Shadowess: Thank you so very much.
Rainy: Glad you are willing to wait for the next part. There will be a little torture, but it will be more mental than any.
Kyra: To answer some of your questions, yes Zechs believes that Duo will choose him over Heero. Right now he is that delusional. I am glad that you caught on to that. I don't want to spoil the surprise but I will say that Zechs is really not that bad. He will face the error of his ways soon.
Personally, I am not very happy with this chapter. My mind is over run right now and it shows. I will try to make the next better.
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For the first time in his life, Treize Khushrenada was impatient. He had been waiting for the others at the rendezvous point for almost fifteen minutes now. Almost two and a half hours have gone by since his little lover had informed him of Duo's abduction. 'Zechs, you are my friend but if you do anything to him I will personally seek revenge. Please, hold strong dear Duo.'
He let out a sigh of relief when he saw a familiar van pull up next to his own. That relief instantly vanished when the occupants of said van got out. Heero's normally emotionless face was pale and now full of worry and fear. Wufei was crimson with anger. Trowa's impassive face was tight with worry as he held his smaller lover close to his side. Quatre was biting his bottom lip so hard; it is a miracle he did not bite it off.
"Wait a minute. Quatre is awake already. This does not work in our favor." Wufei shot his koi a look that said 'You just had to say that in front of Yuy.'
Treize saw that his comment had made matters worse and tried to correct it. "Let's stop and think about this for a moment. It is rumored that most drugs do not work well on Duo. Is it true?"
Trowa, being the most level headed at the moment, decided to bring some hope to his friends. His soft steady voice was as equally soothing as his actual words. "Yes, that is true. Due to his upbringing on L2, his body has a naturally high tolerance for most known diseases and drugs. Quatre does not. There is a high chance that Duo was more heavily drugged than Quatre and may still be in a drugged sleep at the moment."
Quatre looked up at his itooshi full of hope and gratitude. His tall lover always seemed to know exactly what to say to make others feel better. Its true that he does not talk much, but when he does everyone feels it.
"Shouldn't you boys be planning to get Mr. Duo back?" an aged voice called from behind their van.
"Irene!? What are you doing here? This is too dangerous for an elderly woman like you. You will get hurt. You should not have come." Everyone looked at Treize with surprise. He was always nice to others, especially to women. Now, here he was telling his elder what she should and should not do.
To everyone's greater surprise, she just laughed and told him, "Don't worry Mr. Treize. This old bag of bones still has some life left in her. I can help and you know it. Even if it is dangerous, I have lived a full life and I want to give that boy a chance to as well." By this point, she was standing right in front of him poking her finger in his chest as she spoke.
The young aristocrat sighed and smiled. "Yes, I know that but I wanted to keep you out of all of this. That was wrong of me to do. If I had told you what was going on completely from the start, Duo would have never been taken in the first place."
Wufei stood between a furious Heero and his guilt stricken lover when he saw the murderous look on his friends face. "Alright, Treize explain now and fast. What are you two talking about?"
"Meet Irene. She is a mind user like Zechs. When I was younger, she was my caretaker. I did not want to involve her in this because I thought she would get hurt, and at her age it would not take much."
After a short span of uncomfortable silence, they all heard a soothing voice. "What is done is done. Now, is the time to fix the situation. Hurry and make your plans. If Mr. Duo is not in his normal state of mind, leave him to me. Time grows short."
Heero finally got control of himself again. "Alright, we need a plan and we need one fast. Lets get started."
The others gathered around and formed a plan that would get them into Zechs' fortified domain. Once inside, it would be up to Heero and Irene to find Duo. When they had what they needed from both vans, they all loaded up in the black one Treize had arrived in.
"Are you ready?" Heero was once again the perfect soldier. 'I'm coming Duo. Please be ok.' Failure in this mission was not an option.
It took them almost two hours to get there. They wasted no time in putting their plan in effect. Treize and Wufei were to gain an audience with Zechs and the rest were to sneak in while they had the guard's attention.
Treize walked up to the front guards with Wufei by his side. The guards greeted him as if he came here often. He could tell his little dragon was upset by the way his body tensed at the familiar greeting.
