Pairings: Duo/Heero, Quatre/Trowa
Warnings: possibilities of later violence? supernatural stuff, kinky moments, not sure what all's gonna be in here yet
Author's comment: Fun chapter is fun.
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Operation Blank Conspiracy 07
Time: 10:00 hours (six days later)
Duo sat back on his heels crouched down in front of the sleeping male. He was, literally, inspecting the details of the Preventer's face. He hated to say it but the guy just felt…familiar to him. He'd only thought it vaguely before but now, seeing this sleeping face up close for the first time, he felt like he'd met Heero before. Maybe back when they were children though he couldn't figure that one out himself.
He didn't remember ever being a child. He'd always been running, stealing to survive. He was an expert when it came to alleys, hidden niches, and sewers. L2 was and had always been home, as much as he sometimes hated to admit to that. He'd lived on L2 a long time ago before he'd been kidnapped and used for experiments. He'd been with another person then, someone else that had been in the same boat as him.
Duo shook his head quickly at the thought. He didn't want to think about that, not right now. As long as he didn't think about it, then he didn't have to worry about the pain he'd feel from it. Instead he smiled tilting his head to the side debating harassing Heero into waking up. He knew the other would respond. He was a soldier after all. But that didn't make it any less of a fun idea. The problem was what to do that wouldn't involve him getting killed…even though he doubted very much could kill him.
And then he'd thought about it what he wanted to do. He'd already put his chestnut hair into a single braid again. Grabbing the braid he took the end of it, licking his lips as he slowly moved it forward towards Heero's nose. Man, he really wished he had remembered to by some whipped cream, this would have been perfect. He was just about to brush it against the tip of Heero's nose before a hand came up clamping around his wrist. Pretty blue eyes opened up to look at him and if Duo weren't wide awake and in his right mind, he would have swallowed at how sexy those eyes were.
"What are you doing?" Heero's voice sounded husky just like any person that just wakes up. But whereas most people sounded like they were going to turn into frogs or something, Heero's voice just sounded…hot. He could get used to this.
"Playing," Duo replied moving so he was sitting cross-legged on the ground. "What are you doing?"
"Sleeping…until you decided to be a pest." Heero grunted reaching up and rubbing his eyes with his fingers. Based on the feeds Duo had been watching in the past, this was the longest he'd ever seen the male sleep. It was already ten o' clock, for Christ's sake. He'd slept well over the usual six hour period which was unnatural for this guy. "What are the others doing?"
"Quatre's checking out the videos on my laptop. I think he's still a little nervous around me. Poor kid."
"Hn." Heero gave him a look as if he expected to hear more. But it wasn't like Duo could help it that guy was so freaked out around him. He'd already tricked him by saying he was a girl. He wouldn't call it a lie though seeing as how he was really supposed to be playing as a girl at the time. Then Heero had to go and expose his goodies, that jerk. Well it had been fun anyways.
"Wuffie…" At the look Heero sent his way, Duo rolled his eyes giving exasperated sigh. "WuFEI," he corrected, "went out to gather supplies or something. At least that's what he told the other two. And Trowa's just being antisocial and ignoring me."
"So now you're bored."
"Well duh!" Duo fell back on the carpeted floor, not caring as he put his bare feet in Heero's lap. "With you guys boarding me up like this, of course I'm going insane. You won't even let me leave the apartment."
"Because you're in danger."
"It's been six days now! I want to leaveeeeeeeee!" He whined kicking his foot against the brunet's leg knowing he was probably annoying him but not caring a lick. "I want to breathe some fresh air, not stay inside smelling stinky feet all day."
"Go open a window then," Heero grumped as he pushed the feet from his legs and got up starting to stretch his muscles. Duo didn't dare say he didn't stare either. He looked delicious and was probably the only reason Duo was going along with this "protection deal."
"Yesterday you said that transport should be coming tomorrow to pick up everyone from Maxwell Church, right?"
"Yeah." Heero reached down and pulled his shirt up and off his head without so much as a warning. Despite finding him to be a pretty hot guy, Duo still found himself swallowing and glancing away when it happened. "If it comes on time, then we'll leave tomorrow to get to transit." Duo could hear the sound of the zipper to Heero's jeans sliding down before he blushed.
"Yeah well, hopefully, it comes quickly," Duo said keeping his head down before he turned heading out of the room. Sexy jerk. He was starting to bet Heero was doing this on purpose, especially since for the past few days it yielded the same results of Duo running away with his tail between his legs. What could he say? Despite his personality, he still held a lot of his innocence. Sure, he teased the others saying he was going to bang this person or that and how much he liked large packages but when it came down to the feel of things he was clueless.
He'd never had a relationship before, with a woman or a man. He didn't know the first thing about dating or about sex except for what online forums told him. And dare he admit he didn't even look at porn sites. That's what happens when you grow up raised in a church…well for the most part. So…to make a short story even shorter, he liked how sexy Heero looked, but he didn't want to see him naked. And because Heero probably knew he was uncomfortable with it, he purposely started undressing to get Duo out of his hair.
And that's why Duo called him a jerk. A sexy jerk, but still a jerk. He was starting to get really restless. He was starting to break down and he knew it. He knew it because Wuffie was starting to smirk at him more as if waiting for him to have a mental break down. And if he had to stay in this house one more day he would. Damn be his promise to go with these guys, he was going to escape and get some fresh air rather they liked it or not.
"IQ-mannnn," Duo flopped down on the couch next to a startled Quatre pouting at him and doing his best to look bored out of his mind…that part wasn't hard. "Play some cards with me or something. I can't do this anymore! I'm bored!"
"I um…a-actually I'm busy at the moment," Quatre said sliding down a little away from him. "Why don't you ask Trowa if he wants to?" And he actually smiled.
