Trowa\'s Revenge

Title: Trowa\'s Revenge

Author: Pixie Smith

Genre: Romance

Pairings: 3x5, 2xOMC, 4xOMC.

Archive: Sure. Just tell me.

Key:
//blah// = Thoughts
*blah* = Emphasis
\"blah\" = Speech
--x-- = Scene Change


Author\'s Notes: Hey all, I\'ve made two music videos. One is a tribute to Wufei titled \'A Tribute to Chang Wufei\' and the other is a 1x5 titled \'A Heero and Wufei Love Song\'. If anyone\'s interested in downloading it, click on my homepage and follow the link to my music videos. You do need to be a member of AnimeMusicVideos . Org to download, but it\'s easy and free to sign up. There are hints of 2x5 in the first, so be forewarned and the second is obviously a 1x5. Also, the first is almost 80mbs and the second is 50mb, so you\'ll probably need to have broadband or cable to download it.

Also, thanks to Sinistra-san for betaing this for me.


Trowa frowned as he read the reports spread out in front of him. There was something going down at Winner Corp and the situation didn\'t look good for Quatre. He read a few more lines of the report and leaned back in his chair, deep in thought. Unfortunately, Trowa also wasn\'t in a position where he could do something to help either.

Coming to a decision, Trowa pressed on his intercom. \"Belinda.\"

\"Yes sir!\" His secretary\'s voice came over the line as cheerful as ever.

\"Put me through to Ace Hunter please.\"

\"Right away sir.\"

Trowa continued to peruse the documents on his desk as he waited for the line to connect.

There was a beep. \"Hunter speaking.\" The voice which came over the line was both harsh and impatient.

Trowa gave a small smile. \"Hello Hunter, this is Trowa Barton speaking…\"

--x--

Quatre smiled at his secretary. \"What is it Melissa?\"

Melissa placed a document on Quatre\'s desk. \"Your uncle requests that you sign this immediately. Winner Corp\'s insurance premium runs out next week and we need to renew it as soon as possible.\"

Quatre nodded. \"Leave it there, I\'ll read it later.\"

Melissa shook her head. \"Your uncle specifically told me to tell you that it needs to be signed urgently. CIC Insurance is relocating and Randolph wants to get this in before they start moving to avoid our contract getting lost in the transition.\"

Quatre nodded and picked up his pen. \"Of course, now that you mention it, I do remember Samuel mentioning it. Thank goodness you reminded me.\"

His secretary smiled. \"It\'s my duty sir.\" She spread the documents out on his desk. Quatre signed on the dotted line at the bottom of each page and dated the last one. He closed the file and handed it back to his secretary with a smile.

Melissa took the file. \"Thank you sir, I\'ll send this along to CIC immediately.\" Quatre\'s secretary turned and left the office, closing the door quietly behind her.

--x--

Trowa put the phone back into its cradle and stared pensively at the surface of his desk. He\'d done the best he could for Quatre, but now it was all out of his hands.

He looked at his watch; it was a quarter to three. Normally it was against his work ethics to leave so early, but Wufei was at home sick and Trowa was reluctant to leave him at home alone for too long. He\'d already stopped off at his apartment at lunch and had received a stern lecture about \'neglecting his duties\'. Should he risk Wufei\'s wrath a second time by returning to the apartment early?

He was more than a little worried about his boyfriend. Wufei managed to pick up a cold on his last mission and as yet had not yet been able to shake it off. It was absurd for Trowa to be so worried when it was just a common cold, but every time Wufei got sick, Trowa felt like there was a cold hand clenching around his heart. He\'d already had to wait so long to make Wufei his. First there was the problem of Lih Ling, and then Trowa had had trouble persuading Wufei to become his. Even though he\'d pretended he was supremely confident in front of Wufei and in front of all of his friends, there had been times when he\'d really been worried that he wouldn\'t be able to make Wufei see how much Trowa loved him, how much Wufei meant to him.

Trowa had lost a lot of sleep during that period when he\'d stayed awake late into the night, worried that someone else would sweep Wufei off his feet. There were a lot of people at headquarters who admired Wufei and he was afraid his warning wouldn\'t be able to scare off the most devoted. And damn but there were a lot of people who seemed to be devoted to his partner. //Wufei possesses a strange kind of charm.// Trowa admitted to himself with a wry chuckle.

Trowa had managed to irritate Wufei too, when Wufei had called him up late on one of those nights to complain about Trowa spreading rumours. Trowa got the impression Wufei would have liked nothing better than to have woken him up from a deep satisfying sleep. He gave a small chuckle remembering that episode. That had been that night Trowa had come up with the idea of hiring Sarah to stalk Wufei.

Thankfully that had worked out well in the end. He\'d worn Wufei down and Wufei was now all his.

Trowa sat there deep in thought. Yes, Wufei was now all his, and yet, every time Wufei got sick, Trowa worried. Hell, it was absurd, he didn\'t even worry this much when Wufei went on missions. But then again, that was probably because he had faith in Wufei\'s fighting abilities. He knew Wufei wouldn\'t die on his missions, and yet Trowa knew how easy it could be to die from illness. You couldn\'t use martial arts to fight an illness you couldn\'t see. He\'d seen people die from illnesses often enough. He glared at his desk.

\"Oh go home already!\"

Trowa lifted his head startled. Now if that wasn\'t just a fine indication that he wasn\'t performing at his top level. He rarely ever let anyone sneak up on him. He stared at Belinda, right eye twitching. Especially considering how it was his bright, chirpy, *loud* secretary who\'d managed to sneak up on him, and not say, someone like Duo, who had a habit of dropping in at main headquarters even though he was located at a completely different branch. Not that Duo was likely to be dropping in on Trowa any time soon, busy as he was. Trowa\'s mouth twitched.

\"I know you\'re worried about him. So just go home.\"

\"I was planning to.\" Trowa replied quietly.

\"And sitting in your chair gets you home how?\" His secretary quipped.

He shrugged. His secretary enjoyed teasing him far too much.

Belinda sighed and looked down at the diary she was holding in her hand. \"I\'ve managed to cancel all of today\'s afternoon appointments, but I\'ve had to reschedule them for tomorrow morning.\"

Trowa nodded as he stood up and walked over to his coat stand. Picking up his suit jacket he slid it on. \"That\'s fine.\"

Trowa strode to the door, halfway there he paused. \"And Belinda.\"

She smiled at him. \"No problems sir. For the rest of the week I haven\'t scheduled any afternoon appointments for you.\"

Trowa smirked. \"That\'s why I hired you.\"

It seemed he was going to risk Wufei\'s wrath after all.

--x--

~ One Week Later ~

--x--

Something flashed out of the corner of his eyes. Quatre turned around suspiciously.
//There\'s no one there.//

He frowned and shook his head to clear his thoughts. Perhaps he should listen to his secretary and cut back on his work hours. Every single day this past week Quatre had felt someone watching him, yet every time he turned around, there was no-one. //It\'s probably as Melissa said, I\'m working too hard.//

But even now, years after the war ended, Quatre\'s honed instincts were telling him that something wasn\'t right, that it wasn\'t just fatigue that was making him sense the presence. And Quatre highly doubted that the presence he was sensing was just some ghost who\'d never made it to the other side as Melissa had postulated. Of course, it wasn\'t like Quatre had ever met a ghost who\'d never made it to the other side...

