Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ When the World Ends ❯ Love, Death, and Genetic Alteration ( Chapter 6 )
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By: Talia Maxwell 
Talia is found...
Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Fantasy / Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 12.22.2001 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.9K | Visits: 254 | Status: Completed
Talia is found...
Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Fantasy / Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 12.22.2001 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.9K | Visits: 254 | Status: Completed
Love, Death, and Genetic Alteration
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A little of each inside the other
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Q uatre reluctantly returned to the limo, not wanting to leave Talia in Lee's seemingly deadly grasp. As the door closed and the car began to move, Quatre's eyes clouded over with tears, Wufei placing his hand on his friend's shoulder in comfort. Quatre dropped his head into his hands and began sobbing loudly.
"No, no, no." He whispered over and over as they neared their destination. Wufei remained silent over the trip, knowing nothing he could say would help the other pilot.
'How could I do that? I just left her there, and now I'll probably see her again! DAMN IT I AM SUCH A COWARD!' Quatre raged at himself, gripping his hair in a tight, slightly painful grasp. Soon they had arrived at the building housing the offices for their agency. Quatre forced himself into a respectable state, then exited the limo, heading directly for Treize's office, not stopping to give his usual greetings to the people around him. The people watched as he made his way to his destination. When he was safely in Treize's office, he collapsed onto the couch, crying once again.
"Damn it!" Quatre shouted, his nails digging into his scalp.
"Oh, dear. This cannot be good." Treize said to himself as his son quietly entered the room, "What happened, Wufei?" Treize asked, his eyes slightly wider than usual and his jaw clenched. Wufei sighed.
"We found Lee."
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Talia's eyes slowly fluttered open, still glazed over from the tranquilizer Lee had given her. Talia looked at her surroundings, seeing very little through her fuzzy vision. The next thing she knew, there was a female face looming inches above hers. She didn't recognize the face, so she fixed a glare on her face that she could pull off in any situation. Except this one. Now her face looked as though she were trying to see in the dark, her eyes squinted and not truly seeing her surroundings. The woman above Talia laughed at her attempt to glare.
"You're awake now, are you?" The woman asked.
"If you don't let me go, you'll regret it." Talia replied, attempting to sit up. She didn't even get an inch off the bed she was on before she collapsed into her previous position, breathing hard. The person above her laughed again, standing up straight and allowing Talia to be blinded by the *very* bright lights in the room.
"I'll let your friend, Lee, explain the whole situation to you, my little tiger." The woman said with another laugh. The lights were dimmed; a door slammed shut and then was locked. There was a snarl, and Talia forced herself to attempt sitting up again. This time she got to her elbows and was able to use them for support. She searched the room for the source of the snarl, her eyes settling on a particularly dark shadow in the shape of Lee's new body.
"You've been altered, just like me. You'll get fur, padded feet, a tail, a rough tongue, a second voice box, enabling you to purr, roar, and growl. You'll get enhanced senses, and your eyes will gain vertically slit pupils, your ears will become funneled and cat like, you'll have two fangs replacing your upper canines, you'll be stronger and more agile, with a cat like grace and silence. You'll be here for a month to get used to the effects, and then I'll help you escape. I'll make sure you don't get addicted to the drug, so you won't have withdrawal upon escape. Stay here and conserve your strength until I come with your first meal. It won't be long." Lee said quickly, his words accented with a hiss like sound. Talia blinked at the sudden rush of information, not truly grasping it.
"What about you, Lee? Will you come with me?" Talia asked, lowering herself back onto the bed, still slightly dazed from the drug.
"I can't. I have the addiction. You won't." Lee said, and then left the room.
'I'm turning into a cat?' Talia thought idly, examining the ceiling, 'I wonder if I'll shrink. That's going to be weird, I mean, what will Quatre think? What am I thinking? I'm turning into some cat human thing, and I'm wondering what Quatre's going to think! I don't even know what /I/ think yet! I'd better wait until the drug wears off before I try to think anymore. I'm starting to confuse myself,' Talia thought, letting her eyes slip closed and sleep overcome her.
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"Oh, goodness." Treize said, after hearing the story.
"Duo should know. It's his sister, after all." Wufei said, his body tense.
"I'll make him my personal guard, and tell him everything." Quatre said, the first thing he had said since leaving the limo.
