Gundam Gangsters 2001 p8
Disclaimer: I don't own this stuff k? Otay!
Notes: This starts 3 years after p7 and I'm telling you now we got some lemon content. With who? Haha wouldn't you like to know! Oh yeah kinda bloody too.
Key: *-* change in scene
*--* change in time of day (from day to night and vice versa)
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Devin rushed across the courtyard to his friends side and slapped him on the arm almost causing him to drop the weights he was lifting, "Duo why didn't you tell me you were getting out on parole?!"
Duo placed the weights on the ground and looked the short man in the eyes, "Um because I'm not, I can't be paroled for the next fifteen years you know that." He said, annoyed he had been interrupted.
"What are you talking about? I heard from Jerry who heard from Big Baby who…"
"Spit it out!"
"I heard you were getting out today."
"Not possible like, I said, and besides I haven't even been to the parole board."
Devin sighed heavily, "I guess it's not a good idea to take the word of a dwarf named Sassy."
"I guess not." Duo said giving Devin a funny look.
"I'm kind of glad you're not going I would miss you if you did."
"Wish I could say the same." He said coldly and walked off.
"Oh you don't mean that."
Duo ignored him and went to the other side of the courtyard to use look out at the open fields the prison overlooked, Devin was a nice guy but he didn't care. When he had come hear something had changed within him, he didn't want to be friends, he didn't want to make allies he wanted to be alone. Ever since Quatre had told him of Hilde and Trowa he had become a hateful person as well. Since the first letter three years ago, in total, he had received twelve letters from Quatre, not that he could talk he didn't exactly write back. With his letters he sent pictures of Jason, Hilde, Dorothy, Sally and her kids. He never sent any of Trowa though the only shot he had was the one he had sent the first time. He cherished the pictures like the one of Quatre and Dorothy's wedding, and especially the ones of his son but that one with Trowa in it, that one he cut up. More specifically cut out Trowa, and hung it up at the foot of his bed to use as a dart board, using sharpened pencils as the darts. By now the face of the picture was worn through but he didn't care he would just imagine his face there and throw with all his might, he had shattered quiet a few pencils doing that. In fact he spent more on pencils than other inmates spent on cigarettes. Another thing that annoyed him to no end was the fact that he had surrendered his freedom to save his friends life and the man had gotten himself killed a couple of hours later. It seemed his whole life was like one big ironic pile of crap.
When it was time to go back inside he shuffled along thinking about nothing in particular when a guard grabbed him and led him away from the rest of the prisoners. He protested his innocence to whatever it was he was being blamed for but was ignored. He was bought to his cell and handed a cardboard box and a change of clothes by another nearby guard.
"Pack up Maxwell." Said the second guard, "And put these on." He was referring to the clothes
"Why?"
"Because you're moving out you idiot."
The guards left and Duo sighed, "Changing cells again? Man why do I have to be the one to move? Although the wardrobe change is nice." He said looking at the change of clothes in his hands; it was a pair of jeans and a black button up shirt.
After a few minutes one of the guards returned and, to his surprise, dragged him and his box to the front office.
The guard then shoved a form under his nose and said, "Sign hear."
Duo looked it over, "Why?"
"Just sign it." The man sighed.
He frowned and signed, the guard then led him to the door and practically pushed shoved him out. Duo stepped out and stood in shock, he was outside…of the prison…with his stuff…'What the hell…' The guards posted at the two gates in front of him let him through without a problem, 'Did I just get kicked out of prison?' The confusion all banished when he spotted a tall blonde man down the street wearing a three piece suit leaning against a black Mustang waving at him. He then recognized the man as Quatre.
That's when he burst out laughing, "Hahahaha I get it! This, hehe, this is one of those dreams where you realize hahahahahahahahahahah *wheeze* that you're dreaming cause, hahahaha, cause it's so absurd!"
Quatre walked over to his friend looking confused, "Hi Duo, uh you ok?"
Duo wiped the tears that had formed from laughing so hard, "Ha! Five years in prison and I've finally snapped."
Quatre just smiled and hugged him, "It's so good to see you again! Come on we have quiet a drive in front of us."
Duo shrugged and followed him into the car, "I wonder when I'm going to wake up this is too weird." He chuckled as he got in.
When Quatre was in he started the car and drove off a ball of joy, "I am so happy to see you! Geeze how long has it been? Five years? And I like the hair it looks good, you must have been working out too you've got muscles on your muscles."
"Yeah I know." He giggled.
"What's so funny?"
"This is the most fucked up dream since the one I had about drowning Trowa in bleach."
Quatre glanced at him, "Duo I know it seems weird you getting out like this but it's not a dream I assure you, Dorothy and I have been working to get you free ever since you got in. You know a few of the people killed in the blast were related to some people in power, and since the guilty party was dead they took it out on you in a way. First of all they rigged it so you wouldn't receive mail somehow. You would not believe what I had to go through to send you what I did. Secondly they did a bit of tweaking of your records so you couldn't receive visitors. That was one I couldn't get past, finally a few months ago Dorothy was able to get in touch with a few of her friends in the legal system and get you paroled. The only reason she got away with it is because the families have pretty much lost interest in you and we were able to get it done without anyone noticing. So we got you set free as soon as we could."
