Notes: Here's the second Chappie, hope you like and please R+R! luv, Broken
Promises.
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" Serena...... You're shaking." Duo raised Serena's face with his hand and ran his fingers lightly against her cheek, marveling on how soft and cold it was.Her lips had turned a light shade of blue and her eyes were unfocused. " Serena, I'm going to take you home ok?" Serena responded by shaking her head no vigorously and shaking, mumbling something inaudible. Duo raised an eyebrow. " Eh.....ok, I'm NOT going to take you home." Duo looked around him, trying to think of what to do. Then, he smiled.
' Quatre's mansion.' With a shaky breath, Duo gathered Serena in his arms and pushed himself up on his feet . She wasnt that heavy he thought, and noticed that she lost weight since the last time he'd seen her. Which was ........ a year or two ago. Closing the passenger door, he climbed in the drivers seat and ignited the car, glancing at Serena before he started the semi-long drive to the nearest place around here, Quatre's Mansion. Fishing out his cell he quickly dialed the familiar number and waited as it rang. His hands grabbed at the steering wheel tight enough that his knuckles turned white. It was true, he was nervous. He didnt know what was happening, she was freezing cold to the touch and...... " Hello?" " Trowa! Trowa, I need your help." " Duo? What's the matter?" " Where are the others?" There was a long silence and for a second, Duo thought he lost the connection. " Quatre's here with me, Heero went out for a while and Wufei is here staying for a couple of days. Whats wrong?" " Tell Quatre I'm on my way over there and I brought a friend of mine. She's sick and somethings happening and I dont know what it is. I need your help. I'll be there in ten minutes." Duo hanged up quickly and again glanced at Serena. She had closed her eyes and he could see her shaking violently. He got scared again, he hated when he gets scared. It's the worst feeling in the world. " No, no Serena. Dont shake like that please. Please dont shake like that, you're scaring me Serena." He whispered to himself, keeping one hand on the wheel and another laying Serena down on the seat. Placing her head on his lap, he smoothed out her hair with his hand and whispered to her.Begging her to hold on. " I'm sorry I broke my promise. I didnt know this was going to turn out like this." Tears watered his eyes, but he shook them away. Serena needed him, he wasn't going to breakdown now.
Duo's car quickly pulled up to Quatre's driveway, in front of the large house and he braked sharply, making the tires screech. He carried Serena out of his car through the drivers side and marched up to the front door. He knew he couldnt knock since both of his hands where holding Serena up, so he had to resort to kicking the door with his boots. " Open the damn door."
Wufei Chang sat in the large library, engrossed in his latest find: "A DUMMY'S GUIDE TO TRUE JUSTICE." Flipping page after page, he smiled. 'Yes, this is a true tresure find.' He thought. ' Finally, Quatre's useless library came in handy.' As he was about to turn the next page of his book, a loud knock came to the door. He stopped and the knock continued. He waited for one of Quatre's forty tag-alongs to open the door before he could continue to his book. The knock came even louder and still no one had opened. He growled and left the library to answer the door for himself. " INJUSTICE! How is a man supposed to read when noone will answer the door?!!?!" Ranting and raving, Wufei marched up to the door waving his hands in all directions to show his anger. ' If its Relena asking for Heero again, she's going to have a date with my katana.' He reached the door and opened it quickly . " Relena! Heero isnt here now. Why dont you...." Wufei blinked. " Maxwell?" Sure enough, there was Duo. Soaked and dripping, his boots caked with mud. His trademark braid messy and soaked. His eyes landed on the towel covered body in his hands and he raised an eyebrow. " Dont tell me you killed Relena, Maxwell. I knew you hated her but...." " I need your help Wufei. No, I did NOT kill Relena.Please help me." Duo pulled back a part of the towel and showed Wufei Serena's face. He could tell she was breathing shallowly and she was still shaking. ' Well, at least he didnt kill anybody.' Wufei opened the door wider, allowing Duo to come in. Duo stepped in, but he didnt know what to do, so he turned to Wufei. " Take her to my room. Its the only room nearest with a fireplace." Duo knew where his room was, as all five of the gundam pilots have a spare room in Quatre's mansion. Wufei watched Duo reteat to his room, leaving a trail of muddy footprints on the floor. He turned and