Ok... I got a review telling me a little bit about the MI, so I'll see if my wanting them to have some freedom interferes much with that. But if anybody has any suggestions or want to tell me about the MI (not that many ppl would want to admit to having been there), that would be very helpful! I want it to be realistic, but not so much so that they don't have the freedom I need them to have in order to write the story. But until I learn more, be warned that this probably isn't really what MIs are really like. But in here, they're going to wear their own clothes (as you probably noticed with Wufei) though they get checked for stuff constantly; I was told Wufei shouldn't be able to have suckers... so they're gone - some other kind of candy! I like candy... hehe... Anyway! There are no girls in this for some odd reason... ::shrugs:: They can't wear shoes, but they don't have to wear socks (but that's probably unhealthy... eew... not that it really matters). They are basically free to roam from that living room place to their rooms cuz there's always someone on watch nearby - tho I never say so. They have "classes" where they talk about stuff... I don't know exactly what those are going to be about, yet... But I'm working on that, too! No metal objects. No pencils, pens, etc. So remind me to look at this if I break one of my own rules, ok?
Disclaimers: See first chapter
Warnings: There will probably always be that gory stuff in these, so if you didn't like the first chapter with all that stuff, you can either live with it or let me know I need to lighten up on the details a little. Ok? Ok. And I can't remember if I mentioned yaoi in the last chapter or not... And I'm too lazy to check. But there is yaoi in this story. Mostly 1x2x1 and indicated 3x4x3. Aww... Poor Fei is all left out.
Lifting Curses and Mending Broken Wings
Chapter 2: Underlying Messages
It had been two days since Duo had come to the mental institution, and he was already on some sort of medication. He hated it. He knew it wouldn't kick in until about a week or two after he'd been taking it, and it was pissing him off. He usually hung out with Wufei, Trowa, and Quatre and he hadn't even taken much notice of Heero after the first day. Sometimes, though, if he and Wufei, Trowa, or Quatre were walking down the hall, they would pass by Heero and one of them would say a friendly hello and he would just nod politely in return. Duo had never heard him speak.
Duo had also began blindfolding himself with a folded up bandana while he was talking to someone for an extended period of time[1]. During one of these times, he was in a group with some of the other boys at the institution, including Wufei, Trowa, Quatre, and Heero. There was a woman leading the conversation and she had them all sit in a circle on these plastic chairs around the small room. Duo was seated almost in a corner of the room opposite the woman, Heero sat four chairs to his left, Wufei on Heero's left, Quatre on Duo's right, Trowa next to Quatre.
Duo sat boredly, slouching in his seat and looked at the dark blue bandana and its little drop-shaped designs covering his eyes. He jumped when the woman suddenly addressed him. "Mr. Maxwell, will you please take that silly bandana off your eyes?"
"No."
"'No'? Well, why not?" she asked after his simple answer.
"Because I really don't want to hallucinate." Duo was fully aware of several pairs of eyes on him. He shifted slightly under their gaze.
She sighed. "Take the bandana off, Mr. Maxwell," she demanded sternly.
"Alright, alright..." He muttered something like, "Keep your shirt on," under his breath. "But I blame you if anything happens." He reached up and flipped it off and into his lap. He was blinded for a moment from the sudden bright light and he blinked, opening his eyes wide.
When his vision cleared, he hallucinated immediately: The woman sitting across from him was holding a severed head in her right hand, and a large, bloody knife in her other. She grinned a horrible grin with razor sharp teeth. She clenched her sharp teeth, causing them to cut into her gums and she bled freely. The boy on her right was slouched in his chair, his arms hanging limply on either side of the chair and his head was bent over the back so he would be looking at the wall upside down. But his head wasn't there. It was in the woman's hand. There was a puddle of blood growing under his chair.
Duo saw this all in a split second before letting out a loud yelp and an involuntary body spasm from his legs sent him tumbling over his chair backwards. They all heard him hit his head on the wall that was so close behind his chair and stared as he didn't get back up.
In reality, the woman was holding a clipboard in her right hand and a pencil in her left. The boy on her right was laying the same way as in the vision, but his head was attached to his body though Duo couldn't really see it since it really was bent over the back of his chair as he stared boredly at the upside down wall behind him.
