untitled Ficcie
(another one)
-----part 1-----
Click. Clack. Clickety-clickety-click.
Heero Yuy's fingers worked deftly upon the keys of the laptop
computer in front of him.
"I'll find the answer." he told himself. "It's in here somewhere."
He heard a soft whimper and saw that Duo had opened his eyes. Closing
the laptop, he went over to his lover and stroked his luxuriant hair.
"Duo. Please, tell me what's wrong?"
Duo rolled onto his side and did not respond. His eyes were damp with
unshed tears.
Heero suspected that Duo let the tears fall at night, when no one
could see him.
~But why do they come?~ he wondered as he climbed into the bed and
pulled Duo into his arms.
"You were so happy just a few days ago," he whispered as he kissed
Duo's hair. "What happened? What did that change?"
"I had...." Duo began, but he couldn't say it. "I lost.... Oh, God,
Heero... I..." The half-dressed boy scrambled out of bed, in a flurry
of rage and pain, and began to demolish the room, throwing everything
around in a fit of violence.
"DUO!" Heero hollered as the braided boy picked up his laptop. He
tackled Duo, just in time to save his computer. After a struggle,
Heero had the other boy pinned down. "Duo, calm down."
Heero started to speak again when Duo wriggled free and ran out to the
repair hangar where Deathscythe was still being repaired from the
space-to-earth crash. Heero followed, remembering that crash all too
well.
~But usually Duo's happy to be alive after a brush with death. So
why....~
Duo was lashing out at Deathscythe with his miniature version of the
Gundam's thermal scythe.
"It's all your fault!" the braided boy was screaming, almost sobbing.
"Why?! I've given you my time, my energy. I've treat you like a
friend.. no, like a brother. and you.. you... I *HATE* you!"
Heero, realizing that Duo was too upset to be restrained by only him,
was about to go get Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei when they ran into the
repair hangar.
"Duo," Quatre's voice was calm, gentle, and soothing. "Please. We want
to help you."
"There's nothing you can do," Duo whispered as he dropped the scythe
and walked back into the safehouse.
The others followed, Quatre pausing to answer the phone.
"Hello?"
"Quatre, it's Sally." the voice on the other end identified herself.
"I just wanted to know how Duo is doing?"
"Duo's fine, I guess. Physically at least." Wufei let out a long
sigh. "He's been a bit moody lately, though."
"Understandable, all things considered."
"What 'all things'?" Quatre asked.
"Well, since you're his friend, I guess I can tell you...."
-----part 2-----
"I hate all of you!" Duo was yelling as Quatre walked into the
hangar. "And I hate these stupid Gundams, too."
"Duo..." Heero began.
Duo shoved past him. "I hate you most of all, Heero!" He
half-screamed as he stormed past them and out the door.
"Heero," Quatre told the Perfect Soldier, "Duo doesn't hate you. He's
just very upset right now."
"Why," Heero asked, "is Duo upset? He's never reacted this way to a
crash before. Even ones worse than the one he was just in."
"Heero, there's something you need to know."
"What is it?"
Quatre took a deep breath. "Duo was pregnant, Heero."
"He *what*?!" Heero blinked. "How the hell is that possible?"
"The doctors wanted to test an artificial womb and Duo agreed to
become their guinea pig as long as he was permitted to keep the
baby... and as long as the baby was yours."
"Oh, kami-sama." Heero whispered. Then something Quatre had said
struck him. "You said he 'was' pregnant..."
"He lost it in the crash." Quatre explained.
"Oh, dear kami-sama..." Heero groaned as he hurried out of the
hangar, in search of his love.
-----part 3-----
Duo stood there in the bathroom, glaring at his reflection in the
mirror.
"It's your fault, Duo," he told himself, "Completely your fault. You
killed your baby. Just like you kill everyone else who gets close to
you. You shouldn't be alive. Why should you be alive?"
"Because I need you."
Duo started at the sound of Heero's voice, but did not turn. "Please
go away."
"So you can commit suicide?" Heero shook his head. "Duo, I can't let
you kill yourself."
"Heero... I killed...."
"You didn't kill the baby," Heero told him, gently.
Duo spun around, a look of shock on his face, "You *knew*?!"
"I just found out." Heero told Duo. He took Duo into his arms. "Duo,
I know what you did for me, the pain you're suffering because of your
love for me. If anyone is at fault it's me."
"Heero..." Duo began.
"Duo, if you didn't feel you had to try to win my heart when you'd
already won it. Duo, I'm sorry." Heero pulled Duo into his arms,
kissing his forehead and stroking his braid. "Please, forgive me. I
... I love you." He pressed his lips to Duo's in a tender kiss,
tasting the sweet taste of almonds. A taste associated with certain
shampoos, almondine teas and coffees, and.....
Duo's body suddenly went limp in Heero's arms, the violet eyes
rolling up to whites as Duo's eyelids fell shut.
"Duo!!" Heero screamed in rage and pain of loss, 'NO!!!!!"
-----part 4-----
Heero raced through the safehouse, carrying Duo's limp body in his
arms.
"Call Sally!" he cried out, urgently, as he ran past Quatre. "Tell
her to get the hospital prepped right away. I'm bringing Duo in."
He placed the braided pilot in the back of the stolen ambulance
and sped off to the hospital.
Quatre, in the meanwhile, got his coat on and turned to Trowa and
Wufei. "Let's go." he told them.
"Aren't you going to call Sally?" Wufei asked.
Quatre shook his head. "No." he replied, sadly, as he turned and
walked out to the Winner Family Limo.
"Take us to the hospital where Sally Po works." he told the driver as
he and the other two pilots got into the back seat. He took out a
handkerchief and wiped his eyes, then placed it back in his pocket.
"Quatre?" Trowa asked, concernedly.
"I'll explain shortly." Quatre's heart was heavy with its burden. He
longed, desperately, to speak with Trowa, to find comfort in his
lover's arms, but he couldn't. Not until he had spoken to Heero.
Heero raced into the hospital and was surprised to find Sally sipping
a cup of coffee. "What the hell are you doing?!" he exploded, "Why
didn't you start hauling ass the minute Quatre phoned?!"
"Medical team to main entryway. Stat!" Sally summoned,
turning her attention to Heero's outburt.
"Quatre?" she asked, in confusion, as she . "What are you talking about?!"
"When Quatre called you." Heero prompted. Seeing the woman shake her
head, he added. "About five minutes ago..."
"Heero," Quatre said as he hurried into the hospital followed by
Trowa and Wufei, "I never called."
"Never called?! Quatre, Duo's life is hanging by....."
Quatre's voice was as gentle as it could be, but his reply cut
Heero's heart like razors.
"Duo's life ended seven minutes ago." he said.
-----Owari-----