Title:            Worth Fighting For

Author:         Shinigami195

Rating:          NC-17

Summary:      ::Sequel to Holiday From Hell:: The Special Unit Core for the Preventers have never failed a case yet, but their newest case is a completely different matter. Heero Yuy has gone missing and its up to them to find him. But old feelings are getting mixed up in the case and it may lead to the downfall of the Unit.

Pairings:        2x1+2, 3+4 5+R 13+6 5x2

Warnings:      Angst, OCC, lemons, yaoi, NCS, Child Abuse, Death,  

Disclaimer:     I don’t own the characters as I’m not older enough and I’m not clever enough.

Archived:       www.fanfiction.net

Notes:          This is a sequel to Holiday From Hell but can be read separately. Set 3 years after Holiday From Hell.

                   ~#~ means the beginning/ending of a flashback

 

WORTH FIGHTING FOR

 

Chapter 3 - Reunion

 

There they sat, looking like the perfect family. The Maxwell, the richest family in the state, joint only with the Yuy family who's fortune was just as large as the Maxwell's which made sense as the two were joint partners in business and best friends.

Duo Maxwell stared through the one-way looking glass at the family that had disowned him 3 years ago because they had found out Duo preferred males to females, in fact they had found out he preferred the Yuy's only son to anyone else and the feeling that Duo felt to Heero was returned to Duo by Heero. They had been lovers but Duo’s father’s had disagreed with their relationship.

Mike Brooke, the man that had taken in a wet shivering boy 3 years ago stood behind Duo, a look of disgust on his face as he stared at Solo Maxwell, the head of the Maxwell family. Solo was the reason Duo had been forced to leave his family and the life he had known.

Duo had met Mike at a restaurant back in the fateful summer and barely 2 weeks later Duo had turned up at Mike's house soaking wet, wearing barely anything, and carrying the heavy pieces of a broken heart. Mike had taken Duo in and over a short period of time Mike loved Duo like Duo was his own son.

"It's not like Odin to be late." Solo Maxwell's voice carried across the sound system. He was sitting between his wife and daughter. Relena Maxwell was leaning against her father, her blue eyes were puffy, swollen and red, she had been crying and Duo felt his heart moved as he set his eyes on his twin sister. Helen Maxwell was on her husband's left with a small five-year-old child sitting on her lap chewing on her hair, Baby Jane still had a thing for hair.

Mike sow the smile that crept across Duo's face as his violet eyes locked onto his baby sister, and he also sow it vanish as soon as it came.

The door to the interview room opened and Lady Une walked in, followed by the Yuy family. They all looked the same as Duo remembered them, part from Dorothy who had grown into a young lady and Hilde who was now a hyperactive 11 year old instead of the hyperactive 8 year old she was when Duo had last seen her.

Duo listened as Lady Une explained what was about to take place and Duo prepared himself for what he was about to do.

 

*       *      *

 

Odin gave the head of the Preventers a nod of thanks as she let them into the interview room. April gripped her husband's hand as they sat down.

"I must apologize for the room, it is the only interview room available to my special unit. There are five members to my unit. You are about to meet two of them. They will be with you shortly."

Lady Une gave a bow to both families before taking her leave.

"How is she?" Odin asked Solo.

"How do you think?" Solo said quietly back, playing with Relena's hair gently.

Odin tried to give Relena a reassuring smile but it did little to comfort the girl.

There was a sharp nod at the door before it opened and in walked a man about 30 and right behind him came a young man of 20.

The whole room fell silent as all part from Jane recognized the man that had just entered.

Relena almost stood up, her mouth open as she stared into his violet eyes. "Duo?"

 

*      *      *

 

"You ready Duo?"

"Ready as I'll ever be."

"Let's get this party started." Mike said raising his hand and knocking on the door to the room before pushing it open and entering. Duo followed slowly, knowing he was about to reopen a chapter of his life that he wanted to keep shut forever.

 

*      *      *

 

Both families stared in shock at the familiar boy.

