The Sun You Seek

Standard disclaimers apply.

AN: I don’t know about this, it was inspired by reading Space Chick’s To Betray is To Deceive. (great fic! she had me worried in To Protect and Betray!) So don’t say I’m plagiarizing! I just gave credit where it was due! I’m not sure if I’m going to continue it, though. I want to write a side story to Hilde’s Fashion which will be HeeroxRelena.

Chapter 1

What does one do in these situations? What do you do when you find your boyfriend, the love of your life, with another woman? In your own house! She hadn’t wanted to believe it.

Duo would never do that to her! But he had! And she had seen him! She was coming home from visiting her friend who lived in another section of the colony, and Duo had brought his ‘friend’ over!

She was supposed to be gone till tomorrow, but the desire to see Duo made her come back the day before. She had stopped by the store to pick up some supplies... to make him his favorite dish.

*~Hilde opened the door to their little house, ready to surprise Duo if he was home. She tip-toed quietly into the house. He wasn’t in the living room, or in the kitchen. ‘Maybe he’s not home at all,’ she thought as she searched the bathroom. Just then she heard a low noise coming from her bedroom. She stopped walking, and moving altogether, in hopes of making sure she’d really heard it. There it was again! She frowned and walked to the bedroom. She opened the door...

What she saw made her heart sink. There was Duo, in their bed, with none other than Miss Relena Peacecraft herself. She didn’t react for a few seconds. Her heart rate sped up, doubling its pace. After a few seconds she had regained her breath enough to manage a startled gasp. The two occupants of the bed finally heard the gasp. Two pairs of blue eyes turned to look at her. Both pairs of eyes got round.

Hilde put her hand in her mouth, as if trying to stifle the noise she had already made. Duo quickly scrambled off the bed, not saying anything, desperately looking for his shorts.

The initial shock of seeing her beloved in bed with another woman still had not passed. It was strange, she didn’t feel anything right then. All she could think of was, ‘Heero told me. He knew and I didn’t believe it.’

Not one word had been uttered from the three people in the room. Duo found his shorts, slipped them on and turned to Hilde. What could he say? How could he explain? He looked at her face, but there was nothing there. No emotion at all. He looked at her eyes, those expressive blue eyes that betrayed how she felt. They were calm, too calm. Like the calm before the storm, and her eyes promised a torrent of emotions.

Relena breathed deeply. How could she just stand there looking at them?

Hilde finally turned her eyes to Relena. With her eyes flashing she said, “Get out.”

Relena hesitated. She looked at Hilde again, but then turned her eyes down. She couldn’t look at her.

“...” She didn’t move.

“I said ‘get the fuck out’!” Hilde said sharply.

Still nothing from Duo.

Hilde’s eyes closed, and for the first time, betraying the hurt and anger raging inside. “Get the fuck out of my house, bitch, before I go over there and kick the shit out of you! Now! Get the hell out of here!” Hilde shouted.

“Hilde,” Duo said softly, for the first time speaking.

Hilde looked at him. “First get this tramp out of here, then talk to me!”

“Relena, please leave. I need to talk to...”

“I’m sorry you had to find out this way,” said Relena, wrapping the sheet around her and getting out of the bed. She looked at Duo pleadingly.

Shaking her head, Hilde moved around the room throwing Relena her clothes. She finished and picked up the phone.

“What are you doing, Hilde?” asked Duo. He didn’t know how to react. He didn’t know what to say. If only Hilde would do something, if only she’d start yelling and asking questions.

The phone on the other line rang. After four rings a deep masculine voice picked it up. “Hello?” said the voice, it sounded sleepy.

She was ready to break down, tears threatened to fall. She took a deep breath before replying, “It’s Hilde, get over here.”

Heero frowned. Her voice sounded strange. “I’ll be there in five minutes, what happened?”

“Just get over here!” she said angrily.

Duo had moved to where she was standing. “Who did you call?”

She smiled ruefully at him. No, she couldn’t cry yet. Not like this, not yet. Hilde closed her eyes and took a deep breath. “How could you? WHY?” she yelled.

“I love her,” he said quietly, looking directly at her eyes.

“And you couldn’t tell me that before? You couldn’t break up with me?” She pushed past him. Relena was still just standing there with her clothes in her hands.

Hilde walked into the living room. She rung her hands. A deep, painfully slow beat in her heart. She started crying. Large, crystal clear tears making a paths down her cheeks. Her breath was coming in short, shallow breaths now. A sob coming from her throat, it racked her body so, that she had to lean on the wall for support. Bile rose up in her throat. She was nauseous. The world was spinning, she felt herself falling onto the floor.

She picked herself up and went to the front door, at the moment she didn’t care where Duo and Relena were. All she wanted was to open the front door.

Tires screeched to a halt in her driveway. Hilde saw the driver run to the open front door. Strong arms picked her up. “Heero, I saw them!” she said brokenly. “Duo and... and Relena!”

“What the hell are you talking about? You’re not making any sense!” Heero said, shaking her a little.

Hilde cried harder. “Go in there, go in the bedroom and see for yourself!”

He shook his head, his frown deepened. He helped her get up and led her inside the house, heading for the bedroom. The door was opened, and what he saw made him stop in his tracks. Relena was sitting on the edge of the bed, of Duo’s bed! And she was putting on her clothes. His eyes hardened.

A sob from Hilde brought Relena’s head up, making eye contact with Heero. His eyes moved around the room, looking for prey.

“Heero?” said Duo.

Duo was in the other side of the room buttoning his pants. Letting go of Hilde’s arm, he lunged at the other Gundam pilot. Heero landed his punch against Duo’s midsection. The relentless soldier then went for his jaw.

“Heero! Stop it! Heero!” yelled Relena. She ran towards them. Placing her hands on Heero’s shoulders she pulled. “Stop it! Heero, you can’t solve anything like this!”

Heero shrugged her off, he was determined to do some damage. He landed more punches. His fury never spent. He was seeing red, everywhere he looked there was red. And like a beacon, Duo had pulled him.

“Hilde, help me!” said Relena to Hilde. She didn’t move. She had stopped crying, she was watching in amazement Heero hit Duo. The calm she’d experience before had evaporated, now there was anger, a lot of anger mixed with hurt feelings. It took a lot of effort not to let herself go off on Relena. She too had been a soldier and she could do some damage to the darling princess. Hilde clenched and unclenched her fists, they were itching.

“Heero, let me explain!” yelled Duo. He was on the floor wiping blood from his mouth. There were several cuts on his face, a rather deep one getting blood in his left eye. “Heero, I love her!”

Heero looked at him.