Broken Wings
Chapter 2-A New Home
A/N: Greetings! Sorry this took so long to get out but quite frankly I had NO idea where this fic was going so it took me a while to come up with something, but have no fear I have at least half of the story planned out now. Please Read and Review...reviews pump up my ego and make me write faster. ^_^
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Warnings: Same as before- AU, yaoi (2+4 pairing), mention to rape, mention of death/gore. MAYBE a lemon later if I can get up the guts to write one, (it'll be my first ever...and first yaoi too...)
On With the Fic:
Duo slowly regained consciousness and carefully opened his eyes. He groaned and shut them quickly as a wave of pain radiated over his form. He shook his head and tried to gain his bearings. A wave of water crashed up his legs then receded. Duo tried to roll onto his back but his right wing was hanging at an awkward angle. He pushed himself up onto his hands and knees, wet sand covered his front. Another wave crashed over him as he sat back. Duo sat on a beach. It looked uninhabited. Standing, with some effort, Duo winced as his damaged wing tried to settle. Duo scanned the beach for signs of humans. Humans were never allowed to see angels. "Or demons." Duo muttered under his breath. After assuring no humans were in the immediate vicinity, Duo sat on a washed up log. He put his head in his hands and cried. "Son of Shinigami! I'm a freak! An abomination. A demon that looks like an angel. Oh Quatre, I'll miss you. I love you." Duo continued to berate himself. He tore the silver crown from his head and threw it to the sand below him. "Demon Prince!" Duo spat.
Suddenly a white light fell from the sky and into the shallows of the ocean infront of Duo. Duo looked up and saw a figure struggling in the waves. Then a white wing thrashed uselessly in the water. "No!" Duo ran into the water and dove in. He swam the the figure and pulled them back to shore. Duo rolled the person over carefully after assuring they were breathing. Platinum blond hair was matted to their skull. Their eyes flickered open. Baby blue met Duo's violet.
"No Quatre! Why?" Duo crushed Quatre to his chest. Happy for a moment to have his blond lover in his arms once again. Quatre raised a hand up to Duo's cheek.
"I love you Duo, no matter what the colour of your wings." Duo hugged Quatre tighter, if that was even possible. Quatre coughed,
"Hey Duo, as much as I love you, breathing is always nice." Duo looked down and noticed his deathgrip on Quatre, he loosened his grip and smiled sheepishly,
"Hehe, sorry about that Kat. I-I just missed you... And with all that just happened-" Quatre put a finger to Duo's lips.
"It's alright love, I'm here for you."
"But the Master will take you back! He won't let you stay here! Not with me." Quatre silenced Duo with his lips.
"Shh Duo everything will be alright." Duo snuggled closer to Quatre but hissed when his injured wing brushed against Quatre's wing. "Oh Duo you're hurt. Let me see." Quatre looked at Duo's wing and found it dislocated. He popped it back into place then put his hands around the swelling joint. Warm golden light surrounded his hands and the joint. Duo sighed as the warm feeling washed over his body and mended all the injuries.
"There all better!" Quatre wavered but Duo caught him.
"Quatre what's wrong?" Quatre raised a hand to his head.
"I'm not sure. I think using my powers on earth drains me more then it would if I used them above." Duo nodded and helped Quatre to his feet.
"Well I guess we should find a place to stay." Quatre agreed and they walked off into the woods to find a place to live.
After about an hours walk they came across an old cottage. Duo moved forward to knock at the door when Quatre grabbed his arm.
"Wait Duo."
"What? Why?"
"We need to hide out wings. If someone is home we can't allow them to see out wings." Duo blushed.
"Oh yeah." Both boys threw out their hands and their wings snapped out. Then they both quickly brought their hands together infront of themselves and slapped them together. Their wings folded then began to dissolve into their backs. Soon there was not signs of their wings aside from the slits in the back of their togas.
"Ready to go?" Quatre nodded. Duo knocked at the door. After a couple minutes he knocked again. Still he received not response. Duo turned to Quatre who shrugged. Duo tried the door and it opened right away. Duo shot a quick look to Quatre and told him to stay there while he checked the house.
As soon as he stepped into the house Duo knew something was out of place. Duo checked the main floor of the house but found nothing out of sorts. He checked the basement and found lots of food preserves and firewood stored there. He continued upstairs. He checked the rooms up there. He paused before the master bedroom door. This is were the strange feeling was coming from. Cautiously Duo opened the door. He peered in and gasped at the site inside. A skeleton lay undisturbed on the bed. Duo slowly approached the bed. It was a man by the look of the skull. The forehead was sloping and the surpaciliary(1) arches were well pronounced. Duo stepped back from the bed. He left the room and closed the door after him. He joined Quatre outside the house.
"So?" Quatre asked.
"Well no lives here anymore."
"What do you mean anymore?" Duo sighed,
"Well I found the remains of the owner in the upstairs bedroom." Quatre visibly paled. "There is a skeleton lying on the bed. It was a man from what I can tell and he died of natural causes."
"I suppose we should bury him." Duo nodded in agreement.
"Yes I believe so."
Duo gathered up the bones of the man while Quatre dug a grave near the house. They buried the man and wished him a happy afterlife and reincarnation.(2) They placed a large stone as a marker for the man.
After the ceremony for the previous owner Duo and Quatre went to work cleaning the cottage. Duo took upstairs and the basement while Quatre busied himself on the main floor and the outside of the house. Once finished their cleaning it was dark and the stars began to come out. Quatre took Duo's hand and led him outside to a hill behind the cottage. They lay on the grass beside each other watching the stars. Quatre snuggled up to Duo, who placed an arm around Quatre's waist.
"I missed you Duo." Quatre whispered into Duo's ear. The warmth of Quatre's breath tickled and excited Duo.
"I missed you too Kat." They hugged tightly to each other as the sky got darker and more stars came out. Eventually they fell asleep in each other's arms.
A black cloaked figure approached the sleeping couple. The figure scoffed at they way Quatre snuggled closer to Duo. To _his_ Duo. The figure knelt down beside where Duo lay. The figure reached out a pale white hand and brushed it's knuckles gently across Duo's cheek. Duo smiled and rubbed his face against they hand. The figure rose.
"Soon Duo we will be together again." And they walked away. The wind caught the hood of the cloak and pulled it back a bit. A lock of chestnut hair fell into the blue-violet eyes of the figure as he disappeared into the night.
Duo woke in the morning with Quatre in his arms.
"What a lovely sight to wake up to." Duo mused as the sat up and stretched. Something fell from on top of his chest. He reached and picked up the item. It was a crimson feather.
TBC
A/N: Ok another cliffhanger, sorry. But this time I promise that I will get the chapter out faster. I'm going to start devoting some time each day for me to work on my fics (if I can get to the computer)
ohh who is this mysterious figure, and what do they want with Duo?
As always please Read and Review...
(1)-surpaciliary arches are basically the eyebrow bones. I just got a book on Physical Anthropology..yup I wanna been an Anthropologist/Archeologist...
(2)-I believe in reincarnation (I'm a Witch, well more of a Vitki..but I won't get into it)...if you don't know what this is, it's basically when a person dies their soul/spirit/essence moves on and goes into the body of a baby when it's born. That's why some people have recollection of past lives and stuff like that. If you have any questions about stuff like that please email me (shadowess_studios@hotmail.com)
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