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Love and Lust - Part 14
By Kirakira
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The next morning didn't go well for Duo at all. He could barely sleep the night before and he didn't have any breakfast...unless you call a glass of orange juice breakfast. He was too edgy about the results to even worry about how hungry he was. Thankfully, it was the weekend, so there really wasn't any reason for him to wake up early...except to find out the results. All morning, he paced back and forth in front of the phone, praying that Heero would call soon. He looked at the clock on the wall-10:15. Heero had to be up by now.
Trowa walked in from the kitchen, shaking his head.
"He's not gonna call you know," he said, sitting on the couch. Duo looked at him.
"Why not?"
"Because he called earlier this morning."
"What!?!" Duo stared at him dumbfounded. "What time!"
"Oh...around 7 I think."
Duo grabbed hold of Trowa's shoulders, shaking him. "Why didn't you wake me up!?!"
"Heero said to not bother. He also said that if you tried to call him at home he wouldn't be there."
"What!?! Why?!"
"Something about Noin invited him and his girls to the beach...or something like that. As a matter of fact, we're all going there. Kinda like a relaxation type thing."
"Oh..." Duo sat down next to Trowa, hanging his head. "Did he say anything about the..."
"No he didn't..." Trowa replied. "Maybe he didn't get the results yet."
"Yeah...maybe..." Duo looked up as he saw Quatre walk up to them. "What's up, Q?"
"We'll leave for the beach at about 11 so you better get ready ok?"
"Right..." Duo smiled at him.
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Relena was having the time of her life with everyone. They had just finished playing beach volleyball. Heero didn't feel like playing so he just watched and cheered for the team his girls were on, naturally. Akari and Akira's team won of course because they were younger and had a lot more energy than everyone else. Li also chose not to play-if he did he knew he would end up on his father's team and he didn't want that at all.
Relena felt bad for her nephew. He had a mother that treated him like he was 3 years old, and he had a father that seemed to not care about him. She watched carefully as Zechs went to sit next to Li, who was reading a book. Relena knew that her brother was trying hard to mend his relationship with his son, but she figured that it was too badly damaged. Few words were exchanged between them before Li got up and went to join Akari and Akira, who were Heero as expected. At that moment Noin went to sit with Zechs and he just shook his head, wondering what he was doing wrong. Noin did the best she could to comfort him and by the looks of things, Zechs really appreciated it.
Sighing, Relena looked away and smiled as she saw the other four Class S team come into view. Valerie, Trowa's niece, and Riley, who just came for the fun of it, ran toward Akari, Akira, and Li just as soon as they saw them. She started feeling sorry for Heero, having all those kids around them. But it didn't seem like they minded. Hilde went to sit next to Relena-they were the best of friends now.
"Hey do you have anymore of that suntan lotion?" Hilde asked. "I think I'm starting to get a sunburn on my back."
Relena giggled. "Well of course I do. I never go to the beach without it." She squeezed some into her hand before rubbing Hilde's back with it. Duo came toward them while the others went to join Heero.
"Hey guys," Duo said, sitting down with them. Relena smiled while Hilde waved.
"Why aren't you with the others?" Relena asked, referring to Heero and the gang. Duo glanced at them and shrugged.
"Just thought I'd see you guys first."
"I thought you said you never lie, Duo," Hilde replied, frowning slightly.
"I'm not lying."
"Oh please! The only reason you're here is because you're too nervous to be around Heero!"
"Well...uh..." Duo scratched his head. "True...but I really did want to see you guys."
"Of course you did Duo," Relena said, finishing up Hilde's back. "You know Heero told us the results."
Duo eyes lit up. "He did! Well what is it?"
"Nah-uh." Hilde shook her head. "You're gonna have to find out for yourself. Just go and ask. It's not like you don't have a right to know."
"Well yeah but-"
"You're not taking this easy way out of this Maxwell, just go up to the guy, ask, then ask the other one!"
"The other what?"
"The other question dummy!" Hilde winked slightly, making sure that Relena didn't understand what they were talking about. She didn't. Duo sighed deeply.
"Alright...here goes." After getting up and dusting himself off, Duo headed in the direction Heero was at. Just before he got there, however, Zechs grabbed his arm and pulled him away from everyone else. "Hey! What's your problem!?"
"Could you just shut up for two seconds and let me say something?" Zechs asked, letting go. Duo crossed his arms.
"Alright what?"
