Well thanks to the awesome response on the first day, I'm updating again! How amazing is that it didn't take a month? I have been motivated I guess. Anyway on with the chapter! On the random note Duo torture in this chapter but nothing bad so if that makes you nervous beware! No loss of body part or anything nasty, probably because I don't like that stuff, I mean who wants Duo with only 8 fingers? Not me…
Everything I Wanted
Chapter 4: Take Me Away
I can not find, a way to describe it,
Its there, inside, all I do is hide.
I wish that it would just go away,
What would, you do, you do if you knew, what would you do?
All the pain, I thought I knew, all the thoughts lead back to you.
Back to what was never said, back and forth inside my head.
I can't handle this confusion, I'm unable, come and take me away…
Duo could hear the hushed whispers in the background as he slid in and out of reality. He could feel the cold hard metal that incased his wrists and held him suspended from the ground, but he made no move to open his eyes. Even though his breathing was steady his mind was racing. He had saved Relena, but in that moment when the metal encased him and the shock waves of pain penetrated his body he wasn't so sure they were after her to begin with. It had to be him all along; there was no other way to explain it. If these people had wanted Relena dead they would have done it long before he had intervened. The hushed voices raised but he couldn't tell what they were saying, he suppressed the urge to move his wrists and test the strength of the shackles. Better for them to think he was asleep, at least that way he would buy time until someone could come save him.
Duo mentally paused in his thoughts. Would anyone come to save him? He wasn't so sure, would the other pilots even care? He almost wanted to smirk sadly; maybe they would be happy to have him finally out of the way. Duo fought the tendrils of sadness that coiled deep in him, he didn't need their help, after all he was Shinigami and he could protect himself! He had to because no one else would…
(break)
Wufei pushed down his frustration as he wrapped his arm around his tense lover. He could feel Heero's muscles twitch, reflecting his own feelings. How could he let something like this happen? The events of the past couple months flooded through his head like a hazy dream. Something had happened to him and Heero, something that had turned them away from Duo. Even now he could feel the dark feeling of uneasiness that had accompanied even the thought of Duo. It had something to do with Relena but he wasn't sure what.
But when he saw Duo just hours before, helpless and in danger something inside him seemed to break. He felt all the reasons he loved Duo rush back to him like a flood, washing away the irritation he felt when he thought of his former lover.
Relena walked quietly into the room followed by Sally Po. Trowa and Quatre who had been sitting together in the large leather chair across the room sat up straighter. Wufei could feel the unspoken tension between them. He could feel the same humming running through his veins. Relena sat in the chair directly across from the couch and settled her skirts around her; quietly Sally took a defensive position behind the chair.
"There is one thing I would like to say before anything else." Wufei tensed as Relena straightened and look him and Heero full in the eye. Her eyes were glazed like she had just been crying but also held a deep resolve. "All shall come to pass when the dragon flies across the sky on crimson wings." Wufei didn't have time to ponder the strange sentence as memories and images assaulted him mind, making him cry out in pain of the overload.
Quatre started when he heard Wufei and Heero cry out together, both pilots were clutching there head in the pain Quatre could feel coming off them in waves. He whimpered and lurched out of the chair, grasping both quivering boys in his arms in an attempt to calm them down. His heart hurt as he helped the two now trembling boys.
It took a full 20 minutes for the two men to calm down, during that time no one else in the room said anything, they just stood and watched unable to say anything. Heero was the first to move, he lurched off the couch, his face pale and drawn and rushed out of the room. Trowa rose and hurriedly followed him out of the room.
"Onna…" Quatre looked down at the pale boy he held in his arms. Wufei's skin was damp and he looked like he was on the verge of fainting. "What the fuck have you done to us?" Secretly Quatre was surprised; he hadn't heard Wufei talk to Relena like that in a very long time.
Relena sigh and looked down. Sally rested a calming hand on the girls shoulder; make the girl smile slightly at the reassurance. "Let us wait until Trowa comes back with Heero. I only want to tell this story once."
(break)
Duo knew he was found out as soon as he heard the dull thump of a door against the wall. The voices had been quiet for awhile and he had hoped that meant that he would be left alone for awhile. But like always luck didn't seem to be on his side. Heels clicked on the floor, the logical part of his mind told him it was only two people, maybe luck really was on his side.
"Duo Maxwell. We know you are awake so don't even bother trying." The voice was feminine and definatly matched the one Duo remembered from the roof top. He let his body stay limp; maybe they were just trying to trick him. Duo heard the tell tale buzz mere seconds before the pulses of electricity attacked his body. His eyes shot open as he suppressed the shout of pain that threatened to escape. A second later the pain was gone leaving him feeling weak and panting. There in front of him was the sadistic woman, smiling for the entire world like that damn Cheshire cat out of that fairytale. "Now see wouldn't it have been better if you had just followed orders?"
"Sorry, I was trying to catch up on my beauty sleep, unlike you I actually care what I look like." Her eyes narrowed in anger before she struck, Duo felt his head snap painfully to the side and suppressed a smirk. He might as well get a few jabs in before the real fun started and besides, it defiantly wasn't in his nature to follow orders.
"You will be silent!" She growled. "You will pay for all you have done; I will make sure of that!"
"Oh really?" Maybe if he kept her talking long enough he might save his neck. "What did I do? Kill you lover? Destroy your hometown? Let me clue you in woman, your in no way original. If every person related to someone I killed came after me it would be like half the world. It was a war, in war people die it's a fact, nothing more. I bet.."
