Love and Lust - Part 7
By Kirakira
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Akari and Akira strolled down the street, each eating their own ice cream cone. With the credit card, all they bought was a bunch of candy. Of course their dad will ask them where they got it. They would just say Zechs gave it to them. Heero never believed a word Zechs said and would always believe them instead of him any day. Akira was humming a tune while looking up.
"Kari...what's those weird clouds? They look ugly..."
"I dunno..." Akari looked up as well. "Maybe it's angry?"
Akira blinked. "The sky can get angry?"
"Of course. Wouldn't you get angry if you were being fed veggies?"
"But the sky doesn't eat veggies..."
"No, but it eats smoke."
"Oh!" After giggling, they continued on.
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Heero drove down the same street three times, still looking for his girls, and yet not noticing them anywhere. Duo was in the passenger seat, just looking. He had no idea how he could help; he had no idea what they looked like. However, he didn't want to make Heero upset, so he acted like he knew what he was doing. Heero glanced at him.
"If you open the glove compartment, you'll find a picture of them," he said, turning a corner. Duo blushed slightly as he opened the glove compartment. In there was a wallet size picture of two little girls. One had long dark brown hair and blue eyes. The other had light brown hair--similar to his hair color--and blue eyes...at least that's what he saw at first. With careful study, he noticed that her eyes weren't blue...but...
"Heero, you never told me who their other parent was?"
"And I told that was because I didn't know."
"Well yeah but...don't they remind you of somebody?"
"...no."
"Oh...ok..." Duo looked back out the window and pointed. "Is that them?"
"What!?" Heero slammed on the brakes. The car skidded to a halt before Heero got out of the car, leaving Duo a there a little dazed. Heero looked back and sure enough there they were, each holding a bag in one hand and ice cream in the other. He rushed over to them. "Kari! Kira! Where the hell have you been!?"
Akari looked up and smiled. "Hi daddy!" Akira giggled and waved the best she could. Heero let out a sigh.
"Do you have any idea how worried I've been?"
"No..." Akira answered, he big eyes staring up at him. "We thought you were at work?"
"I was until Zechs called saying he lost you. God I could kill him right now..."
"Daddy! Verbal violence around kids is dangerous to their health."
"Just shut up and get in the car...now." Heero scowled, getting a yelp out of the girls before witnessing them rush into the back seat. They didn't even once notice Duo, which was good for him, in a way. He didn't know what to say to little kids...Heero's little kids for that matter. Taking in a deep breath, Heero went back into the car and drove away, not saying a single word. Usually, when a parent did that, they were too upset to speak or if they did speak, something terrible might come out. Heero, on the other hand, barely spoke, so you couldn't really tell if he was pissed off or not...without asking.
Akari and Akira looked at each other, then at Heero, then at the person in the passenger seat, and then repeated the process over and over again until finally fixating their eyes on the person in the passenger seat. They had never seen him before and became quite curious. Was he Heero's boyfriend? More than likely not; if he barely had time for them, how could he have a boyfriend. Maybe the guy was a recruit and today was his "training day." Nope. Heero hated showing new recruits around.
What caught Akira's eyes the most was his long braid. His hair was about as long as hers, but a little longer. What really trapped her attention, however, was when he turned his to look at Heero before staring out the window again. When he did that, she could see that his eyes were a strange shade of color. They looked blue but they weren't. She was sort of baffled by this but didn't show it.
Akari, on the other hand, thought that the guy was cute and prayed that he and her dad were seeing each other. She didn't want her father to let this guy get away and conjured up some plans to keep them together.
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Noin let out a frustrated groan as she got back in the car. "We've been here three times already!" She exclaimed, starting up the engine. Zechs just shook his head.
"Maybe Heero's found them already." He looked at his watch. "It's 7:30...it's getting dark. You never know."
"Noin glared at him. "This is all your fault you know."
"WHAT!?! How is this my fault!?" Zechs said defensively.
"Oh come on Zechs-if you couldn't take care of your own son, how the hell can you take care of two girls-Heero's girls for that matter!!" Noin sighed. "Jesus, Heero is so pissed at you. I bet you he ain't gonna want you taking care of them anymore."
"Oh and if I don't who will-not Duo obviously."
"Well I bet he would. He'd be much better than you any day."
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?!"
"God Zechs, let's face it," Noin turned to look at him. "You terrible with kids-you can't handle them."
