Bored again. So I'm writing.
Top Ace asked me to do a 2x1 awhile ago, so here it is. Not sure how long it will be, or if the lemon will show up soon. I am museless, so I'm basically writing as it spews from my skull.
Warnings: Yaoi, Shonen Ai
March 26th, AC 197
Heero Yuy, once known as Pilot 01, and now as Preventer agent 061, slowly turned over in bed, his arm lazily reaching out for his lover, only to find empty air.
"Duo?"
The clock on their dresser read 05:47. Would Duo get up this early unless something was wrong? He wasn't sure...but it wasn't especially likely considering they'd stayed up late stargazing.
When they'd decided to buy a house on Earth, Duo had insisted that it be in the country, with a good view of the skies. Heero understood his lover's desire. After living for nearly sixteen years in steel bubbles, with defined horizons and artificial nights and days, both young men had fallen in love with the seemingly endless skies of Earth. Even on the night they first met, after trying their damndest to kill each other, they had sat and marvelled at the silvery moon, hanging in the skies.
Of course, he hadn't let Duo know just how much he'd appreciated the beauty of the moon, and the young man beneath it, that night. That confession had come nearly a year later.
But where was he now?
"He wouldn't have..." For once, a smile began to gently curve his face.
Learning to show his emotions, rather than hiding them behind a carefully crafted mask, was a constant challenge. But he was learning, with his koi's help. They were both learning a lot about living with peace, and living with other people. They'd only had this house for a week, but they'd already had to figure out mysteries like laundry, cooking meals together, and the arcane horrors of closet space...
But right now, Heero just had to know if his guess was right.
He slowly rose from the bed, letting the soft sheets brush against his nakedness, and draped a loose silk robe over himself as he walked out onto the deck which adjoined the second floor and the large hill that the house was built against. Footsteps swished against the cherry planks of the deck, and Heero silently sat down behind Duo, who instictively nuzzeled him and rested his head on Heero's breast as Heero wrapped his arms around him.
"Mmm...morning, Hee-chan. Sorry if I woke you up."
"It's okay. Watching the sunrise?"
"Yeah..." There was awe in Duo's voice as he looked out over a beautiful midwestern sunrise. A few stars still poked out in a wash of golds, pinks, auburns, and purples, with hints of blue now beginning to appear.
"On L2, Sunrise just meant that they turn the ambient light levels up by 5 percent for every ten minutes, until it reached about 80% of light capacity. Someone twisting the largest dimmer switch ever built. Nothing like this."
"Mmm. Every one of them is something really...beautiful. I could get used to doing this."
Duo nodded. His hair was unbound, and it felt like a satin curtain was moving across Heero's chest and lap. Duo had draped a nightshirt over himself that was about two sizes too large, and looked almost like a cloth poncho. It was a little chilly, but the gentle warming as the sun touched them was a unique sensation, and the view well worth it.
He loved living on Earth. They both did, he knew.
"There's something funny about that..."
"What?"
Duo had an odd habit of slipping between what he was saying and what he was thinking, sometimes making for very interesting conversations.
"The five of us, we were all born and raised in space, right?"
"Yeah..."
"But we all decided to live on Earth, when the wars were over. Even Wufei, who probably had the best reasons to hate Earth, and Quatre, who had the best reasons to stay in space."
"I'm not sure where you're going, love..."
Duo snuggled, almost unconsicously, against Heero at the word "love".
"Neither am I, but I think I'm getting there. The ones who decided to stay in space, were Zechs, Noin, Relena, Dorothy, Howard, and all those former OZ soldiers who decided to join the Terraforming Project..."
"What about them?"
"They were all raised on Earth...and they all talked about the beauty of Space...it's like we all never really saw the beauty of the places we were raised, because it WAS where we were raised. We had to see the other possiblity to appreciate the beauty...and we fell in love with it."
"..." Heero slipped into thought for a second, remembering...
"Do you suppose that's why the Doctors, despite all their hatred for OZ and the Alliance, never wanted to destroy or damamge the Earth itself? They saw the beauty and never wanted to ruin it?"
Duo half shrugged, half shivered, partially from the still chill early morning, partially from the thought of the Colony drops being carried out.
"Maybe...I wonder if all we really needed to do to stop the wars was to make people see how beautiful life is on the other side...make them understand that they didn't have the right to ruin all this..."
"Deep thoughts for so early in the morning...but you've got a good point. One question though."
"Oh?"
"What about Sally Po? She was raised on Earth, and she's still in China."
Duo smiled and looked up into his lover's face.
"Love makes people do silly things, doesn't it, koi?"
"Hai."
Duo turned in Heero's arms, and they kissed, softly, against the backdrop of a new day.
End Part 1
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