Chapter 2: Mr. Blue Eyes

Duo smiled at a customer as he motioned for them to follow him to a seat his long braid starting a hushed conversation with the two girls. They giggled as he winked at them before turning away his braid swinging merrily behind his firm body. He wore casual jeans and a white t-shirt covered by the "Amoretti" apron that marked him as a waiter for the small restaurant. He had been working for the little restaurant as long as he had been working at the club.

Duo talked lightly as he wove in amongst the tables greeting customers and taking quick orders.

"Hey Larry!" Duo smiled brightly at the manager and chef of the store, as he handed him a list of orders. "Duo! How are you?" Larry smiled brightly as he accepted the orders and began browsing them to see what exactly he would need to make. "I'm fantastic as always, you know you brighten my day." Duo smiled with a wink as he turned around and moved out of the way of one of the other waiters. "Ahh you know Duo, I do like women, but you could be very tempting." Larry jested as he reached across and gave Duo a light squeeze of on his shoulders.

"I didn't see you in here earlier Larry where were you?" Duo asked. "Oh yeah I had to take the missus to the doctor's office." Larry answered lightly. "Oh is everything alright?" Duo asked with a brief look of concern as he waved to one of the waiters who had just come into the restaurant. "Oh yeah just a regular pregnancy check up, Nancy hates them, but what you gonna' do?" Larry said with a shrug. "I understand, but you missed most of my shift, I was totally bored." Duo acted hurt. "And what are we Duo, chopped steak." A waiter asked with a smile as he passed the two by." Duo laughed brightly as he turned towards the man, "Of course not, your chopped ham." Duo laughed as he turned back towards Larry.

The two men had been friends for a while and Larry had grown quite fond of his favorite waiter. Duo had always been willing to help him and had even worked for him a few months completely free of charge when business wasn't doing well. "How is Liam?" Larry asked as he handed Duo a plate to take to one of the tables. "Oh Liam is fine, you know him and your adorable son are like best friends, you may have to watch out, you are strengthened against my wiles, but your son wouldn't be able to resist another Maxwell." Duo laughed as he turned away and walked towards leaving Larry laughing so hard tears were flowing down his face. Liam and his son David had been friends as soon as they met, the two boys got along extraordinarily well and were in the same class and were known amongst the teachers as the inseparables.

"Hey there I believe this is your order. Cornish Hens with a side of mashed potatoes and a glass of orange juice. Oh, and I have your cup of fruit as well, and a bowl of soup." Duo smiled at the wild haired man sitting at the window by himself. The chocolate haired man turned around leaving Duo to stare deeply into brilliant blue eyes the color of shimmering sapphires. "Hai." The man said quietly as moved his hands back and accepted the plate of food. "Your other waiter Louis had to leave for an emergency so I will be your waiter for the rest of your time here at Amoretti." Duo said with a huge grin. "Oh, my name's Duo by the way and I am totally at your service." Duo said with a sly grin as he watched the Prussian eyed man blush lightly.

"I'm messing with you, is there anything you need?" Duo said with a smirk as the man checked his food as if it was lacking something. "Aa, I would like a pack of crackers and some salt. This salt container is empty." Heero said as he motioned towards the empty container. "Well we can't have ya' without salt. Let me get that for you and I will be right back with your crackers." Duo smiled as he leaned over the table to reach for the salt container.

Duo left the blue-eyed man to retrieve the crackers and to refill the container bumping into Larry by accident. "Watch it Pippy One-Braid!" Larry jested as he punched Duo's right shoulder good-naturedly. "Whatever, Mr. Domestic!" Duo said acting offended as he dodged another light punch and reached behind the counter to grab another already filled salt container and a pack of crackers. Smiling, Duo returned to the blue eyed man's table and placed the salt and pack of crackers in front of him. "Sorry about that." Duo said with a smile. "That's alright." The man said as he picked up one of his utensils and began eating some of his food.