He was beginning to see this wasn't a dream, "And what if one of these unhappy people decide to check on me?"
Quatre flashed a smile, "We'll take care of it."
For the first time he realized he was really free, although his conscious mind couldn't quite grasp it, "Wow, this is…wow." He turned and looked out the window seeing images flashing by things he had missed so much; stores, cars, people…more specifically women.
Quatre was very happy to see his friend again, but worried. At first he thought brining Duo with him to the little get together he was going to. 'He's still pissed about Hilde.' He thought, the 'drowning Trowa in bleach' thing had given that away, as well as the picture of his faceless ex-friend hanging from his box at his feet. The thing Quatre was worried about was what Duo would do when he found out what he hadn't told him in that last letter he sent. Although he doubted knowing Hilde and Trowa now had a little girl could make things any worse, it just might put his, obviously present, anger over the edge. Among other small details. Nervously he bit his lip, maybe this was a bad idea, the last thing he needed was for Duo to get hauled back off to jail for murder.
The ride lasted a few hours, on the way the two caught up on old times and discussed things; like Quatre's married life, Duo's short hair etc. When they finally they arrived at Quatre's mansion they were greeted at the gates by an old man with the classic disgruntled post worker look all over his face.
Before the man opened his door Quatre leaned over and said, "Don't worry about Charlie he's harmless." Duo got out on his own and as soon as he immerged with his box the old man fixed him with the killer glare, Quatre noticed this spoke up, "Charlie this is my good friend Duo Maxwell he'll be living hear for a while." Charlie snorted and walked off, when he was out of site he said, "That's Dorothy's chauffeur, and personal servant, mine too really he is very protective of her. He's hated me since the day he saw me and if you think that look he just gave me was bad you should have seen the look I got when he drove Dorothy and I to our hotel on our honeymoon."
Duo shuddered, "I can just imagine." When they walked inside he stood and gasped at the sheer size of the place.
"You can set your things anywhere the maid will bring it to your room."
He set his box down by the couch in the living room and followed his blonde friend as he wandered through his home in search of his wife. They found her on the patio petting a black cat and reading a magazine. Quatre quietly crept up behind her but was betrayed by the cat meowed loudly upon seeing him.
"Quatre you're home!" she squealed as she jumped up to hug him.
Duo just stood off to the side and watched wishing there was a woman waiting to great him like that. Once Dorothy was done showering her husband with affection she turned her attention to him and a sweet smile spread over her face.
"You must be Duo it's so nice to finally meet you." She said extending her hand.
He shook it and smiled back, "Well I would just like to thank you for getting me out. I know you risked a lot in doing that for me."
"No trouble at all, why don't you have a seat." She said motioning to one of the lawn chairs that were around.
Dorothy sat down and Duo followed suit, Quatre stood nearby talking baby talk to the cat the was begging for his attention.
"I wish there was some way I could thank you but I don't have any money…"
"Don't worry about it, I have all I need hear, to ask others for something would be greedy of me."
"Well thank you again, you have no idea how good it feels to be free." He said looking up at the sky.
Quatre sat next to him and placed a hand on his shoulder, "You have no idea how good it is to have you back."
Duo though for a moment before he spoke again, "Quatre I need to ask one thing of you."
"Name it."
"Tell me where Hilde is…I need to talk to her." He said quietly.
"Duo I don't think…"
"Quatre." Said Dorothy, "Go ahead."
Quatre wasn't so sure it was a good idea but he knew his friend was going to go one way or another.
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"I love him even though I hate him, how can that be? I cry because of the loss but I don't miss him, I wish sometimes I could just hear his voice, even if it was the sound of him scolding me. I wish I could disappear and not have this much hurt anymore but I can't nothing I do makes the pain stop. The image of him haunts me every day and night in my sleep and in my daydreams. I thought when I was younger that after a few years the whole thing would become clear. That all my feelings would be sorted and I would know why I did it but it hasn't and the thought that terrifies me is that it never will."
Shi put down his paper and looked over the shocked faces of his fellow classmates, the only one who wasn't looking at him like he was some sort of two headed six toed lion was his sister Tammy. She was smiling; she knew how much courage it had taken him to get up and say what he felt. Slowly he walked back to his seat and waited for the trance of silence to be broken.
"Uh Shi t-thank you for sharing that very nice but um, v-very morbid poem with us." Stammered Ms Hoffman, his literature teacher.
"You're welcome." Was all he said.
"Alright then who's next?"
The whole class paled when Tammy raised her hand, but fortunately were saved by the end of school bell. Shi and his sister were, as usual, the last ones to come out of the schoolhouse; waiting outside for them was their mother in a red van. She waved at them to get their attention and Tammy rushed to the car to greet her ritualistically dumping her booksack in the trunk and taking her seat in the front.
