Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing. I do own Hikaru, Triton, Solo, Meilan, James, Millardo, and all of my other original characters.
Genre: Romance/ Drama
Rating: PG-13 (to be on the safe side in case of language, violence, etc.)
Warning: YAOI, SHONEN-AI, BOY/BOY PAIRINGS! M-preg.
Pairings: 1/3, 2/4/5, Zechs/ Noin, Hikaru/ Solo, Triton/ James, Meilan/ Millardo.
Notes: Takes place fifteen years after Endless Waltz. The children of the Gundam pilots are the same characters from Harry Potter and the Angels of War but nothing from that story is crossing over to this one.
I'm so sorry for the cliffhanger last chapter but this one wasn't done yet! Thank you for the reviews Roxie Zephyr Joycelyn, astheblackrosewilts, pUnKRoCk['s Sk8ter chic], Witchy-Althea, and Rai Kasshu! Here's the fourth chapter!
Meeting You
Chapter Four: The Truth
"Because that is the night you got me pregnant." After that comment the room goes silent. Yes I, Triton Hikage Yuy, was stunned speechless... not a very rare occurrence actually.
"What?!" Trowa- er is he my dad? Right, the tall man on the couch who might be my father yelps. HE MIGHT BE MY FATHER?!!!! Holy hell! I snap my head around to look at Tou-san and see him looking away, his fingers still playing with Hikaru's hair and mine.
"During the war I was captured by Oz on a solo mission." Tou-san says quietly. "They wanted to test a new surgery and treatment out. Since I was a prisoner I was their guinea pig. It gave me the ability to bear children like a female."
"So, wait. I got you pregnant?" Trowa-er tall man says incredulously. I really don't blame him. "I don't believe you."
"What more proof do you need?" Tou-san asks in a very detached manner. As if he is in a dream world and everything around him is inconsequential. "Our sons are sitting right in front of you." Shit. Shitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshit. He is our father; the one that left Tou-san twice. The one that I used to curse for making my father cry and pray every night when he thought Hikaru and I were asleep. Shit. Fuck. Kuso.
"Why? Why didn't you tell me?" Tro- Dad asks quietly. I don't think the shock has set in yet. Tou-san doesn't answer. I look over and meet Hikaru's eyes. He's pissed. Out of the two of us he has hated our unknown father for being a bastard the most. Now it seems that it wasn't his fault, and he's a nice guy.
He jerks away from Tou-san's touch and stalks angrily out of the room. I silently get up and follow him. I need to think.
Good evening, I am Quatre Raberba Winner. Well, the emotions around me are as different as can be. Before Hikaru and Triton walked out I could feel their anger... well from Hikaru it was more of hurt and rage at not being told who their father was. From Trowa is pure shock. Duo feels sorry for the three of them and Wufei doesn't know what to think.
Than there is Heero... poor Heero. His emotions are so hard to sort through. He's sad, happy, relieved, angry, and scared all at once. Time to interject. "Listen, it's late. Why don't you take the boys home Heero? Tomorrow you and Trowa can sort everything out at the park." Heero nods in the detached manner he has fallen into ever since he saw Trowa when he got on the phone.
"Hai." Heero says softly. "Tomorrow." Then he gets up and leaves without another word. Trowa's emotions have turned from confused to downright pissed off. Well, he's not really pissed off at Heero, he seems to be pissed off at Duo, Wufei, and myself.
"Why didn't you tell me?" He asks us coldly, quietly. I close my eyes and bow my head feeling the sadness that has plagued me for years at the thought of Heero come over me.
"Heero told us not to." I answer softly.
"They are my sons!" Trowa snaps out. "I deserve to know if I become a father!"
"JUST SHUT UP!" Duo roars. Wufei and I trade looks before my strong Chinese spouse grabs onto Duo's shoulder to keep him from lunging at Trowa. Over the years my braided love has had a hard time coming to terms with the fact that despite everything Heero still loves my best friend. "I know you deserved to know. I know that. But do you think that I would betray the trust of my best friend?"
