Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Sweet Lullaby ❯ Two Moons part II (Labyrinth) ( Chapter 10 )

Disclamer: Honestly, I still don't own Gundam Wing. So just read on…okay?

 

Sweet Lullaby

Chapter 10: Two Moons part II (Labyrinth)

 

Maisha glanced out her window, wondering if her father was looking at the same two moons. She sighed at how beautiful they both were, one was a pale blue and the other a pale purple, they gave her room a colorful yet dim type of light. The sky looked so real even though it was sealed outside by a protective panel; still it was different from other colonies since in this one the panel was transparent allowing the people to view the wonders of space but only at night. A sole tear journeyed down Miasha's soft peach skin. A feeling overcoming her tightened heart, even though she wasn't alone she felt like she was, without her mother and father it just felt hard to feel alright.

A slight tickle on her bare ankle shook her out of her thoughts; she looked down at her feet while she wiped away the watery substance off her cheek. Lolita sat there waiting for Mai to acknowledge her. Mai smiled at the sight of the pink creature and picked her up in her arms. Lolita loved being pampered and always wanted attention. She licked her cheek where the tear had been as to show Mai that she was thrilled to be in her arms. “You're tongue feels funny.” The small girl giggled as she experienced the ticklish feeling yet again.

While carrying Lolita in her arms she headed towards her bed. She removed the top blanket which she used for bundling up and placed the expecting Lolita under the covers followed by her. Another tear escaped from her violet almost amethyst colored eyes. Lolita watched in wonder and licked her cheek once again but only provoked a cloud in her eyes and more tears made their way out.

Evie knocked lightly on Mai's door, to which Mai quickly rubbed her eyes and took a position of being asleep. After not receiving any answer from the young child, she decided to let herself in. She walked over beside her bed, a sigh escaped her lips; she shook her head amused by the sight of Mai holding a very still Lolita as if she were a stuffed animal. Silently she watched her, but was surprised when she saw Maisha's cheek wet and a small tear roll down innocently. She's not asleep.

“Mai… what's wrong honey?” Evie was indeed alarmed; Mai had been avoiding all of them the whole day and wasn't enjoying anything.

The small girl aware that she had been caught let go of the small pig and turned to look at Evie.

“Nothing,” she muttered. Her eyes were red and puffy, not from crying a lot but from holding her tears back. A mixture of different and overwhelming feelings invaded her small heart and couldn't help but lunge and hug Evie. Imagining for just a moment it was her mother… even though she already knew the reality, it wasn't her.

Her grey eyes opened wide, perplexed by the little girl's action. She didn't know how to react and her arms slumped to the side, she wasn't good with children either. Not like Faye was, Faye was good at everything, she thought. A twitch in her eye made an appearance it always did when she thought about Faye. This is what guilt feels like.

“It's my fault! It's all my fault!!” Maisha bellowed out. Startling the grey eyed girl out of her thoughts.

She placed her right hand gently on Mai's chestnut hair, “What are you talking about?”

“The reason mommy died! It's my fault!” She cried out, this time the tears didn't hesitate to freely roll down her cheeks.

Shock was written all over Evie's face, finding it hard to move or even speak. Why on earth was she blaming herself for it? Evie knew better than anyone that neither Mai nor Duo was to blame.

She snapped out of it however, when she heard Maisha whimpering. Lightly she picked up her face with her middle and index finger.

“Never… ever say it's your fault… you are not to blame… ever,” she chocked on her own words.

Maisha thought otherwise, “No! It is my fault. Why does everyone have to lie to me?” She rubbed her eyes leaving them redder and puffier then before, “My daddy said that my mommy died `cause she was sick… it was a lie… she wasn't sick… she was strong… she just didn't want to be with me anymore… I wasn't a good girl…”

“Listen to me that it's not true, Maisha, it's not. You're a very good girl and your mother was proud of you!” Tears began forming, making her give off a crystal like effect. It was getting too much for her to handle, but she had to bare it… she owed her that much and more.

She didn't want to listen anymore to what everyone else had to say, Mai shook her head fiercely, “It's true!! I heard my him talking to uncle Wuffie… that mommy had killed herself… that it was what the police had said! She didn't want me anymore… she didn't… it was me…and now my daddy doesn't want me either…”

Evie's heart sank to bottom of her stomach, how did it end up this way? This innocent little girl was blaming herself for something she wasn't part of. Without thinking about it too long Evie wrapped her arms around the small child and they both cried together, let our every guilty feeling that was haunting them both. Even if there was innocence in the guilty, it didn't stop them from feeling like it wasn't so.

