Cherish looked around herself at the mess of bodies. She spotted Wufei and walked over to him. He was looking off at something.
“Wufei, have you seen Fallyn or Duo?” He merely pointed. Cherish looked to where he was pointing...and gasped.
Duo was leaning over an unconscious Fallyn. Wufei grabbed Cherish and pulled her to him as she started over to her sister’s side.
“Let go! Lemme go! She needs me, dammit! She needs me!” Cherish started to cry. ‘Oh, to hell with this strong act! She’s my sister!’ her mind screamed. Wufei pulled her close and held her in silence.
“”*~‘’~*“”
Duo looked around the destruction, searching for a sign from Fallyn. Then he saw it. Her braid was draped over a piece of woodwork and she lay on the floor, unmoving.
He walked over to her and kneeled by her side. She was beat up pretty bad. There were scratch marks all over her, probably from the knife blades.
As soon as the man and his buddies knew what was happening, they had all pulled out knives and converged—on Fallyn.
“Fallyn?” Duo said softly, his eyes brimming with unshed tears. She didn’t respond. Duo leaned close to her mouth…
—And his hair moved with her breath.
Duo nearly shouted with joy. He gently lifted her into his arms. She felt like she weighed nothing. He looked around and saw Wufei holding a sobbing Cherish.
He caught Wufei’s eye as he made his way over to them and nodded. Wufei nodded in return, bent slightly, and lifted Cherish into his arms. She didn’t notice as she sobbed into his shoulder.
Swiftly, silently, the two pilots left the scene carrying the two, now unconscious, DevAngels.
“”*~‘’~*“”
Wufei watched Duo look around desperately, the young man’s braid flipping about like a chestnut whip. He knew what—rather, who—Duo was searching for. Cherish was walking towards him and Fallyn was no where to be seen.
Just as Cherish reached him, Duo spotted something and began walking over to a bit of heavy debris. Wufei knew who it was that Duo kneeled down to.
“Wufei, have you seen Fallyn or Duo?” Cherish asked him. All he could do was point to where Duo was. Instinctively, his arm shot out and grabbed Cherish by her shoulder, pulling her back to him.
She began to scream at him. “Let go! Lemme go! She needs me, dammit! She needs me!” she turned to him, beating a fist weakly against his chest and started to cry. If he hadn’t understood how she felt, he might have thought she was foolish.
But he understood all too well.
He pulled her close and held her as she cried into his chest.
Duo caught his eye and nodded to him. The pilot was carrying an unconscious and rather cut and beaten up Fallyn. Wufei knew that they would never make it out of there in time if he allowed Cherish to walk, so he bent over and swept her off her feet. She shook with the force of silent sobs a few more times, and her body slowly stopped shaking.
He looked down at her in his arms as they exited the destroyed Opera House, the two DevAngel’s once-safe house. She was unconscious.
