Disclaimer: (--- SEE THAT?! Means I dun own them okie dokie? Okie dokie.
They All Fall Down
Part 2
Accidents Happen
~ The Next day ~
Duo awoke to find his limbs entangled with Heero's as the boy continued to sleep. He smiled and pulled himself free. His heart softened a little when he saw Heero's still sleeping face.
'Won't that look ever leave your face, koi? You always look so sad. Even when you're awake.' Duo thought sadly. 'Everyone else mistakes it as anger.. But it's sorrow that I see.' He sighed. 'We're dating and still you won't let me melt the lead around your embittered heart.' A beeping came from the side of the bed and Heero sat up.
Duo rolled his eyes and stretched while Heero clambered out of bed to go get his laptop. Duo threw on some clothes and threw Heero's clothes at him. "I swear you hands touch that machine more than they touch me." He said quietly. Duo glared at the machine and envisioned it blowing up.
"Baka.. Don't be so jealous over a piece of equipment. Go and eat breakfast while I read this email."
Duo rolled his eyes and left the room. "I swear. one of these days I'll make it so you'll never see that stupid thing again." He whispered after he closed the door behind him.
~ Downstairs ~
Wufei was in the kitchen, making himself something to eat for breakfast before he went about his usual training.
"So you do eat!" Duo teased as he scrounged through the refrigerator.
"Yeah and you gorge.. Your point?" Wufei raised an eyebrow in annoyance as Duo continued to rummage through the fridge.
"That you're human?" He said that with a smile as he stood up, arms loaded up with food.
"Well, judging by how you eat, you must be inhuman." Wufei said quietly and went about, eating his toast.
"I'm a growing boy! I need my nourishment."
"I'd hate to find out how big you'll get.. I'm sure eating truck loads of food can't be good for you."
"Aww. Wu-man I didn't know you cared about me!" Duo grinned brilliantly.
"Pfft! You? I just don't want to get mistaken for you next meal and devoured, Duo-zilla." With that, he finished his toast and went back upstairs, leaving Duo with a large sandwich and an unguarded kitchen. Curiosity got the best of the braided boy and immediately he set off to snooping around the kitchen for no apparent reason.
He looked under the sink and found the usual cleaning crap, ammonia and some rat poison and window cleaner and the list went on. "Sheesh for all this stuff, you'd think the house would be a lot cleaner." He mumbled to himself and then went back to eating after he found nothing of interest. Duo fixed himself a glass of milk to go with the sandwich and then he went to the dinning room and sat down his food and drink. Before he could sit down, someone called his name.
"Duo."
He turned around, knocking the glass over and wincing as it shattered, sending milk and sharp pieces of glass everywhere. He looked around for whomever called his name but no one was there. He sighed and looked down at the mess, then to his food, then to the mess again.
"It can wait." He said nonchalantly, shrugging and sitting down in his chair. It wobbled and he heard a snap. The chair swayed back and forth, threatening to tip and send Duo out of the chair and on to the glass mess. Duo caught hold of the table and righted himself before he fell onto the glass mess.
"Ok. maybe it can't wait.." He said as he carefully removed himself from the three-legged chair. After the mess was cleaned up, he looked back at his chair leg.. The snap wasn't exactly ordinary because it was cut halfway.. As if someone planned for that all to happen. Duo growled. "I really don't like it here." He whispered to himself.
Two thoughts troubled him.
'Why would someone try to hurt me? And why didn't anyone come down after the glass broke? This is too creepy.' He thought to himself. He and turned to leave when he saw a flustered little Quatre.
"What happened? Are you ok?!" He panted. It looked as if he had taken a few laps around the house before he reached Duo. "I was in the shower and when I got out, I heard glass shatter. You aren't hurt are you?"
Duo smiled, shaking his head. He slung his arm around Quatre and pulled him into a headlock and ruffled his damp hair. "Come on Squirt.. Let's go back upstairs and see if Heero has a new mission for us." He released the blonde and took his sandwich before heading towards the staircase.
He turned around and realized Quatre wasn't following him. "Quat? Where are ya buddy?" Duo was slightly nervous. He turned back t the dining room and found Quatre wasn't there but a revealed hidden passageway was. Duo inched towards it.
