Another Devil

Title: Another Devil
Author: DeityOfDeath
Archive: Yes please......
Pairings: 1x2x5, 3x4
Category: Drama, romance
Rating: PG. 13 and hopefully an NC-17 sometime soon.
Spoilers: Maybe......... Episode Zero hints.
Warnings: Yaoi, Lemon scenes, pregnant men, Pregnant Duo.
Disclaimers: I never have nor will I ever own Gundam Wing or its chars. They are property of Bandai and a few other major companies.

Another Devil

Chapter 10: A Thing Called Love


What was that noise? I feel horrible. Why does my whole body hurt? It feels like I\'ve been kicked in the chest. My stomach is killing me. It stings horribly. I\'m betting on a lot of stitches. Why do my eye lids feel so heavy? My nose feels stuffed. I feel weak. What happened? I\'ll try opening my eyes. If I can see then I can find out if I\'m in heaven or hell. I might even be in purgatory. Ease em\' open slowly.

Jesus! That\'s bright. But at least I can see that I\'m not in any of the fore mentioned places. Unless hell had a new decorator. And if they did, then the hospital association should sue. Or is it the other way around. Are hospitals designed to look like hell? Although, for a hospital room, this one was pretty nice. Pale rose walls, pale pink curtains surrounding the bed and even the sheets looked pretty ritzy. Someone really liked pink and shades of it. It was like someone raided Barbie\'s bedroom (TM).

I turned my head slowly gazing around the room, taking everything in. I was lying in a large medical bed, the kind with the wonderful remote for help with those pains in the butt up and down sitting positions. I had an IV through my left arm with some clear looking liquid dripping through the tubes. There were tubes in the front part of my nostrils, pumping fresh oxygen into my nose and through to my lungs. It was taped there on my cheek rather uncomfortably. If the other two tubes were uncomfortable, then the last one was unbearable. A capiter. Oh, joy! Just where I wanted tubes stuck up. Yeah, that was gonna hurt when they pulled it out. I wanna talk to my dealer! I better be on some choice drugs.

I sighed and continued looking around. A heart monitor sat unplugged beside a small dresser table beside the bed. The dresser table was packed! Many bright and colorful vases contained brighter and more colorful flowers. Around them sat cards opened and on display. I wonder if anyone had bothered to read any of them to me. I looked around the rest of the room and saw new and old helium balloons floating here and there, tied to gift bags, dresser drawers and anything that held them still. Some read \"get well soon,\" \"congratulations\" and \"It\'s a girl.\" Others just had pretty pictures. I also saw that there were many cushioned chairs set up around the room. Two on the right side of the bed had been pushed together in a makeshift bed and a coat lay there rumpled from use, most likely as a blanket or pillow. On my left two more sat side by side. One contained a person. Not just any person. Heero Yuy sat slumped in the chair, his head bobbing dangerously close to his chest. I smiled at the tousled hair and slight shadow of a beard. His hair looked more messy than usual. My poor Heero. I wonder if Wufei looked just as bad.

I slid my arm slowly over the bed railing and reached as far as I could. I didn\'t want to pull the IV from my arm. I was in enough pain already. I managed to reach his knee which I gently laid my hand on. His head shot up and he looked around panicked before looking down at my hand. I watched his eyes as they followed the long line of my arm to my body and then up to my face. His eyes were wide and surprised and then they filled with something else. Relief? Maybe concern? Whatever it was, I was glad to see it again. He placed his hand gently atop mine and looked down at my hand. I felt something wet land on that hand and I was startled. It was a tear! He was crying. Crying because of me. Because I was alive. I wanted to say something to him. Something that held all the emotions I was feeling then.

\"Aishiteru, Ro,\'\" was all I managed in my scratchy voice.

He looked at me, wiping away the remains of any tears that had been there. Only an errant wetness clinging to his eyelashes had given him away. My Heero.

\"Aishiteru, koibito.\"

I smiled and he leaned in to place a chaste kiss on my lips.

\"Where\'s Fei?\"

Heero grinned, \"He\'s feeding Helen in the nursery.\"

I blinked and tried hiding the surprise, \"She\'s okay? Is she healthy?\"

\"Yes, ten toes, ten fingers and just as loud as you. Wufei swears that she already takes after you.\"

\"Can they bring her down here? Can I see her?\"

\"Hai. Patience. One thing at a time. We should probably call Dr. Bennette in here to examine you. You gave us all quite a scare.\"

I looked at him trying to hide the annoyance I felt.