"Haven't seen you around here in ages Mr. Treize. We were beginning to wonder if you would ever come by again." The guard looked over to Wufei and smirked.
"Is he yours, or is he open to all?" The man leered at him with expected lust. Treize knew these guards would react this way. That is the reason he had Wufei let his hair down.
While the front guards were busy circling Wufei like vultures, the others slipped inside with no problem. Once Treize saw that they had made it in safely, he put a stop to the horrible treatment of his koi.
He wrapped his arms tightly around a fuming Wufei from behind and spoke with solid voice that left no room for uncertainties. "He is mine and mine only. If you or anyone else touches him, I will cut you into so many pieces that an army would not find them all."
The guards seemed surprised at first but then started laughing. "Well, it seems everyone now days has found someone to take possession over." He quickly shut his mouth before he said anything else.
"We wish to see Zechs. I know he is here but he is not expecting us." Treize wanted to get inside as fast as possible. From what the guard just told him, Zechs had truly lost it. 'I told you to stay away from the damn thing, but you would not listen. Now, look at what you have become. If you could see with a rational mind right now, you would hate yourself.'
"Sorry Mr. Treize, but his excellency is busy right now. If you would like to wait in a room, I'm sure he would love to see you after he is finished." The guard was already leading them to an available room for them to wait in.
As soon as the door was shut, Wufei turned on his lover with a vengeance. "Alright, I want to know everything and I mean EVERYTHING! Just how in the hell do those guards know you so well and what was your relationship with Marquise in the past?"
Treize sighed heavily. He knew this would come out one day but he hoped it would not be under circumstances such as these. "You might want to sit down for this. It will take some time to explain it all."
And he began to tell his lover everything. He only hoped that we he was finished that Wufei would still want to be with him, but he would not lye to his dragon. The finial chose would be his.
######################################################################## *elsewhere in the house*
Trowa and Quatre changed into two guard uniforms and went to patrol the house, while Heero and Irene focused on looking for Duo. Irene had Heero change into a server's uniform so he could go places guards were not allowed with her. She seemed to know exactly what she was doing and where she was going.
"How do you know this is the right way?" His desire to find Duo as quickly as possible was the only thing keeping him from pushing the old woman aside. He was still not willing to trust someone else completely yet, even if he did feel he could.
"I know where I am going because I have been here many times before. I can sense Mr. Duo this way. We must be careful or we will drawl attention to us before it is time to. I must warn you. I feel that my fears about Mr. Duo's state of mind have come true." Heero heard pity and sorrow in her voice and felt the cold shoulder of fear at what her words might mean.
They stopped at large double doors at the end of a long, isolated hall. Heero could feel the fear he felt increase as he looked at the doors. He was about to open them when his hands were stopped.
"What you will face on the other side of those doors will not be your friend or your enemy. They will be complete strangers. Neither is acting of their own accord right now. Just remember that when you face them. Things are not what they seem to be. Do not give up hope."
He simply looked at her then to the door again. He paused only a second before pushing the doors open gun in hand. What he saw on the other side made his heart shatter into a thousand pieces.
Zechs and Duo were embracing each other while their lips were locked in a passionate kiss. What really had him shocked, was their state of dress, or rather undress. Duo's hair was free from its normal braid. His hair was the only thing blocking his eyes from his loves' naked form. Zechs, at least, had a pair of pants on but they were undone and slightly pushed down his hips.
Heero was about to turn and run from the room when the two broke away from each other and looked in his direction. Zechs was smirking widely. His lower face being the only thing you could see from the silver mask covering his face. When he looked into Duo's eyes, his breath caught in his chest. His pupils were solid white and the violets around them were almost glowing.
He felt hope swell in his heart once again as he remembered what Irene had said. 'Things are not what they seem to be. Do not give up hope.' He was more determined than ever to get his Duo back.
When he spoke, his voice held no emotion but pure hate and anger. His eyes alone would have freighted the bravest of men. "Zechs, get your hands off of him. Now!"
To his surprise and confusion, Zechs released Duo and backed away from him a few steps. He took a few steps closer, gun trained on Zechs the whole time.
