A Candle for the Future - (24/?)
Title: A Candle of the Future - Chapter 24/?
Author: Silverserpent
Pairings: 1x5
Rating: R
Warnings: yaoi, slash, swearing
Disclaimer: The characters are not mine. If you are not 18 you should not be reading this. You have been warned.
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Ch 24
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Heero was comfortable when he awoke in the same bed that he had been in for a few missions before. Relena did try to make him as comfortable as possible when he used to watch over her; she had given him a small room near the back of the house that was neutral beige, nothing too decorative inside and a small bathroom attached.
Relena had greeted him last night at the door saying she was happy to assist him and Heero had nodded in thanks, before retiring for the night. She had left him alone thankfully.
Heero moved over to his desk in the corner and pulled out the stack of articles concerning Wufei's businesses. He scanned over the first one; it was on a floral company. Heero pulled tape out of the
drawer of the desk and stuck the article onto the blank wall next to him. It would be easier to detect patterns visually this way. Heero looked at the thick stack in front of him and picked up the next
article on top.
Wufei had purchased two hundred and seventy three companies since he started at DCI. This was going to take some time... it was a good thing his walls were so blank.
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Heero stepped back from the wall rubbing his eyes; he glanced at the clock next to his bed. Twenty one hours. He had been working non-stop for almost twenty one hours. Looking at the wall, nothing new came to him as he looked at the groupings. The larger groups were financial companies and construction companies. He had only purchased one armament company a couple of food chains and random miscellaneous companies. Nothing new was being revealed by this format, at least nothing that Heero could tell.
He sighed and stretched and his stomach rumbled. It had been a while since he had eaten anything and a break would be good.
He opened his door and moved to step out of his room, but stopped just short. There was a tray waiting outside, with peanut butter toast. A small note was on it. 'Don't work to hard. - Relena'.
Heero shrugged and picked up the toast, shutting his door behind him. He was keen to find out if there had been any new information on Wufei recently, although it had only been two days. Plans, such as replacing a major player on a security board, usually took a little longer to employ. Still it was worth a shot.
Locating the media room Heero quickly flicked on the news and waited. Nothing was coming up that would be of political importance. So nothing Wufei had done indicated that a security member was going to be stepping down. That was good news as far as Heero was concerned.
He shut the screen off and headed towards Relena's office. She was there working diligently on paperwork when Heero entered the room. She glanced up and smiled at him putting her pen down. “I thought it would have been a bit longer till I actually saw you.” Heero smirked and shrugged. She just smiled again offering, “What can I do for you?”
Heero sat in the chair that was across from her and said, “You mentioned something about Wufei on the phone when I was asking to come be your body guard. I was wondering what that was about.”
Relena nodded, “Well you know that Wufei and I went on that fake date, the one where all the paparazzi were standing outside the restraint windows?” Heero nodded. “Well we’ve been dating ever since. It isn’t in the tabloids anymore, because it has become so common to see us together. I thought you should have known before you came and worked for me. We go out about once a week. About four times already.”
Heero was stunned. What was he suppose to do with this new information? Wufei had been dating Relena through him moving out…through him investigating Demetri… through sex with him.
Heero nodded and stood suddenly, “Thank you for informing me. It will be fine.”
Relena nodded and picked up her pen again to continue her work. “I will be sending out a press release about you as my new bodyguard two days from now. Hopefully that will allow you to get settled in more.”
Heero left and did not know what to do. The information bothered him and yet at the same time his mind was berating him, because it shouldn’t irritate him. What he and Wufei had done was for a mission. Their entire history with each other was based off of these missions and his ability to separate his emotions from what he did. He shouldn’t feel the way he did, slightly hurt and a little lost.
But he did.
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Over the next two days Heero had reoriented the papers on the wall of his room six different ways and found no new patterns. He had not spoken to Relena since the information had been given to him and since she had not gone out anywhere he had not needed to be her bodyguard yet. He was also no closer to finding out how Wufei would be shipping mobile dolls to Demetri’s group or even if he was.
Wufei had appeared twice in the news. One time was to give a speech to stock holders in his company about the importance of expanding out of the Asia Sector. He looked slightly pale and definitely tired. His odd sleeping patterns must have been catching up to him.
Relena’s press release had gone out that morning concerning Heero’s new employment within her staff. There was a slight buzz from it, but nothing serious.
Heero was staying in his room again staring at the wall. He had repositioned the papers for a seventh time. One group contained companies that had been suspected of illegal activity, the second were companies that seemed to simply have their CEOs disappear and others had minimal to no information on them at all.
Funnily enough the flower shop chain that seemed so innocent had been suspected of drug running before Wufei took over. The entire situation made no sense at all, because their profit margins hadn’t changed, only who owned it.
Heero shook his head and sighed. This wasn’t working. Locking himself in his room to stare at a wall and occasionally hack into Wufei’s company database was simply not working. Heero glanced over at the screen of his laptop sitting innocently open on his desk. Heero had seen the online tabloids of Relena and Wufei’s last date. The reason it was in the tabloids this time was because it was important; because it was the first time they caught Wufei and Relena kissing. Heero was numb really and not quite sure what to do with himself.