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Duo slept in late the following morning. He woke with a start around noon. He soon found that he couldn't turn his head without sending terrible jolts of pain through his spine and branching out to the rest of him. He sat up slowly and groaned at the throbbing pain in his head. Wufei was not in the room, so he rose and dressed with slow, painful motions, wondering what had happened.
He stumbled to the door and held onto the doorframe for support. He took a moment to compose himself enough so any who saw him wouldn't take much more notice of him than if a cloud had passed over the sun. He walked slowly and carefully down the hallway towards the - what he started to call - the "recreation room". There weren't any recreational activities, but it seemed to fit nonetheless.
He didn't see Wufei, Trowa, or Quatre in the groups scattered around the room. But he did find Heero. Without really thinking about it, he made his way to Heero's table. He held onto the back of a chair and Heero looked up, a mild, cold expression on his face. "Do you mind if I sit with you?" Duo asked, again, without really thinking.
Heero shrugged ever so slightly, so Duo pulled out the chair and sat down in it, putting his arms on the cool tabletop and resting his head on them. His eyes fluttered half-closed and he asked, "What happened?"
Heero was watching him with mild interest and replied, "I wouldn't really expect you to remember, but you nearly broke your neck." His voice was stern and smooth. He spoke in a low monotone that would have lulled Duo to sleep had he not been talking about Duo breaking his neck.
He groaned. "How'd I manage to do that?"
Heero turned his eyes to the window he was always staring at. "You tripped backwards over your chair. You hit your head on the wall, knocking you unconscious, and your neck was bent the wrong way. That's all," he informed the braided boy indifferently. He sighed heavily and put his arms on the table and leaned forward on them as he intertwined his fingers loosely.
Duo bent his head and yawned. "Then what?" he asked.
"Then they took you to some kind of emergency room here and made sure you didn't have a concussion and didn't break anything. Apparently you didn't since they did send you back to your room to just sleep it off." He turned his eyes back to Duo's tired ones.
Duo buried his face in his arms and made a muffled noise before leaning back into the chair. "It's not gone... It hurts like hell and they prob'ly can't give me anything for it." He licked his lips and put his hands behind the back of the chair, linked them, and stretched his arms, making his shoulders pop audibly. He sighed and slouched in the chair, staring at the table and completely unaware of Heero's steady gaze lingering on his face.
"What made you trip over your chair?" Duo looked up tiredly at the question.
"I don't really remember that well... I remember taking off my bandana, and then waking up with a killer headache." He pursed his lips in thought and his brow furrowed in concentration. "I guess it must've been pretty bad for a reaction like that..." he pointed out. Heero nodded. Duo sighed in frustration as the memory continuously failed to return to him. It was like having a word dance on the tip of your tongue, but it just won't come out.
Then, realization dawned on Duo as he suddenly remembered. He told Heero and watched his reaction.
Heero merely raised an eyebrow in a "I don't really care, but I'll humor you," kind of way. And his indifferent expression remained. "You really see things like that?"
Duo nodded. "All the time." He decided not to mention that nothing ever happened to Heero when he looked at him. However, he continued to wonder why.
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"Speed." Heero's voice was so close to happy that Duo thought he might burst with pride.
It was two days after Duo's little accident. He and Heero and been hanging out together more often since then. Duo hadn't gotten Heero to laugh yet, but he sensed it was close. Heero had just won for the third time in a row at the game Duo had taught him the previous day.
Duo gathered the cards again. "You're too quick for me, Heero," he said, shaking his head in mock sadness. He shuffled the cards and started to deal again. Heero put his hand on the table.
"Hang on a sec. Let me teach you one now." He gathered the cards the Duo dropped for him and started a game that Duo couldn't identify. "This is called Nertz," Heero informed him when he had set out the cards.
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The following day, Duo sat in Heero's room whilst they practiced Nertz. "I don't think I'll ever win this game," Duo laughed as Heero won. He slumped back in his chair and sighed.
