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Ain\'t Life Something	By : Venusia Category: Gundam Wing/AC > General Views: 746 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 2

Wednesday morning....

Something warm and very bright was
caressing his eyelids, stopping him from going back to the hoty dry dream where
he was licking an entirely made of chocolate Wuffy.

"Mumble mumble
hmm...Wuuufffyyy...*happy sigh*...choooclaaat'...grumble."

Duo turned to the side where his
lover's warm body lay and *squeezed*.

*Hackle*cough*wheeze*

Duo shot up, eyes wide open, hair a
compact rodent 'nest' and strangling Wufei's pillow. Still half asleep, he looked wildly around for the foreign
noise. His eyes fell on a 'cocooned'
creature -in the thick Scottish patterned afghan- sitting beside the window in
the only bedroom's chair. One golden
hand shot out to rub one of the groggily blinking dark eyes, the only thing
visible from the wool envelop.

//What? // Duo tossed the sheets
away and was up and beside Wufei in a dash.

"Fei!?" He crouched in
front of him, both hands resting on where the knees should beuot;uot; Have you
been up all night?"

Wufei cleared his throat.

" Not all night, no." His
eyes followed Duo's hand as it dug under the afghan and rested on his
forehead. " Duo, stop that. I'm not sick."

"Well," the American
muttered, "No fever at least."
He stared at his Asian husband.
"Then why aren't you in bed sleeping? You really don't look too
good."

Wufei smiled as he thought about
giving a teasing retort on the last comment but then he really looked at Duo's
concerned and very sober eyes. The smile fell and he just felt too tired.

"I don't know. I just, "
He closed his eyes and leaned heavily on the chair's back. "I just feel
really uncomfortable and instead of tossing and turning and waking you up I
decided to sit here. And well, I guess I just dozed off."

Duo was thoughtful. "We forgot the sleeping pills last
night, right."

Wufei nodded.

"Well okay." Duo's face brightened up but it didn't reach
his eyes. He reached a hand to his
lover's hair, combing through it to than rest his hand on one pale golden
cheek.
"Fei? Fei?"

"Hmm?" He opened his eyes
and looked down at the still crouching man.

"Why don't you go lie
down? I'll get some orange juice for
your throat and the sleeping pills."

Wufei raised his eyebrows.
"Now? Duo, Relena is arriving today. I can't go to sleep now."

"Hey she's coming this
afternoon. You've got plenty of time
for a quick beauty sleep!" Duo
smirked.

"Okay."

"Good." Duo patted the supposed knees and rising,
gave Wufei a sweet lingering kiss.
"By the way, good morning."

Wufei smiled. " Morning."

text-autospace:none'>----------- /p>

It was already late when he woke up, so it wasn't
surprising that he bump into Sally as she was coming up the stairs.

"Duo" She smiled cocking
an eyebrow at his rumpled self. "The bottomless pit's call is particularly
vicious this morne, does it not." She joked.

"Hum? Oh Yeah." He gave a
half-hearted smile.

Immediately, Sally sobered.

"What is it?" She
willingly kept pace as she was briskly led by the arm to the Maxwell-Chang
rooms.

" It's Wufei." He said
worriedly. "He still didn't sleep last night." The brunette stopped
outside the door. "He really isn't
doing well. He could really use something to help him sleep. Do you have
any?"

"Who needs sleeping
pills?"

Both Sally and Duo jumped as Heero
materialized before them.

"Ahum, hum." Duo cleared
his throat, trying to bring his pulse back to normal speed. "Wufei needs
'em."

Heero raised an eyebrow at that.

Sally however was less amiable.
"Heero, would you stop doing that! The war is OVER and it's just
creepy!"

Heero's second eyebrow went to
joint its airborne partner.

Sally just rolled her eyes.
"Anyways, Duo." She said as she shifted her attention to the
snickering young man. "Why don't you let me check on him?"

"Okay." He let her in.
"Do you need your medic bag?"