“Duo.” Breathed Relena, the very name seemed so loud against the empty silence.

“Good morning.” Mike stepped swiftly forward. “I’m Mike Brooke and this is my second in command…”

“Deathscythe.” Duo gave his codename and bowed to the two families.

“He runs the Front Line and will be the coordinator of the search for your son.” Mike told Odin.

A smile spread across Odin’s face. “I’m glad to know my son is in good hands.”

Duo couldn’t stop returning the smile. Odin had blessed the relationship that had grown between Heero and Duo, he thought it had been a good match but his best friend and business partner was a very hard person to argue with and Solo had a special way of tricking people into doing what he wished them too, in fact anyone that knew both Solo and Duo would say it was a trademark of the males of the Maxwell family as both Solo and Duo could easily get their way with a few chosen words and a sweet smile.

Solo coughed in annoyance and Mike glared at him, almost daring him to say something and Solo met the challenge.

“How are you going to go about finding Heero? None of us could think of anyone who would want to do this to him or us, and the police couldn’t find any clues neither.”

Mike sat down and Duo lent against the wall, he had a few things he wanted to do to his father but none of them would be ideal to do so Duo settled himself down and choose to resist the urge to smack his father in the face.

“That’s why the Preventers are better than the police.” Duo smirked at Solo. “We have ways of investigating things that the police do not. The Preventers are more likely to succeed then the police are. That’s why we are rated number one in the world.”

“Mind telling us what they are?”

“Secrets of the trade. No, we can’t tell you, nor would we want too for obvious reasons.” Duo met Solo’s eyes with a hard glare just to prove that Solo wasn’t in control.

The tension between the two suddenly sprang up and everyone could feel it in the air. Duo forced himself to turn from Solo and he looked over at Odin.

“I’ll need to find out a few bits of information from you and your family. My partners will also pay a visit to his University to talk to his friends and teachers.” Duo turned back to the Maxwell Family and gazed gently at Relena, “I’ll need your help Miss Maxwell, you will be needed to take us through the last few hours of you and Heero being together up and including the kidnapping.”

Relena gave a nod, her lips were pressed tightly together and her eyes hadn’t left Duo since he had entered the room. She was too shocked to say anything to the brother that she had lost and now here he was, sitting in front of her as calmly as anything.

But Duo wasn’t calm. His body burned and all his nerves were tensed up. He was scared, though he would never admit that to anyone, not even himself. He was scared of the two families that he now faced. He wasn’t scared because he thought they would hurt him, no, he was scared because seeing them all again had made old buried feelings resurface and now that he was here, talking to them, being with them again, he wasn’t sure if he could leave them once again. He wasn’t sure that he would be able to walk away from his sisters and mother now after he had been so close to them.

Duo took a deep relaxing breath and began again.

“Is there anything important you need to do? If there isn’t then I would say that now would be a good time to talk about Heero’s personal life.” Duo asked.

“We made sure to have our day clear for you, take all the time you need, we will offer any help we can.” April said with a gentle sweet smile.

“Thank you.” Duo stood up and walked over to the mirror. “Sandrock?”

And the mirror replied. “Reading you Deathscythe.”

“Can you set up the recorder?”

“Gimme a sec.”

“Give me a second, Sandrock.” Mike snapped at the youth in the other room, he was used to correcting his young team’s speech manner.

“Sorry… it’s ready and recording now.”

“Thank you Sandrock. Now to business.”

Duo turned and lent against the wall by the mirror, his cool violet eyes scanned the room, his eyes falling on Mike.

“Shall we begin Deathscythe?” Mike asked and Duo gave a nod.

“First thing I need to know is about Heero’s friends, enemies and…” Duo paused and lowered his gaze to the floor. “Love affairs, if any.” Duo didn’t dare raise his eyes to meet anyone else’s eyes, he was well aware of how deep his relationship had been with Heero and everyone in that room and the recording room knew it too.

The room fell silent and Duo suddenly found himself wishing he was elsewhere. No one made a sound as both families recalled the reason as to why Duo had left nearly three years ago.

