Hn....It only took me 20 minutes to write this, but the idea seemed good
to me. Hope someone likes it....
Warning: Torture fic
Song by Bush 'The Chemicals Between Us' Lyrics in stars.
The Chemicals Between Us
*I want you to remember
A love so full it could send us all ways
I want you to surrender
All my feelings rose today
And I want you to remain
The power of children can amaze
I'll try not to complain
I know that's a pisser baby*
Duo looked up from where he was chained to the small cot. He tasted
blood in his mouth and felt it on his skin, matting his clothes and hair.
At the heavy door he could hear bolts sliding back electronically. From
the depth like sound of the bolts he realized the bolts were coming
through one wall, through his door, and into the other wall several feet.
They didn't want him to escape.
*The chemicals between us
The walls that lie between us
Lying in this bed
The chemicals displaced
There is no lonelier place
Than lying in this bed*
He submitted to the guards as they unchained him and dragged him out the
door. For a moment he was blinded by the lights of the hall, the pure
whiteness of it all. One of the OZ soldiers saw him blinking dimly and
the man felt contempt for this boy who could stand a week of torture by
Treize, he kicked the boy and watched as he doubled over in pain.
*I want you to remember
Everything you said
Every driven word
Like a hammer, hell, to my head*
In the white room Duo was chained to a post, making him stand up
straight and take his punishment for being caught. He stood there in the
bright lights, feeling his knees want to buckle. He steeled himself to
remain standing. He knew Treize would come soon, with his silent threats
and the pain from the torture. Enough to break him, enough to break
Heero. He'd already broken anyway. He thought it might have been
yesterday; he'd given in to the torture, because he had nothing to hold
back. No names, no code words, no addresses. Nothing about the other
Gundam Pilots. It was all code names anyway.
*The chemicals between us
There is no lonelier place
Then lying in this bed
The chemicals displaced
There is no lonelier place
Than lying in this bed*
Duo collapsed onto his cot and let the soldiers tie him down for the
night, feeling the crunch of a broken rib. Before he fell in to sleep he
felt blood oozing from a cut above his eye. One of the painful things
Treize had done, when Duo had distanced himself from the pain. He'd
yelled at him to come back to the pain, to live in it, and Duo had.
Somehow that had made it easier to survive the day.
*The chemicals between us
The chemicals between us
Lying in this bed*
Duo woke up in the middle of the night feeling nothing. He felt nothing
for the pain in his side, from the broken rib. Somehow he knew it was
morning, earlier than dawn. He knew he wouldn't get back to sleep that
night and so he law there feeling nothing. There was nothing left
emotionally, either. During his training Duo had learned to withstand
torture, you either distanced yourself from it or lived in it. The first
option being the more acceptable option.
*We're of the hollow men
We are the naked ones
We never meant you harm
Never meant you wrong
I'd like to thank
All of my lovers, lovers, lovers*
He let his thoughts drift to the other pilots and mentally reviewed
procedure for what they'd be doing now. Nothing. They wouldn't come for
him, unless they wanted to kill him before he broke. But no one had come
for him, to give him a swift death. Which meant they were waiting for him
to get out on his own. Sighing Duo dislocated his arm and felt for the
lock on the under side of the bed. Using one hand he twisted the combos
around until they clicked.
*The chemicals between us
The army of achievers
Lying in this bed
The chemicals displaced
There is no lonelier face
Than lying in this bed*
Using a part from the lock he twisted the servos in the bolts of his
door. Centimeter by centimeter they slid back until the door was no
longer blocked. Duo silently got up and walked out, barely favoring his
side. the few guards on duty were either asleep or unarmed and Duo
slipped past them like the black death he proposed to be.
At Treize's luxury suite Duo took the time to stab the small lock tumbler
he'd stolen from his bed into the unlocked door, letting Treize know he'd
been there. It also locked Treize's door from the outside. Duo smirked
and walked on, towards the door outside.
*The chemicals between us
The chemicals between us
The chemicals*
Duo walked out the door into the early morning dawn. Faintly on the
horizon he saw the pink and gold light of the sun. Against the horizon on
their very own airfield, stood OZ's worst nightmare; DeathScythe Hell.
The idiots had even rebuilt it and repaired it, installing one of the
Mercurious shield systems, for one of their pilots. Duo walked across the
field and slowly scaled the Gundam, settling into the cockpit.
The dawn was bright gold when he took off.
*The chemicals between us*
