Title: Learn from past and live for future

Pairings: 1x2

Chapter 3

When Heero stopped inside of Chang's driveway he was dead tired. It was a dark night and only few stars could be seen on the sky. On autopilot he searched his pockets for keys he needed and was glad that Chang remembered to give them to him so he would not need to ring the bell and wake everyone up.

When he stepped out of the car, he did not bother with all his, and his son's, luggage. Tomorrow, or to be precise, today they would continue their journey to Duo so there was no point to get them out and later, back in again. With his tired brain he had just one wish, one priority, and that was to get to a guest room where his son was sleeping and get to sleep.

So that was exactly what he had done and as soon as his head met a pillow he was out cold.

...

Next time his brains woke him up was when he felt small fingers caressing his right cheek. In his dreamy state he registered his son laying on top of him with his right hand stretched up to caress him. It looked to Heero that subconsciously his son felt him near himself so he moved little by little toward Heero and ended his journey with him on top of Heero. If Duo would be here Heero knew he would say "Look Heero, is he cute or what?" and to honest his son really was "cute".

"Hey snuggle bunny, you okay?" his voice was deep and raspy. At first he did not get any respond from his sleeping leech but after few minutes passed by he could feel his son nodding and confirm it nonverbally.

"Had you fun with your Uncle Chang?" all Heero got in response was a nod. At the same time, he opened his blue eyes and looked into Heero's eyes. It was the same color as Relena's.

"There you are, look at those beautiful eyes. Is something on your mind, can't you sleep?" but it seemed his son had other thoughts which bothered him.

"Daddy, can I ask you something" small voice asked.

"Sure, you know you can ask me anything" he responded.

"Is mommy angry with me?" he asked.

"Why do you think she is or would be angry with you?" Heero did not know why, but he did not like it when his son doubted himself. It made him sad and angry at the same time.

"I asked the doctor who came for me why he was doing that and why he was taking me away."

His son was whispering while he was talking, but not a word was lost to Heero.

"He told me, my mommy wanted him to check me out and see why I am like I am. I don't understand daddy. Am I not okay? Was I bad?" his voice sounded confused.

"Little Mouse, nothing you do is bad. You will know when you are bad because I will tell you and show you; you know that right?" Heero waited for a nod, he knew it would come and then he continued "A lot of people are scared of the unknown. People don't like changes and if they are forced to be part of something extraordinary they get scared and they panic. In that state of mind, mistakes are made and bad decisions are chosen. When you are older you will learn more about human history and how many bad decisions were made through it. Then you will start to understand more, why mommy had done that. For now I will say she was selfish."

"Are we going back home,"while he asked his voice gotten softer and quieter.

"Do you want to go back home?" Heero asked even if he knew the answer already. While waiting he started to cares his sons head.

His son looked down to his hands and said "No, I am scared there. I am scared they will come for me, again. What if they come for me when you are not around and can't save me? What if they take me away and I never see you again?" his son's eyes got watery.

"Son, look at me." Heero waited for his son to look up "Nobody will take you away from me. And if that ever happens I am probably very badly hurt or I am dead. Then Uncle Quatre, Wufei, Trowa and Duo will turn everything upside down to find you. At the same time, whoever would dare to take you away from me would pay with death. Nobody will do that and get away with it."

Before continuing he waited a while for his son to calm. "And to answer your question; No, we are not going home. I talked to mommy and we are not going back. That is not our home anymore. You and me are going to my best friend. I told you about him, do you remember?"

"Uncle Duo?" he asked.

"Yes, that's the one. I visited him yesterday and we are going to stay with him."Heero explained.

"Why did he not come to see me before? Did he not know about me?"

"No son, it's not his fault. It's your daddy's fault. I was a bad friend to him and did not call him or even invite him to visit." In his mind Heero still couldn't believe how helpful Duo was and wanted to help them even if Heero was the one who was guilty of not being a good friend.

"Won't be mommy be sad if we don't go back home?"

To Heero it was really astonishing to see how important a mother figure was to a small child. Even if his son was only 5 years old and was scared of Relena he still did not want her to be angry at him. It was just remarkable.

"Your mother had done something she never should have done. I am very angry with her, that's why we are going to live somewhere else. It's not your fault and you done nothing wrong. Do you understand?" he waited for his son to respond.

