castleinthemist | 03 - Locked to herotherhalf and stillshinigami

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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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"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.

"Then you're a bigger moron than I originally thought." Heero stood up and decided to walk about the storage room and show off the fact he could walk around. "Do you seriously think this happened willingly?"

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"You're a moron if you think I think that." Duo snapped back, using Heero's own words.

"Of course I don't. Harth nabbed you in the last twenty four hours, and you'd never had done it willingly. You're not my friend. Actually? You're not even worthy of his name."

That earned Duo a good laugh from him. It was pretty interesting to him that the emotional control he had over himself as a human simply didn't matter to him now as a vampire. "At least drop the pronoun you if you're going to accuse me of being unworthy of his name." He turned around and strolled right up to Duo, nearly forcing back into the beginning of the outer circle.

"I thought I'd finally earned this name, at least when it comes to you. Now I can say I nearly tried to kill you too." He smirked. "Just. Like. Him."

And right in response he just scowls at the laugh, turning his head down and crossing his legs while he watched somberly. What did he care about bad grammar? Not a damn thing. He didn't acknowledge him until Heero started moving towards him again, forced back close to the circle line, once again that wave of dizziness like a migraine hit him and he crawled out of the way.

At first, his expression sheds to that of a bitter rage, but it slowly faded to a cool shade of contempt.

He was too weak to fight back. "Yeah... you are like him. A shell. A shadow. You couldn't match Heero Yuy if you tried."

"I don't need to match him, because simply he was an emotionally stunted piece of work." As Duo settled back away from the outer circle, he crouched beside the pilot and continued on. "I don't have to be that way. I can be so much better."

He pat Duo on the head like he would a child and then stood again. "This could have been the best outcome for him because either way he was going to die. If not by Harth or the Castle, then by his own hand. If your group had ever figured out a way to escape this place, it's exactly what would have happened."

Duo hung his head, his eyes dark as he looked at the creature kneeling before him, almost shivering but mostly because he felt cold. There wasn't enough blood in him to keep him warm. The more Heero spoke the more his teeth chattered. He clenched his eyes shut, wincing at both the chill and the idea that Heero would have taken his own life to escape this place? It was true, and Duo knew it.

"Nnng. Noo..." He croaked, as Heero patted him on his head, eyes wide as he shifted to his knees, his hands moving forward to support him. He could just feel the anger bubbling up, so he yelled out, bowing his head into his arms.

"You sunuvabitch!"

Seeing the way Duo was shivering, he finally remembered that Harth said to heal him again later. It was important to keep their food source nice and healthy.

"I'm only stating the truth." He replied, thoroughly amused that his words had finally broken the pilot. No more snappy come backs, huh Duo? "It was never a thought of his to leave here. He was more concerned about doing whatever he could to ensure you and your group were fine. He had nothing to go back to. You'd know that if you'd bother to ask."

He headed for the door, thinking for a moment about what Harth was doing to Haku. "Now, I need to heal you again. Rest up while I step out for a moment."

Well, he tried. There was only so much he could do as far as retaliation against magic and monsters after all. Panting and sweating heavily, he could feel that fatigue creeping up on him and from his knees he started sliding to the ground, Heero's words just making him want to curl up into himself.

The one thing he realized just then is that he'd been such a self centered bastard all this time, especially towards Heero. Barely giving a shit this way or that, not even bothering to get up half the time. And as far as how other people felt? Did he even care? He raised his hands to his face and cringed, not quite sure how to feel about any of this.

But in a weird damned morbid sense, he felt justified in his behavior. Here he was half dead laying in a magic circle unable to fight back. There wasn't anything he could do."

Catch the second bird was only marginally harder than the first. The rain had lessened again so many of them had taken flight outside while they could. Still, things were pretty dreary and damp.

After awhile he stepped back into the room and made his way back toward Duo. Bird catching hadn't taken much of his time, he just hadn't felt the urge to go back in there right away. He was just itching to go find the other Duo and bring him up here. Harth would be very please with him then, wouldn't he?

"Hold still and keep quiet." He commanded and knelt, pressing the bird against Duo while it struggled and spoke the spell again. Duo should have felt a lot better now with the second bird's sacrifice, it fading away to nothing again. "Maybe you'll put up a bit more fight now."

Duo turned his head up, feeling like he had a hangover. Sluggish and with even cracking his eyes open he felt sick. He just lay there with the last of his energy hanging by a thread. He didn't make a noise as he listened to the spell, feeling a strange swirling sensation as new blood gushed through him.

"Put up more of a fight... you'd like that." He just curled up more, bringing his folded hands to his forehead. New blood or not he was still so weak, his stomach clenching.

"Why should I play into your hand? Tell me that?"

He sat back again as Duo curled up more, still hurt by his words from before. Where was that rage Duo? All the fight he had when it was just Harth he was going up against. It wouldn't be fun if he gave up this easily.

"I'm bored and need something to do." He looked up at the ceiling for a moment and sighed. "I should have toyed with you longer. Capturing you so quickly isn't very entertaining."

Problem is, if he bores Heero he's just gonna resort to other things to get a reaction, isn't he. He was slowly staring to feel better, feeling a wave of warmth in him. Swallowing hard, he looked up to Heero, trying to find the words to say, thinking of something snappy. Anything. Even if it's cliche he just needed to buy him a little time.

"How about you go fall on some wooden pikes? That'd be helpful." He bit the inside of his cheek, staring at Heero. "So what's the plan? Is this it? Hide me away so you can chow down whenever you want?"

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"And then I would miss the river of tears you'd cry over my untimely death." The tone of voice in his response showed just how bored he was, his eyes still focused on the ceiling.

"I'm not going to tell you. You know I'm smarter than that." Though really he had no idea what Harth was planning. All he knew is his sire needed him to collect both Duos for a reason. But he was right. Even if he did know, he knew better than to say it. They weren't on the same side anymore.

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