Chapter Fifteen

Solo turned away from the pile of dust that was Talon and stepped towards Duo. His fingers gently ran over his cheek and he frowned. "This isn't good." He said honestly. "I've never seen him like this." Quatre closed his eyes, trying to stop the tears that threatened to spill.

"It was our fault Trowa, if we would have just let Heero go, he could have been here in time." He whispered.

"Quatre, if we would have let him go then he would have been here in time to see him die, he wouldn't have been strong enough to save him." Trowa said. Solo rolled his eyes.

"It's not to late, it's just, if I wake him like this, he will be in pain. A great amount of pain. But he needs to be awake to help me start the healing process." Solo said.

"Then wake him-." Quatre started.

"Quatre look at him." Trowa said. "If he was human he'd have died long ago, he looks dead now."

"But if you don't heal him, Heero….he'll…please, Solo, they need each other." Quatre pleaded.

"Are you two whiling to hold him down?" Solo asked. "You will have to do it firmly, even if he fights you." Solo said. "Even if it hurts him, you cannot let him go." Solo added. Quatre and Trowa nodded. Solo put a hand on Duo's forehead.

"Shaji iar, tysti sai si jhol os vaeloria, jhori shyraes." Solo said. Duo's eyes snapped open. There was a moment of nothing, no one moved, no one said a word. Then Duo started thrashing around, Quatre and Trowa held him. Trowa held his chest and arms, while Quatre held his legs.

"Jhaer ti kai...air ces...rir ti pai." Duo cried out. His leg shot free and he pushed Quatre away from him, then knees Trowa in the side, his eyes glowing slightly.

"Run! Go get Heero." Solo said realizing his mistake. Quatre and Trowa took off out of the room and down the corridor. Solo remained in the room. He drew Duo into his arms and wrapped his wings around the injured boy. Duo eyed him and only remembered the past. He pounded on Solo's chest, tried to get away from him.

"Vaeri, pyl's ces ti eileistysi, ai por's tael sai masi eirdae padia, ai por's tael thys tystia sai pai." Duo sobbed. Solo drew him in tighter. Burring his face in Duo's neck.

"I know, Duo I know. I'm so sorry. I was so stupid. I know you didn't mean to scare daddy off, you didn't it's wasn't your fault. And Mommy…she wasn't your fault either." Solo said, speaking the human language so that Duo could focus on his good memories, the little amount that he had.

"Heero? Where is Heero?" Duo sobbed. Clutching his brother like his life depended on it.

"He's coming. He's coming." Solo repeated rocking Duo. "Caer, shaelysti shaeraes, thysaer os sysesi eil shi shaer thys os jhylaes." Solo whispered. It was slow, but Duo's wounds began to mend themselves.

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They general of Trieze's army dropped to the ground, his head severed from his body. Heero looked at Wufei and sighed in relief.

"It's over." He said quietly.

"We need to go find Duo now." Wufei said. Heero nodded and a small smile appeared. Trieze was gone. Heero still had a lot of work to do in Trieze's kingdom now that the king was dead, but at least they would not be terrorized by Trieze anymore.

Quatre and Trowa rushed into the room then.

"Heero, you need to go now, Duo…he's in bad shape." Trowa said. Heero's eyes widened and he ran passed them. Once in the corridor Heero could hear the sobbing and the ancient language. He ran in that direction coming into a room and froze. There was blood all over a table in the middle of the room. On the floor near the room Solo was sitting with is wings wrapped around a bundle in his lap. Duo's feet were visible under the shining feathers. Duo's own wings still laid limp behind them, the feathers sticky with died blood.

"Heero…." Duo was whispering over and over. Heero went to them and fell to his knees in front of Solo. Solo looked up at him and pulled back his wings, giving Heero a view of Duo, but still hiding him from the others. Heero's eyes saddened.

"Duo I'm here." He said. Duo's eyes landed on Heero and he pushed away from Solo, clutching at Heero desperately. Heero wrapped his arms around the healing boy, kissing his neck a couple of time. "My love, don't cry." Heero said and started rocking them.

"I can feel them, they hurt me." Duo sobbed.

"They won't hurt you anymore. There gone Duo, there gone for good." There was no answer as Duo's body went limp in Heero's arms. Heero pulled back to see him sleeping. He could see the bruises disappearing slowly. "How bad was he?" He asked Solo.

"Bad. Worse…then when I left him in the forest." Solo said not looking at Heero. Heero got an idea.

"Solo, I know that you have done something wrong to your brother. But, if he's whiling to forgive you then so am I. What I would like to do is sign a treaty with you. You can have this kingdom, for a price of peace." Heero said. Solo thought for a moment.

"You're whiling to give a human Kingdom to a demon?" Solo asked.

"Yes. We will have to have a meeting with Queen Relena, of Sank, and King Zechs of White Fang, but I'm sure they two would not mind if there was a treaty of peace." Heero said.

"Then so be it. But for now we should get Duo to your kingdom, for some healing." Solo said. Heero nodded with a smile and got to his feet. "Here let me." Solo said and helped Heero, folding Duo's mended wings under his back so that they wouldn't drag on the ground, and so that Heero could have a better grip of him.

"Thank you." Heero said.

"No, thank you Heero. I was blinded by my own jealousy, and I have caused Duo many pains, but I wish to mend those now. I wish to start fresh, though I will never expect Duo to fully forgive what I have done." Solo said.

Heero nodded again and turned to leave. Walking out of the castle and two the horses they had left.

"There is still a lot to be done, but time heals all wounds." Wufei said.

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