untitled Ficcie (another one) 

-----part 1----- 

Click. Clack. Clickety-clickety-click.

Heero Yuy's fingers worked deftly upon the keys of the laptop computer in front 
of him. 

"I'll find the answer." he told himself. "It's in here somewhere."

He heard a soft whimper and saw that Duo had opened his eyes. Closing the laptop, 
he went over to his lover and stroked his luxuriant hair.

"Duo. Please, tell me what's wrong?" 

Duo rolled onto his side and did not respond. His eyes were damp with unshed 
tears. 

Heero suspected that Duo let the tears fall at night, when no one could see him. 

~But why do they come?~ he wondered as he climbed into the bed and pulled Duo 
into his arms.

"You were so happy just a few days ago," he whispered as he kissed Duo's hair. "What 
happened? What did that change?"

"I had...." Duo began, but he couldn't say it. "I lost.... Oh, God, Heero... I..." 
The half-dressed boy scrambled out of bed, in a flurry of rage and pain, and 
began to demolish the room, throwing everything around in a fit of violence.

"DUO!" Heero hollered as the braided boy picked up his laptop. He tackled Duo, 
just in time to save his computer. After a struggle, Heero had the other boy 
pinned down. "Duo, calm down."

Heero started to speak again when Duo wriggled free and ran out to the repair 
hangar where Deathscythe was still being repaired from the space-to-earth crash. 
Heero followed, remembering that crash all too well. 

~But usually Duo's happy to be alive after a brush with death. So why....~

Duo was lashing out at Deathscythe with his miniature version of the Gundam's 
thermal scythe.

"It's all your fault!" the braided boy was screaming, almost sobbing. "Why?! I've 
given you my time, my energy. I've treat you like a friend.. no, like a brother. 
and you.. you... I *HATE* you!"

Heero, realizing that Duo was too upset to be restrained by only him, was about 
to go get Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei when they ran into the repair hangar.

"Duo," Quatre's voice was calm, gentle, and soothing. "Please. We want to help 
you."

"There's nothing you can do," Duo whispered as he dropped the scythe and walked 
back into the safehouse.

The others followed, Quatre pausing to answer the phone.

"Hello?" 

"Quatre, it's Sally." the voice on the other end identified herself. "I just 
wanted to know how Duo is doing?"

"Duo's fine, I guess. Physically at least." Wufei let out a long sigh. "He's 
been a bit moody lately, though."

"Understandable, all things considered."

"What 'all things'?" Quatre asked.

"Well, since you're his friend, I guess I can tell you...."

-----part 2----- 

"I hate all of you!" Duo was yelling as Quatre walked into the hangar. "And I 
hate these stupid Gundams, too."

"Duo..." Heero began.

Duo shoved past him. "I hate you most of all, Heero!" He half-screamed as he 
stormed past them and out the door.

"Heero," Quatre told the Perfect Soldier, "Duo doesn't hate you. He's just very 
upset right now."

"Why," Heero asked, "is Duo upset? He's never reacted this way to a crash before. 
Even ones worse than the one he was just in."

"Heero, there's something you need to know."

"What is it?"

Quatre took a deep breath. "Duo was pregnant, Heero."

"He *what*?!" Heero blinked. "How the hell is that possible?"

"The doctors wanted to test an artificial womb and Duo agreed to become their 
guinea pig as long as he was permitted to keep the baby... and as long as the 
baby was yours."

"Oh, kami-sama." Heero whispered. Then something Quatre had said struck him. "You 
said he 'was' pregnant..."

"He lost it in the crash." Quatre explained. 

"Oh, dear kami-sama..." Heero groaned as he hurried out of the hangar, in search 
of his love. 

-----part 3-----

Duo stood there in the bathroom, glaring at his reflection in the mirror.

"It's your fault, Duo," he told himself, "Completely your fault. You killed your 
baby. Just like you kill everyone else who gets close to you. You shouldn't be 
alive. Why should you be alive?"

"Because I need you."

Duo started at the sound of Heero's voice, but did not turn. "Please go away."

"So you can commit suicide?" Heero shook his head. "Duo, I can't let you kill 
yourself."

"Heero... I killed...."

"You didn't kill the baby," Heero told him, gently. 

Duo spun around, a look of shock on his face, "You *knew*?!"

"I just found out." Heero told Duo. He took Duo into his arms. "Duo, I know what 
you did for me, the pain you're suffering because of your love for me. If anyone 
is at fault it's me."

"Heero..." Duo began.

"Duo, if you didn't feel you had to try to win my heart when you'd already won 
it. Duo, I'm sorry." Heero pulled Duo into his arms, kissing his forehead and 
stroking his braid. "Please, forgive me. I ... I love you." He pressed his lips 
to Duo's in a tender kiss, tasting the sweet taste of almonds. A taste 
associated with certain shampoos, almondine teas and coffees, and.....

Duo's body suddenly went limp in Heero's arms, the violet eyes rolling up to 
whites as Duo's eyelids fell shut.

"Duo!!" Heero screamed in rage and pain of loss, 'NO!!!!!" 

-----part 4----- 

Heero raced through the safehouse, carrying Duo's limp body in his arms. 

"Call Sally!" he cried out, urgently, as he ran past Quatre. "Tell her to get 
the hospital prepped right away. I'm bringing Duo in."

He placed the braided pilot in the back of the stolen ambulance and sped off to 
the hospital.

Quatre, in the meanwhile, got his coat on and turned to Trowa and Wufei. "Let's 
go." he told them.

"Aren't you going to call Sally?" Wufei asked.

Quatre shook his head. "No." he replied, sadly, as he turned and walked out to 
the Winner Family Limo.

"Take us to the hospital where Sally Po works." he told the driver as he and the 
other two pilots got into the back seat. He took out a handkerchief and wiped 
his eyes, then placed it back in his pocket.

"Quatre?" Trowa asked, concernedly.

"I'll explain shortly." Quatre's heart was heavy with its burden. He longed, 
desperately, to speak with Trowa, to find comfort in his lover's arms, but he 
couldn't. Not until he had spoken to Heero.


Heero raced into the hospital and was surprised to find Sally sipping a cup of 
coffee. "What the hell are you doing?!" he exploded, "Why didn't you start 
hauling ass the minute Quatre phoned?!"

"Medical team to main entryway. Stat!" Sally summoned, turning her attention to 
Heero's outburt. 

"Quatre?" she asked, in confusion, as she . "What are you talking about?!"

"When Quatre called you." Heero prompted. Seeing the woman shake her head, he 
added. "About five minutes ago..."

"Heero," Quatre said as he hurried into the hospital followed by Trowa and Wufei, 
"I never called."

"Never called?! Quatre, Duo's life is hanging by....."

Quatre's voice was as gentle as it could be, but his reply cut Heero's heart 
like razors.

"Duo's life ended seven minutes ago." he said. 

-----Owari-----