Characters aren't mine appreciate comments though
//-thoughts
Part 3:
An Angel's Tears
***
Wufei dreamed of a boy with blue eyes that night, blue eyes that reminded him of another. His brown hair smelling like all the others. But this half-demon boy tasted different and this was why he kept calling for him whenever the Prince was busy with his elf. This boy made him feel like the secrets that were eating him within were taken from his shoulders for the brief moments that he shared with the boy.
That boy was his and he would do everything in his power to find him, for the boy knew something he should not. A secret only uttered once from his lips.
The boy had driven him to the edge and he called his name that he wanted most. His lord.
He was forbidden to love the Prince, and in his weakness he had fallen for the one he must protect. The mage must never touch his liege that was the way it was. Their bond would be broken the moment their skin touched and he would be forever damned. And yet he longed to hold those little hands that he had seen kill so many.
The concubine became the prince, his brown hair bleached to yellow, his skin whitening and his eyes containing the color of the summer sky. He pulled the boy towards him and he devoured his lips with a need fueled by four hundred years of longing.
He sat up, his mind reeling from the dream he just had. His body aching and his shame burning his skin.
This was his secret. This was his ruin. He must find that boy and claim him once more or destroy him; these were his only option.
***
"We will reach Langit in a couple of days time, until then we must stay hidden, I too am not strong enough to fight the Dragon Prince nor his mage." Trowa said feeling the soil in his palm. "They have set out to find us. Only the two of them. We will have to outrun them. They are hunters and we do not have the strength to mask our tracks."
"Tell me of the harem." Duo said quietly although they were alone. He was silent for a long time his hand still feeling the soil that had ceased telling him things moments ago.
"What do you wish to know?"
"Did you..." Duo searched his eyes and Trowa silently begged him not to ask. The angel broke into a smile. He took his hand in his and placed his head on his shoulder.
/I won't ask Trowa, if you don't want me to. But I beg you tell me before it is too late./
***
"They are close, perhaps half a day away." The Prince said seeing the broken branches on one of the bushes. "They are fast."
"Hmmm. They do have the half-demon boy with them. Trowa has regained some of his power but they won't be able to hold their own against us." Wufei said looking at the sky.
"Let us give them the day. The chase won't be fun if it ended so soon." Prince Quatre smiled.
***
He was tired but they couldn't stop now, if they did it could mean the end for all of them. They needed to reach angel country before the Prince caught up with them. Duo needed to regain his powers, he was too weak and he was afraid that the angel might be in real danger. The talk of what to do after could always wait.
"Hey Trowa, I never got around to asking his name. What is it?" Duo asked motioning towards the boy behind them.
"I don't know." He answered drawing a branch away for Duo, who stared at him incredulously.
"I thought you were together for a year?"
"We were."
"And you never once asked his name?" Trowa looked at Duo. The angel broke into laughter. "Truly Trowa! I don't know why I stick with a grumpy old man like you!"
"Old man? Duo you are a thousand years old!" Trowa smiled.
"Yeah but I don't act like it meanie!" Duo stuck his tongue out at the elf and pulled at the skin beneath his eye. He laughed once more before bounding off towards the demon-boy. Trowa smiled. It was the first time he had ever heard Duo simply laugh since they were reunited. There was always a touch of sadness in it as if he was masking something and now there was nothing, that was all it was. He just laughed.
"Hey I never caught your name." He smiled at the boy. "And mister I'm-too-good-to-speak-to-my-cellmate-for-one-whole-freaking-year didn't either."
"It is Heero and we have never spoken to each other in our time together so it really doesn't matter." He said looking at the angel.
"True the first time I had ever heard his voice was when he answered you." Duo's eyes nearly popped out.
"Geez, talk about anti-social. At least you had someone to be with..."he said as Trowa began to walk again. "I was all alone for so long." He whispered although Heero heard him. Duo realized he had heard and made up for it, plastering a smile on his face. "Solitude does things to you." he smiled sadly and ran up towards the elf. Heero just stared at him.
"You know what?" he whispered coming close to Trowa.
