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Ain\'t Life Something	By : Venusia Category: Gundam Wing/AC > General Views: 740 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
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Author:
Fugu

Archive:
WD ML Archive

Warning:
after Endless Waltz, major OOC, major sap, angst and oh yes, pretty
plotless

Rating:
PG-13

Disclaimer:
Dont own nothing! Dont suuue pleeeeaase!

Title:
Ain't Life Something

Pairing:
obviously most incredibly sappy 2x5(x2) hehe. Also 3x4, 1xSally, etc.

Notes:
Installment One

Ain't Life Something

or

(Does this Story Have a
Point? NO!)

Wufei sat in a comfortable loveseat in Quatre's
luscious library, reading an interesting science fiction book from the late
20th century titled Dune. He
could relate pretty much to Paul Atreides, the main hero, where he had lost his
family and had to strive and survive for the cost of a greater quest. More so,
the imagined techniques of space travel were quite interesting. Quite a good
read really, entertaining and challenging.

Slowly, he put his book down and taking off his
reading glas rub rubbed his tired eyes.
He stretched taking in a deep breath and coughed a little. Clearing his throat he stood and walked to
one of the huge windows and looked out at the snowy Austrian mountaintops. The
sky was a beautiful clear blue but snow would fall soon as patches of heavy
clouds were coming their way from the mountain. He closed his eyes and let
himself merge with the silence until it became noise...and relaxed
further.

True this vacation was great idea. He hadn't
realized how driven he had been until his husband had forced him into accepting
Quatre's invitation to the estate for the Christmas holidays. Furthermore, Duo had insisted he not think
about work and relax totally the minute they were in the car towards the
airport. After their arrival at the
mansion Duo's obvious 'mission' was to turn his workaholic husband into the best
couch potato for the length of the vacation. He formally achieved this by
watching Wufei like a hawk and reprimanding him if he did as much as wake up
before 10 am. He also dotted extensively on Wufei. Although he grumbled about this it was just a facade, he had to
admit he quite liked the attention. This quiet pace was a welcome change to the
frantic Preventer's Special Ops life he had been leading for what 3 years now?

His eyes opened wide as he just realized he hadn't
taken any vacation time in three years! How had he not neglected Duo at the
same time he couldn't know. But Duo was his life, second to everything even
duty, so he knew, and Duo reminded him every time he could, that within that
hectic life of missions to missions Duo was always loved and cherished when a
downtime could permit it and then some.

Noise was coming from the snowy
grounds surrounding the estate. He
smiled as the familiar voices filed in the house now after the sound of the
front door slamming close. Duo's doing for sure. And true to his thoughts, a couple minutes later Duo came
bouncing in the library flinging his strong arms around his husband�s waist and
planting a chill kiss on his forehead. For somebody incredibly loud Duo could
be exceptionally silent too. Except for the door he hadn't heard Duo coming up
the stairs to this room.

He sighed and melted contentedly in
his husband's taller frame.

Yes taller, to his secret despair the 16/17 year
old growth spurt hadn't been to generous with him rendering him the smallest of
the pilots. Infuriating really, since at 15 they had all been the same
height. Infuriating further, now that
Duo was the second tallest of them after Trowa and he liked taking advantage of
it too. Oh well...

"Hey babe, we missed you
outside." Duo kissed his ear "How was your afternoon?"

Wufei briefly squeezed Duo tighter
and went to sit in the loveseat again, "I just stayed in the library
reading."

Duo followed him, sitting close to
gather and tuck him under his chin. Wufei patiently accepted it. Duo was a tactile kind of person, always
cuddling, kissing and all. Wufei had been really uncomfortable at the beginning
of their relationship but had just eventually resigned to the inevitable.

"That's good really. You've
been really exhausting yourself lately."

"Duo" Wufei admonished,
"We're Preventers! I'm a Special Op! Of course its hard work!"

"Well yeah, but you don't see
me pulling three 72 hours in a row." Duo could just 'feel' Wufei rolling
his eyes. " Hey, I'm serious Fei. You really looked like death warmed over
the day before yesterday. I mean you were asking for drastic measures
here."

