Disclaimer:
Bandai, Sunrise and the Sotsu Agency own Gundam Wing and its characters not me
(I'll make them an offer when I'm rich and famous!) but this story is mine!
Title:
Dreamscape
Author:
Tai ([email protected])
Pairings:
1+2+1, 1x2x1
Warnings:
Shounen-ai, lime, death (but I promise a happy ending ^_^), romance and sap
Spoilers:
None
Notes:
The mecha are Wing Zero & Deathscythe-Hell from the GW series.
*********
"Heero,
these Leos are much more powerful than usual," Duo told him over the intercom
system. Duo looked over at Wing Zero
and it was almost as if the mecha turned to talk to him as Heero took out
another enemy mobile suit with his beam sabre.
"They aren't standard suits," Heero replied, "Watch your
back."
"Gottcha!"
the pilot of Deathscythe-Hell called back as he sliced another two Leos in half
with his beam scythe. "Where are
all these enemies coming from?" Duo wondered, as it seemed to him that
every enemy he destroyed was replaced by ten more and they just kept coming.
It
was at that moment that Duo found himself surrounded, "This is so *not*
cool!" he muttered to himself. He
could see a modified beam cannon mounted on the side of the base they were
trying to destroy and guessed it was only a matter of time before it was employed. He was fighting at his limits but wasn't
getting anywhere fast. He could see
that Heero was not faring any better.
"This is too weird, what is going on?" Duo asked no-one in
particular, he would be very glad when this one was over.
Suddenly
Duo sensed danger and turned only to be knocked out of the way by Wing Zero
which took the full blast of the beam cannon.
The crippled suit fell over, it was the worst scene Duo could ever
imagine seeing. "Heeeroooo
..." he screamed as he fought to get to Wing Zero but an enemy suit with a
beam sabre was faster and sliced into the fallen suit. Duo went crazy then and dispatched all of
the remaining enemy suits. He raced to
Wing Zero taking out the beam cannon on the way by firing off his buster shield
equipped with beam blade. With
Deathscythe-Hell's immense strength Duo turned the fallen suit over so that he
could access the cockpit. Duo got out
of his mobile suit and onto the other suit so he could release the door
manually, praying that the other boy was alright. As the door slowly opened, he saw Heero.
Duo
could see that there wasn't anything that he could do for the pilot who had
just saved his life. He released his
safety harness and took the limp and very still body into his arms, tears
rolling down his face, whispering, "Heero, you can't die ... you can't die
because I have to tell you that I love you ..."
*********
Heero
couldn't sleep, he lay on the ground in the forest clearing looking up at the
stars in the clear night sky, thinking.
From the amount of moving around next to him, Duo was obviously
dreaming. He sighed softly as he
briefly looked over towards his companion before going back to his
contemplation. Suddenly the braided boy
curled up into the foetal position sobbing as if his heart had broken. Heero sat up, he needed Duo at 110% as the
orders for their next mission were long overdue and this was definitely *not*
restful sleep so he reached over to shake his friend awake saying, "Wake
up Duo, you're having a nightmare."
Duo
woke with a start and looked thoroughly confused. "Where am I?" he asked but when he saw Heero, Duo
grabbed him in a rough embrace saying, "Ohmygod, you're alive!" Heero froze at being so near Duo, it was
intoxicating, the smell of him, the silky caress of his hair on his cheek and
the warmth of his body. Ever since
Heero had first met his fellow Gundam pilot, he found that Duo was never far
from his thoughts. "Like tonight
..." he added silently. He
recovered enough to say, "It's okay Duo, it was just a bad dream." Then Heero pulled the braided boy close to
him again as Duo was shaking violently, wondering what exactly the boy in his
arms had been dreaming about to disturb him this much. "But it ... it felt so real,
Heero," Duo whispered, "You ... you died in my arms before I got a
chance to tell you how I feel about you."
Heero felt his chest tightening up as he sensed what Duo was about to
say. Heero was torn in two, half of him
hoping and wanting Duo so badly he could hardly breathe, the other half not wanting
any emotional attachments that might distract him in battle.
"Heero,
I care about you ... more than comrades on a mission do," Duo cast his
eyes downward, his usual charismatic confidence ebbing away. He continued, "I'm sorry, I'm not sure
if you feel the same way about me, sometimes I think maybe you do and other
times I really don't know. It's just
that after that dream, I couldn't bear to lose you and not have you know." When Duo finished speaking Heero let out a
breath he hadn't realised he had been holding.
