12-Mar-2002
Title: Something Wicked this way comes
Author: Christine
Pairing: 1x2, 5x13, 4x6, mention of 6xD.
Rating: R for language and mention of NCS.
Warnings: Language, violence. Evil Malicious Wufei!!!! Confused Heero. Malevolent Quatre. General Oddness.
Duo involuntarily purred when Heero started rubbing the back of his neck with one hand. Heero did that a lot after they had sex and it always felt good. He wasn't worried about the gargoyle hurting him, even though he knew that Heero could snap his neck with one hand. He was bruised all over because of Heero's habit of grabbing him at odd moments, but then he had always bruised easily. He had realized early that Heero wasn't really trying to hurt him, no matter how much he snarled at him, he just forgot his own strength at times. Duo was glad that he was gentle, because while Heero liked bending him over any flat or not so flat surface and doing him, he was also content to just let him go down on him more often then not it seemed and Heero occasionally listened to him if he said stop or if something that Heero wanted to do with him weirded him out. He listened to his request and then they did something else that he was more comfortable with.
He had to admit that he liked going down on Heero better, once he got used to the taste and the strange way that he felt most of the time. Heero had explained to him when he had asked him about that, that there was something in that goop that made some humans act oddly. It wasn't a drug or anything addictive, Heero had reassured him, just something that was in that mix made a human lose some control over their actions, like alcohol. Duo had asked him after he had noticed how weird he felt after he had sucked Heero off a couple of times. While he hadn't started anything with the gargoyle, he was getting more and more relaxed about having sex with Heero. However, he felt guilty that he had given into him so easily and that he had gotten a monster that was treating him decently. He heard a lot of the noises that went on in Treize's room when Wufei was in there and he was frightened that Treize was not going to ever get better after they escaped.
Heero lifted his head and snarled, because he smelt strangers in the area. One scent was strange, but the other two were vaguely familiar and he hoped that it was who he thought it was. He shoved Duo out of the bed and into the closet in his room to hide him in case he was wrong and then went down to challenge those that entered his territory. As he left the room and tracked down where the scent was coming from he noticed that Wufei had also abandoned his toy, his brother hadn't lost all sense it seemed. Heero nodded and lightly vaulted over the rail to the living area blow. It would be faster then walking down those stairs. That Wufei also sensed danger meant that the threat wasn't something from those sheepish humans; something dangerous to them had just shown up.
"They're in the smelly room." Wufei told him, "The one that the foolish humans let us out in."
Heero cautiously made his way to the kitchen and sniffed, he smelled three bodies. One human and two gargoyles were in that room. Heero thought for a second and then smiled wolfishly. He was sure that it was Trowa and Quatre whom he had smelled. But who was the human?
Heero stepped out into the garage, a little ahead of Wufei. He took in the three that stood before him. Trowa was unmistakable, a pale shadow of stone, looking about the room for any danger, alert as always. Quatre was also looking around with wide aquamarine eyes studying the place closely, even as he tugged on the leash that was around the human's neck, urging it to keep up with him as he walked up to greet Wufei. Heero noticed that the tall blonde that was with them looked very stunned and barely conscious, with bruises covering most of his body. He looked almost as bad as Wufei's toy. He must not have enjoyed traveling with Trowa and Quatre. Hero just hoped that he was still sane. Some humans went insane from the experience of traveling with them or from Quatre's abuse.
Quatre wasn't as physically abusive as Wufei, since he enjoyed mentally tormenting his victims more then the darker gargoyle, but he also enjoyed abusing the humans. As soon as he realized that Heero was looking at him, the human dropped to a crouch and hid his face in his arms, apparently afraid of the new gargoyles. Heero realized that there wasn't that much left of the man's spirit if he had been broken this fast. He was assuming that the other two had been freed about the same time as he and Wufei had been, so that Quatre had managed to break the human in about a week. That was about how long he had taken in the past to do so. Most of the humans had been taken in with his 'innocent' act, so they couldn't believe that he was that cruel when he turned on them. Heero knew that he had to be even more vigilant about Quatre around Duo then he had to be with Wufei. He hoped that he could trust Trowa to help him keep his little human safe from the other two.
"Heero," Trowa greeted him calmly, as if they had only been apart for only an hour of so, not the years that they had been trapped apart from each other.
"Trowa," he replied equally impassive. In fact he was happy to see Trowa, since he might be able to help him with training his human, if he could trust him with Duo. He had missed the other gargoyle also. Duo was too fragile for some of the things that he liked and Trowa had always been a considerate partner. He hoped that his memories of Trowa were accurate, because he couldn't endure it if he had become as brutal as Quatre and Wufei were.
Wufei walked in behind him, smiling when saw their visitors. "I see that you also wasted no time acquiring a pet again?" he purred. Quatre knew the good things, humans to torment and to fuck, so of course he would get a human as soon as possible to play with.
Quatre laughed coldly, "Untrained, but beginning to be acceptable. You should have seen the woman with him... pity I killed her, but that is what happens sometimes."
Quatre didn't sound sorry at all, the gleam in his eyes told Heero that enjoyed killing the female. He also enjoyed tormenting the human that was with him by mentioning her death it often.
Trowa walked over to Heero and then stopped an arm's length away. He sniffed, "You've both picked one up." #I didn't think that you'd want one, because you usually avoided using them at all. Is yours as broken as I know Quatre's and Wufei's are?
Heero nodded and told him, "There are two of them that live here."
Quatre laughed again, watching the way that his human cringed at the sound and enjoying it. "Lucky you. Unfortunately for Trowa I killed the other one that was with this human. You know that I don't like sharing while I train mine, it confuses them, and so Trowa has been a very lonely gargoyle."
Trowa shrugged, apparently indifferent about that whole situation. "It was female. No loss." #She's better off dead... it was quick and easy, something that Quatre rarely does for his prey. But we could only take one with us and he prefers males. No witnesses could be left behind until we find out what is going on in this time and place, until we know what is going on, so he killed her.#
Wufei snickered, "The littler one bit and kicked. His brother is much more entertaining for me, because he can take more abuse. That human keeps Heero occupied, so it is no bother to me that he is still around. He is too cowed to do anything, because that would result in me hurting his brother more then I am."
"Can yours take care of this thing then?" Quatre asked, gesturing at the man that was with him. "I think that he broke too early, he needs to be lead about at times. I don't mind that, there is still a spark or two of life left in him, so he's still fun to play with. He's afraid of Trowa for some reason even though he's never had him, so Heero's little toy would be needed to help him clean himself up. Unless... "
Wufei laughed, "Treize does not move unless I tell him too. And he... he is a little 'tired' to be up yet. I played with him earlier and he still has trouble moving after a session. Maybe if we exchanged our pets later?" #You know that I can be as cruel as you are, so you don't mind 'sharing'. Trowa and Heero were always a problem because they were nice to the damned things and that was always bad, because it sometimes gave our toys time enough to get away from us, unfortunately.#
Quatre shrugged and dropped the leash. "Whatever. One human is much like another when we are through training them. But enough about our pleasures, what have you learned from your pets about the place that we have found ourselves in?" #Broken things that they are now. I hope you got more out of your then I did mine. Breaking the female's neck took most of the fight out of mine and I don't know if he told me anything useful before that. I know that he hasn't afterwards. Stupid Human!#
The two of them entered the house as Wufei started to explain how long they had been enspelled to Quatre. As the other two left, Heero glanced over at Trowa. "I will get my human. He might be able to reassure this one."
Trowa looked down at the man that was crouched in the middle of the garage, cowering in the debris that had been packed with Wufei and Heero. He made a slight whimpering noise when he noticed that both gargoyles were looking at him and the one that had claimed him had abandoned him with them.
"Your human, what is he like?" Trowa asked curiously.
Heero snarled deep in his chest, "Mine."
Trowa smiled coolly, "We have been partners. We have fought together and spilled our essence for our creators and now you will not share your human toy with a fellow construct?" #Possessive about a human? You have changed my brother. Is that good or bad I wonder?#
"Duo is fragile... clever but not strong. He is like a wild deer or a squirrel, skittish unless approached right." Heero explained, wondering why he was so possessive of his human. That had never happened before with him. He would still share with Trowa, but not with any of the others, they were too cruel to the humans. He hadn't cared about that with anyone else but Trowa before this and that was a strange feeling to him.
Trowa continued to smile. Heero was amusing in his possessive protectiveness about a human. He looked down at the man huddled at his feet. He remembered the tall, self-assured human that had fought with Quatre trying to free himself and his companion, until Quatre had casually broken the neck of the woman that was with him while he was using her. He still fought Quatre when his master took him, but that spark of defiance was slowly fading, soon he would be like the numerous other humans that Quatre had broken over the years–compliant, submissive and lifeless. Heero must be very taken with his human if he didn't want to share, since he had never cared before about any of the humans that he used.
"I think that we should deliver this one to your Duo for care, like Quatre suggested. His name is Zechs." Trowa said simply.
If Heero were fond of his toy, he wouldn't want Quatre to see it or see that toy's reaction to the human that was crouching like a broken thing at their feet. That would give Quatre too much information to work with, something to taunt the human and Heero with. He also wasn't quite certain with who his loyalties should lay with right now. Quatre was more sadistic then he remembered from what he had seen. Heero was only one of them that he thought he could trust, and knew that he couldn't say that about Quatre or Wufei really from what he remembered, even if they hadn't changed for the worse. He just hoped that his memories of Heero weren't wishful thinking on his part. He had been shocked by some of the things that Quatre had done since they had been freed, but he should have expected some of what had happened. Quatre and Wufei had been very twisted by their creators and by their experiences with the other humans that they had dealt with, unfortunately. Heero had been the one that he had been closest to before. They had been together often since neither one of them enjoyed the games that the other two had played with their humans or with them at times.
