Hey here's my second newest fic, there will be five chapters! I hope you enjoy...

Evolving Relations

Chapter 01 - Beginnings

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Clocks these days were all digital unless you knew how to make the old ones. You had to go to a store that sold antiques to find non-digital clocks if you couldn't build them. There was a large one in this room of the house.

The echoing ticks that filled the space were easy to match my breathing too, in and out with each tick. I was waiting for something for the first time in history that did not relate to a mission and watched as the hand of the clock slowly moved.

The final tick before six fifty-five had my ears prickling for the sound of keys in the door. It would be less then a minute. I had it timed.

I was not disappointed when caught a glimpse of black hair tied back through the doorway after keys had rattled the lock. Every day for the last seventy six days I saw the same figure walk in the door. Wufei looked up at me and nodded in greeting. The slow gate as he entered my room was still graceful. If he was tired from work, he didn't show it.

Moving to my side he lifted me with ease and carried me to the bathroom. He had helped me with this every day since the miserably failed mission. I had gotten trapped under a beam as an explosive went off much earlier then the other agent working on the case had intended it too. Wufei dubbed the agent a 'Stupid fool', I believe he is highly untrained and an inadequate agent for the Preventers. It was the one time that I had not been partnered with another Gundam Pilot. Wufei was not with me on that mission though we are partners. He was busy in the colonies. I believe he feels guilty and that is the reason he has been caring for me.

Wufei pulled off my boxers and my shirt and set me on the toilet while he turned the water on in the tub. Removing his own jacket and shirt, he lifted me into the tub. As I sat leaning against the wall I watched my toes wiggle. It was a small effort that Wufei smiled at. "You're improving. Good work." He grabbed the shampoo bottle and began washing my hair. I could have done it myself, but he had insisted on 'pampering me' since the first week. It has been the only real time off I had ever had since… well ever.

My lower back had been broken on the mission and tomorrow is the final of seven surgeries to reconnect the nerves. It was a delicate procedure, but possible with the modern technology. Then a month long recovery to regain atrophied muscles I estimated. I currently could achieve minimal movement below my lower back; luckily I still had full mobility above the waist. Wufei wouldn't have to continue to care for me and I could go back to being independent and efficient and on missions with Wufei.

When done Wufei toweled me off as usual and then returned me to bed. He lay down on the couch near the bed on the opposite side of the room and informed me of all the missions and issues that were arising within the Preventers that I was missing. I couldn't wait until I was back in action. Wufei completed his usual inquiries of the hacking jobs that Une had me work on. I updated him of course.

The lights turned off and all that was left to listen to was the clock. Wufei fell asleep quite quickly and I observed that his breathing was timed to the clock as well, in, out, in, out. It was quite soothing.

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A week had passed and I insisted to Wufei he was no longer necessary to the healing process as I had analyzed my healing capabilities and gauged the amount of physical training I could complete without undoing the surgery for maximum reconditioning rate. Wufei would have a more efficient layout of his time schedule if he were to go home instead of stopping two miles away at my residence.

The first day Wufei showed up anyways. The second day he showed up again, despite the fact that I had informed him, two days in a row, not to stop at my residence. Wufei informed without looking directly at me that, "It was habit. I will not come back unless called Yuy." and Wufei had not returned.

Now I sat on my bed after taking a short bath staring at the clock that continued its steady ticking in the silent house. I've never had a possession that was given to me to keep as I do not have a birthday, nor celebrate Christmas or any holiday where there is gift giving.

Wufei thought I would be bored with nothing to accomplish while waiting for hacking and computer work from Une during my time restricted to the bed from my injury, so he had suggested I learn meditation. That is when Wufei brought in the non-digital clock and hung it on my wall. Wufei said it would help. So it stayed even though I could not sleep well with its endless ticking.

But then I had grown use to it.

And as I sit here staring at the clock I begin to conclude that I had become accustomed to something else that had made me sleep deeply.

Wufei.

And he would only come back if he was called. So I called. A half an hour later the keys rattled at the door, he moved smooth and gracefully entering the room. He paused at the door way and looked at me dark eyed calculating and cautious. Wufei proceeded towards the couch as he normally would. I stared until his eyes were met mine again. I tilted my head and he took the hint. Already in sweats, Wufei slipped into bed, lying down next to me. We were about three feet apart but it didn't seem to matter.

Wufei told me what was happening at the office. He inquired about my work and physical therapy schedule as to how things were proceeding. After the small conversation I shut the light off and waited. I tried very hard not to appear tense. Wufei was relaxing very slowly. Soon I heard the deep breathing indicating Wufei was asleep, each breathe matching the clocks ticking. In, out, in, out. It was so very soothing. As I observed his profile and watched his chest rise and fall to the ticking of the clock I found that something had changed with the dynamics of our relationship. From partners to what… I have no idea or basis for such an analysis. All I could confirm was that, even though we were separated by three feet and we had shared beds before on missions, this was different.…

It was a beginning… of what I could not analyze or presume to know.

But it was a beginning.

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