What do you do when your mother leaves you with your father?
What do you do when your father hates your mother for not telling him about you?
What do you do when the person who's supposed to be your role-model doesn't want you around?
This is what Odin Lowe Yuy asks himself every time his father ignores him.
His uncles cared for him because his mother had always been the one to keep them all together.
Now they were all torn apart because of him.
Chapter II
Son e-mails Mom. Mom e-mails Dad. Dad e-mails Mom.
Last Time
Odin was asleep. Heero smiled at his son and tucked him in gently. He shut off the lap on the nightstand and closed the door. There was a small power ranger nightlight in one of the corners of Odin's bedroom. Heero made it back to his room and fell to the bed. He loved having a son. It made him feel so good. Heero went over to his laptop and checked his messages. None from Dr.J or any one else. Everything was fine. Everything was serene, calm, and, dare he say it, perfect. He now wished he had never changed the color of the walls in his room from sky blue to black.
Next Day
Odin got up the next morning and made his way down the staircase. He allowed his feet to take him into the dining room. "Morning." He grumbled as he sat down in between his father and Duo. Heero watched him as Odin laid his head against the table.
"Still a little tired, Odin?" Heero asked watching Odin raise his head up. Odin nodded and laid his head back down. Quatre walked in and looked at Odin and Heero.
"Heero, coffee as normal and, Odin, what do you want?" Quatre asked.
"Coffee, black." Odin said. Heero looked at him confused. "Mom never lets me have it...But Aunt Amara said that I could try it if I wanted."
Trowa and Wu Fei made their way into the bright dining room. The sun was shining to the point that Odin almost got up and moved to the opposite side of the table because he hadn't completely woken up yet. He looked around the room, taking it all in. The room was bright even without the sunlight. The walls were painted a beige color. His mother had told him that his Uncle Quatre was a simple man though he was rich and could have anything he wanted.
Breakfast was finished fast. Odin had shown that he had at least learnt to eat large amounts of food like his mother but at a normal pace. While his Uncle Duo had reached his second helping, Odin was on his third. Heero had not noticed it the night before, but Odin was wearing a triquetra also known as a pentagram. It had always been his mother's sign and the sign of her cousins. It was an inside joke he had never really gotten and ever tried to find out. Heero watched as his son finished and took his plate into the kitchen. At least his mother had put some manners into him.
"So, what are we going to do today?" Odin asked before he was swept up into his father's arms. Heero had decided to take advantage of his son being here. No more thinking about his mother.
"I think you were thinking about joining me for my morning workout." Heero said throwing Odin over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.
Odin giggled and gave up on trying to escape his father's clutches. There was no point since his mother had told him that she had never been able to do so herself. Heero was lost in a silent reverie of his long time ago lover.
Flashback
"Heero Yuy, put me down this instant!" She screamed as he carried her into their apartment.
"Not a chance, my pale lover." He had whispered tenderly into her ear before they had begun shedding clothing.
End Flashback
Heero tossed his son down on the mat and then began to stretch. Odin was confused and sat there watching until Heero picked him up and started to teach him martial arts. Odin caught on fast and surprised his father with knowledge he already had of it.
"Mom was always worried about me getting beat up at school. She made Aunt Lita and Amara teach me how to defend myself. I'm the smallest in my class but I'm pretty much the smartest. Mom said I get it from you because she was never good in school."
"No….. That's why I tutored her majority of the time. That's how we met." Heero supplied before he walked over to the punching bag. Odin sat and watched for awhile because he really had nothing better to do today….. Except call his Aunt Mina and see if they had picked up his mother in Tokyo yet.
Later that Day
Odin sat in his room, staring at his cell phone. He was still debating on calling his aunt or not. He wasn't even sure she would answer considering that had shared words on her opinion of his mother taking a flight to Tokyo and leaving him in their care. He finally made up his mind and punched the speed dial number for his Aunt Mina.
"Hello, Mina Aino speaking."
"Aunt Mina, it's Odin. Have you heard from mom lately?"
"Sorry, Odin. Your mother hasn't called to check in. She wasn't even in her hotel when the girls went to find her."
"Thanks, Aunt Mina. Appreciate it." Odin said before hanging up and going to his laptop. No matter what, his mother always had her laptop with her. For e-mail purposes so that they could stay in touch. This was the only reason she had let him get an e-mail account. He pulled the e-mail screen up and immediately set in on e-mailing his mother.
Mom,
I know you probably aren't going to read this as soon as I'd like you to, but here it goes. Dad is wonderful, though he did seeedm to hate me when I first arrived. We settled our differences and he's really gotten better over it. He doesn't hate you any more, that's for sure. He's even wearing his favorite color again. I'm happy for him. He does miss you though. I guess I'll end here considering that you probably aren't going to read it anyways because I'm talking about dad majority of the time.