Heero looked down at the broken human at his feet. He was glad suddenly, that no matter how odd Duo was with him sometimes and even as confusing as Duo was, he wasn't frightened of him like this human was. Even if Duo occasionally went still with fear when Heero moved the wrong way, he hadn't reduced him to a broken spirited thing. Heero thought that his fear was more because of memories of the fool that abused him then any real fear of him, Duo snuggled into his body nicely when he was asleep. He was also very passionate mating with him, making the most delightful noises as he was taken even if sometimes he had a look of dismay in his eyes that he felt that way with him. Heero knew that look would soon pass, when Duo was more comfortable with his life as his possession. He was looking forward to that, all the pleasure that he could have with his human in the years to come.
"Get up," he snarled at the cowering human, because he was annoyed that Duo would see this. Duo was upset most of the time by the noises that he heard out of the room where his brother was being held. Seeing how much Quatre had damaged this human would ruin all the care that he had taken with Duo, trying to make him comfortable with his life as his human, his possession.
The tall blonde stood up, head still bowed. He stood still until Heero shoved him forward, herding the human up the stairs to get him where he was supposed to go, ignoring the leash that was around his neck. The shudder that went through him when Heero touched him didn't go unnoticed by either Heero or Trowa. Heero snarled at that reaction, unwittingly scaring the human further and then shoved him into the bathroom before he went to retrieve Duo. He had no patience with this human right now and wanted the reassurance of finding his human safe and seeing that he was still the lively little thing that he thought he was.
Duo stayed in the closet until Heero came and got him. That was one of the rules that he learned early. Heero had to retrieve him from wherever he had shoved him, when he wanted to protect him from whatever he thought was a threat. Heero just didn't realize that to Duo, Wufei was the nastiest thing around. Since Heero the only thing that was protecting him from Wufei, he didn't want to anger Heero if he could avoid it. Duo wouldn't leave any place that Heero had put him; since he had gotten hit the one time that he had done it. Not hard, Heero wanted to teach him a lesson, not cripple him. Heero hadn't been angry with him, Duo thought, but more worried about him being on his own and couldn't explain that was the problem for him. He knew that Heero wasn't really angry with him, because he snarled at him, but he hadn't hurt him after that one hit. It had been uncomfortable to sit for a couple of days after that, but Heero hadn't done anything more then that to hurt him, so he knew that Duo had gotten the point of that lesson. Duo didn't want to be hit any more or be caught alone by Wufei, so he followed Heero's rules, even if it meant that he no privacy for anything any more.
Heero had started fucking him nightly, daily or anytime the mood struck him but he was getting used to that, and he wasn't protesting it anymore, which scared the crap out of him anytime he stopped to think about it. He was enjoying Heero bending him over the nearest flat surface and taking him or just touching him until he both came, usually after he had gone down on Heero. Heero usually made sure that he liked what was happening to his body, whether he wanted to or not, under the influence of that goop. Heero had had decades to know all the right buttons to push so that Duo enjoyed him and being a teenager wasn't helping either. It was scary that he was thinking about sex now, when before he had never even thought that it would ever be part of his life after that pervert had gotten him.
Duo thought about some of the things that he learned about his silent captor, chief of which was the ability to enjoy sharing his body with a lover, something that he didn't think would ever happen. While Heero wasn't what he would have chosen for a lover, since if he had a choice he wouldn't have taken anyone, but Heero was trying to be considerate in his limited way. He tried to make sure that it was enjoyable for Duo, even if it was for his own pleasure to see his reactions to what he was doing to him. He hadn't hurt him at all since the first night, except for that one time to discipline him and he made he feel really good when he used him, even if it was for his own jollies of watching him beg to be fucked.
He wasn't malicious for which Duo was extremely thankful. Treize was looking more remote and out of it every time that he was allowed to see him, which wasn't often, just once a day. If Wufei didn't let him feed his brother, he knew that he wouldn't get anything to eat, because he didn't care enough to take care of himself now. The argument that Heero and Wufei had had about that issue had been violent and short after the warning that Wufei had gotten the first day, but Heero had won it so Duo got to see his brother and make sure that he was still alive. As far as Duo could tell, Wufei for once hadn't taken out his annoyance of losing the argument about Heero checking on Treize out on his brother or maybe that thing realized that care and feeding were something that humans needed if they couldn't or wouldn't do it on their own. Treize was getting to the stage that he needed help being moved at times because he was too sore move on his own most of the time. While he was rough with Treize, Wufei hadn't done any permanent damage to him, because nothing other then his fingers had been broken, so that Treize couldn't escape with him if they got the chance. Duo just hoped that he could get him out of that room eventually, before Wufei fucked him over too much.
Heero was letting him cook and have some freedom to walk around the house if he was with him. Reading to him was the only other thing that Heero wanted from him. It didn't matter what the book was, Heero wanted Duo to read it to him, apparently trying to get all the information that he could it seemed. Duo spent most of his time sleeping now it seemed, Heero tired him out with his use of his body and he usually felt weird after they had sex even if he hadn't gone down on Heero, so he snoozed a lot.
Duo waited in his closet, not even bothering to breathe when he heard other voices in the house. He didn't think that it would be anyone that could help him, so why piss off Heero by calling for help? Or by getting Wufei's attention, he still looked at Duo like he wanted to do something to him. Duo worried, wondering what was going on until Heero came into the room for him.
"Get up," Heero snarled at him.
Duo stood up, wondering what had happened to make him so angry. This wasn't his usual snarl, seemed like he was really pissed about something. "I heard voices... ?" he asked him timidly. He was worried that Wufei had finally done something to piss Heero off and things were going to get worse.
"The rest of us are here and Quatre brought a human with them. He needs to be cleaned up and we thought that it was better if you cleaned him up. His name is Zechs." Heero informed him, not letting him really finish the question.
Duo nodded and then asked softly after thinking for a second, "I take it that Quatre and Wufei have a lot in common?"
Something had annoyed Heero real fast and as strange as it seemed he thought it was, it seemed like it was because Heero thought that he was going to be upset about the newcomers. He was getting to understand a little the way that Heero thought. He wanted a docile, playful human and Heero knew that he wasn't going to get that if he was upset what was happening around him.
Heero looked confused at his question, trying to figure out what Duo was asking him. Wufei and Quatre did have a lot in common, they were constructs, but they all were what Duo called a golem. They had been the ones that had been made to be the 'thinking' ones of their grouping and they both liked to abuse the humans. Was that what Duo was trying to say? He hated the lack of understanding that he had with Duo's language. Was he trying to ask if Quatre was hurtful like Wufei, but didn't want to ask that of him directly?
"Quatre and Wufei both have the same taste in activities with their humans." Heero said neutrally. He hoped that was what Duo was asking him. He was beginning to understand how his little human thought. It was strange at times, but he had learned a lot from his human. Not just all the things that he had him read to him, but how he thought from the way that he explained ideas or things to him that he didn't know. Duo didn't think that he was stupid like his creators or Wufei had acted at times when they explained things to him. Duo had once mentioned that he thought that Heero knew a ton of things that he didn't know; it was just that none of the stuff that he knew was useful now. Heero agreed with him on that, in a world where humans had such a luxurious life because of their science, none of the skills that he knew was useful here. No one needed the efficient killer that he had been created to be it seemed in this place and time.
Duo shivered at the thought of another one of those sadists in the house and started to walk out the door into the hallway to help Quatre's victim. Heero was probably mad because he was starting to get a bit wiggy about the situation he was in. He was getting more and more upset about some of the sounds that he was hearing for Treize's room and he was having a hard time keeping him from doing something about the screaming. What was Wufei doing to him to make him scream like that and not leave any broken bones behind? Why was Wufei such a psycho, he would have thought that he would have been bored with making his brother scream by now.
"He's in the bathroom." Heero informed him.
Duo nodded and headed towards the door to the bathroom. He stopped and looked up at Heero, asking curiously, "So I get to reassure him that I'm harmless? I might be a bit friendlier then you would like me to be."
"Yes," Heero growled but continued in a possessive tone, "but not like you play with me!"
Duo smiled to reassure him, "If I get playful... it's so that Zechs feels safe, not that I want him in me." #I really don't want you either, but that was never a choice I was given.#
Heero shook his head, growling. "I should think not! You are mine!" #This possessiveness keeps my brother away from you. He might think since you calmed down you should spend some time servicing him. He will ruin all the training that I have been doing, because he will hurt you because he wants to or to irritate me.#
"It's not like you let me forget that." Duo said quietly, "You don't let me out of your sight long enough to let anyone else get to me." #The time in the closet was the only time that I have been alone all week. It would have been nice if I hadn't been worried about what had happened to make you book like that.#
Heero growled at him and Duo walked faster into the bathroom, with Heero following him like he was going to manage to run away within the next five feet. He knew that he was probably going to eventually pay for that smart remark. He stopped short when he saw the other gargoyle in the bathroom and wondering why something that big could be silent, since he didn't hear him enter the room.
