Disclaimer: I owneth not GW. No suing.
Dedication: To Lynds (WhiteWolfSearching) and Utsubame! glomples There wouldn't be a story without you two.
Warning: MPREG, shonen ai, erm.... ya know the norm.
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CHAPTER 31
28 weeks
Duo's ears were ringing after the "talking-to" he'd received. Not only from the doctor, going on and on about jeopardizing the experiment, but Heero as well, yelling at him for jeopardizing his and the child's safety. Suffice to say, that only the events of the day, had kept him from doing something really stupid. . . . like killing the doctor. Dr. Croats was so overbearing, and not to mention insensitive. It may be an "experiment" but it was still a child, and it was still his body. And, he hadn't been to gentle when he'd bandaged and salved his wounds.
Heero was staring out the window, his eyes glued to whatever was interesting out there. Duo leaned against his shoulder, feigning sleep just to escape the cold penetrating stare he had fixed on him through the whole doctor's appointment. Duo sighed loudly, he wasn't comfortable like that. Hoping Heero was over his anger, Duo sat up and blinked, looking around as if he had really been asleep.
"Done pretending?" Heero asked dully. Duo gaped briefly but then closed his mouth. It shouldn't surprise him that Heero knew he was awake. Duo hadn't even been controlling his breathing.
Duo nodded.
"Who were the four people you spoke of earlier, Duo?" Duo's mouth dropped. He had completely forgotten about them.
"Oh my goodness! Heero, were they okay? Did the firefighters get them out on time?"
Heero looked at Duo grimly, "They found three bodies Duo, none were alive."
Duo's eyes widened and he swallowed. "And the fourth?" He whispered.
"There wasn't a fourth." Heero sighed and moved ever-so-slightly closer to Duo in an attempt to comfort him. "Who were those people Duo, and what were they doing in our house?"
"Th-they were the ones- well I
don't know for certain, but they had sticks, they were breaking
everything they could get their hands on." Duo looked down.
"They were on their way out when I found them, and I knocked
them out. I hadn't noticed the fire. The fire hit something, the
paint or. . . . I don't know, something and it exploded. That's the
last thing I remember." Duo looked down at his hands. "I
didn't want to kill them Heero, just stop them."
Heero
took a deep breath, trying to control his own anger. What could Duo
have possibly been thinking? Taking on four men in his condition.
"It wasn't your fault Duo, you couldn't have done anything,
they brought it upon themselves." Duo leaned against him, his
eyes staring blankly at the floor. "I need to know Duo, what
they looked like. Did they say anything? Did they give any hint as
to why they were setting the house on fire?"
Duo looked at Heero slowly. "Nothing, they were silent. They had. . . ." Duo paused, his eyes closed in reflection. "They had rods, and sticks. They were dressed in something that appeared to be. . . . delivery clothes? Maybe, kind of like the milk man."
Heero's mouth turned downwards. It would be so simple, to get in as a milk man, or some sort of delivery man. Especially, now that he thought of it, since it was Tuesday and his milk was delivered on Tuesdays.
At Relena's request, Heero had relaxed his security, believing his identity to be secure and it unneeded. So there was only one watchman at his gate. If it had been Relena's residence, the milk truck would've been searched, the milk tested and then the milk man would've had to drink some milk himself. He hadn't felt the need to take the same precautions with his own home. He trusted himself. It showed he was getting soft, the fact that he was now caring for another, and that other had nearly died because of his laxness in security, only served to further drive home his weakness.
Duo could tell, he could almost hear Heero's thoughts as he started laying the blame on himself. "Heero, its not your fault. These things happen," Duo shifted, wrapping an arm around Heero. "What's important right now is not laying blame, but finding out who those people were."
Heero looked at him. "They aren't many people who would want me dead right now. But, after the I was shot, the news got a lot of pictures of me." He looked steadily into Duo's eyes. "The whole world now knows that to get to Relena you have to get through me first. I put you in danger. It is my fault."
Duo's amethyst eyes blazed, "So are you saying its your fault that we are living with each other? Don't take so much credit Heero Yuy. This was just as much my decision as yours and I knew there could be risks involved." He lifted his chin defiantly. "If you think I would appreciate being pushed away for my own safety, you are completely wrong. I'd rather live a little dangerously than completely lonely."
"Duo. . . . I. . . ." Heero had been thinking just that. That for Duo's safety he should be sent away. But Duo didn't seem exactly fond of that idea, to say the least. Heero's eyes set and he moved forward and opened the window between the cab and the chauffeur. "Excuse me, but could you please take us to the Vice Foreign Minister's estate?"
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Relena sat sloppily, allowing her carefully upheld composure to dissipate now that she was back in her own room, with no camera's and no spying eyes other than Chang Wufei's, her bodyguard. She had come to trust Wufei completely in the weeks that he had been working for her, he was as much of a confidante as Heero. It was so reassuring to have two people with whom she could speak and not worry about it being reported to the press. It may seem odd, but she was convinced that if tomorrow Wufei no longer worked for her, he would still be a friend. She knew it.
She propped her feet up on her coffee table. An old rickety piece of furniture she'd gotten from a garage sale. Who needed an expensive ottoman when she could have this lovely wooden table. She closed her eyes and let her mind drift, wriggling her toes in pleasure of having them out of those restraining stiletto heels.
Wufei watched the Vice Foreign Minister, wracked with indecision. Finally, deciding it couldn't hurt, he knelt down by her feet and stuck his calloused, but deft hands on her feet, rubbing and massaging them gently. She didn't even open an eye, just moaned in pleasure and kept her feet in place and remained that way for quite a while.
A sharp knock brought her out of dream land. Wufei stood and went to the door, peaking through the peep hole before opening it. "Yuy." He stated with a nod and ushered him in.
"Chang," Heero said as he stepped in.
Relena stood when she heard the exchange of names. "Heero? Is something wrong?"
"No, I just need to inform you of a few things."
tsuzuku. . . .
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Okay, so the reason (main reason) this was so late.... well there is two. One is I got DDR (bwhahahha! Despair, for my DDR prowess is far above all of yours!... j/k ^__^) and the second is I am writing an story with Utsubame. WE would really appreciate it if you read it. ^_^ Arigatou- you can read it here: the name of it is Only Love Matters, under the penname Annie_Tsu.
Arigatou!
~Annie
