Authors Notes: Wow, it's not dead! However my love for Anime is. I find
no
reason to watch it or write it. But because I am a perfectionist, this
will
be finished before I officially quit writing Anime. Another thing, this is
total crap. I wrote this half a year to a year ago, something like that.
I'm a
much better author and you'll notice all future chapters will be so much
better, and then I'll redo this one. Other then that, review and enjoy.
If
possible. I'm sure I've screwed something up in here without a beta.
Chapter Two
"What does it all mean?" Leia asked as she handed an ice pack to Daniel. "I mean, are these memories of your life before the accident?" Daniel shrugged and practically slapped the ice pack to his head.
"What ever that was, it was a part of my past. And I think that guy on the boat knew me. He called me Duo just before the flashes started; I think my name is Duo. And, this is gonna sound freaky, but I think I know who I'm married to; who Kaie's father is." Daniel collapsed back to the couch. "I think I'm just going psycho." Daniel stood up and grabbed his car keys. "I'm going out for a while, I'll be back. Please take care of Kaie for me, just for a few hours."
"Wait." Leia rushed to the door to stop Daniel. "It's elven at night! I know you well enough to know if we let you go, you'll be out all night. You're our captain and we'll be training with the full team tomorrow, we can't afford to have you tired or sluggish. Don't go!" She protested. "If not for us then for Kaie. What if something happens to you?"
Daniel's eyes softened. "Let him go." A tall man with sandy blond hair stepped out of one of the back rooms. "If he must go then let him." The French man dared Leia to challenge his words. "Les gosses américains fichus." He muttered as he slammed his door closed. Daniel smiled at Leia's upset face.
"Did he just call me a damn American kid?" She asked angrily. Daniel shrugged though he knew very well that it was exactly what Fredrick had said.
"You heard him, he's the senior coach and if I want to go I do." Daniel brushed past her and to his car parked outside the hotel. At this moment he was happy he and a select few had decided to stay in a hotel out side of San Francisco. He had gotten a phone call a few hours ago from Dusty, a pole jumper, claiming that they were boxed in by fans and couldn't get out of the hotel.
Revving his engine up he drove. He drove for hours just thinking about what he was remembering. He didn't know if he wanted to thank Trowa or kill him. The memories were flying back at him a million miles per hour but none of them were making sense. One minute he would be a small child talking to another child named Solo and the other he would be hugging Quatre Winner.
So far he had pieced the following facts. He knew he had some kind of relation to the ex-Gundam Pilots. They were showing up far too much in his memories for him not to have some relation to them. He also knew he was an orphan. The flashes of him at an orphanage had been enough. But on top of all of that, he knew for a fact that he had loved Kaie's father; and maybe that was enough.
The way he saw it, Kaie was conceived in love. He had survived the car crash to have a perfectly healthy baby. Maybe some higher power was trying to tell him that was all he needed. Maybe if he got greedy and wanted to find his husband he would lose Kaie. Maybe they had been separated for a reason. Did he really need to find Kaie's father? He could provide for his son perfectly fine, Kaie didn't want for anything. 'You're making that decision for him?' A voice argued back. "He's only a baby, he doesn't need anyone but me and our friends." Daniel argued back. He knew it was senseless to argue with himself. 'Tell that to him when he's older and he wants to know his other father.'
Daniel growled and smashed his head into the wheel. "Will it make you happy if I try to find my past. If I try to find Kaie's father?" Daniel asked. 'Maybe, it's a start.' Daniel sighed and started back home. "Here I am arguing with myself. Maybe I really am getting schizophrenic." Daniel confessed. 'Who said I was you?' The voice asked and then remained quiet the whole way home.
"Move it, move it! If you can't make it in under twenty minutes then you can't get on the plane!" Daniel threatened as twenty-three men and women raced along a newly constructed path. It had only taken Daniel four hours of pleading to convince the people at Candlestick Park to lend them the facility for a day. Daniel knew perfectly well that he was being mean, but they were going for the gold, they had to be good. No, they had to be great.
"Great job Daniel." Fredrick patted him on the shoulder careful not to hit Kaie who was strapped to his back again. "You took this team and turned them around more then I ever could." Daniel had to strain to make out the words in the thick French accent. "Are you going to be ready? I haven't seen you train for the past four days, we're leaving tomorrow morning you know."