Lolita not wanting to be left out made a gap in between them enough so she could place herself right in middle. The warmth among the three slowly eased the pain they both felt. Evie hastily wiped off the tears on the naïve child and grabbed her cheeks so that her eyes could meet hers.

“Listen to me sweetie and listen carefully,” she ordered, Mai nodded her head as best as she could, “The only reason your father said that is because he loves you… he loves you more than anything in the world and so did your mother. Don't ever doubt that your mother loved you!”

Mai nodded slightly in understanding… trying to feel strong and not cry just like he promised her uncle Wufei.

 

X.x.x.X

 

Duo searched around in the floor, it was strange that something had fallen out of Richard's eye and even stranger that he rushed out of the room. It's too damn dark, I can't see anything! But what was it that fell out of his eye…

He wondered and in the midst of the wondering he came in contact with something that didn't belong on the floor, it was small and of odd texture. The braided man grabbed it carefully, it felt delicate and that it would rip apart easily, although not too long past when the small object hardened. His eyes searched for any sign of light anywhere, bingo, a small clear let in a dim bluish light from the window that had been covered up. Reaching out his hand so that the small object was shun upon by the ray of light, his eyes widened in wonder when he realized what it was. A contact lens was resting in his palm, he got as close as he could and saw some color in them, not sure of what color because of the light, but it definitely had color. He either has a lot of vanity in him… or something weird is up.

“What are you doing?” Richard came back in, his voice was still strange, like it was trying to smooth out and he rubbed his neck area constantly.

Duo went back to his usual spot and smiled innocently, “Nothing absolutely nothing, it's just so dark in here and it's pretty annoying even for the God of Death.”

Richard opened the door a bit more so the light went into the room. Duo found it odd how different he truly was from his brother and his occasional mood swings. “What happened to your eye?” Duo asked plainly.

“Huh?” Richard was surprised, but then again he was a Gundam Pilot, he was trained to notice all sorts of details, his brother had informed him of that. “Dust… there was dust in my eye.”

“You shouldn't wear that mask then… or contact lenses they can irritate your eyes… especially if you're not use to them.”

Just as he had been told… he notice the little details… he wasn't used to wearing contacts at all. His brother had asked him to, he didn't know why but he wasn't going to go against his wishes. “I cannot remove my mask; if I reveal myself to you I would have to kill you now.”

Duo mentally analyzed his every word; he figured since he didn't debate on not being used to the contacts, he had hit the spot, once again. “Aren't you going to kill me anyway?” That was the obvious question he was awaiting to ask but it was more of a declaration however.

“You could save us a lot of trouble… even your daughter's life, if you just tell us where the rest of the pilot's are,” his answer was cold yet simple.

“The rest of the pilots?” Duo wanted to come up with something they could believe, everything was starting to make sense, however there was no point in getting the others involve, there was no point in all of them dying. “I hate to break it to ya buddy… but they're all dead.”

“Dead?” Even though Duo couldn't see his expression the tone in his voice however revealed he was more than dumbstruck. “They can't be dead… why should I believe you anyway? Give us the names then?”

“You fool… you actually think our names are in any database… we don't even have names! None of us did!”

“See, now you're lying to me. Because I know one of them had a name… a good one at that… and I know he's dead… like you will be if you don't quit playing games! We already know where your daughter is…” He was frustrated and angry.

Duo's eye burned with fury when he mentioned his daughter, “You dare touch Mai I'll kill both of you… and what do you mean by one of them had a good name?”

“Quatre Raberba Winner… does it ring a bell?” He mocked.

So they do know… bastards… could it be that they… “YOU SON OF BITCH! You two killed Quatre didn't you? Didn't you?” Duo demanded to know up and ready to strike him however he could.

Rich wasted no time and pointed his gun at Duo's head, “Now… now you shouldn't be pointing fingers, as a matter a fact I don't remember that whole ordeal. It seems my brother was trying to get rid of you and not Quatre, however we weren't sure he was a Gundam Pilot, we were having doubts… now you cleared it out for us.” He explained politely.

Duo slumped back down, shock plastered all over his face; hurt covering his heart and memories flooding his mind.

X.x.x.X

“What's on your mind?” Wufei decided to finally break the long yet not so disturbing silence.

