Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Torture or Salvation ❯ Endless Cycle ( Chapter 10 )

Chapter 8: Endless Cycle

Relena woke up to darkness. Her body ached in pain at the slightest movement as she tried to sit up. After various curses and grunts of determination and discomfort Relena finally managed to sit up. She rested her back on one of the icy cold walls, presumably made of some metal judging by the cold feel her back felt of it. Her body shivered at the cold sensation the steel caused. Where the hell was she? She couldn't remember or could she…

Relena shook her head but got a dizzy feeling as a result. As a reaction her hand went up to her head. As it landed on her forehead she could feel an extra weight attached to her arm.

Due to the lack of light in the room, Relena had to feel what the hell was attached to her. It felt cold, and linked…shit they were chains. Relena slumped in defeat, the newly discovered chains clanking against the floor in an unearthly din.

She attempted to look around the room only to have the claustrophobic darkness smother her. Relena curled up in a ball and slowly rocked back and forth. Her old fears from her first kidnapping threatening to consume her once more and turn her into the skittish creature she once was. The memories of the first time she woke up in a dark room came flooding back forced even harder against her carefully build mental wall. She unconsciously curled up tighter and pushed against the wall, trying to get away from the door.

Flashes of her second abduction in the gardens of her home started to come back.

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She stared into a pair of cold ash grey eyes. She sat frozen into her position while the shock ran its course. What was HE doing here, didn't Heero say that he was killed? Heero…Oh god she needed to get to Heero.

Relena scrambled from her spot and tried to run away. A pair of arms encircled her waist and flung her back onto the moist ground. She fell with a thud and bit on her lip hard, drawing blood to stop a cry of pain that was forming in her throat. The pain ripped through her body as she tried to get up.

Finally upon shaky legs she attempted to run. The evil laughing of the man she feared reached her ears and teased her as it echoed. She continued to stumble while the swift sounds of the man behind her grew louder and louder. She couldn't remember which came first the noise or the shot or the pain that it ensued. Either way Relena ended up on her knees while clutching the wound that the gazing bullet had caused.

She sat there in shock as she changed hands to stop the bleeding. Her other hand fell to the floor staining the grass a deep purple colour.

Her hunter approached her with a cloth, most likely chloroform. She sat there and watched as he placed the cloth over her face. She could do nothing. And the last thing she saw were those cold eyes etched into her mind.

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Her hand flew up to where the grazing wound from the bullet was located she body shivered in pain as she mind focused on the wound. Biting back a yelp from touching it, she closed her eyes and forced herself not to think on the wound. So now she found herself here, wherever here was. It wasn't the base she was at before because that place had been destroyed. So where wa-

The door flung open and light poured in mercilessly, wounding Relena's eyes. A figure stood in the middle of it, black against white. Relena's heart jumped. Could it be Heero? Her head swung to the door expectantly, hope blooming n her heart.

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Heero scowled at a wall. How could this have happened? He mentally slapped himself in anger at his own stupidity. A servant? At 2 in the morning? What on Gods Earth had he been thinking! Damn that coffee damn that kidnapper damn him damn Relena da-

Heero shook his head. Did he just damn Relena? But this wasn't her fault! Jesus Heero what are you saying and you're arguing with your self!

Heero was in the process of smacking his head in the wall to rid it of all thought when the door opened. Heero grunted at the visitor and slumped back in his seat, the wall and his head temporally saved from further collision. Heero resumed his glaring with the contest with the wall, totally ignoring Duo during the process. It wasn't until he found himself on the floor with a throbbing jaw that he acknowledged the braided man's presence.

"What do you want Duo?" Heero said coldly while absently rubbing his jaw. That had actually hurt…Duo must have been working out…damn.

"Heero why didn't you say about your feelings to Relena?" he replied bluntly with an icy glare that totally contradicted his usual happy-go-lucky look.

"What do you mean by that?" Heero decided to play dumb. He didn't have any feelings for Relena...right?

"Oh come off it Heero" Duo snapped "I know you love her…everybody can see it but Relena!" Duo ran a hand through his hair in frustration. Heero was about to reply and deny the fact when Duo continued in his tirade.

