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Author: lain
Title: In the Darkness
Pairings: ?+2, 1+2, 3+4, (others)
Warnings: What are the ratings for those cheap horror movies? O.K.,
that with yaoi thrown in.
Disclaimers: No ownerships or profit being made. No G-boys under my
bed. I've looked they're not there.
Archive: Those who can tolerate my writings!
Part2

Under the cover of darkness came the silence of the night only to be
broken by soft whimpers from one of the occupants of the otherwise
quite room. The figure lay with the covers strewn about probably tossed
down as the occupant's restless dreams made him toss and turn. The
heart-shaped faced is framed by sweat-damped bangs and his waist-
length hair is fanned out on the bed freed from his usual braid.

One cobalt eye peered through the darkness and watched the figure on
the bed across from his own with a look of concern and longing.
'What is he dreaming about?' Heero thought as he feigned sleep even
though the chance of being caught by the one he most desired is
obliviously slumbering away to that fact.

Heero has struggled with that fact ever since that very day he laid eyes on
the violet-eyed boy. 'That baka. He shot me twice that day and now I'm
hopelessly... in love with him. Who would have thought?' he chuckled
bitterly.

Heero's musings were cut short from a keening whimper from Duo. So
concerned for the other that he didn't realized that he crossed the
distance between the two beds and was now beside Duo's.

'What are you doing, Yuy?' He shook his head, trying to get some
semblance of control but failed as he found his hand caressing Duo's
bangs away from his forehead. His touch calmed the whimpering boy
and leaned towards Heero's warmth.

A smile spread across on Duo's face. 'To have that smile graced only to
me and I will die a happy man' Heero smiled down on the slumbering
boy. Throwing all caution to the wind, he bent beside the bed and gave
in to his desires---a kiss from the one he longed for from a far. Closer
and closer, his lips only a hairs' breath away from Duo's own and his
world shattered.

"Solo...I love you, too..." Duo sighed breathlessly as he snuggled deeper
into his pillow.

Heero straightened himself up, too shock to really do anything. He
climbed into his own bed numbly repeating Duo's words in his mind.
He felt his heart constricting by the onslaught of loss, rejection, misery
and....jealously for the one who has captured Duo's heart. Heero soon
drifted to sleep unable to keep his heavy lids up and with one last look
at Duo's slumbering visage he reluctantly closed his eyes.

'Solo. Who's Solo? That lucky bastard.'
*~*~

"Hey, kid. Don't cry 'cause I'll see ya again," Solo weakly smiled up at
Duo's tear-streaked face.

"Don't leave me, please. Onegai, I'll get the meds and everythin' will be
ok," Duo hysterically rambled. He scrubbed the tears away with the back
of his hand but more came. "Promise, 'k? I'll be back. I'll get it just don't
leave... 'k? Solo-Solo? Please!"

"Kid, I'll see ya again just stay alive and I'll be back for ya." Solo reached
for Duo's shaking hands and gave it a squeeze. "Have I ever lied ta ya?"
Solo softly chuckled.

"No..." Duo gave a half-hearted grin.

'Solo never lies-Solo never lies-Solo never lies....' Duo repeated the litany
in his mind because he knew it was true. Solo never failed him before.

"I'll always have your back, kid. Promise me you'll be here when I come
back? Ya know I love ya." Solo reached to wipe a falling tear off Duo's
face with a slender finger. He took Duo's hand and pressed it to his lips.
With one last smile, his hands went limp.

"Yeah, promise...Solo...I love you, too," Duo sobbed.
He gripped Solo's lax hands as the prone figure faded away to the
darkness leaving behind the kneeling boy alone in the black void.

*~*~

"Class, please welcome..." the teacher began to say but was rudely
interrupted by an indignant shriek.

"Itai! Heero, what the hell! Not the braid!" Duo screeched as he got up
from his seat clutching his scalp.

"Mr. Maxwell, please! Sit down!" the teacher shouted and was rewarded
with an 'eep' from Duo. All around giggles and snickers were heard and
one suspiciously from Heero.

'Hn. Baka.'
Duo ducked his head. He glared at the smirking Heero through the folds
of his arms on his desk.
"You're SO gonna get it spandex-boy. When I'm done..." Duo leaned over
as he whispered near Heero's ear oblivious to the shivers it caused in the
cobalt-eyed boy.

"Maxwell! See me after class!" the teacher fumed.

"Yes, ma'am. Sorry, ma'am." Duo sent one last glare at the still smirking
Heero before resting his head on his arms.

The exasperated teacher straightened her frazzled nerves and cleared
her throat. "Class." She gave a pointed glare at Duo. "As I was saying we
have a new student. Please make him feel at home," the teacher gently
nudged the new student to step forward, "please introduce yourself."

"Hi. The name's Solo. Pleased to meet 'cha!" Solo grinned, fixated on the
ducked head of one Duo Maxwell; willing him to raise his head.

***

Duo unaware of the going -ons as the teacher spoke to introduce the
new student. Still with his head on his folded arms, his ears perked up
as he heard a familiar voice.
'Hmm. Sounds like Solo.' Curiosity got the better of him, Duo slowly
lifted his head.

"Hi. The name's Solo. Pleased to meet 'cha!"

'Solo?! Solo?!?!' Duo flew out of his chair and knocked it in the process.

"Solo!! Oh, my go....." Duo's eyes rolled to the back of his head and
promptly fainted. The last thing he saw was Heero's concerned eyes
looming over him.

Heero growled low in his throat and fixed a stern glare at the new boy.

'Solo? So he's that bastard.'

Tbc...

lain

C&Cs if any^-^