yaoi, some humor. a more serious, twisted fic. slight angst. non-yaoi lemon.
[1/2 ; 2/H ; 3/4 ]
Relena kills Duo to get at Heero. It works; but not like Relena planned. Duo is reborn as her and Heero's son, and will stop at nothing to avenge himself.
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Duo sat up, awake finally. He glanced out the window, then down at himself. He felt like crying.
"Hil...Hilde?" He didn't see her, and her clothes were gone.
"No! WAIT! HILDE!"
Duo pulled on his oversized shirt and scrambled downstairs. Heero was in the kitchen drinking coffee.
"He...Heero...Hil...de...wh...ere..." Duo clutched his chest, totally winded.
Heero looked over. "It's one o'clock, Duo. Hilde stayed here all morning, went up to say goodbye, but you were asleep. You really should still be asleep. All the exhaustion you earned yourself was crammed into your four-year old body when you changed back and I'm relieved you woke up at all. Just...she had to go back, the yard opens at one thirty on saturdays. She stayed as long as she-"
"NO!" Duo stood up, leaning against a wall, breathing hard. "She wouldn't leave without saying goodbye! And..." He glanced over to the kitchen table, where a black, once pink, puffy hat was sitting. "...she forgot her hat, I'm going after her!"
"Duo..."
Duo ran to the door, threw on his shoes, and ran out, shirt dragging behind and and Hilde's hat in his hand. Heero sighed and shook his head.
"HILDE!"
Duo ran as fast
as he could down the sidewalk that went the entire circumference of the
colony, quickly growing tired and unbalanced.
"HILD-AUGH!"
Duo tripped,
landing on his arm and skidding a few feet on the concrete. Long bloody
scratches appeared on his face and arm along with a distinct cracking sound.
He winced, and sat up, shaking. He looked down at his bloodied arm, which
felt as if it were on fire. The broken bone poked through his skin.
Duo whimpered,
then
silently collapsed, sobbing quietly.
"Duo."
Hilde turned
around, almost halfway back to the scrap yard. It was a long way from Heero's,
but she wanted to walk so she had time to think.
Now she was sure
she had heard Duo's voice, and she turned around. "Duo...?"
Far behind her
she saw a small figure strangely resembling a black ratty kitten curled
up on the sidewalk. Hilde started to run back the way she had come.
"OH! Duo...Duo,
wake up!"
She knelt down
beside him and gingerly fingered the scratches on his face. When she noticed
the broken arm, she gasped and felt slightly sick. She winced, and in the
silence noticed Duo's quiet sobbing. He turned to look at her.
"I'm sorry...I
just...wanted...well...here's your hat."
He sat up using
his good arm, and nudged the hat over to her. Hilde picked it up, then
looked back at Duo.
"Oh...you're
hopeless. Come on, I'll take you to my place and we can fix you up." Hilde
gently took Duo in her arms and started back towards the scrap yard. Duo
giggled slightly, giddy with the loss of blood and exaushtion he felt.
"Hee hee...good
thing you found me 'coz if daddy did he'z fix me arm in'a railing."
"So...he's sleeping
then?"
"Yes. He's alright.
I put his arm in a splint after he fell unconscious and it didn't hurt
him."
Hilde's voice
shook slightly, and it was obvious over the phone. Heero frowned to himself.
"You gonna be
ok?"
"Yes. ...yes."
"All right then...just
have him back by the end of the day, ok? No funny stuff, and don't get
him upset."
"Ok."
"And when you
drop him off, I want you to stay for a bit. To discuss something."
"What?"
"You'll see.
Bye." There was a click as Heero abruptly hung up the phone, leaving Hilde
baffled.
Heero stared at
the phone for a bit, then down at the second little glass vial he'd held
this week.
"We'll see, Hilde.
We'll see."
Duo blinked, sitting
up abruptly as he awoke. For a second, crazed thoughts flashed in his head.
Was all that
a dream? Am I sixteen again, back in the scrap yard? Did I just fall asleep
on the couch like always and dream all that bullshit?
In the
next minute as Duo stretched his arms out and yelped with the pain, reality
came crashing down on his head.
Literally.
"AIE! DUO!" Hilde
stumbled backwards. She had been setting a lunch tray down near Duo when
he had suddenly woken up, stretched out, hit the tray and brought it all
down on his head.
"DUO! Are you
ok? Oh, I'm so sorry!" Hilde dropped to the ground and starting picking
up the spilt food, on the verge of tears. Duo stared, then looked at his
bloodied and splinted arm, firey with pain, then noticed the gobs of whatever
Hilde had made for lunch dripping from his hair. He started to laugh.
"Hee-hee! You
never were a cook, Hilde. Eh, neither is Heero. Hee-hee! What did you guys
do without me?" Duo grinned, and picked food from his bangs.