A small chirp from his laptop had Heero out of his room and moving to the vid-screen as soon as he heard it. He had rigged his laptop so that if a news feed produced anything big on Wufei or the Security Board it would alert him immediately.
Switching it on he turned it to the news to see a woman sitting there looking serious. She opened her mouth stating,
‘This just in: Ambassador Riccardone has just resigned his post as being a Security Board Member. It was very unexpected decision as he had made no previous indication of a desire to leave. He was one of the top proponents for giving the Preventers free-reign in the earth sphere to eliminate the ever- growing threat of drug and armament smuggling. There is no word as to who will be replacing him.’
Heero shook his head and shut the screen off as he sank back into the couch behind him. The man who had resigned was the one who consistently voted in favor of the Preventer missions. This was not good. Wufei would be ascending to power very soon and he still didn’t know how the mobile suits were getting out of the company. He felt a tingle on the back of his neck.
Relena came in from behind and she sat down next to him on the sofa, “I thought you might be here.” She pulled the controller from Heero’s hands and flipped to a conference that was about to occur. Heero looked up at the screen. It was Wufei. His complexion was much paler and though he was immaculately dressed as usual there was something slightly off about him.
“I’ve called this press conference for two reasons. First is to announce that I will no longer be involved with Relena Peacecraft on a personal level. It was a mutual decision and that is all that will be said on the topic.” Heero glanced sideways at Relena who was sitting there primly much like she normally did. Wufei continued, “The second reason is to announce that I intend to run for the newly opened position on the Security Board. I hope that my fellow senate members will support me in my endeavor. Questions?”
There were hands shooting into the air quickly as soon as he ended, but Heero instead turned his attention to Relena, “You knew he was going to stop?”
Relena nodded, “Yes he called me this morning after the press release on you. He wanted to give me fair warning. I thought you should see this. You seemed to have been avoiding me since you’ve come here. He is telling the truth it was mutual.”
“But why?”
Relena shrugged a small smile on her lips, “I had a feeling it wouldn’t have worked out. Plus it was only a handful of dates any way. Nothing big.”
Heero turned back to the screen just as another reporter was raising his hand. Wufei pointed at him. He looked strangely familiar… It was the man at the photo shoot, the photographer that Wufei told to release the cooked up picture of him and Wufei.
“Sir, does your decision to end your relationship with Relena have anything to do with her hiring your former bodyguard, Heero Yuy?” the room of reporters went silent. Heero found himself sitting up a little tenser leaning slightly forward towards the screen.
Wufei eyes narrowed slightly and stated, “No comment. That will be all.”
Author: Silverserpent
Pairings: 1x5
Rating: R
Warnings: yaoi, slash, swearing
Disclaimer: The characters are not mine. If you are not 18 you should not be reading this. You have been warned.
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Ch 24
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Heero was comfortable when he awoke in the same bed that he had been in for a few missions before. Relena did try to make him as comfortable as possible when he used to watch over her; she had given him a small room near the back of the house that was neutral beige, nothing too decorative inside and a small bathroom attached.
Relena had greeted him last night at the door saying she was happy to assist him and Heero had nodded in thanks, before retiring for the night. She had left him alone thankfully.
Heero moved over to his desk in the corner and pulled out the stack of articles concerning Wufei's businesses. He scanned over the first one; it was on a floral company. Heero pulled tape out of the
drawer of the desk and stuck the article onto the blank wall next to him. It would be easier to detect patterns visually this way. Heero looked at the thick stack in front of him and picked up the next
article on top.
Wufei had purchased two hundred and seventy three companies since he started at DCI. This was going to take some time... it was a good thing his walls were so blank.
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Heero stepped back from the wall rubbing his eyes; he glanced at the clock next to his bed. Twenty one hours. He had been working non-stop for almost twenty one hours. Looking at the wall, nothing new came to him as he looked at the groupings. The larger groups were financial companies and construction companies. He had only purchased one armament company a couple of food chains and random miscellaneous companies. Nothing new was being revealed by this format, at least nothing that Heero could tell.
He sighed and stretched and his stomach rumbled. It had been a while since he had eaten anything and a break would be good.
He opened his door and moved to step out of his room, but stopped just short. There was a tray waiting outside, with peanut butter toast. A small note was on it. 'Don't work to hard. - Relena'.
Heero shrugged and picked up the toast, shutting his door behind him. He was keen to find out if there had been any new information on Wufei recently, although it had only been two days. Plans, such as replacing a major player on a security board, usually took a little longer to employ. Still it was worth a shot.
Locating the media room Heero quickly flicked on the news and waited. Nothing was coming up that would be of political importance. So nothing Wufei had done indicated that a security member was going to be stepping down. That was good news as far as Heero was concerned.
He shut the screen off and headed towards Relena's office. She was there working diligently on paperwork when Heero entered the room. She glanced up and smiled at him putting her pen down. “I thought it would have been a bit longer till I actually saw you.” Heero smirked and shrugged. She just smiled again offering, “What can I do for you?”
Heero sat in the chair that was across from her and said, “You mentioned something about Wufei on the phone when I was asking to come be your body guard. I was wondering what that was about.”