Quatre could feel the hairs on the back of his neck lifting, and if that wasn\'t a good indication that something was wrong, then he would eat his tie! There was something suspicious going on and Quatre was going to get to the bottom of it.

He moved carefully and quietly down the hallways of his office building. It was late at night and all of his employees had long since gone home. At first Quatre had wondered if it wasn\'t an over-enthusiastic employee watching him, it wouldn\'t have been the first time that happened. But this time it was different. The eyes were always on him, and even though it was late now and the hallways were dark, his neck was still prickling. That meant that even now, at eleven o\'clock at night, someone was still watching him.

Quatre moved quickly down a long corridor. Opening one of the numerous doors scattered along the corridor, he entered a large room. In fifteen strides he had exited the room through another door. He raced down the stairs and turned a corner before he moved quickly forward and turned yet another corner. Then he ducked into an empty room. He squeezed himself into a small space between two bookcases and waited with baited breath. Come hell or high water, he was going to find out who or what had been watching him for the past week.

And there Quatre stayed, as quiet as a mouse for the next three hours.

--x--

Duo groaned and tried in vain to cover his ears with his pillow. It was no use, Elmo droned on.

\"Good grief! He had the audacity to verbalize his opinions thoughtlessly inconsiderate of – \"

\"Okay, okay!\" Duo snapped having long since reached breaking point. \"I understand, he told you you\'re irritating!\"

\"Excuse me!\"

Duo groaned. //Why the hell didn\'t I keep my mouth shut. Now he\'s going to start on me!//

Quickly Duo\'s brain began working overtime, trying desperately to think of a way to defuse the situation. He didn\'t think he could stand another night of Elmo\'s droning. After only two successive missions with Elmo, Duo felt as though his ears were bleeding.

\"I know!\" Duo cried sitting up, eyes feverishly bright with something that looked much like a desperate attempt of self-preservation. \"Let\'s play a game.\"

\"Continue.\" Elmo looked interested.

Duo smiled. \"Let\'s see who can stay silent for longest!\"

Elmo sniffed haughtily. \"You must believe my mentality is that of a pre-pubescent adolescent.\"

Duo groaned and buried his face back into his pillow. //What in the hell did I ever do to deserve this!// He sent a silent prayer to the heavens. //I\'m sorry Trowa for whatever it was I did to piss you off, but I swear I\'ll never do it again!//

Of all of the sadistic bastards Duo could have pissed off, it just had to be Trowa. The damn bastard was probably at home at this very moment, in his obscenely luscious apartment enjoying a good fuck with his oh-so-precious Wufei while Duo was dying a slow painful death with Fucking-Elmo-the-Fucking-Walking-Dictionary!

Duo paused in his mental rant and blinked into his pillow.

//Elmo was hurt.//

He paused some more and thought about it again.

//Elmo was really hurt!//

Anyone else would have missed it, and Duo almost had, but luckily it had eventually filtered through his brain. After years of hanging around stoic pilots, Duo had learned to read body language very well and there had definitely been a flash of hurt that had passed through Elmo\'s eyes behind those glasses.

His brain quickly rewound. He\'d asked Elmo to play a game, and instead of telling him to piss off, Elmo had genuinely been interested. There had been a slight sparkle in his eyes.

Duo lifted his head slightly from his pillow and peeked at Elmo. Elmo was no longer looking at him, in fact, he was looking everywhere *but* at Duo.

Duo sat up on his bed. \"I was joking.\" He offered.

\"I am aware of that.\" Elmo told him. \"In reflection, juvenile distractions don\'t allure my senses.\"

Duo blinked and it took his brain a few minutes to process that sentence, then he realised what Elmo had just said.

\"No.\" He corrected. \"I meant, \'staying silent\' wasn\'t really the game I wanted to play.\"

Elmo looked a little stunned.

//It was too bad.// Duo thought trying to hide a smirk, //that Elmo had just effectively said he didn\'t play games.// He reminded Duo of Wufei, always trying to \'save face\'.

Duo wondered absently mindedly how many friends Elmo had. He ran his mind back. They worked in the same Preventer\'s branch, but Elmo was always aloof and spent his time alone. Also, his distracting speech had most people avoiding him. Perhaps he wasn\'t as opposed to company as Duo had always believed.

Duo took pity on him. \"Come on.\" Duo pleaded. \"I\'m about to die of boredom. Play a game with me.\"

Elmo hesitated.

\"Please!\" Duo tossed himself off the bed and at Elmo\'s feet. \"Come on! Just one game!\"

\"Very well.\" Elmo conceded. \"If you insist. Your persuasion techniques – \"

Duo cut him off. \"Can you do me one favour?\"

Elmo raised an eyebrow. \"Speak.\"

\"Can you cut back on using that technical babble and speak to me normally? I have trouble understanding your sentences.\"

Elmo stiffened.

\"I don\'t mean anything by it.\" Duo assured him. \"It\'s just my education isn\'t like yours and I\'d prefer not to have to spend hours trying to work out what you\'re saying to me.\"

\"I ap – I\'m sorry.\" Elmo said. \"I didn\'t realise I was doing that. I forget sometimes.\"

Duo\'s eyebrows rose to his hairline. \"You forget? Hey! You can speak normally!\"

As he watched, Elmo began to blush rather painfully, making all of his freckles stand out. \"Yes. I can. I sometimes forget myself. If I have done it recently, I apologize.\"

\"Recently!\" Duo stared at him. \"You\'ve been doing it non-stop.\"

Elmo suddenly looked shy and awkward. \"I\'m sorry. My friend used to remind me when it got bad, but then he –\" Elmo cut himself off.

\"He what?\" Duo asked curiously.

Elmo shook his head allowing his fringe to fall across his eyes. He looked down at his hands which were now clenched in his lap. \"I\'m sorry, is it okay if we don\'t play that game after all? I\'m a little tired.\" He stood to leave.

\"Hey.\" Duo grabbed his arm preventing him from leaving. \"Don\'t run away. I didn\'t mean to insult you –\"

He stopped and stared at Elmo. Elmo\'s eyes were shimmering.

\"Hey…\" He trailed off.

Elmo tugged his arm away. \"I will play with you another time.\" He gave a hasty smile, which was more a baring of his teeth showing Duo his gleaming silver braces, before he fled the room.

Duo was left staring after him. \"What the fuck?\"

--x--

Quatre sighed as he stepped out of his hidey hole. He\'d been standing in the same position for three hours straight. His legs were more than just stiff! The sensation of him being watched had long since disappeared.

He stumbled and nearly fell when he took the first step and pins and needles shot up both of his legs. Luckily someone caught him by his arms and held him upright.

\"Looking for me?\" A voice purred right into his ear.

Quatre gasped and twisted in the grip only to find himself peering into a face hidden by the shadows. Still, he didn\'t need to be able to see in the dark to know that the intense gaze that had been following him the past week was now focused solely on his face.

\"You!\"

\"Me.\" The stranger drawled.

Quatre leapt back and pulled out the dagger Trowa had given him as a birthday present the previous year. \"What do you want?\" He demanded. \"Why have you been following me?\"

\"Following you?\"

\"Yes!\" Quatre shouted. \"What do you want you… you… STALKER!\"

A low chuckle came from behind Quatre. He spun around only to find his hand held in a tight grip, unable to use his dagger.

