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A Weekend to Remember
Chapter Ten: A Nightmare Come True
Heero sat in Lady Une's office watching as she stared at him and
impatiently tapped a pencil on her desk. He swallowed a
lump in his throat. He knew he had just gotten Relena into
trouble. This was not good. Lady Une did not look
too happy, and he knew Relena would not be happy either when she
found out. 'Why me?'
"Are we feeling better now?" She inquired as she
leaned forward on her desk.
Heero tried to give his best 'Relena' smile, but it did not seem
to be working. So, he resorted to just nodding his head
instead.
"That's good. Care to tell me what all of that was
about?"
Heero shook his head, not able to think of any logical reason
behind his actions. He knew he could not tell her the truth.
Lady Une sighed and lowered her head. "Very well.
You don't look like you are ready to talk about it anyway.
Maybe later."
Heero let out the breath he had been holding and then found it
easier to smile back at her.
"However, I will ask you this, and I do expect an answer.
I will tolerate no more outbursts like that while you are on these
premises. Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes, ma'am."
"Good. Now, on to the reason I needed to speak with
you in the first place." She finally put down the pencil,
and casually folded her arms onto her desk, looking very intently
at Heero.
"I know I called the mandatory meeting for this morning.
I need to discuss security for tonight."
Heero's eyebrows shot up. "Tonight?"
"Yes, next weekend's fund raiser to benefit war orphans has
been pushed up to tonight."
"Fund raiser?"
Lady Une sighed loudly and frowned across her desk at the young
lady. "Yes, the fundraiser, you know, the society gala
in which all the proceeds are going to help one of your favorite
charities. The one that you gladly accepted the invitation
to a month ago."
"Oh." Came his reply. Actually it was the
only word he could form at the moment.
"Well, aren't we just full of surprises? Ten minutes
ago I could not calm you down. Now I can't get you to speak
more than one or two word sentences." She said with
a smirk.
Heero slightly squirmed in his chair under her intense scrutiny.
"Why did the fund raiser get moved up?"
"Well, Senator Cleveland, the host, has to unexpectantly
leave tomorrow afternoon to head back to his home colony and will
not be able to return to Earth for another two months. So,
next weekend's event got moved to tonight."
Heero smirked and gave her a look that asked her to come out with
it already.
"Well, because of the date change, a lot of delegates that
were coming next weekend are now unable to attend, but then there
are those that couldn't attend next weekend that are now coming.
And, unfortunately, I know of one such delegate that is now going
to be in attendance that you are probably not looking forward
to seeing."
Heero's head was spinning. 'Please no, don't let it be that
90-plus year old diplomat that I always catch flirting with Relena
and saying how he'd love to have a nice young thing like her attached
to him.' He had to resist the urge to bang his head on the
desk. 'Please no, anybody but him. I'll go back to
the beauty salon and put up with ten Marks, but just let it be
anybody but . . ."
"Ambassador Greene." Une said interrupting his
train of thought.
Heero was temporarily relieved because it was not the guy he thought
it was. He would have let out a sigh, but the next comment
stopped him.
"You know, the one who never takes no for an answer."
Now Heero knew he did not really want to know who exactly this
Ambassador Greene was. However, he also knew he would find
out the hard way, if he did not find out now. So, he tried
his best to play the part of a confused Relena and inquired casually,
"Who?"
Lady Une shook her head. "It must have been pretty
bad if you have mentally blocked the guy from your memory."
She leaned back a little in her chair and gave Heero a concerned
look. "Ambassador Greene is the diplomat from the new
colony cluster of X19555 that was at the March Banquet last year.
Don't you remember, he asked you about half a dozen times to marry
him then he even went as far as trying to get you to go talk someplace
quiet with him?"
Suddenly, Heero's memory became quite clear. 'Now, I remember
that bastard. I would have killed him, if Duo hadn't stopped
me.' Heero did his best to remain calm and asked, "How
did he get an invitation?"
"Very few know about last year's incident. Of course,
Heero, Duo, you, and myself know about it and I'm guessing that
Heero put the fear of God in Ambassador Greene enough to where
he kept his mouth shut." She took a deep breath.
"It turns out that the ambassador is not only a war orphan
himself, but he is also good friends with Ambassador Cleveland."
