"SHADOWS AND LIGHT: AN UNBREAKABLE BOND"

Written By: Stone Angel

 

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SHADOWS AND LIGHT: AN UNBREAKABLE BOND:

CHAPTER 10: REVELATIONS

Heero and Duo walked towards Duo's car in silence. Both were dealing with what they had just learned.

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There was a long silence that followed Quatre's cheerful words. However, it could not last forever.

"NANI?!" Heero and Duo exclaimed in unison.

Quatre grinned at the two of them. "Oh, Duo, you never were good at recognizing people's souls. Even your best friends, apparently. Heero and Solo share the same soul. It's a very simple matter of reincarnation. Solo died, and Heero was called. See? Simple."

Duo stared at him with his mouth hanging open for a moment before shaking his head to clear it. "No. No. No! Even if that were possible, Solo died over two centuries ago! The gap is too big."

Quatre chuckled. "Duo, your mind is so four dimensional. All ours are. You must think hard to understand this. Time has no purchase on a soul adrift. It is called when it is ready. Time means nothing in this situation." He gazed at Heero. "What is your relationship to Duo?"

Heero pulled himself out of his shock and blushed at the question. "We...uhh... We..."

Are lovers. Came Duo's voice in their heads.

Quatre smiled at both of them. "Oh. That explains everything perfectly."

Heero and Duo simply stared at him as if he were insane.

Duo threw up his arms. "OH YEAH! THIS MAKES ALL THE SENSE IN THE WORLD!!! WHAT IN THE HOLY FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!" Duo looked at the ground and kicked at a lose piece of asphalt, sending the man made rock unnaturally far.

Quatre looked about them to make sure no one was witness. "Duo, calm down. Your behavior is rash and rather uncalled for."

Duo looked up, unshed tears hanging in his violet depths. "I don't understand." He whimpered weakly. "I don't understand. Make me understand?" He begged the older vampire.

Quatre's eyes were sad. "Duo, souls often seek each other out. Each time they are set adrift, they call to each other and find a way to be together again. I don't know why. But... You were never set adrift. You have endured in all the years since Solo's death. Apparently, you two were destined to be together again. Perhaps to be closer than you had before. Perhaps to make amends." Quatre took in Duo's closed look. "I have not all the answers, Duo. But I can tell you this. You two were meant to be together. Heero sought you out and returned to you. Or perhaps you moved here because you sensed his presence. I don't know. But you should be happy. You are what many humans and vampires alike feel they will never find. Soul mates."

Heero absorbed the information. 'I guess this makes sense.' "That's why I feel I've known Duo my whole life. Why I hate to be separated from him, even for a moment. Why I loved him from the moment I heard him speak his name. This actually explains a LOT." He turned to his lover who looked as if he was about to collapse.

Duo's features were drawn. Tears threatened to spill from his wide eyes as he gazed at the ground in a broken looking way. "I... I'm going home." He said quietly before turning and walking in the other direction.

"Duo, chotto_" Began Quatre. Taking a step forward to stop Duo from walking away, he was stopped by his silent lover's hand on his shoulder.

"Leave him be, Quatre-kun. He needs to sort all this out on his own. They both do."

Quatre nodded and looked to Heero. "You'd better go after him. He might do something rash. That's how he is, and he always regrets it later. It was nice to meet you, and I hope you can talk some sense into him." Quatre handed him a piece of paper from his pocket with a number on it. "Don't let him do anything stupid like trying to push you away. Go."

Heero nodded. "Arigato, Quatre." He nodded once to Trowa who nodded back, then took off at a run to catch up to his lover.

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Heero looked to Duo who was walking and staring at the ground, yet seeming to see nothing, as if he were not really there at all. "Duo-kun?"

"Ah?" He replied mechanically.

"Are you Ok?"

A long silence, eyes obscured by bangs as his head hung. His reply was falsely lighthearted. "Yeah. Sure. Why wouldn't I be?"

Heero felt like his heart was in his throat. He acted before thinking, stepping in front of Duo to block his path and grabbing his arms. "Duo! Talk to me! You're scaring me! Please talk to me! Don't think any different of me than what you did only a few minutes ago! Don't leave me." He finished quietly, feeling tears run down his cheeks.

Duo looked up at him, simply gazing into his eyes for a moment before quickly taking Heero into an embrace and holding him tightly. "Hee-kun. Don't be afraid. I'm just... I don't deal well with things. I don't like surprises. I like knowing what is going to happen and when. When you become a vampire, few things surprise you. You almost always know what's going to happen. You can read body language and minds so easily it becomes second nature. You learn to never be surprised by anything. And when things are otherwise, especially big things like this, I feel kind of... Naked. I still love you, Hee-kun. Nothing can ever stop me from loving you. I just need to deal with this. I... I lost Solo a long time ago. I felt like my world shattered for the second time when he died. After his death, I had to put the pieces of myself back together and begin again. I regretted so many things I never got the chance to tell him." Duo looked into Heero's eyes. "And now I find out that I have a second chance. But know this, Heero. I love you. YOU. Heero Yuy. Not someone who used to be Solo. I love you for you."

Heero felt the tears begin anew and kissed Duo passionately. 'I love you, too. I know now why I feel like I've been waiting for you my whole life. And I don't care. It doesn't matter. All that matters is that I love you.'

Duo nodded as they kissed. I feel the same.

The two kissed for a few moments more before breaking for need of air.

"Ai shite ieru, Heero. Ai shite ieru." Duo said, pressing his crown against Heero's.

Heero felt like he was going to cry again. 'Don't. There's no reason. I love him. He loves me. This is just a little surprise, that's all. It doesn't make a difference. To either of us.' "Ne, Duo-kun. Let's go home, Ok?"

