Ai Shiteru, Quatre-kun
Part 3
Note: I first started writing this at 5:50 AM on a Monday morning (but the day after my birthday! ^^), so you can't blame me for making mistakes or dull jokes. -Ionia Metallium-Greywers
Warning: Mild hinting of yaoi. (3+4)
I opened my eyes, but quickly shut them again. There was a bright light right above my head. I cautiously opened my eyes this time. The light wasn't so bright if I took my time. I glanced around at last, taking in my surroundings. I appeared to be in a small prison-like cell. There were 2 cots on the east and west walls, and a window too high up on the wall for a kid my size to reach. From the looks of it, it was still dark out there.
The door to the cell opened suddenly. A small boy came in, holding a food container. I stared at him in shock. His clothes were ragged and torn, his hair long, uncut, matted, and dirty, and his shoes were full of holes and ready to fall apart at the slightest breeze. How could they treat someone this way?!
"Master said I should bring you some food..." the boy said shyly. He thrust the container out at me, and I took it.
"Who's your master?" I asked the boy.
"I'm sorry. I cannot say." The boy spoke with a slight accent...English, was it?
"Hm. I see." I crouched down to the boy's level. "What's your name?"
"My name is Gillian," he said quietly. From the way he was acting, it made me think that his "Master" had beaten him for talking.
"Well, it's nice to meet you, Gillian. My name is Quatre. Quatre Raberba Winner." He looked up at me.
"I know who you are. That's why you're here."
"Huh?"
"I heard my Master talking about it. He said he was going to kidnap a blond, rich boy called Quatre Raberba Winner."
"But why?"
Gillian shrugged. "For money, I suppose. Possibly even to kill you." At that, I felt the color drain from my face.
"But my friends...are they ok?"
"That I cannot assure you." He looked outside, where the moon was really large in the sky. He spoke with such large words for a boy who only looked about 7. "It's most likely he didn't kill them. They held no importance to him." In the light from the moon, I realized how pale Gillian was. Then I realized that after he had entered, there was a drastic change in lighting. The overhead light, which was so bright before, now was nearly gone compared to the moonlight flooding down from the window.
"Um, Gillian?" He looked at me. "Why are you so pale?"
"Oh, this." He motioned to his skin. "My Master made me this way."
"He never lets you go outside?"
"He used to, before he changed me." A deep growl came from somewhere deep in the castle--or wherever we were--and Gillian went running. "I'm sorry, Quatre! I have made my Master angry by talking to you! I'll come back later!" And with that, the door shut, and the lights went bright again.
*****
A scream followed by frantic yelling was the first sound out of the little camp. The first to rush out was Heero, gun in hand. He didnt even budge when he saw Duo running in circles, screaming something illegible. But Trowa came out next, and tried to calm Duo down.
Trowa walked towards him. "Calm down, Duo!" Duo kept running in circles. "If you don't stop right now, I'll let Heero shoot you." He motioned to Heero, who was standing behind him.
"I will too, Duo. You know I will."
This got Duo to stop. That was when Trowa saw the piece of paper he was holding. "Duo, what is that?"
"Huh? Oh, this." He held up the paper. "This was on Quatre's sleeping bag."
"And Quatre?"
"Gone."
"Gone?"
"Yeah. No trace of him." He handed the note to Trowa. Trowa read it, then clenched his fist around it so tight it almost could have caught on fire.
"What is it?" a tired-looking Wu Fei said as his head popped out of his tent.
"Quatre's been kidnapped..."
*****
I sat up on the floor, where I must have fallen asleep last night after I ate the dinner Gillian brought me. I looked to the window. Daytime. I thought it would never come.
I heard strange noises coming from outside. I got up on the one chair in the room and stood on my tiptoes to see outside. I couldn't see much, but I could hear it all.
"There they are! Grab them!" Crash. Thud.
Then, a very familiar voice said, "Get in there and find Quatre! I'll take care of these guys!" It was Wu Fei! Had they come to rescue me?! I hopped off the chair and stood at the door, trying to see out into the hallway through the keyhole. I could hear distant footsteps coming down the hall. Two people, it sounded like. And they were running. At first I thought dead sure it was Duo and Trowa, or someone. But as they ran by, I saw that they were nothing but soldiers.