Relena nodded, “Well you know that Wufei and I went on that fake date, the one where all the paparazzi were standing outside the restraint windows?” Heero nodded. “Well we’ve been dating ever since. It isn’t in the tabloids anymore, because it has become so common to see us together. I thought you should have known before you came and worked for me. We go out about once a week. About four times already.”
Heero was stunned. What was he suppose to do with this new information? Wufei had been dating Relena through him moving out…through him investigating Demetri… through sex with him.
Heero nodded and stood suddenly, “Thank you for informing me. It will be fine.”
Relena nodded and picked up her pen again to continue her work. “I will be sending out a press release about you as my new bodyguard two days from now. Hopefully that will allow you to get settled in more.”
Heero left and did not know what to do. The information bothered him and yet at the same time his mind was berating him, because it shouldn’t irritate him. What he and Wufei had done was for a mission. Their entire history with each other was based off of these missions and his ability to separate his emotions from what he did. He shouldn’t feel the way he did, slightly hurt and a little lost.
But he did.
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Over the next two days Heero had reoriented the papers on the wall of his room six different ways and found no new patterns. He had not spoken to Relena since the information had been given to him and since she had not gone out anywhere he had not needed to be her bodyguard yet. He was also no closer to finding out how Wufei would be shipping mobile dolls to Demetri’s group or even if he was.
Wufei had appeared twice in the news. One time was to give a speech to stock holders in his company about the importance of expanding out of the Asia Sector. He looked slightly pale and definitely tired. His odd sleeping patterns must have been catching up to him.
Relena’s press release had gone out that morning concerning Heero’s new employment within her staff. There was a slight buzz from it, but nothing serious.
Heero was staying in his room again staring at the wall. He had repositioned the papers for a seventh time. One group contained companies that had been suspected of illegal activity, the second were companies that seemed to simply have their CEOs disappear and others had minimal to no information on them at all.
Funnily enough the flower shop chain that seemed so innocent had been suspected of drug running before Wufei took over. The entire situation made no sense at all, because their profit margins hadn’t changed, only who owned it.
Heero shook his head and sighed. This wasn’t working. Locking himself in his room to stare at a wall and occasionally hack into Wufei’s company database was simply not working. Heero glanced over at the screen of his laptop sitting innocently open on his desk. Heero had seen the online tabloids of Relena and Wufei’s last date. The reason it was in the tabloids this time was because it was important; because it was the first time they caught Wufei and Relena kissing. Heero was numb really and not quite sure what to do with himself.
A small chirp from his laptop had Heero out of his room and moving to the vid-screen as soon as he heard it. He had rigged his laptop so that if a news feed produced anything big on Wufei or the Security Board it would alert him immediately.
Switching it on he turned it to the news to see a woman sitting there looking serious. She opened her mouth stating,
‘This just in: Ambassador Riccardone has just resigned his post as being a Security Board Member. It was very unexpected decision as he had made no previous indication of a desire to leave. He was one of the top proponents for giving the Preventers free-reign in the earth sphere to eliminate the ever- growing threat of drug and armament smuggling. There is no word as to who will be replacing him.’
Heero shook his head and shut the screen off as he sank back into the couch behind him. The man who had resigned was the one who consistently voted in favor of the Preventer missions. This was not good. Wufei would be ascending to power very soon and he still didn’t know how the mobile suits were getting out of the company. He felt a tingle on the back of his neck.
Relena came in from behind and she sat down next to him on the sofa, “I thought you might be here.” She pulled the controller from Heero’s hands and flipped to a conference that was about to occur. Heero looked up at the screen. It was Wufei. His complexion was much paler and though he was immaculately dressed as usual there was something slightly off about him.
“I’ve called this press conference for two reasons. First is to announce that I will no longer be involved with Relena Peacecraft on a personal level. It was a mutual decision and that is all that will be said on the topic.” Heero glanced sideways at Relena who was sitting there primly much like she normally did. Wufei continued, “The second reason is to announce that I intend to run for the newly opened position on the Security Board. I hope that my fellow senate members will support me in my endeavor. Questions?”
There were hands shooting into the air quickly as soon as he ended, but Heero instead turned his attention to Relena, “You knew he was going to stop?”
Relena nodded, “Yes he called me this morning after the press release on you. He wanted to give me fair warning. I thought you should see this. You seemed to have been avoiding me since you’ve come here. He is telling the truth it was mutual.”
“But why?”
Relena shrugged a small smile on her lips, “I had a feeling it wouldn’t have worked out. Plus it was only a handful of dates any way. Nothing big.”
Heero turned back to the screen just as another reporter was raising his hand. Wufei pointed at him. He looked strangely familiar… It was the man at the photo shoot, the photographer that Wufei told to release the cooked up picture of him and Wufei.
“Sir, does your decision to end your relationship with Relena have anything to do with her hiring your former bodyguard, Heero Yuy?” the room of reporters went silent. Heero found himself sitting up a little tenser leaning slightly forward towards the screen.
Wufei eyes narrowed slightly and stated, “No comment. That will be all.”