Chapter 1

The call reached the king of the earth one stress full morning in October. Without taking his eye of the screen he managed to find the shrieking phone beneath the mountain of papers spread across his desk.

"Yuy." He answered impatiently. Who ever said "I feel like the king of the world," during a good day needed a reality check, or a shot in the head for idiocy.

All he got in response was strained breathing through the line. 'Not again,' the king thought with a silent curse.

"Listen you, I have had it with you stalkers. It might have been a few years since I was a soldier, but I can still find you and make your life hell. In the end you will be begging for me to kill you. No one will ever find your body because when I am done with you, all that is left will end up in the litter box after I feed my daughters cats with your sorr-"

"Heero." A voice on the verge of tears interrupted him.

"Quatre?" 'Something is wrong,' the king thought with a touch of panic. The children, Relena, Jessica, Trowa...

"What's wrong? What happened?"

His friend seemed incapable of answering. A click was heard and the calm voice of Trowa took over the call.

"It's Duo," he said. In the background you could still hear Quatres pained subbing.

The king took a deep breath. "Is he dead?"

"No... he... is waking up."

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'It's a strange thing to look at your friend stuck in an ice block,' Heero thought to himself. He stood next to his wife and friends all staring at the ice through the window of the lab.

No one really thought that Duo would ever wake up from the coma he ended up in during the last battle. It was a bit ironic, that the 02 pilot that fought so hard for peace never got the chance to experience it. Until now. Because Duo Maxwell would soon be among the living again. It was a miracle that no one expected and no one dared to hope for. Well, no one except Wufei. With a sigh he looked ever at the doctor standing next to them.

"What are their chances?" He asked. He could feel the eyes of friends turning as they all waited for the answer.

The tall blond woman smiled. "Mr. Maxwell should be waking up sometime tonight. We will be placing him in heat up within an hour. He shows no sign of brain damage or-"

Heero cut her of. "What about Wufei?"

The doctor hesitated. "We cannot know for sure in what condition Mr. Chang is in until he's been removed from the ice. You must understand that we have never had a case like this before. We are talking 35 years on some very strong drugs here. We have no way of knowing if he will wake up or in what condition he will be in if he does."

Heero sighed. It wasn't really a surprise that they had never seen a situation like this before. Who in there right mind drugs themselves into a coma and lets some half mad scientist put you in the freezer? Wufei Chang, that's who. He had talked Winner into paying a huge amount of money to have himself deepfrozen next to Duo. No one even knew if the frezologi worked back then. It was just a pipe dream that no one had ever dared to test. Not until they received the perfect guinea pigs in the form of Chang and Maxwell. Love makes you do some really stupid things. Even something so stupid as to put yourself and your lover in an ice block.

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