Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ One Step Forward, Two Steps Back ❯ You're not Duo ( Chapter 11 )

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Author: Kimpisces

Rating: T

Summary: "Love can die but a dance can last forever. You may not be happy but at least you'll never feel the pain of betrayal."
Heero Yuy is a boy who has never believed in love
Duo Maxwell is a boy who has never felt its touch.
What happens when these two boys meet and Heero's belief that a relationship should be based around the other is put to the test against Duo's belief that love conquers all?
Who will win? Come and watch the dance.

Warnings: Angst, AU, slight OOC, Yaoi/Shonen-Ai, Relena Bashing and Language

A/N: I know that this is a short chapter but bear with me. I needed to end the chapter here to go with the structure that I want to set up for the next chapter.

 

Chapter Ten: You're not Duo

 

The basement was pitch black and so very cold. Quatre had stopped attempting to figure out how much time had passed since he had been put down here. All he knew was that three times the door had opened and someone had looked in on him since he had been locked up.

He was tied up; facing away from the door so he couldn't even see who it was that was looking in on him though he was sure that it was not his father.

The ropes around his wrists were too tight and they dug into his skin every time he tried to move them. Dry blood was on the corner of his mouth and he didn't have enough salvia to get rid of it. He was sure that it was from when his father had hit him after they had tied him off but for all he knew, he had been hit a couple of times by his father's goon when he had gone unconscious. He wouldn't put it passed his father.

Dozen of other injuries littered his body and those were only the ones that he could feel. He didn't think that his father would ever be this severe with Quatre but apparently he had greatly underestimated his father's anger at his son being homosexual. Obviously the man had little to no real feelings for his son. No one who really cared for their offspring would ever treat them like this.

The door opened again and bright light bounced off the wall and hit Quatre's eyes. It hurt so much since he had been in complete darkness for so long and so Quatre moaned in pain. There were a couple of words exchanged between the people at the door before someone closed the door and actually walked over to Quatre.

“Do you enjoy this?” Quatre's father asked as he looked down at his son. “Do you enjoy the situation that your faggot ways have gotten you into? All you have to do is agree to stop with your stupid boyfriend hunt and find yourself a nice girl. It can't be that hard.” His father leered down at him. “I found one. Now, what do you say?”

“Never,” Quatre some how managed to say even though his throat felt like it was as dry as a desert. “I am not going to change for you or anyone else. You can't keep me down here forever. Someone is going to notice that I'm gone soon enough.”

“Do you think so? I can keep you down here as long as I want.” Quatre didn't have the energy to try and move his head out of the way when he saw his father's hand come down violently.

Quatre could feel his wounds in his mouth reopen and the blood start to run down his face again.

“Think about your answer boy,” his father warned and then headed out of the door again, leaving Quatre alone in the darkness.

Quatre's eyes slid shut. “Trowa, please help me.”

 

I knew you were crying when you walked away.

Pushing my pain away,

I took up the dance again and didn't look back

Just one step forward, two steps back.

 

“There's a party next week at my daddy's house,” Relena said as she settled down in Heero's lap. “It's a costume party for all of big shot employees. We should go dressed up as a couple.” Relena smiled as she wrapped her arms around Heero's neck. “You could be batman and I could be cat-woman.”

“They were never actually together,” replied Heero in an off-hand sort of way. He wasn't surprised at all to find that his voice held a lot of boredom. He didn't see how anyone could want to go to so many parties in so little time and actually genuinely be excited about all of them.

“Oh well, you could be Robin Hood and I could be Lady Marian.” Relena shrugged. “Everyone will know we're perfect for each other then.”

Heero sighed, this was so exhausting. Even if this did work to get Duo back, it was almost not worth the trouble. Heero mentally shook his head. No, it would be worth the trouble if Duo came back. Heero felt like he would walk to the end of the world and back again to Duo. Maybe it was nothing more than a teenaged crush but it felt like more and that was good enough for him. If only he cold get Duo to realize that he had the same feelings for Heero. He knew that Duo did. Why else would he have gone on a date with him? He never actually forced Duo to do anything and if Duo hadn't really felt anything for him, they never would have gone out. Duo had to feel something for Heero, he just had to.