"Duo, relax." Wufei says and Duo instantly calms.
"Trowa, none of us blame you for being angry. But you have to realize that when we promised Heero we wouldn't tell you he was in a lot of trouble at the time."
"Trouble?" Trowa's green eyes narrow dangerously in my direction.
"Yes, trouble." I sigh and send a grateful smile to Duo when he pulls me against his chest.
"What kind of trouble?" Trowa prompts. He may not admit it to himself but I can feel that he still loves Heero more than anything. He just won't let himself feel it.
"Take your pick." Wufei says sarcastically as he reaches across Duo to take my hand in his. "He had morning sickness for five months, went into false labor twice, was in actual labor for thirty hours, and was in a coma for three days because of complications after Hikaru and Triton were born."
"Not to mention he went into Perfect Soldier mode for the first three months after finding out he was pregnant before snapping out of it." Duo said wryly. "He only snapped out of it when Hikaru or Triton kicked for the first time."
"He also complained later because they kept kicking him in the ribs." I remark with a sad smile. From the beginning I knew that Heero would make a great father. He loves those boys more than anything in the world and has gone to hell and back for them. But then again... Trowa would make a good father too. It isn't fair that he didn't get the chance to take care of his sons when they were young.
"Why didn't he tell me?" Trowa asks softly. He must have come to terms with the facts by now.
"We don't know." Duo answers back softly. "But T... please don't be too hard on him... He's been really stressed out lately. I think the lady has been making him bust ass for the past month more than usual." The lady is a reference to Lady Une.
"I need to think..." Trowa says softly.
"We understand that." Wufei answers calmly with a rare compassionate look on his face. "You should spend the night Barton, get a good night's sleep and than you can talk to Yuy about all of this tomorrow."
"Thank you." Trowa answers. "I better call Catherine and tell her what's going on."
"Jesus man, you're thirty three and she's still babying you?" Duo asks, trying to lighten the mood. He's successful as Trowa gives a short laugh.
"Tell me about it." Trowa says good-naturedly, an act obviously. "She's going to have a heart attack, she's been bothering me to get married and have children so she can be an aunty."
"Well, one out of two isn't bad," Duo remarks with a wink.
"Come on, we have to meet Heero and the boys early tomorrow." I remark calmly.
"Yes." Trowa agrees. So the four of us get up and I show Trowa to the room he always stays in when he comes to visit. I wish him good night and join up with my husbands again.
"I'm really afraid of what's going to happen to those two." I say softly as I get onto my third of our king sized bed after changing and brushing my teeth.
"I wouldn't worry about it Q." Duo says, kissing me on the head. "Those two are just stubborn."
"He's right love." Wufei remarks, sucking slightly on Duo's ear lobe as he speaks. "Trowa and Heero will get their acts together eventually." Then he says softly to himself. "It just might take a few broken bones and trips to the hospital first."
"Well, there's really nothing we can do about that." I remark softly as Duo rains kisses on my neck.
"Exactly." Duo answers. "Goodnight Fei, Night Quat."
"Night." I answer softly as the three of us go to sleep.
Hey, it's Hikaru here. Sigh. I just don't know what to think anymore. I mean. I've hated my other father since as long as I can remember and suddenly when I meet him I can't help but like him. Dad is such a nice guy! I mean, I thought he would be a downright bastard for leaving Tou-san like that! Maybe he actually had a reason to leave, maybe he didn't even leave and that was just made up so we wouldn't be mad at Tou-san. I just... I just don't trust what I've been told anymore.
I can't even bring myself to ask my own father, the man who used to sing me to sleep every night. The man who still tucks me in every night even though I'm fifteen and therefore don't need to be tucked in. He even tucked me in last night, though I refused to even look at him. Why didn't he tell me? Why didn't he tell us?
I know this is bothering me more than it is Triton but I can't forgive so easily. How can I forgive him for misleading me for fifteen years? I could barely sleep last night from all the thoughts going through my head. Even now I can't stop thinking about how my own father betrayed me and how I can't even bring myself to look at him across the table.
