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Back at the safe house Heero and Duo were contemplating life without Taryn.
It looked bleak.
Without her laughter and her smile the world was a shit heap. Duo cursed himself for making her cry and run off. If he hadn't she wouldn't have been taken and they would know where she was.
Heero was standing looking darkly at Duo. He had never seen Duo so lifeless and quiet. Usually he didn't shut up and would annoy the other pilots no end but now he seemed like a completely different person in fact he seemed more like Heero than anything else.
"It's all my fault." Chided Duo mentally or so he thought.
"What did you do Baka?"
"I fucked up big time, I kissed her but she ran from me. I didn't even try to sort it out. I just let her run. I'm so sorry Heero." Heero remained silent staring at Duo.
"It's not your fault . he would of got her anyway. And we will find her."
"Yes, we will and then I will leave her alone. She doesn't have to worry about me anymore."
"No" Duo looked up in surprise usually Heero disapproved of anything to do with love "She loves you and you love her. You must stay together."
"Well then . lets go get her," replied Duo thankful for the fact Heero hadn't smashed his face in when he had heard about Taryn.
As they left the room he looked at the blue-eyed pilot and wondered if there wasn't a lot more to Heero Yuy than met the eye. There was also some sort of history with Taryn. She seemed to have an effect on him he had no control over.
They sat at computers hacking into every file in ever database they could. If it was on a computer somewhere they would sure as hell find it . though Duo was starting to crave pizza. The third time his stomach growled accompanied from an death glare from Heero he gave a small sigh of defeat and went to order pizza.
He wandered back into the computer lab holding a pizza box in one hand and a slice in the other. He offered the box to Heero who gave him a look of contempt before turning back to his computer screen. Duo grinned and continued wolfing down pizza as though his life depended on it. Heero glanced at the box the pizza was disappearing into Duo at as very fast rate, man could that boy eat.
Suddenly Duo dropped his pizza smack dab in the middle of his keyboard sending about a million instructions to millions of computers everywhere. As he quickly removed the pizza, with a sheepish grin to Heero who was glaring at him . again, a small box appeared on the screen titled 'Perfect Soldier Candidates'. It was an old file dating back when he must have been small.
He opened it and a picture of Heero stared back at him. But this Heero was aged about 5 and was grinning at the camera with his arms around a girl . "Taryn".
Heero leapt from his chair to over where Duo was sitting and saw the picture. A smile tugged at the corner of his mouth as he surveyed the picture on the screen and a look of remembrance appeared in his eyes.
Flash back He and Taryn had just passed their tests and both had scored extremely highly. Bearing in mind these tests were created for highly trained adult individuals.
They had been called into the office and were given the code names 'Heero and Taryn'. They had also been told of all their responsibilities and it had been quite scary.
When they had left they had both been in quite sombre moods ... until they had got back to their quarters and found Dr J with cake and presents.
They had been very formal presents like weapons, equipment and specialist clothing. The cake was just a plain sponge cake nothing on it nothing in it just plain. Everything was from J and by giving them anything at all had endangered his own job and by the next day he had been fired, the perfect soldiers could care for no one. The next day J had been gone.
The file was old. But held some vital points on Taryns disappearing act first time round. Now Heero and Duo understood all the strange behaviour. The things she had been put through had been horrifying. The goo she had been placed in was the finished result of mass experimental testing.
The first batch had burned her skin and eyes causing her to be blind for over 2 days the next had been fine on the outside but on the inside it ripped the lining off of her throat and stomach and when inhaled caused capillaries in her lungs to rupture.
After that they had got it right and as soon as the body was used to it she had been placed in wing. And if Taryn had died Heero would have taken her place.
Back at the safe house Heero and Duo were contemplating life without Taryn.
It looked bleak.
Without her laughter and her smile the world was a shit heap. Duo cursed himself for making her cry and run off. If he hadn't she wouldn't have been taken and they would know where she was.
Heero was standing looking darkly at Duo. He had never seen Duo so lifeless and quiet. Usually he didn't shut up and would annoy the other pilots no end but now he seemed like a completely different person in fact he seemed more like Heero than anything else.
"It's all my fault." Chided Duo mentally or so he thought.
"What did you do Baka?"
"I fucked up big time, I kissed her but she ran from me. I didn't even try to sort it out. I just let her run. I'm so sorry Heero." Heero remained silent staring at Duo.
"It's not your fault . he would of got her anyway. And we will find her."
"Yes, we will and then I will leave her alone. She doesn't have to worry about me anymore."
"No" Duo looked up in surprise usually Heero disapproved of anything to do with love "She loves you and you love her. You must stay together."
"Well then . lets go get her," replied Duo thankful for the fact Heero hadn't smashed his face in when he had heard about Taryn.
As they left the room he looked at the blue-eyed pilot and wondered if there wasn't a lot more to Heero Yuy than met the eye. There was also some sort of history with Taryn. She seemed to have an effect on him he had no control over.
They sat at computers hacking into every file in ever database they could. If it was on a computer somewhere they would sure as hell find it . though Duo was starting to crave pizza. The third time his stomach growled accompanied from an death glare from Heero he gave a small sigh of defeat and went to order pizza.
He wandered back into the computer lab holding a pizza box in one hand and a slice in the other. He offered the box to Heero who gave him a look of contempt before turning back to his computer screen. Duo grinned and continued wolfing down pizza as though his life depended on it. Heero glanced at the box the pizza was disappearing into Duo at as very fast rate, man could that boy eat.
Suddenly Duo dropped his pizza smack dab in the middle of his keyboard sending about a million instructions to millions of computers everywhere. As he quickly removed the pizza, with a sheepish grin to Heero who was glaring at him . again, a small box appeared on the screen titled 'Perfect Soldier Candidates'. It was an old file dating back when he must have been small.
He opened it and a picture of Heero stared back at him. But this Heero was aged about 5 and was grinning at the camera with his arms around a girl . "Taryn".
Heero leapt from his chair to over where Duo was sitting and saw the picture. A smile tugged at the corner of his mouth as he surveyed the picture on the screen and a look of remembrance appeared in his eyes.
Flash back He and Taryn had just passed their tests and both had scored extremely highly. Bearing in mind these tests were created for highly trained adult individuals.
They had been called into the office and were given the code names 'Heero and Taryn'. They had also been told of all their responsibilities and it had been quite scary.
When they had left they had both been in quite sombre moods ... until they had got back to their quarters and found Dr J with cake and presents.
They had been very formal presents like weapons, equipment and specialist clothing. The cake was just a plain sponge cake nothing on it nothing in it just plain. Everything was from J and by giving them anything at all had endangered his own job and by the next day he had been fired, the perfect soldiers could care for no one. The next day J had been gone.
The file was old. But held some vital points on Taryns disappearing act first time round. Now Heero and Duo understood all the strange behaviour. The things she had been put through had been horrifying. The goo she had been placed in was the finished result of mass experimental testing.
The first batch had burned her skin and eyes causing her to be blind for over 2 days the next had been fine on the outside but on the inside it ripped the lining off of her throat and stomach and when inhaled caused capillaries in her lungs to rupture.
After that they had got it right and as soon as the body was used to it she had been placed in wing. And if Taryn had died Heero would have taken her place.