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The Legend of Shinigami	By : KimTime-Wolf Category: Gundam Wing/AC > AU - Alternate Universe Views: 674 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own any rights to Gundam Wing or its characters. This is purely fan made and not for monetary purposes.

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Having rushed from the bedroom and grabbed the med-kit from the bathroom and a bucket from the hall closet Sara had found her husband laying on the kitchen floor a trail of blood leading from the back door to where he now lay near the table. “Solo! What happened?”
“I tried to reach the table. But my leg is numb and it wouldn’t hold my weight long enough for me to actually get there.” He grimaced as pain laced up his leg.
Sara smiled softly at him and shook her head. “You dumbo, crawling would have hurt less. Just let me get this stuff organized and I’ll help you to a chair.” She went to the sink placing the bucket under the faucet to fill it with warm water and set out all of the supplies she would need from the med-kit on the kitchen table. Turning off the steaming stream of water and grabbing the bucket from the sink she placed it on the floor by the table and helped her husband to sit in a chair. Sara took off his bloody boot and sock and rolled his pant leg up out of the way so she could clearly see the wound. It was a nasty bit of work - his pant leg and sock had stuck to it in places and Solo was rather blue in the face by the time she pulled the bucket over and placed his foot in the now cooler than boiling water.
Solo hissed as the water washed over the wound, the heat making him grimace. He was lucky that the majority of it was low on his shin and that his wife didn’t have to scrub at it with a wash cloth. The matted blood could simply soak off.
While Solo’s leg soaked the blonde woman grabbed the mop bucket and filled it in order to clean the blood and mud off of her kitchen floor. With the water running neither of them heard Duo when he went to his room.
“So what happened out there tonight?” Sara questioned as she mopped up the floor.
Solo sighed and winced in pain as his leg twitched involuntarily, “It was pretty routine until about an hour ago. Went up to High Point to check the campground and there was a black bear chowing down on somebody’s fruit stash. Took care of that pretty easily and fined the campers for not properly putting their food away. They weren’t happy about that one.” Solo grinned ruefully. “On the way back to check in at the station I got pounced on by a damn bobcat. What the heck it was doing in a well-traveled area I’ll never understand.” He shook his head and winced as he moved his leg in the bucket as he got more comfortable in his seat.
“Wait, so why didn’t you get this taken care of at the station?” Sara paused in rinsing out the mop and its bucket.
“I didn’t get hurt by that one. It pounced on me, but then scurried away when I yelled, didn’t even have any holes poked in my clothes from it. There was a big group of them just outside our house when I finally got home. I saw them around the corner of the house and booked it to the closest door as fast as I could, hoping to make it in before they noticed me. Obviously that didn’t work out as planned.” Solo gave a forlorn look to his leg.
“Mmmm. About that... You know how I told you that I was sure Duo was lying about the dreams being over?” Sara started.
Solo looked up at her a bit confused as to what that had to do with a pride of bobcats, “Yeah?”
“Now I’m certain of it.” Sara’s nod was firm as she turned back to rinsing out the bucket.
“Why? Because we have bobcats outside or because he looked a little sleep deprived?” Solo was a bit skeptic. When Sara had told him that the chocolate powder was going rather quickly the last week or so he’d claimed it was because he’d been drinking it. But he knew that chocolate was the one thing that always put their son to sleep. He hadn’t been home enough to talk to Duo about it though.
“No, because of what he just did. He inherited the gift.” Sara’s voice was quiet in the sudden silence after she turned the water off.
Solo sat silent for a long moment; shock, rage, fear and then the acceptance of the inevitable coursing through him. “What did he do?”
“Well he knocked on the door, even in such a hurry as he probably was knowing you were bleeding all over the floor, and when I asked if it was him he didn’t answer me like normal, just threw the door open. I think he probably heard the fear in my voice-.” Sara started.
“Fear in your voice? You were scared? Of what?” Solo didn’t know of anything that could scare his wife. Hell he was scared of more things than she was.
“The giant golden wolf standing at the foot of my bed staring me down, growling every time I moved.” She deadpanned as she put the mop and bucket away.
“WHAT?” Solo’s shock was now complete. “There are no wolves in Connecticut.”
“Tell that to the one I just saw.” Sara was indignant her cornflower blue eyes narrowed at the man before her. “You gonna let me finish or not?”
Solo flinched at her tone and wisely kept silent.
