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03 - Locked to herotherhalf and stillshinigami

That morning after checking in with Duo, he decided to make his way to the crane. Now that they had decided to do something about Harth, he took it upon himself to look about the castle and see if there was some suitable place to use as containment. Duo had pointed out that they couldn't kill the vampire, not unless they wanted him to return as a shadow, so restraining him seemed to be the best option available to them. If it could be farther away from the other residents, the better. After what happened to Toph and Haku, they couldn't run the chance of anyone else getting close enough to him to get hurt.

By the time it was noon he finally arrived to the old bridge. It was raining, the first time since arriving to the Castle, and it was in heavy sheets that completely soaked everything. The walkway was nothing but one huge puddle and once glance up at the sky told him it wasn't going to stop anytime soon. There was no choice but to cross then.

Heero ran across the old bridge, trying to shorten the amount of time spent in the rain, to make his way to the Pigeon Room. Unfortunately the rain was so heavy he was completely soaked by the time he crossed and ended back inside. It wasn't really much better in here either. A hole in the ceiling allowed some of the water to blow in, making things damp and just a little unpleasant.

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No you don't Duo. You don't get to brush him off anymore. He reached out and grabbed Duo's upper arm a tad bit harder than he wanted. It wasn't like he had had much time getting used to his new form. Much stronger than he had been as a human.

There was no one else in the common room, thankfully, and that meant he could go ahead with the plan. Besides he was really, really hungry. Giving Duo just a few seconds to react, he threw the pilot down onto the ground and pinned him just like Harth had done to him. He didn't bite him, not yet.

And Heero was already freakishly strong. Duo flinched at the grip to his arm--what did Heero want? He was about to say something, ask what was wrong and ignore the painfully tight grip.

"Heero--what?" Duo was flung to the ground, jerking to roll away before Heero was on top of him. Now he was confused, staring up at Heero with apprehension. So what? What did he do?

"What're you doing?"

Holding Duo still under him, he leaned down and whispered into Duo's ear. It was quite obvious he was amused by what he said. "It's over, Duo. Over before you've even started."

Transforming his face, he quickly bit down into Duo's neck to drink from him. The blood gushing into his mouth tasted so wonderful, sating that hunger he had woken up with. Of course he couldn't drink as much as he really wanted. He had no desire to go hunt down Duo's shadow and bring it to the fountain and besides, Harth wanted him to bring Duo to the circle room.

Once he knew the pilot was weak with blood loss and really unable to move, he pulled back and let his human-looking face return. He reached for a pair of restraints and quickly snapped them on Duo before getting off him and picking him up. The other set he pocketed. With Duo in his arms, he head off quickly back towards the Pigeon Room.

Duo's eyes shot open at Heero's words, struggling frantically under the pressure the other man was holding him by. Over?! When he encountered Harth just now-- "No! Heero!"

Oh god oh god. No! Not this Heero! He can't be-- he. When Duo saw his face shift he wanted to scream out, but no voice came to him. He was in shock, fear seizing him so when Heero bit him, all he could do is croak out in pain. Short of time as it took for Heero to drink him of his blood, he was still conscious although high from the blood loss and completely weak. He didn't struggle aside from twitching his limbs in a feeble effort to do so.

His hands in cuffs, he groaned softly as he was carried away.

The path he took wasn't exactly the most direct, but with Duo in his arms he didn't want to risk being seen. Right now he and Harth had an advantage. No one else knew he had been turned and they could use that. If anyone had seen him just now they'd lose that.

Once they arrived to the Pigeon Room, he went straight for the side room Harth had used to awaken him in. The circle was there and he placed Duo down in the middle of it. He had no idea what it was for, but he thought that would be what his sire wanted. Now what he needed to do was go grab a bird to use to heal Duo, but he wanted to wait and see what Harth thought. Maybe leaving him like this to control him.

"Hmm. Well well. Look at your prize." Harth said, stepping down the steps from a platform in the back of the room. All this was was a storage room. He moved close to the boy, leaning down and pressing his fingers into the leaking wounds and taking his blood. In the circle of chalk, he used the blood to finish the symbols.

"This'll contain him. He won't leave this circle until the spell is broken or he's dead." And the circle was quite large, so as he worked, he looked on as Duo twitched and breathed his haggard breath.

"Go and heal him. Won't last long otherwise." He smiled a bit, finishing the symbols and writing one on Duo's forehead with his own blood. And the blood rite was cast. In this circle there were two, one in the middle about five feet in diameter, the other, much larger, but should he step in the second row? It will cause him to double over in pain.

The glamor in place should shield him from even Tophs senses. Neither see nor hear him.

Edited 2012-04-29 17:50 (UTC)

Dammit. Duo struggled to open his eyes to peer at the scrawny monster hovering over him but his arms and legs felt like lead. He could barely move and his heart was pumping sluggishly. Almost like putting him into hibernation or something, there just wasn't enough blood to pump, so in order to survive his body was just slowing things down.

With Harth's order, he gave a nod of his head before stepping out of the storage room and back into the larger one. There were a few birds flying about, making this rather convenient for him and giving him a chance to really test out his new strength and speed. He had been dying to do that.

