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“Family Ties”

January 2007 ShenLong

Chapter 119

“Captain Storm, what can I do for you?” asked Forest when the call came through.

“Can you inform Commander Une that shuttles 151, 381 and 246 are thirty minutes from landing. She expressed her wishes to be present when the shuttles returned.”

“No problem, Storm. I'll pass that on directly to her and notify you with an ETA for the Commander.”

“Roger that, Forest. Storm out.”

“Forest out.” Forest turned in his seat. “You have any idea where the Commander is hiding?” he asked Oak.

“Probably in her office,” replied Oak.

“Thanks.” Forest removed his head set and walked across to the phone. Dialing the extension for the Commander's office, he waited for the call to connect. When it did, Forest spoke briefly with the Commander's secretary, passing on the information from Storm.

“I'll let the Commander know right away,” Fiona said.

“Thanks. If she needs any further information, have her call me or Captain Storm.”

“I'll do that, Forest.”

With the information passed on, Forest resumed his seat and monitoring of the airwaves.

* * *

Once Une knew the shuttles were due to arrive, she wasted no time in scrambling the teams she had on stand-by. With the teams mobilized, Une headed for the car park and her own vehicle to take her to the Shuttle Port.

When she arrived, she was taken directly to Storm's office in the control tower section of the port. “The shuttles have just landed,” Storm informed the Commander. “They have taxied in and are currently being powered down.”

“Good. I have teams waiting to move the injured and prisoners out first. Storm, I want a complete lock down of the port whilst this operation is in progress and an exclusion zone set up around those shuttles. Only those with the appropriate clearance are to be permitted within that zone.”

“No problem, Commander.”

“I'll leave you to arrange that. I'll head down to the shuttles now to organize the removal of the injured first.”

“Okay. I'll join you once all the arrangements are in place.”

“Thank you, Storm.”

“My pleasure, Commander.”

Leaving Storm to complete the arrangements, Une, accompanied by a junior agent made their way out to the port and the waiting shuttles. Using her comm unit, she contacted the fleet of vehicles that were waiting on the outside of the port to transport the injured to the various medical facilities and had them come onto the tarmac in readiness for their patients.

Shuttle 381 had its doors open and the injured all ready and waiting to be transferred to the medical staff and vehicles as soon as Une gave the word. Storm arrived having locked down the port and put the exclusion zone into place.

“Agents Europa and Jupiter, you may start to disembark the injured,” Une informed them. “However, leave Barton until last. I have a special transport awaiting him.”

“Agent Jupiter here, Commander. Roger that. Will start to remove the injured now. Will keep Barton on board until last and notify you of that.”

“Thank you.” Une turned around to see the medical vehicles opening their doors and the staff climbing out. The injured were soon brought out from the shuttle and allocated to the many waiting teams. Gradually the number of vehicles diminished, as each took its quota of injured away to the two Military hospitals that had been commandeered for the purpose.

Finally, all the injured had been removed, all except for Barton. Giving the order for Barton to be brought out, Une made a quick call on her cell and then moved closer to the base of the shuttle ramp where she could see and speak with the man that had caused so much trouble.

The gurney was brought down and wheeled to the base of the ramp, Une getting a good look at the man that lay upon it. He looked small, weak and nothing at all like a man who had attempted to take over the Earth and the Colonies.

“Mr Barton. We meet face to face,” Une stated.

Barton cracked open an eye, which in itself was a feat considering the amount of swelling there was to his face from the broken cheek bone. “Lady Une,” he sneered.

“That’s Commander Une to you, asshole,” Une growled.

Storm blinked.

“Come to gloat?” Barton smirked. “Take a good look, Commander, remember me, for I swear I will return and I will make you and those sniveling agents pay for this.”

“Idle threats from an old man that can’t control his own temper, let alone an army of men,” Une replied in a cold tone. “Where you’re going the only thing you will be capable of making when you get out will be trips to the bathroom.”

Barton growled and tried to lunge for the Commander, but his broken and battered body wouldn’t allow it. He gave a howl of pain and sank back onto the gurney, the medics and agents surrounding him all leaping forward to subdue the man if necessary.

“Take him away to the hospital so he can be treated, made well enough to stand trial for his crimes and rot in jail,” Une snapped.

Barton glared, but it didn’t affect Une in the slightest; she’d experienced Heero Yuy’s glares – and he was the absolute master when it came to glares.

