Mail Order Heero Arc 2 Part 2
Hilde had come to L2 exactly five years ago. She had come with a mission that she would either succeed in or die trying to fulfill. A long time ago, when they had first been founded, the colonies were registered under the names of five different families. Each of which mysteriously disappeared. If she could track down the heirs of those families she would be able to liberate the colonies and they would be able to have their own governments. And they would have their freedom without a war. The problem was she needed all the heirs to start the proceedings and a nice amount of money to back up their costs.
She had taken over her father's business when he died at the same time gaining the funds to start her search. Slowly, as she found friends and allies, she began to search down the heirs. Which was hard since each of them were women in their mid thirties. Her friends believing in her cause and sick of the government corruption began to help her and this is how she ended up as the head of a galactic ring of spies and assassins. They were all working together to prevent a war that had, at one time, seemed inevitable.
One at a time they discovered their targets dead. First was Xio Chu who had remarried to become Xio Chang. She had died just short of her twenty-eighth birthday in a plague that had killed most of the people in her village including her son's future wife and her husband. But her son had survived and had been willing to join Hilde in her search. Wufei had grown up with a fine sense of justice and a hatred for Earth's government. It was that government that had sent the contaminated meat to his village to save a few dollars.
Next was Quatrina Raberba who died in childbirth at twenty-three. Money hadn't saved her from death, not when a government miscalculation had denied the local hospital's request for new equipment. Instead the money was spent on a new mansion for the governor. When her husband had returned to discover the louse up, believe me, he made sure that the local government was soon replaced, but that didn't save his beloved Quatrina. At least he still had his son, his heir. But an assassination attempt on his child's life sent him into hiding. His father never said where and a heart attack prevented him from telling. Young Quatre Raberba Winner was lost to the world. When Hilde found him, for reasons of his own, he decided to stay where he was, tall, thin, handsome, green-eyed reason.
Then there was Rebecca Anne Lynn who had run away with the circus at twelve. She slipped on a loose wire and plummeted to death before the crowd and her three-year-old son. He ran away from the circus at eight and changed his name. Hopping on a cargo ship to L4, he eventually ended up working as a mechanic at Hilde's shop. By then he had taken the name Trowa Barton.
Elizabeth Montgomery died in a car accident, but some kind hearted and talented student doctor saved her unborn son. He actually had been working at Hilde's side as one of her best spies for over a year before Duo Maxwell found out that he was one of the Heirs. Unfortunately they just couldn't track the last girl past the age of five, when Tatianjia Romanovsky moved with her grandmother to Japan.
For three years a spy in the international federation had been coming to L2 on the pretence of meeting her boyfriend Duo Montaine, a Surveyor on L2. It was all an elaborate ruse so that she could give them information that they wouldn't be able to get otherwise. A ruse they had kept up for over two years and had used to save so many lives. She helped them smuggle key people back and forth through the colonies and Earth. She may have dyed her hair red, but underneath it all she was still Dorothy Catalonia, rumoured to be Treize's illegitimate daughter. Her mother had raised her since birth with only one goal in mind... take down Treize in anyway possible. And if Duo was named the legal Heir of L2, then Treize's position as Governor from Earth would be non-existent.
~This morning~
Hearing the phone ring Duo groaned and reluctantly loosened his hands from the tight embrace he held Heero in. Still slightly distracted by the naked bishounen he was holding, Duo growled softly into the phone.
"Yes?"
"02? The cat is back."
"Damn it! I'm busy!"
"She has info on 01! Get your ass out of bed and into headquarters!"
"Fine! But I want this weekend off!"
"O.K. and 02?"
"Yes?"
"Your walls are thin; you kept me up all night!"
"You sure it wasn't 03's tongue up your..."
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TBC...
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