Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Dangerous Bonds ❯ Chapter 8 ( Chapter 8 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Title- Dangerous Bonds (8/?)Warning- AU, Mild violence and shounen-ai in future parts.Parings- 1+2, 3+4Rating- RSummary- Duo, possessing psychic powers, is invited to a special institute for gifted students. Everything seems normal enough but there’s something going on behind the scenes. What does it have to do with Duo and his new friends and will they find out in enough time to save themselves? This is a crossover with the Dark Visions trilogy by L.J. Smith.Disclaimer- I do not own any part of Gundam Wing or the Dark Visions book series. The following story is being written without profit, no malice is intended. *insert pleasant, innocent smile here*Notes: ummm //thinking or telepathy\\ it will probably get confusing later on but that’s the fun part. This Fic was Beta-ed by Ilyena_sylph a long, long, long time ago, but I have tweaked it since then so definitely all spelling and grammar issues are completely my fault.

Chapter 8

“No one likes this Yuy, turn it off.”

“Fine, just tell me how.”

Shock reverberated through the room, through the link connecting them as the words continued to echo silently.

“You don’t know how to stop this?” Quatre asked finally.

Heero turned to glare at Quatre, “If I did I would have already. I like this less than any of you could possibly know.” Heero’s voice was dripping with contempt.

“Then why did you do it in the first place?” Duo asked softly, even though he knew everyone heard the question.

//Shut up.\\  The thought had come so sharply and so directly that it made Duo’s head snap back like he had been punched. Heero had not even bothered to turn and glare at Duo; the two words had carried all the meaning he had intended. Duo knew, without a doubt, that the thought had been meant only for him and he was the only one who heard it, just as Heero wanted.

“You’ve done this before,” Duo said ignoring the warning, “How did you stop it then?” Heero did turn to glare this time but Duo didn’t back down. Through the connection he could feel everyone rallying behind him and now they were all expecting an answer from Heero. Duo smirked, //I told you. You don’t scare me,\\ he tried to send just for Heero.

Heero looked away first; “It’s never been this many people at once, and I’ve never stop it; it usually ends. It blinks out of existence when someone passes out or-” he just stopped. The whole line of thought was cut off ruthlessly.

Wufei’s anger suddenly skyrocketed, he and Heero glared at each other for several seconds but neither said or thought anything further.

Duo’s attention shifted to Wufei as he wondered what was going on between the two of them; he didn’t realize his thoughts had been reaching out. Wufei’s response was a mental rebuff, akin to a quick slap to his hand, Duo resisted the urge to rub the nonexistent sting away. He pulled back and turned his attention to Heero, this time consciously trying the same thing. Heero’s reaction was stronger than a slap.

Heero could feel Duo trying to probe him and he wasn’t amused. He doubted Duo even knew what he was doing or how to do it properly. But though the attempt was laughable it was still annoying that he was even trying. Heero put a barrier around himself, a shield from the rest of them as solid as a wall. It felt cold and unbreakable like a promise that nasty things would happen to anyone that tried to get closer to him.

And with that last residual thought, Heero was cut off. Their link to him had been disengaged; even though they could still feel he was connected to them, the flow of thoughts and emotions had stopped. It felt as if an arm had gone permanently numb.

“How did you do that?” Wufei asked astonished.

Heero was silent again.

Duo tried to do the same, since Heero had pulled that stunt right in Duo’s figurative face. He tried to build a wall around himself to keep out everyone’s thoughts and keep his in. Bit by bit they could feel Duo pull away as well, though his barriers weren’t as strong as Heero’s. Trowa, Quatre and Wufei tried to copy Duo’s example and they all closed themselves off from each other. Still it was only a temporary solution.

Trowa was the first to break the silence in the room, “What are we going to do about this?”

Heero stood up and walked to the door, “It’s never lasted this long before. Just go to sleep, it will be gone by morning.”

“But you’re not sure about that.” Wufei stated bluntly.

Heero left without answering.

**********

Duo was sitting on the beach again, but this time something was different.

“How did you get in my dream?”

Duo looked behind him but it wasn’t Wufei that caught his eye, his focus was trained on what lay behind the other boy: Everything. For the first time Duo could see the whole picture. The gray sky with the dark clouds hanging just above the horizon, the biting cold in the air that made him want to pull a jacket around himself, the small one story house on top of the modest grass hill, the old worn down fence posts that lined the near side of the simple road that ran along the beach; it was all breathtaking in a desolate, cold sort of way.

“Maxwell.”

Duo quickly looked back at Wufei; he had nearly forgotten there was another person there, four others in fact. “I’m in your dream?”

Wufei’s eyes strayed to his left then narrowed and Duo knew that he was looking at Heero. Not because of the look in his eyes, although that was a dead give away, it was because of the connection they shared. Duo could also feel that Trowa and Quatre were close together somewhere to his right. The feeling was oddly comforting.

“But… I’ve had this dream before… but…” he paused, unable to explain how the landscape had been previously.

“But the blackness blocked everything.”