"I just wanted to tell you that I still think you're an asshole...and a bastard...and everything else that goes with it." Zechs sighed. "I don't see why Heero wastes his time with you but he must have good reason. I know I can't compete with you and I don't even know why I tried...now that I think about it, I don't know if I really loved Heero at all. I mean, the feelings I have for him, the ones I thought were love...I guess actually aren't. You don't neglect the ones you care about. I have..." Duo watched as Zechs turned toward where Heero was. "Li is the only son I have and for past 7 years I've done nothing for him. I just treated him as if he wasn't even there. Now that I want something between us, he turns away from me...he doesn't even give me a chance. I guess I deserve it, but it just painful, you know."
"Not half as painful as what you put him through..." Duo replied, frowning slightly.
"I know that. And now I'm trying my best to make up for it."
"Well I don't know what to tell ya, Zechs. It's gonna take a long time for him to even think of you as a father."
"Yeah well...but hey, at least I won't be the only that's gonna have to go through that." Zechs patted Duo on the back. "Better go talk to him. Don't meet a guy like that everyday." Duo watched as Zechs walked back to Noin. He didn't understand exactly what he meant, but he had some sort of an idea. After thinking about what Zechs had said, Duo continued his advance toward Heero. He got close enough to hear the conversational talk and laughter that occasionally followed. Duo really didn't want to talk to Heero in front of everyone-it'd be very hard to keep his attention.
"Uh Heero?" he asked as soon as he was close enough. Heero looked up, a small smile on his face.
"Oh right..." Heero looked at everyone. "Would you excuse us for a moment?"
"Oh yeah sure!" Quatre replied getting up with Trowa and Wufei. Together the three of them walked off toward Relena and Hilde. It seemed that Noin and Zechs needed some time for themselves.
"Oh ok...if you really want us too," Akari said before looking at her friends. "Come on gang, let's play Cardcaptor Sakura-I'm Sakura!"
"Well I'm Syaoran!" Li replied. Riley pouted.
"How come you get to be him?"
"Because his last names Li and that's my name, stupid!" The kids laughed at Riley who just stuck out his tongue.
"Well I'm Tomoyo," Akira said, getting up. The others got up as well.
"Well I guess that means I'm Mei Ling," Valerie said as they all walked off. Duo sat down across from Heero as soon as everyone left.
"Well?"
"Well what?" Heero asked.
"The test-how'd it go?"
"Oh that...they told me last night when I got home. Guess it was a good thing that I didn't stay any later."
"Yeah I guess..." Duo nodded. "So what'd they say?"
"Well...they said that they tested it 3 times and they couldn't find any evidence to say that you aren't the father...in fact..." Heero looked at him. "They said it was a perfect match...not that I wasn't completely sure that you were the father. I mean the resemblance between the three of you is apparent. The doctor even told me that he could see that you were the father just by looking at you. But we got the test done just to be sure and the doctor told me that-ah!" Heero was startled as Duo unexpectedly wrapped his arms around him. They both fell back on the sand-Heero of course got the most of it since he was on the bottom. After a while Duo looked at him in the face, his face showing that he was thoroughly surprised and happy. "I take it that you liked the news?"
"Liked it!?" Duo exclaimed, getting up. "Hell fuckin yeah I liked it!"
Heero sat up, smiling. "Well I'm glad you're happy."
"Well oh god!" Duo rubbed the back of his neck. "All the stuff I missed...good god-how am I gonna make that up? I mean-" Duo looked at Akari and Akira as they were playing. "This is so unreal...it feels like I'm dreaming or something-ow!" Duo rubbed his arm where Heero pinched him. "What was that for?"
"Well at least you know you're not dreaming," Heero replied. Duo stared at him for a while. "What?"
"Nothing...it's just that...you've changed a lot...the old Heero Yuy I know would never have let me hug him at all..."
"Well people change Duo...they don't stay the same forever."
"I know that..." Duo took the small velvet box out of his pocket and looked at it. Heero looked at it questioningly.
"What's that?"
"Uh...well...Heero...I uh..." Duo looked at Heero, holding one of his hands. "I need to ask you something."
Heero blinked. "Alright...what is it?"
Meanwhile Akira and the other finished their game and she looked to see what her daddy was doing. After watching a while, she tugged at her sister's shirt.
"What?" Akari asked, irritated a bit.
"Have you ever seen daddy cry?" she asked, looking at her. Akari shook her head.
"Of course not-daddy never cries."
"Oh really?" Akira pointed to Heero. "Then whadaya call that?"
"Hmm..." Akari squinted before gasping in shock. "What the heck happened? Did he get bit?"
"I dunno..." Akira looked more closely. "Hey what's that shiny thing D's giving to daddy?"
"I don't know...whadaya think it means?" Akari and Akira looked at each other, shrugging.