"Mom can we go to the movies tonight? You said if I got a perfect score on my science test we could go and I did!" said Tammy holding up the graded paper.
Sally looked it over and pretended to not be surprised by it. Truth be told since her children had skipped two grades she was greatly impressed by any passing grade they got, she just made little deals like this to keep them at their best.
"Sure we can a promise is a promise." She said.
Shi got in the back, like he always did, and was quiet as they drove off. He did this no matter where they were going or with who. He liked to be alone the only people he really even spoke to were Sally, Tammy, and one other person he hadn't realized yet. She seemed to be the only person who knew how to make his pain go away and being near her made him feel alive for once. Sally and Tammy noticed this of course, he lit up every time she was even mentioned. Now was one of those moments…
"But," continued Sally, "before we do we have to stop and get Mariemeia from her school, I told Anne I'd get her today." Tammy giggled softly when she saw the way Shi's head shot up at the mention of his friends name.
"We are?" asked Shi trying not to seem too overjoyed.
"That's what she said duffus!" teased Tammy, Shi stuck his tongue out.
Soon they arrived at the high school and found the short haired redhead sitting on a bench waiting, when she saw them approaching picked up her books and walked up to the van. She go in the back was next to Shi with a big grin on her face.
"Hi guys have a good day? Mine was great!" cheered Mariemeia.
"What was so great about it?" asked Shi.
"My boyfriend and I have a date for Saturday and I am so excited!"
Shi didn't know why but this bothered him, "You have a boyfriend?" he asked.
"Yes as of one week ago." She said proudly.
"Does your dad know about this?" asked Sally jokingly as she pulled onto the highway.
"No way he'd kill me! But my mom knows and she's cool with it, but anyways what's up with you all?"
"I passed my science test!" bragged Tammy.
"Nothing really." Replied Sally, Shi remained silent.
"What about you Shi?" she asked.
This time he looked up and said, "I wrote a poem in class today about dad." Again came the sound of silence, Shi felt like an ass for bringing it up around his mother but leave it to Mariemeia to make it better.
"Really? Wow when I was your age I was struggling to write my name!"
Sally chuckled, "Don't feel bad he managed to skips two grades without realizing, until last year, his name was spelled with an i!"
Shi blushed furiously and swore under his breath, "I knew how to spell my name I just wanted to see if the teacher knew." He pouted, that just excited more laughs out of the group. He didn't mind much though he liked to watch her laugh.
"Ok hear we are." Announced Sally as she stopped in front of the young girls house.
Mariemeia thanked her for the ride and got out to go inside, but stopped when she heard Shi call her name. When she turned around she saw him hop out of the van open the trunk and dig around in his booksack for something. When he found what he was looking for he came up to her and handed her the object; it was a necklace with a silver howling wolf hanging from it.
"Almost forgot to give you this, I saw it when I was out with my mom, I know wolves are your favorite animal so when I saw it I though of you."
She took it and looked at it appreciatively, "Aw Shi you are so sweet!" she squealed as she hugged him tightly and placed a small kiss on his forehead. When she had gone inside Shi slipped back into the van and curled as far behind his mother as he could get, he knew he was glowing red.
*--*
"Is he asleep?" asked Hilde.
Trowa looked down at the small boy on the couch, he was sprawled out on the couch with a pretzel hanging out of his mouth and the television remote slipping out of his hand.
"Yes." He whispered.
He wiped Jason's long hair out of his face and picked him up, and wordlessly carried him to bed. When he emerged he quietly followed Hilde to their room. The last thing they needed was for Jason to wake up and start his 'I'll bet a cookie you can't catch me' game. Or decide since he wasn't sleepy his baby sister, Katie, should be awake as well. The boy was a heavy sleeper, but the first rule of parenthood is, take no chances.
Trowa slowly closed the door and sighed heavily, "Yes! They're asleep!" he whispered happily.
Hilde was sitting on the bed putting on her night clothes witch consisted of nothing more than a blue silk nightshirt. Her hair had grown over the years and now hung midway down her back, and despite childbirth she still had a full slim figure. All these details, Trowa found, he had never truly taken the time to appreciate until now and it was having quite an effect on his body. He considered ignoring to urge but something about the way she looked told him that was out of the question. Hilde, oblivious to the wandering eyes of her husband, had taken the time to brush her hair and didn't notice the shift of the bed as he got on it. His presence became known, however, when his hands came from behind hand in an instant had her pinned on the bed.
"Trowa what are you doing?" she snapped.
He responded by kissing her deeply, she allowed his tongue to explore her mouth until she felt him slowly lifting her nightgown. She pulled back and playfully hit him with her brush.
"Not now we just go Jason to sleep!" she hissed.
"Don't worry about him he could sleep through a freight train running through his bedroom." Said Trowa as he trailed hissed down her neck.
Hilde pushed him away once again, "What is with you? Come on I'm tired ok?"