"Oh please," Zechs replied, slumping in the chair.
"It's true! That's why Li is living with Relena's mother-you don't know the first thing about taking care of children. Just admit it."
"All I'm going to admit is-" Zechs was able finish for Noin's cell phone started ringing. Sighing, she answered it.
"Hello?...uh huh...alright great!...ok...alright...yeah it's starting to sprinkle a little bit right now...uh huh...alright see ya tomorrow...bye." She hung up before putting the phone back in her inside jacket pocket.
"Who was that?" Zechs questioned.
"That was Duo. He said that they found them and that they're heading for Heero's house right now."
"Oh well at least that crisis is over."
"Yeah...pray that there isn't another one like it." Noin drove off, not paying attention to Zechs' glare.
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When Heero pulled up in the driveway of his home, the rain was getting heavy. As soon as he stopped, the girls got out of the car and rushed to the front door just waiting there, huddled together. Then Heero got out, and Duo, and both walked over to them and Heero opened the door, the girls running in first, but not before taking off their shoes at the front. They grew with Japanese customs after all and knew that it was polite to walk into the house with your shoes still on. Duo was the last to walk and he shut the door behind him, locking it. Then he took a look around.
Heero's house wasn't first-class material, but it wasn't second-class either-it was more in-between those two. He knew that either Quatre or Relena bought him this house or Heero won the lottery one day...but that possibility was slim to none. Shaking his head, Duo just decided to not think about it; Heero had a home, which was all that mattered.
As Akari and Akira rushed up the stairs to get ready for bed, Heero went into the kitchen. "Make yourself comfortable," he said before dropping out of site. Duo took off his jacket and sat down on the couch. There, he noticed a picture on the coffee table in front of him and picked it up. He smiled as he noticed it was a picture of him and the others at the beach. He vaguely remembered that day; all he could recall was the catfight between Hilde and Relena. He had no idea how it started, but it was hilarious to watch. In the end, Hilde won. Relena was too prissy to win. Putting the picture back down, he looked up to see Heero come toward him with two glasses in each hand.
"Here," said, giving one to Duo. In return Duo smiled and took a sip.
"Thanks...uh nice place."
"Thanks..." Heero replied, sitting down next to him. Then Duo took another sip while Heero took his, and the rest was just silence...except for the occasional tapping of the glass with a finger. They barely glanced at each other and didn't make any gestures toward the other. Just silence.
Meanwhile, upstairs, Akira was flipping through Heero's photo album. She knew that she saw a picture of the guy downstairs somewhere. While looking, Akari was watching Card Captor Sakura in the same room. She was so mesmerized by the show that she didn't hear her sister, at first, when she finally found the picture.
"Kari look! I told you!" Akira thrust the picture in Akari's face, making her quite upset.
"Hey!!"
"Just look, it's not like you haven't see this episode!"
"But this is the ice skating one!!"
"YOU HAVE IT ON TAPE!!!!"
Akari blinked. "Oh yeah...tehe!" she shrugged and took a look at the picture. "Hey that's the guy downstairs!!"
"No duh-that's what I was trying to tell you!"
"Oh...well so what?"
"So who is he?" Akira wondered, sitting jumping up on the bed. Akari thought for a minute.
"He's daddy's friend maybe? Or something more than that?"
"But what's his name?"
"Oh well daddy's only got a few friends." Akari put the remote down and counted with her fingers. "Let's see-there's Uncle Quatre, Uncle Trowa, Uncle Wufei, Auntie Relena, Auntie Noin, Miss Une, Auntie Sally, Auntie Hilde, Miss Dorothy-I think-, and...uh..."
"Zechs?"
"OH GOD NO!!" Akari exclaimed, jumped on the bed. "He's too weird and plus-he's and oober."
"Yeah...you're probably right." Akira looked at the picture again. "I remember asking daddy about this picture...and he told me that it was an old friend..."
"Old friend...?" Akari thought back. "I remember hearing that somewhere...recently...ah ha!" She snapped her fingers, catching Akira's attention. "He called yesterday! He said that he wanted to talk to daddy and he said that he was an old friend!"
"Great! What's his name?"
"I dunno but we can find out on that," Akari replied, pointing to the phone. "It has caller I.D."
"Oh yeah!" Akira crawled over to the phone. "When did he call?"
"I dunno...right after Card Captor Sakura."