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{ 4 years later }
Akari flipped through a magazine while listening to her music. Akira, on the other hand, more reading a book that seemed very interesting to her. It was quiet for them in the spaceport-just waiting for the shuttle that would take them to the moon. Their parents had promised them that they would go and now it was their chance to actually be in space for the first time. Just then, outta nowhere, Akari got water splashed on her shirt. She screamed, getting Akira's attention.
"What? What happened?" she asked, looking around. Akari took off her headphones and took a good look at her shirt before glaring at the short brown haired, violet-eyed culprit.
"Solo you little-this is my favorite shirt!" she screamed.
"I know!" her little brother replied, sticking out his tongue. That really pissed Akari off and she was out of her seat in no time chasing Solo around the terminal area. They went on like this for about 2 minutes before Solo hid behind the one person he knew well Akari wasn't gonna hit-Heero. Akari stopped right in front of him.
"Daddy! Look what he did to my shirt!"
"Huh?" Heero looked up from his magazine and stared at her. "Oh it'll dry soon."
"What!?" Akari exclaimed. "That's not the point!"
"Then what's the point?"
"Yeah!" Solo said, sticking his tongue out at her. She did it right back to him before sitting down next to Duo who wrapped an arm around her shoulders.
"Oh come on munchkin, Solo's only 4-he doesn't know any better."
"Besides...you'll get over it in a few minutes anyway," Heero added, smiling at her. Akari sighed.
"I guess so..."
Akira looked out the window and smiled. "Look the shuttle's here!"
"Really!? Where!" Akari exclaimed, jumping up from her seat and going to the window as well.
"I wanna see too!" Solo said, joining them. Heero stretched before getting out of seat only to feel Duo's arm wrap around him. He smiled.
"Don't you ever wish that you never came back 4 years ago?"
Duo thought about that for a minute before shaking his head. "Nope. I wouldn't be this much happy if I didn't." He gave Heero and gentle kiss on the lips. "I wouldn't change this for the world."
Heero smiled at that.
OWARI
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So what'd you think? Again thank you so much for the reviews. I do plan on making a sequel to this story but don't expect it any time soon. I gotta finish the second story I'm working on before I do that. Thank you for reading this and I hope you enjoyed it ^_^. Sayonara!!
Love and Lust - Part 14
By Kirakira
~*~
The next morning didn't go well for Duo at all. He could barely sleep the night before and he didn't have any breakfast...unless you call a glass of orange juice breakfast. He was too edgy about the results to even worry about how hungry he was. Thankfully, it was the weekend, so there really wasn't any reason for him to wake up early...except to find out the results. All morning, he paced back and forth in front of the phone, praying that Heero would call soon. He looked at the clock on the wall-10:15. Heero had to be up by now.
Trowa walked in from the kitchen, shaking his head.
"He's not gonna call you know," he said, sitting on the couch. Duo looked at him.
"Why not?"
"Because he called earlier this morning."
"What!?!" Duo stared at him dumbfounded. "What time!"
"Oh...around 7 I think."
Duo grabbed hold of Trowa's shoulders, shaking him. "Why didn't you wake me up!?!"
"Heero said to not bother. He also said that if you tried to call him at home he wouldn't be there."
"What!?! Why?!"
"Something about Noin invited him and his girls to the beach...or something like that. As a matter of fact, we're all going there. Kinda like a relaxation type thing."
"Oh..." Duo sat down next to Trowa, hanging his head. "Did he say anything about the..."
"No he didn't..." Trowa replied. "Maybe he didn't get the results yet."
"Yeah...maybe..." Duo looked up as he saw Quatre walk up to them. "What's up, Q?"
"We'll leave for the beach at about 11 so you better get ready ok?"
"Right..." Duo smiled at him.
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Relena was having the time of her life with everyone. They had just finished playing beach volleyball. Heero didn't feel like playing so he just watched and cheered for the team his girls were on, naturally. Akari and Akira's team won of course because they were younger and had a lot more energy than everyone else. Li also chose not to play-if he did he knew he would end up on his father's team and he didn't want that at all.
Relena felt bad for her nephew. He had a mother that treated him like he was 3 years old, and he had a father that seemed to not care about him. She watched carefully as Zechs went to sit next to Li, who was reading a book. Relena knew that her brother was trying hard to mend his relationship with his son, but she figured that it was too badly damaged. Few words were exchanged between them before Li got up and went to join Akari and Akira, who were Heero as expected. At that moment Noin went to sit with Zechs and he just shook his head, wondering what he was doing wrong. Noin did the best she could to comfort him and by the looks of things, Zechs really appreciated it.