"Just keep him away." Heero replied through clenched
teeth, barely able to keep the venom out of his voice.
"I plan on it, but I also felt like I needed to warn you
beforehand. Your personal guards will also know as well.
Which brings up the next thing I need to speak to you about."
"Yes?" Heero did his best to calmly reply.
'What else can go wrong?'
"I need Duo and Quatre to be stationed away from you tonight.
Yes, they will be there to protect you, but I need two agents
to mingle with the guests as an extra precaution. Duo and
Quatre are the two most qualified for that job. Both men
are bringing dates, further making them the best choices.
That still leaves Heero, Trowa, and Wufei as your personal guards
for tonight. However . . ."
"Yes?" He asked when she seemed to pause.
"Since I am taking two agents away from you, I'm putting
in a replacement for tonight. He's more than qualified,
and he has proven his skills more than once to me."
Une looked at Heero and when he opened his mouth to protest she
held up her hand. "Now I know that Heero, Trowa, and
Wufei are more than capable of doing their job. However,
this whole night is so last minute that anything can go wrong
and I'm NOT taking any chances."
"Who?" Heero asked and like a premonition, knew
he would not like the answer.
"Lt. Brian Summers." She answered as if it was
a matter-of-fact.
Heero's eyes about bulged out of his head. 'No way!' He
wanted to scream and protest. How could that pretty boy
be qualified, or almost as skilled as him for that matter?
It was not possible. There had to be some sort of mistake.
Maybe he misunderstood. Yeah, that was it. "Excuse
me?"
"I'm placing Lt. Summers as one of your personal body guards
for tonight."
'Over my dead body.' Heero thought.
"Of course, Heero will remain the captain of your guard.
Brian is just a temporary replacement." She continued
to talk, but Heero started tuning her out. His head was
reeling.
'This not happening.' He was so lost in thought that he
almost missed what Lady Une was currently telling him.
"Actually, he requested to have Heero's place for tonight.
Of course, I told him there's no way I'm replacing Heero.
He's definitely the one most qualified for that position.
I think he accepted that answer, but just between you and me I
think he has a little crush on you, Relena." She said
with a huge smile.
'Like hell he does!' His head started to really spin now.
'This is so screwed up.' Despite all of his thoughts he
was still able to speak. "Are you sure about this?"
"No, not positive. But, he actually started to blush
when he requested to be the captain of your guard. It was
kind of cute. Oh! Aren't you a lucky girl? That
boy has every female that has ever laid eyes on him practically
drooling and dying for him to notice them and all of a sudden
he has eyes for you." She said still smiling.
'Argh! Why do these sorts of things always happen?'
Heero fussed in his head. Suddenly, a logical complaint
came to mind. "What a minute, if he only has eyes for
me, won't I be a distraction? How can he possibly do his
job correctly?" Heero mentally patted himself on the
back.
"As I said before, he is more than qualified. I have
no doubt that he will do his job correctly. The only other
person I've met that is as serious is Heero. Plus, now is
as good a time as any to see how well these two work together."
Heero sighed in defeat. He was not going to win this battle.
So, he would have to find a way to deal with it. He still
had a mission to complete, and he was not about to let Lt. Summers
get in his way. Oh yes. He would get through this.
"Well, if you don't have any other questions, that is all
I needed to speak to you about. The other meeting will take
place in about five minutes, so I'll see you there."
Heero stood up to walk out of her office, then he remembered he
had to display Relena's mannerisms in leaving this office not
his own. So, he graciously bowed his head and said, "Thanks
Lady, I really appreciate all that you are trying to do for me."
And then, he tried his best attempt at a gracious smile.
"No problem." And she smiled back.
With that, Heero quietly walked out of her office. Once
in the hall he had to fight his inner turmoil. He wanted
to scream or hit something, but he maintained his control.
Years of physical and mental training to become a perfect soldier
can do that to a person. This whole weekend was just so
screwed up. Now, he not only had to pretend to be Relena
at this fund raiser, he had to ward of the affections of all those
bastards trying to flirt, especially two in particular, one, who
didn't know the meaning of the word no, and the other, who would
probably be standing by his side all night guarding him from danger.
Heero groaned this was not happening to him. It was not
fair. Why couldn't everything just go back to normal?
He never made the stupid wish in the first place, so why should
he have to endure all of this?
