*Chapter Three*
Duo just stood there for a minute staring at the magnificent door. The door was made of rosewood just as all the hallway floors were, and it had a crystal doorknob, the door, in fact, the whole house looked like it had just been polished minutes before. Duo was afraid to touch the gleaming knob, it looked so delicate, the last thing he wanted to do was break anything in the house of a perfect stranger, who seemed pretty crazy.
All Duo could remember from the night before was looking into the most gorgeous eyes he had ever seen, then he woke up with no bruises or sores on his body, his hair was dry and made in a neat braid, and he was wearing the most comfortable black pajamas. He liked the fact that they were black, but it scared him even more, what did Heero exactly do to him. He didn't feel anything wrong with him. He had to find out why the clothes he was wearing in the raging storm were not wet, and why there were no tears in them, and how his body was PERFECTLY fine. He ran his fingers over where the cut that he had sewed the night before should have been.
These thoughts urged Duo to open the door, and to find the answers that he felt to badly he needed. Duo hated feeling lost and clueless about what was going on, he would never be able to go back to sleep if he didn't know everything that was going on. And strange things were going on.
He gently nudged at the knob which was glimmering from the light from the many chandeliers lighting the hallway. The door opened quickly and smoothly. He peeked his head inside but saw nothing but complete and utter darkness, not even the light from the hallway dared to enter in the thick black. So he brought his hand up to the wall and felt around the room for the light switch, but to his displeasure found none, just as he was withdrawing his hand, something..someone grabbed it and the next thing he knew he was pinned to the magnificent door by the magnificent Heero.
"What are you doing here?" Heero asked with a slight smirk on his face and in the most mocking tone Heero was very surprised that Duo actually found him. His wish.his 'dream', how real it was.
"I just wanted to ask you where I am." Duo stuttered out as nicely as he could, he couldn't really talk with Heero's face literally inches away and him being pinned to the wall with Heero's warm body pressed up against his, it distracted him, he could feel Heero's breath on his lips, he felt like he would just melt under the heat and tension.
"You're in a castle, in Adelpha Forest, my *home*" Heero answered looking quite sad.
Heero let go of Duo, and led him inside the room, for some strange reason, when he followed Heero into the room the lights were on, and what he saw astonished him. He saw the most magnificent room ever, it not only had its own fireplace, but a small library, and also held the biggest and most beautiful bed that Duo had ever laid eyes on. It had maroon pillows and blankets, and it looked like it was as comfortable as a cloud. Duo had the most irresistible urge to just go and jump on it, and tumble around in the giant blankets, to get lost in them, but, after all he didn't want to come off as crazy. That wouldn't be very good.
Heero led Duo to the fireplace area and to two wonderful looking chairs. Duo loved how nice his butt felt when he sat in one of the chairs.
"You're in a castle in Adelpha Forest" Heero repeated, drawing Duo's attention back toward him.
"Oh, yeah" Duo's eyes glanced around the room one last time, then came to rest on Heero's face. "I need to get to my car, I believe that it is somewhere east of here, I need to see if it's okay" Duo lied, he, for some strange reason, didn't really care about his beautiful supra (*sniff* *sniff*)
" Hn, I'll take you in the morning then." Heero said as if he knew exactly where the car was.
"Uhh.If you don't mind me asking, what's going on?! How is my cut healed and my clothes and hair perfect?" Asked Duo, not trying to come off as pedantic.
Heero smirked at the boy's annoyance.
Duo watched as he Heero smirked, he felt something burn inside him, but ignored it.
After a minute Heero answered..in a monetone voice, "I have certain abilities..but I don't think that you should really care, you're healed, isn't that all that matters?"
Duo ignored the last part of Heero's answer and murmured,
"Certain abilities..?" Heero saw that Duo was obviously not going to give up until he had ALL the answers to his questions.
Before Duo could continue Heero spoke,
"Do you know of Magik?"
"mmm..It's .. fun to watch?!" Duo did his best to answer. "So all this is an illusion?" Duo questioned.
" Hmm.It could be" Heero said without showing any interest in telling Duo his story. He was also clearly confusing Duo.
Before Duo could question, Heero went on..
"Do you remember how you came here?" "It was raining" "Yes, and still is" Heero said informingly. "And..I was lost in the woods, on a narrow street, and..I saw you" "Did you now?" Heero asked interested.
