“Wait Hera!!” He yelled at the figure who was sprinting down the driveway and out into the street. He stopped at the step and cussed. He walked slowly back inside and up to Ai’s bedroom. He knocked and went in without waiting for an answer.
She was curled in a corner, her back to the door she sat there quietly not moving a muscle.
“Ai? What happened?” He asked quietly.
“I…said no more…I don’t want to be with her anymore. I…I think I loved her and look where it has gotten me.” She mumbled, her back still turned, she started to rock back and forwards slowly.
“What?” Junior said in astonishment. The series of events were coming together like a jigsaw puzzle. “That’s why she wouldn’t say anything to me. She loved you all along.” He whispered. His face contorted in pain as he turned to leave.
“I’m sorry…I went to her when he died.” She whispered.
He didn’t say a word, he closed the door quietly and walked down the hall. The rage building and soaring to new heights in his mind. He clenched his fists and gritted his teeth. He closed his eyes and started to breath deeply. That slut! She’s been sleeping with two other people! He screamed in his mind as he walked into the living room and sat in the corner. He watched Heero and Duo watch television, each of them deeply ignoring that others were around them. Duo’s head was in Heero’s lap and Heero was stroking the long rich brown braid that lay about his lap. He brought his legs up near his chest, he could feel the aching feeling throbbing in his chest and throat. He closed his eyes and filled his lungs with air and held until his he could see grey spots. I can’t believe I said I loved her! I don’t! I never will I can never forgive her for this! He thought, the words burned in his mind ‘I thought I loved her and look where it has gotten me…’ She kills all love that anyone has ever given her! I HATE YOU HERA! He grabbed the arm of the chair, his fingernails dug into the cushion.
“Where’s Hera?” A voice asked from across the room.
Junior looked up and saw Quatren standing in the doorway watching him intently, he looked at Heero and Duo who where both frowning at him. “Why the hell should I know?” He asked bitterly.
“Oh…shit, you didn’t let her take off angry did you?” Quatren asked sounding worried.
“No, you can thank Ai for that, she did it all by herself.” Junior said quietly. As he twisted his braid angrily.
Quatren walked over and grabbed the hair on the top of his head and wrenched it up violently, causing his head to go back. Her dark blue eyes where ablaze with fury. “You get off your ass and you go find her or I’ll fucking kill you. We are on a mission and this is not a bloody soap opera. So unless you don’t want me to shoot you with my own goddamn fucking hands I suggest you do something about this.” She hissed. She wrenched her hand out of his hair and walked off angrily. He sat there, turning white and fuming.
“I’ll go and help you.” Duo said quietly as he tossed a sweater at him. He got up and went out the door. He popped his head back in frowning. “She didn’t take her gundam did she?” He asked nervously.
“No.” Junior said as he got up and put the sweater on.
Duo frowned and scratched his head. ‘Well then, what’s the big deal?” Duo said as he walked back into the room.
“You don’t get it…” A voice said behind him, it was Trevor. “That’s when she is a bigger threat, because she is so unpredictable and that skilled that when she isn’t in her gundam she has no control.” Trevor frowned as he looked at Junior who pushed him out of the way.
“Oh…that couldn’t really be good.” Duo muttered as he got up and looked down at Heero, who was still looking a little ill from the flight.
Hera arrived at the large dorm. She looked around and let the suit shift into her school uniform. She walked onto the school grounds and into her dorm, she passed girls that were staring and pointing at her. She ignored them and took out the key from her backpack, she opened the door and flicked the lights on and shut the door quietly behind her. She walked over to her bed and collapsed on it and threw her shoes off. Staring up at the ceiling and listening to the girls pass, she sat up and looked around the room.
“This place is in need of a change.” She muttered as she got up and walked to the bathroom that was attached to their room. She opened the medicine cabinet and smiled as she saw a pair of scissors gleaming menacingly at her. She took them and closed the cabinet door, gazing into the mirror and holding the scissors in her hands she shrugged and pulled out the foot long braid and she sighed as she raised the scissors and cut it off. She then threw the braid in a bag and turned the lights out in her room, she let the uniform form into a pair of dark blue sweat pants and hoodie, she put up the hood and looked around the room. She shut the door and walked down the hallway, as she stuffed the bag into her backpack she smiled in anticipation as she thought about what the others would think.
She phoned up a cab and waited for it come. When it did, she went into town and stopped at a barber shop. She ordered them to shave her head bald, only leaving around a half an inch of hair. She rubbed her head and smiled; satisfied with herself. She paid her bill and walked down the road, pulling up the hood to cover herself. She hailed another taxi and went back to the dorm.
She got into her room to see a crowd of familiar faces waiting in her room. The all looked relieved as she smiled at them. Her smile grew evil as she looked at Junior, he was white and weary with grief. She drew out the bag and threw it at him. The room went silent as he opened it and let out a strangled cry as he withdrew the contents in it. She dropped the hood and everyone gaped at her.
“Oh my god Hera, what the hell did you do?” Quatren muttered.
“It annoyed me.” She shrugged as she turned to leave.
“You stupid bitch.” Junior yelled as he dropped the braid like it was a dead rodent. He lunged across the room at her and grabbed her neck. He slammed her against the wall, as she laughed in delight at the reaction he was giving her.
“What Junior don’t like it?” She laughed as he struggled to get out of Heero’s and Duo’s grasp.
“You promised me! You bitch! YOU PROMISED ME YOU WOULDN’T!” He yelled, his voice going rasp as she opened the door.
“Yeah well, a lot of people have promised me a lot of things and they’ve broken them…get used to it.” She glanced at Ai when she said this, then stepped through the door and slammed it.
Junior slumped to the floor and buried his face in his hands. He muttered things that were inaudible for the rest of the group to make out. Nobody moved, or left the room to follow after Hera. After a while, Junior got up and picked up the discarded braid. He looked at it sadly, then put it back in the bag and gave it to Heero. Heero frowned and looked at him like he had lost his mind.
“What do I do with this?” He asked as he waved the bag.
“Hera and I made a promised that if one of us died, then we would bring the braid back to give to our father…we promised on our friendship that we would not cut our hair at any cost. She just told me that she…well, she just broke our friendship.” He whispered as he walked out the door.
Heero clutched the bag and gritted his teeth. If she’s my daughter then why the hell is she acting like this? He asked himself.
“Bloody hell…” Duo muttered in disgust.
Hera stepped out of the dorm again she shook uncontrollably with what she had just done. She tried to shrug it off, but found herself running out of the campus as fast as her legs would take her. She ran down the road and towards the shore. She crawled through the brush to the hidden shore that she and the others had arrived on. She stopped short when she saw two people standing near the low weeping widow. It was Relena and a tall man with Platinum blonde hair.
“I won’t let you do it!” Relena said as she looked up at him.
“I must go destroy the other Gundams before its too late.” The handsome stranger said in a low voice.
“No! not Heero!” She cried as she grabbed his sleeve.
“Listen Relena, you are the heir to the Peacecraft Throne, they will just be a problem if we don’t get rid of them. I have been led to believe that there are ten gundam pilots, five others that have extremely advanced weapons and are very powerful. I can’t let that be a risk. I must go and find out for myself, now that they are back on the campus grounds.” He said quickly as he glanced at his watch. He hugged her and turned to leave.
“Brother…please don’t hurt him.” She cried.
“I can’t guarantee anything, but I’ll do my best.” He muttered as he stepped out of the clearing through a hidden path.
Hera turned and left, she ran down the road and towards the Winner residence. You’re not getting a hand on my Gundam! She thought frantically as she sprinted down the road.