Behind Him
e. elusive's prompt(s): Gundam Wing/Star Trek, Kirk/Duo, the pilots reactions to Kirk (Solo) as a part of Duo's past and how would the interact with him. cont. from "Co-Captain"
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Kirk, Heero Yuy thinks at first sight – is no one to underestimate. Blond (darkening with brown) and blue eyed he may be, but there is an energy about him that Heero can only compare to Duo's own. His reasoning swiftly proves right, in ways that Heero will curse into someone else's grave at a later date.
Duo sets eyes upon him, and his attention is soaked up – he's got nothing left for anything, anyone else. It's much like obsession – or….love. His grin though, as if he's been searching and looking, and found what he'd been looking for – would delay anyone with sense to see. It's manic, that focused look.
"02, report." Heero Yuy hisses softly, coming to stand beside Duo. He half expects to be ignored, or to have to do something to gain his comrades attention.
Duo's eyes snap to him, as if he's a threat (to who, Heero wonders but never asks, because it becomes obvious) – half reaching for his knife (even while he has a gun in hand, he reaches for a street rat's weapon) – Heero half raises his hands in response, they are empty of any weapons: it's Duo that is dangerous, where Heero had though him in danger, and now he doubts that was ever the case. Duo has never done that –look at him as if he's the enemy - to him, to any of the pilots, even when he should have upon first meeting them.
"Solo…" Duo had been lounging there, relaxed and lazy, now he is not. Heero hears that word though, of all the pilots – Duo had made it most obvious that he was named for a number. He was named to be paired with another, and for the first time – Heero thinks he knows who, that it isn't for a Gundam pilot team alias after all.
Solo, Duo says, soft and longing. His voice is like something in the bedroom.
Of course, Capt. James T. Kirk can seem to hear that. Like the sun shining, his smiles lights up the room, he's seen Duo (from the start), has been snatching looks at him in-between eating and breathing. It's the Vulcan, Spock, who speaks with Princess Relena Peacecraft of the peaceful harboring of refugees Sanc Kingdom.
"The Captain of the Enterprise?" Heero says it, to be sure – for he must be sure.
"Yes." Duo admits, as if it doesn't matter – and it does not, the Enterprise serves Star Fleet which is the pet of Milliardo Peacecraft (better known as Zechs Merquise the Lightning Count, their enemy turned to friend out of the Gundam war) brother and defender of Princess Relena Peacecraft. In loyalty, the heart of Star Fleet is the ideal of Sanc Kingdom.
Of course, the Captain of the Enterprise must know that, but pays no attention to Princess Relena Peacecraft. Who can end his command, well earned though she knows it is. Duo's loyalty is no thing to doubt, but instead of standing at the side of it, Heero can see that he intends to slip down the lines to follow at the heels of a lowly Captain. It is enough to make Heero hate the Captain, though it would make Duo an enemy of him – so he does not.
"You know what Princess Relena Peacecraft intends." To send the vessel that had saved t lives out, flung into the stars as a gesture of peace and discovery, to make the Enterprise into an envoy of Sanc Kingdom's ideal. All other Star Fleet is to follow at the heels of its command. A noble gesture, but a risk of no return: a risk that Relena Peacecraft would not willingly send of any the Gundam pilots who serve her faithfully into.
"I would follow him." Duo's eyes only flick to him, and then his attention is caught up again in the Captain.
If Duo is the god of Death, then Heero Yuy is likened to Judgment, the final reckoning of guilt or innocence, the executioner of that final ruling over life and death. Duo said it best; it is Heero you want on your side. That Duo would give them all up for his Captain Solo, disturbs Heero – he distrusts it: as he would not now distrust any pilot.
"Truly?" Trowa Barton asks over radio, whispering into the ears of Heero and Duo.
Duo's smile says enough. For the Captain, Duo would risk endlessly.
"I'm where I belong, Princess - my stay was never going to be forever, tell the others that this time...don't follow me?"
It is Quatre Winner who steps in to intervene between the wrath of the Princess Relena Peacecraft of Sanc Kingdom and Capt. James T. Kirk's career path. Quatre is wealthy in his own right, also a business man who rules over a company that serves all of known space – he has served Relena in his own way, but never subserviently. It makes, in the end, the most difference to getting Relena to see they are in the right not to intervene.
"Is your claim on him higher then ours?" Quatre Winner, the heir, the genius, asks with a doubting raised eyebrow.
"Clearly, yes – he was under my protection! They've taken him! It's kidnapping!" Relena Peacecraft snarls, she who is usually serene in nature has a temper, and knows her peace by conquering her passions. She is like nature, a force to be reckoned with, and a home to come back to safely.
"He went willingly. You do not want to make him your enemy." Quatre Winner tilts his head to sky, as if to see that wrath already approaching. Or seeing in his mind eye Duo leaving them all behind: his look is pained, if as peaceful as Relena Peacecraft is not.
"Mine?" Always before, between them, their enemies had been the same. Relena heard what Quatre was saying, that this time – she would find the pilots set against her if she went after Duo against his will.
"He would not welcome a rescuing." Quatre Winner makes sure that Relena understands his smile something fierce and protective. The pilots do not belong to Relena – they belong, one in all to their own hearts – and it is Quatre who keeps their hearts, who hears with his space-born heart their own – a power to be reckoned with.
"Let him go." Quatre Winner, quite easily, makes his words an order.
Heero, too, hears – as he was meant to. He doesn't waste breath to say it's too late.
Trowa Barton with his contacts in space - being, after all, a circus performer – is welcomed into that ring and finds his own way to the Sweeper Group that remembers Duo Maxwell quite fondly. He also brings in the Maganac Corps, Quatre's old free fighters. It is, with Wufei Chang at the side of Trowa Barton, quite the worthy force – a convoy only a Gundom pilot could be proud of.
They go ahead of Heero, who makes his own way behind, tying up the loose ends.
He pauses only to send one message to both Princess Relena Peacecraft and Quatre Winner.
"He does not go alone."
Quatre Winner, when he sees it, smiles and sends word for dinner to be prepared for five more – expecting company…
"Watch out for them." Princess Relena Peacecraft of Sanc Kingdom requests of Zechs Merquise the Lightning Count, who only nods in agreement.