Hilde looked
up, startled. She wasn't expecting this at all. "Duo...aren't you...? Oh
nevermind. If I'm such a bad cook then you make lunch."
She laughed,
and Duo frowned. "What's so funny? I will! I'll go make lunch right now!"
He hopped down from the couch and headed for the kitchen. A minute later
Hilde started to laugh harder as Duo's voice drifted to her.
"Er...got a stool,
or something?"
"Sorry."
"No, that's fine.
I like fast-food, anyhow."
Duo took a sip
of soda. "I'd better get home soon, Hilde. Heero'll worry and being in
my old house is freaking me out. When I woke up I thought everything was
a dream. Hah-hah!"
"Hah-hah." Hilde
laughed weakly, staring down at the food. She pulled the picture out of
her pocket and stared it.
Duo peered over.
"Do you always have that picture with you? Is it your favourite?"
"M-hm." Hilde
nodded, eyes bright. "It is. Here..."
She reached under
the couch and pulled out a photo album, handing it over.
"WOW! Hilde,
geez! You kept all these stupid pictures?"
Duo flipped through
the book, laughing now and then. A lot of these pictures he had never seen
before. It looked as though Hilde had sometimes just taken random pictures
of him for no reason other than she could. He laughed at pictures of himself
licking ice cream cones, fixing his braid, working on deathscythe, stuffing
his face with food...
Hilde blushed
and didn't look, as she knew all the pictures by heart anyways. It was
embarrassing her for some reason, that Duo was seeing all her obsession
for him even from so many years ago.
"Can...can I
keep this one?"
Duo held up a
picture of him, Heero, and Hilde. Duo was in the middle, his arms around
Hilde and Heero's shoulders. Heero looked pissed and Hilde was grinning
sheepishly.
Hilde laughed.
"All right, go ahead. Just don't lose it, I like that picture."
Duo nodded, and
put the picture in his pocket. "I won't...I'm...sleepy..." Duo inched over
and crawled into Hilde's lap, curling into a ball, his bad arm sticking
out, and soon falling asleep.
Hm...he looks
so peaceful...I hate to move him but...
Hilde
stood up, cradling Duo in her arms, and started down the street to take
him home.
Heero stared at
the vial until he heard the door open and Hilde call out.
"Heero?"
"In here. Lay
Duo down on the couch."
"Ok...Heero...what
were you talking about earlier?"
Hilde walked
into the kitchen where Heero was sitting. It was dark outside now, and
by the way the wind howled it was obvious a storm was on it's way.
"This, Hilde."
Heero held up the vial.
"Isn't that what
made Duo-"
"No. This is
different. This is permanent."
Hilde's eye lit
up. "You...you mean...Duo can...stay...?"
"No." Heero shook
his head, and Hilde slumped down into a chair, confused. "Wha...what then?"
"This potion
doesn't make someone older. It makes them younger."
Hilde looked
up, despair in her voice. "But why would we want to make Duo younger than
he already is?"
Heero just stared
at Hilde. Her eyes slowly widened as she realized what Heero was saying.
"But..."
"Hilde, if you
did this, it wouldn't be fun or easy. You'd be giving up your life as you
know it. I might be able to keep hold of the scrap yard until you or Duo
could manage it again but maybe not."
Without a word,
Hilde just held her hand out.
"Hilde. Think
for a moment before you do this. You'll have to start all over again, just
like Duo. From age four. You can see how hard it is on him."
"Heero...I want
to do this. I'd lose my job, my life and my friends, I'd die a thousand
times...but...if in the end, I can stay with Duo...forever...I...I...give
me the bottle, Heero!"
Hilde's hand
shook as Heero dropped the small bottle into it. She stared at it for a
minute, two minutes, three. Then she looked up.
"I can...stay
here...with you and Duo...and Quatre and Trowa...?"
"If you wish."
"Really be part
of the family..." Hilde clutched the bottle tight. "I never felt like I
was before...maybe...now..."
Without another
word, Hilde uncorked the bottle and downed the liquid inside. Eyes watering,
she walked over to the couch where Duo slept.
"Duo..."
I'm coming.
"Wake up.
You're sleeping on your arm funny. Want to break it worse? I have a nice
old bicycle rail..."
"UGH! Ok, I'm
awake now." Duo sat up and wiped his eyes with his free hand, staring around.
Sunlight filtered in through the huge windows.
"Did Hilde bring
me back then go home again, I guess? Eh...at least she let me keep the
picture I wanted."
Duo pulled out
the snapshot and grinned at it. Heero frowned. "No, she didn't go home.
Actually, her and I have been up most of the night, talking and stuff.
Making some plans and sorting some things out."
"You...stayed
up with Hilde...WAIT." Duo glared at Heero. "Just talking, right?"
"Right."
"Nothing funny,
right?"
"I would never
do that to a four year old."
