A/N:Hey everyone! I do not own any of the g-boys but I do have a few OC outside of them that were of my creation. Here's another idea that I came up with recently that I thought would be somewhat of a challenge to write. I am still pretty iffy on this one, so let me know what you think.
Summary: After Project Meteor, the G-boys went their separate ways. 7 years later, a new race has made an appearance. The movement is called the "Genesis" movement. The G-boys come together to help Preventers bring a halt to the illegal experiments that have been taking place. Eventual Duo/Heero get together fic. The story centralizes around the "Genesis" movement and the trials and tribulations the G-boys face in the process.
Genesis: Established 4 years after Project Meteor. Illegal experiments that involve Gene Splicing animal DNA with human DNA, Scientifically/Bionically enhanced humans, or a mixture of both. The group is trying to recreate the free world with a new race and a new way to express one's self. This group feels the new world has become too closed-minded. People with these enhancements and physical changes found the idea to be enlightening or a way to be "unique" and express themselves, but the changes come with their own complications when not performed correctly.
The Space Between Us
Chapter 1
Duo's POV
7 years...it's been seven years since the ending of Meteor and where do I find myself? Sitting in a space shuttle collecting remnants of it all. Yup, Duo Maxwell the Scrapper. After everything was said and done I was pretty much lost on what to do with myself. I didn't think I would SURVIVE to see the "peace" that banshee used to go on about. Not that any of us four were recognized as heroes in her eyes. She said her little speech and planned for a celebration to revere the hero of the war, the perfect soldier, Heero Yuy.
Sure I attended, so did all the others but we could all see how uncomfortable the "perfect soldier" was with all the attention. She was hanging on his arm and dragging him around like a rag doll, introducing him to all the important diplomats and shit. Were we all given the same treatment, no absolutely not. She saw and only ever saw Heero Yuy. That was also the last time I saw them all before we all went our separate ways; like we didn't just fight a war together; like we hadn't gotten close over that hell of an experience.
Sure, we all had good intentions to stay connected but that all kind of fell apart. Winner was too busy with his family's company, Trowa...sorry TRITON followed Winner and eventually became his bodyguard. Relena dug her banshee claws into Heero and ask him to be her guard. As far as I remember, he turned her down and ended up working with Wufei and Sally at the Preventers HQ on L1 but acted as her guard at functions involving the reigning family and diplomatic affairs.
As for myself, I went back to school. I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. With the new "rules" and "laws" in place thanks to that banshee...I eventually majored in Mechanical Science and with a minor in Aerospace Engineering. After that, Hilde and I opened a scrap yard on L2 to help rebuild the colony from its dilapidated state. We had a pretty good thing going and hit it off better than I expected we would. But one night, two years later, that was shot all to shit... In my defense, I was 19 and still didn't know what I wanted but for some stupid reason thought it was a good idea to start a relationship with her, which was three years ago.
-Flashback- AC198
He walked over to Hilde covered in grease and grime from work and hugged her, "Hey Hild's How's it doing."
"Ew, Maxwell! You stink, go take a shower or something before you touch me, I just got this outfit! Jeez, what were you thinking!" She pushed him away and brought her hand to her nose to pinch it closed.
"Jeez Hilds! It's only an outfit, it can be washed ya' know. What am I not allowed to show how much I love my gal?"
"Not when you smell like that!" She huffed.
He stepped back and held his hands up in surrender before jogging up the stairs to clean up. After about 30 minutes, thanks to his mop, he went into the bedroom and leaned against the bathroom door jam, just watching her debate her appearance in the large mirror attached to their closet.
"Don't fret babe, you look great!" He walked up behind her and kissed along the side of her neck. "They would be fools to turn down the proposal"
She huffed and turned around with her fists at her hip, "It's a big deal Duo, it could put our yard on the market. We are running low on funds and really need this deal, so don't screw it up with your...nonchalant personality. Let me do all the talking and for god's sake, wear a decent outfit!"
He gave her a lop-sided grin and opened the closet, purposefully brushing his bare chest against her arm, "Don't worry babe, we'll rock it!" He winked at her before letting the towels drop and started rifling through the closet for something that wasn't "scrapper chic".
