Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ The Darkness Will Live On ❯ Don't Disturb the Dust ( Chapter 2 )

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

By: Duskie

Don't forget, this will probably be replaced eventually.

The Darkness Will Live On

Chapter Two- Don't Disturb the Dust

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It had been almost a two days and no one had spoken to Duo much. He had been there for dinner at there safe house with both Raphael and Katherine- Samantha. No one had said a single thing to them so far since they arrived. Duo new he would have to say something soon but to the amazement of everyone it was actually Heero who spoke up first.

"Tomorrow I am due to send in a full detail report of everything that has happened that doesn't usually happen or is suspicious." Heero gave Duo a meaningful look over the round table. "What do you want me to say."

Duo was to say the least very stunned. Duo had been going through the ways to get to Heero's laptop so that it would to just seem like it didn't to want to start when next Heero went to turn it on. He thought that he could probably get all the others to stay quite for at least a while. They had all had families at some time or still had a family but they had all lost someone. But Heero never bent the rules never questioned his orders. It looked like he was proving to Duo that there was more to him than met the eyes.

So Duo did what he had thought he would probably be doing barely minutes after he first awoke, when he had been ignored. "I guess I sort of have a tiny little bit of explaining to do"

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Through out all this time Quatre had been wondering one main thing. By now he had heard Ruffy call Duo Daddy and Katy call him every thing from Dad to Duo but Duo hadn't really said. He hadn't said a single thing (very, very creepy). "So, Duo are you their actual father" I mean maybe it was just luck that Katy-Sam had violet eyes and looked in a strange way like Duo she wasn't a spitting image of him or any thing. Even if Ruffy was, that didn't mean that he was necessarily there father maybe they were together because of how much they look alike. Or maybe they were related to him in some other , whats the point of these thoughts they weren't getting him anywhere . "Yes, I'm there father. What else would I be?" Duo continued shoving food very fast without dropping any.

Quatre didn't know if he wanted to be more horrified or amazed. He had always thought seeing as how he learnt all his morals in a very strict 'this is right and this wrong' sort of family. It was just expected in his mind that none of them would ever sleep with anyone till they married. In his stunned state Quatre was about to say one of the stupidest things of his life."But, but, but!"

Wufei thought this was quite interesting and was going to comment when Heero got in first.

"So, I'm saying this because I don't think that Doctor J would be too pleased about that." Heero pointed a finger at the smaller of the girls, the one with the ability to look grubby straight out of the bath. "I'm actually at a bit of a lose." If this wasn't enough to make you say that someone spiked the coffee, you weren't going to say it. Duo didn't answer that he was to busy sniffing the coffee to figure out what was in it he was a bit undecided on if it was safe. But if it could make Heero act like this what could it do to the others. Duo had been trying for the last two and a half years to break that shell without a visible dent and if the coffee had something to do with it he wanted to know what was in it. With something that could make 'Mr. Heero I care about a large hunk of metal more than you Yuy' act half decent he was quite sure all you had to do was spike all the water supplies and the war would be over.

"But, but, but" This of coarse was Quatre again.

Duo walked over to the sink and tipped out his coffee, He didn't usually drink coffee anyway.

Trowa still couldn't figure one thing out. "Where have they been living for the last few year." Trowa handed Duo his cup to tip out too. It was very obvious what was going through Duo's mind. It was going through his and Wufei's too. Their intuition was telling them that the coffee had a high probability of being contaminated.

"But, But, but." Quarte still wasn't getting very far. Wufei took a careful sip.

This was an easy question for Duo that he didn't mind answering. "An Orphanage" Wufei blinked and swallowed the coffee in his mouth. He now was quite sure that Duo was far more series about his job than anyone had thought. Although this did make Wufei wonder how responsible he was as a parent. 'Orphanage indeed'!

Wufei decided it was time they knew the most basic info he had only been trying to ask for the last minute. "Duo I don't want to insult you or any thing but we actually haven't been formally introduced" Duo looked at Wufei and blinked a few times and wondered why this was so important.

"But, but, but." By this time Quatre was being ignored, even if Duo was a bit concerned that the stuttering may have something to do with the coffee. They would know soon enough if it started to affect Wufei too.

Seeing that Duo didn't get what he was on about he continued." We only heard their names at the space station and none of us could remember? I thought that I misheard the one name I did get?"