She was already sitting by the bed,
checking dozing Chinese man.

"Hum. Oh yeah." She said
disted wed while she was checked his pulse.

"Be right back." And Heero 'beamed' out of the room.

"The question is why is he not
sleeping?"

"He told me he felt
uncomfortable."

The one they were talking about
stirred and frowned, blinking open heavy lidded eyes smudged by dark
rings. Sally focused on them. They took
some time to focus and when they did the pupils stayed dilated.

"Duo?" Those same eyes
slowly found the cobalt blue ones staring worriedly down at him.

" Yeah babe. I'm
here." A creamy hand caressed a
pale gold cheek. "How're you feeling?"

Wufei attempted a shrug but it
really was just a stir. "Donknow. Tired I guess."

The sloe eyes blinked close and
groggily opened again.

Duo pointedly looked at Sally. She
nodded briefly. Although she wasn't as
close to Wufei as Duo was, she was still his best friend, as much as Heero was
Duo's. Therefore, she knew enough of
his mannerism to catch the neglect in his speech.

"Wufei, could you tell me why
you're not sleeping? Nightmares?"

Duo's eyes shot open. How could he not have thought of that! True
they both had been doing well for some time, but both knew that it only took a
particularly vivid experience in their present Preventer lives to propel them
down Memory Lane for a couple of angsty weeks.
After all, although peace had come, they could never separate from the
violence, an integrate part of themselves.

Considering what he'd heard about Wufei's last mission,
there seemed to be reasons for the resurfacing of said nightmares. Duo berated
himself. How could he have forgotten!

Wufei looked confused. "No,
why? Jus' uncomfortable."

"Are you sure babe?" Duo
insisted.

Wufei looked at him for a while.
"You'd know."

"Well, I could've..."

ne'>"You'd know." Wufei
insisted and closed his eyes.

"O- okay." Duo answered
surprised by the vehemence.

Sally smiled, but before she could
ask more questions an arm extending to a hand holding a glass of grape juice
appeared near her face.

"Ghya!"

Duo not phased in the least took
the glass without looking up.

"Thanks Heero. No more orange
juice?"

"Nope."

He handed the medic bag to his
glaring wife who snatched it out of his hands. She found her composure back and
went about the situation at hand while pointedly ignoring him.

Footsteps were heard coming their
way, from the hall and Quatre's blonde head peered the corner of the door.

"Morning. We met Heero
downstairs. How is he?"

Duo looked up and smiled "Hey
Q!" than the seriousness came back, "Not to good. Sally's checking
him."

The blonde moved in followed by
Trowa who was carrying two breakfast trays. Yep, circus skills did come in
handy. Handy, got the pun? Handy. Hand. Han... Ahum.

"Well," The pigtailed
doctor said. "His pulse is okay, although a bit fast. He doesn't have
temperature. That's good..."

She reached blindly into her bag
while shinning a light into Wufei's dazed eyes. It didn't come out. The hand dug further with much gusto but
still couldn't find what it was looking for.
She frowned and closing the light was ready to take her bag on her lap
to search in earnest when;

" It's not there."

"What?" She looked up at her Japanese husband.

"You broke it, remember?"

"Oh crap, should have stolen
one from the infirmary." She mumbled.

" What?" Quatre asked.
" What's broken?"

�My stethoscope and I haven't
gotten a replacement yet."

� She whacked one of our prisoners
with it when he tried to escape the infirmary,� said Duo coughing to hide his
chuckles, �almost took his eye out, she did.�

She frowned contrite. "Oh well, I'm going to give Wufei the
minimum dosage, just to keep him relaxed."

She shook out a small pill out of
the bottle she'd pull out of her bag and snapped it under her fingers handing
half of it to Duo.

Quatre who was standing beside Duo,
looked on worriedly.

"Are you sure that he's going
to be alright? Maybe we should bring him to the village's clinic?"