"I'll be fine. Kaie and I have been looking some things up the past few days. Physically I'm the best I can be, and Kaie is helping me become mentally perfect." Fredrick seemed to nod happily, pleased by the answer.
"Your mother will be traveling with us to take care of Kaie?" Fredrick asked as Daniel shouted for one of the lagging members of the team to step it up.
"Yeah, she'll be on the plane." Daniel smirked. "Don't think I didn't find out about you giving her and my brother plane tickets on our jet." Daniel smiled whole-heartedly and blew his whistle as the timer went off. "They all made it. Wanna tell them or should I?" Daniel asked as the twenty-three people across the field collapsed to the ground.
"If you tell them you'll prolong it so they think they've all failed." Fredrick ruffled Daniel's hair as he strut over to his 'petits enfants' as he called them.
"Pwain?" Kaie asked, making Daniel smile.
"Yes, we're going to go on a plane. And you get to see Daddy win you a gold metal." Daniel paused, not sure if he should say anything. "And I might even see your dad." The words slipped slowly from his tongue causing Kaie to look at him.
"Da?" Daniel just smiled and reached back to grasp one of his son's small fingers.
"Don't worry about that now. Say, you wanna go get some ice cream?" He asked Kaie. The baby was only twenty months old but had surprised his family by eating solid foods. Kaie had also evidently gained a sweet tooth; Daniel believed he had been the one to pass that on to his son.
"Cweam!" Kaie shouted.
"Hey guys!" Daniel called over to a couple of his teammates. "We'll meet back at the hotel in San Francisco at two, if you're late there will be hel- -" Daniel caught himself before he could speak hell in front of his son. "There will be heck and fifty laps to pay."
Daniel began a brisk jog while unwrapping a cracker and handing it to Kaie. Even he had to admit that he felt better when he ran. Some how, and it was beyond him, but he was able to run long periods of time without losing his breath. And he had been running with Kaie since he was very young. The baby seemed to enjoy the feeling of a smooth flowing jog.
"Only three miles." Daniel informed Kaie. "Only a short run today. How about we spend a father son day? Just you and me down on the pier having ice cream. We can ride the carousel and then jog back to the hotel. How about that?" Kaie giggled happily before tugging on his father's sleeve. As if to say he knew his father was lying. "Okay, so maybe we'll take the trolley back, but only 'cause you want to."
Daniel jogged the rest of the way in silence. He paid no mind to the people and cars around him. Again he found him mind wandering to the past four days. He had gone full out to find out anything about his past. From the hospital he had been brought into he figured he had come from somewhere on the west coast, possibly even California. He knew he was approximately Twenty-Two years old, that and he had been born on a colony. The records of his admittance showed his body had been secretly adapting to earth gravity. This proved that he had grown up on a colony and his body had become accustomed to space and it's pressure.
Daniel had just bought himself and Kaie an ice cream cone when Kaie decided he needed to make his presence known to those around him. They were descending from the sports shop on the second floor when Kaie lost his grip on his ice cream and it went sailing down to land splat on a person down below them.
Kaie laughed happily and Daniel shook his head as he came face to face with WuFei Chang. "Listen, I'm really sorry about the ice cream. Kaie was just being a child." Daniel shrugged helplessly as Kaie reached for WuFei, obvious delight on his face.
"Yucky!" He called out as Daniel pulled him back and handed WuFei some napkins.
"Your apology is noted and accepted." WuFei took the napkins from him and proceeded to wipe the vanilla from his head. "I have a child of my own, I understand that they cannot be controlled." WuFei nodded strongly and Daniel bit his lip.
"You know Trowa Barton right?" WuFei nodded and Daniel retrieved a piece of paper. He handed it to WuFei with care as Kaie began to fidget. "I would consider it an awesomely huge favor if you could give that to him. Inside is my cell phone number, he seems to know a lot about me and he called me something I want to ask him about."
"I will do this for you." WuFei paused knowing very well he was looking at his friend, a friend he had not seen in two years.
"Thanks, and sorry." Daniel excused himself and began to walk away.
"Daniel! l'Attesa su!" Duo only had time to turn before the youngest member and one of the only females came charging in waving her arms madly. "L'urgenza al hotel! Il Fredrick è caduto da nessuno le scale e è rotto la sua caviglia! Abbiamo preso per andare all'ospedale." Daniel blinked; he had forgotten that when Carli panicked she reverted back to the language she had been raised speaking. Daniel had learned very little of Italian and of what he could understand it didn't sound good.
