Characters don’t belong to me... it’s sad, I know...
AN: I know, I know! It took me forever! Sorry, but here it is! There’s a bit of language in this chapter. It’s a very angry chapter. Have fun and review!
The Sun You Seek
Chapter 7
Hilde sighed and picked up her purse. It wasn’t her day to pose but Heero still had to photograph the other girls. He’d been gone since she woke up that morning and she was really bored. She hadn’t really spent a whole day without him since she’d run into him in L.A. They’d spent almost every day together and his absence was taking its toll on her nerves. She’d called him and he had told her that it looked that they wouldn’t be done with the shoot anytime soon. Well that sucked. That left her with nothing to do for the rest of the day. She sighed and looked at her watch as she walked out the door. It was only noon.
She was going to go shopping. It was better than sitting in her hotel room and sulking because she was bored. Maybe she’d buy Heero something. Yes. She would buy him something. With a mischievous look in her blue eyes she walked out of the air conditioned hotel lobby and into the warm and salty air of L.A.
A pair of blue eyes narrowed and hardened when they spotted the raven haired girl walking out of the hotel. Since Heero had refused to talk to her, Relena had been waiting outside the hotel in a little café for two hours hoping to catch him going somewhere. No such luck. He wasn’t there. She knew he wouldn’t go out anywhere without Hilde, watching her walk out of the hotel confirmed her suspicions. Leaving a few bills on the table, she stood up and walked in the direction that Hilde had headed. The next best thing to talking to Heero was talking to Hilde. She needed to get some things straight.
Relena hurried to catch up to the young woman without attracting too much attention to herself. It was nearly impossible since she’d lost at least five minutes in staring and paying the bill. She cursed under her breath and broke into a slight run. Her eyes brightened as she spotted Hilde go into a little boutique. She walked the rest of the way to regain her breath. She didn’t want to let Hilde know she’d been following her. She took a deep breath and straightened out her slightly disheveled hair. She walked into the shop with a purposeful step and raked her eyes through the store in search of Hilde. When she finally spotted the girl she smiled casually and walked over to her.
“Hi,” she said.
Hilde lifted her head from the item she’d been looking at. “Hi,” she said unenthusiastically and went back to searching. Relena’s face was the last face she expected or wanted to see today.
Relena fought the urge to scowl. What else could she say? They weren’t exactly in the best of terms, they hadn’t been for a long time. She knew pleasantries were out of the question so she decided to bite the bullet and get straight to the point.
“What’s going on between you and Heero?”
Hilde scoffed and looked at Relena with something akin to amazement. “Well, aren’t we inquisitive and nosy? That’s none of your damn business, Relena.” Hilde turned to leave the blonde standing there but Relena caught her wrist before she could get away.
“That probably came out wrong, Hilde. I didn’t meant it to sound–“
“Yes you did,” Hilde said accusingly and wrenched her hand from the other woman’s grip. She was beginning to get angry. “You have no right to even talk to me. I can’t believe you’re brazen enough to follow me in here!” Hilde’s eyes were blue pools of indignation.
Relena’s eyes widened in surprise. She should have known Hilde would know she’d been following her.
“You were probably waiting outside for Heero. I can’t believe you! Does Duo know you’re a two-faced bitch?” Hilde spat angrily.
Relena fisted her hands and fought the urge to slap Hilde. “What are you playing at Hilde?” she finally said. There was no way she was going to let this pixie talk to her like that. “What’s your game with Heero?”
“My game?” Hilde asked incredulously. “You have some nerve! It’s not enough that you took Duo away from me and broke Heero’s heart, now you follow me in here because you think you have some kind of right over Heero?”
“This isn’t the best place to talk about this, Hilde. Walk outside with me,” Relena tried. She didn’t want to make a scene and she knew both her an Hilde were angry enough to start a shouting match.
Hilde laughed at Relena. She couldn’t believe what she was hearing. Hilde waved her hands in the air and said, “I’m not the one that came in here talking about this! And one more thing, Miss Peacecraft, who gave you the right to interfere in our lives? The fact that you are who you are? You think you can take my fiancé and a year and a half later come and try to question what I’ve done and who I’m involved with? Do me a favor and take your self-righteous bullshit to someone who will actually believe this whole damn act! Get over yourself and leave me and Heero alone!”
Relena closed her eyes and counted backwards from ten. “Listen, Hilde, don’t you dare talk down to me. You’re not better than me! You– ” she hissed.
“Oh, but I am, Relena. And you want to know why? Because I don’t go around stealing people’s fiances and sleeping with them behind her boyfriend’s back!”
