Duo's Pain
Chapter 4
Shin silently began separating himself from Duo as the four Gundam pilots were discussing them downstairs. 'Duo is going to kill me when he finds out that I told the others a little bit about him. Well, if I wasn't the God of Death already.' he thought wryly.
Sighing, he began to separate their minds from where they were slowly becoming one. Everything that one saw and heard, the other did too. It had always been like two personalities in one mind or two people playing a video game, taking turns controlling the character.
FLASHBACK
"Well, you can do so much more for others alive." Shin said firmly and entered Duo's body.
Duo screamed in his mind as woke up and felt the Shinigami's mind controlling his body. He felt a bitter anger at the death god for saving him as huge amounts of air rushed in and out of his lungs as Shin had forced the air way to open.
'Why did you do that?!' Duo screamed at him.
'If you give up right now, how are you going to save the kids who have nothing? How are you going to stop the useless fighting?' Shin demanded then said out loud "Finish the tests. We have a lot of work to do."
Professor G glared at the young boy, then turned to the scientists and snapped at them to hurry up.
'Why are you so eager to go through the training?' Duo snarled as the doctors prodded at them.
'I want your body to be strong enough to handle fighting for me. I just can't let you die. I have a feeling that if you die now, the future is going to be a very bleak place.'
'How would you know that?'
'Seem to have a small amount of foresight. Just feelings really, but they seem to come true more than not.'
"...you listening to me Duo?" a voice snapped, jarring the two out of their privet conversation.
"What?' Shin asked, irritated.
"I said are you listening to me? It's time to start again." G snapped and Shin nodded and stood up from the table.
'Duo, why don't you just go to sleep for now? You must be tired.' Shin said as he followed the professor to another room in the complex that Duo had been training in for around six months.
'What is going on?' Duo asked as he woke up a few hours later. They were currently in his cell...er...room, where he stayed whenever he wasn't under going training.
'I finished your training for the day and you are currently being allowed to rest for the remainder of the day. Dinner should be here in about half an hour.' Shin said silently as he stretched out on the bed.
'What happened?'
'You will know everything that took place while you were asleep in about two hours. Since we are linked now, everything that takes place since we were joined with automatically be put into your mind and vise a versa when you are in control and I am asleep.'
'Oh. Is this permanent?' Duo asked slowly.
'No. I can separate us at any time. But I won't do that until what ever I sensed has come true.' Shin said firmly as he felt Duo about to say something, but then added silently to himself so that his companion wouldn't hear him, 'or until it's almost to late.'
END FLASHBACK
'I just hope that he'll stay asleep long enough to let me finish.' Shin thought as he finished with separating their memories. 'Now for the hard part.' he thought quietly as he began separating their souls.
"How much longer do you think it will take?" Quatre asked as he snuggled up to his lover.
"I don't know. Maybe it's already done." Trowa said as he gave the blonde a hug.
"I don't think so." Heero said quietly as he stood up. He grabbed a coke from the fridge and chugged the whole thing, like how Duo usually did. As he tossed the can in the trash, Heero became aware of the three pairs of eyes that were starring at him in shock. He mumbled, "When I get nervous, I have to have caffeine." A faint blush warmed his cheeks as the others continued to stare at him in shock.
"Oh." Quatre said as he too got up and came over to the fridge, though he didn't open the door. Instead, he wrapped his arms around the Japanese pilot and refused to let go, even after he felt Heero's body stiffen. After a long moment, he relaxed and wrapped his own arms around the Arabian.
"Don't worry. Everything will be fine, Heero." Quatre said firmly and the taller pilot just nodded.
Four hours later, the four Gundam pilots, who were sprawled out on the chairs and couches in the living room, heard a scream echo through the house. Quatre had been asleep laying on Trowa's lap and promptly fell off the couch as the scream jarred him awake. After helping his lover to his feet, Trowa rushed after Heero and Wufie with Quatre a step behind him.
