Chapter: 11

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Summary: During the War Duo comes across an abused Harry (age about 5) who hides him from OZ/Alliance. Seeing the abuse Duo takes Harry away with him. Harry gets shunted about between the Pilots during the rest of the War. After the War, Harry stays with Duo and becomes the Pilots' collective little brother. He doesn't want to go to Hogwarts when the letter comes. Dumbledore won't take no for an answer.

Deception and Union Meetings

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Duo watched Harry sleep that night, while he reviewed his last mission.

Okay, so meeting Heero again, even if briefly had been sorta cool. But the Mexican style standoff hadn't been fun. Even though he knew that Heero hadn't known about Harry's past, he was still torn between wanting to pound the guy and wanting him to just smile a little. It would be better if they could team up on missions. Make things easier.

Well, at least Heero had wanted to return the favor. Destroying that Suit had helped. But Duo wasn't sure if when he had yelled: "Damn you. I'll get you back." Whether he had meant that he would pound Heero for hurting Harry, or whether he actually meant to return the favor and help Heero out.

Duo's laptop flashed up a message. Duo's face fell slightly as he read it.

He quickly checked that Harry was fast asleep, before slipping out of the room to find Howard. Howard was waiting for him in the mess hall.

"You've got another mission." Howard sighed, seeing the boy's face.

"New Edwards." Duo nodded.

"How long ya go?" Howard asked.

"I don't have to move until dawn." Duo replied, "But if this works out… The War should be over before it really begins, Howie."

"Don't get your hopes up, Kid." Howard sighed, "Wars have always had people saying things like 'Over before Christmas'. It never happened that way."

"I know, Howie." Duo shrugged, "But I gotta take that chance. Every day this War goes on… Harry's in danger. And I don't want him to grow up like me. Knowing only War. I want him to know Peace. I remember an old prayer I heard once… 'If there is to be conflict, let it be in my time, so that my children may know Peace'. That's what I want. No more War Orphans. No one else like me."

"Promise me you'll be careful?" Howard asked, "I don't know if that little boy will survive without you."

"I'll be careful." Duo nodded.

"And this time," Howard stated, "Tell the boy you're going. He thought you had abandoned him. You've got a lot of work to do, if you're going to correct what those scum that had him before did to him."

"You mean we have." Duo corrected, "You're family too, Howie. But yeah, I know. I'll tell him."

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"You gotta go, again?" Harry sniffled slightly.

"Yeah, munchkin." Duo nodded, "But don't you worry. I'll be back. We're family, now. And I'm not letting my little brother grow up without me."

"Little brother?" Harry stared at the older boy.

"Yeah," Duo agreed, "You're family. That means you're my brother."

"Does that mean I'm Harry Maxwell now?" Harry asked. Duo could see the longing and hope in the emerald eyes.

"If you want to be." Duo shrugged, "You can stick with Potter, if you'd…"

The braided boy got no further than that, as Harry bowled him over with a hug.

"Harry Maxwell, it is then." Duo declared, ruffling the younger boy's hair.

"Come back safe?" Harry insisted.

"You bet." Duo grinned, "See ya later, bro."

Duo had to fight with himself so that he didn't look back as he walked away. He knew that he would see a little boy with tear-filled-eyes. And he doubted that his resolve would manage against that image.

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The first step to get to New Edwards was to steal a carrier plane. However when Duo arrived at the nearest base to steal one, he found Heero already in the process of stealing one himself.

"Well," Duo muttered to himself, "I don't see any point in us making the trip separately."

It didn't take much to open the back of the craft and load Deathscythe aboard. And Duo wasn't too surprised when Heero greeted him with the business end of a gun. So he didn't change his attitude at all.

"Hey, you load yours on too, pal." Duo called up, "I'll come and take over in the cockpit."

It was a logical suggestion, so Duo wasn't too shocked when Heero slipped the safety onto the gun.

"Do what you want." Heero said bluntly, before dashing off.

"I must be getting through to him." Duo muttered to himself, as he scrambled into the cockpit, and finished running through the pre-flight checks.

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"Oh man!" Duo grinned as they flew through the air, "This is gonna be quite the battle, isn't it?"

"This mission's really big," Heero almost sighed, "I don't think you get it."

"You bet I do," Duo protested, "This is our chance to finally destroy the OZ organization."

"This time is different," Heero stated, "We're going to eliminate every OZ leader."

"Yeah," Duo nodded, "And then I can stop fighting."

"What about the kid?" Heero asked after a long pause.

"Harry?" Duo laughed, "He'll be fine. We'll live together. I'll do what I can to heal what his relatives did to him. He'll know a world of Peace… Did you apologize to him?"

"Not yet." Heero answered bluntly.

"Well," Duo smiled softly, "Time enough later."

