1.2
Milliardo sat upon the throne, king at last.
***
"So they are accusing us of something we are not guilty of?" a general screamed outraged. The room was suddenly getting too tight for all the seething men present. Noin laughed arrogantly and looked at the king, as if daring him to make a decision.
"Leave us." He ordered watching as the head of his armies began to file out.
"So what are we supposed to do?" Heero asked his father softly.
"Let it happen." He answered looking down on his son.
"Papa, Catherine is still weeping in her room." He said unsure.
"She is a fool." King Treize said sighing. Heero was silent.
"It is time we take our destiny into our own hands." He stated and Heero nodded.
***
Trowa looked at the pendant in his palm. Feeling it.
He was not able to kill them that night, and when he saw Duo again after almost ten years only one desire burned in his heart. He was going to finish what he started.
***
Wufei was a just man.
A human legacy and soiled lineage bound him to the life he led. Kept in the shadows, escaping the jaws of his lords by possessing a great mind. He was a scholar and the Queen's greatest weapon.
***
She had chosen him to be one of her nightly victims, dying before they saw the sun rise once more. And as he stood standing at her doorway, shivering in the cold air, he decided he would not die when dawn arrived.
"I have a proposition for you." he said.
"Hahaha you are in no position to propose something to me boy." She laughed motioning for him to sit beside her on the bed. He did as he was told and she had him between her thighs moments later.
He was atop her pumping in a steady rhythm. If he was to make a move he had to do it now.
"My Queen, tell me what do you do when you are outnumbered?"
"What?" she screamed outraged that he had stopped. "Stop again and I will have your head in my hands."
"You use all of your remaining men to kill their life support. " he finished returning to his task but he had done it and the queen looked at him differently. She pushed him off of her.
"Speak." She said gathering her robes around her. Wufei smiled he had won.
***
Now fifty years later and he still served his queen. He had refused her gift of immortality but she made him eternally young.
He stood behind her listening to the generals argue about what how to go about this war.
"Shut up!" the queen bellowed. "Wufei tell me your idea on this?" she asked looking at her lover.
"We do nothing and wait for them to move. But we must begin to plant spies and create a real army for the one we have right now would not last a minute in the great war that is to come." he said quietly.
"How dare you insult my men!" Meiran uttered anger rising in her voice.
"Your men are inferior."
"What?"
"And they will lose this war for us."
"What do you know you animal? You are nothing but a slave pretending to be something you are not." she screamed, Milliardo held her back.
"Cease this foolishness Meiran!" Dorothy ordered. "All of you leave us!" and the other generals left.
"Milliardo, you are to make Wufei head council." She said looking at her son.
"I have a head council." He answered putting an arm around Meiran.
"This war is too important boy! I will not let you jeopardize our clan because of your arrogance." She spat out. "Make him head council." And the argument was over.
The queen and Wufei left the two lovers and Meiran seethed.
"It seems to me that your mother is still wearing the crown." She sneered. Milliardo was silent.
"You are just like your father." She felt his hand pelt across her cheek.
"Don't you dare Meiran!" he said his eyes on fire.
"I am ten times the man my father was and you know it."
"Then why didn't you fight for me!" she screamed.
"Because my mother was right. " Her eyes filled with tears and she brought her hand up to strike him. "You will regret that general." He whispered his eyes narrowing.
Meiran brought her hand down and turned to leave but Milliardo stopped her and brought his lips down on her. "You are a great general Meiran but I need Wufei's strategies to win this war."
She pushed him away but he pulled her hair and brought his lips down against hers again pulling her beneath him. He wanted to take her and he would not be denied.
***
He came close to him and sat beside his lover watching as he wove a tiny crown of reeds.
"Hey." He greeted his brother smiling. They stayed like that not speaking him watching Duo's deft hands continue to shape whatever it was he was making and Duo not taking his eyes off his little art project.
"Listen about last night." He said after sometime.
"Forget about it, I have." He said not looking up at his companion.
"I can't. I had no right to strike you, I…" Duo stopped him by kissing him full on the mouth, his eyes laughing. He placed the finished crown atop his brother's head and sat down in the circle of his thighs and placing his head on the older boy's shoulder.
"Can't we stay like this Heero? Just a little longer?" he asked as Heero began to stroke his hair breathing in his scent. Heero placed a kiss on his forehead and rested his chin on top of the younger boy's head.
"I wish we could." He whispered suddenly sad. The war would begin and everything would change. He felt his lover breath beneath him his hands finding his.
"I love you." Duo whispered and Heero closed his eyes.
How much of that is true Duo?
He asked. He knew of the spell cast on Duo to forget his love for Trowa and be transferred to him. And this was a pain nothing could cure.
How much of the love in his heart was really for him and not some artificial conjuring of his father's mage? In the beginning he believed that he actually had a place in Duo's heart, that he had a chance of being loved by him. When he woke up after the best night in his life and he found out what his father had done, his world shattered.
It was all a lie now. A deception Duo would never forgive. And Heero sighed somewhere in the depths of his soul he knew that this love would not survive and soon the truth would be known and Duo would again make a choice.
And he knew it would not be him.
"I love you too." He whispered drawing him deeper into his embrace.
Notes: ok this was around ten years after Trowa almost killed Heero and Duo and he did not know that they survived until he paid them a visit in the first chapter.