I sat back down on the wall, my feet sticking out in front of me. It was then that I felt the pain in my leg. It was a pain like you'd get if someone stabbed you. I looked at my leg, and there it was. Stuck into my right leg was a small butterfly knife. I hadn't even known it until now. All I knew was that it hurt like hell.
"Are you ok?" I looked up from my bleeding leg. Gillian!
"Gillian...you're here! But how...?" I looked to the locked door, which was not open.
"I have my ways." He smiled. "Looks like you're in pain."
I winced. "Yeah."
"I'm sorry. I did that to you, of my Master's bidding."
"Huh?"
He looked to the floor. "My Master ordered me to kill you. I didn't wish to kill you immediately, so I stuck a poison-tipped knife in your leg. It will take longer for the poison to take action, and it is a mild poison, but if it is not treated soon, you will surely die."
I looked at him, and noticed slashes on the boy's arms. "What happened to you?!"
"Master got mad when I said I didn't want to kill you, so he beat me with a spiked flail." He looked to the ground, tears welling in his eyes.
All this over me...? I coughed, and blood came from my mouth.
"The poison is taking effect," Gillian said. "I just hope for your sake that your friends find you soon. This is a large fortress, and my Master roams at nighttime."
"How close is it to dark?"
"About an hour." The red-orange color of the setting sun came through the window, making our shadows dance on the wall. "I will try to find your friends and lead them to you." Then, Gillian suddenly disappeared, and left me with my mouth gaping.
I coughed up some more blood. "Trowa...please hurry..." I then fell unconscious.
*****
I woke up to someone shaking me. "Quatre! Please, wake up Quatre!"
"...Huh...?" I said as I opened my eyes slowly.
"Thank god!" the voice said. I couldn't see clearly enought to tell who it was because it was so dark, but the voice and the familiar musky scent gave me a clue.
"T...Trowa...?"
"Oh, god, Quatre! You're ok!" Trowa's arms encircled me and pulled me towards him. I blushed unconsciously. When he pulled back, I was still blushing. That was when I coughed up some more blood. "Quatre! Are you ok?! What did they do to you?!" He growled a bit.
"Nothing much, really," I choked out.
"They must have done something to you. You just coughed up blood." He looked me over, and spotted the knife. "Hold still." He slowly pulled it out, and I winced.
Blood welled out of the cut. Trowa stared at it, then proceeded to smell the blade. "They put poison on this. Not a very strong or quick acting poison, though." He looked to me. "How long have you had this stuck in your leg?"
"I don't know. Maybe since last night, around 4 or 5?" I suggested.
"If we don't get this treated soon, you are going to die." Where did I hear that before? Trowa picked me up and slung me over his shoulder. He opened the door I thought was locked and walked out into the hall.
"Trowa? Hey, Trowa! Where'd you go? If you come out, I'll promise not to call you TroTro anymore!" Duo's voice rang through the halls. He turned the corner running at full speed. He came to a stop when he saw us. "Trowa! Hey, and Quatre too!"
"Quatre is poisoned, Duo. We have to get him out of here!"
"Sure thing!" Duo said confidently. He and Trowa ran down the hall.
"Trowa...thank you..." I whispered, then nodded off.
*****
I awoke in a clearing a few hours later staring up at the stars. I had a warm, wet cloth on my forehead. A fire flickered beside me, and I could hear voices. Male voices. It took some effort, but I finally turned my head long enough to see who they were. On a log on one side of the fire sat Heero and Duo. Wu Fei sat on the opposite log. Trowa was kneeling beside me, staring into my face.
"Hey, it looks like Sleeping Beauty finally woke up," Wu Fei muttered.
"Welcome back to the realm of consciousness, Quatre." He smiled.
I smiled back. Then I coughed up more blood. Trowa stood up.
"I know of a remedy for this poison. I will go look for it in the forest. I'll be back later." He ran into the forest and disappeared.
Duo sat next to me. "Are you hungry, Quatre?"
"Yeah. Sure." I smiled at him.
"Alright." He picked up a bowl of soup and carefully propped me up on a log. "Here you go!" He stuck the spoon full of soup into my mouth.
"I can only hope Trowa gets back soon," Heero said. "If not, we might lose one of our best members."
I smiled, and let Duo continue feeding me soup.