#It was so unfair.# Duo thought, #that the other gargoyle was beautiful too.# Even knowing that this was something that was probably going to kill him eventually didn't stop him from thinking that it...he... looked good. The gargoyle was a little taller then Heero and was some sort of pale stone with green eyes. Duo decided that his eyes were probably emeralds, seeing that Heero's eyes were sapphires and had found out that Wufei's were black diamonds and he was made out of Andalusite and Mexican Opal, when he had asked about that. Heero was willing to answer any questions that he had and Duo hoped it wasn't because Heero thought that he was never going to leave him. Duo wondered what types of stone the body was made from, because parts of his body glittered a bit, especially his penis. Duo wondered for the umpteenth time how sick were the bastards that made them to make them function sexually and also have their genitals a different material then the rest of the body so that attention was draw to that part of them first.
Duo was more worried about the human that was huddled at his feet, rocking back and forth a little. He thought that if he continued to stare the gargoyle it either might think that he was interested or Heero might get pissed and beat the crap out of him thinking that he was being too bold with whoever this one was. Hopefully it wasn't that sadist Quatre and was just someone that Heero hadn't mentioned. He did say the rest of us, so there might be more then one more gargoyle that showed up now; since there had been four of them Heero had told him that first day. Duo dropped down into a crouch and sort of crawled over to the human at the gargoyle's feet, trying to be as little as possible so that he didn't appear threatening. With a house full of stone monsters, one beaten up boy was not going to be a threat he hoped, but looking smaller would help.
"My name's Duo," he said in calm, soothing voice. "What's yours?" He knew his name but he'd rather act ignorant and hopefully Zechs would trust him enough to talk to him.
The blonde looked up a little, even as he continued to rock and replied in a whisper, "Zechs."
Closer up he even looked worse, his eyes were blackened and Duo could see the different layers of bruises that covered his body. Zech's mouth looked odd and Duo wondered if it was because of the bruises or was it damaged because of something else, like fighting with those monsters about sucking their cocks or something. His long hair fell around his body and Duo could see where it was tangled with blood and gargoyle goop and was just really dirty and he was too wasted looking to be healthy. Duo was sure that if he stood up he'd be taller then Treize, but Zechs has that pinched, beaten look about him that Duo instinctively knew that he wasn't going to last much longer, not sane and not ever recovering from this, not if these things continued to hurt him.
"Do you want a shower Zechs?" Duo asked, "I was told that I should get you cleaned up and wouldn't a hot shower be nice?"
"I...I think so." Zechs muttered. He was not that fluent in English and he was having trouble trying to translate what this Duo person was asking him. He didn't want to know that there were more of these monsters around. They were someplace that he didn't know and he didn't know how he had gotten there. All he knew was that it wasn't pleasant and he never wanted to experience it again.
"I'll get some towels then out of the closet and we can take a hot shower together so that I can help get you clean. Then I can make you something to eat, you'd like that wouldn't you?" Duo continued to talk, hoping that the sound of his voice would keep Zechs calm. "When was the last time that you ate?"
Zechs thought for a second and said softly, "A couple of days, I think that... that it' been a week since I really ate. Nothing much after..." He looked at Duo with pleading eyes, asking him to reassure Zechs that it had only been a week or however long that it had been for him
"I'm sorry," Duo apologized, "I sorta lost track of time too since the two of them showed up here."
He had, the days and nights just passed by for him, because he was tired all the time and he just wanted to sleep. He thought that it had been that long, but he wasn't too sure. He thought about turning on the radio or hitting the net for the date, but he knew that something like that would piss of Heero and he didn't want to do that. Hell he really didn't want to know about the outside world, because this Never-Never land feeling was the only thing that was keeping him going at times.
Duo stood up suddenly and bumped into the pale gargoyle that was hovering over him. "I... I'm... excuse me," Duo stammered. He knew that he hadn't hurt him and he was going to be sporting another bruise in a couple of minutes. This thing didn't even move when he bumped into him and he had been in his way, so why was he the one that was apologizing? #Because the damned thing is bigger then you and could rip you apart like an overripe fruit, you got to kowtow to it because of that.# Duo thought resentfully.
The golem just stepped back and let Duo get to the closet that he was aiming for. Duo swiftly got the towels that he was looking for and stepped back, this time bumping into Heero. He froze, letting Heero slowly run his hands up and down his arms as he clutched his burden, listening to him softly snarling and feeling the hardness of Heero's chest as he held him in front of him, hugging him like he was a doll.
The other gargoyle laughed softly at Heero's display of ownership and shook his head, amused by it for some reason. "I know that he's yours, it's just been a long time and he looks so good."
Heero smiled slowly, calming down. Trowa wasn't going to hurt Duo, just admire him. "It has been a long time since we were together, Trowa." #I missed you.#
The other gargoyle stepped up and kissed Heero, ignoring Duo even as he pressed his body between the two of them. Duo wasn't surprised to feel Heero stop snarling and kiss the other gargoyle back, he seemed to like the new gargoyle more then he did Wufei, because he didn't get near Wufei, never mind kiss him like this. He just stood perfectly still and tried not to draw attention to himself even as he was slowly crushed between the two of them as he felt Heero and Trowa starting to rub against him. Their kissing had excited Heero and Trowa and they were rubbing against him, moaning softly as they touched each other and him. He felt himself getting hard as they caressed him, Heero touching him in all the right places to make it feel good for him even as he was scared about having two of them doing things to him.
"He doesn't like this... you were right to call him skittish," Trowa said softly as he tilted Duo's head back to study his frightened face. He felt the shivers of fear that Duo was trying hard to control. The little one was frightened of what they were doing, even as his body responded to it. He hadn't been afraid to walk into a small room with either of them, something that experienced and armed warriors had been wary of doing. Duo had been focused more on the human that had been at Trowa's feet. When he bumped into him, he had just muttered an apology. Instead he was frightened of the thought of the two of them enjoying his body, how odd. Heero chuckled and stooped a little so that he could thrust his erection in between Duo's thighs and fondled Duo's cock, listening to the soft gasps of pleasure that his actions caused in his human.
Duo drew in a breath, involuntarily thrusting into Heero's fist as small whimpers of pleasure escaping him. He then asked in a small, unsteady voice, "Could... could I take care of Zechs first, please? I don't think that he wants to watch the two of you bend me over the sink," he paused and added in a pained whisper, "I know don't want him to watch."
Heero held Duo still as he continued to rock back and forth. He shouldn't listen to Duo's pleas because that would spoil him, and to let him think that he had some say in what was happening to him. A toy was meant to be played with and had no shame in anyone or anything seeing that, especially another toy. He had learnt that lesson early, since he had been used that way from the beginning. Although Duo had asked nicely to stop, so he should listen to him. He hadn't enjoyed being used like that either, so he understood Duo's reluctance to have them take their pleasure with him in front of the other human. He remembered the times when Trowa had to watch him with one of the humans that the council had given him to, he had been ashamed that Trowa had to see that. But what would that matter to Duo, he didn't know Zechs? Or was it that he didn't want someone watching while they were with him?
Duo really hadn't said 'no' just 'wait'. He knew that no matter what he was going to be used by the two of them, and he just wanted to take care of the other human first. He stopped after forcing Duo's head around so that he could kiss him. Duo relaxed a little, when Heero stopped kissing him and smiled wolfishly. "Later."
Duo nodded meekly, he had bought some time for him to get used to the idea of a threesome. "I know... and could you... um... stay back a little, Zechs is gonna be hard enough to deal with, without tripping over the two of you. If I leave the doors open to both bedrooms and here, you can see and hear us, so we can't run."
"Or so that no one else gets to you." Heero reminded him softly. His human should remember that Wufei was still angry about his reaction to his attentions. He wasn't even going to explain to him about Quatre yet. He would do it when he had the time to impress upon his human that no matter what he said or did, Quatre would hurt him in the end.
"I really don't want any of you near me." Duo muttered, agreeing with him on the danger that he thought Wufei was to him, "but you are a hellava lot safer for me then a sadistic gargoyle."
Heero snarled at that comment and then looked in Duo's eyes. His toy had enjoyed what he was doing to his body, but if given a choice Heero knew that he still didn't want anyone to touch him like that. Duo winced at the snarl and the anger in Heero's eyes. He knew that it had been the wrong thing to say, but it had just popped out. It wasn't that he didn't like Heero; it was he just didn't want to have sex with him, even if he enjoyed it. He actually enjoyed reading to him and cuddling more then any of the things that he had done to his body, even if he had screamed his lungs out because it felt so good. Heero usually had some interesting questions or comments on anything that he read to him. If sex weren't in the picture, he would be trying to make friends with Heero.
Thinking about another gargoyle using him was making him want to scream and throw things about, but he knew that if he snapped, he never be free again and he just had to hold on for a little while longer. Maybe these things would just leave here. What could they do now? They were oddities that were stuck in a place and time that they didn't belong in and the best that they could hope for was that the government never found them and shoved them into another box to get them out of the way.
Trowa frowned at their exchange. The little one was bold, very few humans had ever talked back to Heero, since they didn't want to feel the weight of his hand on their body when he hit them for that and he was very surprised that Duo wasn't sprawled at Heero's feet, being beaten for his insolence. He obeyed the ones that created them, but that was about it. Heero had had little use for humans outside mounting them, so he was surprised that he had claimed the boy, even though he thought that it was mainly to protect him form Wufei it seemed.