\"I was hired to stalk you.\" The man murmured.

\"What?\" Quatre gasped. \"Let go of me. Who hired you? Why?\"

\"One of your friends.\" The man chuckled. \"He told me that you didn\'t know enough about the birds and the bees, and asked me to teach you.\"

\"What?\" Quatre was horrified.

\"You know, you shouldn\'t preach about gay sex if you\'ve never done it yourself.\"

The pieces of the puzzle clicked together rather quickly for Quatre. \"Wufei.\" He said weakly. \"No.\" He shook his head. \"Wufei wouldn\'t do something like this. Trowa!\"

He began to struggle earnestly in the man\'s hold. \"Let me go! I am going to kill him!\"

\"No you\'re not.\" The stranger purred. \"At least not until I\'ve taught you exactly how gay men have sex.\"

\"No!\" Quatre cried as the stranger swung Quatre over his shoulder. \"No!\" He began beating against the broad back. \"Let me go!\"

--x--

Duo chewed on his bottom lip pensively. //Okay, Elmo had a friend who used to remind him not to use that extensive vocabulary and he obviously got upset when he spoke of him. Hmm… I wonder what kind of relationship they had?//

//Argh!// Duo buried his face into his pillow. //Why the hell do I even care?//

Still, Duo couldn\'t deny that there was something about that vulnerability he\'d glimpsed that tugged on his heartstrings.

Worrying his bottom lip some more, Duo finally made up his mind. Getting off the bed, he padded to Elmo\'s bedroom and knocked on they door. \"Hey.\" He called. \"Can we talk?\"

Silence was his only response.

//Pretending to be asleep are we?//

Duo easily slid his lock pick into the door\'s lock and within seconds had unlocked the door. With a slight push, it swung open.

\"Hey!\" Duo called cheerfully and froze.

There sitting opposite him on the bed with his knees pulled up to his chest, eyes wide with silent tears streaming down his cheeks was Elmo. He looked as shocked as Duo felt.

Duo hadn\'t expected Elmo to be crying. He\'d been intending to cheer him up, but from the way Elmo was looking at Duo, it appeared as though the other agent was contemplating homicide. On Duo.

The way Duo saw it, he had two choices. One, he could leave the room and pretend that he didn\'t see anything, and two, he could go over there and offer the poor guy a hug.

For all his cheerful talk, Duo was a compassionate guy. Needing only three large strides, Duo had crossed over to the bed and plopped himself down. He opened his arms and looked at Elmo expectantly.

\"Come here.\" He murmured gently.

Elmo could only blink at him.

\"Come here.\" Duo murmured again. \"You can cry on my shoulder.\"

Elmo leaned forward carefully – Duo smiled – and socked Duo so hard in the stomach he doubled over gasping for breath.

\"What – ?\" Duo wheezed.

He felt the bed shift as the other agent attempted to make his escape. Like a striking snake, Duo reached out and grabbed hold of Elmo preventing him from moving.

\"Let go of me.\" Elmo warned coldly.

Duo pulled back to peer at Elmo, his stomach making itself known that it no longer liked its contents and could it please return them?

\"Fuck.\" Duo gasped as he struggled to keep the nausea down.

Elmo pulled back his fist ready to beat Duo off of him.

Duo caught the fist before it could sink into his gut a second time. The nausea was subsiding but he was still having a damn difficult time catching his breath. The little redhead packed quite the punch.

Elmo struggled to get his arms free.

\"That\'s enough.\" Duo commanded suddenly.

Elmo ignored him and continued to struggle as he hissed. \"How dare you barge into my room without my permission?!\"

Duo wrapped both arms around Elmo, tugging him hard against his chest, holding the flailing arms down so that they couldn\'t do any more damage to Duo. He began to stroke the silky red hair. \"There, there.\" He soothed. \"It\'ll be okay. There\'s no need to cry. I\'m here now.\"

\"In case you haven\'t noticed.\" Elmo pronounced coldly, his voice muffled from where he was crushed against Duo\'s chest, \"I stopped crying a while back.\"

Duo pulled back and blinked. It was true, Elmo really wasn\'t crying anymore.

\"Oh, you aren\'t.\" Duo remarked quite intelligently.

\"You broke my glasses.\" Elmo snapped. He reached up and tugged the two broken pieces from his face.

Duo stared, his mouth dropping open. Without his glasses on, Elmo\'s eyes were large and a beautiful startling moss green. It wasn\'t until Duo saw the red creep up over Elmo\'s face that he realised he was staring.

He closed his mouth and cleared his throat. \"Sorry.\"

Elmo shook his head. \"Don\'t worry about it.\" He mumbled embarrassed. \"They were just my reading glasses.\"

\"So how come you wear them all the time. You look better without them.\" Duo was genuinely curious.

Elmo ducked his head. He\'d heard about Duo\'s bluntness, but to be faced with it was an entirely different matter. \"I forget I\'m wearing them sometimes.\"

\"Ah.\"

They lapsed into silence.

\"Look.\" Duo eventually began. \"I\'m sorry about walking in on you like that. I just thought, you know, that you might want some comfort.\"

\"I\'m fine.\" Elmo muttered.

\"No really. If you wanna talk about it, I\'m here to listen.\" Duo emphasized.

Elmo sighed.

\"I\'m fine.\" He repeated.

Duo peered at him carefully. \"It\'s not good to keep it bottled in you know. You see, I\'ve got this friend who always used to keep his feelings bottled in, and he walked around with this permanent constipated look on his face.\"

\"Agent Chang.\" Elmo suddenly said with a small smile.

Duo blinked and then grinned. \"Yeah, so you\'ve seen him.\"

\"He was scowling, not constipated.\" Elmo corrected. \"It was a really cool scowl too, and he doesn\'t look like that anymore.\"

\"Yeah but you see, that\'s because he found this guy he could talk to. You\'re one of his many admirers huh?\"

Elmo blushed and looked down. \"He\'s really cool.\"

\"Yeah, yeah.\" Duo waved his hands airily. \"He just looks like that; wait until you\'ve met him.\"

\"I have met him.\" Elmo mumbled.

\"Yeah?\" Duo looked interested.

Elmo nodded and looked up, eyes bright. \"I tripped over some steps when visiting headquarters once. Somehow he caught me and all of my flying books and told me not to worry about the coffee all over his shirt.\"

Duo raised an eyebrow. \"Sounds like him. Show off!\"

\"He\'s not!\" Elmo exclaimed.

\"Yeah, yeah. I know that.\" Duo answered.

Elmo looked up curiously. \"I heard he was dating Une\'s second in command.\"

Duo grinned as he took in the interested look on Elmo\'s face. It was made painfully obvious to Duo just then, how little Elmo hung out with the other agents. By now, all of the agents knew that Wufei was dating Trowa. He decided to tease Elmo. \"You\'re interested in him are you?\"

Elmo flushed. \"No. I just… I heard… so I thought – \"

Duo laughed. \"Yeah sure whatever. You heard right. Wufei\'s shacked up with Trowa.\"

Elmo\'s eyes widened. \"I thought it was just a rumour.\"

\"Rumour?\" Duo feigned astonishment. \"You mean whenever you go to headquarters you somehow manage to miss seeing Trowa pawing at Wufei and Wufei trying to beat him off with a stick?!\"

Elmo looked embarrassed. \"Well there was an elevator incident, but the maintenance guys said that it had just broken down and that it just needed some repairs.\"

Duo burst out laughing. \"No, that was Trowa being horny and misusing his authority.\"

Elmo laughed a little. \"I had to walk fifteen flights to hand up my mission report. I\'m glad our branch only has five floors.\"

\"Why didn\'t you just email it?\" Duo asked curiously.

