Title: Sleep Well

Author: angel zeniko-chan

Email: zeni24@hotmail.com (I have msn, if you want to talk to me then just add me.)

Rating: very tame 1x2/2x1. There's only kissing and hugging involved.

Summary: Sequel to Sleep well. Duo confessed his love to Heero. Sappy, yaoi.

Author's notes: yo! This is the sequel to Sleep Well, named Awaken. Please read! There's also a lot of smiling involved... Heero smiles a lot, but he looks like an angel... heehee

Disclaimer: I do not own any Gundam Wing characters... to bad... I wish I did.

"speaking"

'thinking'

flash backs

*** time gap or POV change

Awaken

"Duo?" A fragile-looking boy woke up from his sleep. He wasn't fragile, but considering that he was still sick, the Japanese pilot was not at his full strength.

His cobalt-blue eyes opened, but seeing the strong light, he closed them again. His hands roamed around, blindly. 'I know that Duo was here with me last night...'

Truth is, he liked being close to the braided boy, baka as he was. He felt safe in those strong arms.

Throwing the blanket over his head, Heero tried to get used to the light before sitting up.

His head spun so much that he fell back onto the bed with a light thud.

"Guess I don't have to tell you not to get up, do I?" A slightly amused voice said from the door way.

Heero looked up before falling back down on the bed with another thud. "Ow." He said, holding onto his head.

Duo smirked. He walked in, holding a tray which a bowl of soup sat upon. Placing on the desk, he helped Heero sit up since he was still weak.

"Hn." Heero said. "I'm not a baby."

Duo smirked. "You need help, Hee-baby." He teased then sat down beside Heero and spoon-fed him the soup.

Heero glared at him but couldn't really do anything about it since he was not strong enough to even lift his hand up. "Baka." He said before opening his mouth and allowing Duo to feed him.

"That's enough." He said after a few mouthfuls.

Duo looked at him concerned. "That's all?" He asked.

"Omae o korosu." Heero said. His throat was hurting too much and the soup made it feel as if it was on fire instead of soothing it. Duo sighed. There was nothing he could do about it. If Heero wasn't going to eat, there was no way of making him eat. He walked downstairs to put away the tray.

When he returned to their room, Heero was laying down, staring out the window, his head resting on the fluffy pillows.

Duo sighed again and sat down beside the bed, looking at Heero. He didn't know what, but something had changed last night. He and Heero seemed... closer somehow...

He exhaled lightly. 'I did say that I was going to tell him... well, here goes...' He opened his mouth but before he could say anything, Heero turned to face him and spoke up first. "Why are you taking care of me?"

Duo smiled. 'Now I can tell him!' He thought happily. "Because I love you." He gave Heero a sweet smile.

Heero stared at him, his face showing the shock and surprise. And something else...

Duo looked closer. Love? He watched the other boy's face carefully.

Heero just lay there in silence. In his mind, emotions and thoughts were flying through his head. 'Duo loves me... Duo Maxwell... the God of Death... he loves me... ...I love him...' But the only thing he could say was, "Why me?" He looked at Duo's face, searching to see if he was lying or just playing a joke.

Duo sat there, smiling. Even though Heero wasn't saying anything, he wasn't rejecting him. Duo didn't know if he could take it if Heero rejected him.

When Heero asked him why, Duo broke into a bigger smile, since there was a chance that Heero could like him back. "You want the whole list, or just the top 20?" He asked, jokingly. When Heero didn't answer him, he continued. "I love you because you're hot, sexy, wild, mysterious, I love your eyes, you're perfect... you're like an angel to me..."

Heero still was convinced. "How could you like someone like me?" He asked, still thinking that Duo was making a mistake and that he would later regret it.

Duo sat closer to the shocked boy and gently touched the side of Heero's face. "I just told you." He said softly, taking Heero's face in his hands.

Heero sighed and then closed his eyes. "I... I..." It was hard for him to say this, because of all the training he had which told him emotions were a bad thing. He was told that emotions would only be in the way. But somehow, he knew what this emotion was that was running through his body. "I love you too." He said in a whisper, his lips curling into a smile.