He though for a moment, "Nope not ok." He said and attempted to pull her clothes of again.
"Trowa if he wakes up you are the one who has to catch him got it?" she asked as she shifted her weight to allow him to take her slip off.
"Yeah, yeah." he murmured into her neck.
Hilde bit her lip to keep from moaning out loud as his hands massaged her breasts in painfully slow caresses. While his hands worked their magic, she was unbuttoning his shirt quickly feeling an urgency fueled the passion that was building within her. Once she had his shirt off she threw it across the room and began to work his pants off, that took much less time and Trowa soon found himself victim of Hilde's slow strokes. Although he was enjoying her attention immensely he knew how much he could take and at this rate he was not going to last long. In a flash he pinned her hands above her head and kissed her one more time before he entered her. Hilde gasped and buried her head in the crook of his neck, no longer trying to stop herself from making any noise, she could see now that wasn't going to work. Trowa started at a slow pace more for himself than her and built up to a steady, fast rhythm that made Hilde scream outright. To keep her quiet he covered her mouth with his and picked up the pace. Not long after Hilde felt an Earth shattering climax building quickly inside her, and Trowa was not far behind. Unfortunately when they were both on the very edge there was, what seemed to be, an ear shattering ringing noise coming from the hall. That was followed by the sound of baby Katie crying and little Jacob racing out of his room to answer the doorbell.
Hilde frowned at the sound of Jason yelling 'who is it?', "Sleeps through a freight train huh?"
Trowa growled in angry frustration and rolled off Hilde to retrieve his clothes, "Whoever it is I am going to shoot them I really am." He snapped and marched to the front door.
When he got there he found Jason hopping up and down to see whoever was outside through the eyehole, "Hey dad do ya think it's tha police?!" he asked still hopping.
Trowa ignored this and opened the door, and found himself looking at 6ft. muscular man with short brown hair, he hadn't noticed the open door because he was looking down at something written on a piece of paper. "Can I help you?" he asked more than a little irritated.
"Oh hey man can I need to talk to Hilde." He said.
"What?"
"I want to talk to Hilde." He repeated.
"I heard you the first time but what I want to know is what right you have to just show up and demand to see my wife. For your information she can't come to the door right now."
The mans face went from gentle to very angry, "You should be down on your knees thanking me for not ripping you lungs out on site you two faced traitor it's taking all my willpower as it is to keep from doing just that!"
"Hey Mr. My dad'll beat you if you don't stop yelling." Said Jason.
"Jason." The stranger whispered to himself.
"Hey how'd ya know my name?!"
This bothered Trowa as well, "Jason get in the house." He demanded.
"Awwww but daaaaad!"
"Now!"
"He thinks you are his father?!" he yelled.
"I am his father and what is it to you?!"
"Why you little mother fucker!!" he roared and without warning slugged Trowa in the face knocking him all the way in the house and unconscious, he followed him inside and was about to inflict more damage when Hilde appeared wearing a robe with Jason hiding behind it. When she saw the man and what he had done to Trowa she froze not knowing what to do.
The man stood and looked down at Trowa, "Sorry about that I just lost my temper and I've wanted to do that for the longest." Hilde slowly backed away from him, and he could tell she was going to make a break for her room and more than likely call the police. "Hey look I'm not going to hurt you alright I'm not mad at you."
She continued to back away when he took a step forward she jumped and backed away faster, this time the man came straight for her. Hilde picked up Jason and flew into Katie's nursery with the stranger right on her heals she tried to slam the door on him but it was too late he had already worked his foot in and pushed it open. Katie was screaming at the disruption from her place in her crib.
"What do you want?" she asked in a terrified voice.
"Nothing really I just wanted to talk to you that's all."
"Why?"
"We have some thinks to talk about don't you think?"
"What are you talking about who are you?!"
Before he could respond he was tackled from behind by Trowa and pinned to the floor, but the man was too big and much stronger so he easily bucked him off and stood again with a lost look on his face, "You guys don't know who I am?"
"Yes you are about to be arrested."
"Oh I see just move in and forget about me, and I thought Heero was the one with the bad memory." He growled.
Trowa's eyes widened in realization, "Duo?!"
"Yes you unibanged freak are just now realizing that?!" he growled.
Hilde was stunned, there he was after all this time and she didn't know what to do. This surprised her because for years she had dreamed of what she would do if she saw him again, but now that he right there in front of her she was speechless, she did know if she should hit him or hug him.
"How did you get out of jail?" she asked finally.
"Cool that guy's been to jail?!" asked Jason.
"Quatre got me out on early parole."
Trowa got up and looked Duo over, "You've change a lot."
"Nooo Reeeally I hadn't noticed."
"It's great to see you again I guess." He said rubbing his swelling jaw.
"What are you doing hear?" asked Hilde.
Duo took a step forward, "I need to talk to you."
She looked over at Trowa then back to Duo, "Alright." She sighed, "Let me get dressed."
