Double Duos

Ch 12: ReUnited.

Quatre woke up to the familiar smell of Trowa’s sheets. Trowa was still asleep, his long bangs covering his eyes. Quatre wiped the long bangs away from Trowa’s face, only to watch them fall back down again. Trowa’s face scrunched up after the bangs landed back down onto his face.
“Hmm.. my hair is tickling my face,” Trowa commented. Quatre smiled and lifted Trowa’s bangs again.
“Better?” Quatre asked. Trowa smiled.
“Now I can actually see you perfectly when I want to kiss you,” Trowa whispered. He moved in close and kissed Quatre lightly. Quatre moaned and began running his hands up Trowa’s back. Trowa moaned and broke the kiss.
“First, breakfast. I’m starving!” Trowa sat up and handed Quatre his shirt. “You coming?” Trowa asked. Quatre smiled and took the crumpled pink shirt from Trowa’s hands.

* * * *

Duo exited his dorm with his braid redone and his clothes changed to his blue trackpants and black t-shirt. He made his way to the kitchen and opened the cupboards.
“Hmm, bread, oatmeal, coco pops, captain crunch, jam..” Duo recited to himself as he looked at the contents of the cupboard. After a minute Duo pulled out the coco pops and poured it into a bowl, along with some milk. He then grabbed a spoon and made his way out of the kitchen and back to the infirmary.

Duo had to pass the dorms to get to the infirmary. He noticed Trowa and Quatre both coming out of Trowa’s dorm. Duo had heard from Quatre about what Daimon was doing to their relationship so he was happy to see that they were leaving Trowa’s dorm hand in hand.
“Morning boys,” Duo smiled.
“Morning” the other two replied.
“Going for breakfast?” Duo asked. Then he smiled evily. “Or have you already eaten?” he joked.
Quatre rolled his eyes. “We’re going to the kitchen for breakfast. You wanna join us?” Quatre said, looking at the bowl of coco pops.
“Oh this is for Wufei, but after I give it to him I’ll come back to the kitchen okay?” Duo explained. The other two boys nodded and continued on their way to the kitchen.

Duo got to the infirmary to see Wufei had woken up and began building houses from the deck of cards.
“Gee, I didn’t know you were THAT bored!” Duo commented as he entered the room. Wufei huffed and pushed the cards off the table that stretched over his bed. “You have no idea Maxwell. Come on. Don’t make me beg. Help me out of this bed!” Wufei begged. Duo shook his head.
“Hey you don’t want to go pulling those stitches now do you? Look I brought you some breakfast and I’ll be back later. Quatre and Trowa are back together I think,” Duo explained. Wufei looked up from the bowl to Duo.
“When did they break up?” Wufei asked. Duo sighed and left the infirmary. “Duo? DUO! Oh you’ve got to be kidding me!.. injustice.”

Duo smiled as he overheard Wufei’s groaning at being left alone. He was about to continue his way towards the kitchen when he saw Heero standing at the end of the corridor.
“Heero.” Duo whispered. He hadn’t had a chance to really talk to Heero since he left for his mission almost a month ago. Duo could remember the fight they had that night he left.

**flashback to the night Duo left for his mission**

“Heero, have you seen my cap anywhere?” Duo asked as he searched his bag and the rest of the room for the infamous black cap. Heero kept tapping away on his laptop. Duo sometimes got pissed off how the laptop sometimes got more attention than himself.

“Didn’t you leave it in the Deathscythe?” Heero replied, not taking his eyes off the laptop. Duo packed his laptop into his black backpack and put it on his shoulder.
“Well I guess I did. All right then I’m off. So I’ll see ya when I get back okay?” Duo stood next to Heero waiting for a response but Heero just grunted like he always does and continued to type on that blasted laptop. Duo got pissed off at his lover.

“Heero did you hear me? I’m going okay? I should be back tomorrow night.” Duo repeated. Heero looked up this time and said “Okay. Bye.”
Duo got really pissed off. He sometimes thought Heero suffered from mood swings.
“Gee Heero, no kiss goodbye? Sometimes I think you only want me around when is suits you. Why do we spend so much time together one day, then you completely ignore me the next!? And I don’t want any of that perfect soldier crap okay?! I know you can be a perfectly normal person when you want to be but there’s no reason for you to be a total prick right now!” Duo complained. He tried to keep his voice at a normal level because he knew that in the Peace million, the walls had ears. Heero stopped typing and got up.
“Duo, I’m writing a report. You know the mission should always come first,” Heero explained. Duo was hurt by that response.
“You know Heero, I hope you didn’t mean for it to sound like that. War or no war, get your priorities straight Heero. You cant just take me for granted okay. Like you said, this is a war. Some day I may not be here,” Duo yelled as he headed for the door.

