Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ The Missing Piece ❯ Chapter 49

Title: The Missing Piece

Author: Skeren Dreamera, with Bagelbunion co-writing

Archive: http://www.gundam-wing-fanfiction.net/, www.Mediaminer.org, www.nfiction.com, (All under Skeren Dreamera), http://www.afallenangel.net/makotosagara/frames/fanfiction.html

Categ ory: Sci Fi additions, Yaoi/Shounen Ai

Pairings: 5x2, 3x1, 4x1, 3x4, 3x4x1 2+6, 4+6, 1+6, 1+2 only kinda

Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing, so please, don't sue me, it would be pointless!

Rating: NC-17

Spoilers: Heero's Zero stuff, A bit of Trowa's.

Warnings: Just the OOC warning that applies to the whole thing.

Contact: Mickeofas@yahoo.com, bagelbunion@cox.net

Notes: *thoughts* ~screen text~

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Begin part forty nine

Zechs jerked first, glaring at Quatre. "What did I do?"

Heero was a quick second, but frozen as he was, there wasn't any getting loose because of the water that had struck him.

"AHH!" Wufei shrieked and pulled away as quick as he could, then leaped to his feet and jumped over the couch to hide from the spray. Duo reacted a bit more violently than the others, jerking back from Heero and turning with a low threatening growl to pin his gaze on Quatre, before immediately moving forwards.

Quatre's eyes widened. *I thought they were just playing!* He was suddenly afraid. He grabbed the hose and ran back out the door. It was likely the worst move poor Quatre could have done because Duo gave chase, now having a moving target.

Wufei shivered coming back to himself. *Why am I all wet? And... Gulp naked?!? What happened?* Wufei slowly began to sink into paranoia and could only hear Trowa's laughter. *They made me do it again!!!* He wailed in his mind and suddenly whimpered curling in on himself and burying his head in his knees, whimpering softly.

Zechs turned from the doorway Duo and Quatre had sprinted from to see Wufei. He hoped these weren't going to be his last actions. Zechs, drenched head to toe, crawled over to Wufei and shook him. "Wufei! Go get Duo before he kills Quatre!" Heero was watching, trying to get his clothes back in order before Wufei tried to go on a shooting spree again. Wufei shrieked as loud as he could, when someone touched him. He panicked and tried to fight back.

Zechs recoiled instantly, sinking lower to the ground. "Wufei! Go get Duo!"

Wufei shivered and recoiled, backing away from Zechs, terrified. "No..." he whimpered as his back hit the far wall, his eyes wide with fear.

Zechs took a deep breath. "Fine, you stay, I am not going to let him kill any of the other pilots, understand?" He was then up, following the direction the other two had gone.

Wufei's body was tense, and he was naked. His eyes darted to Heero nervously, his breathing loud and labored as if just waiting for Heero to come and hurt him. Heero moved away from Wufei rather than towards, trying to get his heart rate under control. "Why do you two keep jumping me?"

"What?" Wufei replied his voice higher than normal. He slunk away from Heero a bit, wondering why this man was playing with him instead of beating him.

"You heard me, you people keep playing with my damned head when you do that! Then you! You go and act like I was the one that did something wrong. I need to go help Zechs save Quatre from Duo now." Heero managed to get his wet pants in place then leapt for his feet, going in the direction the other three had.

Quatre continued to run heading for the forest and for Sandrock, he knew he'd be safe there. *Why did I do that?? Not my finest moment...* Duo was the only one was in sight at the moment and he jumped forward, tackling Quatre into the ground quickly with a terrible growl. Mad soaking wet cat through and through. "Hi Duo! What's up?" Quatre tried and smiled up at Duo, acting like everything was fine and he didn't have an angry feline on top of him. Quatre whimpered and his eyes closed. He hoped Duo made it quick.

Duo growled lowly, digging nails into Quatre's chest where his hands were pressed when abruptly he was knocked to the side. Zechs immediately moved back, knowing he'd just made Duo mad, but Duo wouldn't kill him just punish him.

Duo rolled up to his feet in a crouch, eyes narrowed on Zechs who was hurriedly moving backwards away from him, and was suddenly indecisive. *Punish or kill?*

Quatre sat up slowly, watching them both, he wanted to say sorry, but he'd prefer just having Duo ignore him. Quatre slowly began to slink away, taking his time and watching Duo with careful eyes.

Duo seemed to have determined Quatre's threat was nullified at the moment and lunged at Zechs. He could return to dealing with Quatre as soon at Zechs knew his place again. Zechs merely drew a sharp breath and went limp, eyes closed tightly as he took in the sudden flurry of pain and movement that had landed atop him.

