Chapter 5
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing
*Warning: this fic is rated for rape, abuse, and attempted suicide. This will eventually become a 1x2 fic so just bear with me!
"Well at least there's still air in here," Trowa said as they took off their spacesuits.
"So which way do we go?" Sally Po asked and her question was met with silence as each door looked exactly the same. Duo was about to suggest splitting up when Quatre broke in.
"We should take the second door to the left," Quatre stated confidently. Everyone turned to see him wearing a white ZERO-system helmet.
"Somebody thought ahead," Zechs murmured.
"The ZERO-system has never been wrong," Wufei said and they all nodded in agreement and hurried through the door Quatre had instructed them to. Quatre directed them through multiple hallways and they realized that they would have gotten completely lost if not for Quatre.
Finally they entered a room completely different from the rest, it looked like a grand hall out of old medieval books. A woman was eating a small breakfast consisting only of a bowl of soup at the foot of the long table and apparently hadn't noticed their intrusion. She finished her breakfast in silence and Quatre stood still not giving any commands. She moved from the table and selected a cloth for sewing from a basket and knelt down by the fireplace to continue working on it.
"What are we supposed to do now Quatre?" Duo asked quietly but Quatre didn't respond.
"Hey! Wait a minute, I believe that that's Heero's uniform!" Noine suddenly exclaimed pointing at what the woman was working on.
"Where did you get that?" Duo asked forgetting all caution as he closed the distance between himself and her.
"Please do not shout," she murmured in a monotone voice that was similar to Heero's
"Where's Heero?" Duo shouted frustrated as her voice re-awoke the anger that had just cooled off.
"With the master," she replied in the same monotone voice not even looking up from her work.
"Then take us to your master," Duo said pulling out his gun and pointing it at her head.
"Duo…" Trowa said in a warning voice.
"Duo, that's not the way to get the information we need," Quatre said suddenly and Duo angrily lowered his gun.
"We brought the water," a small voice said and two boys appeared through another door carrying buckets of water. The woman quickly directed them and one of the boys finally actually looked at them through dull gray eyes.
Quatre removed the helmet he had been wearing and set a hand gently on the boy's shoulder. "What's your name?" he asked gently and the boy looked into his eyes startled.
"Nijuuni," he choked out captivated by the bright blue of his eyes.
"Well Nijuuni, we're here to see our friend, will you take us to him?" Quatre asked gently and the boy turned to shoot a pleading look at the woman who nodded approval.
"Follow me," he said and turned on his heel followed by the woman and the other boy.
Heero screamed as pain wracked through his body, this was by far the most painful session yet. The man was determined to do as he had claimed and break Heero before his friends arrived. However at this point he prayed they wouldn't find him since it truly would break him if they saw how weak he was.
"Even, if, you, are, saved," the man said through panting and excited breath, "you, will, always, be, mine," he finished and kissed Heero once more. Heero managed to push him off but his strength was quickly fading. "Aren't, you, tired, of, this, resistance?" he asked and Heero clenched his teeth angrily and pushed him away finally getting some breathing room.
"I am not 'yours'" Heero shouted angrily inching away. The man smiled and yanked him back still full of his energy while Heero was depleted.
The door suddenly inched open and the man jumped off the bed wrapping his bathrobe around himself leaving Heero panting in the same position. He took the draperies that surrounded them and closed them blocking Heero from view, of which Heero was thankful for.
"This is the room," Nijuuni said pointing to the gigantic doors before them. He moved to open them however suddenly the hallway between them and the doors became swarming with people with similar outfits, hair, and eyes as the woman.
"You cannot come here, the master is in his session," an old woman said breaking away from the rest, "if you return to the servant's quarters now Nijuuni we will not tell the master of your misbehavior."
"No, I told them I'd take them to see the master," Nijuuni said stubbornly.
"Strangers are not allowed here," she said again but Nijuuni slipped past. The others followed pushing their way through the people. Nijuuni slowly inched the door to the master's room open to give Heero and the man some time to recover. Nijuuni was scared after seeing so many bruises on Heero when he came to have a bath that his hands shook, he was scared at what he would see and how the people would react.
"Don't worry Heero, we're almost there," Duo whispered wishing to rush past the boy and to 'his Heero'. However when the door open all they found was the man reclining in the doorway to what looked like a bathroom and Heero was no where in sight.
"Welcome," the man said with a smile, "I'm afraid that you interrupted my bath," he lied. Nijuuni shivered as the man's gaze swept over him and the man smiled.
"You're lying, I know Heero's in here," Quatre stated glaring around the room.
"Really, then your welcome to look," he said.
Heero shivered as he heard Duo's voice calling to him from beyond the door and he curled himself into a ball as he heard them enter and the man told them to search for him.
"Don't find me," he whispered and closed his eyes willing himself to pass out.
"We've searched everywhere," Wufei growled angrily. Quatre and Duo were now the only ones still searching.
Duo's eyes spotted the closed heavy curtains surrounding the bed and he reached a shaking hand out to them praying he wouldn't find Heero there. He slowly pulled them away and everyone's eyes widened.
Heero did indeed lie there, he was apparently unconscious and wasn't wearing anything allowing them to see many bruises and scrapes some of which Duo could relate to something that made his stomach churn.
"You," he shouted his voice shaking with anger he turned and rounded on the man pulling his gun out.
"Now, now, he was my pet, and I can do whatever I want to my pet," he said smiling.
"But haven't you heard of pet abuse? If you abuse your pet it's taken away," Quatre said mentally apologizing to Heero.
The man's face twisted with rage, "who brought you here? Was it Nijuuni? Or was it Roku?" he asked indicating the small boy and the woman.
"Why do you want to know?" Trowa asked placing himself in front of the paralyzed boy.
"I suppose it was Roku, she has been disobeying my orders recently. Roku simply bowed her head to await her punishment. He smiled at them and gestured towards the woman, she gasped and collapsed onto the floor.
"Hey!" Noine bent down and turned her over however not even her chest moved, she looked for a pulse but found none. "You killed her!" Noine shouted angrily laying her back down. The man simply smiled and it was the last straw for Duo as he brought up his gun and shot the man straight through the heart. He stumbled back still wearing a wicked smileand then fell to the floor apparently dead.
"Let's get out of here!" Duo said as he wrapped a blanket around Heero and lifted him. Nijuuni quickly led them through the hallways, everyone else having mysteriously vanished. They found their spacesuits and the extra one they had brought for Heero and put them on while Nijuuni watched. Trowa opened the circuit to the ship where Sally Po and Zechs were waiting for them.
"We've found Heero however we need another spacesuit," Trowa informed them.
"It's coming" Sally Po said without asking any questions. Trowa pushed the boy against the wall as the door opened pulling out air and tugging at them, and shut once again depositing Zechs with an extra spacesuit. Zechs had no time to ask about the boy who Trowa quickly suited up and grabbed a tight grip on as the door opened again. Duo held Heero close to his chest as they hurtled back into the space ship.
"Everything's alright Heero, you're safe now," Duo whispered into Heero's ear as the cargo ship turned and Sally Po gunned it towards the Preventers' Headquarters.