"But, but, but." Still stunned (Quatre)

Finally Duo got what he was getting at. But so had Ruffy, Katy had to but she wasn't going to comment. Ruffy wasn't happy, so very much like what anyone who new her would expect of her, she voiced her opinion. "You," she pointed one of her fingers at Wufei which isn't very intimidating when you come up to their knee, "YOU IGNORED US FOR FIVE DAY'S JUST BECAUSE YOU WERE TO INBARESED TO ASK OUR NAMES???" We'll that was for sure not the smartest thing to do to Wufei. He really isn't the sort of person to let someone so young yell at him. and get away with it.

"But, but, but" Repetitive? (Quatre)

"WHERE I COME FROM CHILDREN HAVE MANNERS AND DON'T YELL AT THEIR ELDERS. NOT ONLY THAT BUT IT'S RUDE NOT TO PAY ATTENTION TO SOMEONE'S NAME WHEN YOU FIRST MEET THEM. I WAS TRYING NOT TO INSULT YOU." Wufei took two deep breaths then continued.

(More "But, but, butting" from Quatre.)

"I was in a startled state from the lack of responsibility from your father for neglecting to tell use that he had , inferior, irresponsible, reckless, negligent, foolish, immature, Irrational adolescent."

"But, but, but" Bet ya can't guess who said that^-^!(A/N, Poor Quatre)

"And to make matters worse what would have happened if something happened to you!!! Family makes people do stupid things in battle. To have the edge we need we have to have all the details of both sides most importantly ourselves." Wufei seemed to be calming down the smallest of bits. Although that really wasn't much. Wufei really did look like a bit of an idiot yelling at a five your old no one was going to tell him though.

"Why'd you think I never told you? They don't exist on any databases anywhere as mine. What would you do to get your family back, I never want to be in that situation. We get leaks and you know it. People get payed to tell what they learnt while working with J. If their not on the database they can't be leaked. It's a hell of a lot harder to get info that can't be leaked." You could just see Ruffy in her chair itching to get in her ten- cents worth. "And as for you young lady Wufei is right you need some manners. Catholic and no manners what is this church coming to I may not have used being watched by the 'sister', but at least I got taught them."

Ruffy had her nose in the air and was refusing to look at her father. "We weren't being trained as priests we didn't need as much manners." Duo chose to ignore this.

'God, when Duo glares he still looks sexy' Heero was a bit stunned at that thought and pretended that he hadn't heard it, hoped he hadn't thought it... So did Quatre. They both started to wonder if the others were right about the coffee.

Things still weren't making sense but at least they weren't a big lump of jelly... life could always be worse.

"?" Quatre covered his eyes like he was trying not to be seen,".No .does that work?" Quatre finally got in what he had been trying to say. "When you first started working for Project Meteor there were no records of family or children or marriage. Had you wiped it?" Quatre could some times be very dime about the ways of the world. "sex?" Quarte said in a very quite voice like he had just spoken his last word. Here we can't forget that this was a far more sensitive thing to Quatre than anyone else because unlike most of the world it wasn't a given that parents had sex. Don't forget that Quatre was a test tube baby.

"Kat, I lived on the streets. They don't legalize marriages unless you're old enough. Not only that but you need to have a permanent job or place of residence or in their eyes you don't exist. On L2 if your not born into a family with an income you aren't even legally born until you break a law. and get caught." Quatre blinked," I assume that's why there is no sign of my existence till the plague. There were so few of use left that they could put every one of us in an orphanage with ease."

"That's not right! That makes ." Quatre was talking about the twins.

"You know I'm quite sure that you could have found a more delicate way of putting that." Trowa voiced his opinion for the first time. "Your sitting at a table of seven and from my knowledge only two of us aren't." Quatre looked horrified.

It was almost laughable it had just never been a thing he questioned in society. Every one he know from when he was born to when he left had been believed to be born within wedlock. It was just one of the things that his narrow upbringing had quelled from him. And he had had to teach himself. He may have been given a huge disadvantage in the ways of the world in comparison to the rest of the pilots but he had made the best of what he had, did what he believed in and learnt fast. It gave him a skill that Heero and Wu-man weren't very good at, adaptation.

A mumbled comment of, "still don't think it's right having kids at that age," that wasn't meant to be heard by Duo, was.