"Quatre!?" What was even more unnerving was.. The hidden passage was right behind his seat. And the seat in question, Duo found upon examination, was perfectly intact. "Q? Hello?!"
The blonde emerged from the passageway. "Duo! Come look what I've found!"
He eyed the blonde suspiciously. "How'd you find this thing?" He asked lowly.
Quatre frowned. "I heard footsteps coming from behind the wall.. Then the door opened and when I looked, nothing." He shrugged.
"Where does it lead?" Duo still couldn't shake the ominous feeling he was getting from staring down the dark hallway.
"There's a split not too far down. On goes upstairs and one leads down. I figure the one upstairs leads into the attic and the other to the basement. Wanna go check it out?" Quatre strode forward and took Duo's hand in his own. "Come on, exploring is fun."
Duo set his sandwich on the table and sighed heavily, hating to deny someone so. cute. "Sorry Quatre but maybe later. I've had enough excitement for the day. We'd better leave this alone. I'm getting bad vibes from it."
Quatre chuckled and rolled his eyes. "Hey! I'm supposed to be the psychic one around here, not you silly. But if you don't want to now. then I guess that's fine." Quatre turned and shut the opened part of the wall. The passageway seemed to disappear from sight completely.
"I really don't like this house. I'm going to go talk to Heero about seeing if we can be relocated."
"Don't be paranoid. Nothing bad has happened! So there's no reason why we have to leave." Quatre blushed when he realized he was still holding Duo's hand. He released it and rubbed the back of his head.
"Well. I'm still going. Wanna come with?"
"Not really, but I'm going to go tell Trowa about the passage we found. So I guess I'll go with you most of the way." He smiled and set off.
Duo rolled his eyes and looked at his sandwich, not really hungry all of a sudden. "Hey Q! Wait up!" He snagged the food and put it in the fridge and left the kitchen, finding Quatre looking up the stairs, chewing on his lower lip.
Duo snuck up behind him and put an arm around his shoulder. "Don't worry, these stair scare the crap out of me too. But they're.. Relatively safe." Duo smiled and bounded halfway up the stairs, skipping every other one. "The faster you climb up, the quicker you get away from them!" He chuckled and then grinned like a madman as Quatre slowly made his way upwards.
Right as Quatre was one step below Duo, the wood snapped and Quatre lost his balance. "Q!" Duo shouted and lunged to grab his hand with one of his own as the other grasped for the old railing. Luckily, he stopped Quatre from falling to his death.
The small blonde righted himself and squeezed Duo's hand. "Thanks.. I would have broken my neck." He smiled weakly and took in heavy breaths.
"Don't mention it." He helped the blonde skip the broken step. They climbed up the remaining six steps no problems. Quatre nodded, still a little flustered. "I'm going to go to Trowa now."
Duo nodded and finally let go of his hand. "Later." He waved and watched Quatre go down the creepy hallway. Duo narrowed his eyes after the blonde was gone and returned to the staircase. He examined the broken stair and saw that it too, had been cut. "First me. then Quatre. Who's next?" He shook his head and went back to his room where Heero was frowning at his laptop.
"Something wrong, Heero?"
"The message from Doctor J. He said that their systems were hacked by an unknown enemy who must have been pretty good with computers to break into their systems. Anyway.. The location of our current spot might have been discovered but we can't leave because this house is all we've got." Heero sighed and averted Duo's gaze for a moment.
"So the enemy could know where we are, and we can't leave because this death trap it's our last resort?! Oh just kill me now!" Duo threw himself onto the bed. "I nearly fell onto a bed of sharp glass and Quatre nearly tumbles to his death down the stairs and we can't leave this place!"
Heero's eyes narrowed. "Accidents happen baka."
Duo opened an eye and looked at him. "This wasn't an accident. My chair leg was sawed through.. And so was the stair that I skipped over but Quatre happened to step on. OH! And I forgot to mention. there's a secret passageway down stairs!" Duo covered his face with his arms as he lay on his back. Heero sat on the pillows to Duo's right, frowning still.
"You sure they were sawed through? Wouldn't that have taken a while?"