Sally nodded. "I thought about
that, but let's see how he'll be after a good sleep. Than if things aren't
looking better, I vote for the clinic." To Duo, " Give it to him with
the juice, he should be out like a light."

Duo nodded. She gathered her paraphernalia, putting them
in her bag and closed it. She stood after patting Wufei's hand and arranged her
nightgown, which was the reason why Duo found her coming up the stairs. She was
heading for her room to change after breakfast. She bent down to check Wufei's
pulse again.

"He should be fine." She
winked at Duo. She took Heero's arm and they left quietly. Heero shot Duo a
pointed look and the American nodded and winked back.

Quatre hugged Duo from behind.
"Call if you need anything."

Duo squeezed one of the forearms
around his neckp>

"Yeah, thanks and�sorry for
the trouble." He sighed. " I really thought that getting away from
home would like get him 'away' from trouble!" His face fell. "Guess
not. I should'a insisted more and earlier for some time off. I mean I'm
supposed to take care of him." He muttered vehemently.

Quatre quickly sat beside him and
brought the man's face up to look at him.

"Hey, hey! Stop that
now." He said forcefully. " You're both family and to say the truth,
I'd rather have you here to check on you; So that we can all check on each
other. That's what family is for, no?"

Duo nodded, sheepishly averting his
eyes.

" As for vacation time, you
were both busy and although someone else could have been sent in the stead of
Wufei, when the mission degenerated it turned out he was the right man for it,
no? What would have happened if it had been someone else?"

"The possibility of fatalities
would have been higher." Trowa put in.

"I know, I know." Duo
sighed. " I mean I would've been angry if he wasn't there to help, but it
just sucks sometimes, you know?" He gave Quatre a small but genuine smile.
" Thanks."

Quatre hugged him again.

" Like I said if you need
anything. We're downstairs."

The brunette nodded and he felt
Trowa's hand rest heavily on his shoulder. He looked up into the forest eyes
with gratitude.

"Now, I think we should go.
Wufei needs to rest and the kitchen needs tidying."

Quatre got up surprised. "Oh yeah!"

Trowa smirked." That's what
happens when you implement your 'no staff' policy, chores and no orange
juice."

"Trowa! I'm perfectly capable
of taking care of a �two�-story house. Even if it's at the base of a mountain,
the village is only fifteen minutes away after all. Not only that but it
wouldn't be fair to not give them their holidays even if the staff isn't
Christian."

Quatre was miffed as Trowa led him
out. The tall European waved a hand at Duo before closing the door. The
American still had the time to hear a couple of last retorts thought.

" I never said anything of the
sort..."

" Don't play innocent with me
Trowa. I can 'feel' stuff."

" Yes, Luv. " Trowa
sighed.

Duo chuckled. Quatre was right, it
made all the difference to know that he wasn't alone in this. That he had
people he could lean on.

He looked down at his dozing
husband with the glass in on hand and the pill in the other.

"Now, you'd better be
alright." He whispered fiercely.

-------------

As predicted Wufei had gone down pretty fast and
not even an earthquake could have woken him up.

Everybody had gone about his or her
routine, which basically consisted in doing nothing but there was a suspicious
tension hanging in the air. They couldn't deny that they were worried for the
Chinese man but for the sake of Duo, they controlled themselves.

Sally had gone to check on Wufei
twice and she was pleased to see that he seemed to be doing better. Some color
had come back to his cheeks already so she decided to wait until they went to
pick up Relena to buy a new stethoscope.

Duo was now sitting on their bed, brushing his long
hair in hopes of braiding the abominable mass.

He'd gone out, watched T.V. - or at
least tried to-, made lunch for everyone -he was a mean cook-, but eventually
couldn't kid himself anymore and had sat beside his lover for the past three
hours.

