CHP 10- Disclaimer: Still holding!
Duo snickered as he stepped back into the house he and Hee-chan occupied. In his arms was a small stack of candy bars, Duo planned on hiding them as soon as he entered the house. After all it was a well guarded secret that The perfect soldier was very fond of chocolate.
" I've got some thing that will make you regret not taking me along HEE-HEE!"
There was a pause as Duo waited for the usual threat to ring through the air. Nothing. Duo scowled.
" Where are you Heero"
The braided pilot moved through the house like a cat, slinking along walls and walking with silent steps through each room, arms still bulging with sweets.
He heard something in the living room, what sounded like a weight being dropped on carpeting.
" Heero?"
Hearing his name Heero lifted his head from the arched position he had placed it as he vomited on the flooring. His mouth was filed with the coppery taste of blood and the foul sting of bile. He choked once more and threw his head down again, trying to swallow back the next wave of nausea. His skin was an unhealthy pallor and the whites of his eyes where quickly turning yellow.
Duo dropped what was occupying his arms and knelt at his companions' side; face looking bewildered and scared. He'd never seen Heero like this before. In fact Duo had his doubts about Heero ever being sick a day in his life.
"Are you okay? Holy shit…What's this!"
The American grabbed a cloth napkin from the coffee table and pressed it to the sick boy's lips. Heero gagged again and Duo felt the warm weight of vomit soaking through the rag. Heero pulled back from the napkin, unable to take the smell of his own excretes.
" Duo… Get away. You'll get sick."
He didn't know exactly how this virus would spread but Heero had no doubt it was created to be highly contagious. He threw his entire body over again and clutched at the cloth in Duo's hands to stifle his retching.
"We need to get you to a doctor… Uh.. Sally Po! She'll know what to do! Or Trowa! He'll rush over If I call him on the transmitter…." Heero's grip on his wrist and on the rag became harder as his shoulders shuddered and continued to vomit. Duo began to get up from his knees, Pulling Heero with him. The Japanese man could have slapped Duo across the face right then. Didn't he understand what he was saying? Couldn't he get that this wasn't a normal illness? He pushed away at the man's solid body and swayed as he tried to support himself. Cobalt eyes focused on the thickening vomit that covered his hand. It was a ruddy hue, with dark purplish-blue splotches that he was sure were blood cells.
" N-no…You idiot… Its going to spread…You.. infec-" Again his speech was cut off by the copper taste of blood rising and forcing its self out with his vomit. He began sweating and the inside of his throat tightened, shaking hands gripping at his face to subdue the urge to heave again. Duo pulled Heero back to his body and restrained him, forcing him to the couch to lie down.
"It's like the colony all over again…"
He whispered as his brain slowly began to fill in gaps, Visions coming back of his childhood and the disease that had killed so many of his fellow orphans. HE wracked his brain to find an explanation, for any reasoning this could have happened now and the only thing he could thing of was the mission.
" Heero! Tell me! Where did you go? The MISSION, What was it!" Duo had to stop himself from shaking his companion back and forth to wake him. His fellow pilot didn't answer and Duo began searching around the house for Heero's lap top. " Please don't be deleted.. please." Duo begged as he began to hack into files on the data base. There it was! A full information pull up on someone name Doctor Brown. Duo's violet eyes narrowed as he read about the specified field the 'good doctor' specialized in.
" You son of a bitch... this is all your fault isn't it?" he growled at the screen and printed out the information. He stormed out into the living room again and checked on Heero. His breathing had become labored and his skin glistened with sweat. Picking up his cell phone Duo quickly dialed a number and held it to his ear. It rang over and over again but there was no answer.
" shit" he cursed silently. " She isn't there… Looks like your coming with me buddy." He Tucked the sheets of paper into a pocket and as gently as he could, moved Heero onto his shoulders.
" We're going to pay the doctor a little visit."