As ususal a 'simple' reconnaissance
mission had turned to hell. After three
dreadful weeks of "plotting and spying" as Duo would say, it turned
out that they had to put to practice what they had learned instef haf handing
it to the relief team that would have executed the mission. It had been a
tempered fiasco thanks to the level headedness of his men. They were prepared
after all, just exhausted and hard press to finding the appropriate resources
to save their tails, nothing much really. The relief team had come as back up
and everything eventually calmed down.
Three injured, no deaths, among a total of twelve, not bad really.
However that little adventure had delayed him two weeks into his month vacation
and Duo had been beside himself when he'd come home bloody, disheveled and
dragging.

" No really man, you were
zombified. I really wish I had the time to give Une a piece o' my mind. She
shoulda let me join the relief team." He said vehemently.

"Duo, it isn't standard
procedure..."

"Fuck standard procedure!
'They're handling it' she said 'They've got back up' 'Wufei says everything's
under control' Hohoho! Well we all know what that means! " Duo rd
vd
venomously.

"Hey!"

Duo continued like he hadn't heard,
"That means you're taking the most risks in every aspect of that
godforsaken mission that's blown to hell. And don't deny it, I always ask the
'real' version to your men and it makes my blood run cold. "

Wufei grumbled. //Got to remember
to tell them to Shuddup!//

" I mean, even if I'm a
mechanic, I'm still Preventer and I was a gundam pilot for Chrissaske!"
Duo took in a shaky breath and expelled it trying to calm himslef down.
"Goddammit!"

"Better, now?"

Duo kissed the top of his head and
let him go from the suffocating embrace. Wufei coughed a bit.

" Hey sorry, didn't mean squesqueeze so hard, hehe"

"No problem, Duo." Wufei
smiled that smile that always gave his husband flutters. He straitened himself
and taking of his elastic finger-combed his hair out of the ponytail. "But
seriously, you you better now?"

"Yeah, yeah, just needed to
vent. You just really scared me." Unconsciously, Duo took over the
finger-combing. "You were really pale and looked all deflated. I thought
you would pass out at the doorstep...Woo, you know we've been together for too
long when I start ranting like that!"

Wufei chuckled and Duo was pleased.
Wufei had really lightened up, consequence of yours truly and it was for the
better. He finally could laugh at himself and well, laugh simply and but damn
did he look good when the laughter reached his eyes, liightight now; and Duo
just had to kiss him. He did so, a warm peck on the cheek. Wufei looked at him
warmly and than closed his eyes as he burrowed further into the cushions
enjoying his impromptu scalp massage.

Although his hwasnwasn't as long as Duo's it had
reached below his shoulders and it allowed them to share the hair fetish and
weakness in scalp massages.

"You know, I'm not an invalid
and if you remember well, I was a gundam pilot too, yes?" Wufei added
sarcastically.

Duo laughed. "I know, I know,
just let me have my rants, will you!"

Wufei laughed at that and had to
clear his throat.

" But seriously, you haven't
been sleeping to well for the past two nights and," Duo peered closer
" you still look kinda pale to me."

" Worrywart." Wufei
patted Duo's tight reassuringly. " I've just been tired. To tired to sleep
probably, that's all." He opened
his eyes and looking at Duo " This vacation was really a good idea even
thought a bit at the last minute."

"Good. But you know, maybe you
should take some sleeping pills tonight. I could ask Sally."

Wufei frowned.

"Heyhey! I hear ya! I totally
understand the 'no drugs' rule. I hate being artificially down under also but
just take the minimum dose okay. You really need it, seriously. And everybody's
here, no danger, ey."

True, he had felt somewhat
uncomfortable lately, maybe he was coming down with something and sleep would
prevent that.

" Okay, I'll ask
Sally..." He looked at his watch "...after diner." And on cue
Duo's stomach growled loudly.

"Oops!" Duo laughed
sheepishly.

" I see you forgot to eat.
Again."

"Heh, well we were having a
lot of fun outside, you really missed something and I kinda forgot. But I
wasn't the only one!"

"Right. " Wufei indulged.
" Well let's remedy to that immediately."