"You're a coward you know that? If ever you feel something, you run away and you hide from it -do you- do you even realise that you hurt others in the process? Are you THAT selfish Heero?" He paused the catch a breath. Heero decided to open his mouth.

"What are you talking about Duo?" His monotone with underlined annoyance breaking threw the silence.

"I'm saying that you know you love Relena deep down but you won't let it happen…so now you use Silvia as a shield. And now you are hurting Relena…" he looked at Heero sadly, almost pleading him to understand. But Heero was Heero and he wasn't one to listen when it involved his emotions.

"You know jack shit Duo" Heero paused to glare maliciously and his war comrade before continuing "now if I were you, I'd be leaving!" Heero glanced at Duo one last time before turning his back and heading back to his laptop and upturned desk chair.

Duo walked to the door, a slight sag to his shoulders and a sloop to his step. Pausing hesitantly at the threshold Duo called over his shoulder.

"I pity you Heero, I really do. Feeling emotion is one of Gods most precious and prized gifts. I pity you for not wanting to embrace that gift…" His voice trailed off and Heero swung around to chastise Duo but Duo had vanished from the door leaving a cold feeling to fall across the room like a damp cloth, choking.

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Heero stared intently at his laptop, going through all the data that he had gathered on the organisation that kidnapped Relena the first time. All that he seemed to have uncovered was that the organisation responsible was a branch of the former Alliance Military. It was well covered and the information was scarce. The last reported movement of the secret branch was some testing and mobile suit storage. He couldn't get any of the names of main leaders involved.

Letting out a frustrated growl at the seemingly dead end, Heero once again started to sift though the piles of data he recovered from the base he had found Relena in and then destroyed. The last thought brought a satisfied, almost cruel smile to his lips. A brief appearance of the old Heero freshly out of Dr J's training shone malevolently on his chiselled features before being plunged back into the dark pit in which Heero had banished it.

Letting out another growl Heero chucked the files across the room a feeling of contentment flaring through him as some of the files bent, ripped or creased. A small dark object caught his eye. It glinted dully in the dwindling light scattered across the almost dead room. Curiosity griped Heero so he stooped over and reached for the mysterious object. Twirling it in his long and nimble fingers, he discovered it to be a computer disk. His body shot up ramrod straight with dark eyes glued to the piece of plastic in his hand.

After what seemed like an eternity but turned out to be merely a few seconds, Heero turned abruptly to his laptop and inserted the disk. His eyes widened ever slow slightly from anticipation. His laptop blinked to life and the screen flashed in its usual royal blue hue. A window popped up requested a password. Heero glared at the window accusingly but went to work to crack the password. The next half hour if you were to pass a certain WingZero pilots door, cursing and frustrated mutterings could be heard as well as the faint yet furious tapping of a key board.

Heero allowed himself a victory smirk as the annoying screen flashed into a pleasant shade of green, the word `verified' flashing in bold and capital letters in the centre. A folder popped up entitled `rebirth' and Heero clicked the cursor onto the folder, his eyes still glued to the screen as the folder opened. Inside contained a single document with the serial number 455X346. Heero raised an eyebrow and opened the document, his eyes immediately scanning the information as soon as the document uploaded itself from the disk.

"What the…" Heero murmured to himself as he looked upon what appeared a schedule.

Rebirth Instrumentality Project: based from testing conducted AC 190

Current Subject: Relena Peacecraft

Capture: Deception using first doll successful

Project Status and briefing: Mental breakdown successful, under last stage of mind reformation now. Will be preparing to move subject to testing facility (NW 234°, SE 090°) where second stage of the project will fall underway. Stage 2 of project estimated to be completed in 3 hours. Stage 3 soon to commence after taking a total of 12 months before completion on the current subject.

Long Live the Resurrected Alliance!

Underneath the last statement stood a symbol. A crucifix melded into a similar looking symbol. The old symbol of the Alliance.

Heero blinked at the screen, digesting in all the information and calculating in his mind. His eyes widened and he got up abruptly, his chair falling to the floor. His eyes suddenly grew cold like a polar winter as he left his room and continued down the corridor.

"I will save you Relena…"