Title: The Perfect Plan
Author: Makoto Sagara
Archive: makotosagara-dot-net, fanfiction-dot-net, Foreverfandom-dot-net, Le Ciel Place, Ventilation Shaft, and Jadeduo's site; anywhere else, please ask.
Category: AU, Drama
Rating: MA
Pairings: 13x6, 2x5, 3x1, 4+R+4
Warnings: Shonen ai, AU, cross-dressing, OOC, language, angst,limes
Disclaimers: I don't own Gundam Wing, but I do own my computer. I don't make money from writing this, only the pleasure of having this written and enjoyed by my readers. Suing would be pointless; for all that my wallet holds is receipts for all the manga and anime that I buy. Also, all references to Gary Jennings' book, Aztec, are used just for that purpose. Reference. I own nothing from his series of books, nor have I ever claimed to.
Author's Notes: What's a life? You mean I have one? Am I allowed? No? Er, sorry then. It came and bit me on the arse. This is my apology. Limes!
Chapter Eleven: What Would You Do In My Place?
Quatre and Relena turned to one another as soon as the door to their room was shut and exchanged nervous smiles. They laughed at each other's discomfort and headed over to two chairs by the big windows. The girl stared out at the sky and the ancient city they were currently visiting.
"You know, I never realized how beautiful the sky is at night," she said quietly, not noticing how the boy drew closer to her.
"Earth is much more beautiful, Relena. I spent so many years just gazing at it from the cold of space that when I got there, I almost never wanted to leave." The emotion in Quatre's voice was nearly tangible, so much so that Relena slipped her arms around his neck and looked into his blue eyes with compassion.
"I keep forgetting that you and the others weren't as fortunate as my brother, Treize and I to be born on Earth," she whispered, smiling faintly. "However, you'll have to forgive me for being a stupid girl and thinking that the moon looks gorgeous when it's full and shining like it is tonight."
The blond boy closed the space between them, his lips lightly grazing across hers and then kissing her a bit more forcefully. He was slightly surprised when she returned the kiss with as much energy as he was, but the feel of her fingers in his loose hair and the smell she emanated was slowly taking over the major thought processes and shutting down anything that didn't have to do with that moment. They broke for air and looked at one another with matching glazed looks, contented and slightly lust-filled eyes locking almost immediately.
"Quatre," Relena breathed, trying to regain her composure by pulling away from the boy, effectively pulling them both out of their chairs. "I don't think we should do something hasty. Just because the others are… sharing… doesn't mean that we have to too." Her face became flushed from embarrassment instead of passion.
"I… I wasn't thinking that, Relena," the blond boy said. He sat back down, silently praying to Allah that the blood in his body would return to more vital places than his groin. Part of him did want to kiss her again, and more passionately, but he knew realistically that some part of him was trying to get over his crush on Heero. He also knew, logically, that she was probably doing the same thing. "Look, we don't have to do anything." He flashed a shy smile to the Former Queen of the World. "Let's just take this one step at a time."
"I agree." Relena came over to the chair, placed a very chaste kiss on the Arab's cheek, and then went to sleep in the other room. Quatre stayed in his chair, knowing that it would take a while before his hormones settled down enough to let me sleep.
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"Your younger sister never ceases to amaze me," Treize murmured into Zechs ear as they entered their sleeping quarters. Zechs grunted before pulling away from the tall, ginger-haired older man.
"That is not what I was hoping to talk about tonight, Treize." The blond sat down on the down mattresses and began taking off his clothes. "But, now that I think about it, she and Winner do make a rather interesting couple."
"As do our lovely American and Chinese foes," Treize added, sitting next to Zechs and undressing himself. "Although, I have a hard time thinking of them as enemies now."
"Not that you ever did."
"Au contraire, my dear Milliardo. I know that they are extremely dangerous and our opposition in this very pointless war we are fighting in our own time. However, now that we have had some time to spend with them, I believe that I will find it hard to enter combat with any one of them."
"I've never really had an interest in fighting any of them. Aside from Yuy, that is. Your little foe is, and always has been, Chang. Perhaps you might spend this time trying to see why he is so hell bent on killing you."
