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Equus	By : Deb Category: Gundam Wing/AC > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 2855 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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“Equus”

Chapter 78

Having given June the basic information on the foal for now, Duo returned to the mare and Heero. Angel was intent on snuffling around every inch of the newborn, pausing from time to time to give a reassuring wuffle along with a gentle lick and nuzzle. The foal was taking it all well, content to remain lying down for the moment and process all that had happened to it. Just as Duo returned, Angel decided to strain one last time and delivered the placenta along with what remained of the amniotic sac, some blood and fluids.

Duo immediately went to the pile of blood and gore to check it over and make sure it was all complete. Nothing worse than finding the mare had retained part or all of the placenta, that meant a rather unpleasant job for Duo who would have to remove the remains. His luck was in. Poking and prodding the mass with a stick, Duo could tell it was all there and intact.

“Gross,” Heero muttered as he observed his lover playing around in the mess and turned his attention back to the new arrival and his mare.

The filly had decided she'd lain down long enough and it was time to get up – although she wasn't too sure how to accomplish that feat. With gentle nudges and encouragement from her mother, the filly managed to get her front two feet to cooperate and stretch out. But what next?

Having checked all was well with the placenta and leaving it in a pile to be buried later, Duo strolled back over to Heero's side to watch the fun. Once the filly was on her feet, he'd get Heero to restrain her so he could check her over and give her an important shot of tetanus vaccine. He'd check Angel once the foal had located the milk bar as that would keep her relatively still for him.

“She's got long legs,” Heero commented as the filly tried to stand up.

“What color do you think she will end up being?” Duo asked, an amused smile on his face as he watched the foal's attempts to stand.

Now that her coat had dried a little it was a bit easier to see her hair color. “I think she will be a steel gray, similar to Shini, but she looks like she could have a couple of white socks on her hind legs,” Heero replied, trying to get a good look at the filly's legs.

The filly had managed to get her hind legs underneath and shoved her body up with her front ones so she was sort of sitting. With a snort of determination, she pushed from her hind legs, wobbled, crossed her front ones in an attempt to steady herself and fell over to her side.

Heero laughed, the sound causing the filly to snort in fear and jump. Unfortunately, her legs that she was trying to get underneath her again decided to go in all directions and she crashed to a heap once more.

“She'll soon get the hang of it,” Duo mused.

Determination rolled off the tiny body, the filly thrusting her front legs out again, hind ones pushing her up and she managed to stand this time, albeit shakily. Angel gave a soft whinny and nuzzled the tiny creature, causing her to lose her hard won balance and fall in a heap again.

While the filly made several more attempts to get her four legs working in synchronization, Heero and Duo watched in amusement. “Any idea what you're going to call her, Heero?”

Heero shook his head. “No, I haven't a clue.”

“Guess you don't need to come up with something right away.”

“I'll see what I can think of later tonight, but if you have any suggestions, I'm open to hearing them,” Heero replied.

Duo nodded in reply.

Heero noted June waving to them from by the fence and he went over to speak with the woman, returning to Duo a couple of minutes later. “June said to say she will catch up with us tomorrow. She needs to get going as it will be Max's feed time shortly.”

Duo looked up and waved to the woman who had started to walk back along the raceway to her car.

Another fifteen minutes passed and finally the filly managed to gain control over her wayward limbs. She still tottered around and looked in danger of falling over at any second, but she was starting to master those funny things that held her upright. Now if only she could locate the milk and satisfy her hunger.

“I think we should give her a quick check,” Duo announced softly.

“You want me to hold her for you?”

“It would make it much easier if you did,” Duo teased.

“Baka.”

Heero approached the foal and spoke in a calm voice. The foal blinked at him but stood her ground. When Heero went to reach for her she tried to shy away, only her legs didn't want to do as they were told and she ended up almost falling into Heero's arms. Heero quickly wound his arms around her body, securing her against him and holding firmly but not hurting her in any way. The filly gave a couple of struggles and followed with a squeal.

Angel was immediately there, wuffling and trying to sniff at her baby.

“It's okay, Angel, we're not going to hurt her,” Duo soothed and ran a hand down the mare's neck.

Angel still worried though and did her best to shove her muzzle through Heero's arms.

“Think you could hurry up?” Heero asked. “I don't want to stress either of them if it can be helped.”

“I'll be quick.” Duo whipped out his stethoscope and listened to the heartbeat and lungs. His hands slipped over the small body, skillfully checking her from head to tail. Lastly he pulled out a capped needle from his pocket, pulled the cap off and gave the filly a quick jab of tetanus vaccine.

The filly squealed with the sting of the needle, Angel grunting in reply and trying to push Heero out of the way.

“All done,” Duo said and stepped back.

“Good,” Heero replied and loosened his arms so the filly could step away.