This was the scene that Heero finally caught up to and he cursed, sprinting forwards at a quicker pace to see what he couldn't stop of the madness. Quatre was slowly inching his way back to the house, walking backward the whole time.

Duo pulled back, satisfied when Zechs just remained in place, pale eyes turned down and to the side, then spun, eyes fixing firmly on Quatre again. Quatre froze, wondering if he should make a run for it again. *But what to do? Shut the door and lock it when I get back to the house?*

Heero darted forward; putting himself between the enraged Duo and Quatre just as the braided boy leapt at him. Duo's eyes widened and he spun back before making contact, landing in a crouch and breathing hard. *That wasn't right! The person interrupted on never defended the other, never!* Duo was just starting to claw his way back up into having control of his own actions when a loud shriek came from the house. Duo turned and dashed away from the other three, headed towards the sound of Wufei's voice, the only thing left in his mind instincts, and his mate was more important than the other three.

Zechs groaned, rolling over onto his stomach and pushing up onto his hands. "No blood this time..." He coughed. "Good."

"Thanks Heero." Quatre breathed and collapsed to the ground with relief.

Heero peered over his shoulder then moved forward to Zechs. "Not me you should be thanking."

Zechs just pulled up to his knees, breathing hard at the pain that blossomed from the motion. *Goody, he'd be one huge bruise!* Zechs got to his feet waveringly, his arm wrapped around his ribs at Heero moved to his side, both moving back towards the house.

Duo burst back into the living room where he had last seen Wufei, eyes darting frantically.

Trowa was trying his damndest to comfort Wufei, but it seemed to only be making Wufei worse by his proximity, so he just sat back doing the only thing he could do: watch and wait.

Duo moved forward quickly, skidding in next to Wufei and crooning under his breath, hands coming out to pet Wufei, not even thinking that he too would be rejected. Wufei whimpered and hid his face. Somewhere in the conscious part of his mind, he wondered why they were taking so long.

Duo moved closer, nuzzling at Wufei with little crooning sounds, his arms wrapping around Wufei as he finally latched onto a word that seemed appropriate to make to his clouded mind. "Fei?"

"Duo??" Wufei coughed out in disbelief and looked up, his eyes locking with Duo's own violet ones.

Duo crooned by way of reply, nuzzling Wufei's cheek with a soft purr but not breaking the gaze. He wasn't all there, and was sopping wet, but he was there in body.

"You're back!" Wufei sobbed and wrapped his arms around Duo's waist, pulling him close. He nearly cried with relief. Duo returned the embrace, holding Wufei against his chest and sitting back on his heels, legs flat to the floor under him. "Did they hurt you?" Wufei asked softly, calming down nearly instantly as he breathed deep, inhaling Duo's scent.

Coherency finally returned to his mind and he shook his head no. "My mate. No one touches you, mine." Duo growled the last, holding Wufei more tightly, nuzzling at his throat with a purr. Coherency may have returned, but the adrenaline was only just starting to fade.

"They stripped me..." Wufei trembled in Duo's arms again. "Then..." he looked up at Duo warmly. "Then you came back..." he squeezed Duo again.

"Mine Fei. My mate." That was the soft murmur that Duo repeated as he ran his hands over Wufei's back, seeming to be unable to say anything much beyond that just yet.

"Yes." Wufei replied and gave Duo a little kiss on his cheek. "Duo..." he moaned softly. He was so happy that Duo had come back and that that blond man had not done anything to him. He smiled a little. Duo nuzzled at Wufei again a small purr, eyes partially closed. Then he finally drifted down into himself again and barely bit back a groan. Instead he just started leaning into Wufei and enjoying the warm skin pressed to the bared portion of his body as he let is distract him. Wufei caught Duo as best he could and let Duo lean up against him. He made little soothing sounds as he held Duo, feeling uncomfortable with his nakedness as he realized it.

"I think I'm gonna be apologizing again..." Duo nuzzled at Wufei and purred. "Damn it." His words were absented, lazy, as he stayed wrapped partially around Wufei as he managed to ignore Trowa completely. Of course, the other three inched into the door about that point.

"What for?" Wufei asked. Suddenly he saw the others at the door, and cuddled Duo close to him to hide his nudity. He was not comfortable with the others seeing him naked. "Ne Duo? What happened... Where are my clothes? How come I can't remember?" Wufei wondered out loud.

Duo flushed scarlet. "I kinda remember. We here doing something, then Quatre sprayed us down with a hose, I got mad, gave chase, hurt Zechs again then ran back here. Any better?"

"What?" Wufei asked, his brow creased. That explanation didn't match with his. He shook his head. "No... They were..." Wufei trailed off.