"k..." Akira started pressing some buttons before finding the yesterday's date. Then she found the time. "Here goes nothing." She selected the time and groaned. Akari blinked.
"What is it?"
"Uncle Quatre was the only person that called at that time..."
"Oh...dang gummit!" Akari snapped her fingers; they were so close. Akira grabbed the photo album and flipped through it again.
"There's gotta be something in here that can tell us...hey I never saw this before." Akira pulled out a small silver oval-shaped locket. There was something engraved on the front and she read it aloud. " 'A one in a million.' " She looked at Akari. "What's that mean?"
"I dunno...open it."
"K..." Akira opened it and saw, on the right side, a small picture of her father and that guy and, on the other side, was an inscription. " 'For every angel, there is a demon.' What's that mean?" She watched her sister shrug. "Well at least we know they're friends."
"Yeah at least..." Akari took the locket and looked at it. "I wonder why daddy doesn't wear it anymore...?" Akira shrugged. "Well maybe-did you hear that??"
"What??" Akira listened closely and could faintly hear a pair of footsteps coming up the stairs. "Crap dad's coming!"
"Let's get outta here!" Akari practically jumped off the bed and ran out the room, Akira following close behind. When they got to their room, Akira turned out the lights and both jumped into their own beds, but not before tripping over their own toys and stuff. After saying goodnight to each other, they shut their eyes right before the door opened.
Heero poked his head in to make sure that his girls were in bed and fast asleep. He smiled slightly before turning to shut the door-but stopped as soon as the light from the hallway shined on something on the floor. He walked into the room and picked it up, eyeing it carefully. Then he went over to Akira and kissed her on the cheek and did the same thing for Akari. Afterward he left the room, closing the door softly behind him. That's when he got a good look at the object.
"How did...?" He opened the locket and stared at the picture, old memories coming back. Sighing he closed it and went back downstairs; he didn't want to keep Duo waiting too long.
Duo looked up at the clock-it was already close to 9. He shouldn't be there. Getting up he grabbed his jacket and headed toward the door. He knew that Heero would understand if he just left-no big deal.
"Where are you going?" Heero asked as soon as he got to the foot of the stairs. Duo turned to look at him.
"Well it's almost 9 and I thought that maybe you were tired. Besides I really have to go. Gotta go to work tomorrow."
"But...your car's not here. We took mine..."
"Oh..." Duo said in a bit of a whisper. "Well I'll just walk then." Heero blinked a couple times.
"Quatre's house is on the other side of town...sort of anyway..."
"Oh...well I'll manage." Duo turned to leave.
"But it's raining..."
"I'll be fine, really." As soon as Duo opened the door, thunder crashed and lightning lighted up the sky so he could easily just how heavy the rain was-yeah it was pouring down pretty damn heavy.
Heero chuckled, shaking his head before walking up to Duo and closing the door. "We have an extra room--you can sleep in there." Then he headed for the kitchen. "You hungry?"
"Yeah...a little bit..." Duo replied, following. The kitchen was average-nothing really special...just bigger than normal. Heero opened a cabinet.
"What would you like?" he asked, looking at Duo.
"Uh...well I don't care...I mean...whatever is fine with me."
"Ok...how do you make that?"
"Huh??" Duo blinked, utterly confused. Heero closed the cabinet.
"Well you wanted whatever so how do you make it?"
"Uh well...no! I didn't mean like that!" Duo shook his head. "What I meant was that whatever you want to eat is fine. I'll have that too."
"Oh...well why didn't you say so?" Heero asked, opening the fridge. Duo chuckled a bit. "God, I keep forgetting that you take things so literally."
"I do not."
"Ok...whatever you say." Duo peered over Heero's shoulder to take a look. "What's that?" He pointed to a bottle sitting at the bottom of the fridge. Heero took out and looked at it.
"Chardonnay..."
"Oh...well uh that's nice..."
"Yeah..." They looked at eachother...then at the bottle. "I should put it up."
"Yeah you should. I mean, there's gotta be something to eat right?"
"Right...of course..." Silence. They looked at eachother...then the bottle. Eachother. Bottle. Eachother. Bottle.
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(Two hours later)
Heero giggled slightly as Duo poured some wine into his glass. "Oh remember when Quatre's sisters visited him for a week?"
Duo nodded taking a sip from his glass. "Oh! The pictures!"
"Yeah!"
"Oh my god-I'll never forget those pictures! Especially the one that they took for Easter! And Quatre had on this bunny suit!" They laughed.