headed to Trowa and Quatre's room to tell them that Duo's here. ' Rashid's going to piss in his pants when he see's Maxwell's mess. Oh well, not my problem.' He reached Quatre and Trowa's room and almost opened the door, but thought better of it. He didnt want to interrupt them if they were having one of thier "sessions". Instead, he knocked. " Come in!" Quatre said in a sing song voice. Opening the door, He saw that Quatre was temporarily busy trying to fish out something out from under his bed.Wufei heard him huff and puff as Quatre tried to pull something heavy out from under his bed,on his knees waving his rear in the air. " Yes?" Quatre asked, his voice muffled from under the bed. " Maxwell's here." Quatre jumped and hit his head on the bedframe.He crawled out rubbing his head. " Owch. Did you say Duo's here?" Wufei rolled his eyes at his blonde companion. " Yes, if I remember correctly, that IS what I said." Quatre jumped up quickly and raced out the door. " TROWA! Duo's here!" Wufei silently lead Quatre to his room, where Duo was waiting impatiently, ringing his hands and walking in circles nervously. " Duo are you ok? " " I'm fine, but my friend isnt. She's shaking and I dont know how to stop it.The hospital's too far away so I had to bring her over here." Quatre walked over to Wufei's bed where Serena was shaking and sweating profusely. Her eyes shut tight and hands gripping at the sheets. Quatre put a hand to her forehead. He looked at the fireplace. " Wufei, light the fireplace." Wufei nodded silently.Trowa came running in the room, his hair wet and he had a toothbrush in his mouth.Wufei raised an eyebrow. " Where were YOU?" Trowa removed the toothbrush from his mouth. " ....Shower. What happened?" " Dont ask me." Quatre looked her over once again and he came to a decision and blushed. Quickly, Quatre carefully removed her turtleneck and proceeded to unbutton her pants. Duo immediately screamed. " Quatre, what the HELL are you doing?" " She has hypothermia. The only way to help her is to keep her warm and keeping her in these wet clothes isnt going to help. So are you going to freak out, or are you going to trust me and help her?" " I guess." Duo whispered quietly. Wufei put a hand on Trowa's shoulder. " Come on, I dont think we should stay in here." Trowa nodded and both left. Quatre paused in removing Serena's soaked clothes and walked over to the fireplace to turn up the heat. Duo stood next to the bed, Trying desperatly trying not to look below Serena's face. " Are you going to stand there or are you going to help? " What do you want me to do?" Quatre stayed silent for a minute and looked back to the fireplace. " Get undressed." Now it was Duo's turn to blush. " WHAT?!?" " Serena needs your body heat, and your also soaked so you need to get out of those clothes as well. Stay in your boxers if your so uncomfortable." Duo blushed crimson and Quatre smiled at him.
" Duo, I know it's uncomfortable, but she needs you. Trust me, I know what I'm saying. I didnt go to medical school for nothing." " I'll tell Heero to check up on things tomorrow." Quatre frowned. " I suggest you take a look at her. You can ask her about it when she wakes up." Quatre shot a look at Serena and shook his head sadly and left the room, closing the door quietly.Duo was confused, ask her about what when she wakes up? Slowly, Duo undressed, blushing immensely and peeled the now dirty and sticky clothes on the floor. He stayed in his boxers like Quatre suggested. He didnt think that Serena would appreciate waking up next to a naked Duo. Lifted the covers, he climbed in and laid next to Serena, but didnt touch her. He was too nervous. He finally turned on his side, finally facing Serena and decided to take a good look at her. It was then that he understood what Quatre was telling him about, Serena had large bruises on her chest and arms. He got angry immediately and his hands clentched when he saw Serena's largest bruise. Around her neck, were hand marks. This bruise was recent he noticed. ' No matter. It doesnt matter how old or recent it is, it's still a bruise. I'll kill the asswhole who did this to you.' Taking the still shaking Serena, he wrapped his arms around her qently and holded her to him. He placed his chin on top of her head and ran his fingers through her long blonde hair, amazed at the softness and beauty. ' Even dirty and buised, she's still beautiful. I'm a fool to have let you go..... I'm sorry.' Finally letting his tears flow, Duo softly placed kisses on Serena's troubled face and shoulders, hugging her possesively against him. He noticed that she relaxed and her violent shakes reduced to mild chills.Placing a final kiss to her forehead, he allowed himself to close his eyes and fall asleep.
