Richmond High School 7: Shinigami's sadness
Out side Relena's room- 12:45 am, September 17. -----
Relena really needs new guards. I swear I could've come through with the school marching band and they would have seen or heard nothing. Oh well, makes my life easier, I shouldn't bitch. Through her balcony doors I can see her sleeping in her canopy bed like an angel, my ass.
Opening, and walking silently across the room I reach over her pulling her to lie on her back and hands on her side. She doesn't wake. I position myself on top of her, pinning her to the bed with my body's weight. One hand over her mouth and the other with a knife.
" Shhh, or I'll slice your pretty pink throat. I'm going to let go, if you scream I cut." I lean forward touching he nose to mine. " And I'm in no mood to fuck with tonight. Do you understand?"
She nodded, eyes wide with fear and I let go.
" Wh...What do you want?"
" Tell me were Solo is and I'll leave." I said. She must of forgot her fear of death, because she started to laugh at me. " What the fuck is so funny?" She stopped.
" Why speak to him, he's just are information and massager. He has no power, no reason to see him if you want the job."
Oh joy, and I mean that, cause it's my turn to laugh. And I have had nothing to laugh at all night. She looks pissed, good.
" I don't want you pathetic job." Now she looks pissed, man this is fun, to bad I'm running out of patients.
" What do you mean path..." I press the knife to her throat, slicing soft enough that a stripe of blood leaks out of her neck.
" Were is Solo, last chance." I know three strikes your out, but not tonight.
" Crystal Apartments at the corner of Main and 12th, room 226." The fear is back as she rushes her words out. I pat her on the head like a good dog.
" I must say you were right. Your note, about the kings and shit. To bad you don't know the half of it."
I walk to the doors out onto the balcony, and she calls my name. Making me stop.
" What do you mean. I know more about this then you." I turn flashing her my grin.
" Think what you like in your world Relena," with that said I leave going to the Crystal Apartment's 226.
Solo's Apartment, 1:33am
I pick the lock, way to easy. I hate easy it makes everything else difficult later on, and I had a feeling about this one. I was on my last string, and it was on its last thread.
" Duo," Solo said from his couch standing up and waling towards me.
" Relena call you?" He nodded his head giving me a hug, I didn't hug back. How dare he think I'm ready to be friends again.
" I'm sorry I left you years ago Duo," he whispers in my ear. Okay that's it, he just had to bring back old wounds. I shove him away.
" Your not sorry, and you never will be. You said it yourself, "it made 'me' a stronger person". Fuck you Solo." I walk past him as he shuts the door. Everything comes rushing back to me, old feelings and new, damn him damn him to hell.
" I didn't come here to kiss and make up." He turns to me wide eyed.
" But Relena side you didn't want the job, what other reason would there be for you to come and see me."
" Maybe to see what you've become." He sits back down, I prefer to stand. Better leverage and a quicker escape. He looks up at me with his brown eyes, and they look so different from the ones I knew as a kid. If I ever was one.
" What I've become? Duo, that's very trivial for you." He said laughingly. I want cry, but I'm to furious right now to. He thinks I'm a brainless child now. Well he is wrong, and I know now the Solo I knew is dead.
" You are different Solo." I say seriously, and he laughs.
" But of course I'm different Duo, I grew up, and so did you." He said with pleasure and motioned for me to sit with him. I decline and he goes on. " Duo I would not have come back if I didn't need you." With every word he says it makes me itch for my knifes. Only to come back when I was needed, like I was his to use and throw away when done. " I have a plan."
"Oh please go on." I think he missed my sarcasm, because he did go on.
" I've learned that you can control the tide of power. I...we can use that to be the supreme power. Can you see it, everyone will bow down to me, because I can send you out to kill whom every needs to be killed or taught a lesson." He started to giggle. I lost it.
Grapping my ankle dagger I stalk towards him.
" The Solo I knew died in my arms all those years ago. I will kill the imposter you have become." I plunge the dagger into his soft stomach, and blood covers my hand as I twist and he screams.
" Why Duo? You would be invincible sitting at the top with me, your closest friend you have."
Every word he says makes me want to scream, but I can't someone would come. Instead I take my left hip knife and drive into his right shoulder, he screams out. I repeat the same action to his left shoulder with my right hip knife.
" Duo..." gasp, he's having trouble breathing and blood is coming out of his mouth. He has an internal injury, and it makes me smile.
" What is it imposter?" He coughs up more blood. Part of me wants to end it quickly, while another part wants me to torture him till he begs for death.
" Please, I created you." What every part that wanted mercy wanted no mercy now.