"She made a bad decision" his son said more to himself then to Heero. Then his young brain clicked toward unknown "What if, Uncle Duo won't like me?" his son asked.

"That could never happen" but he saw doubts on his sons face, so he continued "If that would happens I will think about something else, but I can promise you it won't happened. He is very special person to your father and he is the best person I would ever meet."

"Why is he special?" his son asked.

"I could tell you a lot about him, but that would not be right and fun from your point of view. You will have to see it for yourself. Get to know him. For now, I can just say he is someone who tries to see a good thing in everyone. So, he will love you just the way you are and he will do anything for you just to make you happy."

Heero stopped talking for a few seconds and then continued with explanation.

"He is very special to me because he was the first person who showed me that he cared about what happens to me."

Looking down he still saw doubts in his son's small eyes, so he continued "In war times, when we were saving colonies, your daddy wasn't as nice as you know me now. I was very self-centered, cold and did not like anyone around me. But Duo…. he was first who tried to be my friend and who wanted to show me that there was something else out there. I promise you, you will like him and the place he lives in is magical."

Now his sons eyes shined excitedly and he indeed wanted to ask, "Why magical?"

"No, don't look at me like that. I won't say anything about it. It's a surprise for you." Heero was happy he got his son out of his sadness and negative thoughts. And even more, to Heero it looked like his son was picturing that magical place in his head. Then without words his son looked up and was watching him for a few minutes; what he was searching for Heero did not know. When he was satisfied, he closed his eyes.

"Can you sleep for few more hours?" Heero asked.

And again he got a confirmation with a nod of his head.

"Good, its…."he looked toward his alarm clock "5 AM in the morning, so we can sleep for few more hours."

...

For Wufei his mornings always started with running around his hometown. It was his way of checking his neighborhood before work. That way he got his morning exercise and confirmed the safety of his surroundings. After getting home and taking a shower he predicted he would find Yuy already waiting for him, but he was surprised not to see Yuy, but his son. Who was already entertaining himself. Very unique little guy from what he saw from the previous day.

When Heero called and explained what was going on and what he intended to do, while asking Wufei to take care of his son for a day, he panicked. He was ashamed of himself now. The problem was not the kid it was all Wufei and the unknown territory he would face while taking care for him.

In his defense, he never had any kind of kids around, small or large. All he knew about them were from neighbor children running around like maniacs, always full of energy and aloud. "But damn it, they could be loud." So he worried of the unknown. His mind tried to process a lot of questions like, "How could he take care for a 5 year old boy by himself; for a whole day? What were they going to do?"

But he had worried for nothing. From the moment Heero left him with Wufei it was like he was taking care of small, quiet and little mouse. He seldom saw such a shy and quiet boy. Even when he took him into children's park where a lot of running, climbing,and playing with sand was involved with different children, nothing happened. The kid just sat there not moving away from Wufei, looking around. It was like he was checking and observing. Right then he reminded him of Heero and how he was in war time; cold and unattached.

Now, he was quietly sitting in his living room watching Animal Planet.

"Something good on TV, little man?"he asked the boy and got respond with a nod.

"Is your dad up?"again he got a negative shake with his head.

"Is he sleeping?"another nod came.

"You hungry?"at first nothing happened and to Wufei it looked like the kid was checking out his body. Then he nodded again.

"Okay, then I will go prepare breakfast and if your dad is not up when its ready we wake him up, okay?" with same nod it was confirmed so Wufei went to kitchen, but before he would vanish into next room he said "Try to find some cartoons."

...

When Heero woke up for the second time he was alone. His son probably woke up and went out and left Heero to sleep some more. "Good boy." Regarding the noises coming from other rooms he was guessing his son was watching television in living room and Wufei preparing their breakfast. Still not feeling like standing up, he looked toward the window and the nature outside. He could see it was beautiful day accompanied by sun shining with full force.

"Lady Luck is on our side, for now" he said loudly.

He pondered about all what happened in previous days and the talks he had with Duo, Relena and Quatre, but after a while he knew it was time to rise and start the day. So that was what he did. He got up went into bathroom, took a shower, put on dark blue jeans and a yellow T-shirt. Then after cleaning up Wufei's guest room, he went out to start his day.