"Yeah that pink bunny suit and the fluffy tail-oh and to top it all off he had an Easter basket!" Heero laughed at that, taking a sip. Pretty much, he was on his fourth glass while Duo was on his fifth.
"God...those were the days..." Duo took a mouthful. "How about the time when we played Truth or Dare?"
Heero looked at him. "And Wufei had to wear a dress for a day?"
"Yeah!" Duo let out a laugh. "I've never seen so pissed off in his life! All because he wouldn't answer my question-all I asked was 'why don't you like women' and he wouldn't answer."
"Haha!! And the dress he had on..."
"Oh!" Duo put his glass down. "It was a skimpy little thing. It was all red and it was strapless, and it was so tight on him-he was complaining the whole time-and he then the slit went all the way up to his thighs! He was so pissed!"
Heero took a sip. "And then the high heels you made him wear! He couldn't even walk in them and when he tried going down the stairs he tripped and busted his ass!"
"HA!! That was comedy!" They laughed. Heero took the locket out and looked at it.
"Oh look what I found in my girls' room. Still wondering how it got there..." He handed it to Duo. Duo looked at it thoughtfully.
"I gave this to you on your birthday...heh...'A one in a million.' That's what you were to me. Funny huh?"
"What?" Heero watched as Duo opened it and took a good long look at the picture inside.
" 'For every angel, there is one demon.' "
Heero finished his drink and set the glass down. "I'm the angel and you're the demon. I still don't get that..."
"Oh well..." Duo closed it. "It's just a locket anyway...I was hoping that you still had it."
"Why would I get rid of it?"
"I dunno...I'm just glad you have it..." Duo smiled at Heero, who smiled back. He held the locket up. "Can I...?"
"Can you what?"
"Put it on you. Please?"
Uh...well..." Heero looked down and sighed. "Sure...I suppose." He then turned around. Duo put the locket on Heero slowly. It had been a while since he'd seen Heero with it on. When it was fastened it, Heero turned back around so Duo could see. A smile slowly appeared on Duo's face. Heero smiled slightly, gripping the locket tightly.
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Again I'm sorry this took so long!! Please review and thanks in advance!!
By Kirakira
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Akari and Akira strolled down the street, each eating their own ice cream cone. With the credit card, all they bought was a bunch of candy. Of course their dad will ask them where they got it. They would just say Zechs gave it to them. Heero never believed a word Zechs said and would always believe them instead of him any day. Akira was humming a tune while looking up.
"Kari...what's those weird clouds? They look ugly..."
"I dunno..." Akari looked up as well. "Maybe it's angry?"
Akira blinked. "The sky can get angry?"
"Of course. Wouldn't you get angry if you were being fed veggies?"
"But the sky doesn't eat veggies..."
"No, but it eats smoke."
"Oh!" After giggling, they continued on.
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Heero drove down the same street three times, still looking for his girls, and yet not noticing them anywhere. Duo was in the passenger seat, just looking. He had no idea how he could help; he had no idea what they looked like. However, he didn't want to make Heero upset, so he acted like he knew what he was doing. Heero glanced at him.
"If you open the glove compartment, you'll find a picture of them," he said, turning a corner. Duo blushed slightly as he opened the glove compartment. In there was a wallet size picture of two little girls. One had long dark brown hair and blue eyes. The other had light brown hair--similar to his hair color--and blue eyes...at least that's what he saw at first. With careful study, he noticed that her eyes weren't blue...but...
"Heero, you never told me who their other parent was?"
"And I told that was because I didn't know."
"Well yeah but...don't they remind you of somebody?"
"...no."
"Oh...ok..." Duo looked back out the window and pointed. "Is that them?"
"What!?" Heero slammed on the brakes. The car skidded to a halt before Heero got out of the car, leaving Duo a there a little dazed. Heero looked back and sure enough there they were, each holding a bag in one hand and ice cream in the other. He rushed over to them. "Kari! Kira! Where the hell have you been!?"
Akari looked up and smiled. "Hi daddy!" Akira giggled and waved the best she could. Heero let out a sigh.
"Do you have any idea how worried I've been?"
"No..." Akira answered, he big eyes staring up at him. "We thought you were at work?"
"I was until Zechs called saying he lost you. God I could kill him right now..."
"Daddy! Verbal violence around kids is dangerous to their health."
