Endearment

Dear Relena,

Hello Miss Dorlian! Or should I address you as miss Peacecraft? Either way, I think Miss Relena works just fine! I'm sure you don't recognize this name, seeing as how you have a delightfully one-track mind! I'm the American boy that you've seen with your beloved Heero. That's right, you know who I am right?

Of course! I've spoken to you before. Saved you from getting shot, so naturally… You're questioning why I'm writing this letter to you, aren't you? You know it has something to do with your adored 'knight in shining Gundanium armor'. Well, see, where as he doesn't have the guts to tell you what he thinks, or what he wants, I've written you to tell you for him.

He's got someone he's loves. He does! I know for a fact! They're BLISSFULLY in love! And basically he wants you so leave him the hell alone! Now I have nothing against you…Actually that's not true now that I think about it…I DO have something against you. Your dire need to take Heero's attention with your persistent 'stalking' as I'll call it.

You're about three seconds from shredding this letter in disbelief aren't you? I wouldn't do that or you may miss out on the REAL reason I wrote you this letter.

STAY away from Heero.

That's a threat, a warning, and a promise that I will kill you if you interfere any more than you already do. The god of death isn't afraid of a little blood Miss Relena.

Also I think you would be ill advised to stop inviting him to your fancy festivities, because if he's there, then I will be too. And that wouldn't be comfortable for either of us.

You think you can understand him? Well what would you know about MY Heero? That's right, I used a possessive pronoun. You want to know why? I'M the object of Heero's affections.

He's proclaimed his love to me, not you. So quit showing up everywhere we go. Or next time I won't hesitate in showing off the gorgeous ring he's so lovingly slipped on my finger. Or the love bites in my neck. Or better, the looks he gives me that he could never give you. You knew the moment I fell into the picture your chances of having him, as yours, were obsolete.

Leave us alone to our happiness. I hate to be so rude. I'm normally much more polite and placid when speaking to a lady, however Heero is my LIFE. You take him away from me and I'll lose more than you would gain from it.

Please forgive my foregoing rudeness.

With Sincerest Regards

'Duo Maxwell Yuy'

Relena clutched the letter in her hand as she read through to the last line. Her heart sunk as she realized this wasn't one of Maxwell's jokes. There was fierceness in the fancy italicized calligraphy that told her he was deadly serious. But that didn't stop her heart from clenching as she realized Heero was already someone else's everything.

The last line of the pilot's letter disturbed her the most and struck quicker than any of the elevated vocabulary and structures predicaments. She stared at the words, 'Duo Maxwell…Yuy'.

'Why Heero?' She thought to herself. 'What did he have that I didn't?' She silently stood, ripping the letter into shreds. She couldn't bring herself to keep it or read it again and know that her search for Heero would have to come to a close.

"Very well Heero, you've made your choice." She threw the letter in the trashcan by her table at the front of the restaurant. She left, but not for her home, for she knew she'd be unable to face the small picture of Heero in the red frame on her desk.

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"Heeeeeeeero!" Duo's voice rung through the house in the same manner that the smell of home cooked food flooded a home with its delectable scent.

"I'm here." Came the muffled reply, from the bundled pilot walking into the kitchen from the cold outside.

"I've almost finished cooking! With Kat's help of course!" A brilliant smile came from Duo, as he motioned to Quatre who turned around smiling.

"Hello Heero!" The blond Arabian boy smiled almost as brightly as Duo. Heero nodded.

"DAMN IT! YOU SUCK!" They heard Wufei's voice coming from the other room. They peeked their heads through the doorway to catch the sight of Trowa and Wufei seated on the living room futon equivalent of a couch.

"That was a cheap play!"

"No he knocked him fair and square." Trowa commented with the ever so slightest smirk on his face.

"There's no JUSTICE in this system!"

"Cough up that twenty bucks you owe Tro, Wu-man. And you guys shouldn't be watching this much boxing. You'll get yourselves all riled up before dinner!" Duo cut in before the Justice speech went too far.

"Fine." The Chinese man grumbled shoving a 20 in the face of the silent pilot, who took it with a smirk.

"Now come on you guys, we're almost done!' Quatre added, pulling Duo back along with him as the two began to endlessly chat walking back into the source of all the good smelling food.

"Duo." Heero stood in the doorway as the American boy took off the cute little apron with the Death Scythe on it. Those amethyst eyes focused on Heero.

"Yeah?"

"Can I talk to you?"

"Uh sure…I'll be back Kat." Duo smiled at Quatre who nodded as the braided boy followed Heero to the next room. "So what's up?" He asked hesitantly, twisting the ring on his finger.