An hour ago he'd taken a shower and
dressed up. He'd than fidgeted on the same chair where he'd find Wufei that
morning for about fifteen minutes before he decided to sit on the bed. With his
back against the headboard, he'd stretched his legs out. Even though Wufei was
way far in �La Land� he had felt his husband near him and had quickly turned
sideways, resting his cheek on the American's thigh after throwing an arm over
his lap.

Duo put the brush down a minute and
caressed the silky hair, pushing strands away from the face of the sleeping
man. He was immensely relieved to see
him sleep so well.

He looked at his watch.

"Well time to go Wuffy. I know
you wanted to go with us but your sleeping so well. I'll wake you up when we come back."

He got up and watched as Wufei
seized the pillow he had been leaning on and quickly burying his face in it. He
let out a snore. Duo chuckled and braided his hair, than checked for wallet,
keys, etc. When he had everything he stooped and kissed the ebony head.

" 'll be back soon, Luv. Sleep
tight."

---------------

It took forty-five minutes to get to the airport
and they waited twenty more to wait for Relena's delayed flight.

Finally, it had arrived and they
were watching as people filed out from other nearby gates while trying to spot
Relena in all this mass (Of course she�d taken a private jet). Duo was
especially excited, as usual, but it wasn't gonna make Relena come out any
faster. Or so you thought!

" Hey guys! What are you
looking at?"

In a mass, they all turned around
to find the former Queen of the World smirking mischievously. As she took in
the various looks of surprise -except for Heero of course- her smirk widened,
her light purple eyes shinning.

She imitated picking her nails.
"Haven't lost my touch, I see."

Duo was the first to come out of
it; again as usual and picked up the petite woman in a fierce hug. She laughed.

" God, Relena! It's been such a long time!"

" You too Duo, you too. I
haven't seen you in two years!" She lightly reprimanded.

As soon as he let go of her she was
picked up again and swirled by Heero!
She squealed with joy.

" Put me down you goof."
She laughed breathlessly. " Put me down!"

The rest of the welcomes were less
demonstrative but as fierce.

Relena as the others had changed greatly.

Her relationship with Heero during the war, while
something akin to love wasn't quite the passionate type everyone had thought they
had, including Relena. Heero and Relena
were the opposite faces of the same coin; they were close to what one might
call mind/spiritual twins. Their fated meeting had started the chain reaction
of events, now historically recorded accounts of the war, towards peace as they
took upon them the role of instigating agents in their respective domains;
Relena on the side of peace, Heero on the side of war. Their goal was the same,
their methods and duty different. However, both sides intertwined frequently with
each other, as they were dependent on one another. Many times their paths crossed. As each projected in the mirror
of the other they would come out stronger with clear renewed goals and duties;
thus Relena's attraction and fascination and Heero's impossibility to kill this
one person. It was really all-intuitive shit with the Fates playing checkers
with the King and Queen. Something that
now their friends and they both had understood and learned to accept.

This explained why they could find
each other, no matter how far or where the other was and Relena, as you know,
was pretty attuned to their link.

Now, in addition to that inner
maturity her outer appearance had changed also. First of all, she'd abandoned the pink. She still did the 'dress
thing' but only when in her "Vice-Minister Dorlian" persona. In her
time off she preferred skirts and nice fitting pants, like the ones she was
wearing now. They were nice large leg pants with a low cut waist. With them she
wore a hugging red t-shirt and she wore simple ladies sneakers to finish the
ensemble.

Most outstanding of all thought,
was her boort ort hair cut, quite stylish when the tresses were slicked down.
It made her really scary when she had that speculative look on. The one that
would just make the g-boys break in a cold sweat, the one she often wore in the
past right after finding Heero. I kid you not, that look was a mean weapon for
Vice- Minister Dorlian.

Anyways, the hairstyle was on the stylish-kitch
side when she gave a bit of body to the short tresses with the help of
gel. And she'd done just that.

She looked at all of them happily
but curiously nonetheless.

