Dark World
Chapter 7
by: Lady Saffir
Disclaimer: The GW characters do not belong to me.
Rating: PG/PG-13
*sigh* Relena has such a potty mouth....and Duo, but we all kind of guessed that already.
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I ran blindly, crashing through the first set of doors that led to the outside.
The bright sunlight momentarily blinded me and I stumbled, willing my eyes to
adjust quickly. I was in a side garden, I noted, as I began to run again. My
only thought was to escape, the adrenaline surging through my body to give my
feet wings.
Hearing a shout behind me I glanced back to see Duo quickly gaining on me. That
look was my undoing, as I tripped over a garden bench and went crashing to the
ground. Duo was upon me in the blink of an eye, crushing me under his weight as
he worked to control my arms. Two metallic snaps had me momentarily ceasing my
struggles, as I looked in disbelief at my wrists.
"Handcuffs?! You asshole! Let me go!" I screeched into Duo's ear as he hauled
me to an upright position.
"No," Duo replied shortly, beginning to drag me towards the house. I began to fight
again in earnest, using my fingernails as claws and attempting to trip my captor
at the same time.As luck would have it, I succeeded, and we went down in a pile of
limbs. I frantically began kicking, aiming not at Duo's head or stomach, but rather his knees.
Thinking I was aiming for softer parts, Duo stood, trying to grab one of my legs as
they scissored through the air, my still screaming voice breaking the early morning
silence. Feinting towards his midsection, I used my other leg to aim a well placed
kick at his left knee.
The sickening crunch of bone and cartilege snapping followed, and Duo went down
with a screaming, "Fuck!"
Panting, I tried to climb to my feet, only to be toppled again as Duo latched onto
my ankle.
"You fucking son of a bitch, let me go!" I screamed, attempting once more to stand.
This time, however, Duo used my momentum to pull himself up, and latched his arms
around my body. I screamed again, wordlessly, then pulled my head forward and rammed
it backwards, directly into Duo's nose.
"Goddamnit!" He cursed, the pain only causing him to wrap his arms more tightly about
me. We began a slow journey to the house, Duo unable to control both me and his
wounded leg and maintain a normal walking pace.
"Let me go, let me go, god, Duo let me go, please," I begged, frantically trying to get
away. Through the open door I could see several shadowy figures waiting, and I began
to struggle more, causing Duo to grunt in pain as I stepped on his feet.
"No. Relena, you need to - " an odd whiz-thump noise had Duo breaking off, before
cursing again.
"Damnit! Heero - sniper!" He cried, trying to get us to the house more quickly.
There were two more odd 'whiz-thump' noises, then my shoulder exploded into red hot
pain. Duo and I simultaneously screamed, the pain making me lose control of my legs.
We went down in a tangled heap once more, and I rolled onto my side, clutching my shoulder and whimpering from the pain.
"come on, come on!" Duo yelled. "We have to get to the house."
He began trying to drag me along, crawling on the ground, and it was then I understood
that it was just possible that I might not survive if I didn't go back into the house
that held vampires.
Have you ever tried to crawl using just one arm? I can safely say from experience that it
is extremely difficult to do with any amount of speed. My concentration broke as I thought
the word 'vampire', and with a strangled cry I fell onto my side, landing on my wounded shoulder. A matching pain blossomed in my leg and I screamed again, only able to curl into a ball and weep.
A shadow blocked out the sun, and the next thing I knew I was being cradled in someone' arms and back in the safety of the darkened house. I was unceremoniously pitched onto the floor to lie there. I heard commotion around me, and only vaguely recognized the voices as being known to me.
"Mother fucking son of a bitch! I'm going to find the asshole and shoot him. In fact, I'll kneecap him then shoot him, just so he knows just how much pain I'm in," Duo exploded, hissing in pain as Sally tried to check his wounds. "Damn it, Sally, stop poking, it hurts!"
Sally leaned back on her heals, eyeing her patient cooly. "Duo, I have to get the wound cleaned before you start to heal. Otherwise I get to slice you open and pick out the debris. Is that how you'd rather have it?"
"Shit," was Duo's only response.
I became aware of someone standing over me, and looked up into the angry gaze of Heero. I gasped, staring at his face in horror. Burns covered about two-thirds of his face, angry and beginning to weep blood. His hands came in to view and I detachedly noted they too were burned, the skin no longer tan but a sickening red/purple that was sloughing off before my eyes, to leave more weeping sores.
I felt myself begin to hyperventilate, the pain in my shoulder and leg falling away as the edges of my vision began to blur. The last thing I remember is Heero gripping my chin tightly, his blue eyes glaring into mine.
"Sleep," he gritted out, and I knew no more.
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Heero stared down at the woman unconscious at his feet, rage coursing through his body. Whoever had been outside would pay for the multitude of damages done this day. Movement on the periphery of his vision had Heero glaring, turning to face whoever had dared approach him at this moment.
"What is it, Trowa?" the icy rage was evident in his voice.
Trowa tilted his head in Relena's direction. "What shall I do with her?"
"Put her in a room. Wufei!" Heero barked, jerking the other man's attention from healing Duo. "When you're finished with Duo, see to her wounds."
The other man nodded, going back to his work.
Heero turned to walk away, when Trowa's voice caught his attention again.
"Which room?"
"Any room, I don't care, just not mine," Heero growled.
"Fine. Then I'll put her in my room," Trowa calmly replied, the smile evident in his tone.
With a cry of rage Heero closed the distance between the two men, slamming the green eyed man into the wall, his hand closing about the other's throat.
"Don't even think about it," Heero snarled, tightening his grip.
Trowa stared back calmly at his sovereign, a knowing smirk on his face. "Then I shall put her in one of the rooms next to yours, if that is acceptable."
"Fine," Heero growled, turning to pace to Duo's side. The other man spared him a grief smile before wincing at Sally's none to gentle prodding.
"Sally?"
The healer looked up at her leader, answering the unspoken question. "He'll be fine with a day or two of rest. The worst is actually the knee and will take almost a full week before Duo has complete use back. So that means no blood letting," Sally ordered, pointing a finger at Heero. "He needs all of his blood to speed the healing along. And I suggest you start your own healing. Burns really aren't your style, Heero."
Heero waved his injuries away. "I'll see to it later."
"No, you'll see to it now." The ordering tone had Heero narrowing his eyes at the healer.
"And I say you use her blood to do the healing. It's only fair, since she's the cause of all of this," Sally continued, ignoring the warning look from Wufei. "And while you're at it, I suggest you complete the second binding. She's a loose cannon, Heero," Sally insisted, glaring up at her leader. "This is one way to make sure she doesn't run off again, before you have a chance to explain things to her. We can't afford to focus our time on her when Hugh is out there, ready to strike another blow."
There was a pregnant silence, before Heero nodded, and the four other people in the room let out a quiet breath of relief.
"Carry her upstairs, Trowa, and stay with her till I arrive."
Orders given and carried out, Heero remained standing where he was, not offering to help assist Sally and Wufei move Duo to his room. He had many things to think of, and not nearly enough time.