It would serve them all right if he just went off and locked himself
in his dorm room and did not come out until tomorrow morning when
all of this mess would hopefully be over. But, that was
the coward's way out, and he was not a coward. He would
see this through to the end, and damn-it, nothing was going to
stop him from completing his mission.
He turned and saw Relena, Duo, and Hilde walking toward him.
The others would not be far behind. He stood and waited
for them to catch up.
'I will get through this, and when this is all over I will have
accomplished my objective.' He smirked at his thoughts.
'Yes, it will all have been for the best in the end.'
<>
Later back at Hilde and Relena's home:
Une's mandatory meeting ended hours ago with the security detail
in order. Now they were all back at the house getting ready
for the gala.
Heero stood a few feet away from Relena with his arms crossed
over his chest and glaring daggers at her through time and space.
"Cheer up Heero it is only for a couple of hours."
"I don't give a shit how long it is because there is no way
in hell that you are going to get me in that."
Heero narrowed his eyes further, deepening his scowl.
Oh, the injustice of it all. How in the world was he supposed
to get into that thing to begin with? He did not want to
think about it much less attempt it.
Relena was standing in her closet doorway and holding up a dark
blue sequin ball gown. Heero shook his head again and Relena
let out an exasperated sigh.
"Heero, you might as well suck it up because you know that
you don't have any other choice."
"Like hell I don't! That's it. I'm not going."
"Oh, stop being difficult and just put it on."
"No." He crossed his arms even tighter in front
of him and stood his ground. As far as he was concerned,
she had finally flipped her lid. There was no way he was
putting that thing on. It was a DRESS for crying out long.
He did not wear dresses. He never had before, and he was
not about to start now.
Relena's mouth suddenly twitched up into a smirk that made his
blood run cold. He didn't know what it meant, but he didn't like
that look. No, not one bit.
"Then, what do you plan on wearing?" The
smug smile on her face widened with her question.
He stopped. Shit. What else could he wear? Why
couldn't women just were pants to these types of functions?
His eyes briefly lit up. That's it! Relena wears pants
suits all the time to her meetings so there was no reason he could
not were one of those outfits to this fundraiser. He smirked.
"I'll just were one of your pants outfits."
"You can't."
His face fell. "Why not?"
Relena let out a heavy sigh. "Heero, this is a very
formal occasion. You know something usually referred to
as a 'black-tie affair', which means that the men wear tuxedos
and women wear ball gowns. And, you my dear Heero, are a
woman."
"I am not!"
Relena smirked. "Have you looked in the mirror any
time in the last two days?"
Heero growled. "Omae o korosu!"
She laughed at that one. "I guess you'll never get
tired of that line, huh?"
Heero grumbled.
"If it makes you feel any better, Duo will have to wear a
dress too. So that means you won't be alone in your misery."
She sweetly replied.
"Ghee, that just makes it all better. Thank you very
much." He said, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
She was starting to lose her patience. There had to be a
way to get him to cooperate. There was not any way aroundit.
He had to wear the dress, and he was just being stubborn.
"If you'll just stop complaining and put the damn dress on,
I promise I'll make it up to you." Her voice dropped to a
low tone that Heero would classify as seductive.
One eyebrow quirked up, as the curiosity at what exactly she meant
by that got the better of him. "How so?"
She tilted her head and appeared to be considering how to answer
him. "I don't know, but I promise you'll like it.
How's that?" He smirked as several scenarios
raced through his mind.
"Oh, I will make sure to take you up on your offer because
you owe me big time now." He then grabbed the offending
object from her and began reluctantly walking toward the bathroom.
"Oh yeah, there's one more thing." She hesitantly
replied.
Heero stopped in his tracks and slightly turned his head to glance
back at her. 'What now?' He thought.
He watched with dread as she deliberately walked over toward her
dresser, opened a drawer, and slowly revealed the newest threat
to his masculinity.
***
"INJUSTICE!"
"Oh! Come on, Duo, they're not that bad."
Hilde said and let out a long sigh.
"No way. No how. NO!" He shouted and
frantically shook his head.
"Oh, stop being a big baby and just put them on."
"No and you can't make me."
"You wanna bet?"
"But, Hilde." Duo's voice changed to a whiny pitch.
"They're pantyhose and you always complain about wearing
them so why should I have to?"
