Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Urgent Call ❯ Further Explanations ( Chapter 4 )

Chapter 4

"Like you care about medical knowledge Duo, you're just dying of curiosity… Alright then but it's not really me you should be talking to..."

Sally blinked, "what do you mean?"

"Doctor J…"

"Damnit!" Sally and Heero both started at the sudden outburst from the braided teen, who got to his feet, mindful of the baby, which was quickly snatched off him by Sally and handed to Heero, beginning to pace around the room. "I should've known, the doctors are dead and we still can't get away from them, what the hell did the bastard do to you anyway? Do you know if it happened to the rest of us as well, God, I wish the bastards were alive so I could blow them up again."

Heero looked confused, "but I thought you said that Quatre and Trowa wanted a baby?"

Duo slumped back into the chair and groaned, "you're missing the point Heero, it doesn't matter if they wanted it to happen or not, what matters is that they didn't get a say in it, what matters is that someone could have violated their bodies and did violate yours and you seem to consider it to be not only normal but acceptable too."

"So," Sally broke in, "has whatever has been done to you been done to the other pilots as well?"

"I don't think so… I think it was just me who was J's little project."

"God damnit Heero! You are not a `project'. You are a human being, what did he do to you anyway?"

"When I was younger, just after my genetic therapy," Duo groaned again but didn't comment, "J explained to me that I was to be as self-sufficient as possible, meaning that, if necessary, I should be able to produce a clone by impregnating myself." Sally choked and Duo's jaw dropped.

"I take it," Sally said hesitantly, "that this isn't what happened, considering that the child is a female…"

"No, she has a… father." Sally sighed, relieved and Duo slowly pulled his chin up.

"Eh? What do you mean, why would it not be female if it was a clone?"

"Because two of Heero's cells would have included only his DNA it would have been an exact copy of him, the baby would have to be a boy."

"Oh."

"I know it was surgery and, although I never really understood it, the documents he gave me to read before and after the treatment started…"

"Do you have copies of these documents? Can I borrow them?" Upon Heero's nod she continued, "what did the treatment consist of?"

"Surgery, Drugs, more genetic therapy, he inserted a womb into my body, slightly further back than that of a female's so I didn't show as much and since the baby wasn't going to be very big due to the treatment I probably wouldn't have ended up showing enough for anyone to notice something really strange so if necessary I could go outside, my pelvic bones were altered so I could carry and bare a child. From what I'm aware I was originally meant to deliver on my own, it would have been too dangerous to go to a hospital during the war and this was originally meant to be a backup plan to create another perfect soldier whom I would train in case of…"

"Wouldn't it have been too long to wait though," Sally interrupted, "it would have taken years to come to anything, you would have been out of commission for at least a year and there was always the chance that you would become attached to your child, didn't he think of that?"

"It would have taken years, years that they had, the scientists spent over twenty years designing and building their respective gundams and training their pilots, they were patient enough to wait, I would have gone on missions while pregnant if the need had arisen and I was always taught to think that life was cheap, my life especially, why should I have considered my clone any different? They would have had one purpose and one purpose only."

"What about other side effects though?" Sally whispered after the true enormity of what Heero was saying sunk in, "have you noticed any other side effects?"

"Well," Heero faltered, "I'm not sure if it could be called a side effect but I've noticed that I'm more open now, I can talk more without training kicking in and stopping me, something I'm sure was unintentional, that's something J would never have allowed."

Duo sniggered, "probably hormones Hee-chan."

Sally frowned suddenly, "so you knew about this? You knew you could get pregnant? Why weren't you careful? Why didn't you use protection?"

"I don't know, I guess I wanted the baby, I guess I wanted something to remember him by, after…"

Heero's gaze was down, watching his daughter again, running his finger across one satiny cheek, Duo's face lost its characteristic grin and Sally winced, "Heero I…"

Suddenly the distinctive sound of the funeral march echoed around the room and Mirielle started to cry, doing exactly what Duo looked like he wanted to. As Heero rocked his sobbing daughter Duo Maxwell pulled a mobile cell phone out of his pocket and held it at arm's length, looking at it like it was going to attack him.

"What on Earth is wrong Duo!?" Sally snapped exasperatedly. "Who is it anyway?"

Duo Maxwell gulped, "it's Lady Une."

TBC