\"Don\'t give me that look. We almost lost you. You started bleeding real bad. Wufei was near hysterics when you went unconscious while Sally was sewing you up. There was blood everywhere. Quatre got through to the Preventeer Hospital on the way home when Sally called him. They sent out an ambulance with a snow plow ahead of it. They made it just as Sally had finished sewing you up. They also made it just in time with the paddles. A few more minutes and you would have died on that bed surrounded by blood.\"

\"It\'s not like I wanted to bleed to death, Heero.\"

\"We know that. I\'m just tired and stressed and relieved all at once. I\'m glad that Dr. Bennette has the same blood type as you. I remember holding the baby in ambulance and thinking that I was going to loose you.\"

\"Well, no worries. I\'m here now.\"

He smiled. God, he was gorgeous when he smiled. Even when he hadn\'t showered in days. Heero stood up and patted my hand once before leaving the room. He wasn\'t gone for more than a minute when Dr. Bennette came into the room. She asked questions and looked me over from head to toe and that was hell. I was glad that she had checked me over. I was more than happy to have the breathing tubes removed as well as the capiter. When she finished up she sent in a nurse with a nice warm bucket of clean soapy water and I got a nice sponge bath. A little embarrassing but I needed and wanted to be clean. I asked her if she hated this job and she commented that there were times it wasn\'t so bad. Why did I have a feeling that I was one of those times? Maybe it was the fact she kept blushing.

When she finished I was overjoyed to be fitted with a new gown and having my hair brushed and braided by the very same nurse who sponge bathed me. Sometimes women were better at brushing hair than men. Men tended not to know how to brush long hair. I am proud to say that I have Heero and Wufei trained.
She finished and left and as soon as she was gone I was bombarded with guests. Although truthfully the only two who stood out were Fei and Ro.\' Heero remained by my side while Wufei seemed distant. I smiled and talked with Sally and Zechs. Lu had stayed at our house with the children along with Relena. Quatre smiled brightly and bounced happily around the room talking with everyone. Trowa stood next to Wufei glancing around curiously from person to person. When everyone seemed finished talking a new nurse popped in holding a cup filled with pills of assorted colors and a small tray of food. I gladly took the pills and downed them with a cup of apple juice.

Evidentially the tension in the room was a little too tense for most so Sally excused herself along with Zechs while Quatre and Trowa went in search of something to drink. I was left with Heero and Wufei. With everyone gone Wufei slowly moved closer to the bed until he was standing next to me. He seemed distant. His eyes were guarded and he seemed to be hesitant about looking me fully in the eye.

\"Fei?\"

He looked at me and then at Heero. Why was he hesitating? Why was he afraid to show his emotions in front of Heero? I mean, come on! We had done things way more embarrassing than cry in front of each other. I must have really scared them pretty bad. Heero had told me his feelings while were alone and evidentially felt that Wufei should do the same because he walked towards the door and Fei. I watched as he leaned in and pulled Wufei into a hug and if that hadn\'t surprised me the kiss they shared had. Those two have been doing more together than just working and sharing me. Not that it bothered me, mind you. Just surprised and gladdened me.

When they broke apart Heero turned to look at me, \"I\'ll be back. I\'m going to have the nurses bring the baby around.\"

I nodded and Wufei walked over to my bedside. He let that soldier facade fall and all the relief and worry he had been feeling filled those usually indignant and stern features. He had bags under his eyes and his shiny hair now looked oily and ragged and pieces of it fell out of the tight pony tail he kept it in only to hang in and around his face. He leaned in as gently and carefully as he could and wrapped his arms around me and I snuggled into him as much as I could. It felt so good to be in his arms.

\"Wo ai ni,\" he whispered into my ear softly.

I smiled. That was my Fei. Of all the things he could have said that was probably the last thing most people expected him to say. Most people know the ranting, snudy, know it all Fei but very few knew \"my\" Fei. With me he was different. He could be himself and not feel ashamed or worried. I love my Fei. I love my Heero as well. I\'m a very lucky man. Very, lucky.

\"I love you too, Fei.\"

I felt sorry for our daughter. And yes, I mean our. She is going to have 3 Dad\'s. How many kids have 1 Dad? Not many. Now how many are triply blessed. Just about none. Okay, there was that kid on TV. But that wasn\'t as fortunate as ours. Her Dad\'s all spoke the same language and here we have English, Japanese and Chinese and if Uncle\'s Trowa and Quatre were involved then she would learn some Arabic, French and Spanish. Speaking of which. I heard the clatter of tiny wheels at our door and then a soft knock. In the doorway stood a nurse wheeling one of those plastic baby bassinets’s that only hospitals used.

I didn\'t much care about the nurse or the bassinet. Inside of it laid the one thing I had wanted to see for almost a year. The nurse smiled brightly and lifted a tiny pink bundle and walked towards us. She smiled down at me as I put my arms in the shape of a \'U\' without being told and looked up at the pink bundle, trying to contain my excitement, worry and longing. She placed the bundle into my arms, carefully arranging her and then moving the pink blanket away from a tiny sleeping face.

I had been asleep for four days. My daughter was four days old. I looked into that tiny face and melted. She had almond shaped eyes and lovely pink skin. Her fingers were bunched into tiny fists and her toes which I found wrapped up were pudgy and small. I can\'t believe how small she is.

\"How much did she weigh?\"

\"Five pounds and 8 ounces,\" said Heero as he came through the doorway. The nurse was gone and only Heero and Wufei remained in the room.

\"She\'s so small,\" I said looking down at a yawning newborn.

She opened her eyes revealing lavender pools. She had my eyes! Lavender almond shaped eyes! She had Wufei\'s facial structure and my eye color. And if I could have any indication or hair color by the short wispy pieces atop her head, she would have chocolate brown locks. She was beautiful.

