Allright, I did some revising and changed the story a little bit. Due to a plothorse. yes, a plothorse... It came, it saw and hit me straight in the face... What happened to the old plotbunnies?
Warnings: 3x4, 1x2, 5x, 5+Mariemaia (she has only a little crush on him!)
Summary: read it and weap. Aryana is replaced for someone else.
Violence: lots of it, now and in the future
If you're underage, please, read something else.
And finally: I do not own GW, only the characters I've made up.
Welcome to my Eden
In the middle of the night, her phone rang. Grumbling she turned around, got trapped in her blankets and almost furious she rolled out of bed and slumped hard onto the solid floor. Then she reached up, climbed up and answered the phone, ´It better be good.´ the chestnut haired woman said giving the person who called her in the middle of the night a deadly look.
´Sally, it is me, Quatre.´ A blonde young man with a worried expression and an even more worried voice spoke to her, ´I think there is something wrong with Wufei... Do not ask me what or why, but I have this feeling... There is something wrong.´ He said, ´Can you please check on him?´
´What time is it at your place?´ She asked him frowning the sleep out her eyes and yawning impolite. ´three o'clock in the afternoon, why?´ He answered her question with a tone of voice like, is there something wrong?
´It is four o'clock in the night!´ she yelled back and she saw he held the horn away from his ear.
´sorry... But...´ Poor Quatre, she thought, always trying to make others feel better and put away his own struggles.
´I will check on him. He answers the phone after the sixth ring, if not, he is or vast asleep, or practically half dead.´ and hang up on him. Than she tried to sit up straight on her bed, but fell of again. If only she was not so sleepy. And finally she dialed his number. ´555... What was it again? ´She waited... And waited... The sixth... Seventh... Eight... Ninth...Or he is vast asleep, or he is practically half dead... It spooked around in her head and somehow, she felt that there was something wrong. Or was Quatre himself wrong this time? Sally hardly knew, but her heart told her otherwise. There was something wrong...
Halfway to his apartment in the suburban, he loved nature and peace and quit, she noticed her bra was badly strapped, her hair was a mess and she did not look that beautiful either. Different socks, a old dirty sweater she should have thrown away a long, long time ago and trousers... Please do not begin over the trousers... Did she even change her panties or not... She could hardly remember, but what she remembered was that strange feeling that Wufei was not that a-okay as he always said.
His neighbors, or at least that stupid woman Mrs. Leonesse, stared at the vehicle as Sally parked on Wufei's driveway, walked out, shut the door and walked on to the veranda to the front door. A few times she rung the bell, but Wufei, who always answered the bell - in the middle of the night with either a loaded gun or a Dao in his hands - did not answer the bell at all. She knocked on the door, but still nothing. This was not like Wufei at all and suddenly all sorts of scenarios run through her mind, Wufei being kidnapped, Wufei robbed and shot down, tight in the closet, Wufei chocked to death, Wufei away for a midweek fishing in the mountain, Wufei... But the visions were all wrong. When she went around the house, checking the windows and finally found one open and lifted it up. A dog run to her, sniffled her hand and approved her to come in the not so convenient way. ´Hey there, big guy,´ The gigantic wolf stepped back and let her in. ´Where is the boss, show me the boss.´ she said, Wufei never left his wolf alone in the house. But there was something wrong. All sorts of bottles lay on the floor, and she nearly tripped over one, when she tried to move in the large kitchen. ´What the...´ finally she made light and looked around, the bottles were not of food, but sake, wine, beer and other alcohol and liquor. ´Wufei!´ Running through every room she found out that he was not on the first floor. She sounded like an elephant running up the stairs to the master bedroom where she finally found him, with more bottles of alcohol on the floor. He spilled a lot on the floor and the bed. ´Oh Wufei...´ and called for help...
The wolf licked his hands, trying to wake up his boss, but Wufei did not respond at all. She only noticed a slow irregular heartbeat and an even slower breath. He was getting cold. ´Fei... What have you done...´ she whispered softly, caressing him in her arms, warming him with her body, ´You should have come to me...´ Tears run down her face, ´I do not want to lose you, Fei... I may be a lot older than you, but I love you... My little brother...´ ´You called for help?´ The doctors of the ambulance walked in and saw the crying woman.
´He tried to kill himself... I found him fifteen minutes ago. Alcohol, and drugs.´ she cried softly, ´Help him... Please...´
´We do everything we can Miss, but you have to let him go now...´ the doctor took him from her arms and lay him on a stretcher, where they ripped away his clothes and attached numerous of batches and patches onto his naked chest. Sally watched it in horror and pain, her little brother on that stretcher. She wished that they could trade places, but he would probably cry the same for her. A police woman walked in and tried to calm Sally with soothing words, but it hardly worked. Wufei was her little brother, and she failed as an older sister to take care for him...
