Mistaken Identities
By: Trunks Lil Sis
Uhhhhh . . . My Beta says this chapter is just a bit confusing, but if I try to clear it up it will ruin everything. So if you get to the end of the chapter and are really confused, just e-mail me and I'll explain everything.
This chapter like the one before it is Yaoi. All of my GW fics are yaoi and the ones I co-author with YamiEmmy are Yaoi. (By the way, check those out, they're hilarious and posted under the author name YamiEmmy and Trunkslilsis)
Pairings: Will be 1x2, 3x4, 5xS
Chapter One: Introducing . . .
"Come on you guys! If Kai-chan and I can make it in under fifteen minutes, you can too!" A man in his early twenties called back to his three companions. The baby strapped to his back giggled and clapped his hands as his father jogged in place. They only had to wait a few seconds before the first of the three lagging people caught up.
"This is very unfair." The older man scolded. "You have experience chasing after a baby all day, Daniel. And Kaie is just along for the ride, what about the rest of us?" Eventually the other two girls caught up to them and they jogged in place. "Rusty, you're just jealous that my little Kai-chan is beating you." Daniel teased back at the man, while the two girls just smiled.
The brunet on Daniel's right ran a hand across her forehead as her watch beeped. "Thank the gods." She whispered as she shrunk to the floor. "We've been running for hours."
Daniel smiled at her and carefully unstrapped his son. "Really, Sandy, you act as if you don't want to make the team next year. We have to keep training with the Olympics only a week away and competition for next year's team in a few months. Leia is keeping up just fine." Daniel joked, his amethyst eyes sparkling in the sun. That comment earned him a slap on the shoulder.
"We should be training." Rusty confessed. "We're only in California for a few more days before we go to the Olympics." He bent down and began his after exercise stretches.
"The special guests this year are Ambassador Dorlin and the famous Gundam pilots, I just have meet them." Leia squealed. "Too bad they never did find Duo Maxwell." She pondered as Sandy's watch beeped again.
"The two minute break is over guys, cool down run now." Daniel informed them slipping Kaie back into his harness. "Only fifteen minutes of a light jog and then we can go get some food." Daniel took off in a sprint, followed closely be his friends.
Rusty saw it as slow torture. The streets of San Francisco were filled with nothing but treasures waiting to be found. As they jogged away from Pier 39 and back towards Pier 1 where they would pick up their ferry, he couldn't help but wish they could spend some time in San Francisco. Pleasure time, maybe he could win Daniel over while he was at it.
Daniel seemed to sense his thoughts and smiled. "Believe me, the last night we're here, just me and you are coming down here for a bit of fun." Daniel pressed on and the two women rolled their eyes. MMaybe offering to baby-sit was a bad idea.
"Oh man! The ferry's gonna be packed today!" Sandy exclaimed as they approached the waiting zone. At least a hundred people waited to board the ferry pulling into port. Daniel met eyes with everyone in his group.
"Heero Yuy!" Daniel covered his ears as a female voice shrieked out, followed by other voices. Daniel rolled his eyes as the female population, including Sandy and Leia, flocked to not only Heero Yuy, but the other three pilots there as well.
"What do you suppose they're doing here?" Rusty asked, getting his pass out. Daniel shrugged and ran a hand through his short, chin length hair. "Miss it?" Rusty asked as they began to walk down the ramp to the ferry.
Daniel nodded. "In a couple of years I'm gonna grow it back." He stated, climbing aboard the ferry. "Top or bottom?" Daniel asked.
"Top." Daniel walked to the stairs and climbed to the second level of the boat.
"I really miss it, it was one of the few things I had left of my life before the accident." Daniel led them over to a table in the back. "But it had to go. I shaved a few seconds off my time with the hair gone." Daniel set Kaie down next to him and pulled off his back pack, that doubled as the baby bag.
"We're going out side!" Leia called as she and Sandy rushed to the back of the boat. Daniel chuckled.
Kaie looked at his father with large, mixed eyes. The purple and dark blue mixed perfectly and caused him to be the center of attention at all of the baby events. Kaie was a very adventurous baby, Daniel often noted. He loved to explore but had a sense of when to limit himself. He could also be very stubborn. Daniel desperately wished to know if he got those traits from his other father, or if they were his own traits he simply couldn't remember.
