Start: 05/28/00
Finish: 05/28/00
Saga Status: Complete
Song by: Fleetwood Mac
Archive: GW Addiction
Category: shounen ai
Warnings: none really
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: 1+2
Notes: //...// indicates song, *...* bold, <...> action, /.../ & '...' thought, "..." spoken
//Everybody's trying to say I'm wrong
I just wanna be back where I belong//
"... they'll come for me... I know they will... either to rescue me or kill me... but they'll come..." Duo mummbled.
"Yeah, kid, sure. You just keep on thinking that," laughed a guard.
"Awe, Jeeves, why ya humorin' him? Look, kiddo, no one's comin' for ya," the other guard said solomnly.
"But, 's fun to listen to 'im... 'e sounds so sure of it..." the first, Jeeves, said.
Duo slunk back on himself, thinking of the others and hoping against all hope that they'd show.
-----
"We've gotta get him out!" Quatre demanded.
"You're right, he's a liability. He must be... taken care of."
"Heero! That's not what I meant! We have to save him..."
"Quatre... Fine, I'll try and... rescue him, but if anything at all goes wrong..." he left the comment unfinished, as they all knew what would happen then.
-----
<thunk, thunk>
Duo looked up at the door.
<click>
The door swung open and a figure appeared. It was too small to be one of the guards, so who was it...
"Get up, we're getting out of here..." came a gruff monotone. "Heero, you came to rescue me..." Duo choked out as he tried to stumble to his feet. *Tried*. His broken leg and concussion sent him back to the ground.
Heero grunted and walked over to place a supporting shoulder under the injured boy's arm.
"Come on, we've got to get out of here."
Duo nodded and they were on their way.
-----
Somehow they got out without incident.
When back at the safe house Quatre was hoovering all over him, tending his wounds.
"Duo, I glad you're pretty much ok..." Quatre glanced down at Duo's injured leg and paled.
"Duo..." Heero grunted.
"H-hai?"
"Brace yourself... I'm gonna set your leg"
Duo's eyes went wide as his already pale skin somehow paled further, but he nodded and grasped the sides of the matress and waited for Heero to finish.
//World turning
I gotta get my feet back on the ground
World turning
Everybody's got me down//
Duo lay on the bed, dozing. He was alone in the safe house, for the other pilots were out on missions.
<click, pause, click>
Duo roused slightly as the door shut.
'Oh, someone's home... good...' he thought as he drifted into a deeper sleep.
-----
Heero stared at the boy asleep on the bed. He wasn't tosing like he had the night before. Heero walked over to the bed on silent feet and placed a hand to Duo's forehead.
'Good, the fever's gone,' he thought as he dropped his hand and walked over to the computer.
Duo was doing better, and that was good, but he still needed someone to watch over him until he was completely better. Woefully, they had to leave him alone for awhile, when they were sent out on a mission.
Heero's part had been small and easy, just a quick hacking job, so he'd been able to get back to the boy quickly.
'He probably thought everyone was leaving him... he doesn't like to be alone...' Heero thought as he glanced over, checking on the boy, 'How do I know so much about him?'
'Well I have known him a long while...' he countered himself.
'Ah, well... he is my only best friend after all... he seems to know a lot about me too... he can read me... he can anticipate when to quit bothering me...' Heero didn't like where his thoughts seemed to be leading, so he stopped it right there.
//Maybe I'm wrong but who's to say what's right
I need somebody to help me through the night//
Heero heard a muffled noise and looked over at the rooms other occupant.
Duo's brow was furrowed in a deep frown. He was having a nightmare.
Heero made his way over to the bed. He had to find some way to comfort the other boy. A thought from earlier came back to him...
'... he doesn't like to be alone...'
Heero blinked... 'Does he think he's alone?'
Duo turned onto his side and made a small whimpering noise.
Heero looked at him, he couldn't take the look of pain on the generally cheerful face.
Mission: End the nightmare.
Parameters: Don't wake subject.
'Ninmu Ryokai...'
Heero slipped into the bed beside Duo and gathered the slumbering boy to him.
At the contact, Duo seemed to relax a bit and the frown eased.
'Ninmu Kanryou...'
Heero was about to move away when he thought better of it...
'... he doesn't like to be alone...'
Heero figure if he left the nightmare would begin again, so he stayed.
End Part One
(:./willow/tur1)
