Disclaimers: Don't own GW.
Warnings: Yaoi, Dream sequence in italics.
Duo?
Chapter 6: Nightmare
Duo knocked on Heero's door about two hours later. "Are you done yet, Hee-chan?"
Heero sat up from his bed and rubbed his eyes. "Huh? Duo?"
Duo opened the door a crack and peeked in. Seeing Heero still lying in bed, he walked in. "Why were you sleeping? Didn't you get enough sleep last night?" Duo's eyes widened at his own question.
Heero's head snapped up. Duo plastered an innocent smile on his face. He groaned and fell back onto his pillow and covered his face with another. He sighed. "I got plenty of sleep last night, I was just tired," he replied from under the pillow.
With Heero looking at nothing but the pillow, Duo smacked himself upside the head and tugged on his braid. He stared at the pillow covering Heero's face and wondered if he knew... 'What if he know's I'm head over heels in love? How can I tell him without actually telling him?' he thought to himself.
He sighed, making Heero take the pillow off his face and look at him. "You ok, Duo?" he asked.
Duo started to panic. 'Should I tell him now? What should I do?'
'Fine. Tell him nothing is wrong, everything is fine!' another part of him said. 'There's a better way of telling him you love him...' "Yeah, I'm ok, just thinking..." he said as he sat down in Heero's chair. Heero shrugged and sat up.
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Later that night, Heero decided to go to bed early; around 11 o'clock.
"Why so early?" Duo asked as Heero clicked the light off. He was still sitting in Heero's chair and squinted into the dark room to see Heero's outline climbing into his bed.
"I don't know," Heero sighed. "I just need to get more sleep." Duo's face turned to the floor sadly, he didn't know why he was sad but... he was very depressed right now. "Aren't you coming?" Heero's voice came again from the darkness.
Duo shook his head and realized that Heero probably couldn't see him so he said, "Naw, I think I'll stay up a while longer, night." And with that, he walked out of the room.
Heero blinked, a little disappointed. "Night, Duo," he whispered to the closed door.
Duo walked downstairs and saw that Heero's parents were already in bed and probably sound asleep. He went into the kitchen and flipped on the light. He sat down at the table and launched himself deep into thought. 'How do I let Heero know how I feel?' He looked around the kitchen and started drawing things on the table with his finger.
He sighed. 'This is getting me nowhere... I need an idea...' He glanced around the kitchen again and his eyes finally landed on the yellow rose in a vase in the center of the table. 'Yellow means friendship...' Duo thought as he reached for the beautiful rose.
'I need one that stands for love...' He smacked his forehead. "Duh!" he said aloud. He dropped his voice to a whisper, "Red stands for love..."
'I can't just give him a red rose, there has to be more...'
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Heero sat up in bed and snatched his book light from his bedside table. He flipped it on and opened the drawer on his bedside table, he took out a notebook and pen and clipped the book light onto the notebook.
He then started writing:
3 words:
1 - A word that means me, 2 - Only a heart can tell, 3 - A word in second person that means yourself
He stopped and thought about the second one... He decided to write that one down too, just so he didn't forget it:
831:
8 letters, 3 words, 1 meaning
He stopped and read over the strange words that had suddenly popped up in his head while he was just about to fall asleep.
"I...
Love...
You..."
He whispered the words to himself and smiled at his creations. 'But which one should I give him?' He then had a long debate with himself, deciding which one to go with... He finally decided to flip a coin. He grabbed one that he had on his desk and flipped it, caught it, and turned it upside down on the back of his hand. Before uncovering it, he decided which one each side stood for, first one - heads, second one - tails.
He uncovered his hand. Tails. (1) He then decided that he would split up the "831" thing into three parts, left somewhere for his love to find separately.
He smiled in satisfaction and hid the notebook in the drawer again and fell asleep happy.
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'Purple!' he thought. 'Then red... Then...' He thought for a moment. 'Blue! Of course!'
