Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ The Elements ❯ Chapter 10 ( Chapter 10 )

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Pairings: 2x1 (eventually), 6+1, 5+1, implied 3+4, R+H, H+9+H, others to be named Rating: NC-17, probably Warnings: AU, OOC, probably lemon, semi Duo- bastardization (don't worry, he gets over it), I should probably add angst, NICE RELENA

The Elements

Chapter 10

Trowa swallowed nervously as he thought of his first question. "So, like, I can ask anything I want?" he asked. He didn't really believe that it was going to be this easy, that Heero would give up such information so readily.

Heero nodded his head, and scooted over so that he was facing Trowa. "Yeah. Anything," he answered. "But on one condition. I get to ask you stuff, too. I mean, I've never met a half-nymph, half-human before. I didn't think they existed."

Trowa nodded his consent to the new rule, anything to get to know what it was like to be an Element. He thought a few minutes before coming up with, what he thought was, a dumb question. Trowa looked away from Heero to his tree. "So, umm, how old are you, anyway?"

Heero laughed at this, and Trowa ducked his head in shame of his stupid question. The boy's laughter cut like glass through his heart. He felt like an idiot. "I'm-I'm sorry," Trowa said. "It was a stupid question. Maybe we ought to do this some other time."

He started to stand up to walk away, but Heero pulled him back down. "No, no, I'm sorry for laughing," the boy said when Trowa was sitting, his face showing nothing but seriousness. "I just expected a harder question. Something like "What's the meaning of life?" or something else that I have no knowledge on. But my age, that I can answer."

Heero took Trowa's hands in his own. Trowa had noticed in the day that he knew Heero that the other seemed to like physical contact. "I'm fifteen," Heero said. "Well, this body is fifteen. In truth, I'm -- my soul is -- a lot older. Quite a bit older, actually." Heero squeezed Trowa's hand harder, but not yet hard enough to hurt. He seemed to be psyching himself up. Heero coughed before continuing.

"In the beginning, there was nothing, at least, that's what I've been told. No light, no darkness, no matter, no antimatter. Nothing. Then, suddenly, there was. By some freak accident of nature, or nothingness, the Lord and Lady were created. They didn't like the nothingness, the complete absence of anything good -- or bad, for that matter.

"Together, they created the planets, the earths, dirt. You know, those kinds of things." Heero dug into the ground at that, as if to emphasize his point. "I was created as some kind of after effect. But, that wasn't enough for the Lord and Lady. They wanted more, so they created Water, Abhainn. They put random amounts of water on all the earths, and I was given a...companion, if you will. Eric, as he is known now, was created with Water, and I was no longer alone.

"I was happy then -- well, as happy as one can be when there is no such thing as emotion -- because Eric was with me. The Lord and Lady weren't, though. They wanted more, so they created, in turn, Air and Fire. Thus, Rafe and Leif, my other brothers, were "born."

"At this point, there was no life in the universe. The Lord and Lady and the four Elements -- Tir, Abhainn, Aile, and Bradhadair -- were all there was. There was light from the sun, but no one to enjoy it; oxygen from the wind, but no one to breathe it; wetness from the rivers, but no one to drink it; and richness from the soil, but no one to use it. There were no corporeal beings. The other Elements and I were random floating entities, as were the Lord and Lady.

"Then, the Lord and Lady got it into their minds to create Spirit, an Element that would make life possible. Spirit, my sister, was created, and suddenly, there was life everywhere. Plants, animals, *people*. They were all there, and more. Most of all, we had bodies. The (now) five of us had bodies, something we'd never had before, never even dreamed of having before. I guess that's why I'm so touchy-feely now. Because I know what's it like not to be able to touch anything.

"Anyway, you asked me a simple question, and I went off on some tangent," Heero said. He ducked his head and averted his eyes from Trowa, who had been staring at him, riveted by his tale. "So, anyway, in answer to your question, I am both fifteen years old, and as old as earth itself.

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Heero looked down at the ground in embarrassment. He broke his hands away from Trowa's, and dug them into the soil. He played with the dirt for a while, waiting for Trowa to say something, to make him feel not-so-stupid for getting wildly off topic.

Heero peeked at Trowa with one eye, and saw him sitting with his hands in his lap, deep in thought. A minute went by. Then two. Finally, the half-nymph said: "Damn. That's a long time. But don't worry about veering off course in your answer; that just means I got two questions answered for the price of one."

Heero smiled at that -- the smile that Rhys always said would make even the most evil demon's legs turn to jelly -- his former good mood restored and his embarrassment erased. "Okay," he said, eyes shining up at Trowa. "My turn, then." Heero scratched his eyebrow where the bandage had been (he'd taken it off that morning because the cut wasn't too normal, but it still kind of itched), thinking of what he should ask Trowa first. Suddenly, it came to him.

"Ooh," he said. "I know what I want to ask." Trowa just sat there, not protesting, so he took that to mean that he should just go ahead and ask. "Okay, so you know when I said before that I've never met a half-nymph, half-human? Well, I've never met a half-nymph, half-*anything*. Never even heard of one. So, I was wondering, how can you be that, and how come I never heard of you before?"

Trowa seemed to tense up at that. He scrambled to his feet, looking like a deer caught in headlights. "Oh, look at the time," he said, glancing down at his watch. "It's almost 6:30. Where does the time go? Anyway, you should really be getting back, you know, for your big date." Trowa backed away from Heero. "Umm, it was nice talking to you," he said, before turning tail and practically running away from Heero, toward the dorms.

"Well, that was unusual," Heero remarked, before standing up and returning to the dorms himself.

Selune