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"He's one of us," Duo sighed heavily, moving a hand through his chestnut bangs. "He's a Preventer." He pulled out the card that Heero had left in his office before never coming back from wherever he left to go. "See?" He let them see the cobalt eyes gazing at the photographer.
In the photograph was none other then Heero Yuy.
The Neo Queen glared at the youths in front of her. The band members glared back at her and Yuka's red rimmed eyes showed the many tears she had shed. How could they say something that would kill everything she had worked for in such a short amount of time?
The other Preventer workers, that Une sent as soon as she got wind of what was going on, quickly escorted the band members for interrogation. Trowa had taken this time to slip away to the lab unnoticed and worked frivolously on the antidote coursing through Heero's veins.
"Why?" It was a simply worded question that held so many questions alone. "Why did you do this?" Duo Maxwell questioned the woman who was sitting in a chair rigidly. They had taken a vacant hospital room and used it to question the Queen.
The Queen laughed coldly. "Why what? Why did I do this to your beloved Gundam pilot? You want to know why?" She leaned forward in the chair, her gown sparkling in the artificial light. "Because… he came too close to the answer."
He was somewhere dark and he knew he had to leave. His mind was screaming at him to leave, run away, to do anything to leave to foreboding memory or whatever in hell it was. But he couldn't. He ran, jumping out the glass window and feeling the slight pieces cut his arm and face slightly. He shielding his arms and landed on his feet like a cat.
He took off sprinting, barely breaking a sweat as he dashed through a maze bush and stopped. He stood there with wide opened eyes.
In the covering of the trees and the dead landscape that was gloomy, he stood. The green bushes betrayed the death held in this area. He blinked and tried to gain control of his breathing which was taking an erratic turn for the worse.
He clenched his hands, feeling blood drawn and took a half step back. His cold eyes looked a little horrified and even colder at the same time when he realized what he stumbled upon.
Before him, in the bleak outlook in the garden, was a trench. A trench filled with hundreds of bodies. Hundreds of bodies shot, caked with mud and the smell of rotting flesh was overpowering. Limbs and human body parts were thrown in and the remaining shells of bullets lay on the ground as he saw tire tracks leading to and fro the sight. He saw women and children, young and small, all thrown in carelessly, some so skinny they looked like all the fat was sucked out of them.
Words couldn't describe the scene. He threw up his head in rage and disbelief and let out a cry like an animal would.
Then he saw her in the mass grave, the little girl and her dog.
"Knew too much of what?" Duo Maxwell pried.
"My little plan. Ceres, Neo Queen." She sighed dreamily at the title. "I couldn't let one little teenager ruin it, could I?" She questioned herself seemingly now. "The pictures he took would ruin me forever!" She laughed almost to herself darkly. "I still can't find where that brat hid them…but I will!" She said determinedly.
A scream erupted from a room not far off and Duo's had jerked up and the Queen laughed to herself again. "Heero…!" Duo breathed as he rushed out of the room, locking the door and sending some guards in to look at the next psychotic case, and rushed into the room next door.
Heero was tense and was jerking on the bed every so often and he let out a sound, which was muffled through clenched teeth. All of the sudden, prussian eyes opened quickly and he jerked out of bed into a upright position, the IV that was snagged making rivulets of blood appear from his arm.
"Heero?" Duo sounded hopeful. Heero turned to look at Duo and Duo knew that this was he, this was the Heero Yuy that he had known and fought with during the war.
"What…?" He questioned without emotion, just like the old Heero. After the numerous questions like 'are you all right?' or 'how are you feeling?' Duo was happy the old Heero was back even though all he ever got for most of the questions was the trade-marked 'hn.'
"What can you remember?" Duo questioned further as Heero swung his legs around he bed. With the question asked, he saw the pilot hesitate. "H-Heero?"
Cold eyes stared into Duo's. "You want to know what I saw?" Duo had some feeling in his stomach that almost regretted asking that question.
TBC
Author's note:
What happened to Heero and such will be further explained in the next chapters! . I love reviews! They keep me happy and warm (not to mention writing) during the winter!
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