"What?"
"The world looks different in gray." He smiled.
/You have changed so much it seems. That century we were apart, what did he do to you? How could he take away your laugh and I know the colors still have not returned to your eyes. You saw something in that lifetime didn't you, something that has caused you to change? And I know it's killing you./
Trowa looked at the angel, and wondered how much they both have changed. He took his hand and smiled at Duo as they walked on.
Heero saw the clasped hands and his jealousy drove him insane. He wanted the angel for himself, they had been together for almost a month now and he hated the way they showed affection for each other. He could not for the life of him understand why Duo loved Trowa so much, he was boring, doesn't talk much and seemed to find nothing in the world worthwhile, so contrasting to the angel and so much like himself. Why couldn't Duo love him instead?
***
"Damn they are fast!" Wufei spat.
"Faster than I gave them credit for. We have to move now, tomorrow the new moons arise." Prince Quatre said. "I will not allow him to regain his powers."
***
He looked at Duo's sleeping form. His wings wrapped around them as he held him. He wanted to kiss him and claim him once more. Those endless nights when he dreamed of his violet-eyed angel always ended in this position somehow. The smell of Duo's hair, his wings and the night around them, it was always the same. Was he still dreaming?
Duo refused to make love to him, saying that he wanted to be able to see his green eyes when they made love, he didn't want to give himself to Trowa unless he was himself once more. Until he was completed again. He closed his eyes and memorized every detail he could, if this was a dream, then he would take everything he can from it before he wakes up behind the jade doors once again.
***
They had finally reached angel country. Duo had all but wept when he saw his land, never had he failed to see the beautiful sunrises here. All he saw now was a gray blur lighting up everything.
The skies were filled with angels circling around the castle, they were singing, greeting the sun as it made its entrance. On the tower two figures stood watching, as they both noticed the party approaching the castle, one of them let out a cry and suddenly flew out of the window to the three boys gathered beneath it.
Their Queen greeted them, seeing Duo she wept.
"Oh my child! What has happened to you?"
"Mother..." He fell into her arms as she showered his face with kisses.
"They will kill you Duo." His father stated as he joined them.
"No Treize, I will not let them take him away from me again!" the Queen warned gathering Duo in her arms.
"I should have known it was you elf. I knew you would bring ruin to my son." King Treize looked down at the boy; his height of seven feet made the six-foot boy suddenly feel small.
"Father!" Duo was shocked to hear him say it.
"Did you not think I knew where you were this past century?" King Teize's eyes were cold. "I saw you frozen in that tomb and did you know why I did not save you? For you to learn that it will never suit a crowned Prince to disobey his father for a common elf!"
"I am no common elf! I come from the Clan of Morning Bearers!"
"An aristocratic elf is an elf nonetheless. Your blood is not suited for us."
"Treize!" the Queen began as Duo released himself from her hold.
"I refused the crown before and I refuse it now. Why is it so hard for you to accept that I will never be King?" he demanded. "You have sixteen other sons and twelve other daughters all of them wanting the crown! Why must I be the one?"
"Because I chose you."
"Does it not matter what I wish?"
"No." Duo's wings sagged in defeat, he suddenly remembered why it took him three hundred years to return.
"What kind of father would force his son to become something he does not wish to be?" Trowa asked stepping in between Duo and his father; he had seen this scene play too many times.
"The kind of father that refuses to believe that he has a son selfish enough not to care for his people."
"I will never be the king you want me to be. My heart is not in ruling Langit!"
"What do you wish in exchange for my son's heart elf? How much will it take for you to release my son from the enchantment you put him under?" he asked turning to Trowa.
"If it means that he would follow what you wish of him, then his ransom o king is far more than you can afford." He answered his green eyes narrowing.
"Leave." It was an order.
"Duo!" the Queen called after her son.
"Sally..."
"Cease your words Treize! He is my joy and don't you dare take that from me again!" she turned from him angrily. Treize's shoulders sank; he too loved his difficult son. He foretold what would happen and he did everything in his power to prevent it. But fate can never be altered and now he knew he would truly lose his son.
