Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Behind Closed Doors ❯ 9: rain without clouds ( Chapter 9 )

9: rain without clouds

Heero stands under the eaves and watches the rain fall in the middle of a city on some nameless colony. He knows it's just the way they clean out the systems, but its unnerving, rain…on a colony. It doesn't look the same. There aren't any clouds.

Covering the laptop with his coat, Heero moves off toward the hotel they're staying at, aware of the light thrumming through the machine that tells him they're still searching, still struggling, still…something.

Heero was not sure what he was anymore. But he was something, right?

The hotel is a fancy thing, not what they are used to. It's the only vacancy in town and Heero thinks that's because of the price tag that's on it. He doesn't care. It doesn't matter. It's dry inside, and there is a roof that looks like a roof, and not a machine that wants to be a sky.

Wufei is on the bed, just lying there, staring at the ceiling. He's always doing that.

"What do you see?" He does not expect an answer, and he's not really all that interested.

"A person without a soul."

"Aa," Heero replies. He understands. He always has. Because it's like rain, without clouds.