Kaie reached upwards to grab his father's sleeve and his attention. "I'll feed you lunch as soon as we start moving, Kaie." Daniel assured his son. Reaching down, he ruffled the short brown hair and allowed himself to smile at the small wonder he had brought into the world.
"So, Daniel, I was wondering." Rusty bit his lip as the ferry began to slowly back out of the port. "Could I take you to the city some time?" Rusty held his breath as a surprised look came over Daniel's face.
"Like a date?"
Rusty nodded. "You don't have to say yes, I mean I'd understand with Kaie and all." Rusty stumbled over his words.
Daniel laughed. "I'd love to, and I'm sure I can blackmail Sandy or Leia to watch Kaie. Heck, I might even be able to persuade Harmony to watch him." Kaie looked up at his father at the mention of that name. "Yes, Aunt Harmony, Kai-chan." Daniel began to dig through the backpack and pull out baby food jars. "You can go down to the snack bar, if you want. Kaie and I will still be here when you get back." Daniel joked as Rusty slid out of the seat across from them and descended to the lower deck.
Daniel had only begun to try and feed Kaie when a deep voice spoke up next to him. "Can we sit here?" Daniel looked up at Heero Yuy and was struck with the weirdest case of Déjà vu. "We don't want to be spotted and this is the only hidden table." Daniel nodded and watched, containing his amusement as the four men attempted to squeeze into the long seat.
"You're Daniel Deavon, aren't you? Aren't you on the Olympic team this year?" Daniel recognized the boy as Quatre Winner.
"Yeah, my team mates and I are practicing in San Francisco before we head off to France for the Olympics." Daniel balanced his son on his knee as Kaie reached up to grasp one of his necklaces.
Daniel couldn't understand why Kaie liked his old cross so much. The baby would constantly go for the necklace but never touch the other two. "No, no, Kaie." Daniel scolded as he tucked his cross under his shirt with the other two necklaces. Daniel pulled out Kaie's teddy bear and handed it to him.
"Is that your son?" Quatre asked. Daniel nodded him while securing the baby food back in the bag.
"Kaie Lieon Deavon." Daniel replied with as much pride as he could manage. "He's my one and only tie to this world." Daniel kissed his son's head as Rusty's familiar red hair came into view.
"But you have a wedding ring." WuFei pointed out, speaking out for the first time.
"Ah, I'm not really sure on that one." Daniel stated, confusing the four pilots as Rusty slid into a seat right next to Daniel. "You see, I don't have any of my memories. All I remember is certain likes and dislikes, I can occasionally remember faces, but that's rare." Daniel explained. "I'm slowly piecing it all back together, and people wonder why I've never had an interview. It's not that I'm vain, it's just that I don't want people to feel sorry for me."
"Let's go take Kai-chan outside and let him see the city as we leave." Rusty suggested. He didn't like these people. He got the feeling that they were going to try and take Daniel and Kaie away from him.
"Okay." Daniel began to scoot out of the booth when suddenly Kaie reached out to grab hold of one of the special chains. Duo watched, frozen as he tugged especially hard on one of the chain's sending the ring attached bouncing to the table.
The star shaped sapphire landed right in front of Quatre. Daniel reached down lightening fast to retrieve the ring and slip it into his pocket. "Are you okay?" Daniel questioned Quatre, who was in a state of shock.
Quatre gave a small nod and watched as Daniel reprimanded his son. And reality smacked him in the face as the small Kaie let a few tears drop from his eyes. When Amethyst eyes softened and Daniel comforted Kaie on the way to the back door, Quatre realized exactly who he had been talking with.
"Quatre, what's wrong?" Trowa asked, concerned for his husband. "Are you all right?" Quatre watched the door shut with a slam and slumped in his seat.
"That was Duo." Quatre felt tears slip from his own eyes. "I know that was."
