Double Duos

CH 9: putting the pieces back together

Heero and Trowa didn’t move as they watched the Shenlong back up towards the exit doors. The Shenlong pressed a button on the wall and two huge door opened to reveal the decompression room. The Shenlong walked into the room and the doors closed. Heero turned to Trowa.
“Let’s go after him!” Heero yelled as he ran towards his Wing Zero. The Shenlong exited the secondary doors of the hanger and got out into space. Daimon smiled as he moved the controls to cause the staff to cut a hole in the secondary doors.

Trowa jumped into the cockpit of the Heavy arms and started it up. Heero was already in the Wing Zero and had it walking towards the exit doors. Trowa watched as the Wing Zero pressed the button on the wall to open the doors, but nothing happened.
“He’s damaged the outer doors. We can’t get out. FUCK!” Heero yelled through the radio. Trowa groaned and returned his Heavyarms to the line up. Heero banged his fist on the side of the cockpit.
“FuCK!”
Heero looked at the radio button and pressed it.
“Daimon! I know you can hear me!” Heero yelled.

Daimon couldn’t help laughing at his victory as he heard Heero yelling through the radio. Daimon reached for the radio button and held it down.
“Heya Heero! How’s it going?” Daimon said casually. He couldn’t stop laughing after he let go of the button. Heero got angry at the response.
“Daimon you’ve got nowhere to go. You really think Une will tke you back. You failed your mission. If I were her then I’d know that there’d be no more use for you! You think she’s just going to take you back and let you be her secretary or something? You know that we’ll know in a heart beat if you try to pull a stunt like this again!” Heero yelled. Daimon listened to every word.knewknew Heero was right in a way. Une said she’d adopt him so Daimon didn’t want to believe she’d be rid of him. He didn’t know what to say to Heero. For the first time he was lost for words.

* * * *

“Is Wufei going to be alright Doc?” Duo asked. He squeezed Quatre’s hand in anticipation. Dr O turned to Duo and Quatre.
“Wufei’s kidney was the only thing stabbed luckily. We removed it and stitched him back up, but he lost a lot of blood,” Dr O explained. Duo looked at Dr O with a blank look on his face.
“Doc. Is he going to make it?” Duo asked a little slower. Dr O huffed.
“So far he’ll be okay if the blood transfusions we’ve got set up can keep him alive. So for the time being. Yes he’ll be okay,” Dr O smiled. Duo smiled and jumped up with his non-injured arm up in the air.
“Hell yeah! On ya doc!” Duo squealed.


* * * *

Daimon sat in the cockpit of the Shenlong. He had no idea what to do. What if Heero was right? Une wouldn’t really get rid of him would she? Daimon wanted to know if Heero was right. Daimon dialled Une’s number and turned on the video screen.

“Hello Daimon,” Une said stoicly. In the background Daimon could see the scientists making repairs to the cryo chamber. “Did you complete your mission?” She asked. Daimon shook his head.
“Long story short, I stabbed Wufei, knocked out Quatre and took the Shenlong.” Daimon explained. His face was sad.
“So you failed the mission. Where are you? Come back and debrief me on the mission. What’s your ETA?” Une asked. Daimon was about to tell her he could meet up with her in a couple hours, but he realised that he didn’t see any emotion in Une’s face. In the 2 weeks that Une spent training Daimon, she always showed emotion and was kind to Daimon. Now Daimon saw something else in her eyes. Her look was cunning and Daimon had a gut feeling that he shouldn’t meet up with her.

“I cant meet you yet. The Shenlong is damaged so I’ll be a w. Th. The thrusters are broken,” Daimon lied. He wasn’t sure if Une knew he was lying.
“Tell me where you are and we’ll come get you,” She instructed. Daimon put his finger over the button that turns off the vodeophone.
“Sorry gotta go! The Wing Zero is after me,” Daimon said quickly and hung up before Une could protest.
Daimon piloted the Shenlong towards the nearest colony. It just happened to be the L3 colony, where the Boom BOOM bar was. That would be the last place they’d expect him to be.

