Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ The Miracles of San Juan ❯ Chapter 6 ( Chapter 6 )

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

Hello again! How are you all feeling? I hope you're doing all fine :]. Cuz I am ill XoX. It's the damn weather in Vienna,I tell you. But well… that's beside the point. I am sorry that I am neglecting other ficcies right now.. but I simply don't know how to continue… only exeption is this ficcie here…I keep having ideas for it. So, I hope you'll enjoy the chappie here. :]

The Miracles of San Juan 6

In the end, I cried myself into sleep, one question hammering around my head, working as some kind of odd lullaby.

Why did Duo lie to me? Why did he have to break my heart? Why did he have to be so cruel in the end? And why hadn't he been earnest right from the start?

Just.. Why?

I woke up again when it was already dark outside. The sound that woke me was a continious knocking on my door. Still dizzy, I slowly stood up and went over to the door with shaky legs.

"Who's there?" I asked while walking. But there was no answer. Instead, the knocking continued. "Allright, allright, I'm coming." I shouted, but the knocking didn't stop. Whoever was trying to knock down my door, he was soon having a problem if he continued to get on my nerves.

As I finally reached the door, my brilliant mind quickly came up with the idea that it could be Duo, but before I had a chance to open the door, my hands had already unlocked the door and opened it. Hate my brain, it was right.

"Heero." Duo was standing in front of me, having this really weird expression on his face. He looked guilty, somehow sad as well, but there was something I couldn't identify. However, I reacted on instinct after a few moments and slammed the door shut.

"Heero! Please open the door!" He shouted. But I ignored him. His sight alone and the voice brought my mind back into depression-land and I sank onto the floor, crying. I hugged myself and tried to surpress the tears, which, as you might know, can hurt like hell at the back of your throat. And it did, so I decided to let the tears ran freely.

Just why did he do this to me? First he lies to me and then he keeps digging around in that fresh wound. I let out a sob which didn't do anything good to my hurting throat right now. Moreover, Duo had heard it for he suddenly spoke up again.

"Heero? Are you okay in there?" I resisted the urge to shout at him `no you ashole! And you're responsible for all this shit!' and tried to calm my feelings instead. After breathing deeply for a few moments, I regained my voice and tried to speak.

"Go away." It came out as a weak whisper, but still, Duo heard it.

"Heero. Please let me in. I want to explain this to you. Really." He was as stubborn as I was, which meant that he kept trying getting me to open the door again. But I wouldn't give up so easily.

"Duo, go away." My voice was a bit stronger now, but still, I think he could hear the heartbroken tone inside of it. But I didn't care right now. I just wanted him to go away and leave me alone. No luck though.

"Heero, listen. I want to apologize but I won't do that through the door. I want to talk to you face to face. And I'm gonna wait in front of your door. No matter how long it takes you to forgive me enough to open it." He finished the sentence with a loud sound that reminded me of someone falling on his butt. I guess he had sat down, in some sort of hard way.

"Fine." I whispered while I took out a hanky to whipe away my tears and blew my nose. "Fine." He nodded. And so we stayed door to door, both waiting for the other to give up. If I had only known how stubborn he could be.

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It was about after midnight when I was woken up again. I didn't really remember falling asleep, but I was still sitting on the same spot where I had been a few hours ago. However, the sound that woke me this time came from outside. From in front of the door. My brain told me to ignore it, but curiosity took over and I slowly opened the door. And the sight that greeted me didn't help me at all in this situation.

"Duo…" I whispered. The silly boy was sitting on the floor with only a pair of boxers and nothing else. His hair was still partially wet and I could quickly tell that he went here without drying himself. Stupid of him. He trembled from the coolness of the corridor. Since all hotels had air conditioner, it was quite cool inside.

As I saw him trembling, one part of my mind laughed and suggested that this would be a good punishment for him, but I couldn't just let him freeze his ass off. Sighing, I grabbed his arms and moved him inside my room before closing the door. Sound asleep he was for he didn't wake up. I moved him into the bath once more before turning on the warm water to fill the bathtub.

As I waited for the tub to fill, I thought about the first day I saw him. Had it been love at first sight? I mean, although he DID hurt me, there was still a part of me that told me not to leave him. Why? I didn't understand myself…

All too soon the tub was filled and I quickly stripped him and myself before stepping inside. The warmth felt wonderful and I heard Duo groan unconsciously. After settling down, I just lay there and enjoyed the feeling of the hot water surrounding me, and I also enjoyed feeling his skin next to mine, his head resting on one of my shoulders. I was one fast forgiving bastard. He hadn't even explained and apologized, and yet I was already forgiving him. Maybe it was just that I didn't want to be alone again after finally finding someone. Someone that I fell in love with without even realizing.