Disgruntled at being 'manhandled', the filly showed her displeasure by giving another loud squeal and spinning out of Heero's arms. As she turned, she kicked out, caught Heero fair in the knee and promptly fell in a heap as she lost her balance.

“Shit! Heero? You okay?” Duo asked and shot forward to his partner who was grimacing and holding his knee.

“That little bugger,” Heero grit out.

“Here, let me take a look.” Duo practically forced Heero to the sit on the ground and went to roll up the jodhpur leg. “Errr... Might be an idea if we were to remove these from the waist end,” he stated when he realized that there was no way the tight material would roll up Heero's leg.

“I think I'd rather wait until we're back at the stables,” Heero ground out. “I don’t think there's too much damage, she's a little small to do a lot in the way of harm. It does throb like a bitch though,” he admitted.

“Ah, okay.” Duo extended his hand, helping Heero to his feet. “Before we go up, any chance you'd be able to hold onto Angel so I can check her over?”

“I think I can manage that.” Heero gingerly stepped forward to the mare and clipped the lead rope to her halter. His knee was protesting the movement and whilst he was pretty sure there wasn't any bone damage, there would most likely be a lot of bruising.

Knowing his partner was in a bit of pain, Duo made his examination as quick as he could. Two minutes later he was stepping back. “All done. She's fine and healthy, muscles are starting to return to normal and I'd also say her cervix and uterus are also closing up and shrinking back. I'd need to do an internal exam to confirm that though and I really don’t want to have to put her through the stress of one right now.”

“Thanks, I think.” There was a little too much information there for Heero.

“Come on, I want to check that knee of yours.”

“Okay.”

*

Once they were back in the stables, Heero pulled his jodhpurs down and examined his throbbing knee. The blow had caught him just to the side of the knee cap and bruising was already making its presence known along with some swelling.

“There's an ice pack in the freezer at the cottage. I'd put that on it as soon as you can, Heero, it will help stop the bruising and assist in taking the swelling down too.”

“Could have been worse,” Heero replied as he pulled his jodhpurs back up.

“Lucky she's only little.”

“Hai. That's something I'll be keeping a close eye on as she grows though. Last thing I want is for her to start kicking on purpose.” Seeing his partner about to open his mouth, Heero got in first. “I know she didn't do it on purpose this time, she was only reacting on instinct. But as she grows up and I'm handling her, she will need to be taught what is and isn't acceptable; biting and kicking are not acceptable.”

“I'm sure you'll be able to bring her under control,” Duo chuckled before he turned serious once more. “Will you be okay to ride at the show?”

“I'll be fine, Duo. Show isn't for another two weeks and by then the bruising will have gone.”

“But what about working the horses in the meantime?”

“I can't see any problem, Duo. I'll see how it is in the morning and plan my riding accordingly. I have a knee brace I can put on if I need to that will help.” Heero thought his lover was starting to get a little too overprotective.

Knowing his mother hen streak was coming through, Duo did his best to temper it down a bit. “Okay, I trust you to know your limits.”

Blue eyes softened and Heero closed the distance between them to steal a kiss. “Thank you for being concerned about me.”

“My pleasure, Heero, my pleasure.”

* * *

The usual round of phone calls were made that evening after Heero had finished the horses for the night and Duo had completed evening consults. Hilde and Catherine were both over the moon with the news and despite it being dark, they wanted to take a look at the new arrival. Duo managed to persuade them both to wait until the following morning to give the mare and her foal some alone time. Reluctantly they had agreed, but informed Duo they would both be there at least an hour before work in the morning so they could have plenty of time to see the youngster.

Having finished consults and making his escape to the cottage, Duo walked in to find an equally frazzled Heero with Smokey cuddled close. He cocked his head to the side and looked inquiringly at his partner.

Heero looked back and uttered one word: “Quatre.”

“Crap,” Duo replied, understanding completely.

Heero gazed at him, blue eyes looking rather shell shocked and took in the equally frayed nerves of his lover.

“Hilde and Catherine,” Duo stated.

Heero nodded in sympathy.

“Where's the medicinal brandy?”

“Duo, we don't have any medicinal brandy, or any other type of alcohol,” Heero replied.

“Pity, I think we could both go a drink right now.”

“Amen to that,” Heero sighed and scratched behind Smokey's ears.

Duo placed himself behind Heero and began to massage the tense shoulders. “When can we expect them here to see the Princess?”

“Princess?”

“Yeah, she needs a name so for now I thought Princess would be a good nick name.”

“More like 'little shit' if you ask me,” Heero muttered, his knee was still throbbing despite the ice pack and anti inflammatories he'd taken.

“That's not a nice name for a filly,” Duo chastised.

“Mischief Maker,” Heero mumbled, eyes half closed in bliss with the massage he was getting.