"Duo!" Heero yelled as he slammed open the door, but stopped in his tracks in shock, causing the others to almost run him over. As one the four pilots stared in shock at the bed.
Duo's body was glowing an Erie green color as he lay on the bed. He's clothes were smoking ruins that lay around him on the bed and his nude body was covered in sweat. He was panting for breath and seemed to be in intense pain as he twisted and groaned on the blacked bed spread.
They stared in shock as suddenly he screamed again and then seemed to explode. The green light intensified and grew until Duo was only a silhouette. He had his back arched off the bed suddenly a form seemed to grow from his chest. The shapeless form suddenly became another person, this one with bat like wings, who also began screaming in a voice that sound almost exactly like Duo's. Suddenly the wings disappeared and the form toppled to the side. After another minute, the light slowly died and the two figures on the bed became visible.
They were naked, the new person laying partially on top of Duo. Duo's face was no longer filled with pain but was at least calm, thought he was still frowning. His breath was calming and he showed signs of waking up soon.
The other body looked almost exactly like Duo, but there were some differences. For one thing, his hair, while the same length, was such a dark brown it almost black. Another was that he was obviously older then the teenager, maybe around twenty or twenty-five.
Suddenly the older person on the bed groaned and sat up. Opening his eyes, the others could see that they were a deep, uncompromisingly blue with flecks of purple and gold. "Ow...that hurt more than I thought it would." he mumbled as he rubbed his head. Looking towards the door, he sighed as he caught sight of the four figures standing in the doorway with shocked expressions on their faces. "What the hell are you four doing here?"
"We heard screams, so we came up to see if everything was all right." Quatre was the first to collect his thoughts as they all stared at the naked man as he stood up and headed in their direction.
"I told you not to disturb us. If you had come in a minute earlier, I would have screwed up and would have been a permanent visitor in Duo's body." Shin snapped as he bent down to pick up a bag that was laying next to the door that the other pilots had missed last time they were in the room. Suddenly he wobbled and would have collapsed if Heero hadn't grabbed him and gentle brought him back to the bed and sat him down.
"Are you alright?" Quatre asked as he and the rest approached the bed and formed a semi-circle in front of him.
"Yeah. But I used up a lot of energy forming this new body so I'm going to be weak for a while." Shin said as he rubbed his forehead. "Can someone please get me that bag?" he asked, pointing to the bag still by the door and Quatre quickly went over and grabbed it.
"What's in it?" Wufie asked, suspicious.
"Clothes for me and Duo when he wakes up."
"Why not just dress him while he's out of it?" Heero asked as he looked over at the ex-Deathscythe pilot.
"You don't want to try to do anything to him when he's just coming out of a deep sleep like this. The last time some did, they wound up in the hospital for over six months in the ICU." Shin said and the others looked at him in shock.
"But...we've done stuff like this all the time when he was still living with us." Quatre stuttered and Shin just shook his head.
"The entire time that he lived with you guys, he was never in a sleep deep enough to make him react that way. In fact, the last time was when he was being trained by Professor G. One of the scientists came to wake him up after they had kept him up most of the night doing tests. When the scientist touched him, an automatic response kicked in and he attacked before he was even fully awake." Shin said quietly and the teenagers turned horrified looks at the sleeping Duo.
"Where did this automatic response come from?" Trowa asked and Quatre and Wufie nodded.
"From when he was a child. If he wants you to know more, he'll tell you. As it is, I've already told you to much." Shin said as he began to pull some of the clothes on from the bag.
After a moment, Trowa spoke again. "Why don't we leave Duo in peace and go down stairs for a while. You could tell us some more about yourself, Shin." he suggested and Shin nodded and stood up. Turning to the boy on the bed, he gently covered him up with a sheet and brushed some hair out of closed eyes. Spinning around, he ushered the others out of the room and then followed them to the living room.
"Would you like something to eat?" Quatre asked as Shin settled down on the couch nearest the stairs.
