As much as Duo had wanted to eat lunch on the roof with Heero, he couldn't bring himself to.
Anytime Relena had found out that the two where seen together, she made sure to torture Duo into submission. Duo never knew she could be so viscous, but he was stuck and couldn't retaliate no matter how much he wanted to. Yesterday was probably the worst.
Flashback
Duo stood at his locker exchanging books just as he always had before lunch.
He "yipped" when someone poked his sides and swung around to see who in the world had enough balls to tickle him. Heero. What felt like a jolt of electricity went down his spine when his eyes connected to the electric blue staring at him.
Heero smirked at him and proceeded to fold his arms but was still staring at him, raking in Duo's form.
Duo swore that if he could jump the boy right then he would. That thought caused his jeans to become a little tight, shit he would have to make this quick before he became indecent.
Duo hissed at Heero, "What are you doing!"
Heero came up to Duo and picked up the end of his braid, playing with it, and running the edge through his fingers.
" Why, I just wanted to see your beautiful face." Heero paused his eyes focusing back to the elfish face before him. " Eat with me?"
Duo was about to respond until Relena's entire crowd came down the hall way. Poor Heero didn't notice in time as Relena ran to him before he could make his escape.
Duo seemed to be in a fog over what was happening again. He didn't want to respond just in case Relena retaliated and got his sister fired, or worse evicted from the back house. He knew rent was far to high for them to rent an apartment and pay for her college tuition, and there was no way in hell he was going to let her drop out.
Duo scuffled and looked at his feet, not making eye contact with Relena.
If he had he probably would of seen her give a silent signal to the boys behind her and then proceeded to drag Heero and her posse down the hall to the cafeteria.
Duo flinched when a hand settled on his shoulder, only to look up and see Trieze smiling down at him like he was going to eat him.
Fuck. I'm going to have to have the shit beat out of me aren't I? I hate this fucking school! If Relena just didn't have everyone wrapped around her fingers maybe they would believe that for once he would only fight if he felt the need, he never went out to look for one. For some reason they all just tended to gravitate towards him.
Trieze and a group of boys he could only identify as part of the football and wrestling team lead him to the bathroom down the hall. Even teachers past them but only smiled toward Duo as he looked pleadingly at them, begging them to stop what was obviously about to happen.
Duo was pushed into the bathroom as the rest of the boys stocked in and began to check if anyone else was occupodo.
Trieze locked the door.
Crap, Duo knew they were serious now.
He had never been in this kind of situation, he didn't know what to think of it since he knew he was obviously out numbered. But he wasn't going down with out a fight, that much he knew.
Trieze decided to approach him first. He stalked his prey menacingly, slowly but calculating.
"You know, I never did get to give you our thank you for what you did to Zechs."
Now Duo knew why there were so many in here, shit, they were all Zech's friends or his team mates. It was because of their last encounter that Zechs was now kicked off the team because of his probation for a public disturbance. Duo was probably painted as a villain once again even though he was just standing up for his friend.
Duo just glared at Trieze, but he got in a return was a chuckle.
" What you think you can get out of this, hmmm… I would really like to see you try."
With that Trieze snapped his fingers and two guys came forward. One successfully grabbed Duo's are while the other wasn't so lucky and instead got an elbow to the face. Another ran to take his place and kicked the back of Duo's calves causing him to collapse hard onto his knees.
Trieze grabbed his hair and forced him to look up at him, somehow in the scuffle Duo's braid had come undone and his hair cascaded around him. They continued to glare at each other for a period, as if they where having a silent conversation with each other.
A slap was heard ringing out from the bathroom walls.
The atmosphere was thick and intense. Trieze smirked when he realized Duo hadn't made a sound through any of this. Oh, but he would changed that. He nodded to the two who held him down. They raised him just a but to only have his shins barely lifted from the ground, feet still dragging behind.
The blonde peered down at Duo, his blood began to boil with rage when he still felt that Duo was trying to ignore this situation all together.
Trieze punched him in the stomach, and hard. Hard enough to cause his entire body to be airborne had he not been held down. Duo wheezed. But that it wasn't over. He was hit, again and again until he could see spots.
But still he made no audible sound besides panting for much needed air. It hurt to breath, his ribs felt to bruised he couldn't expand his lunges all the way.
He could feel something running down his chin that tasted metallic but it didn't register what it was.
The beating continued, for how long he didn't know. But by the time it was over he was unconscious.
Apparently Trieze brought him to the nurses office saying he had found Duo that way in the bathroom. Oddly enough when Duo tried to tell the nurse that Trieze was the one to beat him up she kicked him out of the office and called him an ingrate.
End of flashback
Duo shuddered at the memory. It was because of that particular meeting he had three bruised ribs, one broken, a busted lip, and a concussion.
If not for Quatre forcing him to go to the emergency room with the pretense of him paying because Duo couldn't afford it, he would of never known how badly off he was.
He wanted to talk and be with Heero, he honestly did. But he couldn't go against Relena and her goons as long as he was under their control.
Duo silently prayed that once he was out of high school he and his sister could be free. That they wouldn't have to scrape by and be abused because of it. That he could open his garage and Hilde could open up her flower shop like she had always wanted. One day was all he could hope for.
