Lover of Mine - prologue

by KatiKat



"I don´t love you, Relena! When will you finally understand?" Heero asked, more than a hint of anger evident in his voice.

No, he is lying. He doesn´t mean it, the violet and pink clad witch thought desperately. "You are lying!" Relena shrieked. "You are lying," she whispered, her eyes pleading for him to confirm her wishful thinking.

Heero sighed and closed his eyes. This was ridiculous. "Relena... I. Don´t. Love. You. Look around," he waved his hand. "This is where I live, where I´m happy. I´m not going with you. I will NEVER go with you. Can´t you understand that?"

She looked around. For the first time she really looked around taking in the simple clothes he had on, the small wooden cottage, the small field with wheat and vegetable, the linen hanging in the sun, the smoke escaping from the chimney. She snorted in disgust. "This is what you want from your life? You are no farmer, Heero Yuy. You are a swordsman, a man of the great world. Soon you will be bored in this place. I can offer you so much more. The whole world would lie at your feet, I can fulfill your every wish, every whim. I will give you everything you want. I can make you immortal..." she offered, her voice full of seduction as she peered at him from under her lashes, a small smile on her lips. Everyone wanted to be immortal. She knew he would take her offer if...

Heero shook his head, a sad look in his eyes. "I don´t want any of that, Relena. There is nothing you could offer me that I don´t already have. Treasures, immortality... They are not important if you don´t have somebody you could share them with. I have found the person I want to spend my life with. And he is here, with me and he matters to me more than my life."

She sneered. She knew exactly about whom he was speaking. "That street rat? You want to tell me that some street rat you picked up somewhere is more important to you than me? Don´t tell me you don´t feel anything for me. We´ve spent such wonderful time together. We were lovers and you enjoyed it. I know you did. You can´t tell me that this dirty nothing is more than me!"

"Shut up!" Heero shouted, for the first time since she had known him losing his cool control completely. "You will not insult Duo in my presence like that. Maybe he has no magical powers like you, maybe he doesn´t own all the treasures in the world, maybe he doesn´t have palaces and servants. But he has something you will never have! A heart!"

Her beautiful face paled, eyes darkening with rage. "Is this your last word?" Her voice was cold as ice. She knew that she couldn´t just simply take him. There would be nothing short of a mind altering spell that would stop him from leaving her. Again. He wasn´t called the "Perfect soldier" for nothing. And she didn´t want a soulless puppet.

"Duo loves me, Relena," Heero whispered. "And I love him. You only want to posess me. I have made my mind."

Her eyes narrowed. "You will be sorry, Heero. I swear you will curse this day for the rest of your life!" And then she disappeared in a flash of light, thunder rolling through the small valley where the two men lived.

Heero sighed and hung his head. That was a complete failure. He couldn´t believe how much she had changed since he had left her. Nothing of the fair girl he once loved remained. The elders of their village warned her that the witch powers she played with would corrupt her mind, but she didn´t listen and now only the pretty shell was left behind. And it was filled with obsession, anger and rage, madness ruling where happiness once lived. No, nothing of his former lover stayed behind.

"Heero?" a tentative voice came from behind him.

He lifted his head and turned around. In the doorway leading to their cottage his lover stood - long hair in a messy braid, simple black clothes dusted with flour, a smudge of coal on his nose. Heero smiled. He had never seen anything more beautiful.

"Yes, lover?"

Duo shuffled his feet and looked away. "I... I heard..."

Heero sighed. "Duo..."

"Maybe you should go with her. She is right. I have nothing to offer you. Not the things she could give you..."

Heero quickly closed the distance between them and caught his lover´s face in his hands lifting it. "You heard, but obviously you didn´t listen. I don´t want anything she could offer me. You are my life, my soul, my heart. You are everything I need. For the rest of my life and beyond."

Duo blinked but didn´t look convinced.

"For the rest of my life and beyond," Heero repeated their oath with more heat.

"For the rest of my life and beyond," Duo repeated quietly and then he laid his arms around his lover´s neck as Heero kissed him passionately on his lips. Maybe... just maybe he will be enough for Heero after all...

~*~

Relena was looking in the deep black pool, watching them kiss and hug before they disappeared in the cottage and closed the door behind them. She shrieked and caught one of the stones that surrounded the small pool and threw it in its black waters. With a big splash, the peaceful picture of the small house was destroyed.

"You will be sorry, Heero Yuy. You will be sorry that you didn´t choose me. But you will come to me. You will come crawling. I swear. You will come..."

There was a mad look in her eyes as she turned around and swept some glasses with strange dark liquids and paper scrolls from her work table. She laughed insanely as they crashed to the ground, and with a hiss caught fire.

"You will come to me and you will beg..."

TBC