"See the city Kai-chan?" Daniel asked as he held the child. "I promise, after we finish training, I'll take you there and we can have some fun." The twenty month old seemed to like the idea, because he smiled wide. Daniel couldn't ask for a sweeter baby. Daniel did worry for his son at times. He wondered if something ever happened, would Kaie have a family to go to? Also, Kaie seemed to have all of his proper functions, but chose to not speak most of the time. Kaie was becoming a very reserved child.
Daniel smiled at Rusty, as Kaie giggled at him. The ferry began to pick up speed and they were forced to retreat to a part of the outside deck where the wind could not reach them.
"Given any thought to what you're gonna do after a couple more Olympic games?" Rusty asked. "Any more kids?"
Daniel paused in deliberation. "It seems before I lost my memories, I had gone into the doctors and gotten Dylisid Pills. The Dylisid is still in my system, so I should be able to have another child. But by the time all this Olympic stuff is over, I'll be too old." Kaie sneezed lightly and Daniel contemplated taking him inside. "If I was to have another child, I would want that child to be conceived out of love. I've got a good feeling that Kaie was made out of the love my husband and I shared." A saddened looked passed over Daniel's face.
"Maybe you should take a break from the Olympics. You do Track and Field in the summer games and Snow Boarding in the winter." Rusty stated. "After these games, why don't you come live with me and Sandy in Ireland? We've got a cottage our parents left us. Spend some time there and then decide what you want to do."
Daniel blushed. "Arigato." Rusty raised an eyebrow.
"I swear you had some kind of Japanese past, English please." Rusty prompted.
"Sorry. Arigato means thank you." Daniel paused. "That's really weird, I can't remember taking any kind of lessons, but I seem to have a pretty good vocabulary." Daniel picked Kaie up as the winds became too much.
"You have no idea how much you slip into Japanese on a daily basis. I noticed it a year ago, when I first met you. You called me Mathews-san. Let's go inside." Daniel allowed Rusty to hold the door open for him.
"Daniel! Rusty!" Sandy came charging up the steps waving a cell phone. "She's your mother, you talk to her!" Sandy tossed Daniel the phone with her God arm, almost causing Daniel to drop Kaie. Daniel paled and tossed the phone to Rusty.
"I'm not here!" Taking off in a run, he managed to fly down the stairs before his name was called for the first time. It wasn't that he didn't love his mother, well, he knew she wasn't his really his mother, but she had been there in the hospital when he had woken up, not knowing anything. She had offered him a place to stay until he got his life back in order. She had cared for him throughout his pregnancy and helped him raise Kaie. He loved her with all his heart, but for the past year she had been setting him up on date after date. She saw it as her roll in life to marry him. He wanted to find his past, not make a new one.
"You seem like you were running from something." A calm voice asked. It was only when he caught his breath and looked around did he notice he was sitting almost next to one of the Gundam Pilots, Trowa Barton Winner.
"Just my mother." Trowa raised an eyebrow. Quatre was explaining and calming Heero down. He had opted for a few minutes of peace.
"I thought you had amnesia and couldn't remember anything." Trowa stated. Daniel explained his situation. "Feel free to hide out here, then." Trowa was well aware that he could be sitting next to his friend but chose to keep quiet. No need to frighten him with a bombardment of questions and demanding answers.
"Where are your friends?" Daniel asked. Kaie was beginning to fuss and Daniel deemed it nap time. "I don't mean to pry." But of course, he did.
"Top deck." Trowa looked him over. Maybe appearances had changed and wouldn't be noticed at first glance, but Trowa could see the resemblance. Or was it just his mind, wanting a resemblance? "I had amnesia once." Trowa admitted.
Daniel's jaw dropped. "Really? I've never met anyone who has suffered the way I suffer now. I don't know where I come from, who I loved, or who loved me. I can't tell my son one day that his father loved him." Duo confessed. "I can't remember who I was married to, or why I keep having these flashbacks of me killing people in the war." Daniel rocked his son to sleep. "I hate to dump my worries off on you, but I wish I knew what kind of life I led. Was I a nice person?" Daniel longed desperately for answers. "Did you get your memories back?"
Trowa nodded slowly. "Not all at once, but over the years I've recovered everything. There is a doctor I can refer you to. She mainly specializes in physical injuries, but lately she's become very good at hidden things in the human mind." Daniel sighed, he would love to, but his schedule pressed to hard on his time.