"Calm down Carli and tell me in English." Daniel commanded, this seemed to calm the girl little.
"Fredrick fell from a stair case and broke his ankle. The team is in the hospital." The girl calmed down and began to breathe normally. "The plane departure time has been moved up to this evening and Fredrick has named you co-coach. He said to tell you he'll make it to France as soon as possible but if we're going to make check in we have to leave soon." Carli began to pull on his sleeve.
"Alright, I'll meet you all at the airport. Get everyone packed and ready to go, I'll take a taxi and meet you at the airport. I'm counting on you, if we don't make check in time there isn't going to be the Olympics this year."
"What's the head count?" Daniel called to Carli at the wind blew ferociously. His hair wrapped around his face and he shielded his son with his body. He leaned on the stairway to the private plane and looked the girl in the eyes.
"Twenty-two." She paused to push hair away. "Rusty's missing, what should I do?" Daniel bit his lip. He knew to leave without their best vaulter would spill disaster, but they couldn't wait and lose a spot.
"Wait up! Here I come!" Daniel turned and sighed in relief. He barely noticed the four people running behind him.
"Cut us this close again and I'll leave you." He patted Rusty on the back and urged him up the steps. He turned back to the people that had been following him.
"Our plane has been delayed and we won't make it in time for opening ceremonies, could we get a ride with you?" The blonde, Quatre asked. Daniel noted their ragged appearance and noted that they hadn't the time they had needed like Daniel himself.
"Can you stand a plane full of teenagers, cause nineteen of them are under twenty one." Daniel beckoned them to follow him. "I'll make an announcement for everyone to leave you alone. If I know everyone well enough, then without a warning you might as well be jumping off a cliff with the amount of attention you'll be getting."
Daniel nodded to a bodyguard and locked the plane door closed behind them. Just as he turned to address the people around him Kaie reached out to grasp Heero's shirt. Both Daniel and Heero stood motionless as the baby smiled happily at Heero. "Kaie let go." Daniel attempted to pull his son away but the baby burst into tears if he was moved away from Heero. "I'm sorry." Daniel stated trying to calm the crying baby. "He's never attached himself to anyone like that before."
Hushing Kaie he turned to his teammates. "Listen up, Fredrick will be on the next flight out tomorrow but until then I'm acting Captain. We're playing things ear by ear and having some guests on the plane. If just one of you bothers them, it will be a hundred laps every night for the entire four weeks we're there." He nodded for them to return to their business and motioned the Gundam pilots over to the back of the plane.
Shutting the door in the person cabin he set the sniffling baby down in his play pen that had been set up and handed him his favorite teddy bear. Dropping a kiss onto the dark haired head of his son he walked over to a few couches that had been placed there.
"I'd like to talk to you all, especially Trowa." They all sat around him, and Daniel scooted himself so he could see Kaie playing happily with his new toy. "You called me something." Daniel started. "You called me Duo, do you know who I am?"
Heero remained frozen and surprisingly Trowa took the lead. "We think you might be Duo Maxwell, our friend who went missing about two years ago. We're not sure so it might help if you tell us what you remember." Trowa prompted and Daniel nodded slowly.
"I woke up in California, that's a state on earth. The doctors told me I had been in a car accident and that I would have to stay for a few more weeks. Naturally I couldn't remember anything and it was an even larger surprise when the doctors told me I was pregnant. Not many men choose to produce the children in a marriage, I also knew I was married." Duo showed them his ring. "When I named myself I chose a name that began with D, because it's the initial engraved into the ring. DM, I don't know what that means. Six months later I had Kaie." Daniel said looking over to his son that had fallen asleep. "I want to know who his father was, if I loved the man and if he's even alive."
"I do love you, Duo." Heero stood near Daniel and they met eyes, establishing a long since absent connection. "I searched for you, I looked everywhere and had the preventers launch a full search for you. I never stopped looking for you."
"You sure" Daniel asked, arms wrapped around himself from the sudden chill. "You're sure I'm this guy." He ventured a look at Kaie. "I don't come alone, I have baggage. It's a group deal."
"Yes."