" You mean Duo went out with that girl before? How do you know?" Quatre asked, turning away from the game of chess that he and Trowa were currently playing to look at Heero. Heero just shrugged and kept typing at his laptop. " I'm surprised you didnt know with all the yaking that Duo does twenty-four seven." " .......Checkmate....." Quatre looked back at Trowa and then at the game board and back at Trowa.He pouted cutely at Trowa. Trowa looked back slightly amused. " Thats not fair, I was distracted!" " You wanna play again then?" " Nah, its ok Trowa, I dont feel like playing anymore." Behind them, they heard Heero shut down the computer and stand up from his seat.Quatre looked at him confused. " Where are you going?" " You wanted me to take Duo and Ms. Damsel-in-distress breakfast, didnt you?" Quatre was silent for a moment and then laughed embarassedly. " Oh yeah, I forgot! Hey while your at it, can you wake up Wufei?" Heero nodded and proceeded to go to the kitchen and came back carrying breakfast.He quietly walked through the mansion and was occasionally bumped into by some of Quatre's forty tag-alongs, as Wufei sarcastically nicknamed them.When he finally made it to the other side of the house where their bedrooms were located he spotted Wufei and tried to bite back a laugh. There was Wufei sleeping on the floor in front of his bedroom with his rear in the air, drool coming out the side of his mouth. He was mumbling something, so Heero bent down to hear better. " ......... Ummmm, justice........Sally, good..........Sally is justice......" Wufei smiled in his sleep.Heero straightened up, laughing silently. He used his left foot and softly kicked Wufei on the side. Wufei only mumbled another " Injustice" and turned away from Heero. Heero sighed deeply and told himself he'll wake Wufei up after leaving breakfast for Duo and that girl. Opening the door to Wufei's room, Heero set the tray on the night table on Serena's side. He turned to leave when something caught his eye. ' What is that?' He asked himself, lowering the blanket until Serena's bruise came clearly into view.He raised an eyebrow and examined the injury when he saw Duo move around on the bed next to Serena. " Youre awake." Duo didnt respond, just sat up in the bed, rubbing out the sleep from his eyes and trying to get used to the bright light that was coming in from the window. He turned to Heero, then to Serena and then to the bruise on her neck.His eyes narrowed as he remembered his promise to himself. " Her shaking stopped. She might get a slight fever, she might not. Make sure she eats breakfast." Heero paused. " Do you know who did this?" He asked, running his fingers over the now dark blue bruise.Duo shook his head no. " I know she got married to some guy, it might be him, but I dont know. I might be wrong." Heero nodded and straightened up. " The rest of us are in the library if you need anything."
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" Serena...... You're shaking." Duo raised Serena's face with his hand and ran his fingers lightly against her cheek, marveling on how soft and cold it was.Her lips had turned a light shade of blue and her eyes were unfocused. " Serena, I'm going to take you home ok?" Serena responded by shaking her head no vigorously and shaking, mumbling something inaudible. Duo raised an eyebrow. " Eh.....ok, I'm NOT going to take you home." Duo looked around him, trying to think of what to do. Then, he smiled.
' Quatre's mansion.' With a shaky breath, Duo gathered Serena in his arms and pushed himself up on his feet . She wasnt that heavy he thought, and noticed that she lost weight since the last time he'd seen her. Which was ........ a year or two ago. Closing the passenger door, he climbed in the drivers seat and ignited the car, glancing at Serena before he started the semi-long drive to the nearest place around here, Quatre's Mansion. Fishing out his cell he quickly dialed the familiar number and waited as it rang. His hands grabbed at the steering wheel tight enough that his knuckles turned white. It was true, he was nervous. He didnt know what was happening, she was freezing cold to the touch and...... " Hello?" " Trowa! Trowa, I need your help." " Duo? What's the matter?" " Where are the others?" There was a long silence and for a second, Duo thought he lost the connection. " Quatre's here with me, Heero went out for a while and Wufei is here staying for a couple of days. Whats wrong?" " Tell Quatre I'm on my way over there and I brought a friend of mine. She's sick and somethings happening and I dont know what it is. I need your help. I'll be there in ten minutes." Duo hanged up quickly and again glanced at Serena. She had closed her eyes and he could see her shaking violently. He got scared again, he hated when he gets scared. It's the worst feeling in the world. " No, no Serena. Dont shake like that please. Please dont shake like that, you're scaring me Serena." He whispered to himself, keeping one hand on the wheel and another laying Serena down on the seat. Placing her head on his lap, he smoothed out her hair with his hand and whispered to her.Begging her to hold on. " I'm sorry I broke my promise. I didnt know this was going to turn out like this." Tears watered his eyes, but he shook them away. Serena needed him, he wasn't going to breakdown now.