"I can't, with the Olympics coming up in a week and training, I just don't have the time." Daniel stated.
"She will be with us in France. Doctor Sally Chang is married to WuFei Chang. She's traveling with us. Give her fifteen minutes a couple times a week." Trowa suggested. "Just think about it." Daniel watched the man a few seats from him drift into sleep and glanced down at his own sleeping son.
"Kai-chan, do you want to know your father?" Daniel asked quietly. "Cause if I do this, I do it for you." The baby remained peacefully asleep.
"Just ask yourself if you're willing to risk the happiness you feel now for something that could hurt you, or something that could make you complete." Daniel whipped his head around. He could have sworn Trowa was asleep!
"I don't want to lose what I already have." He answered back softly. Of course, this time he was met with only silence. Daniel allowed his mind to wander for the rest of the trip. He was aware of the conversations around him and the sleeping child in his arms.
It was when the boat lurched to a stop, that Daniel allowed himself to get up from his seat. He reunited with Sandy, Rusty and Leia as they exited the ramp. And just five minutes after the boat had docked and he sat in Rusty's jeep, Trowa passed by and gave off the most shocking sentence possible.
Trowa looked Daniel strait in the eyes. Trowa's emerald eyes seemed to drill right into his soul. "It was good to see you after all these years, Duo." Daniel tilted his head in shock, and mouth open he felt a great pressure in his head.
Rusty was pulling out of the parking lot when he noticed Kaie in his baby seat, looking at Daniel with concerned eyes. Rusty's eyes then moved upward to take in the form of Daniel, cradling his head in his hands. He was obviously in pain. "What's wrong?" Rusty asked, concerned for his friend.
"It hurts." Daniel whispered as pictures blew through his mind. Pictures of himself as a small child crying over ruins of a church. Himself working on a machine he recalled as a Gundam. A flash of himself celebrating the end of the war. "I keep seeing things." Daniel complained as one final picture flooded his senses. The simple picture of him kissing Heero Yuy at their wedding.
Uhhhhh . . . My Beta says this chapter is just a bit confusing, but if I try to clear it up it will ruin everything. So if you get to the end of the chapter and are really confused, just e-mail me and I'll explain everything.
This chapter like the one before it is Yaoi. All of my GW fics are yaoi and the ones I co-author with YamiEmmy are Yaoi. (By the way, check those out, they're hilarious and posted under the author name YamiEmmy and Trunkslilsis)
Pairings: Will be 1x2, 3x4, 5xS
Chapter One: Introducing . . .
"Come on you guys! If Kai-chan and I can make it in under fifteen minutes, you can too!" A man in his early twenties called back to his three companions. The baby strapped to his back giggled and clapped his hands as his father jogged in place. They only had to wait a few seconds before the first of the three lagging people caught up.
"This is very unfair." The older man scolded. "You have experience chasing after a baby all day, Daniel. And Kaie is just along for the ride, what about the rest of us?" Eventually the other two girls caught up to them and they jogged in place. "Rusty, you're just jealous that my little Kai-chan is beating you." Daniel teased back at the man, while the two girls just smiled.
The brunet on Daniel's right ran a hand across her forehead as her watch beeped. "Thank the gods." She whispered as she shrunk to the floor. "We've been running for hours."
Daniel smiled at her and carefully unstrapped his son. "Really, Sandy, you act as if you don't want to make the team next year. We have to keep training with the Olympics only a week away and competition for next year's team in a few months. Leia is keeping up just fine." Daniel joked, his amethyst eyes sparkling in the sun. That comment earned him a slap on the shoulder.
"We should be training." Rusty confessed. "We're only in California for a few more days before we go to the Olympics." He bent down and began his after exercise stretches.
"The special guests this year are Ambassador Dorlin and the famous Gundam pilots, I just have meet them." Leia squealed. "Too bad they never did find Duo Maxwell." She pondered as Sandy's watch beeped again.
"The two minute break is over guys, cool down run now." Daniel informed them slipping Kaie back into his harness. "Only fifteen minutes of a light jog and then we can go get some food." Daniel took off in a sprint, followed closely be his friends.