Treize ran a calloused hand across the smooth, pale pectorals his lover had left bare. "I will, but I believe that now is not the time. I have other pressing…" He moved closer to Zechs so that his very obvious arousal was brushing the other man's leg. "…matters to attend to now, my love. Would you care to help me out with that?"
Zechs moaned as he felt his own arousal come to life from the familiar and welcome touch of his experienced lover. "Yes," he breathed, leaning in for a kiss, before throwing Treize down on the bed and helping the older man with their mutual problem.
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Heero sighed in contentment as Trowa collapsed on top of him. He quickly did a check on his body and realized that he might have a few marks that he'd have to carefully hide in the morning. Thankfully, they were on his thighs and buttocks, so that wouldn't be a major problem. "Thank you," he said sleepily.
Trowa responded by placing a kiss on Heero's throat before carefully disentangling himself from his lover. "Thank you as well." He rolled over onto his back and pulled the Japanese man to his side. "Any injuries?"
"None that cannot be covered."
"Mm, good." A hand found its way into messy brown hair and began to gently stroke the silky strands. "In the morning?"
"Yes, we will be back to our own time. Hopefully."
"You don't sound sure about that."
"It's hard to say with all the damage the device endured that we will be able to return. However, I believe that Duo and I have adequately fixed it so that it will function."
"How… analytical of you, Heero."
"Shut up," Heero said with a yawn, moving over and getting comfortable as sleep claimed him.
"The same to you," Trowa said with a chuckle, before settling down himself.
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"I believe you owe me three now, Maxwell."
"That is hardly my fault, Wufei," Duo said, a sly grin creeping over his heart-shaped face as he took the hand that was being offered to him. "However, I believe in paying my debts."
With a snort, Wufei hauled the American up from the chair he was sitting him and dragged him into the sleeping quarters. He lost no time in shedding the heavy jewelry that he and Duo were wearing, tossing the necklaces and bracelets any which way, along with clothes and sandals. When he was finished, he took a step back to admire his handiwork. The other boy was standing in front of him, completely naked and fully aroused. The look in his eyes sent a shock of desire up and down his body, and Wufei had to fight to control himself from just jumping him.
"Something wrong," Duo asked huskily, his whole body reveling in the sight of a deliciously bare-assed Wufei, practically begging him to take him.
The response he got was a very hungry, demanding, forceful, and well received kiss. Hands found his hair, taking it down from the braid he'd managed that morning, silky strands grazing his rear and the top of his thighs. He whimpered when the kiss ended, only to have Wufei begin licking and sucking on his neck, ears and making his way to his nipples. As the wet heat of the other boy's mouth found one perky nub, Duo's knees gave out and he sunk to the mattresses, bringing his lover with him.
"'Fei," he cried out as teeth sunk into his shoulder.
"Shut up," Wufei growled, hands moving on their own volition. "You're going to start paying me back, right now, Maxwell."
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"Ahuítzolt! Wake up!" Tetéo-Temacáliz yelled from the hallway, pounding on the doors. After many moments of no answer from her brother or sister-in-law, she had a guard open the doors. "Ahuítzolt! Cocoton! Get up!"
Duo cracked an eye against the awakening sun and fixed a very dangerous glare on the girl in his room. "Huh, what's wrong?"
"Father has called a meeting for this morning. You were supposed to be there an hour ago! He sent me to find you because you had not shown." She blushed as she noticed the state of undress of the bed's occupants.
Muttering a curse, Duo disentangled Wufei from him and slid to the end of the bed, while keeping his lower half covered as much as possible. "Tell… Father that I will be there shortly, but let Cocoton sleep. She's very… delicate right now."
"Delicate," Tetéo whispered excitedly. "Do you think she is…?"
"How do you expect me to know, Sister? She just hasn't been feeling well," Duo muttered, looking around for something other than the light cotton sheet covering his lover that he could use to escape to the washing room for a bath and clean clothes. 'Where in the hell did that come from?' he asked himself as Tetéo left the room he shared with Wufei. 'What in the name of all that is unstable is going on here?'
