Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing.
A/N: Uh oh... slightly dark turn coming up... but not so much. I'm way too happy these days to write an overly angsty story... like Storm Clouds that came out while I was going through my moody, gloomy, the world is going to end phase. Now its all sunshine and rainbows and bunnies!
Blame the soda! when you put sugar and caffeine in one beverage you do NOT get a sane person!
:) Hope you like!
Posted on 19th Nov. 2007
“Adam Shaw… Adam Shaw… Adam Shaw…” Duo chanted to himself as he searched for any information about him on the internet. “Damn…” He swore softly as he found that there was an actor named Adam Shaw and almost all hits were about him. This would take a while…
Five hours later and cranky as hell Duo hadn’t gotten anywhere. His eyes were watery, his back hurt and his fingers were tingly at the tips. He was tired and frustrated. Taking a small break he stretched his arms above his head and arched his back feeling his spine pop back into place. He moaned as his body realigned itself and he stretched his legs out staring at his weird knobbly knees.
He hated his knees.
Further contemplating the shape of his knee caps he got entirely distracted from his original self appointed task entirely.
Would Heero mind his knobbly knees? Does he care about knees? He’ll just have to make sure Heero doesn’t look at them… or feel them…
Duo knocked out of his ponderings by the shrill sound of the phone ringing. He jumped out of his chair and sprawled on the bed to grab the phone on the end-table.
“YELLO!” He exclaimed.
“Hi Duo. You sound happy.” HEERO!! Duo sat up quickly hugging a pillow to his chest as he cradled the phone to his ear.
“I am now.” He grinned. “What’s up?”
“Nothing… “ Heero called for no reason? Just to hear the sweet sound of his boyfriend’s voice?
“You missed me.” Duo said ecstatic. “You missed me! Admit it! You missed me so much you felt your heart would stop and you felt like you were drowning and in so much pain! You know you missed me!” He said dramatically. “I missed you too! Is the Cyclops around? I wanna do naughty stuff to you.”
He heard sputtering on the other end and then a small, meek ‘Bye’.
Duo grinned like a mad man. The truth of the matter was that he felt like he was the one drowning ever since he’d met Heero. He was falling so badly for him that he felt like he could die.
How can someone hurt a guy like him?
At that thought Duo got up and changed into clothes suitable for a chilly fall evening.
Time for a trip to the central library.
He stared at the pile of newspapers the old, matronly, librarian had put in front of him. All he knew was that something had happened four years ago but he had no idea about the date. So he had asked for all the newspapers for that year… all three hundred and sixty five of them.
And this was based on the assumption that something big had happened. Big enough to get into the newspapers. Of course, it could have just been a bad break up and Duo would be wasting his time here.
Glancing at large wall clock on the wall across from him he noted the time. It was six pm on a Sunday. He had nothing better to do… and Heero was worth it, and more.
Cracking his knuckles he started with January first.
“Uh… sir? The library’s about to close and I uh… need you to leave.” Duo opened his eyes slowly and looked around confused about his location.
“What… where?”
“Sir… you’re at the library? It’s one am, you need to leave for us to close the library.” There was a young boy in front of him, probably a high school student volunteering at the library.
The LIBRARY!
“No! No, you don’t understand. I just got through May and I haven’t found anything, I need to go through the rest of the year.” Duo pleaded looking at the smaller pile of newspapers in front of him.
“Why don’t you search for it on the internet?” The boy asked looking confused.
“Because there’s an actor named Adam Shaw that shadows my search.” Duo said holding his head.
“Huh?”
“I’m looking for an incident that happened four years ago involving a guy named Adam Shaw, not the actor.” Duo explained.
“Why didn’t you look through the archives?” The boy asked.
“What archives?”
“At the back of the library, there’s a computer that has all the newspapers archived into it. All you need is a search term and you can find all articles written on that. Then you can filter it using the date, or year in your case, and you have a narrowed list of results.” The boy explained and Duo looked up at him. He looked barely sixteen years old with blonde hair and blue eyes. He reminded him of Qautre.
“What’s your name?” The boy looked uncomfortable for a moment. “Don’t worry, I’m not a creepy old man out to hunt young boys, I have a boyfriend who I love very much.” He explained and saw the kid relax.
“Noah.” He said and Duo held out his hand.
“I’m Duo. It’s nice to meet you Noah. Now do you think it is possible for me to stay a little while longer and look through the archives?” He asked putting on his most charming smile.
Noah thought hard. “I’ll see what I can do.” And he left.
Five minutes later he returned. “Mrs. Roberts says that she can’t leave you alone in here and she can’t stay any longer. I would stay but if I don’t leave in ten minutes I’ll have no ride home.” He said apologetically.
Duo nodded. If he’d had a car he would’ve offered the kid a ride.