He held one hand out towards Duo, "Come on Duo-kun. Lets get out of here." Duo did not even look in his direction. His eyes were still locked on Zechs.
Heero did not like what was happening at the moment. He tried again. "Duo- kun? Are you all right love? Come to me so we can get out of here." Still he got no response.
His head jerked back to Zechs when he laughed and spoke to Duo. "Come to me lover." He did not even hesitate as he followed Zechs' orders.
When Duo was back in his arms, Zechs turned back to Heero. "Well, we can see who he prefers. You have lost him 01. He is mine now."
Heero could only watch in horror as his love intimately snuggled against Zechs' chest. The said man only laughted gleefully and wrapped his arms more firmly around Duo. The gun in his hand was visiable shaking. He could not take a shot at Zechs without a risk of hitting Duo. Zechs saw his chance to add insult to injury. His smooth voice was laced with prideful venom.
"Did you know that he has a spot on his hip that if you touch or nip just right he makes the sweetest little moans of pleasure?" He chuckled devilishly as he saw Heero's face distort into one of barely restrained fury.
Heero started to lung at Zechs but was thrown back by a strong gust of wind. He stood on shaky legs. When his head stopped spinning, he looked at the only person in the room that could have done that. His eyes widen when he saw Duo staring at him, daring him to try it again.
For the first time in his life, Heero 'the perfect solider' Yuy felt like crying and fleeing from his mission. He was so caught up in looking into void violet eyes; he did not notice that Irene had come into the room until she had spoken.
"This needs to end now before someone gets hurt beyond repair."
A new voice entered spoke right next to Heero's side. "You're right you old hag. Zechs has what he wants and I have what I what. Now, nobody is left feeling lonely."
When Heero spun around to face the new voice, he was starting into the eyes of Relena Peacecraft.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I know I am evil for leaving it there but I ran out of juice. I hope the next chapter will be better. The next chapter will have a few flashbacks from this chapter to help fill in the blanks on what happend. Thanks for reading and don't forget to review and tell me what you think.
Rainy: Glad you are willing to wait for the next part. There will be a little torture, but it will be more mental than any.
Kyra: To answer some of your questions, yes Zechs believes that Duo will choose him over Heero. Right now he is that delusional. I am glad that you caught on to that. I don't want to spoil the surprise but I will say that Zechs is really not that bad. He will face the error of his ways soon.
Personally, I am not very happy with this chapter. My mind is over run right now and it shows. I will try to make the next better.
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For the first time in his life, Treize Khushrenada was impatient. He had been waiting for the others at the rendezvous point for almost fifteen minutes now. Almost two and a half hours have gone by since his little lover had informed him of Duo's abduction. 'Zechs, you are my friend but if you do anything to him I will personally seek revenge. Please, hold strong dear Duo.'
He let out a sigh of relief when he saw a familiar van pull up next to his own. That relief instantly vanished when the occupants of said van got out. Heero's normally emotionless face was pale and now full of worry and fear. Wufei was crimson with anger. Trowa's impassive face was tight with worry as he held his smaller lover close to his side. Quatre was biting his bottom lip so hard; it is a miracle he did not bite it off.
"Wait a minute. Quatre is awake already. This does not work in our favor." Wufei shot his koi a look that said 'You just had to say that in front of Yuy.'
Treize saw that his comment had made matters worse and tried to correct it. "Let's stop and think about this for a moment. It is rumored that most drugs do not work well on Duo. Is it true?"
Trowa, being the most level headed at the moment, decided to bring some hope to his friends. His soft steady voice was as equally soothing as his actual words. "Yes, that is true. Due to his upbringing on L2, his body has a naturally high tolerance for most known diseases and drugs. Quatre does not. There is a high chance that Duo was more heavily drugged than Quatre and may still be in a drugged sleep at the moment."
Quatre looked up at his itooshi full of hope and gratitude. His tall lover always seemed to know exactly what to say to make others feel better. Its true that he does not talk much, but when he does everyone feels it.
"Shouldn't you boys be planning to get Mr. Duo back?" an aged voice called from behind their van.