Hilde shook her head and sighed, "Don't ruin this for us with your joker's face, with your background I know how you act when under pressure, just stay quiet and let me do the talking alright?" She leaned over and kissed him on the shoulder while lightly scraping her nails over his chest. He shivered and leaned over to kiss her passionately, fucking cock tease...
She pulled away with a smirk before stepping back and leaving him to dress. By the time he finished, she was waiting impatiently by the front door, clicking her heel on the enamel in irritation. "Finally! You should just cut that mop of yours! It's got to be a hazard to work with!"
He pulled his hair around to his shoulder and feigned a hurt expression on his face, "Not happenin' babe. Besides, you like my hair. If I cut it you would regret that it's gone I'm tellin' ya!" He smirked, grabbed the keys from the hook, and ushered her out the door.
They arrived at the fancy restaurant at quarter past 6. Looking at the outside from the car he began to double think his appearance. He looked down at his black button-up shirt and khaki slacks and then looked over at her in her chic black dress that came to the top of her knees. Her hair was done in some intricate style and she wore those neck-breaking heels he despised.
"Come on, we're going to be late! They are probably already seated, I don't want to make them wait longer than they already have." She said in irritation as she stepped out of the car, grabbed her little gouache bag, and ambitiously walked to the entrance. He turned off the car and jogged up beside her at the host stand with a lopsided grin on his face. The women behind the stand stammered a bit as she informed the party was waiting for them and to follow her. He could swear he saw her blush. Hilde, on the other hand, looked irritated with him and he couldn't figure out what her deal was. She wasn't usually like this.
Hilde had been acting strangely for the past few weeks but he contributed it to the deal that she was going to make. She was irritable, stressed, and easily annoyed by his antics lately. Duo was starting to get frustrated with her attitude, she never used to care what he looked like or if he was dirty. How he used to talk to other people and how he casually flirted with others. It's been over a month since they've done anything intimately and he was starting to feel the strain, men have needs ya know?
They were seated with two fine-looking gentlemen that wore suits, carried a briefcase, and wore Rolodex's on their wrists. Hilde greeted them with a smile and introduced him as her business partner. During the time they were talking and getting to know one another, he couldn't help but notice that Hilde seemed to be more...at ease and comfortable with the man named "Dominic", almost like she knew him before the meeting. Any time he tried to interject during their conversation Hilde gave him an irritated look that demanded he stay quiet. /What the fuck?/ He wondered.
Once they were done eating and she continued about her proposal, he noticed "Dominic" giving heated, sensual looks toward Hilde, had gone out of his way to touch her hand or make contact in any way. At one point he felt the man shift under the table and noticed the man's long leg came in contact with Hilde's. Not once did she say anything about the looks or casual touches Dominic was making, if anything she would blush and looked frazzled and would give him a smile of her own. /What the actual fuck! Is this man hitting on my gal?/ He was getting pissed at this point, and with several glasses of wine already consumed, he couldn't hold back anymore.
He put his hand out to intercede Dominic's and gave him a slight glare, "Listen here buddy, I don't appreciate you bluntly hitting on my gal. You have heard the deal, are you interested or not"
"Duo!" Hilde gasped and stood, "Please excuse us for a moment, I need to speak with my business partner."
Dominic looked genuinely surprised at Duo's declaration and then turned confused eyes to Hilde. "Not a problem Miss Shiebecker, we will look over the proposal. I believe we have heard everything we need to make a decision." He and his assistant stood and nodded. He leaned over and grabbed Hilde's hand and kissed the back of it, "I'll be in touch." he then smirked and walked away. Hilde paid for the bill and ushered him to the car before tearing into him.
"What the hell, Maxwell! That was completely unprofessional. He was just being friendly, you had no right to speak to him or even mention our involvement!"
"Are you fucking serious Hil? He was hitting on you yet I was being unprofessional!"
"Dominic is a stand-up businessman!" she yelled
"What's that make me then!"
"A Child! You're acting like a spoiled child! Just drop it, we probably won't get the deal now thanks to you! Just get us home." she said in finality.
He held back what he was about to say and just shook his head, started the car, and headed home. About halfway there he heard Hilde sigh as she stared out the side window. "What now!" he asked.
