There are two kinds of blindness

Chapter ten;


The promised bath

Zechs wasn’t even allowed to enjoy that hot cup of coffee he had poured for himself this morning either, and the villain?

The doorbell once again!

The tall blond muttered an inaudible curse as he placed down his cup with an irritated force and left his seat with a bitter face.

“I swear, if that’s that blasted woman again I will kill-”

He wouldn’t have opened the door with so much anger on his face if he hadn’t expected it to be Sally. So instead of being greeted by an annoyingly happy morning person, who whouldn’t be afraid even if he was death himself, he stared right down in a pair of tearfilled eyes.

His icy blue widened shortly in surprise, and then he growled in anger with himself. He should have known that it wasn’t her. Really, would she come to his home each and every day just to make sure that he hadn’t hurt the small Chinese? If she was, that would eventually take its toll on her and Michael’s marriage.

“I’m sorry...” Zechs said as soon as he had recovered from his light shock, but the little boy with the tear filled eyes broke out crying.

“I-I-I didn’t-” He stammered with his eyes pressed tightly shut. “Une, she-e-”

The little boy didn’t seem to get anything else passed his lips after that, but he handed over the pack of paper he had in his hands stiffly to the very tall man and turned around, ready to run away from the man as fast as possible.

“I’m really sorry!” Zechs wasn’t sure if the very terrified boy had heard what he said because as soon as the child had turn he had started running as if his life depended on it.

He muttered. Une was not going to be happy about this, and he could bet that that boy was a close friend’s.

“Damn...” He muttered on before he closed the door and rearranged the stack of papers the child had rushed into his arms. As it looked, he would have a lot of unimportant paperwork to do today.

He sighed.

He just loved this kind of work.

When he entered the small kitchen Wufei looked at him with something that Zechs would place as worry, but he wasn’t sure... It could have been pure mock.

“Sorry...” He mumbled after deciding that it was worry he had seen and not that mocking expression that he had thought it to be for a second. “Messenger, though I thought it was Sally...”

Wufei crocked a brow.

“What?”

Wufei simply shook his head, and it would be pointless to do anything but just that.

“Hmn,” The blond said as he sat down next to his dark haired china doll. He took a sip of his coffee and looked through the papers in front of him.

“Chang?”

The youth looked up towards the man’s rough voice.

“Would you like to take a bath while I place a few calls?”

The Chinese frowned, then his eyes widened in hesitation, fear glimpsing through its obsidian irises. It was true that the tall blond had been awfully nice to him lately, well... He had been ever since he had woken up with a cuddling Wufei that same morning.

But trust the man to help him with a bath?!

That would be to scream for suicide!

His gaze dropped away from the tall man’s, he had no idea what he was supposed to think of this, and before he knew it his mind had wandered off.

Zechs hadn’t known the boy for more then a few days now, not counting all those years they spent by being enemies, but still he knew him well enough to know that something had to be wrong if he was spacing out as frequently as he did nowadays. He couldn’t remember ever seeing the healthy Chang Wufei like that.

I have to remember to talk to Sally about this the next time she decides to drop by..

“Wufei?” He said before he laid a hand over the youth’s knee. “Hey, you okay?”

The young Chinese blinked in surprise and the gentle touch made him tense up again. This time though, he managed to regain his calm before Zechs got to worry even more. Or being target of his reflexes.

Thinking that they were still talking about the bath he nodded twice, quickly. He did want to take a bath, to feel hot water easing the pain in his body... Even if it would mean that Zechs would, with no exceptions, humiliate him again.

“Finish your breakfast while I go and prepare for it then.” He said with a smile and placed down the stack of papers on the small breakfast table. “Don’t spill anything on these, will you?” He chuckled as he rose and then walked away from Wufei.

He didn’t get far though... Just a few steps later he made a hasty halt, turned around and walked straight back to the table. Wufei looked up at the noise he made, another frown resting over his features .

The blond man reached over the table, picked up his half finished cup of coffee, happy that the liquid had stayed warm the entire time. He smiled at him self and swallowed it all in one large ‘gulp’.

“They do say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.”


***


“Ready?” Zechs asked as soon as he had left the bathroom about ten minutes later. “I really hope you don’t have anything against a rose scented foam bath, because that’s what you’re having.”

Wufei choked on the small amount of orange juice that he was trying to swallow when he had heard the blond speak. What he said was definitively not something he ever expected the tall blond to say.

Wufei coughed, and tried to rise on shaky legs. Unfortunately for him he never got the chance to see if his legs could bare his weight properly so soon after the workout they had gotten earlier. Zechs was behind him and had put his hands on his waist even before Wufei had pushed his chair back enough to stand straight. The tall man maneuvered him away from the table, and before Wufei would realize what had happened he had lifted him into his arms.

The small Chinese let out a silent growl of disappointment, which he hadn’t known he had until he heard Zechs chuckle as response.

“You have no idea how cute that small little noise can sound coming from you,” He laughed. “Now, that’s something to talk about at work!” He planted another small kiss on top of that crown of silky black hair, shocking the dark haired youth once again.

As soon as they had entered the, compared to the bedroom, large bathroom Zechs bent down so he could place his china doll on the edge of the tub filled with white bubbles. He didn’t let go off the youth though. His hands stayed on Wufei’s body while he turned the water off.

