Betrayed by Love

Betrayed by Love and New Beginnings 1/6

By: Hotaru

Warnings: major Relena whore issues! I hate her so I made her a whore! Well, not to that extent but you get the idea. Yaoi too.

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It was a day like most others, the girls shopping at the mall, the guys lounging around at home, except maybe Duo who would be working on a junky old car or something. But that was his thing. "Hey Hilde, that dress would look absolutely marvelous on you." Relena held up a sleeveless sundress with red and yellow flowers on it.

"Oh, I don't know. You know I don't really wear dresses." Hilde said awkwardly. She didn't know why she always tagged along with them, she never really felt like 'one of the girls'. "Oh come on! It'll be a nice change from your usual dinky outfits." Relena said, pushing Hilde into a dressing room. "Do you think Duo will like it?" Hilde asked.

Catherine rapped on the door. "Come on, let us see! I'm sure Duo'll like it if we do!" she said. Hilde groaned and opened the door. "Shoes." Relena said. "What?" Hilde asked, looking down at her sneakers. "Shoes! You need shoes to go with the dress!" she exclaimed. Hilde barely had her shirt pulled over her head before Relena and everyone else were dragging her to the shoe section.

While Relena and Cathy were searching through the shoes, Dorothy pulled out a pair of knee high pink leather boots. "Oh Miss Relena…" she called royally. "What is it?" Relena asked, coming back to where Hilde was sitting with a shoe box. "I think these would look absolutely marvelous on you!" Dorothy said, holding up the boots. /Relena said the exact same thing to me about that dress…boy they are alike./

Dorothy and Relena started to bicker back and forth about how the boots would look with fish net stockings or something. "These are..nice." Hilde said, taking the shoes from Relena's hands. She pulled them on. "Oh how cute!" Cathy said. They were red satin shoes, with a sort of wicker platform, with ribbons that laced up Hilde's calfs. Relena and Dorothy stopped their inane chattering to look Hilde over. "Do you think Duo would like it? Do you?" Hilde asked. No one ever answered her when ever she said that.

Whether she was buying purfume, or lingerie or socks even. They always sort of giggled and became distracted with something else. Relena pulled the shoes off Hilde's feet and ran up to the counter with all the other crap she was buying. "Do you think Duo will like my new outfit?" Hilde asked Cathy as they walked to Relena's pink limosine. "Oh…I don't know! I don't really know Duo that well!" Cathy excused lamely as she climbed into the car.

Meanwhile, back at home in Duo's garage,

"Come on you son of a bitch, turn!"

Quatre giggled as he watched Duo desperatly try to turn a nut under the old clunky car he had just bought. "Aah I give up!" Duo exclaimed letting his wrench clang to the floor. "You can't give up yet Duo. Did you use some of that..that greasy stuff?" Quatre asked, as he pushed himself back and forth on one of those little rolling platforms mechanics use.

"Grease! Of course!" Duo exclaimed, rolling out from under the car. He returned a minute later and poured the grease all over the nut, which began to drip onto his uniform (the mechanic one of course). Quatre giggled again. "Come on Duo, you're a better mechanic than I am, how can you have forgotten to use grease?" he asked. Duo shrugged as he started unscrewing the nut. "I've had a lot of things on my mind lately Quat. Don't worry about it."

The door to the garage opened and closed. "Who is it?" Duo asked, wincing as the nut fell onto his forehead, leaving a grease mark. "Hiya Duo. How's it coming along?" Duo pulled himself out from under the car and grinned. "Hey Hil, I finally got that nut off." He said, wiping his forehead with a cloth. "You've been working on that damn nut all morning silly. What the hell took you so long?" Hilde asked. Duo shrugged. "Like I told Quatre I've had a lot on my mind." He replied rolling back under the car.\

"Wanna talk about it over dinner?" Hilde asked. "Sure." Came Duo's muffled response. Hilde clicked her heels and ran out of the garage excitedly. "Grrrrr Maxwell!!!!!" Duo hit his head as he rolled out from under the car again, on the bumper. "Wufei? What's wrong buddy?" He asked innocently. Wufei held up a pair of his white satin pants covered in grease. "What the hell is this?! Did you think I wouldn't notice if you shoved them under the rest of my clothes?!"

Duo backed into a wall, smiling shakily. "Uh…I'm really sorry Fei! I'll buy you another pair, just please don't kill me!" Duo yelped as Wufei proceded to chase him all around the house. Wufei cornered Duo in the laundry room. "Give me one good reason I shouldn't make you lick this clean." Wufei growled. Duo winced as he felt his body being crushed. "Uh..I…I'm your best bud! And I'll do you're laundry for a week and…and I'll….I'll do anything you want! Please don't hurt me!" Duo said.

Wufei smiled and threw the pants in Duo's face. "Good. Wash them. I want them to be spotless. And when I think of more punishment, I'll get back to you." Duo sighed and rested against the washing machine. /I thought he was gonna shove those down my throat!/ After a lot of stain remover and bleach, the pants were put into the machine. Of course, Duo sat in front of the machine and watched the clothes spin around and around because he'd forget they were there if he didn't.

