Come away by
Maaya
Standard disclaimers apply
Duo had been
the first to go; only at the mere age of 32. A sudden problem with his
heart had forced him to leave earlier than someone ever should have
to, and he left a broken-hearted Heero Yuy alone. After Duo came Trowa,
who was shot on an L2-colony while he was on a Preventer-mission at
the age of 54. After that incident, Heero and Quatre decided to leave
the Preventers and take out an early pension. The money was, of course,
taken from various OZ-accounts Heero raided during the war. Nothing
that Lady Une ever found out about. If she ever did, she'd probably
arrested them for stealing. Wufei though, decided to stay with Sally
and the Preventers.
Heero and Quatre, both missing their lovers in this life, went away
too, Quatre first, with Heero soon to follow.
That left Wufei as the last Gundam-pilot alive, and he lived to the
age of 81, when he died in his bed, content with his life and ready
to walk on the new road, to a new adventure. Sally died only a couple
of days later.
Wufei felt like if he was flying and floating at the same time. No actual
material touched his skin, as he just 'existed' for a moment, before
his body seemed to return to the age of a newborn child. He didn't bother
to open his eyes, as he slowly grew older and older, until he was 81
again. Then, his body seemed to get younger again, and the grow-changes
finally stopped with him at the age of seventeen. He *knew* that this
was happening, but he didn't know how he knew it.
When he could slowly open his eyes again, he was slightly amazed of
how *good* his sight was, before he remembered that at the age of seventeen,
he hadn't been in need of glasses. Shrugging, he scanned through his
surroundings, something he was used to do since the wars, and years
with the Preventers.
He was standing on a cloud, a very material one. Something in his brain
screamed that this wasn't possible, but his heart quieted the voice
down. Over him, there was a light blue and peaceful sky, very much like
the one you see from earth on a sunny winter-morning, but he wasn't
so sure that this was the same one he had seen in his 81 years of living.
"Wufei!" A soft and happy voice said from behind him and he turned around,
not really daring to hope that this was the voice of someone he remembered
and knew all so well.
He wasn't disappointed, because there, behind him, stood Quatre and
looked exactly like he had at the age of seventeen if Wufei remembered
it right. The only thing that got Wufei was the fact that Quatre looked
so *happy*. Aquamarine blue eves sparkled with happiness and humour,
his blonde hair was slightly ruffled and his cherubic face just a little
flushed. He laughed as he went towards stunned friend and hugged him,
hard. "God, we've missed you, Wufei" was all he needed to say.
"Quatre" Wufei mumbled as he hugged his long time friend back. Years
of not meeting him made him mushy, something he often had accused women
for being, but right now, he didn't care. All that mattered was meeting
his old friend again, and hoping that this wasn't just a happy illusion.
"There's so much we have to talk about, Wufei!" Quatre exclaimed as
they parted, "You have to meet up with the other's again, decide what
you want to do now, in the after-life, get to know all the angels and.."
He bounced up and down in happiness and Wufei tried to understand all
the things his friend had just said, was it 'angels`?
"Calm down, koibito, I think Wufei need some explanations first and
foremost" Trowa said as he appears beside his lover. "Hello Wufei. Long
time no see, old friend." He extended an arm to Wufei to shake.
Smiling, Wufei took it and they shook hands as a token of their reunion.
As they let go of each other, Trowa stepped back and put an arm around
Quatre. "Heero and Duo should be here soon enough, I think Duo got into
some kind of trouble again." he said.
Wufei realized that Trowa seemed slightly older than he and Quatre were,
maybe around twenty. Trowa saw his look and smiled slightly.
"The age-process can exactly tell which age you seemed to like and enjoy
your body best at, and you, and then you'll be that old as long as you
stay here." he explained calmly. "As Duo said, it is strange that all
of us seemed to stay at the age of around 15 to 20. It's good though,
what if someone became 42 or something!"
That was the first time Wufei had ever heard Trowa joke like that, but
it felt good to hear it and he smiled. They had all changed as they
grew up. Suddenly, he realized something. "Duo? Is he here? I haven't
met him in.." he quickly calculated the years in his mind "..Forty-nine
years!"
Laughter was heard behind him. "Damn straight, you haven't, Wu! Do you
realize how boring it has been up here without anyone to tease?!"
Wufei swirled around, only to be greeted with a hug before being able
to actually see how his long lost friend looked. As Duo finally let
go, he looked at Wufei for a while, before snorting. "You're older than
me too! It's not fair that I get to be the youngest one in the bunch!"
