Worth Fighting For Part 13
Cobwebs
"Well how do I look Doc?"
"You are, as always, in perfect health."
The Preventers had an on-site doctor's surgery, which was run by one Doctor Sally Poo.
"But?" Duo raised an eyebrow at her. She had agreed to stand by on site when Duo went to meet Devalin, Duo didn't want anything serious to happen to Heero and had forced Sally into agreeing to save Heero if he got hurt.
"You have a high blood pressure. You are too stressed, you shouldn't really be doing this sort of thing today."
Duo pulled his shirt on and did the buttons up. "I have no choice Sally, if I don't show up, he'll kill Heero."
"Just take things easy, don't try and rush into anything, think things though, don't do anything irrational."
Duo chuckled. "I'll be fine Sally, I'm in your safe hands." Duo jumped down from the bed and flicked his long hair over his shoulder.
Sally smiled back.
"I'm ready to go when you are Duo, just buzz me and I'll be there."
Duo nodded. "Thank You."
Sally watched him go with a heavy heart; there was two hours before Duo would be leaving to met Devalin and she had seen the devastation that Devalin had done before to Duo. As the door shut she turned and grabbed her phone, she had a horrible feeling that she would need more than just her medical bag and she wasn't willing to watch anyone die.
* * *
Mike and Quatre were sitting in the front seats of Quatre's car. They were waiting for Duo, Trowa and Wufei to appear so they could get going.
"Mike?"
"Yes?"
"What do you think Devalin has planned for Duo?"
"I don't know but I don't like it one bit."
"Me neither. I'm glad Duo and Solo are talking again, I would hate for anything to happen to Duo and he was to um... well you know, and Solo would hate himself for not saying sorry or goodbye to his son."
"Quatre I couldn't care less about Solo, he is still a homophobic piece of shit to me and I don't want him to be part of my life, but I will stand by Duo till the end and Duo knows this."
Quatre sat there playing with the gold eternity ring on his finger.
"Quatre," Mike lent over and placed his hand on top of Quatre's to still the movement of it. "Duo has sworn that he will do anything to save Heero, nothing can stop that kind of passion and love. Duo knows that Heero is worth fighting for (1) and he won't let anything bad happen to Heero while he is alive. I always have sworn that I will protect Duo from Devalin and if, by so unfortunate tragedy, Duo does die, then I will protect Heero in the same way that Duo wants to."
"I know don't what to do," Quatre sighed. "I feel so useless. I can't help Duo or Heero and they are both my friends, true I haven't spoken to Heero in three years but I grew up with them both and I don't want to see anything bad happen to them yet, I might and if I do, I'll be powerless to help."
"We are a team Sandrock." Mike said. "No matter which one of us is on the stage, no matter which one of us is pulling the trigger on the gun, no matter which one of us is on the mission, no matter what that mission is, we all know that the other members of the team are right behind us and they are supporting us. We'll help each other out mentally if we are not helping them out physically. Understand me?"
"It doesn't stop me worrying." Quatre whispered as the back doors open and the other three members of the SPU slide into the car.
"Ready Deathscythe?" Mike asked, glancing up into the mirror to study Duo, who sat there, hands clenched together and lips pressed firmly against each other. Duo gave a sharp nod and Mike started the car up.
Quatre twisted in his seat and he reached out and grabbed Duo's hand. Duo looked at it confused.
"We're beside you all the way D-Chan."
Duo gave a small smile.
"I'm fine Q-man, I'm ready to kick Devalin's butt."
Mike gave a silent sigh at the tone of Duo's voice, it was such a fake tone and everyone in the car knew it but chose to ignore it.
Quatre turned back to the front and he took a very deep breath.
"Wufei?" Duo asked, his voice suddenly not sounding so confident. Wufei nodded and Duo lent up to him and whispered in his ear.
"I promise." Wufei whispered back, his large black eyes sprinkled at Duo with worry and love.
"Thank you."
The rest of the car journey passed in silence.
* * *
The SPU arrived at Regence Hall at ten minutes to twelve and together they strolled into the building, Duo at the front leading the way down the corridor to the great hall. He threw open the door and marched in, his head held high and his violet eyes flashed with some emotion that couldn't be named.
Devalin spun round from his stop standing on the stage and he looked at Duo, suddenly fearfully of the raw look in Duo's eyes.
"Preventers." Devalin cried, composing himself and spreading his arms in greeting. "So glad you could come."
"The pleasure is all mine Devalin." Duo hissed.
"Why is that, Preventer Deathscythe?"
"Because I get the enjoyment of watching you die."
* * *
Up, on the balconies, high above the great hall floor, sat one guard and one Heero Yuy. The guard had a gun resting on his lap and his eyes were fixed on Heero and it made Heero squirm uncomfortably, he really didn't like the gleam in this man's eyes.
Yet when Devalin announced the Preventers arrival, Heero stood up and lent over the balcony to see them, the guard watching him, didn't try and stop his movements, he just continued to stare at Heero and Heero got the creepy feeling that the guy was staring at his butt.
