Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Waiting for You ❯ Part IV: Separation ( Chapter 4 )

Awlrighty! Still don't own the g-gang, but I DO own a notebook with edible paper, if that counts for anything. . .

Ahem, uh, anyways, let's recap, shall we? This is a Wufei x Relena ficcie. Other pairings are Duo x Heero, & Trowa x Quatre. The boys have some down time. Relena got heartbroken and became best friends with Wufei.

Wufei has to leave on a mission, but before he left he decided to say goodbye to Relena and ended up KISSING HER!!! Now he's who knows where doing who knows what, and Relena is waiting for him to return. Will these two EVER get it together?

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"Waiting for You"

by: Banshee Puppet

Part IV: Separation

He slept with that ridiculous bear every night. Wufei had never thought it was possible to miss another person so much, but he supposed love was just like that, and he was very much in love. He still couldn't believe he'd been so bold as to kiss her, but she had kissed back, he was sure of it; he could almost feel her lips on his, even now-so warm, so soft, so exactly what he'd thought Relena's lips would be. And she had said she'd wait for him. Did she mean it the way he thought? The way he wanted her to mean it? Was there any possibility, no matter how remote, that she loved him back?

He had to know, so he dared to be bold once again, and prepared to send off an email to the woman who had changed his life for good.

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Relena groaned, who could POSSIBLY be bothering her this early in the morning?

"Heero?"

"Wufei is gone."

"I know. He left last night."

That had surprised him, so Relena smiled slightly and added, "He at least has the common courtesy to say goodbye, unlike some other people I know." Just teasing, and they both knew it.

Heero frowned. "Did he DO anything to you?"

Oh, this was getting old quick. "How is this any of your business, Heero?"

"Did he?"

"He kissed me."

"That bastard! I'm. . ."

"But I kissed him first," she said, and closed the door in Heero's shocked face. That had felt surprisingly good-liberating, actually. Relena giggled at the memory of a slack-jawed Heero and crawled back into bed.

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Stunned, yeah, that was one way of putting it. Oh, having a door slammed in his face at seven a.m. on a Saturday was no big deal, Duo did it to him all the time. What was a big deal was that this was Relena Darlain; Relena was polite-or at least she used to be. Before Wufei-who was very much NOT polite-had gotten to her.

That Relena could fall for a guy like Wufei Chang was not only unexpected, it was downright beyond fathoming. Relena Darlain and Wufei Chang, was it even possible? No. No way. He positively refused to believe it.

"Hey, Heero. I'm over here," Duo commented irritably. It was just like Heero to mentally wander off in the middle of a date.

"Huh? . . . Sorry Duo, I was just. . ."

"Thinking?" Yeah. I noticed. You've been distracted all month. So why not just get whatever it is out in the open. Is this about us? Do you, ya know, not want to. . . be together anymore?" Duo asked over the quickly forming lump in his throat.

"No! Duo, god no! I love you more than anything. Don't ever think like that. I. . . I don't know what I'd do. . . if you. . . were gone."

It was painful for Heero to even think of it. Had he really been that distant? He was trying so hard.

"Relena slammed a door in my face this morning," he said finally. "I've just been. . . concerned."

"Ya know Heero, this big brother syndrome of yours would be cute if it wasn't so disturbing."

"I don't want to see her hurt anymore."

"You can't protect her from life, Heero. Besides, `fei isn't as bad as you think. You should cut him a little slack once in a while. He's a quiet guy, but that doesn't mean he's bad. He's just a little afraid of getting close, I think. Kinda like you were. I'm sure he's got his reasons. And he's our friend, in case you forgot."

"He hates women," Heero replied flatly and scowled.

"Maybe he doesn't anymore. He likes Sally. He's in love with Relena. Ya'd have to be a fool not to see it. Just relax and enjoy your lunch, huh babe?"

"Sorry Duo. I guess I'm acting like an ass. I'll have to make it up to you."

