Fringe Benefits

Pairings: 2x4x2, implied past 3x4x3, 1xR, 3xC, 5xS

Warnings: OC, Yaoi, Shonen ai, slight angst, slightly AU and Sap will probably have lemon later on DARK ISSUES SUCH AS RAPE AND POSSIBLY PROSTITUTION WILL BE DISCUSSED IF THIS OFFENDS YOU IN ANY WAY PLEASE DO NOT READ!!!!!! YOU\'VE BEEN WARNED!!!!
More Detailed Summary: This story takes a place a year after EW ends. Peace has come to Earth and the Colonies and now is the time to rebuild after the war. Quatre, head of Winner Enterprises publically came out of the closet almost a year ago and is curently living with his best friend, Duo Maxwell. However their relationship concerns Quatre\'s elder sister, Iria who notices their behavior as anything but friendly. So she employs the help of Rebecca Nobara the reporter that interviewed Quatre when he let the world know where his sexual orientations lie to do a follow-up interview of the gundam pilots and covertly play matchmaker in an attempt to show Duo and Quatre that they are perhaps mistaking simple friendship for love. However Quatre and Duo both have reasons to keep the relationship they have. It is up to Rebecca to tear open the wounds and get to the heart of their emotions so that their wounds can begin to heal.
Feedback: yes please ^_^ mysteria388@hotmail.com
Author\'s notes: I\'m fairly new at writing fanfiction so please, constructive criticism would be most appreciated. ^_^

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Rebecca Nobara, a young woman with piercing blue-gray eyes and long chocolate-brown hair swept up into a long ponytail down her back stared down at the open folder before her and then back up at her blonde friend who gave her the most charming and convincing smile she could muster.

\"Iria,\" she said softly to her friend, \"You are my best friend in all the world. You know that I would gladly go to any length to do whatever I could for you, however, playing \"Matchmaker\" between your homosexual little brother and his bi-sexual friend isn\'t exactly what I had in mind!\"

The doctor\'s smile wavered, \"Please, Rebecca. I wouldn\'t ask you this if I wasn\'t truly concerned about their relationship. Please you\'re the only one who can help.\"

Rebecca looked back down at the folder. Inside was more information than Rebecca had cared to know about the Winner Enterprises CEO and the very elusive ex-gundam pilot, Duo Maxwell. Taking a deep breath and silently berating herself for being such a softy at heart, she shrugged her shoulders lightly.

\"Ok. So what\'s the game plan?\" she asked casually making a point of staring at the folder instead of Iria Winner\'s bright blue-green eyes.

renorenowned doctor\'s face lit up with delight and relief and Rebecca felt herself practically pounced upon and enveloped in a warm hug from her friend of which she couldn\'t help but smile a little and return the gesture in kind.

\"That\'s great!\" Iria went on talking exicitedly, \"Here\'s what I had thought you could do. You remember the piece you did last Christmas on the gundam pilots?\"

Rebecca nodded. Her magazine\'s article, \"Peace on Earth and In Space - The Gundam Pilots: Heralds of Peace\" had just come out after Ms. Dorlian was rescued from Dekim Barton and the war finally seemed over. Everybody wanted to know about the five young men who saved both earth and the colonies from distruction. So, she had told them including full page spreads for each of the handsome warriors which had the most of the young female population breaking down their doors for a date. Luckily that only lasted about a week until Quatre decided to end the torment and play scapegoat all at once.

Rebecca frowned. Both she and Iria didn\'t want to print the article but the young CEO insisted so a few weeks later after the \"Heralds of Peace\" article, Rebecca\'s magazine was the first to publish the startling news that the head of the Winner Enterprises was not as interested in females as everyone had thought.

In \"An Interview with Earth\'s Most Wealthiest Man: Quatre Raberba Winner\" Quatre bared all and publically came out of the closet once and for all. Both she and Iria were afraid the world would not accept him and he would be asked to leave the corporation. However, the public took it surprisingly well. They were shocked and a few voiced their not so eloquent opinions but overall the mentality was that as long as he did his job at the office what did they care whether he came home to a girl, another man, or even a goat?! It really wasn\'t their business what he did. Rebecca could tell that Quatre was relieved that it was all out in the open and he no longer had to worry about how others felt. It was rather liberating for the young man. Rebecca relaxed a little. Perhaps a bit more publicity on his side was just what the twenty-two year old needed right now. Maybe even a chance to get his thoughts away from work for awhile...yeah...

\"Rebecca, are you listening to me?!\" Iria\'s voice brought the reporter out of her thoughts and back to reality.

\"Uh, sorry. So what\'s this plan of yours?\" she asked.

Iria leaned in and lowered her voice conspiratorially, \"Well I have a great idea for a one year follow-up on your christmas article. How does this sound?\"

Outside the doctor\'s plush sitting room was heard quite a bit of hushed whispering interspersed by the oncasional girlish giggle as the two plotted and planned a way to help their blond-haired friend aEO oEO of Winner Enterprises Ltd.

to be continued...

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If all the world was black and white...I\'d be bored to death. Thank God the world is varied shades of gray! ~_^

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