AC 201 Heero and Wufei are preventors called in for an accident on a sweeper ship captained by Duo. However it was no accident there's a killer on board and it isn't human. If you like suspense and gore you'll like this horror story. (At least I'm hoping to create suspense I believed I managed it.)
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters I only get my jollies off on torturing them and my readers with horrible gory stories like the one below. Bandia and a bunch of other rich and talented folk own these characters. Please don't'sue me.
Warnings: Rated R just to be on the safe side contains yaoi, gore and minor amounts of smut.
Secondary warning: I don't think my stories are scary, not to me personally but I have gotten that in my feedback (few as there was but there was some). A kind reviewer wrote to me and said, "don't change your style of writing. It's yours. There are people out there that will appreciate it." I thank that person. So I haven't toned it down or changed how I write but I am giving you fair warning.
Jaaku na Gundam
(English Translation The Evil Gundam)
Chapter 16 Unfinished BusinessHeero pounded at the bolt holding the altered lazar to the roof of the fork lift. The sweeper ship did not have weapons. The group would have to improvise. They were going to use midsize lazars that had been altered to create concentrated beams. They attached them to the ship's main conveyance vehicles. The sweepers had to haul junk around the bays so the ship was full of mini trunks that resembled large motorized dollies or fork lifts.
The Meridian's was not as large as the preventor's main ship and didn't have as many people so the motorized dollies or fork lifts were truly one man vehicles. They were made for moving equipment not speed and maneuverability and definitely not for assaulting Gundams so the engines would need alterations too. They had a lot to do in order to get three vehicles ready for their assault on Jaaku na.
Heero drove in the last bolt and with a curse then leaped off to go work on the conveyance that would be Duo's. "Damn it Duo, we have work to do," he swore under his breath. Duo had yet to leave the meeting room with Heidi.
"What happened between you two?" Wufei asked not giving Heero a chance to leave.
"Drop it Wufei," Heero snapped trying to step around the man. "It is none of your business."
"As my partner it isn't," Wufei insisted. "But as your friend it is. What happened between the two of you or should I say the three?"
Heero turned around and gave Wufei a hard look. Wufei was always snooping into his private life. Heero knew about his partner's curiosity and he ignored it knowing that unless he asked he would never know.
"You and Duo were so close after the war," Wufei told him. "It was obvious. Even though you watched Relena and helped her you were never alone. Many times you both worked together under cover preventing things from happening to the prime minister."
"Wufei stop," he told him.
"We know that he was with you. A lot of times when me and Sally would check on your little incursions we noticed Duo was with you," Wufei continued ignoring him. "Sally even went to see Heidi and found that Duo had left her on many occasions to be with you."
"Damn it Wufei I said drop it," Heero growled. "Maybe if you and Sally weren't so busy stinking your noses into other people's business you would still be together."
Wufei stiffened at that. He looked furious for a second then he calmly folded his arms across his chest, he was not going to let Heero infuriate him into leaving. They had an important mission ahead and this needed to be settled.
"You have no idea what happened between the two of us. How could you? I never told you," Wufei said somberly. "Sally joined with me because I was a mess. After the war, I didn't know what to do with my life. She always wanted to go back into medicine that was her chosen profession. So we both knew that our arrangement was temporary."
"It didn't have to be," Heero said without heat. He went and sat down on the seat of the vehicle he had been just working on. His comment was more stated as a question.
"No it didn't," Wufei answered honestly. "I just wasn't ready. I'm still not but with all of this—I'm really thinking that I was a fool to let things linger undone, unfinished."
Wufei leaped onto the vehicle to join him sitting on the back motor. There were no windows on the fork lift so they could easily see each other. They had all changed into space suits in preparation to the exodus. "So what happened between you two?"
Heero didn't look at him as he said it. "Duo caught me in bed with Heidi. No, that's not true I was in bed and she joined me."
"Heidi?" Wufei was surprised he didn't think Heero actually like the girl.
"It was an accident. At least that's what she claimed at the time now I'm not so sure."
Heero looked at Wufei and saw he was patiently waiting to hear rest of it. He felt nervous at first but once he started talking he actually felt better.
"I met up with Duo after a mission for the Prime Minister regarding some plant secretly producing armaments. We took out the whole unit and laid low for a week. It was really good being together."
Heero glanced up at Wufei and saw a look of understanding. They both missed those days of being soldiers free and fighting the good fight. He and Duo had partnered together on missions long after everyone else had started building their own lives again.
"I went back with him to Heidi's ship. At that time it was just she and Howard. Duo was holding out for some reason. I truly don't know why." Heero glanced up tentatively meeting Wufei's eyes. "I was using his cabin since we really didn't want anyone to know I was on the ship. Duo had gone to the laundry room and was scourging for clothes and other necessities. I was exhausted and decided to catch up on some much needed sleep. Heidi didn't know it was me."
"I don't understand you were sleeping."
Heero blushed as he shook his head gently. "Not really, but then when I felt someone touching me I reacted. It was nice."
"You didn't know it was her," Wufei stated starting to see where this was going. He would have never thought Heero would betray a friend. "It was an accident."
"Yes, maybe at first," Heero admitted. He saw Wufei's look of surprise. "I was curious, no I was lonely. I wanted to feel someone's arms around me. It was wrong."
What Heero didn't admit was that he enjoyed being in Duo's bed. After the shower lying naked in his bed had been very arousing. In fact, just staying with him, being around him, surround by his scent had become a ritual for him. Heidi's ill-timed interruption was the breaking point of his pent up desires.
"Do you love her?"
Heero snorted at that. It took a while but afterwards he realized it wasn't just him. Heidi had to have known immediately that it wasn't she that was inciting his excitement. She had to know when he moaned out Duo's name that it wasn't about her. So no, he didn't love her and he doubted she cared for him.
At first, he only blamed himself but after thinking on it he now realized that Heidi had used him. Maybe it was just jealousy on his part but he wouldn't forgive her for having him and he alone being the one rejected.
"Do you love him?" he asked next.
"Does it matter now?"
He had been just too foolish to realize it. He was too foolish to realize that he had lost the one he truly loved until it was too late. Wufei was right if they survive this, he too—he too would not have things linger undone, unfinished."
TBC