"You sure will. And on that note, we're going clubbing tonight, and you WILL dance, all damn night if I say so."

Heero sighed. It was going to be a long night.

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DELETE. DELETE. DELETE.

Wufei leaned back with a sigh. `What am I supposed to say anyway I'll have to think of something later; I've got work to do.'

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"Hey Relena!" Quatre called from their usual corner of the cafeteria.

"Hello Quatre, Trowa."

"Why don't you join us?" Quatre asked. "Better than eating alone, right?"

"Sure. Thanks."

"You must be pretty bored with Wufei gone now, huh?"

"Oh, you know, a little. But it's no big deal. He'll be back. He promised-in his own sort of way."

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Relena,

I'm beginning to think that this mission is quite the waste of time; all the same, it's going to be a while before I'm finished.

I.

DELETE.

Relena,

I had a bit of free time, so.

DELETE.

Relena,

It's only been three days, but I miss you already. I never realized how quiet life was without you. All the same, I'll be stuck here for a while yet.

I keep thinking about kissing you, and I realized that if I had to go back, I would do it again.

"That's awful," Wufei grumbled.

DELETE. `This is ridiculous.'

He took a deep breath and strengthened his resolve.

Relena,

I love you.

Wufei

SEND.

He punched those five words into the computer and hit send before he would let himself think about it, and now as he stared at the words MESSAGE SENT SUCCESSFULLY, he gulped, feeling suddenly a little nauseous.

`Moron. What did you just do?'

But there was no turning back now.

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`It's from Wufei,' Relena thought as she looked at the email with no subject in her mailbox. `I wonder how he's doing,' she thought as she waited for the message to load.

Relena,

I love you.

Wufei

REPLY.

Wufei, I love you too, you dummy. How are you? I miss you. Come back soon.

Relena

SEND.

With a smile and a light blush, Relena shook her head. "That dork. It probably took him half the day to write that," she giggled.

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Wufei stared at the email screen. New message from Relena.

`Well, this is it, the `I want to be your friend' reply,' he thought as he took a deep breath and opened the message.

"She. . . she loves me?"

He hadn't thought it was a possibility. But there it was, right in front of his face in Arial 12 pt. Relena loved him back.

REPLY.

Relena,

I think I had to read your email five times before I believed it. That sounds so juvenile, but it's true. You've just been such a miracle to me that I was sure I'd gone too far. I miss you so much. It's so quiet without you. I never realized my life was this quiet before. I'll be stuck here a while longer, whatever the case. But I will come back. Nothing can keep me away now. I'll write you again tomorrow.

Love,

Wufei

SEND.

"Did I just write that? She's turning me into a woman!" he scoffed. "Funny, thought I'd mind more."

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Wufei,

Stop doubting yourself. You're not to far from miraculous either, you know. You've been with me through so much. I wouldn't mind at all if, in another fifty years, when we're both old and gray and toothless, sitting on a porch together after a comfortable life together, we look back at these past few months and said, "oh, that? That was kid stuff."

Love,

Relena

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Relena,

I look forward to it.

Wufei

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Relena sat back and smiled. "He wants to be old and toothless with me."

REPLY.

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This went on for weeks. She got emails from Wufei every day, and then, one day, the emails stopped coming.

"I'm probably just being paranoid. I know he's busy, I'm just, I'm worried about him, Heero. Half of me wants to go running off after him like I used to do to you, but I told him I'd wait here, so I'm gonna."

"You've really gotten a lot stronger, Relena," Heero said. "I'm sure he's fine."

But, fact was, Heero wasn't too sure at all. Wufei could take care of himself, but it wasn't like him to fall out of contact like that unless something major had happened. That night, Heero tried to send a message to the Chinese pilot and got a returned FAILURE DELIVERY notification.

"Where the hell are you, Wufei?" he wondered just as Duo came bursting into the room, breathless.

"I just got word on my next mission," he said. "Can you take care of the transfer stuff for me, Heero? I gotta go, now." He sounded half-panicked.

