Chapter 8
Disclaimer: No Gundam Wing Owner here! Just me and my new friend the Lawyer. By the way, do you have a name, Mr. Lawyer Dude?
Lawyer: Yup yup. It's Mr. Lawyer Dude.
Hee-chan: Wicked! That works for me.
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Heero woke up to find himself in hospital room. He gazed around, just moving his eyes for fear the pain of moving his head would be too intense. Out of the corner of his eye he could see Quatra sitting in the chair beside the bed, reading a magazine.
"Quatra." Heero said softly. Quatra jerked the magazine down. A look of relief passed over his face before it turned into a grin.
"Heero. I'm glad you finally awake. You've been out for quite some time. How are you feeling?" he asked.
"How long have I been out?" Heero answered his question with a question.
"About a week. You fell unconscious in the ship on the way here. Duo and I did a pretty good job of cleaning and bandaging you up before we got back to Earth. Trowa had forewarned Sally so she knew you were coming and was ready for you. I don't think she was ready for what she saw though." Quatra smiled a bit, trying to lighten the mood.
"Where's Relena?" he said, forcing himself to turn his head a bit. It didn't hurt as much as he expected it to.
"She's still at your house. We thought it would be best to keep her there for a bit longer incase anyone escaped from the explosion and wanted revenge." A strange look came over Quatra when he mentioned the explosion. "Heero, I'm glad you didn't and all, but why didn't you press the button on your watch when they had you captured?" That was a good question. Heero thought about it a moment.
"You think I should have?" he asked in response. A grief stricken look came over Quatra as he sat up straighter in his chair.
"No. Of course not. Like I said, I'm glad you didn't. But if you had, well, you wouldn't be like this." he motioned to Heero's condition.
"Yes, your right. I wouldn't be like this. I would be dead." he stated. "Now I'm not." A guilty look came over Quatra.
"I'm sorry, Heero. I didn't mean to..." he couldn't finish, ashamed that he had thought like that. Heero sighed.
"Actually, Quatra, if you promise not to tell anyone, I'll tell you why I really didn't press the button." Quatra brightened a bit and looked back at Heero.
"I won't tell anyone. I promise." he said a bit excited at learning Heero's secret. Heero didn't think it was such a big secret but if it made Quatra feel better, he'd tell him.
"I forgot about it." he said simply, a plain look coming over his still very bruised features. Quatra's face dropped and he slumped in his chair a bit.
"You forgot?" he said unbelievingly.
"Yeah. See, I was planning on escaping and was saving the button for after I escaped. Eventually I forgot about the button and just tried to concentrate on getting out of there. Eventually, I knew I wasn't going to escape and my mind was concentrated on just staying alive instead of the explosives I set." Heero blinked a bit before continuing, deciding whether to tell Quatra this part. He could. "Just before Duo and Trowa got there....I had given up. I thought there was no possible way of escaping and I quit fighting. I think if you guys hadn't come to get me when you did....I probably wouldn't be alive right now."
Quatra blinked and tried to swallow but couldn't. He looked as if he were trying to find something to say but couldn't. Before he could figure out anything to say, the door opened. Duo walked in and didn't even look at Heero, who had turned his head to watch him. Duo sat at the small table in the corner with a laptop and a few papers that looked important.
"Well, Quatra ol' buddy. I do believe I just got Heero out of some serious shit. The media believed my excuse about the explosion. It's all over the papers. 'Explosion On Mars Caused By Fire In Gas Chamber!'" he said, his hands emphasizing each word in the air and speaking in an announcer voice. He sighed. "Heero causes some 'freak accidents' and I am always the one saving his ass from the headlines."
"Next time I'll die and just let the bad guys win, how about that?" Heero said a bit agitated. Duo's head jerked around in surprise. Relief came next and excitement followed that. Duo jumped out of the chair and ran beside Quatra to look at Heero.
"Heero, man! When did you wake up?" He said hysterically.
"He just woke a minute ago." Quatra explained. Duo turned and smacked his blonde friend in the back of the head, earning an 'Ow' in return.
"Can't tell anyone he's awake, huh?" Duo glared jokingly. Quatra looked up at Duo, rubbing the back of his head.
"I was getting ready to go get everyone before you walked in." Quatra said, sounding as ticked as he could muster. Heero could tell he really wasn't though.