Duo smiled. "Yosha."

Heero and Duo walked towards the Grand Cherokee that was in sight as they turned a corner.

Duo took Heero's hand in his, taking him by surprise. He smiled warmly at him.

Feeling he couldn't help it, Heero smiled back.

Reaching into his pocket with his free hand, Duo unlocked the car and turned to Heero. "I'll take you home. But then I'm going back to my place. I need to sleep in the day. And...hunting...didn't go so well tonight. Plus I think you'll sleep better if we don't begin to...uh..." He blushed slightly.

So did Heero. "A-Ah. Ok."

Duo smiled at him and the two parted and got into either side of the car. Duo started it and pulled away from the curb, pulling a "U'ey" to head South on the street towards Heero's home, neither saying a word for long moments.

"So." Said Heero, ending the silence abruptly. "The blonde one gave me this. I get the feeling it's for you." He handed Duo the small paper with the phone number on it.

Duo looked down at it and smiled putting it into the center console.

Heero looked to his lover. "Um...Who were they? I mean, besides the obvious."

Duo smiled wider. "Quatre is an old friend. An OLD, old friend. The guy is older than ME for god's sake. He's almost Four hundred now. He's the one who found me after I had been made, sat me down and explained EVERYTHING. He helped me get through it. It was a pretty big deal. Apparently, I was a mess. But he stayed with me for nearly a year and helped me. He held me when I needed to know I could touch others without killing, he taught me how to give a painless death, he taught me the codes we all follow as laws, and he taught me how to control my mental capabilities. I know for a fact that if he hadn't found me, things would have been quite different. He's a day walker."

Processing this information, Heero asked the next obvious question. "Day walker?"

Duo grinned. "It is how it sounds. Quatre is not bound by darkness. He can be out and about in the day. It's a fluke that happens very rarely when one is made. A kind of dormant and recessive gene that every so often is unlocked. Sunlight has no effect upon him whatsoever, save for a slight headache. The prick." He added for good humor, though it was delicately laced with bitterness.

Heero smiled. "What about Trowa?"

Duo looked slightly nervous. "Trowa... Quatre made him. He's pretty young. Not fledgling young, but far younger than I. I think he hasn't even reached his first centennial yet. Quatre met him in France when Trowa was human and fell in love with him. It was the same for Trowa. So, after Quatre told him who he was, they took it to the next step."

Heero thought about that. 'So I guess, if what he says is true, making people into vampires is relatively easy. I mean, he was made by mistake. How hard can it be to fuck up?' "Um... And who's Wufei?"

Duo grinned. "He's a friend. He's almost as old as Quatre. He's Chinese. Total justice freak. I mean, seriously, I expect any day now to hear about him hunting in a super hero outfit. He's obsessed with justice and order." He grinned wider. "And I am the very bane of his existence."

Heero giggled. "Nanda?"

Giggling as well, Duo replied. "He doesn't like humor. Well, that's not true. He doesn't like jokes. Particularly mine. I have a way of mocking him good-naturedly that he absolutely can't abide. I, quote; 'Make his life a living hell.' I love it." Squealed Duo. "He's so easy."

Heero laughed. 'I like this side of him. He's so happy and care free. Or is he just faking it to cover dealing with the whole Solo issue? Does it matter? I can't force him to feel a certain way. He'll deal on his own. He obviously wants it that way.' "Poor guy. I know how he feels." Said he aloud.

Duo smirked. "Yeah, yeah, very funny, smart ass. In any case, if Fei-man is in town, I have to pay him a visit. I miss that condescending bastard. I wonder if he still has that stick up his ass. Not literally. He just acts that way. ....And walks like it!" He squealed.

Heero laughed. "I know a few people like that. My school librarian for one."

Duo glanced at him, smirking. "Yeah, I have a question about that. Do you think tight-asses become librarians, or do librarians become tight-asses?"

Heero thought about that for a moment before gripping his head. "What a brain teaser. It's like; what came first, the chicken or the egg? I have no idea."

Duo laughed. "And perhaps we never will."

Heero looked up at the feel of a familiar bump in the road to see that they were already in the parking lot of his building. "Wow. That was fast."

"Yeah, well, as the saying goes, time flies when you're having fun." Duo opened his door and stepped from the car.

Heero did the same. "Come in?" He whispered so none would hear. "Just for little?"

Duo nodded after a moment's deliberation. "Alright. Not for long, though."

Heero nodded as well but didn't move from where he stood. "Anou.... Ne, Duo-kun? You said that Quatre made Trowa because he loved him so much. Anou..." He looked to the ground. "What about us?"

Duo gave him no reply.

"Duo, please don't be quiet. Say something. Anything. Just... Don't be silent." Heero begged quietly, eyes never leaving the pavement.

"Heero. I won't do this." Duo said simply in a soft, yet firm voice. "I will never do this."

Heero felt as if he had been slapped. He sat on the curb. 'Why not? It's not like my life is all that great. What would I have to lose?' He wondered to himself.

Everything. …Hee-kun, you're young. You have so much ahead of you. You can't see that now, but you will soon.

Heero scoffed. "Get out of my head, Duo. And don't treat me like a child." He pulled a silver case out of one back pocket and a silver lighter out of the other. He opened the silver metal case and took out a cigarette, lighting it with the lighter before putting both metallic objects back in their respective pockets. He took a drag from the cigarette and exhaled, the smoke billowing into the night air.

"I didn't know you smoked." Said Duo softly. "It's bad for your health, you know?"

Heero took another drag and blew it into the night as well, fixing Duo with a meaningful look. "Yeah. Well, no one lives forever."

Duo was silent.


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Ooooohhhh. Drama. Skitty, put the mallet down!


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