Elmo shook his head. \"Agent Yuy was updating the system and agent Moysten needed my report.\"

Duo laughed. \"I heard that the elevators at the main headquarters frequently get stuck between floors.\"

Elmo gave a small hesitant smile.

\"Relax.\" Duo thumped his back. \"You gotta live.\"

Elmo gave a shy smile, which was just that little bit wider than his previous one.

\"So you wanna talk about it?\" Duo offered casually.

Elmo blinked and remained silent.

Duo tactfully didn\'t say anything.

They sat in silence for over five minutes. Finally Elmo began to speak. \"Nick was my best friend.\" He unconsciously wrapped his arms around his knees. \"He would always tease me about my speech, or about my forgetting to take my glasses off, or about my braces, or my freckles. He looked out for me though.\"

Elmo sat deep in thought.

Then he took a deep breath. \"We had a fight one day about something so infinitely stupid that I can\'t even remember it now. I told him that I hated him and never wanted to see him again and then I ran off and left him there. Later he got into a fight with some of the local gang members and they hit him over the head with a glass bottle. He died from blood loss.\"

Tears were pouring down Elmo\'s face now. Duo reached forward and gathered Elmo into his arms.

\"If I hadn\'t gotten angry at him, if I hadn\'t run away, I would have been with him and he wouldn\'t have died.\" Elmo whispered into Duo\'s shirt.

\"You don\'t know that.\" Duo said quietly. \"You might have died along with him.\"

\"I never got to tell him.\" Elmo whispered. \"I never go to tell him.\"

\"I\'m sure he knew.\" Duo soothed. \"And wherever he is right now, I\'m sure he wouldn\'t want you to be unhappy.\"

--x--

They were going to his office. Quatre realised. The man was carrying him to his office! He beat furiously at the man\'s back. How could Trowa do this to him?!

Quatre heard his office door close and the ominous sound of the lock sliding into place. He\'d heard it too many times not to recognise it now.

Walking to the large executive chair behind the enormous cherry wood table, Quatre\'s anonymous assailant placed Quatre into it. Then he reached backwards to switch on the small lamp on Quatre\'s desk.

\"You!\" Quatre gasped when the light flooded the man\'s features.

\"Yes me.\" The man drawled. \"Haven\'t we been through this before?\"

\"No! I mean, Ace! What are you doing?!\"

Ace Hunter looked every bit as imposing as his name sounded. He stood one hundred and eighty centimetres tall and had raven black hair with impossible grey eyes. He also happened to be Quatre\'s main business rival. His company was a big as Quatre\'s, and perhaps, a voice that Quatre didn\'t want to listen to told him, even better.

Whenever they\'d met at parties, Ace\'s eyes had always rested on Quatre. Quatre hated it because he\'d always gotten the impression that Ace was mocking him in his head. Well, that and the fact that the dark gaze never failed to arouse feelings in him that he didn\'t want to acknowledge. Like he\'d told Wufei, he was one hundred percent heterosexual and therefore it stood to reason that the only feelings this man aroused in him was hate and irritation!

Now that he thought about it, Quatre wondered why he hadn\'t actually realised from the beginning that the gaze belonged to Ace. There was no one else who could make his skin prick, or hairs lift in quite the same way. It was understandable that Quatre didn\'t recognise the voice, the man had deliberately pitched his voice lower than it normally was.

\"How could Trowa hire you?\" Quatre questioned. \"You don\'t need his money.\"

\"True.\" Ace chuckled, and now Quatre could recognise his voice too. \"But the very idea of stalking you sounded interesting.\"

Quatre frowned. He couldn\'t understand why Ace would waste so much time trying to irritate him. Then he remembered the position they were in. \"If you touch me.\" He warned. \"I\'ll make you regret it to the very end of your days.\"

\"I look forward to it.\" Ace purred into Quatre\'s ear.

Quatre gasped as the sensation went straight to his groin and he tried to push the larger man away.

\"Why are you doing this?\" He demanded.

\"Why are you resisting?\" Ace replied. \"I know you\'re attracted to me.\"

Quatre flushed, but didn\'t deny it; it was not in his nature to lie.

\"Attraction means nothing.\" Quatre snapped. \"I hardly even know you. Do you really believe I\'m going to jump straight into bed with you just because I\'m attracted to you?\"

\"I don\'t see any bed around here.\" Ace drawled.

Quatre glared.

Ace leaned back slightly against the desk giving Quatre some space, but he was still trapped in his chair.

\"I\'m your rival. You\'ve researched everything there is to know about me. You\'re attracted to me. I don\'t see what the problem is.\"

\"There\'s a problem.\" Quatre argued, but before he could point out what the problem was, a mouth came down securely over his.

He growled into that warm mouth and struggled to keep his train of thought alive.

Ace slid his tongue smoothly between the parted lips and rubbed. Quatre gasped and wrenched his head sideways.

His lips felt moist and swollen and there was a strange taste in his mouth. \"Knowing you on paper is different from knowing you in real life.\" He breathed.

Ace smiled at him, gaze predatory. \"We\'ve met at so many functions, you can hardly call us strangers.\"

\"Okay.\" Quatre admitted. \"We\'re not strangers, but that doesn\'t mean we\'re going to become bed partners.\"

Ace chucked and in one swift move had yanked Quatre from the chair and into his lap.

Quatre squeaked as he suddenly found himself straddling Ace, his ass resting on Ace\'s groin and his legs half curled around the man\'s waist.

\"Enough.\" Ace growled right before his mouth slanted over Quatre\'s, one hand sliding into Quatre\'s hair and the other circling Quatre\'s erection.

Quatre tried to resist, but when he felt Ace grind up into his ass, and the hand on his cock tighten, a trail of saliva dripping down his chin, all coherent thoughts left his brain…

He really was attracted to the man!

--x--

\"Trowa!\" Wufei shoved a piece of paper into his lover\'s face as soon as he walked through the apartment door. \"This fax just came through. Look! All of Winner\'s shares have been sold.\"

Trowa took the piece of paper from Wufei. \"I know.\"

\"You know?!\" Wufei demanded. \"And yet you\'re still so calm?! His voice rose. \"Don\'t you care?!\"

Wufei broke off into a coughing fit.

