Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Dark Princess ❯ Chapter 6

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Chapter 7 of Dark Princess. Some angst and m/m sexual tension but on Trowa and Quatre's part. 4+2 2xH 3+1.

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"Feeling better young lady?" Hildie looked up from Quatre where she was kneeling on the floor wiping the last of the blood off of her mouth and chin. Duo had woken up and was by her, stroking her back.

"Stop picking on her Quatre! Can't you see she's having trouble with all of this?"

"Not my fault now is it? Must I keep repeating myself reminding you that you're the one who made the decision and not to get all self-righteous on me. She'll be fine...given time...she has no choice really. Now, I have been more than patient with the both of you. And now, it's wearing thin." Quatre stepped over to Duo and reached down grasping the nape of his neck, pulling on him until the other man was at his feet. Still holding onto the same spot he brought his face close to his own.

Duo could feel the heat of his breath and smell of it as well. He tried to turn his head but found his body immobile as fear gripped his very soul yet again. He closed his eyes and swallowed hard as he felt the light pressure of Quatre's lips against his own, surprised at the softness of them. The idea that he was kissing a man instead of woman seemed irrelevant to him all of a sudden and he found his lips parting, allowing Quatre's tongue admittance into it. But then the face of his wife entered his mind and he could feel her cursed spirit breaking, as was his. He found he did not want to continue, grateful when Quatre then broke the kiss.

"Not so bad am I? Despite the impression I might give you, I can be quite gentle with first timers." Quatre looked at Hildie's eyes that were filling with tears. "Now, don't cry, it won't help. He is mine until I decide to give him back to you."

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Heero stepped out of the double glass doors of the hospital. He had left his place of residence determined to find Relena but then he had realized that he knew not where to search, so he had went to the hospital hoping to find Duo. Hearing about the couples abrupt disappearance had distracted his mind somewhat from his own situation leaving him confused and curious to the reasons of his braided partner's actions. "Why would Duo take Hildie like that? I knew he was upset about her illness, but to kidnap her? I can't believe your love for her made you act so recklessly, so insanely. But then you're one to talk aren't you Heero. You're in love with a woman who not only isn't human but has also threatened to kill you. Why didn't you warn me Duo? Tell me love could make a person this crazy and irrational."

His eyes grew wide and his face grew flushed somewhat realizing he was talking out loud to himself and that people were staring at him. He became startled suddenly as he found his shoulder violently bumped from a man who was walking by him.

"So sorry, sir, I didn't see you."

Heero looked up at the taller man noticing his strange hairstyle that was spiked over his right eye; he thought to himself how he had never seen eyes so green. "It's all right. Just an accident...good day."

"Yes, I suppose accidents happen." The green -eyed gentlemen replied, biding Heero a curt good-bye before moving on his way, but not before stealing another glance at the retreating human. "You fool, I can read your mind. You're thinking of nothing but her...well, then I suppose my course of action will truly be justified now." He spun around on his heel, heading in the same direction as the unsuspecting Heero Yuy.

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Hildie growled a scream and shot to her feet and using all of her new, found strength she belted Quatre across the face with her open hand. "How dare you! Have you no decency about taking another's mate as your own even if it is for a little while? Duo is mine and I swear I will fight to the death for him!"

Quatre's eyes narrowed in anger and he slapped the woman back. She crashed to the floor and held her cheek in shock, her breathing heavy. "You'll have to kill me Quatre before I allow this to happen! I've faced death once and am not afraid! Have you?"

The blonde's nostrils flared and his eyes were wide with anger as he towered over her fallen form. "You think you can threaten me? Strike me? I am of royal lineage and I take orders from no one!" He then kicked her in the ribs knocking her out cold." Duo screamed her name and cursed at Quatre. The blonde Prince ignored his cries and instead slammed him down on the bed where he began tearing at his cloths. "Blame your wife for this, my friend, it is her that has angered me enough not to care anything about your comfort!"

"No!" Consciousness returning to her, Hildie screamed again, this time her voice racked with sobs. "Please! Have you no mercy? Have you never known what it's like to love someone so deeply that you know without them you can't exist as a whole?"

Quatre stopped his defilement of Duo, Hildie's words gripping at his dead, cursed soul. He closed his eyes to prevent his tears from escaping, yet one did seep through and trailed singularly down his cheek.


He released a frustrated yell of his own and pushed down on the braided man using the force to push his body up to his feet. He screamed his eyes inflamed with anger. Duo scrambled quickly off of the bed clasping his torn shirt to his chest, Hildie was by him and they watched in petrified horror.

"I have had enough of you two! Your teary eyes and shrill whines! This ridiculous talk of true love and soul mates, dying for one another! It has become painful to my ears and deadening to my libido! You've have grown to disgust me! I no longer wish for either of you!" He stormed to the door of the room and yanked it open, turning once again to them his voice suddenly soft. "Your vow to me is null and void Duo Maxwell, for I'll not be able to stand the sight of you or wife for some time." He was then out in the hall slamming the door behind him.

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"Why is it you want me to accompany you, Relena?"

"Because you've become a calming force in Trowa's life, Wufei, I'm counting on you to contain his violent tendencies."

"You're one to talk about violent tendencies, princess."