At this point people had started to gather in a circle around the two women. They had not noticed since they were too busy arguing. The other women in the store had begun to whisper and talk in hushed tones about the dark haired woman and Miss Peacecraft. They all wanted to know just what exactly the small woman was talking bout, the magazine and newspaper headlines of Miss Peacecraft’s break-up with the infamous Heero Yuy almost two years ago still fresh in their minds.
Relena bristled at that comment. “Well, if he came to me then you were probably lacking in something or somewhere, Hilde!” Relena hissed venomously. “It’s not my fault he preferred me over you.”
Hilde laughed a long, heartfelt, genuine laugh. Shaking her head she said, “Well, I don’t see why you left Heero for Duo because Heero is a much, much better lay than Duo ever was!”
Relena turned seven shades of red. She didn’t know if it was from anger, embarrassment or jealousy. She wanted to cry and lash out angrily but managed to maintain he decorum. To make matters even worse, Hilde was giving her a triumphant smile and she hated it. She hated her. It was then that she looked around and noticed all the feminine faces peering at them from everywhere in the store. She was instantly ashamed of having made a spectacle of herself in such a public place. She regretted the moment she decided to wait in that café for Heero to come out of his hotel room.
She heard Hilde sigh and looked at her once more. The retched smile was still there and her eyes were alight with mirth.
“I always wanted to tell you off about Duo, Relena. I’m glad we had this little talk,” she said nonchalantly and started for the door. Before she reached the door, however, she turned around and with her most impish of smiles said, “And now you know about me and Heero.”
“You bitch!” Relena said loudly but Hilde was already out the door.
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Hilde didn’t break down when she reached her hotel room, but she wasn’t in the best of moods either. She had been truthful when she’d said that she’d always wanted to tell Relena off about Duo, but that wasn’t an excuse. She didn’t feel at all right about having made their love lives so public. She took a deep breath and headed for the bathroom. A cold shower would cool her down.
When she got out of the bathroom she was surprised to find Heero sprawled out on their bed. His hair was disheveled, as always, and one of his arms was covering his face. Hilde pulled out an oversized shirt from a drawer and slipped it over her bra and panties, she then crawled over to the man on the bed.
“Are you asleep?” she asked and ruffled his hair.
He groaned and took his arm off his face. “I was.”
Hilde didn’t want to tell him what had happened but she didn’t want to keep anything from him. It would not be a good for their newfound relationship if she started to keep secrets.
Heero noticed how down she looked. “What’s wrong?” he asked.
She sighed and looked at his eyes. “I ran into Relena earlier, well like half an hour ago, and it didn’t go well,” she said slowly.
His eyes narrowed. “What happened?” he asked dangerously.
When she finished telling him he bolted from the bed and headed for the door.
“Heero! Heero what are you doing?” she asked. When Heero got like this there was no telling what he might do. “Heero?”
“I’m going to make sure that she doesn’t bother us ever again! That bitch has no right to question you like that!” he said.
For a second Hilde was almost afraid. Heero wasn’t an impulsive person but he could be very irrational, especially when he was angry. “Heero, please leave it alone! Leave them alone! Heero!” she screamed but it was futile. There was no stopping that man. The only thing Hilde could do was go after him and try to prevent him from getting into any trouble. She put on some pants hurriedly, grabbed her purse and ran as fast as her legs could carry her. She knew exactly where he was headed so even if she lost sight of him, which she did due to his advantage of longer legs, she would still catch up to him.
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Heero ran up the stairs of the hotel as if the devil himself was chasing him. He resisted his urge to simply break the door open long enough to knock harshly. His fury escalated when she saw Relena’s smiling face on the other side of the door.
Her smile immediately fell when she saw him there with this eyes wild, his hair stuck to his temples, beads of sweat running down the sides of his face and his shallow breathing. They stared at each other for a second before all hell broke loose.
“Don’t you ever come near me or Hilde again! You hear me Relena? Stay the hell away from us!” he yelled at her coming into the room a little as she slowly backed away from him.
Relena was speechless. She had never seen him so angry. He hadn’t even been this angry when he’d found out about her and Duo. What made this so special? Why did he make a bigger deal out of her argument with Hilde then her cheating with Duo? She hated Hilde all over again. What made Hilde so damn special? “H– Heero, I... I didn’t–“
“Don’t fucking lie to me you two faced bitch! I always knew you could be this petty! You always wanted what you couldn’t have! And now that you have it you want something else!” He was so angry and if he didn’t leave he knew that he’d do something he’d regret. He turned and walked the few steps to the door.