"Relena will be so happy!" Duo said, jumping up and down and clapping his hands in a childish manner.
"Does she know I'm here?" Heero asked. Not to sound over confident, but Heero had half expected to see Relena at his side when he woke.
"No. In fact, she still thinks your missing." Duo said in a matter- of-fact tone.
"What!" Heero yelled and sat up. Pain shot through his whole body, from his head to his toes. His eyes went wide and he gasped. He couldn't move. He couldn't even fall back onto the hospital bed. The pain had paralyzed him, but sitting up was causing even more pain. He could feel and hear himself breathing hard.
Quatra was standing now and both men looked over Heero worried. Duo put one hand on Heero's chest and the other on his back. Slowly, he pushed Heero back onto the bed, but not without earning the first cry Heero had uttered since he was capture. Heero cried out when Duo touched him, the pain so immense. He faintly heard Duo telling Quatra to go get a doctor.
As Heero lay back on the bed, his eyes now closed, he felt Duo sit on the edge of the bed. Duo said nothing for a moment, giving Heero a chance to catch his breath. After a moment, the pain began to ease and Heero opened his eyes.
"Are you ok?" Duo said seriously. It was a moment before Heero answered.
"How bad is it?" he asked, knowing Duo knew what he ment. Duo looked him over before speaking.
"I'm not gunna lie to ya. You look like hell. You reopened the cut from the last mission awhile ago. The Doctor re-stiched it. Almost your entire body is black and blue and a couple bones are broken. Ok, I lied. A lot of your bones are broken. I'm surprised you were able to sit up like that. Your left arm is broken and both your legs." Heero nodded. He could fix that easily but not if he couldn't sit up. The arms and legs would have to wait.
Just then, Quatra rushed in with the doctor close at hand.
"You're awake!" the doctor exclaimed and ran to Heero's side, checking his pulse and blood pressure. After a moment, he sighed. "Well Mr. Yuy. I'm sad to tell you that you will be here for quite some time. We fixed your internal injuries. You just came out of surgery not too long ago. You mustn't do anything too soon or you'll risk messing up everything we have done in surgery. So bed rest for a long time is the key." Heero glared at him. "Yes, well, I must be going. I have an appointment at 1. I'll send a nurse in to make sure everything is alright." With that, he walked briskly out of the room.
"Don't bother! I don't need the nurse!" Heero called after him and the doctor flicked a hand over his back indicating he had heard. Heero looked up at the two men glaring at him.
"Don't need a nurse? You never change, do you, Heero?" Quatra exclaimed.
"He sure doesn't. And I suppose your gunna just fix yourself, is that it?" Duo said, not surprised at all. Heero said nothing, but turned his head to stare out the window. He heard one of the men sigh.
"Well, I'll be back. I'm gunna go get Lady Une." Quatra said as he turned to walk out the door. Heero's head jerk back the look at the blond man.
"What? Why?" He asked. He didn't need Lady Une there telling him how he really screwed the mission up or fawning over him because he was actually alive.
"She wants to know when you've woken up." Quatra explained and before Heero could say anything else, he walked out of the door, the sound of his footprints fading down the hall. Heero turned a look to Duo.
"She just wants to make sure your ok, man." Duo explained. Heero understood that part, but he knew after a while Lady Une would want to talk about the mission. Of course she would. He was quite surprised that Duo hadn't asked him about it yet; what had happen to him?
"So I'm guessing you wanna see Relena, eh?" Duo said with a sardonic smile. Heero thought a moment. It had only been a week. Who knows who could have survived that explosion. It was almost impossible for anyone to survive. But that was the key word: almost. Someone could have gotten out. And Relena would be the first one they would go after to get him back. His house was safe. No one knew about it. She would be safe there.
"No." he said simply. The smile left Duo's face as he gave his friend a disappointed look.
"Well, you're no fun." he stated playfully.
"Just don't let her leave my house." Heero said. The sly smile returned to Duo's face. He took that completely the wrong way.
"OH! I see how you are!" Duo said with a wink. Before Heero could correct his dirty mind, the door opened to let Quatra in, followed by Lady Une. Her breath caught as she saw him and again Heero wondered how bad he looked.
