A Baby's Lullaby
"Hush abbey baby don't need cry . . . . . ." Quatre's soft voice began to hum as he rocked idly back and forth in the rocking chair that Trowa had placed in their room. He started to mull over what had happened in the past two weeks as he hummed. First Duo and Wufei came home and holding true to the word of their friendship, they took over Miya's case and had her home. Then just last night Duo and Wufei where rejoicing with everyone, telling Zechs and Heero that him and Wufei where now expecting. Then Trowa and he had told Heero and Zechs about the triplets, and they laughed. Oh how they laughed! But he had to admit that it was funny. He was brought out of his musings when a light knock came from his door.
"Come in." Quatre said gently. Duo walked in, shutting the door behind him, before he fell to the bed looking pail and as if he had saw better days during the war then he had now.
"Are you all right?" Quatre asked as he got up and sat next to Duo and began to gently rub his back.
"No, I feel awful. I can't eat anything without throwing it up, my abdomen is cramping, and I miss my Wu-bear." Duo said his lip pouting out. Quatre chuckled, he had yet to go threw the mood swing but he figured that to be due to his more inner balance . . . . . . . . Yeah right. He was just lucky. Unfortunately for Duo though, he wasn't as lucky. He seemed to be getting the worst of it. Heero didn't even have it this bad. Quatre took pity on pour Duo; he was even forced to take calcium supplements and ether fraternal medicines.
Quatre pulled Duo up limply and cradled his head agents his shoulder. He rubbed Duo's back gently trying to give Duo at least a little comfort. Another nock came to his door.
"Come in." At his consent Heero walked in with a tray that held three glasses of milk some sandwiches, crackers, miny muffins, and Duo's medicines. As he turned to shut the door, Quatre could see Miya waving her arms and cooing in her sling that hung on his back.
"Lunch time and Duo you need to take your medicine." Heero said gently as he sat the tray on the night table. Duo gave a pained moan as he saw the sandwiches. Heero smirked.
"I brought you some crackers; they'll settle your stomach." Heero said as he gave Duo his medicine and a glass of milk. Duo took the vitamins, supplements, and milk gingerly before popping the capsules and taking a drink of milk.
"Thanks. . " Duo mumbled under his breath as he took a cracker and idly munched on it like a mouse. Heero reached over and gently ran his hand threw Duo's bangs, ruffling them slightly and gave Duo a sad kind of smile.
"Don't worry; it'll get better promises me." Heero said gently. Duo gave a huff and continued to munch on his cracker. Heero moved to pull the stuffed chair from the corner to the bed but Quatre stopped him.
"Heero don't bather with that, sit in the rocker and rock Miya." He said happily. Heero turned back around and gave a small smile. He brought Miya around to his front in her sling and sat down facing the ether two.
"Baka dada!" she squealed happily as she reached up to try and grab at Heero's face. They all gave a laugh at her and Heero bent his head down and gabbed little Miya's fingers with his mouth, covering his teeth with his lips 'munched' on her fingers making noises. Before releasing her little fingers and bending further down to rub their noses together. Miya just squealed and laughed at her father. Heero brought his head up, a little flushed from leaving his head bent, allowing the blood to rush, and from laughing at his daughter.
He looked at Quatre, he had a 'the glow' about him at watching Heero and Miya play. Quatre had his hand atop his some what swollen abdomen. Heero's eyes shifted gently to Duo, who he found had placed his glass back on the tray along with his cracker and had curled up on the bed and fallen asleep. Heero shock his head gently. He gave Miya a muffin then he picked her up from her sling.
"Quatre, would you hold her while I take Duo and put him in bed?" Quatre, who had grabbed a sandwich and was eating happily looked to his side and saw why Heero had said that. He jumped slightly.
"Oh! Ya sure." Quatre squeaked as he sat his sandwich back on the tray and wiped his hands on a napkin before reaching out and taking Miya. When Heero got up so did Quatre, who sat back down in the rocker so Heero could scoop Duo up and cradle him. it still surprised Quatre that even being forced to be idle for nine months, Heero had kept his strength. Heero walked out of the room with Duo cradled in his arms.
Quatre watched him leave before looking down at Miya. Her little hands were busy shoving the muffing into her mouth. She just loves those things. She soon had it gobbled up and he began to rock, with in a few mints she had drifted off into her midday nap. He gently patted her rump as he continued to rock her, looking out the window and just relishing the quiet. Quatre snapped his head around when he heard the door click shut to see Heero turning and walking over. Quatre automatically knew something was wrong buy the way Heero looked.
"Heero what's wrong?" Quatre asked worried.