"Quatre and Wufei will be busy for a little while," Trowa observed calmly, wondering what had happened to Heero so that he was so considerate of a human in his care. "They have much to discuss about our situation." #I was worried about you and I missed you. I didn't want to spend the rest of my existence with Quatre, watching him torment his victims.#
Heero nodded in agreement. He knew that they would have to leave this place eventually. Whether he would be taking any of the humans with them was a question. And what would they do... that was something else that had to be dealt with. Both their creators and their jailors were dead, what were they to do? They could exist forever, but they really didn't have anything to fill their time. He thought that Wufei might be interested in carving out an empire for himself or at least someplace that they could stay and keep humans for him to torment. It would have to be someplace remote enough to hide them, but close enough so that they could catch more humans. He didn't care about that, he was happy with Duo. He hoped that someday Duo would be happy with him; as odd a thought that it was. When had he started thinking about the little human as one of the few beings that he could trust? He knew that he could trust Trowa and to a certain extent Quatre and Wufei, but when did he start thinking that way about a human?
He and Trowa went into the other room, so they could talk without disturbing the humans. Heero shook his head in confusion, since when did he care about disturbing a human? Since it was Duo and it didn't have to do with mating with him. Duo was an attentive partner when he was relaxed and so he should give him some freedom so that he would still be relaxed around him when he wanted to mount him.
Duo went over to the bathtub started the water; it was going to be a long session in the shower to get Zechs clean. He was worried about how Zechs was going to react to his touching him. Hopefully he would continue to think that he was harmless, because he didn't want Heero or Trowa to have to restrain him in any way to get him cleaned up. Zechs hadn't moved even with all the activity in front of him and Duo cleared his throat to warn him that he was still in the room with him, just in case Zechs had spaced on him.
"You want to hop in the tub?" Duo asked calmly, willing his hard on to go down. He thought that if he ignored the whole incident, Zechs would too. He was embarrassed that Heero had played with him in front of someone else, but he should get used to that, if Trowa was going to be playing with him too. His stomach clenched at the thought and he forced himself to relax. There was nothing that he could do about this and he just had to concentrate on one thing at a time, like getting Zechs cleaned up.
Zechs thought for a second and nodded, crawling into the tub and sitting down, wincing a little when his bottom hit the tub.
"I got some aspirin, might help with some of the soreness." Duo said. He thought about how sore he had been after Heero raped him the first night. If Heero hadn't given him some time to heal, he didn't know what he would be like now.
Duo shivered suddenly at that thought, Heero could have been a bastard and they both knew it, even if either one of them didn't want to acknowledge the kindness that Heero had shown him. That he had been decent to him showed that he wasn't as sick as the other two it seemed. He hoped that this Trowa guy was reasonable about these things like Heero, since it looked like he was going to be shared with him. He was silent as he undid the collar that was around Zechs's neck. Shit, he had had it good if this was what could have happened to him, led around like an animal by one of these things. Heero just wouldn't let him out of his sight.
"What's wrong?" Zechs asked.
Duo waved his hands around, not wanting to discuss the thought that he would have two of those things in bed with him, he could barely keep up with one. Hell he might be wrong and Heero might ignore him to just be with Trowa. He also might wake up and have this just be a dream. "I'll give you the painkillers when I feed you. Just canned stuff and maybe frozen veggies, since I'm running through that stuff now. I ate most anything that was fresh the first couple of days that they were here."
Duo made sure that the water was loud enough to cover any other conversation, before he said anything else. He was wetting down Zechs's hair and starting shampoo it before he spoke again.
"There's a road that leads to town. Once you get down the driveway take a left. It's about five miles. I'm telling you this in case you get to run. I'm watched too closely and so is my brother. You might be able to get help or just get out of here, so I'm telling you how to get out of here."
Zechs was silent for a minute before he spoke, enjoying the feel of Duo's hands washing his hair, because he had thought that he would never get clean again. "They're strong, I... I... "
"Hand to hand they kick butt with a human. But we do have these things called guns in the States that might slow down these things." Duo told him, "It's a long shot, but take it. Tell the cops that me and Treize kidnapped you, they'll believe that more then anything."
"I know... they... the other one killed my fiancée, Dorothy Catalonia. She is... was Dermail's granddaughter. After we shipped that box to you, we were moving things around, trying to figure out what all that junk was. Something happened and our crate broke, and they burst out. It was late and... and the other one, Quatre just grabbed her while I watched it happen, since it was so unreal to me to see these things moving. Trowa eventually restrained me after fought with him; the whole thing is so confusing to me, then and now. I was forced to watch as that thing ra... raped Do..Dorothy, Trowa held me while it was happening and made me watch. Quatre laughed at her screams and the blood. He... he hurt her and enjoyed it. It was the second time that he had her that Quatre broke her neck. I can still hear the small 'crack' that it made... I hear it in my nightmares." Zechs said, shuddering and starting to sob. "I did nothing to save her and then the smaller one, he had the other one hold me while he used me... I hoped that he would kill me to, but he just hurts me and not enough to kill me."
Duo was silent. No wonder Zechs was a mess. He got raped by the monsters and had the guilt of not being able to protect the woman that he loved from them. He was having a hard time understanding the guy's accent, but he could understand and speak English, thankfully. Having a language problem along with all the other crap that was going down would suck.
"I don't know what they are like, but Heero seems nice if you do what he tells you to. Mostly it's asking me to read to him or ah... you know." Duo felt the burn go up his cheeks, since he was so very embarrassed to have this conversation. He felt that he was such a loser to like what was happening with him, enjoy Heero touching him and begging for his cock up his ass sometimes when he played with him. It was a big difference from the scared kid that he was the first night, when he fought the both of them, as stupid as that had been. Now he was just a pet to Heero, something that he played with when he needed something to keep him occupied. Duo was trying not to think if there would be a time when Heero was bored with him and then just handed him off to Wufei or Quatre, when Heero picked up someone new.
Zechs was silent during this confession, since he could sense Duo's discomfort. He had noticed that Duo was bruised like he was, but he was also clean and more importantly, he wasn't afraid of his captor. He decided that Duo needed some reassurances, he wasn't that broken that he couldn't comfort a fellow victim. It wasn't the boy's fault that his captor was kind to him while it seemed that the other ones enjoyed hurting people.
"Heero didn't hurt me, he ignores me like Trowa does most of the time, I'm just there to both of them." Zechs said quietly "Trowa... I don't know. He doesn't seem interested in that with me, but he seemed to like you. Trowa had followed his orders to hold me when I was being... hurt, but it isn't because he's stupid, he just didn't care."
"Still don't make it right," Duo replied, "I... I... it feels good. It shouldn't feel good, he... he... the first night... and... and... now... " Duo was horrified that he started crying during his explanation. Zechs needed his help and he was crying about his own stupid problems. Yep he was such a loser.
"Just because your body is enjoying what he is doing to you, doesn't make you bad." Zechs told him softly. "No one can control what his body does. If he touches you in places and it feels good, it's just your body's reaction to the pleasure that he is giving you. It doesn't mean that you are a bad person because Heero likes you and wants you to enjoy being with him."
"Wufei grabbed me first and he started touching me... I panicked and bit him. That got him mad even if it didn't hurt him and so he threw me at Heero. He took Treize, my brother, to his room and started hurting him. I can hear it... hear him screaming when he is in there with him. It should be me in there and Treize should be with the nice one."
Zechs turned around and put his arms around Duo. "Shh..sshh... I don't think that your brother would agree with that thought. I know that I wouldn't want one of these things with my younger sister."
Duo burrowed his head into Zechs's chest. "I shouldn't have panicked... it should be me... it's all my fault... he likes guys and this is going to mess him up so much. I can stand it... it happened to me before."
"Shh... it's going to get better soon... "#If that monster kills me... don't feel guilty boy because you got one that didn't really want to hurt you#
Duo let Zechs stroke his back and cried softly in his arms, just grateful that he was with someone that understood what was happening to him, even though he should be doing this for Zechs.
Duo slowly approached Heero. He was softly talking to Trowa and somehow he looked less pissed then usual. Duo didn't want to bother them, but he also knew that he needed one of them to escort him to the kitchen so that he could feed Zechs and make something to eat for Treize too. Heero would beat him into a pulp if he started wandering around on his own, just to protect him, weird as that sounded. He had cried himself out with Zechs and it had made him feel a lot better, he hoped that he had been able to help Zechs before he turned into such a baby. Duo knew that it wasn't going to get better for either one of them, but he was glad that he had someone in the house that he could talk to for now. He had a sneaking suspicion that Zechs was going to fall apart again soon, but then he didn't think that he could hold on either. They could be insane together he hoped.
"Uh... " Duo started.
Both sets of eyes looked at him and Duo flushed at the awkwardness he suddenly felt, feeling like an ant that they were about to squish for interrupting them. "I need to go down to the kitchen to feed Zechs and Treize."
"I understand," Heero told him, wondering what had happened to make his human nervous around him again.
Duo nodded and then asked shyly, "Can I put clean sheets on this bed? I have to make up the one in the room next to this one if that's where... um... Zechs is going to be, so I thought about changing this one too. And I would like to run a load of towels and see if I can clean Treize up a bit. Do you mind asking Wufei about that?"
"This one is so domestic Heero," Trowa teased his fellow gargoyle, even if he hadn't understood anything the human was talking about.
