As Always Standard Diclaimers Apply!! DUH!!

War, Peace, and Stuff Left Over

By Catzi-Star

Duo yawned at the sight of the rain. It had been raining for quite awhile, and Duo was bored since nothing else had been going on since he killed Damien a month earlier. The gundam pilots and everyone else went back to their normal lives. Or at least for the time being. Duo was in the gundam hangers staring blankly out the window. It was October, and it was terribly rainy and cold. Heero was near the window drinking some tea.

"Hey Heero aren't you bored 'cause you haven't killed anybody in about a month or so?" Duo asked. Heero looked up.

"No because Relena has kept me busy enough so I don't really think about war, or killing," Heero answered.

"Man I am so bored. Where are the others anyway?" Duo asked.

"Quatre left yesterday with the Magunacs on some kind of mission and Trowa went with him. Wufei, Sally Po, Noin, and Zechs are in the lab researching some chemicals. But I have no idea where Relena is," Heero said kind of upset.

"Oh she's upstairs sleeping. She just got back from a diplomatic meeting on some colony. You never heard her say hello to everybody? She was looking for you, but was really wiped, so she decided to just go upstairs. She must have fallen asleep."

"I see." Heero calmly left Duo sitting on his Gundam Deathsyth staring out the window. Duo said "Hey Heero where ya going?" Heero did not answer Duo's stupid question.

Heero could hear the rain pounding on the roof, as well as Relena's soft breathing. Relena was still in her favorite school uniform. Heero guessed she went to the meeting in that outfit. Relena looked as though she just threw herself onto the bed and fell asleep. Heero smiled. It was one of many smiles that Heero had smiled since he told Relena he loved her. Heero quietly walked over to Relena. He gently kissed Relena. Relena awoke suddenly, but noticing that it was Heero, she threw her arms around Heero's neck. Relena had been gone for the past week and she missed Heero very much. Relena sat up in bed and pulled Heero close.

"I missed you," Relena said softly. Heero wrapped his arms around Relena and said,

"I missed you too."

Relena had fallen asleep in Heero's arms. Heero laid Relena gently back down on the bed then left her to sleep. Heero walked down the stairs only to find Duo at the bottom smiling up at him. If Duo weren't his best friend, he would have punched that smile right off.

Relena awoke to hard rain and dark gray skies some hours later. She sat up and brushed her hair out of her face. The rain made Relena want to go back to sleep, but she remembered about Heero, and quickly brushed her tangled hair. Then she flew down the stairs right into Quatre's arms.

"Be careful Miss Relena," Quatre said politely.

"Oh sorry Quatre," Relena said smiling at him.

" Where are you going?"

"I'm trying to find Heero. Do you know where he is?"

"Yeah he's downstairs asleep."

"Thanks Quatre," Relena said.

"Your very welcome."

"Hey wait when did you and Trowa get back?"

"We just got back a little while ago. While you were sleeping."

"Oh ok, cool, talk to you later."

Relena ran down the hallway to the grand staircase leading further downstairs. Once she was downstairs, Relena quietly walked to Heero's room. No one was downstairs, so it was very quiet, and eerie in a sense, because it was raining. Relena found Heero tossing and turning in his bed. She quickly ran to his bedside, and Heero awoke suddenly right into Relena's open arms. He hugged Relena tightly.

"Were you dreaming?" Relena asked.

"Yeah," Heero answered.

"About what?"

"About the annihilation of this world, and of...of our death." Heero was about to say something, but Relena shushed him and helped him up.

"Come let's go get some tea," Relena said.

Back in the hangers, Duo had fallen into a restless sleep while making repairs to his gundam.

(Duo's Dream)

"No! No! No!" a young Duo screamed as his adoptive father, Father Maxwell, died in his arms.

"OZ did this," was the last thing Father Maxwell said to Duo. Tears of great sorrow fell down Duo cheeks.

"I will never let OZ forget what happened this day," Duo said. Duo got up and started running through hard rain. Just then a stray bullet drove itself straight through Duo's chest. Duo stumbled and fell hard on his face. Cold red blood seeped out from under him and flowed down the road. Duo looked up at a strange man with a big nose, and big gray hair before blacking out.

(End of dream)

Duo woke up with a stifled scream. Wufei looked over at Duo from his gundam, which he was also making repairs on.

"What is it?" Wufei asked without much enthusiasm.