Duo's car quickly pulled up to Quatre's driveway, in front of the large house and he braked sharply, making the tires screech. He carried Serena out of his car through the drivers side and marched up to the front door. He knew he couldnt knock since both of his hands where holding Serena up, so he had to resort to kicking the door with his boots. " Open the damn door."
Wufei Chang sat in the large library, engrossed in his latest find: "A DUMMY'S GUIDE TO TRUE JUSTICE." Flipping page after page, he smiled. 'Yes, this is a true tresure find.' He thought. ' Finally, Quatre's useless library came in handy.' As he was about to turn the next page of his book, a loud knock came to the door. He stopped and the knock continued. He waited for one of Quatre's forty tag-alongs to open the door before he could continue to his book. The knock came even louder and still no one had opened. He growled and left the library to answer the door for himself. " INJUSTICE! How is a man supposed to read when noone will answer the door?!!?!" Ranting and raving, Wufei marched up to the door waving his hands in all directions to show his anger. ' If its Relena asking for Heero again, she's going to have a date with my katana.' He reached the door and opened it quickly . " Relena! Heero isnt here now. Why dont you...." Wufei blinked. " Maxwell?" Sure enough, there was Duo. Soaked and dripping, his boots caked with mud. His trademark braid messy and soaked. His eyes landed on the towel covered body in his hands and he raised an eyebrow. " Dont tell me you killed Relena, Maxwell. I knew you hated her but...." " I need your help Wufei. No, I did NOT kill Relena.Please help me." Duo pulled back a part of the towel and showed Wufei Serena's face. He could tell she was breathing shallowly and she was still shaking. ' Well, at least he didnt kill anybody.' Wufei opened the door wider, allowing Duo to come in. Duo stepped in, but he didnt know what to do, so he turned to Wufei. " Take her to my room. Its the only room nearest with a fireplace." Duo knew where his room was, as all five of the gundam pilots have a spare room in Quatre's mansion. Wufei watched Duo reteat to his room, leaving a trail of muddy footprints on the floor. He turned and headed to Trowa and Quatre's room to tell them that Duo's here. ' Rashid's going to piss in his pants when he see's Maxwell's mess. Oh well, not my problem.' He reached Quatre and Trowa's room and almost opened the door, but thought better of it. He didnt want to interrupt them if they were having one of thier "sessions". Instead, he knocked. " Come in!" Quatre said in a sing song voice. Opening the door, He saw that Quatre was temporarily busy trying to fish out something out from under his bed.Wufei heard him huff and puff as Quatre tried to pull something heavy out from under his bed,on his knees waving his rear in the air. " Yes?" Quatre asked, his voice muffled from under the bed. " Maxwell's here." Quatre jumped and hit his head on the bedframe.He crawled out rubbing his head. " Owch. Did you say Duo's here?" Wufei rolled his eyes at his blonde companion. " Yes, if I remember correctly, that IS what I said." Quatre jumped up quickly and raced out the door. " TROWA! Duo's here!" Wufei silently lead Quatre to his room, where Duo was waiting impatiently, ringing his hands and walking in circles nervously. " Duo are you ok? " " I'm fine, but my friend isnt. She's shaking and I dont know how to stop it.The hospital's too far away so I had to bring her over here." Quatre walked over to Wufei's bed where Serena was shaking and sweating profusely. Her eyes shut tight and hands gripping at the sheets. Quatre put a hand to her forehead. He looked at the fireplace. " Wufei, light the fireplace." Wufei nodded silently.Trowa came running in the room, his hair wet and he had a toothbrush in his mouth.Wufei raised an eyebrow. " Where were YOU?" Trowa removed the toothbrush from his mouth. " ....Shower. What happened?" " Dont ask me." Quatre looked her over once again and he came to a decision and blushed. Quickly, Quatre carefully removed her turtleneck and proceeded to unbutton her pants. Duo immediately screamed. " Quatre, what the HELL are you doing?" " She has hypothermia. The only way to help her is to keep her warm and keeping her in these wet clothes isnt going to help. So are you going to freak out, or are you going to trust me and help her?" " I guess." Duo whispered quietly. Wufei put a hand on Trowa's shoulder. " Come on, I dont think we should stay in here." Trowa nodded and both left. Quatre paused in removing Serena's soaked clothes and walked over to the fireplace to turn up the heat. Duo stood next to the bed, Trying desperatly trying not to look below Serena's face. " Are you going to stand there or are you going to help? " What do you want me to do?" Quatre stayed silent for a minute and looked back to the fireplace. " Get undressed." Now it was Duo's turn to blush. " WHAT?!?" " Serena needs your body heat, and your also soaked so you need to get out of those clothes as well. Stay in your boxers if your so uncomfortable." Duo blushed crimson and Quatre smiled at him.