She walked out of the room leaving the two men alone in the room with a squalling baby and an a nosy five year old who was standing under them waiting for the next words to be spoken.
"So," Duo said finally, "what were you up to before I came?" he was referring to the face he was wearing nothing but boxers.
Trowa pretended he didn't hear, "Jason come on time to go back to bed."
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"You think Duo will do anything to get himself in trouble?" Dorothy asked.
Quatre shook his head, "Nah he promised he'd be good." He said and sat across from her at the dinner table.
"I missed you today what took you so long to get home"
"It was a long trip you know I had to stop three times for gas and that was for the trip there, don't worry though I missed you too."
There was a disgusted noise from the doorway and Charlie brought in their food along with some other maids and had it placed on the table. He as usual glared at Quatre until he left.
"Why does he hate me so much?" he asked shuddering at the intensity of the glare.
"He thinks you married me for my money." Said Dorothy as she began to eat.
"You would think he would eventually forget to hate me for a split second or something but in five years he has never failed to give me that look."
"You know maybe if you talked to him about it he would ease up you two might even become friends."
Quatre thought about this, "Yeah! Yeah that's a great idea why didn't I think of that?!"
"Because darling you were never the brightest bulb in the pack." She joked.
"Ouch, Insult my intelligence why don't cha!"
"Ok if brains were fuel you wouldn't have enough to power a flea's motorcycle around the outside of a fruitloop."
"Hey, hey! Alright so you're going to be that way about it huh? Well I'll get you back."
She gave him a look of fake fear, "I'm shaking in my boots."
"You should I might just have to drag you to bed and ravish your helpless little body." He said devilishly.
"Is that a promise or a threat?"
"Most definitely a promise."
The rest of the meal was spent talking about this and that but in the back of his mind and Quatre pondered what Dorothy had said. When he was done eating he was wandering through the halls and found himself outside Charlie's bedroom door, enthusiastic about the thought of finally making peace with the old man he knocked on the door. Although had his doubts when the door opened and the man was standing there with the trademark glare of his, it was like he knew who was on the other side of the door the whole time.
"What?" he asked coldly.
"Uh can I come in?"
"No."
"Alrighty, well, I came to talk to about something. I would like to know why every day that I've known you you've been like this I mean I didn't do anything to you or Dorothy."
Charlie stared at him like he was dung on the bottom of a shoe, "Because sir I believe you are nothing more than a worthless street thug and if I put all of your brain cell together you wouldn't have the IQ of a pebble."
"What is this rag on Quatre day?!"
"You asked sir."
"I know I may not be your number one choice for Dorothy but come on, if you stop giving me that look then you could get to know me and maybe even like me."
For the first time ever Quatre saw what looked like an amused grin, "Like you? Mrs. Dorothy picks you up off the street brings you to her home she buys you gifts and ask for nothing in return. She has always been that way she is a very kind and giving person sadly she is also somewhat gullible. You used your trickery to get her to sleep with you and after that she just knew you loved, and she was putty in your hands. I have known Dorothy since the day she was born and I care very much what happens to her it pains me to see you take advantage of her."
"What?! It's was her idea to sleep with me in the fist place and…" that last comment got the door slammed in his face, "Sorry didn't mean to say that." He said to the closed door, "Listen I'm not taking advantage of her, I love Dorothy very much and it would mean a lot to me if you would accept that."
The door opened again but instead of seeing an angry old man he saw Charlie appear smiling, somehow that scared him more than the glare, "I know you will be good to her because if you're not I will harm you. Don't take that lightly."
Quatre gulped, he had heard something along that line the day before he married Dorothy but this sounded more threatening, "All I want is for us to be friends or at lest when we're around other people."
Charlie thought about this for a moment, "No I have gotten rather used to hating your guts it's like a hobby of mine."
"What if I gave you a new hobby?"
"How about you get yourself one and stop bugging me it's late and I'm going to sleep."
"Could you just try it for a day and see how you like it?" he asked sincerely.
"If I said yes would you go away?"
"Uh-huh."
"Yes now good night." He said and slammed the door.
Quatre turned and practically skipped down the hall, to any other person this wouldn't have been a big deal, but he had been under Charlie's watchful gaze for five years and a break was like an early Christmas present.
*-*
Anne was on her back looking at the ceiling of her bedroom feeling lonely, Mariemeia was in her room talking on the phone with one of her many friends. She had broken up with Nichol a while back and now regretted it, she missed having someone with her to talk to about…anything. But Treize was gone and she was to stubborn to admit she cared. She considered calling Sally and talking to her but again her refusal to admit she needed someone prevented her from doing that, the only she had ever talked to about things like this with was Noin, but she was dead now. Even so she found herself talking to her in the night when the thought of being alone in the house got to her too much. 'This is ironic a psychiatrist that needs a psychiatrist.' She thought with a chuckle. Losing Noin she found to be a greater blow than when she had lost Treize, for one thing she could still see him, and Noin had been the one who helped her through the hard times the only soul who was willing to help. Noin was the reason she and Sally had come to know each other, after meeting at her funeral the two began to talk and eventually became best friends. Anne rolled onto her stomach in frustration, the quiet was eating at her and driving her to insanity, although it didn't have far to go. Suddenly she heard the ringing of her cell phone it scared her so bad she fell of her bed and landed with a thud. Sluggishly she reached for the phone and pressed the talk button.
