Dr. J Returns
Part 6: Dr. J's Demise
By: Traci14

Anime series: Gundam Wing
Romance/action/suspense/alternate universe
Not a lemon or a lime
Yaoi: Heero and Duo
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing or any of its characters. The only characters that are mine are the ones that don't belong in Gundam Wing.

The door was quiet. Obviously it had been kept well oiled. Something like that could be Dr. J's downfall. He opened the door and was surprised to see Dr. J waiting for him. No weapons, though. "Hello, Duo, nice to see you." Dr. J said. "Yeah, I'll bet. Stop acting like we're old friends. You've hurt Heero for the last damn time! I'm sick of it! No more!" Duo yelled, drawing his gun and firing. Dr. J deflected it with that claw for a hand. "What's that thing made out of?" Duo asking himself. "It's my own creation. It's bullet proof and can even deflect bullets. Doesn't that sound like a nice sort of metal?" Dr. J asked. "Great, just what I need. "Robo-doctor." Duo said. "Duo, Dr. J is just messing with your head. He wants you off guard and it looks like it's working. Please, I'll create a distraction and you can make a break for it." Heero whispered. "No, Heero. I'm staying." Duo said. He wasn't going to leave Heero to that monster. "Your crazy and I can't let you go on hurting people. There's no way I could possibly even get someone to take you to the nuthouse because your supposed to be dead, but I can send you to Hell." Duo said, firing his gun again, this time intentionally hitting Dr. J's robotic arm. He hit the arm in just the right spot that the arm fell off. The weakest point on the arm. Where it connected with his body. That lab coat wasn't going to stop that bullet from hitting it's mark. "You need to respect your elders." Dr. J said, seemingly not worried.

"You have to respect my loved ones and me before I'll respect you." Duo said. "I thought I was being very respectful." Dr. J said, pretending to be puzzled. "Trying to throw me off guard so you can find a way to kill me isn't respecting me. Having Heero raped and beaten when he's too weak to even defend himself, isn't respectful to him and neither is kidnapping him, brainwashing him, and threatening to put some kind of chip in his head, then turn him into an all out cyborg!" Duo yelled. "Now, now, even young men such as yourself should watch your blood pressure." Dr. J said. He seemed to be starting to worry as he backed up a ways away from Heero and Duo.

"Your not getting away! I wont let you! Your never going to hurt Heero again. Do you understand me?! And I'm not letting it go as a warning! I came here to help Heero and to kill you and that's what I'm going to do!" Duo said, readying his gun to fire one last shot into Dr. J's chest. He had leveled the gun the certain point that no matter where Dr. J turned he'd end up dead. Some places he may be in more agony for a longer time, but he'd definitely die. "Then you should know something. Heero already has the chip in his head. Well, he has an experimental, temporary chip in his brain. I put it there while he slept after the last brainwashing. I made sure that no matter how much pain he was in, Heero wouldn't awaken until the chip was placed in his brain and the wound closed up again." Dr. J said. "What do you mean, experimental, temporary?" Duo asked. "The chip is experimental. I am still experimenting with that particular chip. If it didn't work within one month, which is the temporary, and it was left in his brain, it would spread a deadly poison through his brain and nervous system. First he would be paralyzed, then he would be in complete and total pain. His whole body would. Even his hair would hurt. That pain would stay until the end. You don't move past the point of pain with this poison until you are already dead. Once your dead, you stop feeling the pain. But, that's not all. His weakest limbs and organs will start to rot as soon as this poison is administrated into his system. A few minutes after he's had the poison spreading through him he'll be almost unrecognizable and once he is completely dead, no one would be able to identify the body with anything other than his clothes for a long time." Dr. J said.

"You fucked up monster, how could you even do that?!" Duo asked. "If the experiment failed I didn't want Heero running around telling everyone about me. I want to live the rest of my life free and not in some mental institution." Dr. J said. "At least at a mental institution you'd get help instead of runnin' around scarin' the shit outta everybody! I don't understand why you have the right to live a free life when your as fucked up as you obviously are, but Heero can't! He's normal again! I know he was a normal person at one time and he was finally acting like a normal person and then you showed up and had to fuck everything up! I don't know why your doin' this, but I'm gonna stop it! Thanks for that last bit of info. Now, I don't have to watch Heero die in agony of something I didn't even know was there. Thanks, I guess I owe ya one. Well, here's my payback, you good for nothin' jack ass! I'll see you in Hell and then I'll make Hell, Hell for you!" Duo yelled as he shot Dr. J in the chest. The mad doctor grabbed his chest and fell over, face first. He didn't have any last words. He either had nothing to say or refused to say anything out loud or he didn't have time. Which one it was, Duo and Heero didn't stick around to find out.

"Heero, we gotta get ya to the hospital. I want those doctors there to check ya out and see if what Dr. J said was really true and if it is, I want 'em to get that chip outta your brain as fast as possible." Duo said. Heero nodded.

When they got to the part of the colony that actually had civilization on it, they called for a cab. They road to the carrier that was waiting for them in silence. They couldn't mention anything that had just happened to anyone or anywhere someone might hear it. The only people that were ever possibly going to find out were Relena, who knew, and the other pilots, who had yet to find out. They weren't telling anyone anything until Heero was prepared to answer any questions that might come up.