The simple confirming action was all Daniel needed to throw himself into Heero's arms, sobbing heavily.
"Can I see my son?" Heero asked slowly, hoping that he was not over stepping his boundaries. Daniel nodded slowly.
"It's about time you asked that."
Chapter Two
"What does it all mean?" Leia asked as she handed an ice pack to Daniel. "I mean, are these memories of your life before the accident?" Daniel shrugged and practically slapped the ice pack to his head.
"What ever that was, it was a part of my past. And I think that guy on the boat knew me. He called me Duo just before the flashes started; I think my name is Duo. And, this is gonna sound freaky, but I think I know who I'm married to; who Kaie's father is." Daniel collapsed back to the couch. "I think I'm just going psycho." Daniel stood up and grabbed his car keys. "I'm going out for a while, I'll be back. Please take care of Kaie for me, just for a few hours."
"Wait." Leia rushed to the door to stop Daniel. "It's elven at night! I know you well enough to know if we let you go, you'll be out all night. You're our captain and we'll be training with the full team tomorrow, we can't afford to have you tired or sluggish. Don't go!" She protested. "If not for us then for Kaie. What if something happens to you?"
Daniel's eyes softened. "Let him go." A tall man with sandy blond hair stepped out of one of the back rooms. "If he must go then let him." The French man dared Leia to challenge his words. "Les gosses américains fichus." He muttered as he slammed his door closed. Daniel smiled at Leia's upset face.
"Did he just call me a damn American kid?" She asked angrily. Daniel shrugged though he knew very well that it was exactly what Fredrick had said.
"You heard him, he's the senior coach and if I want to go I do." Daniel brushed past her and to his car parked outside the hotel. At this moment he was happy he and a select few had decided to stay in a hotel out side of San Francisco. He had gotten a phone call a few hours ago from Dusty, a pole jumper, claiming that they were boxed in by fans and couldn't get out of the hotel.
Revving his engine up he drove. He drove for hours just thinking about what he was remembering. He didn't know if he wanted to thank Trowa or kill him. The memories were flying back at him a million miles per hour but none of them were making sense. One minute he would be a small child talking to another child named Solo and the other he would be hugging Quatre Winner.
So far he had pieced the following facts. He knew he had some kind of relation to the ex-Gundam Pilots. They were showing up far too much in his memories for him not to have some relation to them. He also knew he was an orphan. The flashes of him at an orphanage had been enough. But on top of all of that, he knew for a fact that he had loved Kaie's father; and maybe that was enough.
The way he saw it, Kaie was conceived in love. He had survived the car crash to have a perfectly healthy baby. Maybe some higher power was trying to tell him that was all he needed. Maybe if he got greedy and wanted to find his husband he would lose Kaie. Maybe they had been separated for a reason. Did he really need to find Kaie's father? He could provide for his son perfectly fine, Kaie didn't want for anything. 'You're making that decision for him?' A voice argued back. "He's only a baby, he doesn't need anyone but me and our friends." Daniel argued back. He knew it was senseless to argue with himself. 'Tell that to him when he's older and he wants to know his other father.'
Daniel growled and smashed his head into the wheel. "Will it make you happy if I try to find my past. If I try to find Kaie's father?" Daniel asked. 'Maybe, it's a start.' Daniel sighed and started back home. "Here I am arguing with myself. Maybe I really am getting schizophrenic." Daniel confessed. 'Who said I was you?' The voice asked and then remained quiet the whole way home.
"Move it, move it! If you can't make it in under twenty minutes then you can't get on the plane!" Daniel threatened as twenty-three men and women raced along a newly constructed path. It had only taken Daniel four hours of pleading to convince the people at Candlestick Park to lend them the facility for a day. Daniel knew perfectly well that he was being mean, but they were going for the gold, they had to be good. No, they had to be great.
"Great job Daniel." Fredrick patted him on the shoulder careful not to hit Kaie who was strapped to his back again. "You took this team and turned them around more then I ever could." Daniel had to strain to make out the words in the thick French accent. "Are you going to be ready? I haven't seen you train for the past four days, we're leaving tomorrow morning you know."
"I'll be fine. Kaie and I have been looking some things up the past few days. Physically I'm the best I can be, and Kaie is helping me become mentally perfect." Fredrick seemed to nod happily, pleased by the answer.
