Enough Is Enough
by KatiKat
In his short life - covering 28 years and some odd months - Heero Yuy did a lot
of things. And with at least the half of them, he almost managed to get himself
killed. He did everything, from extreme sports as his hobby, to stunts, the
army and the police as his job. Seeing him risk his life day after day didn´t
scare only his parents, twin brother and friends, but foremostly his Guardian
angel.
And so, when Heero decided that the Bomb Squad was a good career choice, his
Guardian angel had had enough.
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The moment Heero Lowe-Yuy cut the red wire, he knew it had been a mistake. The
timer raced to zero in less then a second and there was a horrendous "click
click" in the bomb. Then everything went kaboom.
*-*-*-*-*-*
"Okay, that´s it! I´ve had ENOUGH!"
Heero, curled in a ball, his arms covering his head in a vain attempt to
protect himself from the explosion, blinked. There was no loud "boom"
sound nor the pain he expected. Slowly, oh so slowly he uncurled from his
position on the hot asphalt road and peered around.
Everything and everyone was frozen. His colleagues looking at him with horror
on their faces frozen, the bomb torn apart, pieces of it hanging in the air
frozen, even the birds in the sky didn´t move from their places. Heero looked
around the bus station where the bomb had been found in bewilderment. What the
he-
"Nya nya," the voice he could swear he heard earlier sounded through
the silence again. "The old man can get pretty pis... angry if you remind
him of the one down there too often."
Heero went "huh" and slowly scrambled to his feet. It wasn´t an easy
task in his protective garment. He could swear that the thing weighed more than
himself.
The half-Japanese young man looked around trying to find the source of the
voice. "Hello?"
"Hello to you too," came from behind him and he snapped around - or
actually tried to even though in his clothes it was rather impossible.
But when he finally did turn around his jaw went slack. There, just a couple of
feet from him a young man? woman? stood. You would say: an ordinary - even
though a really good looking - guy... er woman... er person. If it weren´t for
the fact that he? she? it? was totally naked, androgynous - Heero couldn´t help
but look down - and that there were black wings sticking out of the person´s
back.
"Who... who are you?" Heero stammered.
The young man (Heero decided to settle for a guy to avoid further confusion) -
a little bit on the short side although that was fine with Heero since he
wasn´t a giant himself, okay, his friend Trowa didn´t call him a midget for
nothing - rolled his cobalt blue eyes and threw his arms in the air.
"Geez, one would think that you would learn at least *something* in the
schools today." When Heero didn´t say anything, the longhaired man sighed.
"I´m a *Guardian angel*. See?" He pointed at his wings.
Heero blinked. "Uh, oh... okay. And why are you here?" he asked,
uncertainity coloring his voice. Was this guy high or making fun of him or
what?
"Oh, yeah. Back to the scheduled programm." With that he strode
directly to Heero and the cop couldn´t help but start to back away from the
suddenly furious looking man. "What the he.. heck did you think you were
doing?" He was poking him in the chest. "Do you think I have nothing
better to do than save your a... behind all the time? Do you think I have no
life? Why did I have to get you and not your brother? But no, Solo has to
always get the easy ones. I bet he is sitting in Odin´s office now watching him
do things accountants usually do. Boring but at least not life-threatening. And
me? I hang out in some snoozy toozy bus station covering your a... behind once
again! It´s not even funny anymore!" With a last poke the angel huffed,
crossing his arms over his chest.
Heero blinked. Twice. Okay, the guy knows about Odin and him being an
accountant (a pretty boring job). Could it really-
"Of course I´m an angel, you dumb dork!" the angel raged again.
"Uh, okay. And what does all this mean?" Heero waved his arm around
the frozen people.
"That means that you would have gotten yourself killed today if I didn´t
stop it," the angel snapped back and started pacing back and forth.
"I can´t believe you cut the red wire! Didn´t you listen at all to what
they taught you at the academy? Never ever cut the red wire."
"How-"
"How do I know it? I´m your Guardian angel," the longhaired angel
accented the last two words. "That means that I´m always with you. Not
sitting on your shoulder as some toy to convince the children but I am with
you."
"All the time?" Heero blushed.
The angel grinned. "Yep. The blonde one you had last week was good in bed
but otherwise nothing much in the higher regions. What was her name? Elena?
Melena? Something like that."
"Relena," Heero corrected him.
"Whatever," the angel waved his hand. "She is history
anyway."
Silence fell over them for a moment.
"So, what now?" Heero asked hesitantly.
"I will kick time back just a little and you *won´t* cut the red
wire, okay? It´s the blue one. And please, find yourself a job that won´t
overtire me all the time. Not that it´s not fun running all around all the time
saving your a... behind but I could go without it. And if you try to do
something like that ever again, I swear I will turn your life upside
down!"
Heero swallowed. He rather believed him. "Isn´t this... uh... time
stopping thing... like... not allowed or something? I read a book-"
"Of course it´s not allowed but I´ve never lost my protectee and just
because some dummy duck has a death wish, I won´t get my score marred!" He
glared at the young cop with angry eyes.
"Oh, okay... So, what should I do?" he asked. He never played with
time and such things before so he was a little bit overwhelmed here.
"Just get back there in the same position you were in at the
beginning," the angel ordered.
Heero blinked at him, shrugged and moved back into the same curled position as
before.
"Your left leg a bit to the right, and your right arm a little more to the
left," the longhaired angel instructed him.
With a sigh and roll of his eyes, Heero obeyed.
"Perfect!" the black-winged creature exclaimed.
"Wait!" Heero called from his ridiculous position. "What´s your
name?" he asked peering at him from under his arms.
