Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Urgent Call ❯ Back to War ( Chapter 7 )

A/N Wow - blinks - I got a lot of responses telling me not to stop this story, nice to know that people are reading it and they like it. This chapter is set 3 months later, just before Endless Waltz, this is a re-do of the scene with Duo and Heero at the start of Endless Waltz and this was one of only two chapters that I had problems with, Chapter 8 was the other one. Sorry it jumps a bit but this is what came out when I started to type.

Chapter 7

3 Months Later…

Lady Une blinked, she must be more tired than she had though, she rubbed her eyes and looked again. It was still there!

"You wanted to see me commander?"

"Duo, come in and have a look at this for me would you," frowning slightly he crossed the room and stood in front of her desk.

"Ma'am, what…?"

"Duo, I don't think I'm hallucinating but could you look at this for a minute and tell me what you can see?"

Duo looked over and quickly tried to hide a smirk, briefly he considered pretending that he couldn't see Heero Yuy sitting in front of a computer screen keeping one hand on a baby carrier, complete with baby, rocking it periodically but the idea was quickly dismissed as he realised just what Lady Une would do to him if he were to try a stunt like that. He shuddered, he was rather… attached to certain essential body parts.

"I can see Heero Yuy ma'am and he appears to have a baby with him." Duo answered dryly.

Une looked as though she couldn't decide to look relieved she wasn't going insane or incredulous. "And what pray-tell would Heero Yuy be doing with a baby? And why don't you sound surprised about it?"

"You should ask him that ma'am." `Ha, take that Heero, that'll teach you to leave me to answer all the questions,' he thought in silent triumph.

"I'd rather ask you Maxwell." Duo groaned and she smiled sweetly at him, "after all, you're the one who seems to have all the answers all of the time, anyway, I'm sure I can get and answer that's just as satisfactory from you. Besides Heero is working, do you remember that? We wouldn't want to disturb him, would we?"

"No ma'am," Duo gritted out, "but, with all due respect, this isn't my story to tell."

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Lady Une's eyes flickered distantly as she tried to sort through the large amount of information that had been dropped on her in very short space of time. She had received an extremely edited re-telling of `the story', as Duo was now calling it, from Duo and Heero who were talking as though they were one mouth, one telling her something and then the other explaining. She did have, she realised, as she slowly emerged from the trance-like state she had been sorting through the information in, a rather large to dig up what little remains they had been able to fin of the scientists and castrate them where they lay, Heero still didn't seem to realise that what J had done to him was terrible, even if he did get a daughter out of it.

She smiled fondly at the little girl, about half way through `the story' she had been promoted to baby-rocker so Heero could type with both hands and Duo could get on with whatever `terribly important' task he needed too.

He looked up at her from said `terribly important task' when she next spoke but, as far as she could see, the violet-eyed Preventer was focussing very fiercely on building a `house-of-cards' from a pile of the disks that Heero had left on the table, "Heero? How did you know that something was going on, none of this is public knowledge and how did you know that Relena had been kidnapped, even we didn't know that yet?"

Heero just looked her before turning back to his machine and Duo just snorted, "Give it up Une-chan, please. You know a true magician never reveals his secrets."

In the spilt-second where his concentration towards his, self proclaimed, `masterpiece' lapsed Heero struck. Shooting out a hand, at near-lightning speed, he snatched a disk from the bottom level of the tower and quickly inserted it into his computer, the tower crashed to the floor and the babies eyes flew open, surprisingly enough though she didn't cry. Duo glowered, Heero ignored him and she took the time to study the baby properly, the resemblance between her and Heero was clear but there was someone else in there as well, at first she had thought maybe Maxwell but… no, it was someone else, someone she couldn't quite put her finger on…

"Was this three months ago," she asked suddenly with a flash of insight Duo's face grinned back at her cheekily. "Well," she observed tartly, "unbelievably this makes more sense than the cover story you made up Maxwell."

"Well I couldn't exactly tell you where I really was could I?" Then he looked wounded, "Hey, what do you mean this makes more sense? My cover story made perfect sense…"

"You told me you were going to see your sister Maxwell."

"And?"

"You don't have a sister Maxwell."

"Oh yeah…" Duo smiled sheepishly, "I'd forgotten about that."

"Mariemaia Barton." Heero's voice cut into the conversation and they both started.

"Come again Heero?"

"Mariemaia Barton, the niece of the real Trowa Barton, mother Leia Barton, father… unknown, raised by Dekim."

Duo gawked, "so this latest wannabe `evil-dictator's' just a kid then?"

"She's six."

"Six?"

"So are you both going out?"

Heero hesitated.

"I could look after her and I'm sure we have some documents here somewhere that you could sign giving Maxwell or… whoever full custody should something happen to you, you don't have to go but…"

She trailed off under the fierce look Duo was giving her, "thanks Une-chan we both really needed to hear that. Wasn't it the Monty Python boys who said `always look on the bright side of life'? Well they could've taken lessons from you."

"She's not being pessimistic, she's being realistic and by the way Duo, the Monty Python boys also said `no one expects the Spanish Inquisition.' Lady if you could find the documents I would really appreciate it, that is…" he turned to Duo, "unless you don't want to?"

"Are you kidding? I'd love to be her godfather, you don't have to fight though, the rest of us can handle it easy enough."

"Duo, the `rest-of-us' consists of you and that's it. Wufei's been missing a year, Trowa's disappeared and Quatre's gone into the sun. I'm needed as a soldier again and I'll do anything to make sure my daughter grows up in a world of peace," he hesitated, "even if I'm not here to see it. I have you as emergency contact in all my records anyway, this would just make it official."

Duo nodded sadly, unfortunately he did know what Heero meant, they were soldiers and always would be, not even peace or families of their own could change that.

TBC

A/N Next chapter Zechs appears and Duo has a little `chat', should be up by tomorrow, as always read and review, I know I'm a hypocrite as I was a lurker for ages but it is really great to hear if someone is enjoying a fanfic and why, especially if it's one of mine.