“That’s better.” Sara came around the table her fists on her hips. “Now where was I? Right, Duo threw the door open hard enough to bounce off the wall a little and he growled when his eyes landed on the wolf.”
“Growled?” Solo interrupted again, his eyebrows furrowed in a perturbed expression.
“Yes growled, like he was a wolf himself and angry about his territory being invaded. It was rather disturbing. But for all of that he just started talking. Like he hadn’t been panicked a few seconds before and that the wolf wasn’t going to hurt anything or anyone. He honestly acted like the animal wasn’t even there! He told me that you were wounded and that it was probably done by a bobcat, but he hadn’t been able to tell if it was a bite or claw marks. His voice was so calm and reassuring that ‘I’ forgot the wolf was there and went to climb off the bed and come to you. But as I moved the wolf growled at me again. And Duo turns to it and tells it that he needs it to let me come and tend to you, as if the creature could understand him!” Sara punctuated each emphatic remark with a gesture of hand or a stomp of her foot. “Then the wolf finally looked away from me, just turned its head to look at Duo and then out the open porch door. Duo turned his own head and looked outside. A second later he was at the door yelling at that pack of bobcats that they’d done enough and needed to get lost. They scattered like he was God and they were the Egyptians that enslaved the Jews! Then that giant wolf walks past him out the door, turns and ‘nods’ at him before taking off into the trees.” Sara threw herself into a chair exasperated by her son’s antics. “Then when I asked him what he’d done, he was lost. He honestly didn’t know what I was asking. Like talking to animals and having them listen to you is normal!”
Solo couldn’t help it, as concerned as he was he had to laugh. His wife was adorable when she was frustrated.
“And just what is so funny mister?” The evil gleam in his wife’s eyes gave him only momentary pause in his continued laughter.
“Do you honestly expect him to understand what he did Sara? Duo doesn’t know the legends, never understood why we never talk about our family histories. Honestly I’d be surprised if he hadn’t gotten the gift since both of our families were cursed with it.” Solo commented once his laughter subsided.
Sara was too busy glaring at him and thinking of inventive ways to shank him to be appeased into a topic change just yet; all she did was raise her eyebrow at him in a contemptuous way.
“Oh come on Sare! You all in a huff over something that didn’t get anyone hurt. Stomping your foot like a child who didn’t get their way. That’s some funny stuff.” Solo grinned at his rather irate wife.
Sara cracked a grin as the image settled into her mind’s eye. “Maybe. But what are we going to do about Duo?”
“Well first things first. Let’s get my leg bandaged and then bring him out here. I’m sure he’s not asleep after all of this.” Solo sighed gustily.
Nodding her head his wife gently grabbed his foot out of the bloody water, wrapping it in a clean towel. She stood up and dumped the bucket down the sink, rinsed and refilled it, setting it down in front of Solo again he put his foot back in it and swished off the remaining blood. Sara handed him another towel to dry off with as she grabbed up the antiseptic and bandages.
“Nothing looks deep enough to need stitching thank goodness.” Sara noted as she applied the cream.
Solo hissed in a breath, “I guess that’s a bonus.”
After Solo’s leg was bandaged and the med-kit and bucket were cleaned and repacked, Sara put them away and knocked on Duo’s door.
“Yeah Mom?” Duo called from behind the closed door.
“How’d you know it was me?” His mom asked as she opened the door.
Duo turned to look at her with a lopsided grin as the door opened. “You knock softer than dad does.”
“Ah. Well we’d like to talk to you in the kitchen please.” Sara told him.
“Sure thing. Just let me finish up this problem and I’ll be right there.” Duo answered, turning back to his computer and the math equation he was currently doing.
Sara nodded and left, leaving the door standing wide open.
Duo rolled his eyes, “I hate it when she does that.” He finished up with the problem and turned his computer off. Heading across the living room to the kitchen he added more wood to the fire as it was almost out and couldn’t resist looking out the window to where he’d seen the first wolf. Seeing nothing there broke the spell of anticipation and he ambled off into the kitchen.
“Hey Mom, do you do that on purpose? To remind me that I said I would do something? Or do you just not know how to close a door?” Duo quipped looking curiously to his mother who was currently making hot tea.
“Are you sassing your mother boy?” His father enquired of him.
“No sir, just curious. Though I’m kind of afraid to know why the porch door in your guys’ room was standing open after midnight.” Duo remarked warily as he sat at the table.