* * * *

Heero and Trowa made their way back to the infirmary, where Wufei had been moved. On the way, Heero ordered one of the mechanics to keep track of the Shenlong and to follow it.
“What do you think we’ll accomplish by following Daimon? Do you think he will lead us t Lady Une?” Trowa asked. Heero shook his head. Honestly he wasn’t sure why he didn’t just let Daimon go. He wasn’t sure if it was because Daimon would be a great addition to their cause or if he wanted to kill Daimon.
“I dont know Trowa. We’ll see what everyone else thinks,” Heero replied. Trowa and Heero remained silent the rest of the way to the infirmary. As Trowa opened the door, Duo and Quatre could be seen on either side of Wufei’s bed, each one holding one of Wufei’s hands. Duo looked up when he heard the door opening and his eyes lit up when he saw Heero walking in the door.
“Heero!” Duo squealed! He attempted to run towards Heero but felt a shaain ain as he raised his arm to hug Heero. Heero put his arms around Duo to hold him up.

“Are you alright? Sorry I shot you,” Heero said with concern. Duo smiled and nodded.
“I’ll live baby. Quatre filled me in on everything that’s been going on while I was gone,” Duo replied as he hugged Heero. Quatre looked up at the two lovers and smiled. He looked at Trowa who was looking back at Quatre.
“What happened to Daimon?” Quatre asked.
“He got away,” Trowa replied quickly. “Heero’s got one of the mechanics tracking the Shenlong that Daimon took so that we can go after him later on.”

“Go after him?” Quatre asked. “Heero, are you going to kill Daimon?” Heero let go of his embrace of Duo, but kept an arm around Duo’s waist. He kept his head low.
“Yes I want to track him down. Honestly I don’t know if we should kill him or ask him to join us.”

Quatre stood up from his seat. “JOIN US?! Heero are you mad?! What makes you think he’ll join us! What makes you think the rest of us will want him around. It’ll get confusing with two Duo’s around AND he stabbed Wufei!” Quayellyelled. “We nearly lost Wufei because of that dickhead!” None of the G-boys had really heard Quatre yell like that before.


“Okay I know he stabbed Wufei but he was under orders. We all know we’ve killed people before because we were on missions. The only difference is Daimon didn’t know which was the good side. Une sent him on the mission to destroy us, but we all know and now Daimon knows she will never take him back after failing a mission as huge as that. She’d kill him the first chance she got,” Heero explained. “I know it’s odd but he was with us on the Peace Million for a week and he didn’t kill us.”

Trowa stepped away from the doorframe.
“He probably didn’t kill us because he wasn’t ordered to,” Trowa explained.
Quatre butted in. “Then why did he get Wufei?”
Heero raised his voice a little more than he wanted to.
“Because he was trying to escape! Don’t tell me you guys wouldn’t do anything to escape a mission!?” Heero noticed that Duo backed away from him as he yelled. Heero saw the hurt look on Duo’s face. Heero knew instantly that Duo could tell that Heero had slept with Daimon. Heero couldn’t hide the guilt from his face. All he could manage was a whispered “I’m sorry Duo.” Heero turned and walked out of the room.

* * * *

Heero couldn’t think of anywhere else to go other than back to his dorm. He realised that he was still wearing Duo’s baggy jeans, which were covered in blood. He kept his head low as he walked back to his dorm. All he could think about was the hurt look on Duo’s face. He didn’t know it was Daimon. Duo always shows a happy smile but he’s always acting hyperactive one minute and lazy the next. He couldn’t have known it wasn’t Duo. ‘But I should have known!’

Heero finally reached his dorm when one of the mechanics called out to him from down the hall.
“Heero! We got him! He’s stopped back at the L2 colony. The Peace Million is on a course to intercept him now.” The mechanic called out. Heero nodded. “Thanx Mike. I’ll be there in a sec. I just gotta get changed,” Heero replied pointing to his blood stained jeans. The mechanic nodded and returned to the docking bay.

* * * *

“Daimon made us all believe it was you. None of us picked up on the fact that it wasn’t you. I don’t think even Heero could have known,” Quatre reassured Duo as they sat together in the kitchen. Duo was furiously pacing around thom. om.
“How can he not know?! That guy was a clone of me! He wasn’t me!” Duo continued to pace up and down. He held onto the end of his braid with both hands and squeezed it tightly. He could barely comprehend that he had a clone out there, and now he had to comprehend that Heero had screwed with that clone thinking that it was Duo.

