Author: Zazu
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Heero POV
Pairings: 1+2
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing, nor do I own the characters. I have borrowed them he re for some fun and creativity, and this is not for profit. I do, however, own the plot mentioned here, and any instances that you may find similar to real life events are purely a coincidence.
Finding Home
You can't see the colonies with your naked eye, and even if you had a telescope it would depend on where you are at what time of day to see the colony of your choice.
Looking up to the north, it wasn't difficult for me to imagine that one of those bright pinpoints was L2.
I've never actually been on that colony before, not even for any of my missions during the war. Duo had once told me about how run-down parts of it was, so it wasn't difficult to imagine, based on his descriptions, the slums in which he had grown up.
My own childhood hadn't been anything spectacular; in fact, I guess some would even argue that I hadn't experienced much of a childhood at all. But thinking of Duo and what little bits he'd told me about in the past, I couldn't help but wonder what Duo might have become if he'd grown up in even slightly better circumstances.
And then, my hypocritical mind would go on and point out that I didn't want Duo to have become anyone but who he was.
The last time I saw him was nine months ago. I lay in a hospital bed looking up at him, half-groggy and wondering if he was real. He'd thanked me for my part in destroying the stronghold that held Relena Peacecraft; thanked me for ending the war. Then, he told me that he was going back to L2 with Hilde and that he wanted to keep in touch. That I was welcome to visit whenever I wanted to. He'd given me a souvenir to remember him by, and that was the last time I had seen him.
We hadn't really kept in touch through more than one or two emails here and there and I'd walked the Earth wondering just where my place was. Just what my life meant and what it had in store for me.
But now, I'd come to the end of my explorations and there were two things left that I was still waiting to experience. One was to live life in one place, to leave roots, as Duo called it, and to stop my travelling. The other was to learn to love someone; something that I had learned during my travels, for it was something that appeared to be quite universal.
Each time I thought of those two things, I would think of Duo Maxwell.
As I boarded the shuttle bound for L2, I fingered the cross that he'd given me, for safe keeping and to keep me safe, he'd said.
And somehow, I knew that although I'd kept him waiting for nine months, Duo would be more than ready to experience those two things, and more, with me.
OWARI
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