Sooo... I have completed the 2nd chapter and here it is!
But before that I would like to thank kyuuo for the review and your questions will be answered in the story later on. I just want to say that I changed the end of the series in a much darker one. But the rest you will find out during reading the story. ^^
And now have fun!
2nd Chapter
A hot pot of coffee was placed in front of him. Duo lifted his head just to look directly in Quatres worried face. The blonde took a chair and sat down opposite of him. Then a tray with two plates with sandwiches was placed on the table, Trowa sitting down besides Quatre. After that another seemingly alike tray was placed besides Duo by Heero, one of the plates with sandwiches found ts way directly in front of Duos face, which still lay half on the table, resting on his hands. Wufei sat down on the other side of Duo, he had a bowl of rice with some vegetables.
Duo made a face.
"What do you want?", he complained. He didn't want to talk to his friends. He wanted to be left alone.
"Duo? What's up with you? Ever since your afternoon with Yamato, you are awfully quiet und subdued. Did something happen between the two of you?" Quatre asked directly, worry tinting his voice. Duo closed his eyes briefly. He didn't like to worry hi friends but he couldn't bring himself to act like his usual cheerful self.
"Did he hurt you?" Heero asked, cutting one of the sandwiches with a knife rather vigorous. Duo flinched a little bit at Heeros display of emotions then he shook his head.
"It's my fault, really" he mumbled and took the pot of coffee. His eyes wandered around the staff dining room. It was almost empty, lunch time was already over. He sighed deeply.
"I told him the truth", he finally admitted, "the truth about myself. That I was a Gundam Pilot. You know? Matt knows it now."
Quatre inhaled sharply.
"Oh, Duo! He didn't took well to it, I presume?"
"That's what I don't know! Damn it!" Duo suddenly shouted out loud and leaped up, smashing his fist on the table. The dishes clattered and one of the cooking personal looked at them curiously. Heero and Wufei both laid a hand on each of Duos shoulders and pressed him back in his seat. He didn't put up much of a fight.
"What do you mean?" prompted Wufei him to elaborate. Duo sighted again deeply.
"He… he just said that he would need to think about it and that he would call me. Then he walked away. But I couldn't read anything from his face. He neither looked accepting nor disgusted. He has still to call me. He told me he would. I'm not sure he will through. Perhaps he decided to never call me because he couldn't stand the fact of having slept with a murderer. I…"
Duo sighted again. He felt like having a breakdown and realized, just how much Matt really meant to him. How much he loved him. And that he would fight for him and make him try to love him, no matter if the blonde decided to break up or not.
"Ishida is a civilian, you know. He never had anything to do with war or violence in general. The possibility that he won't understand your actions during the war is very high. There is a reason why many soldiers find their love before they start their career in the military, find somebody in the military or with an equal background or stay alone forever, you know?"
"Wufei!" Quatre hissed, not wanting to take even more hope from his friend.
"But still" Wufei continued, not fazed from Quatres insert, "Ishida seemed like a logical person who wouldn't do anything rash. Whatever his decision is, it will be well considered."
"Waahhh… You're not helping at all, you know that, Wuffers?"
Wufeis face turned red. Even after all these years, you could rile him up with that little word… Duo grinned a little.
"Don't call me that", the Chinese man hissed, his expression murderous. Duo then decided to take off to save his own skin, snapping the sandwich off the plate while doing that. He didn't see Heero shaking his head slightly unnerved, Quatre smiling relieved, Trowa nodding contently or Wufei looking angry but smug.
On his way out he met Dan Jones and Hannes Lockheimer. Two agents from department D. He nodded friendly and Hannes greeted him in his typical quiet and shy manner. Duo didn't believe that he had ever heard the kid speak out loud, or even with a normal voice. He was just way too shy, but it was somewhat cute. Dan ignored him, like ever. He was an arrogant brat who believed to be somewhat special because one of these silly – what were they called again? – digi crests had chosen him.
Duo shook with his head. To say the discovery of the digital world was a surprise would be a great understatement. It all started with the sudden appearance of these monsters in Tokyo and then all over the world. But these monsters disappeared as fast as they appeared and nobody knew why. And then these seven teens got these digicrests. And the digimon belonging to them, their partners. And then some digimon appeared again and again and again. There always come only few with time in between, but they all seem to have evil intentions. And the DigiDestined – they are called this – are destroying them. The public loves the seven teens and is idolizing them.