***
Duo stayed in his mother's arms a little longer, soaking her breast with his tears.
"I love you mother. I never wanted to cause you grief."
"I know Duo-bear, I know." he smiled at his mother's pet name for him. "Your father can be a hard man but he loves you as much as I do."
"Why can't he accept that I will never be king?"
"He has his reasons." She too, knew what fate awaited her son, and she never wanted to let him go. "Would you never reconsider?" one last try.
"No." a silence fell between them
"I love you Duo."
"I love you too mother." She hugged him once more planting a kiss on his lips as she used to when he was a child. Duo turned to go before his tears began once more. "Farewell."
"Farewell my Duo-bear." She smiled her own tears fell like the rain as she watched him walk away from her.
"Trowa." She called as the elf neared her. "If I told you that Duo would die if the both of you left Langit, would you leave him behind?" Trowa nodded. The Queen smiled. "Take care of my son Trowa." She begged him as she turned to leave.
***
Duo's body glistened in the evening sky; there was no moon tonight and he needed the moons to be blind as he is reborn.
He removed his clothing and began to walk into the middle of the silver pool. His body shivering in the cold night air. Two pairs of eyes followed his flawless body, each suddenly needing a dip in the icy water as well. He spread his wings and entered the waterfall his wounds melted away and his body emanated a blue light, accentuating his curves even more. His beautiful face seemed to become even more beautiful as his soul was healed by the silver water.
And he opened his eyes.
"Trowa!" he held out his hand to him and the elf left everything behind not pausing to remove his clothes, he met Duo in the middle of the pool enfolding him in his arms and looking into his violet eyes. "I remember your eyes being much greener." He smiled before turning his face up to kiss his lover.
Heero turned away.
"Isn't this touching?" Wufei's voice separated them.
"Trowa..." Prince Quatre muttered his voice dripping with hatred. Trowa turned to shield Duo from the two dragons.
"You belong to me beloved," the Prince said in his sweet voice. "Do I need to remind you of that?"
"Leave us alone you mad sexually perverse weirdo!" Duo shouted behind him. Trowa wanted to laugh but he caught himself.
"Trowa? Must I take you away from him once more?" Trowa looked at the boy behind him.
"If I came back with you would you promise never to harm Duo?"
"Trowa?"
"Yes."
"Swear that to me Prince or else I would take my own life here and now before your eyes."
"I swear on the head of everything I hold dear."
"And your dog as well."
"I swear on my honor." Wufei ground out. If it wasn't for the look on the Dragon Prince's face he wouldn't even spit on the elf's demand.
"Trowa!" Duo pulled him around to face him.
"Give us a moment." He called over his shoulder to the three other people present.
"Come with me now boy." Wufei called out to Heero.
"The boy is bound to me dragon mage, touch him and you will die." Duo called, as his eyes burned blue. Wufei swallowed hard, he was not about to go against a newly born angel, no matter what secret the boy held.
"Trowa?" Duo asked when they were left alone, his eyes had returned to violet and his confusion and hurt clearly showed.
"It is better this way Duo."
"But we can face him together. I have regained my powers fully and my father would not deny his son an army to fight for his life, no matter how heartless he seems." He said tugging at Trowa's collar. "Remember we said that we can face anything so long as we are together."
"People change Duo." Was all he said, Duo looked at him in disbelief. "Let us revel in our last moment together love." He said as he claimed his lips.
And in the light of the silent stars, in ones desperation and the other's despair, they made love.
***
He had been lying like that for hours now. Heero thought. He looked at the angel sprawled on the ground beside him, he had started a fire so that Duo would not get cold.
He was lying on his stomach, his wings partially covering his naked body. His face was turned to the side staring into the silver pool with blank eyes. The dragons had taken Trowa with them when they left and he found Duo like this. He did not heed his calls and he refused to move.
And Heero let him stay like that, watching over him, troubled and satisfied at the same time.
Duo looked at the stars, his face empty. In his heart another pain embedded itself.