“That’s all right kiddo. Thanks for the info, I’ll come back tomorrow and continue my search.” He said and started helping Noah clean up the newspapers and put them back.
“Slow down Maxwell, what are you trying to do, make a world record?” Wufei asked watching Duo work like crazy, barely taking time out to breath.
“Can’t… talk… busy.” Is all he got as he watched him grab two papers in his mouth while he searched for the other pages.
Wufei sighed. “Let me guess… somehow this has to be related to Heero.”
All he got was a quick nod as he found the pages he was looking for, stapled them and booted his computer off in one go and darted towards Butt’s office.
“What? Are you done already?!” Wufei exclaimed but got no answer from Duo’s retreating back. It was barely eleven am.
Just as quickly Duo came charging back out. “I’m leaving early, boss doesn’t care. See you around.” He grabbed his jacket and his backpack and darted out of the office.
“What the hell?”
“No hits…” Duo mumbled disappointed. He leaned back and stared at the computer. Then he decided to remove the year constraint and try again. Some hits came back but nothing he was hoping for.
Mostly they were hits of either ‘Adam’ or ‘Shaw’.
Still staring at the glowing screen Duo rubbed his eyes tiredly. So all he knew was that Heero had lost his eyes around the time that something happened with Adam Shaw. He didn’t even know if it was Adam who had been hurt or if he had been the one hurting… he didn’t know if Heero’s losing his eyesight was even on the same occasion as the issue with Adam.
There were too many variables.
Duo’s eyes widened.
When dealing with variables… you always have a constant.
“Heero Yuy.” He typed into the search engine and narrowed the search results down to one year. One hit. Just one.
He opened it quickly his nerves going crazy.
“Boy blinded in accident.” The headlines read. Duo printed out the entire article… suddenly feeling as though he didn’t need to know THAT quickly. Pocketing the article he switched the computer off and waved to Noah to let him know he got what he wanted.
“See you around Duo.” He said and Duo smiled back at him.
Duo breathed in deeply. The article was laid out in front of him. He reached for the pages and read the title again.
“Boy blinded in accident.” He said out loud. He looked down at the picture in the middle of the page. It was a small passport sized picture of Heero looking much younger and then one large one showing a small body on a stretcher, the EMS people running around.
Settling down he started to read. There was no mention of Adam Shaw by name. But he knew who they meant when the article referred to ‘the victim’s boyfriend’ and apparently Adam had asked to not have his name in the paper.
According to the article Heero had been hit by an eighteen wheeler outside of the city. An eighteen wheeler! The article also talked about how miraculous it was that Heero had survived. The ‘boyfriend’ explained that they had been at a club and Heero had gotten drunk and stumbled onto the road. He couldn’t grab him in time and Heero had been hit.
No witnesses.
The truck driver said that the minute he saw Heero he had braked and turned the truck making the hit a little less direct… probably the reason he’d survived. It had resulted in the truck going off the road and landing half into a ditch… and Heero had landed fifteen feet away…
Duo stopped reading, his stomach heaving unpleasantly. He put his head into his hands and threw the papers across the room. The article didn’t say everything… Adam had a hand in it… he just knew it…
He’ll have to ask Heero… but as Trowa had said, any mention of Shaw’s name would hurt him… and he didn’t want to hurt him.
Time to talk to Quatre.
Pulling his laptop close he opened the online telephone directory, searching for Quatre’s name.
“There…” He mumbled to himself as he dialed the number and waited. Three rings later the phone was picked up.
“Hello?”
“Hey Q-baby!” Duo said with fake enthusiasm.
“Hi Duo, how are you?” Behind Quatre’s soft voice he heard a distinct growl. “Oh shush, he’s just joking.” He heard Quatre say away from the phone.
“Hey Cyclops!”
“Don’t call him baby.” Trowa said.
“No problemo one-eyed weirdo.” Hey… that rhymed.
“Why’d you call? How’d you get his number?” Trowa sounded suspicious.
“The number’s listed.” I told him and Quatre giggled.
“So is there something I can help you with?” Quatre asked.
“Uh yeah… is it possible for me to meet you, alone. No Cyclops or Heero around?”
I heard the speaker phone being shut off and a headset being grabbed. “Now you listen here Maxwell, don’t think I haven’t seen the way you look at him. He’s not yours. Not to mention stop trying to cheat on Heero!” Trowa growled at me and I rolled my eyes.
“I know how you feel Trowa. Since you’re one-eyed and whatnot no wonder you’re insecure about him leaving you. Anyone would with a personality like yours. Don’t worry poo-bear, I won’t take your little blonde teddy away from you. I just need to talk to him about something.” He explained switching back and forth between teasing him and being serious.
“Fine, whatever. But it’s because I trust Quatre and not you understand?” He said before slamming the phone down.
Damn but that guy was possessive.