"Irene!? What are you doing here? This is too dangerous for an elderly woman like you. You will get hurt. You should not have come." Everyone looked at Treize with surprise. He was always nice to others, especially to women. Now, here he was telling his elder what she should and should not do.
To everyone's greater surprise, she just laughed and told him, "Don't worry Mr. Treize. This old bag of bones still has some life left in her. I can help and you know it. Even if it is dangerous, I have lived a full life and I want to give that boy a chance to as well." By this point, she was standing right in front of him poking her finger in his chest as she spoke.
The young aristocrat sighed and smiled. "Yes, I know that but I wanted to keep you out of all of this. That was wrong of me to do. If I had told you what was going on completely from the start, Duo would have never been taken in the first place."
Wufei stood between a furious Heero and his guilt stricken lover when he saw the murderous look on his friends face. "Alright, Treize explain now and fast. What are you two talking about?"
"Meet Irene. She is a mind user like Zechs. When I was younger, she was my caretaker. I did not want to involve her in this because I thought she would get hurt, and at her age it would not take much."
After a short span of uncomfortable silence, they all heard a soothing voice. "What is done is done. Now, is the time to fix the situation. Hurry and make your plans. If Mr. Duo is not in his normal state of mind, leave him to me. Time grows short."
Heero finally got control of himself again. "Alright, we need a plan and we need one fast. Lets get started."
The others gathered around and formed a plan that would get them into Zechs' fortified domain. Once inside, it would be up to Heero and Irene to find Duo. When they had what they needed from both vans, they all loaded up in the black one Treize had arrived in.
"Are you ready?" Heero was once again the perfect soldier. 'I'm coming Duo. Please be ok.' Failure in this mission was not an option.
It took them almost two hours to get there. They wasted no time in putting their plan in effect. Treize and Wufei were to gain an audience with Zechs and the rest were to sneak in while they had the guard's attention.
Treize walked up to the front guards with Wufei by his side. The guards greeted him as if he came here often. He could tell his little dragon was upset by the way his body tensed at the familiar greeting.
"Haven't seen you around here in ages Mr. Treize. We were beginning to wonder if you would ever come by again." The guard looked over to Wufei and smirked.
"Is he yours, or is he open to all?" The man leered at him with expected lust. Treize knew these guards would react this way. That is the reason he had Wufei let his hair down.
While the front guards were busy circling Wufei like vultures, the others slipped inside with no problem. Once Treize saw that they had made it in safely, he put a stop to the horrible treatment of his koi.
He wrapped his arms tightly around a fuming Wufei from behind and spoke with solid voice that left no room for uncertainties. "He is mine and mine only. If you or anyone else touches him, I will cut you into so many pieces that an army would not find them all."
The guards seemed surprised at first but then started laughing. "Well, it seems everyone now days has found someone to take possession over." He quickly shut his mouth before he said anything else.
"We wish to see Zechs. I know he is here but he is not expecting us." Treize wanted to get inside as fast as possible. From what the guard just told him, Zechs had truly lost it. 'I told you to stay away from the damn thing, but you would not listen. Now, look at what you have become. If you could see with a rational mind right now, you would hate yourself.'
"Sorry Mr. Treize, but his excellency is busy right now. If you would like to wait in a room, I'm sure he would love to see you after he is finished." The guard was already leading them to an available room for them to wait in.
As soon as the door was shut, Wufei turned on his lover with a vengeance. "Alright, I want to know everything and I mean EVERYTHING! Just how in the hell do those guards know you so well and what was your relationship with Marquise in the past?"
Treize sighed heavily. He knew this would come out one day but he hoped it would not be under circumstances such as these. "You might want to sit down for this. It will take some time to explain it all."
And he began to tell his lover everything. He only hoped that we he was finished that Wufei would still want to be with him, but he would not lye to his dragon. The finial chose would be his.
######################################################################## *elsewhere in the house*
Trowa and Quatre changed into two guard uniforms and went to patrol the house, while Heero and Irene focused on looking for Duo. Irene had Heero change into a server's uniform so he could go places guards were not allowed with her. She seemed to know exactly what she was doing and where she was going.
