Gundam
Wing is not mine. :-( Shut up! I can live in my own little world can't I?
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Shi-chan: *singing* I'm con-FUUUUU-sing people!!!!
Duo: This fic makes even less sense than Death Becomes Him...
Shi-chan: Muahahahaha!!!
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Star Crossed, Forever Lost
~By Shimegami-chan
Part 4
Shounen ai, and some weird stuff...but not yet, this chapter's still
introducing everything...
Quatre Raberba Winner gave her the oddest look and said, "You're what?"
Seki cleared her throat and repeated the statement. "She mentioned the
name "Quatre," while she was sleep talking. Since you're a very
well-known man and you're from L4--which is where Yumi just came from--I
thought maybe you might know her."
"You came all the way from L2 to ask me that?" Quatre said in
amazement.
"Yes," Seki replied simply. "Can you help me?"
It had been nearly a week since Shiseki had left home yet again, and it had
taken an incredible amount of courage to board a shuttle after what she had
just been through. But she had arrived at L4 safely and had managed to talk her
way into the office of one Quatre Raberba Winner, where the young millionaire
was eyeing her with more than slight suspicion.
"What did you say your name was?" Quatre asked carefully.
"Shiseki Tezuka," was Seki's answer.
A young man with caramel-coloured hair and bangs that swept to the right of his
angular face entered the information into the computer before him.
"Tezuka, Shiseki Kuri. Born on L2 in AC 180. Current profession,
journalist for L2's Glory Voice. Current status and residence unknown."
"Thanks." Quatre smiled warmly at his computer-toting companion
before turning back to Seki. "Nice to meet you, Tezuka-san."
"Please, call me Seki or Shiseki, Winner-sama."
Quatre offered her a genuine smile. "All right, Shiseki-san. Can you tell
me a little more about your friend?"
Seki nodded. "Her name is Mayumi Maxwell, and she's a native of L2."
"Maxwell?" Quatre looked surprised. "Hmm..."
"It's not a common name, am I right?"
"No, it's not. And I did have a friend named Maxwell, a Duo
Maxwell...she might be a relation. A sister, a cousin." Quatre glanced
over his shoulder. "Trowa?"
The taller man stood and crossed his arms over his chest. "Duo never
mentioned any living relatives."
Seki snapped her fingers. "That's right, Maxwell and you were both Gundam
pilots. Did you know each other well?"
"Very well." Quatre sighed and played with the cuffs of his shirt.
"But I don't know where he is at the moment. Trowa, how long has it been
since you saw the others? "
"Trowa?" Seki blinked in surprise at the unibanged ex-pilot.
"You're Trowa Barton?"
"One and the same." The caramel-haired young man took a seat beside
Quatre. "I haven't seen Heero, or Wufei in years and years. I ran into
Wufei once, not that long ago...it was good to see he was doing well.
But I haven't seen Duo or Heero since we went our separate ways after the
war."
"I heard that Heero Yuy had been seen on L4 recently..." Seki's voice
trailed off as she looked into Quatre aquamarine eyes.
"I also heard that. Duo's been looking for Heero for a long, long time.
Since he ran away from Relena-sama. I sent Duo a message that Heero had been
seen here, but I don't know if he ever got it." Quatre's solemn face
frowned.
"I seriously doubt that it was Heero at all," Trowa spoke up.
"He's too good at hiding, and he doesn't want Relena to find him. As it
is, I don't know if he even wants Duo to find him. I'm sure he's changed
a lot in the last twenty years--he left Relena, what, ten years back?--and I
doubt I'd recognize him myself. Heero Yuy knows how to get away from people,
trust me."
"Back to Mayumi..." Seki heaved a sigh and played with a strand of
her chestnut hair. "... do you think you could contact Maxwell, find out
if he knows who she is?"
"Did you look him up in L2's data?" asked Trowa.
"I don't have access to those kinds of records. But I checked our own
birth records, and found nothing about either a Duo or a Mayumi Maxwell. I
thought Duo having no information at all was very odd."
"I don't know a lot about Duo's past..." said Quatre hesitantly,
"but I don't think that 'Duo Maxwell,' was always his name. He was
orphaned when he was young, lived in a church on L2 until they took him for
pilot training."
"The Maxwell Church?" Seki asked with renewed interest.
"Could be, but I don't know for certain."
Seki bit her lip. "Thanks..."
"The only person who would know that would be Duo...or possibly
Heero."
"I should look for one of them, I guess."
"Don't forget that Heero and Duo might have found each other by now."
Trowa warned. "Despite the attention it got, the rumours about Heero being
on L4 might have been planted by Heero himself, if he is* looking for
Duo."
"I think he is," said Quatre confidently. "Heero and Duo always
had...feelings...for each other. Heero only went with Relena-sama in the end
because he was so confused. Duo knew...gave him time. Duo wasn't expecting
Heero to just up and leave Relena though, even though Heero really wanted Relena-sama
to think he was dead. Duo isn't as easy to find as you'd think, unfortunately.
He started looking for Heero, but when Relena found out he was inquiring she
started to suspect that Heero had faked his own death. She had people all over
Duo, spying on him, watching his every move, and threatening him if he didn't
tell them where Heero was. Duo didn't know...he wouldn't have told them either
way. He went into hiding for a long time. Contacted Trowa and I a few years
back, just to check on us, just to see if we were okay and let us know he was
alive. He gave me an address in case I ever needed to reach him, or if I ever
heard from Heero--Heero had been spotted once or twice by then, and Relena was
sure that Heero had left her for Duo. She was furious! I never knew Relena-sama
could be so vindictive. She wants Duo interrogated or dead, and because of that
it's been years since anyone's seen him. Not even us." Quatre smiled sadly
at his tawny-haired companion. "I miss him terribly."
Trowa gave Quatre a gentle hug, but the Arabian was finished speaking.
"That's all I know."
"Thank you very much, sir..." Seki absorbed this new information with
interest. "I guess I'll go back to L2 and start searching there, ne?"
"That would be my best guess," said Quatre with a smile. "I
assume that Duo would stay near there because Heero knows it's his home, and
Heero might be looked or might have looked there for him."
"Right." Seki stood and offered a hand to Quatre.
The young blonde businessman shook it eagerly. "Call me if you find
anything, ne, Shiseki-san?"
"I will." Seki turned and gave Trowa a nod before exiting.
Duo Maxwell, Heero Yuy, Relena Peacecraft, and L2. What a twisted space soap
opera I've found myself in.
With that, Seki boarded a shuttle and headed back to Mayumi.
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Shi-chan: I'm not getting as much response out of this as I would have liked,
but it might be because it hasn't been up long enough to get any readers yet. I
hope.
Duo: Whaaaaat is going on here, Shi-chan?
Trowa: I'm impressed, other than Death Becomes Him this is the first fic you've
written me into in a while...
Quatre: Yeah, me too!
Shi-chan: And the plot thickens...