Heero smiled a little from his window seat. "It took a while for me to get it, too. I was worse than you are."
Duo shook his head in wonder. "I can't believe that you were ever this bad. I refuse to believe that you were worse!" he cried.
Heero shrugged. "Okay, whatever," he replied in a light tone.
That was another thing Duo was proud of. Heero was starting to vary his tone of voice as well as show different emotions. It wasn't always the same monotone that would lull Duo to sleep anymore.
Something suddenly occured to Duo. He bit the inside of his lower lip nervously before muttering, "Can I ask you a question, Heero?"
Said boy quirked an eyebrow at his serious tone. "Sure." His voice went back to normal.
Duo remained silent for a few moments while he searched for a way to bring this up without sounding stupid. "Well, y'know... You're not exactly made of tissue paper... You're more like Shaft over here, okay, pal?" Duo blushed. 'Well so much for not sounding stupid,' he thought. "It's just that... Well..."
Heero lifted his eyebrows in curiosity. "Out of what you've said, I understood that you're saying I'm not weak. So what?" he asked. He wondered where Duo might be going with this.
Duo sighed. He didn't understand why this was so difficult for him. "Ok, what I'm trying to say is..." He lifted his gaze to Heero. "If you really wanted to... You COULD kill yourself, couldn't you?"
Heero's expression grew solemn and defensive. "Of course I could. Anyone could if they did it right." He spoke slowly and quietly.
Duo nodded quickly. "Yea, you're right, I'm sorry. I won't bring it up again." His words tumbled out of his mouth so fast that Heero almost didn't understand. He stood up abruptly and, avoiding eye contact with Heero, shuffled out of the room and down the hall.
Heero sighed and rolled his eyes. He leaned back against the wall and stared out the window with that far-off look in his eyes again. He watched the wind stirring the leaves on the trees outside his window as he thought about what Duo might have been trying to say underneath what had come out of his mouth.
As much as he tried, he could not take his mind off of one underlying message that he had interpreted. Duo really, truly cared if Heero died. He sighed and closed his eyes. He leaned forward and rested his elbows on his knees. He let his hands dangle limply in the air between them and he hung his head low.
He hoped that Duo didn't care for him as much as he seemed to. After all, he couldn't always promise that he'd be there to see Duo in the morning...
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[1] - I know this bandana would probably not be allowed cuz it might end up being dangerous, but it's that whole freedom thing that I needed in order to do this chapter how I wanted.
Ok, sorry for the long wait, I just got a major writers block and it didn't go away for about the next week. I've just been too lazy to write out stuff lately. Been kinda busy lately, too.
More stuff that's just useless info for your brains: The patients can be in each others' rooms if the door is open. And as for the card games... What can I say? I like card games! And I don't think they'd be allowed to have much else... (BTW, Nertz is a game that my sister taught... er... attempted to teach me. I'm fairly sure it's done with two packs of cards, but I can't remember. It was so hard! I couldn't understand it - And of course, I couldn't win. But yea, I just figured Heero's a smart guy... my sister's smart too. I'm not exactly smart when it comes to that, and neither was Duo! Hehe... Ok, done ranting about that now...)
Y'know what's sad? I can just look around the room and see about a thousand different ways I could kill myself... Not that I'd want to, but it seems to me that teenagers are smarter than adults (or children for that matter) when it comes to suicide and homicide. Ok, that was kinda random... But that's ok! I'm done now...
Arigatos:
my-parents-wors-nightmar - Heh... Thanks, but I just hope I CAN keep it up... I don't feel like my writing was very good in this one.
Blah - Gah! I'm sorry! ::whimper::
Ed - The details were more evenly spread out? I reeeeeally don't think this chapter turned out as well as the last one... Details... meh...
li-chan - Lol, thanks! Onegai... I feel like I should know what that means... But the sentence pretty much explains it, ne? Lol!
Regina - Really? You read them? You didn't even review! ::cries:: ::stops:: Ok, I'm over it. Yayfulness... I'm intriguing, cool...
Shinigami's-Girl - Awesome, glad you like it!
kuroi gami - You mean it? Awww! ::cries:: I feel so special!