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"Okay," Duo muttered to himself as he swung his scythe, "We appear to be having a Union Meeting here. All we need is number five."

"The thing I want to know," Duo readied himself to shift into either attack or defense, "Is whether those two guys are on the same side as us… And if they are… Do they know it? Friendly fire, isn't."

Out of the corner of his eye, Duo saw the plane with the leaders of OZ take off, but before he could get a lock Heero was moving. Duo watched as the plane was destroyed.

"Mission Accomplished." Duo heard Heero declare over the radio link. Heero's voice had a sense of pride and satisfaction to it.

The next problem was that the red and white Gundam had slipped into a more aggressive stance, though Duo couldn't exactly tell when. Things always got confused during a battle.

"Thanks for those missiles earlier, buddy," Duo drawled, "Now I'll return the favor."

Duo moved to attack. The adrenaline caused him to ignore the fact that the black and gold Gundam could back up its partner and destroy him. All Duo could see was that the red and white Suit was ready to attack Heero's Suit.

They started to exchange blows at first, but Red-and-White had the advantage with longer range weaponry. Though Duo knew he could absorb the blows for a while, eventually he would be destroyed.

"Cut it out, you guys!" Duo was vaguely aware of a voice over the radio, but he ignored it.

However he could not ignore the jets of fire that cut between him and Red-and-White. Both Suits jumped backwards.

"And here's number five." Duo muttered, staring at the newest Suit: Blue-and-White, "The Union Meeting may commence."

"Haven't you guys gotten tired of these meaningless battles yet?" The Suit's Pilot demanded.

"What do you mean?" Heero asked.

The explanation and proof rocked Duo's world, and he could hear Heero's equal shock and horror. Duo knew that while he was shocked… Heero would be horrified… After all, it was Heero who had done the deed… Not that Duo would have not done it had he had the chance.

"Military Intelligence," Duo swore, "Biggest *^£%(%$ oxymoron in the Sphere!"

Red-and-White and Blue-and-White rushed off to get a carrier plane. Obviously they were going to chase after Trieze. Duo started to follow, but Black-and-Gold's gentle words stopped him.

"Our missions have always focused on attacking when they least expect it. But the enemy clearly has the advantage right now."

"I see what you're saying, kid." Duo breathed.

However there were also other problems. Such as the still fighting Mobile Suits.

"So we didn't get them all." Duo murmured, as he dived out the way. Black-and-Gold mirrored his actions. But Heero stayed still.

"Move, you idiot!" Duo snapped. Heero didn't seem to hear him. Thus Duo was left with only one option… He wasn't going to leave Heero here to be killed, so the other side had to die.

"So how long to you expect us to look after you?" Duo wasn't expecting an answer.

"Your friend has just gone through a little too much it seems." Black-and-Gold commented, but didn't condemn. A fact that Duo was grateful for.

And while he was grateful that someone on the base informed them that the large missiles were set to self-detonate… They were set to self-detonate! A fact that Duo quickly wished wasn't happening. He told the others to split, after Black-and-Gold confirmed the information. But Black-and-Gold pointed out that they would never clear the blast radius.

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"I gotta say," Duo sighed as he flew away safely after Heero had dealt with the problem, "You're quite the guy, Heero."

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Duo had barely been on Howard's ship for a day and a half, before his next mission arrived.

"Go, go, go." He muttered, "Hey Howie, how's Deathscythe doing?"

"He'll be ready in a couple of hours, Kid." Howard called over to where Duo and Harry were playing hide and seek. Harry was hiding and Duo counting. "You got another mission."

"Yeah," Duo shrugged, "But I won't need Deathscythe to start off with." Duo glanced at the computer screen again, "In fact…"

"In fact what?" Howard frowned.

Internally Duo was weighing the pros and cons of what he was about to do.

#It wouldn't hurt. He wouldn't be in any danger. The school does take kids from about six… And if anything, having him around will make the mission safer… They'd be looking for a single operative… Not one with a kid brother… If they're looking for child operatives at all… I could take him with me.#

"I think Harry can come along as well," Duo grinned at the younger boy, "We'd be going to a school. No danger."

"You sure on that, Kid?" Howard looked over to where Duo had suddenly been bowled over by Harry.

"I swear," Duo replied between laughs, "No harm will come to Harry. All the danger will be away from him. And it'll do him good. Let him see the World off this floating salvage yard of yours. We'll go as brothers."

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I feel slightly ashamed at writing this. All I ever seem to do is transcribe parts of episodes, in an attempt to move the plot forward in the Gundam Wing timeline… Oh well, it needs to be done, so that we will eventually get to after the War.

Just so that Clumsy Chic and everyone else knows where we are, I left this just between episodes 8 and 9.

Good luck, Clumsy Chic! I pass the baton to you.

This was written by: Raliena