As he predicted he found his son behind big television screen watching some animal documentary.

"Morning Butter Cup," when his son saw him he ran to him and throw himself at Heero with expectations to be raised up on his lap.

Without thinking he indeed lifted him up while he talked to him "What did we say, what is the polite respond for my greeting" Heero asked.

"Good morning, daddy"chirp out a quiet voice.

"That's my boy,"Heero responded proudly. He looked toward TV screen and saw some lion eating a gazelle.

"Couldn't you find any interesting cartoon at that time of day?"

"No," his son responded still leeching on Heero without any intention to go down.

"Okay, I will go into the kitchen to see if I can help out Uncle Chang. When all is ready I will call you. Is that okay?"

"Yes daddy", so he put his son down and went to the kitchen.

When he got there he could see Chang preparing normal English breakfast while talking to someone on the phone "No, are you crazy you cannot give them food that is not good for them." For a while he was quiet and then responded to whatever was said on the other side. "Yes, I will go and buy proper food just don't poison my ladies before I get there." Then his six sense told him someone was watching him so he turned around and saw Heero. "Oh, your new roommate woke up and is in the kitchen."

"Maxwell" Chang whispered to Heero and then continued talking with him. "Yes, we are going after breakfast. No, he doesn't. Yes, I talked to Une. Okay if we need you we will call. Yes I will say good morning to Heero" Heero did not know how Duo responded but Chang looked to Heero and said "Duo is sending you good morning wishes. He is also saying to drive carefully," after listening to Duo for few more seconds and nodding, he ended his phone call.

"Chang are you coming with us?" Heero asked astonished.

"I had hard cases last week and Une told me to take few days off, so I thought I could go with you to Duo and stay with you guys for a week. Is that okay?"

"More than okay, it's great" he smiled.

"Is your luggage still in your car?"Chang asked.

"Yes, when I got to your place it was 1 AM and I was just too lazy and tired to get them out, so I left all of them inside." Heero explained.

"Okay, I think I heard you coming, but I was asleep very soon after. Before I forget, what does your son like to drink at breakfast? Milk or tea?"

"Milk or if you have Cacao he will drink that".

It was quiet for a while then Chang asked, "Hey Heero is that car outside yours?"

"No, I rent it for few weeks. I wanted to make clean break from Relena so I did not take any car from there. Why do you ask?"

"There is no point for us to drive both cars to Duo. I need my car for travel back home. So let's leave your car here and when I get back I will return it for you. What you say?"

"Okay, but what if I need a car?"

"Don't worry for that. Duo owns two cars a Suzuki Jip and a Chevy Suburban family car if I remember correctly. I am sure he will let you use them" Chang explained.

"Yes, he will"Heero was sure of it.

"Okay, tell your son breakfast is ready".

...

After 2 hours of eating breakfast, cleaning what they eat, packing up from Chang and transferring all Heero's luggage into the other car, they were ready to start. They would need five hours for sure to get to Duos place.

Chang and Heero also agreed for the driving to be done by the both of them. So, Heero would start and after a while Chang would replace him and continue driving till they got to end destination. Also, both know it would be hard on five years old boy to be in a car for five hours nonstop, so they agreed to stop few times to stretch their legs and use time to go to toilet and get some water.

"Okay, little Macaroon are you ready to start our journey?"

His son was already in his own seat; a special made seat for children, and looked at both of them like he wanted to say "Can we go now?"

"Okay I agree, you are the best son I could ever wish for. Such a smart boy who can get into his seat on his own and waiting like a quite mouse to be seen."

A small smile was seen on his son's face, but after a few seconds his face got serious. To Heero it looked like he remembered something "Daddy what are we going to do about my toys?"

"I have all your stuff back in the trunk so you don't need to worry. When we get to Duo you can check all of them to see if daddy forgotten something."

Heero saw, it was good explanation for his son because next he was looking out, not bothering by anything.

"Are we ready to go, every one of us?"when both Chan and his son nodded he started the car and their drive started.

TBC

Author not:

Okay, my third chapter is done. I hope who ever will read it is satisfied with it. I know some of you would like to get to Duo and his farm, like now; but it can't be done because that chapter had to be before it. So, please read and review.

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