"Do you want any of us there, Quatre?" Wufei asked, once again placing his hand on Quatre's shoulder.
"Just you, Wufei. I don't want to put him through too much in one day." Quatre replied.
"I never did get a chance to tell them, did I?" Wufei said with an upward glance and a shrug, "I'll go back with you and help you tell Duo. I'll tell everyone about my parents in a meeting the next day, that way Duo has time to calm down before the next shock."
"Good. Stay as long as you need to, Wufei." Treize said, and then dismissed them.
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Talia idly picked at her food, watching Lee pace around the room was getting to her.
"Will you just stand still? Why are you so nervous?" Talia asked, giving Lee a glare as he stopped in his tracks.
"I just got my weekly injection of the drug. Nervousness is a side effect." Lee replied quickly, and then resumed his pacing.
"I see." Talia replied, then she began to eat at her normal pace, worries put aside. When she finished, Lee took her tray and told her to rest more before he left.
'Okay, this is not good. I have fur covering my face, and a foot long tail. This is not cool. I am so not liking this,' Talia sighed, 'Oh well, not much I can do about it now. I might as well just pretend I've been this way my whole life, nothing about it is going to change. Ugh, how am I going to appear in public? I'm the girlfriend of a millionaire, and I'm turning into a cat. The tabloids are going to have a hay day with this one. I can see it now, /Millionaire Quatre Winner Dating Cat-Woman, Brought to Life by Marvel Comics!/ Oh, he's going to love that one. I guess we'll just have to burn that bridge after we cross it, and hope the press doesn't find another way across.'
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"Heero, Trowa, it's good to see you again." Wufei said as Heero and Trowa entered the Winner Mansion.
"Cut the crap, Chang. You called us here for a reason. What is it?" Heero asked, pinning Wufei with a glare.
"Come with me and you might find out." Wufei said firmly, crossing his arms over his chest and leading them to one of the living rooms. Duo and Quatre were already there, sitting side by side. Duo's eyes were unfocused and bloodshot, his hair was disorderly and his clothes were wrinkled. Quatre was almost a mirror image of him.
"Damn." Trowa said quietly upon seeing Quatre and Duo's condition, his eyes had widened slightly, and he grabbed Heero's arm tightly. Heero had been tensing up since he entered the room, and he was beginning to tighten his face.
"What the hell did you do, Wufei?" Heero yelled, attempting to lunge at the Chinese man. Trowa pinned Heero to the floor, keeping Wufei from getting beaten to a bloody pulp. Duo and Quatre looked over at Heero.
"He didn't do anything, Heero. I don't even know what he's going to tell us." Duo said. At this, Heero relaxed considerably.
"You can let me go now, Trowa. I'll leave him be." Heero said in a calm voice. Trowa let him up, being sure to have a firm grip on his arm, sitting next to him on a couch. Wufei took a seat next to Duo, and took a deep breath.
"Treize is still alive, as is Zechs." Wufei said. Heero's eyes hardened again at the mention of his former enemies names. Trowa squeezed his arm in warning, which Heero acknowledged with a glance at the other man.
"And," Heero prompted.
"They're married. They have legal custody of me. They're my parents now." Wufei said, watching Heero carefully for his reaction. Heero grunted.
"So, are they going to start OZ up again?" Heero asked.
"No, they're running an agency that's doing undercover work for the police right now." Wufei replied.
"Why isn't Duo's sister here, then?" Heero asked. Duo looked away from the group, and Wufei put his arm on his shoulder as he fought back tears.
"She's been kidnapped. We're working on finding her right now. She already knew, anyway." Wufei said as Duo latched onto his shoulder and cried silently. Heero's features softened at that.
"I have something I need to say as well." Heero said, looking away from them, "I'm marrying Relena. I'm proposing tonight. She's all I have now, so I might as well give myself to her." The others, aside from Duo, all looked at Heero.
"Do you love her, Heero?" Quatre asked, drying his cheeks with his sleeve.
"I don't know what love is, Quatre." Heero said with a sigh, "I'm not physically attracted to her, if that's what you mean."
"How do you feel about losing her?" Quatre asked. Heero shrugged in response.
"That would be a no, Heero." Duo said, wiping his face with his sleeve, giving him a small smile.
