February writing challenge TQ10
using table 4 from the 5sentence_fics community
Fandom: Gundam Wing, Pairing: Trowa/Quatre, Rating: PG Warnings: angst, BL, word count: 198, see previous stories here, note: written for darthanne, because a one-sentence fic wouldn't do, and twenty-five five-sentence fics will tell the story. :)
Table 4, #04 - Broken wing
A good solid week had passed before Quatre approached the aborted subject during the visit, but, just as he thought, Trowa smiled away the delicate probes and ignored anything more direct, refusing to answer. His lower lip tucked between his teeth, Quatre queued up Duo’s exchange on L2, and punched the send before his ethics out swayed his concerns; Duo answered on the second ring, and didn’t seem surprised to see that he was calling.
Through Duo’s distraction techniques (ones that usually worked at any other time), Quatre insisted, overriding Duo’s protests and requests to ‘talk to Trowa’ instead, and in the end, Quatre knew he’d worn Duo down; the worry and lack of sleep clearly etched on his face might have helped.
“A spacer’s disease,” Duo had said, “One that comes from prolonged exposure outside protective gear…” and Quatre barely heard the rest - how rare it was in the past century, how there was no cure, how the lungs can no longer supply the body with oxygen and organs slowly begin to die.
He stared in shocked silence at the vidscreen, no longer acknowledging Duo’s presence, didn’t even notice when Duo’s connection winked out; he had killed Trowa.
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