Warnings: T
Love is important
Sally's first task was to revive them. Snarling from time to time she worked her way around the shuttle and the medical facilities. 'Why isn't the temperature lowered yet?' Growling she entered the cockpit, 'Someone tell me!'
'Sorry ma'am, but then we are all freezing up.' Ringo stated her, 'I can't do that.'
Without hesitations she put a gun at his temple, 'Lower the temperature, or we won't have to worry about you!' moment passed by, and Ringo feared for his life. No one had ever seen Sally so aggressive towards someone to save someone.
Shara turned around in her seat and lowered the temperature of the shuttle immediately. She heard the environmental systems work loud and clear and within a few minutes the warmth was blown out and the cold came in.
'good, now warm the shuttle, but not the medical facility. That will be warmed up with a degree Celsius an hour, okay?'
Both nodded, 'Yes ma'am.'
'Now get to work!'
'hard?' Duo asked with a sarcastic tone in his voice, 'Their dead, why try and revive them?'
'Because their brains only shut down most of its body functions, like digesting food for instance. The brain itself is still alive. If their bodies are warmed up in a controlled environment, they could survive this all.' Sally walked back to the medical facility where Quatre, Trowa and Heero watched over Wufei and Mei Ran.
'They sure were a cute couple.' Trowa smiled sadly, 'They sure were.'
'Are.' Sally corrected him, 'Wufei's heart is still beating, slow, but beating. And Mei Ran's heart has an irregular beat, but she is still here.' No one even dared to walk in her way, and stood where they stood. Sally ordered them from time to time, to do something for her, or to get out of her way. And the waiting began. 'The temperature will be raised to 36 Celsius. From there they have to keep up their temperature themselves.'
'How do they come out of this? Are they still the same?' Quatre asked with a small voice, 'Or are they disabled in some way?'
'That's different, for every victim of cold.' Sally said, 'Time will tell.'
Time passed by, and both showed more signs of life: a soft red gloss on the cheeks, stronger heartbeat, breathing easier and no more shivering. Sally was content with this, but had to wait for the results of the cold before she could say something was good or not.
Trowa spent his time studying Mei Ran's body. 'She changed over the years.' was his first statement, 'She's... Older.' the fine wrinkles in her face of worries and sadness, the sad expression on her face, still worried even vast asleep, the tense in her shoulders, her hair wasn't that bright and shiny anymore, but dull and like straw. She needed some time to relax and to clean herself up. If she ever woke up.
'Her nails...' Trowa watched her hands, 'She was locked up from time to time..'
'I hadn't even looked at them.' Sally saw the woman's hands, 'every nail is broken and ruptured. Damaged...'
'You're to busy, I'll clean those and bandaged them, okay?' Trowa smiled a bit, sad, but confident, 'Now she is still out, or else she needs medication again.'
'When their body functions work properly again, than they'll receive medication. Not now.' Sally went back to work, because Wufei's hands suffered from frostbite.
Hours passed by, the waiting made it seem longer than it was. Sally had decided that they had to start their missions about L6 when both had recovered. 'you'll need Mei Ran, because she knows all about L6.'
Instead of the hard floor he had fallen on, he felt soft sheets and blankets on his skin, a soft mattress and a pillow underneath his head. Bright lights shone above him and he had trouble staying asleep. But the cold was gone, and warmth had come in stead of it. When he finally decided to wake up and open his eyes, he stared into the big worried aquamarine eyes of Quatre. He didn't know what happened, for the small blonde yelped and hugged Wufei, 'You're back!' Wufei raised his arms and touched the back of the blonde, 'I'm back... And I will not leave again so suddenly.' He smiled softly and tried to untangle himself from Quatre´s grip.
Heero smiled softly, 'Good morning.'
'Is the sleeping beauty awake yet?' Duo came in with tea and coffee and hot coco.
Trowa turned around, 'Good to have you back.'
The smiles and faces of his friends calmed him down and made him feel assured, but there was something that nibbled on him, a strange worry about something.
But immediately those worries came back, 'Mei Ran? Where is she?'
'Next to you, she is still asleep but alive.' Trowa smiled softly and explained to him what had happened since they had found out he had left earth. Sally on the other hand tried to figure out how he was and if he was still Wufei and not some dead vegetable.
Not much later Mei Ran woke up from her icy sleep. Her amber eyes stared at Trowa's emeralds, 'Hello there.'
A shy Mei Ran walked around the shuttle, trying to find back her balance and her life. It was hard, for she felt a stranger to herself and her friends. She tried to avoid contact with others and tried to stay a bit hidden away. Especially Wufei.
'Why won't you meet him? Why won't you see him?' Quatre tried his best to reach her, but she wouldn't even look at him, ashamed as she was. 'I hurt him... That's not right. He should be angry.' she whispered.
'He hurt you to. So you should be angry as well... But it's not that, isn't it? I can sense things, remember? There's something wrong with you. Something that is bothering you. Please... Tell me.' With fine gestures he tried to make her talk, trying to make her smile and feel comfortable.
'She's so far away.' Quatre whispered in the arms of his love, 'Out of my reach I think.' Tears run down his face, 'She's... Not who she is supposed to be.'
