"Destiny" Chapter 2

Wufei sat on a rock under a large dead tree, his lets pulled close to his chest to keep his bare feet from touching the wet snowy ground. Resting his chin on his knees his mind began to wonder. Ever since that day he'd been with the group, he felt an odd connection to these people even only after a month. Treize had kept his words when guards had found the encampment and asked about Wufei. He had hid the boy and told the guards they hadn't seen anyone for some time. He had risked his life to protect Wufei's. What Wufei didn't understand was why the older man had done it.

He was startled when the hood of the cape he'd been give was flipped up over his head. Looking up his dark eyes met smiling violet. "Do you just disappear and reappear? If so, please disappear again."

"Hey I'm only here to help," Duo replied with a fake look of hurt.

"Help with what?" Wufei asked pushing the hood back down.

"Why you're so distant from us. Or better yet why you try so hard to keep yourself so distant from Treize," Duo clarified.

"What the hell are you talking about? Just leave me alone!" Wufei said burying his head against his knees.

"Don't be afraid. Why do you think he does what he does for you?" Duo said causing Wufei's head to snap back up, only the young man was gone.

Wufei sighed knowing he should be used to that by now. What had Duo been trying to imply by saying all of that? Shifting, his foot slipped from the rock to be buried in the cold wet snow sending a shiver through him.

"Wufei?" Treize's voice called through the trees startling the youth. The older man appeared a frown etched on his features. "Why didn't you wear the slippers I left you?"

"I..." Wufei stammered surprised by the question.

"How do you plan to get back without freezing your toes off?"

"I made it out here just fine," Wufei countered angry.

"You're going to get sick if you keep going bare foot."

"Why do you care!?" Wufei demanded moving to stand up only to have Treize scoop him up from the rock. "Put me down!"

"I don't know why and no I won't, at least not until I find some where warmer and dryer," Treize said turning toward the encampment.

"Put me down!" Wufei fought to break the older man's hold. "Please..."

"No," Treize denied as they entered the busy encampment.

"What's going on?" Wufei asked never seeing as much activity as he did then.

"Our spy has returned with news," Treize answered going into his hut. He dropped Wufei on a pile of pillows in the main room, drawing a squeak from the startled young man.

Before either could say anything two bodies entered the hut. Wufei's eyes gave Duo a passing glance before looking at the person with him. His heart jumped in his throat as he stared at eyes he would never forget. He scrambled to his feet, running into the inner room his breathing heavy and rapid.

"Wufei?" Treize called a hint of concern in his voice.

His body shook as he tried anything to get as far from that room and the man in it. Those crystal blue eyes were forever burned in his memory, along with the pain and terror. He didn't realize he'd bumped into the small table until the small singe framed painting it held fell to the floor.

Treize entered the inner room leave the curtain closed. He became even more worried when he saw the terror in Wufei's dark eyes, the small body shaking uncontrollably. "Wufei what's wrong?"

The dark eyes turned to him but they didn't seem to focus on anything. "No!" The youth shouted before his body collapsed into unconsciousness on the floor.

Treize collected him from the floor and settled him in his bed, unsure of just what had happened. It was like when he saw... He stormed back into the outer room his eyes falling on the two men still standing there.

"Is he all right?" Duo asked. "I thought you'd want to hear Heero's report but it can wait."

"Wait," Treize said stopping the two who were about to leave. "Heero did you recognize that teen?"

Heero turned back his eyes meeting Treize's. "Yes and I guess he remembered me as well."

Duo looked at Heero, questions filling his violet eyes. "But why would he react like that?"

"Because of what I had been ordered to do," Heero answered his voice even and monotone. "To gain his trust I had to watch him harm that young man."

"What are you saying? You just stood there watching while he did God knows what to an innocent youthful soul?" Duo asked his emotions taking the better of him.

"Duo..." Treize said stepping in. "I know you did what you had to. And you might be the only one who can help me get all the pieces put together."

"Treize you can't seriously be asking what he saw?" Duo asked incredulously. "If Wufei had wanted you to know he would have told you. Don't learn about his ordeal and him this way, it isn't right."