" Duo, I know it's uncomfortable, but she needs you. Trust me, I know what I'm saying. I didnt go to medical school for nothing." " I'll tell Heero to check up on things tomorrow." Quatre frowned. " I suggest you take a look at her. You can ask her about it when she wakes up." Quatre shot a look at Serena and shook his head sadly and left the room, closing the door quietly.Duo was confused, ask her about what when she wakes up? Slowly, Duo undressed, blushing immensely and peeled the now dirty and sticky clothes on the floor. He stayed in his boxers like Quatre suggested. He didnt think that Serena would appreciate waking up next to a naked Duo. Lifted the covers, he climbed in and laid next to Serena, but didnt touch her. He was too nervous. He finally turned on his side, finally facing Serena and decided to take a good look at her. It was then that he understood what Quatre was telling him about, Serena had large bruises on her chest and arms. He got angry immediately and his hands clentched when he saw Serena's largest bruise. Around her neck, were hand marks. This bruise was recent he noticed. ' No matter. It doesnt matter how old or recent it is, it's still a bruise. I'll kill the asswhole who did this to you.' Taking the still shaking Serena, he wrapped his arms around her qently and holded her to him. He placed his chin on top of her head and ran his fingers through her long blonde hair, amazed at the softness and beauty. ' Even dirty and buised, she's still beautiful. I'm a fool to have let you go..... I'm sorry.' Finally letting his tears flow, Duo softly placed kisses on Serena's troubled face and shoulders, hugging her possesively against him. He noticed that she relaxed and her violent shakes reduced to mild chills.Placing a final kiss to her forehead, he allowed himself to close his eyes and fall asleep.
" You mean Duo went out with that girl before? How do you know?" Quatre asked, turning away from the game of chess that he and Trowa were currently playing to look at Heero. Heero just shrugged and kept typing at his laptop. " I'm surprised you didnt know with all the yaking that Duo does twenty-four seven." " .......Checkmate....." Quatre looked back at Trowa and then at the game board and back at Trowa.He pouted cutely at Trowa. Trowa looked back slightly amused. " Thats not fair, I was distracted!" " You wanna play again then?" " Nah, its ok Trowa, I dont feel like playing anymore." Behind them, they heard Heero shut down the computer and stand up from his seat.Quatre looked at him confused. " Where are you going?" " You wanted me to take Duo and Ms. Damsel-in-distress breakfast, didnt you?" Quatre was silent for a moment and then laughed embarassedly. " Oh yeah, I forgot! Hey while your at it, can you wake up Wufei?" Heero nodded and proceeded to go to the kitchen and came back carrying breakfast.He quietly walked through the mansion and was occasionally bumped into by some of Quatre's forty tag-alongs, as Wufei sarcastically nicknamed them.When he finally made it to the other side of the house where their bedrooms were located he spotted Wufei and tried to bite back a laugh. There was Wufei sleeping on the floor in front of his bedroom with his rear in the air, drool coming out the side of his mouth. He was mumbling something, so Heero bent down to hear better. " ......... Ummmm, justice........Sally, good..........Sally is justice......" Wufei smiled in his sleep.Heero straightened up, laughing silently. He used his left foot and softly kicked Wufei on the side. Wufei only mumbled another " Injustice" and turned away from Heero. Heero sighed deeply and told himself he'll wake Wufei up after leaving breakfast for Duo and that girl. Opening the door to Wufei's room, Heero set the tray on the night table on Serena's side. He turned to leave when something caught his eye. ' What is that?' He asked himself, lowering the blanket until Serena's bruise came clearly into view.He raised an eyebrow and examined the injury when he saw Duo move around on the bed next to Serena. " Youre awake." Duo didnt respond, just sat up in the bed, rubbing out the sleep from his eyes and trying to get used to the bright light that was coming in from the window. He turned to Heero, then to Serena and then to the bruise on her neck.His eyes narrowed as he remembered his promise to himself. " Her shaking stopped. She might get a slight fever, she might not. Make sure she eats breakfast." Heero paused. " Do you know who did this?" He asked, running his fingers over the now dark blue bruise.Duo shook his head no. " I know she got married to some guy, it might be him, but I dont know. I might be wrong." Heero nodded and straightened up. " The rest of us are in the library if you need anything."