Taking her time, she slowly walked over to his bedside and looked him over. He saw her gulp as she opened her mouth to talk.
"Heero, I'm sorry." she said softly, her voice cracking a bit. Heero said nothing. He didn't know what to say.
"You didn't..." he started, but she cut him off.
"It's all my fault. I sent you on that mission. Why did I do that? I knew the possibilities. It's all my fault. I..." she started, seeming to get a little hysterical.
"Stop it!" Heero yelled, quieting the frantic women before his voice got soft. "Just stop. This was not your fault. You warned me before I accepted, didn't you?"
"Yeah, but..."
"That's it then. You warned me. I didn't have to go. I knew the consequences. I knew what could have happened. You did your part and that's all you could do. This was no one's fault except Woefeild's and he paid for it already. So just drop it, ok?"
Lady Une nodded. After a minute of composing herself, she looked back up at Heero with a small smile.
"So when are you getting out of here?" she asked.
"Why? Got another mission?" he said, sitting up a bit, but not enough to hurt.
"No. You won't be going on missions for a while. All you need to do is rest." She said sternly. Heero plopped back down on the bed with a wince when he hit the mattress. "I'm gunna go, Heero. I have a lot of work to do. I'll visit you later, ok? Bye Heero." She said as she walked off. Heero sighed and turned to his two friends. His eyes began getting droopy.
"Tired, man?" Duo said, noticing. Heero said nothing.
"The medicine is starting to work. You'll fall asleep in a sec." Quatra said. Heero knew he wasn't lying. He could barely understand the end of Quatra's last few words and the faces of his friends were getting fuzzy. Somewhere in the back of his head, he thought he heard someone say "Get some sleep, man. You've earned it" as he fell into a dreamless sleep.
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Aww....Heero sleeping....such a good sight. Although I suppose he wouldn't be if he was covered in bruises. ^_^ Oh well. A gurl can dream, can't she? I love dreams. Hmm.....I got exactly what I'm gunna do for this fic. I just gotta arrange it all. But, if you have and suggestions or ideas, you know I would love to hear them. I'm always open! ^_^
The Deliciously Sexy Strawberry Hee-chan
Disclaimer: No Gundam Wing Owner here! Just me and my new friend the Lawyer. By the way, do you have a name, Mr. Lawyer Dude?
Lawyer: Yup yup. It's Mr. Lawyer Dude.
Hee-chan: Wicked! That works for me.
***
Heero woke up to find himself in hospital room. He gazed around, just moving his eyes for fear the pain of moving his head would be too intense. Out of the corner of his eye he could see Quatra sitting in the chair beside the bed, reading a magazine.
"Quatra." Heero said softly. Quatra jerked the magazine down. A look of relief passed over his face before it turned into a grin.
"Heero. I'm glad you finally awake. You've been out for quite some time. How are you feeling?" he asked.
"How long have I been out?" Heero answered his question with a question.
"About a week. You fell unconscious in the ship on the way here. Duo and I did a pretty good job of cleaning and bandaging you up before we got back to Earth. Trowa had forewarned Sally so she knew you were coming and was ready for you. I don't think she was ready for what she saw though." Quatra smiled a bit, trying to lighten the mood.
"Where's Relena?" he said, forcing himself to turn his head a bit. It didn't hurt as much as he expected it to.
"She's still at your house. We thought it would be best to keep her there for a bit longer incase anyone escaped from the explosion and wanted revenge." A strange look came over Quatra when he mentioned the explosion. "Heero, I'm glad you didn't and all, but why didn't you press the button on your watch when they had you captured?" That was a good question. Heero thought about it a moment.
"You think I should have?" he asked in response. A grief stricken look came over Quatra as he sat up straighter in his chair.
"No. Of course not. Like I said, I'm glad you didn't. But if you had, well, you wouldn't be like this." he motioned to Heero's condition.
"Yes, your right. I wouldn't be like this. I would be dead." he stated. "Now I'm not." A guilty look came over Quatra.
"I'm sorry, Heero. I didn't mean to..." he couldn't finish, ashamed that he had thought like that. Heero sighed.
"Actually, Quatra, if you promise not to tell anyone, I'll tell you why I really didn't press the button." Quatra brightened a bit and looked back at Heero.