"Hum. Where's Wufei?" Her
smile faltered. " Don't tell me he's working this year again!" She
opened her backpack taking out her cell. " If it's the case, I'll call Une
right away and have him relieved. It's been two years since I've seen
the stubborn man!"

Duo hastily took the phone away
from her, flipping it closed.

" No, no, relax Relena."
He laughed. " He came but he's at home sleeping."

They quickly put her up to speed to
the latest events. A frown now creased her forehead.

"Well," She said putting
on her coat. " I'm finished here. These," and she pointed towards
three large sports bags. " Are all I've got. Let's get going."

-----------

On their way back, Sally took the chance to buy a
stethoscope and other first-aid supplies. They also bought orange juice.

They'd left home at four pm. It was
now around ten past six and they'd just entered the village.

Trowa was driving the 4x4 with Quatre
in the passenger seat. There were two more rows of three seats each with plenty
of luggage space in the back. Relena
and Duo were occupying the first row, while Sally sat with Heero in the back.

" Oh wow! Beautiful!"

Relena was looking out the window at
the festivelyuminuminated village.
Lights of all types and colors were strewn everywhere. Pretty
spectacular, were the tall light angels blowing magnificent horns as they stood
each side of the village's only hotel.
From its outskirts the top of the X-Mas tree, residing at the center the
village's main Place, was visible to the car's passengers even if they weren't
heading its way. Even more grandiose was the mountainous background with its
sparsely illuminated peaks - evidence of small resorts.

"Isn't it?" Agreed
Quatre. "This village and the city were actually pretty devastated after
the war. When I visited with the Winner humanitarian groups I just fell in love
with the place. It's just unbelievable how fast it's been rebuilt. The people here
are really industrious and I'm proud to have been able to lend a hand."

"I understand you. "
Relena nodded as she looked out in wonder. " It gives you the push to
continue. All of a sudden it's all worth it."

They were now driving through the
sparse forest surrounding the house. Suddenly a two story Victorian style home
emerged from the clearing where it stood erect. Despite the severe architecture, it oozed coziness. It was indeed quite flat compared to
Quatre's mansions, however what it didn't have in height it compensated in
length.

The car parked, they all filed out.
Heero and Duo took most of Relena's luggage leaving her to carry her backpack
and to chat with Sally about her pregnancy and girl stuf:p>

They entered the sparingly lit house - They had a
couple of night and X-Mas lights around to give the festive and intimate
ambiance- to silence and warmth. Very welcomed as the clear sky made for a cold
weather.

Duo put Relena's bag down and quickly took off his
coat and boots as the others followed suite more slowly.

" See ya in a few! Gotta check
on Wufei!"

" Wait, Duo I'll come
with!"

Sally scrambled after him as he was
already climbing the stairs, pass the lobby, the living room, the dinning room;
he's fast.

-------------

Notes: If you find numbers, ignore them. I had
previously noted my remarks.

Remarks:

I like Sally with pigtails, she's my favorite
female character in Gundam. She's so classy!

Convenient for the story, I'm sure she'd never
forget that! Also I had more fun with Sally in the sense that i don't think
she'd be that phased by Heero's "Beam me up Scotty!" act.

Oh, yeah! And Quatre you're right. you should go to
the clinic! But since i'm writing the story 'll make you all dense and
optimistic.

'm sure ya'll wanna know what was the freakin'
mission already. Well...i'm in line right behind you!

That damn uchuu no kokorro! Can't lie to 'm.

Never been to Austria, got no IDEA what i'm talking
about. If any one knows of a real place that could pass for that fiction, feel
free to tell me.

Chapter 3

Duo practically sailed to his rooms. He was so excited about Relena, and if he
remembered well Catherine was supposed to arrive later that night too. Now, Wufei couldn�t possibly miss that. He
had to be part of the party, of course, only if Duo thought that he was up to
it.

Duo�s
manic grin kind of faltered at the thought and he consciously calmed himself.
He barely noted Sally passing him to go to her room, probably to pick up her
bag.