"I dun know what you know. My memories all hazy." Duo nuzzled at Wufei again then peered over his shoulder at the three in the doorway. "Sorry guys... Guess I got carried away?"

Zechs just sighed and shook his head, still holding his ribs. "Doesn't matter." He then left the room, getting into a tee shirt before coming back out, bruises hidden.

"I want clothes." Wufei asked. He was confused and suddenly feeling very dizzy.

"Kay, let's go get you some dry ones." Zechs had changed pants to dry ones as well while he was out of the room. Duo pulled on Wufei, climbing off him and getting to his feet.

Wufei rose then turned his face, hiding it in Duo's shoulder embarrassed, but the sudden move to his feet made him extremely dizzy and he trembled forward, losing his balance. "Whoa..." he groaned as his vision danced in front of his eyes. Duo wrapped his arms back around Wufei, nuzzling at him before walking the dizzy naked boy out of the room, his wet shorts and hair pressing against Wufei as his braid was hanging down between them. Wufei half closed his eyes and let himself be dragged, eager to find a bed and lie back down on it.

Duo pulled Wufei into their room and closed the door behind them. He then walked Wufei to the bed. "I'm dangerous to them now. That has to stop." Duo's voice is so low and sad even Wufei just inches away could barely catch it.

"Mm-hmm." Wufei mumbled. He could hear Duo speak, but he wasn't sure what he had said. Wufei fell to the bed, eager for the room to stop spinning. *I'm in the safe house...* Wufei groaned out loud. Duo squeezed Wufei and moved him back to the bed before turning and dragging out a still unused laptop, flipping it open. He had to talk to G. "Don't leave me Duo..." Wufei moaned half asleep. *Sleep... When I wake up everything will be fine...*

"I'm not, sweet Fei." Duo tapped through his e-mails; fingers slowing, then stopping altogether as he stared at the last e-mail. It was clearly a warning. Clearly telling him something was wrong from G as he stared as the line. ~I knew about the stay, they made me include ideas. I heard the pets got out. Could you keep them out?~ Then that was it. The only sign Duo had that it was G at all was the e-mail address at the top and the absurd neon green color of the text. Duo sat back in his chair. "Fei?"

A few mumbled words were all that came from Wufei; he wasn't exactly coherent at the moment.

Duo nodded once. "We'll stay out man, thanks for the last vote of confidence." Then he closed out the emails, deleted them, and redid his defenses on his computer. He was sitting there long enough to dry.

"Duo..." Wufei moaned and rolled over clutching a pillow to his chest.

Duo blinked a few times, moving to the bed once he shut his system down and stumbled into the bed, nuzzling against Wufei. "I'm here."

"Mm..." Wufei purred happily, waking up just a tad his eyes still closed but his mind still cloudy.

Duo cuddled Wufei against his chest but remained wide-awake, dwelling on that last e-mail.

Trowa went to sit back at the table. *Whoa... Talk about a buzz kill. I think I'm starting to come down.*

Zechs moved stiffly forward once the other two left the room, sinking down into the couch. "I thought I said I wasn't going to chase Duo again... Shows how much that stuck."

"I didn't think he'd react that way." Quatre spoke softly, still afraid that Duo was going to come out and claw him to death.

Heero moved to sit beside Zechs. "Why water? Even I know cat plus water is bad."

"I couldn't think of anything else." Quatre replied and shrugged. "Next time I'll throw meat at Duo." He announced this and started feeling really stupid.

"How did I get here?" Trowa looked around the room, his face returning to his normal expressionless facade.

Heero suddenly chuckled. "I think I was the meat Quatre."

Zechs looked to Trowa and covered his head. "No more with the memory gaps with you people!!"

"Hmph." Quatre replied and just crossed his arms over his chest. "You walked here Trowa." Quatre said, slowly starting to get into a bad mood.

Heero's eyes widened abruptly. "Shit! I never backed out of that OZ system and I've just been sitting in there!" Heero darted over to his computer, cursing fluently. Trowa groaned softly as Heero came to sit next to him. He had a bad headache. Heero's hands were flying but halted as he saw something that was starting to become too familiar, but this time it had a very personal element added, and that caused Heero to pale. Music was coming from his computer. A joker was dancing across his screen with a daisy between its fingers. The words this time: ~Getting warmer.~

"Heero?" Trowa leaned over to see the joker on his screen. *Again?* He thought to himself.

Then as Heero recoiled from his new system, a new line materialized under the words. ~Gotcha~ Then the system got liberally fried. "I shouldn't have gotten distracted!"