How am I going to spend the next four years of my life living under the same roof as this man knowing that he lied to me for fifteen years of my life? How could he do that to Tr-dad? How could he? How could he not tell him that he was a father? That he had two sons; had one of said twins that look exactly like he does.
"Would either of you like more eggs?" The man asks softly, as if afraid that either of us will snap at him. Hah! I wouldn't waste the breath on that traitor. After receiving no answer he goes quiet again. I take a quick glance and feel a part of me worry at the fact that he hasn't even touched his food and that his hands are held in his lap. But I quench that feeling down. He lied to me for fifteen years. He doesn't deserve my worry.
Triton stands up and starts to clean his dishes so I follow suit. We leave that man sitting by himself at the table. I don't want to look to see what's he's doing. I know him well enough to venture a guess. I don't want to look. I don't want to look because I know exactly what I'll see. He's just sitting there. Sitting there silently, staring at the tablecloth with his bangs covering his eyes, Triton's eyes. He's just silently staring with his hands in his lap looking as if all the happiness in his life suddenly died.
That's why I don't want to look at him. Because I know that if I do... then I won't be able to stay mad at him. And being mad is a good thing. It stops you from feeling hurt. It stops you from feeling sad and betrayed. Anger is a good thing. And that is why I can't look at that man. I can't even look at my own father.
As always, I'm Triton Yuy. Breakfast was brutal. Hikaru wouldn't even look at Tou-san. He hasn't since he found out that Trowa is our other father yesterday. I mean, yeah I'm angry with him. Hell I'm not talking to him either but... at least I can look at him. I don't blame Hikaru for being pissed off. It almost seems like we've been lied to for fifteen years. But despite it all he is still our father and we should at least be able to look at him.
Well, I'm busing myself with dishes because as much as I believe what I said before to be true... I still can't look at him... I don't want to look because I know that he will have the expression of a little kid who was just told that his mommy and daddy abandoned him and will never come to take him home again. Yeah, that bad of an expression.
The comparison is not mocking either. I said before that Tou-san is really young, and looks young too. Sometimes he even seems to be younger than Hikaru and I. But still I won't look at him. As bad as I feel for hurting him I want him to feel a fraction of the hurt that he had put my little brother and I through. He kind of deserves it. Well, we're going to the park now. I think spending a few hours of curling up to my boyfriend will make me feel a lot better.
I'm also sure that after a few hours in the company of Solo Karu will be feeling a little more forgiving and willing to listen. It's time to go, no one says a word as Karu and I get into the back seat of the small Toyota Tou-san drives. Normally we would fight for a chance to sit in the front but we have both silently agreed to share the back this time around. It's a silent trip to the park and as soon as we get there the two of us quickly find our respective boyfriends and pull them away for some venting time.
Hiya all! It's Duo Maxwell! Ya all know my motto. I may run and hide but I never lie! Sigh, God. It's never been this hard to try being happy-go- lucky before. I know everyone can see that I'm just faking it but hell it's normally not this hard to keep form being serious.
Heero hasn't said a single word since he came. He just sits in the grass across form me, staring at the center of the white sheet that all the food is on. He probably doesn't know it, and won't admit it but he has the expression of a kicked puppy on his face. I'm guessing something happened between him and the twins yesterday or this morning.
Trowa isn't much better. He's just silently staring at Heero as if he is debating whether to punch him or shake him and demand him for answers. "Would you like a soda Duo?" Quatre asks in false cheerfulness.
"Sure Q-koi." I answer sending him a big fake smile, which he returns in all its cheesy bogusness. Fei-koi is just watching the proceedings looking like he's waiting for something to happen. He looks like once it starts to go South he's going to round up the kids and rush us all into a bomb shelter and let Trowa and Heero duke it out.
"Would you like a Sprite or a Coke?" Quatre asks, still trying to sound light and careless, though his eyes are focused on our two silent brooding friends.