"Then if you don't want me to show you them up close and personal you'll stop asking questions and get a move on."

Wufei huffed somewhat, but took the necessary steps to catch up beside her.

"So why is it so important for you and not Trowa to kill this human?"

"I said no more questions."

Stuffing his hands in his coat pockets Wufei closed his eyes and smirked. "It's because like Trowa you try and avoid any kind of emotion that even hints of love. But in your case you'd rather kill that someone, Trowa just likes to shut them out."

Before the Chinese man could speak another word he found himself slammed against the side of a brick building, Relena's left hand firmly gripping his throat, her right hand pulled back and stilled as if she were about to punch his face.

"Anymore disrespect, Wufei, and Heero won't be the only one to die today."

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Hildie stumbled over to her husband who was slowly rising off of the floor and onto his feet. He looked over his ripped shirt before tossing it to the floor again writing it off as unsalvageable.

His arms came around his wife enveloping her into a tight embrace as she fell onto his bare chest.

"Are you okay, Duo?"

"Yea, he just managed to ruin my shirt, thank God. Hildie, I owe you my life." He kissed the top of her head.

"I don't think God exists for us anymore, sweetheart, and as for your life, I'm simply returning the favor."

Duo closed his eyes tightly pulling Hildie closer to him even more in an attempt to stop his newly forming tears. "I'm so sorry. I've ruined everything for us."

"No, love, I don't want you to feel guilty for this." She kissed in between his pectorals noticing for the first time that his once tanned skin was now a pale peach. She smiled before resting her forehead against the very same spot she had just kissed. "Life is full of changes and challenges Duo, we merely have to accept that and learn to grow and change and I for one know that the transition will be much easier for me as long as I have you forever by my side."

Her words brought a halt to his threatening tears and he loosened his hold on her enough to bring one hand up under her chin, tilting it so that she was looking up at him; he met her gaze. "And have no doubt Hildie, my darlin' girl, I'll never leave your side."

A warm smile graced her lips as this time it was her blinking back tears at his words. "I love you Duo Maxwell."

He brought his hand up behind her head as he slowly lowered his, stopping only when his lips were a breath away from hers. "I love you, Hildie Maxwell." He then completed the movement, capturing his wife's lips with his own. The couple passionately shared their first kiss of their new life.

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He shook his head in an attempt to clear his mind but he could not shake Relena out of it, or the memory of the previous night they had spent together. He felt his body growing hot and a stirring hardness in his groin. He ducked into an isolated alley way and leaned forward against the wall resting his forehead against his bent arm that was pressed to the wall. He hoarsely whispered his deadly lover's name. "Relena, where are you? Come to me, please. Even if you kill me at least I won't have to suffer with out you."

"How touching it is to hear someone pining away for a love they can never have...and speaking of touch..."

Heero's breathing literally stopped as he heard a masculine voice in his ear and felt an arm snake around his hips and a hand stroking gently the raging passion that he was trying to get under control.

"Get away from me pervert!" He yelled, angered, pushing back against the man who had dared touch him so intimately.

With a malicious sounding chuckled the man released him and backed away allowing Heero to turn around and face him.

"My, my you do have it bad for our princess don't you?"

Heero curled his fists but kept them to his sides. "You're one of them aren't you? What do you want?"

Trowa narrowed his eyes and spoke in his usual soft monotone. "The question is what do you want?"

Heero growing irritability showed in his voice. "I'm not in the mood for games. So just tell me what it is you want?"

"Very well." A sly smirk drew across Trowa's lips as he stepped towards Heero, pinning him against the side of the brick wall with his much taller frame. He rested his hands sideways onto the shorter man's shoulders so that they were cupping his chin, thumbs stroking his cheeks. His voice remained matter-of-fact. "Seems the princess Relena is our mutual friend...and lover."

Though paralyzed momentarily Heero strangely found he was not afraid of this man and in fact, was glaring at him. "You sound jealous, or worse yet threatened."

Trowa raised one of his fine eyebrows as his right hand slipped slightly down the scrap dealer's chest, so that now its index finger was gently stroking Heero's jugular. His gaze fixed itself on the very same spot making it appear that Trowa was speaking past him instead of to him. "If such accusations make you feel superior then spew them at me to your heart's content, for I already know that truth of my feelings for our dearest and most desirable Relena. Do you know yours? Wait, don't answer, I can tell how you feel and that it is in fact true."

"Then you won't mind me telling you that I love her, deeply with every thing I am."

Forest depths flashed upward, locking again with Prussian swirls of profundity. "I know. And even though the princess won't admit it she feels the very same way about you."

Heero furrowed his brow as he stared into the other man's eyes, thinking for a second he saw a flash of pain and loss, perhaps the realization of a denied truth. But if there had been it was now gone, swallowed once again by deadly calm seas of pure, intense green.

Trowa straightened his stance the look of dangerous arrogance draping over his body and face once again which seemed to oddly match his calm voice. "Well, Heero, you love her, she loves you and this whole situation is something I can no longer continue to watch without doing something about it, so, that, only leaves me with one recourse. But don't worry," he paused briefly to flash a devious smile and evil gleam, "I'll make it as quick and as painless as possible.

TBC...