Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Mended Hearts ❯ Going After Duo ( Chapter 11 )

Chapter 11

Going After Duo

A look back to the previous chapter:

Duo, thinking that Heero only wanted him as a possession, left for Earth. Kyle won his bet on the pilots joining together.

Now on with the story:

Duo exited the shuttle and glanced around. The airport was full with people who had somewhere to be. He shifted his bag higher up on his shoulder and set out to catch a taxi. If he was lucky it would get in a car accident and end all of his pain. The ride to the Anderson church went by in a blur. Even if he could see through his tears blinded eyes, he wasn't paying attention anyhow. His mind kept replaying last night.

"God Heero, am I so pathetic that you can't even bother to like me? I would have been able to live with that. But there is no way in hell I would be someone's possession, ever." Duo's eyes narrowed, he was stronger than this. He over came the Maxwell tragedy, he could over come something as simple as a broken heart couldn't he? He lowered his head in defeat; there was nothing simple about a broken heart. His eyes glinting in determination, Duo gathered what was left of his fragile courage. He would over come and he would move on, there was someone out there who wanted his help, and by god he would get it. His heart could wait for later.

Heero stared out into the darkness of space. In his mind he could still see the red glow of the shuttle's thrusters in the distance. Duo left him. Duo left him! What did he do that was so wrong? He swallowed a sob. He thought that after last night, they would be together now after the war. Just Duo and him learning to live in peace together. Guess Duo didn't want to live with him.

Howard stared down at the boy in his arms. Something had gone terribly wrong. Duo left and Heero was in tears. He had never seen the boy so any emotion outside of indifference, this was enough to blow his mind. "Heero, what's going on?" The boy didn't answer just kept staring out into space. "Heero, where is Duo?" Howard watched with shock as the boy jolted in his arms at the name. Tear filled eyes looked up at him through a face filled with pain.

"He left me, why did he leave me?" Heero whispered. He looked back out into space, half hoping that the shuttle would return with the boy he gave his heart to. "I thought he was going to stay with me. We were so close last night; I don't understand what went wrong."

Silently Howard led Heero away from the shuttle bay. He brought him into his office and sat him down on the cot behind the desk. He brought him a bottle of water and knelt down before him. "Now boy tell me what happened. Maybe we can find out what went wrong."

Heero stared sadly down at the bottle in his hands. Without a thought he retold what had happened last night, leaving nothing out. His monotone voice getting less emotional as he went on. By the time he came to the present, he could have been talking about the weather for all the feeling that he put into it.

Howard scratched his head. "Damn boy, I don't know what to say. With the life that boy has lead you'd think he would jump at a chance to stay with someone who said they loved him?"

Heero froze. Wait a minute… "Howard I never told you that I loved him. I said that he was mine."

"Well fine okay, but you told Duo that you loved him right?"

Heero replayed the night again. Oh shit! He looked up in shock, "No I never told him I loved him, but I said he was mine remember. That's the same thing isn't it?"

Howard somehow resisted the urge to slap the idiot. "No Heero its not! Duo needs the words; he probably thought that you were just using him. He has never had anyone say they loved him before but many people have tried to own him. Own him in ways that would kill you."

"Who." Heero stood up in fury at the thought of someone abusing his Duo. No one had the right to touch him, no one!

Howard stepped back in fear. "No Heero, in his past, this all happened in his past!"

Heero deflated. "After what I said to him, he wouldn't want me now." Heero flew backwards from the hard punch to his face. Howard stood over him, rubbing his fist.

"Now look here you fuckn' idiot. Duo loves you. If you don't have the courage to admit as much to him than I was wrong about you. You have no business being with him, leave him for someone else." Howard watched with fascination as Heero glared at him. Guess he didn't like the thought of Duo being with someone else. Good, he could use that to make the idiot move.

Howard backed away and shrugged, "Guess that's okay then. Way I hear it, someone else wants to be with Duo as it is, so your not needed. You can leave and not have to worry about it." The words barely left his mouth as he was spun around and a gun was leveled at his face.

"Duo is mine! I love him and I know he loves me! No one is going to take him form me and any who try will die. Is that understood!?" Howard gasped for breath as Heero let him go and stormed out of the room. Shit, for a minute there he thought he made a deadly mistake. He watched with admiration as Heero ran straight for his gundam. With any luck, he would track Duo down before the day was over.

Heero climbed into Wing Zero and took off. "Damn you Duo, I love you to much to let you leave on a mistake. Stay put I'm coming for you." Heero set a course for Earth then leaned back to plan his mission. First he had to find Duo. Second he had to convince Duo that he really did love him. Third he needed Duo to agree to stay with him. Not that that last one was important. He wasn't about to let Duo leave him again. His thoughts were interrupted when his monitor beeped. He looked up to see the doctor staring back at him.

"If my friends weren't on that ship, you would be dead by now." Heero stated glaring with all his might.

Kyle frowned at him. "Look asshole, I'm not the one who let the love of my like that he was a piece of shit now am I." Heero glared, fuck his friends that bastard was dead! He was arming missiles when Kyle's next words stopped him.

"But since I know that Duo loves you, I help you out." Heero looked up again in surprise before blanking his face. "I know for a fact that Duo is headed to the old boarders of the Peacecraft mansion. He will be meeting a team of clergy to go rebuild a church on L2. Now if you hurry maybe you can get to him before he disappears forever." Kyle held up his hand when Heero opened his mouth to speak. "If you hurt him, I swear to god that I will not be the only one after your ass. Make peace with him, and above all else don't forget to tell him that you love him!" The monitor went blank and Heero fumed. Like he would really let Duo go on thinking that he didn't love him. Dumb fuck. Heero went back to plotting, adding in the new information that he received.

Kyle collapsed back into his chair boneless. God the drama was going to kill him. He pulled out his wallet and dug around for a picture. For a long time, he just sat and stared at it. He had been away from home long enough. With a happy grin he shot out of his seat and raced to his room. If he hurried he could still get home in time for his anniversary. After all, you couldn't less to many of those before your wife killed you.

Heero landed on the outskirts of the boarders. When he flew overhead he saw evidence of camps and large amounts of supplies. Duo should be there. He left his gundam in the deep forest and took off on running. He had to find Duo before he left the planet, this couldn't wait any longer. He crashed through the trees and tripped into the camp. All around him men and women were packaging supplies and marking things on clip boards. He ran up to one of the men. "I'm looking for Duo Maxwell, have you seen him?"

The man glanced down at the boy. "Sure, Duo is helping organize this endeavor. My name is Father Anderson."

Heero's eyes lit up, Duo was here! "Where is he, where is Duo?" The man pointed over his shoulder.

"He should be over there boxing up supplies." He watched with a smile as the boy ran off, throwing a brief thank-you over his shoulder. Wonder if that was the Heero that Duo kept talking about.

Heero tore through the camp looking left and right for the tell-tell braid. He froze in his tracks as he spotted him. There he was; his future. Cautiously he approached, making sure he made enough noise to announce his arrival.

"Father, I think we are going to need more nails. There doesn't seem to be enough here." Duo called over his shoulder, his head buried in the box before him.

"It's me Duo." Heero watched the boy in front of him freeze. Duo straightened up before turning to look behind him. Silently the two stood there staring at each other. "I found you," Heero thought stepping closer, "I will never let you go again."

"What the fuck do you think your doing here?"

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