New Haven

Chapter 4: Confessions.

Duo turned back and looked down at the hands placed he had placed visibly on the table. He looked up and met one green eye. “Thanks for not throwing it Heavyarms.” He told the man. “I’m not as good at dodging things as I used to be.”

The man known as Heavyarms during the war jerked as if he had been struck.

Wufei snorted. He knew very well that the man could and would have dodged it and if he couldn’t he, himself would have took the blade into his body rather then…Wufei stopped as the thought crossed his mind. He groaned and slammed his head into the table hoping the pain would give him something to steady himself.

Three eyes stared in disbelief at Wufei’s sudden action. They were even more confused as the most notorious man in the war known as only ‘Shinigami’ was out of his seat and hovering over him asking what was wrong.

Duo blinked at the groan and turned to watch as the usually steady man he admired slammed his head onto the table. “Shenlong,” He whispered as his body moved without his asking it. He stood over the man not knowing what to do. “Did I do something wrong?” He asked anxiously. He knew something about this man brought out the inner child in him that just wanted to curl up in his arms and be protected.

Wufei sat back in his seat and upon hearing the need in the voice pulled the man into his lap to curl his arms protectively around him. “It’s nothing you have done little one.” Chang Wufei was unusual for chinese. He was six two in height and was now very happy about that fact. He was built solidly not lithe like the man in his lap. He pressed a kiss to the temple as he ran a soothing hand over his back. “It’s just me not seeing the obvious.” He told the man as he settled into his lap.

Duo was surprised at first that his body didn’t react as it naturally would and send the man through the nearest wall. Something inside of him recognized this person’s soul and wouldn’t let his instincts hurt him. He settled happily and groaned as the realization that he didn’t want to acknowledge him. The words left his mouth without his wanting them too, “I love you Wu-bear.” The tease he couldn’t help it came naturally.

Wufei blinked and grunted at the statement. “Wo ai ni, Duo. And…MY NAME is WuFEI not Wu-whatever you care to put there. Wufei.” He grumbled as he settled more comfortably in the chair.

Duo giggled and pushed away slightly. Before he could do what he wanted to do he reminded himself that he had an audience. He turned and blushed at the three men watching incredulously. “Ummm,” He looked down at his lap and placed another manic grin on his face. “I guess that you want an explanation, Huh?”

He chortled at the raised eyebrows and quiet understanding he was getting.

“Well,” Quatre finally found his voice. “I would like to know why you chose to become a paramedic. And what happened to you during the war, like how you ended up the person you were.” He looked questioningly at the men he loved asking if they had any questions as well.

Trowa shrugged. “Basically what he said.” Heero nodded and folded his arms across his chest waiting for the tale to begin.

“Well…” Duo looked down into Wufei’s eyes and slid out of the man’s lap. “You have to understand. I was an orphan on L2.” He looked up to see horror on Quatre’s face at the statement. He wasn’t looking at Wufei in fear of what he would see. “I can’t remember my parents. All I remember is Solo and the gang. When the plague struck it took almost all of them. I tried to get medicine for them but it was hard and when I finally managed to get it. I came back and…and…” He paused closing his eyes and trying not to see the faces behind his eyelids. “Solo had died in the time it took me to get back. I helped the rest as much as I could and decided I would be called Duo.

“We were so hungry eventually we raided an alliance food facility. We were caught and sent to the one orphanage on the colony. Maxwell Church and Orphanage.” Duo heard the gasp and ignored it. If he answered it he wouldn’t continue the story. “Some rebels came and forced their way in. Father Maxwell and Sister Helen tried to help them as much as they could. They said they would leave if they had the weapons for the fight. Against OZ and the Alliance. Sooo, I went and stole a truck load of weapons and ammunition. When I got back there was almost nothing left of the church. All I found was bodies in the ruins and small fires. I found the kids that were left of the gang nothing but bloody corpses torn to shreds. The only thing identifiable as to who they were was the things around them and the…the scraps of cloth on them. I finally found Father Maxwell and I guess the rebels had beaten OZ to the punch because he had a hole in his head from a gun shoot wound. I think it was because of what I found when I found Sister Helen. Her beautiful golden hair was matted with blood and soot. Half her face had been blown away and her clothes were torn from her body.

“I know the signs. They had raped her. They had raped the person I was coming to think of as my mother. She lay there in blood and gore. She opened the one eye she had left and smiled at me. She was happy that I was alive. I promised her soul that I would do everything in my power to make the war go away.” Duo carefully omitted his unwanted stay with the alliance.