Trowa frowned and reaching down lifted his boyfriend into his arms. \"I know that, but there\'s nothing we can do about it.\"

\"Trowa.\" Wufei grabbed hold if his lover\'s shirt. \"This will break Winner!\"

\"It won\'t.\" Trowa assured Wufei. \"There\'s someone taking care of it. And you should be in bed my love, you\'re still sick.\"

\"I\'m fine.\" Wufei growled. \"A cold is nothing.\"

\"It isn\'t *nothing* when you keep getting dizzy and won\'t stop coughing.\" Trowa strode towards the bedroom. \"You are going straight back to bed.\"

As he put Wufei down in their large bed, Wufei caught hold of Trowa\'s hand. He stared fiercely into Trowa\'s eyes. \"Tell me he\'ll be alright. Tell me that you won\'t let anything happen to him.\"

Trowa stroked Wufei\'s hair. \"I won\'t let anything happen to him.\"

Wufei nodded settling back into bed and allowed Trowa to tug the blankets up to his chin. \"I trust you.\"

--x--

Elmo was avoiding him. Ever since Duo had comforted him two days ago, he\'d been avoiding Duo and quite refused to look at him. Duo had had enough.

\"Okay. What\'s up?\" Duo asked blocking Elmo\'s way from the kitchen. It was late at night and Duo had decided it was now or never.

\"Nothing.\" Elmo replied promptly, trying to sidestep past Duo.

Duo glared and put out an arm to block him. Elmo looked up with a small frown.

\"Talk.\" Duo commanded.

Elmo flushed and lowered his head. \"It\'s nothing.\"

\"If it was nothing, you wouldn\'t be avoiding me. We\'re not going anywhere until you tell me what\'s wrong so you may as well speak up now.\"

Elmo bit his lip and hesitated.

\"It\'s just that you\'re so nice.\" He eventually murmured. \"I don\'t know how to thank you, or even how to repay you.\"

Duo blinked and then grinned brightly. \"Aw shucks. Is that all? I didn\'t ask for any payment.\"

He draped an arm comfortably over Elmo\'s shoulder and steered him to the lounge room. \"That\'s what friends do for each other.\"

Elmo froze suddenly and peered up into Duo\'s face.

\"Is that what we are?\" He whispered breathlessly.

Duo paused, suddenly aware of how close their faces were. \"Yeah.\" He murmured huskily.

Elmo\'s bottom lip trembled and Duo found his gaze being drawn to it.

\"Yeah, we\'re friends.\" He whispered leaning closer.

His mouth was an inch from Elmo\'s when he suddenly realised what he was doing. He jerked back and patted Elmo\'s back, noting the stunned look on Elmo\'s face.

\"Right. We\'re friends, so there\'s no need to worry about payment. Now go to bed.\"

And he pushed Elmo in the direction of the bedrooms. Elmo turned one bewildered gaze upon Duo before leaving.

Left standing alone, Duo rubbed his face with his hand. \"What the hell do you think you\'re doing Maxwell?\" He whispered harshly. \"You\'re not gay!\"

He took a deep breath and suddenly realised he was achingly hard. He gave a disgusted chuckle. //I\'m not gay, I just happen to be attracted to Elmo. Right, pull the other one idiot!//

He flopped down backwards onto the sofa. He\'d been about to kiss Elmo. Fucking-Elmo-the-Fucking-Walking-Dictionary with a mouthful of metal and the most adorable freckles he\'d ever seen on a person.

//Shit.//

Duo began to pant as he wondered where else Elmo had freckles.

His hand reached down to grasp himself through his pants and his breath quickened. Elmo probably had a trail of freckles trailing his belly and probably –

\"Duo I – \"

They both froze. Elmo three steps into the lounge room and Duo, his hand still on his aching length.

They stared at each wide eyed.

Elmo\'s eyes darted down quickly to Duo\'s groin before he returned a stunned gaze back to Duo. \"I\'m sorry, I – \" And he turned to flee.

Duo moved faster, suddenly he was there blocking the doorway and preventing Elmo from leaving.

Duo stared hard at Elmo\'s mouth. \"You shouldn\'t have come back out.\" He growled raising hard violet eyes to stare deeply into green pools.

They both stood there staring at each other.

Duo drifted closer. \"You shouldn\'t have come back out here.\"

\"I – \" Elmo\'s tongue darted out to lick his lips, and Duo groaned, the sound coming from somewhere deep in his throat.

At that sound, Elmo\'s eyes darted down to Duo\'s mouth, and then back up to his eyes. \"I\'m glad I did.\" Elmo whispered.

It took Duo a few seconds to register what he was hearing, but when it did, he groaned and leaned down to kiss Elmo for all he was worth.

//Braces make it awkward to kiss.// Was Duo\'s last thought before he tumbled them both down onto the couch.

--x--

Sitting there dazed, panting and once again back in his executive chair, Quatre said quietly. \"I can\'t have a relationship with you.\"

Ace looked at him, tugging out a cigarette from the packet in his pants pocket and lighting it. He blew out a cloud of smoke. \"Why not?\"

Quatre stared at him. \"You\'re a rival company. You could destroy us. I have too many employees who need their jobs. I won\'t allow my personal relationship to destroy their livelihood.\"

Ace blew out another plume of smoke and stared off into the distance. \"If you weren\'t the head of this company, if you didn\'t have an obligation to your employees, would you have a relationship with me?\"

\"That\'s a pointless question to ask and you know it.\" Quatre snapped.

Ace ground out his cigarette in the ashtray and leaned into Quatre\'s face. \"Humour me.\" He growled darkly.

Quatre glanced down. \"Most probably yes.\" He admitted. \"But since I am, that\'s not going to happen.\"

Ace sat back and ran a hand through his hair with a sigh. \"I bought your company today.\"

Quatre blinked. \"I beg your pardon?\"

\"All of the shares to your company were put on the stock market today, I bought them all.\"

\"What?\" Quatre looked confused.

Ace leaned over and tugged a piece of paper from his pants pocket. \"You\'re not a good businessman. Your faith in others made you weak. Your uncle put all of the shares to your company on the market today. No one knew it was going to happen. You\'re lucky I was able to buy them all, otherwise you and all of your employees would be on the streets right now.\"

\"You\'re lying.\" Quatre whispered.

Ace gave him the piece of paper.

Quatre stared. It was true. Under the register of Winner Corp\'s members, there was only one name. Ace Hunter.

\"This can\'t be happening.\" Quatre whispered. He scrabbled desperately for the phone.

Ace didn\'t say anything as he typed in his uncle\'s number. \"We are sorry, the number you are calling is out of range. Please try again.\"

Quatre tried again, and again, and again, his fingers growing more frantic.

The phone was abruptly taken from his hands and tossed to the far side of the desk. \"My sources have informed me that he\'s left the country. Even if you can find him, you can\'t get the money back. Our laws can\'t reach him overseas.\"

\"How could this happen?\" Quatre sank back limply into his seat feeling horrified.

\"You trusted him.\"

Quatre brought a trembling hand to his mouth. \"And this?\" He whispered gesturing with one hand. \"Are you happy now? You got my body and my company. You must find it all very funny.\"

He gave a bitter laugh and big fat tears began to roll down his cheeks.

Ace sighed and pulled Quatre into a tight hug. \"Your company won\'t be taken away. Even though I own it now, everything will continue to run as it has, with you in control.\"

\"Why would you do that?\" Quatre asked bitterly. \"What do you want in return?\"

\"Nothing.\"

Quatre snorted.

\"I don\'t want you to be hurt. I want you to be happy. Is that too much to ask?\"

\"I don\'t understand.\" Quatre shook his head. \"Why would you want that?\"

Ace just raised an eyebrow. \"Look at us.\" He drawled.