"Would you have any coke or rootbeer? Caffeine helps me get some energy after I drain my powers."
"Sure." Quatre was back a moment later with a can of rootbeer in one hand and a bag of chips in the other. "You need to eat something until I can make something for breakfast." he said looking at the clock on the wall, which read 3:30 in the morning.
"Thanks Quatre. You we always such a sweet boy." Shin said as he popped the top of the soda and chugged the whole thing, much like Heero had done earlier that night. "What?!"
"Never mind." Wufie said as he sighed and leaned back in his chair. Suddenly, they all heard a scream from upstairs.
"Shin!"
Duo slowly woke up from the Shinigami induced sleep that he had been in for the past five and a half-hours. At first, he wasn't sure about what had happened. the last thing he remembered was being in his bedroom at the salvage yard and then Shin saying something about sleep. Then suddenly, everything clicked into place. Shin had put him to sleep and had left him. He was now as a lone as when he had lost everyone when he was a kid on L2.
'Shin?'
'Shin, please talk to me.'
'Anything. Say anything, but please don't be totally gone.'
"Shin, come back." he whispered as tears started to trickle down his face.
Suddenly he screamed his name as he collapsed back onto the bed, sobbing.
Shin dashed up the stairs, mentally cursing himself as he realized what had happened. Duo hated to be alone and now he was even more alone then when he had first been picked by Professor G to under go training to be a Gundam Pilot. Now he woke up to find that the person who had been with him for five years was no longer there.
He burst into the room and rushed to the bed where Duo was sobbing. "Duo! I'm here Duo. Don't worry, I won't leave you." he said as he gathered the wildly sobbing boy into his arms.
"Don't leave me! I thought you were gone. I don't want to be alone again!" Duo cried as he clung to Shin.
Heero, Trowa, Quatre, and Wufie stood in the doorway and watched as Duo cried on Shin's shoulder while Shin tried to comfort him. Over Duo's bowed head, Shin motioned for them to leave them alone for a while and Quatre nodded in understanding. Turning, he pushed the others out the door. After closing the door quietly behind them, Quatre turned to the startled pilots and said in a low voice, "Duo needs to calm down a little bit and at the moment only Shin can do that. If Duo saw any of us, it might push him away."
No one said anything for a moment, then Heero gave a sharp nodded and stalked down the hall to the small study and laid down on the small couch. The others just watched him go before heading to their own rooms.
"Trowa, I'm worried." Quatre said as they stripped down to their boxers and climbed into the bed they shared two doors down from where Shin was comforting Duo.
"I know. I am too."
"But I've never seen Duo like this. He never cried near any of us except the time that we kicked him out and then that was it. But he was almost hysterical when he thought he was alone. I just don't get it. He was always going off for a while on his own and he never got like this." Quatre said as he laid his head on Trowa's chest.
"You have to realize that those times he went off on his own he was never was alone because he had Shin with him and he was never gone to long. The same goes for his missions that he had to do a lone, and he knew that we would be there when he got back." Trowa said logically as he wrapped his arms around the small blonde.
"I just can't believe hat is the same Duo Maxwell that was forever pull pranks on us and cheering us up, even when we didn't want to."
"I know."
'Duo seemed so helpless and weak.' Wufie thought as he stared at the ceiling. He hadn't bothered to undress when he had laid down on his bed. He knew that within a few minutes he would get up and train some. He always did when he was troubled about something and he was defiantly troubled about what had been happening with the braided pilot.
First, Duo tried to kill himself when they told him to leave. That was a very big shock to the Chinese pilot though he tried to hide it behind his mask of indifference. Then when he woke up from his two month long coma, he disappeared without a trace and then every time they got close to him, he ran. Duo gets arrested for killing two men at his salvage yard and says that Shinigami did it, which turned out to be true. Now, after Shin and Duo had separated, Duo was sobbing like a weak woman. It just didn't make sense.
