Forgetful: This is especially written for Jade Cade, whose reveiw made me LMAO. For those who don't understand that, that meant..um...laugh. Also for El Terrible Fizzy, Lady Dragon Wolf Knight (Update goddamn you...), Keiichisei, YukiNoHana1, Serenity Maxwell, To-Think-Of-A-Nice-Name and everyone else who reviewed chapter 12. Okay, yes, love the inspirational reviews. Thank you all so much. From now on I'm aiming for 100, so come on peeps, press the lil' button for me! You know you want to!
Maikeru: Shut up.
Forgetful: Make me, punk.
Maikeru: (shrinks back.) On second thought, it's a free country.
Forgetful: And don't you forget it! Oh, and another thing you shouldn't forget, it was my BIRTHDAY on 27th November...Oh, and according to Jade, it was her birthday the day before mine! Okay people...1. 2. 3...HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU..join in!...HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JADE-SAN, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! Otanjoubi omedetou gozaimasu! Even if it is late...
Oh, and just one more eensy little thing, Duo isn't the God of Death in this, and he isn't going to become it either. Although Keiichisei's idea would have been a really great plot, the war has to go on so I can get this story to have an ending. Thank you so much Keiichisei, where do you get such great ideas? I never thought about using their Mother like that...Oh, and Satan is and will allways be evil. Sorry all Satan fans...If he actually has any fans. (Sweatdrop...)
Chapter...Um...oh yeah! 13
Misjudged Fates
By Forgetful
Hell:
Quatre turned around and glared, (Which is a funny expression on Quatre's face, come on...)
" I'm home Otousan."
" Just what are you doing here, outcast?" Satan hissed.
" Poilite as ever. I came to see Heero, and since you've got more than me on your case at the moment I suggest you let me pass." Quatre stated confidently, even though his voice was doing better than he actually was at that point. He winced when Satan's unpredictable laughter sprang up again.
" I think I might just humour your request, if anyone can pull Heero out of his depressed stupor, it's his pansy of a brother. Go ahead boy." Quatre hesitated for a moment, sure that if Heero was upset about Duo he wouldn't be in his room, and he'd already checked everywhere else." Well don't just stand there, I don't know where the boy's gone so go look for him!" Although he hated complying with his Father's angry requests, Quatre left anyway. He figured his concern for Heero was worth more of his time than his hatred toward his parent.
Now, where would I go if I was a heartbroken, grieving Heero?
Only one place really stood out, a place they'd built together. (Heh, yup, you got it. (wink)) Quatre turned on his heel and set off to find his brother.
Earth:
" For the sake of my sanity stop pacing! It's giving me a headache!" Wufei yelled at Duo, who was busy wearing holes in the carpet. Duo simply stared at him for a while, annoyed, before plopping himself onto the sofa. (Yay! Plopping! Sorry, I have a strange love of that word...) Wufei had managed to ignore Duo's nervousness for a while by polishing his sword,(1,) but by that time he'd begun to grind the blade into a stump. And Wufei was very attatched to his sword. He would have continued ranting too, if that Angel with the damn gravity-defying hair hadn't sent him a glare of back-off-or-I'll-string-you-up-by-your-balls.
" Duo, it's okay. Heero's fine, and Quatre's probably going to go find him before he comes back. You can trust him." Trowa consoled, resting a warm hand on Duo's tense shoulder.
" If you say so. " Came Duo's grumbled reply. He knew it was going to be okay, Heero could take care of himself, but...What about Arai? And Heero thought Duo was dead for God's sake! How was he not supposed to worry? " Stupid royalty..." He mumbled.
( Note: I know I keep interrupting, but AHHHHHH! It just started snowing here, first snow all winter. So pretty! I can see it from my window...awww!)
" It'll be fine. Quatre and Heero are very close, I've known them fifteen years and that's the one thing I'd swear about them on my heart." Came an uncharacteristic assurance from the chinese demon. Duo only hoped his two companions were right, if they weren't, there really would be all Hell to pay.
Hell: Yeah, the scene changed again...-,-;
The gardens were empty, and the torches burned low. Quatre stumbled through the bushes and leftovers of the Festival of Death, scanning everywhere for some sign of his most probably hysterical brother.
" Heero?" He called tentively. Finally finding a path he recognised, he followed it to a crossroads of garden paths. The statue of an angel in the middle had her hands directing him to the clearing, their clearing. The fragile ornament had never belonged in Hell's gardens, but he now had an idea of why it was there.
" Mother." Of her he only remembered a caring touch and comforting warmth. The lingering smell of cinnamon that she'd always had with her. He'd never really thought about what he'd lost before, and now he knew about her past, it explained a few things.
" Heero? Please be here..." He turned the corner and swept back the ivy curtain. Between the swirls carved into the twisting trees and the spinning shards of glass dangling from their branches knelt Heero. His head was bowed and his shoulders shook, like a pilgrim paying homage in a fantastic temple. " Thank God I found you! Well, not God, but...I'm sorry it's an expression I picked up on Earth. It's really not so bad up there, and Trowa...You wouldn't believe what happened, and I came just to...-" Quatre trailed off from his nervous bantering when Heero's head snapped up in surprise, the tears clearly visible on his cheeks.
