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Chapter 2
Just Like Family
Trinity watched as Danny's finger tightened on the trigger. He pulled it slowly enough that she had time to make a slight sidestep to the right before the shot rang through the air. Trinity felt a searing pain run through her left shoulder as she tried to duck the oncoming bullet. Ignoring the pain as Heero had taught her, she stepped into a fighting stance as Danny's finger tightened again.
"You missed, asshole." The gang leader said. "Shoot her again."
Danny didn't hesitate this time. He pulled the trigger again.
The second shot shattered the silence created by the first, although it was accompanied with a third. The third shot, however, didn't come from Danny's gun. Trinity now had two gunshot wounds. The first bullet had just passed through her left shoulder, and the second had lodged itself just below her left rib cage. Her vision blurred from the pain. She reached down and tried to stop the blood flow of the first. She never heard the third gunshot; all she knew was that someone was distracting the gang she was supposed to be able to defend herself against. "All the training, and I can't even beat a bunch of guys with one gun." She thought angrily before blackness over took her, and she knew no more.
*~*
When Trinity awoke, cobalt met cobalt. "hey dad." The girl said weakly. She had a feeling she was in a hospital as her senses were picking up the medicinal smells.
"Hey honey." Duo replied. "You feeling ok?" he asked gently.
"Don't call me that." The fifteen year old said, trying to ignore the pain that was throbbing through her body.
"Don't agitate her Duo. You've never had a gunshot wound before. It hurts like hell." Came a calm voice from the other side of the room.
"You're both here?" Trinity said, trying to sit up. "Great. With you two bickering at each other, I'm not going to be able to get any sleep."
Heero joined the two at the bed and placed a firm hand on his daughter's good shoulder. "I don't want you to move." He said. "I'll get some pain killers."
Trinity sighed in defeat and gently lowered herself back down on the pillows. "How did I get here?" she asked Duo.
"Well, you've been out for a few hours now. We were starting to get worried about you. Do you remember what happened?" he asked. "If you don't want to tell me right now you don't have to."
Trinity scowled. "It's not like remembering now is going to be any better than remembering later."
Duo sighed and sat down beside Trinity's bed. "I'm sorry Trin, but I know how stressful remembering can be sometimes. Trust me, I've been through this type of thing before."
"I know Dad, but I should have been able to protect myself. I didn't do anything to stop them, and I should have been able to do something. I mean, that's what I've been training to avoid, right?" The girl closed her eyes trying to hold back the tears. She didn't want to cry. She wasn't supposed to cry. She was a preventer, and preventers didn't cry. "It's not your fault, Trinity."
Heero was back. He helped his daughter take the pain killer, and then took a step back. "You're still alive, aren't you?"
"Heero and I are very proud of you Trin, and we always will be, no matter what." Duo said as the pain killers started their job, and the girl fell asleep once more.
Heero turned to Duo. "She's good."
"What do you mean?" The other man asked, a curious look in his cobalt blue eyes.
Heero smiled slightly. "Do you remember when we first met?" he asked.
"Yeah, that would be the day I saved your life, and you jumped out of a window." Duo replied with a grin.
Heero glared at his husband. "That's not the point."
"Then what is the point?" Duo asked. "Is it that you were a suicidal maniac? What has this got to do with Trinity?"
Heero's glare darkened. "The point *is* that when you got there, the doctors didn't know that I was awake. I kept my blood pressure and my breathing low."
Duo's expression became thoughtful. "yeah, now that you mention it, I remember that too. But what's it got to do with Trin?"
"What do you think? She did exactly the same thing, unconsciously. She probably didn't realize she did it, but she hid her consciousness all the same." Heero replied, glancing at the now sleeping girl.
Duo glanced at the monitors of the many machines hooked up to his daughter. "Yeah, she did it, and she's still doing it. Look."
Heero glanced at the monitors as well. "Hn."
"Yeah, yeah, I know. 'Told you so'. I love you too Heero." Duo said sarcastically.
"I know you do." Heero leaned over and whispered in Duo's ear.
The braided man grinned. "Well, I guess you know me too well then."
"I hate to break up this moment, but I have someone here who wants to see a Trinity Yuy-Maxwell." Came a voice from the doorway. Heero backed away from Duo and glared at the man in the volunteer uniform. "Who is it?" He demanded.
"The two who brought her here." The volunteer replied. They want to see if she's ok."
Heero's eyes narrowed. "Duo, you stay here with Trinity. I'll go see who these guys are."