Moving as fast as he could, he managed to grab a pigeon that struggled in his hands, trying to peck at him to defend itself. Too bad they needed it alive or he could just snap it's neck. He stepped back into the side room and back into the circle where Duo was laying, pretty weak and still. There wasn't much time left.

He knelt down beside the pilot, bird still in hand and placed his other hand over the puncture wounds he had made. The words to the healing spell came easily to him, draining the poor bird dead and giving Duo back his life. When it was over, he tossed the dead bird aside and watched Duo carefully.

The boy gasped as some of the color returned to his flesh, blood pumping through him once again. He was clearly still too weak to move, but enough to understand just what was going on around him. He was fine to leave now, his flesh healed and his own body going to begin rebuilding itself, replenishing it's blood.

The bird itself simply dissolved around the wound, every ounce of it being used in the spell.

"He'll need some more healing later, but for now, let him rest. Aside from causing him pain, you can do what you like to him. I've got to meet with Haku."

"Alright." He replied, watching Harth leave the storage room to go do whatever it was to Haku. She was the one who had told Duo after all, so she needed to be taken care of.

Heero turned his attention back to Duo, looking him over and satisfied with his work. He was doing so well as a vampire, wasn't he?

"Feeling better?"

Duo rolled onto his back, blinking his eyes open as he looked to Heero. It was a long time before he decided to speak.

"What did he do to you?" He asks with a raspy voice.

While Duo rolled onto his back, he shifted so he could sit on the ground more comfortably. It figured the first thing the pilot would ask was what happened. Really, it should have been pretty obvious what had happened to him.

"Freed me."

"If you call being a monster freedom then you really are broken. I dunno who I should blame more. Harth or Dr. J." Duo said through grit teeth, a bitterness on his voice. But he was so weak, every word croaking out, though there was also grief on his lips. That and regret.

"You're just upset Harth figured your plan out and stopped you." He smirked. "I'm no longer guilt ridden and alone. I call that freedom."

He leaned in close, placing a hand on Duo's chest in a mock soothing gesture. "I'd bet this reminds you of home, doesn't it. That's what you really wanted though. A piece of it. You told me earlier."

"Heh. You think the plan can't be carried out without me?" Duo didn't even believe it could, not without someone who knew what they were up against, even half way.

"Someone will figure it out--" he pauses at the rest, the freedom part and the guilt free part. But that's what made Heero human. It was his humanity. He gave a shakey sigh, grimacing at the hand on his chest.

"What?..." The cuffs? He just groaned. That was demented. "Shut up...Shut up and get off of me!"

"I don't think so. Without you, there is no plan." Half the strongest members were either captured or part of Harth's crew. "And do you really thing that the rest of the group could defeat Harth and me?"

He pulled back again when Duo finally noticed the cuffs securing his wrists. "Why should I? It would be stupid of me to do it."

"I don't think, I know." Duo moved to sit up, or try to as he spoke. "And I'll kill you myself if I have to, Heero. You know I will." He looks into Heero's eyes, searching him and trying to figure out a way around this.

Was there anything?

"So you're a vampire. Does that automatically mean that you have to obey Harth? You've also got loyalty being a gundam pilot, don't forget about that!"

"Go ahead and try it. I don't think you have the skill to kill a vampire."

Heero didn't need the ability to walk through people's dreams to know what to do or say to make Duo squirm. The pilot had trusted him with so much information that thankfully he retained.

"I feel any attachment to my human life. I listen to Harth because he is my sire and he alone can tell me how to be a proper vampire. Besides, I'm not your Heero. Why should I feel any loyalty towards you?"

"...You forget how good my aim is. All I need is a crossbow." Which is foolish to say but at least he can make the threat. He knows it's an empty threat. He was helpless.

"It doesn't matter if you're not my Heero..." He pauses, setting his wrists down between his now bent knees. It's no use right now. He didn't know what else to say. What's the use? "This isn't freedom. It's servitude. You're still a slave no matter what you say."

"And enough luck to strike me before I move." That didn't phase him in the slightest. He was a fledgeling and rather full of himself.

"Wasn't I a slave before? To the war, to J and then?" He smirked. "To you and your group? Don't think I didn't notice how much you needed me. Harth is teaching me. That's all."

"You weren't a slave to us, Heero. We're in this together, you know. Or I thought we were." Duo shook his head, wobbling slightly as he neared the edge of the circle.

"Hnn." Dizzy all of a sudden.

"You'd think so. Isn't it interesting that I was never really a part of the group. Always on the sidelines."

When Duo wobbled, he watched and knew full well why that was. "I wouldn't go any further if I were you."

"And we gave you your space." Duo snarls back at him, moving further into the second circle until a wave of dizziness struck him. He retreated quickly as if he were struck some how.

"Aah! Jeez!"

"Why did you think I needed space?" He couldn't wait to hear what explanation Duo gave for that. It seemed that the pilot was always full of excuses and sob stories.

"Harth made sure you can't leave this room. Make yourself comfortable and get used to it.

Duo was too busy being nauseous to answer at first, he groaned softly until the sensation faded. Get used to it? Fuck. Fuck!

"Because you don't fucking respond, Heero! What are we supposed to do? I try to help you and you say 'it's not important' and 'what's the point' so I leave you alone cos there's nothin' there to latch onto aside from the fact that you've got my back. So I thought. And here I trusted you here more than anyone." Aside from his double.

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