Chasing Impossibilities
Epilogue
When Heero woke up, he had all his memories. The machine hadn't worked
on him. He didn't know whether to be happy or disappointed; at any
rate, he wasn't surprised. After all, the machine hadn't worked on him
the first time either, not really.
Trowa wasn't anywhere near him, and he wondered where the other man
was. He decided it didn't matter, though. If they were meant to meet
again, they would.
Heero wondered how long he had been asleep. He had obviously given
Trowa enough time to leave. But then, he hadn't had any sleep over the
last day, and had spent half of it running from something or another.
He didn't begrudge himself his nap. He lifted himself up off the sand,
making his way to the boardwalk. A clock there proclaimed the time to
be ten am. He had been asleep for six hours.
Heero climbed up the steps to the boardwalk, intent on finding a motel,
when a lone figure caught his eye. A man was standing at the end of the
pier, looking out into the ocean, chestnut hair blowing in the wind
behind him.
* * *
Duo Lowe, Jr. slowly opened his eyes, blinking at the white light
blinding his eyes. He realized it was the sun, and he was laying on a
park bench. He wondered how he got there, chalked it up to getting
drunk last night, and pushed himself into a sitting position. He looked
down at his watch. Eight am. He was late to his job... not like he
enjoyed it. Selling tickets at some L1 bus stop was definitely not his
idea of a dream job.
Duo sighed, then smiled. Fuck it. He could get a new job. But first he
wanted a break. He stood up as a bus neared, smirking at the slight
irony of the situation, and rode it to the beach. For some reason, he
wanted to see the water. He got there about one hour later, and took to
combing the sand and tidal pools. There was nothing interesting,
though, not in the colonies' oceans. No annoying creatures there.
Another hour saw him walking towards the end of a pier, and he just
stared out into the ocean.
It was so beautiful. It looked so vast, so completely unmarred by
anything.
"Excuse me."
Duo turned around, finding himself staring into a pair of very pretty
Prussian blue eyes. The man they were attached to wasn't bad either.
And then, something just sparked. "Hello."
"I was just..." Heero gestured to the town they could see in the
distance, the one Duo had just walked from. "Is that Mungo City?"
"Yes, it is." Duo expected the stranger to walk away, but he didn't.
They found themselves staring at each other for a little bit before the
man broke the silence.
"What's your name?"
"Duo Lowe." Duo grinned. "Junior."
Heero inwardly started. Duo had taken his name. "My name is Heero Yuy."
"Heero." Duo rolled the 'r' around on his tongue, saying the name as if
he were tasting it for the first time and savoring every moment.
"Duo." Heero took a tiny step towards the other man, hopeful. "Do you
believe in magic?"
Duo looked out into the ocean for just a moment, as if contemplating
it, before turning back to Heero. He flashed him that disarming,
enchanting smile that he had nearly forgotten, eyes glinting amaryllis
in the post dawn light.
"Yeah, I do. Voodoo."
~owari~