My childhood friend

Title: My childhood friend
Author: Mad Hatter
Pairings: 1+? 1+2
Gene: sad, but will get better soon.

Disclaimer: GW doesn't belong to be so no suing.

Note: "Blue bear" is Heero's nickname given to him by Damion because when he was adopted his first gift from Heero was a blue bear.

When Heero woke up he was in a hospital bed. He looked around to see that his parents were talking softly to one another, trying not to disturb Heero's sleep, but Heero must have let out a small moan because they looked up and rushed over to his side.
"Heero are you alright? You must have been exhausted. We are sorry we weren't more concentrated in your state" Heero's mother said with tears in her eyes.
Heero sat up slowly trying to register everything that has just happened within the day. He remembered hearing something about Duo and then Damion's name. Then it all back rushing back to him. He started to get out of bed. He wanted to see Duo. He wanted have an explanation of how he knew so much. How did he know Damion's secret name for him? Heero wanted to know how Duo get a hold of the Blue bear that Heero had giving to Damion so long ago. He wanted to know what the heck is going on and why his life is so messed up after meeting Duo. But he was pushed back by his fathers hands.
"You should lay back down, you need to rest up" Mr. Kiato said.
"I have to know...I have to know why you were so concerned with Duo, I want to know what the hell is going on and why you called Duo Damion!" Heero demanded. Heero's stepfather drew back a bit and sat down on one of the two chairs that were pulled up to his bed. Mr. Kiato took a hold of his wife's hand and squeezed firmly.
"Are you sure you want to know what is going on Heero? What you ask is a big think and I am not sure you can handle the situation" his father told him.
"I want to know, I want to know everything so that I can put Damion to rest...the mystery of his death haunts me every shingle day Ooto-san, I think I will go crazy. And now that Duo has been targeted at the same manner, I want to know, am I the target and Damion and Duo just so happens to be in the way?" Heero asked his stepfather.
Mr. Kiato sighed. It is and it isn't the case Heero. We should have told you sooner, but it has been going so well that we thought you recovered. We thought we could begin a new life. As you know, I work in the lab, what you don't know is that my partner is Mr. Maxwell. The person you associate as Duo's father. We have stumbled across an amazing find and thought that we could present it to the government so more funding could be placed in our research, but the government opposed and told use to destroy our lab and any information that we have spent years doing. That was when Damion came along into our family. Damion was the result of our experiment. Damion is special you see. We created him. He was born in a lab and used for experimental reasons. We hid this from the government but something must have leaked out. That was why Damion was shot on the beach when you were just five years old Heero" Mr. Kiato said.
Heero didn't want to believe it; the boy that he grew up with, the boy he loved so much is an experiment that his stepfather thought he could play god with?
"How could you Ooto-san" Heero said with tears streaming down his face.
"We thought that if we kept him, he would be like an adopted son to us at the same time keep the experiment going. Damion had no idea of this situation. When we brought him to the hospital after he was shot your mother and I thought that it would be the best to tell you that Damion died so that news somehow would get around and Damion would not be targeted again. But as you know since Damion lived, we had to change his identity all over again and so he lived with the Maxwell's obtaining a name that they wanted to give honor to their still born son. By now you are a smart boy, putting the puzzle pieces together, Damion is Duo, Duo is Damion" Mr. Kiato said.
Heero's parents could see the frustration in Heero's eyes. "If that is true then why is it that Duo forgotten everything about me? Everything we meant to each other" Heero said softly.
"We had no choice, when Damion made a full recovery, we had to have his mind erases. We had him have his memory suppressed with hypnosis, but he only agreed in doing so if only he was to keep this with him at all times. He hope that someday you, Heero would see it and forgive him, and remember him" Mr. Kiato said holding up the small, dirty blue bear with him.
"When the hypnosis went under way, it was a success. We created a new life for Damion, but somewhere in his mind he held on to the blue bear as if it meant the world to him even though he wasn't sure why he had it when he woke up" Mr. Kiato said. "That brings us back to the present in where you somehow met Damion in school. We don't know what happened, it was foolproof plan, his memories weren't supposed to resurface ever, but they had. Something you done triggered it Heero. I want to know what it was so that we won't make the same mistake again," Mr. Kiato said firmly.
Heero leveled his eyes with his stepfather. "I suffered all these years thinking it was me who was not strong enough to save Damion, when it was you who was not strong enough to let go of your experiments and let Damion live normally" Heero said. This shocked his mother and in Mr. Kiato eyes he could see shame.
"I want to see Damion now," Heero said getting out of the bed. His parents still sat on the two seats near the bed, silent as Heero walked out of the room. Thought Heero knew that his parents loved him and didn't want anything like this to happen especially to Damion twice, they have to see that separating them was the worst mistake they have ever done. Now that Heero finally had a second chance with Damion, he won't ever let go again. No, Damion was his everything when they grew up together.
Heero clutched onto the stuffed animal that was taken from his fathers grasp and walked over to the nurses station to request for Damion's room number so that he may see the person that was missing from his life for so long. For the longest time, the whole that was in Heero's heart was now being filled slowly, and Heero like that feeling.