Written By: Midori
Written On: 05/21/01
Disclaimer: well these characters are not mine, and so yeah, u cant sue me now....
Note:Ummmm, this fic goes against my 'Gundam Children' Idea, but... Anyways!
Setting: In a room, Duo is sitting in front of a window, rain lightly drizzling down the glass. He stares out into the rain, and it grows darker as the clouds turn from a gray to an almost black, the rain beginning to fall harder, pelting against the window. He closes his eyes, and takes a deep breath, Relena walks into the room followed by Hildie... ***
Relena, wearing all black, gives Duo a sad look. "...Duo?" He opens his eyes and slowly turns to look at her. "...Are you going to be alright...?" He nods "Well, it's going to start in about 10 minutes... You don't have to come if you don't want to..." She's fighting back tears as she says this, and he turns to look out into the rain again. Hildie looks at Relena sadly, and Relena turns, crying quietly as she goes down the hallway.
"Duo?" Hildie walks into the room, this time he doesn't turn away from the window. She walks over to him, sitting in a chair near the window. "...I'm sorry, Duo..." She bows her head, clenching her hands into fists on her lap.
"...why...?" Hildie looks up quickly, and she looks into Duo's eyes... No longer the eyes of the fun-loving Maxwell of just a short few days ago, they are now clouded and sorrowful, shimmering with unshed tears. "Why would you be sorry? It wasn't your fault... It was mine." She opens her mouth to say something, but he looks away, murmuring "...my fault..." He brings his legs up to his chest, and puts his arms around them, his chin resting on his knees. He stares off at nothing, and Hildie puts a hand on his shoulder. He looks up at her. "It's my fault he's dead..." he looks back outside again, and whispers under his breath "...Heero..." ***
"DUO, LOOK OUT!!" Heero screams over the communicator as the Virgo suits charge their beam rifles, aiming straight at the Deathscythe Hell. Duo turns around, spotting the Virgos.
"Oh, shi-" His eyes go wide, and just before they shoot, the entire line of mobile suits are disintigrated with a huge beam of light. The Deathscythe turns to look at Wing, which just shot it's beam gatling. "Yo, thanks, Heero! I owe you one!" Duo smiles at Heero in the communicator, who just grunts in reply. "Now why didn't you use that thing BEFORE?! You know... When there was still a considerable amount of suits to blow up?" He smirks, and Heero gives him a cold look.
"Your lucky I didn't, Maxwell. I can only use it once... It has to charge up." He takes out his beam saber, and starts towards the rest of the mobile suits, Deathscythe close behind with it's twin beam scythe. "Where did all these things come from, anyway? There had to have been hundreds of them!" Kicks an Aries suits, sending it crashing to the ground. "And they just keep coming!" Slices through some more suits.
"I dunno, but we have to get rid of 'em all!" After gestroying a few leos and aries, he takes a quick look around, almost missing the half destroyed virgo that has its cannon all charged, just about to fire on Wing. "Oh crap!" The deathscythe charges at it, and it shoots just before Duo finishes it off "HEERO!!!!!!! LOOK OUT!!" The deathscythe tries to run towards the other gundam to push it away, but...
"What?" Heero turns around as Duo calls out, and sees the beam of light come out of the cannon. He paralyzes, his breath catching in his throat, making him unable to move... Unable to scream.
"HEEEEERRRRROOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!" Duo has no choice but to watch on, a look of complete horror and pain on his face as the beam impacts. "...oh, god....." he covers his mouth with a hand, watching as the pieces of the gundam scatter, and the remains of the whole gundam falls to it's knees, a hole blown clean through the torso, falling with a sickening thud to the smoking ground "...no... Heero..." He fights the tears, losing as they slide slowly down his face. He shuts his eyes tightly, and screams. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" ***
Hildie lets out a quiet sigh, watching Duo stare out into the cold, dark rain. "Duo... You can't blame yourself for that... There was nothing you could do..." He doesn't look away "Well, if you're going to just ignore me like that..." She stands up, and starts towards the door, when she hears something back at the window, making her turn around. "Hm?" Duo has stood up, smoothing out his black suit as he slowly makes his way over to her. She smiles a little "See? ...No reason for you to sulk." He grunts a little "Hey... Don't go turning into Heero now... I don't understand the language of grunts." He looks at her, and smiles a little, she laughs quietly "Hey! I made him smile!" She beams, proud of her accomplishment. "... C'mon... It's staring soon..." She takes his arm, partially dragging him down the hall where Relena left earlier. ***
Now in a bigger room, a large group of people sitting in chairs as Relena speaks at the front of the room, a huge vase of red roses behind her where a coffin would be... If there was a body to put in it... "...Heero doesn't even like flowers... Especially red ones... Ow...!" Hildie stamped on Duo's foot as he muttered to himself. He whispers back to her "Hey... What the hell was that for?" she glares at him coldly, and he shivers "... If looks could kill..." He looks around, at Quatre, who can't help crying, openly sobbing on Trowa's shoulder, who's patting his head, trying to comfort his distraught friend, a look in his own eyes saying he's going to burst into tears as well in a matter of minutes. Poor kid... Wait a minute... He thinks to himself, then takes another look around the room. "Where's Wufei?" A few people around him look in his direction, partially pissed looks on their faces "Sorry..." They turn back around, and he fidgets in his chair, trying to listen to Relena. ...Kind soul? Pshhhh... That's a laugh... Heero woulda socked her if she said that to his face... Gentle? Whaaa...? "...she doesn't know Heero at all..." No one turns this time, he was too quiet.