As soon as he entered his room Duo felt his
chest contract with fear. Something was
wrong, definitely wrong.

text-autospace:none'> Duo
ran to the bed. Climbing it, he scrambled next to Wufei.

Wufei
was lying on his back half tangled in the bed sheets and seemed to be
struggling for breath. He was facing
away from the door, his hair plastered to his face with sweat.

Duo
was beyond the state of panic. �Oh God, Wufei, don�t do this to me!�

He
brought a clammy hand to Wufei�s cheek and turned his face towards him.

�Wufei
baby! Come on wake up. Wake up!�

Not
a twitch from the chalky and sweaty face.

�Please.
Please. Come on!� He suddenly registered the slightly warm and slimy substance
coating his husband�s cheek. He quickly brought his hand up. He couldn�t quite
see but it seemed coated with drool containing white gelatinous blobs.
//Mucus//

His
hand started shaking.

The
light suddenly went on in the, until now, dark room and Sally was already
beside the Chinese man one hand at his neck.

�Oh
shiiiit,� she whispered.

�Sally?�
Duo pleaded.

She
scrambled of the bed, �Duo cover him with the sheets, I�ll tell Heero to start
the car. We�re going to the hospital. Now!�

The
others had been in liviliving room when they heard Duo�s strangled yell. Heero
had been up and running towards the stairwell before anybody could register
what was going on. He arrived just in time to catch Sally as she tripped the
last few steps in her frenzy.

�Heero,
start the car. We�re going to the hospital!�

�What
is it? Are you all right?� He asked concerned. Sally wasn�t one to lose her
cool and to see her this agitated was unsettling.

She
shook her head practically screaming in frustration, �Not me Wufei! It�s
Wufei.�

As
if on cue, Duo stumbled down with a bundle of sheets in his arms.

Relena
popped near Heero.

�Come
on, the car�s running!� And she quickly followed Duo as he hastily shoved his
boots on and ran outside. With Sally hot on his tail.

She
turned around just long enough to bark the others into action and shaking out
of their stupor they quickly followed suite.

Sally
helped Duo climb in the back seat, closing the door after him and than quickly
ran to the other side tightly clutching the coat he hadn�t bothered to put on.
Sally met Heero therd asd as he was already seated she climbed over him to sit
beside Duo as he pulled her in slamming the door close. Quatre sat behind them;
Relena was at the wheel with Trowa sitting beside her to give her directions.

She
revved the motor, �Where to?�

�To
the village clinic,� Sally declared, �He won�t make to the hospital without
some help.�

�Right,�
and they were off like bats out of hell, wheels splashing snow, car skidding
and all.

Sally
turned towards the distressed couple. Duo was trying to wake Wufei up; the man
still hadn�t regained consciousness. She put her stethoscope on, blessed
stethoscope, and started checking the unconscious man. As the check up steadily
went on Sally�s face darkened leaving a permanent frown.

�How
is he?� Duo asked as she watched her take off the contraption.

�Not
good, not good at all, � she mumbled as she squeezed Wufei�s cold hand and
feet. She scowled at the blue tinge marring the tip of the man�s fingers and
toes. She started to absently rub a hand to try and reestablish the
circulation.

�His
lungs are clogged with mucus making it difficult to breath. He isn�t running a fever, which is a
blessing thus that would erase the diagnosis of pneumonia. Also by the color of
the mucus we have the choice between a nasty bronchitis and an asthma attack.�
She watched as Heero pushed himself between the driver�s seat and the couple so
the he could rub one of Wufei�s feet. �I�d have to say that I�m going with the
second choice, despite the fact that he has no predeceasing, just by the sheer
gravity of his condition.�

�As!�
!�
Duo exclaimed, �How? He never gave any signs. How can he have this all of a
sudden!�

�
Any possible reason could have triggered this, but I�d have to say at first
guess that the bronchitis he had a couple months ago combined with the fatigue
and the hectic schedule he�s been following lately could have contributed to
degenerate the situation up to this. It is possible that he never fully
recuperated from the bronchitis since he shortened his time of convalescence.�
She looked at Duo�s horror stricken face and was it the shadow of guilt she saw
passing through for a while? If anybody had the right to be guilty it should be
her. She should have given Wufei forced vacations sooner than this. But Wufei
had been healthy enough, when she�d done the compulsory check up afhis his
mission, except for exhaustion. Hindsight was a bitch! � But, let�s not panic.�
She said as she hastily came out of her thoughts. �Duo put him in a seated
position, it�ll put less pressure on his chest.�

Duo
complied, pulling Wufei against his chest. His husband�s head lolled backwards,
his breathing becoming more difficult. Quatre quickly slid a hand underneath
supporting it until Duo had settled Wufei�s position. Once the man secured, he
slid his hand away as his head rolled in the crook of Duo�s neck. Drool
moistened his skin and shirt but he really didn�t care as he continued trying
to rouse Wufei.

�Trowa,
open your window half way,� said Sally as she quickly covered Wufei�s chest
with the blanket. A strong gust of wind swooped into the car and in the space
of minutes all the passengers cheeks were red with cold, except for Wufei who
maintained the sickly pale taint. At least it wasn�t becoming blue and Sally
thanked heavens for that.

�Come on. Wufei baby, please wake up. Let me
see those sexy black eyes of yours,� Duo smiled sadly. �We�re really worried
here. Please wake up for me.�

Duo had been at it since they�d gotten in the
car. Whispering nonsense in Wufei�s ear, urging his precious love to wake up.
He didn�t really know how long it had been but to him it seemed an eternity.
p>

The ambiance in the car was tense. Everyone
wishing that in the next instance they would hear the man�s voice. Due to
Relena�s spectacular driving they had already saved a good five minutes in the
trip but it was still too long, however, driving any faster would be too
dangerous and probably toss uncomfortably the passengers during her mad turns.
Trowa was on the phone with said clinic, putting them on stand by while Quatre
was talking to city�s hospital absentmindedly stroking Wufei�s hair. Sally
diligently relayed information to them as she and her husband vigorously rubbed
hands and feet that wouldn�t warm up.

Despite the noise of voices, the road and the
howling wind, all were attuned to one sound only, Wufei�s hitching wheezing
breath. It seemed so loud that they all felt like they were suffocating
themselves.

Duo kept urging, pleading his husband to wake
up with desperate whispers. He had one hand under the sheets pressed over
Wufei�s chest keeping track of his heartbeat and could feel it slamming
frantically. Suddenly it gave a sickening lurch and fluttered for a couple of
seconds before resuming its mad pace. Duo couldn�t take it anymore, the fear,
the worry was choking him and han hand clutched Wufei�s t-shirt as he hastily
buried his face in his husband�s hair. If he didn�t do this he was sure to
bawl. Wufei couldn�t do this to him, dammit. He needed the man so much. He was
the love of his life. He was his life! God! He should have stayed with him. But
he�d seemed okay when they had finally gotten him to sleep. How could the
situation have turned out so bad so quickly?

Ah fuck it! He was going to bawl no matter
what.

Just than there was a groan.

All motion stopped. Duo�s head shot up, eyes
suspiciously shinny and blinking owlishly. Relena almost slammed the brakes; it
was so tense. Sally was watching the Chinese man like a hawk.

A couple of wheezes, a weak cough.

�Wufei!� Duo�s strangled whisper, �come on
babe, come on wake up!�

Another groan.

� That�s it, you can do it��

Wufei turned his face towards Duo�s neck,
heavy lidded eyes blinking open. They closed again and for brief seconds
everybody�s heart fell, but then they reopened and stayed so.

�Fei? Fei? You�re awake love?� Duo urged as he
tried to look into his face.

A weak nod.

//HURRAY// Everybody cheered mentally. Spirits
were soaring high.