Duo picked at his sandwich as he waited for Quatre to show up. Just as he decided to take a bite out of it he saw Quatre walk into the café, the bell on the door jingling merrily, and look around for him. With a slight wave of his hand he had his attention and Quatre made his way over to Duo with a smile.
“Hello Duo. How are you?” He said smoothly as he took a seat.
Duo nodded in greeting, “Just fine and you?”
He saw Quatre look outside the window and wave. Following his line of sight Duo noticed a very familiar Cyclops hovering in the parking lot, his eyes trained into the café.
Unbe-fucking-lievable.
Getting an idea he suddenly grabbed Quatre’s hand in one smooth motion and proceeded to give it a quick, sloppy kiss. From the corner of his eye he saw Trowa stumble…
… and were his hair standing on end?!
“He’ll kill you if you go too far with this.” Quatre said to him with a sly smile and he grinned around his knuckles.
“I didn’t intend to.” Duo informed letting go of the blond boy’s hand. “No offense but Heero tastes sweeter.”
“None taken.” He crossed his hands on the table and leaned forward. “Now, what did you want to talk about?”
“About Adam… Shaw…” He saw Quatre’s expression darken immediately and he felt a little afraid for his life. “If you don’t mind… we don’t have to…”
“What do you want to know about him?” He said his voice cold.
“I know as far as the newspaper reported it…”
“You went looking? You went digging into Heero’s past?!” He hissed icily and Duo swallowed thickly.
Okay bad idea… he had figured that Quatre would be the more level headed of the two but guess he was wrong.
“Look okay, I needed to know.” Duo explained. “And I don’t think the article makes sense. I don’t think Heero just stumbled in front of a massive truck.”
“Heero doesn’t drink.”
“What?”
“Heero doesn’t drink. That’s the first flaw with Adam’s story. He said Heero got drunk and just decided to go play on the road. Heero never drank. He doesn’t drink alcohol.”
“So I guessed right… Adam had something to do with the accident.” Duo pushed.
“Something?! He had EVERYTHING to do with it!” Quatre hissed, his face turning red with anger. “If it hadn’t been for that bastard Heero would still have his eyes!”
Duo absorbed that for a moment. One romance gone wrong and Heero has to carry around its mark for the rest of his life…
“Wh-what did he do?” Duo swallowed around the lump in his throat. He could imagine the whole accident as though he had seen it first hand. Heero standing there in front of the truck as the lights came closer… closer… and then the screeching of the brakes as the truck swerved and hit Heero who went flying through the air, blood splattering when he fell on the ground fifteen feet away…
It made his blood boil.
“What did he do?” He said again feeling anger more than sadness this time.
“He pushed him in front of the truck.” Quatre explained looking away, his eyes shimmering slightly. “We, Trowa and I, were at home watching a movie when the call came. We knew immediately that something had gone wrong…”
“Heero and Adam’s relationship had been going through some trouble.” Hearing Trowa’s voice they both looked up. He was standing a little bit away and then he came to take a seat at the table. “We just knew something bad was going to happen. But we hadn’t known that he was capable of such hatred.”
“We got there just as the ambulance was taking Heero away. Trowa had a chance to talk to Adam before he ran.” Quatre said and Duo turned to look at Trowa.
“He continued to insist that Heero had been drunk… but when we told him that Heero didn’t drink he panicked. He said some pretty bad things about Heero and then left with a broken nose.” He explained. “We never saw him again. He ran away and we never heard from him… neither did Heero.”
Duo imagined Trowa punching Adam’s lights out and felt a small smile tug at his lips.
“What’s so funny?” Trowa asked, a little poison in his tone.
“I just imagined you breaking Adam’s nose. I wanna do it too.” Duo explained and Trowa smiled.
“It wasn’t me who broke his nose.” And he looked pointedly at Quatre who blushed and looked away.
“No way!” Little angel Quatre punching someone?! What is this world coming to?
“Well he just made me so mad…” He said his hands fisting on the table.
“Whoa there tiger, don’t punch something here.” Duo warned jokingly but his heart felt heavy. How could someone do that? And no matter what happened no one deserves being pushed in front of an eighteen wheeler. “What happened after… as in legally?”
“Adam got off due to the fact that there were no witnesses and there was a club nearby that they had been to… so technically Adam’s story checked out. Nobody really bothered any more with it considering that there was no murder.” Trowa said.
“And you guys never saw him again?” Duo confirmed.
They both shook their heads.
Duo leaned back in his chair, chewing thoughtfully on his lower lip. He needed to talk to Heero about this, but he didn’t want to bring it up.
“Hey Heero.” Duo called out when Heero asked who was outside. Immediately the door swung open and Duo was rewarded with an eyeful of a wet Heero in a towel. He didn’t have his shades covering his eyes and for once he saw his entire face, his wide blue eyes sparkling despite being unfocussed.