Duo left the man and continued his job having only an hour left on his shift before he had to go pick up his son from the babysitter. He waved and gave Larry a hug as he hung up his apron and gathered his stuff. Telling a few other waiters goodbye, he began fishing out his keys from his pockets and just as he found them Duo found himself running into a firm chest. Dropping his bag and keys, Duo bent down to pick them up quickly. "I'm really sorry mister, I should have been paying attention." Callous hands offered him his bag and Duo looked up to find himself staring into those same blue depths. "Oh hey its Blue-Eyes." Duo smiled.

"Baka." The man said with a barely noticeable smile. "Well I ran into you, served you food and accepted help, at least I should get a name out of this." Duo said with a smile. The man seemed to think this over before finally opening his mouth. "Heero, Heero Yuy." He answered evenly as Duo stood up and dusted himself off. "Nice to meet you Heero, Heero Yuy. Well I gotta' go, I'm done with this place for two days." Duo said with a wave as he gathered his stuff and walked out of the restaurant and towards his car, leaving Heero Yuy with a very small, but surprisingly bright smile.

Duo's head bobbed as music rang out over his radio as he drove towards the rich part of town. He smiled as he turned onto the lane that was dotted with huge "mini-mansions" as he called them. His friend Quatre and Quatre's lover Trowa always loved watching Liam during his work days especially since Quatre now worked mainly out of his home so that he could take care of his and Trowa's daughter Daenerys. Duo chuckled as he thought of his friend Quatre, the blonde man was a pure joy to be around, definitely not his type as far as men were concerned, but a real good guy nevertheless. /Now Mr. Blue-Eyes, serve me a plate of him any day./ Duo thought wickedly as he turned into his friend's immaculate driveway.

Saying Quatre was wealthy was like saying the sky was blue. Quatre's wealth was purely laughable to Duo and he made fun of the blonde man quite often about it. Quatre was extremely relaxed about his money, which had surprised Duo when they had first met. Him and Quatre had met at a gay club and Duo had assumed that Quatre was a real snob, which given the usual eighteen year old rich kid he didn't blame himself for, but it had turned out that Quatre was actually a really nice person and him and Duo had been friends since making it a total of seven years now. Getting out of his car Duo grabbed his backpack and walked towards his friend's house.

Quatre's father had suddenly died one day though and had left to Quatre all of the inheritance including the family enterprises, WEI. Quatre had been twenty-one then and had been really worried, but had since then grown into the position and was now a very shrewd businessman. Knocking on the door a few times Duo stepped in as Rashid opened the door with a wide smile. "RASH! You're back from your vacation!" Duo exclaimed hugging the man firmly. Rashid hugged the braided man just as firmly and motioned for Duo to come in reaching for Duo's rather full backpack.

"Yes Duo I came back two days ago." Rashid answered with a grin. "Ahh no wonder I didn't hear about it, I was working really hard two days ago, from one job to the next." Duo smiled as he gave the butler a kiss on the cheek to wipe away the knowing frown that had creased Rashid's face. "You already know the answer Rash, no go." Duo said before Rashid opened his mouth to speak. "Yes I already know." Rashid said exasperatedly as he motioned for Duo to follow.

As Duo walked into the massive foyer he again noted the wonderful taste of the room with a dark wood ramp that covered the staircase that always made him think of one of those fairytales when the princess came to the party wonderfully dressed. The floors were made a combination of sea blue marble and white tiles that crossed randomly giving the place a surprisingly soft feel. As Duo turned around he suddenly found his legs encircled by four little arms and two little voices laughing. "Ahh, its that troublesome pair." Duo laughed as he picked up Daenerys and gave her a big hug and a kiss on her forehead. Liam raised his arms as Duo set down Quatre's daughter causing Duo to smile broadly as he picked up his son and spun him around. "How's my little man?" Duo asked with a smile as he brushed back Liam's brilliant red hair.

"I'm not little Daddy." Liam said with a small, but cute pout. Duo grinned sheepishly as he hugged his son closer to him. "Alright, alright, how's my very small, but definitely not little, man?" Duo asked with a wry grin. "Today, Uncle Trowa picked us up from school and took us to the amusement park!" Liam said excitedly his oddly blue tongue showing. "And then you ate the some scary blue monster?" Duo asked as he carried his son whilst following Daenerys. "Don't be silly Dad. I ate some blue suckers that Uncle Quatre won at this stand thing, it had these arrows and you had to hit them with this lazy gun." Liam said mispronouncing the word laser causing his long haired father to laugh brightly as his son continued to tell him about his day in a very animated tone.