She looked over at him, "Look, I'm sorry okay? It was a big deal, I've been stressing over it for weeks and we need the funding."
"You don't know if they will take it or not Hilds...and if they don't their stupid. There will be others interested. Just because we may have lost one doesn't mean something bigger and better won't come along. Who knows, maybe it will make us millionaires and we can expand while living in a mansion that rivals the size of the banshee's." He said with a smirk, eyes never leaving the road.
"Can we just forget this ever happened?" She reached over and ran her fingers down his arm. He could never deny her anything when she spoke in that tone.
"Whatever you wish babe, it's yours" He smiled at her and pulled up to the yard.
Once we got inside it turned into a whirlwind of clothes being removed and heated kisses. Make-up sex was, in his book, the best sex out there. She was raw, feral, and primal and he loved it. Hilde was great in bed, his perfect match. Even if their personalities clashed this is the one thing they had in sync. The next morning they woke up gloriously sore and everything went back to normal as if the meeting never happened.
Later that week they were contacted by Dominic who had further questions on the proposal and requested a meeting. Hilde had refused to let him attend because someone had to run the yard while she conducted business. When she came back she was ecstatic, Dominic had taken her proposal and wanted to work with her further with the details. For several weeks the meetings became more frequent and Hilde became more...closed off. She wouldn't allow him to touch her, she didn't want to cuddle on the couch as they used to and she staved off intimate situations by saying she had a headache or that she was too tired from the days work to do anything.
"What's going on Hilds..." He asked her one night, three weeks later.
"Nothing, just busy with this deal. Dominic wants all the information I can provide, he is very thorough. Did you know he runs in the same circles as Winner? I wonder how ruthless he is with his deals in those circles, I would kill to see him in action." She had a far off, enamored look on her face.
"He is a ruthless businessman, always gets what he wants, his personality is almost magnetic sometimes too according to his assistant..."
Duo sidled up to her and gently started laying kisses down the side of her neck, "Mhmm...sounds it."
She pulled away with a sheepish grin and put some distance between them. "Not now Duo...I'm tired"
"It's been weeks babe...I need my little hellcat. You don't have to do anything I'll take care of it all" He slid over to her again and lightly ran his hands around her stomach, slowly inching the clothes out of the way to feel bare skin.
She pushed him away and huffed, "I said no, Maxwell! Jeezus do you only think with your pecker?"
"That's not true babe you know it...but you do like it when I do," He tried to lean in again and she got up from the couch.
"That's it, Maxwell! We can't do this anymore, it's not going to work out. I am in all sense, your boss and this is just...it's not like it used to be. I love you I do but not like that. I don't think I ever did! Your not professional, you act like a child, and you carry baggage that would fill 100's of mobile suits."
He was angry, "Where the hell is this coming from! You never had a problem with me before, you have the baggage of your own ya know! Sure my life had been fucked up and I wasn't dealt a fair hand but that never bothered you before Hilde!"
"I'm with Dominic, Duo!" She threw her hands up in frustration, "Did you seriously think we would last? Your head is so fucked up, Dominic has his head on straight, he has means to keep the business running and can provide stability! We've been with each other for weeks now. Jeezus Duo!"
Now he was fierily pissed, "Are you saying you cheated! You were fucking him on the side? Is that why he took the proposal, Hilde! What the fuck, I didn't think you were that easily bought!"
She reached over and grabbed the papers that were sitting on the Coffee table, and forcefully handed them over "Sign it, it withdrawals all your rights to this company and its funding."
He threw the papers back at her, "Are you fucking serious! Am I that easy to replace! I helped you build this fucking company from the ground up. You're gonna just piss on that over a good fuck? How long did it take for you to spread your legs for him, Hilde!"
SMACK!
He held his cheek in shock, "Sign the papers and get out Duo!" She thrust the papers at him again with a pin.
He tightened his lip and slammed the papers down on the table. He signed them in his messy signature and threw them back at her, "I hope he's fucking worth it! You'll be regretting this later, no man with that standing would lower himself to a regular blue-collar worker." He stomped up to their room, packed what measly things he had and walked out. He got on his motorcycle drove off, and never looked back.
