Summary: Confirmed in each of their beliefs, Quatre & Duo take separate paths to find a way to prove the other wrong. With many unanswered questions, and only one person knowing the answer. Now begins the scramble for the proof of who's right.
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing. This is reality. They belong to their respective owners in the Sotsu Sunrise agency.
MWZ: (sleepy) Oh my God Ryu, why am I up at this ungodly hour?
Ryuiosuke: 'Cause you were late on releasing chapter 2 of Memento Mori and I'm not going to tolerate that.
MWZ: Ugh. Me sleepy, go away.
Ryuiosuke: If you won't cooperate I know one thing that will get you up. (runs off and comes back with an irate boxer clad Heero Yuy)
Heero: Hnnnn… (whines) Go away. I'm on my day off.
MWZ: Oh my god! Heero wakes up and tackles
Heero: SLEEP!!!
Duo: (wide awake) Let's get this party started!
Heero: How are you guys so awake? TT I want sleep.
MWZ & Duo: Too bad!
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Chapter Two: Proof of Existence
Chang WuFei typed more of his report on the shutting down of more military bases. He looked at the screen and checked the clock on the computer. He hit the Enter key and the computer did its own process to finish and confirm the works finality.
"WuFei, that report on the Leuxis Base, did you finish it already?" Sally Po asked her comrade. WuFei nodded and straightened his paper piles.
"Of course. I wouldn't be late on important documents."
"Well yes, but must you finish them so early that you don't even take your lunch break?"
WuFei looked at Sally. She had enjoyed the company of the young man and true to her word she was helping in healing the wounds in WuFei's heart. WuFei noted that it wasn't love like between and boyfriend and girlfriend, but having someone look out for you and looking out for someone else did leave you with a good feeling. Sally was thrilled when WuFei agreed to join the Preventors. Noin and Zechs had returned from the Mars terraforming early, due to the fact Relena wished to meet her brother more often, rather then have him pretend he was "a dead man".
"He's got nothing else to do. There's no one to shoot or declare war on." Zechs joked from across the room.
"I could declare war on you Merquise." WuFei smirked back.
"Boys will be boys." Noin stated, her hand covering her mouth as she quietly laughed. The phone ringing on WuFei's desk broke the joking mood. WuFei turned to pick up the phone.
"Hello, this is WuFei speaking." WuFei's face seemed to brighten up, signaling to the others it was one of the other Gundam pilots. But the drastic change in his face meant something was wrong. Sally, being the one closest to the desk, strained her ears to try and pick up bits of the conversation. It was rude, but it was also a subconscious thing. After a few minutes WuFei somberly hung up and looked at the other. Lady Une entered the room at the exact moment.
"What's wrong with everyone? Is everything alright?" Lady Une asked in a worried tone.
"Maxwell apparently swears on his life Yuy is alive. He visited Winner this morning and when told the truth, Maxwell left seemingly upset. Winner met with Barton, and apparently Barton's sister had some photo's that Yuy had in his pocket shortly after the Siberia self detonation event." WuFei stated. Lady Une winced at the memory of what she had done that night. She looked back up.
"Why in the world does Duo think Heero is still alive? We saw that explosion with our own eyes." Lady Une replied. Zechs had looked down this time. He recalled the last words he had ever said to his formidable rival.
"You're too pure and too kind, and I guess that's what gives you the right to live. Watch me Heero, I'm going to live right to the bitter end!"
"No Zechs! Stop it!"
"Til we meet again Heero."
After the Mariemia incident, Zechs had no idea of Heero's death until he asked the other pilots just why didn't Wing Zero and its rascal of a pilot show up. Zechs had taken in hard, for being former enemies. However Zechs had explained that Heero had been one of the only people in the world to understand him.
"Yes but Winner said that he doesn't feel like Maxwell's lying either. Maxwell is not a liar, he'd never tarnish that name of his with such an act as lying. Winner did mention he's faxing over the papers Yuy had on him at some point. He said Barton said we should concentrate on getting Maxwell better, but he's also wondering if perhaps anything from Heero's past can help." At these words everyone seemed to become even more interested.
"My, my what a mystery this is turning out to be. Duo's seeing ghosts and Heero's actually got a past." Sally said.
"How exactly are we supposed to find any other information on Heero? We don't even know his real name." WuFei looked at Zechs.
"What do you mean Merquise?" Zechs raised an eyebrow.
"You mean he never told you? Heero wasn't his real name. I recall I asked the same thing to him once, and he had replied 'is that your real name that you're using?' Knowing Heero, he probably already knew Zechs wasn't my real name and figured I should've known that his wasn't his real name as well."
"Figures. I knew his name was too ironic." WuFei commented.
"The new Heero Yuy died obtaining the peace the old Heero Yuy worked for." Noin said as a last input.
Duo parked the car in front of his favorite diner, AJ's. AJ's was a great diner, and Duo loved the Hamburger special. Duo had always enjoyed hearing stories of the 1950's and their diners. Duo got out of his car and walked inside. A young girl was swaying her body around to the music coming out of the jukebox.
"Hi! How many?" a girl asked. Duo looked at her, snapping out of his thoughts.
"Duo." A voice called out. Duo looked over to see Heero sitting at one of the booths.
"Oh uh, I'm here to meet someone." Duo said to the young girl. She nodded and didn't hear Duo mutter under his breath "I guess."
