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Appearing to be Dead - a story based on my actual opinion.

By Shinigami30

Note: I do actually believe that the girl Heero "killed" survived, and is Mariemeia. If you look carefully, you'll find clues suggesting so.

It was a clear day, even though it barely ever wasn't in the colonies. In a colony at LaGrange point 3, labeled X18999, A girl was walking her dog. She had red hair, and blue eyes. Her name was Mariemeia Khushrenada. She usually stayed in that colony with her Grandfather, Dekim, but her father was taking a vacation and would be there that afternoon to pick her up and take her on a visit to Europe. Her father and Dekim never really got along.

Treize was the leader of a military faction, responsible for the assassination of Heero Yuy, nineteen years earlier. "Had I been in charge at the time, I'd have never allowed it," he had said to Dekim, who was a good friend of Heero's. "Unfortunately, I was only five, and still wanted to be a vet."

Treize was a good father, a gentleman, very suave and cool under pressure. But no one, not even his good friend Zechs, knew he had a daughter. But Mariemeia did not care about this. Dekim, however, felt that he should never have let his daughter get mixed up with an OZ general. Dekim's son, Trowa Barton, was secretly assigned to attack OZ he very next year, in Operation Meteor, and Dekim privately hoped that Trowa would be the one to kill Treize.

Mariemeia, however, didn't know any of this. She was just walking her dog, Mary, and having fun, expectant of her father’s arrival. She came to the top of a hill, and found a boy lying in the grass, laughing. It was a rigid, yet relieved sounding laugh. He looked about fourteen, and was tall, dressed in a green tanktop and black bikeshorts, and had strangely green looking hair. No, she thought. It's gotta be brown, not green. She walked up to him as he stopped laughing, and gave a bit of a giggle. He started, however slightly, and opened his eyes. They were pale blue, and looked cold and empty, yet pained. He sat up, and looked at her.

"Are you lost? I said, are you lost?" she asked of him.

He looked around briefly, as if trying to find a way out of this, then looked at her and said, "I've been lost ever since the day I was born." His voice was even colder than his eyes, and sent chills down her back.

"That's sad," she said depressingly, but said with more cheer: "Well I'm not lost at all. I'm taking Mary out for a walk." She bent over to scratch her dog's ears. The boy’s eyes suddenly brightened, and something you could almost call a smile. "Here. I'll give you this flower." She handed him a flower, and he took it. "Hey! Wait for me Mary!" she shouted playfully, and ran off.

The next day, she and her dad were at the airport in London. Treize was dressed casually, a way no one has seen him dress since he joined OZ at sixteen. Back then he was still just a marine, and shortly after met Lisa Barton, Mariemeia's mother, who'd died four years ago. Treize's phone started ringing, and he picked it up. "Khushrenada," he said, in the form of a greeting. "Oh, hello Dekim," his face suddenly looked angered, and his back tensed right up. "What? A bombing? ... Sounds like it was your doing. No, she's here with me now. We'll be there right away."

"What is it, daddy?" his daughter asked.

"Some buildings in your colony were destroyed, including the one where you lived," he said, his face twitching.

Mariemeia stood before the rubble where she once lived, shocked and terrified. Over to her left, Treize was back in uniform, and speaking with an older man in a suit. "Mr. Dorlian, I assure you that this was beyond my control."

"So you just happened to take your daughter to earth right before this would happen? I doubt so."

"I don't think the terrorist meant to destroy these buildings. They were an accident. We just received a report stating the possibility that he only tried to destroy the Alliance base over there, but set off a chain reaction. Now why don't you just take Relena, and return to earth, before you make me want to hit you?"

"Treize, I have never seen you so angry. But I can't go until after the Colony Summit-"

"Yes, I understand!" Treize interrupts him. "And I've got reasons to be angry! My dear Mariemeia would've died, had I not left Une in charge so as take a break!"

Mariemeia was walking through the smoldering ruins. She spotted that boy from two days earlier, walking away with an old man who had a claw arm and no eyes. Or at least it looked that way. They disappeared into the mist, and she didn't see them again. She ran over to where she saw them, and found nothing but ruin, and dead bodies. She suddenly noticed something. An arrangement of rocks, surrounding a dog.

"Mary!" She cried, and spotted the flower set down by the dog. It was the flower she'd given the boy. "That... that terrible, TERRIBLE BOY!" she cried, falling to her knees. She no longer looked innocent, but evil almost. "You will pay for this!"

The End.