"Could have been done while we all were asleep this morning."
"The sawing would have woken me up." Heero said flatly and put his lap top aside.
Duo frowned. "True. but when I got out of bed this morning, you didn't wake up.." Heero shrugged and rested his back against the headboard. "Heero, I'm really worried.. Can we please leave?" Duo sat up and crawled next to Heero, lying his head on his Koi's shoulder. Heero stiffened a little.
"Orders are orders. We have to stay put."
"Heero, if they ordered you to kill us all.. I'd bet you'd do it." Duo said in exasperation. Heero took hold of Duo's braid and fiddled with it.
"Earlier. you said I touch my laptop more than you.. You really think it's true?"
"Duh! Why else would I have said it?" Duo reached over to the nightstand and picked up his book.
"What book is that?"
"I dunno.. But its about these people who are invited to an island for some type of party or something and so far.." Duo frowned and counted in his head. "Two of them have died. One choked and the other one died in their sleep. What's awesome about it is. the all die the same way these little Indian dude does in a nursery rhyme. ..."
End of Part 2
A/N: Ooo Getting good, ne? Is the killer one of the outside enemies.? Or do you think this is an inside job? BTW the book Duo is talking about is in fact And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. You all should go read it! Now! Get your butt outta your chair and go rob a bookstore or break into a library or something! (Or check it out or whatever)
Duo: PSSST! (The killer is Rel.)
:: Kicks Duo out:: You have no idea what you're talking about. Why don't you go "Plot everyone's demise.? You know. what you normally do." Sheesh. Anyway. You can't trust them braided Bakas no matter how much of a bishie they are. :: Shakes head in disappointment.::
Ok! Let's review what's happened
Duo nearly had glass become a permanent part of his face We haven't seen Trowa at all in this part, though Quatre's yelling should have brought him out real quick. Quatre found a hidden passage way that "Just opened up" in front of him Duo happens to skip the exact stair Quatre broke Wufei shouldn't have been too far away when the glass shattered and still he did not check to see what happened.. BUT someone did call duo's name.
All seems pretty fishy to me.
I'll let you ponder on it.
~ DB ~
They All Fall Down
Part 2
Accidents Happen
~ The Next day ~
Duo awoke to find his limbs entangled with Heero's as the boy continued to sleep. He smiled and pulled himself free. His heart softened a little when he saw Heero's still sleeping face.
'Won't that look ever leave your face, koi? You always look so sad. Even when you're awake.' Duo thought sadly. 'Everyone else mistakes it as anger.. But it's sorrow that I see.' He sighed. 'We're dating and still you won't let me melt the lead around your embittered heart.' A beeping came from the side of the bed and Heero sat up.
Duo rolled his eyes and stretched while Heero clambered out of bed to go get his laptop. Duo threw on some clothes and threw Heero's clothes at him. "I swear you hands touch that machine more than they touch me." He said quietly. Duo glared at the machine and envisioned it blowing up.
"Baka.. Don't be so jealous over a piece of equipment. Go and eat breakfast while I read this email."
Duo rolled his eyes and left the room. "I swear. one of these days I'll make it so you'll never see that stupid thing again." He whispered after he closed the door behind him.
~ Downstairs ~
Wufei was in the kitchen, making himself something to eat for breakfast before he went about his usual training.
"So you do eat!" Duo teased as he scrounged through the refrigerator.
"Yeah and you gorge.. Your point?" Wufei raised an eyebrow in annoyance as Duo continued to rummage through the fridge.
"That you're human?" He said that with a smile as he stood up, arms loaded up with food.
"Well, judging by how you eat, you must be inhuman." Wufei said quietly and went about, eating his toast.
"I'm a growing boy! I need my nourishment."
"I'd hate to find out how big you'll get.. I'm sure eating truck loads of food can't be good for you."
"Aww. Wu-man I didn't know you cared about me!" Duo grinned brilliantly.
"Pfft! You? I just don't want to get mistaken for you next meal and devoured, Duo-zilla." With that, he finished his toast and went back upstairs, leaving Duo with a large sandwich and an unguarded kitchen. Curiosity got the best of the braided boy and immediately he set off to snooping around the kitchen for no apparent reason.