"Maxwell Church." Whatever Duo was about to say died on his lips as amethyst eyes widened. How could this woman know, emotions that he thought he had gotten over surged and assaulted his senses. He didn't want to remember, did want to think about it. This woman suddenly seemed so much familiar, memories surfaced deep and painful. Her voice echoed in his head 'we need to be united!' Her hand coming to hit Sister Helen out of the way.
"That's right you little punk." The woman sneered. "Because of you so many people died, if you hadn't stolen that mobile suit then the government wouldn't have attacked the church."
"You…you were part of the resistance." For the first time since he could remember Duo felt the cold tendrils of fear lock around his chest. This woman's grudge had over 10 years to cultivate and stew.
"That's right. Some of us had gone out for supplies and when we came back the church was in ruins! All our people, all our weapons buried!" She raged, hands curled at her side in anger. "We would have won if it wasn't for you! They thought you were the only survivor but that is only because we were smart enough to leave before the clean up crew arrived and they thought all our people were in the building."
"You stupid woman, there is no way you would have won!" Duo yelled. "It took them little to no effort to destroy your people, they could have done it anytime they wanted, they were just playing with you!" He half expected the hit to come; he might have even been surprised if it didn't. What he didn't expect was the power behind it. He felt the air rush out of his lungs painfully, he closed his eyes gasping in pain. Suddenly his head was yanked up painfully by his hair. Cold amethyst eyes met burning green as the woman smiled evilly.
"I'm going to make you feel one million times the pain we had to endure." She growled. "You're going to be begging me to stop." Her eyes narrowed only slightly as the boy in front of her smirked.
"Bring it bitch." Duo drawled with as much confidence as he could. "Lets see what you got." After all, this physical pain was nothing compared to having your heart ripped out. He could handle whatever they had in store for him, and in the end he would die alone, as he should. Because Shinigami is fated to always be alone.
All the pain, I thought I knew,
All the thoughts lead back to you.
Back to what was never said, back and forth inside my head.
I can't handle this confusion come and take me away.
I feel, like I, am all alone, all by, myself I need to get around this.
My words are cold; I don't what them to hurt you.
If I showed you I don't think you'd understand…cuz no one understands…
Relena twisted her hands nervously together; they were clammy from the light sweat that had broken out on her skin. All eyes were on her and she could feel it in the tingling in her spine, it was not helping the case of nerves she had. How could she tell them the truth? They would surely hate her, but it is a problem she created herself, one she meant to fix. In the beginning she never meant for it to go this far, so now she would have to make up for the mistakes she made. She took a deep breathe and let it out slowly, composing her thoughts.
"Please no one interrupt me until I'm done, because if you do I don't think I'll be able to finish." She started, not daring to look up into the onyx and cobalt blue eyes that she was sure were looking at her.
"Heero, you know I've always loved and admired you. You were so mysterious and alluring. But your heart was always somewhere else. And I hated it!" Relena clenched her hands together tightly as she bit down on the renewed anger that moved from deep within her. "Wufei I could understand, he was an honorable soldier and a warrior. He fought bravely in the war and continued on in the preventers after it. I came to have feelings for you both and I wanted you. I know it's selfish and dumb but I was so jealous, how could that useless street rat capture what I could not? What was so special about him? I just couldn't understand it, why was he so important to you? But there was no way I could get in between you."
Relena felt the hot tears tracing tracks down her face. Still she did not look up, so see them now would falter her resolve. "But then Ms. Kizu came to me with a proposal. She said she could give me what I wanted, and I just had to give her something small and insignificant in return. She set it all up; she had a drug specialist that could make a drug strong enough that it would work even on Gundam Pilots. All I had to do was get Heero and Wufei to stay late to go over reports. We would set up a special tape that they thought was information about a new assignment and they would watch it not realizing it was full of subliminal messages."
"It was all so simple." Relena said with a shake of her head. "I would give them a drink that had the drug in it that would make them more influenced by the messages, and just have them watch it and it would be done. They never realized anything, but then again who would suspect me? It all seemed so natural. But I never meant it to go this far, you have to believe me!" He head snapped up finally looking at the horrified eyes that stared back at her. "Please don't hate me…I don't think I could live if you did."
The room was silent far a long time only disturbed by the silent sobs of the broken woman. Everyone was in a state of awe or morbid fascination.
"So that line you said earlier…" Quatre said finally breaking the silence.
"It was a key phrase." Relena sniffed. "If said it was supposed to force their bodies to reject the drug and awake from the slightly hypnotic state they were in."
"Who is this Ms. Kizu?" It was the first time Heero had spoken and the sharp edge of his voice made everyone in the room shudder. Wufei lightly put his hand on his lover's knee, trying to be reassuring even though he was confused also.
"I don't know, she said nothing specific. Only that she used to be in the military but was no longer."
"And what did you give her in return for their affection Relena?" Trowa said quietly. Something in his heart already told him he knew what it was, but he just had to make sure, had to be positive.
"She said all she wanted was Duo Maxwell." 2 pairs of eyes, one cobalt, and one deep black narrowed murderously.
(The end…..for now….)
And there's another chapter for you! I wanted to get farther but things just dragged on and on I guess… So what should happen in the next chapter? Will Wufei and Heero get off their asses and save their former lover? Will they kill Relena? Will Duo survive what's about to happen! How will it all work out in the end? Who knows I for one don't! Anyway as always please review because look…it makes me update faster!
The song for this one was "Take me Away" by Avril. I meant to use I different artist for each chapter but I couldn't find a song that fit, so oh well! Anyway till next time!