He reached out his hand and gently lifted Duo's face up. Duo's clear violet blue eyes were full of
tears as Heero leaned forward, his mind made up and gently kissed him on the
lips. Duo froze as if in shock. "I do feel the same way," Heero
whispered softly as he kissed Duo's tears away.
Duo
took hold of Heero's upper arms and pushed him away, his eyes clouded with a
mixture of hope and disbelief.
"Really?" he asked hesitantly, and Heero nodded in reply. That was all the encouragement Duo needed,
he pulled Heero towards him again and began to kiss him back, passion taking
them over, sleep the last thing on their minds.
*********
Before
dawn, a small sound woke Duo, he could sense Heero who was lying next to him,
was already awake. Duo shifted slightly
under the arm Heero had casually thrown across him to let Heero know that he
was awake too. "Wing Zero's
security perimeter has been compromised," Heero told him sotto voce [1] as
he rolled onto his side to face the braided boy. "Well, I'm glad we decided not to hid the suits
together," Duo said quietly. Heero
whispered, "Do you think you can make it to Deathscythe?" Duo nodded as a voice said loudly,
"Well, well, well, isn't this my lucky day - two Gundam pilots for the
price of one. Cute, I always wondered
what you pilots got up to in your spare time.
I mean we realised you guys were close, just not *how* close!" Duo whispered to Heero, "Okay, he *has*
to die!" Heero agreed, "Leave
it to me, you head for Deathscythe."
Duo answered softly, "Okay, you'll provide a
distraction?" Heero's beautiful
face took on its usual grim countenance, "Yeah, ready?" Duo nodded again so he added, "Duo, use
your head, I will *not* accept losing you now." Duo stuck his tongue out and replied, "Pot and kettle [2]
spring to mind, Yuy, so I want you to take your own advice!" before
launching off at great speed towards where Deathscythe-Hell was hidden in the
surrounding forest.
Heero
pushed off in the other direction towards the condescending Oz captain. In the half-light just before dawn, the
soldiers started firing all over the place at shadows and the movement of the
trees. Heero turned briefly to see Duo
take one of the soldiers out with a blow to the back of the head before making
it to the relative safety of the trees.
Then he took the captain down and turned his own weapon on him. "Oz training as good as ever I
see," Heero whispered into the captain's ear and to the surrounding
soldiers, he shouted, "Put your weapons down or I will kill your
captain." There was a stand off
for a few minutes as the soldiers aimed at Heero uncertain of what to do
next. Just then Deathscythe-Hell sat
up, pulling off its camouflage netting the rest of the way and its twin beam
scythe flickering into life. The soldier's
hesitation vanished and they all put their weapons on the ground. Heero looked up at his partner's mobile suit
and had to agree with the soldiers, it was a very impressive sight.
*********
By
nightfall, they had reached a small isolated safe house near the
mountains. Dr J had sent them the
details of their next mission while they were making sure the Oz soldiers
wouldn't cause anyone any trouble for a while.
It wasn't for another three days but Heero was relieved all the
same. Heero walked into the living room
after securing Wing Zero and Deathscythe-Hell and was greeted by a roaring fire
in the hearth. He glanced about for Duo
and saw that he had fallen asleep on the sofa, he looked so peaceful, such a
contrast to last night. Heero gently picked
him up and Duo started to wake.
"Duo, go back to sleep, you're safe," Duo murmured an
affirmative and snuggled into his chest.
Heero smiled as he walked into the bedroom and gently placed Duo on the
bed. Heero got into the other side of
the bed and moved up close to the other Gundam pilot. "Heero, do you think that those soldiers have been rescued
out of those trees yet?" came an amused sleepy voice. "I don't know Duo, possibly." Then Duo laughed, "Oh but that
captain," propping himself up on his elbows, he mimicked the high
supercilious voice of the Oz captain, "You wait Zero One and Zero Two
until Treize finds out about this, I'm his favourite you know, everyone thinks
it is Zechs but no, I've seen the way Treize looks at me ..." and then he
laughed again before adding in his normal voice, "Definitely delusional,
you should have put him out of his misery!
Everyone knows Zechs and Treize are screwing like bunnies!" Heero smiled and Duo's breath caught,
"Can we?" Heero asked.
"Can we what?" Duo questioned, losing the thread of what he
was talking about by wondering if he had ever seen Heero smile before. "Screw like bunnies," Heero
elaborated. "Hell, yeah!" was
all the warning Heero got before Duo pounced ...
~owari~
[1]
sotto voce means in an undertone but I'm sure you knew that ^_^
[2]
The full idiom is 'The pot calling the kettle black' and is used when someone
says something about you that is also true of themselves. I'm sure you knew this too ^_~