Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Fallen ❯ Ch 8 ( Chapter 8 )

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

Well here's the next part. Thankies for all the great reviews and threats…umm… yeah. Enjoy.

Ch. 8
A.C. 198 Christmas Eve

The party was held at Wufei and Duo's this year, for obvious reasons. Aside from just the ex-pilots being there, Relena and Daniel were also in attendance. After dinner, Duo announced that it was present time.
"Um, Duo aren't presents suppose to be passed out on Christmas Day?" Quatre asked.
"Well yeah but it's tradition to open up one on Christmas Eve." He said as they were walking into the living room to get around the tree. "Ok everyone gets one so pick one and let's get to opening."
After everyone had a present picked out, paper went flying everywhere as they all tore into them at once. Once they were all done, Wufei sat holding a small unopened box.
Relena saw him and commented. "Aren't you going to open it?" she asked.
"Oh I've already opened mine. This one is for Heero." He said still looking at the box. "I think I'll take it in to him." with this said he left the room. Walking into Heero's room, he sat down beside the bed. "Hey Heero, Merry Christmas. I hope you like it. It took me and Duo forever to figure out what to get you." He said as he sat the small box in Heero's hand. Before he pulled back, the hand that had been still for so long moved to grip the present. Gasping he looked up to see if Heero's was awake. The blue eyes were still closed. The only sign that it really happened was the fact that the present was still in the tight grip.
Jumping up, Wufei ran to the others. "Duo! He moved! He moved his hand." He said almost yelling in excitement.
"What? Did he wake up?" Duo asked getting excited himself.
"No but he moved on his own. He held on to the box. That's a good sign." He said.
"That's great." And many other excited words came from the group. After talking for a few more minutes Wufei decided to go back into the bedroom.
"If he wakes up I don't want him to be alone. Goodnight everyone."
"Goodnight." Relena said as she got up to leave. "I think we'll be heading home guys. We'll be back in the morning."
"Goodnight Relena, Daniel." Duo said as he led them to the door. Heading back to the living room he sat down on the couch. "Hey Quatre the spare rooms all made up if you and Trowa want to head to bed."
"Ok thanks. We'll see you in the morning." He said as they headed up.
After sitting on the couch for a while, he stood up and walked to Heero's room to find Wufei already asleep on one side of Heero. Smiling he went and got the camera from the living room and came back and took a picture. He shut the door and head up to their room, since there wasn't enough room in Heero's bed with Wufei on one side and Wing on the other.

Wufei woke up and stretched. 'Wow Duo actually let everyone sleep until it was light out this time.' Sitting up he looked over to Heero and almost fell off the bed when he saw blue eyes looking at him. "Heero, you're awake." When he tried to speak, Wufei stopped him. "Let me get you something to drink, I'm sure your throat will be very dry. I'll be right back." He said running out of the room.
Duo was digging in the cabinets and Quatre and Trowa were sitting at the table when Wufei came running in. Everyone stopped when they saw how excited he was. "He's awake." Was all he said while he was getting a glass out and filling it with water.
"Oh my God, really?" Duo said.
Wufei looked to him with a big smile on his face. "Yes he is. Are you coming with me?"
"Hell yeah!" Duo said heading to the door.
Quatre and Trowa didn't move. "Should we wait here, or can we come see him?" the blonde asked quietly.
Wufei called over his shoulder. "I think it'd be fine if you came in. Come on guys."
They all headed to the room. Stopping outside the door, Wufei suddenly became nervous.
Trowa laid his hand on his shoulder. "Why don't you go in first and see if he doesn't mind company. Then call us in."
"Yeah I guess that'd be a better idea." Giving them a small smile he walked in the room.
Heero was looking at the gift that he still hadn't opened. When Wufei walked in, he looked up.
"Hey, here drink this." Holding the glass to the dry lips he helped him drink and then set the glass aside.
In a croaked whisper Heero finally spoke. "What's this?" he said holding out the present a little.
