Gundam Wing and it's characters are copyright Sotsu, Sunrise, and some other people, don't own them and have never claimed to. Please don't sue me, you won't get much....
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Heero: I want out of this fanfic.
Shi-chan: That's what you always say. It's not like you've got a big role in this one.
Heero: ....shut up.
Duo: It's not another lemon, is it?
Shi-chan: I don't write lemons!
Duo: You wish you could. I know what you're thinking.
Shi-chan: ....
Duo: ....
Heero: Can we get this over with?
Shi-chan: Sure. Call Relena out here would ya?
Duo: Wasn't this supposed to be a shounen-ai fic?
Shi-chan: More than you know.
Duo: Nani?!?
Shi-chan: Well, Relena can't always be the villain ya know!
Duo: Why not?!?
Shi-chan: ::sweatdrop::
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Switch
~By Shimegami-chan
Part 1
SHOUNEN AI ALERT!
http://nothingisforever.cjb.net
Relena Peacecraft sat on a rock overlooking the deep blue lake, straining to see stars under the heavy blanket of clouds and fog.
(OOC: Duo: "You've _got_ to be kidding me." IC:)
The blonde girl tipped her head up to the sky, her eyes watering at the sheer beauty of it compiled with the strain on her torn heart. She had been blown off once again by Heero, after coming all this way just to see him. It was her only joy that Duo Maxwell, Heero's preferred companion, would be leaving the next day on a recon mission. Perhaps with Duo gone she'd have a chance with Heero?
Relena tried to make herself beleive in the faint hope, but it was difficult. Getting to L4 and getting Duo sent on the recon--to observe the path of a frozen star far off on the edges of known space, far beyond both Earth and L1--had been Dorothy's idea, and Relena felt a slight twinge of regret at the plan she had sent into motion. No matter how badly she wanted him, was Heero's happiness--if you could call it that--worth sacrificing?
//Then again,// thought Relena, //I'm sure I could make him just as happy as Duo Maxwell ever could.//
No going back now. With Duo out of the way Relena knew that somehow she could make Heero see the error of his ways. Besides being in a tumultous relationship that she felt could never last, Heero was involved with another man. Relena believed herself to be modestly good-looking, yet Heero had chosen the long-haired American boy over her. //Nature's not supposed to work that way,// she told herself. //Heero shouldn't be attracted to a man. Why must he do this to himself? Why...why does he do it to me!?//
Relena checked her watch as the hands ticked inexorably down to midnight. Not one star had shown itself to her, not even the fabled crystal star that Duo himself was going out to investigate the next day. On Earth she had been told that the dead, frozen star still shone brighter than any other in the sky. //"It's lining up with other stars nearby,"// Dorothy had said. //"Wouldn't it be fun if they intersected after all? Beautiful!"// Relena thought otherwise, but didn't tell Dorothy so. It seemed a safe enough mission for Duo just to get him out of her way, if Duo was killed and Heero thought Relena responsible...well, she didn't know what she'd do. //Just send him, Noin, and Zechs in to investigate--he won't even need his Gundam--record what happened to the crystal star, then leave. It'll give you a few days to straighten Heero out.//
Literally.
Leaning back on her cold perch, Relena wrapped her hands around her bare legs and shivered, trying to pull her skirt down furthur to cover her knees. Up in the sky a single light suddenly appeared.
"There you are..." Relena said wonderingly. The fog had cleared around a single faraway star, gleaming in the midnight sky. Squinting, Relena noticed that this particular star had auras of light extending to its right and left, and idly she wondered if the light came from the stars Dorothy hoped would meet with the crystal star sometime that night.
"Sa...otousan always said to wish upon a star...or three." Relena smiled to herself. There was only one thing she really wanted, of course.
"Now, crystal star, or whatever you may be...my one wish is to have Heero all to myself." The light seemed to distort itself slightly through her tears, and she closed her eyes to squeeze them away.
