I Hate Missions Like These

Chapter 2

Disclaimer? Um, it's been a while since I've written one of these. I don't own Gundam W, I've never owned Gundam W... I never WILL own Gundam W ;; It'd be a great Christmas present, though!

This story is 1/2, slash, shounen-ai. Whatever. It's got Heero, and Duo, and cuddlyness, and stuff. If that bothers you, turn back now! (how you lasted to the third chapter, I have no idea.)

The prologue is in third person, the first chapter is in first-person from Duo's perspective, and this is in first-person from Heero's perspective.


I stared blankly at the broken, battered boy in front of me, my last words lingering in my head. 'This is far worse than the usual,' my mind echoed again. "You didn't have an easy time of it, did you?" I whispered, still trying to hide emotion.

"When is a mission ever easy?" Duo asked, trying to seem like his normal happy-go-lucky self, like he was trying to hide the horrors he'd endured.

I shook my head. "You're downplaying this, Duo." I grabbed the hydrogen peroxide again and a handful of cotton balls, dabbing gently at the cuts and trying to ignore his hisses and winces. As unhygenic as it was, I even blew on the cuts a few times. I may be the perfect soldier, but I still don't want to cause a... friend... unwarranted pain. Is that all I really thought of him as? I just kissed the boy, and yet that cold, calculating part of my brain still only wants to register him as a 'friend.'

Still, a part of me wanted him as much more than just a 'friend.'

Duo's voice cut into my thoughts, fully bringing back my attention. "I think that side's clean now..."

I'd apparently been cleaning the same wound the whole time I was in my reverie, which had probably caused Duo quite a bit of pain. "Sorry." I muttered, moving on to a different area. I didn't want to know what'd happened, but yet, part of me wanted to know who had caused him to suffer like this. The soldier inside wanted to go and exact revenge, even though I was nearly positive that Duo'd massacred them all anyway.

OZ would suffer for what they'd done to me, to Duo. To all of us, in one way or another.

Duo sighed, the breath in ragged and forced. "You want to know what happened, don't you? You know I'm not telling the whole truth. You've always been able to tell if I wasn't telling the whole truth."

"You can tell me if you want to, Duo. I won't force you." I made sure I focused on the wound and not his face, because I knew that my eyes would be pleading with him to tell me what'd happened.

He bit his lip (I'd snuck a peek, careful not to lock my eyes with his) and seemed to be trying to find a way to start. "Well, everything seemed to be going to plan, right? I set the first bomb in exactly the right spot, right where I'd planned it on the map. I got ambushed, though, before I got to the second location. I took quite a few hits... They grabbed me, threw me to the ground, beat me with their rifle butts. They kicked me until I couldn't get up, then kicked me some more. It took all of my emergy to just get up again. I lucked out; they'd left me for dead, so I set up the bomb right there. I was confused, I guess. Disoriented. I barely manged to fight my way back to Deathscythe."

I brought my face up to meet Duo's, shock and disgust growing upon my face. "And then you tried to detonate the bombs..."

"And they were too close. I'd planned it wrong, like some stupid idiot." Duo's fists clenched and his bottom lip twitched a few times.

I know what I did next was very unlike me. I don't think I'd ever done anything like this before, but I know I want to do it again. I stood up, and embraced the boy. I hugged him as tightly as I dared without hurting him. To my glee, I felt one of his arms come up and embrace me back, quite tightly. It was a very nice feeling.

He nestled his face into my neck, and I realized he was crying. I knew what crying was - I personally haven't done t in a great many years. I had been taught to bury my emotions long ago, but they accounted for me falling in love.

Then again, they didn't think I'd be gay, either. It makes sense, though. I suppose I find the strength of men attractive. The more like a soldier he is, the more attractive I find him.

Duo has proved to me many times over that he is a very strong soldier, in many ways. I should be finding these tears sickening, like I did with everyone else, but with Duo it was different. Maybe it was because I had feelings for him to begin with, but his tears of frustration only made me want to hold him closer, to plant getle kisses on his forehead, his cheeks. I held him a bit tighter. "Am I hurting you, Duo?" I whispered.

His head moved minutely side to side, then I heard a quiet and slightly muffled "Don't let me go, Heero... please, don't ever let me go."

I'm not sure how long we stood there, with Duo quietly crying into my shoulder, but it was long enough for the room to begin to grow dark. "I should probably finish patching you up, Duo..."

His hand slowly slid down my back and I grudgingly let him go to continue bandaging his wounds. Now that the blood was cleaned away, it was obvious that he only had a large mass of small cuts, mostly bullet grazes, except for one gash that looked like it came from a knife across his stomach. If he'd been any closer to that knife, he'd have been disemboweled.

"All done." I quietly announced upon completion. His torso was nearly entirely covered with bandages, but most of them would be coming off in the next few days. His arm was bandaged and secured in a sling.

Duo carefully reached up his left arm, inspecting some of the bandaging, then grinned at me. "Thanks, Heero. I feel... a lot better." He bit his lower lip, cautiously reaching out his left hand to take my right.

I let my perfect soldier go, at least for him, and grinned broadly at him. "I'm very glad for --"

I was cut off as he suddenly pressed his lips to mine again. The kiss seemed hungry, like he'd wanted to kiss me for a much longer time than just this afternoon, like he'd wanted ME for as long as he'd known me.

I was happy to oblige.


Owari.

That's it, that's the end. I hope you enjoyed it, even though it took me like three years to finally finish it, hahaha.

Maybe I'll finally write a chapter for Nazo no Yume.