Soul Keys
Chapter 2
Heero woke with the morning's early light piercing his vision with blinding whiteness. As he fully woke, Heero decided to go see if what had happened last night wasn't a dream. He ran towards his bedroom. Sure enough, there it was, under his bed no less, staring out at him, with wide eyes. "Come on, you know I won't hurt you, come here." Heero begged it.
Eventually, it crawled out, before cuddling up to Heero fully. "You are a strange beast, you know that?" Heero replied.
Whatever this creature was, it certainly needed medical attention and a bath. The wings seemed the worse off. "Let me fix your wings for you.", Heero replied, coaxing the seemingly innocent animal towards him. As Heero managed to repair the damage done, he noticed the shreds of black clothing that hung loosely from the creature's body. "Looks like you got trapped i someone's clothing." Heero replied, taking and laying the shreds aside.
Later, as Heero laid the creature in the bath, and began to run the water, the beast opened it's large mouth wide. Heero felt a chill of forewarning before the creature brought it's nose up to Heero's face and started to lick him. The tongue was ruff like a cat's tend to be. The Former Perfect Solder grimaced at being given the tongue bath. "Look at all this blood," Heero remarked. "Hm? What is this?"
He looked at the silver chain with the cross dangling at it's end as the creature shivered all over from the water. The necklace looked familiar to Heero though he couldn't place where he'd seen it before. Heero shrugged before helping his new friend out of the tub and wrapping a huge towel around it's neck. There was another thing, was this thing a boy or a girl? Heero blushed fiercely at the thought of checking, this thing whatever it was, was too human. Heero couldn't just check it out (if you know what I mean.) That would go against nature or feel like that anyway. Heero couldn't help it but, the beast seemed to be of male qualifications, so to call it a him or he would seem right. Heero settled onto the couch and the fully hair- dried beast came up to cuddle with him. Heero gently stroked the fur before noticing the wings had already gained a nice, new layer of skin membrane to cover the torn areas. Heero must have been more tired than he thought, for the next thing he knew he was off in slumber land.
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When the new morning dawned, Heero looked everywhere for his companion, only to no avail. He did find proof though, that his friend had existed. That was when the call came in, Duo was missing, no where to be found. His line was disconnected, the letters sent started to be returned. Heero tried to calm Quatre down, who by the time he'd gotten to the phone- line was sobbing. "How long?" Heero asked.
"A- A couple days apparently, Wufei found out first and called Trowa, who told me today," Quatre managed. "I called several times, what were you doing?"
"I was, um.. What I mean is... Oh, okay I was sleeping in." Heero grunted.
"That's okay, must have been up late working hard on a project, huh?" Quatre asked.
"Um.. Yeah, guess you could say that," Heero replied. "I'll go check and see what's up with Duo for you okay?"
"Thanks Heero, it would make me feel a whole lot better." Quatre said, before hanging up.
So, leaving something out on his patio just in case that creature decided to return later and left. He headed towards the last home Duo has supposedly lived at, only to find it with a big sign out front. "Are you looking for Mr. Maxwell, Sir?" A woman next door asked.
"Yes, have you seen him?" Heero replied.
"Not since they repossessed his home and belongings, poor guy had no where else to go, last I seen of him, he was walking down that street," She explained. "He had a bit of tuff luck for a while, working three jobs to make what he could, still couldn't pay the bank."
"Um, thanks, I'll let you know if I find him.", Heero replied.
So, Duo had been a bit in the red and couldn't escape it. Now Heero started to worry. Duo alone, no home, no food, no clean water and Heero was sure Duo wouldn't find any of those any time soon. Heero shook his head wearily as he trudged up the steps and into his home. Why hadn't Duo asked Quatre or any of the others for help? Was his happy go lucky nature to hide how desperate he had been? Heero let out a huge sigh before laying his head upon his pillow and falling into slumber.
When he woke again, it was late at night, and Heero sat up, noticing a pair of violet eyes staring at him. "It's you again, hello-", Heero started.
The thing sneezed before shifting and Heero couldn't make out into what until he had turned on the lights. When the wings disappeared, there on his floor lay Duo, awake but shivering all over and sweating terribly. "DUO! What?" Heero asked.
Duo's eyes slowly closed as the braided baka passed out, right there....
End Chapter: Sorry, just thought of what a good cliff- hanger spot this would make.