A/N:  Hello, this is it, the final chapter, this thing has taken me since November to write so I'm glad I finally have it finished.  Ignore the little stars in here, they mark when I wrote it, I wrote this one way out of order, middle, beginning, end.  So it might seem a little chopped up.  I hope you enjoy. ***************************************************************************************************************************** "Why do you want me dead so badly," she asked swinging her feet off the edge of the desk, and occupying her hands with a gun. The Lady arched her eyebrows and smirked, she didn't intend on telling Ms. Noin anything. "Hardball, hmmm," Noin said slightly amused.  "And you thought that in a day I would forget your generous show of affection.  So maybe I should return the favor."  Fire didn't really want to, but some answers were needed, simply to put old things to rest. ***************************************************************************************************************************** Zechs walked to the building previously holding him capture, and went to see the clerk.  "Excuse me ma'am.  Is a Ms. Garibaldi in today?  I was supposed to have a meeting with her."  He said, eyeing the ditzy secretary, who personified the statment dumb blond.  It was no wonder they had gotten past her last night without a word from her. "Why I believe she is, you can go in and see her if you like."  she said, and he mentally winced at the high pitch of her voice. He forced a thank-you out, and continued on his way in to the building.  This was definately a much preferred way to get into the building.  Everyone was going on about their daily duties, and not a one of them took any peticular heed to him being there, which he found odd, seeing he had only escaped last night. ***************************************************************************************************************************** Noin wrang her hands in annoyance.  The old lady wasn't saying much of anything.  "Your father was a weak person too.  I guess it runs in the line,"  the old lady sneered. Fire turned around and decked her, seething in anger.  "You don't talk about my father like that,"  she hissed.  "Leave him alone, leave him in peace.  You did enough to him while he was living." Garibaldi's head had snapped to the side from the force of the impact, and she spit out some blood.  "My, my we do have a temper don't we." she spoke tauntingly. Noin raged inside from her mistake, that of hitting the old lady.  She gave her a justification for later actions on her part.  She sat there and stared at the woman on the sofa.  The lady seemed calmed, conniving, but mostly all too calm. "Our key has a weak point doesn't she." Noin's ears perked up to the whispered line.  The lady had slipped up.  What a nice treat for her.  "Excuse me,"  Noin said in a falsely haughty voice. The lady remained silent. "I am neither a key, nor am I weak." ***************************************************************************************************************************** He took the elevator to the first sub floor, and got off, it was still dark down there.  'Although' he thought 'I did take a back elevator to get here.'  The place seemed virtually empty on this floor.   Silently he made his way to the Lady's office taking in all the details around him incase of a quick needed escape, or so he could find his footings.  He pulled his gun upon reaching the door, and cocked it just in case, earlier fears needed to  be put aside.  ***************************************************************************************************************************** Noin heard the footsteps in the hallway and froze for a second.  She grabbed the old lady and put her behind door view, and pulled her gun out standing ready behind the door.  Her heart was racing do to the adrenaline rush, so when the door opened she acted on impulse. ***************************************************************************************************************************** His palms began to sweat as he reached his hand out for the door and slowly turned the knob until it opened.  He pushed it open and was met with the cold barrel of a gun to his head.  He winced, and lowered his weapon, and took a good look at the person who held the gun.  "Noin" he said shocked. """""END PART 1"""" ***************************************************************************************************************************** Fire dropped her weapon to her side, and ushered him in quickly.  Her mind was racing.  Zechs had come after her again after all.  That alone was a surprise, but not entirely unwelcomed.  "What are you doing here?"  she asked, raising the old lady and guiding her back over to the sofa. "Not much of anything it would seem."  He said, eyeing Noin, and Ms. Garibaldi.  "I take it you got what you came here for."  Zechs said, looking at Noin while she sat on the desk.  "This wasn't really what I had expected." "Always expect the unexpected,"  Noin said.  "We can go, or call a team in, which ever you prefer, or get out and then call a team in." she said.  Remaining in a potentially hostile place was not on her list of to dos, getting out of here however was. "We can go and call them in." Noin got up and headed for the door. Zechs watched her start to leave.  "You're not going to leave her like that are you?" he asked incredulously. "Why not?"  Noin replied, "Unless you want her to call for back up, or come after us herself.  Zechs just nodded and turned to leave.  Being a gentleman he opened the door for Noin, and she walked out with him following. "Not good," they muttered in unison.  "Time to go." They picked up the pace and headed for the exit, the guards catching on quickly and following after them, firing the occasional round. "Notice this happening alot lately."  Noin said sarcastically as she ran. Zechs simply gave a half smile, and continued without a second thought, except for maybe that of Noin.  He relished in the danger,it was at times, the only time he could feel alive.   ***************************************************************************************************************************** 'Go left, I"ll go right,' Noin motioned with her hands, and eyes.  She stopped in the corridor and watched his hesitating form, and to show her faith in the idea she smirked. Zechs took note of the smirk, which only served to relieve a little bit oh his anxiety and took off to the left, trying to get rid of the surrounding feeling.  Both ways led to an exit, but splitting up wasn't a good idea in his mind. Noin motioned to the right, heart pacing, and stopped.  The guards weren't far behind them, and she wanted to draw them her way, leaving him with a longer, safer, time to get out. Noin spun around, and fired as she heard the men's footsteps stop close by at the intersection.  They responded quickly with bullets, and Noin took off, still amazed that no one outside could hear the shots being fired inside the building. She rounded the corners sharply firing rounds when she could spare the time.   The shots were loud, and resounding, the noise beating a drum inside her head. Fire slipped rounding the corner and ran into the wall, wincing as a bullet narrowly missed her shoulder.  Eyeing the door at the end of the hallway she realized she was already at the exit.  'Finally,' she thought speeding up and she shot the door handle off for a easier exit. It flung open, and she rushed outside into the mob of people and preventers surrounding the building.  Lucrezia eased her way though the crowd as preventers forced their way into the building.  Apparently something had been heard, or the right people notified of something.  She disappeared into the crowd relishing the allowance in which she could do so without question, and made her way to the nearest bank, without a second look back. Zechs journey to the exit was much less stressful, encountering only two armed guards on his way to the exit.  He left with ease and was astonished by the number of people outside the building.  It was tight moving through them, even more so when the more preventers rushed in.  Eventually he made it to the edge of the crowd and began looking for Noin.  Who he realized only after the fact had taken place, had taken most of the fire herself, and cursed himself for allowing her to do so. ***************************************************************************************************************************** Sally raced through the crowd of onlookers after spotting Zechs.  The man could be a damn fool at times.  Muttering several excuse mes she made her way to the back where Zechs seemed to be unsuccessfully scanning for something, but more than likely someone.  She tapped him on the shoulder and he spun around. "Where is she?" she asked practically having to scream over the crowd.  "I don't know." he replied keeping his voice even.  He just hoped she had made it out fine.  Other than his sister, she was all he had left. "Who called it in,"  he asked, keeping a vigil over the crowd.  "No one, Relena got a little mad at us."  Sally answered.  "Let's go somewhere else, the Pilots, and the Preventers can handle this."  She began to move out of the crowd, Zechs following.  Water led them a couple of blocks away to a small coffee shop. "This should do."  She said, and sat down ordering two mocachinos.(I don't drink coffee) The waiter brought them their drinks, and scurried away.  "So what happened?"  Zechs asked. Sally sighed hugging the cup.  "Relena got Hilde to squeeze the information out of Duo, which you know doesn't take much for her."  She said and Zechs nodded showing full understanding.  "So,"  she said continuing on.  "Little Ms. Relena decided to call Une, who quickly put a group together, and seeing you, and Noin were in there, they decided to send them in immediately.  