Heero clenched his fists in frustration.
“Dammit Duo! Don’t be so sensitive all the time! With this war-“ Heero was cut off by Duo.
“Oh just shut it Heero. I’m late for my mission. Missions always come first remember? Now if you decide you need me around, you always know how to find me,” Duo said, trying to contain his anger. He walked out of the dorm and headed for the hanger. Heero was left alone in Duo’s dorm contemplating what Duo had said. For the rest of the night, Heero would not touch the laptop, but he knew it wouldn’t have done any good because Duo was already leaving for his mission. He walked towards the bed and lay down on in. Heero could’ve sworn he felt something under his back, so he got up and lifted the doona to find Duo’s prized black hat.
“Oh shit!” Heero said to himself as he ran out the door after Duo.


Duo got into the Deathscythe cockpit and began looking for his cap.
“Fuck man! Where is it!” Duo complained. After a minute he gave up and began to strap himself into the cockpit. Howard stood on the platform explaining the new system he installed. Duo nodded and Howard made his way back to fixing the other Gundams. Duo started up the Deathscythe and reached for the switch to close the hatch. Before he could close the hatch, he saw Heero standing on the platform.
“Heero.” Heero walked onto the hatch.
“I found your hat,” Heero said as he held out the black hat for Duo to take it. Duo didn’t smile and Heero knew Duo must have been really pissed off to not smile.
“Thanx,” Duo replied as he took the hat. Heero wasn’t good with sorrys, and his pride wouldn’t allow him to say the words. So Heero did the only thing he could think of.
“Duo. Wait,” Heero said quietly as he leaned into the cockpit. Duo was still pissed off and crossed his arms.
“I already said thanx for the ha-” Duo got cut off by Heero’s lips pressing against his own. Heero broke off the kiss and tried to smile. “Good luck,” he whispered then got out of the cockpit so Duo could leave for his mission. Duo was still pissed off with Heero but tried to be a little happier that Heero actually came to say goodbye.

***end flashback***

Heero watched Duo from the end of the corridor. He wasn’t sure if Duo was going to walk away or let Heero talk to him.
‘Time to grow some balls Heero,” he said to himself.
Duo watched as Heero walked towards him. Duo really wanted to talk to Heero. He needed to know what was going on in that past month while he was in cryostasis. He wanted to know why Heero had never come to save him like he always does. ‘Well the mission does always come first.’

“Duo,” Heero whispered. He reached for Duo\'s hand but Duo didn’t respond to Heero’s touch. “You know I’m not good at this but I’m..I’m.. sorry.. for everything. I-” Duo put his finger to Heero’s lips. Heero watched the tears well up in Duo’s violet eyes.
“Quatre filled me in on everything. Look, I know we had a fight before I left, and I know you’re not good at apologies. But I want you to know I just need a few days to get let everything just sink in okay?” a tear ran down Duo’s cheek. Heero reached up and wiped the tear away.
“Take as long as you need. I’ll be on the Peace Million if you need,” Heero replied before turning and making his way back to his dorm.

* * * *

“Trowa, I know thight ght just be avoiding the subject, but can we just wait until after the wars before deciding on where we’re going to live? From what I’ve learnt in the past two days is that we should probably live this war day by day,” Quatre explained. Trowa finished the mouthful of toast before attempting to reply.

“I think you may be right. Maybe we should just take this relationship from a different angle for a while and see how we go,” Trowa smiled. He cupped Quatre’s face with his hand.
“I don’t think I could live without you right now,” Trowa said quietly. Quatre smiled. Trowa was mesmerised by Quatre’s beautiful eyes. “Quatre, no matter how much you can piss me off with how you worry too much, I cant live without how you bite your lip when you’re nervous, how you always seem to know the right words to say in a bad situation and I feel like I’m a better person when you’re around,” Trowa explained. Quatre was brought to tears of joy at how beautiful the words were.