Heero was too high up to hear what was being said by the men far below him but he could make out the music that was beginning to play. Again Heero shivered, it was a joyful tune but he had once heard it while watching a horror movie and according to the movie every time you heard this music, you should run as fast as you can because if you don't, you would die. He recalled the ending to the movie, the dead body hanging from a ceiling in a steel factory with the boy's eyes ripped out, most likely through the back of his head because the bird-monster that had killed him, then moved behind the dead body and looked straight through the boy's empty eye sockets at the camera to reveal the boy's eyes on the bird-monster's face. (2)
Heero pinched himself to force himself to pay attention to the scene below. Duo had just walked onto the stage and was standing about a meter from Devalin. Devalin was smiling and talking, Heero made a wild but correct guess that Devalin was telling him what the task was.
It was a simple test, so Devalin had informed Heero when he had brought both Heero and guard up to highest balcony in the building that overlooked the great hall, all Duo had to do was work out which door would lead him to Heero. Sounds simple enough but someone had forgotten to tell Heero that there were over 100 doors in this place and at least 20 of them lead to the balconies.
"He has an hour to find you." The guard spoke, standing up and moving so his chest was an inch away from Heero's back. "If he doesn't find you by then, I get to do what I want with you." At this point the man pressed himself against Heero, making his aroused state very obvious to Heero as he pressed his arousal against the small of Heero's back, alerting Heero to the fact that he was small compared to the tallness of the man behind him. "As long as if end with you with a bullet through your head."
Heero snorted. "Is that before or after you rape me?"
"Both." The man purred, his mouth began to lick and suck at Heero's neck.
"Gross." Heero muttered before shoving the man away from him. "But you aren't allowed to touch me until the hour is up. I'm been promised no harm."
A gunshot rang into the air and Heero spun back to see Duo turn and walk away.
"The task begins and so does your final hour." The man whispered and Heero turned to him and smirked.
"If that is the best you can do, I have nothing to worry about." (3)
* * *
Duo headed out back into the main entrance hall before he left himself sigh in defeat. He was so crap at things like this, he could never work out riddles, and he was shown once again that Devalin was thorough when he gathered information on him and his team. He hissed in annoyance as he stared at the piece of paper in his hand. It made no sense what so ever to him, part from it pointed towards where Heero was being kept, somewhere high in the building which did him no good because there were 6 towers, and more than a handful of balconies in just the great hall alone, not to mention the dozen or so mini halls that were dotted around the large old building, and then of course there could be a clue in the rest of the riddle which said that everything he was being told was a lie and therefore Heero was below in one of the five cellars.
Duo run a hand nervously through his long bangs that fell over his eyes and scanned the paper again.
"AH!" He snarled.
"Just take things easy, don't try and rush into anything, think things though, don't do anything irrational."
Sally's voice rang through his head and Duo once again looked at the paper and he read each line slowly and carefully.
"You're trying to find your lovely prince, all you have to do is follow this. He's trapped like Rapunzal, at the highest point. At place you once were before, a place that holds dread and so much more. Will you save him? Or will he die? It all depends on the way time flies. Only an hour, will you have. Remember this love comes and goes, as well as death. Which one will you find in your love's grasp? I'll only give you one last hint, he's in the place where he was last seen, Trapped high above like a princess in tower, And the only way to get to him, is to go through a place long and great. How long shall your love last, it all depends on you. Will you be able to find him before the time is up, Or fail and perish like him." (4)
Duo chewed on his lip.
"Ok, come on Maxwell, most of this is easy. You can do this, just take one line at a time."
Duo nodded at his own words and began to pace the floor as he muttered to himself.
"You're trying to find your lovely prince"... ok, that's easy, my task is to find Heero. "All you have to do is follow this"... again, easy my task, the clues to Heero's whereabouts is in the riddle. "He's trapped like Rapunzal, at the highest point"... ok, the highest point, is the Clock Tower at the front of the building, but that's too obvious right? So, he's somewhere up high. "At place you were once before"... I buggered already."
Duo screwed his nose up and re-read the line.
"At place you were once before, a place that holds dread and so much more"... um..." Duo nibbled on his bottom lip. "Ok, lets leave that one. "Will you save him? Or will he die?"... If I fail the task then Heero dies, great, I feel so much more confident now that I know that!"
Duo sighed again.
"It all depends on the way time flies. Only an hour, will you have"... so I have an hour in which to save Heero and if I don't save him he dies. This is pretty easy really. "Remember this love comes and goes"... well Devalin once said that he loved me, now he is trying to kill me, so that makes sense. "As well as death. Which one will you find in your love's grasp?" Easy, if I save him he lives, if I don't he dies, the choice is up to me as to what will happen. "I'll only give you one last hint," That's nice of you Dev. "He's in the place where he was last seen," So, he must be here right, in Regence Hall, can't you give me useful hints? "Trapped high above like a princess in tower," Already had one like this and I worked that out. He's somewhere high. "And the only way to get to him, is to go through a place long and great." I don't think there is a place like that here is there? Shit I wish I had a map! "How long shall your love last, it all depends on you. Will you be able to find him before the time is up, Or fail and perish like him." Simple message, if I fail we both die."