I relaxed even further into the water and hugged the unconscious boy in my arms even tighter, not wanting to let him go. That, however, woke him up, not to my delight since I wanted to have him there some more. He blinked and, after realizing where he was, he quickly pulled back, staring down at me.

"Heero, what…" I didn't let him finish for I placed my index finger on his lips, shushing him.

"You were freezing your ass off in the corridor. And I couldn't just let you freeze there." I tried to smile, but instead of smiling, I cried. Fancy that. I tell you I'd threw my brain away any day if I wouldn't need it for surviving. However, Duo reacted automatically and caressed my now wet cheek with the back of his right hand. And it made even more tears come. Sometimes I really couldn't understand myself. I closed my eyes and felt myself being shifted. It took me some moments to realize that he had moved me to sit on his thighs. He smiled at me lovingly and, after thinking for a moment, I realized it was an offer and took it, burying my face into his shoulder. I cried and sobbed, and in between, he whispered into my ear.

"Heero, will you let me explain now?" I sobbed and nodded, not removing myself from his shoulder. And so he started to tell me about everything.

It was hard to understand at first, but as far as I got it, he had been a quite arrogant orca and made fun of a fairy or something. Hey, don't tell me, I know it sounds weird. I can't believe it until now. However, he told me that this fairy seemed to be human at first,but it turned out that she wasn't. Seeing it as her job, she cursed Duo to live as a human himself to feel how it was to be seperated from his family. And since there was always a way to cure a cursed person, she told him that he had to find true love or something in order to be a whale again. And since he was hating humans with all his heart at that time ( now guess why he had thrown the soap at me the first day) he thought it would be easy to fool someone and change back again.

So far I understood everything quite well, and some past events started to make sense to me, for example why he had told me that he had fallen in love with me when, in fact, he hadn't. But he had underestimated the crazy little thing called love, and instead of just fooling me and faking his feelings, the fake had become reality and he truly started to feel something for me. But the explanation for the talk with his mother was still missing. As I told him so, he kissed me on the nose and told me that I was too curious for my own good for he hadn't been finished yet.

His mother was quite old and had looked death in the eye quite often for whale hunters had often shot her in order to get her meat. But she had survived all attacks. But with every attack, her rage and hate against humans grew, and so she always `told', as far as a whale can speak, her children and other younger whales to distrust every human since their only intent was to kill them. And she would have probably killed Duo immediately if he would have told her that he indeed fell in love with some human creature.

After he had finished his story, the water was already cold and so I wanted to leave, but he had other plans and pushed me down as soon as I tried to stand up.

"What…" this time he shushed me with a kiss and simply pulled out the plug of the tub. He waited until nearly all water was out before putting the plug back and turning on the warm water again. He then kissed me again.

When he finally pulled away, I looked down at him and saw a single tear rolling down his cheek. Now why was HE crying? The answer to my unspoken question came immediately.

"I am sorry that I have caused you so much pain. I didn't intend to hurt you, Heero. I hope that you can understand and forgive me." He looked at me… unsure wheter I would forgive him or not. But you all know the answer, and I smiled down at him before giving him a quick kiss onto his nose.

" I have forgiven you the moment I realized how much I meant to you. I don't think that everyone volunteers to freeze in a corridor in order to apologize." Wanting to feel him closer to me, I bent down and hugged him, noticing that the water was nearly rinning over the edge. Duo quickly turned it off and I relaxed into his arms, happy to finally know the truth behind it all. Sighing, I relaxed completely and actually fell asleep. But I shouldn't sleep too long anyway.

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I think it was about 3 o'clock in the morning when I woke up for the 3rd time by now. It was still dark outside for sure. I yawned and stretched a bit and realized that I wasn't in the bath anymore but on my bed, fully clothed. I even had my shoes on. Maybe you can imagine that I was really confused. But all confusion faded away as I saw Duo standing in front of a window, looking up at the full moon that was shining into my room. He had taken some of my clothes, but I couldn't identify them in the darkness of the room. He turned around as soon as he heard the bed squeak as I stood up and went over to him.

