Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Nightmares ❯ Sleep ( Chapter 4 )

I opened my eyes as I crouched in the darkness beside Chang Wufei's bed, I was silent, my breathing and heart rate in tune with the electricity coursing through the room and the motor of the small refrigerator in the opposite corner of the room. I watched him enter and stood up. His back was to me and he removed his shirt. I coughed and he jumped, completing a 180 degree turn so he was facing me. His eyes wide and mouth slightly open, shocked at my sudden appearance.

"I expected a Gundam pilot would've be less likely to drop his guard," I stated coldly as I looked at him. "We're here to discuss a picture." I looked at him as he stood there, trying to unnerve me with his body, but I had seen too many men naked. Our eyes fought for dominance, locked, we were too much alike, quiet, cold, dominant.

"He beat me as well," he said and I nodded, I already knew that. "I swore to defeat him myself." I nodded again but this time I let my hand linger over my throat.

"He defeated me too," I said simply and a smirk crossed Wufei's lips.

"He did more than that," he said and I fought to keep the neutral look on my face.

"Yes he did, but he only kept me one night, which is why I am amazed you found my image in his bedchamber," I stated. He looked at me and went over to a drawer. He opened it and pulled out a false bottom. He rummaged around and brought something over to me. I stared at the picture. I was no longer handcuffed, but my hands were placed, holding the blanket over my chest and hips. It was clear I was nude and I looked at the innocent look on my face as if what he had done to me had never occurred. I regarded the picture and turned my head from it.

"He must have taken that before I awoke. He must have given me this afterwards. I don't remember being awake for a picture …" I brought my hand up to the scar on my neck. "...but I do remember while he was gone I woke up and escaped. He allowed me my life…" I stared at the picture before I dropped it onto Wufei's bed.

"Oh…" Wufei said quietly as he looked at me and then at the picture on his bed. "I thought perhaps you and he…" He finished that thought and I looked at him.

"No, he took what was not his from me, I returned to my commanders and was punished by my masters for my failure. I rejoiced the day he died and I cursed the fact it was not me to end his life. I've been to his grave to spit on it," I said with venom even I didn't realize I had.

"I…I am sorry, I did not realize the situation," he said and I glared at him for a minute.

"I do not need your pity, nor do I wish you to ever mention this to anyone," I stood up and went to leave.

"Wait, what should I do with this?" he said as he held the picture and I looked at it.

"Keep it for all I care, the girl in that picture is dead, she has been for a long time," I exited the room and returned to my chamber. I stripped and returned to my bed in the nude. The warm flannel sheets warmed me as I stared at the dark ceiling. Dawn would come in a few hours. I felt the tears in my eyes and I closed them.

"It hurts," Heero said and I nodded. I had known he was there but I choose to ignore him in hopes that he would assume I was tired and leave.

"Everything hurts," I said. I felt the bed shift under the weight of his body as he sat down next to me and I rolled away from him so he could see my back. "Go back to your room, Yui, I did not ask for your presence and I don't need a friend."

"Who said anything about being your friend?" he asked and I smirked.

"Then kill me if you are my enemy, I know I deserve death," I said as I closed my eyes again. "What about you? Is your soul clean, do you sleep at night with full knowledge that you are innocent?" He didn't say anything and I smiled as his weight left the bed.

"They do stop you know," he said at the door. I didn't move.

"If they haven't stopped in five years…." I let it hang as he opened the door and left. "…..it may mean I have to repay what I took."