"Just shut up and get in the car...now." Heero scowled, getting a yelp out of the girls before witnessing them rush into the back seat. They didn't even once notice Duo, which was good for him, in a way. He didn't know what to say to little kids...Heero's little kids for that matter. Taking in a deep breath, Heero went back into the car and drove away, not saying a single word. Usually, when a parent did that, they were too upset to speak or if they did speak, something terrible might come out. Heero, on the other hand, barely spoke, so you couldn't really tell if he was pissed off or not...without asking.
Akari and Akira looked at each other, then at Heero, then at the person in the passenger seat, and then repeated the process over and over again until finally fixating their eyes on the person in the passenger seat. They had never seen him before and became quite curious. Was he Heero's boyfriend? More than likely not; if he barely had time for them, how could he have a boyfriend. Maybe the guy was a recruit and today was his "training day." Nope. Heero hated showing new recruits around.
What caught Akira's eyes the most was his long braid. His hair was about as long as hers, but a little longer. What really trapped her attention, however, was when he turned his to look at Heero before staring out the window again. When he did that, she could see that his eyes were a strange shade of color. They looked blue but they weren't. She was sort of baffled by this but didn't show it.
Akari, on the other hand, thought that the guy was cute and prayed that he and her dad were seeing each other. She didn't want her father to let this guy get away and conjured up some plans to keep them together.
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Noin let out a frustrated groan as she got back in the car. "We've been here three times already!" She exclaimed, starting up the engine. Zechs just shook his head.
"Maybe Heero's found them already." He looked at his watch. "It's 7:30...it's getting dark. You never know."
"Noin glared at him. "This is all your fault you know."
"WHAT!?! How is this my fault!?" Zechs said defensively.
"Oh come on Zechs-if you couldn't take care of your own son, how the hell can you take care of two girls-Heero's girls for that matter!!" Noin sighed. "Jesus, Heero is so pissed at you. I bet you he ain't gonna want you taking care of them anymore."
"Oh and if I don't who will-not Duo obviously."
"Well I bet he would. He'd be much better than you any day."
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?!"
"God Zechs, let's face it," Noin turned to look at him. "You terrible with kids-you can't handle them."
"Oh please," Zechs replied, slumping in the chair.
"It's true! That's why Li is living with Relena's mother-you don't know the first thing about taking care of children. Just admit it."
"All I'm going to admit is-" Zechs was able finish for Noin's cell phone started ringing. Sighing, she answered it.
"Hello?...uh huh...alright great!...ok...alright...yeah it's starting to sprinkle a little bit right now...uh huh...alright see ya tomorrow...bye." She hung up before putting the phone back in her inside jacket pocket.
"Who was that?" Zechs questioned.
"That was Duo. He said that they found them and that they're heading for Heero's house right now."
"Oh well at least that crisis is over."
"Yeah...pray that there isn't another one like it." Noin drove off, not paying attention to Zechs' glare.
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When Heero pulled up in the driveway of his home, the rain was getting heavy. As soon as he stopped, the girls got out of the car and rushed to the front door just waiting there, huddled together. Then Heero got out, and Duo, and both walked over to them and Heero opened the door, the girls running in first, but not before taking off their shoes at the front. They grew with Japanese customs after all and knew that it was polite to walk into the house with your shoes still on. Duo was the last to walk and he shut the door behind him, locking it. Then he took a look around.
Heero's house wasn't first-class material, but it wasn't second-class either-it was more in-between those two. He knew that either Quatre or Relena bought him this house or Heero won the lottery one day...but that possibility was slim to none. Shaking his head, Duo just decided to not think about it; Heero had a home, which was all that mattered.
As Akari and Akira rushed up the stairs to get ready for bed, Heero went into the kitchen. "Make yourself comfortable," he said before dropping out of site. Duo took off his jacket and sat down on the couch. There, he noticed a picture on the coffee table in front of him and picked it up. He smiled as he noticed it was a picture of him and the others at the beach. He vaguely remembered that day; all he could recall was the catfight between Hilde and Relena. He had no idea how it started, but it was hilarious to watch. In the end, Hilde won. Relena was too prissy to win. Putting the picture back down, he looked up to see Heero come toward him with two glasses in each hand.
"Here," said, giving one to Duo. In return Duo smiled and took a sip.
"Thanks...uh nice place."