Wufei was always someone Heero could feel conferrable with at times, because they both knew when to be silent and when to begin a small and unnecessary talk. Even though they're ideals where different they could relate to each other in some ways. The ex- Nataku pilot had also learned how to open up a little bit more with the help of Quatre and how to actually care for other people's opinion so this also made it easier for both to be conferrable with each other's presence at the time.

“You remember how Quatre made us watch those long boring movies sometimes?” Heero reminisced on the times when the five of them were practically obligated to get together on a Friday night to watch really romantic movies from ages ago.

“'Bonding Friday' he called it,” Wufei added, “and you mean you actually watched them?” he taunted with a hint of sarcasm.

Heero smirked at his comment and continued, “Quatre always understood them and even Duo. Maybe that's why they enjoyed them...”

Wufei cocked his left eyebrow, skeptical as to where the conversation was leading. “Huh, I always thought it was always the same meaningless plot. A girl falls in love with a boy or the other way around and either she or he is forbidden to love the other, so they go against the world to fight for their 'love' and ended up together at some point or died tragically defending their undying true love. What's there to get? It's all fantasy and stupid ideas to fill people's heads with and the fact that they had nothing better to do with their time back then. And not to mention make woman get stupid ideas that us man have to be like that…” Wufei puffed indignantly.

Heero held back a chuckle. “And you asked me if I 'actually watched them'?” he accused after listening to Wufei's thoughts on old romantic movies.

“Well it's true... but was there a point to this whole recalling back in time?”

“I'm not sure...” Heero replied in all honesty.

“You know when Duo got married, I was right to think he would be first out of all of us to find somebody who understood him...”

“Who was the second one?” He asked in an inquisitive manner, his expression still stoic however.

“You...” Wufei looked at him straight in the eyes, so he would see it was not a lie.

“Me...Why me?”

“Even though you act like you're lost in the world and like you don't belong and that no one would ever understand you, there's something different about the way you perceive everything...” he rationalized as if he had been watching him for all those years.

“That still doesn't explain your 'theory',” he assured while he made himself more conferrable on his couch. He tapped his fingers waiting for a better explanation from his ex-comrade; he too was trying to make one up in his mind. This had left him dumbfounded as to why someone like Wufei would put him second to find someone and get married when he always thought he would never have anything normal thus including marriage.

Wufei crossed his arms in a thinking manner trying to find different words to make it more understandable. “Well once you think about Quatre was the type that was followed by woman all the time, but the woman that he met up with were only interested in his money. Being the romantic guy he was he would've never married anyone unless he was sure she loved him for who he was and vice versa...so Quatre would've had a hard really knowing who the right person was...”

Heero was speechless to Wufei's elaborate theory. Yet he dared to ask, “And Trowa?”

The white dragon smirked as if he knew he would ask that all along, “Trowa found comfort around Quatre and unless Quatre would've gotten married before him, he would have never made that move. Besides he never lets anyone in, you actually think he would've given any girl a chance? I mean he hasn't done it even now. Either that or he's gay…”

Heero couldn't help but laugh this time at his assumption, it had been a while he had anyone he could talk to like that. “You really put a lot of thought into this haven't you?”

“These things come into mind once you realize that the war is actually over and the soldier within you has to go someday, even if a piece of it stays with you, a normal life has to be considered, that's what Quatre wanted us to understand... at least that's what I got out of him.” That explained why he joined the Preventers to not lose that part of a soldier that he was.

Heero's gaze went to the ceiling and his hand ran through his chocolate bangs. He thought about what he had gotten out of the blond pilot, he had started to open up and he did try to look at life differently when he was alive. He'd never would've imagine that Quatre would have the effect of changing his friends this much, but then again it wasn't just Quatre's doing, time had also played a good part in their lives and had healed a lot of deep scars for some of them.

 

“Why didn't you tell her… your feelings?” Wufei questioned the Perfect Soldier and removed him from his personal thoughts.

“Who?” He asked back. Confused as to what he was talking about.

“I know you're a good man… you proved it when you moved out of the way just for Duo…”

Heero chocked, something that was rarely done by him. He cleared his throat and looked the opposite way. “I don't know what you're talking about.”

“You know… for someone who acts on their emotions, you didn't do quite well with Faye.” He stated with a whole lot of simplicity and trying to see if he could catch any reaction from Heero. And thus he did, Heero Yuy began to crack his fingers, he was nervous, Wufei could tell. He hid a grin with his index finger over his mouth and continued. “You had a thing for her didn't you?”

“I had nothing with her; she was Duo's girlfriend and then wife…” Heero stated coldly.