Thus far, we're rounding up all the little cow pokes." Zechs raised an elegant eyebrow at the choice of words, and Sally waved it off. "Do you think she'll show back up, or wander off, things went spiraling downhill since Relena's assassination attempt a while ago. Wind's head sunk.  "I don't know I sure hope she will." "Who knows," Sally said, "She's a very independent woman, Zechs.  People said she couldn't make it without you, and look at what she's done." Zechs smiled.  "I suppose you have a point there.  I hope she will come back though.  There are things I would like to discuss." Sally simplied smiled, got up and said goodbye, muttering something about work needing to be completed but Zechs wasn't fully tuning in.  It looked as though his angel had run off again, and without saying goodbye again, which used to be his habit, and right now he was understanding just what she had felt every time he had left without saying a word, or giving an explanation.  It hurt.  There was a chance she had gone back to the hotel however.  So without further ado he stood and headed for the hotel with the hope of a slim chance at seeing his beauty again before she left. Noin received her money from the bank and took it with a smile.  The joys of a good ATM in the colonies.  Money without questions, no pesky banks to deal with people in.  She headed to a local shopping outlet and went to the vid phones, and recorded a short message to be left on Relena's mail.  Fire knew very well what it was like to be left without a goodbye, it had happened several times before, but she feared that if she said goodbye in person her resolve to go to Mars would fade.  Life a new was what she needed, the Preventers were rounding up the assassins in The Org, and maybe this way she could find out what she really wanted to do, not what others wanted or needed her to do.  The next stop was the hair dressers,  while red long hair had been nice for a while, she missed her short dark purple hair more than anything.  Long hair was a terrible mess to take care of.  Then there was getting new outfits, always a must. Zechs sat down on the bed, and sighed.  She hadn't been there after all.  Not that he figured she would have been anyway.  It was an annoying way to have her leave. "Brother,"  Relena, said swinging into his hotel room, I have a vid message for you."  she said in an awfully cheery tone. "Who?" "Come,and see.  I guarantee you'll be surprised."  she smirked, and dragged him to her computer. Zechs sat down half heartidly, and watched as the message came on.  His mood brightened instantly as he saw it was Noin on the screen, but the image had already been previously recorded, but not to long ago. Relena slinked out of the room, as he listened to Noin's message.  At least he knew why she left so quickly again.  Just as he had done several times in the past. His eyes stayed intent on the screen as he watched her tell parts of what she now new.  Her father had been working for his in some ways, but was a double agent, working for Italy's monarchy, and the Org of whom no one seemed quite sure who they were working for.  She had been kept there with them as insurance that her father wouldn't do anything stupid.  When her father had taken her away from training however, everything had changed.  Noin hadn't told him why her father had finally decided to go against all odds and pull her out of the program, she was put in at such a young age, but it didn't matter.  Noin had told him where she was going, and he had every intent of going there as well. Noin sat idly on the shuttle, waiting for departure.  Mars was just as much her home as anywhere else, and her trip back to Mars right after the fiasco had been to short for her.  Her past had been slightly reconciled, there was still the problem of exactly where the base with the mobile suits was, but as long as no one else knew, it wouldn't be a problem.  She leaned her head back against the seat, turning it so that she could get a good look at space around her.  It was deep, black, and void, a shelter all of its own.  The solemnity of it had always amazed her.  Wonder and amazement being what had propelled her to space in the first place, that and shear need.  Zechs smirked as he walked up the aisle and layed a hand on her shoulder.  "Is this seat taken," he asked, hiding the smile that threatened to play on his features. Fire startled by the sudden movement, looked up to see who was asking, the voice had seemed very recognizable to her.  She smiled as she realized who it was.  "Not at all," she smiled,  "You know this seat will never be taken." Zechs took the offer, and sat down next to her.  "I guess it's my turn to say I'll never leave your side." A/N:  Hi again, Thanks to Winnie, Chibi Tsuki, May, Ashy, The Pretty Pen Writer, mariel4000, Yume Tiff, Lady Jade Une, Rion, T, Charmanderet, and everyone else who has reviewed.  Sorry if I forgot anyone.