"Well, for one your feet will be regretting it later if you
don't."
"I very seriously doubt that."
"I'm serious. Heels can not be worn without pantyhose
because the back of your heel will be rubbed raw."
"HEELS! I have to wear heels too? NO WAY HILDE!
I'm not doing it!"
She closed her eyes, almost at her wits end. She needed
a new tactic. Hilde smirked just as an idea came to her.
Duo gulped. He did not like the look Hilde had in her eyes.
Then he watched for the first time in his life as he was placed
on the receiving end of his own puppy-eyed stare. Damn.
She was just as good or even better than him.
"But, Duo sweetie, I thought you always say it can't be that
bad and to just suck it up because we won't be there that long
anyway."
"But . . . But, this is different." He whined.
"You're used to wearing this shit. I'm not."
"Now, I wouldn't say 'used to it' I would say it's more like
'deals with it'." She said with a triumphant smirk.
"But, it's not fair. I have enough already to deal
with. I don't want to have to deal with this too."
"Aw. But, Duo." She said with a pouty lip.
"You always complain it takes me forever to get ready so
I figured you would want to know everything it takes to become
beautiful. Beauty takes time you know."
Duo was starting to turn pale, but Hilde did not appear to notice.
Instead, she was counting out on her fingers all that she needed
to do to get him ready. "Let's see. We have to
do your hair and you're make-up. You're lucky you went to
the salon yesterday because otherwise we'd have to get your nails
done too. Then once all of that is done, we'll have to get
you dressed."
Duo was white as a ghost. 'This is not happening.'
"Let's see it shouldn't be too hard to get you into that
dress, but those stupid pantyhose will be another story."
She paused for a second. "I guess I can just put socks
on your hands that should keep you from ripping them."
"Excuse me, but I am not putting socks on my hands.
Have you totally gone bonkers on me or something?"
Hilde continued pacing and thinking out loud. "Yes,
the socks could work." Then she stopped. "Oh
crap."
"What now? It can't be that bad, can it?"
He asked with a pleading look in his eyes.
"No, it's not that bad, but I'm sure that you're not
going to like it." She walked over to her dresser drawer
and pulled out a small piece of lingerie.
"What's not to like? Personally I think you look great
in black lace." He said but then he got a closer look
at what she was actually holding up.
"There is absolutely no way in hell that you are getting
me into that. I may have to endure everything else, but
I'll be damned if I'm going to endure that as well."
***
"It's official. You've completely cracked."
"Heero, it's not as bad as you think it is. Besides,
I thought men liked seeing women wear these." Relena
said with a smirk.
"Seeing them and wearing them are two totally different things."
He said and continued to glare at her from across the room.
"Yeah that's true, but you're still going to have to wear
them."
He shook his head.
"Heero, it is just underwear for crying out loud!"
She yelled, finally having enough. They had been arguing
over everything from the dress down to the shoes, and just when
she thought they were finally getting somewhere, they ended up
right back at square one. It was exasperating to say the
least.
"That is not underwear. That can barely even
be called a scrap of fabric. How can you even wear that
. . . that."
"It's called a thong, Heero." She said sarcastically.
Heero huffed. "I know what it is. But, I'm not
wearing it and that's final."
Relena sighed. "You can't wear normal underwear with
that dress, Heero. The panty lines will show."
"Well, then pick out another dress. You've got, what,
a thousand of them?"
"That's not going to make a difference."
"Well, don't they make some kind of seamless shit nowadays?
Couldn't I just wear that instead?" He asked getting
desperate for any way out.
"Been there. Done that. Didn't work."
She answered getting tired of answering questions. "You're
only other option is to go commando, which I doubt you'll want
to do."
"Why?"
"Going commando in a dress is different from going commando
in pants, especially when the slit down the front of the dress
goes above mid thigh. You'd have to be extra careful all
night to not give everyone a free show."
Heero was silent and looked like he was actually considering his
options. Relena waited patiently while he made up his mind.
"Well?" She finally asked.
He didn't say anything. He just grabbed the 'scrap of fabric'
from her then stormed off toward the bathroom. Heero turned
to face Relena when he got to the door. "Never breathe
a word of this to anyone." He slammed the door behind
him.
Relena mischievously smiled at the closed door. "Why
Heero, what on Earth would make you think that I'd do such a thing?"