/I will kill you o Dragon Prince, even if it takes me forever./
***
notes: langit means heaven in Filipino
//-thoughts
Part 3:
An Angel's Tears
***
Wufei dreamed of a boy with blue eyes that night, blue eyes that reminded him of another. His brown hair smelling like all the others. But this half-demon boy tasted different and this was why he kept calling for him whenever the Prince was busy with his elf. This boy made him feel like the secrets that were eating him within were taken from his shoulders for the brief moments that he shared with the boy.
That boy was his and he would do everything in his power to find him, for the boy knew something he should not. A secret only uttered once from his lips.
The boy had driven him to the edge and he called his name that he wanted most. His lord.
He was forbidden to love the Prince, and in his weakness he had fallen for the one he must protect. The mage must never touch his liege that was the way it was. Their bond would be broken the moment their skin touched and he would be forever damned. And yet he longed to hold those little hands that he had seen kill so many.
The concubine became the prince, his brown hair bleached to yellow, his skin whitening and his eyes containing the color of the summer sky. He pulled the boy towards him and he devoured his lips with a need fueled by four hundred years of longing.
He sat up, his mind reeling from the dream he just had. His body aching and his shame burning his skin.
This was his secret. This was his ruin. He must find that boy and claim him once more or destroy him; these were his only option.
***
"We will reach Langit in a couple of days time, until then we must stay hidden, I too am not strong enough to fight the Dragon Prince nor his mage." Trowa said feeling the soil in his palm. "They have set out to find us. Only the two of them. We will have to outrun them. They are hunters and we do not have the strength to mask our tracks."
"Tell me of the harem." Duo said quietly although they were alone. He was silent for a long time his hand still feeling the soil that had ceased telling him things moments ago.
"What do you wish to know?"
"Did you..." Duo searched his eyes and Trowa silently begged him not to ask. The angel broke into a smile. He took his hand in his and placed his head on his shoulder.
/I won't ask Trowa, if you don't want me to. But I beg you tell me before it is too late./
***
"They are close, perhaps half a day away." The Prince said seeing the broken branches on one of the bushes. "They are fast."
"Hmmm. They do have the half-demon boy with them. Trowa has regained some of his power but they won't be able to hold their own against us." Wufei said looking at the sky.
"Let us give them the day. The chase won't be fun if it ended so soon." Prince Quatre smiled.
***
He was tired but they couldn't stop now, if they did it could mean the end for all of them. They needed to reach angel country before the Prince caught up with them. Duo needed to regain his powers, he was too weak and he was afraid that the angel might be in real danger. The talk of what to do after could always wait.
"Hey Trowa, I never got around to asking his name. What is it?" Duo asked motioning towards the boy behind them.
"I don't know." He answered drawing a branch away for Duo, who stared at him incredulously.
"I thought you were together for a year?"
"We were."
"And you never once asked his name?" Trowa looked at Duo. The angel broke into laughter. "Truly Trowa! I don't know why I stick with a grumpy old man like you!"
"Old man? Duo you are a thousand years old!" Trowa smiled.
"Yeah but I don't act like it meanie!" Duo stuck his tongue out at the elf and pulled at the skin beneath his eye. He laughed once more before bounding off towards the demon-boy. Trowa smiled. It was the first time he had ever heard Duo simply laugh since they were reunited. There was always a touch of sadness in it as if he was masking something and now there was nothing, that was all it was. He just laughed.
"Hey I never caught your name." He smiled at the boy. "And mister I'm-too-good-to-speak-to-my-cellmate-for-one-whole-freaking-year didn't either."
"It is Heero and we have never spoken to each other in our time together so it really doesn't matter." He said looking at the angel.
"True the first time I had ever heard his voice was when he answered you." Duo's eyes nearly popped out.
"Geez, talk about anti-social. At least you had someone to be with..."he said as Trowa began to walk again. "I was all alone for so long." He whispered although Heero heard him. Duo realized he had heard and made up for it, plastering a smile on his face. "Solitude does things to you." he smiled sadly and ran up towards the elf. Heero just stared at him.
"You know what?" he whispered coming close to Trowa.
"What?"