"Quatre, don't cry... It'll be alright..." Trowa slowly pats Quatre on the shoulder, when Quatre straightens up, still crying a little. He opens his mouth, and Trowa stops him "No. It is not your fault... You weren't even there." Quatre slumps over in his seat, a defeated look on his face.
"Yeah, Quatre-sama... It was mine. How could it possibly be your fault if it's mine in the first place?" They look up at Duo, who has made his way over to the seat behind them.
Trowa lowers his head, sighing "...Not another one..." Duo smiles, they give him puzzled looks "...Why are you smiling...?" Trowa raises an eyebrow, and Duo shrugs.
"I dunno, just tryin' to lighten the mood."
"...Oookayy...." Trowa shakes his head. ...It looks as though it's back.... He has an even better mask than mine. I can only hide my feelings, he covers them up completely... You can barely tell... Relena says something up at the front, which obviously gets Duo pissed, because he stands up, swears at her, then walks out of the room. Trowa looks at the door, then Relena, then Quatre "Wha..? Did I miss something...?" Even Quatre has an angry look on his face "...Obviously... Quatre never gets mad..."
"Heero might've been a Gundam Pilot, but that is NOT why he died, you prick!" Trowa's face goes blank as Quatre yells at Relena, standing up, his hands in fists.
Woah... What did she say? Trowa looks over at Relena as Quatre was storming out of the room, raving on, using swears in both English and Arabian. "Holy.... Even I can't make Quatre swear like that..." He looks to Relena, who's staring right back at him. "...Uhhh.... Did I miss something... 'Ey!" Quatre came back in quickly, and drags Trowa back out by his hair "owowowowOWIE!" The doors slam shut, a small silence, then Trowa yells "WHAAAATT?!" He sticks his head back into the room quickly, giving Relena a cold stare. "...Bi-" Quatre pulls him back out into the hall.
"C'mon, Trowa... We gotta find Duo... When he's this pissed... I'm afraid of what he might do..." Trowa nods, and they run down the hall where Duo left. ***
...She doesn't even know who the hell Heero is... Duo is now outside, the rain still falling just as hard as it was before. His feet create small splashes as they hit the puddles on the wide dirt path. None of them do... He walks on, his suit getting soaked. He jams his hands into his pockets and hunches his shoulders, hoping they could block out the drops of water. He just walks, thinking, when something hits his foot, almost making him trip. "What the-?" He looks down to find a small chunk of some kind of metal wedged into the ground. He kneels down to pick it up, and finds it to be a piece of Gundanium that somehow found it's way over here. "...heero..." He looks into the forest beyond the dirt road, then turns into it, walking through the trees. ***
"Where'd he go?" Quatre looks down a hall, and Trowa goes into a room. "...I never knew Duo was that fast.... AH!" He went around a corner, only to be tackled by Wufei, who was sprinting down the opposite hallway. "Oh, hey Wufei! Where were you?"
"...Sorry I was late... I had to finish something... Why aren't you in there? Or am I later than I thought...?" Quatre shakes his head "Oh, good... So, where is it?" Trowa helps Quatre up, and he dusts himself off.