"Don't marry her, Heero." Trowa said. Suddenly, all attention was on the South American pilot.
"Why not? I don't have anything else to live for." Heero said, his expression returning to the all too familiar mask from the wars.
"I know you're in love, Heero. Don't kill yourself by marrying someone you don't love. You'll regret it." Trowa replied, locking eyes with Heero.
"How?" Heero asked quietly, his eyes widening, "Why?"
"I've been watching you carefully, and for the same reason." Trowa replied, placing a hand on Heero's neck. Heero swallowed hard.
"You, you really mean it?" Heero asked.
"I don't waste my words with lies, Heero." Trowa replied. Heero swallowed again, he slowly brought his face to Trowa's, and their lips meeting for a few seconds before Heero quickly drew back. His eyes darting around the room as he swallowed again. Heero went to get up, but Trowa pulled him back down onto the couch they were sitting on.
"Don't run away from me, Heero." Trowa said, looking at Heero, "I love you, Heero, and I don't want to loose you."
"Are you sure?" Heero asked, looking into Trowa's eyes. Trowa pulled Heero into another, much longer, kiss. Heero relaxed into Trowa's grip, loosing himself in the kiss. Trowa gently wrapped his arms around Heero, holding the other close. Nether of them noticed the other three pilots leaving the room.
'Oh, my god, he's kissing me,' Heero thought as Trowa brought him closer so that their chests were touching, 'This cannot be real. He is not kissing me. Oh my GOD! What was /that/?' Heero thought, feeling Trowa's hands roam lower on his body. Heero brought his arms around Trowa as the other man leaned him backwards on the couch.
'Oh, thank god. He's not fighting me. I can't believe he's letting me do this, oh, god. I need to stop thinking and just kiss.' Trowa thought, his tongue lightly brushing Heero's lips, asking for entrance. Heero's lips gently parted, and Trowa began his exploration, kissing his koibito well into the morning before they broke away for the last time and fell asleep.
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A month had passed since Talia's disappearance, and Quatre was pacing around one of the living rooms. Duo was watching him from a dark corner, the Deathscythe pilot crossing his arms over his chest. Heero and Trowa watched from a loveseat, Trowa's arms wrapped around Heero. Wufei was back with his parents, helping them weed through documents that could lead them to Talia.
'When I find Lee, the man is going to die. He's going to die slowly, and painfully. No one hurts my sister and gets away with it. He is so going to pay.' Duo thought, trying to burn a hole in the carpet with his glare. Quatre, on the other hand, had given up on thinking silently and had taken to speaking his mind as soon as the thoughts made themselves known.
"A month! A whole month! This is about the time we found Lee again. If we don't find her soon, we probably never will!" Quatre said, throwing his arms into the air with an overdramatic sigh. Duo looked away from the tiny Arab, trying to forget what was happening. He had lost her again, and this time he probably wouldn't get her back. The first week, he had been moping around the mansion with Quatre, both of them wishing it had been them instead of her. Wufei had left after a week, saying he would not spend his time with such weaklings. They knew he just needed time to himself, really. The weakling bit was just to support his own ego, and he needed to cry, but felt he couldn't do so in front of them. It had hurt Duo a little, but he understood the way the other pilot thought, and he let it go after a day or so.
Duo was roused from his musings by a ringing nearby. Duo sighed and walked over to the phone, picking it up. The others watched him intently.
"Hello, Winner Mansion, Duo Maxwell speaking." Duo said, there was a pause, and his body stiffened, causing a chain reaction as everyone followed suite, "Where?" Duo asked after a moment, then, "Alright. When?" A few seconds after his last question, Duo slammed down the phone.
"What is it?" Quatre asked.
"Come with me, and hurry. Lee's got Talia, and he wants us to come get her." Duo said, pulling the smaller boy out the door and towards the main entryway. Quatre ran with him, out of the house and to the front gate. Once they were through there, Duo began searching in the hedges. Quatre began searching right after Duo, going the opposite direction. The guards watched them with wide eyes until Duo shot up straight from the sea of hedges.
"I FOUND HER!" He yelled, Quatre rushing to his side. Quatre dove to he knees at Talia's side, gently lifting her head into his lap. He brushed her hair out of her face, exposing a note rolled like a cigarette and stuck behind her ear. Quatre retrieved it gently, unrolling the note and reading it.
