castleinthemist | 005 | Face what I've done and do my time

Duo was moving through the halls out towards the stairs that lead towards the stairs which lead to the trolley system. He was armed, gun drawn and moving in haste as if something was after him. Suddenly, he ducked down in the hole where that box was and looked up and around. Was it a game? Was he just playing around and training himself? That's certainly what it looked like to a casual observer. After all, for those who knew him it wouldn't be outside of his usual behavior.

He looked up and around, looking for something anxiously. He then grabbed at his backwards baseball cap and ducked suddenly as if someone had thrown something at him, or shot at him. If this was a pretend training game, he was really playing the part.

But it wasn't. To him? He was on the run, a half dozen or so enemy soldiers on the war path led by Heero Yuy. One time friend and now enemy, he was outnumbered and out matched. A shot rang out when he thought he saw something back where he came from, and he leaped out of the hole he was in, dashing for the stairs. Goddamnit!

"Quatre! Wufei! Where are you guys!?"

[OOC: So this is part of Dream/Memory!plot. As in you can get some of Duo's memories transferred to your characters to have them have to relive themselves. I'm pretty flexible at how this thread goes. You can just react to what he's doing if you want and I'm posting his memories here in my journal. The memories are transferable by touch and it doesn't matter if Duo's seeing it or not.]

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"No..." Quatre shook his head, glancing at Toph. "I'm not knocking him out when he's already afraid. Duo...I swear we're not going to hurt you. I would never do anything to hurt you. You still trust me, right?"

Heero kept his eyes on Harth, even as he looked away from him. There was just something about him that bothered him. Like he had seen him before somewhere or just thought he did. It was awfully suspicious that Harth would be watching them, yet with the way Duo was screaming it only made sense for people to start gathering.

Shaking his head, he looked away and back to Quatre and Duo before he noticed Haku acting a bit strange. He watched her as she leaned against the wall, trying to work her mouth to say something and she couldn't. Was it a malfunction?

"What's wrong?" He asked her, placing a hand on her shoulder and turning her to look at him.

Well really he was just trying to act like the curious bystander, too shy to step over and join them or ask what was wrong. So he remained where he was and watched them all. With the way Heero looked at him, he was wondering about him again. Wondering if he'd seen him through that casket or he had some kind of sensory abilities he had yet to understand.

Or perhaps Haku had mentioned him? Or Quatre? He knew that both of them encountered him in their dreams.

He wasn't afraid of them finding out about him dream walking, not in the least. Catching Heero's eyes again he gave him a look. 'what?'

"Trust you?" His eyes went hard.

"I don't know if I can at this point!" He winced a little, a headache brewing all of a sudden. He squirmed in an effort to grasp his head. "Aaah."

Damn. What was-- He looked up at them, eyes wide with surprise. Was that? "--Toph...?" Right next to him. He flinched as she suddenly turned back into the soldier.

"Wha... What? What is this?" Gaah! Okay. He swooned, nausea and a wicked headache taking him. If he were standing, he'd have fallen to his knees.

Toph snorted at Quatre's comment.

"I was just kidding, geeze. Do you really think I-" she stopped when he spoke her name.

"Duo?" she asked quickly, eyes wide. She grinned widely.

"Hey, guys, I think he's- ... uh oh. Haku?" she turned her head to aim an ear and listen. "Geeze, we fix one, and another breaks. What's going on?"

She still hadn't noticed Harth. His movements were too far away to catch her interest, as her focus was on the ones in her immediate area.

Haku could still hear her friends talking, but the voices that were pushing in from whatever she was seeing were getting increasingly louder, drowning out the others.

Two voices. Just two. One was louder than the other. Yelling things. Angry.

She closed her eyes, trying to will it away, trying to force her systems to repair whatever was causing the obvious error, but it could find nothing. Her HUD read as everything normal, which it clearly wasn't.

"I-- I'm--..."

She wanted to say she was okay, to keep them from worrying about her the same way they worried about Duo, but her voice just seemed lost.

Slowly she opened one eye, then the other. The castle was gone, and the area she was seeing was suddenly so much darker than it had been a moment ago. The voices finally had faces with them. One she didn't recognize, but the second... he looked different, but that was definitely Duo tied to a chair, hair long like his double's was. He was bleeding, beaten, bruised, and the man that she didn't recognize was still delivering blows to him.

"Ohgod..." her voice came out a weak whimper, hands moving to her head and fingers clutching at her hair. She didn't want to watch, but she couldn't look away.

The blond pilot could feel Haku start to panic and the fear seeping into her. He closed his eyes and tried to ignore it. Duo panicking, he could handle, even his fear he could handle. But Haku's on top of Duo's was starting to make him dizzy.

"What are you afraid of Haku?"

Heero pulled his hand away when Haku clutched her head and whimpered. Things were getting out of hand very fast. Duo was calming down but no where near ready to be released, and now Haku was seeing things. What was making each of them experience this?

Turning to look back at the others, what he perceived as reality changed in an instant.

In a blink of the eye, the castle was gone. In place of stone walls and vast empty spaces, he found himself in the cockpit of a mobile suit. A gundam to be precise, but he knew it wasn't his because on the vid screen in front of him, he was watching his suit flying desperately towards the falling colony. Oh no! Was he experiencing one of Duo's memories? Why it have to be this this one?

He watched, frozen in his seat, as his counterpart tried to blast the colony to pieces. A few thousand civilians dead for the sake of the Earth, and when he watched the blast fail completely, it was the entire population that joined them. Every single person his counterpart had failed to save was on him now and he could feel it as if he were him. The anger and anguish he felt for killing those pacifists and for that little girl was nothing to what he was feeling now.

All those deaths were on him.

Oh! Harth raised a brow as he watched, tilting his head as if he were confused as to what was going on over all. Why was Haku freaking out, why now Heero? But of course he could see everything, perceive everything. Heero had just received one of Duo's dreams as Haku had.

How incredibly interesting. Now all he had to do was observe the aftermath.

Duo turned his eyes to Quatre, watching him swoon slightly from whatever what was effecting him. He sucked in a sharp breath, shaking there as two people, one of the soldiers and Heero, they were acting strangely now. He shut his eyes tight then opened them, the reality of his situation blurring between the reality of his dream state and what was really happening. He grimaced and wobbled in his rock imprisonment.

"I...I think I'm gonna be sick." He said, grunting slightly from the blurred vision. Maybe not sick, but he was incredibly dizzy.

"L-lemme out."

Edited 2012-03-20 02:55 (UTC)

This was getting too weird for Toph, and she stood, a look of worry on her face as she scanned everyone, trying to figure out what was going on, exactly.

What were they reacting to? Why was everyone scared?

"Guys?" They were seeing something, and she wasn't. More shadows? Ah crap.

She blinked when she heard Duo's plea. Let him out? She wasn't too sure of that. But he said he was going to be sick. That could prove to be messy and dangerous in his current position.

"... f-fine, just don't run off," she demanded, putting her hand against the wall behind him and pulling the wall back into itself, freeing him. It didn't matter if he ran, though. She could likely catch him again with little incident.

But what about the others? They were freaking out. She had no idea how to handle that.

She could still hear their voices, calling out to her, asking her if she was okay, trying to reach her. But she couldn't answer them. All she could see was what was happening in the memory, in Duo's memory.

The man had stopped beating Duo, and she had hoped against all reason that maybe he would end it there. But he didn't. And in the next minute the man had his braid and a blade and--

That's when she finally looked away. She closed her eyes so the memory would stop, hands over her face as she sunk to her knees, trembling all over.

"... I... I'm okay..." she said in a tiny voice, tears rolling down her cheeks.

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