The angel bowed, his wings scrapping the ground. "Guardian angel Duo at
your service. And don´t forget. It´s the *blue* wire!"
Then everything went white.
*-*-*-*-*-*
"Heero? Heero, you okay?" sounded the voice of his captain through his
earpiece.
Heero shook his head, blinked and looked down at the timer. 2.37 and counting.
"Yeah, Cap. I am. I´ve got it," he answered, pulling the small wire
cutters away from the red wire. He took a deep breath. If the vision? dream?
hallucination? was wrong... What the he... heck, he corrected himself,
shrugged and cut the blue wire. The timer blacked out and the ticking
ceased. "Done!" he called.
"Good work," came the praise.
Heero sighed out with relief, sweat running down his face. Maybe he really
should change his profession.
*-*-*-*-*-*
Something woke Heero up. He didn´t know what but-
"Finally awake? Well, one would think that the cop and ranger thing in you
would wake you up at the first sign of intrusion but obviously a whole herd of elephants
could trample through your apartment and you wouldn´t notice. Getting rusty,
huh?"
He knew the voice. He reached out and switched on the light on his nightstand.
He blinked, his eyes adjusting to the soft glowing light. He turned around and-
"Not happy to see me?" Duo asked. He was sitting on the pillow next
to Heero´s head, his legs tucked to his chest, his head in his hands, a sour
expression on his face. He was still naked although his wings were gone now.
Heero shot up and scrambled to the other side of the bed, tugging the blanket
around his waist.
"No need for modesty, dude. There is nothing on you I haven´t seen
yet."
Heero frowned at him. "What are you doing here? I didn´t do anything
dangerous since our last meeting," he protested, his voice kinda hostile.
"Doesn´t matter, it´s still your fault I´m here," Duo pointed a
finger at him.
"My fault?" Heero was obviously confused.
"Yeah. The old guy found out what I did and said that if the black wings
thingy didn´t help maybe I could use a punishment of some other sort. So I got
kicked out and stored here in your bedroom,"
Duo explained, the expression on his face growning even more sour.
"Black wings? It was a punishment? What for?" Heero couldn´t help but
be curious.
Duo squirmed. "I kinda sorta swear too much. He doesn´t like it. Although
I never figured out why. His language is even more colorful than mine."
Since Heero couldn´t imagine God swearing, he decided to drop this particular
subject and asked: "So, what happens to you now?"
Duo shrugged. "The he... heck if I know. He ordered me to stay with you
until the day you die, which gives me twenty? thirty? forty? or some odd years
if you don´t get all tootoo and get yourself killed tomorrow."
Heero´s eyes widened with horror. Did that mean that he now had this smarta...
guy on his back for the rest of his life? He didn´t even notice that he said it
aloud.
Duo grinned. "Yep, it seems that way."
"But what... how... I mean..." Heero stuttered. "I mean you
aren´t even human!" he exlaimed.
"I'm not?" Duo´s face clouded with anger. "Did you see? They
took my pretty wings and even put this thing-" he pointed at his manhood
"-between my legs." Heero thought his eyes would pop out of his head.
"Well, maybe I should be grateful. I don´t think that I could survive
being a woman and having to go through PMS every month." He shuddered
visibly.
Heero blinked. He felt more than overwhelmed. Maybe this whole thing was just a
bad dream, a really baaaaaad dream.
"No dream, buddy of mine," the ex-angel shook his head.
Darn it. I have to be more careful what I´m spouting out of myself, Heero
chided himself. "And... and when I die, what will happen to you?"
"Well, I think I will go back to heaven. At least the old guy promised I
would."
Fine. "And me?"
Duo pondered. "Hm, if you lead a good life you may end up up there
too." He narrowed his eyes, looking at his ex-protectee. "You don´t
plan to commit some mortal sin or something, do you?" he asked with
suspicion.
"No, of course not," Heero exclaimed. "It´s just... I never
thought that there really was a heaven."
Duo nodded. "Yep, there is. Once you are up there, you can decide what you
want to do. Become an angel and help Him, stay there or be reborn. Choice A and
C gets you a memory erase. No need for your previous life to complicate your
new one, right?"
Heero thought about it. "So, you have been alive too?"
Duo shrugged. "Probably. I never felt the need to go digging in my past.
I´m happy as it is. Or I was before you got sent my way." He scowled at
the half-Japanese man. "You are a catastrophe on two legs!"
Heero tried to push down the ridiculosity of his situation - he was sitting in
his bedroom talking to his naked ex-Guardian angel after all, his psychiatrist
would have had a feed - and think straight. "So, what now?"
Duo shrugged. "Don´t know. Right now I have all these strange cravings.
Like I should eat something or.. something. You have something to eat here,
right? I don´t remember tasting anything in... well never and so..." He jumped
from the bed and headed in the direction of the kitchen.
Heero blinked, taking in the perfect naked figure of his
"guest". "Can´t you dress or something?" he asked,
irritation marking his voice.
Duo turned and marched backwards in his chosen direction. "I will have to
borrow something of yours. I´m your responsibility now, after all." He
smiled sweetly. "And can I use your comb too? This-" he lifted the
tangled strands of hair "-is a mess. And do you know how to braid it? We
will need something to tie it with. And can I use your shampoo? Don´t know why
but I have the feeling I smell. And..." He disappeared in the kitchen.
"Cool! Cookies!" came the squeal.
Heero groaned and hid his face in his hands. What did he do to deserve this
burden of an ex-angel? And for the next twenty? thirty? forty? or some odd
years?
"Cool! Cable TV!"
He flopped down on the bed. Kill me?
*-*-*-*-*-*
And somewhere up there, He laughed. These two were just perfect for each other.
The End