Duo sat down on the floor.
"Ok, the clues are. One, he's somewhere high. Two, I have an hour... no wait..." Duo looked at his watch. "I have 40 minutes. Three, He's in Regence Hall. That's it?! I'm screwed."
Duo gave a half-hearted sigh.
"He's in a place where he was last seen... wait, wait, wait, wait, wait..."
Duo suddenly jumped up and run back into the great hall. Everyone looked round to watch him jump across seats until Duo reached the stage. Duo knelt down on the stage at the place where a few weeks ago he had picked up his old cross.
"Heero was last seen here by Relena on the day he was kidnapped." Duo straighten up.
"It took you twenty minutes to work that out."
"So he's in the tower above the Great hall?!"
"Do you really think I'm going to say yes to that?!"
"If you were nice, you would."
"I'm not nice."
"My point exactly."
"You have your spark back."
Duo smirked at Devalin.
"Hai, hai!"
Then Duo was gone again, his feet pounding against the floorboards causing dust to raise from it and he hurried to the old staircase that lead the way up into the East Tower that rested directly above the Great Hall.
* * *
"Your boyfriend is thick." The guard laughed as he watched Duo climbed into the old tower.
Heero rolled his eyes at the man before turning back to watch Duo disappeared upstairs, feeling his own heart drop a few inches as Duo ran away from his hiding place.
* * *
"AHHHHH, he's not here!" Duo kicked at a box and then coughed violently as a dust cloud rose and he breathed it in.
"At place you once were before, a place that holds dread and so much more..." Duo muttered. "I dread this morning coming here so this is the place I dread, no, I don't dread here, I dread being with Devalin so therefore Heero would be within Devalin's sight range, and he's up high, so he would be..." Duo spun on his heel causing more dust to unsettle but he stormed down the creaking staircase until he reached the door to the seating balcony and he tugged it open.
Below him, Mike watched Duo as Duo sprinted across the balcony before disappearing into another staircase.
Duo threw himself up the staircase and onto another level. His violet eyes scanned it before regretting it and moving on up towards the next level. Four levels he passed before he entered a long corridor, which was full of broken cobwebs. Duo jogged down the corridor trying to regain control of his breathing as he threw open the door to come face to face with the barrel of a gun.
"Told you so."
* * *
"20 minutes left."
"He's worked it out." Heero snapped and the guard spun round to face the door.
"We'll see." He pulled his gun out just in time to see the door open and a mucky, dusty Duo stood there, with cobwebs caught up in his long hair.
"Told you so." Heero sung, crossing his arms over his chest and smirking at the shocked guard.
"Damn." The guard muttered lowering his weapon and he grabbed Heero's arm. "You completed the first task Preventer Deathscythe. Compared to the others, this one was a walk in the park."
"I've never had a walk quite like that before." Duo replied.
"Come down with me Preventer and Devalin will inform you of your task."
"Lead the way." Duo smiled.
* * *
"Well done Maxwell, didn't think you had it in you."
"You shouldn't underestimate me."
Devalin smirked and he took hold of Heero's hands. "No." Devalin muttered, staring deep into Heero's eyes. "I shouldn't, not that I did. You found this task harder than I thought you would. I can't wait till tomorrow. Be at the boating lake at 2 pm. I would advise you not to bring any sharp objects or wear any heavy clothes. MEN MOVE OUT!" Devalin yelled the order and within a minute there was no trace that Devalin had even been there at all.
The five preventers stood there quietly.
"One down, four more." Duo sighed deeply and he tried to smile. "One step closer."
Mike nodded and placed a hand gently on Duo's shoulder.
"You did well."
"Thanks."
Mike gave Duo's shoulder a squeeze before reaching into Duo's hair and pulling out a rather large spider and a long thin string of cobweb. He flicked the spider away before dusting his hands and he walked away. Quatre came and stood next to his friend.
"Um Duo?"
"Yes Q?"
"Can I give you some advice?"
Duo raised an eyebrow at the blonde dressed in green.
"Sure?"
"Take a bath. You stink!"
TBC...
(1) My Ex says the title of every book and film is said at least once in that film/book. Well here it is for this fic.
(2) Jeepers Creepers, I hate that movie, it was such a bad movie but it was really quite scary. I did watch it at half twelve at night in a dark room with fourteen of my friends and it made us all jump, I hated the ending, I really wanted the girl to die but she didn't. It was very scary up to the point they showed you that the killer wasn't human, then it became funny and scary. Worst Horror Flick I've ever seen. Don't ask what this has to do with the fic, coz it doesn't. I just thought I would add it ^_^ .
(3) OMG, how OOC have I made Heero? Ok, I'm taking from the tv series here that Heero isn't afraid to die plus he does truly believe that Duo is going to save him so he doesn't think he's going to die. I'm sorry for the OCC!!!
(4) This was written, at my request, by my friend Tash, she reckons she's my number one fan ^_^ Thank You Tash, you really helped me out with this and I love you lots sweetie. Send her feedback to AngelTashLv@aol.com if you liked the poem!
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