Jade Crescent - Lol! My friend who went there said it was pretty fun, too. Except the food and the watching and the boredom and a lot of other stuff... She said the other kids there were cool. I like to talk to myself like Quatre... Especially when I'm playing games. It's fun!
Duo's Brother - Uhhhhh... ::blush:: I'm wondering if you're a guy... The whole Duo's BROTHER thing... Most guys I know don't like yaoi, and I didn't mention it in the first chapter or the summary. GOMEN NASAIIII!!!!!! But I did get my friend who didn't like yaoi to like it! She read my first story and I got her to like it! Woot! ::cough:: Ok, gomen...
Crysania Fay - Well... it was... soon enough! At least I didn't wait for three months to update like some authors I know... ::growls at them::
kaori-chan - Um... Well, I guess all I can say is I hope you liked it! I hope everyone liked it, but yea.
Angel Reid - Lol! Sounds like fun, I wouldn't want to see what Duo sees... That would drive me over the edge...
B.U.G.I.M.S. - Lol, I'm sorry if you have nightmares! I hate nightmares... They usually mean something bad for me... ::sweatdrop:: And I find myself wondering what your penname means..... um... Unless it's just random letters... ::shrugs:: Oh well.
Nyxity - Lol! Lots of people say that MIs are fun... I wouldn't know... I like your penname!
Hazel-Beka - Eew! I hate spiders!!!!!! ::shudders violently:: Um... yea, the whole thing with Duo seeing nothing happen to Heero is with that whole yaoi thing I left out in the summary and the first chapter... GOMEN NASAIIII!!!! But I did make my best friend (who didn't like yaoi) like yaoi cuz I made her read my first fanfic. Funfulness... Lol! You do that...
Kage Kitsune - Child's play? Well I feel special now... ::cries:: What if this turns out horribly? What if it sucks royally?! Huh? HUH?!?! ::coughs:: Erm... gomen...
nekomoongirl - Heh... Yes, bad Heero... But yea, I thought he should be special like that... yay...
What's with all the people being a complimentary?! Not that I mind... But it's just... I didn't think so many ppl would actually say what they did... Coolie!
Ok, that was fun! And I apologize for the whole thing about not mentioning yaoi... I was just so used to people on my other fics knowing that it was yaoi that I didn't even think about it! But (as I told some people in Arigatos) I did get my friend who didn't like yaoi into it. She reads my fics now and enjoys the yaoi goodness!!!!
Now, review again! Even if you've reviewed once already, my regular readers know that I like to have opinions about every chapter that I write! It helps! Doumo Arigatou Gozaimashita!!!
Disclaimers: See first chapter
Warnings: There will probably always be that gory stuff in these, so if you didn't like the first chapter with all that stuff, you can either live with it or let me know I need to lighten up on the details a little. Ok? Ok. And I can't remember if I mentioned yaoi in the last chapter or not... And I'm too lazy to check. But there is yaoi in this story. Mostly 1x2x1 and indicated 3x4x3. Aww... Poor Fei is all left out.
Lifting Curses and Mending Broken Wings
Chapter 2: Underlying Messages
It had been two days since Duo had come to the mental institution, and he was already on some sort of medication. He hated it. He knew it wouldn't kick in until about a week or two after he'd been taking it, and it was pissing him off. He usually hung out with Wufei, Trowa, and Quatre and he hadn't even taken much notice of Heero after the first day. Sometimes, though, if he and Wufei, Trowa, or Quatre were walking down the hall, they would pass by Heero and one of them would say a friendly hello and he would just nod politely in return. Duo had never heard him speak.
Duo had also began blindfolding himself with a folded up bandana while he was talking to someone for an extended period of time[1]. During one of these times, he was in a group with some of the other boys at the institution, including Wufei, Trowa, Quatre, and Heero. There was a woman leading the conversation and she had them all sit in a circle on these plastic chairs around the small room. Duo was seated almost in a corner of the room opposite the woman, Heero sat four chairs to his left, Wufei on Heero's left, Quatre on Duo's right, Trowa next to Quatre.