Wufei dropped the subject and stood silent. Both unaware they had an eavesdropper listening to everything that was being said.

 

X.x.x.X

 

“I'm going to kill your brother… you'll be lucky If I decide to spare your life,” Duo threatened with venom in his tone.

Richard still had his gun over his head, “You shouldn't make threats in your position.”

“It's not a threat buddy, it's a promise.”

Before any of them could say anymore Richard fell to the floor with a loud thump. Hands locked over his stomach in agony. Duo looked at him perplexed. I must have some awesome mind power.

The braided ex-pilot took advantage at whatever kind of miracle was happening, he elbowed Richard fiercely and took his gun away. “I might need this thank you very much!” He stated enthusiastically.

As Richard felt the hit he did his best to reach for his pills, but only to drop them, the pain was getting to hard to bear. A last intent to do what his brother had told him to, he also dropped a cel phone in order to catch Duo's attention, which he managed perfectly.

“What are you doing…trying to call your brother?” He quickly grabbed the cell phone from the floor as best as he could, for his hands were still tied, “Yeah, I don't thinks so… by the way just for this time… I'm forgiving your life… just because I don't feel like shedding any blood right now. But I will come back for you and your brother if I find out he killed Quatre! Are you listening?!” He screamed and knocked Richard out cold with the back of his own gun.

 

Duo ran off the door the light almost blinding him, “Crap…” he murmured. Doing his best to accommodate his eyes to the new shining light, he placed his arm over his eyes. But soon enough his eyes were able to determine his surroundings, a hallway, doors leading to different rooms, it was big. He began to search for a way out, “It's like a damn maze in here!” But was having a hard time.

After moments of searching, he realized he still had the cell phone in his hands, “If I'm not going to make it out of here, I should at least warn Heero.” He dialed the first number that came to his mind, Evie's. It rang three times before the girl picked up; Duo meanwhile had found an odd looking door that seemed to lead to the entrance.

“Hello,” he could hear from the other line.

“Evie! Thank God! Listen you have to tell Heero to get Mai to a safe place… you too! You have to…”

He was instantly cut off, “Hello? Who is this? Hello?”

Duo cursed in his mind, the signal was probably messed up. He ran out the door and he finally could see freedom, he was at colony he could tell by the two moons that shun upon him.

“Evie it's me! Can't you hear me??”

Suddenly he heard a gun cock and a sharp needle pierce his neck. Duo slowly let go of the mobile phone when he felt his fingers get numb and the rest of his body was soon to do the same.

“You actually thought I was going to let you go just like that?” The tall man mocked.

His sight was becoming blurry again, “You bastard, you won't get near any of them.”He panted and barely watched as Richard came to where they were. He could still hear everything clearly however.

“What did I tell you? Didn't I say to take the pills? What kind of stunt were you trying to pull?”He scolded his younger brother.

“I'm sorry; I just feel that they weren't helping… I made a mistake… please forgive me… you gave them to me because you care, I'm sorry for not following your orders.” Richard bowed apologetically.

“Well at least you did one thing right; we now know where his brat is. And I'm pretty sure that will also lead us to where the rest are…” He grinned evilly as he held on protectively to the mobile phone, his now most precious guide to fulfill his thirsty vendetta.

 

X.x.x.X

The sound of a corky ring tone, made both ex-pilots look back. Evie's voice could be heard, “Hello…” she asked once, then again, “Hello? Who is this? Hello?”

She came up to where Heero and Wufei were, “Duo?” That caught both of their attention. But no response and then the sound of the hanging up tone.

“Was that Duo?” Wufei asked curiously.

“I don't know I couldn't hear well. It sounded like him for a while…” Evie looked at her phone in thought.

“I hope he wasn't calling to say he still wasn't coming back, hn,” Heero commented in his usual monotone.

“Is there a number registered?” Wufei questioned.

“No, none,” Evie replied simply while she looked over at the call again.

This left them all in thought, as to whether it had been Duo or not. And the reason for his call, it was beginning to cause them nuisance to not know anything about him, but then again if he called, he must be alright? Isn't he?

X.x.x.X

Thanks a mil to Kat_Cora for being the beta once again! For reading and reviewing and for liking this fic as much as you do! Thanks so much from the bottom of my heart I truly appreciate it XD

A/N: Okay, people, here's the other chapter wooo… I'm finally done with this one. I was having a hard time with it. Probably not the best chapter ever… but it does give you some hints of what's going on and leaves you hanging… I know… I'm sorry couldn't help it.

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