To Be Continued...
Part 3
Note: I first started writing this at 5:50 AM on a Monday morning (but the day after my birthday! ^^), so you can't blame me for making mistakes or dull jokes. -Ionia Metallium-Greywers
Warning: Mild hinting of yaoi. (3+4)
I opened my eyes, but quickly shut them again. There was a bright light right above my head. I cautiously opened my eyes this time. The light wasn't so bright if I took my time. I glanced around at last, taking in my surroundings. I appeared to be in a small prison-like cell. There were 2 cots on the east and west walls, and a window too high up on the wall for a kid my size to reach. From the looks of it, it was still dark out there.
The door to the cell opened suddenly. A small boy came in, holding a food container. I stared at him in shock. His clothes were ragged and torn, his hair long, uncut, matted, and dirty, and his shoes were full of holes and ready to fall apart at the slightest breeze. How could they treat someone this way?!
"Master said I should bring you some food..." the boy said shyly. He thrust the container out at me, and I took it.
"Who's your master?" I asked the boy.
"I'm sorry. I cannot say." The boy spoke with a slight accent...English, was it?
"Hm. I see." I crouched down to the boy's level. "What's your name?"
"My name is Gillian," he said quietly. From the way he was acting, it made me think that his "Master" had beaten him for talking.
"Well, it's nice to meet you, Gillian. My name is Quatre. Quatre Raberba Winner." He looked up at me.
"I know who you are. That's why you're here."
"Huh?"
"I heard my Master talking about it. He said he was going to kidnap a blond, rich boy called Quatre Raberba Winner."
"But why?"
Gillian shrugged. "For money, I suppose. Possibly even to kill you." At that, I felt the color drain from my face.
"But my friends...are they ok?"
"That I cannot assure you." He looked outside, where the moon was really large in the sky. He spoke with such large words for a boy who only looked about 7. "It's most likely he didn't kill them. They held no importance to him." In the light from the moon, I realized how pale Gillian was. Then I realized that after he had entered, there was a drastic change in lighting. The overhead light, which was so bright before, now was nearly gone compared to the moonlight flooding down from the window.
"Um, Gillian?" He looked at me. "Why are you so pale?"
"Oh, this." He motioned to his skin. "My Master made me this way."
"He never lets you go outside?"
"He used to, before he changed me." A deep growl came from somewhere deep in the castle--or wherever we were--and Gillian went running. "I'm sorry, Quatre! I have made my Master angry by talking to you! I'll come back later!" And with that, the door shut, and the lights went bright again.
*****
A scream followed by frantic yelling was the first sound out of the little camp. The first to rush out was Heero, gun in hand. He didnt even budge when he saw Duo running in circles, screaming something illegible. But Trowa came out next, and tried to calm Duo down.
Trowa walked towards him. "Calm down, Duo!" Duo kept running in circles. "If you don't stop right now, I'll let Heero shoot you." He motioned to Heero, who was standing behind him.
"I will too, Duo. You know I will."
This got Duo to stop. That was when Trowa saw the piece of paper he was holding. "Duo, what is that?"
"Huh? Oh, this." He held up the paper. "This was on Quatre's sleeping bag."
"And Quatre?"
"Gone."
"Gone?"
"Yeah. No trace of him." He handed the note to Trowa. Trowa read it, then clenched his fist around it so tight it almost could have caught on fire.
"What is it?" a tired-looking Wu Fei said as his head popped out of his tent.
"Quatre's been kidnapped..."
*****
I sat up on the floor, where I must have fallen asleep last night after I ate the dinner Gillian brought me. I looked to the window. Daytime. I thought it would never come.
I heard strange noises coming from outside. I got up on the one chair in the room and stood on my tiptoes to see outside. I couldn't see much, but I could hear it all.
"There they are! Grab them!" Crash. Thud.
Then, a very familiar voice said, "Get in there and find Quatre! I'll take care of these guys!" It was Wu Fei! Had they come to rescue me?! I hopped off the chair and stood at the door, trying to see out into the hallway through the keyhole. I could hear distant footsteps coming down the hall. Two people, it sounded like. And they were running. At first I thought dead sure it was Duo and Trowa, or someone. But as they ran by, I saw that they were nothing but soldiers.