"Back down that hall. Did you see Duo?" Quatre looks at Wufei, who shakes his head. "Well, I'm going to look for him..." Quatre waves to Wufei, then goes running down the hall, followed by Trowa. "...Something tells me what they're doing is more important than Relena's speech..." He runs after Trowa and Quatre. "Wait!" ***
Duo enters a clearing, and looks up to see the remains of the Wing Gundam, and the deathscythe kneeling beside it. "Hey, ol' buddy... Still where I left you...?" He stars walking over to the two gundams, stopping in front of Wing "God, Heero... I'm sorry..." He looks down at the ground, and his eyes go wide at what he sees. What...? Where'd this come from?" He kneels into the wet ground, and picks up a white rose, it's petals have droplets of water on them from the rain. "...Maybe he does like roses..." He looks up at the gundam. "God, Heero... Why'd you have to die? ...You always acted as if you could live forever..." He drops his head, and a tear falls into the puddle by his knees. "...Shit..." He wipes his face with the back of his hand, and he sees something out of the corner of his eye. "Huh?" He turns around, and jumps "Holy F-" He falls backwards into another puddle, his eyes wide. "H-Heero??" ***
"Where is he?" Quatre looks all over the place, checking all the patches of tall grass they pass by, Wufei and Trowa walking in the middle of the road. "How fast was he walking?!"
"I don't know, but if we don't find him soon..." Wufei stops midsentence, not wanting to think of what would happen if they never found him. "...We'll find him... We have to." ***
"I thought you were dead..." Duo stands up, and looks at the other teen. "Waiddaminute..." He notices something different about his friend, and he steps back. "What the hell?" Behind the faded Heero, the rain looks as though it's hitting something, and as the drops fall down, it looks like a pair of wings. "Wings? What do you ha-" He stops. "..Oh... You are dead... Aren't you...?"
Heero nods, and when Duo looks at the ground again, he smiles a little. "...Duo...?" Duo whips his head up, his wet bangs covering some of his eyes. "...Have you forgotten?"
Duo gives him a confused look. "Forgotten? Forget what?" Heero's smile gets bigger, and he laughs, not his maniacal laugh; this laugh is kind and pure, the laugh of a kind-hearted teen, like they all should have been. "...?" Duo looks more confused than before. "Man.. I gotta be hallucinating..." He shakes his head.
Heero's laughter fades away, and he begins to walk over to Duo, his wings appearing more as they get soaked by the rain. "Duo." He stops in front of him, and smiles again. "...Remember our promise?" Duo looks at him, then nods after a minute of thought. "Then why are you so surprised to see me?" Duo looks at the ground, Heero chuckles. "Don't worry about me... I may be gone, but my word still stands." Duo looks up again. "...Friends Forever." He puts out his hand.
Duo smiles a little "You know it!" He absentmindedly reaches out his own hand, and, surprisingly, he is able to shake Heero's hand. "Hey, Heero?" He says as Heero turns to leave, who then turns to look at him "...I'll be seeing ya..."
Heero smiles "And I'll be waiting... Then we can have a real battle..." He smiles his evil smirk, and Duo smiles back. "But... Don't come before your time... The others still need you to make them laugh..." He turns once more, and walks away, disappearing into the rain.
"...Bye, Heero..." Duo tilts his head, smiling a little, then hears yelling beyond the trees. "Huh?" Quatre comes through the forest, followed by Trowa and Wufei. "Oh, hi, guys!" He waves at them, and Quatre looks behind Duo at the two gundams.
"Oh..." Quatre look back at Duo. "Hey... Uh, Duo...?" Duo looks at him. "...We're sorry..."
Duo looks down at the rose in his hand, which is now a white feather, and smiles. "Why are you guys sorry? Heero isn't mad or anything!" The others give him puzzled looks, and he walks over to them, messing up Quatres hair. "Hey, let's go get some ice cream! I'm in the mood for mint chocolate!" Quatre and Trowa give him a very confused look, then nod after a while. "Good. How 'bout you, Wu-man?" He looks at Wufei, who's face turns an almost red.
"Don't call me that, Maxwell..." He threatens Duo with a fist, who starts laughing.
"There we go! All back to normal!" He laughs some more, and looks out into the distance, the clouds starting to clear away, the sun shining down on the wet scenery. A wind blows by them, and he looks at the feather in his hand as the four of them walk down the dirt path, and smiles a little "...Whatever you say, buddy..." Quatre sees the feather, then opens his mouth to say something, and Duo lets go of the feather in the next gust of wind, watching it blow away out into the field across the forest.
"Duo...?" Duo looks at Quatre. "... Was that a gift...?" Duo smirks, and looks out into the field again.
"Yeah, I guess it could be...." He runs out in front of the ground, and turns, jogging backwards. "Now let's go get that ice cream!" He laughs, and runs down the path, the others following him.