The lively sounds of the night faded into nothing.
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Relena awoke in a dream, what seemed like an eternity later. She was huddled under a mound of blankets an the bed, shivering despite being fully clothed.
Beside her another warm body slept peacefully, and Relena nudged closer to it to take in its warmth. //Perhaps it's Heero, perhaps my wish came true.// But a dark veil hung over her eyes that she could not seem to push away, and she knew it was a dream.
//Enjoy it while you can,// the little voice in the back of her mind told her. //Right now, he's all yours.//
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Duo Maxwell found himself having a rude awakening in the lake outside Quatre's small retreat residence. "What the _hell?!_"
He dragged himself out of the muddy water, coughing up the semitransparent liquid on the cold ground. Why was it so cold in summer? How had he gotten in the lake anyway?
Duo feverently hoped it wasn't Heero throwing him out of bed again--the last time that had happened, Duo had spent the night outside in the snow in his boxers, which was what he was wearing now, luckily with a black t-shirt for added warmth. Duo wondered idly if Wufei had dragged him out here after finding the honey in his shampoo. Why would Wufei be taking a shower so early--or late?
Why was he sitting here sopping wet on the bank? In the blackness Duo stood up and started to walk back to the house, praying Quatre's housekeepers hadn't left any dangerous tools out in the yard where he could fall over them. Duo wished that he had left his hair tied back before bed this time--the chestnut mass was a horror when wet, and right now he couldn't keep idle strands of it from flicking into his eyes.
Duo staggered up to the door and began to pound on it. "Wufei, I'm gonna kill you! If I cath pneumonia and die it's YOUR FAULT! WHAT THE HELL?!?!?" Duo's low baritone voice had jumped up to an alto without him noticing. "WELL I GUESS I'VE ALREADY GOT IT THEN! QUATRE! LET ME THE HELL IN BEFORE I BREAK YOUR DOOR!"
The window directly above him opened and Duo perceived Wufei's pale face sticking out of it. "Shut up Maxwell, before I stuff that braid down your throat!"
"Bakayarou! What are you trying to do, Wu-man, kill me?" Duo tried desperately to modulate his squeaking voice. "Listen to me! If I can't talk tomorrow, _you're_ going on my mission instead!"
"That will be a blessing." Wufei countered. "Good night, _onna._"
"BASTARD! QUATRE! HELP! IT'S TOO COLD OUT HERE! LET ME IN!"
"Who's that?" A quiet voice inquired from the other side of the door.
"Quatre? Oh, thank god. It's me, Duo; Wufei threw me in the lake again. I think I've got pneumonia or something. I nearly drowned! That bastard."
"Duo!" Quatre cautiously opened the door and grabbed his friend's wrist. "Keep it down, Sally's sleeping on the couch in here. I'm surprised you didn't wake up the whole household."
"Sorry." Duo growled. "Can you hit the lights? Make sure I'm not blue from lack of oxygen of something?"
"Upstairs. Can you walk?"
"Made it here, didn't I?"
Quatre laughed quietly. "Your voice sounds really odd. A soprano with a sore throat."
"Feels like it too. I probably breathed too much _water_." Duo was tempted to run to Wufei's room and toss the Chinese boy out the window.
"Shh, Zechs and Noin are sleeping in the living room. There's a bathroom adjoined to it." Quatre gave Duo a little push in the direction on the open door. "The lights are inside, go about three steps and turn left, there's a lamp with a push button. Don't wake up these two, okay?"
"Got it." Duo murmured. He took three steps and felt along the corner of the wall, and his fingers encountered a Tiffany lamp.
"Did you find the lamp? Should I wake up Dr. Sally?" Quatre, avoiding the sleeping forms on the futons in the living room, levered himself to the door frame and gently closed the large wooden door.
"Here's the lamp, Quatre. Don't bother waking up Sally." He turned the dim light on and inspected himself in the mirror. "She's probably--erk."
