Balcony

Pairing: Gwendal/Gunter

Rating: K

Disclaimer: I don't own KKM or any of its characters.

Günter von Christ sighed as he over-looked the gardens from a balcony. The night was clear and crisp, and the stars shone brightly. The slight breeze not only made the evening air pleasant, but made the flowers dance. Unbeknownst to him, he was not the only one awake and out on a balcony. Günter sighed again and rested his chin on his hand, the wind catching his lavender hair. The other person who also participated in this night vigil looked up and over the rails of his balcony. He smiled when he observed the mass of lavender hair and then looked around at his surroundings. He had always cursed his mother for insisting to put live flowers on the balconies, but tonight he was thankful. He picked a gardenia and let it fall to Günter. Günter caught it and smelled it.

"'I love you in secret'," he whispered and smiled. He tried to look up to the balcony above him, but his admirer had already left. He decided to wait for the secret admirer again and just like before a flower, this time a blue salvia, was dropped to him.

He smiled as he thought of the meaning. "'I think of you'."

The next night, he waited on the same balcony and around the same time another flower was dropped. He caught it and tears came to his eyes.

"A red carnation means 'my heart aches for you'," he said and then called, "Who are you?"

The next night a flower that he had seen many times, along with a gardenia, blue salvia, and red carnation, awaited him on the rail of his balcony. He didn't care about the three flowers he had received the previous nights. The fourth gave him his answer. He picked it up and sighed.

"Secret Gwendal."

The following night, Gwendal found a bouquet of orangey-pink flowers he had never seen before on the balcony from which had observed Günter for the past four nights.

"What are these?" he asked, picking them up and looking over them.

Günter walked up behind him and whispered, "They're ambrosias and they mean your love is reciprocated."

"Günter," Gwendal said, turning around to find the violet-eyed advisor standing with the dried Secret Gwendal in his lavender hair. Gwendal smiled and caught Günter up in a passionate kiss.

A few years later, Günter found a bouquet of pink and white roses waiting for him on the balcony on which he and Gwendal enjoyed watching the stars every night they could.

He picked them up and smiled. "'I love you still and I always will'."