Quatre looked down and realised that they were both still naked, and that he was covered in sticky body fluids.

\"Sex.\" He said flatly.

\"You can\'t be that stupid can you?\" Ace muttered.

Quatre blinked and then stared at Ace wide eyed. \"You can\'t be serious!\"

Ace raised an eyebrow. \"Why not?\"

\"You hardly even know me.\"

Ace shrugged. \"I know everything about you. I\'ve been silently stalking you for three years now. It\'s only this past week I\'ve made my intentions more obvious.\"

\"Because of Trowa.\"

\"Yes.\"

\"I\'m going to kill him.\"

\"He\'s the one who told me there was something strange going on with your company.\"

\"Why didn\'t he tell me?\" Quatre demanded.

\"By that time, it was already too late. All I could do was prepare the money.\"

Quatre sat there.

\"Your friend obviously cares about you.\" Ace murmured.

Quatre looked up. \"How do you know him anyway?\"

Ace shrugged. \"I didn\'t. Well not personally, and not until he approached me. He seemed to know a lot about me.\"

\"Like what?\" Quatre looked curious.

\"Like the fact that I\'m totally head over heels for you.\"

Quatre blinked. \"You\'re –\" He squeaked unable to finish the sentence.

\"In love with you.\" Ace stated.

\"You\'re not funny.\" Quatre said softly.

\"I\'m not trying to be.\"

A heavy silence fell upon them. Then Quatre shivered as a breeze passed over his skin.

Ace stood up. \"Come on, get dressed and I\'ll take you home.\"

Quatre hesitated. \"About what you said… I… I need some time to think about it.\"

Ace nodded. \"Regardless of what choice you make, the company will remain yours.\"

Quatre suddenly had to blink back tears. \"Thank you.\" He choked. \"I won\'t fail you, I won\'t lose the company a second time.\"

He wiped at his eyes before standing up and tugging on his clothes. When he was dressed he turned back to Ace with a wry smile. \"Trowa\'s connections frighten me sometimes.\" He gave a small chuckle. \"But then again, he is second in command of the Preventers, and it wouldn\'t surprise me if he had more contacts than even Une herself.\"

\"I don\'t doubt that.\" Was Ace\'s wry reply.

--x--

~ Two Weeks Later ~

--x--

The doorbell to Trowa and Wufei\'s apartment rang. Judging from the impatient way it was ringing, Wufei guessed that it was Duo at the door. He shuffled out to answer it, snuffling into a tissue.

\"Yo Wu!\" Duo\'s exuberant voice rang through the apartment. \"I thought you were over your cold.\"

\"I was.\" Wufei grumbled. \"That was last month\'s cold. This is this month\'s cold.\"

\"Aw shucks.\" Duo patted Wufei on the back sympathetically.

Wufei looked curiously at the person standing slightly behind Duo who was staring at Wufei with wide eyes. He knew he had bed hair, but there was no need to be so rude about it!

\"Chang Wufei.\" A voice came from behind Duo. \"What are you doing out of bed?\"

Trowa walked through the door carrying a bag of groceries. Wufei\'s boyfriend didn\'t look pleased to find Wufei out of bed. The man had insisted Wufei stay in bed for the past week and Wufei was getting mighty bored.

He smiled sweetly at his lover. \"The doorbell rang and it\'s impossible to open the door from bed.\"

Trowa raised an eyebrow. \"You could have ignored it.\"

\"It was irritating me.\" Wufei shot back.

Trowa sighed. \"Back to bed.\"

Wufei smirked. \"Maxwell and his friend have come to visit and as a good host I cannot possibly go back to bed.\" He hurried through to the lounge room before his lover could make a grab for him.

Duo chuckled and followed.

Trowa sighed. His lover was as stubborn as ever. Then he gave a wry grin. //And that\'s why I love him.//

He deposited the groceries on the kitchen bench and then draped a soft quilt over his lover once he was sure Wufei was settled comfortably on the couch. Sitting down next to Wufei he turned to Duo. \"Why are you here?\"

\"Me? Oh, no reason.\" Duo beamed innocently. \"Elmo and I just finished our mission, and I heard that Wu-babe was getting over his cold so I came to visit. I hope you don\'t mind that I brought Elmo along.\"

\"Not at all.\" Wufei said smoothly. \"Thanks for the introduction by the way.\" He added sarcastically. He noticed that Trowa was staring at Duo and Elmo carefully.

\"So what\'s with the constant cold?\" Duo asked.

\"Sally says he\'s been overworking himself. All he needs is some rest and he\'ll be fine.\" Trowa leaned back on the couch. \"The only problem is he refuses to rest.\"

Duo grinned. \"You\'ve got your work cut out for you Tro-man.\"

Trowa shrugged. He crossed his leg and turned to Elmo. \"Are you wearing contacts?\"

Elmo started at being addressed so suddenly. \"Ah no. I only need glasses for reading. Duo reminds me to take them off when I don\'t need them.\"

Trowa frowned. \"How was the mission?\"

Wufei stared at his lover, Trowa wasn\'t normally so talkative.

\"Oh yeah.\" Duo crowed. \"The mission was great. I taught Elmo how to enjoy life. We had a great time.\"

Elmo blushed.

Wufei watched Duo and Elmo sitting together comfortably and stared at the small frown on his lover\'s face. Trowa wasn\'t normally so expressive. As he watched, Trowa\'s frown grew more pronounced and Duo\'s smirk grew wider.

\"Yeah. Since you sent us on that mission and we had a few days to wait until the snow cleared before we could get back here, we took the opportunity to go skiing. Turns out Elmo\'s a mean skier.\"

\"Where did you learn to ski?\" Wufei asked Elmo.

Elmo smiled and blushed a bit. \"My dad taught me how to ski when I was five. After that every Christmas we\'d go skiing on the mountains.\"

Trowa\'s frown grew more pronounced and Duo\'s smirk grew wider.

\"Elmo, Elmo. The name sounds familiar.\" Wufei mused watching his boyfriend closely.

\"Oh yeah.\" Duo said. \"He\'s just the smartest guy at our branch. Walking dictionary ring any bells?\"

Elmo blushed even harder.

\"Oh?\" Wufei raised an eyebrow. From what he\'d heard, the guy literally sounded like a walking dictionary.

Elmo stuttered. \"S.sometimes I forget that I speak like that, Duo reminds me now.\"

Wufei looked curiously from Elmo to Duo and then to his boyfriend and back again.

\"So you had fun on your mission.\" Wufei eventually said when the silence dragged on.

\"Yeah. We had a blast. You gotta send us on more of those types of missions Trowa.\" Duo was practically crowing.

Trowa ignored him.

The doorbell rang.

Wufei shifted but Trowa pushed him back down. \"I\'ll get it.\" He intoned quietly.

Quatre waltzed in followed by a man who loomed over him.

\"How are you feeling Wufei?\" Quatre asked after he\'d greeted the others in the room and Ace Hunter and been introduced to the group and Elmo had been introduced to Quatre and Ace.

\"Fine.\" Wufei said before a sneezing fit overtook him.

Trowa handed him a handful of tissues.

\"It\'s winter.\" Quatre patted Wufei sympathetically on the back.

Wufei wondered why everyone did that. It wasn\'t like patting him on the back was going to make him get better quicker.