"Oh it was nothing. It was one of those creepy past lives sort of thing, you know." Duo answered.

"Oh."

Wufei and Duo kept working on their gundams. Suprisingly, Duo had nothing more to say the whole time he was working on his gundam. The dream probably kept him quiet for the rest of the time.

In the isolated parlor, which no one besides Heero usually went, Relena and Heero were sitting down having tea. They were both pretty quiet while they were sipping their tea. Heero finally broke the silence.

"So how did your diplomatic meeting go on that new colony?"

" Oh you know it was a bunch of elder gentlemen, who only wanted to talk about me, and say how my ideals were impossible, or meaningless."

"Your ideals don't sound frothy and meaningless to me." Relena smiled at this comment, and said,

"Thanks for saying so Heero."

Just then Duo burst in the parlor breathing hard.

"He...Heero..Relena.... It's bad." Duo said collapsing. Relena gasped and ran over to help Duo. Of course Heero's instinct was to protect Relena. So he pulled out his handgun and stood outside of the door, looking to his left, then his right, then his left again.

"Heero do you see anything?" Relena asked. Heero didn't answer.

"Heero Yuy!!" A man down the hall to Heero's left exclaimed. Heero stiffened.

"Heero Yuy! You are to be executed immediately!" The man said. The man had short dark brown hair, green eyes, and was in his mid-thirties. He pointed a laser gun straight at Heero's heart.

"Why have you come here to kill me?" Heero asked angrily.

"You killed my grandfather! The peace-loving Noventai. Now you must die for his death!"

"I should not be the one you are pointing your gun at. OZ tricked me into thinking that Noventai and the others on his plane were part of some organization planning to hurt the earth. It was purely an accident, and I was ashamed for killing him. I went to his wife and granddaughter personally and said I was sorry."

"An apology doesn't bring a life back. But yours will." The man lunged at Heero, but Heero ducked and ran to Relena's side.

"Relena get out of here," were the last words that Relena heard from Heero's lips, before she blanked out.

Relena awoke in chains, in a dark room, like a dungeon of some sort. Duo was thrown on the floor looking dead. Heero, was curled up in ball on the floor next to Relena . His clothes were bloodstained. Relena fought against her shackles. She just wanted to touch Heero to let him know she was there. Relena cut up her wrists and hands trying to fight the metal shackles. Relena started to sob in despair and frustration, then looked down at Heero. He looked as if he was afraid of something. Her dark fallen angel, her perfect soldier, was afraid. The thought of not being able to comfort him made Relena sob harder. Just then the heavy metal door to the "dungeon room" opened. Relena gasped. It was that awful man.

"Ah I see you've awaken little bird," The man snickered.

"Please I beg you take these shackles off so I can comfort my friends," Relena said with a very doubtful voice. The man looked at her sad face and undid her shackles. Once Relena's shackles were off she rubbed her bloody hands and went over and cradled Heero in her arms. He was shaking.

"I'll be back in an hour to check on you little bird," The man said shutting the heavy metal door behind him. Relena cried tears of joy now that she could hold Heero.

"Uuunnnn.." Duo said rubbing his head wearily.

"Duo?" Relena said.

"Hey," Duo said groggily, crawling over to Relena.

"Duo are you alright?" Relena asked.

"Yeah, but what's wrong with Heero?"

"I don't know, but his clothes are blood stained, and he's shaking."

"Heero? Shaking? Man he must be sick."

"It almost seems as if he's afraid of something."

"Heero afraid? They must have really drugged him up or something."

"Duo, what happened?"

"It's a long story, but we have all the time in the world right now."

"Yeah."

"This is what happened. I was in the gundam hangers with Wufei, when all of a sudden that guy barged in and punched me really hard in the stomach, and broke Wufei's arm. I staggered to the parlor to get you and Heero with that guy chasing me. Now here we are."

"Is Wufei alright?"

"I don't really know. But you know Wufei I'm sure he's fine."

"What are we going to do about Heero?"

"We need to find someway out of here if we're going to help him."

Duo looked around in frustration in the dungeon. There were no windows, only a light bulb which was almost out.

"How's my little bird?" The strange man asked opening the heavy metal door to the dungeon. Relena, Heero, and Duo were gone. There was a big hole in the wall of the dungeon, though. The man turned and ran down the hall cursing. The other gundam pilots, fortunately saved duo, Heero and Relena. They were being held hostage at a new, but abandoned M03 colony.

