Hi again. Thank you Nikkel and priscel for submitting the only two reviews last chapter got. I'm glad that at least someone liked it and is waiting for more.
Just a small warning for this second chapter: I managed, like I told you, to put some lemon.
Other than that, enjoy!!!
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Hope"Hey Heero, wanna go out for dinner tonight?"
"Sounds good, let's go"
"Great! Let me just finish these reports and I'll be right with you"
Duo was typing like crazy in a black laptop while Heero stood behind him, watching him work. They were in a small office with no windows and just a desk where Duo currently sat working. After handing over a full report on his findings at the deserted colony Heero Yuy was given a couple of days to rest before his next mission started. Duo was thrilled to hear this and immediately got to work so he could have those days free. A few minutes later Duo hit a button in victory signal and stood up. He stretched and shut down his laptop.
"Let's go now, I'm really starvin'" declared the long braided preventer.
As he watched the computer screen go blank he felt a couple of arms hug him round his waist and the hot, humid breath of his lover on his neck before he kissed it. The kisses sent anxiety shivers down Duo's whole body. He held Heero's hands in his for a while, enjoying Heero's kisses until he turned around.
From that moment on, a long set of French kisses kept the two lovers busy. For such a long time they had been parted. Now, it was like at the beginning. Timidly exploring each other, like the first time. Such longing had made it hard to believe they were finally together again.
Thinking he might've died and gone to heaven, Duo slowly parted his lips allowing Heero's tongue to enter and touch the tip of Duo's own tongue. For a while Duo savored the pleasant moment before bringing his tongue into Heero's mouth for a passionate round. Even for a moment they just pulled their tongues out, having quite a fun battle outside their half closed lips.
"Duo, do you know where… ah… never mind" in an instant the door had opened and in came the blonde Quatre looking at some files in his hand. When he raised his head he regretted to have entered without knocking first. He let himself out instantly, blushing.
Duo and Heero turned to see him leave, then turned to each other and smiled.
"So, about that dinner you promised me…" said Heero.
"Right" answered his lover.
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"Wufei! I've been looking for you"
Quatre came running at the Chinese pilot.
"What for?"
"Sally asked me to give you this" Quatre handed out the files he'd been carrying for a while. "She says the new missions have already been filed and approved. We are to leave a week from now"
"Hn…"
"Heero got here just some hours ago"
"He didn't find anything, did he?"
"No… there were some records about a military base at the deserted space colony and Lady Une is having them checked, but Heero reckons they've been there since before Oz"
"Nothing about the Disease… well, I was just with Sally down at the research lab, they have some news for us and I was just about to set out looking for you"
"Really?"
"Yes, she expects us to be there at 18:00 hours so I better go look for Yuy and Maxwell"
"Great, I'll go get Trowa"
Both started walking away in different directions. Quatre suddenly spoke.
"Is it bad news?"
"I have no idea"
Duo and Heero were at a restaurant. It was quite elegant because Duo decided they really needed to celebrate Heero's return. Splendid courses were served and after a while they stood up to take a short brake and go to the bathroom. Duo was washing his hands when Heero came up to him from behind, hugged him round the waist like some time before, and started kissing his neck again.
"I take it you missed me" said Duo in a sarcastic voice watching Heero's reflection kiss him.
"You have no idea…" whispered Heero into Duo's neck making his lover's whole body vibrate with a sudden desire.
Duo suddenly felt something hard press up his butt and turned to face Heero thanking Kami that the bathroom was deserted. After kissing for a brief moment on the lips, Heero pulled Duo into a stall, closed the door and pinned him to the panels that separated each toilet.
"I've really missed you" whispered Heero parting from Duo's lips and looking deep into his eyes.
Slowly and delicately, he approached Duo again and gently brushed his lips with his own. He began to make his way down his throat while one of his hands pulled Duo closer by his buttocks and the other began unzipping his pants.
"Mr. Yuy, you've got to behave yourself" said Duo breathlessly while holding a mischievous grin. In return he simply held Heero's head with one hand, stroking his hair, and running down his back with the other.
Right at that moment Heero finished fidgeting with Duo's zipper and slipped his hand inside. He found Duo's member and gently stroked it making Duo emit a soft moan. His hand began a slow, steady pace drawing more moans from Duo's mouth. Pulling him ever closer the tip of Duo's manhood was finally in close contact with Heero's. With every stroke, which Heero made faster, Duo felt like in Heaven, unable to stop the moans that were coming from his half open mouth. Their breaths became faster when Duo lowered both his hands and pressed Heero closer to him.
"Duo…" Heero whispered his lover's name. He slowed the movement until he stopped. He turned to look at Duo's fully erect member and slowly began to bend down. He came closer, closer…
RING
Duo opened his eyes and stared around exasperated. Heero simply screwed his face up and took the cell phone that was ringing from inside his jacket.
"Fuck…" muttered Duo.
"What?" answered Heero harshly.
"Heero, it's Quatre, I've been looking all over for you"
"What is it Quatre"
Assuming the hot, passionate moment was definitely over, Duo began zipping his pants sadly looking at his fellow taking its original position. The heat was off.
"Sally wants us all back at the base. It's something from the lab, they say they've got some news for us" continued Quatre.
"All right"
"Have you seen Duo?"
"Duo? …mmm, not really" Heero winked and eye at Duo.
"Well if you see him please tell him about it"
"I will, see you in a while"
"You ought to turn your cell phone off more often" said Duo while Heero placed his phone back into his jacket, "or maybe put the vibrating alert on… oh the wonders it would do"
Heero stared at his lover with his eyes wide open. A series of images flashed quickly in his mind of all the possible uses of a vibrating cell phone. He mentally slapped himself, surprised that there were so many… weird uses he could give it… he also made a mental note to try them with Duo once he got the chance.
