By: John “The Lighting Count” Turner It’s the same old John, just new nickname! Okay down to business. I don’t own gundam wing. So don’t sue me! Enjoy the fic! The Lighting Count.
It was the biggest dance of the entire school year. Everyone had anticipated this dance and was having a good time, everyone that is, except for Relena. *I wish Heero were here. * She thought.
“Excuse me Relena, may I have this dance?” a boy asked.
“Well I was just sitting here resting.” She replied.
“ Oh come on, you can rest any other time.” He whined.
“Alright.” She said, hoping that this would calm him down. She was dancing with him for a while until she noticed that his hands where slowly moving down to grab her butt. “Excuse me!” she yelled above the music.
“What?” he said innocently, moving his hands back to her waist.
*The nerve of this guy. * She thought. She tried to get away but the guy had a strong hold on her.
“Where do you think your going, baby?” he asked her with a wickedly sweet smile on his face. She was about to give him a piece of her mind when a deep voice interrupted her.
“ Excuse me but I don’t think she wants to dance with you anymore.” came the deep voice from behind her, though it sounded familiar, she shook it off as one of her classmates.
“Well, she’s dancing with me bud so back off.” The guy holding Relena said.
“No, I don’t want to dance with you anymore.” She added while she could.
“Sure you do.” He said tightening his hold on her enough to hurt and make cry out a little.
“ Let go of her now. Said the guy from behind her said, with a deadly calm to his voice.
“Why should I?”
“ Because one. I’m her date, and two if you don’t I’m going to knock your lights out, got it?” the guy from behind Relena said. The guy holding Relena took a quick look over at the guy standing behind the girl in his arms and decided that he was definitely not someone he wanted to mess around with. Especially by himself.
“ Okay bud, why didn’t you just say she was your date in the first place.” He said backing off with his hands held in a defensive position.
“ Oh thank you so much,” Relena said as she turned around to face her savior. She was deeply shocked to see who it was.
“ No problem.” The guy said in his deep voice that sent chills up her spine.
*I knew his voice was familiar.* she thought.
“ Heero.”
“May I have this dance?” Heero asked, extending his hand in Relena’s direction.
“Heero I….” but Relena was unable to finish her sentence, as Heero took her into his arms and began to dace around the floor. They danced around or a few minute neither one daring to talk and both waiting for the other to start. Finally Relena couldn’t stand the silence anymore and she wanted answers.
“Heero, why are you here, I thought you where out on some mission.” Relena stated rather than asked.
“I was.” Heero answered simply, avoiding her eyes.
“So why did you come back?” Relena asked seeking his eyes but he just looked over her head . “ Because I have a mission here to do here.” He stated simply. “ You aren’t going to try and kill me again are you?” Relena asked afraid. She had thought they where past that. Heero looked down suddenly into her eyes and she gasped. They were a deep indigo purple, some called them a Prussian blue color, but it wasn’t the color she was noticing at the moment. She usually wasn’t this close enough to look at them before and they were always guarded but when looked at them now she was struck senseless at the shear intensity that she saw in them. “No Relena, I’m not here to kill you.” He said in a dark voice laden with heavy emotion like it had hurt him for her to think that he was there to kill her. Though he had told her many times that that was the only reason he had for being around her. “Then why are you here?” Relena asked looking up into his eyes fearlessly . “I…” suddenly Heero was interrupted by the loud speaker with the DJ’s voice on it. “ For all you love birds out there here is one of the songs that you have been waiting to here for a long time. I hope you enjoy it for it is the last song of the night. This is AJ your DJ signing off.” As he finished a soft melody began to play from the loudspeakers and the lights dimmed even more so. Couples all over the dance floor began to draw even closer together as the first line of the lyrics began to play. “Heero I,” “Just dance Relena.” Heero said softly as he tightened his embrace on her and looked down at her. Heero looked down onto Relena’s upturned face and his breath caught. He had always thought she was beautiful but now with the soft glow of the light that hit her the light that hit her face just right and made her eyes sparkle even more than they usually did. Those eyes. Those eyes had been the first thing he had seen when he had landed on earth and he had grown to love them. He could