"Hey there." He greeted me smiling and I simply kissed him instead of saying anything. "Heero, do you wanna see something very special?" He asked me. Curious me couldn't even wait until he finished and I quickly nodded, probably looking like a curious child. It made him laugh and he stroked my hair gently before taking my arm and leading me out of the room.

We made our way through the whole hotel, through the few streets and finally we were at the beach and stopped in front of the water. Duo had turned his head towards the ocean, but still he held my hand. I heard him take a deep breath before letting go of my hand and quickly undressing himself. I didn't ask him but wondered wha he did that. All my questions, however, should be answered as he stepped inside the water and swam a bit further in.

Without thinking for a moment, I followed him and stopped as the water reached my knees. Something made me stop, some kind of feeling inside me that told me it would be better. And it was, for the strangest thing I had ever witnessed in my entire life happened.

Duo slowly changed back into a whale. I don't even know how to describe it, it was simply the strangest thing I had ever seen. His arms turned darker and darker, like all of his skin, and slowly got the shape of a real whale's pectoral fin. His beautiful hair sadly disappeared slowly and his head enlargened and had an orcas form soon.

Within a few minutes, the boy I used to know wasn't there anymore. Instead, there was a strong and quite big male orca in his best years. I didn't know what to be more, sad, exited or happy. After all, he was what he used to be, a whale. And I'm sure he was happy now. I decided to spend some last time with him and swam towards him. As soon as I was at his side, he took me onto his back and swam out into the ocean with me.

When we were further away from the beach, he slowed down his speed and made a little movement with his head, and I complied, looking up at the full moon. It was really beautiful. And the sad part of me grew stronger, making me cry at the thought that Imight not see him anymore. I leaned back a bit, resting my back at his dorsal fin for a few moments before sliding down. He made a funny sound as some kind of protest, but I patted his wet head and explained it.

"I just want to swim a few rounds with you, if you don't mind." He shook the big head, signalising that he didn't mind at all and I smiled. So we swam a bit, but I soon got tired and had to stop to regain my breath.

As I soon realized, I shouldn't have. I was a few feet away from Duo and so the thing that found I was quite attractive thought that I was alone at all. As it bit me in the leg, I let out a shriek before it pulled me down into the water. As it bit a bit harder, I realized that it was actually a shark that attacked me. Of course I panicked and struggled. As I kicked its nose with my foot, it let go off me for a few seconds, but it was enough to get up again. I took in a deep breath as I was finally able to breathe again. I quickly wanted to crawl onto Duo's back, but he was nowhere to be seen. And as I heard some strange noises from under the water, I realized that he was probably attacking the shark right now. And my thought was confirmed as he suddenly appeared again with a bleeding snout and a wounded right pectoral fin.

"Duo,are you okay?" I asked, ignoring my own leg. But he didn't ignore the fact that I was wounded as well and quickly swam under me to carry me on his back again. He swam so quick that I couldn't believe that he was actually wounded. However, he swam a bit too fast, and as we reached the beach, he didn't stay inside the water but hit the land, making me fall down from his back.

"Duo!" I shouted, overly worried as I crawled over to where he was lying. "Duo! Please go get back inside the water!!" I tried to push him back,but of course it was useless. How should I get something moving when this something was a few tons heavy?

"God, Duo, don't leave me now." I started to cry again, ignoring my leg which was hurting really badly right now, not to mention that it was bleeding like crazy. But Duo did the same, ignoring his own injuries and being worried about my leg. I decided to get help, but I couldn't walk and fell down as I tried to stand up. Not to mention that the tears blurred my visions. So I crawled back to where Duo way lying.

"Duo…" I whispered as I slowly felt lightheaded and all weak. The loss of blood sure took its price right now, but I didn't care. I leaned against Duo's head and tried to hug him as much as I could. If we had to die, then let it be, but I wanted to be with him when it had to happen.

I continued to cry and wetted his drying skin with the pricks. Darkness was so close that I didn't realize a girl standing behind of us. Only as she stepped forward, I could see her for a few moments, before complete darkness took me.

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Soooooooorry guys, I know it's a cliffhangar, and I know I told a lot of shit as far as the shark thingie is concerned.But, hey, I wanted some kind of twist in this sappy, cliché-becoming, little ficcie here. Sooo sorry again. I hope you don't hate me or anything. My head does however, for I have a terrible headache ( yes, guys, I'm still ill…). So, I hope you enjoyed the chappie… see you at another chap or another fic.