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"We've been here too long," Duo stated calmly as Treize, Zechs, Heero, Trowa, Quatre, Relena and Wufei sat down in the Crown Prince's quarters much later that day. "I think that if we stay here any longer, we might effect the time line, like Q and Khushrenada have been talking about. The sooner we get home and into our own bodies, the better."
"We've only been here," Relena stopped to think, "two weeks, right? I think that if we'd done anything unusual, we'd have been found out by now."
"True as that may be, Relena," Quatre put in, "the longer we stay, the more we could ultimately change the timeline. We have far too much knowledge of the future to stay in the past like this. Who knows what distortions may have occurred already?"
"Well, instead of discussing what changes we may or may not have made, why are we not using the device to leave?" Wufei asked.
"Are we sure that we can even return to our own time? This device is rather... unknown to us," Treize said. "I know that Maxwell and Yuy spent a few days fixing it; however, the rest of us have not had a chance to examine it."
"I am not convinced that we will return to our own time," Heero stated coolly. "Nonetheless, the longer we stay here, the more we could change everything that we have ever known. I agree with Quatre that is far more dangerous."
"Okay, it's like this," Duo started. "The device was given to Q by his sisters. They only have a vague idea of where it came from. We were checking it out, when you three showed up. For some reason, Oz had papers on the device, so they, or Romefeller, had some previous knowledge that it existed, just not where it was. Somehow, you found out that we had it and came to retrieve it. You were too late, as you can see." Duo gestured to their current situation. "But, I'd like to know how it knew exactly what time to send us to and if there's a way to adjust that forward."
"Well, sitting here just talking about it isn't going to solve anything, is it?" Relena asked. "To be honest, I'd rather you attempt to get us back to our own time than to just sit here. If we wind up in another time, then we should try again."
"That's unwise, Relena," Zechs stated. "I'd like to spend time examining it, like Treize suggested. However, I trust that between Maxwell and Heero that it has been repaired as well as it will ever be." Duo gave the blond an appreciative smile and looked around the room at the others. They all seemed lost in their own thoughts, so the American spent the time reexamining the device yet again. Some of the crystals had been chipped, but the pink diamond that seemed to activate it was in pristine condition. The casing was dented, but not so much that anything extremely vital was damaged. Of course, there was the fact that it was now sporting brand new gold wiring.
The other time-travelers were conversing in their small groups – Relena, Treize, Zechs and Quatre in one, and Wufei, Trowa and Heero in another – while Duo was absentmindedly fiddling with the crystals. Without paying any attention to what he was doing, the Shinigami pilot pressed the diamond.
A flash of light enveloped them all, and, in the blink of an eye, the room was full of copper skinned natives - three women with long black hair and five men, all dressed in their culture's finest clothes. They were all staring at one another, dumbfounded as to what had happened to them and why they weren't in the clearing they'd just been in.
TBC….
Appendix of Aztec Names and How They Fit Into the Story:
Heero - Xibalbá (Duo's cousin)
Duo – Ahuítzolt-Duo (Crown Prince of Tenochtítlan; name comes from the ruler before the first Motecuzóma)
Trowa - Xochitl (Duo's cousin)
Quatre – Zyanya (Wufei's cousin; seen as a girl)
Wufei – Cocoton (Bride to Duo and princess of Texcóco; seen as a girl)
Zechs – Mixtli (Duo's cousin; name means 'Dark Cloud')
Relena – Tzitzitlíni (Wufei's cousin; name means 'the ringing of small bells')
Treize – Chimáli (Duo's cousin; name means 'Shield')
Duo's Sister - Tetéo- Temacáliz (or Tetéo; name means 'Gift of the Gods')
Duo's Father - Uey-Tlatoáni Huexotl (name means 'Willow')
Duo's Mother – Lady Ix Ykóki (name means 'Evening Star')
Wufei's Brother – Cuitláhuac (Crown Prince of Texcóco and Tetéo's fiancé; name comes from the brother of the infamous Motecuzóma II)