And Wufei purposefully strode out
to get his husband fed as Duo scrambled blabbering after him.
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Diner was a happy thing.

They hadn't gathered, in a long
time. There was Quatre with of course his shadow Trowa. They both had changed
much in three years. Quatre had lost some of his baby fat in the cheeks. His
face structure was more sharp as we couldn't call him cute anymore but quite
handsome instead. He also had grown in muscle as well as in height. He was
still as sweet as ever but his appearances matched more his tycoon
personality. His clothing style had
changed too. Still a lot of pastels however dark and other solid colors too,
and you could see him wearing jeans from time to time too, just like today.

Trowa. Yes Trowa. Well yes, he had
grew, had started wearing other color turtle necks too, nice but really the
most outstanding change was...he. Had. Trimmed. His. Bangs. They were still long but not enough to cover
half his face and by consequence were combed side ways on his forehead in a
kind of Denis the Menace style. He was VERY handsome but.... his two eyes were
visible.... creepy. Duo had almost
pissed his pants the first time he'd seen him 'After The Cut�, as they all
pegged it, but then who wouldn't. The drastic cut was a reflection of inner
changes as Trowa was still introverting but at least open to outside stimuli.

Their couple wasn't really a surprise, actually it
was quite encouraged as they formed the stable pillar of the impromptu 'gundam
family' but the fact that they had married during the down year preceding the
second war had raised a couple of eyebrows.

Seated beside them were Duo and Wufei. Their
relationship had been a surprise to all. Really Duo was adaptable, so no big
deal, but Wufei didn't seem the type of man that had the patience or more
precisely the smiling muscles had been paralyzed since birth. And it was really
all of their turn to almost piss their pants (Duo included) when they heard him
laugh for the first time at one of Duo�s jokes. Of course it had totally
entered the twilight zone when it had followed into a laughing fit fuelled by
the apoplectic faces of his friends.

But really the couple that had made
Trowa, yes Trowa faint, was Heero and Sally. Yes, Heero+Sally as in married two
years ago. Heero and Sally as in going to be parents in seven months. So....
Trowa fainting was excusable.

So all the immediate gang was
there, only missing were the extended ex-Oz and what not family that would be
filing gradually, when their vacation times came, until Christmas Eve.

" So Q, know when the others
are coming by?" Duo asked with a piece of ham half in his mouth while
brandishing his fork high.

"Duo . Fork."

"Oops, sorry."

Quatre smiled. They were so
synchronized Wufei had automatically called upon Duo when he was in deep
conversn win with Sally, back facing his energetic husband. Quatre caught Heero's eyes and they both
smirked.

"Hmmm, I'm not really sure.
Noin said on the 22nd probably, Relena said 21st�"

"That's tomorrow!"

"Yes she freed herself earlier
than thought. Cathy is coming with her," put in Trowa.

"How about Une. We called but
could never catch her," asked Quatre.

"She said maybe the 24the but
she doubts it."

"Well" said Quatre
"The Preventers are pretty busy I see. We were surprised you actually
came."

Wufei opened his mouth to reply but
Sally beat him at it.

" Duo kidnapped him after Une
refused to let him come to work under threat of being fired."

"Yeah, I mean you thought he
was scary yesterday night. Shoulda seen him two days ago."

Wufei looked at him crossly.

Not phased at all Duo looked at him
more closely, than his plate, than him again.
He raised an eyebrow.

"You haven't eaten
anything."

Wufei frowned ready to deny his
fussy husband and looked at his plate, than deflated.

"Well, I guess I'm not
hungry." he said deadpan.

Now Duo was concerned. "How
can you not be hungry when you've gone five weeks on mission rations!"

Wufei again was cut in while his
mouth was open.

"And I know for a fact that
you'vesed sed many meals. I asked some of your men that passed at the
infirmary."

Wufei grumbled louder, clearing his
throat. //I really have got to tell them to shut the fuck up! //

"You do look kind of beat
Wufei." Heero put in.

Wufei just rolled his eyes.

"Really, I do appreciate the
concern but don't you think you're pushing it a bit, Duo. Trying to make the
others pressure me." He threw a look at his sheepish husband.