�Good! Good, stay awake okay? I was really
getting lonely here with only myself to talk to.�
* wheeze * �kay..*
wheeze *

//Yes! He�s conscious and responding!// Sally
cheered.

Wufei emitted another weak cough and a groan,
� Duo�back�hurt��

Sally watched worriedly as Wufei�s face
scrunched up in pain. Duo felt how much those three words had taxed him as his
chest hitched violently and his pulse sped even faster.

�Okay. Okay. Don�t talk, keep your breath,� He
said quickly.

Wufei nodded.

�Just keep his face exposed to the wind Duo,
his lungs are paining him.� She squeezed Wufei�s hand, �We�re almost there
Wufei, just hand in there okay?�

��kay��

�We�re here.� Relena tried not to slam the
brakes but the stop was still a little harsh. Wufei moaned as his painful back
was jarred.

�Sorry�

As soon as the car stopped the clinic�s doctor
opened Duo�s door. He and his nurse helped Duo out. Wufei sighed and went into
respiratory arrest. They quickly led them in the closest office where an exam
table had been prepared. As soon as Duo laid him down they fastened and oxygen
mask and thankfully he came back by himself.

Duo had been on his second adrenaline rush and
after that stunt he kind of deflated. He would have probably found himself
square on his ass if it werenor Hor Heero holding him up. He hid his face in
his hands; breathing deeply while Heero rubbed his back.

//Okay Duo, don�t flip! You gotta be here,
clear headed. Fei needs you.// He vigorously rubbed his face and felt that he
could face the world again.

The village�s clinic was really a clinic in
the sense that it was small and quaint with four offices, one for each
practitioner, where the space were separated in half by a curtain leading to a
small examining room, in addition the clinic had the one x-ray room. They
tackled small emergencies, such as broken bones, small concussions, fevers, ect
and Wufei�s case would have been in their range of expertise if not for the
dangerous stage it had attained. However, being fifteen minutes away from the
city general they weren�t a twenty-four hour clinic. Trowa�s call had probably
saved Wufei�s liinceince the clinic was closing when they�d received the call.

Duo moved from the office section to where
Wufei lay. He took a cold hand while the other was gently caressing the sick
man�s hair and face. Duo watched as the nurse pulled a syringe out of Wufei�s
arm, the spot quite red, as she had to slap it some to find a contracted vein.

�Fei?� he asked gently, �Are you still with
me?�

Wufei nodded but didn�t open his eyes. His
breath was significantly more difficult now that he was lying horizontally,
something that couldn�t be helped.

�Good. Stay with me.� He kissed his forehead.

Sally was talking with the doctor who was on
the phone with the paramedics coming their way. A chopper would have been
better but there was no place for it to land. Something Quatre would be sure to
change in the very near future. The amount of time Wufei need to wait before
getting proper treatment was unacceptable. His fowl mood wasn�t improved much
by the fact that he was also reacting to Wuffei�s pain, an emphatic backslash
and he swallowed uncomfortably as Trowa soothingly rubbed his back.

Relena was absentmindedly rubbing Wufei�s leg
as she watched the nurse change Wufei�s oxygen mask for another one that was
emitting some kind of fog.

�What is that?�

�It�s a mixture of oxygen and medicine that
will help treat the inflammation as well as dilate his lungs.�

Heero was beside Dupo a hand on the small of
his back as the American quietly talked to his lover to keep him awake.

The paramedics were greeted to this tableau as
they burst into the clinic. Sally urged them to Wufei and they quickly got to
work. In the space of seconds Wufei was being wheeled out; Duo quickly hugged
everyone and followed suite. The doors of the vehicle slammed close and they
were gone at break neck speed, wailing siren and all.

The rest of the crew quickly filed in the 4x4
with Sally climbing in last as she assured the doctor that they would contact
him with news. Soon they too were speeding on the dark highway, closely
following the ambulance.
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