He pictured the three roses lined up in a row. "Purple for me, red for love, blue for Heero..." he whispered, grinning.
'I Love You'
He yawned. He clicked off the kitchen light and went upstairs. He yawned again and walked through the wall. He saw Heero sound asleep and smiled. He walked to the other side of the bed and climbed in slowly so he wouldn't disturb his love.
He closed his eyes and once again pictured the three roses that held his message to Heero. He then fell into a deep sleep and dreamed about roses, his love being returned, and sapphires.
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Heero opened his eyes. He blinked when he realized that Duo's face was hovering just above his. He blinked again and saw that Duo was leaning over him from his side of the bed, his long hair hung around him like a curtain and he smiled down at Heero.
"Duo?" he asked sleepily, his voice soft and slow. Duo's smile widened.
"Heero..." he whispered and leaned forward to kiss him. Heero was surprised at first to feel Duo's lips on his but he closed his eyes quickly. He felt Duo's tongue on his lips and opened his mouth, allowing Duo's tongue to caress his. He moaned into the kiss and Duo suddenly pulled back.
Heero sat up and reached for Duo's lovely heart shaped face but was stopped when Duo grabbed his wrist harshly. Duo's eyes were unblinking and seemed to burn with hate. He scowled at Heero and threw down his arm. He shook his head like he was disgusted and disappeared.
Heero was now running through the huge house, he couldn't control where he was going and the doors sprang open long before he got to them. All the other doors stayed closed as he raced through the ones that opened. He ran into one dark room and came to a halt.
He heard the door close behind him and the room lost all light. "Duo?" he called and took a timid step forward, only to be suddenly hurled against the wall behind him painfully. He looked up and gasped as Duo's glowing form walked slowly up to him with a smug grin on his face, his eyes still filled with hatred for him.
Heero rose slowly from the ground, his back stinging from the blow. "Why did you do this Duo?" he asked vehemently. Duo's eyes narrowed.
"Don't you get it? I know how you feel about me." He chuckled. "It's pitiful." He shook his head, his eyes never leaving Heero's.
"That doesn't explain this!" Heero nearly shouted.
Duo's eyes narrowed even more until his eyes were mere slits. He glowered at Heero. He blurred and Heero doubled over in pain. Duo had appeared at Heero's side and had his fist launched into Heero's stomach.
"How DARE you?" he hissed. He drew back his fist and watched as Heero fell to his knees. He blurred again and appeared back in front of Heero. He grinned when Heero started to scream in pain. "You see, when you allowed me to kiss you like that, you were allowing me to poison you. When I found out that you had fallen for me, I just couldn't let that go on." He shook his head and chuckled as Heero tried to hold back another scream as pain shot through his body again. Instead it came out as a low hiss.
"What this sort of poison does-" He started pacing in front of Heero's trembling form. "-is sort of what happens with a black widow spider's poison." He stopped and held up a hand and a huge black widow crawled out of his sleeve into his palm. "Have you ever been bitten by a black widow spider? Hm? No? Well, it kicks in very fast, and it feels like someone has crushed your muscles with a sledgehammer." He turned over his hand so the spider could walk to the other side and grinned as Heero hissed again. "Your back feels like it has been twisted and wrung out like a rag by the hands of a giant. You will die slowly and painfully, like you should."
Heero opened one eye and tried his best to glare at Duo. He screamed again as another, more painful wave washed through his body, making it feel just how Duo described it. He started screaming Duo's name, inbetween the pain jolts which were becoming more frequent by the second.
Just when he wished he could just have a quicker death, he heard a voice calling him...
Heero opened his eyes and immediately saw Duo's worried face above him, his hair hung around him like a curtain. His eyes widened. "NO!" he shouted and shoved Duo away as hard as he could, thrusting him to the very end of the bed. Duo looked up at Heero with wide eyes that were quickly filling with tears.
