2.0
An eternity is not enough to forget the pain. Each lifetime is the same. They would all return their faces, their voice as if lifetimes had not changed them, even the names were the same, but none of them remembered, none of them really came back. It was a last insult to his punishment, even though the spell was not his doing. This was his hell.
He asks himself if that one kiss was worth all these years he has been forced to live? For when Duo kissed him that night and forced a part of himself into Heero's lips he had given him life eternal. And he had lived it.
And now he was nothing, feeling nothing, a shell of who he was. Incapable of emotion, heart long since dead to everything. And each lifetime he searched for him, him that carried Duo's face. And he loved him as he did the first but it was not him, it was never him. And he asks himself, was that one kiss worth this hell?
"Heero! Koi! What are you doing there looking like the boring idiot that you are!" he called. "Come join me!" He looked at his lover up to his knees in salt water, motioning for him to swim with him.
Heero set aside his shirt and closed his laptop, an unconsummated smile upon his lips and he dove in beside the other boy. Between the attempts to drown and wrestle him, his hand found his beneath the waves.
He saw him now, his voice, his smile, his name unchanging.
It is.
***
His gundam was surrounded by Leos there was nothing he could do. If he was going to fake his death this would be it. It was a pity for the Duo in this lifetime was something else. He could almost believe it was the young boy whose tears he wiped away.
Almost.
Time to make my exit then. I'll find you again Duo.
He closed his eyes and readied himself to push the self-destruct switch. When he heard the crying of metal and he looked up. There was Deathscythe Hell.
"Duo you idiot! Get away from here." He growled as the braided pilot's face blinked on the screen.
"Can't let you do that without me love!" he winked. He stood beside him trying in vain to fight off the stampede of mobile suits.
"Duo, leave now. We will not win this fight." He said sadly.
"I can't."
"Don't be an idiot." He said monotonously.
"I can't."
"Don’t be stubborn Duo, you will die if you stay here!" He said getting worried that his partner might not get out in time.
"If I die, I die with you." Heero stopped and looked at the grinning idiot. And then everything went blank as a Leo finally got another hit in.
***
He opened his eyes and saw violet ones staring back at him. Something ached at his side but he did not care. It was him. It was really him.
"How?" he choked.
"Hush now, it will be over soon." He smiled stroking his hair. It was here that Heero noticed the blood trickling down his lover's forehead.
"Are you hurt Duo?" he asked.
"Nothing I can't handle." He smiled and silence followed. "I am truly sorry."
"So it is you."
"Yes."
"Forgive me for giving you so much pain." He whispered tears gathering in the corners of his eyes.
"I have long since." Heero smiled wiping his tears away, Duo laughed and pressed Heero's hand on his cheek. Remembering the feeling of his fingers brushing his tears away, making everything all right once more. As he used to.
"Is it time to go?" he asked and Duo nodded. "I am afraid."
"I will not let you go alone." And with that Heero finally closed his eyes.
***
"Is this what you truly wish youngest?"
she asked coming closer."Yes. I have loved him for eternities now and he should know."
He said laying Heero's lifeless body on the ground."We were never meant to fall in love. For love would destroy you, the eldest knew this."
"There is a time for gods to die."
He said stroking her cheek."He endured so much for you."
she said looking down at the beautiful boy at her feet."Gods are strange sometimes, pride will make them endure eternities without the one thing that would complete them."
She stopped looking at him as he spoke, his accusation wounding her as well. "If I was not so scared of being broken by him I would have seen that I had broken myself in forgetting what it felt like when he had me in his arms.""There was no spell."
He said after sometime. "He did not need one." He finished sitting beside him."I will miss you youngest."
She smiled kissing him one last time. And Duo lay beside Heero wrapping the lifeless arm around him and placing his head on his shoulder.As he used to.
And he too closed his eyes.
***
Mariemeia looked at them, a smile playing on her lips.
I will miss you youngest. And I am happy you too have found love. Perhaps someday I too will find the courage to follow him as well.
And she left them behind.
End!
Notes: the title means that at first we saw them as monsters but then they showed us they too loved and hurt and that their blood was not different from ours. Calling crimson means that they showed us their humanity.
And yes that is a happy ending in case you were wondering.
Man this is by far the longest fanfic I wrote. Sorry if at times it was inconsistent and if it was somewhat unclear. Sorry if I offended some people with this, I am not a writer, just a kid with an idea. Forgive my incompetence.