Author: Ami Mercury
Rating: PG-13
Title: The Sunset above the Sea
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam wing…yeah…okay don't own, never will
AN: YAOI!! Thehe…my favorite…1x2
When I sit here and think of the days gone past, my mind tends to drift to you. Long ago when the days seemed to fly by like the fallen leaves of fall was when we fell in love. During those days I was free to go as a pleased without restriction and be with you whenever I felt I wanted to, which seemed to be every second of every day. Days spent taking walks through the park and nights under the stars staring up, wishing on every star that fell from that beautiful sky. Some afternoons falling asleep on the beach, waiting for the waves to crash into the rocks just below us as the sun set in fiery reds and oranges. But not all our days were like this; these were the peaceful days between war and the brink of another war. After the first war we felt as though we'd never have to fight again, but then Mardimea attempted to start another war. We were so happy during that one year break, every minute of every day together, forever, or so we thought. Forever is defined as without end, but one thing could have interrupted our forever, Shinagami becoming more then just the God of Death, but he himself giving into death. It never occurred to me that Duo could die being that he was Death.
After the Mardimea incident we both went to work at Preventers in hope of never having to go back to war again. I remember that day twenty years ago now that Duo never came home, as if it were yesterday. That day has forever been imprinted in my mind, that day was the hardest day of my life.
That night I lied in bed waiting for him to return home from a simple mission where he had to go out and search an old Oz base that was reported as active again. Usually it would have been easy, but that night was different; some thing messed up this easy mission. At two am I received a telephone call from an urgent Sally Poe, telling me that I needed to be at the hospitable right away, that something had happened to Duo. After that was a blur, getting to the hospitable, running to his room, finding him looking so small, it all blends together with time. He was still awake then, barely hanging on to consciousness, when he saw me enter the room; he forced a smile on his face for me, and blinked as if to tell me to come to him. I don't know how quickly I made it to him, but I grabbed his hand and kissed it, those purple orbs staring at me. It hurt to look back into those eyes, for that sequined life no longer flashed there any longer. Looking into those eyes told me that he was dying, and that soon he would no longer be with me. My hands shook as I held his hand and slowly kissed it again.
"I love you Heero Yuy, and after I'm gone, I'll still love you."
"Duo don't talk like that, you'll be fine," but I knew as soon as I had said it that it wasn't true, and I think he also knew that I didn't believe that.
"Please Heero, I know I'm going to die, please accept it too."
"I love you Duo," slowly wet stars fell down my eyes landing on my loves cheeks as my world crashed in front of me.
"You and I forever Heero, Forever," and with that last word he slipped into a coma and would never wake again.
Soon I would tell the doctors not to keep him alive any longer; knowing full well that Duo had accepted his fate. Later that week he was cremated and a small ceremony was held, with just the other pilots and me. I had wanted to be the strong one for them, because that's what I had always been, but I couldn't be strong without Duo. As everyone left, I spread Duo's ashes into the sea, where we had always gone to see the sun set.
It's been twenty years to the day that my love died; I never fell in love again after him. I built my home on that very beach, so that every day I could be with him, and see that sun set over the sea.