He looked under the sink and found the usual cleaning crap, ammonia and some rat poison and window cleaner and the list went on. "Sheesh for all this stuff, you'd think the house would be a lot cleaner." He mumbled to himself and then went back to eating after he found nothing of interest. Duo fixed himself a glass of milk to go with the sandwich and then he went to the dinning room and sat down his food and drink. Before he could sit down, someone called his name.
"Duo."
He turned around, knocking the glass over and wincing as it shattered, sending milk and sharp pieces of glass everywhere. He looked around for whomever called his name but no one was there. He sighed and looked down at the mess, then to his food, then to the mess again.
"It can wait." He said nonchalantly, shrugging and sitting down in his chair. It wobbled and he heard a snap. The chair swayed back and forth, threatening to tip and send Duo out of the chair and on to the glass mess. Duo caught hold of the table and righted himself before he fell onto the glass mess.
"Ok. maybe it can't wait.." He said as he carefully removed himself from the three-legged chair. After the mess was cleaned up, he looked back at his chair leg.. The snap wasn't exactly ordinary because it was cut halfway.. As if someone planned for that all to happen. Duo growled. "I really don't like it here." He whispered to himself.
Two thoughts troubled him.
'Why would someone try to hurt me? And why didn't anyone come down after the glass broke? This is too creepy.' He thought to himself. He and turned to leave when he saw a flustered little Quatre.
"What happened? Are you ok?!" He panted. It looked as if he had taken a few laps around the house before he reached Duo. "I was in the shower and when I got out, I heard glass shatter. You aren't hurt are you?"
Duo smiled, shaking his head. He slung his arm around Quatre and pulled him into a headlock and ruffled his damp hair. "Come on Squirt.. Let's go back upstairs and see if Heero has a new mission for us." He released the blonde and took his sandwich before heading towards the staircase.
He turned around and realized Quatre wasn't following him. "Quat? Where are ya buddy?" Duo was slightly nervous. He turned back t the dining room and found Quatre wasn't there but a revealed hidden passageway was. Duo inched towards it.
"Quatre!?" What was even more unnerving was.. The hidden passage was right behind his seat. And the seat in question, Duo found upon examination, was perfectly intact. "Q? Hello?!"
The blonde emerged from the passageway. "Duo! Come look what I've found!"
He eyed the blonde suspiciously. "How'd you find this thing?" He asked lowly.
Quatre frowned. "I heard footsteps coming from behind the wall.. Then the door opened and when I looked, nothing." He shrugged.
"Where does it lead?" Duo still couldn't shake the ominous feeling he was getting from staring down the dark hallway.
"There's a split not too far down. On goes upstairs and one leads down. I figure the one upstairs leads into the attic and the other to the basement. Wanna go check it out?" Quatre strode forward and took Duo's hand in his own. "Come on, exploring is fun."
Duo set his sandwich on the table and sighed heavily, hating to deny someone so. cute. "Sorry Quatre but maybe later. I've had enough excitement for the day. We'd better leave this alone. I'm getting bad vibes from it."
Quatre chuckled and rolled his eyes. "Hey! I'm supposed to be the psychic one around here, not you silly. But if you don't want to now. then I guess that's fine." Quatre turned and shut the opened part of the wall. The passageway seemed to disappear from sight completely.
"I really don't like this house. I'm going to go talk to Heero about seeing if we can be relocated."
"Don't be paranoid. Nothing bad has happened! So there's no reason why we have to leave." Quatre blushed when he realized he was still holding Duo's hand. He released it and rubbed the back of his head.
"Well. I'm still going. Wanna come with?"
"Not really, but I'm going to go tell Trowa about the passage we found. So I guess I'll go with you most of the way." He smiled and set off.
Duo rolled his eyes and looked at his sandwich, not really hungry all of a sudden. "Hey Q! Wait up!" He snagged the food and put it in the fridge and left the kitchen, finding Quatre looking up the stairs, chewing on his lower lip.
