"Ugh, where am I. Ouch!" Relena whispered into the darkness.
"Well your up." Heero told her through the darkness.
"Where are we?" Relena asked scared.
"I don't know, but don't strain yourself, your still healing from the gunshot wound." Heero replied looking out into the window.
"I'm scared and my leg and chest hurt like hell." Relena told him.
"Well maybe because she stabbed you in the chest and shot your leg. I was lucky, I just got kicked in the chest, but I was tied up." Heero said trying not to look at her face.
"Oh. Heero?" Relena asked.
"What?" Heero said.
"How come you won't look at me?" Relena asked him.
"Because I promised myself that I would protect you forever and I failed it." Heero said.
"It wasn't your fault. You couldn't help me." Relena told him lifting her bloody hand and wiping away the blood.
"Please Heero, just look at me. Let me see those eyes that always gave me strength and courage in the darkest of hours. Those eyes that were always so serious, those eyes that held a secret." Relena pleaded lifting her hand towards Heero.
"No, I broke the promise and don't deserve to even be near you." Heero said ducking out of her reach moving farther away from her.
"Heero, what if I don't make it out of here. I haven't even experienced my first kiss, date, or anything. Just looking at your face would give me strength to think positive." Relena said her voice low.
"No." Heero told her stubbornly.
"I understand, it just needs to sink in. For now..," Then Heero didn't hear her anymore.
"Relena? You there?" asked Heero worriedly. Then he turned around and saw Relena with her eyes closed on the bed with her arm still stretched out.
"Relena, are you still alive?" Heero practically shouted, but didn't want Noin to go to there room and find out that Relena was awake, or she would start to beat her again.
Heero grabbed her hand and put it to his cheek, then took his hand and put it on her cheek. "No, this can't be happening" Heero thought. Then he noticed a movement.
"I knew I would see your beautiful eyes once more." Relena said weakly as she slowly opened her eyes and then she slowly pulled her hand away and used it to take Heero's palm off her cheek. She looked up at Heero's Prussian blue eyes, then kissed his hand.
"Ashiteru my soldier." Relena whispered as she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep with his hand still holding hers.
"Ashiteru my princess." Heero said kissing her on the forehead, then leaning on the bed, which she was on holding onto her hand too.
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