"'Erk?' Duo?"
No answer.
"Duo! Hey, are you okay?" Still nothing.
"I'm coming in." Quatre put his hand on the doorknob and wrenched it open, taking care not to step on Noin's arm beneath him.
"Quatre."
The Arabian boy stopped short. "What?"
"I think I may need the doctor after all. Unless I'm dreaming."
"Kuso." Quatre, his eyes still adjusting to the dim lamplight, skidded into the roomy bathroom and almost ran into Duo...or was it Duo?
He couldn't believe his eyes. "If you're dreaming, then so am I."
"I was afaid of that." Duo sighed and dragged the wet strands of blonde hair away from his face. The face that Quatre was looking at wasn't the one Duo usually saw when he looked in the mirror, unless he was mistaken it closely resembled one he wasn't usually happy to see.
"Duo..._are_ you Duo?" Quatre looked the bedraggled form up and down. The expression on Duo's face was one he recognized for sure, but the long blonde hair, fully feminine chest and bright green eyes distictly belonged to the one called Relena Peacecraft.
"Hai...it's me all right, I think...why do I look like Relena?!? Why the hell am I a GIRL?!?" Duo's now=soprano voice had dropped so dangerously low that he almost sounded like his usual self.
"By Allah..." Quatre rubbed his eyes again in hopes of erasing the Relena-mirage. "Relena..."
A panicked Relena/Duo hurried over to the dazed Arab and shook his shoulders. "You saw this, Quatre, with your own eyes! I'm not Relena. I swear! What's going on here?!? Oi, Quatre-man, don't pass out on me now..." Quatre had turned a shade of pale quite similar to Duo's own, but Duo had attributed that to the dip in the lake.
Duo's calling of his name seemed to snap Quatre back to reality...or what he thought was reality. "Duo..."
Duo's green eyes narrowed dangerously. "Come with me."
Quatre bit his lip. "Nani? Where?"
"We're getting answers for this. Right now."
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Shi-chan: next chapter...
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Heero: I want out of this fanfic.
Shi-chan: That's what you always say. It's not like you've got a big role in this one.
Heero: ....shut up.
Duo: It's not another lemon, is it?
Shi-chan: I don't write lemons!
Duo: You wish you could. I know what you're thinking.
Shi-chan: ....
Duo: ....
Heero: Can we get this over with?
Shi-chan: Sure. Call Relena out here would ya?
Duo: Wasn't this supposed to be a shounen-ai fic?
Shi-chan: More than you know.
Duo: Nani?!?
Shi-chan: Well, Relena can't always be the villain ya know!
Duo: Why not?!?
Shi-chan: ::sweatdrop::
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Switch
~By Shimegami-chan
Part 1
SHOUNEN AI ALERT!
http://nothingisforever.cjb.net
Relena Peacecraft sat on a rock overlooking the deep blue lake, straining to see stars under the heavy blanket of clouds and fog.
(OOC: Duo: "You've _got_ to be kidding me." IC:)
The blonde girl tipped her head up to the sky, her eyes watering at the sheer beauty of it compiled with the strain on her torn heart. She had been blown off once again by Heero, after coming all this way just to see him. It was her only joy that Duo Maxwell, Heero's preferred companion, would be leaving the next day on a recon mission. Perhaps with Duo gone she'd have a chance with Heero?
Relena tried to make herself beleive in the faint hope, but it was difficult. Getting to L4 and getting Duo sent on the recon--to observe the path of a frozen star far off on the edges of known space, far beyond both Earth and L1--had been Dorothy's idea, and Relena felt a slight twinge of regret at the plan she had sent into motion. No matter how badly she wanted him, was Heero's happiness--if you could call it that--worth sacrificing?
