Chapter 7 - Prelude To The End

She slipped into his room, quiet and silent the room was, just like her. She looked around and tried to feel the walls for a light switch.

{It's too quiet. Maybe he's out. I'll wait for him here then.} She felt the pad on which the light switch was placed and tried to reach for the switch itself then, a hand grabbed hold of her wrist.

She blinked as the light went on and she stared into hard Prussian blue eyes. She felt a smile break out on her face.

" Who are you?" He demanded, glaring into her silvery blue depths, " What are you doing in here?"

" I'm here," she said, " to see you."

He blinked and she took this short moment of his confusion to throw herself at him and wrapped her arms around his waist to hug him. He glared down at her with a scowl on his face.

" Who are you?" he fairly yelled out at her.

" Don't you remember me?" she asked him, searching his cold eyes, " it's me. Your friend Usagi."

His eyes widened, other then that there was no sign of his shock.

She looked down to the floor sadly and rested her head upon his chest.

" Dr. J seems to have succeeded in killing your emotions." She whispered, her voice soft but the emotion in it was clear. " You promised me that wouldn't happen. You broke your promise Heero."

He suddenly wretched himself out of her embrace and glared at her. " I am the perfect solider." He said, his voice stiff " promises mean nothing to me."

" You lie." She said sharply to him, " Don't lie to me Heero. It didn't worked when we were younger and it won't now!" her eyes softened "Why did you break your promise Heero?"

He glared at her, his eyes full of rage. " You broke your promise too!" he spat back, " You didn't keep your word either! You broke your promise before I did mine." His tone was full of loathing.

" What did I do Heero?" she asked whisperingly, looking up at him, " What did I do to make you int-into J's creation!" her tone was sharp and in this exact tone and voice, when she had used it when they were children, had always made him back down.

But not now. She didn't have that kind of control over him anymore. She had no control over him anymore. He had promised himself this.

" You left me!" he roared at her, eyes flashing. " You left me alone in that-that laboratory! You left me when you had promised you would never!" his voice wavered at the next words, " You left me alone at the time I needed you most."

She moved to comfort him but he swatted her hands away.

" You promised that I wouldn't ever be alone anymore when Dr. J took you in! You said I wouldn't ever have to go through that Hell alone! But you left! You left me! You left when I need you there the most! Do you know what happened? Do you?!" his words were like a slap in the face she couldn't give up, she couldn't.

" Yes." She whispered looking down to the floor, " You killed that little girl and her dog."

The words stopped him dead in his tracks. " Wha-what?"

She stared up at him, her eyes shining with tears. " I know Heero. I know. I knew I shouldn't have left, I knew it! B-but he, Dr J he-you've got to understand Heero! I was a child! I didn't know what to do."

Tears spilled down her cheeks but he just stared at her coldly.

" What? He offered to let you go? Isn't that what he did?" his tone reversed back to a monotone and she crumpled to the ground.

" Yes." She whispered, " yes. BUT! But." She said looking up at him with wild eyes, " I knew that what as happening, I knew it! I overheard one of the other scientists talking about you! But but…" she looked away, " J told me that he was going to let me go and-and he found a family for me." She looked back to his eyes, hers were spilling over with tears but yet she was smiling.

" A family Heero. He found family that would take me in. And you too! He said he also found another family that was going to take you in as well!" her shoulders slumped, " I was such a fool. I actually thought what he told me was real. That we had both found new families. I should have known, I should have known! Especially when he said you went off with the new family already to get me to go with that couple that was waiting to adopt me. I should have known when you didn't contact me over all those years. But I had just thought you didn't want anything more to do with me. That you didn't want any reminders of what had happened to you in that lab…"

" So why are you seeking me out now?" his tone was careless and he leaned against the wall with his arms crossed, his eyes were uninterested.

" I-I-…"she took a deep breath and tried to get her quivering voice under control. " I saw the reports on the five meteors falling to Earth at the same time. I knew then the truth and-and I had thought…that…" she bit her bottom lip nervously, " Felt that-that…" {Felt what Usagi? Felt that you would come here and tell him the truth? Felt that he deserved to know the truth? He doesn't want to hear it Usagi! At least, not from you.}

Her lips started to tremble and tears spilled over from her tear ducks.

Heero felt his anger flare at the sight and didn't even trying to control it as strode towards her and picked her up but the wrist.

She let out a cry of pain as she was slammed back into the wall. She stared into his furious eyes and started trembling in fear. She wanted to say something, anything, but her voice box wasn't listening to her.

" Felt?" he sneered at her, " Felt?! I can't even feel now thanks to you! Let's see how you feel when I'm done with you!"

She cried out sharply as he pressed his lips to hers in a bruising kiss. His hand was ripping her shirt open not even bothering with the buttons and his other hand was sliding beneath her skirt and up her thigh.

She closed her eyes and tried to block it from her mind. But no use, his hands were still there and were now cupping one of her breast in it and the other one slid up…and up...and up…

She gasped and arched against him, pressing herself to his now bare chest. She stared into his sneering eyes as hers overflowed with the tears. {You can't stop him Usagi. You can't. He needs this, you can't stop him!} She clutched her eyes shut tight and wished for this to be over soon.

She wished in vain.

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Minako gasped and clutched at her shirt above her heart. {What is going on? What is this pain? Is it Serenity?} her lips quivered and she knew she had guessed right.

She didn't know what was happening but she knew the time had come. And she knew what she had to do.

Running out of the music room she bumped straight into Quatre and Rashid, but she had no such time for this. She scrambled up and proceeded to run down the hallway.

" Minako!" Quatre shouted after her, " Where are you going?!"

She waved at him from the distance. " See you later Quatre!" she shouted, but when she turned back around and continued running, there were tears in her eyes.

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" Usagi!!" Rei shouted bolting upright in her bed covered in sweat and tears, trembling, and staring off into the distance with frightened eyes.

She couldn't see anything, she couldn't! But the feelings were coming over her and she couldn't stop the cries from escaping

She knew something was happening, something bad, but she couldn't see it! She couldn't see what was happening to her princess that was causing her so much pain. This wasn't suppose to happen to her! She was supposed to guard her friend and princess from harm! She was suppose to be able to do something about it!

But…but she knew there was nothing she could do this time and she broke down and cried.

She barely felt the arms that came around her and rocked her comfortingly and words of warm and care just totally escaped her hearing, as the feelings of fear washed over her.

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Hotaru's eyes snapped open and she stared into the darkness trying to forget what she just saw. She couldn't help that whimper that escaped but she bit back the cries. Curling up into a ball on the bed, her small form trembled as silent tears ran silently down her cheeks and soaked her pillow.

She didn't feel the eyes that stared at her trembling form in the dark from across the room. The indigo eyes of a boy wishing that he could find a way to comfort her and knowing he couldn't. He bit his own lip to keep it from trembling as he stared up at the dark ceiling all night, trying to hold back to the tears.

This was too familiar.

***End of Chapter 7***

Hiasobi: *turns chibi and hides behind the sofa* A different outlook in Heero/Usagi pairings.....um, review if you want more?