"Your mother will be traveling with us to take care of Kaie?" Fredrick asked as Daniel shouted for one of the lagging members of the team to step it up.
"Yeah, she'll be on the plane." Daniel smirked. "Don't think I didn't find out about you giving her and my brother plane tickets on our jet." Daniel smiled whole-heartedly and blew his whistle as the timer went off. "They all made it. Wanna tell them or should I?" Daniel asked as the twenty-three people across the field collapsed to the ground.
"If you tell them you'll prolong it so they think they've all failed." Fredrick ruffled Daniel's hair as he strut over to his 'petits enfants' as he called them.
"Pwain?" Kaie asked, making Daniel smile.
"Yes, we're going to go on a plane. And you get to see Daddy win you a gold metal." Daniel paused, not sure if he should say anything. "And I might even see your dad." The words slipped slowly from his tongue causing Kaie to look at him.
"Da?" Daniel just smiled and reached back to grasp one of his son's small fingers.
"Don't worry about that now. Say, you wanna go get some ice cream?" He asked Kaie. The baby was only twenty months old but had surprised his family by eating solid foods. Kaie had also evidently gained a sweet tooth; Daniel believed he had been the one to pass that on to his son.
"Cweam!" Kaie shouted.
"Hey guys!" Daniel called over to a couple of his teammates. "We'll meet back at the hotel in San Francisco at two, if you're late there will be hel- -" Daniel caught himself before he could speak hell in front of his son. "There will be heck and fifty laps to pay."
Daniel began a brisk jog while unwrapping a cracker and handing it to Kaie. Even he had to admit that he felt better when he ran. Some how, and it was beyond him, but he was able to run long periods of time without losing his breath. And he had been running with Kaie since he was very young. The baby seemed to enjoy the feeling of a smooth flowing jog.
"Only three miles." Daniel informed Kaie. "Only a short run today. How about we spend a father son day? Just you and me down on the pier having ice cream. We can ride the carousel and then jog back to the hotel. How about that?" Kaie giggled happily before tugging on his father's sleeve. As if to say he knew his father was lying. "Okay, so maybe we'll take the trolley back, but only 'cause you want to."
Daniel jogged the rest of the way in silence. He paid no mind to the people and cars around him. Again he found him mind wandering to the past four days. He had gone full out to find out anything about his past. From the hospital he had been brought into he figured he had come from somewhere on the west coast, possibly even California. He knew he was approximately Twenty-Two years old, that and he had been born on a colony. The records of his admittance showed his body had been secretly adapting to earth gravity. This proved that he had grown up on a colony and his body had become accustomed to space and it's pressure.
Daniel had just bought himself and Kaie an ice cream cone when Kaie decided he needed to make his presence known to those around him. They were descending from the sports shop on the second floor when Kaie lost his grip on his ice cream and it went sailing down to land splat on a person down below them.
Kaie laughed happily and Daniel shook his head as he came face to face with WuFei Chang. "Listen, I'm really sorry about the ice cream. Kaie was just being a child." Daniel shrugged helplessly as Kaie reached for WuFei, obvious delight on his face.
"Yucky!" He called out as Daniel pulled him back and handed WuFei some napkins.
"Your apology is noted and accepted." WuFei took the napkins from him and proceeded to wipe the vanilla from his head. "I have a child of my own, I understand that they cannot be controlled." WuFei nodded strongly and Daniel bit his lip.
"You know Trowa Barton right?" WuFei nodded and Daniel retrieved a piece of paper. He handed it to WuFei with care as Kaie began to fidget. "I would consider it an awesomely huge favor if you could give that to him. Inside is my cell phone number, he seems to know a lot about me and he called me something I want to ask him about."
"I will do this for you." WuFei paused knowing very well he was looking at his friend, a friend he had not seen in two years.
"Thanks, and sorry." Daniel excused himself and began to walk away.
"Daniel! l'Attesa su!" Duo only had time to turn before the youngest member and one of the only females came charging in waving her arms madly. "L'urgenza al hotel! Il Fredrick è caduto da nessuno le scale e è rotto la sua caviglia! Abbiamo preso per andare all'ospedale." Daniel blinked; he had forgotten that when Carli panicked she reverted back to the language she had been raised speaking. Daniel had learned very little of Italian and of what he could understand it didn't sound good.