“Father Maxwell had said I was a genius and he taught me everything he knew and I figured some things out on my own. I went out and searched out the database, news web and documents and followed what was going on. I finally found the group that I had to join to stop the war. Along the way I learnt everything I could that would help me stop the war. I snuck onto a ship I knew that was undercover at the time.

“Howie still can’t figure out how I got on his ship.” A choked sound came at the little smile that quirked his lips. “It was Special Ops. That was who would stop the war and I was going to help them. Howie took me on and I slowly became Shinigami. The pilot assassin that no one wanted to get in the way of. Code Name Deathscythe. My motto was I run and hide but I never lie. And the other one. No one lives to remember the face that was sent to bring them to hell.

“Part way through the war I got a call from one of the elitists. He had a tall order for me. He wanted me to make the people, group or whatever it was that killed his father and his eldest sister disappear.

“I think I surprised him. I did it. I cleaned out the whole group by the end of the war and still managed to do the other missions that were handed to me. I think I actually impressed the elitists with that especially, Sandrock.

“At the end of the war I decided it was time to repay the deeds and death I had dealt by trying to save lives and make them better. I became a paramedic and started to work on the idea of New Haven. I caused have across the earth sphere the most. So I decided that was were I was going to start.” Duo blinked as he came to himself. He was standing at the window and staring out at nothing. Tears of grief were trailing down his cheeks as he remembered all the people who died at his hands and the people who had died for him. He was now glad that he was on his seven day rest period. He was going to need after the nightmares this would bring on.

He didn’t hear the footsteps or chair movements that heralded the arms curling around him. “I am the only survivor of L5.” A voice whispered huskily into his ear. “I know what it is like to want justice. I lost my family, wife and every friend I had. I became a weapon of Nataku. I dealt out justice I saw as fit to the world.” A hand turned his face to look into onyx eyes. Duo found complete understanding in those depths. “I will always be there nothing is going to take me from this earth unless I die fighting. I will not leave you.”

Duo gasped as lips brushed across his. Electricity fired across his nerves at that simple gesture.

Wufei grasped a hand and gently tugged the other man back to the seat he had just vacated and pulled him back to curl up in his lap. He looked at the other men and smiled as he found them glaring at a scrunched guiltily up doctor in his chair.

“What?” Quatre finally got the nerve to voice the question to his lovers. “Did you really think I would let the people who killed a member of my family live?” He questioned in a tremulous voice. He was also relieved. He was relieved that his action during the war was out in the open. It was the only secret he had kept from the men he could not live his life with out. “I couldn’t do it myself so I got the best person I could think of to do it.” He explained as they continued to glare at him.

Trowa finally shook his head and gave a little smile. “I would have found the time to do it myself.” He murmured as he let his eyes rest on his other love for a second. “Heero would have as well.” A grunt met his statement. “You had to take this war on your shoulders and lead it. We’ve just been waiting for you to confess. We had hoped to hear it from your lips not someone else.”

Heero gave a hurt glare to the blond and turned his attention back to the two sitting across from him at the table. “Its about time we found you. Did you know that Preventers has been trying to recruit you for the past five years?”

Wufei pressed a finger to the mouth that was about to respond. “Were you listening to what he said?” He asked the other man with a raised eyebrow. “He said he wants to save lives not destroy them.” He raised a hand when Heero was going to respond. “He is happy where he is. He worked hard to get to first class paramedic. Besides did you not hear how Quatre introduced him. Lieutenant. He is in a class all of his own. He is probably the youngest one on their records.” Heero blinked at the words.

“I’m also trained as medical SWAT.” Duo added around the finger pressed to his lips. A grin settled on his tear stained face. His tongue snuck out and swiped the offending digit. Onyx eyes met his with a promise of retribution later. “I am the only Medical personel that is allowed to carry a weapon on the job. I have given police and Preventers aid when it was needed.” He tossed a grin across the table. “In fact two weeks ago when you needed a sharp shooter to take down a suspect holding hostages at the Hyat, I took the taker.” He looked over at the surprised man. “I do help when it’s needed. Une knows where to find me if she needs me. But she knows too only ask when it is absolutely needed. I don’t want to take any more lives no matter what the cause. I will if I have too, but I prefer to stay away from it if possible. I’d rather be the one saving lives. I’m just as good at doing it as I was taking it.”

Quatre blinked and chortled. “All this time you’ve been looking for him and Anne knew where he was all the time.” A full belly laugh erupted from the man as he fell back slumped in his chair. “Oh…oh…this is good.” He laughed harder at the expression on his japanese lover’s face.

Trowa hid a grin behind a hand as he watched the two men he loved. The endearing scowl on the Japanese’s face and the one full of joy on the other.

Duo suddenly sat straight up on Wufei’s lap.