"Thanks..." Heero replied, sitting down next to him. Then Duo took another sip while Heero took his, and the rest was just silence...except for the occasional tapping of the glass with a finger. They barely glanced at each other and didn't make any gestures toward the other. Just silence.
Meanwhile, upstairs, Akira was flipping through Heero's photo album. She knew that she saw a picture of the guy downstairs somewhere. While looking, Akari was watching Card Captor Sakura in the same room. She was so mesmerized by the show that she didn't hear her sister, at first, when she finally found the picture.
"Kari look! I told you!" Akira thrust the picture in Akari's face, making her quite upset.
"Hey!!"
"Just look, it's not like you haven't see this episode!"
"But this is the ice skating one!!"
"YOU HAVE IT ON TAPE!!!!"
Akari blinked. "Oh yeah...tehe!" she shrugged and took a look at the picture. "Hey that's the guy downstairs!!"
"No duh-that's what I was trying to tell you!"
"Oh...well so what?"
"So who is he?" Akira wondered, sitting jumping up on the bed. Akari thought for a minute.
"He's daddy's friend maybe? Or something more than that?"
"But what's his name?"
"Oh well daddy's only got a few friends." Akari put the remote down and counted with her fingers. "Let's see-there's Uncle Quatre, Uncle Trowa, Uncle Wufei, Auntie Relena, Auntie Noin, Miss Une, Auntie Sally, Auntie Hilde, Miss Dorothy-I think-, and...uh..."
"Zechs?"
"OH GOD NO!!" Akari exclaimed, jumped on the bed. "He's too weird and plus-he's and oober."
"Yeah...you're probably right." Akira looked at the picture again. "I remember asking daddy about this picture...and he told me that it was an old friend..."
"Old friend...?" Akari thought back. "I remember hearing that somewhere...recently...ah ha!" She snapped her fingers, catching Akira's attention. "He called yesterday! He said that he wanted to talk to daddy and he said that he was an old friend!"
"Great! What's his name?"
"I dunno but we can find out on that," Akari replied, pointing to the phone. "It has caller I.D."
"Oh yeah!" Akira crawled over to the phone. "When did he call?"
"I dunno...right after Card Captor Sakura."
"k..." Akira started pressing some buttons before finding the yesterday's date. Then she found the time. "Here goes nothing." She selected the time and groaned. Akari blinked.
"What is it?"
"Uncle Quatre was the only person that called at that time..."
"Oh...dang gummit!" Akari snapped her fingers; they were so close. Akira grabbed the photo album and flipped through it again.
"There's gotta be something in here that can tell us...hey I never saw this before." Akira pulled out a small silver oval-shaped locket. There was something engraved on the front and she read it aloud. " 'A one in a million.' " She looked at Akari. "What's that mean?"
"I dunno...open it."
"K..." Akira opened it and saw, on the right side, a small picture of her father and that guy and, on the other side, was an inscription. " 'For every angel, there is a demon.' What's that mean?" She watched her sister shrug. "Well at least we know they're friends."
"Yeah at least..." Akari took the locket and looked at it. "I wonder why daddy doesn't wear it anymore...?" Akira shrugged. "Well maybe-did you hear that??"
"What??" Akira listened closely and could faintly hear a pair of footsteps coming up the stairs. "Crap dad's coming!"
"Let's get outta here!" Akari practically jumped off the bed and ran out the room, Akira following close behind. When they got to their room, Akira turned out the lights and both jumped into their own beds, but not before tripping over their own toys and stuff. After saying goodnight to each other, they shut their eyes right before the door opened.
Heero poked his head in to make sure that his girls were in bed and fast asleep. He smiled slightly before turning to shut the door-but stopped as soon as the light from the hallway shined on something on the floor. He walked into the room and picked it up, eyeing it carefully. Then he went over to Akira and kissed her on the cheek and did the same thing for Akari. Afterward he left the room, closing the door softly behind him. That's when he got a good look at the object.
"How did...?" He opened the locket and stared at the picture, old memories coming back. Sighing he closed it and went back downstairs; he didn't want to keep Duo waiting too long.
Duo looked up at the clock-it was already close to 9. He shouldn't be there. Getting up he grabbed his jacket and headed toward the door. He knew that Heero would understand if he just left-no big deal.
"Where are you going?" Heero asked as soon as he got to the foot of the stairs. Duo turned to look at him.
"Well it's almost 9 and I thought that maybe you were tired. Besides I really have to go. Gotta go to work tomorrow."
