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The Perfect Soldier ([personal profile] stoicperfection) wrote in [community profile] castleinthemist2012-05-03 12:09 am

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Now that the first Duo had been secured, it was time to capture the younger version for Harth.  He had no idea why the younger one was so important when it was the older one causing all the problems. it didn't matter anyway. He had been ordered to retrieve him and he would, making sure he didn't stumble into Toph along the way.  She would be able to see right through too easily -- just like she had done with Harth.

Heero decided to wait for the younger Duo by his assigned room, already running through different scenarios in his mind. Find out what the older Duo told him, if anything, and lure him to the Pigeon Room. maybe he wouldn't even have to subdue him until the very end. Exploit their friendship from their world and use it to his advantage here. It would be a lot less suspicious and more efficient that way.
duomaxwell: (use me accuse me)

[personal profile] duomaxwell 2012-05-03 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
When Duo finally returned to the common room, he was mumbling to himself, scratching at his head and almost completely lost in his thoughts. His double had ranted at length to him about what Harth had done to Toph and Haku, and while he didn't really say it out loud it was obvious how worried he was. Especially for Haku. Toph had been murdered and became a shadow for a time, but Haku was changed in to a human. And not handling it well, from the sounds of it. He didn't get it. Why was she being so self sacrificing? Did she really think that if she didn't her friends were all going to die and never come back?

Either way, he'd taken his doubles words very seriously, and agreed to keep an eye on the once Vocaloid in the chance that he couldn't for whatever reason. Which is why he went looking for her after the rains started. One minute he had heard her talking to some one in one of the other rooms, the next... she was gone. And he thought he'd seen her in the Pigeon Room, but just as quickly he'd lost sight of her again. Whatever was going on, he was doing a damn good job at hiding. And that worried him.

"How the hell could she get away from me..." he was grumbling as he entered the common room, looking up just in time to not run in to Heero standing near his door. He was going to go look for his double next after grabbing a weapon to see if he knew what was going on, but Heero was a conveniently placed option.

"'ey, buddy. Uh. You got any idea where Haku mighta gone? She just took off and I... lost track of her. Some how."
duomaxwell: (are you serious?)

[personal profile] duomaxwell 2012-05-04 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
For the moment he couldn't tell. He was just distracted enough to miss the finer details, meaning for the moment all he saw was the same Heero he saw every day. Nothing unusual there. And the comment about his double further served to keep him distracted.

"Wha-- ... shit, really? Damnit... somethin's goin' on, Heero. I don't like this one damn bit."
duomaxwell: (aw man that is SO bogus...)

[personal profile] duomaxwell 2012-05-05 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"He brought it up, yeah..." he answered slowly, crossing his arms over his chest with a thoughtful, but worried frown. "You don't think he snagged both of 'em, do ya?"
Edited 2012-05-05 19:47 (UTC)
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[personal profile] duomaxwell 2012-05-06 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah? Guess that's where I'm startin' then," Duo said, moving in to his room to get his weapons. He didn't even think twice about it. If his double was in trouble, and Haku was under Harth's thumb so much she couldn't even escape, some one had to do something.

As he gathered things, he glanced up at Heero, some how noticing from a distance more than he did up close that something was just a tiny bit... off. Sort of like how Haku had subtle differences now that she was human, there just seemed to be...

Maybe he was just imagining it.

"... you comin'?"
duomaxwell: (use me accuse me)

[personal profile] duomaxwell 2012-05-06 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
The glare made him back off, buy only enough to be convincing. Instincts were finally clicking in, and he was starting to realize the whole damn thing felt off. It wasn't settling right at all, making his stomach tighten. He shifted his stance a bit, following after Heero.

He was oddly quiet, for once.
duomaxwell: (poutyface)

[personal profile] duomaxwell 2012-05-06 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
"Hmn? Oh, uh... worried, yehknow,"he answered with a bit of an awkward pause, rubbing the back of his neck some. Half a lie, really, but about all he was good for when it came to falsities. He hoped that would be enough right then.
duomaxwell: (fml man)

[personal profile] duomaxwell 2012-05-06 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"Whoahey-- hold up," Duo stopped, crouching down on one knee to look at the blood. Hesitantly, he reached a finger out to touch it, frowning in worry.

"The hell... did a shadow get some one? There's not very much here..."
duomaxwell: (tch...)

[personal profile] duomaxwell 2012-05-06 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Duo was about to correct him, to say that some of them could claw and scratch if the person they were trying to grab put up too much resistance, but the next words out of his friend's mouth made it an entirely moot point.

Damn...

He tensed, just barely looking over his shoulder but suddenly very, very still. He could try to run, but as much as he had explored the castle he would still wind up running blind in the storm sooner or later. He couldn't take that risk. He had to see what Heero's first move was going to be.