"What in the hell is this?" Duo yelled, pointing at a large green lump in the shrubs. He had been taking Talia's pulse and looking for a watch when it caught his attention.
"The lizard is Lee, and I think he's dead. That's what the note says anyway." Quatre replied.
"Note?" Duo asked, glancing at the paper in the Arab pilot's hands, 'Good. He's dead. Too bad I couldn't kill him myself, though,' Duo thought to himself, knowing it was wise to keep that thought to himself.
"Yeah, it says Lee's dead, and that he doesn't want Treize to blame himself for Lee's death. It was suicide." Quatre replied, pocketing the note and picking Talia up to take her inside.
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TBC...
TM: So, do you like?!?! Come on! I haven't even had ONE review yet! Oh, and don't expect another chapter until sometime in late August. That's why this chapter isn't a teaser. I'm leaving early on the 27 of this month, and won't have access to a computer until the 19th! I'm going to OHIO!!! YAY!!!
Duo: If you couldn't tell, she likes Ohio. A lot.
TM: Yeah! I get to see my two best friends and Tari and Mcayla and the new foal!!! YAY!!!
Wufei: Tari and Mcayla? The new foal?
TM: Yeah, Tari is an Arabian Stallion, and Mcayla is an Arabian Mare, and Mcayla was duo to have their foal over the summer! I haven't heard if its been born yet, though. Tari's my favorite! He's so sweet! He's just a big baby, if you treat him right! He's a jerk if you don't like him, though, and he knows who likes him and who doesn't.
Quatre: I LOVE Arabian Horses!
Heero: I suggest you get out of here before I blow TM's brains out.
Trowa: You don't talk like that.
Heero: You don't talk.
TM: UPDATE!!! IT'S THE 19TH!!! I'M BAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!!
Duo: LORD SAVE US ALL!!!
TM: GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Duo: o.O
TM: I didn't get to see my best friends or Mcayla or Tari, and the foal hasn't been born yet!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Quatre: There, there.
TM: Here, here! Everywhere, everywhere! Hey! At least I fell in love! Twice! Well, okay only one was REAL love. Hee! He nicknamed me Chibi! YAY!
Wufei: Oh, Lord.
TM: Oh, Gwerbret!
All: o.O
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A little of each inside the other
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Q uatre reluctantly returned to the limo, not wanting to leave Talia in Lee's seemingly deadly grasp. As the door closed and the car began to move, Quatre's eyes clouded over with tears, Wufei placing his hand on his friend's shoulder in comfort. Quatre dropped his head into his hands and began sobbing loudly.
"No, no, no." He whispered over and over as they neared their destination. Wufei remained silent over the trip, knowing nothing he could say would help the other pilot.
'How could I do that? I just left her there, and now I'll probably see her again! DAMN IT I AM SUCH A COWARD!' Quatre raged at himself, gripping his hair in a tight, slightly painful grasp. Soon they had arrived at the building housing the offices for their agency. Quatre forced himself into a respectable state, then exited the limo, heading directly for Treize's office, not stopping to give his usual greetings to the people around him. The people watched as he made his way to his destination. When he was safely in Treize's office, he collapsed onto the couch, crying once again.
"Damn it!" Quatre shouted, his nails digging into his scalp.
"Oh, dear. This cannot be good." Treize said to himself as his son quietly entered the room, "What happened, Wufei?" Treize asked, his eyes slightly wider than usual and his jaw clenched. Wufei sighed.
"We found Lee."
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Talia's eyes slowly fluttered open, still glazed over from the tranquilizer Lee had given her. Talia looked at her surroundings, seeing very little through her fuzzy vision. The next thing she knew, there was a female face looming inches above hers. She didn't recognize the face, so she fixed a glare on her face that she could pull off in any situation. Except this one. Now her face looked as though she were trying to see in the dark, her eyes squinted and not truly seeing her surroundings. The woman above Talia laughed at her attempt to glare.
"You're awake now, are you?" The woman asked.
"If you don't let me go, you'll regret it." Talia replied, attempting to sit up. She didn't even get an inch off the bed she was on before she collapsed into her previous position, breathing hard. The person above her laughed again, standing up straight and allowing Talia to be blinded by the *very* bright lights in the room.
