-1Chapter 17
Duo peered from around a tree that was nearby in a field. While he may have lost sight of his Heero and Wufei, he had easily found them. Putting tracer bugs into Heero's rental car had been an excellent idea. If he hadn't done that, he would have had no hope for finding those two.
Looking around the property, Duo saw no one. Heero and Wufei must have been invited into the house as the rental was still in the drive way.
Now Duo only had one course of action. Sneak up to the house and try to find out what was going on. Maybe he could find out why Heero had to travel to China without him. What bothered him was not that Heero had to come out here, but what did grate on his nerves was that he couldn't go but Wufei had. He still would have been annoyed if Heero had come out here by himself, but not as much as he was currently since Wufei had been allowed to follow Heero.
Tree to stable, stable to shrubbery, shrubbery to house, all of this was executed perfectly as Duo made his way to the house. His sneaking skills were not lacking.
Looking in through a window, Duo tried to locate Heero, Wufei, and their host. He found Wufei and the host on his fifth window but the sight was not what he expected. The host was lying down on the couch; a cloth that was most likely wet was on his forehead. Wufei was by the man, looking at him before turning to the stairs. Once at the bottom, Duo saw him call up to someone, someone what was most likely Heero. Wufei then went back to the host and sat on the edge of the couch.
Duo sat down on the ground, thinking. Why was the host unconscious? If Heero or Wufei had knocked him out, then Wufei would not be standing over the guy with a damp cloth in hand. Rather, both he and Heero would be looking for whatever they came out here to get. Most likely their objective had something to do with their host.
Duo glanced through the window once more. Wufei was re-wetting the cloth before folding it and replacing it upon the man's forehead. Wufei then let his eyes wonder about the room.
Duo sunk back down, not wanting Wufei to see him. He was, after all, not suppose to be here in China. He wasn't supposed to be trailing both Heero and Wufei, trying to solve the mystery that surrounded them at this moment. But when has he ever listened to the rules? He did stuff he wasn't suppose to do daily. Why should this be different?
Duo went around the house, looking in through the other windows, trying to find a way to look through the second story windows to see what Heero was doing. Aside from a ladder he would have to get from the stables, there was no way that Duo could look through the second story windows.
Seeing that his search for Heero was pointless at this moment, Duo decided to go back to his spying of Wufei and the unconscious host.
Upon returning to the window, Duo saw that not much had changed. Both the man and Wufei were still in the room, only the man was starting to stir. He was awakening.