“Duo! It’s late…” He pressed a small button on a clock next to the door and it said, ‘Eleven-seventeen p.m.’ and then turned to Duo again, “What are you doing here?”
“Won’t you invite me in?” He asked softly, he couldn’t stop thinking of the article and what he had learned from Trowa and Quatre.
“Oh sorry… come in.” He stepped back and Duo brushed past him, his eyes lingering on the wet expanse of skin and the small towel that didn’t do much in the way of modesty. Heero was so incredibly beautiful… and he didn’t even seem to know it. “I ah… will go get dressed…” He seemed to just remember that he was in a towel and he turned into the hallway. Duo grabbed Heero’s hand and led him towards the bedroom. “Duo… what are you doing?”
Opening Heero bedroom door he pulled him inside and pushed him down on the bed gently, distractedly closing the bedroom door behind him. As soon as Heero’s head hit the mattress Duo pulled himself on top of him, holding him tightly to himself and kissed him languidly. Heero soon got over his initial surprise and spread his legs a little wider so that Duo lay comfortably between them.
“Duo… no… not yet…” Heero whispered urgently when Duo’s hands drifted a little too low and tried to push the towel out of the way.
“Please… please…let me…” Duo begged his hand gripping the towel tightly wishing it would just disappear. He tugged it again and Heero’s hands clasped his own tightly stopping his movement.
“Please… don’t do this… please don’t…” He moved to kiss his neck ignoring Heero’s pleas, licking every dip and every curve until he had him panting. “Stop… please…” As soon as he felt Heero’s grip on his hand slacken he pushed the towel out of the way with one quick move.
It might have been too fast as it panicked Heero who shoved Duo away. “Iie!” He rolled away from him. Jumping off the bed and he darted towards the door. “Hattoitte! Kamawanaide!” He yelled when Duo wrapped his arms around his shoulders and pulled him against him. “Hanasu!”
Outside he heard Aiko barking like mad as she jumped at the door and scratched against it.
“Heero! Calm down! I’m sorry!” Duo said quickly. “Calm down Heero… shhh…” He said soothingly into his ear and he seemed to calm down slightly. “I’m sorry… I won’t do anything I swear… I didn’t mean to frighten you…” He whispered into his ear.
“C-could I have my towel?” Heero asked meekly, he was shivering violently. Nodding Duo pulled the blankets off the bed and wrapped them around him. As soon as he was covered Heero seemed to get his self confidence back. Next thing he knew Duo’s face whipped to the side as a resounding slap echoed through the room.
Silence followed for a few moments. Heero seemed to be surprised that he had actually hit Duo while Duo looked incredibly guilty. He reached up softly to touch his cheek, feeling the stinging pain.
“I’m sorry Heero.” Duo said reaching for Heero’s hands. “Please, I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to scare you! I’m sorry!”
As soon as their hands came in contact he slapped them away. “Don’t touch me!”
“Okay… okay… no touching…see?” Duo put his hands up in a gesture of surrender but Heero couldn’t see.
“Get out.” Duo felt distinctly as though he was having a heart attack. He couldn’t leave now! He had to make it right somehow! Anyhow!
“Please Heero I’m sorry it got out of hand I didn’t mean to do that I don’t know what was going through my head please forgive me!” he rattled off getting onto his knees in a begging position. “Please, please, please don’t be mad at me! I won’t touch you without your permission I promise! I won’t even kiss you without your permission! It’ll kill me to do that but I will!”
Heero started chewing on his lower lip in thought and Duo took it as a good sign.
“Could you please leave? For now?” He asked and Duo deflated.
“Okay… I’ll uh… call you tomorrow… promise.” He said as he opened the bedroom door. There was Aiko baring her teeth at him and growling low in her throat.
“Aiko! It’s all right.” Heero called from behind him but Aiko continued to growl. “Aiko!” No effect.
Great… even the dog hated him now.
“Hey Aiko.” Duo said softly and she growled louder. “Okay… okay I’m leaving. Sorry girl.” He said to her and tried to pat her but she pulled her ears down and tensed.
Feeling utterly dejected about how the evening had spiraled downward he headed towards the front door and let himself out.
As he was dragging himself across Heero’s lawn he heard the front door open.
“Duo?” Heero called out.
“Yeah?” He answered, hope shining in his eyes.
“You can kiss me if you want.” He said with a small smile and a slight blush. “Goodnight.” And he closed the door.
Duo smiled. Maybe… things hadn’t gotten as screwed over as he had originally thought.
A/N: I could only proof read it once before posting because my Bio paper is due tomorrow and I have yet to start on it... funny how my priorities shift sometimes...
And hittocerebattosai: How'd the Japanese come out? I tried really hard to make it correct. If it's wrong lemme know and I'll correct it asap!