"How do you know this is the right way?" His desire to find Duo as quickly as possible was the only thing keeping him from pushing the old woman aside. He was still not willing to trust someone else completely yet, even if he did feel he could.
"I know where I am going because I have been here many times before. I can sense Mr. Duo this way. We must be careful or we will drawl attention to us before it is time to. I must warn you. I feel that my fears about Mr. Duo's state of mind have come true." Heero heard pity and sorrow in her voice and felt the cold shoulder of fear at what her words might mean.
They stopped at large double doors at the end of a long, isolated hall. Heero could feel the fear he felt increase as he looked at the doors. He was about to open them when his hands were stopped.
"What you will face on the other side of those doors will not be your friend or your enemy. They will be complete strangers. Neither is acting of their own accord right now. Just remember that when you face them. Things are not what they seem to be. Do not give up hope."
He simply looked at her then to the door again. He paused only a second before pushing the doors open gun in hand. What he saw on the other side made his heart shatter into a thousand pieces.
Zechs and Duo were embracing each other while their lips were locked in a passionate kiss. What really had him shocked, was their state of dress, or rather undress. Duo's hair was free from its normal braid. His hair was the only thing blocking his eyes from his loves' naked form. Zechs, at least, had a pair of pants on but they were undone and slightly pushed down his hips.
Heero was about to turn and run from the room when the two broke away from each other and looked in his direction. Zechs was smirking widely. His lower face being the only thing you could see from the silver mask covering his face. When he looked into Duo's eyes, his breath caught in his chest. His pupils were solid white and the violets around them were almost glowing.
He felt hope swell in his heart once again as he remembered what Irene had said. 'Things are not what they seem to be. Do not give up hope.' He was more determined than ever to get his Duo back.
When he spoke, his voice held no emotion but pure hate and anger. His eyes alone would have freighted the bravest of men. "Zechs, get your hands off of him. Now!"
To his surprise and confusion, Zechs released Duo and backed away from him a few steps. He took a few steps closer, gun trained on Zechs the whole time.
He held one hand out towards Duo, "Come on Duo-kun. Lets get out of here." Duo did not even look in his direction. His eyes were still locked on Zechs.
Heero did not like what was happening at the moment. He tried again. "Duo- kun? Are you all right love? Come to me so we can get out of here." Still he got no response.
His head jerked back to Zechs when he laughed and spoke to Duo. "Come to me lover." He did not even hesitate as he followed Zechs' orders.
When Duo was back in his arms, Zechs turned back to Heero. "Well, we can see who he prefers. You have lost him 01. He is mine now."
Heero could only watch in horror as his love intimately snuggled against Zechs' chest. The said man only laughted gleefully and wrapped his arms more firmly around Duo. The gun in his hand was visiable shaking. He could not take a shot at Zechs without a risk of hitting Duo. Zechs saw his chance to add insult to injury. His smooth voice was laced with prideful venom.
"Did you know that he has a spot on his hip that if you touch or nip just right he makes the sweetest little moans of pleasure?" He chuckled devilishly as he saw Heero's face distort into one of barely restrained fury.
Heero started to lung at Zechs but was thrown back by a strong gust of wind. He stood on shaky legs. When his head stopped spinning, he looked at the only person in the room that could have done that. His eyes widen when he saw Duo staring at him, daring him to try it again.
For the first time in his life, Heero 'the perfect solider' Yuy felt like crying and fleeing from his mission. He was so caught up in looking into void violet eyes; he did not notice that Irene had come into the room until she had spoken.
"This needs to end now before someone gets hurt beyond repair."
A new voice entered spoke right next to Heero's side. "You're right you old hag. Zechs has what he wants and I have what I what. Now, nobody is left feeling lonely."
When Heero spun around to face the new voice, he was starting into the eyes of Relena Peacecraft.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I know I am evil for leaving it there but I ran out of juice. I hope the next chapter will be better. The next chapter will have a few flashbacks from this chapter to help fill in the blanks on what happend. Thanks for reading and don't forget to review and tell me what you think.
