Think I Die An Another Day
By: Tash AKA: Natasha
Rating: Unknown
Pairing 1x2x1
Summary: Another look at Oliver, starring Duo and Heero. Duo, a young naive orphan trying to survive on the streets and Heero, a boy who's a natural when it comes to killing interact with each other in this story filled with an adventure you'll never forget. This story is set in the future, after many wars, a scarred society is trying to move on with their lives but history has a funny way of repeating itself.
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Note: Duo - 7 years old / Solo- 10 years old/ Heero- 9 years old
"Wish that I could cry
Fall upon my knees
Find a way to lie
About a home I'll never see"
- Superman lyrics
Prologue: Running
Duo ran through the streets, with a bag filled with apples tightly within his grasp, following him was the angry man that he stole them from. Duo took a quick U-turn into an alley and lost the man in the darkness, Duo's amethyst eyes scanned the alley for any sign of trouble than grinned and crowed like a rooster (a famous call he learned from watching Peter-Pan when he was younger). A boy a little older than Duo with straight shoulder-length blonde hair and blue-green eyes appeared and smiled as he saw Duo. "Hey kid, about time. What took you so long?" The boy murmured playfully. Duo grinned and retorted "If you really have to know Solo, I got struck in traffic. Some rich people came here. There were a lot of people around them, I guess they're famous or something."
Solo smiled as Duo rambled on and took the bag of apple carefully from his grip, his eyes narrowed slightly as he heard Duo talk about some rich folks entering the colony, that could only mean one thing, trouble and there was enough trouble on the colony as it is. What person in their right mind would go to a colony that suffered most from the wars. The colony was packed with every criminals, veterans, and many more people that desired something unattainable. "Come on Duo, it's time to go home," Solo whispered as he took Duo's hand and led them towards old abandoned hotel (rundown) building. As they entered the building, the place was surprisely clean, and the light and water system still worked, the place was once filled with burn furniture, rats and other unsanitary things but Solo and other orphans managed to clean the place, and make the place seem homely. The building looked empty from the outside but it was actually packed with many orphans who either lost their family, were abandoned, or ran away. Many of the children there, suffered because of the costly wars that happened frequently before their time, but still affected their lives.
As Duo and Solo entered the building, a loud whistle echoed throughout the building and a crowd of kids ran over to get the goods. "You guys settle down, there's not enough food for all of us, we're going have to cut our rations down a little bit since there seems to be some weird stuff happening here." As Solo announced this, Duo told all the orphans about the rich people he saw while he was getting the food. Another group of Orphans holding bags of food walked over towards Solo. "Solo, we collected some food, some of us ate all ready but some of the others are sick and they need more food than the rest of us." Reported one of the orphans in the group. Solo frowned and appeared pensive for a couple of moments before nodding his head and announced "All right everyone who hasn't eaten can eat what I leave behind, I'll divide the food in half, some food will go to those who haven't eaten while the rest will go to the sick kids unless, some of you guys wants to give up your share."
Duo looked around at the group of orphans, who were now quiet, a lot of them were staring hungrily at the food, Duo knew none of them will be willing to give up their share so he took a deep breathe and uttered. "The Sick kids can have my share, I'm not that hungry anyway," Duo smiled at everyone to lighten up the mood and walked away towards his room, his stomach grumbling softly. Solo watched Duo go sadly, he silently made a promise to himself to try to save some food for him as he was dragged towards the sick kids.
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Duo sighed sadly as he lifted a golden-cross from around his neck and held it tightly in his hands. A chestnut strand fell in his face and he pushed the strand behind his ear. Duo looked out the window as his stomach grumbled with hunger once again. A bright star catched his eye and he wished silently on that star for a better life for all the orphans. Still starving, little Duo curled up in the torn blanket and ripped pillows that was his bed and faked sleep. He listened carefully for the footsteps of Solo coming to his bed, as he did everyday. He smiled sadly as he heard Solo coming towards his body and peered through a hole in the blanket to see Solo leaving some food for him when he wakes up. "Thanks Solo." Duo whispered softly and Solo smiled at him before leaving the room. Duo quickly grabbed the food and stuffed it in his mouth and sighed contentedly, he felt a little better with a stomach that wasn't completely empty. He feel asleep immediately, not knowing when he awoke, it would be to a nightmare.
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Meanwhile.....
"I guess,I'll die another day"
-Madonna
A young boy named Heero was on a mission, he was a secret soldier, a young assasin. A pistol was held tightly in his hands as he ran through an illegal experiment basement base. His mission was to destroy everything inside the building. Heero ran though the building, placing little explosives as he went. A soldier walking through spotted him and started to shot, Heero flipped out of the way and killed the man. He kicked open a vent and crawled through, once he was faraway as possible from his last location, he pressed the activator and explosives were heard. Heero began to crawl through the vent faster as ball of fire chased him as aftermath of the building being blown apart. Heero quickly pushed through the exit through the vent system and ran for cover, he watched silently as the building burst into flames with occupants still inside. Heero's cold Prussian eyes surveyed the scene, committing it to memory and quickly took out his mini-contacter (basically a computer which contacts his boss) and the computer automatically dialed the number needed. "Mission accomplished." Heero murmured unemotionlly and he turned away from the flames of the fire and walked on towards the waiting helicopter. A man was waiting for him inside, "Good work Heero, I have another mission for you. It's in a local colony called L 2."
-End of prologue.
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