Author: Sunhawk
Pairing: 1+2
Rating: G
Warnings: Angst, fluff, chibis...
Disclaimer: I don't own GW.
All I'm really going to say about this is... it's all merith's fault. Seriously weird doesn't even come close, we'll call it chibi angst, I guess, since it's angsty and involves the guys as kids. This whole thing was written in two sittings in about a grand total of twenty minutes, if that tells you anything. >_> Not beta read either.
Merula wrote a gift fic based on this fic.
The Last Martian
Heero clutched his poor stuffed bunny to his chest and stared up at his ceiling, willing his eyes not to fall shut. They'd come in and do... something bad, he just knew they would, if he fell asleep. Brain washing things. He knew that was why he couldn't remember what his home was like... what his real parents had been like... what he was really supposed to look like. He knew they'd done something to him to make him look like another human, but he couldn't remember what. He just wanted to go home; back to someplace where he fit in. Where people didn't watch him all the time. Where they didn't do... whatever they did while he was asleep. He knew he must still be alive for some reason. There must be something he knew that the humans wanted. It must be pretty important for them to go to all this trouble, but he really didn't know what it could be since he couldn't for the life of him remember what Mars had been like. Though... sometimes at night when he stared up at his ceiling, he thought maybe he remembered a little, because he thought of things that he didn't think existed here on Earth, but he didn't think that dragons and red sand were what they wanted to know.
Heero rubbed his poor bunny's ear and sighed. They'd promised that bunny would be ok if he got washed, but when they'd handed him back, most of his fur was gone. They'd all smiled really wide and talked about how clean bunny was, like he wasn't supposed to notice, but he'd cried anyway. Poor bunny was his only friend, and Heero was afraid he wouldn't hold out much longer before he was disappeared. Things had a way of disappearing if they weren't... perfect. Sometimes Heero was afraid of disappearing too.
He stared up at the ceiling, hugged bunny tight, and willed his eyes not to fall shut, wondering what time it was, and how many hours there were to go until morning.
Because the humans couldn't get you in the daylight...
***
Heero remembered the day the new people moved in next door. The old people had been somebody's grandparents, and there had been a swing set in the backyard, though no one had ever come to play on it. The day the new people moved in, Heero had been sitting in his special spot in his tree, and had seen the little boy sitting on the swing. The little boy hadn't seen Heero, his spot in the tree was pretty hidden, and Heero watched the boy just sit. He didn't swing much, and he hugged his own stuffed friend, though Heero couldn't tell from so far away what his friend was. Heero hugged bunny, reminded of his own resolve not to ever put bunny down. He knew what would happen if he did. Bunny wasn't nice and pretty anymore and things that weren't 'nice' had a way of going away. And if bunny went away... Heero would be all alone.
Heero watched the new boy for awhile, mostly because he'd never seen another kid around his own age, but partly because the boy seemed kind of sad. After a while, a lady came out of the house and went to talk to the boy, but the boy kind of glared at her and didn't seem to get any happier.
The lady that was Heero's mother came out of the house then, and Heero knew it was time for lunch. But when she saw the new neighbors, she forgot to call him for a minute, smiling and waving instead. The neighbor lady got up and the two humans moved to talk to each other. Heero strained to hear, because you never knew when you might pick up something important, but the wind wasn't being nice, and most of the words got blown away. He heard his name once, and he heard 'shy'. He heard 'moving' and 'unhappy'. He heard a nervous laugh and something about bunny that made Heero clutch his friend tighter. The other lady laughed too and turned to wave at the other little boy. That was when his mother finally remembered to call him.
Heero knew he was about to be 'introduced' and he rolled his eyes as he climbed carefully down from his spot, bunny tucked under one arm. When he made his way over to where the two ladies were standing, he was surprised to see that the other little boy had left his friend sitting on the swing. They stared at each other through the introducing part and the lady that was Heero's mother brought his lunch out on two plates so that he and the strange little boy could eat together at the picnic table while the two humans went inside to have coffee. Heero was very sure that there had never been coffee on Mars, because the stuff just smelled nasty and he was sure it had to be a human drink.
He and the new boy poked at their peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and swung their feet. Heero couldn't help keeping an eye on the new kid's friend, a cat he had decided, afraid that it might disappear. Finally, he couldn't help but ask the boy just that, 'Aren't you afraid it'll be disappeared?'
The boy looked at him with wide eyes, finally noticing where Heero was looking. 'Why would it?' he replied and then frowned. 'He. He's a he and his name is Buster.'
Heero hugged bunny tight, wondering suddenly why bunny didn't have a name too, but he just gave the kid a suspicious look. 'Because he looks kind of... dirty.'
That seemed to make the boy mad and he frowned harder. 'Buster is not dirty! And... and at least he has fur!'
Heero tried hard not to cry, and wrapped both arms around bunny. 'Not bunny's fault. They washed him. And now he's gonna disappear, cause he's not all pretty anymore.'
The new boy kind of got over being mad then and looked like he might feel bad about poor bunny. 'Disappear?'
'That's what happens to things when they get not nice anymore,' Heero informed the kid, wondering how he could not just know that. 'But I'm keeping watch over bunny, so they can't get him.'
The kid got a funny look then, kind of mad, and kind of like the characters on TV when they're about to fight the big bad guy. 'I know what makes things disappear,' he informed Heero and grabbed his hand. 'Come on.'
Heero didn't know what to do but follow, so they stormed into the house together and Heero thought his mouth must have fallen open when the new kid marched right up to the lady that was his mother and said 'You won't throw bunny away!'
The other lady got all red in the face and said, 'Duo!' in a voice that was all shocked. But the kid got that bad guy face even worse and wouldn't stop.
'Bunny is Heero's friend and you won't throw him away,' he repeated, though his hand on Heero's was so tight it hurt a little. 'Understand?'
Heero was surprised when his mother just nodded. He thought the new boy... Duo, was gonna get his bottom smacked, but she just said, 'Is that why... I mean... ok...'
Duo stared at her hard and said, 'Promise?' and Heero thought Duo's mother was going to choke. The lady who was his mother nodded again, and said, 'I promise,' in a funny little voice. Then Duo nodded back and pulled Heero back outside.
'There,' Duo said, sounding kind of like those superhero's from TV again; all sure of himself. 'They won't mess with bunny now.'
Heero couldn't help hugging bunny and asking, 'You sure?'
'Yep,' he was told as he was dragged toward the swing set. 'Now Bunny can sit with Buster while we swing.'
Heero stood and looked at Buster for a long minute, not sure he could let go of bunny, but kind of liking the idea of swinging. He's never done it and thought it might be fun. But... bunny hadn't been out of his arms in a long time.
'S'ok,' Duo said, his voice kind of quiet. 'I won't let 'em take Bunny.'
Very slowly, Heero sat bunny next to Buster, and Duo carefully wrapped the cat's tail around bunny's middle. Then Duo grinned wide and said, 'Come on!'
Heero got to swing that day, for the very first time, and it made his stomach feel all funny. And when Duo told him that's what it felt like to fly... Heero couldn't help but stare at him.
'Fly?' he asked, letting the swing slow, and Duo turned to give him a funny kind of smile. The kind they shared on TV when they were telling secrets.
'Yeah,' Duo said in his very quiet voice. 'And someday... I'm gonna fly up to the stars.'
'Take me with you?' Heero asked, all in a rush, not sure what made him say it, but Duo only smiled bigger.
'Course,' he said, and Heero felt himself smiling back. He wasn't sure he'd ever done that before, because it felt weird.
And when they had to go in for supper, later that night, bunny was right where Heero had left him... just like Duo had said.
OWARI
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