Sighing he got up and put his Chinese slippers on and headed out of his room and out side to do some katas. At least they made sense to him.
"Duo, please calm down. I'm here and I'm not going to leave you. But you do need to get some clothes on." Shin said as he gently pulled away from the teenager's grasp.
"Shin, how did this happen? Where are we? What's going on?!" Duo said as he wiped at the tears pouring down his face.
"We had to separate, remember? If we didn't do it, I would have been stuck in your body for the rest of our immortal lives. Right now, we are at a safe house on earth and we have a complication." Shin said in a serious voice.
"What do you mean a complication?" Duo demanded as he blew his nose on a tissue from the bedside table.
"Just as I was beginning the separation, Heero and the others showed up. As a result the only way to keep them away until I was finished, was to tell them who I am and what was going on, which meant telling them how we first met and when we merged. I know you didn't want them to know about your past, so I only told them about those two times. But at the moment, they are waiting for you to tell them more about yourself. They are probably laying down for a few hours until morning." Shin explained and Duo just sat there in shock. He didn't want the others to know anything about his past and now they knew some of it.
"I understand but could you just wipe their memories? I really don't want them knowing about then."
"No I can't. I don't have the power now to even transport my scythe from subspace at the moment and I won't be able to for at least a week. By then, if I did, they would know they were missing something and they would become even harder to handle.
Duo didn't say anything but just started to put the clothes on that Shin handed him. "Then we have to leave. Now before they realize that we're gone." he said after a minute.
"We can't. You are to weak at the moment to walk from here to the kitchen without losing your breath, there is no way we can leave here for at least a week." Shin said firmly.
"But I can't face them. I just hurts to much." Duo said softly.
"I know it does. But I think that it's time that you work it out with them. After all, you do have to admit that were annoying some times." Shin said with a gentle smile and the young man chuckled faintly.
"Well, I guess the first thing I should do is make them a great breakfast so that they know that I'm serious. I never used to cook for them." Duo said as he stood up shakily and Shin nodded as they both headed out the door.
"I think I'll help you. I've never cooked anything and now that I have a human form to take care of, I guess I should learn to take care of it, shouldn't I?" Shin said with a smile that Duo returned.
"Yeah. Trust me, it takes some getting used to. Cooking I mean. You remember the first time I tried to cook, right?"
"Yeah. Even that mutt that hung around the yard wouldn't touch it." Shin grinned as he remember how the dog that would eat anything have run whimpering from the bowl of mush that was supposed to be corn beef and hash. Sure it was supposed to look like mush to a certain extent, but Shin didn't think it was supposed to look like it was going to get up and walk out of the bowl.
After they reached the kitchen in silence, Shin glanced at his companion and asked, "What are we going to make? Nothing to hard right?"
"I was thinking about making blueberry pancakes. They usually have plenty of fruits and vegetables at these houses, and all we have to is follow the instructions on the book." Duo said as he pulled out a recipe book from one of the shelves.
Gathering all the ingredients, Duo wondered why it felt so right to cook something for the other Gundam pilots. 'It's not like we're so close anymore. We didn't each other for a year and now suddenly we are all together and I'm making pancakes for them.
"Isn't it a little early to be making this?" Shin asked suddenly.
Look at the clock, Duo sweat dropped as he realized that it was only four o'clock in the morning. It would be at least two or three hours before the others normally got up. "I guess we should wait a little while before making them. But I'm hungry now and I bet you are too. We can make some for us and some more after we're done for the others."
Shin nodded and they began the task of making blueberry pancakes. Just as they finished and were sitting down at the kitchen table to eat the surprisingly good looking pancakes, Wufie came in through the back door, surprising them enough to almost drop their plates.
"Wufie?" Duo squeaked.
"Duo? What are you doing?"
I know I should finish this scene between Wufie, Duo and Shin, but at the moment I'm too tired. Don't kill me. ^_^!!!