Which was why that Heero would allow Relena Peacecraft to sit on his lap: just so that Duo would realize that he was missing something. After all, what on earth could work better than jealousy?

“I absolutely love your pool. Do you want to go swimming? I brought my bathing suit just in case you wanted to. My daddy says that it's good to always be prepared.” Relena shifted on Heero's lap and Heero had to restrain himself from pushing her off of his lap and onto the ground. “So, what do you think?”

“Sure,” Heero replied.. Heero didn't really want to have to see Relena in a bathing suit but it was better than having to continue enduring her weight on his lap. “I'll go upstairs and change. You can use the downstairs bathroom and then we'll meet up in the pool.”

“Sounds good Heero-kun,” Relena said, almost purring and then she jumped off of Heero's lap and Heero almost sighed in relief. “See you in a few minutes.”

She leaned back down and pressed her lips to Heero's. Heero returned the kiss somewhat but for anyone besides Relena it would have been easy to realize that he was not really into it. Heero had tried to pretend that it was Duo that he was kissing but he couldn't even fool himself. Kissing Duo had been so breathtaking that he found it was hard to lie to himself about whether or not he was actually kissing him. He knew the smell of Duo so intimately now that it was almost impossible to just imagine it. The feeling of Relena pressed against him was no where as alluring as it had been with Duo.

“I'll be right back,” Relena whispered in what she probably thought was a sexy tone. Heero rolled his eyes when she was gone and got up, heading to his room.

Heero decided that he would take his time changing so that he didn't have to see Relena for as long as possible. There definitely no hurry in his mind for that to happen. He just had to hope that if he took too long, she wouldn't come up here to look for him.

Hero shuddered at the thought and then opened his dresser. He looked through his swimming trunks and picked out his favourite ones, only to put them back when he realized that those were the ones he had been wearing when he had been swimming with Duo.

Grabbing another pair, Heero changed and then headed reluctantly back down stairs to where Relena waited for him

As Heero made his way back to the pool, Relena emerged from the pool in much the same way as Duo had. Dismissing the thought, Heero made his way to the pool.

However the thought would not be banished.

Duo's foot kicked gracefully in front of him as Heero looked on. Heero could not imagine a single part of Duo's body being anything but elegant. Graceful and muscular was a strange combination but Duo pulled it off well and it suited him completely.

Heero disappeared underneath the water and waited a few minutes before reaching out for Duo's ankle. Heero smiled, he would never do this with anyone else, it was much too childish, but with Duo, Heero felt like a different person. Duo just seemed to bring out characteristics in Heero that Heero didn't even know existed.

Pulling Duo down, he wrapped his arms around the boy and held on tightly, feeling Duo relax into his hold.

But when they emerged from the water and Duo's eyes looked onto him, there had been something very different from relaxation in those eyes. To see that kind of anger focused on Heero made him uncomfortable and little more than shocked.

“What the hell do you think you are doing?” Duo demanded. “You could have killed me!”

Those last words resounded in Heero's mind and he shook his head to try and chase them out. It was just a joke. They hadn't even been under for long. They weren't even under for long.

You went too far, Heero's innermost voice called, you went too far and now you have to pay for it. Duo may never talk to you again and it's your own fault because you went too far.

“Heero,” A gentle voice called to him, “are you okay?”

Duo, his mind whispered, and Heero didn't even hesitate as he moved forward, pulling the body to him and kissing Duo with all that he could.

Except it wasn't Duo, he realized as soon as he felt those lips against his and with disgust, he pushed Relena away.

“You're not Duo,” he said simply and turned away.

Only to see the real Duo staring at him with that hurt expression again.