"I'll let your friend, Lee, explain the whole situation to you, my little tiger." The woman said with another laugh. The lights were dimmed; a door slammed shut and then was locked. There was a snarl, and Talia forced herself to attempt sitting up again. This time she got to her elbows and was able to use them for support. She searched the room for the source of the snarl, her eyes settling on a particularly dark shadow in the shape of Lee's new body.
"You've been altered, just like me. You'll get fur, padded feet, a tail, a rough tongue, a second voice box, enabling you to purr, roar, and growl. You'll get enhanced senses, and your eyes will gain vertically slit pupils, your ears will become funneled and cat like, you'll have two fangs replacing your upper canines, you'll be stronger and more agile, with a cat like grace and silence. You'll be here for a month to get used to the effects, and then I'll help you escape. I'll make sure you don't get addicted to the drug, so you won't have withdrawal upon escape. Stay here and conserve your strength until I come with your first meal. It won't be long." Lee said quickly, his words accented with a hiss like sound. Talia blinked at the sudden rush of information, not truly grasping it.
"What about you, Lee? Will you come with me?" Talia asked, lowering herself back onto the bed, still slightly dazed from the drug.
"I can't. I have the addiction. You won't." Lee said, and then left the room.
'I'm turning into a cat?' Talia thought idly, examining the ceiling, 'I wonder if I'll shrink. That's going to be weird, I mean, what will Quatre think? What am I thinking? I'm turning into some cat human thing, and I'm wondering what Quatre's going to think! I don't even know what /I/ think yet! I'd better wait until the drug wears off before I try to think anymore. I'm starting to confuse myself,' Talia thought, letting her eyes slip closed and sleep overcome her.
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"Oh, goodness." Treize said, after hearing the story.
"Duo should know. It's his sister, after all." Wufei said, his body tense.
"I'll make him my personal guard, and tell him everything." Quatre said, the first thing he had said since leaving the limo.
"Do you want any of us there, Quatre?" Wufei asked, once again placing his hand on Quatre's shoulder.
"Just you, Wufei. I don't want to put him through too much in one day." Quatre replied.
"I never did get a chance to tell them, did I?" Wufei said with an upward glance and a shrug, "I'll go back with you and help you tell Duo. I'll tell everyone about my parents in a meeting the next day, that way Duo has time to calm down before the next shock."
"Good. Stay as long as you need to, Wufei." Treize said, and then dismissed them.
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Talia idly picked at her food, watching Lee pace around the room was getting to her.
"Will you just stand still? Why are you so nervous?" Talia asked, giving Lee a glare as he stopped in his tracks.
"I just got my weekly injection of the drug. Nervousness is a side effect." Lee replied quickly, and then resumed his pacing.
"I see." Talia replied, then she began to eat at her normal pace, worries put aside. When she finished, Lee took her tray and told her to rest more before he left.
'Okay, this is not good. I have fur covering my face, and a foot long tail. This is not cool. I am so not liking this,' Talia sighed, 'Oh well, not much I can do about it now. I might as well just pretend I've been this way my whole life, nothing about it is going to change. Ugh, how am I going to appear in public? I'm the girlfriend of a millionaire, and I'm turning into a cat. The tabloids are going to have a hay day with this one. I can see it now, /Millionaire Quatre Winner Dating Cat-Woman, Brought to Life by Marvel Comics!/ Oh, he's going to love that one. I guess we'll just have to burn that bridge after we cross it, and hope the press doesn't find another way across.'
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"Heero, Trowa, it's good to see you again." Wufei said as Heero and Trowa entered the Winner Mansion.
"Cut the crap, Chang. You called us here for a reason. What is it?" Heero asked, pinning Wufei with a glare.
"Come with me and you might find out." Wufei said firmly, crossing his arms over his chest and leading them to one of the living rooms. Duo and Quatre were already there, sitting side by side. Duo's eyes were unfocused and bloodshot, his hair was disorderly and his clothes were wrinkled. Quatre was almost a mirror image of him.
"Damn." Trowa said quietly upon seeing Quatre and Duo's condition, his eyes had widened slightly, and he grabbed Heero's arm tightly. Heero had been tensing up since he entered the room, and he was beginning to tighten his face.