“Yes,” Duo said turning his head to look at Trowa, suddenly he understood. “We’ve all had this dream before,” he said slowly, still not sure how he knew these things without a doubt. Duo stood and started to walk past Wufei up the beach.

“Where are you going?”

Duo paused but did not turn around, “I’ve been here every night since coming to the Institute but this is the first time I’ve gotten the whole picture. Now it seems pretty obvious this isn’t just some dream. Aren’t you even a little curious about what’s going on here? There’s a light on in that house so I’m going to check it out.” He started moving again and they all followed him.

They walked, but never got any closer.

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Heero was the first to wake up. The light coming from his window told him it was well after dawn and a quick look at his clock confirmed his thoughts; he overslept. Heero slid out of bed and headed to his private bathroom. He splashed some water on his face as he stared at himself in the mirror, wondering what the hell he had been thinking the night before. He knew everyone was still sleeping peacefully; he could still feel them. Heero had known, even as he had said otherwise the night before, that the connection would still be there in the morning. In fact, he suspected that there was no way to reverse what he had started, that was unacceptable. He growled to himself, //Sitting around feeling sorry for myself is not acceptable either.\\ With a frown, Heero left the bathroom to find something to wear.

Downstairs he knew the dogs would be gone, Treize took them when he left the night before, however he did not expect to find Une happily putting away groceries in the kitchen. He paused in the doorway unsure of what to do for a moment.

“Oh,” Une said when she turned and saw him, “Good morning, Heero.”

“Hn,” he acknowledged as he finally moved into the kitchen to get a glass of apple juice.

“How was your night?” she asked happily.

“How’s Relena?” he countered.

“Oh, she’s doing just fine,” Une said, completely oblivious to Heero’s insinuation. “The doctors don’t know exactly what happened to her but they’re confident she’ll make a full recovery. Even Mr. Pargen insisted that I leave the hospital immediately and return here. That Mr. Pargen, he’s such a nice man.”

Heero stared, “Une.”

She smiled serenely, “Yes, Heero?”

He had wanted to ask her whom she thought she was fooling with her act, but instead he said, “I want to start learning more about my power and how I can use it to help you.” He watched with clinical detachment as her smile grew wider and her eyes lightened.

“Heero, that’s wonderful. Mr. Treize will be so pleased. I’ll get you some books so you can start researching.”

“It would be easier if I had access to your whole library, then I can see what I’ll be dealing with as well.”

She seemed to consider him for too long and he was starting to think that she would refuse. “Well… Normally I would disagree but I’m confident that Mr. Treize would approve of your request. You know where to find it, of course?”

He nodded and left the kitchen for the French doors. He entered Une’s meticulously neat room and headed straight to the bookshelves in the corner. He had a lot of material to read through and not enough time to do it, but he was sure that Une would not disturb him and that she would keep the others from bothering him as well. Heero picked out a book and started reading.

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//What is that horrible noise?\\

“Hmm… Wufei’s alarm clock is going off.”

“Mmm Quat… I’ll give you five dollars if you throw it outta the window.” Duo mumbled into his pillow, still half asleep.

Quatre snickered as the door from the bathroom burst open. The ‘horrible noise,’ which had previously been muffled by the shut door, was now blaring but it still could not complete with Wufei’s angry voice, “Did you just threaten Nataku?”

Duo rolled over and cracked an eye open. “Of course not, Wu-man,” he mumbled again, rolling back over to try to get some more sleep with a pillow over his head.

Wufei growled and his voice gained volume, “Maxwell! My name is Wufei and -”

//I’ll give anyone another five if they throw Wuffie out too.\\

Wufei’s tirade stopped mid-word and Quatre outright laughed which caused Wufei to stutter indignantly for a second. //You forgot I can hear you, Maxwell.\\ Wufei’s inner voice growled loud and clear in Duo’s head.

Duo groaned, he entertained the idea of smacking himself in the head but decided against it, because it might serve as a cue for Wufei to start beating him senseless. Duo rolled over again and sat up, wiping the sleep out of his eyes. He looked at Wufei and smiled, “As a matter of fact, I did forget you could hear my thoughts… But, since you’re being such a good sport about this, I’ll give you twenty if you jump.” Then Duo threw his pillow at Wufei and dashed past out into the hallway before Wufei could recover.  

“What’s so funny?” Wufei said tossing the pillow at the blond who was trying to stop laughing.

Quatre caught it and threw it back on Duo’s bed, “Nothing at all.” He said angelically.

“What the hell is this?!” Duo shouted from the other room.

Wufei turned around ready to kill Duo and Quatre followed to stop the ensuing bloodshed.

They found Duo holding the alarm clock in question. A strange green metal contraption fixed on top of a clock base that was waving around green and yellow flags shouting catchphrases like ‘Time to get up!’ ‘Sleeping late is weak!’ ‘Don’t waste the day!’ ‘Justice must be served!’

“Eh,” Duo said just as they entered the room, “What a strange little robot guy.”

Quatre watched Wufei’s eye twitch with concern, “Uh, Duo. You might want to put that down.”