As he was getting out of the hotel room, he barreled straight into Duo’s shoulder, almost knocking the taller man off his feet. “Heero? What the hell is going on?” he demanded. He looked from Heero to Relena and back. Heero moved to leave but Duo grasped his upper arm in an attempt to stop him and get some answers.
Heero roughly shoved his hand away. “Get the hell off me!” he snarled turning towards him and the blonde woman.
Duo stared at him with equally furious eyes. “Tell me what the hell is going on here, Heero?”
Heero made a growl-like noise in the back of his throat before he answered. “Tell Relena to stay the hell away from me! And Hilde! She was sitting in some café across from my hotel waiting for me to come out. When she found out I wasn’t there she confronted Hilde– no, she demanded that she tell her what kind of relationship she had with me!” Heero barked. He was so damn angry. His body felt hot all over and his rage was about to boil over.
Duo looked at Heero like he’d sprouted a new head. There was no way in hell that he could believe that. He looked questioningly at Relena. He got his answer when she looked away from him guiltily. “It’s true?” he asked, just to make sure.
“Of course it’s true! I don’t know if it’s something she has against Hilde in particular but she’s trying to ruin her relationship with me! Just like she ruined yours!”
He looked at him in shock. He hadn’t expected to hear Heero admit he had a serious relationship with Hilde and as much as it hurt him to think admit it, he’d always known. Hearing Heero confirm it made it all the worse to fathom. But he kept all that much to himself. He was more shocked to hear that Relena was seeking Heero out.
“I want you and her,” he said pointing at Relena, “to stay the hell away from us! I don’t want you near me or Hilde again, and I think it would be a good idea for you to sell your 49% of her company back to her!” Heero said angrily and left the other man and the blonde woman alone.
“Keep her on a damned leash like the bitch she is!” he barked over his shoulder.
*~*~*~*
Hilde watched in disbelief as Heero told Duo what Relena had done and all his feelings toward the whole thing. She could see the veins on his forehead and neck pulse with anger and it scared her a little. She knew what Heero was capable of. She hoped he wouldn’t do anything stupid. She sighed a tiny sigh of relief as the shouting stopped and Heero headed her way. Without a second glance, he grabbed her hand and pulled her down the stairs along with him.
It was hard for her to keep up with his long, angry strides but she dared not voice that. He was too angry, and although she was 100% positive he would never hurt her, she knew he would ignore her until they were back in their hotel room. When they finally reached the room he slammed the door shut and just stood in the middle of the room, breathing hard and sweating like a pig.
*~*~*~*
Duo calmly shut the door behind him and stared at Relena. He rubbed his eyes with his hands and turned his huge, violet eyes to hers. “True?” he asked, yet again.
She knew she was caught and that even if she said no he wouldn’t believe her. She nodded her head gently, all the while looking down at the neckline of his shirt.
“Why are you pulling this bullshit, Relena? Why?” he asked tiredly.
“You wanted to know just as badly as I did, Duo!” she said indignantly.
He shook his head disbelievingly. “Yes, but I didn’t stalk them to find out!” There was a very long, uncomfortable silence before he spoke again. “Do you want him back?”
Her eyes began to tear and she began to whimper slightly. “I never stopped wanting him, Duo. I spent too many damn years of my life chasing after him to let him go that easily,” she whispered.
“What about me?” he demanded. “I don’t matter? You don’t love me at all?”
“It’s... it’s different with you, Duo.” Tears were falling down her cheeks now, and it pissed him off.
He leaned his back against the door for support and looked down at his feet. “Different with me, huh? How?”
“It just is, Duo!” she yelled angrily. “I didn’t– I don’t feel the same way about you that I feel about Heero.”
“Then why the hell did you... why the hell did we cheat then? There’s nothing between us, Relena! There never was! We were just an outlet to each other for things we couldn’t change about ourselves and our partners,” he said evenly.
Relena was silent. She didn’t have an answer for that. She couldn’t give him one even if she wanted to because she didn’t know the answer.
“I’ll never understand how I could have left Hilde for you. Hers was an honest love, and there was nothing shameful in it. She loved me openly and honestly. Hell, she loved me! She fucking loved me and I still chose you!”
“And I will never understand what attracted me to you! You were just a damn grease monkey with no future!” she said bitterly. At the moment she didn’t care if she hurt him. “Go back to your precious Hilde for all I care!”
“I wish I could, but I can’t. And I have no one to blame for that but me.”
Tbc...
AN: What did you guys think? This story has no plot so... yeah. I’m just going along with what my fingers happen to write... no. Not really anyway. Inspiration just hit me today and I had to write this chapter. Please tell me what you think!