"Yes.I saw you, and you whispered my name!!" "How could you have said my name before we had ever met??!!" Duo sounded more confused and annoyed, he also felt a bit of fear creep into his heart.
There was a long pause while Heero tried his best to put words together to tell his maron* haired beauty what was going on. He hated the fact that he only had a few days to spend with Duo, and it was being spent doing..this.
"I've dreamed of you, Duo. Dreamed of you for longer than your lifetime." Heero began " And I was dreaming of you when you were lost in my forest. And when I awoke, you were here..." There was a long pause while Duo contemplated whether to run out the door now, or listen to that annoying little voice that told him to stay and listen , before Duo could come to a decision, Heero stepped in and made the decision for him by going on..
"Did you ever dream of.. me, Duo?" Heero asked softly. With a sort of withdrawn look in his eyes.
Duo lost it...He was to confused, and just started to ramble in a whisper..
"I don't know what you're talking about. There was a storm. I was lost. Lightning hit very near, and there was a buck. A white buck in the road. I swerved to avoid it, and I crashed. I think I hit a tree. I probably have a concussion, and I'm imagining things. None of this is true...Yup, that's it." Duo said looking from Heero to around the room, back to Heero.
"A White hind." Was all that Heero said in return to Duo's babbling. All sense of emotion had left Heero's face, all he showed was anger. "You hit a tree with your car?..Damn them. They didn't have to hurt you!" he muttered, "They had no RIGHT to hurt you!!" "Who are you talking about?" now asked a *very* confused Duo. "My jailers." He shoved over the table sitting next and standing abruptly up out of anger. "The bloody Keepers."
"I um.need to check on my car." Duo repeated. Not really wanting to figure this guy out anymore. "There's hardly a point in going out in a storm in the middle of the night." He laid his hand firmly on Duo's before he could rise. "You're thinking, 'I'm crazy, aren't you?" "That I'm lost in the mind, look at me, Duo, do I mean nothing to you?" Heero said while praying his hardest that his violet boy wouldn't leave him...
All Duo could do was look into those electrifying eyes again.and manage to mutter...
"I.I don't know."
That statement alone was what kept Duo from bolting out of that 'castle'.
"Will you sit with me, so I can explain everything to you?"
Heero rose up and held out his hand..he felt irritation when Duo refused. "Here" Heero gave Duo a knife. Which seemed to appear out of nowhere. "Would you bring the knife then?"
Duo glanced back down at the knife then back up, and nodded.. "Yes."
"I was born in Magik" Heero began. "Some are. Others apprentice and can learn well enough. But to be born in it is more a matter of controlling the art than of learning it." "..So your father was a magician?" asked a clearly bewildered Duo.
Heero couldn't contain himself, he started laughing. That had to be the most beautiful sound Duo had ever heard.
"No, I didn't know my father. Magik doesn't have to come down through the blood, it just has to simply be in the blood." He paused, not wanting to scare Duo again, he decided to find out more about Duo first, then continue this story.
"Where are you from, Duo?"
"L2 colony cluster" He answered while still trying to figure out the rest of his thoughts.
Duo glanced down at the knife and back up at Heero, who he found studying him attentively.
"I wonder if you could use it, there are two kinds of people in this world, those who fight and those who flee, which one would you be Duo?"
"I Fight, I've been put in the position to fight before, and I've had no problems with it." Duo said with confidence, remembering the days where he had to fend for himself on the street. He indulged in the question, one question that he had no problem with answering.
"That's either fortunate or tedious. I'm not entirely sure, I like a good fight myself."... Heero cursed at himself for saying this, the last thing he wanted to do was scare Duo.
Heero didn't know if he was either relieved that Duo didn't hear the last part, or annoyed to see that he wasn't even listening to him.
"Would you mind telling me what you do?" Heero looked into the startled eyes of Duo.
These questions took Duo by surprise, he originally thought that they were going to 'sit down' to listen to Heero explain what was going on.
Duo reluctantly, but somewhat grasping the knife tighter..answered "I'm an antique dealer*, antiques have always been a passion of mine."
This not only astonished Heero, but it intrigued him, seeing that over the years he had acquired such a lush amount of antiques. Before Heero could inquire if Duo had taken notice of his immaculate collections, he thought better of it, he didn't want to come off as an arcane* person.