The two boys could hear a clapping sound coming from the kitchen door.
“Beautiful.. just beautiful Trowa,” Duo smiled. “Not a dry eye in the house,” Duo pretended to wipe a tear from his eye. Deep down, he really wished Heero would talk to him like that.


* * * *

[peace million: three days later]
“Heya Wu-man! How are ya feeling today? Duo asked as he passed the Chinese boy. Wufei was sitting on the platform helping Trowa readjust the Heavyarms.
”well so far I can walk alright but because that dick took my Gundam I’m limited to fixing everyone elses Gundams!” Wufei complained. Trowa overheard and turned to Wufei.
“Wufei, everyoine knows you’re only offering to help so that you don’t have to stay in that boring infirmary,” Trowa explained. Duo laughed at Wufei trying to deny that last comment. He continued to walk on until he reached his old friend the Deathscyhe. He opened the hatch and lay down on it. Just like Duo always does when he’s bored, he lay across the hatch with his discman and his favourite music blaring.

Heero’s Gundam stood in the line up next to the Deathscythe, so he couldn’t help but stare at Duo. It was only yesterday that Duo had actually started talking to Heero again. They were in a weird situation because its not everyday your boyfriend has a clone and you sleep with it, thinking its him.

Heero was honestly happy that Duo didn’t hold a grudge against him because of the whole ordeal. Heero forced himself to stop staring at the braided boy and went back to his laptop. He was upgrading his ststem for the hundredth time.
*beep beep* Heero got an email.
He opened the email.
“Daimon?” Heero whispered. The last thing he wanted was for Duo to hear that name.

Heero, I no I already said thanx for saving my life earlier this week, but I thought I better pay you back for saving my life by giving you the co-ordinates of Wufei’s gundam that I stole. He must be going nuts without his gundam. I’ve attatched the co-ordinates to this email. Cya

Heero smiled to himself, remembering Wufei’s yelling when he found out that Daimon had stolen his Gundam. Heero almost copped a black eye, but luckily Wufei couldn’t reach far enough out of the infirmary bed to get Heero. Heero wrote down the co-ordinates and got up. He took another look at his boyfriend before jumping onto the platform to go find Howard.

“Hey everyone! Turn on your T.V’s, viewscreens, ANYTHING that shows Tv shows!” Howard yelled over the P.a. Heero turned back to his gundam and turned the viewscreen on. He realised Duo was still listening to his music and had no idea about what was going on, so he ran to Duo’s gundam and tapped Duo’s shoulder. Duo opened his eyes at the feeling of someone tapping him.

“What’s up?” Duo asked as he pulled the headphones off. Heero pointed to his gundam.
“Howard said for everyone to turn on their TV’s. I thought you’d want to see what’s going on,” Heero gestured for Duo to follow Heero to the Wing Zero. Duo smiled, got up and followed Heero to the Wing Zero.

“What the fu-” Duo exclaimed. Zechs could be seen on the screen. He was talking bout his new organization called the White Fang.

“Oh you’ve got to be kidding me!” Duo yelled! “Doesn’t this shit ever end!” Duo dropped to his knees and stared at the floor of the hatch. Heero watched Duos display and knelt down next to him.
“Duo?” Heero asked quietly as he dared putting an arm around Duo’s shoulders.

“Sorry Heero. I didn’t mean to yell, but I’m just fed up with this war and all those fucken megalomaniacs that just don’t give up,” Duo went quiet. He then looked up at Heero. “Is there ever going to be peace for us Heero?” Duo pleaded. Heero put his other arm around Duo.

“Duo, when this war ends, and if it were upto me it’d finish soon.. but when this war ends, where are you going to go?” Heero asked. Duo thought about it for a minute. And just shrugged in reply.
“I guess I’m just going to see if I make it through this war to begin with, THEN decide when that day comes,” the American mumbled. “What about you Heero? Relena’s no doubt going to ask you to be her bodyguard.”
Heero lifted Duo’s chin so that he could look into those violet eyes.
“I plan to buy a house either on Earth or one of the colonies.. Duo I want you to live with me.” Heero requested. Duo blinked a few times, trying to understand fully what Heero was asking. A huge smile came to Duo’s face.
“Heero? Are you serious!?” Duo squealed. When Heero nodded, Duo jumped onto Heero and hugged him, sending the two boys crashing off the hatch and onto the platform. For the first time in a long time, Duo saw Heero smile- a truly rare sight.