"Insight to the Past"

Written By: Stone Angel

 

Disclaimer: Oh, please. Do you honestly think I'm making money off this? If I was, I'd be writing a whole lot more and it wouldn't take getting drunk to do it. I don't own the characters or the show, if I did, it would be SOOO different. Screw the war, let's see how we can get Heero and Duo in a locked room after taking away their clothes. (wolfish grin) I just like to make the creators cry with the way I write their characters. ^____^ Mission accomplished. hehehe

Rating: R (just because because)

Warnings: Occult? Definately AU, Blood, insanity(not funny stuff, characters on the edge)
and some older style English. If you are squeamish around blood and/or death, skip this
one. It's kinda dark. Also set in the 18th century.

Pairings: None (gasp! Actually this is a first for me)

Authors Notes: This fic is here by demand. Enough people asked for a better description of how Duo and Quatre met in the 1700's so here it is. It is a prologue and then three parts that are too short to be called chapters. The whole thing is pretty tiny, about 10 pages. The begining is fuzzy but it's SUPPOSED to be as Duo is not in the best state of mind. He's kinda insane.

THIS FIC IS A PREQUEL TO A FIC THAT I POSTED BACK IN THE BEGINNING OF
THIS YEAR, "SHADOWS AND LIGHT AN UNBREAKABLE BOND". IF YOU DID NOT READ
THAT ONE, SKIP THIS ONE AS IT WILL MAKE LITTLE TO NO SENSE TO YOU AND
YOU WON'T BE WASTING YOUR TIME. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

Insight to the Past

"Let us hunt."

Part 3:

The man ran towards the pitch-black alley, clutching the dead woman's purse tightly, reluctant to let go, even as he ran for his very life. It was obvious he would head for the alley, thinking that he would lose his pursuers in the dark.

Duo ran ahead of him to a further part of the alley as Quatre had instructed him to do before they had begun chasing the man. Waiting near the middle of the way, Duo watched as the man ran blindly towards him. At last the man was upon him and he grabbed his arm and used the man's own momentum to swing him into the alley wall.

The man's head smacked the bricks and he stumbled backwards, too stunned to even remember that there was someone chasing him. "What's this? A new wall?" He felt around with one hand as the other gripped his brow that was bleeding heavily.

Duo felt his fangs grow to be of use at the smell of the blood.

The man was stepping towards him in the dark until his searching hand met Duo's breast.

Snarling, Duo backhanded the man before grabbing him, placing a hand over his mouth to keep him quiet, and sinking fang into the man's throat. He pulled every drop he could from the poor excuse of a human
being before releasing him and pushing him away. He raised a shaking hand to his lips. `I did it again. I drank someone's life away. And as easily as one could drink a glass of water.'

"Well."

Duo's head whipped to see Quatre in the alleyway with him.

"That was actually done well. I had thought that you would not know how to do that. You don't seem to know how to chose your targets unfortunately. I will teach you that for that is something you MUST know. However, you do know how to make an efficient kill. You must be a few years old then."

Duo shrugged as he gazed at the dead man's face.

"Do not grieve for this man. He is not worthy of it. The woman he killed tonight was not his first."

Duo nodded. "So then he could kill me and not grieve. We are both killers."

Sighing, Quatre came close and held out a hand, helping Duo to his feet. "Yes, but he kills innocents. The woman was with child. You saw. What crime did she commit to deserve a slit throat? What you did was
take revenge for her death."

"I did not know her."

"Yes, but she was mortal. You must protect innocent mortals from those who may prey upon them. You must protect them from themselves. Or from yourself by feeding from the ones like him." He tipped his head towards the body. "If you do not feed from people like this, you will feed on innocents and be no better than a Kyuketsuki, merely a blood-sucking fiend. And indeed some of us are. What we must do is protect good
people from harm from both other people and ourselves. It is what we do. It is the only thing that separates us_" He placed a hand on Duo's shoulder. "From devils." He looked to the man. "Do you understand?"

Duo looked him in the eye. "I do not want to. I want no part in this."

Quatre's eyes softened as he spoke. "Tomodachi, moments like this come, regardless of if we want them to or not. It is how we deal with them that shows us who we are."

Duo nodded as he thought about that.

"So the choice is yours. You may live and kill to save lives worth saving. Or you may become a rouge and be destroyed. You must choose one or the other. Will you fight? Or will you die?"

Duo took long moments to decide what he wanted. `I want to protect people. I want people to be happy. I want bad people like…' He squeezed his eyes closed against the vague but painful memory of his "sire" as
it flashed behind his eyes. `Like that man to be not able to hurt others. No one should be what I am. No one innocent should die for any reason. That is worth fighting for. That is worth DYING for.'

Looking up to Quatre, Duo nodded his head slightly. "I will fight."

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Epilogue

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