Love,
Odin
P.S. His e-mail is the same.
Odin smiled to himself as he sent the e-mail to his mother. Heero slipped in and watched him shut the computer down after running disk cleaner.
"That was the only habit your mother ever got from being around me." He told Odin before sitting down on the small bed. "She had just crashed her first computer while I was teaching her to hack into systems. She had deleted a file and I couldn't even stay online long enough to get the file reinstalled on the computer so that it would run properly. She had apologized for a week after that, but I had forgiven her long before she had even told me.
"She had the power to do that. She drew people to her like….. Like moths to a flame. I had always been quiet and pretty much kept to myself. Then I met your mother. I had just come back from a mission when I started at her school. I was partnered up with her on every project. After we defeated Oz, I went back to school there. I figured there was no point in me being a loner with your mother being there and considering how much she cared for me.
"I never understood why she left me though. Not until now, of course. I know why she left. I didn't have my melt down until the following Christmas. The night you were conceive—I know she would kill me if she knew I was telling you this so I'm begging you to keep it as our little secret—we had been out late. She had just turned eighteen and we were both of legal drinking age. It was a fairly hot August night and we were hanging out with all of your other aunts and uncles at the beach at a little club your Uncle Duo had suggested…..
Flashback
A younger Heero Yuy could be seen holding his girlfriend closer than he normally would around their friends. He kissed her roughly before making an apology. Duo had ordered them all drinks and alcohol was a foreign thing in his sweet and innocent girlfriend's body. He was surprised to see that she was holding up well until Duo had ordered her vodka. Heero should have told the waitress no, but he had thought that since his girl had been holding up so well that it might not be bad.
Heero had been wrong for the first time in his life. His tenshi had not only ingested vodka but had also ingested absinthe. Duo should have known better. Tenshi had let it touch her tongue, which caused it to knock her under. It had taken him five tries to get her off of him when they got back to their apartment that night. He had finally succumbed to her when she had stripped down into a lingerie set….. An Emerald green lingerie set to be exact. He had been smitten ever since.
End Flashback
"Your mother had the worst headache that next morning. She was lucky it had been me with her and not some guy off the street. She had made sure to take her birth control after I had told her that we did it. It was too late though. She was already pregnant with you and her powers wouldn't let the mess work. I didn't find out until you showed up that you even existed. Your mother kept you from me because of something I said the day before she left."
"What did you say that made her leave, Dad?" Odin questioned quietly. He didn't want to pry if his father didn't want to tell him.
"She asked me if I ever wanted to have kids. I answered negatively to it. The next day I came home from work and she was gone. A note left on the counter saying that she couldn't be with someone who didn't want children. I assumed that she had married someone else until you showed up with your Aunt Raye. I should have known that she was asking me that for a reason. But it wasn't just the fact that I didn't want children, Odin, that sent your mother far away from me.
"Like I said I didn't have my melt down until the following Christmas. I had made comments the three weeks before she left that made her mood change horribly. It caused me to do things to your mother that I would never do. I struck her on more than one occasion. I had sworn to myself that I would never do that and I did. She was afraid that I would do something to harm you or her once you were born. That is the second reason she left. To preserve your life so that she could keep you from me." Heero answered. His frozen heart was now thawed. He had let the terrible secret of Heero Yuy out of the bag.
Odin just nodded. He had told his mother that his father had kept the same e-mail. Heero smiled at his son.
"Why don't you kick back and relax. We'll go out later and have some fun." Heero said leaving but not before ruffling his son's hair. Odin smiled and moved to his bed. He had to admit. He was tired.
Heero eyeballed his laptop as the annoying beeping became persistent. He got up and clicked on the new message in his e-mail's inbox.
Heero,
Is there any way that I could make up the past two years? I don't know. I miss you terribly. I only have a little time. I have no choice but to say that…. Odin, my…. Our son is being left in your care until I am released. I can't give you complete details but I will tell you this: Odin is your responsibility. Take care of my baby please. I am missing you both terribly. Love you much. Your Tenshi
Heero read the e-mail over and over again. She had e-mailed him. She was asking him to take care of their son. Did he need a better reason than her begging. No, Heero thought as he deleted the e-mail. He loved the fact that she had asked him to look after Odin. At least he wasn't being used as a last resort.
I'm glad you think of me so well, Tenshi. Even though we are apart. I still think of you.
Heero
With that he clicked send and let her take it from there.
Here it is. The new and improved chapter two. I hope you all love it and will keep the reviews up. I just need you guys to work with me. I'm still playing with my original idea, but I'm not keeping the same person as the mother. Or at least not at this point. I might have to keep the same person. Review soon. I hope you love it. Constructive criticism is welcomed b/c I would love to hear from you all. Give me ideas. I like to use them.
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