"What the hell did you do, Wufei?" Heero yelled, attempting to lunge at the Chinese man. Trowa pinned Heero to the floor, keeping Wufei from getting beaten to a bloody pulp. Duo and Quatre looked over at Heero.
"He didn't do anything, Heero. I don't even know what he's going to tell us." Duo said. At this, Heero relaxed considerably.
"You can let me go now, Trowa. I'll leave him be." Heero said in a calm voice. Trowa let him up, being sure to have a firm grip on his arm, sitting next to him on a couch. Wufei took a seat next to Duo, and took a deep breath.
"Treize is still alive, as is Zechs." Wufei said. Heero's eyes hardened again at the mention of his former enemies names. Trowa squeezed his arm in warning, which Heero acknowledged with a glance at the other man.
"And," Heero prompted.
"They're married. They have legal custody of me. They're my parents now." Wufei said, watching Heero carefully for his reaction. Heero grunted.
"So, are they going to start OZ up again?" Heero asked.
"No, they're running an agency that's doing undercover work for the police right now." Wufei replied.
"Why isn't Duo's sister here, then?" Heero asked. Duo looked away from the group, and Wufei put his arm on his shoulder as he fought back tears.
"She's been kidnapped. We're working on finding her right now. She already knew, anyway." Wufei said as Duo latched onto his shoulder and cried silently. Heero's features softened at that.
"I have something I need to say as well." Heero said, looking away from them, "I'm marrying Relena. I'm proposing tonight. She's all I have now, so I might as well give myself to her." The others, aside from Duo, all looked at Heero.
"Do you love her, Heero?" Quatre asked, drying his cheeks with his sleeve.
"I don't know what love is, Quatre." Heero said with a sigh, "I'm not physically attracted to her, if that's what you mean."
"How do you feel about losing her?" Quatre asked. Heero shrugged in response.
"That would be a no, Heero." Duo said, wiping his face with his sleeve, giving him a small smile.
"Don't marry her, Heero." Trowa said. Suddenly, all attention was on the South American pilot.
"Why not? I don't have anything else to live for." Heero said, his expression returning to the all too familiar mask from the wars.
"I know you're in love, Heero. Don't kill yourself by marrying someone you don't love. You'll regret it." Trowa replied, locking eyes with Heero.
"How?" Heero asked quietly, his eyes widening, "Why?"
"I've been watching you carefully, and for the same reason." Trowa replied, placing a hand on Heero's neck. Heero swallowed hard.
"You, you really mean it?" Heero asked.
"I don't waste my words with lies, Heero." Trowa replied. Heero swallowed again, he slowly brought his face to Trowa's, and their lips meeting for a few seconds before Heero quickly drew back. His eyes darting around the room as he swallowed again. Heero went to get up, but Trowa pulled him back down onto the couch they were sitting on.
"Don't run away from me, Heero." Trowa said, looking at Heero, "I love you, Heero, and I don't want to loose you."
"Are you sure?" Heero asked, looking into Trowa's eyes. Trowa pulled Heero into another, much longer, kiss. Heero relaxed into Trowa's grip, loosing himself in the kiss. Trowa gently wrapped his arms around Heero, holding the other close. Nether of them noticed the other three pilots leaving the room.
'Oh, my god, he's kissing me,' Heero thought as Trowa brought him closer so that their chests were touching, 'This cannot be real. He is not kissing me. Oh my GOD! What was /that/?' Heero thought, feeling Trowa's hands roam lower on his body. Heero brought his arms around Trowa as the other man leaned him backwards on the couch.
'Oh, thank god. He's not fighting me. I can't believe he's letting me do this, oh, god. I need to stop thinking and just kiss.' Trowa thought, his tongue lightly brushing Heero's lips, asking for entrance. Heero's lips gently parted, and Trowa began his exploration, kissing his koibito well into the morning before they broke away for the last time and fell asleep.
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A month had passed since Talia's disappearance, and Quatre was pacing around one of the living rooms. Duo was watching him from a dark corner, the Deathscythe pilot crossing his arms over his chest. Heero and Trowa watched from a loveseat, Trowa's arms wrapped around Heero. Wufei was back with his parents, helping them weed through documents that could lead them to Talia.
