Heero Yuy awakened and ran his fingers through his hair. All he can remember was that Gundam taking and that explosion. Heero grunted and blinked a few times before he could see clearly where he was.
"Ah! You're awake!" Said a doctor as he entered the room.
"How long was I out?" he asked, realising he was at a hospital.
"About a week, your friends brought you in and you looked pretty bad. We even wondered if you would make it. You're a very lucky young man."
"What about the others?"
"Oh, they had some scrapes and bruises otherwise they're going to be."
Heero smiled in quiet relief as the doctor said, "Right now, my boy you need some rest." He then left the room.
Heero looked down at himself, he had a hospital gown on and his arm was in a sling.
Heero was glad they had all come out alive...especially Noin. Heero then fell asleep...
Heero woke up the next day and saw Noin by his side.
"Heero." She said softly.
"Lucrezia." Heero slowly got up.
Noin smiled "Few address me by name. Thank you."
Heero nodded "How is everyone?"
"We're all fine, just some cuts and bruises but otherwise we're fine."
"I'm glad."
"Heero, I want to tell you something, about Zechs and I..."
Heero nodded "Go on."
"He had been a part of my life for so long it was hard not to think of him, it was over a decade now. I often lowered myself in pursuit and look at what happened when I just forgot my dreams and pursued his. In the end I discovered that I was just a conquest something for him to completely humiliate."
Heero touched her hand with his "Yes. You told me that you were going to move on. I too have lived my live according to other's peoples mainly because that was partly what I was raised to be. I was brought up as an assassin and I was also taken by an assassin named Odin Lowe after he was killed I was taken by Dr. J. I was brought up to be a soldier."
Heero continued, "My training did not have room for a lot of things...including love and friendship."
Noin held his hand firmly, then caressed his face with her other hand. "Yet you are more capable of them then you think."
Heero looked at her as Noin continued "Remember when you spoke to me, before the mission?"
"Yes." Heero nodded.
"What were you feeling?" Noin asked gently.
Heero sighed "When I first met you, it was brief yet I respected you a great deal. Then there was that duel between Zechs and I. When we fought I never really believed Zechs would have killed me and this may sound strange to you but...I wouldn't have killed him. Sound surprising?"
Noin shook her head "Not really, now that I think about it."
"Then Quatre convinced me to come to the Cinq Kingdom and I met you again. I was never really interested in Relena she seemed to hold me up as some kind of Knight on a white charger and she never really was interested in me only that ideal of me. She annoyed me because she never seemed to really to think of me as a person."
Heero shook his head "Very few in my life have ever treated me as a person, Dr. J believe it or not treated me as such as did my fellow Gundam Pilots."
"I think of you as a person. Because I've seen the man behind that 'Perfect soldier' mask of yours." Noin said with a smirk.
Heero smiled at that then Noin acted without thinking...she kissed him passionately on the lips.
Heero was surprised for a brief moment and then kissed her back.
Milliardo Peacecraft passed by when he heard two voices, Heero Yuy and...Noin! The door was slightly open so he took a peek inside, he saw them both in the middle of an intimate conversation! Then he saw them kiss!
Milliardo wanted to just storm in there and break them apart...but he just walked away instead.
Why didn't I see this coming? Milliardo thought bitterly.
Meanwhile at a hidden base of the organisation, Robert Silverberg had brought back the Gundam Tsunami he was waiting for his superiors. But instead Henrikson came in pointing a gun at Silverberg.
"What are you DOING?" Silverberg demanded.
"I have my instructions." Henrikson replied.
"Wait a minute-"
"You screwed up Silverberg, you let our Gundam by Preventer operatives who are still alive."
"But they don't have the schematics or anything else, I made sure of it!" Silverberg was reaching for a tool box as Henrikson cocked the gun...and then there was a gunshot!
Silverberg ducked and threw a coffee pot at Henrikson, who ducked and before Henrikson had time to react or fire again, Silverberg was upon. Silverberg was holding a wrench and he battered Henrikson repeatedly on the skull...until he was dead.
Silverberg thought desperately for a plan of escape knowing that pleads would not get him anywhere, Tsunami was being upgraded, but then he hit upon an idea, Ironhold!
Silverberg taking Henrikson's gun rushed desperately towards Ironhold hangar bay. A technician rushed to Silverberg and gabbled "What is your authorisation?"
Silverberg raised his gun and said "THIS is my authorisation!" and promptly shot the technician in the head.
Silverberg boarded the cockpit of Hawk Talon, quickly starting the Gundam up, then he promptly took off firing a missile into the hangar doors as it promptly took off before any alert could be sounded.
Over the next three weeks, Heero had completely recovered from his injuries his frequent visitors were Duo, Trowa, Quatre, Wufei, Sally and especially Noin during his stay in the hospital. Their relationship only grew.
Milliardo was going through a second bottle of red wine before he heard a frantic knock at the door, he got up to answer it. The knocking continued more frantically.
"All right! Just a minute!" snapped Zechs wondering who it could be in this weather and this time of night.
Zechs opened the door and saw someone he recognised too well.
"Hello, its me..."