Relena gave a shaky smile, “Heero has never had a love interest since we moved in together 2 years ago.”

“Oh” Duo said and once again the room fell silent.

“What about enemies?” Mike asked lightly trying to turn attention away from bad and sad memories. “Heero is at University right? Surely someone there has something against him?”

Relena shook her head, her light blond hair moved softly round her face.

“Everyone either love him or don’t know him. Heero is sweet natured, never swears, is always pleasant, grade A student but… he’s a gentleman… with a heavy heart.” She finished sadly.

“Sounds too good to be true.” Mike commented. “So there is no one you can think of that would want to hurt Heero? Or you for that matter?”

Relena chewed on her bottom lip. “Not of the top of my head. No one, as far as I know and me and Heero were pretty close, he would of told me if there was anyone threatening him.”

Duo could of growled in frustration but it wasn’t Relena’s fault. Heero was too goddamn cute and nice for his own good.

Relena could almost sense Duo’s anger and she leaned back against her father, seeking comfort from him.

“Mr. Yuy, is there anyone who you can think of that might hold a grudge against your family?”

Odin fixed Mike with an ice-cold glare. “MY name is clean. I have done nothing to anyone and have given no one any reason to hurt either my family or the Maxwell family. BOTH our family names are clean!”

“Mainly because you are so rich that everyone is afraid of you.” Duo muttered tugging on his green preventer jacket.

“Money is what you need in this age.” Solo said.

“Only for shallow people.” Duo was pissed off, he was worried about Heero’s safety and the people in the room with him were not helping him at all. He was taking his anger out of them.

Solo stood up, his face was a mask of anger and he stepped towards Duo only to find Duo wasn’t a kid anymore.

Duo was nearly the same height as his father; his eyes came up to Solo’s nose. Both of them stood tall and proud and they could have been twins if Solo looked 25 years younger.

“I don’t trust this unit.” Solo said coldly, “I don’t think they are good enough to locate Heero and protect him.”

“We don’t have to help!” Duo hissed back.

“I want your help.” Relena suddenly cried and Mike said.

“We are helping, no matter what. Now you two sit down and act like real men, not boys in the playground.”

Solo and Duo obeyed but the air in the room was filled with extremely thick tension that could be cut with a knife, and Duo found himself thinking and wishing that his relationship with his father was back to how it was before that fateful summer and that Heero was still safe in his arms.

 

*        *        *

 

Heero Yuy blinked at the sudden changed of light, he went quickly from not being able to see anything due to lack of light, to not being able to see anything due to large amount of light that reflected around the white room he had been dragged into which shone with a whitish glow. Heero knew his eyes would grow use to it soon but they didn’t get a chance as the two men, holding him tightly by the arms, dragged him forward across the white room and into another one which wasn’t so bright.

“Welcome Mr. Yuy, you need not fear anything from me or my followers. We will not harm you unless you harm us.”

Heero narrowed his eyes and scanned the room for someone who he couldn’t see.

“I’m here Mr. Yuy.” From a door across the room a man of 25 years or so stepped out. Heero watched him carefully as the man walked towards him.

“Why am I here? Who are you?”

“You are here because I wanted you here. I am a friend of one of your friends.”

“That doesn’t really answer my questions.” Heero pointed out as the man strolled slowly forward.

“I will answer it how I want. You are not in control here Mr. Yuy.” He came to a stop in front of Heero. “Listen and do as I say and you will not get hurt.” He turned to the men standing beside Heero. “Give him food and put him in the room next to mine.”

“Yes Sir!”

“I will see you later… Mr. Yuy.” The man purred turning away. “And I look forward to it.”

Heero was taken down far too many corridors and up way too many stairs, for Heero to count and remember, until they pushed him into a room that contained nothing part from a bed, washbasin and a toilet. A small window showed the ground that lay far, far below. Heero slumped onto the floor by the window, his head buzzing with questions that only lead to more questions that Heero had no answer to.

 

TBC…