had performed. They sat on a fallen log far away from Melanie's tree.

"Are you okay?" Relena asked him with concern, eyeing the log.

"Yes," he replied. "This one died of natural causes, neither she nor her nymph feel anymore pain."

Relena nodded her head. Heero could see that she was trying to understand. He knew that, as a human, she never would.

"So, what's wrong?" he asked her. She tried to say something, but he interrupted her. "Don't give me this bull about 'There's nothing wrong.' I know there is. I know that you're happy to see me and everything, but there's something upsetting you. I can feel it, tell me."

"Aah... Nothing's wrong," she said. Heero wasn't going to let Relena skirt the issue. He had told her what he was when they were seven and she had caught him growing a flower in his hand, so he knew she knew he was telling the truth when he said he could tell that something was wrong.. Hell, she probably thought he knew exactly what was going on -- and he did.

Relena took a deep breath, probably trying to compose what she was going to say. Heero allowed her, knowing that she need to do this before she could talk, and that she needed to talk.

"I told you about Hilde, right?" Heero nodded his head in agreement. "I told you about how I met her at the park, after breaking my ankle. About how she -- literally -- swept me off my feet and took me to the emergency room to get it set. About how she's the love of my life." Relena looked at Heero with tears in her eyes. "Did I ever tell you about Noin? About how *she's* the love of Hilde's life? About how *she* -- not literally -- swept Hilde off her feet? Or about how she took my Hildie from me?"

Relena burst out crying as Heero scooped her slightly shorter, somewhat heavier -- because of the extra weight in the chesticles -- form into his arms. "Why doesn't she want me?" Relena sobbed into his chest.

Heero thought of Hilde, seeking the answer. Her form came into his mind, as did another. He instinctively knew this other to be Lucrezia Noin. He could see the faint traces of a link between the two girls, and he narrowed in on that. The lines running from one girl to the other grew in intensity, finally revealing themselves to be what he had feared -- soul links.

Heero dropped his concentration and turned to look at Relena, nestled in his arms. He didn't want to give her the bad news, so, instead, he sought her soul link. He found the line and traveled it, finally coming to its end on one Dorothy Catalonia. He dropped off the line and turned to Relena. "I'm sorry," he said, knowing he shouldn't mention it. "You should forget about Hilde."

"Why?" Relena asked, rising from his embrace and wiping her eyes on her sleeves. "What do you know that I don't?"

"Much," he answered. "Suffice it to say, Hilde and Lucrezia are meant to be together. Trying to keep Hilde to yourself will only cause you heartache."

Relena rose from the log, and turned to leave. Heero could feel her heart breaking from his revelation. "Look for the girl with the forked eyebrows," he called to her, cursing himself for being weak. He wasn't supposed to do that, wasn't supposed to tell people who their soulmates were.

Relena stopped, and turned back to Heero. "What?" she asked, confused.

"Look for the girl with the forked eyebrows," he repeated. Then, before he could tell her anything else she wasn't supposed to know, he ran past her further into the forest.

Selune PLEASE R&R