lavandarlizard2 | very short... verrrrry short....

I have to leave in a few minutes, but I'm actually conscious and my eyes are open, so we'll give this a shot. Why isn't that coffee done yet???

BFB - 084b - Strange Days II
(Trowa POV)

Seeing Duo staggering to his feet startled me so that I didn’t say anything; just reached to catch hold of him. He shouldn’t be up and walking around; Mistress Loquinn had put drops in his eyes to stop him pawing at them. He wouldn’t be able to see until they were neutralized.

Heero was talking with Tiffany and Raia just outside; they’d been frantic over Duo. Wufei and I just happened to be close to the bed. I grabbed Duo’s arm before he could fall over the chair in front of him, and he just sort of… erupted in fighting and screams. He managed to smack me a few times, not hearing me when I tried to identify myself. Of course he was scared; who wouldn’t be? I still couldn’t let him hurt himself.

He got one hand against my chest and shoved. At the same moment, Wufei grabbed him from behind. Duo let out a sound that seemed to twist the very air around us. I landed on my ass on the ground; Wufei went flying, a good twenty feet. And didn’t immediately get up.

I was still shaking my head, trying to figure out what the hell just happened, when Heero and Q began talking Duo down. Q waved me away, a finger to his lips, and gestured to where Wufei was just beginning to stir.

I went to help the pissy Dragon up. He staggered against me and I had to practically carry him to a bed. He looked… scared, sick, stunned. Pick one.

He seemed more concerned with whether he was still breathing than anything else at the moment. He refused to lie down, though; just sat on the edge of the bed, panting softly. I just stayed next to him, watching silently as Q and Heero brought Duo back from that hell.

...tbc...