"Because he's boring, doesn't talk, and sort of freaks me out," Duo said glancing over at the male that was actually staring at him over his own laptop. Dare Duo say he looked like he was smirking even though it wasn't apparent on his lips at all?
"He's not boring. You just have to get to know him."
"How come you won't let me get to know you?" Duo poked his lips out. He was serious, he really wanted to make a friend somewhere in this group. And Quatre just looked like the easiest to be friends with. "I don't bite."
"Eh it's just well…because I'm busy right now. We have a lot that needs to get done before transport shows up tomorrow."
"Then let Trowa do that boring stuff and play a game with me."
"Sorry, but this something only I can handle." And Quatre actually looked apologetic about that. "This is just my specialty."
"Well…Trowa's smart too. He should be able to do it." Duo actually tugged on his braid in frustration.
"I'm in a different division than Quatre," Trowa said putting his laptop to the side and lifted one leg to cross over the other as he leaned back in the recliner. "Quatre's from Division 2. Wufei and I are in Division 3. We specialize in completely different things."
"…Division what now?" Duo blinked and leaned forward on the couch, ignoring Quatre in favor of this new information. He rarely ever got to hear anything about how the Preventers operated.
"Trowa," Quatre said the name like a warning but Trowa just shook his head holding his hand up to him.
"It's fine. It's not like there's any secret to it. It's just like any other Organization." Trowa looked at Duo again green eye holding the braided male's attention more than it had these past six days. "I can't tell you who runs Division 3 but our job focuses on espionage and infiltration." Trowa actually smiled at the confused look on Duo's face. "Basically, we sneak in and hide out among the ranks of our enemies. We're spies."
"Ooooh." Duo nodded his understanding. "So do you guys you know…assassinate and stuff?"
"Sometimes but it's rare. We're normally used to gather information. Rarely do we ever sneak in to assassinate, though if things get messy we sometimes have to." His eyes seemed out of focus for a moment as he frowned. "Of course if you get caught, your best bet is suicide."
"…Division 2 handles intelligence." Quatre glanced over at him as he spoke before looking back down at his laptop continuing to type. "We handle the hacking and research. We also control all of the Preventers mainframe equipment. We're the ones that learned about your existence." He stopped then looking over at Duo and smiling at him. "In a way, you can say we're the head of the operation."
"Wow." Duo was genuinely impressed with the information he was hearing. "I had no idea you guys had so much stuff going on. So how many divisions do you guys have?" He was tugging on his braid now not feeling so bored anymore. Finally something to talk about, even if it was out of his league.
"Just three," Trowa said glancing down at his computer again. "Division 1 is the more elite group and the hardest one to get into." Trowa looked over at him catching his eyes again. "Heero's the only one in that division from our group."
"It's a…small group, grown smaller now because of people either retiring, being injured in action, or dying." Quatre's blue eyes saddened suddenly. It made Duo frown. "We recently lost another one, a little before we came on this mission."
"The Preventers took a big blow from it too considering…." Trowa let the words die there before he stood up pulling his phone out. "I'll call Wufei and see if he can pick us up some Chinese."
Quatre laughed at that. "You know what he's going to say if you tell him that." And Quatre's face changed as he mimicked the grumpy Preventer's facial expressions. "Idiots! Just because I'm Chinese doesn't mean I like eating Chinese food!" Duo and Quatre looked at each other after that before the two of them burst out laughing.
"HAHAHA! He…you…wow, ahaha! That's perfect, Q!" Duo fell back with laughter, holding his stomach as tears came to his eyes. Really, these guys were amazing!
"What's going on in here?" Three pairs of eyes looked up to see their leader standing in the corridor looking around with a hard expression. He'd obviously just taken a shower, evident from not just the new clothes but the wet hair as well. It made Duo swallow and look away again. Damn Asians, why did they have to be so sexy?
"Sorry Heero," Quatre said still laughing at the joke. "We were just calling Wufei up to tell him to bring back some Chinese."
"Hn." Heero looked at them before the smirk suddenly appeared on his face. Damn it, why did he look so amazing! "Tell him to pick up some cheese wontons too." He was obviously in on the joke because Quatre just started giggling like crazy. It made Duo wonder if there was more to this inside joke than he'd thought.
"Couple of years back Wufei had to infiltrate a base as part of a Chinese delivery service," Quatre explained to him, catching his breath. "He had to play the part of a stereotypical, Chinese male with bad English and well…he wasn't happy with the act, that's for sure."
"But it got us what we needed," Heero said still smirking, "even if it did make him sound like a complete idiot."
"Guys, quiet. I'm calling Wufei up now." Trowa held the phone to his mouth and pushed the button so it was on speaker.
"What do you want?" Wufei answered the phone sounding more than a little irritated.
"Are you on your way back now?"
"…Yeah. I'm about five minutes away now…why?" He sounded suspicious. But who could blame him? Yet all Duo could do was smirk and wait.
"Yeah…I want to put in an order for some Chinese food. Also we'd like some cheese wontons as well. Thanks."
"You...-! Gah! Just because I'm Chinese doesn't mean I like eating Chinese food!" He hung up the phone leaving the room in complete silence before Duo and Quatre burst out laughing again. Even Trowa was chuckling slightly. Heero just stood there but he had the most amused look on his face. When he looked at Duo's face, the braided one felt like he could die peacefully with that expression.
Hey, he might not have gotten to go outside today, but at least he'd gotten to have a little fun and get the others to open up to him. Maybe this little 'staying with the Preventers' trip wouldn't be so bad after all.
TBC….
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Poor Wufei. Lol I gotta abuse him a little bit at least.