" You created your own death, nothing more." I whisper softly. I see fear in his eyes, and he knows now I'm not going to stop in till he is dead. I smile wider, teeth showing I know what he is thinking.
" Duo you can't we are friends." He stops to scream as I slice his right and left thigh. " You don't kill friends." Slicing his upper right chest. " Please Duo..." I can't stop my self. " Don't do this...," he's crying now, and I still don't stop. I cut deeper into his left side, my knife is imbedded into his skin, and I twist it. He screams.
" Solo, you died years ago, go back to your grave." I take the dagger that was in his stomach out hard, twisting it as I go. " Here's the good-bye I never got to tell you. I'll end your life with no more pain." Thrusting the dagger hard into his heart.
" Ssssorryy...." His last word was slurred with blood. Slouching over onto me, I shove him back into the couch. Taking my knifes I leave. Once in my car I hear sirens from far off, someone heard him scream.
I leave, no one will know it was me, even the other gangs. Only Relena and it was unlikely she would tell. I drive half dead. What have I done?
--Heero's room, 4:05 am
My dream tonight was about a young man with violet eyes and a long water fall of hair. Though it seemed I wouldn't finish it, because someone was in my room. I reach for my gun that I put under my pillow.
" Please don't pull a gun on me Heero." That voice, it was Duo, but it was hard and scratchy. I open my eyes to see him there sitting on my chair staring at me. I move to turn the light.
" Please don't turn the light on, I'm not a nice sight to see." I ignore him, not a nice sight since when. He turns away from the light, and I can see his body shaking. I grasp his arm, and I notice that his black clothing is covered with blood.
" Duo." I say softly. " What happened to you." He final turns to me, the bloods not his, but he is shaking from crying. His face his covered with dry tracks of old tears and new ones started to form.
" I killed him." Was all he said. He needs to get out of those clothes. Standing up I take his hand and take him to my bathroom.
" Take a shower, I'll bring you fresh clothing. Then you can tell me anything or nothing at all."
His mask is gone, and the small smile on his face is all I could ask for. " Thank you." He said softly.
Leaving him, I went and looked for something that would fit him. In the end, I ended up picking a white under shirt and sweat pants, and leave them on the toilet.
I don't know how long it was when he came out, but I was to lost in thought to notice time go by. What had happen to make him break like this. Was it his past? " To see what the past is like in the present?" he had said that, is it that. His past, but everyone from his past is dead, aren't they?
I look up to see him standing in to bathroom door frame. " I didn't want to go to anyone else, I went to Hilde and Wufei's to ask were you were...I didn't want to be alone... You were a sleep, so I waited for an hour or so and you woke up..." He was rambling on, but I didn't care. He said he didn't want to go to any one else. He came to me, and I'll be damned if I screw that up.
Bring him to my bed I lie him down, pulling the cover over him. " Please don't leave me alone." he said grapping my arm, never, I would never leave him. I say nothing and join him, and he positions himself to lie on my like a life line to life.
" You haven't asked why I'm here?" He said quietly.
" If you don't want to tell me, then I wouldn't force it out of you." I reply softly in his hair. Then he starts and I don't stop him only giving him reassuring touches.
" Solo, he died years ago in my arms. I was alone for a long time when he went." He paused. " The gang that killed him, I went and killed them all, every single soul, I took them." Something warm and wet splashed on my chest, he was crying again. I start to rub his back, but I will not say anything in till he is done. " I became Shinigami, that night, taking lives that did no harm to me. But then I met Sister Helen and Father Maxwell. I wasn't alone anymore, and I was loved again. It lasted a short time again. By the time I was thirteen, I had killed one gang, and had the only people who loved me slip out of my life." Sniff, he was crying harder now, but he went on. " Solo faked his death. Working for a gang called Epyon, but he really just wanted to use me." He turned his head to look at me. His face covered in tears, and those always happy violets were sad and broken. " He came to the same conclusion as you. I can move the tide of power. He thought he created me; thought he could use me. I killed him, but that's not the worst part." He paused again, catching his breath and falling tears. " I enjoyed killing him." He choked the last part out.
My poor Duo. I whish I could take his pain. When this was over I promise that Duo will never have to kill again.
" Shhh... it's alright Duo." I whisper softly over and over.
" You don't hate me," he ask not looking up, I cup his chin kissing him softly. I will not take advantage of him, but I will comfort him.
" I will never hate you Duo, and I'll be with you as long as you want me to." He burst into new tears, happy ones now, and hugged me. He cried himself to sleep, but sleep didn't claim me. I made the best of it by comforting him.
tbc
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