The medical team, along with several agents soon had Barton loaded into the ambulance and were on their way, complete with a Preventer escort. Once they were gone, Une let out a sigh of relief. Turning to Storm, she issued her next orders. “Time to bring out the prisoners.” Reaching for her comm unit she called the transport vans in to start to ferry the prisoners to the Military jails where they would be questioned and charged.

* * *

With her examination of the patient over for the moment, Sally pulled the curtain back from around the bed, the other three agents had been talking quietly amongst themselves whilst she’d been busy. Now, they all looked up with expectant faces.

“Duo has given me his consent to inform you all of his condition. I’ll keep it as simple as possible for you.”

The three agents all nodded, that was something they would appreciate.

“The knife has been successfully removed and I expect Duo to make a full recovery form that injury and also the other injuries he has sustained. The knife wound was by far the most dangerous, it was lucky it didn’t connect with Duo’s womb. Fortunately, the womb and the child within are both safe and at this point in time, Duo’s pregnancy appears to be progressing normally.”

‘As normal as it can considering it’s a guy who’s pregnant,’ thought Duo.

“Unfortunately, the knife did connect with Duo’s ovary and caused some internal bleeding. The ovary, I’m sorry to say, was damaged beyond repair.”

Quatre paled, his teal eyes darting from Sally to Duo, to Heero and back to Duo. “That means you won’t be able to have any more children,” he whispered as the tears began to pool in his eyes. “Oh, Duo, I’m so sorry.” The blonde looked like he was about to burst into floods of tears.

Wufei and Trowa opted to remain silent, the news still sinking in.

“Quatre, before you go turning on the water works completely, let Sally finish,” Duo said gently. “It does get a bit better.”

Quatre nodded, his eyes still leaking at a fast rate. Trowa passed him a box of tissues from Duo’s bedside cabinet, the blonde taking them and mopping at his eyes.

Giving the blonde a sympathetic smile, Sally continued. “I had to remove the ovary for the sake of both Duo and the child, however,” she darted a look at everyone to see if they were still with her.

They were.

“However, as Nurse Brown reminded me, there have been major advances with the techniques of harvesting, freezing and using eggs for IVF treatment. Not so long ago all we could harvest were mature eggs and given Duo’s pregnant state, there wouldn’t be any mature eggs. Now we can harvest both mature and immature eggs, preserve them for future use and when that time arrives, those immature eggs can be matured in the laboratory using a specialized, hormonal treatment.”

“That means...” Quatre whispered as the light of understanding began to dawn on him.

“Yes, Quatre, if I do want more children later on in life, I can use the IVF treatment to fall pregnant,” Duo said softly.

Turning to face the doctor, Quatre’s tears continued to flow, only now they were tears of happiness. “You managed to harvest Duo’s eggs?”

“Yes, Quatre, I did. I have harvested quite a few and they are currently cryogenically frozen and will remain that way until Duo decides what he wants to do about them.”

“And what about the pregnancy?” Trowa asked. “Is he going to be the same as he was when he was carrying Keitaro?” Trowa’s eyes narrowed a touch and there was a momentary flash of fear in his emerald eyes.

Sally couldn’t help it, she laughed.

Trowa huffed. “You weren’t the one that had to suffer through the cravings, near death experiences with a certain baby seat and not to mention the threat to one’s personal property should one dare to touch the sacred ice cream.”

Each man fell silent as his own personal ‘battles’ during Duo’s last pregnancy invaded their respective minds.

“It wasn’t that bad; was it?” a small voice piped up from the bed.

Six pairs of eyes rounded on the one in the bed.

“Okay, I’ll concede the baby seat was a bit of a nightmare...”

“That’s putting it mildly,” Heero muttered.

“I wouldn’t have really swiped your hair gel either.”

“Could have fooled me,” Trowa grumbled.

“It stopped you from pinching any more of my Crunchie ice cream though,” Duo snickered.

“You were the one that started it by swiping my Flake ice cream,” Trowa retorted.

“I wouldn’t have had to if you’d let me have my own.”

“I was under orders not to let you gorge yourself.”

Emerald and violet eyes turned to pin a certain blue eyed man with their stares.

“What? I wasn’t even there!” Heero defended himself.

“Maybe not in the physical sense, but you made sure to have someone keeping an eye on me,” Duo growled.

“Yeah, Heero. This is all your fault,” Trowa stated.

Wufei snickered causing all in the room to stare at him in curiosity. With the smirk still on his lips, Wufei gazed at the group. “I would have to agree,” he stated quietly. “This is all Yuy’s fault. If he could have kept his libido under control, or used a condom as Sally suggested, Maxwell wouldn’t be in this predicament.”