"Well he didn't really,
Wufei," said Quatre "You did look exhausted yesterday. You still do
look kind of pale, now." He added concerned.

"Okay, okay I give up."
Wufei threw his hands up "The mission was hard. I got banged up more than
usual. I look like shit. Now if anyone needs me I'll be in the library."
Wufei got up stiffly and stamped out of the room.

"Oh Duo, I'm really sorry. I
didn't mean to anger him."

Duo sighed. "Hey don't worry
Quatre. He's just annoyed." Duo said now truly worried. "He must be
coming down with something or he woulda been at my throat already for pestering
him like that. He usually has more ranting energy."

" I didn't see him too well
yesterday being that you had just arrived and went straight to bed. But now
under better light...Where did those dark rings come from?"

"Well he hasn't been sleeping
too well lately. Yesterday morning I woke up to him nodding off in our living
room sofa in front of the open T.V. and this morning he was asleep in one of
the library's chairs."

Heero frowned a little. "We
could account for the jetlag this morning. But it did happen at your place.
" He looked at Duo who acquiesced. "And your flight arrived at night.
You went to bed, Jetlag shouldn't be a problem."

Duo's face had darkened a little
and a thoughtful look quickly passed before his customary cheer came back.an>

" Heh, I don't know but maybe
I should go check on him now. " He stood up and started to leave than
retraced a few steps and stole Wufei's plate striding out in search of his
pissed of better half.

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As Wufei neared the stairs he started regretting
his outburst. Granted they were laying a bit heavily on him, he wasn't fifteen
anymore. He sighed; he must be really
tired to be that irritable.

He started climbing the stairs;
strange but they seemed steeper than usual.

When he thought about it, he couldn't deny the
truth in what his friends were saying.
It was true that it wasn't the first time that he came out of a mission
dead tired; it had happened more than he cared to count during the war. But he
usually recuperated faster than this. He couldn't quite deny the fact that he'd
been finding the missions harder than usual. His insomnias and lack of appetite
weren't helping. He hadn't told Duo but they had started sometime before two
months ago and the Preventer business hadn't helped at all.

Arriving at the top of the stairs
he had to stop and wait for the walls to stop dancing while he caught his
breath.

//Wow, I really am tired. //

He coughed and after the hall
stabilized in front of him, made his way to the library.

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Duo found Wufei on the same loveseat, sitting
sideways, one leg folded under him as he faced the window opposite the
door. He looked asleep. He'd put his arms loosely around his waist
and his hair, which he hadn't bound back, splayed over his left shoulder
effectively shielding his face under a silky dark curtain.

Duo fell in love again. He couldn't help it even after two years of
marriage, three years of love, six years of friendship; He was just as
beautiful as ever.

"Fei baby?"

Wufei jumped and turned his head
towards his approaching husband blinking owlishly and breathing hard.

" Ah, sorry, sorry!" Duo
hastily said. "Didn't mean to surprise you, calm down."

Duo frowned as he sat down beside
the young man. Why was Wufei so surprised in the first place? He should have
heard him.

" Here," He extended the
diner plate. "I brought it with me. Eat."

Wufei brushed his hair over his
shoulder and out of his face, clearing his throat in the process.

" I'm not hungry Duo."
And he put the offered plate down on the reading table, away from Duo.

Duo's face took a suspicious look.
" Are you coming down with something?"

" I don't think so. I'm just
tired that's all." Wufei
swallowed, "...and I'm sorry for before. It was really immature of me. I
understand and appreciate everyone's concern but I'm fine and you have to give
me time. It's only been two days and it's not the first time you've seen me
less than �"peppy". "

Duo hugged his Asian lover and
leaned his chin on the crown of ebony hair. " I know, I know and I'm
really sorry. I'll stop being annoying and lay off."

The smaller of the two wound his
arms tightly around the waist of the other. " And I'll be more patient. I
understand really, I don't know why I'm so irritable." He chuckled and
coughed a bit.

A moment of silence.

" You know, you've been
coughing a lot lately...&quo:p>

Wufei just had to laugh.
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