Duo had been more insulted by the last bit of conversation and talk down that Quatre had given them than he could take and the placid lake was bubbling. "What? You think Katherine and I planned to have kids? Thirteen year olds don't survive child birth well. She was almost fourteen and I was almost thirteen. The winters in the slums of L2 freeze and every week the bodies of street people that froze to death were cleared of the streets. When you find someone that you can really trust you don't care how old they are you stick together, no matter what! To have no one is a death warrant even more deadly than a price on your head, once winter comes. Either you get everything stolen from you, socks included then you freeze to death or you get taken advantage of. in every way. and freeze that is if you don't freeze before anyone gets the chance."Quatre was hoping that that was were Duo got the name God of Death, The voice that had come from Duo could scare a rock if directed at it but none of them thought so. That voice hadn't threatened death. Nor did it go with the almost almost silent laugh that came across DeathscytheHELLs intercom in deep battle. It had only warned that you were nearer than you wanted to be. "That's actually how the plague started, the street cleaners went on strike and stopped picking up the bodies left on the curbs and then the summer came the bodies heated and the disease spread like wild fire. That's why L2's simulated weather isn't quite so realistic anymore." At this point every one was blinking. They had never heard this much of Duo's past.

They had all seen duo in battle, if something had a meaning to duo and you got his emotions in on the act then it didn't matter how many how much what it took every thing in a direct path between him and his destination met it's maker. Trowa had seen this on a mission where Heero got a nasty bump on the head and Duo heard it on the radio. Only knowing vaguely were Heero was Duo had run out of the security office were he and Trowa had been and down the corridor. Trowa had watched Duo over the surveillance videos. It had been like a poisoness gas that killed every thing that it touched Wufei had been horrified when he went after Duo barely a minute later in almost the space of five hundred meters there were over one hundred bodies each with an extra smile. Wufei refused to believe that Duo had sliced all these peoples throats in less than four minuets. He now dam well that Duo came from the streets and could fight bloody well with his hands but that was obssured. Some of the things that Trowa had seen through those short four minutes he didn't believe humans could do. He still tried to convince himself that their must have been a door just outside of the cameras range that Duo had gone through that was new and hadn't been on the floor plan they had. So much for not leaving a trace that they had been their. Trowa having met enough of a certain kind of blood sucking immortal in his life decided after much thought that if Duo was not what he seemed, which Trowa still thought he was on the hole part, Duo had already proven himself trust worthy and reliable and it didn't make much difference. They were, after all, here for one reason in general. It didn't matter who you were just as long as you were trying to stop the war from returning and did it well. Which it tried to do quite frequently it seemed.

Quatre had had a similar incident where an OZ squad leader had called them a bunch of friggin' Vampires. Duo had let the insult get to him which Quatre had never seen Duo do before. Duo had yelled back something along the lines of 'who do you think is a friggin' vampire ya friggin' whore because I'll tell ya, ya friggin' easy whore I ain't no friggin' vampire.' Quatre had been surprized to say the least by Duos display of such a surprizingly crude language but that was nothing to say the least in comparison to when barley a a second later Duo jumped from their shelter and shot 16 shots at the remaining 17 members of the squad. Quatre had thought for sure that Duo was going to die. But after the 16 shots had been fired at the seventeen men not one man remained standing and each had a shot in the head. Quatre hadn't taken it seriously up until that moment that Duo was a serious and deadly member of the team. Both of them after seeing Duos abilities realized that duo wasn't just some chance pilot he had been chosen just like all of them and the idiot pretence was just that a pretence. They were Gundam pilots chosen because of their wits, intelligence and skills with Duo they had thought it had been the luck that followed him like a physical entity and charisma that could get him anywhere that didn't need a gun. These experiences had gained their respect for him. He wasn't to be messed with, all of their handlers had told them this about him. 'Be wary of him' they had said like he was here for a different reason than the rest of the pilots. After both these experiences both Quatre and Trowa both suspected that Heero wasn't the only one that had had up grades. Although they had other ideas as well.

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At this moment Duo had that look in his eyes like he was in battle. Quatre was wavering between going on or not. He didn't fear Duo as such. They were comrades, evens they just really didn't need a full scale battle right now.

Different thoughts were going through Trowa's head than the others he had grown up in a world of crime, The Dark world, and knew stuff that others didn't. Actually for the first time Wu-fei and Quatre realized how that although Duo may talk for hours on end and not repeat a single thing they knew almost nothing about him other than where he came from and the basics of his past. Trowa was probable the only one who really knew what Duo was talking about and that he was actually putting things damn light for how they really were. None of the others had ever seen the lowest of society up close other than in quick glances. The others didn't get the chance to say anything in Duo's small break for air gave Quatre time to talk.

"I still don't see who that justifies anything" Quatre still had a very disgusted look on his face. Duo suddenly changed languages to everyone's surprise and almost instantly Katie and Ruffy got up and left the room neither questioned his instructions although Ruffy did look a bit peeved. None of the pilots could even identify the language. But Quatre thought it had been the language he had heard Duo speak in when he had started rambling in panic on the phone when he had first been asked to pick the twins up. He had thought nothing of it at the time it had just been a long stream of indistinguishable words but now that it was said in a controlled voice it was obviously an other language altogether.