Trowa didn't know what to say. Instead he left Heero to his musings as the reason why he had left in the first place came tumbling back to him. He got up and headed for the kitchen. *I need some aspirin! That was the reason I decided to trip out in the first place! I need to stay away from him.*

"The mad five... They set us up... It's them... They rigged it!" Heero shoved away from the computer and came to his feet, already knowing he wouldn't be able to do a damn thing.

"Rigged what?" Trowa asked, Heero's words making him stop in his search.

"What???" Quatre nearly shrieked and came over to the ruined computer.

"The missions, the last couple missions. The joker is theirs! The daisy, look at the damn daisy!" Heero gestured at the machine, backing away. "I gotta pack, someone get the crazy pair."

"Shit..." Quatre cursed. "You know what this means???" Quatre said in disbelief...

"The little girl... The little girl with the dog... Gave me a daisy..." Heero shuddered, still unnaturally pale as he stared at the screen.

"Heero..." Quatre said, his tone full of concern. He walked over to Heero to put his hands on his shoulders in a motion meant to sooth.

"We should get out of here..." Trowa interrupted the silence as he swallowed 3 aspirin. "They know we are here."

Heero flinched back, eyes a little spacey as he stared past Quatre to the screen. "J got mad that I buried the dog. He threw away the flower. He knew about the flower." Heero rocked a little, then spun away. "We have to leave."

"I know where we could go..." Quatre spoke softly, as if their house was bugged.

Zechs got to his feet. "I'll get the other two." Zechs hurried to the room, pushing the door open without invitation to look into Duo's eyes suddenly as the feline boy glanced up quickly in response. "Heero is extremely upset, and Trowa says we have to leave this safe house..." Zechs drew a sharp breath. "You guys aren't going to leave me here are you?"

Wufei groggily sat up. He was still rather confused. "Why is Heero upset?" he asked slowly sounding drunk.

"Something about a little girl and daisies..." Zechs moved from foot to foot.

Wufei sat up a little straighter fully awake now. "The puppy?" he asked as he slung his legs over the bed.

Duo stared at Zechs. "What? He hates that memory. C'mon Fei, we gotta deal with this..." Duo rolled out of bed, pulling on his normal clothes with a grimace. He hadn't worn them in days. He then pulled on his shoes and cap, his new belt sitting below his overshirt pleasantly. Wufei nodded. He slowly packed up everything and got dressed quickly.

"He said something about a J and a puppy, yes." Zechs nods watching at Duo got fully dressed for the first time since he got here. Zechs turned, leaving to get together his own clothes, few though they were, and put them in the backpack that Heero had gotten him before slipping on his boots and walking back into the main room. "Are you guys leaving me behind?"

*How many times do I have to kill that girl and her puppy.* The words ran through Wufei's mind and he shivered, eager to get out of this place. He knew something was seriously wrong when Heero thought of the girl and her puppy.

"Why would we do that?" Quatre asked, frowning at Zechs for even thinking that thought.

Zechs just shook his head, rocking on his feet, then moved aside as a fully dressed Duo moved through the doorway with all his things in hand. Duo knew Wufei was following, so he wasn't worried. "What happened?"

Heero pointed at the screen. "The joker has a daisy..."

Duo cursed. "I should have read my mail sooner! Shit! All the docs are with the bad guys gentlemen, G gave me that much of a heads up, he contributed to what happened to us." Duo dropped his bag by his feet. "Who's taking Birdie?"

"I'll take him." Quatre volunteered.

Zechs nodded a little. "I need to get a mecha again soon. This shouldn't last." Zechs glanced around, looking for the last person so they could get moving.

Quatre sat down at the table, and pulled up a piece of paper and wrote some coordinates onto it, then he drew up some more. "I can get you a suit." He held up one piece of paper and gave it to Heero. "Meet me here at 0500 tomorrow. Take Trowa with you."

Quatre handed the other piece of paper to Duo. "And you and Wufei travel together. "Meet the rest of us there at 0400 plus one day. The coordinates at the bottom are another safe location where you can camp out until you are ready to join us."

"I'm reluctant to send anything over our computers until we can give them a better look. Nobody send anything and maintain radio silence unless it's an emergency. Got it everyone?" Quatre stood up again looking around the room at his fellow pilots.

Duo glanced around, looking for Wufei. "I can deal with that. Wufei?" Wufei nodded somewhat nervously. He didn't like it but the situation called for it.

Heero took Trowa's arm and tugged, grabbing his things up and heading for his gundam. "Meet me in the air."

Duo grabbed his bag from the floor and turned to Wufei. "C'mon Fei, time to go." He grabbed his arm and pulled, heading for the door as well.

"Yes sir!" Trowa replied with amusement. He went to pack his own things quickly and ran out of the house for his own gundam.

Wufei followed, feeling somewhat sad to leave the house.

To be continued.