Rusty saw it as slow torture. The streets of San Francisco were filled with nothing but treasures waiting to be found. As they jogged away from Pier 39 and back towards Pier 1 where they would pick up their ferry, he couldn't help but wish they could spend some time in San Francisco. Pleasure time, maybe he could win Daniel over while he was at it.
Daniel seemed to sense his thoughts and smiled. "Believe me, the last night we're here, just me and you are coming down here for a bit of fun." Daniel pressed on and the two women rolled their eyes. MMaybe offering to baby-sit was a bad idea.
"Oh man! The ferry's gonna be packed today!" Sandy exclaimed as they approached the waiting zone. At least a hundred people waited to board the ferry pulling into port. Daniel met eyes with everyone in his group.
"Heero Yuy!" Daniel covered his ears as a female voice shrieked out, followed by other voices. Daniel rolled his eyes as the female population, including Sandy and Leia, flocked to not only Heero Yuy, but the other three pilots there as well.
"What do you suppose they're doing here?" Rusty asked, getting his pass out. Daniel shrugged and ran a hand through his short, chin length hair. "Miss it?" Rusty asked as they began to walk down the ramp to the ferry.
Daniel nodded. "In a couple of years I'm gonna grow it back." He stated, climbing aboard the ferry. "Top or bottom?" Daniel asked.
"Top." Daniel walked to the stairs and climbed to the second level of the boat.
"I really miss it, it was one of the few things I had left of my life before the accident." Daniel led them over to a table in the back. "But it had to go. I shaved a few seconds off my time with the hair gone." Daniel set Kaie down next to him and pulled off his back pack, that doubled as the baby bag.
"We're going out side!" Leia called as she and Sandy rushed to the back of the boat. Daniel chuckled.
Kaie looked at his father with large, mixed eyes. The purple and dark blue mixed perfectly and caused him to be the center of attention at all of the baby events. Kaie was a very adventurous baby, Daniel often noted. He loved to explore but had a sense of when to limit himself. He could also be very stubborn. Daniel desperately wished to know if he got those traits from his other father, or if they were his own traits he simply couldn't remember.
Kaie reached upwards to grab his father's sleeve and his attention. "I'll feed you lunch as soon as we start moving, Kaie." Daniel assured his son. Reaching down, he ruffled the short brown hair and allowed himself to smile at the small wonder he had brought into the world.
"So, Daniel, I was wondering." Rusty bit his lip as the ferry began to slowly back out of the port. "Could I take you to the city some time?" Rusty held his breath as a surprised look came over Daniel's face.
"Like a date?"
Rusty nodded. "You don't have to say yes, I mean I'd understand with Kaie and all." Rusty stumbled over his words.
Daniel laughed. "I'd love to, and I'm sure I can blackmail Sandy or Leia to watch Kaie. Heck, I might even be able to persuade Harmony to watch him." Kaie looked up at his father at the mention of that name. "Yes, Aunt Harmony, Kai-chan." Daniel began to dig through the backpack and pull out baby food jars. "You can go down to the snack bar, if you want. Kaie and I will still be here when you get back." Daniel joked as Rusty slid out of the seat across from them and descended to the lower deck.
Daniel had only begun to try and feed Kaie when a deep voice spoke up next to him. "Can we sit here?" Daniel looked up at Heero Yuy and was struck with the weirdest case of Déjà vu. "We don't want to be spotted and this is the only hidden table." Daniel nodded and watched, containing his amusement as the four men attempted to squeeze into the long seat.
"You're Daniel Deavon, aren't you? Aren't you on the Olympic team this year?" Daniel recognized the boy as Quatre Winner.
"Yeah, my team mates and I are practicing in San Francisco before we head off to France for the Olympics." Daniel balanced his son on his knee as Kaie reached up to grasp one of his necklaces.
Daniel couldn't understand why Kaie liked his old cross so much. The baby would constantly go for the necklace but never touch the other two. "No, no, Kaie." Daniel scolded as he tucked his cross under his shirt with the other two necklaces. Daniel pulled out Kaie's teddy bear and handed it to him.