\"So Qu.\" Duo drawled. \"What\'s with this guy?\" He gestured to Ace.

Quatre smiled and leaned into Ace. \"This guy has a name.\" Then he turned to Trowa and his eyes gleamed. \"He\'s my boyfriend.\"

There was silence.

Duo was the first to recover. \"Good going Q.\"

He eyed Ace curiously. \"So how\'d you do it buddy? If you don\'t mind me asking. Q\'s straight you know.\"

\"Duo!\" Quatre cried.

Ace shrugged. \"I stalked him.\"

There was a stunned silence. \"Come again?\" Wufei eventually said.

\"I stalked him, forced him into bed with me and then made him my boyfriend.\"

A coughing fit came from Elmo\'s corner and a stunned silence came from the rest of the room.

\"Ah – \" For once Duo was at a loss for words.

\"Congratulations.\" Trowa said finally breaking the silence. The frown which had appeared on Trowa\'s face with Duo\'s arrival was now looking more pronounced. Duo and Quatre were smiling smugly at each other.

And Wufei\'s \'suspicious incidents indicator\' was going through the roof. //Since when is Trowa so expressive anyway?//

\"Yeah.\" Duo said. \"It musta been fate that you could get Quatre using such weird methods.\"

\"Yes.\" Ace agreed, eyes flicking briefly to Trowa.

Wufei sneezed. \"You should go back to bed.\" Trowa abruptly stood up.

\"Yeah.\" Duo said lazily stretching and looking like the cat that had gotten the little yellow canary. He almost made Wufei feel like Trowa was the little yellow canary.

Quatre stood up with a bright smile. \"We\'ll be going then. Get well soon Wufei.\"

Wufei nodded and sneezed again.

He watched as Trowa walked them to the door and listened to the farewells. Then he heard the front door close.

\"How do you feel?\" Trowa asked re-entering the room.

\"I was wondering how much longer you\'d be able to keep that frown on your face.\" Wufei murmured. \"Do you have a headache yet?\" His voice was dripping sugar.

Trowa raised an eyebrow at him.

\"I can tell when you\'re faking Trowa, and that frown on your face was definitely faked, now spill.\"

\"Whatever are you talking about my sweet?\" Trowa murmured leaning forward to kiss Wufei.

Wufei pulled back quickly. \"I\'m still sick!\"

\"Haven\'t we established this already?\" Trowa drawled. \"I don\'t care.\" Then he leaned in for his kiss.

When Trowa pulled back, Wufei was dazed. Trowa used that opportunity to scoop up his lover and take him to their bedroom.

By the time Wufei landed on the bed he had recovered enough to grab hold of his lover\'s arm, preventing him from leaving.

\"I want an explanation.\"

Trowa smiled at him mysteriously.

\"Fine. I can guess anyway.\" Wufei grumped. \"You set Quatre and Duo up didn\'t you? Like you set me up.\"

Trowa smiled. \"Never let it be said Chang Wufei is an idiot.\"

Wufei bit him.

\"Tell me!\" He insisted.

Trowa smiled as he peered at the new love bite on his shoulder in satisfaction. \"They irritated me so I sent Duo on a mission with Elmo-the-Walking-Talking-Dictionary and I sent Quatre a stalker to teach him about the birds and the bees.\"

Wufei stared at his lover. \"You didn\'t!\"

Trowa smiled. \"I did.\"

\"And I supposed Quatre and Duo thought that your plan backfired miserably.\"

Trowa raised an eyebrow. \"Whatever are you saying my dear? It *did* backfire miserably.\"

\"Oh give me some credit.\" Wufei scoffed. \"Like you could hire that Hunter guy and what a coincidence that when Winner\'s uncle sold him out, that Hunter guy just happened to be there to buy all of the shares.\"

Trowa smiled. \"You really are intelligent my sweet.\"

\"So spill already.\" Wufei ordered.

Trowa nodded. \"I met him at a function once. I noticed that he spent the whole night watching Quatre. After that, whenever I saw him at the same function with Quatre, he was always watching him. That was three years ago.\"

Wufei whistled.

\"After Quatre\'s last relationship went sour, he hasn\'t been with anyone since. I thought about sending him a stalker after he gave you misinformation about sex.\"

Wufei started blushing. \"Trowa! Just for that!\"

\"At first, yes.\" Trowa replied.

\"But then?\" Wufei pushed.

\"I got information that his uncle was planning something. Information coming through to me indicated that Quatre\'s life might be in danger. So I approached Ace. He agreed to watch over Quatre and make it obvious he was being stalked so that Quatre would be more aware of his surroundings. Turns out his uncle didn\'t want to kill him, just misappropriate his money. Ace managed to get together enough money to buy all of the shares Winner Corp put out on the market. We were lucky his uncle was so desperate to get rid of them he sold them at less than their normal market value.\"

\"And there isn\'t any way to get back the money is there?\" Wufei asked. \"Since he\'s skipped the country.\"

\"Ordinary law enforcement agencies wouldn\'t be able to do anything, but we\'re Preventers, we have special jurisdiction.\"

Wufei raised an eyebrow.

\"We\'ve caught him.\" Trowa told Wufei. \"By the time we found him he\'d already managed to spend twenty percent of the money, but we\'ve returned the other eighty percent to Ace. He in turn has transferred eighty percent of his shares back to Quatre. Ace will tell Quatre tonight.\"

\"How will that work?\" Wufei asked. \"They\'re rival companies.\"

\"Ace wants to combine the two companies.\"

\"Oh.\" Wufei nodded.

\"Now tell me about Elmo.\" Wufei commanded.

Trowa raised an eyebrow. \"What\'s there to tell?\"

\"Don\'t give me that.\" Wufei growled.

Trowa chuckled and gave his lover another kiss. \"Elmo has a past, which I won\'t tell you about.\"

Wufei pouted.

\"Sufficient to say, Elmo\'s got no friends and needs to be protected, Duo\'s got lots of friends and needs someone to protect.\"

Wufei gave a small smile. \"They\'re lovers already.\"

His boyfriend laughed. \"Aren\'t you astute my love?\"

\"He kept blushing.\" Wufei replied bluntly. \"Even a blind person could tell.\" Then an annoyed look settled onto Wufei\'s face.

\"What is it sweetheart?\" Trowa stroked his boyfriend\'s hair.

\"Those idiots!\" Wufei grouched. \"They spent all their time telling me they\'re one hundred percent heterosexual and the next thing I know, they\'ve got themselves boyfriends. I\'ll probably get a phone call from Yuy tomorrow telling me he\'s got a boyfriend too.\"

\"Boyfriend *or* girlfriend considering how he\'s bi, but don\'t hold your breath waiting my sweet.\"

Wufei yelped and sat up straighter on the bed. \"Maxwell told me he\'s straight.\"

Trowa chuckled. \"Duo doesn\'t know as much as he thinks he does. Do you really think Heero would tell Duo something like that? It would be all over headquarters within the hour.\"

\"I guess so.\" Wufei conceded. \"How come you know then?\"

\"I make it my business to know.\" Trowa smiled and nuzzled at his lover\'s neck.

