17-Oct-2001
Email: anakerie@cinci.rr.com
Disclaimer: I don't own the Gundam Wing boys.
Warnings: Lemon, Angst, OOC, AU
Pairings: 1x2, 3x4
Dark. Darkness was everywhere. Heero sat up, breathing hard. He raised his hand, and couldn't make it out, but he knew his eyes were open. Oh, god, he was blind. And his head was killing him. Where was he? What had happened?
"Hello? Is anyone here?" He reached out, and felt a dirt floor underneath him, and his other hand hit a stone wall. "Hello?"
"Heero." A voice in the darkness whispered. "Don't be scared."
"Duo? Where am I? Why can't I see?" Heero tried to swallow his panic.
"We're in my cave. There's no light in here."
Heero rubbed his head. "Where are you?"
"Right here." He felt a warm body press close to his. "It's okay, Heero. I'm here."
"What am I doing here?"
"I brought you."
"You hit me!" Heero retorted, his tone icy. "What did you do that for?"
"Because." Duo's voice echoed in the blackness. "You were going to leave me. And I'd be alone again."
"So knocking me out and kidnapping me is your answer?" Heero snapped.
"I asked you to stay. You wouldn't." Duo explained. "So I had to make you."
"What about what I want? I told you, I have people who will worry about me. People I want to see again."
"They don't need you. They have other people. I don't. I need you more than they do."
"Duo, I'm not a teddy bear." Heero was starting to panic again. "You can't collect people like you do treasures. Take me out of here."
"No, Heero." Duo said sadly. "I can't. I can't be alone again. You'll like it after a while." Heero felt lips trailing on his shoulder. "We can do what we did the other night. You really liked that, I could tell. You can do to me what you did before, and I can do things to you, and then we can talk about your world some more."
Heero shoved him away violently. "Don't touch me!" He stood up. "I'm not a damn pet!" He began stumbling around the cave.
"Heero, stop!" Duo yelled.
The floor vanished from under Heero's feet, and cold water closed over his head. He panicked, flailing his arms, unable to see where solid land was. He heard a splash and then Duo was next to him, pulling him back into the cave.
"You just stay here." Duo prompted, pulling the blanket around Heero. "You can't get out that way. It leads to the lake, but you'd drown first."
"Then how did you get me in here?" Heero demanded.
"This is my Heero bear." Duo replied, putting a stuffed animal in Heero's arms. "Remember I told you about him?"
"I don't want your stupid bear!" Heero took a shivering breath, and tossed the toy to the floor. "You didn't answer my question. There has to be another way in here."
"I'm going to go get food now." Heero could hear Duo rising to his feet. "You stay here. Heero bear, you take care of him."
Before Heero could reply, he heard another splash.
As soon as Duo was gone, Heero began moving around the cave, feeling the walls for an exit. There was fresh air in here. There had to be some other way in and out besides the water, but his hands found nothing but solid stone. By luck, he made his way back to the blanket without falling in the water again, and his hands wrapped around Heero bear. He tucked the toy under his arm, and lay back, waiting for Duo to return.
There was no day or night in the cave. There was no way for Heero know how long he'd been there, in the total darkness.
Duo came and went, bringing food back with him. Heero's leftover vacation food was locked in the Mazda's trunk, so dinner considered mostly of water plants and raw fish. Heero was grateful to Trowa for convincing him last year to give sushi a try, so at least he wasn't too nauseated to eat what Duo brought him. But he refused to speak to the other man, no matter how much Duo tried to get him to.
Duo was persistent; Heero had to give him grudging credit for that. He tried everything he could think of to win Heero's approval for his actions, to convince the other man living in the dark cave would be fun. Heero's stormy silence only seemed to reinforce Duo's efforts.
Heero awoke from a deep sleep, and dreams about sunlight and green grass, to feel something warm and damp tugging at his penis. He struggled to get away, but he was held tightly, and a hot tongue was caressing him now. In spite of himself, he was aroused.
The suction continued, up and down, the tongue busy the entire time, circling him, teasing him, and finally he could stand no more. He exploded into Duo's mouth, riding wave after wave of an incredible orgasm.