After that he pulled the boy to his feet, still with his hands around his waist.

“Hands up.”

Wufei frowned and pushed lightly at the tall man’s chest. Even though he knew that he was going to need Zechs’s help in this he didn’t need him to undress him. He could at least let him try on his own before helping him in that matter!

He couldn’t make up his mind, which was more embarrassing? Him stripping while the blond man watched him like a hawk, or letting the man remove his clothes for him?

“Okay, but I’m not leaving you alone.” Zechs didn’t really want to let go off that small waist, afraid that the youth was going to fall into the water behind him. But he did let go, and Wufei was grateful for it.

Even for the short while it lasted.

Wufei had moved to take a step backwards to get some more room because it was obvious that the other man wasn’t moving. But his leg gave in under him and for once he was happy that Zechs was so close to him. If he hadn’t, he hadn’t been close enough to stop the fall, and Wufei would surely have drowned.

Zechs pulled him in for a hug, and then he moved his hands up under Wufei’s borrowed shirt to rest then on his hips.

“Let me rephrase that,” He chuckled. “Okay, but I am not letting go of you.” He moved back a little, giving the young Chinese some more space.

Unfortunately that didn’t give the comfort Zechs had hoped it would give the small Chinese.

Wufei looked more then a little insecure, but he pulled off that red tee-shirt Zechs had thought that he should wear instead of his own clothes. When he had slipped out of that garment he let it fall down on the floor next to his feet, and Zechs moved his hands to hold his waist instead of his hips. That way Wufei could remove his pajama bottoms without his hands bothering him. Wufei pulled at the drawstring and blushed as the black pajama bottoms pooled around his ankles. He easily stepped out of them and Zechs pushed them aside.

Wufei could swear that his face was turning bright red, and if not, his entire body. Just the thought of removing that single piece of remaining clothing...

But when his hands finally moved to pull them down Zechs pulled him closer to his body.

“Wait,” The tall blond said with amusement in his voice and let one of his hands leave the warm skin around Wufei’s waist for a second.

Wufei frowned, and then he pushed hard at the man’s body, making him stumble backwards against the sink.

“Hey!”

Wufei growled and slammed a fist against Zechs’s chest. This was not the time for his perverted games! He didn’t need to come back to the Preventers just to find out that there were pictures of him spread everywhere!

“WUFEI?!” The blond man snapped and grabbed Wufei’s wrists before he could hit him again.

Wufei froze and his eyes flung wide open.

He wouldn’t need his sight to know that Zechs hadn’t been reaching for a camera or anything else as perverted.

“Ngso... sow.. sowy...” He mumbled with his head bowed in shame.
“I’m not really such a bastard Wufei,” Zechs sighed, letting go of the youth’s hands so that he could stroke that black hair. “I guess today isn’t my lucky day.” He chuckled. “I mean, first I get you all wind up by missing that, that dress of yours. Then I scared that little poor kid.. and now I get all beaten up because I got the wrong reputation.”

He paused to wrap the towel around Wufei’s waist, and after he made sure that he was only holding the towel and not Wufei’s boxers too, he opened his mouth to speak again.

“I’m sorry, for everything I have ever done to make you so mistrusting of me.”

Wufei still hung his head. He didn’t want Zechs to see the shame and embarrassment over his face.

Zechs sighed.

“Put your arms around my neck.”

Wufei was still for a moment, then he slowly raised his hands and locked them together behind Zechs’s neck, which would never have worked if the man was an inch taller! Then Zechs leaned down and pulled the only remaining piece of clothing from Wufei’s body.

The minute Wufei felt his underwear slide down his legs he moved one of his hands from around Zechs’s neck to make sure that the towel stayed around his waist. Zechs noticed, but decided against saying anything.

“I am going to lift you know.”

That was the only warning he gave his small china doll before lifting his legs from the floor and sat him down in the warm, bubbled water.

It wasn’t until Wufei’s body was covered up by those bubbles, which by the way did smell like roses in full bloom, Zechs removed the towel. He laid it aside and reached for Wufei’s hands.

“Here,” He said and led Wufei’s hand over the side of the tub by the wall. “Is the soap, and here’s,” He moved their hands a bit further away, “The shampoo and this is the conditioner.”

Wufei nodded.

“I’ll be right outside, and the door will be wide open. If you need me just knock against the tub,” He demonstrated, forcing a clean ‘clang’ from the white enamel. “And I’ll be in here right that second. Okay?”

Wufei nodded again.

“Knock when you’re finished then.” He said smiling. “And no, I will not come in here just to watch you wash yourself.”

Wufei’s cheeks burned and he lowered his head.

He knew he could control his body, but ever since that last mission... that mission that went flawless until he was about to leave and get drugged into a back alley, getting beat up instead. Ever since then he had been weak.. and the fact that Zechs kept making him blush just made everything worse.

Staying at a clinic where all the nurses despised him would have been heaven!

Zechs chuckled again. “You really have no idea how cute you are sometimes...” That did catch the Chinese’s attention, and Zechs took advantage of it by caressing his hand over his china doll’s cheekbone.

“Knock if you need me.”

Wufei growled and battled his hand away.

He wished he had his voice. At least then this could be bearably, yes... then he could make Zechs stop doing all of, that!



To be continued...