"I passed by Relena today." He paused seeing Duo's expression falter in the slightest. "She didn't notice I'd passed. I was going to stop and talk to her." Duo looked at the floor, until Heero stepped forward to raise his lover's head to make eye-to-eye contact. "But she was completely engrossed in this letter of hers. I couldn't help but read her lips as she read the correspondence to herself. More specifically the last part, 'Heero is my LIFE. You take him away from me and I'll lose more than you would gain from it.'

Heero stared into those eyes that gleamed with the guiltiness of owning the hands that wrote those words. "I was going to tell her that perhaps she should leave us be. But I wasn't aware someone already beat me to it. With Sincerest Regards, 'Duo Maxwell Yuy'. Jumping ahead of yourself are we? I believe that I placed the ring on your right hand not your left. Though the name addition was a nice touch."

Duo glanced away knowing he was probably in trouble for his meddling, and he was a little more startled Heero had read her lips and essentially everything he'd written to the man stealing bitch. He hated her with a passion. And he wasn't about to let her ruin any thing else for them. If Heero wouldn't tell her, someone had to, even if it meant getting in trouble in the end.

Heero mindlessly pulled the slightly smaller boy to him. A hand ran through the hair that the American graced his friends with leaving unbraided for the start of a new year. "You know, much of what you said was very blunt, undignified, and even nasty sounding, with an ever so slight amount of class added to it for decent measure." He took each of Duo's hands on both of his. His fingers toyed with the ring he'd gave Duo for Christmas.

"She looked rather torn by your harsh words, and threats to kill her. Though I think you summed it up better than I could have. I never was one for long bouts of words, save for this ridiculously long scolding I'm treating you to now." He pulled the ring off his lover's finger, noting the small gasp that sounded like shock.

He moved it to his other hand and placed it on the same finger of the other hand. The left one. "Don't think I would leave you on account of Relena. You said everything perfectly. You always were one to talk so much. And your letter proves it even."

"Heero…" The normally braided boy stared down at the ring on his left hand, looking back up into those cerulean eyes.

"Don't start acting all sentimental on me. There's only so much dosage of perpetual happiness I can take at one time." The Wing pilot said dryly.

"If I didn't know better Hee-chan, I'd say that sounded like sarcasm!" Duo gleamed, engrossing Heero in a tight rib-cracking hug.

"Are you guys gonna eat or what?" They turned to see Wufei with a plate of Chinese stuff that Duo had made especially for the ever-so petulant Chinese pilot. Trowa followed behind.

"The second fights over." Trowa pointed out to Wufei.

"What!"

"My guy won again."

"That's…That's not riiiiiiiiiight!" The two shuffled in to verify the score, with Trowa at five wins and Wufei at one.

"I guess we should go join them before they end up breaking our table down the middle like last time…" Duo chuckled pulling Heero along with him.

"Duo."

"Yeah?" Amethyst eyes turned back to fall on Heero.

"…You…" He paused. "You are my life, Duo."

Duo smiled warmly, running a pale hand across and even paler face. Before he could open his mouth to reply he heard the sound of the door bell ring. He turned and pulling Heero along, he opened the door. To find no one there.

"There's no one here." Duo stuck his head outside in the blowing snow.

"There's an envelope on the step." The normally silent other spoke.

"Oh, there is," Duo bent to pick it up, cringing at the easily recognizable handwriting adorned in pink. "It must be from Relena…"

"Open it." Heero stood behind Duo with his arms wrapped around his lover.

Duo pulled the delicately folded paper from inside it's pink folded sheath and unfolded the sheet to reveal a letter.

Dear Maxwell Yuy,

You're quite a talker, aren't you Mr. Maxwell? Your words are harsh, they sting, and they are direct to the point. As I suppose I should appreciate. I would have chased Heero forever. But as I see it's pointless I'll give up my chase. However I require you do grant me one request. Love him like you're losing him. Because If I find you're letting him slip from your grasp. I'll take him from you. That's a promise.

Also, you're obligated to send me pictures of your wedding ceremony.

Relena Dorlian Peacecraft

"W…wow…" Was all Duo could say after finishing that short little endearment. "We have Relena's blessing!"

"The apocalypse draws nearer."

"Your sense of humor is improving, Hee-chan." Duo chuckled. "I guess this means for a good new year neh?"

"I suppose so."

"DAMN IT! HOW'D MY GUY LOSE AGAIN!"

"Well clearly I picked the better person."

"Stop it you two! You're going to get sick from all this screaming."

"Well…Maybe not for the Wu-man…" Duo laughed heartedly and Heero smiled.

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Leo: A little random, but I DID write it at 2:30 in the morning...So yeah...I hope It was alright. If not then I'll live with the shame of writing such a cheesy one shot. Oh well XD