Shinigami-chan
Chapter 4
Shin silently began separating himself from Duo as the four Gundam pilots were discussing them downstairs. 'Duo is going to kill me when he finds out that I told the others a little bit about him. Well, if I wasn't the God of Death already.' he thought wryly.
Sighing, he began to separate their minds from where they were slowly becoming one. Everything that one saw and heard, the other did too. It had always been like two personalities in one mind or two people playing a video game, taking turns controlling the character.
FLASHBACK
"Well, you can do so much more for others alive." Shin said firmly and entered Duo's body.
Duo screamed in his mind as woke up and felt the Shinigami's mind controlling his body. He felt a bitter anger at the death god for saving him as huge amounts of air rushed in and out of his lungs as Shin had forced the air way to open.
'Why did you do that?!' Duo screamed at him.
'If you give up right now, how are you going to save the kids who have nothing? How are you going to stop the useless fighting?' Shin demanded then said out loud "Finish the tests. We have a lot of work to do."
Professor G glared at the young boy, then turned to the scientists and snapped at them to hurry up.
'Why are you so eager to go through the training?' Duo snarled as the doctors prodded at them.
'I want your body to be strong enough to handle fighting for me. I just can't let you die. I have a feeling that if you die now, the future is going to be a very bleak place.'
'How would you know that?'
'Seem to have a small amount of foresight. Just feelings really, but they seem to come true more than not.'
"...you listening to me Duo?" a voice snapped, jarring the two out of their privet conversation.
"What?' Shin asked, irritated.
"I said are you listening to me? It's time to start again." G snapped and Shin nodded and stood up from the table.
'Duo, why don't you just go to sleep for now? You must be tired.' Shin said as he followed the professor to another room in the complex that Duo had been training in for around six months.
'What is going on?' Duo asked as he woke up a few hours later. They were currently in his cell...er...room, where he stayed whenever he wasn't under going training.
'I finished your training for the day and you are currently being allowed to rest for the remainder of the day. Dinner should be here in about half an hour.' Shin said silently as he stretched out on the bed.
'What happened?'
'You will know everything that took place while you were asleep in about two hours. Since we are linked now, everything that takes place since we were joined with automatically be put into your mind and vise a versa when you are in control and I am asleep.'
'Oh. Is this permanent?' Duo asked slowly.
'No. I can separate us at any time. But I won't do that until what ever I sensed has come true.' Shin said firmly as he felt Duo about to say something, but then added silently to himself so that his companion wouldn't hear him, 'or until it's almost to late.'
END FLASHBACK
'I just hope that he'll stay asleep long enough to let me finish.' Shin thought as he finished with separating their memories. 'Now for the hard part.' he thought quietly as he began separating their souls.
"How much longer do you think it will take?" Quatre asked as he snuggled up to his lover.
"I don't know. Maybe it's already done." Trowa said as he gave the blonde a hug.
"I don't think so." Heero said quietly as he stood up. He grabbed a coke from the fridge and chugged the whole thing, like how Duo usually did. As he tossed the can in the trash, Heero became aware of the three pairs of eyes that were starring at him in shock. He mumbled, "When I get nervous, I have to have caffeine." A faint blush warmed his cheeks as the others continued to stare at him in shock.
"Oh." Quatre said as he too got up and came over to the fridge, though he didn't open the door. Instead, he wrapped his arms around the Japanese pilot and refused to let go, even after he felt Heero's body stiffen. After a long moment, he relaxed and wrapped his own arms around the Arabian.
"Don't worry. Everything will be fine, Heero." Quatre said firmly and the taller pilot just nodded.
Four hours later, the four Gundam pilots, who were sprawled out on the chairs and couches in the living room, heard a scream echo through the house. Quatre had been asleep laying on Trowa's lap and promptly fell off the couch as the scream jarred him awake. After helping his lover to his feet, Trowa rushed after Heero and Wufie with Quatre a step behind him.