I sat back down on the wall, my feet sticking out in front of me. It was then that I felt the pain in my leg. It was a pain like you'd get if someone stabbed you. I looked at my leg, and there it was. Stuck into my right leg was a small butterfly knife. I hadn't even known it until now. All I knew was that it hurt like hell.
"Are you ok?" I looked up from my bleeding leg. Gillian!
"Gillian...you're here! But how...?" I looked to the locked door, which was not open.
"I have my ways." He smiled. "Looks like you're in pain."
I winced. "Yeah."
"I'm sorry. I did that to you, of my Master's bidding."
"Huh?"
He looked to the floor. "My Master ordered me to kill you. I didn't wish to kill you immediately, so I stuck a poison-tipped knife in your leg. It will take longer for the poison to take action, and it is a mild poison, but if it is not treated soon, you will surely die."
I looked at him, and noticed slashes on the boy's arms. "What happened to you?!"
"Master got mad when I said I didn't want to kill you, so he beat me with a spiked flail." He looked to the ground, tears welling in his eyes.
All this over me...? I coughed, and blood came from my mouth.
"The poison is taking effect," Gillian said. "I just hope for your sake that your friends find you soon. This is a large fortress, and my Master roams at nighttime."
"How close is it to dark?"
"About an hour." The red-orange color of the setting sun came through the window, making our shadows dance on the wall. "I will try to find your friends and lead them to you." Then, Gillian suddenly disappeared, and left me with my mouth gaping.
I coughed up some more blood. "Trowa...please hurry..." I then fell unconscious.
*****
I woke up to someone shaking me. "Quatre! Please, wake up Quatre!"
"...Huh...?" I said as I opened my eyes slowly.
"Thank god!" the voice said. I couldn't see clearly enought to tell who it was because it was so dark, but the voice and the familiar musky scent gave me a clue.
"T...Trowa...?"
"Oh, god, Quatre! You're ok!" Trowa's arms encircled me and pulled me towards him. I blushed unconsciously. When he pulled back, I was still blushing. That was when I coughed up some more blood. "Quatre! Are you ok?! What did they do to you?!" He growled a bit.
"Nothing much, really," I choked out.
"They must have done something to you. You just coughed up blood." He looked me over, and spotted the knife. "Hold still." He slowly pulled it out, and I winced.
Blood welled out of the cut. Trowa stared at it, then proceeded to smell the blade. "They put poison on this. Not a very strong or quick acting poison, though." He looked to me. "How long have you had this stuck in your leg?"
"I don't know. Maybe since last night, around 4 or 5?" I suggested.
"If we don't get this treated soon, you are going to die." Where did I hear that before? Trowa picked me up and slung me over his shoulder. He opened the door I thought was locked and walked out into the hall.
"Trowa? Hey, Trowa! Where'd you go? If you come out, I'll promise not to call you TroTro anymore!" Duo's voice rang through the halls. He turned the corner running at full speed. He came to a stop when he saw us. "Trowa! Hey, and Quatre too!"
"Quatre is poisoned, Duo. We have to get him out of here!"
"Sure thing!" Duo said confidently. He and Trowa ran down the hall.
"Trowa...thank you..." I whispered, then nodded off.
*****
I awoke in a clearing a few hours later staring up at the stars. I had a warm, wet cloth on my forehead. A fire flickered beside me, and I could hear voices. Male voices. It took some effort, but I finally turned my head long enough to see who they were. On a log on one side of the fire sat Heero and Duo. Wu Fei sat on the opposite log. Trowa was kneeling beside me, staring into my face.
"Hey, it looks like Sleeping Beauty finally woke up," Wu Fei muttered.
"Welcome back to the realm of consciousness, Quatre." He smiled.
I smiled back. Then I coughed up more blood. Trowa stood up.
"I know of a remedy for this poison. I will go look for it in the forest. I'll be back later." He ran into the forest and disappeared.
Duo sat next to me. "Are you hungry, Quatre?"
"Yeah. Sure." I smiled at him.
"Alright." He picked up a bowl of soup and carefully propped me up on a log. "Here you go!" He stuck the spoon full of soup into my mouth.
"I can only hope Trowa gets back soon," Heero said. "If not, we might lose one of our best members."
I smiled, and let Duo continue feeding me soup.
To Be Continued...