It took a moment, but Wufei’s words did sink in and one by one, the group started to snicker along with him.

Having gotten over his mirth and shock at Wufei actually having a sense of humor and cracking a joke too, Duo’s brow furrowed. “But we did follow Sally’s advice. We took it in turns to top and when Heero was topping, we always used a condom.”

“I think I’ll go get a cup of tea,” said Nurse Brown. “There’s a little too much information going on here for me.”

Duo promptly went red and shut up. Heero did his best to apologize to the nurse through his own embarrassment, the apologies being waved off as the nurse left the room.

“If you were using condoms, then this should never have happened,” Quatre mused.

“I agree with you, Quatre, but I’m afraid the evidence that they didn’t work is kinda right here,” Duo replied and pointed to his abdomen.

“Duo? What condoms were you using?” Sally asked.

“Uh.” Duo was feeling even more embarrassed.

“We usually use a brand called ‘Duo’,” Heero replied, feeling like he was about to self combust at any second.

“That figures,” Wufei snickered.

Duo heard the low comment. “Hey, I’ll have you know they’re really good. Strong, durable and they have this extra...” he swallowed. “I think it’s time for me to rest now.”

“You said ‘usually’, Heero,” Sally said, completely ignoring the rest of the conversation.

“Yes, I did. We had run out and our usual drug store was closed so I grabbed a pack of everyday ones off the shelf in the supermarket,” Heero replied as he looked at the floor.

“Can you remember the brand?” Sally questioned. There was a bell ringing in the back of her mind.

Heero thought hard. “No, I couldn’t tell you right now, but I’m sure we still have a couple in the packet back home. I can check and let you know?”

“Thank you, that would be appreciated.”

“Why?” Duo asked the question on everyone’s mind.

“If I remember correctly, there was a recall on a brand of condoms not too long ago. They were faulty.”

“Faulty?” Duo whispered.

“Yes, Barney.”

“Hey! I’m not Barney.”

“You sound just like that parrot, repeating everything I say,” Sally grinned.

“Barney is not a parrot, he’s a Weiro, and that has nothing to do with faulty condoms. How can a condom be faulty anyway?” Duo asked, his tone clearly confused.

“They were not, shall we say, water tight.”

Seeing Duo’s raised eyebrow and mouth about to open again, Trowa stepped in and laid it down in black and white for the braided man. “They had holes in them, Duo. The semen would still get through.”

“Ah.”

“Can you imagine the number of pregnancies this could have caused? I hope the company has a good legal team, they’re going to find themselves sued to the hilt for this,” Quatre mused. “Ohh, Duo. You could sue them too if it’s proven you fell pregnant whilst using one of their faulty condoms.”

There was a pregnant pause in the air.

“I don’t think so, Quat,” Duo said in a slightly strangled tone.

“Oh, yeah. Sorry, I forgot about you being a man and men don’t fall pregnant.”

“No shit.”

Sally’s cell went off and she grabbed for the small unit. “Doctor Po,” she answered as she turned and moved away from the group.

“Sally, it’s Une.”

“What can I do for you, Commander?”

As Une explained about the arrival of the shuttles from the satellite and the injured being transported to the various Military hospitals, she slipped in the bit about Barton. Sally paled a little and then her eyes hardened, her mouth set into a grim line.

“Let me get this straight, Une. You’re sending Barton here to the Preventer hospital and you want me to treat him?”

“I believe that is what I said.”

“Why here? Why me? There’s many other facilities and doctors that are more than capable of treating him.”

“I know that, but Barton is dangerous. I want him under restraint and kept at Preventer headquarters. We have the ability and facilities to imprison him and I don’t want anyone getting to him before he stands trial.”

Sally could understand that. “Okay, I’ll give you that much, but why me?”

“Sally, you’re an excellent doctor and I want to know he will survive to stand trial. There are too many people out there that bear a grudge against Barton, too many opportunities to bump him off.”

“And what makes you think I won’t? Especially after what he’s done, not just to the people, but to Duo as well,” Sally growled.

“Because you’re a professional, Sally.”

With a sigh, Sally knew she was beaten.

“I know I can trust you to do your best and put him back together so he can be sent to jail to rot for his crimes.”

“Talk about irony,” Sally muttered. “Okay, I’ll treat him, but for the record, I’m not happy about it.”

“I’ll make a note of that. Thank you.”

“When will he be arriving?”

“He'll be on his way in a moment. I’d estimate about twenty minutes.”

“I’d best get moving then.”

“I’ll be back at headquarters once I’ve overseen the removal of the bodies. Currently the prisoners are all being off loaded and transported through to the various jails.”