'Let her get used to this for a while. Then she will talk.' Trowa tried to comfort his love, but was pushed away.
'she's afraid of us Trowa! Afraid that we will hurt her like she was hurt here! That we rape her, and beat her up and...' Trowa pulled him gentle but suddenly close to him, 'Relax a bit okay.' Stroking the soft golden strands of his hair and patting him on the back he led him to his bed, 'Shh... Don't cry, she will talk. But not now. Not now.'
Softly he pulled the unnecessary clothes off of himself and Quatre and begun stroking his soft skin. Soft hands that roamed Quatre´s skin, tracing their way up and down his back, touching the curve of his neck and shoulders. Trowa had a gift of making love to someone. He was sensitive in his moves and gestures, as his hands hovered just a millimeter above Quatre´s arms; gave him shivers and goose bumps.
Soft lips touched each other. Trowa licked Quatre´s lips soft and tender, his tongue that entered Quatre´s mouth and plaid a playful battle for dominance, which he always won. Halfway his playful battle Trowa sunk through his knees and begun licking a nipple, kissing the soft flesh around it and biting soft in his chest. Quatre panted, his heart beat in his chest, wanted to pop out of it. With a sweet smile Trowa looked up and let his hands roam over his skin of Quatre´s back to his hips and small buttock. He squeezed the soft flesh. His nose bumped with Quatre´s phallus and he stroke it with his tongue. Shivering Quatre wanted him to lick him, to suck him till he was dry. But Trowa only smiled and rejected his lovers offers and begs. Tender he kissed the scrotum and took a ball in his mouth. Licking and nibbling on it he kept stroking his lovers back and made him stand straight up on the floor. Quatre felt like he could fall to his back and lay there as Trowa pleasured his body.
With his free hand he begun massaging Quatre´s phallus, up and down. Quatre mumbled something, his breath became irregular and harsh. Finally he felt that he had tortured Quatre enough and took his phallus in his mouth, piping him till Quatre shivered and came in his mouth. Trowa never let go when he came, and sucked some more, and more, till he felt that Quatre was satisfied and exhausted of their little game. He got back on his feet and laid his friend and himself onto the small bed. Than he pulled the blankets over them and let Quatre fall asleep. He had forgotten his worries, but Trowa still had them.
'I came here for you.' Wufei saw Mei Ran in the small cockpit. Shara and Ringo had gone to bed, as well as Duo and Heero and Sally. She turned around in shock and wanted to leave the room at once. 'No, please... Don't go. We can share the night here, just watching the stars and the polar light.' He looked good, now that he was cleaned up and healthy again. Mei Ran had to admit that to herself. HE had changed a lot over the years. When she had left him he was still a fifteen year old boy, but now he was a twenty two year old man. But he had still the onyx eyes, the black silky hair - the strands hung loose around his face. He had become taller and wider in the shoulders, stronger and more beautiful.
'I dreamt of you, every night.' she whispered, 'but now you're real.'
'Is that a shock?' he asked her and came slowly towards her, giving her time and space to escape him if she became afraid.
'No...' again that small voice, as she stood there in front of the cockpit, the monitors were out, but some lights light the room. The polar light gave her and her surroundings a beautiful mysterious glow.
He stretched out an arm, touched her hands and held them. 'You haven't got an idea how much I missed you. How much I longed for you. How much I wanted you.' He pulled her close in his embrace and held her close to his body. His heart jumped with joy, a tear escaped his eye. 'I knew what you meant to me, when I lost you.' he kissed her forehead and tried to look in her eyes, 'I missed you so, and I still love you so.'
Mei Ran tried to speak, to excuse herself for what happened, but Wufei kissed her on the lips, and after a few seconds, she answered his kiss, tried to become closer to his body than she already was - her breasts crushed against his chest, their hearts that almost could touch each other.
Ringo smiled - he had planned to check the surroundings and environments of the shuttles, but left when he saw them kissing. Now I know what he did this for. I understand. Love is important. he thought and walked his way to bed again, leaving the two long lost lovers.
For minutes they only stood there, alone, with the polar lights as a silent witness. He felt the scars underneath the corselet of her dress, tension in her shoulders and an ever continuing whisper in his ear. First he didn't understood what she whispered, but when he listened carefully, he understood, 'Missed you so, love you so, want you so. I'll never leave again, promise, what ever happens I stay with you...' Smiling he buried his face in her lavender colored hair, breathing in her smell, which was intoxicating to him. After half an hour she had fallen asleep in his arms, while they still stood there and while he still caressed her.
'And what are you two doing here?' Quatre asked playfully when he saw Mei Ran lying in Wufei's embrace.
'We're watching the sun rise.' Wufei answered.
'There is no sunrise here for another couple of weeks.' Trowa said back to them and his worries were washed away when he saw Wufei smiling again, with Mei Ran in his arms, still half asleep.
'Good to have you two back again.' Duo strokes her hair, 'It's just good to have you back again.'
'I'm so so-' she whispered sadly and was afraid to look at them.
'It's forgotten, and forgiven, okay?' Duo smiled at her, 'But this time, do try to stay here when you two are fighting again, okay? I've missed you're cooking!'
R&R please?
btw: the end, fin, owari, ende, einde