Duo frowned. "They brought her here Heero. That doesn't mean they shot her." He said. "I'll go see who they are."
Heero nodded slightly. "Ok."
Duo followed the volunteer into the waiting room after slipping on a coat to cover his braid and his cap and sunglasses.
The volunteer pointed at two boys sitting in the corner. They looked to be about Trinity's age, and they were wearing the school uniform. Duo stepped into the waiting room and sat in one of the chairs so he could observe the two boys for a minute before going over. The one on the right had pitch black hair that hung down in his eyes. It was scruffy looking, and a little shaggy. His eyes were also black, and slanted, revealing his Chinese background. He was talking to another boy who had hair that was platinum blond, with a bit of reddish brown underneath. His eyes were a shade of aquamarine that looked vaguely familiar to Duo.
"Could it be?" Duo thought, his hopes soaring. He decided to wait another minute or so, just to be sure. Those two looked awful familiar.
The two boys went on in their conversation without noticing Duo's entrance. The one with black hair pulled out his wallet and fished around for a receipt to show to his friend. Something else in the wallet caught Duo's attention. A flash of gold. A very familiar flash of gold.
This seemed to decide Duo's decision. He stood, and headed over to the two. Keeping his eyes low, he sat across from them. They both turned to him with questioning eyes.
"Agents Chang and Winner-Barton, I presume?" Duo asked.
The one with black hair nodded. "Nice to see you again Maxwell." He said. Duo lifted his gaze.
"Hey, watch it there kid. I'm your elder you know. It's *Mr.* Maxwell to you." Duo replied with a grin.
The Chinese boy grinned back, but the blond remained expressionless. Duo knew the reason for this lack of emotion. Heero had had the same problem. It wasn't that the kid's parents didn't care. But there was a reason that the other ex-gundam pilots were still working for the preventers when Heero and Duo weren't. And all of them knew that they didn't need any money.
To this day Trinity had thought that her parents had retired from the preventers. She was wrong. Trinity had been a 'mistake' in the eyes of the 5 original scientists. One of which was know sleeping peacefully underground, courtesy of a certain Heero Yuy.
Maybe I should explain this a little better.
Agent Chang, as we know him so far, was the first little 'experiment'. The scientists wanted the perfect soldier, did they not? So, they decided to have a perfect army. They wanted to clone a human being. Agent Chang is the first ever clone. His blood has exactly the same DNA as Wufei Chang. However, their personalities are completely different. Wufei raised his son after learning how to live from a certain 'braided baka'. Therefore, Agent Chang was brought up in a healthy environment, with bombs and missiles, and of course, the gundam Nataku.
Next in line was Trinity Yuy-Maxwell. The scientists decided that cloning just wasn't enough. They had to accomplish something more, so they decided to create the ultimate soldier by joining a Yuy DNA with a Maxwell DNA. Scary combination? Definitely. However, they did not set the gender of this clone, and she obviously came out female. This repulsed the scientists. They didn't want a girl, they wanted a boy. So, Doctor J called up Heero to give him the results of the experiment. And I quote…
"Hello Heero…" started Dr. J.
"Dr. J… What are the results?" Heero asked, anxious to know if he had a child.
"The experiment did not go as planned…I'm afraid that test #2 will have to be eliminated." Dr J answered.
"Isn't test #2 a human?" Duo demanded, pushing Heero out of sight of the vidphone.
"It would appear so, yes. However, she is of the wrong gender. We can do nothing with a girl."
"Bullshit." Duo again. "You can do all you can with a girl that you can do with a boy. In fact…"
Heero pushed Duo out of the way. "I'll be right over to collect test #2. Do. Not. Kill. Her."
And Heero terminated the transmission.
Things just went downhill from there. Heero went to collect his daughter and Dr. J and the other scientists did not appreciate his actions. The outcome you ask? Dr. J with a bullet through his heart, and a certain Heero Yuy and a certain Duo Maxwell minus their preventer badges.
Had these certain ex-preventers known of the scientists next plans, none of them would have lived to tell the tale. However, they did not know of test #3. This test being of course, Agent Winner-Barton. A mixture of obviously Quatre Winner and Trowa Barton. Test #3 went unknown for the first ten years of his life, and by then, there was nothing anyone could do to reverse the damage. Test #3 had undergone the same treatment as Heero. The scientists had played with his mind, and deprived him of his childhood. Quatre and Trowa had taken care of that little ordeal, but, enjoying their jobs there had been no bloodshed. (although Duo had come close to killing the remaining four). Pilots 3 and 4 had taken in Agent Winner-Barton, but had been unable to teach him of caring as hard as they tried. Test #3 had left home, joining the preventers, at the age of 13. Quatre and Trowa had respected his wish, and had let him be, though it had practically broken the poor boy's hearts that they hadn't been able to help their son.
