Fan Fiction / Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Finding What Was Lost ❯ In the Quiet Room ( Chapter 3 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
Title: Finding What Was Lost
Author: Something Like Human
Rating: 13+ (for now ^_~)
Genre: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter – Gundam Wing x-over. Basically folks, right after the Eve’s War (A.C. 196 in the gundam-verse), the vampires came out of the coffin. So in the Anita-verse, it’s post-Incubus Dreams
.Warnings: Yaoi/Slash, 3somes, vampires, were-everythings, zombies, blood, sex, language. (the usual for the two genres)
Pairings: 2x5, and Anita/anything male…. ^_~
Disclaimer: I don’t own anything but the plot.
This is for Kirallie who has found this fic just about everywhere it was posted and continues to remind me that at one time I wrote fanfic that at least someone liked. Btw: you've missed a few places this story was posted. >.<

We sat in silence for a few minutes; I think that everyone was caught up in their own thoughts. I was regarding each of the three on the couch across from us trying figure out what exactly was going on between them. Duo was starring off into space completely lost in either his fragmented memories or his thoughts - I don't know which. Jean-Claude was turning his gaze between both my lover and the lycanthrope seated on the floor. He continued to appear mildly amused by the whole situation. The woman, Anita, was just glaring at Duo as if he had stolen Nathaniel's face for nefarious purposes.
"So what are you two doing here?" The woman asked in a not so civil tone. "I find it hard to believe that it was such a coincidence that you show up here randomly and run into Nathaniel."
My partner was still starring off towards a corner and worrying his braid in his hands so I spoke up for the both of us. I did not give them the whole truth because I did not want them to know that we were actually working in the city but were on leave just for the night. "I said before, we are just on leave and passing through. It is my birthday and Duo thought it would nice to go out and he was the one that bought us the tickets for tonight. I had no idea who Nathaniel even was until tonight nor do I believe that my partner did either. He told me got the tickets on recommendation from some of the women we work with."
It was hard not to hear the recommendations from our female coworkers. They had all seen the show numerous times. Sally had been the first to go surprisingly and was soon taking any one and everyone that had an interest with her any time they were nearby. None of them had mentioned anyone looking like Duo but I could very well see that if they were sitting in the general admission seats, which were further back from where we had been sitting, then it would have been harder to see his face while he was on stage. Then again, knowing those women, I highly doubt that they even saw his face.
"On leave? From where? Who do you work for?"
"Ma Petite, they are Preventers," the vampire told her in a soothing tone. "They are special ops and were to be my guests tonight."
"Lovely, like the FBI but nosier and can claim jurisdiction anywhere. You've had Preventers in the club before, why are these ones your guests tonight? You've never done that with the other ones."
"Let us just say that these two were far more interesting than the others," he explained to her. "What? Just because they are two male Preventers who enjoy looking at other guys strip?"
"Non," he actually looked right in her eyes for a moment and she did not flinch away but met his gaze unwavering. They had obviously a more equal relationship than I assumed. "They are interesting because their background checks came back cleaner and even more vague than your friend, Mr. Forrester."
"Oh," she replied. "How clean?"
"It is as if they did not exist before AC 196 where they just appear at age 16 as special ops in the Preventers," the vampire turned his gaze back towards Duo and I. "I found it intriguing that two so young would find themselves in such an elite group of high ranking military operations."
"Were you wondering if they were preternatural beings of some sort and curious as to what they were?" Anita queried. She was quick to make connections but I guess that was why she had been listed as one of the police contacts to use locally if we ran into a dead end in our investigation. "They do not feel like they are lycanthropes or vampires or anything really. They feel completely human but more powerful somehow. What are you?"
"We're human, completely so. I don't know if the differences you are sensing are because we're from the colonies," I suggested. I really did not know what she meant by seeming more powerful. "I assure you that we are nothing out of the ordinary. It's just that we were grandfathered into the Preventers after the Wars, just as you were with the Federal Marshals, Ms. Blake."
"I don't think I was born on the colonies," Duo said quietly. He turned his head towards me and smiled weakly. "I have always vaguely remembered being on a transport, I think from Earth, and running away from it as soon as it hit port. It's all very fuzzy but I had been told that when some of the other street kids found me, I had bandages around my head like I had a head wound that was almost healed."
"Nicky was being beat by our father the last time I saw him," Nathaniel spoke up. His voice was still very timid no matter how much it sounded like my partner's there was a distinct difference in how he spoke. "I saw him get hit over and over; his blood went everywhere in the living room. He told me to run, and I did. I never saw him again. I had been told he died from the head wounds he received."
"That's horrible!" I exclaimed before I caught myself. I had always had a hard time listening to Duo talk about the abuse children on the streets had recieved and had never been comfortable hearing about cases involving child abuse.
"Nathaniel," Anita spoke softly to the young man at her feet. She continued to stroke his hair affectionately as she asked him her question. "I thought that you had told me that Nicky was older than you were and that was why he was protecting you."
"He was older than me. We were only 11 months appart in age though so at the time, he seemed a lot older to me than I was but now that we're adults, that really is not much of a difference, is it?"
"Duo, how old are you?" She asked him with surprisingly the same gentleness that she used with Nathaniel.
"My record states 21 doesn't it?" He replied with a wink. "I'm legal for anything you have in mind." I took the opportunity to smack his arm for behaving so crassly. Jean-Claude started laughing again causing us all to shiver. He actually made great theatrics to wipe a tear away from his eye after he laughed.
"Are you sure he is not Jason's brother? He sounds just like mon loup!"
tbc.