"I'm worried about Duo. When I went to lay him down he grabbed my arm, I thought he had woken up but he was still asleep. He started to mumble and what I caught I didn't like." Heero sat down on the bed, steeping his fingers under his chin and resting his elbows on his knees.
"Why? What did he say?" Quatre asked gently.
"Precise quote: Wufei why are you leaving? I . . . I didn't mean to loose the baby, I'm sorry Wufei. Please don't leave I'll try again, I promise I wont loose this one, please stay Wufei." He paused turning his head then looking Quatre straight in the eye.
"He even cried Quatre. He's having nightmares about loosing the baby and loosing Wufei with it. Duo is my best friend Q, just like you are, and I hate seeing that. He knows Wufei won't leave him but still it pledges his dreams."
"What do you suggest we do?" Quatre asked gently. Heero's face became serious.
"Have both Wufei and Trowa take leave from work and stay home till the baby's are born. I know it will ease Duo if Wufei where around to take care of him instead of you and me, and I'd feel better with Trowa here as an extra pair of hands; Wufei's will be full with Duo and I can't be every where at the same time." Heero elaborated. Quatre had to smile at Heero.
"That sounds like a perfect idea. But what about Zechs, would you like it if I gave him some time off too?" Quatre asked kindly. Heero gave him a small smile.
"No that's ok; you two are the ones that need your husband's home right now." He stood up from the bed and took the two steps to Quatre.
"Here give me Miya and I'll go put her in bed and as for you, I want you to finish you lunch then try and take a nap, trust me if you don't now you'll wish you had later." He said as he gently took his daughter from Quatre and left, closing the door behind him. Quatre did as told and ate his lunch. While he ate he called up his office and told his personal secretary to arrange a thirteen month paid vacation for Trowa Barton and Chang Wufei.
He had to admit that he really didn't want to quit running W.E. but he really couldn't do it while he was pregnant, and he and Trowa wanted a big family; planning on fallowing these three with several more. And then there was the fact that neither of them wanted to leave their children home without one of them there. Sure Heero and Duo said that they would be happy to watch the baby's while Trowa and him were at work, but still they wanted at least one of them at home to be with the children. He remembered how during a tiff that him and Trowa had been having on the subject of paternity leave, Heero had stepped in with little Miya cradled in his arms, he had laughed as she started to chastise them in baby talk with a glare so much like Heero's. Once Heero had stepped right in the middle of them, he had gently stated, what now seemed like the most obvious answer, that maybe Quatre should just move his office home. And that was that.
Quatre gave quite a large yawn of some one who was supposedly not tired, he chastised him self. Heero was only looking out for him and Duo, and he had to admit that he was happy that Heero was here and he completely took back all the thoughts of how frustrating Heero could be when he was pregnant. He now knew that Heero had all right to be a pain in the ass.
Quatre crawled slowly onto the bed and curled up on his side, giving another large yawn, he drifted off.
Wufei cracked the door to his and Duo's room open and looked in. Trowa and him had just gotten home. They had been called and told that they had been given an extended thirteen month paid vacation. He had laughed when Trowa had met him at the car wearing a most amusing blush.
"What's wrong with you?"
"Quatre has requested I take thirteen moths, paid, off."
"And what's so bad bout that, I got the same thing."
"it was kinda embarrassing to have the manager of the east department come and tell you that your husband is taking you out with him for paternity leave." Once Trowa had uttered those Wufei had busted down laughing.
But now, now he was tiptoeing over to his bed to curl up behind the most wonderful lover in the world and be with him for the most wonderful event that life could offer, the growth and birth of their child.
He gently crawled onto the bed and scooped up behind Duo, wrapping his arms secretly around Duo's shoulders. Duo turned and snuggled closer but his face looked pained and sad. Wufei became worried as he listened to Duo mumbled in his sleep.
"Oh Duo, no, no, no, I would never leave you." He closed his eye's tightly at the horrific thought and wrapped his arms tighter around Duo and held him closer.
Duo's Dream Duo's POV
My eyes blinked open as I laid on are bed. But something was wrong, my stomach hurt and it felt like something was running between my legs. I looked down and there was blood running every where. Then my stomach cramped up, I turned on to my back. No, no, NO! I can't loose my baby, I can't loose Wufei's baby! No!
"Wufei, it hurts Wufei!" I call out but he's not there. Every thing is black now and I'm laying here, blood is still pouring from between my legs and it hurts. I close my eyes and when I open them again I'm lying in a hospital bed with a gown on and Wufei sitting next to me in a chair.
"Wufei what happened?" I asked, my voice is horse and week.
