Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Days Gone By ❯ A Turn for the Worst ( Chapter 6 )

Disclaimer: Duo Maxwell, Heero Yuy and all other Gundam Wing characters belong to Bandai.

Gundam Wing

Days Gone By...

"Listen," Heero said carefully as he stared at a much damaged gundam and an almost unconscious pilot. "Can you make it to the safe house?" The braided pilot just stared at the screen walking his gundam slowly. If he didn't respond, he was going to have to resort to calling one of the other pilots to help him out. There were no other enemies. Heero knew how many mobile suits were at this base, and even when they destroyed parts of the base that held the suits, there were more elsewhere and they got surrounded. Heero was a bad case of injuries and he knew he would spend much time on his gundam but Duo… He was injured far worse and his gundam was almost out for the count.

He opted for another solution. Wing Zero stepped in front of the staggering gundam and stopped it from advancing forward.

"Duo! Can you hear me?"

Violet eyes glanced wearily to the screen, blood running over one eye.

"H-Hee…chan…"

A bad, bad concussion…Heero thought as he noticed a broken panel hanging loosely from above the braided boy's head.

"Duo," He said more softly. "I'm going to into flight mode and you are going to grab onto Wing, ok? We'll fly back to the safe house and get you cleaned up." Heero was worried beyond that he thought he was ever capable of. Duo was taking a long time to acknowledge that fact.

"O-k" He drawled.

"Transforming." Heero's gundam began to go into bird mode. "Duo, jump up now and grab onto Wing." He watched Duo carefully as he made for his gundam to do a small hop to catch that one piece he could hang on to but Duo miscalculated the jump and ended up smashing into the hovering gundam.

"Duo!" The shaggy haired brunet yelled as he watched Duo yelp in pain as sparks flew but the hand of the gundam found what it wanted to hang from and Heero winced but quickly adjusted his controls for the impacted and the sudden weight added. He finally took off, wanting to get back to their place as quickly as possible but not wanting to go so fast by the chance the Deathscythe might slip off.

Almost twenty minutes later, Heero found himself lowering the other gundam to the ground of their hideout. He transformed back and hid his gundam at the appropriate spot and quickly scrambled out of Wing to get to Duo. It was a little difficult but he climbed up the gundam and banged on the hatch.

"DUO! DUO OPEN UP!" He yelled and suddenly there was a hiss as the hatch did just that. Heero jumped inside noticing the damage was far worse than what the camera had let on. Fried wires were dangling from overhead, broken glass from one of the screens, just so many problems and damage the gundam's cockpit hand taken on and the outside didn't look any better.

Hands flew out and unbuckled the harness from the hunched over pilot and Heero picked him up and sat in the seat with Duo sprawled over him. He had to hide the gundam correctly then he could get Duo the proper care that he needed. Heero took over the controls with the immobile body on top of him and knelt the gundam down and besides his own. Once everything was shut down, he turned Duo around where his shoulder was in Heero's chest and to where Heero was able to gather the boy's legs and brought him up in his arms.

Before moving, Heero had to make sure that he had his footing. Yes, he was injured but not as badly as his partner. He was tired but he still needed to take care of him and make sure that he gets better.

Crouching, almost, he stepped out of the cockpit and was able to stand straight with his load. He placed Duo's feet on the ground and swung Duo's left arm over his shoulder while Heero's strong arm was secure at his back, keeping him upright and tightly against his body. Knowing that the pilot wasn't going to fall, Heero gathered the wire, put his foot at the end and started to lower himself and Duo to the ground. It was a little difficult but nothing was going to make him drop the boy in his arms.

Safely on the ground, Wing's pilot gathered up the unconscious boy and ran to the house as fast as his legs would take him. He held Duo tightly so he wouldn't injure him further with his running but the braided baka was in need of medical attention right away and Heero was going to make sure that he was going to get it.

Hours later, Duo was all cleaned up and tucked away in his bed resting. He would be fine and Heero would be also. While he still had the medical kit and such out, he treated and dressed his own wounds while he kept an eye on Duo. It would be a while before he could go out on a mission but Heero would just take them and accomplish them on his own. Heero found himself rechecking the bandages, making sure that there wasn't any exceeding blood from the worst wounds and once Heero sat down, he realized that he had yet to leave the other boy's side since they arrived.

'How could this mission have gone so wrong? The calculations were correct and we scooped the entire base. How could we have missed those extra suits?'

Frustration grew and showed on the tired pilot's face. His eyes rimmed red and his skin paled.

"Hee…" Cobalt eyes snapped to Duo's face. Eyes shut and mouth slightly opened, Heero waited for another response…

'Maybe you're starting to think you heard his voice. You need to go to sleep, Yuy.'

Heero scowled at himself for having to rest. There was much to do and his body couldn't do it all at once. He was about to stand when a small voice spoke up again.

"Hee-"

"Duo? Don't talk. Go to sleep. You were injured in our last mission." He stated and there was a small nod from the teen on the bed.

"You need… rest. Rest… 'Ro." And with that, Duo was out only leaving his partner staring at him.

"You rest too." And as he moved over to his own bed, he whispered to the unconscious body on the other side of the room, "Thank you, Duo… for watching my back."

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