Sally gave one last look at Wufei, before she shut the door. The corridor was as silent as the room where he slept in. Only the machines gave little beeps and a machine pumped air in and out of his lungs. Almost with pain in her hart, she shut the door and left. Her boots made a soft stepping sound on the floor. As silent as a nurse she walked by the night nurse who checked on her patients.
´How is he doing?´ Sally asked the blonde nurse, but she shook her head.
´He is in a stage 2 coma. He can wake up, but he can slip into a stage 3 coma, and then he will be lost.´ she said softly, ´Poor guy, I wonder what happened to him.´ she shook her head and walked on, giving her patients the care that they needed for the night.
When she drove home, she felt empty, alone. How come Wufei developed addiction to alcohol that became deadly in a matter of weeks? Sally felt that there was something wrong, and while she tried to figure it out, she almost bumped into another car.
´Watch it Lady!´ The man shouted to her, ´You almost caused an accident!´
´Sorry!´ She yelled back, drove around the car and made her way home. Wufei was her friend, and when a friend was in need, she wanted to help him out. But somehow, she had a feeling she could not help him out. It all happened after his last mission to the L6 area.
L6 was a small lonely planet just outside the solar system. The neighbors, as the Preventers often called them, were very solitary and the remains of the Romafeller Foundation felt it was necessary to control the small population the same as they did on Earth and the Colonies. The planet itself was called a second Earth, because it was beautiful, with lush green forests, bright bleu oceans and a wonderful sky. The gravity was less, so the children of the original colonists were taller, slimmer and faster.
Lady Une checked the records. ´I can not understand what had happened. He got back from L6, protecting Miss Mariemaia on a work visit and became a drunk. Even Mariemaia is worried about him, and you know she has a little crush on him.´
´I know.´ Sally replied, ´He is not interested in her at all. Poor girl.´
´Maybe...´ Noin begun, ´Maybe the other Gundampilots know what happened to him. They are also worried and Quatre and Trowa are already on their way to Earth. The message of Wufei in hospital has even reached Duo and Heero, and they will arrive as soon as their mission is over.´
Lady Une nodded, ´Bring them to the hospital and when they are done with the visit, bring them to me.´
´Yes madam,´ both said in the same time and left, Noin disappeared from screen and Sally hung up on the phone. Une got up and walked to the gigantic room wide window and watched the people walking in the streets below her. They had fun. Yet again it was Christmas and everyone made their last trips to the store for presents, food or just for the atmosphere. It was beautiful to see, to be there, but Wufei did not seem at care at all. He drunk his way into death.
When Sally had told Lady Une what and how much he had drunk in one night, with several sleeping pills and other drugs that would have killed him if he was not found in time, she shivered. Was this an effect of the previous wars? Was this something personal; he had mentioned Mei Ran from time to time, and his family, the Dragon Clan of L5 A0206? But somehow, she felt this was something that lay deep under his skin, something no one could help from the outside.
Sally had reacted as if he was already dead, and it was hard to calm the woman. Only water and a sedative calmed her down a little bit, till she could speak normally and without struggles. She told her everything, what she had seen. Now Sally decided that she would take care of his apartment in the suburban area and the wolf. At least, the dog should be walked and fed and she would keep the house clean. For her it would be some sort of therapy session.
´Lady Une, Brussels Memorial Hospital, Dr. Vervenne.´ Her secretary called for her. ´I will have it here.´ she answered, ´sent him through.´
´Lady Une here.´ she saw the Dr. On the vid-phone, ´Dr. Vervenne.´ the man was growing bolt as he got older, ´My patient, Mr. Chang, woke up a few minutes ago. He is conscious, but not ready to speak. If you want to, you can visit him.´ She nodded, ´How is he doing, Dr. Vervenne? ´ ´He is conscious right now, but weak, very weak. I am afraid that the alcohol and the drugs damaged his nervous system, but I am not sure yet. I have to do tests, unfortunately.´
´Do it. I want him nursed back to health. He deserves that.´
´I am afraid that only two persons can visit him. More will be too much for him. Maybe in a few days that he will get better, but things do not look that good for him.´
´Tell us all the truth, Dr. Vervenne please. Everybody is worried here.´
´The alcohol damaged his brains. Not much, but he can not remember things. He only calls one name, or object, we believe.´
´And that is?´
´Mei Ran.´
Duo and Heero were the last to arrive at the spaceport. Struggling to get Relena through the barrier of press photographers and interviewers they brought her to a solitary space where they discussed the question Wufei.
´I will take a taxi home, please, take my limousine to the hospital. It is important that you visit him as soon as possible.´ Relena refused their offers to bring her home first and then visit Wufei, but she could be very headstrong, ´Please, I insist.´ she said and walked away to get a cab.