"Duo, what is it?"

"It's Wufei. Heero, he's M.I.A."

For a moment, the world stopped.

"Go," Heero said tersely. "And be careful."

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His vision was blurry, he was sweating profusely, and it felt as if Nataku had stepped on his chest. `Not good,' Wufei thought as he tried, unsuccessfully, to focus. He was sick, really sick, and it was pretty much a miracle that he'd made it to Sally at all.

He wanted to write Relena, tell her not to worry, apologize for not writing in a few days, but he could barely stand.

"Wufei," Sally gasped, but he only got as far as "you look awful," before passing out.

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"Yuy here," Heero said, hoping it was a call from Duo. "Sally? What is it?"

"Are you missing somebody?" she asked, referring to the rather ill pilot of Shenlong, but to her surprise, Heero's eyes widened marginally and he said, "Duo is with you?" looking rather confused.

"Duo? No. Wufei. He stumbled in here last night and he's been out cold ever since. . . "

"Wufei is THERE!?!"

"Yeah, and pretty sick. He's caught a virus. . . "

"Shit!"

`Did Heero just say `shit'?' Sally blinked before continuing. "He'll recover thought. What's this about Duo?"

"He went to find Wufei."

"Ah. Well, looks like you can call him back then. He's right here with me and I'm nursing him back to health."

A groan in the background signifies that Wufei is waking up.

"Ah. It's sleeping beauty. I'd better get going. Make sure Duo gets a check-up, whether he's feeling well or not, just in case he's caught the same thing Wufei has. Sally out."

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"Heero?" Relena asked.

"Wufei is fine. Just a bit sick. Sally is taking care of him, so don't worry. I going to get Duo. Bye."

`That's more words than he usually says in a week,' Relena thought as she watched Heero rush off. `Maybe I'll call Sally for a slightly more detailed description. Make sure he's really alright.'

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"Relena?"

"Hello Sally. I'm just calling because Heero told me Wufei was there with you. How is he?"

Confused, Sally looks across the room at Wufei who as suddenly looked up after having spent the past hour paying very close attention to a bowl of cold soup that he, and Sally, both knew he had no intention of eating.

"He's awake, if you want to talk to him for a bit, not too long though. He's pretty sick, whether he wants to admit it or not."

"Thank you."

"Alright, just hold on. I'm going to bring the phone to him". . .

"Hey," Wufei said a bit hoarsely. He looked terrible, pale and a little sallow, Relena realized, feeling angry at herself for being upset that he didn't write.

"Hey," she returned, honestly just glad to see him and know he was still alive.

"I'm sorry I didn't write," he told her. "But the control panel had a minor meltdown. Half of the keys don't work just now."

"It's fine, Wufei. Don't worry about it. Just get better and come back, okay?"

"Sure. I'll be there in no time, you just stay put a little longer."

"I'm not going anywhere. You look exhausted. You should stop giving Sally a hard time. I know you are, so don't even try to deny it. Anyway, you should get some sleep."

"I will."

"Promise."

"I promise."

"You're such a jerk, making me worry like that."

"Don't be a brat," he replied, smiling weakly.

"Well, I should let you go. See you soon, Wufei."

". . .um, Relena?"

"What is it?"

". . . I love you." It had taken a lot to say that right in front of Sally and they all knew it, but he meant it. He couldn't remember the last time he'd meant anything so much.

"I love you too."

Wufei smiled and hung up the phone. It had been worth it, just for that. `She does. Relena really loves me. I can see it in the way she smiles,' he thought.

"Not a word," he warned Sally. "Just take the phone. I'm tired."

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well boys and girls, that's part four! One more part, and it's one of the shortest ones in the story, so it shouldn't take me very long to type. Enjoy. R &R, and remember, you can pickle a pomegranate, but you can't pomegranate a pickle. (not sure why you'd want to do either, but, anyway. . . TTFN.