“Okay. I’ll speak with you when I’m done in theater.”

“Page me when you’re finished. Oh, are the agents still there?”

Sally knew exactly who Une was referring to. “Yes, they are.”

“Please tell them to remain at headquarters, once I return I will need to speak with each of them and go through a short debriefing.”

“I’ll pass that on. Is there anything else?”

“No. I’ll see you when I get back.”

“Bye, Commander.”

“Une out.”

Sally couldn’t help the chuckle at the Commander’s words. Une was still such a military type. Replacing the cell in her pocket, she turned and went back to the agents, noting the curious stares. “That was Commander Une...”

Sally gave the agents a brief run down on her conversation with the Commander, informing them all that they were to remain where they were as they would need to be debriefed before they would be allowed to leave headquarters. The news of Barton’s impending arrival and Sally’s involvement in being the surgeon to treat him, went down as she expected it would.

The words sank like a lead balloon.

“I know how you are all feeling and believe me when I say I really don't want to be a part of this either,” Sally stated. “Unfortunately, someone has to do it and Une, in her wisdom, has decreed it should be me.”

“Shame you can’t do us all a favor and put him out of our misery,” Heero mumbled.

Duo had a thoughtful look on his face, and then gave voice to those thoughts. “You know, Une’s right in one way.”

“I don’t know how you can say that, Duo,” Heero began. “That bastard deserves to die for all he’s done, the innocent people he’s killed along the way.”

“As much as I agree with you, Heero, I can see the logic in Une’s wanting him to stand trial. Once all the evidence is put forward, there’s no way he will get off. He’ll be looking at a long jail term. Just think, Heero. He’ll be in jail, along with a lot of other prisoners, some of which will no doubt be former followers of his. What better way for justice to be served?” There was an unholy twinkle in Duo’s eyes as he spoke.

The others quickly cottoned on.

“He won’t have anywhere to hide, those other prisoners will make him pay each and every day for what he’s done,” Duo said with an evil grin.

“I hope the bastard gets put into a cell with a giant of a cell mate that likes smaller men,” Heero growled.

“Heero!” Quatre looked quite affronted.

“It would serve him right,” Heero snapped, not in the least repentant for his thoughts.

“Both Heero and Duo are right, as much as I don’t like the thought either, it is one way that justice will be served and served to the maximum,” Wufei said.

“For once, Wuffers agrees with me on something,” Duo snickered.

Wufei just huffed.

Sally glanced at her watch. I have to be going and prep for the surgery. Duo, I’ll be back to check on you a little later. I’ll send Nurse Brown back in shortly to take your vitals again. The rest of you may remain with Duo for another half hour, then you are all to leave as he will need some rest. I will see you all later.” With a nod of her head, Sally turned and went to leave.

Wufei stood up and followed the woman out of the room.

“Is there something you wanted, Wufei?” Sally asked when she noticed the Asian man following her.

Wufei took a deep breath and swallowed past the lump in his throat. “Sally, I wonder if... That is... Damn, I’m not good with words.”

“Wufei, whatever it is you want to say I suggest you spit it out. I have to get to surgery,” Sally said.

“Sally, I know we have been out together a few times and I really enjoy your company.”

“I’ve enjoyed those times too, Wufei,” Sally replied, her tone soft as she suddenly had an idea where this was going.

“I’m hoping that maybe you would consider going out on more dates with me; exclusively.”

Taking a moment to absorb the words, Sally finally spoke when she saw how nervous the agent appeared to be. “Let me see if I have this right. You want to know if I will date you? You and only you?”

“Yes.” The word was whispered.

Sally gave a soft smile and reached forward to caress the man’s cheek. “Wufei, I would like that, very much.”

Heaving a sigh of relief, Wufei leaned into the caress for a moment, then he wrapped his arms around the doctor and pulled her close, pressing his lips to hers in a kiss that both stunned and shocked the doctor. It only took a second though for Sally to respond to the kiss.

“Thank you,” Wufei whispered as he released the woman.

“Wufei, I really have to go and get ready for this surgery, but I think you should remain here at Headquarters. Aside from Une wanting her debrief, I think we have a lot to talk about.”

Wufei nodded. “I’ll be here.”

With a soft smile on her lips and a giddy feeling in her heart, Sally walked off down the corridor to prepare for the surgery. Wufei watched her go and then returned to his friends in Duo’s hospital room.

Stepping out of the staff room, Nurse Brown cradled her mug of tea in her hand. “About time,” she muttered to herself.

~ * ~

tbc...

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