Both were left alone in the room, stunned by her actions. Duo raised an eyebrow, ´All this time we have to maintain her safety and now she wants to be targeted. I will never understand women.´ both young man shut the door and walked away, seeing Relena struggle with the press photographers and interviewers. Duo remembered that Relena had a little crush on Heero. When she found out that he was gay - and practically left alone by people who hated gay man - she decided that she would be a friend, not a lover of a lost love. But Heero suspected her of having a little crush on them both. She had become graceful and lovely herself: still the long blonde locks and two little braids. Heavenly bleu eyes and her appearance was no longer that of a young girl struggling to find her place in life, but a young woman who sometimes forgot that life could be pleasant. He waved goodbye to her and left her.
Duo smiled and walked away, his braid waving from right to left. Heero loved those long locks, soft and beautiful, shiny. The braid had become longer in the four years after the last mission they all had together - it reached to his knees and was still beautiful to see. His stride was gracious and his body had reached maturity, he was no longer the little boy that fought in a war, but a strong young man - but the attitude was still there... Unfortunately. it was just part of Duo... sigh He squeezed Heero ass and they both flushed bright red, Heero knew what Duo wanted, a long, long night between the sheets at their place, loving each others bodies and souls.
Men get more beautiful the older they get.´ Duo smiled, ´And so do you.´
´hnn.´ but Duo was right, somewhat longer locks of a thick still wild hairdo, haunting dark blue eyes and a tall body, well toned and tanned. Heero looked eatable, like a lovely piece of pie. Duo wanted to have him, but he would do as usual, make courtship.
´Oh Heero... Back on earth, home sweet home... I wonder how everybody is doing and why Wufei ended up in the hospital...´ Duo said exhaling the sweet air.
´Just get inside the limo will you?´ Heero said as stoic as he could be, but Duo could hear that he was concerned about Wufei, ´The Brussels Memorial Hospital please.´
When they arrived in the room, Dr. Vervenne was furious, ´Not more than two people inside, he is to weak for more visitors.´ Trowa stared at the man - His crest was still the same, but he was taller, like everyone of them, and had become even stronger. Four scars run over his left cheek, probably a cat or a bear that had scratched him or maybe something else. Still wore the dark sweater and still the jeans. He was tall, wide in the shoulders and his face had somewhat more relaxed, as if he was no longer fighting anymore ´We are his only relatives, his friends and his family. If there is something wrong, we help each other. If you do not like that, than leave.´ and turned to Wufei again, who was sleeping.
Duo's eyes went from Trowa to Quatre, a young beautiful man - little curly locks of golden hair, still the sweet appearance and yet, like they all were, taller. Heero could see the burden of the Winner Foundation resting on his shoulders. Trowa would always be there to comfort him, take care of him and love him, in the same way Quatre held his hand and squeezed it from time to time, urging Wufei to wake up.
´Hi there...´ Duo walked in with a big teddy bear and Heero brought more flowers, but his smile disappeared when he saw all the tubes and machines keeping Wufei alive.
´This was not my vision of Wufei either.´ Whispered Quatre, ´Sally found him... that is, after I gave her a phone call. He...´ but the blonde could not keep back his tears and cried again...
´Calm down Quatre... If you cry he will not be helped...´ Trowa stroke the blondes shoulders and when they faced each other, he wiped away the others tears, ´Wufei will wake up...´ It was strange to see the always calm and calculated Trowa so lovely and caring handling Quatre´s fears and tears. Duo place the big teddy bear in the corner of the room, ´What had happened?´ Heero asked them and took a closer look in the file of Wufei.
´Alcohol?´ They both said after Trowa´s explanation, ´Drugs?´
Even Heero was flabbergasted, ´But... How, why?´
´Wufei and drinking to much is the same as Wufei and Treize in one room drinking coffee.´ Duo stated, ´strange.´ ´Apparently he tried to drink his way to death with alcohol and drugs.´ Sally came in and stared at the sleeping body of Wufei, ´Doctor Vervenne said that he slipped into coma again. He is balancing upon the edge of stage 2 and 3.´
´Then he has to fight his way out of that.´ Quatre said slowly, tears still burning behind his eyes, ´He has to. We all need to know what happened and why that he did this.´ ´
Quatre... Stay with him tonight. You can feel basically everything we go through.´ Duo was truly worried, and that was a rare thing, ´Concentrate on him, maybe you can figure it out and Wufei can get well easier.´
Quatre nodded and it seemed as if he sunk in some sort of trance, the more he staid at Wufei´s bedside, and he did not even hear things anymore. Completely focussed on Wufei, he tried to gain through the memories that he lived through now, that he felt once more.
Please R&R! TBC...