“I am not!” Duo promptly stopped his massage and gave Heero a light thwap to the back of the head.

“Ow! I didn't mean you, Duo!” Heero cried and rubbed the back of his head.

“Then what did you mean?”

“I meant Mischief Maker would be a good name for the filly. We can call her Missy for short.”

“Oh, ah, sorry, Heero.” Duo placed a kiss to the back of Heero's head where he'd hit him and resumed his shoulder massage. “Actually, that's not a bad name for her.”

“Glad you agree,” Heero muttered.

“What time did you say they would be here?” Duo repeated his earlier question.

“Seven, if Quatre has his way, eight if Trowa gets his way.”

“Ah.”

“Hilde and Catherine?”

“About seven-thirty to eight.”

“I guess I'd better set the alarm then and make sure I'm up early to have them all fed before the adoring public gets here.”

“And I'll think about you whilst you're out there in the 'snow' doing the stable chores,” Duo snickered, alluding to the much cooler temperatures of the morning now that winter was well upon them.

“I thought you would be coming to help, considering I'm injured and all,” Heero shot back.

“And leave my warm bed? Not a chance, Heero. Not a chance.”

* * *

Duo did remain in his bed whilst Heero went out early to get the horses fed, but he made up for it by having a piping hot breakfast waiting for Heero when he came back in.

“How are all the equines this morning?” Duo inquired over breakfast.

“All still alive and accounted for,” Heero replied.

“What about Angel and Missy?”

“Perfectly fine.”

“How's the knee?”

“Sore.”

“I've still got some anti inflammatory cream left from when I strained my shoulder, might be an idea to put a bit of that on it.”

“Thanks, Duo. I think I will after breakfast.”

With breakfast finished and no sign yet of their impending visitors, Duo fetched the cream and had Heero roll up the leg of his sweats. When he saw the knee, he gave a low whistle. “Wow, she sure did get you a good one.” Despite the fact that Missy was only a foal, she could still inflict a lot of damage to a human.

“Tell me about it,” Heero moaned. “It's still throbbing from time to time, but it does ease a little as I move around.” He reached for the cream only to have Duo keep it out of his grasp.

“Let me,” Duo said and uncapped the tube of ointment. Squeezing a generous amount out and onto his fingers, Duo gently massaged the cream into Heero's flesh. The knee was still a bit swollen and had turned a few interesting shades of purple, black and red overnight.

Heero gave a soft moan as Duo's gentle fingers worked around his sore knee. “Feels nice,” he said in appreciation.

Having worked the cream into the skin, Duo continued with his gentle massage. Feeling a little bolder, he allowed his hands to massage further up Heero's leg to his thigh. Fingers continued to knead the flesh of Heero's thigh through his sweat pants until they reached the juncture of Heero's legs. A rather prominent bulge was starting to appear and swallowing hard, Duo tentatively reached forth to massage the swelling flesh there.

“Ah,” Heero moaned and let his head fall back, eyes closing and just savoring the longed for touch his lover was giving him.

“Heero? Duo? You guys in here?”

“Fuck! Quatre,” Duo hissed and pulled his hand away from Heero's groin.

Heero jumped at the sudden calling out of their names and started to pull the leg of the sweats back down. “Dammit, he has such lousy timing,” he groused under his breath.

“Rain-check?” Duo asked as he stood up.

“Please?”

“You got it.” Duo turned and began to walk back out from the lounge room. “We're here, Quatre,” he called and went to greet the pair in the kitchen, giving Heero a little time to calm himself.

Hilde and Catherine arrived within seconds of Quatre and Trowa, Duo sitting them all down in the kitchen until Heero came in. The questions were thick and fast, ranging from the details of the birth (Hilde and Catherine) to her conformation, nature, name and Heero's plans for her in the future. When Heero joined them all he managed to answer most of his side to the questions with enough details to satisfy everyone's curiosity. Duo spoke mainly to Hilde and Catherine, keeping his voice a touch low as he explained the easy birth Angel had gone through.

With 'question and answer' time over, the four all demanded to be taken out to the paddock to see the latest addition to the Yuy-Maxwell household. Duo checked his watch, noting he, Catherine and Hilde had enough time before morning consults to see the new filly.

Setting off for the paddock, Quatre couldn't help but notice that Heero's gait was a little stiffer than usual. He nudged Trowa and whispered in his partner's ear. “Heero's walking a little funny, do you think there could be something wrong?”

Green eyes watched as Heero appeared to limp slightly. “Maybe he got lucky last night?” Trowa returned, causing his lover to blush deeply.

Duo caught the blush on Quatre's face and his curiosity was immediately aroused. Unable to help himself, he sidled up to the blonde. “Naughty thoughts, Quatre?”