"Anne hear."
"Hi what's wrong?" asked an amused voice from the other end.
"Sally?"
"The one and only."
"Hi, and what make you think something's wrong?"
"Because you sound depressed."
"Oh, I'm fine don't worry."
"Liar, lonely again?"
Anne sighed and gave in, "Yes."
"Knew it, you shouldn't be upset if you want you can come over and pig out on ice cream with me."
"I'd love to but I have a tone of work to do and I haven't even started."
"Why not might take your mind off things."
"Because I don't want to do it. Sally what did you call for I know it wasn't to discuss my work schedule."
"No I called because I feel just as bad as you do but unlike you have the nerve to admit it."
Anne stuck her tongue out at the phone, "Whatever so how are Tammy and Shi?"
"Tammy is doing fine but I think Shi has a crush on Mariemeia."
She nearly choked, "What?! Are you kidding? That's so sweet!"
"I know you should have seen him today, he gave her a necklace he bought for her last week and she kissed him, I have had never seen Shi turn that color red before. He tries to deny he was blushing but that's pointless because he is still hasn't regained his normal coloring yet."
The brunette was rolling on the floor in a fit of hysteria, "That-that is too funny…I can…almost see it." She managed to say between giggles.
"I know he looks so adorable when he blushes like that, and the poor dear was so embarrassed he tried to hide behind my chair it was the most hilarious thing!"
"Whoa I really needed that!" she said as she crawled back on the bed.
"My only regret is that I didn't have a camera."
"I wonder if she even knows he has a crush on her."
"I don't see how she couldn't he's always so giddy when he's around him."
"He's always happy around her like that? For a while I got the feeling her just didn't like to be alone with me."
"No it's not you. He defiantly has a crush."
At that moment Mariemeia walked in with a confused look on her face, "Mom are you alright?"
"I'm OK."
"Good cause you scared me I thought you forgot to take your medication again."
"One slip up and I'm branded for life." She muttered to herself.
"What was that?" asked Sally.
"Nothing."
"Who are you talking to." Asked Mariemeia.
"Sally."
"Hey can I talk to her?"
"Sure. Sally, Mariemeia wants to talk to you."
Anne handed her child the phone and sat back and pretended not to be listening, "Hey Sally I was wondering could I take Shi out with me to the art museum. I know how much he loves to go there and I wanted to do something for him after he gave me that necklace."
"Of course you can just tell me when you want to go."
"This Friday would be nice can he make it then?"
"Yes he can I'll be sure to tell him."
"Thank you so much, bye." She said, handed the phone back to her mother, then left.
"Did you hear what I did?" asked Sally.
"If it sounded like my daughter asking to take your son out on a date then yes."
"We're going to be sister-in-laws in no time if this keeps up."
Mariemeia skipped down the hall to her room but stopped when she beard a loud burst of laughter coming from her mothers room again, 'What is so funny?' she thought as she walked into her room.
*-*
"So what do you want to talk about?" asked Hilde.
She and Duo were sitting on the swing in the yard in front of her house, they had come outside on Duo's request, he was to paranoid about Trowa eavesdropping.
"I thought I knew." He said.
"Duo how can you just come back hear that's what I'd like to know?! I mean you just disappear after I tell you I'm pregnant then get yourself arrested and when you finally get yourself out of jail you come into my home and hit my husband wake both my kids and have the nerve to act like I should be happy to see you!!"
"I'm sorry…about everything. I came because I couldn't stand to be out and not see you. In a way I felt like this was a dream that would go away and I had to see you before it did."
"Duo you have no idea how much what you did hurt me. You hurt me and for so many nights I thought of what I would say to you if I ever saw you again. Now you just come back and I have no idea what to say I mean this it just to…bizarre."
"Listen, I was to young and selfish to do anything else, that combined with some bad advise from a friend is why I left. I did plan to come back, after I robed the bank I thought I would have enough to buy you a wedding ring and start us off, things didn't work out like I planned though. You know I though about you every day I was gone and I was mad at Trowa for years until I got free and came hear. That's when I realized he had saved you from the hell I was putting you trough. I was upset because he did what I wasn't man enough to."
Before she was at a loss for words but now she was emotionally confused, 'He wanted to marry me?' she thought feeling a whole wave of old emotions rush over her. "Duo I…"
"You don't have to say anything, I don't want anything from you but your forgiveness."
"I forgive you." She said quietly trying not to cry cover something that was screaming in her heart, the part she thought she had killed; the part that still loved Duo.
He looked at the house and then back to her, "Does he know about me?"
"Who?"
"Jason."
