Author: Jadeduo
Pairings: 2X1, 3+4 implied, R+1 one-sided
Warnings: yaoi, AU, romance, angst, violence, Relena bashing, lemon (eventually), deathfic Rating: R - NC-17
Disclaimer: None of the boys are mine... Only in my dreams... So don't sue all you'll get is a very beat up manga collection.
Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe
That unsubstantial death is amorous;
And that the lean abhorred monster keeps
Thee here in the dark to be his paramour?
For fear of that I still will stay with thee,
And never from this palace of dim night
Depart again: here, here will I remain
~Romeo & Juliet, William Shakespeare....
Star-Crossed Lovers - Part 23
In the dark of night, a young girl with a regal pose stood before the Yuy mausoleum. Tears trickled down her perfectly made up face and landed unheeded on her pristine black gown. "Ay me! Heero, was marriage to me so painful that you would take your own life? What could I have done to change these happenings? Heero, you know that I loved you right? I admit, I may have been a little pushy, a bit aggressive, but it was all in the name of the deep and true love I had for you!"
Consciously blocking out Relena's repetitive and self-centered monologue, Hilde twitched nervously by her best friend's side. Graveyards made her nervous. But, she had promised to come with Relena on her nightly vigils at Heero's grave. Knowing Relena, these vigils wouldn't last long. The blonde was flighty at best, but fascinating to her all the same. Relena had never truly loved Heero anyway. She wanted to rescue a knight from the hell of a bloody feud. To her, Heero had been a project, not a love interest.
"Hilde?" Relena looked at her friend nervously.
Pulled from her inner musings, Hilde turned to the princess. "Yes, Highness?"
Relena giggled nervously. "Would leave me here for a little while. I want to be alone with Heero."
"Are you sure, Relena? This can be a dangerous place at night."
"Yes, I need to be alone with him; I have to. Please, Hilde, just give me five minutes," the blonde pleaded.
Hilde rolled her eyes fondly. "Alright, but if you don't come out in five minutes, I'm coming after you."
"Thank you!" Relena squealed as she dragged the blue-eyed woman into a tight embrace. "You won't regret this!"
*****
"Quatre, I didn't want you to come with me. I need to do this alone," Duo hissed, irritated that his cousin had decided that he needed a guard to kill himself.
"Duo, you are in exile. If you get caught, you wouldn't be able to die with Heero. They will execute you in the square," Quatre hissed.
"Fine, you can come, but don't enter the tomb. I need to be alone with my Heero, my husband. Wait here for a while, and then go to my father's house and give him the letter. They will all understand their grievous errors soon enough." At those words, Quatre pulled Duo into one final farewell hug.
"Forever, Duo. I won't forget. This won't ever happen again. You have my word."
"I know, Kat. I love you too. Sayonara," Duo said softly as he slipped off into the night, running towards the Yuy tomb. While Quatre stood guard, waiting for just the right moment to return home.
*****
"Heero, you never belonged in the dark, only in the light." Duo pulled on the stubborn tomb door, trying to get to his beloved. "I'm sorry that you are stuck there in the dark, but soon you will no longer be alone. And our love will light death's realm. I am coming, my love."
"STOP!!! YOU FREAK!!! YOU COME TO DESECRATE MY LOVE'S TOMB! HOW LOW CAN YOU SINK, MAXWELL!!!! YOU WILL DIE FOR THIS, I SWEAR!"
Duo jumped at the loud screeching noise. "Gahh! Relena, you scared me!"
"STOP THAT THIS INSTANT, MAXWELL! YOU WILL BE EXECUTED! I WILL MAKE SURE THAT MILLIARDO HUNTS YOU DOWN FOR THIS! YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED!!!! YOU ARE A SICK---"
"Aww, fuck it. I don't want to deal with this." Duo reached for one of his throwing knives, burying it in her skull. With that taken care of, Duo finished prying open the door to the tomb and ran to his lover's side, tears streaming unheeded down his pale cheeks. "Heero, god! It is you. I was hoping that Quatre had been mistaken! I love you, dearest husband. If I didn't know any better I would think that you are sleeping... Heero, I promised you until death do us part, but we never had a chance. So, I will follow you now into Hades embrace."
Duo reached down and stroked a pale cheek and kissed those blue marble lips. "I love you," he murmured, and reached into the sheath at the small of his back, pulled out a nine inch silver dagger, and buried it to the hilt in his chest. "I love you, Heero, and now we will never be apart again." Duo wrapped his arms around the stiff body, letting his life blood seep onto his ashen lover's skin. So he died, content to be with the one he loved, beyond all reason.
As Duo's blood cooled on Heero's skin, Heero woke up groggy and disoriented. He found Duo entwined with his stiff form... and then noticed blood. It was everywhere. Heero froze, and whispered, frightened, "Duo?"
When his lover didn't answer, Heero shook him. "No, Duo! No you didn't have to die. We found a way for me to get out of marrying Relena; I could never. God, Duo! How can I live without you? You must have thought me dead, and wished to follow me into death. I- What did I do to inspire such terrible devotion?" Heero wept then and there for the first time in a very long time, his tears falling and mixing with the precious lifeblood of his lost lover. Heero gathered Duo tightly into his arms.
"Duo, no! You are still warm. Please, wake up! Tell me this is a joke and I'm a stupid baka for falling for it! Tell me you wanted to surprise me here, and that you wanted to spirit me away and make love to me until I screamed for mercy from your pleasant torture. Gods! If I had only woken up sooner, then we could be together. We would be happy, away from this place and its horrors. Duo, please, please, just wake up and say you are joking. Be my lover and my husband again. Please, no...."
"Heero?"
"Go away, Father. This is your fault. You said you would warn him! Go! Leave me, or die with us!"
"Heero, don't please! You have your whole life ahead of you! You are only twenty-one years old. Your family loves you!"
"Yes, and they tried to take away my reason for living! And in an indirect way, they have! LEAVE ME!" Heero screamed, and pulled Duo tighter to him, unmindful of the blood and tears all mixed together and caking to his fair skin, leaving everything a dull rust color. "Duo, I love you. We will never be apart."
Heero pulled the dagger from his husband's chest. The dagger, still dripping with the chestnut-haired man's blood, was beautiful and deadly in the moonlight. Heero just stared at it. "So beautiful even in death, my love?" Heero choked on his tears, and kissed Duo one last time. "I love you."
*****
"So what happened then, Grandpa Kat?"
An elderly Quatre sat on a stool in front of an old fireplace, and smiled warmly at the children around him. "Well, then, Prince Milliardo showed up. Hilde was hysterical about Relena, and the Prince was angry more than anything. The Prince called out the Yuys and Maxwells and scolded them all. And after, when the two patriarchs, Odin Yuy and Solo Maxwell, found out what had actually happened between their two sons, they made a vow to never allow a feud to become between them again. No one else would be sacrificed to such a feud ever again. And thanks to Heero and Duo's sacrifice, Sanc has always been peaceful."
"What about you, Grandpa? What happened to Quatre?"
"Well, that, my dears, is a story for another time. Let's just say that I kept my promise to Duo all those years ago. Trowa, Heero and he will always be with me, and I will always be here to help those who need me, until the day I rejoin them."
"Wow! Granpa is all of that true?" one of the boys asked with big saucer-like eyes.
"Yes, little one, all of it. Now, say goodnight and off to bed with you all!" The little ones scampered off and Quatre walked over the window, the weight of the world on his shoulders. "Duo, I hope you are happy. When I made that promise, I had no idea how long it would be before we met again.. I will continue on with your legacy. Trowa, I love you, and I miss you all. Be happy, my friends."
~Owari~