"It's one of your Christmas presents." He said with a slight blush.
Blue eyes widened. "Christmas?" he said softly. "It's Christmas?" looking down at the present he spoke again. "How is that possible?"
Wufei sat down beside him and reached out to hold the Japanese mans hand like he'd become use to doing. "I know. It's been a while. Since August, after you were shot, you were in the hospital for about a month and you've been here since then. I hope you don't mind."
"No, I don't mind." He said quietly "Wufei, what happened?"
"Do you remember that mission you and Duo went on?" he asked, worry showing in almost black eyes.
Heero searched his racing thoughts trying to place what had happened. "I remember getting the hostages out… leading them to the jet. I turned around and saw gunners coming out of the building. I ran pushed him to the ground and that's all I remember."
Wufei sat down on the side of the bed. "You saved his life. But you almost killed yourself in the process." He said picking up Heero's hand. "You got shot, many times." He choked on the words. "Had it been anyone else they would be dead right now." The words of the doctor went through his head 'he has to have the will to live.' He looked into blue eyes. "Heero… any way we brought you here and Mille has been really great."
"Who?"
"Oh Mille, she's the nurse we hired. She watched over you during the day while Duo and I were at work. Sally's is your main doctor though. We both took desk jobs since this whole thing started. Which I must say, I like it much more than field work. Never thought I'd be one for that kind of thing but it really does suit me. God listen to me, the guys are out in the hall. Are you up for company?" Wufei asked.
Heero nodded his head. Wufei smiled. "Great. Hey guys you can come in." he called.
Everyone filed into the room, Duo in the lead, jumping on the other side of the bed. "Hey Heero, it's been a while. How do you feel?" he asked.
"Ok I guess, considering I have been out of it for the past 4 months." He said sadly.
Duo picked up on the sadness and laid his hand on Heero's cheek. "But you're back with us now, Sleeping Beauty." He said with a smile.
Heero blushed. Looking to the other two in the room he smiled slightly. "Hi guys." He said softly.
"Hey Heero, is there anything I can get for you?" Quatre asked from the side of the bed.
"Well food sounds good. I feel like I haven't eaten in four months." Drawing a laugh from the people in the room he smiled. Seeing Trowa's small smile he turned to Wufei and Duo. "Hey guys can I have a minute to talk to Trowa?" he asked somewhat nervous.
"Sure, we'll go and get some breakfast started. And we'll need to call Sally and tell her you're awake. Ok?" Duo said standing up.
"Ok." Heero said. Once everyone had left except Trowa he looked to the taller teen. "I… I wanted to say I'm sorry."
Trowa was not expecting this and sat down looking confused. "For what?"
"For treating you the way I did when you came over that night after the club." He said looking down at his hands.
"Oh, that. Well, Heero let me just say that happened a while ago. And I understand. But can I just say that you don't only have Relena to talk to. If things start to get bad again, please, come to me or talk to someone before it gets to that point." Seeing a questioning look on the pale face he knew what it was for. "I didn't tell anyone. But when you were in the hospital the cuts were seen. They know. You can talk to any of us, Heero; especially Duo and Wufei."
Sighing, "Yeah I know. Would you mind sending Duo and Wufei in here?"
"No. I'll go get them."
"Thank you."
"No problem." Trowa said as he went out into the hall.
Heero tried to push himself up on the bed but he was too weak to even manage that. Duo walked in when I was just about to give up.
"What's up man?" Duo asked as he walked up to the bed and helped him sit up.
Wufei came in right behind Duo and came to the other side of the bed.
"I just wanted to thank the both of you for, well everything." He said shyly.
"We didn't mind one bit. We're just glad you're awake." Wufei said brushing Heero's hair back out of his eyes. It had grown a lot longer than usual, the shortest of it tucking behind his ears easily.
"I guess I need a haircut, huh?" he said.
Wufei smiled. "If you want, I kinda like it this way." He said.
