Disclaimer: I do not own nor have any relation to Gundam Wing and I am not making any profit from this, dammit.

Timeline: During the war, AU events that never happened.

Warnings: Sad? Confusing?

A/N: Idea taken from someone else's HP oneshot. I felt that the way she arranged the different parts wasn't as good as it could be, so I wrote this and rearranged it in the way I thought would bring the impact across best

Summary: [Strong hint of 1x2] There's more than one way to break a person, and more than one way to destroy your enemy… it just depends on how much heart you have.

Mind Games

VII.

He woke to a thousand screams shattering in his ears, a thousand ghosts clawing at his throat, a thousand echoes and imprints left in his mind and bleeding him to damnation. Gasps shredded his lungs, his body tearing itself apart, limb by bloody limb and cell by bloody cell.

But when he forced his dying eyes to open, to haunt the room around him, his scream was one of more than just simple pure agony.

IV.

Blurred shapes. Hazy images. White. Pain. Screaming. Who? Me. I'm screaming. Hands on me, shaking me, slapping my face, shaking me –

Pain!

"Wake up, you piece of shit! Tell us everything or we'll kill your little friend!"

Who…?

"Heero!"

Anguished and terrified and pained and Duo.

No. Not Duo! I will not let you; I will never let you get Duo, not Duo!

"Heero!"

"Talk, dammit! Tell us everything you – "

Crack. Bones snapping under my hands, all the noise abruptly cut off, die, you OZ bastard, you'll never get Duo if I can do anything to help it.

You'll never get Duo…

III.

"What did you give him?"

"I don't know I don't know please don't kill me!"

"Tell me what I want to know and I might consider that!"

"It wasn't me! They took him away and when he came back he wouldn't wake up! I heard it was some drug, it has to naturally run its course and anything else will kill him and we can't wake him or he'll die! Please don't kill me!"

"You sure?"

"That's all I know, I'm just a guard, please, please, don't kill me!"

"I'm sorry. No one sees Shinigami and lives. Thanks for your help, though."

"No – "

V.

"Heero! Duo! Oh – Allah, Duo, no!"

What? What happened to Duo? Was I too late? No, not Duo, not Duo dammit why can't I see?

Gunshots! Duck, roll, come up against something hard –

"Heero!"

Quatre! Screaming, screaming, shrill and panicked and screaming my name – have they got him too?

More gunshots, coming closer, something moving on my right –

"NOOOOO!"

Crack.

II.

"Sir! Sir, he started screaming and yelling something in his sleep and when one of the others went into the cell he jumped up and broke his neck with his bare hands, sir! He's dead now, sir!"

"The prisoner?"

"No, the guard! The prisoner's still thrashing about in his sleep."

"Is he safely locked up?"

"Wha… yes, sir."

"Good. Dismissed."

"But sir!"

"Dismissed."

VI.

"Winner! What happ – Barton? Maxwell? Kisama, what happened! Why are they – "

Wufei. Was he trying to get us all killed, making so much unnecessary noise?

"Heero – he – Trowa – "

"Yuy? Where?"

"Behind – he – oh, Wufei!"

Quatre was breaking down. This wasn't good, he would be a liability in the next fight and I was still no closer to figuring out what happened to Duo! Why was he so distressed? If something had happened to Duo…

Footsteps! Enemy reinforcements were coming!

"Winner, stay back."

"Wufei – no! Come back!"

Damn Chang – he'd gone out himself?

"Wufei!"

Someone was trying to sneak up on me. How had they gotten past the other two? No matter, I would take care of this.

Coil, tense, jump and knock him to the ground, pin his arms his legs grab his neck and pull –

Someone else on me. Wrench, pull, flip, break his arm, listen to his scream, break his –

"Heero! Please – "

– neck.

Silence.

I.

"What does it do?"

"It manipulates minds. I can make the subject dream what I want him to, and it is to such a great extent that he will manifest it physically."

"That has many… interesting possibilities. Alright. You say you need a human test subject?"

"Yes."

"I have someone you can use."

End

[Ashen Skies][Devil at the bottom of the Wishing Well]

If anyone didn't understand, read the parts in order according to the numbers (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII), which will put it in chronological order, and probably make it less confusing. If you still don't understand it, check out the second chapter which has a detailed explanation.