"Calm down Carli and tell me in English." Daniel commanded, this seemed to calm the girl little.
"Fredrick fell from a stair case and broke his ankle. The team is in the hospital." The girl calmed down and began to breathe normally. "The plane departure time has been moved up to this evening and Fredrick has named you co-coach. He said to tell you he'll make it to France as soon as possible but if we're going to make check in we have to leave soon." Carli began to pull on his sleeve.
"Alright, I'll meet you all at the airport. Get everyone packed and ready to go, I'll take a taxi and meet you at the airport. I'm counting on you, if we don't make check in time there isn't going to be the Olympics this year."
"What's the head count?" Daniel called to Carli at the wind blew ferociously. His hair wrapped around his face and he shielded his son with his body. He leaned on the stairway to the private plane and looked the girl in the eyes.
"Twenty-two." She paused to push hair away. "Rusty's missing, what should I do?" Daniel bit his lip. He knew to leave without their best vaulter would spill disaster, but they couldn't wait and lose a spot.
"Wait up! Here I come!" Daniel turned and sighed in relief. He barely noticed the four people running behind him.
"Cut us this close again and I'll leave you." He patted Rusty on the back and urged him up the steps. He turned back to the people that had been following him.
"Our plane has been delayed and we won't make it in time for opening ceremonies, could we get a ride with you?" The blonde, Quatre asked. Daniel noted their ragged appearance and noted that they hadn't the time they had needed like Daniel himself.
"Can you stand a plane full of teenagers, cause nineteen of them are under twenty one." Daniel beckoned them to follow him. "I'll make an announcement for everyone to leave you alone. If I know everyone well enough, then without a warning you might as well be jumping off a cliff with the amount of attention you'll be getting."
Daniel nodded to a bodyguard and locked the plane door closed behind them. Just as he turned to address the people around him Kaie reached out to grasp Heero's shirt. Both Daniel and Heero stood motionless as the baby smiled happily at Heero. "Kaie let go." Daniel attempted to pull his son away but the baby burst into tears if he was moved away from Heero. "I'm sorry." Daniel stated trying to calm the crying baby. "He's never attached himself to anyone like that before."
Hushing Kaie he turned to his teammates. "Listen up, Fredrick will be on the next flight out tomorrow but until then I'm acting Captain. We're playing things ear by ear and having some guests on the plane. If just one of you bothers them, it will be a hundred laps every night for the entire four weeks we're there." He nodded for them to return to their business and motioned the Gundam pilots over to the back of the plane.
Shutting the door in the person cabin he set the sniffling baby down in his play pen that had been set up and handed him his favorite teddy bear. Dropping a kiss onto the dark haired head of his son he walked over to a few couches that had been placed there.
"I'd like to talk to you all, especially Trowa." They all sat around him, and Daniel scooted himself so he could see Kaie playing happily with his new toy. "You called me something." Daniel started. "You called me Duo, do you know who I am?"
Heero remained frozen and surprisingly Trowa took the lead. "We think you might be Duo Maxwell, our friend who went missing about two years ago. We're not sure so it might help if you tell us what you remember." Trowa prompted and Daniel nodded slowly.
"I woke up in California, that's a state on earth. The doctors told me I had been in a car accident and that I would have to stay for a few more weeks. Naturally I couldn't remember anything and it was an even larger surprise when the doctors told me I was pregnant. Not many men choose to produce the children in a marriage, I also knew I was married." Duo showed them his ring. "When I named myself I chose a name that began with D, because it's the initial engraved into the ring. DM, I don't know what that means. Six months later I had Kaie." Daniel said looking over to his son that had fallen asleep. "I want to know who his father was, if I loved the man and if he's even alive."
"I do love you, Duo." Heero stood near Daniel and they met eyes, establishing a long since absent connection. "I searched for you, I looked everywhere and had the preventers launch a full search for you. I never stopped looking for you."
"You sure" Daniel asked, arms wrapped around himself from the sudden chill. "You're sure I'm this guy." He ventured a look at Kaie. "I don't come alone, I have baggage. It's a group deal."
"Yes."
The simple confirming action was all Daniel needed to throw himself into Heero's arms, sobbing heavily.
"Can I see my son?" Heero asked slowly, hoping that he was not over stepping his boundaries. Daniel nodded slowly.
"It's about time you asked that."