Quatre called from the kitchen saying breakfast was almost ready. "Well do you want to come out to breakfast?" Wufei asked.
Blues eyes looked down at the present that was still sitting on the bed. Duo saw what he was looking at. "Go ahead. Open it." He said softly.
He picked the present back up and slowly began to remove the paper. Opening the box he found a set of keys. "What's this?" he asked looking between the two of them.
"Well, we just wanted you to know that you are welcome to stay here. We'd like for you to stay here." Wufei said looking down at his hands.
"What about my apartment?" he asked.
"It's still open for you. But we just figured that since it's on the third floor and everything that maybe it would be easier for you to be here." Duo said.
"Well I think for the time being it would be for the best." Heero said.
"Breakfast will be ready any time now. Do you want to go out there or eat in here?" Duo asked nodding towards a wheelchair in the corner of the room. "We have that for you."
Heero cringed when he saw what the violet eyes were motioning towards. "I would like to get up. But I would like a shower or something first."
"I think that would be fine but a shower wouldn't really work. How about a bath?" Wufei pointed out.
Heero nodded and tried to move. "I don't really see how that will work either."
"Well one of us can help you out." Wufei said noticing the blush that crossed the other boys face.
"I'll go tell them that you will be out in a minute and have the food kept warm." Duo said leaving the room.
Wufei noticed Heero looking at him oddly. "What?"
"Nothing. It's just that, how are we going to do this?" he asked still blushing.
"Like this." Wufei said moving the covers back and picking up the smaller teen from the bed.
If Heero thought the blush on his face couldn't get any worse he was wrong. 'God this is so embarrassing.'
"What's wrong?"
"I just feel so weak at the moment." He whispered. "I've never felt so weak in my life." He laid his head on Wufei's shoulder.
Setting Heero down in the bathroom he got the water going and then turned to get them both stripped of their clothes. "Ok I'm going to get in here with you. It will make this easier to get this done. Is that ok?" he asked.
"Yes."
Wufei nodded and then got the job done. After getting Heero cleaned, dressed and in the wheelchair; he pushed him towards the kitchen. There was a knock on the door so they detoured towards the front of the house. He saw the boy in the wheelchair stiffen. "It's probably Relena. She and Daniel are supposed to be over this morning."
The tension left Heero's shoulders a little at this news. "Can I answer it?" he asked.
Smiling Wufei nodded. He pushed the wheelchair up to the door and opened it with himself behind the door so that Heero was the only one seen.
Relena stood there a look of shock on her face. Raising her hands to her face tears came to her eyes. "Oh God." She whispered softly.
"Oh come on Rel' is that all you have to say?" blue eyes also filling with tears.
"Heero, I've missed you so much." she said throwing her arms around him.
Still too stiff to move very much, he barely got one arm to reach up and touch her arm. "Sorry for worrying you." he said tears in his voice.
"Just don't let it happen again." She said sternly with a smile giving away the fact that she wasn't angry.
Sadness filled blue eyes. "Don't worry about that. I really don't think I'll make it back to my regular job at this point."
"Don't think about that right now. It's Christmas and you woke up. I think you just gave everyone the greatest present that could possible have been given. No place for worrying." She said turning him around and leading him to the kitchen.
Daniel patted his shoulder. "Good to have you back Heero. There's something I need to talk to you about." He said looking towards Wufei.
"I'll go into the kitchen and give you guys a few minutes of privacy. Just hurry because the food is ready." He said leaving the three alone.
"What's up Dan?"
"I have asked Relena to marry me."
Blue eyes looked up to Relena and a smile broke out on his face. "That's great. When's the date set?" he asked.
"Well we haven't set one. We haven't even told anyone yet. We wanted you to be the first to know and I want you to walk me down the aisle." Relena said.
He looked up at her and smiled. "I would be honored." Then he looked to Daniel, "You have my blessing." He said.