He hadn't understood any of what Duo had said, but he got the impression that it had to do with cleaning the place up. His brother had been indifferent to his own needs at times as he had been to the charms of the humans. He had changed over the time that they had been separated if he was willing to have his human clean up the area that he was living in and make it comfortable. It wasn't a bad change, he could live with that if it was the only surprise that his brother had for him after they had been separated for so long. He dreaded finding out if Heero had changed into someone that enjoyed hurting his partners. The boy was bruised, but some humans were like that, they just bruised easily. He wasn't afraid of Heero, which was the most important clue that his brother hadn't turned into a sadist like the other two.
Heero scowled at his teasing, and then was annoyed the Duo shrank back in fear, thinking that he was displeased with him. "I will ask Quatre where he wants to have his human to be. He might want him to stay with your brother and I will ask Wufei if he minds you cleaning up your brother and his room. You know what the answer might be though."
Duo nodded, "I expect a no, but even he must be sick of smelling blood by now."
"Wufei enjoys the smell of blood." Trowa told him.
Duo shuddered at the thought and changed the subject. "You told me that Zechs was supposed to be fed too. I got him cleaned up and we're ready to hit the kitchen now. I just need one of you guys with me."
"And why do you want that?" Trowa asked him in amazement. The boy did not want to get close to either one of them, but he asked for their protection.
Duo looked at him and decided to tell him the truth, "Walking around on my own, Wufei or the other one...Kata... could grab me. I already pissed off Wufei and I know that he plays rough. From cleaning up Zechs, Kata... "
"Quatre," Trowa corrected him in frustration. Honestly it was a simple name, why couldn't the human pronounce it correctly?
"... is a psycho too. I don't want to get hurt and I hope that Heero still wants me in one piece, so I need one of you with me so that one of the other two don't hurt me." Duo finished quietly.
"Why wouldn't I want to protect you still?" Heero asked him coldly. #Are you afraid that I will toss you out in the trash because Trowa is here? You are still useful to me and I do enjoy your body, so I won't get rid of you yet.#
Duo flushed and shrugged, "You... you seemed to be really friendly with Trowa. What do you need me for? If you just want me around to read to you... " #Just that wouldn't be bad, but I can't be that lucky.#
"I enjoy you body Duo. I think that Trowa would enjoy you also." Heero told him.
Why did Duo think that he didn't want him anymore? He had listened to the conversation that Duo had had with Zechs about where to go if he managed to escape. He had restrained himself from bursting into the bathroom when Duo started crying, but he didn't when Zechs managed to calm him down. He has thought that the other human had said something to Duo to upset him, but that wasn't the case. Zechs must be mentally stronger then he looked if he could still help his Duo. He didn't like what was going on here, but it was out of his hands. He had no idea how to stop it, even if he really wanted to. So long as the other two didn't hurt Duo, he would let them live. Once they did something to harm his possession he would make them regret it.
Trowa just shook his head in bemusement. Heero was being very patient with his human if he was bothering to explain anything to him. He listened calmly as Heero continued to talk to Duo and reassure him. Heero had been upset that his human had been crying earlier with the other human, but had managed not to interfere with whatever had happened in that room. Trowa was just amazed at all the things that had changed while they had been under the influence of that spell, if what Heero had told him was correct.
"I think that we showed you that in the bathroom. Or have you changed your mind and you don't want to wait anymore?" Heero asked Duo coldly.
Duo shook his head frantically and stuttered, "No... just... shit... you're big, he's big and I know that it's going to hurt."
"Have I hurt you after the first time?" Heero demanded.
"No." Duo admitted after a pause, staring at his feet. There was two of them and one of him. How was it going to work? Would they take turns? Both of them at once in him? He didn't know what to expect and it scared him.
"I think that I should take you to the kitchen while Heero talks with Quatre and Wufei." Trowa said, before adding softly to Heero. "I think that Duo just needs more time."
He could tell that the human was scared of what was happening around him and that he needed more time to get used to the idea that there were going to be two of them using him. Heero hadn't said much about how it had been for him after he was released for the spell, but Trowa understood that he had claimed Duo because he had been brave enough or foolish enough to fight Wufei when he tried to force him. He had nearly laughed at Heero's description of Duo's attack on him, a frightened human that was bold enough to think that he could actually hurt them with only his hands and teeth. He didn't believe Heero when he enjoyed the boy's innocence about mating and was teaching him to please him and enjoy his own body. He didn't know if he was insulted or flattered that Heero said that the boy reminded him of his lover, because he wasn't afraid of him. He wanted time to get to know that human that had changed his paramour.
Heero looked at Trowa and nodded. Trowa wanted to learn more about his human and he knew that he could trust him. "I will talk to the others. Trowa might enjoy seeing all the things that you have in your kitchen."
Duo smiled, "Trowa just as much of a gadget junkie as you are?" Heero had played with everything in the kitchen and liked watching him cook.
"I think that he would enjoy exploring your... kitchen." Heero said slyly.
Duo shook his head and went into the bathroom to get Zechs and explain what was happening with them. "Trowa's going to be the one with us in the kitchen and I won't let anyone get you. Heero's going to ask Quatre where he wants to stay while he's here and what you're going to be in room, when he talks to Wufei and Quatre. He's also going to see about getting me permission to clean up my brother and then he might join us in the kitchen. Trowa's gonna be our keeper for now though."
Zechs nodded his head once. He was glad that after the short bout of tears that Duo was feeling better. He didn't want to think about later yet, since he couldn't face thinking about what that fiend was going to do to him. He didn't even think that Duo could protect him if he wanted from any of the monsters, but it was a nice of the boy to try.
"I think that I should at least put the collar back on." Zechs said. "Where did you throw it?"
"It's in the bathroom." Duo told him.
"I don't want to wear it, but I don't want to be punished either." Zechs told him gently. He didn't want Duo to see how abusive any of these things could get.
"Shit... " Duo said, at a loss for words, he just hoped that Trowa wasn't into something strange. Heero he had figured out, and while it bothered him that the gargoyle treated him like a new toy most of the time and watched him like a hawk, he was pretty nice to him compared to either Wufei or Quatre.
Heero walked into the library, not surprised to see that Quatre and Wufei were studying a map of the world and discussing their future.
"... and so there is nothing left of the lands that the council had controlled?" Quatre asked.
Wufei snarled and kicked at a stack of books, "Nothing! It was like it never existed. The humans here... mine knows nothing of the Council and has never heard of the Sanq Kingdom. It was like we had never existed. What have you managed to learn from your human?"
"That the one that had us was an old man that most people thought was crazy because he believed in such myths as sorcerers and monsters, that they had once walked the earth. He had recently died and that was the only reason that we were found. Some fool thought that the old man wanted one of the crates that we were in shipped here and that was why this happened. If someone hadn't done that we would still be stuck in those things." Quatre told him. "They had no idea that we existed. If we have been forgotten, then the humans do not fear us and they need to relearn that lesson."
"They are many and we are not," Heero said softly, "What should we do?"
"Afraid?" Wufei sneered.
"Practical," Heero told him calmly, "as is my human. He wishes to know what room you want to put your human in, Quatre. There are spare sleeping quarters upstairs. The room near him or do you want to have your human in with Wufei's? Duo also asked if Wufei would allow him to clean his brother and brother's room since he is going be arranging Quatre's sleeping area."
"He's so caring about the other humans." Wufei commented.
"He wishes to care for the others. I will not argue with him about that since it is not interfering with my use of him."
"Do you know that our humorless brother makes his little human cry out in pleasure?" Wufei told Quatre.
"Do tell," Quatre asked maliciously. Heero was so tender about the humans. Had he never learned that it was better that they feared them then loved them? Fear was so much better, since it kept them in line and made them so willing to do anything for you and endure any humiliation that you subjected them to out of fear for their lives or their loved ones.
"He is so tender to his little human... and he won't share with me." Wufei said in mock sadness.
"How cruel," Quatre agreed with Wufei. That neither one of them would share a human with someone else while they were training them was beside the point. They were always generous with them after they had reduced them to the spiritless creatures that they deserved to be. He had dreamed of being able to do that to some of the ones that he had been given to. Stupid humans that thought just because they didn't fight back, that they didn't hate them. He had learned to hate all humans because of the few that had hurt him. Wufei had learned that lesson also. He had thought that Heero and Trowa had also, but they were content to endure what had been done to them with no thoughts of revenge. Now Heero was actually caring about what a human felt with him, which was disgusting and he wanted to get rid of that human or break it before the rat corrupted any more of them.
"You gave Duo to me because you didn't want him anymore." Heero reminded him.
"He bites and fights back." Wufei told him.
"He is mine and if I chose to make him enjoy me, I will." Heero told both of them. He wasn't going to punish Duo because some other human had abused him. Duo knew what it was like to have been used like he and Trowa had been and he would be careful with him because of that. He would not have his human reduced to a quivering mass of fear for something that was not his fault.
"About where your will be kept?" Heero asked again.
"In the room near yours," Quatre told him. His human would hear all the pleasure that Heero was giving his human to torment him and he would hurt Heero's human by making him listen to the pain that he inflicted upon Zechs. Life could be so sweet at times.
"And his brother?" Heero asked Wufei.
"He can clean him up." Wufei told him. Treize did need a rest from his attentions. A couple of days to forget about the pain and then he would start again, when the human thought that he was safe. That would be so much fun.
"I will leave you to your plans then." Heero told them dryly as he turned and walked out of the room.