<>
Half an hour later in Hilde's room:
Not long after Heero had stormed off into the bathroom, the other
girls came barging into Relena's room, dragging in a very reluctant
Duo, and declaring that they wanted to help each other fix hair
and make-up for the night. Relena gladly left them to deal
with Heero. She just hoped that he would not give anyone
else a hard time. As she turned to leave, she noticed the
pleading look both boys gave her. It was almost enough to
make her feel sorry for them. Almost.
Now, she sat on Hilde's bed bored out of her mind. Sure
it was nice to not have to deal with Duo and Heero at the moment,
but they still had two more hours until it was time to leave.
And since her and Hilde were technically guys, they did not need
half as long to get ready, which left them with nothing to do
at the moment.
Relena looked over at Hilde. Her friend was digging around
her room looking for anything to cure their boredom.
"Will you stop moving around so much? You're even starting
to make me nervous." Relena said.
"Sorry Rel, I just have a hard time sitting . . ." She
stopped then got a mischievous gleam in her eye as she glanced
back at Relena.
"What?" Relena said cringing at whatever just popped
into her friend's head.
"How would you like to get back at those two for the hellish
afternoon they just gave us?"
"Well, they are men which makes them stubborn by nature.
So I can't really fault either one for that, but finding a way
to irk a nerve in soldier boy would be very entertaining.
Besides, we're women. We are not supposed to make it easy
on them." Relena would love to give Heero a small taste
of his own medicine, but she hesitated in agreeing to anything
because Hilde's idea of medicine rarely came in small doses.
Hilde's gleam turned devilish and Relena once again almost felt
sorry for Duo.
"What do you have in mind?"
Hilde held up a small bottle that she retrieved from her make-up
drawer. Upon closer inspection, Relena noticed it was bright
red. She smirked. Now this was something worth getting
in to. "Have I ever told you that sometimes I love
the way you think?"
"It's a gift. I know." Hilde said and nonchalantly
blew on her fingertips as she swiped her right shoulder.
Relena giggled. Oh. This was going to be fun.
"So which color do you want?" Hilde asked.
"What are my options?"
"Well, let's see I have red, blue, orange, purple.
Okay let's just say I have about every color in the rainbow then
some."
Relena thought for a second then her eyes lit up. "Green."
"Green?"
"Well yeah, I figure Heero would appreciate the gesture more
if it matched his favorite shirt. You know he can be very
anal sometimes, and I wouldn't want to upset him over such a simple
oversight."
Hilde tossed her the green bottle and Relena caught it easily.
"And, you say I can be devious."
Relena winked. "I've learned from the best."
Hilde laughed. "Hey, don't give me all the credit."
Relena laughed too. "So what will be your color of
choice?"
"Well." Hilde began in her best impression
of a southern belle from long ago. "Now that you mention
it. Since black is his signature color.
I think I'll just have to go with that one."
Relena could only laugh harder, which made tears come down her
face.
"Come on." Hilde said trying to get Relena to
calm down. "We need to get this done before dumb and
dumber come back. We don't want them to find out about our
little surprise for them just yet."
Relena stopped laughing and got a quizzical look on her face.
"Which one is dumber?"
Hilde scratched her head and pondered the thought. "Hell
if I know. It's a toss up, if you ask me."
Relena deciding to get a little more serious wiped the few remaining
tears from her eyes. "Okay. But, I think I'm
gonna go lock the door just in case."
"Good idea."
Relena quickly locked the door before she went over to sit by
Hilde on the floor. They then took off their shoes
and proceeded to create two of the most colorful pairs of feet
on the entire Preventer force. Yes, life often times proved
very entertaining indeed.
~~~To Be Continued~~~
Yes! I'M FINISHED! FINALLY! Sorry for the delay.
I had a little case of the dreaded writer's block for a couple
weeks. I knew what I wanted to do, but it just wasn't coming
out right. Anyways, Thank you Rose for all your help.
You have no idea how much I appreciate it. I also want to
take this opportunity to thank one of my reviewers. The
toenail painting session was actually her idea. Well, I
don't think it came out like she wrote in her suggestion, but
I loved the idea of the girls painting Heero and Duo's toes so
I had to put it in the fic. So, thank you Camigro.
^_^ Well, that's all for now. Bye! Carebear