"What are you grinning at?" asked Duo surprised to see Heero's face grinning in an almost evil way.
"Never mind"
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"What do you suppose Sally wants to tell us?" asked Quatre hanging up a telephone located on top of a plain wooden table.
"Well, it's something about the Disease so probably something's been discovered" answered Trowa who was sitting on a nearby couch.
Quatre stared at the floor. The room they were in was plain and small. It had bare walls and the most spectacular feature was a window that showed a great part of the city. Next to the door was the wooden table with the phone and close to the window was the couch Trowa was sitting on.
"Perhaps they've found a way to identify it… instead of waiting for the convulsions to start…" added Quatre in a low voice.
Trowa stared at him for a while and then his expressions softened. The little blonde was still intently looking at the floor, his fists tightly clenched. Trowa knew that one of Quatre's sisters had been taken by the Disease. Quatre wasn't too close to any of his sisters, not even when his father died. His job made him be away from home and he never really got the chance to be in touch with any of them. But when the Preventers got involved with the Disease he had received notice that one of his sisters had died infected by it.
He hadn't been there, he hadn't seen his sister suffer. He didn't even get the news from his family. The Preventers made him in charge of collecting the data about the victims in all the colonies and that's where he saw his sister's name figuring in the list. It came as a real shock and he left immediately for home. Quatre returned a couple of weeks after, but he came in a terrible state. He wouldn't eat, he wouldn't sleep, he wouldn't do anything. He simply walked around, his mind lost deep in miserable thoughts, or he would spend the day locked in his room, staring out the window not talking to anyone.
It had been Trowa's job to bring him back. He tried talking him out of it but Quatre wouldn't react. Only a two and a half weeks afterwards did Quatre allow his boyfriend to share his bed while he cried into his arms letting all his sadness flow free. They hadn't done anything, Trowa only stayed there, holding Quatre like a mother held his crying baby, comforting him in any way he could.
The next day Quatre had gotten better and he was convinced that he had to work as hard as he could to prevent people from suffering like he did. Probably after that Quatre was one of the most fervent investigators the Preventers had.
Trowa stood up and took Quatre's hand. His blonde lover didn't move for a while and tears threatened to come again. Suddenly he let himself lean against Trowa's chest. Trowa hugged him trying to make him feel better. They stayed like that for a while until it was time to go and meet Sally at the research labs.
Wufei was already there, dressing up in white suits with rubber gloves, masks, and hairnets.
"Duo and Heero aren't here yet?" asked Quatre.
"They'll be here soon. Put those on" Wufei pointed at a pair of suits just like his for Quatre and Trowa to wear, "otherwise we won't be allowed into the lab"
When Quatre and Trowa finished dressing up, Heero and Duo showed up and got to do the same as their companions. A while later they were being led to the labs by Sally and Lady Une. They had to go through some disinfecting gases first and then through a pair of thick glass doors that hermetically shut themselves after them. The group approached a couple of scientists waiting next to a table filled with a lot of laboratory items. In front was a screen.
"Welcome" said one of the scientists, "please take your seats" he pointed at chairs in front of the screen.
When they all settled themselves they began with an explanation of uttermost importance.
"There's no point in adorning the words we're about to tell you, it's best if we go straight to the point" spoke the second scientist. "After a year of research and experimenting we have discovered how to momentarily stop the Disease"
The group of seven Preventers that entered the lab shared amazed looks. Hope shone in every couple of eyes and Lady Une urged them to go on.
"The process is quite difficult to explain" continued the first scientist, the one that welcomed them there, "so there's absolutely no point in going into details about it, but we can proudly tell you that out research team has found a way to cryogenically freeze a victim of the Disease allowing the virus that infects the brain to stop its activity. Needless to say is that this will give us more time to find an effective cure"
"But I thought that cryogenic freezing was useless since the brain continues to function even after the freezing process" said Lady Une.
"True" answered the second scientist, "after the process the brain continues to work at its minimal functions to keep organs such as the heart working. However, with a special machine that keeps the heart pumping blood to the body, we have been able to freeze the brain and the virus that infects it. The brain is no longer needed to keep vital organs working so the person is in no real danger of dying. And since the brain cells are no longer developing any sort of functions, nor is the nervous system, the virus can't take hold of them and it's easy for us to isolate it"
Everyone assented indicating understanding. It wasn't a cure, but it was a way to give people hope and time. Death could be postponed…
"The bad news is," said the first scientist, "that it only works if the Disease is discovered within the first ten hours…"
They all felt their hearts drop. There were no symptoms to the Disease but a headache and before the thirteenth hour it was impossible to identify. Things weren't looking so well anymore.
"We haven't really tested it to see if it works after the tenth hour, but since the brain starts collapsing after such hour, it's kind of hard to isolate the virus because it would have already spread across most of the brain cells that control the muscles and then the machine we have developed to keep vital organs working won't have any effect" finished the first scientist.
Silence rang in everyone's ears for a while. They were all still digesting the bit of information just received. There might still be hope for those infected if the Disease was discovered in time, but then again, that was another challenge. To find all those infected before the tenth hour passed wasn't going to be easy.
"Well, maybe not every single victim might be able to undergo such process" spoke Quatre, "but there are some that we might still be able to save. As long as I know that the Disease can be stopped for some I will do my best to give them hope"
The Preventers smiled at this and each decided within their own thoughts that they would fight along these lines as well.
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A/N: Well, I don't really know how the cryogenic freezing process works… to tell you the truth I don't know a thing about it… but I do know that it somehow slows or stops activity in a body (got it from Batman Forever… Dr. Freeze's wife, remember?) and it occurred to me that it could probably work for this. Then again it's just a story, have mercy and compassion with me.