Duo sat boredly, slouching in his seat and looked at the dark blue bandana and its little drop-shaped designs covering his eyes. He jumped when the woman suddenly addressed him. "Mr. Maxwell, will you please take that silly bandana off your eyes?"
"No."
"'No'? Well, why not?" she asked after his simple answer.
"Because I really don't want to hallucinate." Duo was fully aware of several pairs of eyes on him. He shifted slightly under their gaze.
She sighed. "Take the bandana off, Mr. Maxwell," she demanded sternly.
"Alright, alright..." He muttered something like, "Keep your shirt on," under his breath. "But I blame you if anything happens." He reached up and flipped it off and into his lap. He was blinded for a moment from the sudden bright light and he blinked, opening his eyes wide.
When his vision cleared, he hallucinated immediately: The woman sitting across from him was holding a severed head in her right hand, and a large, bloody knife in her other. She grinned a horrible grin with razor sharp teeth. She clenched her sharp teeth, causing them to cut into her gums and she bled freely. The boy on her right was slouched in his chair, his arms hanging limply on either side of the chair and his head was bent over the back so he would be looking at the wall upside down. But his head wasn't there. It was in the woman's hand. There was a puddle of blood growing under his chair.
Duo saw this all in a split second before letting out a loud yelp and an involuntary body spasm from his legs sent him tumbling over his chair backwards. They all heard him hit his head on the wall that was so close behind his chair and stared as he didn't get back up.
In reality, the woman was holding a clipboard in her right hand and a pencil in her left. The boy on her right was laying the same way as in the vision, but his head was attached to his body though Duo couldn't really see it since it really was bent over the back of his chair as he stared boredly at the upside down wall behind him.
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Duo slept in late the following morning. He woke with a start around noon. He soon found that he couldn't turn his head without sending terrible jolts of pain through his spine and branching out to the rest of him. He sat up slowly and groaned at the throbbing pain in his head. Wufei was not in the room, so he rose and dressed with slow, painful motions, wondering what had happened.
He stumbled to the door and held onto the doorframe for support. He took a moment to compose himself enough so any who saw him wouldn't take much more notice of him than if a cloud had passed over the sun. He walked slowly and carefully down the hallway towards the - what he started to call - the "recreation room". There weren't any recreational activities, but it seemed to fit nonetheless.
He didn't see Wufei, Trowa, or Quatre in the groups scattered around the room. But he did find Heero. Without really thinking about it, he made his way to Heero's table. He held onto the back of a chair and Heero looked up, a mild, cold expression on his face. "Do you mind if I sit with you?" Duo asked, again, without really thinking.
Heero shrugged ever so slightly, so Duo pulled out the chair and sat down in it, putting his arms on the cool tabletop and resting his head on them. His eyes fluttered half-closed and he asked, "What happened?"
Heero was watching him with mild interest and replied, "I wouldn't really expect you to remember, but you nearly broke your neck." His voice was stern and smooth. He spoke in a low monotone that would have lulled Duo to sleep had he not been talking about Duo breaking his neck.
He groaned. "How'd I manage to do that?"
Heero turned his eyes to the window he was always staring at. "You tripped backwards over your chair. You hit your head on the wall, knocking you unconscious, and your neck was bent the wrong way. That's all," he informed the braided boy indifferently. He sighed heavily and put his arms on the table and leaned forward on them as he intertwined his fingers loosely.
Duo bent his head and yawned. "Then what?" he asked.
"Then they took you to some kind of emergency room here and made sure you didn't have a concussion and didn't break anything. Apparently you didn't since they did send you back to your room to just sleep it off." He turned his eyes back to Duo's tired ones.
Duo buried his face in his arms and made a muffled noise before leaning back into the chair. "It's not gone... It hurts like hell and they prob'ly can't give me anything for it." He licked his lips and put his hands behind the back of the chair, linked them, and stretched his arms, making his shoulders pop audibly. He sighed and slouched in the chair, staring at the table and completely unaware of Heero's steady gaze lingering on his face.
"What made you trip over your chair?" Duo looked up tiredly at the question.