Duo just stood there for a minute staring at the magnificent door. The door was made of rosewood just as all the hallway floors were, and it had a crystal doorknob, the door, in fact, the whole house looked like it had just been polished minutes before. Duo was afraid to touch the gleaming knob, it looked so delicate, the last thing he wanted to do was break anything in the house of a perfect stranger, who seemed pretty crazy.
All Duo could remember from the night before was looking into the most gorgeous eyes he had ever seen, then he woke up with no bruises or sores on his body, his hair was dry and made in a neat braid, and he was wearing the most comfortable black pajamas. He liked the fact that they were black, but it scared him even more, what did Heero exactly do to him. He didn't feel anything wrong with him. He had to find out why the clothes he was wearing in the raging storm were not wet, and why there were no tears in them, and how his body was PERFECTLY fine. He ran his fingers over where the cut that he had sewed the night before should have been.
These thoughts urged Duo to open the door, and to find the answers that he felt to badly he needed. Duo hated feeling lost and clueless about what was going on, he would never be able to go back to sleep if he didn't know everything that was going on. And strange things were going on.
He gently nudged at the knob which was glimmering from the light from the many chandeliers lighting the hallway. The door opened quickly and smoothly. He peeked his head inside but saw nothing but complete and utter darkness, not even the light from the hallway dared to enter in the thick black. So he brought his hand up to the wall and felt around the room for the light switch, but to his displeasure found none, just as he was withdrawing his hand, something..someone grabbed it and the next thing he knew he was pinned to the magnificent door by the magnificent Heero.
"What are you doing here?" Heero asked with a slight smirk on his face and in the most mocking tone Heero was very surprised that Duo actually found him. His wish.his 'dream', how real it was.
"I just wanted to ask you where I am." Duo stuttered out as nicely as he could, he couldn't really talk with Heero's face literally inches away and him being pinned to the wall with Heero's warm body pressed up against his, it distracted him, he could feel Heero's breath on his lips, he felt like he would just melt under the heat and tension.
"You're in a castle, in Adelpha Forest, my *home*" Heero answered looking quite sad.
Heero let go of Duo, and led him inside the room, for some strange reason, when he followed Heero into the room the lights were on, and what he saw astonished him. He saw the most magnificent room ever, it not only had its own fireplace, but a small library, and also held the biggest and most beautiful bed that Duo had ever laid eyes on. It had maroon pillows and blankets, and it looked like it was as comfortable as a cloud. Duo had the most irresistible urge to just go and jump on it, and tumble around in the giant blankets, to get lost in them, but, after all he didn't want to come off as crazy. That wouldn't be very good.
Heero led Duo to the fireplace area and to two wonderful looking chairs. Duo loved how nice his butt felt when he sat in one of the chairs.
"You're in a castle in Adelpha Forest" Heero repeated, drawing Duo's attention back toward him.
"Oh, yeah" Duo's eyes glanced around the room one last time, then came to rest on Heero's face. "I need to get to my car, I believe that it is somewhere east of here, I need to see if it's okay" Duo lied, he, for some strange reason, didn't really care about his beautiful supra (*sniff* *sniff*)
" Hn, I'll take you in the morning then." Heero said as if he knew exactly where the car was.
"Uhh.If you don't mind me asking, what's going on?! How is my cut healed and my clothes and hair perfect?" Asked Duo, not trying to come off as pedantic.
Heero smirked at the boy's annoyance.
Duo watched as he Heero smirked, he felt something burn inside him, but ignored it.
After a minute Heero answered..in a monetone voice, "I have certain abilities..but I don't think that you should really care, you're healed, isn't that all that matters?"
Duo ignored the last part of Heero's answer and murmured,
"Certain abilities..?" Heero saw that Duo was obviously not going to give up until he had ALL the answers to his questions.
Before Duo could continue Heero spoke,
"Do you know of Magik?"
"mmm..It's .. fun to watch?!" Duo did his best to answer. "So all this is an illusion?" Duo questioned.
" Hmm.It could be" Heero said without showing any interest in telling Duo his story. He was also clearly confusing Duo.
Before Duo could question, Heero went on..
"Do you remember how you came here?" "It was raining" "Yes, and still is" Heero said informingly. "And..I was lost in the woods, on a narrow street, and..I saw you" "Did you now?" Heero asked interested.