As Duo continued back to Quarte he was know longer defensive their was a silence in the room that was never around Duo, maybe from Heero as you waited for an answer their wasn't going to be, but never Duo, like time slowed just to hear his words and you could pick them out of the air. Not slow as in slow motion but slow as in nothing around them had the right to move as he talked." Katherine and I first met before the plague and had thought that everyone that we had known and lived with before had died. After we found each other we were inseparable we had both known the same people and had been forced to grow up in the same gang wars and seen the same people go through the same self imposed, self destructive prostitution that they could have gotten out of if they weren't so damn afraid of what was out there for them. Quatre you are more innocent than toddlers I have met. In a world where a five year old will sell their body for food and you have to pay to be in an orphanage. The world isn't pretty Kat some don't even know there's a war going on they don't even care if the war happens to them it can't get any harder because that would be death. Two year olds that have been violated and gangs that have to decide each winter who gets feed and who dies. If you had a pet it wasn't aloud away from you because someone would eat it. Rats were not a pest they were a meal. After the Maxwell massacre I was out on the streets, Katherine hadn't been in one to start with. One month after the massacre we found each other. We stood their in the alley her behind her keeper with a knife in his hands and a knife in mine one loaf of bread between us. And from behind the skinny urchin the girl call 'Duo. is that you' I was stunned. I knew people but not enough to be recognised in the dark. I didn't even think that I knew this strange girl. Her master seemed even more upset. He had been dragging her around for the four years since the plague and hadn't heard a vocabulary out of her that would take more than two hands and feet to count. Here was his well disciplined doll talking to a complete stranger. She was thrilled to see me. In four years she hadn't seen a single person from her family. The family she had lived in were she wasn't regularly raped. This meant that two of us had survived. I'm not saying that our family was good Solo just realized that every one had a value and women worked better when they weren't crying. In his own way Solo was a good man, he cared. Probably the closest that you got to a gentleman in that life. Life got harder still when the rich put out rat bait and the rats started dieing. Rat bait my stop the disease were you lived but It stopped the food were I lived.

It was all just a statement a point that was being gotten across with a warning at the end. Quatre looked horrified but before he had a chance to voice it Duo continued," Katherine may or may not have been a floozy, but that is none of your business and if that is what your asking than I think you should place your line of sight somewhere else" Trowa, yet again, was the only one that understood the slang in this seemingly innocent comment which belonged to the seemingly 'dark' world of crime and the slums which both he and Duo had grown up in. The world that the authority's couldn't get into didn't matter how much money they flung at it every one that they flung at it either died or quit refusing to talk.

They might all work in this dark world now but they lived a high life. In many ways much easier but that was only for short amounts of time and it could do just as much damage in the long run, the major difference in this upper class dark life was that you expected to eat and have showers almost every day, you could also quit the life if you were lucky. That's what came with volunteering to go to hell, you could leave. Like carrying a bright torch in the dark you only see part of the picture and eventually the sun will come up. Most never saw the cobwebs.

Their were two meanings which Trowa knew of one was basically that she belongs to me and don't look at this one unless you can pay, pimp. But this also had a mutual contract at times. They would both work together they would work together in good times to survive and he would look after her and protect her from others that might want her as a toy but if things got bad enough then she would sell herself so they could eat, if it got bad sex was the only thing that never stopped selling. But on total it meant she's taken, back of or fight. I hold the deed to this woman. She won't go with you. The less money the worse women were treated.

"Duo, you were in a position to make that threat?" The others were looking a Trowa in lack of comprehension, "Well I just assumed that if you lived together that well you know what the slums are like. You were young." Trowa was thought of uncomfortable under Duo's gaze.

Duo blinked. He hadn't known that that Trowa had enough 'dark' class slang to understand just what was meant by that. "Contacts, I knew everyone, and what they did, I had been on the streets before the plague I had almost been there the longest. I was too useful to kill."

"No ones to useful to hurt." Trowa responded. Duo to everyone's surprise changed to Spanish. They hadn't known that he could do that. Another random skill that they didn't know when Duo had the time to learn.

""I had good friends, I had known the right people before the plague. I had the right skills and could survive."" Duo had been hoping against hope that Trowa's previous piece of knowledge had just been a phlok and that was the limit of Trowa's understanding or else Duo had a lot of explaining yet to come.