'When I find Lee, the man is going to die. He's going to die slowly, and painfully. No one hurts my sister and gets away with it. He is so going to pay.' Duo thought, trying to burn a hole in the carpet with his glare. Quatre, on the other hand, had given up on thinking silently and had taken to speaking his mind as soon as the thoughts made themselves known.
"A month! A whole month! This is about the time we found Lee again. If we don't find her soon, we probably never will!" Quatre said, throwing his arms into the air with an overdramatic sigh. Duo looked away from the tiny Arab, trying to forget what was happening. He had lost her again, and this time he probably wouldn't get her back. The first week, he had been moping around the mansion with Quatre, both of them wishing it had been them instead of her. Wufei had left after a week, saying he would not spend his time with such weaklings. They knew he just needed time to himself, really. The weakling bit was just to support his own ego, and he needed to cry, but felt he couldn't do so in front of them. It had hurt Duo a little, but he understood the way the other pilot thought, and he let it go after a day or so.
Duo was roused from his musings by a ringing nearby. Duo sighed and walked over to the phone, picking it up. The others watched him intently.
"Hello, Winner Mansion, Duo Maxwell speaking." Duo said, there was a pause, and his body stiffened, causing a chain reaction as everyone followed suite, "Where?" Duo asked after a moment, then, "Alright. When?" A few seconds after his last question, Duo slammed down the phone.
"What is it?" Quatre asked.
"Come with me, and hurry. Lee's got Talia, and he wants us to come get her." Duo said, pulling the smaller boy out the door and towards the main entryway. Quatre ran with him, out of the house and to the front gate. Once they were through there, Duo began searching in the hedges. Quatre began searching right after Duo, going the opposite direction. The guards watched them with wide eyes until Duo shot up straight from the sea of hedges.
"I FOUND HER!" He yelled, Quatre rushing to his side. Quatre dove to he knees at Talia's side, gently lifting her head into his lap. He brushed her hair out of her face, exposing a note rolled like a cigarette and stuck behind her ear. Quatre retrieved it gently, unrolling the note and reading it.
"What in the hell is this?" Duo yelled, pointing at a large green lump in the shrubs. He had been taking Talia's pulse and looking for a watch when it caught his attention.
"The lizard is Lee, and I think he's dead. That's what the note says anyway." Quatre replied.
"Note?" Duo asked, glancing at the paper in the Arab pilot's hands, 'Good. He's dead. Too bad I couldn't kill him myself, though,' Duo thought to himself, knowing it was wise to keep that thought to himself.
"Yeah, it says Lee's dead, and that he doesn't want Treize to blame himself for Lee's death. It was suicide." Quatre replied, pocketing the note and picking Talia up to take her inside.
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TBC...
TM: So, do you like?!?! Come on! I haven't even had ONE review yet! Oh, and don't expect another chapter until sometime in late August. That's why this chapter isn't a teaser. I'm leaving early on the 27 of this month, and won't have access to a computer until the 19th! I'm going to OHIO!!! YAY!!!
Duo: If you couldn't tell, she likes Ohio. A lot.
TM: Yeah! I get to see my two best friends and Tari and Mcayla and the new foal!!! YAY!!!
Wufei: Tari and Mcayla? The new foal?
TM: Yeah, Tari is an Arabian Stallion, and Mcayla is an Arabian Mare, and Mcayla was duo to have their foal over the summer! I haven't heard if its been born yet, though. Tari's my favorite! He's so sweet! He's just a big baby, if you treat him right! He's a jerk if you don't like him, though, and he knows who likes him and who doesn't.
Quatre: I LOVE Arabian Horses!
Heero: I suggest you get out of here before I blow TM's brains out.
Trowa: You don't talk like that.
Heero: You don't talk.
TM: UPDATE!!! IT'S THE 19TH!!! I'M BAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!!
Duo: LORD SAVE US ALL!!!
TM: GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Duo: o.O
TM: I didn't get to see my best friends or Mcayla or Tari, and the foal hasn't been born yet!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Quatre: There, there.
TM: Here, here! Everywhere, everywhere! Hey! At least I fell in love! Twice! Well, okay only one was REAL love. Hee! He nicknamed me Chibi! YAY!
Wufei: Oh, Lord.
TM: Oh, Gwerbret!
All: o.O