"The world looks different in gray." He smiled.
/You have changed so much it seems. That century we were apart, what did he do to you? How could he take away your laugh and I know the colors still have not returned to your eyes. You saw something in that lifetime didn't you, something that has caused you to change? And I know it's killing you./
Trowa looked at the angel, and wondered how much they both have changed. He took his hand and smiled at Duo as they walked on.
Heero saw the clasped hands and his jealousy drove him insane. He wanted the angel for himself, they had been together for almost a month now and he hated the way they showed affection for each other. He could not for the life of him understand why Duo loved Trowa so much, he was boring, doesn't talk much and seemed to find nothing in the world worthwhile, so contrasting to the angel and so much like himself. Why couldn't Duo love him instead?
***
"Damn they are fast!" Wufei spat.
"Faster than I gave them credit for. We have to move now, tomorrow the new moons arise." Prince Quatre said. "I will not allow him to regain his powers."
***
He looked at Duo's sleeping form. His wings wrapped around them as he held him. He wanted to kiss him and claim him once more. Those endless nights when he dreamed of his violet-eyed angel always ended in this position somehow. The smell of Duo's hair, his wings and the night around them, it was always the same. Was he still dreaming?
Duo refused to make love to him, saying that he wanted to be able to see his green eyes when they made love, he didn't want to give himself to Trowa unless he was himself once more. Until he was completed again. He closed his eyes and memorized every detail he could, if this was a dream, then he would take everything he can from it before he wakes up behind the jade doors once again.
***
They had finally reached angel country. Duo had all but wept when he saw his land, never had he failed to see the beautiful sunrises here. All he saw now was a gray blur lighting up everything.
The skies were filled with angels circling around the castle, they were singing, greeting the sun as it made its entrance. On the tower two figures stood watching, as they both noticed the party approaching the castle, one of them let out a cry and suddenly flew out of the window to the three boys gathered beneath it.
Their Queen greeted them, seeing Duo she wept.
"Oh my child! What has happened to you?"
"Mother..." He fell into her arms as she showered his face with kisses.
"They will kill you Duo." His father stated as he joined them.
"No Treize, I will not let them take him away from me again!" the Queen warned gathering Duo in her arms.
"I should have known it was you elf. I knew you would bring ruin to my son." King Treize looked down at the boy; his height of seven feet made the six-foot boy suddenly feel small.
"Father!" Duo was shocked to hear him say it.
"Did you not think I knew where you were this past century?" King Teize's eyes were cold. "I saw you frozen in that tomb and did you know why I did not save you? For you to learn that it will never suit a crowned Prince to disobey his father for a common elf!"
"I am no common elf! I come from the Clan of Morning Bearers!"
"An aristocratic elf is an elf nonetheless. Your blood is not suited for us."
"Treize!" the Queen began as Duo released himself from her hold.
"I refused the crown before and I refuse it now. Why is it so hard for you to accept that I will never be King?" he demanded. "You have sixteen other sons and twelve other daughters all of them wanting the crown! Why must I be the one?"
"Because I chose you."
"Does it not matter what I wish?"
"No." Duo's wings sagged in defeat, he suddenly remembered why it took him three hundred years to return.
"What kind of father would force his son to become something he does not wish to be?" Trowa asked stepping in between Duo and his father; he had seen this scene play too many times.
"The kind of father that refuses to believe that he has a son selfish enough not to care for his people."
"I will never be the king you want me to be. My heart is not in ruling Langit!"
"What do you wish in exchange for my son's heart elf? How much will it take for you to release my son from the enchantment you put him under?" he asked turning to Trowa.
"If it means that he would follow what you wish of him, then his ransom o king is far more than you can afford." He answered his green eyes narrowing.
"Leave." It was an order.
"Duo!" the Queen called after her son.
"Sally..."
"Cease your words Treize! He is my joy and don't you dare take that from me again!" she turned from him angrily. Treize's shoulders sank; he too loved his difficult son. He foretold what would happen and he did everything in his power to prevent it. But fate can never be altered and now he knew he would truly lose his son.