Daniel placed his hand on Japanese teens shoulder. "Thank you."
"When were you going to tell everyone?" he asked the pair.
"Well we wouldn't want to distract from the greatness of sleeping beauty waking, now would we?" Relena said.
Heero groaned. "Just who started this sleeping beauty stuff anyway?"
Relena grinned. "That would be me. How could I resist?"
"Ok, let's go eat and you two have an announcement to make." He stopped them before they could protest with a glare. "Come on, let's go give them the good news."
As congratulations rose over breakfast, Christmas looked to have every wish come true.
Not even eating half of his food, Heero pushed his plate to the side. Yawning a little, he shook his head trying to stay awake.
"Are you ready to go back to bed?" Duo asked.
"No. I don't want to be back in bed yet." He said. "I guess I'm just kind of pathetic right now."
Wufei looked at him. "You are not pathetic Heero. Do you want to bundle up and go sit on the porch for a while?" he asked.
"Yeah that sounds nice. Thanks." Going out to the porch, the three sat while the group inside worked on getting the kitchen cleaned up.
"Once they get done inside, it'll be time to open presents." Duo said excitedly.
Heero looked down. "Well I would say I'm sorry I didn't get anyone anything but that would sound rather ridiculous." Just then Wing came running around the corner.
"Come here boy." Wufei called out. "Come here Wing."
Looking up quickly at Wufei then to the dog, Heero said the name softly. "Wing?"
"Yeah." Was all the Chinese teen said.
Duo watched as the dog jumped around Heero. "When we got him, it was just the first name that came to mind."
Heero smiled at the dog and petted him. "Hi Wing. How ya doing, boy?"
Wufei sat back and watched Heero with Wing. The year was almost over. So much had happened in the last year that it seemed more like 10 years. He couldn't help but wonder what the next year would bring.
His thoughts were cut off as a car pulled up into the drive. Watching Sally get out, he turned to Heero. "Well it's time for a check up."
Heero sighed. "I guess there's no avoiding it."
Sally stopped in front of the three. "Good to see you awake Heero." Turning to the other two her look turned slightly agitated. "And just what is he doing out here in the cold? No change that, what is he doing out of bed?" she gave them a reproachful look and then sighed. "Come on let's get him in so I can see how sleeping beauty faired."
Heero's head dropped to his chest groaning loudly. "Just how many people are going to call me that?"

After about 45 minutes, Sally came out into the living room where all the others in the house had sat around waiting for the results. In a somewhat subdued voice she told them what she had. "Ok guys, the next year is going to be very challenging."
"What's wrong, Sally?" Duo said jumping off the couch.
"Well the good news is that he has full mobility in his upper body, even though he is still very stiff right now. He has some feeling in his lower body, however the bad news is that can't move his legs at all right now. I believe that he will be able to at least reach the point of walking with braces on his legs and using a cane. But even reaching that point could take a long time. We will know more once he starts physical therapy." Wufei and Duo reached for each others hands as if they were lifelines.
Sally looked around at all the down faces. "Now we can get Heero out here so everyone can open the Christmas presents that I still see piled under the tree. If he feels up to it that is."
"I'll go ask." Wufei said heading towards the bedroom. Opening the door, he saw Heero attempting to push himself up on the bed, sweat streaming down his face from the effort. "Here let me help you." he said rushing to Heero's side. Getting him sat up, he sat down beside the tired teen. "Would you like to come out and open presents?"
Heero kept his face down. "I…" he couldn't finish.
Wufei put a finger under the pale chin and lifted it so he could see teary blue eyes. His breath caught.
"I don't know what I want 'Fei." Came a barely audible whisper. "What am I going to do now?" a tear slide down his cheek despite his effort to keep it from coming.
Wufei reached up and wiped the from Heero's cheek. "You will take it one day at a time and we will be here right along with you. You won't be alone."
The dam broke and tears came streaming down his face. Wufei held him until the tears dried.
Tbc…