"Am I now? Tch," he scoffed, "Shoulda known he got to you too. So what'd the bastard do, huh? Couldn't do what he did to Haku so, what, you're like him now?"
duomaxwell: (we can't afford to be innocent)

[personal profile] duomaxwell 2012-05-06 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Son of a bitch. Things had just jumped right over 'bad' and went straight in to 'worse'. His gaze followed Heero's movements closely, though he remained tensed and crouched low, waiting for the moment to spring in to action and hopefully away from whatever Heero was going to do. Hopefully.

Damn bastard was always just that much quicker than him...

He sneered back at Heero.

"Looks like another asshole to me," he snapped, not responding to the second question. Of course he wanted to know where his double was. He just didn't want to find out the way Heero had planned for him.
duomaxwell: (you're kind of an ass)

[personal profile] duomaxwell 2012-05-06 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"Right now? You ain't no friend, Heero. You're a fuckin' puppet for that sick bastard," Duo snarled back angrily, fingers tightening around the handle of his scythe. Whatever happened, he wasn't going down without a fight, and unlike any of their previous scraps he wasn't going to feel bad about giving Heero hell during it.

"Funny. I expected better of you. Gettin' bit by some fuckin' vampire? That's weak, man. Th' hell happened to the Heero I knew, huh?"
Edited 2012-05-06 23:50 (UTC)
duomaxwell: (ohsnap)

[personal profile] duomaxwell 2012-05-07 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
"Last time you said that you decked me in the gut! Fuck no! I ain't fallin' for that trick twice!" Duo yelled. His gaze remained firmly on Heero, watching and waiting but still not moving. There was shit for vantage points where they were, and the storm was getting even louder outside.

Rock and a hard place, and there he was in the middle of it.
duomaxwell: (now what?!)

[personal profile] duomaxwell 2012-05-07 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
Duo was quick to move out of the way, pushing out from his crouched position to roll to the side and just out of arm's reach from Heero. He didn't stop moving there either, springing to his feet and swinging his short-handled scythe around in his hand.

His current position kept him blocked from the main entrance and exit to the pigeon room, but he kept an eye on it anyway, hoping to find an opening quickly.
duomaxwell: (oh its so over)

[personal profile] duomaxwell 2012-05-07 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
"Don't you know that never works? Man you really gotta watch more movies!"

It wasn't easy to track his movements, but Duo refused to let himself get sloppy, even with the needless taunting. He ducked the strike, bouncing back several steps. He was closer to the door, the rain pouring down hard over the entrance as lightening crackled in the sky, flashing light through the windows of the room. Still he didn't run for it just yet.

"Any chance you could just tell me where my double is?" he dared to ask, knowing it was likely futile to do so.
duomaxwell: (why yes I am a smug bastard)

[personal profile] duomaxwell 2012-05-07 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
"Nah, I think I'll pass. Thanks for the offer, though!"

Duo straightened and grinned at Heero cockily. After a beat he turned, darting for the door. At the last second, though, he wheeled back and took off for the stairs that wrapped up the side of the wall instead. He knew the next room was the long room, which was huge and open, but with more than one way to get around.

All he had to do was outsmart Heero long enough to get away from him.
duomaxwell: (ugh)

[personal profile] duomaxwell 2012-05-07 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
Duo dodged Heero's attempt to tackle him, but only just enough to get out of the immediate vicinity of him. Their shoulders still connected, knocking him off balance and sending him crashing on to the stairs hard. He rolled off the edge and down the several foot drop to the stone below, striking a shoulder and arm on it hard enough to bruise badly.

His scythe went clattering away, but he was on his feet again, trying to ignore how dead his arm was as he went grabbing for it.
duomaxwell: (tch...)

[personal profile] duomaxwell 2012-05-07 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
"Shit..." Duo hissed under his breath, clutching at his bruised shoulder as he stepped back away from Heero. He glared, the hand on his injured arm twitching a little, itching for the feel of a gun in it right then.
duomaxwell: (urg--!)

[personal profile] duomaxwell 2012-05-07 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"Fuck you," Duo spat, feet sliding back until they came to stop at the stone that made up the stairs. Damn it all, he really was backed in to a corner now.
duomaxwell: (stop screwing with me!)

[personal profile] duomaxwell 2012-05-07 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Fuck--!" Duo shrieked loudly. Not at the scythe getting embedded near his head - that he was prepared for and barely even flinched. It was the face that got him. He'd seen a lot of terrifying things in his life but nothing like having that right in front of him, and on some one that he knew, too.

He didn't want to stand there and let Heero bite him, even if he didn't have anywhere to go. All he could do was throw his arms up and duck, trying to get through that one tiny space that was still between Heero and the wall.
duomaxwell: (the bleeding heart perched on my shirt)

[personal profile] duomaxwell 2012-05-07 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Another scream, this time one of pain. Hitting the wall silenced him with an agonized grunt and a rush of air leaving his lungs hard enough to burn and leave him not only winded but defeated. He slumped, vision swimming even as Heero bared down on him.

Any further protests were gone then, and he made little noise when the teeth sunk in to his neck. His eyes closed, teeth clenched and body tensing for a few seconds before he became a rag doll in Heero's grip.