Title: Assailant Part 8 Author: Reboo email: rlw1985@hotmail.com A/N: Thank-you for the suggestions given to me, I've used some of them, hopefully to your satisfaction. Reviews are great, and very welcomed. As always thank-you to those of you who have reviewed. By the way if anyone wants to chat just email me, I don't have aim so, I'm outta luck there. Now on with the fic. The band started to play as the delegates readily entered the dining hall, eagerly awaiting their dinners. Relena and the L2 delegate, Fuller, that the org was after, were there as well like they were supposed to be. The org's assassins, Noin, and Zechs payed full attention to the two of them coming in along with the rest of the crowd. This had been a big group of delegates but the three peaking in from the prep room, and the one in the shadows took notice of everyone's movements. Nothing seemed to get bye their eyes as they steadily gazed onward. The delegates were quick to seat themselves as they entered chatting the entire time. However Fuller, one of the L2 delegates switched places with someone next to Relena. Noin groaned as she saw this. Now both Relena, and the L2 delegate were both getting served by the Japanese org member. This made her worry, she would have to be especially careful of what was going on at Relena's table now, not something that was very easy with the current crowd of people. Waiters were quickly dispersed throughout the room, and as Noin started serving people she made sure to keep a watchful glance at the Japanese man serving both Relena and Fuller. Drinks and the appetizers were distributed without problems, and neither assassin made a move on The Vice Foreign Minister, or the L2 delegate, which greatly pleased Lucrezia Noin. Somehow when the assassins did make their move, Noin would have to be able to prevent it or prevent the receiving person of the assassin's graces from taking what was offered them. She pondered her ideas as she took the orders of the people she was serving and went back to the prep room. Silently she handed the slip with their orders to the head person and waited for her turn to go back and serve the delegates. Music floated back into the room she was in slightly calming her uneasy nerves. Noin could always pull the fire alarm, to stop everything that was going on, but the preventers would most likely stop her before she could pull one, or they'd catch her right after she had pulled it, and lord only knew if she could out run one of their bullets. Security might be poor at the dinners but the preventers were told to shoot to subdue those who tried to cause mischief at any of these sorts of events. 'There always is the possibility of calling in a bomb in the building.' she thought. 'But then again that will probably take to long to do anything,' she recalled how long it took preventers to normally react to these things and their time was slagging bad. 'I guess I'll just have to act upon my instincts and do what the situation calls for.' she decided while still waiting for her part of the orders to be filled. Then it hit her she had the knock out solution in her pocket, she could always get him with it before he could do anything, but to do that she'd have to be in the shadows. Zechs stood silently in the shadows hiding where the Preventers doing guard duty wouldn't notice him, not that there were many of them to begin with, but it was always better to be safe then sorry. Proceedings seemed to be going normal enough, the concert band was playing a wonderful piece whose title he couldn't quite remember, and the delegates were chatting away discussing political business as well as personal affairs. The door opened slightly as the food began to be served. He turned his head to watch the entrance of the waiters, the red haired one that had caught his attention was first out to serve people, doing her job quickly and efficiently, making sure to keep everyone happy. She did her job and returned to the prep room, then he noticed her curious behavior as she discretely slipped back out again and hid herself within the shadows, she seemed to be paying particular attention to the waiters serving his sister's table. Then as the man carrying the food came out carrying the food for his sister and the L2 delegate she backed up behind the man and pulled him into the shadows. From what Zechs could tell she knocked out the poor man or something of the sort because a few moments later she emerged from the shadows but the man didn't. Noticing this odd event Zechs began to make his way along the wall to where she had been, but he wasn't the only one who had noticed this odd occurrence. The tall Irishman had as well, and was now making his way towards where his partner had last been after finishing serving the delegates that were his responsibility. Noin went and got new food for the delegates whose food had most likely been poisoned and returned carrying a new tray. She quickly served Relena and Fuller, apologizing for how late their food was, and ignoring the odd look Relena kept on giving her. 