Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Urgent Call ❯ Battle ( Chapter 8 )

A/N This was the chapter I had the most trouble with, thanks to my sister who wouldn't stop trying to help me and who read it through, added lined and made suggestions when I'd finally finished. I'm not completely sure about this chapter so please R&R, tell me what you think.

Sabrina-fowler - Ninmu ryoukai means mission accepted.

Chapter 8

"Duo…?" The hesitant voice over the comm. unit made him frown but not because of the word but because of the voice that was speaking it. Duo had hardly ever heard real emotion in Trowa's voice, let alone nervousness, let alone during a battle where Trowa's mask of Nanashi took over almost as much as Heero's `perfect soldier' façade did.

"Yeah, s'up Tro-man?" His voice portrayed none of the uneasiness he felt at his team mate's tone, after all he was Shinigami and Duo Maxwell to boot, normally he wouldn't bother with the mask in front of one of his friends but during a battle they all needed their masquerades.

"Do you know who's in the suit fighting alongside Noin?

"No, why? Should I?"

"It's Zechs Duo."

"What?!"

Trowa winced, he felt almost sorry for Zechs, then he though about the look on Heero's face after the first war and the sobs he'd heard through the wall that night, the first and only time he'd ever heard Heero Yuy cry… and a smirk replaced the usually expressionless mask… on second thoughts, the bastard deserved it…

He closed the comm. unit as he was suddenly and viciously attacked from behind, he'd let Duo handle it, it would be fun to watch if nothing else.

Duo sighed, suddenly realising something, someone still had to tell Heero that Zechs was still alive and he sure as hell wasn't letting someone who didn't know the whole story do it and there was no way in a million years he was going to let Zechs talk to Heero, at least not without a strict `talking too' anyway.

`Oh well,' he told himself determinedly, `when you signed up for the job as Heero Yuy's confidant no one said it was going to be easy.' Granted he hadn't counted on ex-lovers returning from the dead and mad scientists playing at God but… "in for a penny, in for a pound…" He muttered to himself, not very convincingly, as he opened the communication channel after securing it from any listeners in, Heero did not need anyone butting in on this conversation. The only frequencies that would be able to get through were the pilots' emergency ones, otherwise the others would probably realise that this was a private conversation and would keep out.

"Heero…?"

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Well that could have gone worse…

He couldn't think how but he was sure it could have.

Heero had listen with a completely straight face and had then shut the vid unit off and refused to answer it again, that had been half an hour ago and Heero had disappeared, completely.

Then he had gotten a call from a desperate sounding Wufei asking if he'd seen Heero, that hadn't done anything to ease his mind.

A beep from his gundam told him that Zechs' frequency was finally free, what the hell had he been talking about anyway, and he instantly used his Gundam's radar jammer to block any incoming calls to Zechs' mobile suit, other than his…

If he wasn't so angry at Zechs and so worried about Heero he might have been looking forward to this… an evil grin spread over his face, maybe he could release a little pent up frustration over not being able to actually kill anyone today, when all he really wanted to do was castrate the blonde demon that had dared to hurt his best friend… alright, so maybe he was looking forward to this… just a little.

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"Damn you! Damn you to hell you bastard! Why couldn't you have stayed dead or stayed here in the first place?"

Startled Zechs heard Duo Maxwell's voice over the speakers screen a split second before he was confronted with a violet-eyed gundam pilot who had never learned the meaning of the term subtlety. He froze for a second before realising that they must be talking over a private frequency and he asked the first question that came into his head, the one he had been wondering about for the past year, the real reason he'd come back.

"Is he ok? Is Heero ok?"

"How dare you, you've been dead for a year and you finally deign to pop up and ask about him?"

"I was going to come back anyway, the battle just…"

"Made it a bit more urgent…? `I was going to come back anyway'," he sneered, "you've had almost a year to think and that was the best you could come up with?"

"I have been looking for him, he isn't exactly the easiest person to find when he doesn't want to be you know."

Duo snorted but couldn't refute the statement, Heero was a better hacker than the rest of them put together, if he wanted too he could probably get the records to state, legally mind you, that he was a purple, tap-dancing elephant who was currently touring Jupiter's moons.

"Duo, how is he, he is ok, right?" The sudden note of pure terror at in Zechs' voice that Heero might not be alright startled the American pilot, maybe Zechs did care, didn't mean he was going to let him off that easy though…

"Yes. He's fine, well he was, he was finally getting over you and here you are trying to waltz back into his life as if you were never dead! But for now him and his baby are both fine."

"Baby?"

"Yes, baby, he has a daughter now and they are both doing fine on their own."

"No mother?"

"No."

"Is he seeing anyone else?"

Duo hesitated but knew he couldn't lie, if there was any chance that Heero could be happy with… this, then Heero deserved the chance. "No."

"Oh! Ok. Listen Duo, I still really care for him do you think there's any chance he'd want to try again or even just see me anymore?"

"`Care' for him you still `care' for him, if you want me to let you near my best friend, who you've already managed to kick back into the gutter he'd just managed to crawl out of once, then you'd better do a whole lot more than just `care' for him."

"I do… I love him."

Duo's face softened at the pleading look in Zechs' eyes and the earnest tone of his voice.

"I don't know about trying again, but I think you should talk to him, that is if he doesn't do anything stupid," he laughed bitterly, "but what am I saying, he's Heero Yuy, of course he's going to do something stupid… No though," Duo was trying to convince himself, even Zechs could see that, "he's got something to come back too, he's got something to live for this time," the last words were spat at him and he winced, "this time he's not going to try and kill himself for a worthless piece of shit like you. He's gonna live for his daughter, cos he loves her more than he loves anyone else in this solar system and understand this Peacecraft, if you try to become between him and Elle, if you plan to leave him again, if you hurt him any more I will castrate you, rip your intestines out and hang you with them."

With that last promised threat, which Zechs didn't doubt for a second that the so-called, `Maxwell's Demon' would go through with if he did anything to hurt Heero Yuy again, Duo turned off the vid-screen and turned his attention back to the battle waging around them leaving a suddenly hopeful Zechs Marquise to start scanning the readers of his suit for the Wing Zero gundam, the one he knew Heero would be flying, he wouldn't blow it again, not only would he never forgive himself but he was rather attached to certain bodily appendages that he might lose to a certain American pilot, if he survived that is.

TBC

A/N Well? Oh… BTW I've just started writing another mpreg that In think is gonna be a 13x1, I've only written about a page, if you'd like to see it tell me and I'll post it along with chapter nine to see what you all think about it.