Liam finished his recount as Duo sat down on a lounge chair outside in Quatre's gazebo where Quatre sat typing on his laptop. Liam jumped out of his father's arms after kissing his dad's cheek so he could run of after Quatre's daughter Deanerys. "Danae, be careful I don't want you to hurt yourself." Quatre called out automatically. "Q-ball what's up?" Duo said with a smile as he leaned over and hugged his best friend. "I'm finishing up this stupid account. It's so pointless, its not even worth much, I mean its really just a ten million dollar contract, this two hours worth of work is really just irritating." Quatre said with a huff. "Q, only you would think that a ten million dollar contract isn't worth much." Duo said with a laugh as he pulled out his homework and set it on the table.

"What about you how's work and stuff?" Quatre asked as he motioned for Rashid to get something to eat. "Eh, it is what it is, its classes that are murder sometimes." Duo said with a smile. Quatre frowned as if considering whether or not to say something, but then decided against it. "Before you even open your mouth Quatre, you know the answer." Duo said with a raised hand as if to ward off the answer. "But Duo.." Quatre began before he found himself in Duo's arms in a big hug. "It means a lot Q that you would be so persistent, but no." Duo said as he kissed his friend on the head affectionately. Quatre sighed as he always did when the argument about Duo's night job came up, which was pretty much every time he and Duo saw each other.

"Are you coming to the picnic this weekend?" Quatre asked changing the subject. Duo looked up with a perplexed look on his face. "Don't you ever check you email?" Quatre said with a grin. "Of course not when I have such a gossiping queen for a best friend what's the point?" Duo said with a laugh as he ducked under a pillow thrown at him. "Anyways there is this company picnic that's this weekend at Klickitat Park and I thought you'd like to bring Liam. There's going to be a ton of stuff for kids and of course free food and I think a band and everything." Quatre said.

"Free food you say?" Duo said with a huge grin. "Can't pass that up, of course Liam and I will go to your picnic Q." Duo said with a smile. Liam ran over quickly his face covered in dirt and grass. "Hey Dad, you gotta' see what Danae and I found!" Liam said with a huge smile. "What happened, oh never mind. C'mon Q, let's go see what our hellion have found." Duo said with a smile as he allowed his red-haired son to pull him out into Quatre's backyard. Quatre got up and followed his best friend into his huge backyard. Quatre's backyard was more like a really small, but fully equipped park. It had a blue and orange playground set fully equipped with swings and a slide and even one of those maze things that he got when Liam said it'd be cool to own one of those sets from McDonald's. Technically, that part of the set was Liam's, but Duo's apartment obviously couldn't hold such a gift and so Quatre promised to keep it in his backyard.

Passing the playground the trio headed towards the little grove of trees the first one holding a huge tree house that had taken Trowa and Duo a whole week to make whilst Quatre fretted about the safety of having a house in the trees. Going beyond yet another tree the trio found Danae hovering over a small puppy. "Can we keep him dad?" Danae asked her father as she looked up with imploring green eyes. Quatre looked at the dog and considered it briefly the pup looked like a Black Labrador and had the most endearing blue eyes. "I guess, but you're going to have to ask your Pere." Quatre said as if Trowa would be able to say no.

"C'mon Li, we gotta' go figure out how to ask my Pere if I can keep Max." Daenerys said tugging Liam and picking up the dog. Liam released his father's hand for a brief second Duo caught a brief look on his son's face, one that he didn't recognize. It was a look that wasn't jealous of Danae's dog, but it looked like something she said had triggered a desire of something. Duo frowned, he'd have to ask his son later about it. For now he'd go back and talk to Quatre while he continued working on his project for his architectural history course.

Author's Note's:

Pere means father in French

Just to let you guys know, I'm being kinda' vague on purpose, things will begin to unravel themselves, and I promise all your questions will be answered. Including the exact nature of Duo's son, Liam. Thanks for your reviews keep them up, the questions you ask help me to remember exactly what type of information needs to be given.---Anahka