"But...your car's not here. We took mine..."
"Oh..." Duo said in a bit of a whisper. "Well I'll just walk then." Heero blinked a couple times.
"Quatre's house is on the other side of town...sort of anyway..."
"Oh...well I'll manage." Duo turned to leave.
"But it's raining..."
"I'll be fine, really." As soon as Duo opened the door, thunder crashed and lightning lighted up the sky so he could easily just how heavy the rain was-yeah it was pouring down pretty damn heavy.
Heero chuckled, shaking his head before walking up to Duo and closing the door. "We have an extra room--you can sleep in there." Then he headed for the kitchen. "You hungry?"
"Yeah...a little bit..." Duo replied, following. The kitchen was average-nothing really special...just bigger than normal. Heero opened a cabinet.
"What would you like?" he asked, looking at Duo.
"Uh...well I don't care...I mean...whatever is fine with me."
"Ok...how do you make that?"
"Huh??" Duo blinked, utterly confused. Heero closed the cabinet.
"Well you wanted whatever so how do you make it?"
"Uh well...no! I didn't mean like that!" Duo shook his head. "What I meant was that whatever you want to eat is fine. I'll have that too."
"Oh...well why didn't you say so?" Heero asked, opening the fridge. Duo chuckled a bit. "God, I keep forgetting that you take things so literally."
"I do not."
"Ok...whatever you say." Duo peered over Heero's shoulder to take a look. "What's that?" He pointed to a bottle sitting at the bottom of the fridge. Heero took out and looked at it.
"Chardonnay..."
"Oh...well uh that's nice..."
"Yeah..." They looked at eachother...then at the bottle. "I should put it up."
"Yeah you should. I mean, there's gotta be something to eat right?"
"Right...of course..." Silence. They looked at eachother...then the bottle. Eachother. Bottle. Eachother. Bottle.
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(Two hours later)
Heero giggled slightly as Duo poured some wine into his glass. "Oh remember when Quatre's sisters visited him for a week?"
Duo nodded taking a sip from his glass. "Oh! The pictures!"
"Yeah!"
"Oh my god-I'll never forget those pictures! Especially the one that they took for Easter! And Quatre had on this bunny suit!" They laughed.
"Yeah that pink bunny suit and the fluffy tail-oh and to top it all off he had an Easter basket!" Heero laughed at that, taking a sip. Pretty much, he was on his fourth glass while Duo was on his fifth.
"God...those were the days..." Duo took a mouthful. "How about the time when we played Truth or Dare?"
Heero looked at him. "And Wufei had to wear a dress for a day?"
"Yeah!" Duo let out a laugh. "I've never seen so pissed off in his life! All because he wouldn't answer my question-all I asked was 'why don't you like women' and he wouldn't answer."
"Haha!! And the dress he had on..."
"Oh!" Duo put his glass down. "It was a skimpy little thing. It was all red and it was strapless, and it was so tight on him-he was complaining the whole time-and he then the slit went all the way up to his thighs! He was so pissed!"
Heero took a sip. "And then the high heels you made him wear! He couldn't even walk in them and when he tried going down the stairs he tripped and busted his ass!"
"HA!! That was comedy!" They laughed. Heero took the locket out and looked at it.
"Oh look what I found in my girls' room. Still wondering how it got there..." He handed it to Duo. Duo looked at it thoughtfully.
"I gave this to you on your birthday...heh...'A one in a million.' That's what you were to me. Funny huh?"
"What?" Heero watched as Duo opened it and took a good long look at the picture inside.
" 'For every angel, there is one demon.' "
Heero finished his drink and set the glass down. "I'm the angel and you're the demon. I still don't get that..."
"Oh well..." Duo closed it. "It's just a locket anyway...I was hoping that you still had it."
"Why would I get rid of it?"
"I dunno...I'm just glad you have it..." Duo smiled at Heero, who smiled back. He held the locket up. "Can I...?"
"Can you what?"
"Put it on you. Please?"
Uh...well..." Heero looked down and sighed. "Sure...I suppose." He then turned around. Duo put the locket on Heero slowly. It had been a while since he'd seen Heero with it on. When it was fastened it, Heero turned back around so Duo could see. A smile slowly appeared on Duo's face. Heero smiled slightly, gripping the locket tightly.
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Again I'm sorry this took so long!! Please review and thanks in advance!!