He really didn't care what the two of them planned to do. Listening to their futile dreams of power made he realize that he and Trowa might have to leave their brethren if they continued with the foolishness of punishing the humans. Things had changed too much for them to be a power or feared again. It would be better if the world forgot about them altogether. He would have to discuss this with Trowa though, before he made any decisions. He might actually want to try and regain the power that they once had like the other two were dreaming of. He hoped that he didn't want that though, he thought that it would be impossible to regain what they had lost and he didn't know why the others wanted to try. He was content just to be here with his human and his paramour. He thought that he might get bored in the future, but for now he was happy to be here learning all that he could from Duo and the wonderful books that he had.
Duo walked into the kitchen, letting Zechs walk in ahead of him, because he didn't want to be that close to Trowa. Duo didn't blame him, because he understood the tall blonde's desire to be as far away as possible from the person/thing that had held you down while you were raped.
"What are you interested in having Zechs? I can offer you tomato soup, an okay chili or beef stew, which is kinda salty. All canned unfortunately." Duo told him, frowning at the small group of cans in the cabinet, calculating how much food they had left. "I'm gonna have to convince Heero to let me go shopping. We aren't really low on food yet, but fresh stuff would be good."
"I don't think that they'll let you out and I'll have the soup." Zechs told him as he watched Duo open up a couple of cans and put them on the stove to heart up in pans. He tried to ignore Trowa as he started wandering around the kitchen, watching what Duo was doing to prepare their meal.
"Delivery service and a credit card, I just got to have him let me send out an order. The internet is wonderful thing. People aren't going to think that it's strange because that's how we shop all the time. Treize... " Duo's voice trial off for a second and he then he took a deep breath. He was not going to have hysterics right now because Zechs needed him to keep his shit together. "My brother hated grocery shopping. The place in town is willing to deliver, even out here."
"Out here?" Zechs asked.
"We're kinda off the beaten path." Duo told him. "Miles from town which is... "
"I understand." Zechs told him softly. No one that wanted to check on them or that were close to them, which is why the monsters were able to keep them a prisoner in there own home and once they left, it would be days before someone found what was left of them.
Trowa sat down and looked at them, trying to understand what Heero saw in his human. That he was beautiful and had all that hair, which he knew fascinated his fellow construct, was that the attraction? Was it that Duo wasn't really afraid of him? He knew that the small one didn't want them to use his body, but seemed resigned to his fate after the bout of tears that he had. He knew that it could be worse for him, since he had seen what Wufei had done to his brother and had seen the damage that had been inflected on the human called Zechs by Quatre.
"Do you want something to eat too?" Duo asked him. "I know that you don't really have to eat, but Heero sometimes has a snack with me. He likes tasting different things that I make."
"I... " Trowa cocked his head and looked at him. "When did he tell you that?"
Duo shrugged, "We've talked a lot. I asked him about things and he tells me about stuff. We talk about what I read to him and he asks about how things work in the kitchen or about something that was mentioned in the reading. He isn't nailing me to the mattress all the time." #Thank God or I would be insane by now. He's gentle and it's good, but I can't forget that I never wanted him, even as he makes me come.
"I am not interested in a 'snack' or any other type of food right now." Trowa told him.
Duo dished up what he had heated up and set a bowl in front Zechs with silverware and a glass of water. He did the same for himself and took a couple of spoonfuls of soup before asking Trowa the question that had been bugging him.
"How did you get here? I don't know of a lot of airlines that would let a naked guy and two gargoyles on their plane. Then there is the whole cab thing... so did you flap your wings to get here from wherever or what?"
Trowa frowned at him. Duo was clever and had managed to gather a lot of information on them already and he could be trouble if he ever managed to get away from them. He hesitated in telling him, but then decided to. It wasn't like the small one could tell anyone what he had learned, because Heero would kill him if he couldn't keep him and no one had ever escaped Heero hunting them. "Quatre has the ability and the power to find the rest of us if he is separated from us and needed to be with one of us. It was time consuming, but he was able to do find Heero ands Wufei. After he had found where Wufei and Heero were, he... folded is the best word that I can think of, reality and came here. It took a couple of days, but he managed to do it. It was very tiring for him and he really doesn't enjoy doing it."
"Can you or Heero do something like that?" Duo asked him.
"We were created just to kill and other things. Wufei and Quatre were the ones that were given special abilities," Trowa told him. He wanted to find out what would frighten this human besides mating with him. "Heero and I were thought to be too brutish to have any special abilities."
"Not much of that to do in the here and now." Duo told him, stirring the soup that was in his bowl. He had lost his appetite, but since he had made it he should eat it. "Or the other crap that you had to do."
"Other crap?" Trowa asked in a cold tone. Duo wasn't upset that they had killed humans in the past even if it was on orders. He wasn't frightened that they might kill him or hurt him? What had Heero been telling this human?
Duo knew that he had blundered and hoped that it wasn't going to hurt too much when he got hit. Heero really didn't like talking about that part of his life. Duo didn't blame him for that, since he hated remembering the bastard that had him for a while. His ordeal had only lasted a few days, but Heero and the rest of them had had years of abuse. "Well... Heero mentioned something to me and it just stuck with me. That you were created for a bunch of different things and one of them was not so nice in my opinion and I don't mean the killing one." Duo told him quietly.
Trowa went still, what had this one learned from Heero? What did he know about all the abuse that they had undergone at the hands of the humans? Why was he being friendly to him? Was he going to try and use him to get away from Heero and try to free the others? Why didn't he care about what they had done in the past?
"It's kind of obvious, especially on you." Duo continued innocently, ignoring how still Trowa had gone, because he was still playing with his soup. Not that there was much difference in the way that Trowa normally acted, but there was a very thoughtful gleam in Trowa's eyes as he studied the slightly embarrassed boy. How much had the human figured out? What did he want? Was he going to try and play he and Heero against each other so that he could escape when or if they fought over him? What did he want from him besides for them to leave him alone?
"What?" Trowa asked cautiously. Did this child think that he could turn him against Heero? Humans had never amused before Heero and one small one, no matter how pretty he was and no matter how fascinated Heero was, was going to be able to turn his brother against him.
"That certain portions of you anatomy seemed to be made to be noticed, on you and Heero." Duo said blushing. Now Trowa was gonna think that he was weird or forward and had been checking him out. "It... your privates, in the words of cartoon character that I can't remember; is a bright shiny thing." He was just relieved that Trowa was more confused them anything. It might be that he didn't understand enough of what he was saying to get mad at him.
"A bright, shiny thing?" Trowa asked in confusion. What was the human talking about?
Duo nodded and continued, talking fast just to get it all out and just drop the topic. "I walked into the bathroom and I saw you. The second thing that I noticed when I saw you were that you are kind of bright. There wasn't a lot of light, but you kind of glowed in what little there was, all over. Then I noticed that certain parts of you glittered too and I thought what sick bastards they must have been. Heero was bad because his privates are wavy and odd in the light at times, but you really have had a lot of attention drawn to yours."
"What was the first thing?" Trowa asked quietly. Heero was right and his human was clever. Trowa was glad that Wufei had not kept the boy and broken his spirit. Now he just had to keep an eye on him to make sure that he didn't hurt his Heero.
"That you were big, tall big and not the other way... and I hoped that... " Duo continued shyly.
Shit he shouldn't tell Trowa that he thought that he was nice looking. It might give him the wrong idea and would really piss Heero off. He had never told Heero that he thought that he was nice looking. All he said was that he was gentle. That was not something that a lean, mean fighting machine wants to hear from his captive.
"Why? Do you not enjoy what I look like?" Trowa asked in confusion. There was something about this human that made one want to find out what he was talking about. For once it seemed a human wasn't talking down to him and he liked it even if it was about something that he didn't like talking about.
"That isn't the point!" Duo exclaimed, trying to get out of the corner that he had talked himself into. "I really, really don't like running around in the nude. But you guys, you seem like you never wore anything in your life and it doesn't bother you. If you didn't... they must not have thought that you would have feelings or anything if they made something that should be private hang out all that much and be noticed by everyone, like it does. Heero... something that he said once made me... "
"You are upset because our creators acted like we didn't have feelings?" Trowa asked in surprise.
Duo looked away for a moment and blinked a couple of times, because he was not going to start feeling sorry for these guys because they were surprised that someone wanted to be nice to them. Had everyone dumped on them?
"If they had been decent to any of you," Duo asked quietly, after taking a deep breath to calm down and try and change the subject, "would Quatre and Wufei be the sickos that they are?"
"And how do you not know that I am like them?" Trowa asked.
"Because Heero left me alone with you," Duo told him bluntly. "He hasn't let me out of his sight since he chased me through the woods the first night that they were here and raped me, but he lets you watch me."
"Because I trust him," Heero said softly as he walked into the room. "And Wufei agreed to left you clean up your brother and his room."
Duo stood up and dumped his bowl in the sink, "I'll get going then."
Heero frowned, "Aren't you going to eat anymore?"
Duo shook his head. "I'm not hungry and I want to get it done before he changes his mind. Can you help me a little Trowa?"
Trowa looked at Heero, who frowned. Duo was planning something by asking Trowa and not him, but he couldn't understand what and Duo wouldn't want to explain it either if he was asked. Heero nodded at Trowa and he relaxed. Trowa understood that Heero didn't understand what his human was planning either, but he wasn't angry that Duo had asked him to help him.