" Quatre?" Suddenly he buried his head in his palms and cried out; " They took him Quatre! And I...I did nothing." His shoulders lurched forward as he began to cry more violently. His moment of nervous insecurity passed in a flash when he saw Heero's state, and Quatre rushed over and took up his sibling in his arms. He whispered comforting nothings into Heero's ear until the Prince calmed down, and idly he played with the chocolate brown hair.
" It's alright, I'm here. I'm sure we can get this person back. Father can be persuaded, with the right resoning, we could probably even get him to allow them a room in the palace if we tried." Quatre resoned, his Father really wasn't all that desicive (No, I can't spell that word.)
" You don't understand, he killed him, in front of everyone, in front of me just to get me to bend to his will. And all that was after he asked Arai to...to...I don't want to go back to them. Those sick, twisted...-"
" I'll kill him." Quatre, although confused over this dead person and just what Arai did, knew that Satan had gone too far. He had to have done something seriously perverted to have broken Heero...Heero, the one that would usually be in his place comforting him after Quatre himself had witnessed to horrors of his Father's inhumane side. Oh, how the tables had turned. The strong had become the broken, and had only other broken to fall back on. " I'll kill him and burn his corpse." Heero was silent. Never in all his years of existance had he heard Quatre utter a threat. Tears remained at bay while he worried over his brother.
" Quatre I...You would never condone such a act."
" He has no dignity, no humanity, no emotions or empathy, and for that he dosn't deserve the life he has. Not any life. But...What did he do?" Quatre relaxed his hold on the other boy briefly, enough for him to pull away and study the tear stained face.
" He killed Duo, my Duo." Fresh tears followed the tracks of their already dried up kin, and Quatre stared at Heero in shock.
" What! No...But...Trowa and Wufei, are they alright? How in the name of all that's good did he find them? Please tell me they're alright!" His own eyes prickled at the thought of the bright-eyed braided boy being erased forever, but his worry for the others kept his grief in a seperate corner of his mind.
" Wufei was there?" Heero looked up, hopelessly confused and wondering how Quatre even knew who Duo was.
" Yes, Trowa and Wufei were with him when I le..eft...Damn." Quatre realised with a grimace that he'd got it all completely wrong. "You're talking about the exectution arn't you?"
" Yes, but..-"
" It never happened."
" What?"
" We stopped it."
" Quatre, just tell me what happened!" Heero burst out. Quatre was silent for a moment before standing up and sitting on the previously neglected bench.
" The execution never really happened. When I was banished to Earth, I met an Angel." Qautre noticed that Heero didn't even flinch at his startling fact. " His name is Trowa. He's been looking for Duo longer than I've been away from you, and when he found me he asked for my aid in finding him. I said yes, I knew I had nothing to fear from him. Earth is usually a neutural ground. He gave me a home and a life, a disguise to get me through the mortal world. After weeks of fruitless searching, Trowa spotted Wufei. If I hadn't been there I'm sure he would have gotten himself killed, but eventually we convinced Wufei to work with us. He told us that he'd found Duo and taken him to Hell, and that you had him. We prepared, and Wufei helped us. Using his magic we got into Hell undiscovered, we found Duo just as he was going onstage. With an illusion spell, Trowa got onstage and switched Duo with a guard. They left a few hours ago, and as far as know are sitting at home right as rain." Heero looked gobsmacked. He suddenly broke out in a grin and gave Quatre a suffocating hug and a kiss on the forhead.
" That's just changed my whole life. Thank you for coming to find me Quat, but now we're going back to Earth."
(1) I'm not going to call it a Katana, since that's a Japanese sword, not Chinese. And Wufei is Chinese , and I don't want to be incorrect, so you do the math. (grin) And if you don't like that, then just pretend there are no Katanas in Hell. Yeah, I called it one before, but I know it's wrong now. Sorry all. --;
And chapter 13 finally raises its ugly head! I'm so sorry for the delay in updating, but the Christmas period was very busy for me and I had no time. Plus, I did my Christmas themed fic '12 days of Christmas' (To be continued next Xmas) and that was the only writing I did over the whole time. Other updates may still be slow. Quicker, but slow, as I have my mock exams coming up this term.
On a lighter note, I read through chapter 1-6 at home and cringed at all the terrible spelling mistakes! Holy cow, did they suck! Thanks for pointing them out, I changed them on my home copies but never put them on for some odd reason. Anyway, next chapter Q and Hee-chan go to Earth! However, Heaven isn't going to be pleased with either Trowa or Duo, and punishments ensue. Will the couples stay together after all the hurdles they jumped? Will Heero escape his Father's evil clutches? Will Wufei ever get paired with anyone? And will this author ever stop using rhetorical questions and dictonaries that don't help at all? Nobody knows...