Destiny of the Heart


Chapter Seven

When Relena had awoke early the next morning she found herself snuggled up against Heero's body. She had her head resting on his shoulder and her left arm on his chest. She took notice that her left legs was resting by his hips. She smiled and looked up at him tracing her fingers along his chapped lips. Heero open his eyes and look at her. Relena quickly sat up beside him and stretched her arms. She then looked back at him to see that he had closed his eyes again.

"Heero."

"What."

She turned around to face him then pulled her legs up and hugged them to her chest. "Were you serious about what you said last night?"

He opened his eyes to look at her. "What I said?"

She smiled at him. "About you needing me." She smirked when she seen the shocked look that crossed his face.

"You....you heard that?"

"I wasn't sure if it was a dream or not, you just confirmed otherwise."

Heero sat up so he would be eye level with her. He tried to say what was on his mind but he couldn't even open his mouth to speak. So instead he nodded his head. They both sat there staring at one another until Relena moved to stand up. Heero grabbed her by the wrist.

Heero took a deep breath then spoke. "I'm not very good at figuring out how to act on the feelings that I have for you. I don't even know how to let you know."

"Heero, you can tell me anything. I've tried numerous times to let you know that."

Heero pulled her toward him so she fell into his lap. He looked into her eyes letting her know what he was going to say next was very important to him.

"Relena, over that past few weeks with you, you have managed to reached a spot inside me that I have long since thought that it no longer existed. You helped me find it, the side of me that wanted to enjoy life and to learn how to love." She stared at him speechless, but he could see the tears starting to form in her eyes. "I...I've fallen in love with you Relena."?

She quickly threw her arms around his neck burying her face against it. "I love you too Heero."

Heero laid back down pulling Relena with him. He wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her on top of him. Relena sighed and laid her head on his chest listening to his heartbeat while Heero plaid with her hair.

*****

Duo sighed and stared at the sight before him. They have been walking around the sight of the wreck for the past half hour now looking for any clues that someone may have survived. They had to wait earlier that day, for a couple of hours, for the storm to clear. Then it took them a good hour to get out here by snowmobile. It was slowly starting to get dark outside and Duo knew that they would have to be leaving soon.

"Not much left of the plane." a searcher beside Duo stated.

Duo looked at the guy before turning his attention to where Zechs was walking to.

"Maxwell come here." Zechs called to him. Once Duo stood beside him Zechs pointed to what looked like a shelter built out of parts of the plane. "It looks like someone survived."

Wufei walked toward them when he herd Zechs. "If someone is alive then why didn't they stay here?"

"Look around you. There's not much shelter here. This little shack wouldn't have been much protection at all." Zechs answered him.

"So where could they have gone then?" Wufei crossed his arms.

One of the rescue workers approached them. "I normally lead hiking trips out here during the summer months. I can tell you from experience that there are caves and other areas where they could be. But my guess would be the mountain. At least that is where I would head."

They all turned to look through the small clearing that exposed the mountain in the distance.

"But that's a long walk. If one of them was injured I don't think that they could make that distance." Zechs looked at the man.

"If no one was injured it would have taken at least a week. I looked back at the weather from when you claimed the wreck took place. We had no more than a dusting of snow that day and we didn't get a heavy snow fall until six days later. They could have made it there by then."

Zechs nodded at him. "Fine it's getting late, we'll start the search tomorrow morning."

*****

Heero slowly made his trek back to the cave after catching dinner. He let his mind wander to thoughts of what they had discussed most of the day. They had laid in each others arms and did nothing but talk getting to know one another. His real reason for leaving the cave was so he could think a few things through.

He smiled when he seen Relena standing not far from the mouth of the cave waiving to him. Once he got close enough to her she ran and threw her arms around his neck knocking them both down. Heero laughed and held her tightly against himself then reached up and held her face and pulled it toward him. They both smiled before kissing each other. It didn't take very long for the simple, but meaningful kiss to turn into something far more passionate.

"Heero, lets go inside." Relena managed to gasp out once they broke for air. He nodded and she stood up and held her hand out for him to take it once he stood up.

Once they were finally inside the cave Relena took her coat off and became shocked when Heero pulled her back against his body and kissed her while working on removing the two layers of clothing she was in. His lips worked their way to her neck and he whispered in her ear "I want you." She moaned as he nibbled on her ear and ran his hands under her shirt. Her pulse started to race and she quickly started to work on getting his clothes off as well. This time when they laid down on the blankets they took their time to get to know each other physically.



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