"I don't know what I could do... " Trowa started.
Duo smiled, "Well... I can show you the rest of the house, mostly the good host thing. You can help me lift Treize if he needs help getting out of bed, so that I can change it and he can take a shower. Zechs isn't done eating and Heero can keep him company." While he was speaking, Duo was pouring soup into a mug for Treize. They had figured out that this was the best way to feed him early on in their captivity. He could sip at it a lot easier then Duo could feed him from a spoon.
Trowa followed Duo as he led the way to his brother's bedroom. He played tour guide, pointing out the rooms that they passed and describing what they were for. He lost the cheery note that he had had in his voice as got closer to their destination. Duo took a deep breath when they got to the door and looked up at Trowa.
"I hope that this doesn't upset you. I wanted you with me because you aren't the same color as Wufei. Heero kind of is. Also Zechs would be more comfortable with Heero, ya'know."
"You are kind as well as clever if you want to have the other humans feel better," Trowa told him. Heero hasn't hurt him yet, so Zechs would be more comfortable with him then he is with me.
Duo laughed shakily, "Heero isn't that bad... " I got the only decent one of the bunch it seems, so I don't want to hurt the others any more then they have been because they got the bastards. I don't know about you yet, are you a bastard or semi decent like Heero. Most of the problems that I have with him are about sex, if that was out of the picture maybe things would be different between us, maybe you won't share Heero with me? I just hope that he won't hand me off to either of the other ones if you tell him you won't share.
Trowa smiled, "I like him too." You don't seem to want to try anything to split us up, but I don't know really. Quatre can play innocent with the best of them also and I know that he is evil and still can't believe the things that he enjoys.
Duo smiled back before entering the bedroom. "Treize... " he called out softly. He started warning his brother that he was getting close to him because he was getting edgy about anyone getting too near to him.
"Duo... "
"I got company with me... " Duo warned him.
"Heero?" Treize asked hopefully. He wanted to try and talk the other gargoyle into leaving with Duo before the other one killed him and made Duo watch.
"A nice gargoyle named Trowa." Duo told him, "He and another gargoyle name Quatre arrived here a little while ago with someone named Zechs."
"A nice gargoyle?" Trowa asked. He was a killer, not a nice gargoyle. What was this human thinking? Just because he had been pleasant to him, did not make him a 'nice' gargoyle. He wasn't surprised that Duo hadn't called Quatre nice, since the boy had to clean up Zechs earlier. He must be trying to reassure his bother that he wasn't going to hurt him.
"You aren't into the sick stuff... I hope... " Duo began as he went over to the bed to hand Treize his mug of soup. "Wufei told Heero that I could clean you up and change the sheets."
"You are going to need some help." Treize told him. Wufei had pinched something the last time that he had him and he now had a difficult time moving his legs. He was too heavy for Duo to move around before this, he didn't think that Duo could do it even if he had lost some weight. He was sick of being in this bed and he would do almost anything to get out of it. If he survived this he was going to get rid of the damned house and move back into the city faster them you could say 'Safety in Numbers'. That was the thought that kept him going, along with knowing that his captor wasn't abusing Duo, that Duo was semi safe with Heero.
"That's why I asked Trowa to help me."
Treize opened his eyes a bit more and tried to focus them. The room was a bit dark, but he could see the gargoyle that Duo was talking about. He was taller then the other two that were here and a made from a pale stone that glowed a little in the dim room. There was no way that he would mistake him for Wufei like he had on occasion with Heero.
"What do you need done?" Trowa asked, when he noticed that Treize was staring at him. He would do what he could to help the poor human that had the misfortune to end up as Wufei's playtoy. Heero wouldn't like it if his human had hurt himself trying to help his brother. As far as he knew, these two were their captives only because they had opened the crate. He didn't know enough about them to form an opinion, whether they were evil or good. He actually didn't care, but no one deserved to be Wufei's whipping human.
"You are beautiful," Treize murmured. He didn't know what was going on, but this gargoyle seemed as kind as Heero was and more important he was someone that wasn't going to hurt him or Duo. Maybe he could convince him to get Duo out of here?
"Could you help me to the bathroom while Duo changes things in here?" Treize asked. "I'm a bit heavy for my brother to handle."
"Treize, I can do it if you need me to." Duo told him, hovering nervously around the bed. He wasn't in the best of shape, but if Treize didn't want Trowa to touch him, he would move his brother somehow.
"I don't mind." Treize told him, "You did say he was a nice gargoyle."
"I can... " Duo started, before Treize reached out and stroked the side of his face.
"Its all right," Treize reassured him, taking a deep breath. "He is bigger then you are and I am a bit too heavy for you to move. If you try, you might hurt me by accident.
Duo shuddered at the thought. "That bastard is hurting you enough... "
Treize tried to stand up and was grateful that Trowa managed to catch him as he stumbled forward. "Thanks,' he gasped as a number of different things on and in his body hurt because he was upright.
Duo choked back his own cry of despair and horror when he saw the damage that had been done to Treize. His back and ribs were a mass of welts and bruises. Duo noticed that there was blood on his thighs and he didn't have to guess where that had come from. Treize had been raped repeatedly by that monster and he had just seen the evidence of it. He just jerked the sheets off the bed and replaced them with a clean pair. He didn't think that he could get the blood and other things out of the sheets, but he'd try. That's all he could really do, was try. Try and stay sane long enough so that he could get them all out of here.
Treize leaned heavily on Trowa as he hobbled into the bathroom. He knew that there was some slight tearing from the pain that he had felt whenever Wufei had used him. The marks from the beatings were also visible, but the worst pain was from where Wufei would just touch him and he would be in agony because of that touch, even if it didn't break the skin or leave any kind of mark. It hurt to move, but he wanted to scrub himself clean more then anything.
"Fire Opal?" Treize asked Trowa. He knew that he might not get an answer from the gargoyle but he wanted to talk to someone after a week of isolation. He also wanted try and make friends with one of them and maybe Duo would get out of this alive. Not unhurt, it had been going on too long for that, but his brother shouldn't have to see what that sadist was doing to him. Maybe this one would talk Heero into letting his little brother go?
"What?" Trowa asked. Were all humans filled with questions now? What had happened to change them from the subservient slaves that he remembered? Slaves that kept their mouths shut and feared them. They did not ask about how they were made or worried about how they had been treated in the past.
"Opal and what's the other stone that you are?" Treize repeated.
"Moonstone," Trowa told him. He didn't think that the human would shut up otherwise.
"Nice work," Treize commented.
"I don't understand." Trowa told him in confusion.
"I am an artist. Drawing mostly, because I never had the touch for sculpting really. I always though I had managed to turn out a 3 dimensional project or two to pass the courses in college." Treize said. "Whoever worked on you did a very nice job. The details are wonderful."
Trowa stared at the human. The few times that any human had commented on his body, they had been looking at his cock and grabbing it. Crude words and then the degrading touches usually followed as he had been passed around and used by anyone that wanted him. They couldn't really physically hurt him, but he hated being touched for a long time after the Council or their patrons had used him. Heero had helped him get over that problem and they had been able to stop each other from becoming the monsters that the humans had turned their brethren into.
"May I?" Treize asked softly, because the artist in him admired the work that had been done on them. "I never was able to study the work that had been done on any of you before. If it makes you uncomfortable I do understand and I won't touch you." Treize smiled bitterly. "I understand if you don't want me to." He had learned a lot about how Wufei had been in his ravings while he hurt him and he could understand if Trowa didn't want to be poked at by him. If truth be told, he didn't want to be touched anymore.
"I don't mind." Trowa told him. He didn't because he could tell that this Treize person wanted to be able to touch someone without being hurt. He had been that way more times then he wanted to remember. Wufei had badly hurt this human for the short time that he had had him. The bruises might fade in time but the memories wouldn't. He helped the limping human into the room that had been referred to as a bathroom. Since this room was like the room that Zechs had been taken to, to be cleaned before, he thought that was where Treize wanted to go. It was much more elaborate then the other one had been, but it had the same equipment as far as he could tell.
"I have always admired the male form," Treize told him. "That has always been my preference for lovers."
"I'm sorry." Trowa apologized to the human sincerely. He had never had a choice about what he had wanted, it had been chosen for him like the stone that he was made of and the skills that he had been created with. That someone had preferred males before this... well it wasn't like he was going to survive being Wufei's whipping toy, so the problems that he might face afterwards didn't matter. Trowa had a feeling that the human knew that also.
He was surprised when Treize touched his face gently. "Wonderful cheekbones." The feather-light touch moved up his face and back towards his ear. "So delicate. Are your wings the same way?"
"They are tougher then they look." Trowa explained to him. He let a note of amusement enter his voice, "We are all made out of stone."
"I know that, unfortunately." Treize said wryly. "The muzzle and your claws are deadly." #Wufei hasn't hurt me more then I can take, but I don't know how long that is going to last. If they figure out what they want to do instead of squatting here, I don't know what is going to happen to Duo. I know what would happen to me... Wufei would kill me as painfully as possible before leaving this place.#
Trowa shrugged, "Then you know that it is almost impossible to damage us, but... " #We can be hurt. So odd that they did that to us, was it a side effect of the spell that they used on us so that we could feel sexual pleasure or pain when they used us... or was it because we were made with the spirit of a human being and we weren't supposed to be like this? They used us anyways no matter how much it hurt us or how much we hated it and them.#.