Duo didn't like it one bit. But it wasn't his problem. The department D may work in close relation with the preventors, but Lady Une is careful to never give one of the Gundam Pilots a job relating to department D because she knew it wouldn't end well. The war hardened Gundam Pilots could never work together with some wanna-be monster fighters, who never did anything themselves beside ordering their monster partners around. Duo snorted.
As Duo arrived home, he saw a person sitting on the stairs which led to his apartment.
"Matt!" he breathed and stood still. The blonde lifted his head, his clear blue eyes piercing through Duos. He gave no significant reaction and Duo wasn't sure how to approach him. Damn, why must this be so difficult, Duo cursed in his head. He decided to deal with it as he usually did. He grinned.
"I'm surprised to see you here, I thought you wanted to call me? Not that I'm not happy about your visit, but still…" It had to be a god sign, that Yamato came here personally, right? Duo tried to persuade himself.
Slowly Yamato stood, his hands in his pockets.
"At first I wanted to call you but I decided that what I have to tell you is better be told from face to face."
Duos heart sank. Only Yamato would be so nice to reject him personally. Yamato tilted his head slightly, a frown on his face.
"What are you thinking right now, Duo?"
Duo shook his head and forced the smile back on his face.
"Doesn't matter. Go on. You wanted to tell me something?"
Yamato hesitated, then he nodded. "Yeah… After I left you I did some research on the Gundam Pilots, to find out more about them. It is not as if I found much, mostly rumors or articles about attacks here and there."
And you found out just how many persons died at our hands, Duo added silently in his hand. His hands shook slightly and he gripped his bag tighter to stop it.
"You sure had an interesting life, Duo."
The long haired man's head snapped up. But Matt continued, shrugging slightly.
"And I really don't see how somebody like you found anything interesting in me. You are a hero of war, I am a mere civilian. But if you have no problem with that, I see no reason to change anything."
"What..?" Duo felt a grin slowly splittting his face. "Really?" Matt nodded. Footsteps sounded downstairs. Right, they still stood before Duos door.
"Ah… do you want to come in? It might be more comfortable. " The brown haired let both of them in, hapiness flooding his system and making him giddy. Yamato sat down on the couch while Duo got two glasses f water from the kitchen. Then he thought about Matts words. One thing still bothered him.
"You said you researched about us? Right?"
"Yeah…"
"Then… then you know that I killed. That I was a terrorist and killed lots of people. I am a murderer. Doesn't that bother you?" Duo put the glasses with the water on the table. His hands shook slightly. Again.
"Do you want to scare me away?" Yamato asked in his I-don't-care-about-anything-in-the-world-tone.
"No! It's just… you know… normally people are a little bit more freaked out when they find out what I did."
Yamato brushed his hand through his light hair and sighted. They all seemed to do that a lot lately, Duo noted.
"How should I answer this, Duo? I can't say that I'm happy about you killing people but that lies in the past. It does, right?" Suddenly Matt looked suspicious. "You don't kill anymore, do you?"
"No! Not when I can prevent it. But I'm working for the Preventors, you know that! And I work on the heavy cases. Sometimes in order to safe innocents I have to…" Duo closed his eyes. It was not wise to admit to that right now. But he also didn't want to lie. He never lied.
…
"I understand. It is your job. I think… I think I can live with that. And the war… it was war. And if you fight in the war for what you believe in, then I think, killing can't be prevented. It's sad, really. But I think I understand. AH!"
Duo had jumped Matt and was now hugging him as if his life depended on it. And it did, somewhat.
"I'm so glad. I'm so glad you're not going to leave me! I was really worried!"
Yamato just hugged Duo back.
Tired and exhausted he stumbled into their flat. His breath was slightly ragged, his clothes torn and dirty. He shrugged his jacket off carelessly and it fell with a thud on the floor, his bag quickly following. Then he entered the living room.
"Duo!"
"Hey…" he answered weak and just fell on the couch, not caring that it got dirty from his clothes. Matt stood in the door to the kitchen and looked at him worried.