Sighing, Relena looked away and smiled as she saw the other four Class S team come into view. Valerie, Trowa's niece, and Riley, who just came for the fun of it, ran toward Akari, Akira, and Li just as soon as they saw them. She started feeling sorry for Heero, having all those kids around them. But it didn't seem like they minded. Hilde went to sit next to Relena-they were the best of friends now.
"Hey do you have anymore of that suntan lotion?" Hilde asked. "I think I'm starting to get a sunburn on my back."
Relena giggled. "Well of course I do. I never go to the beach without it." She squeezed some into her hand before rubbing Hilde's back with it. Duo came toward them while the others went to join Heero.
"Hey guys," Duo said, sitting down with them. Relena smiled while Hilde waved.
"Why aren't you with the others?" Relena asked, referring to Heero and the gang. Duo glanced at them and shrugged.
"Just thought I'd see you guys first."
"I thought you said you never lie, Duo," Hilde replied, frowning slightly.
"I'm not lying."
"Oh please! The only reason you're here is because you're too nervous to be around Heero!"
"Well...uh..." Duo scratched his head. "True...but I really did want to see you guys."
"Of course you did Duo," Relena said, finishing up Hilde's back. "You know Heero told us the results."
Duo eyes lit up. "He did! Well what is it?"
"Nah-uh." Hilde shook her head. "You're gonna have to find out for yourself. Just go and ask. It's not like you don't have a right to know."
"Well yeah but-"
"You're not taking this easy way out of this Maxwell, just go up to the guy, ask, then ask the other one!"
"The other what?"
"The other question dummy!" Hilde winked slightly, making sure that Relena didn't understand what they were talking about. She didn't. Duo sighed deeply.
"Alright...here goes." After getting up and dusting himself off, Duo headed in the direction Heero was at. Just before he got there, however, Zechs grabbed his arm and pulled him away from everyone else. "Hey! What's your problem!?"
"Could you just shut up for two seconds and let me say something?" Zechs asked, letting go. Duo crossed his arms.
"Alright what?"
"I just wanted to tell you that I still think you're an asshole...and a bastard...and everything else that goes with it." Zechs sighed. "I don't see why Heero wastes his time with you but he must have good reason. I know I can't compete with you and I don't even know why I tried...now that I think about it, I don't know if I really loved Heero at all. I mean, the feelings I have for him, the ones I thought were love...I guess actually aren't. You don't neglect the ones you care about. I have..." Duo watched as Zechs turned toward where Heero was. "Li is the only son I have and for past 7 years I've done nothing for him. I just treated him as if he wasn't even there. Now that I want something between us, he turns away from me...he doesn't even give me a chance. I guess I deserve it, but it just painful, you know."
"Not half as painful as what you put him through..." Duo replied, frowning slightly.
"I know that. And now I'm trying my best to make up for it."
"Well I don't know what to tell ya, Zechs. It's gonna take a long time for him to even think of you as a father."
"Yeah well...but hey, at least I won't be the only that's gonna have to go through that." Zechs patted Duo on the back. "Better go talk to him. Don't meet a guy like that everyday." Duo watched as Zechs walked back to Noin. He didn't understand exactly what he meant, but he had some sort of an idea. After thinking about what Zechs had said, Duo continued his advance toward Heero. He got close enough to hear the conversational talk and laughter that occasionally followed. Duo really didn't want to talk to Heero in front of everyone-it'd be very hard to keep his attention.
"Uh Heero?" he asked as soon as he was close enough. Heero looked up, a small smile on his face.
"Oh right..." Heero looked at everyone. "Would you excuse us for a moment?"
"Oh yeah sure!" Quatre replied getting up with Trowa and Wufei. Together the three of them walked off toward Relena and Hilde. It seemed that Noin and Zechs needed some time for themselves.
"Oh ok...if you really want us too," Akari said before looking at her friends. "Come on gang, let's play Cardcaptor Sakura-I'm Sakura!"
"Well I'm Syaoran!" Li replied. Riley pouted.
"How come you get to be him?"
"Because his last names Li and that's my name, stupid!" The kids laughed at Riley who just stuck out his tongue.
"Well I'm Tomoyo," Akira said, getting up. The others got up as well.
"Well I guess that means I'm Mei Ling," Valerie said as they all walked off. Duo sat down across from Heero as soon as everyone left.
"Well?"
"Well what?" Heero asked.
"The test-how'd it go?"
"Oh that...they told me last night when I got home. Guess it was a good thing that I didn't stay any later."