***
Duo stayed in his mother's arms a little longer, soaking her breast with his tears.
"I love you mother. I never wanted to cause you grief."
"I know Duo-bear, I know." he smiled at his mother's pet name for him. "Your father can be a hard man but he loves you as much as I do."
"Why can't he accept that I will never be king?"
"He has his reasons." She too, knew what fate awaited her son, and she never wanted to let him go. "Would you never reconsider?" one last try.
"No." a silence fell between them
"I love you Duo."
"I love you too mother." She hugged him once more planting a kiss on his lips as she used to when he was a child. Duo turned to go before his tears began once more. "Farewell."
"Farewell my Duo-bear." She smiled her own tears fell like the rain as she watched him walk away from her.
"Trowa." She called as the elf neared her. "If I told you that Duo would die if the both of you left Langit, would you leave him behind?" Trowa nodded. The Queen smiled. "Take care of my son Trowa." She begged him as she turned to leave.
***
Duo's body glistened in the evening sky; there was no moon tonight and he needed the moons to be blind as he is reborn.
He removed his clothing and began to walk into the middle of the silver pool. His body shivering in the cold night air. Two pairs of eyes followed his flawless body, each suddenly needing a dip in the icy water as well. He spread his wings and entered the waterfall his wounds melted away and his body emanated a blue light, accentuating his curves even more. His beautiful face seemed to become even more beautiful as his soul was healed by the silver water.
And he opened his eyes.
"Trowa!" he held out his hand to him and the elf left everything behind not pausing to remove his clothes, he met Duo in the middle of the pool enfolding him in his arms and looking into his violet eyes. "I remember your eyes being much greener." He smiled before turning his face up to kiss his lover.
Heero turned away.
"Isn't this touching?" Wufei's voice separated them.
"Trowa..." Prince Quatre muttered his voice dripping with hatred. Trowa turned to shield Duo from the two dragons.
"You belong to me beloved," the Prince said in his sweet voice. "Do I need to remind you of that?"
"Leave us alone you mad sexually perverse weirdo!" Duo shouted behind him. Trowa wanted to laugh but he caught himself.
"Trowa? Must I take you away from him once more?" Trowa looked at the boy behind him.
"If I came back with you would you promise never to harm Duo?"
"Trowa?"
"Yes."
"Swear that to me Prince or else I would take my own life here and now before your eyes."
"I swear on the head of everything I hold dear."
"And your dog as well."
"I swear on my honor." Wufei ground out. If it wasn't for the look on the Dragon Prince's face he wouldn't even spit on the elf's demand.
"Trowa!" Duo pulled him around to face him.
"Give us a moment." He called over his shoulder to the three other people present.
"Come with me now boy." Wufei called out to Heero.
"The boy is bound to me dragon mage, touch him and you will die." Duo called, as his eyes burned blue. Wufei swallowed hard, he was not about to go against a newly born angel, no matter what secret the boy held.
"Trowa?" Duo asked when they were left alone, his eyes had returned to violet and his confusion and hurt clearly showed.
"It is better this way Duo."
"But we can face him together. I have regained my powers fully and my father would not deny his son an army to fight for his life, no matter how heartless he seems." He said tugging at Trowa's collar. "Remember we said that we can face anything so long as we are together."
"People change Duo." Was all he said, Duo looked at him in disbelief. "Let us revel in our last moment together love." He said as he claimed his lips.
And in the light of the silent stars, in ones desperation and the other's despair, they made love.
***
He had been lying like that for hours now. Heero thought. He looked at the angel sprawled on the ground beside him, he had started a fire so that Duo would not get cold.
He was lying on his stomach, his wings partially covering his naked body. His face was turned to the side staring into the silver pool with blank eyes. The dragons had taken Trowa with them when they left and he found Duo like this. He did not heed his calls and he refused to move.
And Heero let him stay like that, watching over him, troubled and satisfied at the same time.
Duo looked at the stars, his face empty. In his heart another pain embedded itself.
/I will kill you o Dragon Prince, even if it takes me forever./
***
notes: langit means heaven in Filipino