"Rough day?" he asked and Duo just lifted his thumb. Matt shook his head and went back in the kitchen. Shortly after he came back out with a glass of fresh water and gave to Duo, who gulped down the liquid thankfully. Then he gave the glass back and Matt just put it on the table before sitting down beside him. Then the blonde gave him a little kiss on the temple. Duo smiled. His boyfriend always knew what he needed.
"Thanks man, you are my hero."
"You already have one. Isn't that enough?"
"Awww… Then you are the love of my life, my rescuer, my saver, my champion, my…
"Okay okay, I get it." Matt smiled slightly and Duo leaned against him. The blonde was only a little taller than him, they fit together perfectly.
"How was your day?" Duo asked, eyes closed. He felt Yamato shrugging.
"Like always. Petty customers, nervous waiters and a grim boss… No, actually it was okay. It was a little bit hectic as we had many customers and one of the waiters dropped a plate with my carefully made dessert. But besides that…"
"Oh… the poor guy is now deathly afraid of you, isn't he? I'm sure you tried to kill him with your eyes." Duo laughed a little. Matt chuckled. "I may not have been very understanding with him, even after he apologized" he admitted.
Yamato worked in an Isakaya (Japanese kind of restaurant), a very expensive one. He was a cook there, a very good one, too. And Duo just loved his cooking skills!
"Hey, have you any problem with watching the news or do you want a little bit rest?"
"No", Duo said, "it's okay. I'm pretty comfortable here, just turn on TV. Perhaps something interesting happened in the world, while we did our awfully boring jobs."
"Somehow I have the feeling that your day hasn't been that boring at all", Yamato sighed, glancing at the tired form of his boyfriend and got the remote, switching on the TV. He soon found the news channel. They had started already. Bored the two young man listened to the newscaster speaking about a big bank robbery in Moscow, a blackout on one of the colonies of L1, the new boyfriend of a popular actress and the breakup with her old boyfriend, the busting of a dealer ring in Tokyo by the Preventors, the political disaster the foreign minister of Spain got himself in, …
Matt turned down the volume and looked at his boyfriend.
"Now I know why you look so beaten up", he said. Duo just pulled a face.
"Awww… man, I wouldn't have thought, that they would be so fast with giving out the information!" He glanced at Yamato as innocent as possible.
"I'm not hurt, really."
Yamato frowned. He was used to Duo coming home beaten up. Sometimes he got in a fight with some bad guys, sometimes it was just from running after an escaping convict, sometimes it was from training with Heero and the others. But really rarely Yamato got to know, what exactly his lover was doing at work. Mostly it was too confidential for him to know. And this was the first time he knew what kind of dangerous work Duo did and how he came home like nothing had happened. How often had he done something alike without Yamato noticing?
"No serious injuries?" The blonde asked worried and looked his boyfriend over, this time much more carefully. Duo groaned and slung an arm around Matts waist, pulling him closer.
"No, I haven't been injured. Heero would have sent me to the hospital otherwise and made sure, that I am treated. No worries, really."
Matt laid his forehead on Duos shoulder and inhaled deeply. "Okay", he answered, "I just don't want to loose you."
Duo could swear he heard a whispered 'too' at the end of that sentence but didn't comment on it and simply drew Matt in a hot kiss, trying to ease all his worries. It seemed to work.
"Today at 2 pm four digimon appeared in the center of Chiba by Tokyo." The newscaster proceeded and both turned their attention back to the TV. "The two rookie level and two champion level digimon seemed to appear out of nowhere and started destroying the houses. Thankfully the DigiDestined Daniel Jones; Nadja Kretschow, Yuki Hashimoto and Hannes Lockheimer were able to take them out within half an hour after their arrival."
In the background you could see them fighting against the four digimon, they won with ease, but Duo thought he remembered, that said level the digimon had weren't that high. Dan was grinning in the camera after that and speaking with some reporters, clearly enjoying the attention they got.
"I can't believe how much of an hype they are making about these teens. I mean, really, all they do his letting their partners fight and standing at the sideline, isn't it?" Duo said out loud.
Yamato besides him remained quiet. Like always when the topic got to these DigiDestined or Digimon in general. Duo sighed and rolled with his eyes. Sometimes he wished his boyfriend would tell him, what exactly his problem with Digimons was.
Until next time,
achat