"Good. Because
if I ever found out...huh?" Duo blinked, then laughed. "Hilde isn't four,
I am. I think you must have been drinking something, Heero."
"No. Hilde is
four."
Heero grinned
crazily, then laughed. Duo laughed, weakly, then louder. "HA-ha! That's
really funny...now there's a pill you can take for hangovers..."
"Oh, Duo."
"What?" Duo stared
at Heero, who was suddenly acting normal once more.
"You have a new
roommate."
"I...huh?"
Heero peered
over the top of the couch and nodded. Duo raised an eyebrow, staring at
the small person who meekly came out from behind the couch.
Draped in her
now-huge purple sweater, and overly-large hat, a shorter, smaller, four-year
old Hilde pushed her hair from her face with a small hand and smiled weakly
at Duo.
"Hi. I'm your
new room mate. My name's Hilde. What's yours?"
Duo stared, open
mouthed for a moment, before realizing what he was seeing.
"Hilde...you...wha?!"
Hilde just grinned
and pulled herself onto the couch, wrapping her arms around Duo and grinning.
"Don't you see,
Duo? Now we can always be together...and then, when we're old enough..."
Duo's eyes watered.
"Hilde...you did this...for me?"
Closing her eyes,
Hilde pulled back and held out her hand in a peace sign. "No. I turned
into a four year old because I FELT like it."
Duo grinned,
then laughed. Hilde laughed too.
Heero smiled,
turning away and coughing slightly.
"If any kids
turn out before the two of you are eighteen, I swear I'll send you both
to the orphanage, that's what I'll do."
Duo and Hilde
just laughed harder. Heero grinned at them, coughing once more.
Stupid cold.
How was he supposed
to know it was deadly?
Thirteen years
later, Heero was condemned to the hospital with a tumor blockage in his
left lung. By the summer, it was certain he wouldn't make it to Christmas.
Duo visited him
every day. He told him they had found out his and Hilde's baby was going
to be a boy. How they sold the scrap yard and had moved in right near Quatre
and Trowa, although with the lion pen outback, he didn't think they'd let
the baby wander around on his own very much, once he was born.
Heero just smiled
and nodded peacefully through Duo's long talks.
How fair.
Let me live then kill me off once I'm useless. Ah, well. Id've been dead
long ago if it wasn't for Duo.
Heero
weakly reached up, grabbing Duo's hand. Duo stopped talking and stared
down at Heero.
"Wha...what is
it?"
"Duo...you just
make sure you watch after Hilde. And Quatre and Trowa too...you know how
they get."
"Heh-heh, Heero,
stop it."
"No. And I want
you to be good to your baby. You know what the poor thing is going through."
"And don't I."
Heero let go
of Duo's hand and sank back into the nice, soft pillow. "Stay here with
me, Duo."
"Alright."
Heero coughed,
closing his eyes. His breath was shallow.
"At least...at
least I got to see that you ended up happy."
Duos eyes watered.
He grabbed Heero's hand.
"Heero...look...when
I died, a part of my soul died too. And it wasn't reborn with me. I still
loved you, but you're my dad now...my true love for you never came back.
Maybe...I dunno...maybe...Heero...? Heero..."
Duo let Heero's
hand fall. He stared for a moment at the man who had given all, for Duo's
happiness.
"Ah, Heero..."
Duo slowly laid
his head down on Heero's chest, and cried.
Sand.
Heero
looked down at the sand. It was getting into his boots and he really didn't
like it. He shook out his green shirt to make sure there wasn't any sand
in it.
Looking around,
Heero could see nothing more than beach, sand, a big rock.
Stupid rock.
You broke my leg and my fall. I might have been dead long ago if it wasn't
for you, stupid, stupid rock.
Heero
looked up as he heard derisive laughter drift over the sound of the waves
gently hitting the shore.
Is it really
stupid, Heero? I mean...if you had died, would you have ever married me?
Ha-ha!
Aw, Duo.
Duo stepped
out of the shadows, his black hat nearly covering his face. He looked up;
grinned.
If I had a
gun, I'd shoot you for thinking such things!
You did, remember?
That was because
Relena was cuddling you.
Oh yah.
Duo grinned
wider, and pounced Heero, knocking the bigger boy to the ground.
So cuddle
me, Heero.
...o...okay.
Heero
cradled Duo's cheek in his hand as their lips met. Heero tried to hold
back the tears, but he couldn't.
And he stayed
on the beach with Duo.
~owari, no da~
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NOTES ON THIS FIC:
[sniffles] This fic makes me sad...and for anyone who got confused at the end, Heero died. He went to his little afterlife place, and met there the spirit of Duo who had loved him, not as a father, but as a lover. Does this mean that Duo wasn't reborn? No...he was reborn...but Heero was his dad! Of course that love wouldn't be reborn with him. Anyways, hope you enjoyed it...please post comments or something on it! I'm proud of this fic, as I said before...