see straight into her soul with those eyes and could read her like an open book and right now all he could see from her eyes was confusion. Well he was confused too. He thought as he rested his head atop of hers. Confused with all these feelings that she seemed to elicit from him. He hadn't understood in the beginning, the strong feelings that connected him with her but he could tell what it was now. And through all the times he had been away from her it had just seemed to grow and that is what usually made him mad when he was around her. Mad at himself, that he could let these feelings overcome him and jeopardize his mission. He suddenly looked down at the small slip of a girl he held in his arms and his heart seemed to speed up. She was just so warm. Relena could feel Heero's breath on the top of her head as he looked down at her. She turned her face up to look at him and felt like melting right then and there. He was looking down at her with this look in his eyes they made her knees weak and she was sure that if he wasn't holding her at the moment she would have fallen, unable to support herself. Suddenly she could read everything in his eyes. Everything was displayed in his eyes as he was looking down on her. *Is this what love is like?* she couldn't help but ask herself the same question she had asked earlier. She continued to look up into his slightly tanned face unconsciously stepping closer to him. Heero stared into Relena's eyes and could feel the same small ache and longing in his chest that he always felt when she was around. He had always pushed her away then and had tried to deny what he was feeling for her. He had just built up the walls surrounding his heart even higher. But now as he stared down at her he felt them all tumbling away. Relena couldn't believe what was happening. Heero was there, dancing with her and hadn't even threatened to kill her, push her away, or anything. And he was even holding her close to him and as she looked in his eyes she could finally see an emotion in them that she had been dyeing to see for so long. She saw love, and for one of the first times she was at a lost for words. As the song came to a close Heero dipped Relena back over his arm and as he brought her back up he held her close to his body. He could feel her every curve press against him and feel her breathing hard against the thin fabric of his cotton tuxedo shirt. *Just breathe Relena, just breath, * Relena kept saying to herself as she tried to calm her rapidly beating heart. She pressed her face against his chest and could hear his heart and smiled at knowing that it was beating just as fast as hers was. Gently, she felt his fingers go under her chin and gently lift her face up towards his to look at him. Suddenly her heart was beating even faster than it was before and she tightened her grip on him. Heero smiled down knowingly at her. He could feel her tremble slightly and at that moment knew that no matter what he could not deny his love for the small yet powerful and courageous girl he held in his arms. In fact it seemed that his feelings had doubled for her at seeing her so vulnerable. Waiting for him to make the first move. To either except her or to push her away. Relena waited for him to push her away at any moment. He had never held her this close before and she was starting to shake with the bottled up emotions inside her. "Heero, I wanted to say..." Relena started but was quickly cut off. "Shh..." Heero said gently putting his finger on her lips. Then slowly he lowered his lips onto hers and both could feel the electric shocks of their first kiss coarse through them. Slowly, they gently pressed their lips together silently declaring their feelings for each other and both knowing that somehow, even though the future might be tough and may hold many obstacles they would have each other and would always try to protect the other. As their kiss ended and they heard the last lines of the song, they slowly pulled away from each other and opened their eyes. Relena's eyes were watering and tears were coursing down her cheeks. Suddenly Heero was worried that he had done something wrong. " Relena, what's the matter? Did I do something wrong," he asked while gently wiping her tears away with his fingers, like he had when he first met her.. " No of course not, I'm just so happy," Relena said throwing herself into his arms. Heero couldn't help but smile down at her as he gently stroked her back and laid his head softly on her soft hair. "Aishiteru Relena" * "Aishiteru Heero" * With that said the new happy couple stood in the center of the dance floor holding each other as everyone else left. For the first time Heero was genuinely happy as he continued to hold Relena safely in a world of their own.
The End
* Aishiteru - I love you (?)