Heero shook his head and ran from the room. He raced to the front door and ran as fast as he could down the street. He ran for a few minutes until he got to the park, he slowed to a walk and looked around the dark area. He sat down when he realized how much his bare feet hurt and glanced at them, they were covered in scratches that were already starting to bleed. He winced and sat back into the bench and sighed up at the stars.
After sitting there looking at the stars for about 10 minutes, he decided he should go home and explain to Duo why he was being so harsh. But it had felt so real, the pain that shot through him in the dark room, Duo's laughter still rang in his ears, and it all seemed so real, his dreams usually were much more blurred than this one had been and there were never complete speeches that he could remember every word of.
Duo would never try to kill him, would he? 'No, Duo's my... friend.' He shuddered. That's the kind of thing that had made Duo do that in his dream in the first place; he had found out about Heero's love for him and was therefore punishing him.
He rose from the bench and shoved the complaints from his feet away from his mind; the poison from his dream had been about ten-jillion times worse. He sighed and started walking down the road again.
When he got home, he quietly closed the door behind him and walked very slowly up the stairs. His parents had their door open and saw him walk by. His mother rose quickly and was about to say something before Heero cut her off, "Mom, please don't. I don't want to talk about it." His eyes pleaded for her to let him go to his room, but another part of him didn't want to face Duo again. His mother nodded and smiled at her son, so he turned around and walked ever so slowly back to his room.
He hesitated at the door and bit his lip. He took a deep breath and pushed open the door. Duo was nowhere to be seen, as Heero had expected.
He came in and shut the door behind him. "Duo... I owe you an explanation," he said apologetically to the air, his voice soft. He kept his eyes directed at the floor and he crossed the room to sit on the bed, waiting to see if Duo would come.
After a few moments, Duo wandered slowly into the room through a wall. His eyes were still shimmering and Heero had to look down again. "It was... a dream, I woke up like that-" He jerked a thumb behind him. "-with you leaning over me like that and it just... scared me."
Duo sniffed quietly. "I woke you up because you looked like you were having a nightmare," he said quietly, not taking his eyes off Heero's.
"I'm sorry," Heero whispered. "It was an awful dream and since that's how it began, I panicked."
Duo blinked and nodded. "Do you want to tell me about it?"
Heero didn't reply right away. Instead, he hesitated and debated whether to tell Duo or not. 'Well, maybe not all of it...' "Y-you were trying to kill me, that's all." He shuddered as he thought about the dream. He drew in a shaky breath and looked up at Duo's surprised face.
"Me?"
Heero nodded. "It felt so real... I could feel the things that were happening to me as though they were real, and everything was so clear unlike most of my other dreams, and you looked the same when I woke up as in the beginning of the dream, so..." Duo nodded.
"I understand." He gave Heero a lop-sided smile.
"I didn't hurt you, did I?" Heero's expression twisted into one of concern. Duo shook his head and smiled.
"You just surprised me, that's about it," he said, rubbing his chest where Heero had hit him. "Do you think you can get back to sleep?" he asked as he looked at the clock. It was the same time Heero had awoke the previous morning when he felt Duo. 3:28... How odd...
Then Heero realized something: In the dream, when Duo's skin, etc. had touched him, that tingling feeling hadn't come.
He shrugged. "I don't know, I should probably try..."
Duo nodded and rose from the desk chair. He walked somewhat cautiously around Heero and climbed into his side of the bed. Heero turned off the lamp and got in too.
"I'm really sorry I scared you, Heero," Duo said quietly.
Heero shook his head. "It wasn't your fault, it was mine; I should've realized that it wasn't a dream anymore." Duo smiled and closed his eyes. Heero watched him for a moment as Duo snuggled into the pillow and sighed before closing his own eyes.
It took a while for him to fall asleep, but eventually, he plunged into a deep, dreamless sleep.
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1: I really did flip a coin, and that's what it landed on.