"I won't tell anyone. I promise." he said a bit excited at learning Heero's secret. Heero didn't think it was such a big secret but if it made Quatra feel better, he'd tell him.
"I forgot about it." he said simply, a plain look coming over his still very bruised features. Quatra's face dropped and he slumped in his chair a bit.
"You forgot?" he said unbelievingly.
"Yeah. See, I was planning on escaping and was saving the button for after I escaped. Eventually I forgot about the button and just tried to concentrate on getting out of there. Eventually, I knew I wasn't going to escape and my mind was concentrated on just staying alive instead of the explosives I set." Heero blinked a bit before continuing, deciding whether to tell Quatra this part. He could. "Just before Duo and Trowa got there....I had given up. I thought there was no possible way of escaping and I quit fighting. I think if you guys hadn't come to get me when you did....I probably wouldn't be alive right now."
Quatra blinked and tried to swallow but couldn't. He looked as if he were trying to find something to say but couldn't. Before he could figure out anything to say, the door opened. Duo walked in and didn't even look at Heero, who had turned his head to watch him. Duo sat at the small table in the corner with a laptop and a few papers that looked important.
"Well, Quatra ol' buddy. I do believe I just got Heero out of some serious shit. The media believed my excuse about the explosion. It's all over the papers. 'Explosion On Mars Caused By Fire In Gas Chamber!'" he said, his hands emphasizing each word in the air and speaking in an announcer voice. He sighed. "Heero causes some 'freak accidents' and I am always the one saving his ass from the headlines."
"Next time I'll die and just let the bad guys win, how about that?" Heero said a bit agitated. Duo's head jerked around in surprise. Relief came next and excitement followed that. Duo jumped out of the chair and ran beside Quatra to look at Heero.
"Heero, man! When did you wake up?" He said hysterically.
"He just woke a minute ago." Quatra explained. Duo turned and smacked his blonde friend in the back of the head, earning an 'Ow' in return.
"Can't tell anyone he's awake, huh?" Duo glared jokingly. Quatra looked up at Duo, rubbing the back of his head.
"I was getting ready to go get everyone before you walked in." Quatra said, sounding as ticked as he could muster. Heero could tell he really wasn't though.
"Relena will be so happy!" Duo said, jumping up and down and clapping his hands in a childish manner.
"Does she know I'm here?" Heero asked. Not to sound over confident, but Heero had half expected to see Relena at his side when he woke.
"No. In fact, she still thinks your missing." Duo said in a matter- of-fact tone.
"What!" Heero yelled and sat up. Pain shot through his whole body, from his head to his toes. His eyes went wide and he gasped. He couldn't move. He couldn't even fall back onto the hospital bed. The pain had paralyzed him, but sitting up was causing even more pain. He could feel and hear himself breathing hard.
Quatra was standing now and both men looked over Heero worried. Duo put one hand on Heero's chest and the other on his back. Slowly, he pushed Heero back onto the bed, but not without earning the first cry Heero had uttered since he was capture. Heero cried out when Duo touched him, the pain so immense. He faintly heard Duo telling Quatra to go get a doctor.
As Heero lay back on the bed, his eyes now closed, he felt Duo sit on the edge of the bed. Duo said nothing for a moment, giving Heero a chance to catch his breath. After a moment, the pain began to ease and Heero opened his eyes.
"Are you ok?" Duo said seriously. It was a moment before Heero answered.
"How bad is it?" he asked, knowing Duo knew what he ment. Duo looked him over before speaking.
"I'm not gunna lie to ya. You look like hell. You reopened the cut from the last mission awhile ago. The Doctor re-stiched it. Almost your entire body is black and blue and a couple bones are broken. Ok, I lied. A lot of your bones are broken. I'm surprised you were able to sit up like that. Your left arm is broken and both your legs." Heero nodded. He could fix that easily but not if he couldn't sit up. The arms and legs would have to wait.
Just then, Quatra rushed in with the doctor close at hand.
"You're awake!" the doctor exclaimed and ran to Heero's side, checking his pulse and blood pressure. After a moment, he sighed. "Well Mr. Yuy. I'm sad to tell you that you will be here for quite some time. We fixed your internal injuries. You just came out of surgery not too long ago. You mustn't do anything too soon or you'll risk messing up everything we have done in surgery. So bed rest for a long time is the key." Heero glared at him. "Yes, well, I must be going. I have an appointment at 1. I'll send a nurse in to make sure everything is alright." With that, he walked briskly out of the room.