Trowa responded in Spanish. ""Don't treat me stupid Duo, you where barley six you wouldn't have survived to plague at that age, at least it is very unlikely that you would. If you did the people that kept you alive before were dead, you would have been killed. Give me some credit my world was just as dark as yours I just had a job!"" Duo had never really known how dark Trowa's childhood had been which was one of the many reasons that he never opened his mouth about his past. To many questions would be asked. To many unanswerable events, if you looked in the right places to many records of him. You were old you couldn't have owned a woman at that age. There is some thing that you are lying about.

""Look, Lets talk about this another time... in privet."" Back to English with very confused friends," Kat if you are quite done learning about what you missed out on as a child I have some work to do. Besides I don't think Kate and Raff can travel with me I think I better find somewhere for them to stay don't you?" With that the tension was gone and Duo left the kitchen.

Man, it wasn't pretty. Daddy had come and finally demanded an explanation of why we were chucked out. I was in more trouble than Ruffy. So much for the oldest being in charge. She's older than me and just because I don't act like an adolescent most of the time. Maybe only a day older but she's still older and she ought to act more mature. Not that I would ever say it out loud.

She also did most of the damage. I never tried to sell contraband weapons from the dark market to a terrorist group. Not only that but they weren't even terrorists they were the kids from the orphanage trying to escape by buying themselves into a gang but first they were going to blow up the back wall of the orphanage to escape not that they ever thought that they could have bought their way into a real terrorist group with that much explosives or even the money without the explosives. (not that the front isn't guarded or anything they just what to much TV and things must always be done the hard way!), and I wonder how it is that my sister got the way she is sometimes. The orphanage wasn't that bad most of the Ruff wasn't an idiot. We tended to be thought of as one entity.

That is one of the weirdest things in our life we're like, if you put it in daddy's words, 'like street kids and civilians'. Both come out of the same mould are categorized together but they are nothing alike. Or if you wanted to be more normal 'chalk and cheese' the only thing the same is they both look tasty, yellow and start with 'ch' until you bite and then the only thing that is certain is that they still both start with 'ch' and its all perception if they taste nice and only the cheese is still yellow if you try and eat it.(not that I ever tried) but anyway I'm getting lost in my thoughts.

Dad was going through bank accounts the trying to figure out what schools he could afford to send us to this morning. He says were old enough and something about getting Ruffy plastic surgery so that they believe she's old enough. Ruffy was not impressed! I thought it was quite funny! He was only joking.

I some Times wonder if we're really wanted or if daddy just puts up with and supports us because of his morals and what he went through when he was young. But then we see him and just his reaction to us reassure me.

I don't know how wealthy daddy actually is he said that we went to a poor monastery orphanage because they hadn't had the money to advance and still had old morals. From my understanding, which is that of a five year old that has from her understanding of her fathers ego is a lot. What I was saying before my thoughts started to prove that I was related to my father. From my understanding from daddy is that he signed a very poor contract because at the time he was in such need of money to feed us that he couldn't afford to bargain. But I suspect that dad has an occasional job that he neglects to mention and a lot more secrets than could ever be written on paper. He still hasn't managed to give satisfactory answer as to how we were the only people that we have ever known that have bright violet eyes and how in all of hells names Ruffy got a yellow cats eye. 'Hells name' the kids with a father who claims to be the 'God of Death' himself! Love him and you will end up stark raving mad. I mean look at me I'm talking to myself here.

After going through his bank accounts. Daddy said to Quatre how had been watching over his shoulder to 'enrol them in St. Mary-Anne's Catholic Girls school'. I haven't checked were it is yet I Think it is in a city in some place like Australia, America or Canada. Not sure. Quatre sounded pretty surprized. He said something along the lines of 'you don't have enough to teach at that school here'. With that daddy walked out the door. Quatre walked out of the room saying something about not urning enough to send himself to that school with what you get being a pilot and glad that he had quit.

Which was actually true we have now been here about a fortnight and two days after daddy got really cross at everyone. Quatre announced that he was going home to his family. He had a business to run. I suspect that he will be round lots. I think like all of them he is tire of trying to save the world. He knows that others will be able to do it without him and if he was really needed that badly Une would call him. Well at least that is what I have picked up from what people have said. Well at least I think they are all tired Heero seems to have nothing other than work on his mind at any time. Although Ruffy did point out that he has Daddys daily timetable figured out almost perfectly and is were ever daddy is going to be about a minute before him. I think that is what Trowa was looking so smug about when heero entered the room just a minute ago. Daddys coming I think I ought to head to bed. Night "Night, Ruffy. Night Heero, Trowa, Quatre, Wufei."

Yep, I was right dad just entered the house.

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