"N…no."
"Why didn't you tell him?"
"Because I couldn't put that on a four year old, he thinks Trowa is his dad and Katie is his sister I saw no reason to tell him otherwise. It would crush his heart if he found everything he thought was true wasn't."
Duo nodded and stood, "I don't expect you to I just wanted to know." He said and turned to leave.
"Duo wait!" He turned to see her standing behind him, "I... nothing, nevermind."
He nodded turned to his car and drove off.
Hilde stood there watching his departing feeling lost, Trowa showed up from behind a short time later. He didn't ask he figured she would tell him what happened when she was ready. Instead of talking she stepped into his arms and embraced him tightly, she rested her head on his chest and took a deep breath.
"Trowa when did my life get so complicated?"
He played with her hair a little before he answered, "I don't know but I'm hear to help you through it."
She held him tighter at the moment he was the only thing keeping her upright, "This is to much for a Wednesday night." She muttered.
*--*
Shi was leaning back in his chair staring out the window, looking at the trees and flowers that grew just outside. The teacher was talking about finding variables and since he already knew how to do this he was bored. With a clunk he set his chair back down on all fours and reached for his pencil to draw a picture of something, but to his horror he saw his hands were covered with blood it started at his elbows and was dripping off his fingers covering his desk. This was an illusion he knew that, because it had happened before, but never before had it seemed this real. He squeezed his eyes shut and held his breath, 'Think of something else and it will go away come on just think of something else!' he thought fiercely. When he open his eyes the blood was gone, happily he let out the breath he had been holding. When he looked up, though, he found himself looking into the mutilated face of his father, he screamed out loud and fell out of his desk. He was still there, dead, covered in blood that was gushing from his head, Shi shut his eyes jumped up and ran out of the classroom as fast as he could not looking back.
Tammy saw her brother fly out with a look of confusion, she knew what he was going through he'd had episodes like this before but he never reacted like this when he was out around people. Not that she could blame him for freaking but it wasn't like him. Without a word she took off after him knowing this would mean a referral but her brother was more important. It was hard to follow him, he was moving like a pack of rabid wolves were on his heals. She trailed him all the way to the football field where he simply collapsed in the grass. She raced to his side and knelt down next to him, he was breathing heavily and his eyes were seriously dilated.
"Shi! Shi can you hear me?!"
He sat up slowly and stared straight forward chest still heaving but he didn't say a word.
"Hey what happened?"
"I-I saw him."
"Don't you always?"
"No, I see blood but not him, this time he was…standing there in front of me and…" he stopped not wanting to visualize it in his head again.
"You should tell mom about this it's getting really serious. Come on at least tell Anne about it she's a psychiatrist."
"If mom…knew it…would make her sad…and I'm not doing it." Ha gasped.
"This is stupid you need help! At first it wasn't that bad but lately it's been happening more and more, and in case you didn't notice they seem to get worse every time! If you wont as for help then I'll do it for you!"
Shi snapped out of he trance and grabbed Tammy's arm tightly, "You can't! I'll be alright just promise you wont tell anyone." He said.
She was about to answer but a teacher spotted them and came towards them yelling something about detention.
Tammy tried to stand but Shi pulled her down again, "Promise me you won't tell." He said eyes pleading, "All I wanted was for mom to be happy and I lost my sanity to have that happen! Don't throw that away by bringing this up it will only remind her of what happened and make her worry about me."
The teacher was almost upon them and Tammy didn't know what to do, "Shi you need help."
"Please Tammy promise me?"
"I promise." She said in defeat right before the angry teacher seized them, when they were being dragged away she noticed he had his eyes shut tightly again and his breath came in shallow gasps. 'Oh Shi I pray you know what you're doing.'
*-*
"This is stupid what am I doing hear?" Hilde asked herself, she was parked in front of Quatre's house wondering what thought had inspired her to come. Slowly she made her way to the gate and pressed the doorbell.
The intercom next to her came on and she heard a male voice ask, "Who is it?"
"Hilde Barton I'm hear to see Duo."
"Who?"
"Duo Maxwell he is hear isn't he?"
There was silence on the other end then without warning the gates opened and she walked in, she walked because she wanted to delay getting there and facing him. Hilde didn't know why she was so nervous but there were things left unresolved from the night before she wanted to clear up. When she arrived at the door she was greeted warmly by Charlie. She never could figure out why Quatre acted so afraid of him he seemed nice enough to her. The old man led her through the house, into the back yard and to a bench where asked her to wait, and left. While he was gone she stared at the various flowers that grew in the garden, when she heard footsteps she turned around to see Duo standing there looking at her with a look of surprise.
"Hilde?"
"Hi Duo."
"What are you doing hear?" he asked still stunned.
She stood and approached him, "We didn't get a chance to discuss everything last night and there are a few thing I think we should clear up."
"Hilde don't worry I'm not hear to try and win you back or muscle in on your life with Jason I only wanted to see you and tell you I was sorry, that was all. Trust me the last thing I want is to hurt you again."