"I don't really remember that well... I remember taking off my bandana, and then waking up with a killer headache." He pursed his lips in thought and his brow furrowed in concentration. "I guess it must've been pretty bad for a reaction like that..." he pointed out. Heero nodded. Duo sighed in frustration as the memory continuously failed to return to him. It was like having a word dance on the tip of your tongue, but it just won't come out.
Then, realization dawned on Duo as he suddenly remembered. He told Heero and watched his reaction.
Heero merely raised an eyebrow in a "I don't really care, but I'll humor you," kind of way. And his indifferent expression remained. "You really see things like that?"
Duo nodded. "All the time." He decided not to mention that nothing ever happened to Heero when he looked at him. However, he continued to wonder why.
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"Speed." Heero's voice was so close to happy that Duo thought he might burst with pride.
It was two days after Duo's little accident. He and Heero and been hanging out together more often since then. Duo hadn't gotten Heero to laugh yet, but he sensed it was close. Heero had just won for the third time in a row at the game Duo had taught him the previous day.
Duo gathered the cards again. "You're too quick for me, Heero," he said, shaking his head in mock sadness. He shuffled the cards and started to deal again. Heero put his hand on the table.
"Hang on a sec. Let me teach you one now." He gathered the cards the Duo dropped for him and started a game that Duo couldn't identify. "This is called Nertz," Heero informed him when he had set out the cards.
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The following day, Duo sat in Heero's room whilst they practiced Nertz. "I don't think I'll ever win this game," Duo laughed as Heero won. He slumped back in his chair and sighed.
Heero smiled a little from his window seat. "It took a while for me to get it, too. I was worse than you are."
Duo shook his head in wonder. "I can't believe that you were ever this bad. I refuse to believe that you were worse!" he cried.
Heero shrugged. "Okay, whatever," he replied in a light tone.
That was another thing Duo was proud of. Heero was starting to vary his tone of voice as well as show different emotions. It wasn't always the same monotone that would lull Duo to sleep anymore.
Something suddenly occured to Duo. He bit the inside of his lower lip nervously before muttering, "Can I ask you a question, Heero?"
Said boy quirked an eyebrow at his serious tone. "Sure." His voice went back to normal.
Duo remained silent for a few moments while he searched for a way to bring this up without sounding stupid. "Well, y'know... You're not exactly made of tissue paper... You're more like Shaft over here, okay, pal?" Duo blushed. 'Well so much for not sounding stupid,' he thought. "It's just that... Well..."
Heero lifted his eyebrows in curiosity. "Out of what you've said, I understood that you're saying I'm not weak. So what?" he asked. He wondered where Duo might be going with this.
Duo sighed. He didn't understand why this was so difficult for him. "Ok, what I'm trying to say is..." He lifted his gaze to Heero. "If you really wanted to... You COULD kill yourself, couldn't you?"
Heero's expression grew solemn and defensive. "Of course I could. Anyone could if they did it right." He spoke slowly and quietly.
Duo nodded quickly. "Yea, you're right, I'm sorry. I won't bring it up again." His words tumbled out of his mouth so fast that Heero almost didn't understand. He stood up abruptly and, avoiding eye contact with Heero, shuffled out of the room and down the hall.
Heero sighed and rolled his eyes. He leaned back against the wall and stared out the window with that far-off look in his eyes again. He watched the wind stirring the leaves on the trees outside his window as he thought about what Duo might have been trying to say underneath what had come out of his mouth.
As much as he tried, he could not take his mind off of one underlying message that he had interpreted. Duo really, truly cared if Heero died. He sighed and closed his eyes. He leaned forward and rested his elbows on his knees. He let his hands dangle limply in the air between them and he hung his head low.
He hoped that Duo didn't care for him as much as he seemed to. After all, he couldn't always promise that he'd be there to see Duo in the morning...
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[1] - I know this bandana would probably not be allowed cuz it might end up being dangerous, but it's that whole freedom thing that I needed in order to do this chapter how I wanted.
Ok, sorry for the long wait, I just got a major writers block and it didn't go away for about the next week. I've just been too lazy to write out stuff lately. Been kinda busy lately, too.
