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"Pax Ultima"Written By: Clara Barton Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing. The following
is an intellectual exercise with no intention of profit. That said,
these characterizations, words, and situations are mine. Please ask
before reprinting. Rating: NC 17 Warnings: Angst, violence, language, sex Pairings: If you need to know, please email me
and I will be happy to tell you. Summary:They fought for peace, but peace took away what they loved the most. A very grim tale of suspense and betrayal, set post-canon and featuring character death. Thanks as always to the always fabulous Cuzo
for being my beta! "Pax Ultima " Chapter Nine Trowa remembered the way he had felt when Une had called
him into her office and informed him of Heero's death. He had forgotten how to breathe, had staggered backwards
as though he had been shot, and only Wufei's fingers digging into
his shoulder, clawing at him, dragging him back to reality, had kept
him from falling down. Duo had been the one to tell him about Catharine's death.
Duo had been walking past the intel bay he claimed, snooping more
likely, looking for a juicy case he could get himself assigned to
that didn't involve babysitting duty, and he had heard the call come
in, the reports of the riots on L 3458. Duo had told him, had held
him while Trowa struggled to piece together the words, the idea -
Catharine. Dead. Trowa had forgotten about that, had blocked out almost
everything that had happened that week for the longest time - had
chosen not to remember Duo's comfort or Duo's presence at the bar
that night and the two nights after as Trowa drank himself into a
blackout night after night. He had chosen not to remember the way
Duo stood on one side of him during the funeral and Heero, still Trowa's
lover then, on his other. And then Heero had left, only two weeks later he and
Duo had left on a mission and when they came back, two months later,
Trowa knew something had changed. Heero lingered at the office every
night, wandered to Duo's cubicle on his breaks to talk and started
sparring with Duo in the gym, an activity they had avoided for at
least three years, ever since Heero pulled on Duo's braid and Duo
broke his wrist. It wasn't until a month after that, however, that Trowa
had known what precisely had changed, had seen Duo run his hand down
the side of Heero's face in the locker room and watched Heero capture
his hand and kiss it. Trowa had packed his things that night and moved back
on base. He had ignored Heero when he tried to talk to him about it,
had punched Duo in the throat when he tried to talk to him
about it and happily taken the two week leave of absence Une slapped
him with for it. Duo and Heero had been assigned to another mission together
after that, a mission that Heero had never come back from. A mission
that had ended with Duo putting a bullet through his skull. ~ * ~ |