Trinity however was unaware of any of this. Her fathers had decided against telling her, for fear of loosing everything they had. The other two 'experiments' had a general idea of what had happened, though they did not know of Trinity. To get on with the story, Agent Chang pulled Duo out of his thoughts.
"How is the girl?" he asked.
Duo grinned. "Do you even know her name?" he asked mischievously.
Agent Chang shook his head. "I'm not the one to tell you what happened, since I don't know the whole story myself. Nate and I brought her here after some druggies shot her twice. The police just had to ask us some questions which is why we didn't come sooner."
Duo nodded his head. "I understand."
"What are you doing here?" Ian Chang asked.
Duo grinned. "Well, if you really want to know, the girl's name is Trinity. Trinity Yuy-Maxwell, to be more precise."
Ian's jaw dropped. "I thought she looked familiar. Well, let's go see her then. She's almost like family."
The three headed to Trinity's hospital room. Duo warned them that she'd just dozed off, so she might not wake up for a while.
When they reached the room. Heero did a double take. "Long time no see." He said after a moment.
Ian grinned, but Nate remained silent, his expression unreadable. Heero knew the feeling. He'd had trouble restraining Duo from going to kill the remaining scientists when they'd heard the news, as he'd wanted to send them to their graves himself, but Quatre had convinced them otherwise. The five original pilots hadn't seen each other since Heero and Duo had been kicked off the preventers.
Heero led Ian and Nate to the caff, and Duo stayed with Trinity, since she had shown no signs of waking any time soon. The stoic man bought the two teens something to eat, and they sat and chatted for a while before heading back to the room.
When they arrived, Trinity had woken up. Duo had helped her to sit, and she was propped up on a few pillows. When the two boys entered the room after her father, Trinity gasped. "you!" she cried, recognizing them instantly.
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Well, there's chapter two. I hope you liked it. It was probably really confusing. Anyway, let me know what you think! Leave a review!
Aria
AN-please let me know what you think! Reviews help me to write faster!
Chapter 2
Just Like Family
Trinity watched as Danny's finger tightened on the trigger. He pulled it slowly enough that she had time to make a slight sidestep to the right before the shot rang through the air. Trinity felt a searing pain run through her left shoulder as she tried to duck the oncoming bullet. Ignoring the pain as Heero had taught her, she stepped into a fighting stance as Danny's finger tightened again.
"You missed, asshole." The gang leader said. "Shoot her again."
Danny didn't hesitate this time. He pulled the trigger again.
The second shot shattered the silence created by the first, although it was accompanied with a third. The third shot, however, didn't come from Danny's gun. Trinity now had two gunshot wounds. The first bullet had just passed through her left shoulder, and the second had lodged itself just below her left rib cage. Her vision blurred from the pain. She reached down and tried to stop the blood flow of the first. She never heard the third gunshot; all she knew was that someone was distracting the gang she was supposed to be able to defend herself against. "All the training, and I can't even beat a bunch of guys with one gun." She thought angrily before blackness over took her, and she knew no more.
*~*
When Trinity awoke, cobalt met cobalt. "hey dad." The girl said weakly. She had a feeling she was in a hospital as her senses were picking up the medicinal smells.
"Hey honey." Duo replied. "You feeling ok?" he asked gently.
"Don't call me that." The fifteen year old said, trying to ignore the pain that was throbbing through her body.
"Don't agitate her Duo. You've never had a gunshot wound before. It hurts like hell." Came a calm voice from the other side of the room.
"You're both here?" Trinity said, trying to sit up. "Great. With you two bickering at each other, I'm not going to be able to get any sleep."
Heero joined the two at the bed and placed a firm hand on his daughter's good shoulder. "I don't want you to move." He said. "I'll get some pain killers."
Trinity sighed in defeat and gently lowered herself back down on the pillows. "How did I get here?" she asked Duo.
"Well, you've been out for a few hours now. We were starting to get worried about you. Do you remember what happened?" he asked. "If you don't want to tell me right now you don't have to."
Trinity scowled. "It's not like remembering now is going to be any better than remembering later."
Duo sighed and sat down beside Trinity's bed. "I'm sorry Trin, but I know how stressful remembering can be sometimes. Trust me, I've been through this type of thing before."