More stuff that's just useless info for your brains: The patients can be in each others' rooms if the door is open. And as for the card games... What can I say? I like card games! And I don't think they'd be allowed to have much else... (BTW, Nertz is a game that my sister taught... er... attempted to teach me. I'm fairly sure it's done with two packs of cards, but I can't remember. It was so hard! I couldn't understand it - And of course, I couldn't win. But yea, I just figured Heero's a smart guy... my sister's smart too. I'm not exactly smart when it comes to that, and neither was Duo! Hehe... Ok, done ranting about that now...)
Y'know what's sad? I can just look around the room and see about a thousand different ways I could kill myself... Not that I'd want to, but it seems to me that teenagers are smarter than adults (or children for that matter) when it comes to suicide and homicide. Ok, that was kinda random... But that's ok! I'm done now...
Arigatos:
my-parents-wors-nightmar - Heh... Thanks, but I just hope I CAN keep it up... I don't feel like my writing was very good in this one.
Blah - Gah! I'm sorry! ::whimper::
Ed - The details were more evenly spread out? I reeeeeally don't think this chapter turned out as well as the last one... Details... meh...
li-chan - Lol, thanks! Onegai... I feel like I should know what that means... But the sentence pretty much explains it, ne? Lol!
Regina - Really? You read them? You didn't even review! ::cries:: ::stops:: Ok, I'm over it. Yayfulness... I'm intriguing, cool...
Shinigami's-Girl - Awesome, glad you like it!
kuroi gami - You mean it? Awww! ::cries:: I feel so special!
Jade Crescent - Lol! My friend who went there said it was pretty fun, too. Except the food and the watching and the boredom and a lot of other stuff... She said the other kids there were cool. I like to talk to myself like Quatre... Especially when I'm playing games. It's fun!
Duo's Brother - Uhhhhh... ::blush:: I'm wondering if you're a guy... The whole Duo's BROTHER thing... Most guys I know don't like yaoi, and I didn't mention it in the first chapter or the summary. GOMEN NASAIIII!!!!!! But I did get my friend who didn't like yaoi to like it! She read my first story and I got her to like it! Woot! ::cough:: Ok, gomen...
Crysania Fay - Well... it was... soon enough! At least I didn't wait for three months to update like some authors I know... ::growls at them::
kaori-chan - Um... Well, I guess all I can say is I hope you liked it! I hope everyone liked it, but yea.
Angel Reid - Lol! Sounds like fun, I wouldn't want to see what Duo sees... That would drive me over the edge...
B.U.G.I.M.S. - Lol, I'm sorry if you have nightmares! I hate nightmares... They usually mean something bad for me... ::sweatdrop:: And I find myself wondering what your penname means..... um... Unless it's just random letters... ::shrugs:: Oh well.
Nyxity - Lol! Lots of people say that MIs are fun... I wouldn't know... I like your penname!
Hazel-Beka - Eew! I hate spiders!!!!!! ::shudders violently:: Um... yea, the whole thing with Duo seeing nothing happen to Heero is with that whole yaoi thing I left out in the summary and the first chapter... GOMEN NASAIIII!!!! But I did make my best friend (who didn't like yaoi) like yaoi cuz I made her read my first fanfic. Funfulness... Lol! You do that...
Kage Kitsune - Child's play? Well I feel special now... ::cries:: What if this turns out horribly? What if it sucks royally?! Huh? HUH?!?! ::coughs:: Erm... gomen...
nekomoongirl - Heh... Yes, bad Heero... But yea, I thought he should be special like that... yay...
What's with all the people being a complimentary?! Not that I mind... But it's just... I didn't think so many ppl would actually say what they did... Coolie!
Ok, that was fun! And I apologize for the whole thing about not mentioning yaoi... I was just so used to people on my other fics knowing that it was yaoi that I didn't even think about it! But (as I told some people in Arigatos) I did get my friend who didn't like yaoi into it. She reads my fics now and enjoys the yaoi goodness!!!!
Now, review again! Even if you've reviewed once already, my regular readers know that I like to have opinions about every chapter that I write! It helps! Doumo Arigatou Gozaimashita!!!