“I was wondering about that myself actually.” Solo turned to look at his wife. “Sara, how’d that ‘wolf’ get in the room anyway?” The stress on the word wolf making it apparent that he didn’t believe that’s what it was. Sara stiffened and kept her back to them as she put sugar in their cups.
The tone of his father’s voice gave Duo a shock. “Dad, when has Mom EVER lied?”
Startled from staring holes in his wife’s back by his son’s question Solo stopped to actually think it through – his head tilted to the side, thick brown hair falling against his cheek. “When she said you were going to be a girl.”
Duo grinned, “That’s all you’re going on old man? She made that “guess” more because she wanted a girl than because she actually knew. You still didn’t believe she was pregnant yet from what Babu says.”
“Are you trying to tell me there was a wolf in there, son?” Solo asked in a low voice that brought to mind torture and those that thrill in it.
“Yes, I am.” Duo stated, “Because there was. She was bigger than any wolf I’ve ever heard of though. And golden in color, you don’t see many like that. The one I’d apparently been having a staring contest with just before you got home was a deep brown color, its coat seemed to shimmer when the moonlight hit it as it walked away.”
This statement along with the obvious awe in his voice gave both of his parents pause. And when he didn’t get an immediate response from either Duo realized that mentioning the other wolf just now was probably a bad idea.
“Is that why you looked so tired? Having a stare down with a giant predator late into the night!? How long has this been going on?” Duo’s father was livid. If he’d been able to do so without hurting himself more he probably would have shot up from the table, marched around it and boxed Duo’s ears. As it was Duo was currently thanking whatever bobcat had gotten his dad – he was far too tired to attempt to make a break for it.
“No, Dad, it’s not like that. This is/was the first time I’d ever seen it!” Duo decided he should probably come clean about the dreams, since they both knew how tired he was for no real reason but his mother saved him from continuing.
“You asked me why the door was open.” Sara reminded them curtly as she placed everyone’s tea in front of them.
Solo simply nodded, not trusting his voice at the moment, rage burning in his deep blue/red eyes.
“Well the door was open because I’d been out on the porch reading. I’d gone in to go to the bathroom and when I came out that wolf was standing there in the open doorway. She?” Here Sara looked at her son, she didn’t know how he knew the gender of the animal, but he was usually right about that kind of stuff. At his nod she continued. “She was just standing there, like she was waiting for something to happen. I thought about going back in the bathroom and locking the door, but she shook her head at me.” Here she turned bewildered eyes on her family, not sure if she was going crazy or not. “So I walked over to the bed, since there’s a knife there in case of an emergency. As I got to the bedside I noticed that she had walked over, scared me so bad I jumped up on the bed, but she didn’t do anything except stand there. However, after I got up there she wouldn’t let me get off, kept growling every time I tried to get down. It was like that for a couple of hours, I was honestly too annoyed and scared to even think about screaming. And I already told you what happened when Duo got there.” She finished off sitting down at the circular table across from Duo, next to her husband.
“Well I guess the only unexplainable things about tonight are what the heck is up with the bobcats and why the hell are there wolves in Connecticut!” Solo ground out in frustration his hands tossed into the air above his shaggy head.
“Yeah, definitely can’t answer either of those questions Dad.” Duo began, “What I’d like to know is how come all of these different animals listen to me?”
Duo had thought about that as he was working on his math homework: why on earth would wild animals listen to a human - let alone do as a human says without any training, as if they spoke the same way humans do and understood what was being said to them. Duo didn’t get it. His dreams generally had stuff like that in them - the only reason he’d learned to control them was because of that voice in the back of his mind, the one he’d felt that wolf could help him understand. Though he was still confused by that prospect as well, how could a wolf possibly help with that?
At one point when he was fourteen, shortly after high school graduation, his dream hadn’t been about talking animals or crazy cultists or anyone he knew or didn’t know dying. It had been him, sitting in a clearing covered in snow and a voice that seemed to come from nowhere and everywhere at the same time telling him that he needed control. That if he didn’t start learning to stop the killings in his dreams, that those deaths would become real. So it told him what to do, how to put a certain ‘force’ into his voice that would make what he wanted to happen, happen. Since then that voice had been hovering at the fringes of his senses and he’d stopped watching people die in his sleep. That is, until two weeks ago.
Babu = Grandma (Russian)
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