1A few weeks passed and Duo slowly healed though to Heero's great disapointment, he stopped speaking and he stayed away from everyone, hiding under the bed for most of the day. When Heero managed to touch him Duo would flinch and start shaking. He had tried to order Duo to obey him, but he found he couldn't be mean to Duo, he could order Duo without feeling guilty. What he had told relena was true. Duo wasn't simply a pet any more.
'Duo?" Heero said calmly. Duo looked up at him fear clouding his eyes. Heero reached forward and removed the collar carefully. Duo looked even more frightened and hurt.
"You...y.you don't want m...me any more?" Duo stuttered backing away from Heero. Heero quickly reached forward and pulled Duo into his arms.
"I want you, but I want you when you are ready. Duo you are not a pet any more you are my heart." Heero said.
"How...how can I Heero. I am a pet, I was breed for this, and now I am used goods." Duo said crying into Heeros shirt.
"Duo I love you." Heero said simply. Duo gasped and looked up at him.
"You do?" He asked.
"Yes I do." Heero said.
"How?"
Heero sat Duo down on the bed. "Duo you have given more to me then anyone else. I know it sounds weird, but I've never been happier then when I am around you. I felt like I could have died when you went missing. I felt like a failure when I learned what had happened. I don't want to ever see you hurt again." Heero said. Duo threw himself at Heero and cried into his neck. Heero rocked him. "Shhh Duo it's okay."
"I love you too Heero." Duo said with a sobbed holding onto Heero tighter. "I've been so afriad that you would ditch me in an alley, or give me away to some animal shelter."
"I would never." Heero said. Once Duo cried himself to sleep Heero tucked him into bed and left the room, to check on things around the house, his heart feeling lighter, that Duo had accepted his feelings for him. It was a start in the right direction.
"Things will look up..." he whispered as he walked down the hall.
The end. Hope you all enjoyed and for a fiction I didn't think I would finish the ending is great to me...leaves room for another if I feel like writing it.