//Then again,// thought Relena, //I'm sure I could make him just as happy as Duo Maxwell ever could.//
No going back now. With Duo out of the way Relena knew that somehow she could make Heero see the error of his ways. Besides being in a tumultous relationship that she felt could never last, Heero was involved with another man. Relena believed herself to be modestly good-looking, yet Heero had chosen the long-haired American boy over her. //Nature's not supposed to work that way,// she told herself. //Heero shouldn't be attracted to a man. Why must he do this to himself? Why...why does he do it to me!?//
Relena checked her watch as the hands ticked inexorably down to midnight. Not one star had shown itself to her, not even the fabled crystal star that Duo himself was going out to investigate the next day. On Earth she had been told that the dead, frozen star still shone brighter than any other in the sky. //"It's lining up with other stars nearby,"// Dorothy had said. //"Wouldn't it be fun if they intersected after all? Beautiful!"// Relena thought otherwise, but didn't tell Dorothy so. It seemed a safe enough mission for Duo just to get him out of her way, if Duo was killed and Heero thought Relena responsible...well, she didn't know what she'd do. //Just send him, Noin, and Zechs in to investigate--he won't even need his Gundam--record what happened to the crystal star, then leave. It'll give you a few days to straighten Heero out.//
Literally.
Leaning back on her cold perch, Relena wrapped her hands around her bare legs and shivered, trying to pull her skirt down furthur to cover her knees. Up in the sky a single light suddenly appeared.
"There you are..." Relena said wonderingly. The fog had cleared around a single faraway star, gleaming in the midnight sky. Squinting, Relena noticed that this particular star had auras of light extending to its right and left, and idly she wondered if the light came from the stars Dorothy hoped would meet with the crystal star sometime that night.
"Sa...otousan always said to wish upon a star...or three." Relena smiled to herself. There was only one thing she really wanted, of course.
"Now, crystal star, or whatever you may be...my one wish is to have Heero all to myself." The light seemed to distort itself slightly through her tears, and she closed her eyes to squeeze them away.
The lively sounds of the night faded into nothing.
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Relena awoke in a dream, what seemed like an eternity later. She was huddled under a mound of blankets an the bed, shivering despite being fully clothed.
Beside her another warm body slept peacefully, and Relena nudged closer to it to take in its warmth. //Perhaps it's Heero, perhaps my wish came true.// But a dark veil hung over her eyes that she could not seem to push away, and she knew it was a dream.
//Enjoy it while you can,// the little voice in the back of her mind told her. //Right now, he's all yours.//
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Duo Maxwell found himself having a rude awakening in the lake outside Quatre's small retreat residence. "What the _hell?!_"
He dragged himself out of the muddy water, coughing up the semitransparent liquid on the cold ground. Why was it so cold in summer? How had he gotten in the lake anyway?
Duo feverently hoped it wasn't Heero throwing him out of bed again--the last time that had happened, Duo had spent the night outside in the snow in his boxers, which was what he was wearing now, luckily with a black t-shirt for added warmth. Duo wondered idly if Wufei had dragged him out here after finding the honey in his shampoo. Why would Wufei be taking a shower so early--or late?
Why was he sitting here sopping wet on the bank? In the blackness Duo stood up and started to walk back to the house, praying Quatre's housekeepers hadn't left any dangerous tools out in the yard where he could fall over them. Duo wished that he had left his hair tied back before bed this time--the chestnut mass was a horror when wet, and right now he couldn't keep idle strands of it from flicking into his eyes.
Duo staggered up to the door and began to pound on it. "Wufei, I'm gonna kill you! If I cath pneumonia and die it's YOUR FAULT! WHAT THE HELL?!?!?" Duo's low baritone voice had jumped up to an alto without him noticing. "WELL I GUESS I'VE ALREADY GOT IT THEN! QUATRE! LET ME THE HELL IN BEFORE I BREAK YOUR DOOR!"
The window directly above him opened and Duo perceived Wufei's pale face sticking out of it. "Shut up Maxwell, before I stuff that braid down your throat!"
