Friday, December 01, 2006

Chapter 7

"This must seem rather uneventful for you Relena, having gone to space so many times before." Relena just looks out of the window at the spaceport surroundings. "You could answer me, after all, I'm just trying to be nice and polite." Vincent grinds his teeth at the lack of attention he was getting. He reaches out for her hand and squeezes it. "Relena dear, are you listening to me?"

Relena finally turns to look at him. "I can hear you just fine. I'm thinking is all." Vincent scoffs and looks at the back of the seat in front of him. Just be glad there are other people here Relena, otherwise I'd make you pay more attention to me. Relena looks back out the window, not wanting to pay him any mind. Vincent broods about her behavior and just assumes it is PMS.

"Attention all passengers, we are about to lift off. At this time, please fasten your seat belts, place your seats in an upright position, and raise the tray in front of you. Thank you for your cooperation and for flying with us today." The stewardess puts down the speaker and takes a seat in the front of the shuttle. "It's about time, I'm anxious to get to outer space." Vincent smiles and looks at Relena, who was still looking outside.

The shuttle starts up its engines, vibrating the entire vessel. It picks up speed and begins moving forward. Relena looks at the view, wishing for this trip to be short, when she sees something headed towards the plane. A jeep was speeding after someone that was going after the plane. She looks closer, blinking in surprise. "Heero?" Vincent looks over at her. "What?" Relena looks back at Vincent and shakes her head. "Nothing." Looking back out the window, she sees the person was closer, but about to lose ground to the now accelerating shuttle. It's Heero… but what is he doing here?

Heero ignores the jeep that pulls up next to him, wanting to get to the shuttle before it could take off. The engines increase in intensity and the shuttle speeds up as it gets to the acceleration ramp. Relena… Heero stops and grits his teeth as the shuttle reaches the ramp and slopes towards the sky. Blasting off, the shuttle soon reaches the atmosphere and out of Heero's reach.

"Hands up where we can see them." Heero turns to see the three occupants in the jeep had jumped out and were pointing their pistols at him. Heero turns back to stare at where Relena was. The port guards move closer and one pulls out some handcuffs. Another jeep races towards them and comes to a stop next to the group.

"I'm Preventer Water, I'll be taking him from here." The three guards salute the woman and reenter their jeep, heading back to their post. "You're being reckless Heero." Heero doesn't turn to face the other. "I need to get to her, I have to protect her from him." Sally Po smiles slightly. "I know you want to. If you'll come with me, I'll get you a shuttle." Heero nods and follows her to the jeep.

Before entering, he looks at Sally. "What happened to your mission with Wu Fei?" Sally pauses before looking at Heero. "He explained what you were doing so we switched places so I could bail you out." Heero enters the jeep and closes his eyes with his arms crossed. "You're lying." He states simply. Sally blinks and stares at him. "Why do you say that?" He opens his eyes and stares at her. "Wu Fei wouldn't have known that Relena was going to go with him to Paris, since they left as I was on my way to Vincent's place."

Sally stares at his cold blue eyes. "Just go all ready, I don't have time to waste." Sally sighs at Heero's statement. "I don't know why I followed through with this." Heero smiles slightly to himself, having a good idea why she has. Sally takes him to a hanger where she lends him a shuttle to pursue Relena. Heero looks at the shuttle then at Sally. "This shuttle isn't fast enough, it won't catch them." Sally sighs. "There isn't one here that can. Most that can are at the Preventer Headquarters, and we aren't there right now." Heero frowns and goes to the shuttle, intent on getting to Relena.

A few minutes later, the shuttle blasts off towards space. Sally stares at the shuttle. "Good luck Heero, I know that it'll be hard to catch her, but not impossible for you." She looks over her shoulder as a man stops at the edge of the shadows. "Things seem to be going as you wanted." He smiles and looks through his nearly white hair. "Good, I just hope they are able to forgive me for this later on." Sally smiles lightly at him. "What are you going to do now?" Millardo starts to walk to her. "I need to get to Preventer HQ. I'm going to go to space." "Just to make sure things go the way you want them to?" He nods and sits in the passenger seat of the jeep as Sally takes the driver's seat. Please forgive me Relena, I just want you to be happy.

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