"Yeah I guess..." Duo nodded. "So what'd they say?"
"Well...they said that they tested it 3 times and they couldn't find any evidence to say that you aren't the father...in fact..." Heero looked at him. "They said it was a perfect match...not that I wasn't completely sure that you were the father. I mean the resemblance between the three of you is apparent. The doctor even told me that he could see that you were the father just by looking at you. But we got the test done just to be sure and the doctor told me that-ah!" Heero was startled as Duo unexpectedly wrapped his arms around him. They both fell back on the sand-Heero of course got the most of it since he was on the bottom. After a while Duo looked at him in the face, his face showing that he was thoroughly surprised and happy. "I take it that you liked the news?"
"Liked it!?" Duo exclaimed, getting up. "Hell fuckin yeah I liked it!"
Heero sat up, smiling. "Well I'm glad you're happy."
"Well oh god!" Duo rubbed the back of his neck. "All the stuff I missed...good god-how am I gonna make that up? I mean-" Duo looked at Akari and Akira as they were playing. "This is so unreal...it feels like I'm dreaming or something-ow!" Duo rubbed his arm where Heero pinched him. "What was that for?"
"Well at least you know you're not dreaming," Heero replied. Duo stared at him for a while. "What?"
"Nothing...it's just that...you've changed a lot...the old Heero Yuy I know would never have let me hug him at all..."
"Well people change Duo...they don't stay the same forever."
"I know that..." Duo took the small velvet box out of his pocket and looked at it. Heero looked at it questioningly.
"What's that?"
"Uh...well...Heero...I uh..." Duo looked at Heero, holding one of his hands. "I need to ask you something."
Heero blinked. "Alright...what is it?"
Meanwhile Akira and the other finished their game and she looked to see what her daddy was doing. After watching a while, she tugged at her sister's shirt.
"What?" Akari asked, irritated a bit.
"Have you ever seen daddy cry?" she asked, looking at her. Akari shook her head.
"Of course not-daddy never cries."
"Oh really?" Akira pointed to Heero. "Then whadaya call that?"
"Hmm..." Akari squinted before gasping in shock. "What the heck happened? Did he get bit?"
"I dunno..." Akira looked more closely. "Hey what's that shiny thing D's giving to daddy?"
"I don't know...whadaya think it means?" Akari and Akira looked at each other, shrugging.
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{ 4 years later }
Akari flipped through a magazine while listening to her music. Akira, on the other hand, more reading a book that seemed very interesting to her. It was quiet for them in the spaceport-just waiting for the shuttle that would take them to the moon. Their parents had promised them that they would go and now it was their chance to actually be in space for the first time. Just then, outta nowhere, Akari got water splashed on her shirt. She screamed, getting Akira's attention.
"What? What happened?" she asked, looking around. Akari took off her headphones and took a good look at her shirt before glaring at the short brown haired, violet-eyed culprit.
"Solo you little-this is my favorite shirt!" she screamed.
"I know!" her little brother replied, sticking out his tongue. That really pissed Akari off and she was out of her seat in no time chasing Solo around the terminal area. They went on like this for about 2 minutes before Solo hid behind the one person he knew well Akari wasn't gonna hit-Heero. Akari stopped right in front of him.
"Daddy! Look what he did to my shirt!"
"Huh?" Heero looked up from his magazine and stared at her. "Oh it'll dry soon."
"What!?" Akari exclaimed. "That's not the point!"
"Then what's the point?"
"Yeah!" Solo said, sticking his tongue out at her. She did it right back to him before sitting down next to Duo who wrapped an arm around her shoulders.
"Oh come on munchkin, Solo's only 4-he doesn't know any better."
"Besides...you'll get over it in a few minutes anyway," Heero added, smiling at her. Akari sighed.
"I guess so..."
Akira looked out the window and smiled. "Look the shuttle's here!"
"Really!? Where!" Akari exclaimed, jumping up from her seat and going to the window as well.
"I wanna see too!" Solo said, joining them. Heero stretched before getting out of seat only to feel Duo's arm wrap around him. He smiled.
"Don't you ever wish that you never came back 4 years ago?"
Duo thought about that for a minute before shaking his head. "Nope. I wouldn't be this much happy if I didn't." He gave Heero and gentle kiss on the lips. "I wouldn't change this for the world."
Heero smiled at that.
OWARI
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So what'd you think? Again thank you so much for the reviews. I do plan on making a sequel to this story but don't expect it any time soon. I gotta finish the second story I'm working on before I do that. Thank you for reading this and I hope you enjoyed it ^_^. Sayonara!!