Treize didn't answer right away. He busied himself turning on the water, adjusting it so that it was hot, but not hot enough to hurt him. Even if wanted to scrub his skin off just to stop feeling Wufei's claws against his skin.
"Can you get wet? I'm afraid that I am not as mobile as I led Duo to believe. The boy has enough to worry about without being scared about how hurt I really am. You won't melt or anything will you?" Treize asked in concern. He didn't think so, but he wanted to check.
"Not even if I had been made out of salt." Trowa reassured him. He was slightly amused by the concern that the human Treize had shown him. If more humans had been like that to them before, Treize wouldn't be barely standing in front of him, ready to collapse from the abuse that Wufei had inflected on him. Trowa helped Treize further into the tub and helped support him as he slowly began to wash himself.
"I want to ask you something... could you convince Heero to get Duo out of here?" Treize asked softly, while he was trying to reach around and scrub the middle of his back. He hissed in pain when he tried that and then gave up. It was disgusting to feel that stuff on his back, but he could barely move his arms, not enough to clean his back even though he wanted to scrub whatever was there off his body.
Trowa took the washcloth out of his hand and gently started to scrub Treize's back, seeing the mess that he wanted to wash off of his back better then he could and being more mobile. "Why?"
"He shouldn't have to see this violence. He had had a tough enough life before this. His mother didn't help he when he needed it, which was why he ended up with me. If... if Heero is at all fond of him, he should get him out of this place before Duo just stops and goes catatonic. He's so frightened right now and he shouldn't have to see or hear what Wufei is doing to me. I know that... "
"Why do you think that I have any influence with Heero?" Trowa asked curiously. Duo had had the same thought and it puzzled him. What did they know that made them think that?
"He's someplace else and you're watching Duo. Duo is always with him, no matter where Wufei is. Heero at least trusts you." Treize told him, wondering what the hell the gargoyle was thinking. He couldn't read any of their expressions most of the time. Treize was waiting for the blow that was going to tell him that he had gone too far with this one, nice or not. He waited, edgy as Trowa slowly washed his legs, squatting so that he could reach his calves without a problem, but not answering his question until the silence was wearing on his already thin nerves.
"And that is important?" Trowa asked calmly. He could tell that the human was nervous about talking to him. He had felt the same way too many times before not to know the signs. He could never tell what the humans wanted out of him, besides to hurt him.
"He doesn't trust Wufei and I would venture to say that he doesn't like him either." Treize told him, waiting for the blow that would snap his neck. He knew if ha had talked to Wufei like this, he would have been beaten at the first question he had asked. Trowa was one that had patience enough to see what he wanted before he got angry it seemed.
Trowa stood up and frowned. The human was correct in his assumptions, that Heero did not like Wufei because of some of the things that the other had done over the years. But where were they supposed to go? He decided to worry about that later, Heero wouldn't want to leave this place without the others, he prized their unity more then the differences that he had with Wufei and Quatre. Heero knew too well that there was safety in numbers.
"Duo is mine also, Heero is sharing him with me," Trowa said waiting to see what the human's reaction was going to be to that information.
Treize involuntarily sagged against him, his knees buckling in horror. Duo... with two of them! He was so young and fragile, and they would kill him by accident. He had seen the bruises and knew that Heero wasn't malicious like Wufei, but he wasn't that gentle either. If what he feared was true, Duo might be dead before he was.
"Don't hurt him," he whispered, knowing that the plea was useless. Their hearts seemed to be as hard as the stone that they were made of.
"I am not one to enjoy the pain of a human." Trowa informed him.
Their discussion was cut short by a startled squawk that Duo let out in the other room. Treize felt himself being carefully shifted before Trowa jumped out of the shower to check on Duo, Heero would have his wings if anything happened to his pet human. He strode into the other room and wasn't surprised to see a smiling Quatre backing Duo slowly into a corner.
"I wouldn't Quatre." Trowa told him.
"Heero wouldn't know." Quatre protested.
"But I would." Trowa said in a cool tone. "I don't want to have to deal with Heero about this and he's mine too. So don't touch."
"You actually care about a human?" Quatre asked nastily. "This from one that has told me that one human was much like another, male or female? Have you become as weak as Heero?"
"Do you want to see how 'weak' I am, Quatre?" Trowa asked him calmly. "I have never lost a fight to you before and I won't now. Heero wants the boy the way he is, untouched by you false promises and malicious tongue. Go vent your anger on someone that deserves it, like Wufei."
"No fun at all, Trowa. I thought that you didn't care still since you watched me kill that bitch before." Quatre taunted him.
Duo watched the exchange with wide eyes as he tried to slip away to the relative safety of being out of reach of Quatre.
Trowa sighed, "Don't start Quatre." #I can't tell you that he would include enough of the truth to hurt you, mixed with lies to make you believe that it was the whole truth. He can tell that you are frightened and he loves that. He is planning how he can get the maximum enjoyment out of all of this, how to hurt everyone as much as he can. You don't know which one of us to trust, if you should even trust either one of us.#
Quatre laughed, a joyful innocent sound that did not match the snarl on his face. "Think that either one of them is going to protect you, then you are in trouble. They'll be bored soon and then I can touch all I want."
"Get out Quatre now and I won't tell Heero about this." Trowa told him coldly.
Quatre snarled and walked out of the room, calling back to Duo. "You will be mine boy-child soon enough and then I will get to touch anytime that I want. Think about that."
Duo shuddered and sank to the floor, hiding his face in his knees. "I knew about the girl, Zechs told me," he said dully.
Trowa frowned and gracefully sank down to the floor to gently lift Duo's face so that he was looking at him. "It was quick and relatively painless. A lot kinder then what he usually did to the humans he had."
Duo looked at him, trembling uncontrollably. "That doesn't stop her from being dead."
"He would have 'lost' her when we shifted to travel here. He would have made sure that she was trapped in a place that she couldn't get out of, lost and alone until she died. That might have been quick, but knowing Quatre... he would have made sure that it would have lasted years so that he could slip back and gloat at her."
"But... " Duo protested.
"Are you through in here?" Trowa asked him patiently. Duo was frightened, confused and he wasn't helping reassure Duo with the explanation that he had just given him. He would take the boy back to his room and tell Heero all that he had learned here.
"Bed's made." Duo told him in a dull tone. He couldn't argue with Trowa's logic but that didn't make him feel better about what had happened to Dorothy, just because she was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
"I'll get your brother and you can settle he into bed again. I know that he doesn't want to be there, but it is the best place for now. He has trouble moving."
"Wufei... what did he do to him?" Duo whispered, horrified.
"I've seen it before, he isn't hurt. Treize just will have trouble running if he needs to for a couple of days." Trowa kindly told him. He didn't want to frighten Duo any more then he was, but he wasn't going to lie to him either.
"That might hurt him," Duo muttered.
"Do you think that any one of you can get away from us... from Heero? He's very good at hunting humans, but you learned that the first night that he was here. Escape is something that is not going to happen for you or anyone else that is here."
"I can't accept that." Duo whispered.
"Is that why you told Zechs how to get to town? Do you think that anyone would fight us?" Trowa asked him. He didn't want to hurt the boy, but he had to know that Heero was not going to let him go and that humans could not hurt them.
"You heard me tell him that?" Duo asked, frightened that he was going to get punished. He had been honest with Heero in the beginning, but he didn't know how well Trowa was going to take that he wanted nothing more then to run as fast and as far as he could from either of them. It wasn't that he didn't like Heero or Trowa, it was just he wanted it to be his choice whether he stayed with him or not. Right now it was a big not.
"I'll help Treize back to his bed after I help him dry off." Trowa promised Duo and ignored his question. He had heard the plan and until the human ran, he weren't going to worry about it. So long as they knew that there would be trouble if they ran, that was enough for him. Fear would keep them in line more then anything else that he could do to them. "Why don't you just sit here for a while?"
"I'll help you... since I don't know when I am going to be able to do this again." Duo told him. "I just want to make sure that he's okay... "
"I understand... there were times that all I could do was watch when Heero was... it hurt me so much." Trowa said softly.
"I hear the noises and I just want to scream and not stop. I... I... "
"He isn't that badly hurt." Trowa reassured him.
"Physically... shit... he likes guys. I don't what he was if he was the top or the bottom, but damn... I don't think that he wants to have anything do that with another guy again. That a guy gargoyle is hurting him and enjoying it... " Duo's voice trailed of.
"It sounds like Heero wasn't your first." Trowa commented, surprised at what Duo had told him.
"He knows that," Duo told him.
"Why then are you ashamed that we want to take pleasure in your body?"
"I don't want that and I don't want people touching me. I told Heero that the first day that he had me. I wouldn't fight what he was doing with me because I didn't want to get beaten bloody."
"Ah... " was all Trowa could say as they worked together silently after that to get Treize back into bed. Duo hugged his brother goodbye, fighting back the tears before he walked out of the room with his arms filled with bloodied sheets. Frightened that it felt good and frightened for his brother, Duo was on the edge of stopping as his brother put it, because he was confused about all that was happening to him.
Treize grabbed Trowa's arm suddenly and whispered to him, "I want you to think about getting Duo out of here. Even the two of you might not be able to protect him from Quatre or Wufei."
Trowa gently plucked the human's hand off his arm as he followed Duo out the door, since he was worried that he was even agreeing with the human about what a threat the other two were to them.
End Part 4
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