Duo snuck up behind him and put an arm around his shoulder. "Don't worry, these stair scare the crap out of me too. But they're.. Relatively safe." Duo smiled and bounded halfway up the stairs, skipping every other one. "The faster you climb up, the quicker you get away from them!" He chuckled and then grinned like a madman as Quatre slowly made his way upwards.
Right as Quatre was one step below Duo, the wood snapped and Quatre lost his balance. "Q!" Duo shouted and lunged to grab his hand with one of his own as the other grasped for the old railing. Luckily, he stopped Quatre from falling to his death.
The small blonde righted himself and squeezed Duo's hand. "Thanks.. I would have broken my neck." He smiled weakly and took in heavy breaths.
"Don't mention it." He helped the blonde skip the broken step. They climbed up the remaining six steps no problems. Quatre nodded, still a little flustered. "I'm going to go to Trowa now."
Duo nodded and finally let go of his hand. "Later." He waved and watched Quatre go down the creepy hallway. Duo narrowed his eyes after the blonde was gone and returned to the staircase. He examined the broken stair and saw that it too, had been cut. "First me. then Quatre. Who's next?" He shook his head and went back to his room where Heero was frowning at his laptop.
"Something wrong, Heero?"
"The message from Doctor J. He said that their systems were hacked by an unknown enemy who must have been pretty good with computers to break into their systems. Anyway.. The location of our current spot might have been discovered but we can't leave because this house is all we've got." Heero sighed and averted Duo's gaze for a moment.
"So the enemy could know where we are, and we can't leave because this death trap it's our last resort?! Oh just kill me now!" Duo threw himself onto the bed. "I nearly fell onto a bed of sharp glass and Quatre nearly tumbles to his death down the stairs and we can't leave this place!"
Heero's eyes narrowed. "Accidents happen baka."
Duo opened an eye and looked at him. "This wasn't an accident. My chair leg was sawed through.. And so was the stair that I skipped over but Quatre happened to step on. OH! And I forgot to mention. there's a secret passageway down stairs!" Duo covered his face with his arms as he lay on his back. Heero sat on the pillows to Duo's right, frowning still.
"You sure they were sawed through? Wouldn't that have taken a while?"
"Could have been done while we all were asleep this morning."
"The sawing would have woken me up." Heero said flatly and put his lap top aside.
Duo frowned. "True. but when I got out of bed this morning, you didn't wake up.." Heero shrugged and rested his back against the headboard. "Heero, I'm really worried.. Can we please leave?" Duo sat up and crawled next to Heero, lying his head on his Koi's shoulder. Heero stiffened a little.
"Orders are orders. We have to stay put."
"Heero, if they ordered you to kill us all.. I'd bet you'd do it." Duo said in exasperation. Heero took hold of Duo's braid and fiddled with it.
"Earlier. you said I touch my laptop more than you.. You really think it's true?"
"Duh! Why else would I have said it?" Duo reached over to the nightstand and picked up his book.
"What book is that?"
"I dunno.. But its about these people who are invited to an island for some type of party or something and so far.." Duo frowned and counted in his head. "Two of them have died. One choked and the other one died in their sleep. What's awesome about it is. the all die the same way these little Indian dude does in a nursery rhyme. ..."
End of Part 2
A/N: Ooo Getting good, ne? Is the killer one of the outside enemies.? Or do you think this is an inside job? BTW the book Duo is talking about is in fact And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. You all should go read it! Now! Get your butt outta your chair and go rob a bookstore or break into a library or something! (Or check it out or whatever)
Duo: PSSST! (The killer is Rel.)
:: Kicks Duo out:: You have no idea what you're talking about. Why don't you go "Plot everyone's demise.? You know. what you normally do." Sheesh. Anyway. You can't trust them braided Bakas no matter how much of a bishie they are. :: Shakes head in disappointment.::
Ok! Let's review what's happened
Duo nearly had glass become a permanent part of his face We haven't seen Trowa at all in this part, though Quatre's yelling should have brought him out real quick. Quatre found a hidden passage way that "Just opened up" in front of him Duo happens to skip the exact stair Quatre broke Wufei shouldn't have been too far away when the glass shattered and still he did not check to see what happened.. BUT someone did call duo's name.
All seems pretty fishy to me.
I'll let you ponder on it.
~ DB ~