"Duo!" Heero yelled as he slammed open the door, but stopped in his tracks in shock, causing the others to almost run him over. As one the four pilots stared in shock at the bed.
Duo's body was glowing an Erie green color as he lay on the bed. He's clothes were smoking ruins that lay around him on the bed and his nude body was covered in sweat. He was panting for breath and seemed to be in intense pain as he twisted and groaned on the blacked bed spread.
They stared in shock as suddenly he screamed again and then seemed to explode. The green light intensified and grew until Duo was only a silhouette. He had his back arched off the bed suddenly a form seemed to grow from his chest. The shapeless form suddenly became another person, this one with bat like wings, who also began screaming in a voice that sound almost exactly like Duo's. Suddenly the wings disappeared and the form toppled to the side. After another minute, the light slowly died and the two figures on the bed became visible.
They were naked, the new person laying partially on top of Duo. Duo's face was no longer filled with pain but was at least calm, thought he was still frowning. His breath was calming and he showed signs of waking up soon.
The other body looked almost exactly like Duo, but there were some differences. For one thing, his hair, while the same length, was such a dark brown it almost black. Another was that he was obviously older then the teenager, maybe around twenty or twenty-five.
Suddenly the older person on the bed groaned and sat up. Opening his eyes, the others could see that they were a deep, uncompromisingly blue with flecks of purple and gold. "Ow...that hurt more than I thought it would." he mumbled as he rubbed his head. Looking towards the door, he sighed as he caught sight of the four figures standing in the doorway with shocked expressions on their faces. "What the hell are you four doing here?"
"We heard screams, so we came up to see if everything was all right." Quatre was the first to collect his thoughts as they all stared at the naked man as he stood up and headed in their direction.
"I told you not to disturb us. If you had come in a minute earlier, I would have screwed up and would have been a permanent visitor in Duo's body." Shin snapped as he bent down to pick up a bag that was laying next to the door that the other pilots had missed last time they were in the room. Suddenly he wobbled and would have collapsed if Heero hadn't grabbed him and gentle brought him back to the bed and sat him down.
"Are you alright?" Quatre asked as he and the rest approached the bed and formed a semi-circle in front of him.
"Yeah. But I used up a lot of energy forming this new body so I'm going to be weak for a while." Shin said as he rubbed his forehead. "Can someone please get me that bag?" he asked, pointing to the bag still by the door and Quatre quickly went over and grabbed it.
"What's in it?" Wufie asked, suspicious.
"Clothes for me and Duo when he wakes up."
"Why not just dress him while he's out of it?" Heero asked as he looked over at the ex-Deathscythe pilot.
"You don't want to try to do anything to him when he's just coming out of a deep sleep like this. The last time some did, they wound up in the hospital for over six months in the ICU." Shin said and the others looked at him in shock.
"But...we've done stuff like this all the time when he was still living with us." Quatre stuttered and Shin just shook his head.
"The entire time that he lived with you guys, he was never in a sleep deep enough to make him react that way. In fact, the last time was when he was being trained by Professor G. One of the scientists came to wake him up after they had kept him up most of the night doing tests. When the scientist touched him, an automatic response kicked in and he attacked before he was even fully awake." Shin said quietly and the teenagers turned horrified looks at the sleeping Duo.
"Where did this automatic response come from?" Trowa asked and Quatre and Wufie nodded.
"From when he was a child. If he wants you to know more, he'll tell you. As it is, I've already told you to much." Shin said as he began to pull some of the clothes on from the bag.
After a moment, Trowa spoke again. "Why don't we leave Duo in peace and go down stairs for a while. You could tell us some more about yourself, Shin." he suggested and Shin nodded and stood up. Turning to the boy on the bed, he gently covered him up with a sheet and brushed some hair out of closed eyes. Spinning around, he ushered the others out of the room and then followed them to the living room.
"Would you like something to eat?" Quatre asked as Shin settled down on the couch nearest the stairs.