"Yes.I saw you, and you whispered my name!!" "How could you have said my name before we had ever met??!!" Duo sounded more confused and annoyed, he also felt a bit of fear creep into his heart.
There was a long pause while Heero tried his best to put words together to tell his maron* haired beauty what was going on. He hated the fact that he only had a few days to spend with Duo, and it was being spent doing..this.
"I've dreamed of you, Duo. Dreamed of you for longer than your lifetime." Heero began " And I was dreaming of you when you were lost in my forest. And when I awoke, you were here..." There was a long pause while Duo contemplated whether to run out the door now, or listen to that annoying little voice that told him to stay and listen , before Duo could come to a decision, Heero stepped in and made the decision for him by going on..
"Did you ever dream of.. me, Duo?" Heero asked softly. With a sort of withdrawn look in his eyes.
Duo lost it...He was to confused, and just started to ramble in a whisper..
"I don't know what you're talking about. There was a storm. I was lost. Lightning hit very near, and there was a buck. A white buck in the road. I swerved to avoid it, and I crashed. I think I hit a tree. I probably have a concussion, and I'm imagining things. None of this is true...Yup, that's it." Duo said looking from Heero to around the room, back to Heero.
"A White hind." Was all that Heero said in return to Duo's babbling. All sense of emotion had left Heero's face, all he showed was anger. "You hit a tree with your car?..Damn them. They didn't have to hurt you!" he muttered, "They had no RIGHT to hurt you!!" "Who are you talking about?" now asked a *very* confused Duo. "My jailers." He shoved over the table sitting next and standing abruptly up out of anger. "The bloody Keepers."
"I um.need to check on my car." Duo repeated. Not really wanting to figure this guy out anymore. "There's hardly a point in going out in a storm in the middle of the night." He laid his hand firmly on Duo's before he could rise. "You're thinking, 'I'm crazy, aren't you?" "That I'm lost in the mind, look at me, Duo, do I mean nothing to you?" Heero said while praying his hardest that his violet boy wouldn't leave him...
All Duo could do was look into those electrifying eyes again.and manage to mutter...
"I.I don't know."
That statement alone was what kept Duo from bolting out of that 'castle'.
"Will you sit with me, so I can explain everything to you?"
Heero rose up and held out his hand..he felt irritation when Duo refused. "Here" Heero gave Duo a knife. Which seemed to appear out of nowhere. "Would you bring the knife then?"
Duo glanced back down at the knife then back up, and nodded.. "Yes."
"I was born in Magik" Heero began. "Some are. Others apprentice and can learn well enough. But to be born in it is more a matter of controlling the art than of learning it." "..So your father was a magician?" asked a clearly bewildered Duo.
Heero couldn't contain himself, he started laughing. That had to be the most beautiful sound Duo had ever heard.
"No, I didn't know my father. Magik doesn't have to come down through the blood, it just has to simply be in the blood." He paused, not wanting to scare Duo again, he decided to find out more about Duo first, then continue this story.
"Where are you from, Duo?"
"L2 colony cluster" He answered while still trying to figure out the rest of his thoughts.
Duo glanced down at the knife and back up at Heero, who he found studying him attentively.
"I wonder if you could use it, there are two kinds of people in this world, those who fight and those who flee, which one would you be Duo?"
"I Fight, I've been put in the position to fight before, and I've had no problems with it." Duo said with confidence, remembering the days where he had to fend for himself on the street. He indulged in the question, one question that he had no problem with answering.
"That's either fortunate or tedious. I'm not entirely sure, I like a good fight myself."... Heero cursed at himself for saying this, the last thing he wanted to do was scare Duo.
Heero didn't know if he was either relieved that Duo didn't hear the last part, or annoyed to see that he wasn't even listening to him.
"Would you mind telling me what you do?" Heero looked into the startled eyes of Duo.
These questions took Duo by surprise, he originally thought that they were going to 'sit down' to listen to Heero explain what was going on.
Duo reluctantly, but somewhat grasping the knife tighter..answered "I'm an antique dealer*, antiques have always been a passion of mine."
This not only astonished Heero, but it intrigued him, seeing that over the years he had acquired such a lush amount of antiques. Before Heero could inquire if Duo had taken notice of his immaculate collections, he thought better of it, he didn't want to come off as an arcane* person.