New Haven

Chapter Two: It all Starts…When?

Duo rose from his fitful sleeping for once having a good nights sleep. He scratched his chest to relieve an itch and stretched out his five’ eleven” frame. He wandered to the kitchen to start the coffee machine and found a surprise waiting for him. He never really woke up till after his first cup of coffee in the morning.

He blinked and yawned and reached into the cupboard for the coffee canister and met empty air. He groaned in dismay. ‘Have I forgotten to buy coffee, again?’ He groused as he slit an eye open to peruse his surroundings.

“There is coffee in the pot.” A quiet calm tenor told him with a ripple of amusement.

The asian owner of the gym watched the paramedic with open amusement. He had found out that the paramedic was on the same schedule as him and he was openly amused by his slow wake up. Though when he had walked into the kitchen in only his boxers looking completely relaxed and sleep tousled he had almost had the urge to jump the man.

Duo spun around completely awake and crouched low to the cupboards and pulled a gun from seemingly nowhere. He hadn’t expected someone to be in his kitchen.

The asian’s eyes widened in amazement. He had only seen Heero react so quickly. ‘Where and what were you doing during the colony war, Mr. Maxwell?’ He asked himself.

Duo glared and put the weapon back beneath the sink as he slowly stood back up from his crouched position. “Doesn’t anybody knock anymore?” He grumbled as he filled his coffee mug and added a good dose of sugar. He turned to his guest and slouched against the counter and waited.

The asian smirked. ‘Well,’ He thought to himself, ‘He isn’t clothing shy.’ His eyes took in the view and his mind said ‘EYE CANDY’. He blinked and looked down into the cup he was holding. Duo had a well sculpted body and he was very much aware that his body liked what it saw. He had checked the information he had about gym admittance and found that he had lived across the street. Quatre had insisted that they take his plan to his sister this morning and they had been waiting for the young man in question to wake up and come with them. Quatre had finally had enough and took his two lovers and himself off to start the crusade he now had in his hands.

Duo waited for his visitor to state his business. He knew that Preventer Yuy could get into any place he wanted and wondered what the man thought of his system. He assumed they had been there by the extra mugs in the sink beside him.

“My name is Chang Wufei,” The asian finally said. “I am a prosecuting lawyer for Preventers.” Duo widened his eyes in disbelief. “The gym is my hobby.” The asian continued ignoring the sign of shock. “I am a very private man and like to keep away from people. But your idea does have merit. And Quatre…” Wufei paused and let his lips twitch as he remembered Quatre’s rant on this idea. “Well, Quatre thinks that your idea is the best thing he has heard in ages.” Onyx eyes met violet and a message passed between them. “And I am to get you dressed and to his sister’s office as soon as possible and any other information you have with you.”

Duo blinked and let the coffee do its work as he slowly comprehended what the man said. His eyes traveled over the crisp suit the man wore and he groaned. He didn’t have anything that could compare to this man’s clothes.

Wufei smiled slightly. He heard the groan and thought about what clothes he had seen this man wear. A suit wasn’t one of those things. “Don’t worry wear what your comfortable with and everything will go fine. You have to be yourself or people won’t take you seriously.”

Duo blinked over the coffee cup tilted to his lips. He lowered it and stared at the man for a silent minute. “How do you know that was what I was thinking?” He looked at the man in question in silence waiting for the answer. No one could read him and his body. No one.

Wufei frowned at the man waiting for an answer. He had just known. That was all there was to it. He shrugged. “I just did. Now go get dress before Quatre has a hissy fit and sends Yuy after us.” He stood and took the empty coffee cup from the man’s hands and proceed to fill the sink with water and suds as he removed his jacket and rolled up his cuffs. He ignored the silent man beside him as he began to do the dishes in the sink. “Move it.”

Duo promptly obeyed the last command and wondered how it had happened. One minute he had been staring in bemusement at the man and the next he was heading for a shower and a shave.

While he showered he thought about his reaction to the man he was slowly coming to have emotions for. He wasn’t going to acknowledge the feeling though. Everyone he had loved had died and he wasn’t going to let that happen again. No matter what the incentive.

~Meanwhile in the Kitchen~

Wufei finished the dishes and thought about his reaction to the vibrant young man he had slowly gotten to know. There were more aspects that were slowly coming through and what he had seen on his face last night should never have been on that face. For some reason he wanted to wipe away that look and make the man smile even when it meant loosing the quietness he adored. That face should always be smiling and happy.

The look he had seen last night should only be found on faces like himself and his friends. They had seen the depths that humanity had sunk to and only they should be able to have that look. That someone else had it as well was not something he wanted to comprehend. Because it meant that there were others out there that would have it as well. He rubbed at his face tiredly as he remembered what Quatre had said last night. The blond seemed to think that he had seen the man before. It had been sometime during the war and it was something that he didn’t want to remember. If that was so then it was probably during the time that his father had died. Wufei turned to look out the large windows that brought sun into the kitchen and living area of the studio apartment. He hadn’t explored it to the extent the others had but something about the corner that was bare that was talking to him.

He stood and approached it and took a step onto it. His eyes widened as he felt it. It was spring board of the best quality. ‘Why would a paramedic who constantly goes to the gym need this?’ He asked himself as his eyes raised and met the startled eyes of the man in question.

Duo came down the hall and found Wufei across the room standing on the edge of the springboard area he had put in to do his katas. He never let anyone see him do them and if he had found a way to do them at the gym he would have saved himself the expense. He scratched the back of his head and wondered what he should say.

Wufei saw the motion and decided to wait and ask him about it later. He eyes slowly took in the clothes that the man had decided to wear.

He was wearing black dress pants that clung to all the right places and a deep maroon dress shirt that made the light violet eyes seem even deeper and more complex. He swallowed as his body shouted its desire to walk over and kiss the man senseless. ‘What are you thinking?’ His mind screamed at him. ‘You don’t swing that way!! Do you?’ Wufei blinked at the sudden question. He needed time and space to think about that question. “Lets go.” He all but growled at the man standing at the entrance to the hallway that led to the bedrooms. He grabbed his jacket from the kitchen and headed for the door leaving a perplexed and puzzled Duo to follow.

Duo frowned at the sudden change in the lawyer’s mood. He wondered what had happened to change it. As he puzzled out what it could be he opened a closet and grabbed one of his leather jackets he kept there. Unbeknownst to him he grabbed the jacket that he had promised himself he would pack away and never seemed to find the time to do so. The special forces jacket that gave his code name.

The jacket that would bring back his past in living color.