"Is that your son?" Quatre asked. Daniel nodded him while securing the baby food back in the bag.
"Kaie Lieon Deavon." Daniel replied with as much pride as he could manage. "He's my one and only tie to this world." Daniel kissed his son's head as Rusty's familiar red hair came into view.
"But you have a wedding ring." WuFei pointed out, speaking out for the first time.
"Ah, I'm not really sure on that one." Daniel stated, confusing the four pilots as Rusty slid into a seat right next to Daniel. "You see, I don't have any of my memories. All I remember is certain likes and dislikes, I can occasionally remember faces, but that's rare." Daniel explained. "I'm slowly piecing it all back together, and people wonder why I've never had an interview. It's not that I'm vain, it's just that I don't want people to feel sorry for me."
"Let's go take Kai-chan outside and let him see the city as we leave." Rusty suggested. He didn't like these people. He got the feeling that they were going to try and take Daniel and Kaie away from him.
"Okay." Daniel began to scoot out of the booth when suddenly Kaie reached out to grab hold of one of the special chains. Duo watched, frozen as he tugged especially hard on one of the chain's sending the ring attached bouncing to the table.
The star shaped sapphire landed right in front of Quatre. Daniel reached down lightening fast to retrieve the ring and slip it into his pocket. "Are you okay?" Daniel questioned Quatre, who was in a state of shock.
Quatre gave a small nod and watched as Daniel reprimanded his son. And reality smacked him in the face as the small Kaie let a few tears drop from his eyes. When Amethyst eyes softened and Daniel comforted Kaie on the way to the back door, Quatre realized exactly who he had been talking with.
"Quatre, what's wrong?" Trowa asked, concerned for his husband. "Are you all right?" Quatre watched the door shut with a slam and slumped in his seat.
"That was Duo." Quatre felt tears slip from his own eyes. "I know that was."
"See the city Kai-chan?" Daniel asked as he held the child. "I promise, after we finish training, I'll take you there and we can have some fun." The twenty month old seemed to like the idea, because he smiled wide. Daniel couldn't ask for a sweeter baby. Daniel did worry for his son at times. He wondered if something ever happened, would Kaie have a family to go to? Also, Kaie seemed to have all of his proper functions, but chose to not speak most of the time. Kaie was becoming a very reserved child.
Daniel smiled at Rusty, as Kaie giggled at him. The ferry began to pick up speed and they were forced to retreat to a part of the outside deck where the wind could not reach them.
"Given any thought to what you're gonna do after a couple more Olympic games?" Rusty asked. "Any more kids?"
Daniel paused in deliberation. "It seems before I lost my memories, I had gone into the doctors and gotten Dylisid Pills. The Dylisid is still in my system, so I should be able to have another child. But by the time all this Olympic stuff is over, I'll be too old." Kaie sneezed lightly and Daniel contemplated taking him inside. "If I was to have another child, I would want that child to be conceived out of love. I've got a good feeling that Kaie was made out of the love my husband and I shared." A saddened looked passed over Daniel's face.
"Maybe you should take a break from the Olympics. You do Track and Field in the summer games and Snow Boarding in the winter." Rusty stated. "After these games, why don't you come live with me and Sandy in Ireland? We've got a cottage our parents left us. Spend some time there and then decide what you want to do."
Daniel blushed. "Arigato." Rusty raised an eyebrow.
"I swear you had some kind of Japanese past, English please." Rusty prompted.
"Sorry. Arigato means thank you." Daniel paused. "That's really weird, I can't remember taking any kind of lessons, but I seem to have a pretty good vocabulary." Daniel picked Kaie up as the winds became too much.
"You have no idea how much you slip into Japanese on a daily basis. I noticed it a year ago, when I first met you. You called me Mathews-san. Let's go inside." Daniel allowed Rusty to hold the door open for him.
"Daniel! Rusty!" Sandy came charging up the steps waving a cell phone. "She's your mother, you talk to her!" Sandy tossed Daniel the phone with her God arm, almost causing Daniel to drop Kaie. Daniel paled and tossed the phone to Rusty.
