Secrets and Lies Part 5
"Heero?" Dr. J asked the boy sitting on the examining table. He silently cursed the unborn child, which had stolen his perfect soldier and left him this broken looking boy in his place.
"Hai?" Heero said dully and he had to restrain himself from shaking some sense into the irritating boy.
"You must have had an inkling of an idea about what she was doing to you."
"I hoped I was wrong."
"Your mother was too good a scientist to ever fail at what she did. From what you told me in your report, I can conclude what the situation is." His strident term seemed to bring Heero back to himself.
"Explain." Heero demanded in a clipped tone and Dr. J was pleased to see his perfect soldier returning slowly.
"She made you to be more then a breeder as she called us. Your DNA is specially modified to be highly susceptible to suggestions. That implant was filled with biomechanical devices in saline solution. They started working the moment they entered your bloodstream. Your body was basically recreated so you would be able to carry a child to term. The shots she gave 02 not only immobilized all but his basic instincts, they almost succeeded in killing him. Two more days and he would have been dead. You see, each shot was changing his DNA to make him more compatible to you, so your body would accept his seed. It insured that he couldn't stop until he impregnated you. She had lost her old research and the only way for her to start from the beginning is with your child."
"A child."
"Yes, and from your examination, I determined the way the womb is situated if I were to remove it now you would die from the internal bleeding. If you were to carry it to term I see no way you can actually deliver it and survive."
"So either way I will die?"
"It's a ninety five percent chance if you abort it and a ninety nine percent chance if you keep it."
"The other pilots can't know about this, it might interfere with their performance on their missions." Heero stated but they both knew he was talking about Duo.
"I already figured that out Heero. Tomorrow you'll receive a cover mission. Ignore the instructions and head to the lab where we first met."
"Ninmu ryokai"
"Good, you're dismissed Heero." Instead of immediately following Dr. J's order Heero stayed still seeming to war with himself before he spoke up.
"Ano... Dr. J?"
"Yes?" exasperation was clear in his voice.
"Is there any way... you could erase Duo's memory of the mission?"
"That's a lot to ask for."
"... I must ask it of you."
"There is a way."
"How?"
"It's still in the experimental stages. It's a type of hypnotism. Basically it locks away events in your memory connected with certain feelings. It also locks away those feelings."
"Do it."
"Are you sure? He will forget everything you two had beyond friendship. He might even forget that."
Heero looked stricken by the possibility.
"Furthermore, you will have to make sure you never get close to him again. The emotional stress would break any mental blocks I put up."
"As a precaution, it will all be tied up in a trigger phrase. In case you ever have to tell him the truth, it will only take you saying this phrase to cause him to remember."
"What if someone else says this phrase?"
"It won't matter it has to be your voice."
"I can't imagine ever needing to do that."
"Only a fool or a pellucid person would create a maze without an exit."
*****
So the next day Heero and Duo went on a mission. Duo came back the next day happier then he had been in weeks but not as happy as he had been when he and Heero were together. Heero returned eight months later. Neither seemed close. They choose to sleep in separate rooms and seemed to be barely friends and overtures of friendship on Duo's part were quickly and coldly rejected.
The others didn't understand what happened but they knew better then to interfere.
TBC...
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