-End Flashback-
Thinking back he should have seen the signs; Her withdrawal, her disinterest, her change in behavior. It still hurt to think about it. Not to mention their relationship almost seemed doomed from the start, besides the sex and the business, they didn't have anything in common. I didn't have anywhere to go from that point, I didn't feel right asking one of the guys to take me in because we hadn't talked in months. I ended up running into Howard and his crew one night at a bar and he offered up a spot. The pay wasn't that great, but it would pay for my bills that were piling up so I took it. The next day I was off to the spaceport with the guys and shacked up in the living quarters. It wasn't the greatest situation but best I could get at the time.
I haven't been colony side or land-side since then, I hear from the guys ever so often over the satellite phone or comm but the conversations were always stuffy, short, and nonsensical. I think they are only bothering to contact to make sure I was still alive and not fucked up in some bar somewhere.
Few months after that Hilde tried to contact me. She was in a situation that she couldn't get herself out of and cost me most of my savings. She and Dominic had a fall-out and she was kicked to the curb, jobless, and lost the business. I felt bad for her despite how we split so I ended up giving her what I had and essentially ended up broke to help her get back on her feet. Last he heard she was able to find a job with a different yard and was doing better.
I found myself more fond of space than I thought I would be, given my past. It was beautiful and very...secluded. I couldn't get hurt out here and nobody would get hurt, I was in charge of myself, and regardless of what I did it wouldn't affect anybody else. Sure if I up and disappeared Howard would be out a scrapper but they were a dime a dozen nowadays given the recent events.
"Genesis" a movement established back In AC199, is running illegal experiments that involve Gene Splicing animal DNA with human DNA, Scientifically/Bionically enhanced humans, or a mixture of both. In light of the "peaceful new world", society found a new way to express themselves. The group, according to the news feeds, felt the new world had become too closed-minded. People wanted an outlet, a way to be "unique" and express themselves, but the changes came with their complications when not performed correctly.
There are legal ways to go about getting the changes done. It wasn't supported, but to avoid riots, the government decided that if society wanted the outlet, they should be given a safe way to go about it. Testing is still being done with the bionic physical enhancements and prosthesis but gene splicing was prohibited and illegal. Splicing couldn't be done without having its major drawbacks, but this didn't stop people from taking the illegal route to get what they wanted. Preventers are busy trying to bring a halt to the illegal experiments that have been taking place but haven't had much luck. They couldn't pin down where it was taking place and by who.
The beeping on my com brought me out of my musing, "What's up?" Howard's face appeared on my screen. "Oh hey, old man! What can I do for ya boss."
"Hey, kid! How are ya doing out there?"
"It's doin' ya' know, same ol' same ol' nothing bumpy yet," I responded, grinned, and sat back in my chair.
"Good ta' hear, got another retrieval job for ya. Bring in your haul and I will fill you in on the details. It's not an easy job, out by an asteroid belt."
I laughed, "I've weaved between suits old man, a few pieces of flying rock ain't gonna stop me from getting the load. What is it this time."
"An old space shuttle, there are bound to be some good deals on what we can get. You'll have to come in and get the old bitch to haul it though." Howard sat back and crossed his arms in thought. "She needs a tune-up, the attachment gear needs to be looked into. Had some issues with it lately."
"That's no big, I can look at it and take her out for a spin," I smirk and lean forward to rest my elbows on my counsel. "The old bitch should be up to it."
Howard brought his hand up to his chin in thought, "I dunno kid, she is pretty beat up from the last outing. There may be more wrong with her we aren't seeing but she is the only one big enough to haul that shuttle in."
"It's all good Howie. I'll take a look at her, run her through her specks, and get the job done. I'm about a day out, you good 'til then?"
"We're good, swamped but handling it. Talk to ya when ya get in, see ya then kid," Howard still had a pinched look of concern on his face when he disconnected the call.
I don't know what his deal is, it's a simple retrieval job. What could go wrong? I felt a nervous nagging in my stomach after I thought it...I shouldn't have tempted fate...
A/N:Okay, the first attempt at first-person view, let me know what you think. Feel free to leave a comment. Critiques are welcome.