"You enjoyed this age the most, stop complaining!" Another voice said
and the Chinese boy looked up to see a pair of cobalt blue eyes peering
at him. Heero did as Trowa had done and held out a hand that Wufei gladly
shook. "We've missed you, Wufei."
"You can bet we did!" Duo said, giggling, "Who would have thought that
*you* would be the one to live the longest, anyway?" He received a slap
on his head by Heero. "Ouch!"
As the two lovers bickered, Wufei took his time to look his friends
over. Duo was, as he had said, the smallest, around fifteen or sixteen.
Everything was the same, from the long chestnut braid to the sparkling,
happy, violet eyes. Like Wufei remembered him being.
Heero were older, maybe nineteen, and his hair was still the same brown
mess, but his cobalt eyes were calmer and happier, and he seemed more
relaxed as he put an arm around his love and hugged him.
Quatre turned to him. "Wufei, you can do whatever you want here, and
you can be so happy! It's just wonderful!" They started to slowly walk
down the..cloud.
"Yeah, but whenever you want, you can get reborn again! I'm gonna be
it, but I want to rest here some time before going!" Duo spoke up. "Besides,
I gotta watch over Hilde until she dies too!"
Heero rolled his eyes at his stupid lover "Duo, her husband could do
that for you, you know!"
"Yeah, but I want to know what she is doing down there once in a while!"
Duo snorted. "Besides, I'm the master of cheering people up!"
"I can imagine.." Wufei mumbled.
"Hey! I was the one to make it start snowing that Christmas after I
died, and you wanted to go skiing!"
Four pair of eyes blinked at him. "It was you? How come you never told
us?" they all said in unison as Duo laughed at them.
"You never asked!" He defended himself before turning to Wufei again.
"Who do you think it was that made the beautiful sunset where you asked
Sally to marry you?" he asked, smirking.
Wufei decided now to answer that question, and he already thought he
knew the answer anyway.
It was strange how quick he adjusted to being dead, he thought, before
he suddenly remembered something important. "Sally! Is she's going to
be okay?" he asked, wildly.
The other's looked sad, and Trowa spoke up "She's going to be very sad
when she wakes up and finds you dead, but she'll follow soon enough
anyway."
"Yeah, we can show you how to make something to cheer her up a little"
Heero said, and sounded like Duo a bit in his way of speaking. Wufei
slightly wondered if he would do that too after spending some years
here with him. What a thought!
"I'm working on my new identity, ya know" Duo said after a while, his
hand in Heero's. "Heero and I have decided to get reborn together someday,
and maybe we'll meet up again. Quatre and Trowa are thinking about it
too!"
"What do you have in mind?" Quatre asked, interested, as he was wrapped
up in the arms of his now older boyfriend. Trowa ruffled his blonde
hair and looked up at Duo too.
"Well" Duo grinned, "I've always wanted to be famous in some way, just
not because of those I've killed. I'm hoping to be a rock-star!"
Wufei snorted to hide his laughter "A..rock-star?" The thought was just
too hilarious!
"Or an actor, or mayb.." Duo was silenced by a kiss from Heero, and
he seemed to decide to stay silent and receive more of Heero's way of
making him keep quiet.
"What kind of trouble was it you had before you arrived?" Trowa asked
curious.
Wufei couldn't remember he had ever seen Trowa act curious either.
Duo snorted. "It was nothing, just Relena who wanted me to see her new
pink dress. The one she showed Heero yesterday, you know."
"Oh" Trowa and Quatre nodded at the same time as Heero snorted too.
"You should tell them everything, Duo." he said "You flirted with Fiona
so she would open the door so you could go and visit Solo in his next
life."
Quatre sighed. "What did you go as this time?"
"A frog!"
Wufei blinked. "A frog?" he asked, wondering if he had heard the wrong
words. Unfortunately, Duo nodded. Of course, Wufei knew who Solo had
been, since Duo had told them all at various times.
"Yup, a frog. Solo wanted to be reborn as a fish." Duo smirked. "He
just never expected to become a mackerel!"
They all snickered, and Wufei realized how happy they all seemed to
be. No wars anymore, no pains. No one was gone; they were all together
as they had been. There was nothing to worry about. "Let's go and see
how Sally is!" he said, and they al smiled at him before taking off.
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The End
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