"You lost it, you lost my child." He sounds so angry with me. I don't understand. Is this really happening?
"I. . . I'm sorry Wufei I . . . . I didn't mean to. I . . ." Wufei got up before I could finish and headed to the door.
"Don't try and apologies, you never wanted the baby to begin with, you did this just to spite me."
"NO! I wanted it! I swear I just wanted you to be . . . . " But every thing turned black again.
I closed my eye's hopping that when I opened them he would still be there, with me. but when I opened them I was standing next to are bed wearing my over sized dark blue, nit sweater, and Wufei, Wufei is packing?
"What are you doing Wufei?"
"I'm leaving, it took to long for you to become conceived and then you loose it, you attention seeking fagot. I don't have the time to wait for you to give me a child let a lone suffer with your attention seeking exploits." He, he means it. He sounds so venomous. He hates me!
"No please! I didn't want to loose the baby! Don't go! Please don't go! I'll get pregnant again, I promise just don't go!" I'm crying and I don't care, he's being a bastard and I still don't care. I love him and a few harsh words that's all they are just words.
"Please Wufei don't go! Please stay!"
End of Dream, norm POV
Duo was crying hard in his sleep, mumbling and Wufei has had enough of this nightmare. He brought his hand up and ran it along Duo's cheek and into his bangs.
"Duo, come on baby, wake up." Duo's eyes blinked open, red rimed and with tears still streaming lightly down his cheek. He jumped slightly before wrapping his arms around Wufei's neck and barring his face agents Wufei's chest giving small hiking sobs.
"Shh, shh, now it was only a bad dream, I'm here and I'm not going anywhere." Wufei cooed.
"I. . . .I. . . . . WUFEI!" Duo cried harder as he barring his face further into Wufei's chest.
"Hushhhh, I'm right here Duo, I'm right here with you." Wufei comforted as he brought the hand witch Duo had been laying on up to the back of Duo's head and threaded his fingers into that ginger main. Duo's sobs started to slow into hiccups and his breathing began to even out. Wufei took his ether hand and rub gentle soothing circles in the center of Duo's back. Then reality hit Duo and he looked up into Wufei's gentle onyx eyes.
"Why are you home so early? Not that I'm complaining." Wufei gave him a gentle smile.
"Quatre didn't like the thought of Trowa and I not being here while you and him are pregnant. He wants us here with you and I do not disagree." Wufei laid a gentle kiss on Duo's forehead before gently pushing Duo's head foreword to rest back agents his chest.
"I love you Chang." Duo said sleepily.
"Ai shiteru, Duo, forever and always." With that exchange they both drifted off for a restful nap.
Trowa entered his and Quatre's sheared bedroom to find his little angle lying asleep on their bed with a small smile on his face as his little hand rested on his stomach. Trowa gave a small smile. He crawled over the bed and laid behind Quatre. Quatre sighed and snuggled closer, causing Trowa to give a small chuckle before nuzzling the top of Quatre's head and breathing in the sent of the desert. It never seemed to leave his little angel. The sent of those broiling sands and the clear sky's that aloud the sun to show bright and hot. He remembered how breathtaking Quatre looked under those skies. The sun causing his hair to shine, that gave the impression that he had a halo of golden light. How the reflection on of the sun from the sands gave him a surreal glow, making him seem even more out of this world.
How he loved his little angle. And now his little angle was giving him the most precious gift he could ever ask for. He was getting a family of his own. Sure he thought of the ethers as his family but this, this was what was missing. The last peace of the puzzle, it all fit perfectly. He could not ask for any thing more then this. He did miss the circus now and then but that feeling would pass as soon as he saw Quatre and his little one smiled at him. he regretted nothing he did during his life, not even all the killing he did during the war, because it all lead to this point in time, this perfect point.
Quatre turned in his sleep and nuzzled closer to Trowa. Trowa wrapped his arms lovingly around Quatre and holding him close, rubbing slow circles on Quatre's back. Quatre gave a sigh of contempt and then settled to sleep some more. Trowa fallowed him into a soothing sleep.
Ok people, Trio here, I have been battling a REALLY bad case of block with this story so I'm just going to take a brake on this one till I get some inspiration to write more. I have started several ethers I need to finish and then I have like six ethers I'd like to start posting so ya. . . . . . . . IF ANY OF YOU WHO ARE ACTULY READDING THIS PLEASE FEEL FREE TO GIVE ANY IDEAS! If not I'm going to start doing some MAGIOR time jumps that I know you wont like. AND THAKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE REVIEWED MY STORYS! It means a lot to me that you guys are enjoying them.