\"Hmm…\" Wufei melted. Then he pushed at his boyfriend\'s shoulders. \"Elmo didn\'t sound like the walking dictionary I\'d heard about.\"

Trowa leaned back against the headboard of their bed. \"He\'s not a walking dictionary when he\'s reminded. He forgets himself sometimes. People will probably start avoiding him less now that he has Duo to remind him.\"

Wufei chuckled. \"And by frowning the whole afternoon, you let Maxwell and Winner believe they\'d managed to outdo you.\"

Trowa smiled. \"I can\'t have everyone knowing my secrets.\"

\"Trowa Barton.\" Wufei declared. \"Sometimes you truly frighten me.\"

Trowa chuckled. \"Frighten you? And here I thought my manipulation skills were getting you all excited.\" He reached down and stroked the hardness between Wufei legs.

\"I\'m not hard because of your manipulation skills.\" Wufei hissed.

\"No?\" Trowa murmured taking his hand away. \"What then?\"

Wufei grabbed Trowa\'s hand and pushed it back between his legs. \"Stop teasing and do me already.\"

\"Of course my love.\"

Trowa smiled as he resumed stroking Wufei\'s hardness. His partner melted into the bed with a blissful sigh.

Trowa leaned down and nuzzled behind one perfect bronze ear. \"You must rest after this my sweet.\"

Wufei nodded in agreement even as his arms came up to wind around Trowa\'s neck.
With Trowa doing such wondrous things to his body, Wufei was not going to argue with anything his partner said. Well, at least right then anyway.

Trowa\'s left hand came up to stroke gently down one soft cheek. Then he moved and briefly rested his forehead against Wufei\'s, trying to check Wufei\'s temperature without him knowing.

Wufei growled and caught Trowa\'s lips with his own. \"I\'m fine.\"

Satisfied that what they were going to do wasn\'t going to make Wufei sicker, Trowa deepened the kiss. Wufei\'s forehead wasn\'t overly hot, but Trowa was definitely going to make sure his lover rested well after this. It was just a matter of exhausting him first.

Wufei rocked against Trowa impatiently. \"Trowa.\" He mumbled.

Trowa nipped gently at Wufei\'s neck, leaving a bright red love bite behind. \"What is it my love?\"

\"Trowa!\" Wufei insisted, rubbing harder against his partner.

Trowa pulled back slightly giving Wufei an amused smile. \"You must tell me if you want something my love.\"

Wufei began to blush. This was one part of being in bed with Trowa that Wufei didn\'t know whether to be embarrassed about or turned on. Trowa liked hearing Wufei tell him exactly what he wanted done to himself. Wufei thought it was embarrassing, but Trowa liked it, and because Trowa liked it, Wufei found that having those dirty words come out of his mouth turned him on too. Now if only his face wouldn\'t turn so red! They had a few kinks, at least this one was the least embarrassing of them all. He remembered the elevator incident with a blush. Trowa had even had the nerve to ask the security guys for the video so that he could take it home to watch.

Trowa watched him, his eyes gleaming. \"It seems you\'re remembering something awfully nice my sweet.\" His hand on Wufei\'s cock sped up. \"Perhaps you should tell me.\" He seemed thoughtful.

Wufei\'s eyes widened. It was one thing to do it, it was another thing completely to discuss it with the man who\'d made him enjoy it so much! To distract his lover, he parted his lips and slid out one tongue to moisten it.

As he wanted, Trowa\'s eyes were drawn unerringly to his lips.

\"I want you to go down on me.\" Wufei murmured huskily, feeling the heat on his face.

Trowa\'s eyes were positively burning into him now. Yes. That\'s what Wufei liked. Knowing that he was the center of Trowa\'s attention. Well, it wasn\'t like he wasn\'t ever *not* the focus of all of Trowa\'s attention, but in bed, there was something positively indecent about the way Trowa watched him. His teasing during work hours was nothing like this! It still turned Wufei on, but when they were in bed, the heat of Trowa\'s eyes alone could make Wufei achingly hard.

Trowa wasted no time, he immediately set to work, his fingers deftly tugging at the drawstrings on Wufei\'s pants and pulling out the hard length. It was already dripping, and as Trowa watched, one thick drop of pre-cum fell from the tip to slide slowly down to the base.

Trowa moved, swallowing the entire length in one gulp. He had no time for finesse. He\'d been too worried about his boyfriend\'s cold to even contemplate sex this past week and now his body was positively aching for Wufei. And as he\'d found out the last time his boyfriend had had a cold, he wouldn\'t last long. That was okay though, because it didn\'t seem that Wufei was going to last too long either. Trowa gave a small smile, his boyfriend had come within minutes the last time they\'d had to abstain for sex for a whole week. Well, it wasn\'t like they had to, Wufei had nothing against it, but Trowa wasn\'t going to risk his lover\'s health for the sake of a few minutes of pleasure.

He felt strong fingers thread into his hair and begin to guide him. Then the fingers tightened and Wufei began tugging. Trowa smiled and allowed Wufei to move his head. He enjoyed it when Wufei fucked his mouth. There was something exhilarating about seeing Wufei lose control.

\"Un!\" Wufei began to pant, his thrusting almost desperate now. Trowa reached up and began to squeeze Wufei\'s balls.

\"Trowa!\"

With a small cry, Wufei tugged Trowa\'s head down hard, and then Trowa found his mouth being filled with Wufei\'s essence. He swallowed it all, and then leaned back to lick up the pearly drops that had escaped.

Wufei was watching him with blurry eyes. \"That good huh?\" Trowa teased, even as he quickly uncapped the lube and spread it onto his fingers. He wasn\'t going to last too long. Thank god Wufei had already climaxed.

Wufei gave a blissed out smile. \"Hmm.\"

Leaning forward, Trowa hooked one of Wufei\'s legs over his shoulder and slid a finger in.

God! Even after all this time, Wufei was still tight. He shifted and buried his face into Wufei\'s shoulder, even as he slid a second finger in. His whole body was trembling now with the effort it took to hold himself back.

Wufei tightened the leg he had over Trowa\'s shoulder, drawing him in.

\"I\'m fine.\" Wufei whispered softly. \"Come.\"

Trowa groaned. He would have liked to have prepared Wufei more, but he couldn\'t wait any longer.

He hurriedly slicked himself and guided himself to Wufei\'s entrance. With a little groan he pushed in.

\"Sweetheart.\" It was tighter than he remembered. He paused, balls deep inside Wufei and waited for his partner to adjust.

After what felt like an eternity for Trowa, but was probably only a few seconds, Wufei rocked.

Trowa groaned, and taking his cue, began to move, pulling out of the tight heat which was trying to suck him in. With a groan that rumbled deep in his throat, he thrust back in, Wufei\'s body welcoming him eagerly.

He was right, he didn\'t last long, within six strokes his climax was upon him and he pumped himself into his lover, eyes closed in pleasure, fingers tightening on Wufei\'s waist. Finally it was over and he slid against his lover with a sigh.

\"Feel good?\" Wufei teased as he curled against his lover.

\"The best.\" Trowa gave his lover a long drawn out kiss. \"Now sleep.\"

\"I\'m tired anyway.\" Wufei dragged those long arms about himself and smiled when he felt them tighten.

Life with Trowa. There was nothing more Wufei could ever possibly ask for. Within seconds Wufei was fast asleep.


The End.