"Now see?" Duo said a moment later. "That made you happy. You can be very happy with me."
"You think that's enough?" Heero asked, his heartbeat calming down. "You think that's enough to make me forget that I'm a prisoner here? That I'm never going to see Trowa again? Or my mother?"
Duo didn't reply.
"Well, it's not enough." Heero jerked away. "Don't touch me again."
He stared into nothingness, and finally heard Duo leave through the water tunnel again.
Did he dare try it? Was it possible Duo had lied to him? Could he make it back to the lake and to the surface?
No, he shook his head. Better not risk it. Not yet.
Not yet. Would there come a moment when he could stand the darkness no longer? When he would prefer to die than live like this? Right now, he would have given his legs to see the sunlight one more time.
He stood up, stretching. He knew there was another entrance to the cave; he just had to find it. But where? He had searched everywhere.
He felt around the walls again, this time standing on his tiptoes. And just as he was giving up, his hands disappeared into open space. Bingo. He felt like an idiot; he just hadn't been searching high enough!
Now, how to get to it? He felt the walls of the cave. They were rough; rough enough to climb?
He crouched low, and then jumped high. The stone cut into his hands as he dangled for a moment, and then used his feet for leverage. He slipped, and landed on his butt on the stone cave floor once more.
Gritting his teeth, he rose back up, and tried again. This time, he managed to jump higher, getting a better grip. And as his muscles screamed a protest, he pulled himself into the tunnel.
It was tall enough to stand in. He had been afraid it had been a false hope, a natural fissure in the wall that had nothing to do with an exit, but the air in here was definitely colder. He filled his lungs, and then bent down to his hands and knees. Tall enough to stand in or not, it wouldn't do to stroll along blindly and step into a hole in the floor.
He noticed that he seemed to be moving at a downward slant, and kept moving. Time passed, and his hands and knees were killing him, but he didn't dare stop a second. Duo might discover him gone any moment now.
Was it his imagination, or was it getting lighter? He glanced down at his body. Yes! He could now see himself, very faintly, in the gloom. He crawled faster.
And then almost screamed in pain as a burst of sunlight hit his eyes. Too long. It had been too long. It took a long time for him to adjust, as well as a long sneezing fit. He stood up now, running, and cleared the exit of the tunnel.
He had been half-afraid to find snow on the ground, or worse yet, fresh buds on the trees, but the trees were still brown, only a little barer than he remembered. So had been a while, but not terribly long.
He made his way back toward the cabin, shivering a little as he went. And always on guard for another attack should Duo discover him.
"HEERO!" a voice yelled out, and he froze.
But it was not a longhaired water man running toward it. It was Trowa.
"Oh, God, Heero!" Trowa was embracing him now. "HE'S HERE!" He yelled over his shoulder. "HE'S OKAY!"
"Oh, God, Heero, we thought you were dead!" Trowa was sobbing so hard he could barely speak.
"How long... was I gone?"
"It's been over a week. Where were you?"
"Heero? Oh, Heero."
And then Trowa was pushed aside and he was in softer arms, and suddenly he was crying himself.
"Oh, baby. Oh, my baby. You're okay." Ruth pulled backward, dabbing at her eyes. "You look like hell! Where were you?" Heero could see men in uniforms approaching them.
"I'll explain in a minute." Heero squeezed his mother again. He would have said before this happened he was more likely to grow wings than ever see Ruth Yuy cry. "But right now, I need to get out of here. Please."
"Come on. We're taking you to a hospital." Ruth said briskly. "You look like death warmed over. You can tell me what's happened on the way."
Heero didn't protest as he was put in the back of a car, Trowa and his mother squeezing in on either side of him. It was over. It was finally all over...
The car pulled away, and he looked back out the window, and his heart skipped a beat.
From behind a tree, Duo was watching the car leave. His hair was loose again, and his face was wet with tears.
I'm so sorry, Duo, Heero thought, his heart breaking. I do love you. In spite of everything, I still love you. But I'm not yours to keep.
He and Duo stared at each other until the car turned the bend.
End Chapter 6
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