"Would you have any coke or rootbeer? Caffeine helps me get some energy after I drain my powers."
"Sure." Quatre was back a moment later with a can of rootbeer in one hand and a bag of chips in the other. "You need to eat something until I can make something for breakfast." he said looking at the clock on the wall, which read 3:30 in the morning.
"Thanks Quatre. You we always such a sweet boy." Shin said as he popped the top of the soda and chugged the whole thing, much like Heero had done earlier that night. "What?!"
"Never mind." Wufie said as he sighed and leaned back in his chair. Suddenly, they all heard a scream from upstairs.
"Shin!"
Duo slowly woke up from the Shinigami induced sleep that he had been in for the past five and a half-hours. At first, he wasn't sure about what had happened. the last thing he remembered was being in his bedroom at the salvage yard and then Shin saying something about sleep. Then suddenly, everything clicked into place. Shin had put him to sleep and had left him. He was now as a lone as when he had lost everyone when he was a kid on L2.
'Shin?'
'Shin, please talk to me.'
'Anything. Say anything, but please don't be totally gone.'
"Shin, come back." he whispered as tears started to trickle down his face.
Suddenly he screamed his name as he collapsed back onto the bed, sobbing.
Shin dashed up the stairs, mentally cursing himself as he realized what had happened. Duo hated to be alone and now he was even more alone then when he had first been picked by Professor G to under go training to be a Gundam Pilot. Now he woke up to find that the person who had been with him for five years was no longer there.
He burst into the room and rushed to the bed where Duo was sobbing. "Duo! I'm here Duo. Don't worry, I won't leave you." he said as he gathered the wildly sobbing boy into his arms.
"Don't leave me! I thought you were gone. I don't want to be alone again!" Duo cried as he clung to Shin.
Heero, Trowa, Quatre, and Wufie stood in the doorway and watched as Duo cried on Shin's shoulder while Shin tried to comfort him. Over Duo's bowed head, Shin motioned for them to leave them alone for a while and Quatre nodded in understanding. Turning, he pushed the others out the door. After closing the door quietly behind them, Quatre turned to the startled pilots and said in a low voice, "Duo needs to calm down a little bit and at the moment only Shin can do that. If Duo saw any of us, it might push him away."
No one said anything for a moment, then Heero gave a sharp nodded and stalked down the hall to the small study and laid down on the small couch. The others just watched him go before heading to their own rooms.
"Trowa, I'm worried." Quatre said as they stripped down to their boxers and climbed into the bed they shared two doors down from where Shin was comforting Duo.
"I know. I am too."
"But I've never seen Duo like this. He never cried near any of us except the time that we kicked him out and then that was it. But he was almost hysterical when he thought he was alone. I just don't get it. He was always going off for a while on his own and he never got like this." Quatre said as he laid his head on Trowa's chest.
"You have to realize that those times he went off on his own he was never was alone because he had Shin with him and he was never gone to long. The same goes for his missions that he had to do a lone, and he knew that we would be there when he got back." Trowa said logically as he wrapped his arms around the small blonde.
"I just can't believe hat is the same Duo Maxwell that was forever pull pranks on us and cheering us up, even when we didn't want to."
"I know."
'Duo seemed so helpless and weak.' Wufie thought as he stared at the ceiling. He hadn't bothered to undress when he had laid down on his bed. He knew that within a few minutes he would get up and train some. He always did when he was troubled about something and he was defiantly troubled about what had been happening with the braided pilot.
First, Duo tried to kill himself when they told him to leave. That was a very big shock to the Chinese pilot though he tried to hide it behind his mask of indifference. Then when he woke up from his two month long coma, he disappeared without a trace and then every time they got close to him, he ran. Duo gets arrested for killing two men at his salvage yard and says that Shinigami did it, which turned out to be true. Now, after Shin and Duo had separated, Duo was sobbing like a weak woman. It just didn't make sense.