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Duo hopped up from the floor and pulled the pants out. "Awwww man! Still dirty!" he moaned, throwing them back in the machine and adding more bleach. /Fei's gonna kill me!/ he set the machine again and sighed. He wouldn't be able to stay there for another 45 minutes. He picked up a marker and wrote 'clothes' on his right hand. That way, when he was working on the car, he'd see it. He skipped out of the room and ran head first into Trowa Barton.

"Itai…." Duo muttered, rubbing his head. "Sorry Trowa…I didn't see you there." He said sheepishly picking up the clothes that were now strewn across the floor. An exasperated sigh escaped Trowa's lips as Duo placed the last sock into the basket he was holding. "There. See ya!" Duo skipped away again, nearly knocking Quatre over in the process.

"He asked you to dinner???? Are you serious?!" Relena exclaimed. Hilde nodded meekly, and began to feel apprehensive about telling them. "That's great Hilde!" Catherine said. /Now they're going to glob me full of make up and douse my head in hair spray!/ "When is it? What time?" Relena asked, pulling out her make up case. Hilde shrugged. "We didn't set a time, just dinner." She replied.

There was a knock on the door. "Who is it?" Relena asked, sticking her nose upward. When there was no answer, they all presumed it was Heero. He opened the door, holding up a pair of pink panties. Relena blushed and grabbed them from Heero. "Oops. I guess those must have…slipped off!" she said innocently snatching them from Heero's grasp. While everyone looked wide eyed at Relena, Heero suddered and closed the door. "Relena…you didn't!" Cathy said. Relena shrugged.

"Maybe, maybe not. Come on now, we have to make Hilde look pretty for tonight!" She said. Hilde snorted. /They're supposed to say even more pretty. Hn. Such friends they are./

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Once again, Duo was laying under a car, covered in grease. "Duo? Are you in here?" It was Trowa. Duo mumbled a yes, for he was holding a wrench in his mouth. "Oh. There you are. So how's it coming along?" Trowa asked, laying in a wheely cart and peeking under the car. Duo removed the wrench. "I'm just trying to get this ol' hunk of junk to work again. Sheesh. All the parts are rusted up." He replied. Already, he had replaced the engine, fixed the shocks and brakes and worked on the transmition. [1] "Did you use WD-40? That always helps with rust." Trowa suggested.

Duo threw the wrench out from under the car and sighed. "Yeah..I gotta get new tires..shit. And a new bumper. Hey, would you mind coming down with me to the shop? I can't carry it all myself." He said, rolling out from under the car. Trowa shrugged. "I guess I'll go." He said. Duo grinned and washed his hands quickly, before pulling open the garage door. "Let's go!" The two walked down towards the shop, which was less than a mile away.

"I heard the girls talking..so you're going on a date with Hilde huh?" Trowa asked quietly. Duo smiled slightly. "It's not a date really. Just dinner." He replied, kicking a pebble. Trowa seemed satisfied with that answer. They reached the shop a short while later, and were met with a big man in overalls. "Hey Duo!" he said loudly, "Did you finish that old car yet?" Duo shook his head no. "I'm working on it. Gimme a couple a tires and a bumper. Nice ones this time." He said, leaning on the counter. The man disappeared in back, and left Trowa and Duo alone.

Duo tapped his foot impatiently as Trowa inspected the car fresheners. "So…uh…." Duo moaned. Why did he always find it so hard to talk to Trowa when they were alone? "Did you ever finish Wufei's laundry?" Trowa asked. Duo slapped his head. "Shit! No…goddammit! Hey hurry it up back there!" he said, shouting back to the supply shed. "Come around the side Duo." The man replied. Duo and Trowa jogged to the side of the shop where four tires and a bumper were waiting. "Should have brought your car Duo…oh wait. It's not done yet." The man said sarcastically.

Trowa snorted. Duo grabbed the four tires and placed them on top of each other. "Hey Tro can you get that bumper?" he asked. /Phew these are heavy!/ Trowa grabbed the bumper and placed it on his shoulders. "Thanks buddy. See you around." Duo said, walking slowly back home. "Yeh, I'll just add it on your tab!"

A couple hours later….

Hilde knocked on Duo's door. "Yeah?" he called out. "Duo? What time is dinner going to be?" she asked nervously. Duo, who was trying to sqeeze into a pair of leather pants said, "Uh…in a minute." Hilde nodded and proceeded to wait in the kitchen. Heero was standing there, obviously concentrating on something. "Heero? Are you okay?" Hilde asked. Heero shook his head. "Yeah…I'm fine..where are you going?" he asked, noticing her less-than-usual attire.

She smiled sheepishly. "Just to dinner with Duo…" she said. Heero smiled weakly and continued to stare. "Heero…what's wrong? You seem so out of it today." Hilde said, sitting down across from Heero. "It's nothing Hilde, really. I'm fine. Have fun on your date." Heero replied. Hilde shook her head. "It isn't a date, it's dinner." She said, disappearing from the kitchen. "Right."

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Hotaru

[1] I don't know anything about cars!