Duo gasped. 'Heero's smiling... at ME! And he loves me too!' He wanted to jump up in joy, but instead, he did something better. He bent down and captured Heero's lips in a soft kiss.

Heero stiffened, having not even felt this way. He had never been kissed before and Duo kissing him, made his body feel as if he was on fire.

Duo felt Heero stiffen and he pulled away, scared that he had frightened his boyfriend.

Heero had a confused look on his face. When he looked into Duo's pained violet eyes, he wanted to slap himself. "I'm sorry, Duo... It's just... I've never... I'm very inexperienced in this field..." Heero looked down at his hands. "I... I don't know... what to do..."

Duo took Heero's hands in his own. "That was your first kiss?" He asked, happy that he was Heero's first.

Heero blushed and nodded. "Who cared for me enough to give me a kiss?" He asked, somewhat hurt.

Duo stroked Heero's cheek. "I do." With that, he bent down an kissed Heero again. This time, he nibbled on Heero's bottom lip softly, wanting entrance to the other boy's mouth.

When Heero complied, he stuck his tongue in, ravishing in the feel of Heero's soft lips. When the tips of their tongues toughed, both boys felt a shock of pleasure flow through their bodies.

Duo pulled back reluctantly and then climbed into the bed with Heero. He wrapped his arms around Heero's tiny waist.

Heero sighed, feeling the comfort and warmth from the embrace. 'I feel... safe here.' He smiled.

Then he heard Duo speak up. "Heero, what happened yesterday?"

Heero's thin eyebrows bunched up, deep in thought. 'Yesterday...' Thne he sucked his breath in sharply.

Duo felt Heero's fear and held his closer, pressing him against his chest. "Heero?" He asked.

"I..." Heero didn't know how to start. Was it a dream? Or him reliving part of his life? "I'm not sure..." He started off. "I think that I remember reliving all the 'training' that they did to me." He spat out the word training.

Duo hugged him tighter, feeling the smaller boy shake in his arms. "You don't have to tell me." He said comfortingly.

"You should know..." Heero said, inhaling to try and calm himself down. "Basically, they would put me under the most pain, trying to make it so that I wouldn't feel it the next time. Once... they injected poison in my body... I remember screaming... screaming a lot..." Heero stopped. He could feel the pain all over again. "Then... once... they took a sword... and..." Heero hiccupped. He couldn't help but cry as he told the story.

Duo rubbed Heero's back, making soothing noises. "Sh... it's ok..."

Heero took a deep breath before continuing. "They... he... dug it into my shoulder... the pain was so intense... Told me to get used to it... that I was worth nothing... that I would never be..." Heero stopped. He couldn't say anymore, although there were so many painful tortures he went through during his training. He buried his head into Duo's chest, trying to forget all the memories.

Duo hugged his dark-eyed angel. He didn't know that so much pain was included into Heero's 'training'. "Don't cry, angel. No one will hurt you anymore." Duo ruffled Heero's hair. "I won't let anyone hurt you anymore."

Heero's tears stopped flowing down his cheeks. "You meant that?" He asked, like an innocent little boy.

Duo nodded.

Heero smiled an-honest-to-God smile. "Thanks koi..." He said, before lightly kissing the braided boy on the lips. "I love you..."

Duo smiled back. "I love you too, but you really should sleep if you want your strength back." He put on hand on Heero's still burning forehead. "You still have a very high fever."

Heero nodded and rested his head on his lover's chest.

Duo softly played with Heero's silky hair. "Sleep, Hee-chan."

"I love you." Heero breathed before he drifted into his unconscious state where he dreamed of his boyfriend.

"I love you too, my angel." Duo whispered into the night. Then he too, joined his dark-haired love in the realms of dreams.

The End

angel zeniko-chan: There! I'm done... have you noticed that Heero and Duo do a lot of smiling in this fic... Hn... oh well. Read and review, please!!! Arigato!