"Don't bother! I don't need the nurse!" Heero called after him and the doctor flicked a hand over his back indicating he had heard. Heero looked up at the two men glaring at him.
"Don't need a nurse? You never change, do you, Heero?" Quatra exclaimed.
"He sure doesn't. And I suppose your gunna just fix yourself, is that it?" Duo said, not surprised at all. Heero said nothing, but turned his head to stare out the window. He heard one of the men sigh.
"Well, I'll be back. I'm gunna go get Lady Une." Quatra said as he turned to walk out the door. Heero's head jerk back the look at the blond man.
"What? Why?" He asked. He didn't need Lady Une there telling him how he really screwed the mission up or fawning over him because he was actually alive.
"She wants to know when you've woken up." Quatra explained and before Heero could say anything else, he walked out of the door, the sound of his footprints fading down the hall. Heero turned a look to Duo.
"She just wants to make sure your ok, man." Duo explained. Heero understood that part, but he knew after a while Lady Une would want to talk about the mission. Of course she would. He was quite surprised that Duo hadn't asked him about it yet; what had happen to him?
"So I'm guessing you wanna see Relena, eh?" Duo said with a sardonic smile. Heero thought a moment. It had only been a week. Who knows who could have survived that explosion. It was almost impossible for anyone to survive. But that was the key word: almost. Someone could have gotten out. And Relena would be the first one they would go after to get him back. His house was safe. No one knew about it. She would be safe there.
"No." he said simply. The smile left Duo's face as he gave his friend a disappointed look.
"Well, you're no fun." he stated playfully.
"Just don't let her leave my house." Heero said. The sly smile returned to Duo's face. He took that completely the wrong way.
"OH! I see how you are!" Duo said with a wink. Before Heero could correct his dirty mind, the door opened to let Quatra in, followed by Lady Une. Her breath caught as she saw him and again Heero wondered how bad he looked.
Taking her time, she slowly walked over to his bedside and looked him over. He saw her gulp as she opened her mouth to talk.
"Heero, I'm sorry." she said softly, her voice cracking a bit. Heero said nothing. He didn't know what to say.
"You didn't..." he started, but she cut him off.
"It's all my fault. I sent you on that mission. Why did I do that? I knew the possibilities. It's all my fault. I..." she started, seeming to get a little hysterical.
"Stop it!" Heero yelled, quieting the frantic women before his voice got soft. "Just stop. This was not your fault. You warned me before I accepted, didn't you?"
"Yeah, but..."
"That's it then. You warned me. I didn't have to go. I knew the consequences. I knew what could have happened. You did your part and that's all you could do. This was no one's fault except Woefeild's and he paid for it already. So just drop it, ok?"
Lady Une nodded. After a minute of composing herself, she looked back up at Heero with a small smile.
"So when are you getting out of here?" she asked.
"Why? Got another mission?" he said, sitting up a bit, but not enough to hurt.
"No. You won't be going on missions for a while. All you need to do is rest." She said sternly. Heero plopped back down on the bed with a wince when he hit the mattress. "I'm gunna go, Heero. I have a lot of work to do. I'll visit you later, ok? Bye Heero." She said as she walked off. Heero sighed and turned to his two friends. His eyes began getting droopy.
"Tired, man?" Duo said, noticing. Heero said nothing.
"The medicine is starting to work. You'll fall asleep in a sec." Quatra said. Heero knew he wasn't lying. He could barely understand the end of Quatra's last few words and the faces of his friends were getting fuzzy. Somewhere in the back of his head, he thought he heard someone say "Get some sleep, man. You've earned it" as he fell into a dreamless sleep.
***
Aww....Heero sleeping....such a good sight. Although I suppose he wouldn't be if he was covered in bruises. ^_^ Oh well. A gurl can dream, can't she? I love dreams. Hmm.....I got exactly what I'm gunna do for this fic. I just gotta arrange it all. But, if you have and suggestions or ideas, you know I would love to hear them. I'm always open! ^_^
The Deliciously Sexy Strawberry Hee-chan