Trowa stood at the doorway watching Duo freak out and Quatre trying to calm him down. Trowa couldn’t take his eyes off the concerned Quatre. Now he knew that all that stuff that was said to him by Duo over that last week on the Peace million wasn’t from Duo after all. It was from Daimon who wanted to break them up. Trowa began to get angry also. He clenched his fist and punched the wall. Both Quatre and Duo paused and looked at the dint in the wall that Trowa had created. Trowa held his bloody fist and realised that Quatre and Duo were looking at him.
“I’m sorry,” Trowa mumbled and left the room to go tend to his bloody knuckles.

* * * *


*Wufei dreaming*

“Heya Wu-Man! Howya going!” Duo called out to him. Wufei got out of the Shenlong and smiled at Duo. Duo grinned back and threw a Mars Bar in Wufei’s diion.ion. Wufei caught it and smiled.
“What’s this for?” Wufei asked as he opened the wrapper.
“You’ve been gone for a whole day! You must be hungry as!” Duo replied.
Wufei jumped off the hatch of the Shenlong and floated down to the ramp running along the front of the other 4 Gundams. Duo laughed as Wufei landed in something wet.
“HAHA! You’re all wet!” Duo laughed. Wufei was about to yell at Duo for stating the obvious, when suddenly Wufei felt the wet substance climb it’s way up his legs. Wufei couldn’t utter a word as the water began to cover his whole body. He watched as Duo laughed evily. Wufei realised that he was in a cryo chamber and banged his fists against the hard plastic walls. He could no longer hold his breath in the water. Darkness consumed him as he could feel that he could no longer breathe..
**end of dream**

Wufei gasped as he woke up. He couldn’t get up, as there was pain in his side and in his head. He remembered Duo, or Daimon as it seems, stabbing him. The injured boy looked around the room he was in and realised he was in the infirmary.
‘I’m not dead..’
Wufei looked around the room to see if there was anyone else in there. He managed to lift his head up so he could get a better look around the room. In the corner of the room next to the door sat Dr O.
“Ah Wufei! You’re awake!” Dr O exclaimed. “How are you feeling?”
Wufei gave a little smile.
“Never better,” Wufei coughed. “What happened?!”
Dr O got up ad walked to Wufei’s side.
“Daimon stabbed you-“ he began. Wufei but in.
“No SHIT! I got THAT part.. what happened after that.. and DON’T say I survived coz I got THAT part..” Wufei groaned. Dr O nodded and continued to explain the events of the night.

* * * *

Trowa walked into the infirmary as Dr O was explaining what had happened to Wufei. Trowa walked in and both Dr O and Wufei turned their attention in Trowa’s direction. Trowa kept walking towards the sink to rinse the blood off his knuckles.
“Sorry. Continue Dr O,” Trowa said. He turned his view to Wufei and smiled. “Good to see you’re back Wufei.” Wufei smiled back and said thanx in reply.

Trowa washed and bandaged his hand as he listened to Dr O explaining to Wufei.

* * * *

Heero took off Duo’s baggy jeans and put on his own tight light blue jeans. He realised that there was blood on the T-shirt he was wearing and so he changed it also with a black T-shirt that Duo once gave him because he was sick of ‘that green top.’ He went to the bathroom to wash off the dried blood on his hands then went to the docking bay to meet up with the mechanic. He wasn’t going to tell the other pilots that he was leaving and he was going to order the mechanic not to tell anyone either; not even the scientists and Howard. He knew the other G.pilots would be seriously pissed off with him leaving like that, but they’d all been through enough.
‘Especially Duo.’

Heero got the details off the mechanic named Mike and got into the cockpit of the Wing Zero. None of the pilots even knew he left. And he wanted to keep it that way.



**authors notes: okay now i no with 21st century sergeries u cant take out a kidney n stitch em up so quik but hey.. its a story & its the future so i can rite about watever i want! ahha plz review!!! opinions WELCOME! p.s. im really sorry this has been taking ages b/c exams r cumn up so i gota take out time to rite this but i no how it is gona finish so dw it will all b up, finished and running soon (i hope)**