Treize looked at Duo but before he could speak a noise on the other side of the curtain had his attention immediately. He entered to see Wufei crouched in a corner trying to make himself as small as possible. Treize stepped toward the teen his movements slow and deliberate as not to scare Wufei any more than he already was.

Wufei whimpered as Treize neared him. "Please no... no more..." his voice sobbed at a whisper.

"Wufei it is okay," Treize soothed his voice low and soft. "You're safe here, no one is going to hurt you."

Suddenly the youth bolted from the floor past Treize before the man could react. As he entered the outer chamber his eyes instantly locked with Heero's. He collapsed to the floor in a boneless heap.

"Wufei," Duo called his voice soft as velvet. "This isn't the same man you knew at your captors. His name is Heero; he's a spy for us. He had to... or he would have been caught."

Wufei's dark eyes were empty as they finally broke away to look at Duo, but he didn't try and run.

"He had wished to step in and kill that man, but he couldn't. Wufei don't be afraid, he's actually very gentle and stubborn. Do you trust me? Because I trust him with my life and heart."

Wufei blinked his eyes becoming more focused. "Never forget... they watched emotionless as... every time..." Wufei whispered brokenly.

"Wufei will you show me? Will you let me see?" Duo asked hoping to be able to calm the young man. Wufei stared at him frozen. Duo needed to reassure him. "Only me, no one else will know what I see."

Wufei slowly nodded, only he jumped as Duo's hands enfolded around his. Duo felt them connect quickly realizing Wufei has a special spirit which had been weakened. Images flooded his mind, most of them vulgar and intensely painful. Heero was in the background of most of the images, except he only watched when he himself was being watched. Whenever that pig had his back to Heero, the spy looked away disgusted. Wufei never saw such things as he tried to fight and lost. He cut their connection pulling himself back and away from the teen.

"You never saw it," Duo said softly. "But he only watched when he had to... only when that bastard gave him no other choice. Wufei?"

The young man stared at him his eyes blank and empty. Duo knew only one way to draw his now closed off spirit back. "Treize you must stay with him. Make him feel loved and comfortable, or he is just going to become an empty shell. His experiences and trauma from before are tearing him apart inside."

Treize looked at Duo then Wufei, a strange worry eating at him. "All right," the older man agreed. "Make your report later and leave us."

Duo nodded before standing up and taking Heero's hand. They silently left the hut, leaving Treize alone with Wufei. The old man sat down beside the teen his fingers interlacing with Wufei's small still ones.

Treize stayed with him from sunrise to moonset, some kind of contact always there. He didn't know what else to do; he feared speaking might do more harm.

"The moment I had arrived he force me into his bed," Wufei's voice startled Treize, breaking the silence that had settled around them from the last two weeks. Treize remained quiet not wanting to spook the teen. "He used me constantly the first few days. I wasn't allowed to leave the bed as he chained me there. He raped me any chance he could, it always hurt. I tried to fight back but could never make him stop. He became tired of my constant crying and threw me in one of the dungeons. I only stayed there maybe four sunrises before he forced me back in his bed, threatening the life of my village for my cooperation. He killed them all anyway. Those cold blue eyes watched, watched him rape me and beat me. The day I learned that he had my village destroyed, I told him he would never touch me again and I ran."

Treize could feel Wufei's tears soak into his shirt as they lay in the bed, Wufei's frame being supported by Treize's larger one. He wanted nothing more than to kill that son of a bitch for doing this to such a strong and beautiful youth. "Wufei I'm sorry. I wish Heero had killed him but he couldn't do anything or he would have been discovered."

"I realize that, I do," Wufei said sounding surprisingly gently. "Yet I can never forgive him or forget those eyes."

"Don't say never, that is a long time," Treize replied running gentle fingers through the teen's dark hair.

"Do you want me?" Wufei asked surprising Treize.

"What do you mean?"

"Do you want to..." Wufei blushed unable to finish his question.

"No," Treize answered sliding out from under the youth to get up.

Wufei grabbed his arm, his hands trembling. "Then what do you want? Why did you help me?"

"Because no one should suffer," Treize said pulling free and putting on his robe. "And I don't want anything from you."

"Treize don't lie so blatantly to the boy," a female voice came from the other side of the curtain.