"Duo that's just it I don't want you out of my life again or Jason's, he is your son and it wouldn't be fair to him or you if I tried to hide it from him. I miss you a lot and whether I like it or not you are a big part of my life and I do love you but not in the way I used to. Don't make any mistake about it Duo I want you in my life. You made a mistake and so did I in thinking you were ready for a real relationship. There is no reason we should stop being friends because of the past it's over and I forgave you. Alright?"
He looked down, "You don't tell anyone anything, I don't plan to stay hear long, I've told Quatre that I'm taking off so that's what I am going to do."
"What? Why?"
"Because Hide you may have moved on but I haven't I still love you with all my heart. I know that if I stay around to long I'm going to end up either kissing you or killing Trowa for doing so." he said, "Besides I am not the father type I always do the wrong thing and I'm not good with kids I curse I smoke. In short I am not the best person for Jason to look up to."
"But…"
"Don't worry you'll see me again, I just have to sort things out…you know you Quatre and Trowa are my only family. You guys are the only one's that would come to my funeral if I dropped dead…it's kinda funny when you think about it."
"You shouldn't do this to yourself."
"I need to." He said and turned away, "if you'll excuse me I have to go get my things."
"You're leaving now?!"
"Yeah Quatre is letting me use one of his cars I was loading up when you came."
"You can't just waltz in on me say sorry and run off again!"
"Believe me I don't want to but Hilde I have been in prison for five years and being your buddy is not going to work with me. I personally can't do that at this point so I must go."
She ran her fingers through her hair and gave him a look of sympathy, "I understand good-bye Duo."
"Bye." Duo walked off leaving Hilde alone again, feeling confused by how she felt once again.
*-*
Quatre watched the Duo Hilde scene unfold from his bedroom window high above, "I wonder if he changed his mind."
Dorothy who was still resting in bed rolled her eyes, "Leave them alone Quatre and come back to bed you promised we'd sleep in today. We meaning me and you besides it's cold over hear."
He dashed from his position at the window sill grabbed the black cat that was sleeping peacefully on the floor dumped him on his wife and rushed back to the window. "There you go Snuggles will warm you up better than I can." That got him a pillow thrown at his head witch cause it to slam into the window, "Ow! Alright I'm sorry!" he said as he came from by the window and got back in the bed.
"So what did Charlie say last night?" she asked as she cuddled closer to him.
"He said he would be nice if I left him alone so he could go to sleep. He lied though when I was in the hallway this morning on my way to the bathroom I passed him and he gave me that look again."
"Old habits die hard."
"He will never like me I guess I should just get used to that."
"Maybe you should try to pretend not to be bothered by it and longer and he'll stop."
"Tried that, besides I'm beginning to think he just naturally looks like that."
"Quatre why are you so worried about it, besides he might lighten up when we start having kids."
"Um…yeah…well…maybe I don't mind the glare that much." Another comment that earned him a pillow slap.
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Duo sped down the highway in the blue convertible Quatre had given him letting the wind blow through his hair. He drove down an the all to familiar trail through the woods out onto the docks, he was there on the crazy hunch his prize was still there. After some searching and near pedestrian pancakes he found the desired building. It was still abandoned and dirty looking. Slowly he got out of the car and walked in after pushing down the rusty door. The inside was a lot smaller than he remembered, and everything looked waterlogged. After a bit of searching he saw what he was looking for; a large vent opening in the corner of the room. Carefully he climbed up on top of a table and looked up it, the passage was blocked by something, small rays of light filtered through and warmed his face. With one pull he yanked off the vent cover and then reached in to grab the item. It came down with barley a tug and soon he found himself holding a backpack full of money. An insanely wide smile crept over his face, he had figured if the cops hadn't found it some random curios person would. When he looked up the vent he saw a peeling piece of metal sticking out in the vent. The sack had gotten hung up on it concealing it perfectly no one ever found it.
"Oh man my luck is changing!" shouted Duo as he raced back into his car hugging the old dusty sack closely as he drove off laughing like a hyena. Where to no one knows but him, all we do know is he'll be back one day.
END
BY
MILO
:: What that's it no more you'll just leave us like that!! You yell. :: Yup. Use your imagination for the rest, this was just to give to story some closure but if you ask nice enough I might start another series on when there kids are like growing up and a little on the adults. What I will do though is write a prologue to this story answering all those questions like, What exactly happened when Anne forgot to take her medicine, What happed between Zechs and Noin, How did Sally and Wufei cope with parenthood and Why was Relena so special to Heero etc. Right now though I am going to take a well deserved break…while finishing all the homework I missed while writing this fic J .
Soudtrack
1. The Kids Aren't Alright
2. Gangster Paradise
3. Big Pimpin'
4. Wonderful or Broken Home
5. Why Does it Always Rain on Me?
6. The Way You Love Me
7. You're a God
8. That's The Way It Is
9. My Own Worse Enemy (guess who that would be for. ;)