'It's almost as though she recognizes me, but she can't quite place my face.' Lucrezia noted with slight amusement, then retreated to the darkness of the walls to go check on the Japanese man she had disabled of for the moment. As she approached the back hallway she had hidden the man in, she noticed two other figures in the shadows one approaching the japanese man, and one kneeling over the man. The first she quickly recognized as the Irishman, that always accompanied the japanese man, and the second one looked strangely like Zechs Merquise Noin thought studying his figure. Deciding staying there wasn't a wise decision to make, she quickly took flight from the area, and headed to another back hallway on the other side of the room, one she had already checked out, and that wasn't being surveyed. Moving quickly she headed away, but not before Zechs Merquise caught sight of her fleeing form. Hearing the shuffling of feet, the Irishman turned and saw Zechs' form following that of Noin's. He moved quickly and followed the two of them after waking his partner up with sniffing salts. They could take care of Fuller, and Relena later on. "Move, it," Colt ordered lifting Kima up to his feet, the lady who knocked you out is making an exit for the back door on the other side." Kima simply nodded in return acknowledging his understanding, and followed the other man, while clutching his head. He was still a bit dizzy, but managed to follow along steadily anyway. Noin noticed the men following her and began to quicken her pace as she entered the back hallway and began to make her way towards an exit. The music still drifted listlessly to her ears, and silently she had to wonder how the preventers had not seen or heard anything going on backstage at this event. 'Atleast Relena's safe,' she muttered under her breath, and rounded another corner in this pathway of mazes. Zechs noticed the quickening of the woman's feet in front of him, and picked up his pace as well. Maybe he could catch her. The woman seemed a complete mystery to him, especially her behavior. He slipped around the next corner, and stopped suddenly, it had gotten darker the farther into the maze he seemed to wander, and now he had lost sight of her. Scanning the area with his eyes he saw nothing, and trying to simply hear her he still couldn't hear anything except for the men's feet behind him. He decided to turn left and as he did so, a hand shot out of the darkness and pulled him into a closet. One hand covered his mouth, while the other pressed a gun to his side. His senses took over as he stood there, and watched the other men pass by, neither had noticed them, but then again there was no reason for them too. She smelled faintly of lilacs he realized when he began to pay more attention to his surroundings. The woman holding him captive had made no requests and had not even spoken to him at all giving him plenty of time to study what he could of her. She was normal height for a woman, but had a very petite build, yet from the grip she had on him, he could tell she was strong. So he silently waited for her to make her move. Noin studied the man who she held captive as the men from the org passed bye. His breath on her hand was hot and heavy making her tingle with a sort of excitement as he twitched against the gun she held to his side. Now wondering just how to let him go without making a scene she decided to speak up, but her voice as she did so just incase it was Zechs Merquise, because everything about the man she now held hostage screamed his name. "You should be more careful," Noin said releasing her grip on the man's mouth but keeping the gun to his side. "They could have killed you," she added almost mockingly. "They could have killed you as well, if they had tried harder." Zechs spoke up and as his thick tenor reached Noin's ears she knew who it was without a shadow of a doubt. "You shouldn't meddle in things you don't understand." she added jabbing the gun into his side, being careful to leave out his name, as not to give her away. "When it concerns my sister I need to meddle in it, it's my duty, as well as my privilege." Zechs replied smoothly making Noin somewhat mad. She wasn't used to being on the end of his smooth it over, righteous talks, if that's what you could call this. "Then I suggest you learn not to meddle in things," Noin breathed dangerously in his ear then took off down the hallway, had she stayed there any longer she might have done something she would regret later on. Zechs always had an effect on her, and back there was no different, she had had to hold herself back. Now she'd have to walk around for a couple of hours she decided, Relena and Fuller would be fine for the time being. Zechs stood there as his now red haired beauty left him behind. It had taken a couple of seconds but he had recognized her as being Noin. He ran his fingers across his lips remembering how she had just been there only moments ago threatening him in her own way. 'I shouldn't have let her go,' he realized dropping his hand back to his side. "But I will find you Noin," Zechs vowed as he stood there in the dark closet of the hallway. Colt, and Kima were still angrily wandering about the premises of the dining hall by the time Noin had taken off completely. They had lost sight of Kima's attacker not long after starting the pursuit making them even more irritated. "Where could the witch have gone," Kima said rubbing his head absentmindedly. "It doesn't matter now," Colt said speaking up. "We already know her name, we'll simply pay her a visit after we find out where she's staying and make sure she does not mess with us again." Colt said steadily heading for their vehicle. There was no use in going back to the dinner now, they couldn't accomplish what they had come there to do now unless they made a big scene, which was in no way a good idea. A/N: I'm sorta stumped right now with what to do in the next part suggestions are always great, and will most likely make me write quicker. thanks bye. Disclaimer: Ugh, I am really starting to hate this thing I never remember to put it up so here I go. Gundam Wing and its characters do not belong to me, so obviously if you thought they did your hallucinating and need to find a phyc doctor.