Sighing he got up and put his Chinese slippers on and headed out of his room and out side to do some katas. At least they made sense to him.
"Duo, please calm down. I'm here and I'm not going to leave you. But you do need to get some clothes on." Shin said as he gently pulled away from the teenager's grasp.
"Shin, how did this happen? Where are we? What's going on?!" Duo said as he wiped at the tears pouring down his face.
"We had to separate, remember? If we didn't do it, I would have been stuck in your body for the rest of our immortal lives. Right now, we are at a safe house on earth and we have a complication." Shin said in a serious voice.
"What do you mean a complication?" Duo demanded as he blew his nose on a tissue from the bedside table.
"Just as I was beginning the separation, Heero and the others showed up. As a result the only way to keep them away until I was finished, was to tell them who I am and what was going on, which meant telling them how we first met and when we merged. I know you didn't want them to know about your past, so I only told them about those two times. But at the moment, they are waiting for you to tell them more about yourself. They are probably laying down for a few hours until morning." Shin explained and Duo just sat there in shock. He didn't want the others to know anything about his past and now they knew some of it.
"I understand but could you just wipe their memories? I really don't want them knowing about then."
"No I can't. I don't have the power now to even transport my scythe from subspace at the moment and I won't be able to for at least a week. By then, if I did, they would know they were missing something and they would become even harder to handle.
Duo didn't say anything but just started to put the clothes on that Shin handed him. "Then we have to leave. Now before they realize that we're gone." he said after a minute.
"We can't. You are to weak at the moment to walk from here to the kitchen without losing your breath, there is no way we can leave here for at least a week." Shin said firmly.
"But I can't face them. I just hurts to much." Duo said softly.
"I know it does. But I think that it's time that you work it out with them. After all, you do have to admit that were annoying some times." Shin said with a gentle smile and the young man chuckled faintly.
"Well, I guess the first thing I should do is make them a great breakfast so that they know that I'm serious. I never used to cook for them." Duo said as he stood up shakily and Shin nodded as they both headed out the door.
"I think I'll help you. I've never cooked anything and now that I have a human form to take care of, I guess I should learn to take care of it, shouldn't I?" Shin said with a smile that Duo returned.
"Yeah. Trust me, it takes some getting used to. Cooking I mean. You remember the first time I tried to cook, right?"
"Yeah. Even that mutt that hung around the yard wouldn't touch it." Shin grinned as he remember how the dog that would eat anything have run whimpering from the bowl of mush that was supposed to be corn beef and hash. Sure it was supposed to look like mush to a certain extent, but Shin didn't think it was supposed to look like it was going to get up and walk out of the bowl.
After they reached the kitchen in silence, Shin glanced at his companion and asked, "What are we going to make? Nothing to hard right?"
"I was thinking about making blueberry pancakes. They usually have plenty of fruits and vegetables at these houses, and all we have to is follow the instructions on the book." Duo said as he pulled out a recipe book from one of the shelves.
Gathering all the ingredients, Duo wondered why it felt so right to cook something for the other Gundam pilots. 'It's not like we're so close anymore. We didn't each other for a year and now suddenly we are all together and I'm making pancakes for them.
"Isn't it a little early to be making this?" Shin asked suddenly.
Look at the clock, Duo sweat dropped as he realized that it was only four o'clock in the morning. It would be at least two or three hours before the others normally got up. "I guess we should wait a little while before making them. But I'm hungry now and I bet you are too. We can make some for us and some more after we're done for the others."
Shin nodded and they began the task of making blueberry pancakes. Just as they finished and were sitting down at the kitchen table to eat the surprisingly good looking pancakes, Wufie came in through the back door, surprising them enough to almost drop their plates.
"Wufie?" Duo squeaked.
"Duo? What are you doing?"
I know I should finish this scene between Wufie, Duo and Shin, but at the moment I'm too tired. Don't kill me. ^_^!!!
Shinigami-chan