Peacecraft 1 Part 1
---Name: Yuy, Heero---
---Age: frozen at the age of 16---
---Status: Pilot---
---Number: 01---
---Thawing Process Initialised---
~*~
"Common, Heero." Duo tried to drag Heero away from his laptop. "Heeeeeerooooooo," he wailed trying to get his attention.
"Hn," Heero remarked, not even taking his eyes from the screen.
Duo tugged on his hand again. "I want to show you something! You don't have to go crazy over this toy of yours, even here." Seeing that Heero didn't show any signs of getting up in the near future Duo pouted. "I've discovered a nice lake just behind the woods. You'll like it!"
This time Heero did look up. "Duo, this is a dream world. Something our imagination created to keep us occupied during our flight to Oz. I don't know how it is possible that we are even here together but you can't discover here anything. It's enough just to think about it and it will appear!"
Duo was getting exasperated. "I know where we are, dear lover of mine. And that's why you shouldn't be sitting here typing away on this damn thing," he shouted pointing at the computer. "What are you doing on there anyway?" Duo was trying to look on the screen that Heero was hiding so obviously. "Did you lock your mind into the board computer or what? As you said - this is an imaginary world. You can't get any new information here!"
With a triumphal 'ahhah' Duo got a peek on the blinking screen. "WHAT? You are playing cards? You prefer to play cards than play with me?" This said with a really wounded expression on his face.
Heero sighed and turned off the laptop. Standing up he drew Duo closer and hugged him. "Of course not, koi. I just... I think I get withdrawal signs or something when I'm away from my computer too long."
Duo giggled. "Yeah, that's more likely, I wouldn't put it past you. But will you go with me now?" His eyes were pleading with Heero. "I created this wonderful lake just for us to play within."
"Okay, okay, I'm going, I'm going." Heero sighed exasperatedly, he knew from experience that he would give in. It was impossible to resist Duo's puppy eyes and pouting lips.
Duo laughed and threw himself onto Heero. But instead of hugging his koibito he fell to the ground as Heero disappeared suddenly leaving the room and Duo alone.
Duo sat up feeling the panic rising in his chest. "Heero?" he called out knowing that although it was possible to change destination with a blink of eye in this reality Heero wouldn't scare him like that.
So that meant that somebody - probably the doctors - woke Heero up. But then they would wake him up too, right? And that was not happening. So that left only one possibility behind... Something had happened to Heero...
Duo could feel tears burning in his eyes. From the pit of his heart he screamed Heero's name.
~*~
Heero woke up with a gasp, filling his lungs with the relatively fresh air of the ship. He fell into a coughing fit as the stale air of the cryogenic tube left his lungs. Then he sat up slowly running a hand through his already tousled hair then wiping the sleep from his eyes with his fingers. He shivered as the cold air of the room touched his naked skin.
The overhead lights blinked a couple of times before they switched on bathing the empty room in white light. Heero looked around and frowned when he found out that his imaginary world, the room and Duo himself were replaced with the sterile surrounding of Peacecrafts cryo-chamber and that he was the only one awake. All the other pilots were still sleeping peacefully in their boxes.
"Relena?" he called, the confusion evident in his voice.
The hologram switched on. This time Relena had her hair plaited in two thick braids and was dressed into black and white school uniform.
"Heero!" she cried out excitedly, smiling happily at him. "You are awake! Finally!"
"Relena, why am I the only one awake?" Heero's frown deepened when Relena's smile disappeared. "What's going on? Where are the doctors?"
"The doctors are not here, Heero," she admitted quietly.
"Why?" he asked in confusion and shivered again in the cold air.
Relena noticed his shiver and hurried to help him. "Oh, sorry, Heero. I didn't realize... I will take care of the temperature immediately."
As soon as she said it he could feel the sudden rise of heat in the room. His frown smoothed out and he nodded his thanks.
"Now, why are the doctors not here? And where are my clothes?"
A small box slit out from under the cryogenic tube and Heero reached down taking out a pair of green and white sweats.
"There was an incident, Heero..." she whispered in such a low voice that he almost missed it.
Her proclamation made him frown again. "What incident?" He moved his feet over the edge of bed and started to pull on his sweats.
She looked at her feet and proceeded to explain what happened back there at the station, how the Romafeller army had been trying to get their hands on the ship and her, how she had received the order to send the ship on its way and how the doctors had self-destructed.
Heero dressed while she was telling him the story and now was standing frozen next to the cryogenic bed. "They are dead? All of them?"
She nodded, sadness evident in her eyes. "Yes."
Heero looked at the opposite site of the big room where rows and rows of empty cryogenic beds were hiding in the wall. He knew that there were 10 other rooms like this one on the ship - a lot of beds for a lot of people. People who will never use them now.
He walked to the panel situated on the wall over his bed typing a code on it and let the bed slide back into the wall again. Then he moved to the bed next to his tracing the number 02 written on the label next to the panel with the tips of his fingers. He entered another code into the system and let the bed slide out. He then stepped into the head of it looking down at the boy sleeping peacefully under the artificial glass. Heero raised his hand, laying it on the glass over the other pilot's head. Duo Maxwell, his koi...
He looked just the same as he had the last time he had seen him. It was the day when they had deep-frozen them on Earth before sending them on their way to the Oz space station. Their trip shouldn't have taken more than 10 months. But obviously it had taken more time...
"How long, Relena?" he asked his eyes not leaving the beautiful face of his koi.
When Relena was silent for too long Heero finally looked up and his eyes narrowed when he noticed she didn't meet his eyes. "How long???"
She raised her eyes meeting his hesitantly. "17 years, 5 months, 18 days and 3 hours since we left the Oz."
TBC...
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