"I know Dad, but I should have been able to protect myself. I didn't do anything to stop them, and I should have been able to do something. I mean, that's what I've been training to avoid, right?" The girl closed her eyes trying to hold back the tears. She didn't want to cry. She wasn't supposed to cry. She was a preventer, and preventers didn't cry. "It's not your fault, Trinity."
Heero was back. He helped his daughter take the pain killer, and then took a step back. "You're still alive, aren't you?"
"Heero and I are very proud of you Trin, and we always will be, no matter what." Duo said as the pain killers started their job, and the girl fell asleep once more.
Heero turned to Duo. "She's good."
"What do you mean?" The other man asked, a curious look in his cobalt blue eyes.
Heero smiled slightly. "Do you remember when we first met?" he asked.
"Yeah, that would be the day I saved your life, and you jumped out of a window." Duo replied with a grin.
Heero glared at his husband. "That's not the point."
"Then what is the point?" Duo asked. "Is it that you were a suicidal maniac? What has this got to do with Trinity?"
Heero's glare darkened. "The point *is* that when you got there, the doctors didn't know that I was awake. I kept my blood pressure and my breathing low."
Duo's expression became thoughtful. "yeah, now that you mention it, I remember that too. But what's it got to do with Trin?"
"What do you think? She did exactly the same thing, unconsciously. She probably didn't realize she did it, but she hid her consciousness all the same." Heero replied, glancing at the now sleeping girl.
Duo glanced at the monitors of the many machines hooked up to his daughter. "Yeah, she did it, and she's still doing it. Look."
Heero glanced at the monitors as well. "Hn."
"Yeah, yeah, I know. 'Told you so'. I love you too Heero." Duo said sarcastically.
"I know you do." Heero leaned over and whispered in Duo's ear.
The braided man grinned. "Well, I guess you know me too well then."
"I hate to break up this moment, but I have someone here who wants to see a Trinity Yuy-Maxwell." Came a voice from the doorway. Heero backed away from Duo and glared at the man in the volunteer uniform. "Who is it?" He demanded.
"The two who brought her here." The volunteer replied. They want to see if she's ok."
Heero's eyes narrowed. "Duo, you stay here with Trinity. I'll go see who these guys are."
Duo frowned. "They brought her here Heero. That doesn't mean they shot her." He said. "I'll go see who they are."
Heero nodded slightly. "Ok."
Duo followed the volunteer into the waiting room after slipping on a coat to cover his braid and his cap and sunglasses.
The volunteer pointed at two boys sitting in the corner. They looked to be about Trinity's age, and they were wearing the school uniform. Duo stepped into the waiting room and sat in one of the chairs so he could observe the two boys for a minute before going over. The one on the right had pitch black hair that hung down in his eyes. It was scruffy looking, and a little shaggy. His eyes were also black, and slanted, revealing his Chinese background. He was talking to another boy who had hair that was platinum blond, with a bit of reddish brown underneath. His eyes were a shade of aquamarine that looked vaguely familiar to Duo.
"Could it be?" Duo thought, his hopes soaring. He decided to wait another minute or so, just to be sure. Those two looked awful familiar.
The two boys went on in their conversation without noticing Duo's entrance. The one with black hair pulled out his wallet and fished around for a receipt to show to his friend. Something else in the wallet caught Duo's attention. A flash of gold. A very familiar flash of gold.
This seemed to decide Duo's decision. He stood, and headed over to the two. Keeping his eyes low, he sat across from them. They both turned to him with questioning eyes.
"Agents Chang and Winner-Barton, I presume?" Duo asked.
The one with black hair nodded. "Nice to see you again Maxwell." He said. Duo lifted his gaze.
"Hey, watch it there kid. I'm your elder you know. It's *Mr.* Maxwell to you." Duo replied with a grin.
The Chinese boy grinned back, but the blond remained expressionless. Duo knew the reason for this lack of emotion. Heero had had the same problem. It wasn't that the kid's parents didn't care. But there was a reason that the other ex-gundam pilots were still working for the preventers when Heero and Duo weren't. And all of them knew that they didn't need any money.
To this day Trinity had thought that her parents had retired from the preventers. She was wrong. Trinity had been a 'mistake' in the eyes of the 5 original scientists. One of which was know sleeping peacefully underground, courtesy of a certain Heero Yuy.
Maybe I should explain this a little better.
