Secrets and Lies Arc 2 Part 5
Heero had come to a hard decision last night. Sometimes when you love someone you have to let them go. No matter how much you want to cling to them. He could only offer Sasame so much.
As soon as Trowa left, he opened his laptop and clicked on an icon. Instantly the screen was filled with schematics and numbers. He had Hilde's location, now he just had to do it. Taking the carefully packed bags off the bed, he headed out the door and down the hall. She was staying in a room just three floors below. The elevator ride was short. Knocking on the door he felt detached from himself. It was like he was in the passenger seat of a car rolling off the cliff, he knew he was going to his own painful end, yet there was nothing he could do to stop it.
"Yes?" Hilde said as she opened the door and he let the perfect soldier mask descend.
"Hilde Maxwell?" His voice was curt yet expressionless.
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Standing up from where he was talking to Wufei and Quatre as he heard the front door open. Duo looked ready to kill.
"TROWA! You fucking son of a bitch I'm gonna ki..." His threat died away to silence as he noticed the tiny person Trowa was carrying. As the other guys rushed in behind him he barely registered their joint exclamations of surprise. No not the person but the child Trowa was carrying, with just one look he knew who it was. After all it was the same smile that he often saw in the mirror adorning the child's lips. But the face... those delicate features and ivory skin...he knew without being told this was his child...his and Heero's. He slumped to the floor as his legs gave out completely.
"Boku no Otousan. Watashi wa Yuy-Maxwell Sasame Solo Desu." (1) came the soft voice and he felt to tiny arms surround him. The tears streaming down his cheeks were long in coming as he embraced the fragile form.
"My son, our son, we have a son, Heero and I have a baby, I'm a daddy." His incoherent mumblings were soaked into the child's shirt like his tears.
"I guess I better explain." Trowa said softly and he looked up at his friend forgiving him everything in that instant for bringing him his child.
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Taking a calming breath Heero continued, "I have a flight in twenty minutes. I wanted to bring you the rest of Sasame's things. I know you are Duo's wife, and as such will help him raise my son, probably better than I can on my own. So, I will back down, but you better treat him like he was your own. And, if you ever fail to give him the love and kindness he deserves, I won't just kill you, I will make sure you live as long as possible in more agony than you can dream of."
His Prussian eyes were the only things living in the icy façade of his face. They were so hot, burning with anger and promised vengeance. It was almost impossible, almost but not quite impossible to see the pain underlying it all.
"Um, Heero? I'm Hilde Schultz, not Hilde Maxwell. My husband Daniel's last name is Schultz. I'm not Duo's wife, I never have been. I had a crush on him a long time ago, but it was never mutual. No matter how good friends we are, I have absolutely no intention of raising a kid with him."
"You're not his wife? It wasn't mutual?"
"No, Heero, for as long as I have known him he has never been interested in anyone who chased him. When Daniel was in a car accident and Duo was my roommate taking care of my junkyard, while I watched over Daniel in the hospital, he never accepted any of the offers he received. I think he never did because he was in love. You probably know, better than me, who it was. After all, you were the one he would wake up screaming for in the middle of the night."
"Me?"
"You, Heero. I think I'm not the one you should be talking to this morning. Now, if you will excuse me, I have to get back to bed before my husband wakes up." With that, she closed the door.
Heero stood there, torn by indecision before a determined look spread over his face. With a last look at the plain white door, he left. He had a taxi to catch.
TBC...
(1) You're my father, I'm Sasame Solo Yuy-Maxwell.
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