Once on the carrier they were in a private room. "Heero, this may be a rushed question, but do you feel comfortable talking about the brainwashing and other stuff that happened?" Duo asked. "No. I don't think I will, either." Heero said. "Alright, we don't have to talk about it now, but I hope that you do talk to me about it someday or even some night. I don't care if you have to wake me up outta some really hot dream. I'll gladly wake up to listen to what you have to say about it. I'm not joking. Until then, I'll leave it alone, but that's only if you can sleep at night. The first nightmare you have, your spillin' it, Heero. I don't wanna make ya talk about anything your not ready to talk about, but if it's effecting you in a bad way, then I want you to talk about it, because then it might stop. I'll do anything for you. And I don't want you hurt." Duo said, rubbing the backs of his fingers against Heero's cheek. Heero put his hand on Duo's, shut his eyes and just held Duo's hand in place for a while, before he spoke. "I'll tell you everything I can remember. A few things are still a little hazy." Heero said. "That's all I'm asking. Tell me whatever you can. I'll listen to you and I wont interrupt." Duo said, giving Heero his undivided attention.

Heero told Duo about everything he could remember. Starting with the voices. "I woke up in a room that was totally dark and I had things stuck to my head and chest. I was afraid for you, so I yelled for you, then I heard Dr. J's voice. After he stopped talking, he turned the machine was attached to the things stuck to my head by wires and the ones stuck to my chest went to another machine. As soon as it started I heard voices. They told me things I knew weren't true about all of my friends, including you. I yelled for him to stop that machine, but as soon as I resisted like that, an electric charge went through my body starting from those things on my chest. I thought that a charge like that starting from the chest would kill a person, but it didn't even knock me out. Soon after he stopped that machine, he started what he called 'faze two of breaking in'. That was images. Mostly of you." Heero said. "Of me, doing what?" Duo asked. "Things I know you'd never do." Heero said. "Such as?" Duo asked. He knew he said he wouldn't interrupt, but he had to. He needed to know this. "A lot of different images of you cheating on me. Like one image I saw was of you kissing some other boy, another one had me catching you in bed with another boy, and another was of you walking up to another boy and kissing him right in front of me and then you turned around and smiled at me, then left with him. Images like that." Heero said. "Oh, God, Heero, I'm sorry. I would never do anything like that, you know that." Duo said. "I know, but those pictures were implanted in my head like that and it hurt to see them." Heero said, tears starting to cascade down his cheeks. Duo leaned over and hugged Heero, comfortingly and protectively. "I know, I know. If this is too hard for you, we can wait until your more comfortable with it." Duo said. "No, if I stop now, I wont be able to ever get this out." Heero said. He took a breath, as Duo started to rub his back in slow circles. "After that I asked him to stop again, this time I didn't get a charge. He started what he called 'faze three of breaking in' and then I saw you, just you, nothing else, not even color. You and total blackness. You said things to me. Like you didn't love me and you never did and never could. Things like that." Heero said. He was crying so hard, now, that he was almost impossible to understand, but somehow Duo was able to understand what he'd said. Understood in more ways than one. He buried his face next to Heero's neck and nuzzled it. "I'm sorry this had to happen to you. It shouldn't have had too." Duo said.

"I know." Heero said, finding a way to do the same to Duo without having him move. "I love you so much, and I'll never, ever hurt you like that, never" Duo said. "I know and I'm ashamed, because after that, I passed out. I was using too much of my physical energy to fight the brainwashing and then I couldn't fight after I passed out. After that, images and voices were all I could hear and see, even in my dreams. After that stopped there was nothing for I don't know how long, then it started again, but this time it was saying what I was, who I was, what I was for and what I would become. Over and over again and who I was to take orders from. After that stopped, that's when I was taken to the other room and, well, you know what happened there." Heero said.

"Yeah, I do and it wouldn't have happened if I'd of been faster." Duo said. "No, Duo, you had to find me first. I'm just glad that I didn't carry out Dr. J's orders. I'm sorry, I tried to, I'm sorry I didn't get away from that man and Dr. J, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Heero said, getting harder and harder to understand. Tears started to well up in Duo's eyes to see his love in such pain. "Please, don't, Heero. You have nothing to be sorry for. You couldn't help any of that stuff. Please, Heero, please. It wasn't your fault, none of it was. I can't stand to see you in this much pain." Duo said, now letting the tears flow freely, but not show in his voice. "Alright. I know it's not my fault, but it feels like it is. I wont do this again. I promise. I just had to get that all out." Heero said. "You don't know how relieved I am to hear that." Duo said. Heero hugged Duo closer to him, threatening to crush him. Duo didn't say or do anything, he just hugged Heero tighter, glad to have him back in one piece. Unfortunately, he wasn't going to be safe until he got that chip out of his head. Heero fell asleep in Duo's arms and Duo didn't want to move away from Heero, because he thought Heero needed a rest after what he'd been through, so he laid down with Heero on the king sized bed in the bedroom. Obviously, this was the room Relena occupied while on the carrier. Soon, Duo fell asleep as well.

Neither boy woke up until the carrier landed. "Heero, time to get up and off the carrier." Duo said, regretfully waking Heero up. He didn't want to wake Heero. He was sleeping so well and he hadn't had one nightmare. He probably could have slept a whole lot more. "Hmmm? I don't feel well. I just need a few more minutes." Heero said, turning on his side. "Awww, what's wrong, sweetie?" Duo asked, moving some of Heero's bangs out of his eyes. "My stomach hurts and so does my head." Heero said. "Heero, I think we have to get you to a hospital now. I don't like that your head is hurting. Not with that thing still in your head." Duo said. Heero nodded his head and tried to get up, but fell back down. "I can stand up, it hurts too much." Heero said.


Author's note: So, what's wrong with Heero? Is it just something that he would have gotten even if he didn't have that chip in his head or is because of the chip? Find out in the next part! But, in the meantime, how was this part? E-mail 'bout it, traci1985babe@hotmail.com