So...um... I'm officially two days late on the wholle once a week thing. PLease don't hurt me.

And well to resolve the issue, I've decided to post a chapter of another story I've been working on...PLEASE DON'T HURT ME.

Anyways this is it. It's kind of a teaser. Hopefully I'll be back on track by next Thursday. I know there isn't much to review on in this chapter, but they would still be nice.

Hope you enjoy.

Dating 101

Heero noted Duo's eyes on him again

Heero noted Duo's eyes on him again. Lately Duo had been watching him quite frequently. Heero did a quick mental once over of himself and found that there was nothing that he thought would cause alarm to come over his braided ally. After all, there had been few missions from Une recently, meaning he wasn't suffering from any physical damage. Heero frowned in puzzlement; why had Duo been observing him for days?

Heero, being Heero, paused for one moment longer before turning in his swivel chair and facing the violet eyes, which widened slightly, a wide grin was already sweeping over the face to hide it. "Duo. For what reason have you been observing me and my actions over the past six days, three hours, and twenty four minutes?"

The Cheshire cat grin dimmed to a smirk, "I was just trying to figure out what makes you tick Heero."

"What do you mean? Specify."

"What are your habits? What do you do when you don't work?" Duo shrugged gesturing slightly with his hands, "You know…what else your life consists of? How do you not get bored?"

Heero frowned, "Well my life consists of missions, work, daily exercise and training, mission planning and sleep." Duo seemed slightly less amused then normal, something in his eyes. It was unreadable….

"So you're not missing anything? At all?" Heero looked the picture of puzzled and shrugged.

"Not in the sense that I need something." He waited for a moment, tense, waiting for Duo to pounce into action. What he got was a simple shrug.

"Ok then." Duo turned back to his seat and began writing, "As long as your happy man. That is all that matters to me." Heero watched him for another thirty seconds before turning back to his desk. That had been an interesting yet unproductive conversation and Heero still had work to worry about…

That night, Heero had unlocked his apartment and gone about his ritual of exercise, follow up work, hygiene maintenance and dinner. It got to be around 9:30 when he found himself turning in for the night. Lying down usually meant that he would be out within two minutes, but he had been thinking on what Duo had said in the back of his mind. Was he bored right now? No. Not that he knew of…

There was no desire to get up and move or accomplish some task. There was no desire to sleep either. But there was something amiss…. what, he didn't know as he had felt it several times before but never taken the time to analyze or solve the condition. It was kind of… slight discontent that made his chest constrict when thinking about it…. That made a dull hollow sensation in him when Duo hugged some random person or Trowa hugged Quatre for that matter. Per haps… it was the sensation that Duo had mentioned before….. Boredom perhaps….like Duo had been mentioning.

It somewhat fit the description … perhaps he should ask Duo about it tomorrow. Maybe he just needed a new challenge.

TBC...

So yeah... Sorry for posting another new fic...but I did it. so...

-Ciao,

Silverserpent