"I'm not here!" Taking off in a run, he managed to fly down the stairs before his name was called for the first time. It wasn't that he didn't love his mother, well, he knew she wasn't his really his mother, but she had been there in the hospital when he had woken up, not knowing anything. She had offered him a place to stay until he got his life back in order. She had cared for him throughout his pregnancy and helped him raise Kaie. He loved her with all his heart, but for the past year she had been setting him up on date after date. She saw it as her roll in life to marry him. He wanted to find his past, not make a new one.
"You seem like you were running from something." A calm voice asked. It was only when he caught his breath and looked around did he notice he was sitting almost next to one of the Gundam Pilots, Trowa Barton Winner.
"Just my mother." Trowa raised an eyebrow. Quatre was explaining and calming Heero down. He had opted for a few minutes of peace.
"I thought you had amnesia and couldn't remember anything." Trowa stated. Daniel explained his situation. "Feel free to hide out here, then." Trowa was well aware that he could be sitting next to his friend but chose to keep quiet. No need to frighten him with a bombardment of questions and demanding answers.
"Where are your friends?" Daniel asked. Kaie was beginning to fuss and Daniel deemed it nap time. "I don't mean to pry." But of course, he did.
"Top deck." Trowa looked him over. Maybe appearances had changed and wouldn't be noticed at first glance, but Trowa could see the resemblance. Or was it just his mind, wanting a resemblance? "I had amnesia once." Trowa admitted.
Daniel's jaw dropped. "Really? I've never met anyone who has suffered the way I suffer now. I don't know where I come from, who I loved, or who loved me. I can't tell my son one day that his father loved him." Duo confessed. "I can't remember who I was married to, or why I keep having these flashbacks of me killing people in the war." Daniel rocked his son to sleep. "I hate to dump my worries off on you, but I wish I knew what kind of life I led. Was I a nice person?" Daniel longed desperately for answers. "Did you get your memories back?"
Trowa nodded slowly. "Not all at once, but over the years I've recovered everything. There is a doctor I can refer you to. She mainly specializes in physical injuries, but lately she's become very good at hidden things in the human mind." Daniel sighed, he would love to, but his schedule pressed to hard on his time.
"I can't, with the Olympics coming up in a week and training, I just don't have the time." Daniel stated.
"She will be with us in France. Doctor Sally Chang is married to WuFei Chang. She's traveling with us. Give her fifteen minutes a couple times a week." Trowa suggested. "Just think about it." Daniel watched the man a few seats from him drift into sleep and glanced down at his own sleeping son.
"Kai-chan, do you want to know your father?" Daniel asked quietly. "Cause if I do this, I do it for you." The baby remained peacefully asleep.
"Just ask yourself if you're willing to risk the happiness you feel now for something that could hurt you, or something that could make you complete." Daniel whipped his head around. He could have sworn Trowa was asleep!
"I don't want to lose what I already have." He answered back softly. Of course, this time he was met with only silence. Daniel allowed his mind to wander for the rest of the trip. He was aware of the conversations around him and the sleeping child in his arms.
It was when the boat lurched to a stop, that Daniel allowed himself to get up from his seat. He reunited with Sandy, Rusty and Leia as they exited the ramp. And just five minutes after the boat had docked and he sat in Rusty's jeep, Trowa passed by and gave off the most shocking sentence possible.
Trowa looked Daniel strait in the eyes. Trowa's emerald eyes seemed to drill right into his soul. "It was good to see you after all these years, Duo." Daniel tilted his head in shock, and mouth open he felt a great pressure in his head.
Rusty was pulling out of the parking lot when he noticed Kaie in his baby seat, looking at Daniel with concerned eyes. Rusty's eyes then moved upward to take in the form of Daniel, cradling his head in his hands. He was obviously in pain. "What's wrong?" Rusty asked, concerned for his friend.
"It hurts." Daniel whispered as pictures blew through his mind. Pictures of himself as a small child crying over ruins of a church. Himself working on a machine he recalled as a Gundam. A flash of himself celebrating the end of the war. "I keep seeing things." Daniel complained as one final picture flooded his senses. The simple picture of him kissing Heero Yuy at their wedding.