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Contains adult content and shounen ai.
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## = thoughts
~~ = brain wave monitor
Duo: "Have you ever noticed that some types of ceilings look like cottage cheese? Wouldn't
it be cool to cut out little pictures of cottage cheese and tape them on those ceilings."
Wufei: "Who gave him the chocolate mousse?!!!"
Duo: "Why do they call it mousse? It's not a hair product, and it's not, to my knowledge,
made of mouse. What's up with that?"
Wufei: "Heero, do you have any of that duct tape left?!"
"Change" Chapter 17
Heero awoke with a dead taste in his mouth. He vaguely remembered going on a mission and
getting his drunken ass kicked. He remembered something about... Duo.
#Duo! Duo's hurt, bad!#
Heero jumped out of bed and ran down the stairs.
When Heero opened the door to the infirmary, Wufei was sitting up watching Duo. He looked
like he had been up for quite a while.
"Do you want me to..."
"I'm fine. Go take a shower. You smell like something dead."
Heero wanted to argue or ask how Duo was, but he knew that would have seemed suspicious.
So, he just left without a word.
Duo awoke feeling like he had been hit by a forty pound lump hammer. He wished the world
would stop spinning so he could get off. The room settled down a little and Duo thought he
could make out... someone.
#Is that Wufei#
Duo started to get up.
"Don't move. The doctors say you're in bad shape. You've been out for quite a while."
Duo ignored him and continued until he felt pain rack through his body.
"Am I going to have to come hold you down?"
Duo just stared at him.
Heero walks in.
"You've been here for more than thirty-two hours. What if you have a mission?"
Wufei blushed slightly.
"I get your point, Yuy. I'll go get some sleep."
Wufei left and Heero sat down in his place.
Duo stared through Heero. The silence was so thick, you could cut through it with a knife.
#Shimatta, Heero! What the hell were you doing with my braid?!#
"D-did you eat lunch, yet?"
Duo shook his head.
"I'll bring you some."
Heero got up and walked out to be temporarily replaced by Quatre.
"Do you need to go to the bathroom."
Duo shook his head, ‘yes.'
Quatre walked over to Duo, lifted him up, and carried him to the bathroom.
#This has got to be the most embarrassing day of my entire life. Heero, get back in here
and kill me. Ahhh! Now, I sound like Relena. Oh no! Not again!#
Duo started to shake all over as tears threatened to invade his cheeks.
"Duo, are you ok? ...Duo?!"
Quatre could feel it. He could feel the pain and torture that Duo was reliving. He had to
fight not to pass out as made his way back to the bed and laid Duo down.
Duo shook and trembled as Quatre put his hand on Duo's forehead.
"You're burning up. ...Lay still, and try to calm down. I'll go get a docto..."
Duo frantically shook his head, ‘no.'
"What can I..."
Duo concentrated hard. All he wanted to do was get far away from the lab and the various
medical instruments that it contained.
Quatre seemed to understand, because he picked up Duo and carried him out of the lab.
They bumped into Heero in the hall, who looked down at Duo's still trembling form.
"What are you doing?!"
"I have to get him out of there!"
"Wha..."
"Don't argue! Just help me!"
Heero grabbed Duo just before Quatre fell to his knees.
"Get him out of here, now!"
Heero carried Duo up the stairs and put him on his bed, but didn't let go of him until Duo
started to push him away. Heero backed away just as Duo punched a hole through the wall
beside him.
Laters, plude