Duo walked over to Heero's booth and sat down. "Where the hell did you go this morning? Quatre thinks you're dead and he thinks I'm crazy!" Heero calmly drank his cup of drink, Duo didn't get a chance to see just what he was drinking.
"Sorry I had matters to take care of. I'm here though aren't I?" Heero said, placing his drink on the table. Duo noticed it was orange juice. He also noticed Heero had a strange necklace on. It was a thin leather strap, with a green shard wrapped by thin wire and held to the leather. It glinted in the sun.
"Man, Quatre doesn't even remember you being there with Zero and firing the cannon at Mariemia's hideout. Hey where did you get the bling bling?" Heero winced at the words.
"Quatre gave it to me."
"Aw, I want one." Duo said. "Anyways why wouldn't Quatre remember talking to you, like when we were in the shuttle breaking into X-18999?"
"He was talking to you." Heero said, eyeing the waitress, she took notice and made her way towards the table.
"Yeah but I did mention you were with me."
"Are you ready to order now?" The waitress asked in a sweet voice.
"Oh I'll have the ham & eggs. Eggs scrambled please, oh and can I have some cheese added to the top of the eggs?" Duo started to order off.
"Of course. Toast or biscuits with gravy?"
"Biscuits with gravy." Heero listened to Duo ordering wondering just where all this food was going. He snapped out of his internal debate of whether a black hole existed in Duo's stomach or not when the waitress finished writing on her pad.
"I'll just have one of your biscuits." Duo scoffed.
"You do not eat enough man, no way am I letting you off just having toast." Duo looked at the waitress. "He'll have what I'm having." The waitress gave a slightly weird look at Duo, but jotted down a "2x" next to his order and closed her pad.
"Ok, I'll be right out with that." She replied with a smile.
"How in the hell am I supposed to eat all of that? I don't have a black hole in my stomach." Heero grumbled.
"Man look at you, you're skin & bones. You know the first time I met you, I wanted to give you a cheeseburger." (1)
"Feed me?" Heero smirked. "That's funny cause the first thing you did to me was shoot me in the arm."
"Hey, you got me back."
"Oh really?"
"Yeah you stole Deathscythe's parts! Or did you forget that quaint little fact?" Duo stated, crossing his arms and sitting back in the booth like he had won a poker game. Heero sighed, and in an almost completely out of personality action, sighed, rolled his eyes and shook his head left & right.
"You still think I stole those parts? You did offer to have my Gundam repaired, I just did the repair work by myself." People sitting around the booth looked at the two boys but dismissed their conversation with a "crazy kids" statement.
"I did offer, but not my Gundam's parts."
"I did you a favor." Heero picked up his glass of orange juice again.
"How in hell was stealing my Gundams parts a favor?" Duo asked, now he was leaning on the table like a child waiting for a story.
"Well.." Heero put the glass back down. "You obviously had plenty of parts to spare for my Gundam just lying around that hangar. Instead of having you go out on a dangerous mission, I decided to take the parts from Deathscythe that way you would be off the missions for at least a day."
"Ok, so assuming this was a nice thing tat you did, you realize now you can't live it down even more." Duo smirked. But the thought came to mind, why would Heero have even done such a thing for someone he had just barely met. "Hey wait!"
"Hn?" Heero looked up.
"Why? Why would you do that for me?"
"You were too nice to me to be a cold heart soldier like me. I didn't want to see you die." Duo stared at him for a while in silence and finally found the words to say.
"Thank you." It was Heero's turn to stare at him. Duo noticed it looked like Heero was a little kid who had just finished listening to his parent's incredible story and was now debating whether it was true or not. "And you're not cold hearted. I mean you did help me after all."
"Two ham & eggs, scrambled with cheese, with biscuits and gravy."
Both boys were slightly startled by the young waitresses sudden appearance. She placed their plates in front of them. Duo had already begun to unwrap his utensils from the napkin. Heero merely stared at the food, trying to figure out just where he should start this battlefield. "Is there anything else you need?" the waitress asked.
"Uh.." Duo was about to say no but wanted to make sure to not send her away if Heero still needed something. However, Heero was still staring at the huge plate of food in front of him. Duo smiled and looked back at the waitress. "Nope, we're good."
With a smile and a bow she walked off. Duo began eating his ham and looked up to see Heero was still not moving. He quickly swallowed the food. "Hey Heero are you alright?"
The Wing pilot looked up, and stared straight at Duo. Duo felt a little worried as Heero didn't blink. It was silent for a few seconds.
"How the FUCK do I eat all of this?" Heero had said with more emphasis then Duo had ever heard come out of the Zero pilot. Duo was glad he had swallowed his food because he suddenly burst into laughter.
"No more surviving on the minimal amount of food required to live for you." Duo said in between fits of laughter. Heero glared at him. "You haven't lived until you've had this!"
"And I probably won't live for long after it either."
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MWZ: Made this a little bit more humorous lol
Heero: Yeah I noticed.
Duo: (still eating ham) Mmmm ham
Heero: you disgust me.
Duo:
MWZ: (1.) This is an inside joke that some of my friends have said upon seeing Heero. They want to feed him a cheeseburger.
Duo: haha
Ryu::looks at Mini-Wing:: Are they always like this?
Mini-Wing; You're such a n00b muse.
Ryu::glare::
MW: R&R!