"Do we have anymore Sprite Remixes?" I ask, also keeping an eye on the two statues. "I want to get some before Solo drinks it all."
"The normal Sprite Remix or the berry one?" Quatre asks.
"The berry one would be cool." I answer as he hands me the can of soda. I clean the top before beginning to chug it down. Wow, Fei-koi hasn't even started to lecture me about how bad soda is and how much sugar is in it. Things must be pretty bad if he isn't taking the opportunity to rant at me. As much as I love that irritable Chinese hottie of mine he annoys the crap out of me with his rants. It's a shame that my baby girl took after him in that manner...
"Here you go Duo." Quatre said. His smile is failing and he's starting to look really upset. Quatre must be picking up some freaky vibes from everyone with his Space Heart from all the doom and gloom around. Wufei picks up on it as soon as I do and brings Quatre to sit in his lap and wraps his arms around the small blonde.
"Um... where are the kids?" I ask looking around. I just noticed that I haven't seen them for at least two hours.
"Solo and Hikaru are on the slide, Triton and James are talking on the swings, and Meilan and Millardo are making out in the bushes." Heero answers. Wow! He spoke! Wait... how the hell did he know that?! And what does he mean that that no good dirty rotten blonde devil is sticking his tongue down my daughter's throat?
"What? Are Millardo and Meilan doing?" I ask dangerously.
"Relax Duo." Wufei says in an off hand manner. "They've been going out for two years now."
"WHAT?!" I yelp. Quatre can't help it. He just can't. He starts to giggle. Soon Wufei is chuckling as is Trowa and Heero is staring at me with amused eyes as I start to describe exactly what I will do to that blonde demon if he hurts a single hair on Meilan's head.
"Oh, Papa. Stop over-reacting." Meilan remarks as she and that little demon come back.
"And why didn't you tell me that you were going out with my friend's son little missy?" I turn my attention to her. I can feel my four friends rolling their eyes behind me.
"It was common knowledge Duo." My Chinese husband says from behind me.
"Then why didn't I know?" I whine.
"Because we all knew you would react like that." Heero speaks up. Wow, he spoke two sentences today! Success!
"But Hee-chan!" I whine and plop down next to my best friend. "She's my baby girl!"
"Exactly." Four voices chorus.
"Humph." I pout and fight a grin as Quatre kissed me on the neck.
"Oh get a room you three." Meilan says and rolls her eyes. Yup, she definitely took after Wu.
"Can we eat now?" Solo whines. Ha! At least one of them took after me!
"Sure little man." I remark and toss him a cookie. He gives me a dark glare. He really needs to stop hanging around his Uncle Heero. Solo is cool in most things but when it comes to food you just can't joke with the little man. He finally breaks down to giving me the ol' Maxwell puppy eyes look. I... can't...resist... "Fine!" I yelp. "Here ya go ya ungrateful brat." I throw him a sandwich and instantly the ol' Maxwell grin is back in place and he flops down dragging Hikaru with him.
I see Hikaru and Triton are still not speaking or even looking at Heero. I can also see that my best friend has just clammed up and gone silent on us again. James silently hands Triton a soda and the two sit down near Trowa, who has gone back to staring at Heero as if he wants answers. I frown noticing that Heero isn't eating. He must be depressed again. Every time he gets depressed he stops eating and sleeping.
"Heero do you want a sandwich?" I ask. I use his whole name so he won't discard what I say. He shakes his head and goes back to staring at the sheet. Freaky. Wait... Ooooh! I spy with my little eye something gooey and good! Hee-chan made his famous teriyaki chicken! Yay! Heaven!
I know! I was going to have Trowa's and Heero's talk in this chapter but I changed my mind, it's going to be in the next one... So sorry! Well anyway, this one is longer than the other chapters so that kind of makes up for it yeah? I'm sorry for the cliffhanger in the other chapter but that seemed like a good place to leave off right then... Anyway, there aren't going to be too many more chapters after this. I may even make a sequel if you ask for one. Please review! Flames are Welcome!