"Heero....." Relena said stroking Heero's soft hair. Relena and Duo had made it back to the mansion. Heero was laid on his bed still in his bloodied clothes. Relena had asked for a moment alone with Heero from everyone else. Relena cried for what must have been hours. Exhausted, she gave up crying and breathed that last word before falling asleep next to Heero.

Quatre woke Relena with a start a few minutes after she had fallen asleep. Quatre said that there was something terribly wrong with Duo. Relena quickly followed Quatre to Duo's room. Duo was lying in his bed tossing and turning. Noin, Trowa, and Hilde were there. Hilde was desperately trying to comfort Duo. Relena went up to Duo

"Duo! Duo!" Relena exclaimed shaking Duo. But Duo would not awake, despite Relena's insistent shaking.

"See what I mean he won't awake," Hilde said.

"I'm going to go get Heero. I think that we need to go back in to space. Quatre come with me," Relena said. But when Quatre and Relena went to Heero's bedroom followed by the other gundam pilots, Heero was gone.

"Unn...." Heero said jumping down from his gundam. Heero had just entered the mobile suit hangers on MO3. Heero was still injured, but that didn't keep him from his goal of killing that mad man who had held him, and his friends, hostage. Heero quickly ran down the hallway, to a room he had noticed vaguely while being taken to that dungeon earlier. Heero entered the room and right away found the mad man sitting in a leather chair. The room seemed to be an office of some sort. The man was sleeping. Heero shot the man in the head while he was sleeping. Heero felt like a coward killing a man who had no chance to fight back.

"It's very cowardly to kill a man while he's sleeping. But any man who threatens my friends, earth, or the colonies should be killed. I'm tired of killing people, but as long as people like you exist, I guess I'll have to," Heero said. Heero broke down in tears and fell to the floor. So many lives he had taken. Innocent lives, and guilty lives. He was so tired and ashamed of killing people. He just didn't want to hurt anyone anymore. Just then Relena, Quatre, and Trowa came in. Quatre noticed a man with a bloody hole in his head sitting in a leather chair. He looked at the man, then at a tearful Heero, and decided not to ask questions.

Heero, Relena, Quatre and Trowa all returned home later that night. Relena fixed Wufei's arm, while Heero attended Duo. Heero sat next to Duo's bed sleeping. Duo still tossed and turned, until he drifted into another dream.

(Duo's Dream)

"Get over here boy," a man in a black trench coat told Duo. Duo was still very tired and sore after being shot. The weird man with the big gray hair, who he had learned was Dr. G, was training him for something called Operation Meteor. Duo would have to pilot some huge robot called Gundam Deathscyth, which was still being built. Duo was only a small boy of seven, but already went under rigorous training. Today he was learning "endurance." The man in the black trench coat made him run four miles, dodge real bullets, and made him install, uninstall, and figure out a control panel until his fingers bled.

"That's enough training for today, now go get some rest Duo," Dr. G said. Duo once again went to bed without dinner because of his training. After two years of this strenuous and harsh training, Duo ran away. Eventually Duo was caught by the man in the black trench coat, and was whipped twenty times. His back bled so much, so he lost so much blood that he past out.

(End of dream)

Duo woke up in a cold sweat. He kept on having those disturbing dreams about his training, that it made his immune system weak. But that was normal for most of the gundam pilots because all of them went through harsh training. Heero opened his eyes and stared at Duo with a hard glare.

"So what's the deal with you? Why so sick?" Heero asked.

"I keep on having these dreams, about my training to be a gundam pilot when I was young," Duo answered.

"Hnn," Heero said. Heero didn't ask further questions because he knew how mentally and physically crushing his training was as well. Heero went and got Hilde and the others, telling them that Duo was awake and should be fine. Relena thanked Heero on her way to see Duo.

Heero went to his parlor and leaned against the doorframe. Who ever thought that someone like Duo could have been though something as harsh as gundam training. Hmm I'm glad that those days are over.......

I know it was mushy, and the gundam training sound too harsh, but hey, a little sauce makes a story a WHOLE lot better!! Any kind of Comments, Questions etc.. Send them all to: Ccoke@aol.com I LOVE GETTING MAIL!! I'm a loner not many friends!! (CRIES) Anyways, Thanx for taking your hard earned internet time to read my fanfic!!!