"Bakayarou! What are you trying to do, Wu-man, kill me?" Duo tried desperately to modulate his squeaking voice. "Listen to me! If I can't talk tomorrow, _you're_ going on my mission instead!"
"That will be a blessing." Wufei countered. "Good night, _onna._"
"BASTARD! QUATRE! HELP! IT'S TOO COLD OUT HERE! LET ME IN!"
"Who's that?" A quiet voice inquired from the other side of the door.
"Quatre? Oh, thank god. It's me, Duo; Wufei threw me in the lake again. I think I've got pneumonia or something. I nearly drowned! That bastard."
"Duo!" Quatre cautiously opened the door and grabbed his friend's wrist. "Keep it down, Sally's sleeping on the couch in here. I'm surprised you didn't wake up the whole household."
"Sorry." Duo growled. "Can you hit the lights? Make sure I'm not blue from lack of oxygen of something?"
"Upstairs. Can you walk?"
"Made it here, didn't I?"
Quatre laughed quietly. "Your voice sounds really odd. A soprano with a sore throat."
"Feels like it too. I probably breathed too much _water_." Duo was tempted to run to Wufei's room and toss the Chinese boy out the window.
"Shh, Zechs and Noin are sleeping in the living room. There's a bathroom adjoined to it." Quatre gave Duo a little push in the direction on the open door. "The lights are inside, go about three steps and turn left, there's a lamp with a push button. Don't wake up these two, okay?"
"Got it." Duo murmured. He took three steps and felt along the corner of the wall, and his fingers encountered a Tiffany lamp.
"Did you find the lamp? Should I wake up Dr. Sally?" Quatre, avoiding the sleeping forms on the futons in the living room, levered himself to the door frame and gently closed the large wooden door.
"Here's the lamp, Quatre. Don't bother waking up Sally." He turned the dim light on and inspected himself in the mirror. "She's probably--erk."
"'Erk?' Duo?"
No answer.
"Duo! Hey, are you okay?" Still nothing.
"I'm coming in." Quatre put his hand on the doorknob and wrenched it open, taking care not to step on Noin's arm beneath him.
"Quatre."
The Arabian boy stopped short. "What?"
"I think I may need the doctor after all. Unless I'm dreaming."
"Kuso." Quatre, his eyes still adjusting to the dim lamplight, skidded into the roomy bathroom and almost ran into Duo...or was it Duo?
He couldn't believe his eyes. "If you're dreaming, then so am I."
"I was afaid of that." Duo sighed and dragged the wet strands of blonde hair away from his face. The face that Quatre was looking at wasn't the one Duo usually saw when he looked in the mirror, unless he was mistaken it closely resembled one he wasn't usually happy to see.
"Duo..._are_ you Duo?" Quatre looked the bedraggled form up and down. The expression on Duo's face was one he recognized for sure, but the long blonde hair, fully feminine chest and bright green eyes distictly belonged to the one called Relena Peacecraft.
"Hai...it's me all right, I think...why do I look like Relena?!? Why the hell am I a GIRL?!?" Duo's now=soprano voice had dropped so dangerously low that he almost sounded like his usual self.
"By Allah..." Quatre rubbed his eyes again in hopes of erasing the Relena-mirage. "Relena..."
A panicked Relena/Duo hurried over to the dazed Arab and shook his shoulders. "You saw this, Quatre, with your own eyes! I'm not Relena. I swear! What's going on here?!? Oi, Quatre-man, don't pass out on me now..." Quatre had turned a shade of pale quite similar to Duo's own, but Duo had attributed that to the dip in the lake.
Duo's calling of his name seemed to snap Quatre back to reality...or what he thought was reality. "Duo..."
Duo's green eyes narrowed dangerously. "Come with me."
Quatre bit his lip. "Nani? Where?"
"We're getting answers for this. Right now."
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Shi-chan: next chapter...