\"We left the naming to you, although we\'ve been calling her Helen,\" said Wufei smiling down at the newborn as she looked up into my eyes, seeing me for the first time.

I wonder what she thought when she saw me. I wonder if she knows that I\'m the one who carried her for nine months. I wonder if she\'ll be a girlie girl or a tough tomboy. She stared into his eyes looking and watching, taking everything in. She definitely reminded me of Ro\' with those intense eyes.

\"How about we keep Helen and just add to it?\"

Wufei and Heero watched me with intense curiosity as I held our newborn daughter. I could already tell that both of them were going to be overzealous Dad\'s. The poor girl. I was her only hope.

\"Helen Lucille May MaxwellChangYuy~!\"

They stared at me and for a moment I thought they were frozen. It was almost as if time I had stopped. The sound of a quiet gasp made me look down into those violet jewels. There in my arms was what looked like a smile but then again, with babies it could always be gas. I took it as a good sign and when I heard muffled chuckles I looked up to see both Fei\' and Ro\' covering their mouths in an attempt to hide their laughter.

\"What\'s so funny?\"

\"Is that really going to be her last name?\"

That from Fei\'.

\"Why not? It\'s all three of our names. She\'s a piece of all of us and we\'re all her parents so why not combine our names?\"

\"Because the poor dear is going to suffer in Kindergarten when trying to learn how to write her name,\" stated Wufie still grinning.

\"I knew it! You two are going to coddle her! I fear we\'re going to raise a brat.\"

\"Of course we are! She\'s your daughter!\"

I glared at Heero but the whimpering whines of little Lucy brought my attention back to her, where she thought it rightfully belonged. Not that I could blame her much. Mother Nature made all babies cute on purpose. It was a damn good defense mechanism.

\"She\'s probably hungry. The nurse said that she had been due for another bottle and sent one along with her.\"

I stared at Heero. I couldn\'t wait to see him change a diaper. Change diapers? I wonder how many changes she had had in these past four days since her birth. It was December twenty-ninth. I had missed Christmas! Oh, well. I had missed many things. Wufei walked over holding out a small bottle.

\"It\'s a special type of formula which supposedly has the same nutrients as breast milk. She seems to like it.\"

I looked at him and the bottle and then down at her. She had a preference for certain types of formula already. Boy, did I have some catching up to do. I moved her gently to right arm, making sure she was securely in the crook before taking the bottle in my left. I then lifted at an angle and placed it near her mouth. She greedily opened her mouth wide and began to suck hungrily. I smiled. She was healthy. And it seemed she had a healthy appetite as she worked on finishing the bottle which in less than five minutes was almost gone. It was as if I were in my own little world. It wasn\'t until I heard Wufei clear his throat that I had realized I had zoned off once again. She had stopped sucking and I was left wondering what to do.

\"Lift her gently and pat her back. It\'s best to either hold her upright or lay her stomach against your chest and do it.\"

Heero had done his research. Or maybe the nurses had drilled it into him. Either was possible. I leaned her against my shoulder and chest and patted and smoothed her back gently. I felt a tiny whoosh of air pass by my air and heard a tiny sound. A BURP! She let a baby burp. That was probably the cutest thing yet! I was grinning as wide as possible. This parent thing is going to rule!


*******************************A week later****************************************

Oh God~! Okay, she\'s cute and she\'s amazing and she\'s my little love but I don\'t know what I did to deserve this. I was stealing healing and even though I was home I couldn\'t relax. I was sore and those stitches were beginning to hurt. It was hard to sit up let alone stand up and I wanted to get so much done but it was near impossible. Not to mention that little Lucy cried constantly during the night. Ro\' and Fei\' helped a lot but it seemed she was never satisfied. I prayed that she would grow out of this soon. She always wanted to be held and rocked and I couldn\'t lay her down for a nap for longer than an hour. That was blasphemy! Also, crying was her way of communicating. No words, no sign language no sign as to what she wanted. I had gotten used to her many cries so I suppose none of those things were really necessary but it would be nice to hear words instead of monotonous cries.

She is now eleven days old. Eleven! Boy I wish time would fly. Lu\' and Sally say to just be happy with now. She said that the crying only gets worse the older they get. She\'s right and I know it. Sally is the mother of twin four month olds and she\'s dreading the time when they start teething. She stops by every now and then and I am glad to have the company. Quatre\'s always overjoyed to see them as well. He loves children. I\'m surprised his mood hasn\'t changed since he\'s been preggers. He\'s only about four months now and he\'s just getting to the fun stuff. He\'s already having the hormonal issues with mood swings.

I just hope that our little Helen, my Lucy; stops crying at every hour of the night some time soon..............

To Be Continued.........

kat: Oh~! The fan parts are coming~!
Duo: Fun parts?
Kat: Yeah! Quatre being preggers and you finally being able to have sex again.
Duo: There\'s a sex life after having kids?
Kat: Not really, but we\'re going to pretend.
Duo: Can I pretend I\'m not in this story?
::Knocks Duo out::
Kat: Good! I\'ll pretend that didn\'t happen.