The ride was pretty uneventful. I spend most of it on back roads and took a really long rout to the safe house to make sure we weren't being fallowed.
Duo seemed to sleep though the whole ride though at one point he woke and cried piteously until he fell asleep again. For which I am grateful, I didn't think I could handle his crying anymore than that.
It was fairly late when I arrived but that didn't really mean anything. I knew that at least one of the other pilots would be up and waiting for me. As was custom for those who were out on missions. On a normal basis I didn't mind but I knew that as soon as they saw Duo there would be lots and lot of questions that I just didn't want to or couldn't answer.
I was hoping, though it would be unlikely, that who ever was up wouldn't notice Duo. But I knew that wasn't going to happen as soon as I opened the door and Quatre was there.
"Hello Heero, how was the mission?" His baby blue eyes roaming over me looking for injuries. His eyes stopping at the bulge in my coat. "Whats that?"
I sighed and slowly unzipped my jacket and then carefully pulled out my sleeping burden. Quatre's got big.
"What is it? Where did you get it?"
I just shook my head and gently began to stroke Duo. He began to purr almost immediately. "I think he is a panther, but I really don't know much about what he is. I still I have to go over the information I got about him." Quatre nodded and I offered the sleeping kitten to him so that I could take my coat off the rest of the way.
But the second he had Duo in his arms the sleeping kitten awoke and began to cry horribly and fighting in Quatre's arms. So as soon as the coat was off I dropped it to the floor and relieved Quatre of the upset kitten, who calmed immediately and began to purr again.
"What's his name?" Quatre asked after a moment. His voice was just above a whisper. Obviously try not the upset the kitten again.
"Duo." I replied and the kitten lifted his head at his name. His big violet eyes staring at mine. It was a little unnerving.
"Where did you get him?" Quatre asked again, completely breaking the moment.
"The base I destroyed." Was my reply.
I could feel the kitten's stomach growl. I put him down on the floor before kneeling and search through the bag I had gotten when I got Duo. There where several books on top and I searched for the one on feeding the kitten.
As soon as I found it a quick skim though for the items I needed to do the feeding. There apparently there was a specific type of formula that he had to be feed from a bottle. Luckily the bag also contained both items. Grabbing the formula and bottle I quickly went into the kitchen, Quatre and Duo both fallowing me quietly. I quickly made up the bottle before scoping up the kitten and shoving the nipple in this mouth.
Apparently Duo really didn't mind and began to greedily drink from the bottle. All the while purring his little heart out.
"What are you going to do with him?" Quatre asked once again breaking the silence in the room.
"I have no idea."
On to Chapter 3