Agent Chang, as we know him so far, was the first little 'experiment'. The scientists wanted the perfect soldier, did they not? So, they decided to have a perfect army. They wanted to clone a human being. Agent Chang is the first ever clone. His blood has exactly the same DNA as Wufei Chang. However, their personalities are completely different. Wufei raised his son after learning how to live from a certain 'braided baka'. Therefore, Agent Chang was brought up in a healthy environment, with bombs and missiles, and of course, the gundam Nataku.
Next in line was Trinity Yuy-Maxwell. The scientists decided that cloning just wasn't enough. They had to accomplish something more, so they decided to create the ultimate soldier by joining a Yuy DNA with a Maxwell DNA. Scary combination? Definitely. However, they did not set the gender of this clone, and she obviously came out female. This repulsed the scientists. They didn't want a girl, they wanted a boy. So, Doctor J called up Heero to give him the results of the experiment. And I quote…
"Hello Heero…" started Dr. J.
"Dr. J… What are the results?" Heero asked, anxious to know if he had a child.
"The experiment did not go as planned…I'm afraid that test #2 will have to be eliminated." Dr J answered.
"Isn't test #2 a human?" Duo demanded, pushing Heero out of sight of the vidphone.
"It would appear so, yes. However, she is of the wrong gender. We can do nothing with a girl."
"Bullshit." Duo again. "You can do all you can with a girl that you can do with a boy. In fact…"
Heero pushed Duo out of the way. "I'll be right over to collect test #2. Do. Not. Kill. Her."
And Heero terminated the transmission.
Things just went downhill from there. Heero went to collect his daughter and Dr. J and the other scientists did not appreciate his actions. The outcome you ask? Dr. J with a bullet through his heart, and a certain Heero Yuy and a certain Duo Maxwell minus their preventer badges.
Had these certain ex-preventers known of the scientists next plans, none of them would have lived to tell the tale. However, they did not know of test #3. This test being of course, Agent Winner-Barton. A mixture of obviously Quatre Winner and Trowa Barton. Test #3 went unknown for the first ten years of his life, and by then, there was nothing anyone could do to reverse the damage. Test #3 had undergone the same treatment as Heero. The scientists had played with his mind, and deprived him of his childhood. Quatre and Trowa had taken care of that little ordeal, but, enjoying their jobs there had been no bloodshed. (although Duo had come close to killing the remaining four). Pilots 3 and 4 had taken in Agent Winner-Barton, but had been unable to teach him of caring as hard as they tried. Test #3 had left home, joining the preventers, at the age of 13. Quatre and Trowa had respected his wish, and had let him be, though it had practically broken the poor boy's hearts that they hadn't been able to help their son.
Trinity however was unaware of any of this. Her fathers had decided against telling her, for fear of loosing everything they had. The other two 'experiments' had a general idea of what had happened, though they did not know of Trinity. To get on with the story, Agent Chang pulled Duo out of his thoughts.
"How is the girl?" he asked.
Duo grinned. "Do you even know her name?" he asked mischievously.
Agent Chang shook his head. "I'm not the one to tell you what happened, since I don't know the whole story myself. Nate and I brought her here after some druggies shot her twice. The police just had to ask us some questions which is why we didn't come sooner."
Duo nodded his head. "I understand."
"What are you doing here?" Ian Chang asked.
Duo grinned. "Well, if you really want to know, the girl's name is Trinity. Trinity Yuy-Maxwell, to be more precise."
Ian's jaw dropped. "I thought she looked familiar. Well, let's go see her then. She's almost like family."
The three headed to Trinity's hospital room. Duo warned them that she'd just dozed off, so she might not wake up for a while.
When they reached the room. Heero did a double take. "Long time no see." He said after a moment.
Ian grinned, but Nate remained silent, his expression unreadable. Heero knew the feeling. He'd had trouble restraining Duo from going to kill the remaining scientists when they'd heard the news, as he'd wanted to send them to their graves himself, but Quatre had convinced them otherwise. The five original pilots hadn't seen each other since Heero and Duo had been kicked off the preventers.
Heero led Ian and Nate to the caff, and Duo stayed with Trinity, since she had shown no signs of waking any time soon. The stoic man bought the two teens something to eat, and they sat and chatted for a while before heading back to the room.
When they arrived, Trinity had woken up. Duo had helped her to sit, and she was propped up on a few pillows. When the two boys entered the room after her father, Trinity gasped. "you!" she cried, recognizing them instantly.
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Well, there's chapter two. I hope you liked it. It was probably really confusing. Anyway, let me know what you think! Leave a review!
Aria
