Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Torture or Salvation ❯ Prologue ( Chapter 1 )

Torture or Salvation

By DeadAnubis

Disclaimer: I own nada I'm sorry to say it and I wouldn't but I have gun to my head so I have no choice. O_o''

Prologue

3 months. 3 months since her disappearance and in 3 minutes she would be back to safety. How ironic. She would continue to promote peace. The ESUN had gone to shambles without her. But all would be fine now all would be better. These were the thoughts that clouded Heero's mind. But the further into the base Heero went and the more torture chambers they passed the more these thoughts were sounding farfetched.

It had been 3 months since her kidnapping. The people responsible hadn't left a trace. So with months of undercover work and interrogation it took one drunken officer to spill the beans about `a hot blond who they had captured and was to be killed for the lack of info that was produced regarding the Gundam pilots'. He didn't get any further because Heero knocked him out cold from anger and Duo had to drag the officer out of the pub with a seething Heero being kept under watch by Wufei.

They were there now outside the cell door. Duo was placing some explosives to blow the door lock. The anticipation was killing Heero he had already started to concoct different versions of what would be on the other side. Relena beaten up with purples and reds covering her once creamy skin. Or so scared that she wouldn't even recognise them.

An explosion indicated to Heero that Duo had `unlocked' the door. He moved forward and opened the door. Duo followed Heero in to the darkness.

What they found sent Heero's stomach to turn and the bile crawl up his throat.

Relena was here all right and it sickened him at the sight. Relena had been striped of all her clothes scars either healed or healing were covering her small body from past torture. Her skin was deathly pale that she looked like a ghost. It was white against all the new and dried blood, her blood. She was somehow suspended on the wall. Her arms both sides of her so she appeared to be attempting to fly. Her feet were somehow held together below her. In the dim light Heero could make out something around her head. The other three pilots came in with torches but stopped dead at the sight.

"Oh my god, they crucified her" Duo whispered clutching the silver crucifix around his neck.

Sure enough now that the room was under the torch light all of her features could be seen. Something caught the light on Relena's wrists and feet, nails. The heads glinted dangerously and blood was dripping off in to a growing puddle of blood at her feet.

Heero looked to where the shadow on Relena's head was. Replacing it was a crown of barbed wire. It stuck deep into her skin and the blood mingled in her dirty and matted honey blonde hair. Her head was bowed so Heero was left to wonder what had happened to those blue eyes that pierced his soul. That was something that not even Silvia could do, look into his soul. Duo noticed the sign above her head and read it out aloud.

"Relena Peacecraft Queen of the World, hn they certainly are ones for detail" he spoke in a disgusted tone.

"What do you mean Duo?" Quatre inquired finally taking his eyes of the sight.

"When Christ was crucified he had a plaque above him which said `Jesus Christ King of the Jews'" Duo explained in a careful tone.

Heero suddenly stepped forward and walked very hesitantly towards Relena. A feeling of lowliness and unworthy swept over him. He had no right or worth being in such a presence. He had visited a church once he didn't know why but he was drawn to it. As soon as he had entered it he had felt the same as he did now. He had seen all the pictures of Christ's crucifixion and was awed by them by the fact that such a presence could exist.

He walked up to her and touched her shoulder. It was ice cold. He moved to her neck for a pulse, he got one. It was faint but there. Relief washed over him and he let go of a breath that he didn't know he was holding.

"Don't just stand there lets get her down. Quatre you go and get some clothes" Heero snapped. Quatre ran off to get clothes while the other came to Heero's side to take Relena down.

"Relena wake up" Heero whispered softly.

"Please Relena we're here" he added. Wufei, Trowa and Duo each took a nail and slowly slid it out of her flesh. Relena slowly lifted her head. She wanted to scream but couldn't the pain was like a normal feeling for her. She had heard a noise and for some reason it was her subconscious that urged her to wake. She came face to face with a pair of Mid-night blue eyes, his eyes. Eyes filled with tears.

Not again she thought. She tried to speak out aloud, to say his name but couldn't. What had she done to deserve this! It wasn't the actual torture that would destroy her but the dreams that she would have constantly. They would be the same things. Heero coming to rescue her and tell her everything was safe. But she soon learnt that they were only dreams and they had stopped. So why now on her hour of death did they torture her again!

Heero looking into her eyes and flinched inwardly. They were so full of pain, anguish, loss and hopelessness. Had she thought that he had given her up for dead? Where was all that life and hope gone. She mouthed his name, unable to speak her eyes welled up with unshed tears. All the nails had been taken out and Relena didn't seem to have noticed. She was focused on Heero, perhaps depicting whether he was real or not.

He took her body, cradling it to his chest and was disgusted at how light she was. He lowered her to the ground and he noticed that she had also been whipped recently. Blood still poured out of the welts, some going to the bone.

"Shhh don't worry we're gunna get you out" he assured her. Quatre came in with an officer's uniform. It was far too big for her but it would have to do. They carefully dressed her and Heero proceeded to pick up her frail form.

"Let's go we need to get Relena to Sally, she lost a lot of blood" and with that they took off to Preventer HQ.

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