Quatre almost choked. “N-no, not at all,” he replied and glared at Trowa who simply shrugged.

Duo caught the glare and looked between the two. Trowa stared innocently back at his partner, Quatre glowered in return. Trowa raised an eyebrow, Quatre shook his head. Trowa tilted his head and gave an evil smirk. Quatre blushed yet again and scowled.

Now Duo's patience completely ran out and his curiosity overrode everything else. “Okay guys, spill. Something's going on, the silent conversation confirms it and I want to know what it is.”

Seeing his lover about to open his mouth, Quatre jumped in. “Don't you dare,” he muttered.

Completely ignoring the embarrassed blonde, Trowa fixed his attention on Duo and spoke. “Quatre noticed that Heero seems to be walking a little funny and wondered if anything was wrong. I figured he got lucky last night.”

Duo joined Quatre in the blushing and choking department. Trowa watched the pair with amusement dancing in his eyes.

“I take it I'm right?”

Having recovered his power of speech, Duo replied, “Actually, no, you're not. Missy didn't appreciate being held by Heero whilst I examined her and when he let her go, she kicked him. Got him just to the side of the knee.”

Quatre's hand flew to his mouth. “Is he alright?”

“Yeah, he'll be fine, just bruising mainly. Swelling has gone down a lot and there doesn't appear to be any bone damage.”

“Thank goodness for that.” Quatre turned to his partner. “Might be an idea for you to avoid any handling of this one.”

“Eh?” Trowa looked completely confused at Quatre's comment.

“Given the luck you seem to have with horses you might end up injured too.” Seeing Trowa still trying to figure things out, Quatre decided to enlighten him further. “Whenever you handle Shini you always manage to get bitten...”

Understanding dawned then and Trowa blushed. Fortunately he was saved from further teasing as they had arrived at the paddock where Angel still had her head buried in her feed bin, the filly snuffling around her mother and the bin.

“Awww, she's so cute!” Quatre exclaimed.

The filly spun around, spotted the people coming through the gate and hid behind her mother.

“At least she's gotten her legs under control,” Duo observed.

“Just so long as she doesn't try kicking again,” Heero replied as he led the group across the paddock. Hilde and Catherine heard the comment and demanded to be filled in. By the time they reached Angel, everyone knew the story.

The next half an hour was spent cooing and admiring the filly who turned out to be what Duo termed an 'attention whore'. Once she'd gotten over her instinct to flee, she was equally as curious about the humans as they were about her. Quatre played an interesting game of 'peek-a-boo' with her before she became bolder and approached.

For some reason – and much to everyone's amusement, Missy took a special liking to Trowa. She approached the quiet animal shelter owner and sniffed him over, Trowa remaining still and allowing the investigation of his person. Once Missy had assured herself that Trowa wasn't a predator, or about to harm her, she rubbed her face against his shoulder and started to sniff his long bang.

Trowa remained crouched as the filly grew bolder, a soft smile on his lips. Missy decided the long bang of hair looked quite tasty and began to lip at it. Gathering a little more courage and before Trowa could protest, she slipped a chunk into her mouth and tried to chew on it.

“Hey!” Trowa objected and raised his hand to try and rescue his bang from the foal. Unfortunately, his sudden vocal emission startled the filly who moved backwards, Trowa's bang still in her mouth and pulled on the long chunk of hair.

“Ow! Let go you cannibal,” Trowa protested and tried to rescue his hair. Luckily, Missy opened her mouth and let the hair drop, scurrying back to her mother and peeking out at Trowa from behind Angel's back legs.

Everyone couldn't help but laugh at Trowa's expense. His hair hung in a wet lump across his face, slobber mixed all through it.

“What is it with your horses and their desire to eat me?” Trowa asked Heero as he tried to work his fingers through his bang and remove bits of slobber from it

Heero shrugged. “Maybe you taste good?” he offered with a snicker.

“Oh, yuk. You need to wash that as soon as possible,” Quatre said and shrank back from his partner.

“There's a water trough by the gate,” Duo offered helpfully, doing his best to keep his chuckles to himself.

“Thanks, thanks a lot. Ow!” Trowa whirled around. Right behind him stood Missy, not in the least perturbed by his outburst. She'd snuck forward again once Trowa had been occupied and decided his jeans looked quite tasty too and had tried to take a nibble of them. Unfortunately, Trowa was in them and the tight denim didn't leave much in the leeway department and Missy had also nibbled on the back of his thigh.

“That's it, I'm out of here. When you can control your horses and let them know they are not carnivores, I'll come back for another visit,” Trowa huffed and turning on his heel, he began to stalk back towards the paddock gate.

The remaining five continued to laugh uncontrollably as Trowa stalked off, Missy deciding to follow him and trying to get a nibble of his person at any opportunity.

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