“That, is not a robot. That is Warrior Goddess Nataku. Put her down or I will be forced to kill you in a painful manor.” As he charged over to stand between the beds to block Duo’s escape.

Duo carefully sat the clock back on the stand. He put his hands up in a pacifying gesture, “Geeze, don’t get so worked up. I was only kidding.”

Wufei picked up another pillow and took a threatening step forward. Duo tucked and rolled over the bed and out of the door just as Trowa was reentering the room, managing to slide around him. Wufei dropped the pillow and picked up his clock to inspect it for damage, turning it off as well.

//Thank God!\\  Duo’s thought floated through the web.

//I know where you are, Duo,\\  Wufei thought.

//What a coincidence, I know where I am too.\\

Wufei just shook his head.

“Well, no harm done,” Quatre ventured.

Wufei snorted in amusement, and headed for the door.

“Hey,” Trowa leaned in to grab another pillow off of the bed and handed it to Wufei. “Take this; you’ll have more time to make the point.”

Wufei nodded and raced out of the room with the pillow in hand.

//Heads up, Duo,\\  Quatre warned.

//Crap.\\

Quatre and Trowa burst out laughing.


**********

Sometime later in the day, Heero looked up from the essay he was reading to watch Duo slip into the room. “Go away. I’m busy.”

“Oh yeah? Whatcha doin’?”

Heero turned his attention back to the book he held, knowing that Duo wouldn't take the hint. Duo continued trying catch his attention and Heero had to wonder how it was possible for Duo to make so much noise just standing there and still be able to creep into his room in the middle of the night near soundlessly.

“Hey!” Duo finally said when it became apparent that Heero was going to continue to ignore him. “You’ve been in here all day, what have you been doing?”

//I’m looking for a way to reverse this and you’re disturbing me. Go away.\\  Although the tone wasn’t as sharp as it had been before, Duo knew that this was meant only for him to hear.

“Let me help,” Duo insisted.

“You don’t know what to look for and you’re too distracting. I’m not going to tell you again.”

“God Damn it, Heero! This isn’t just your problem anymore, now you’ve included all of us! You may be used to doing everything on your own but you can’t do that now so quit being such a selfish bastard!”

Heero sat passive as Duo yelled at him, waiting until he finished, then Heero stood and walked past Duo to the doors small room, opening one. As Duo turned to watch him Heero grabbed his arm.

Duo flailed as he was roughly yanked backwards, his feet tangling in Heero’s out stretched leg. The next thing he knew he was sitting in the middle of the hall starring up at a smirking Heero. He was going to say something but the French doors closed, cutting him off.

Wufei watched as Duo landed in a sprawl and got the door slammed in his face; he was unsuccessfully suppressing a smirk.

Duo picked himself up and mock-glared at the amused expression. “You could have helped me up or something.”

“I told you not to go in there; it’s none of your business what he is doing.”

Duo huffed elaborately, “Both of you… Look, this is everyone’s business ‘cuz now it’s everyone’s problem. I mean, if we can help him figure out what’s happening with this, then we can fix it and move on, ya know. I would have figured that you would be jumping at any opportunity to end this since you seem to be having the biggest problem with it.”

The amusement wiped from Wufei’s face leaving a scowl. He stepped up to Duo and whispered fiercely, “My problem is with Yuy. But I still know that I do not have the knowledge or ability to fix this. This is his responsibly, his gift, and he understands it in a way that I could never. You are intervening where you are not wanted and you are not helping-”

Wufei looked like he would have continued but just then Une came out of the kitchen wiping her hands with a dishtowel. “What’s going on out here?” she asked taking in the scene before her.

Startled Duo spun around and stared at her, “Umm...”

Wufei just turned around and stalked up the steps without another word.

“He's still mad about this morning,” Duo recovered, “I didn't know he took that alarm clock so seriously.”

“Have you apologized to him?”

Duo smiled, “Well, probably not sincerely enough for his liking. I'll just go do that now. Thanks Une.” He turned and followed Wufei up the stairs.

**********

Just as he reached the end of the essay there was a light knock at the door and then a brief pause before Une pushed the door open and stuck her head inside.

“Une,” Heero acknowledged.

“I sorry to disturb you but you’ve been in here all day. Would you like something to eat or -”

“No.”

“I'm afraid I have to insist; at least take a glass of water. Dinner will be in a couple of hours I'll understand if you wish to  wait to eat until then.”

“Fine. Just give me a minute to put everything back.”

“OK. One minute, Heero,” she closed the door quietly.

Heero looked down at the book in his hands once more, rereading the final passage he had been looking at, unwilling to accept it as a final answer.

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Author's  Note: I'm sorry, so sorry this took so long. I keep trying to make promises to post more frequently and breaking them, so no promise to get the next one sooner. I will try, I will Try. I do appreciate all the comments even the criticism help put my butt in gear. Like I've said, I'm following the story pretty closely but it does change just not very much until after story stuff which at the rate I am posting I will most likely never get to. I will continue to do this until I get to the end so I will never, NEVER drop this story, even if it takes years to get back I will come back.

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