MUST READ: I did post this about a week and a half ago, but I noticed that I didn't GET A SINGLE REVIEW!! So then I looked and it wasn't showing up under Gundam Wing section! So hopefully this will work.
So so sorry that this has been so late getting out but I am swamped with college aps and keeping up my grades… not to mention the awful awful evil thing called writer's block! I can't promise that the next chapter will be out this week, but I can promise that by November 14.
I didn't quite know how to go about this chapter and retyped it a numerous amount of times. This is, of course, where I introduce Terraline Angela Brooks and have to get you all to develop a liking for her. So here is how it turned out, don't forget to review….
Thank you to all who reviewed.
Fixing Wing
Heero almost ignored Duo's request. Actually, he thought smirking, it wasn't much of a request at all. Duo had quiet frankly told him that if they were going to act like a couple, Heero would have to start touching him. He'd taken the wing pilot's silence for disapproval when in fact it was just Heero taking a few minutes to remind his mind-and body-that Duo was talking about putting an arm around the braided boy's waist.
"Hn."
"Come on, Heero!" Duo rolled his eyes. "It's not like I'll bite or anything… not unless you want me too." Heero scowled. Duo was teasing him again by putting that purr in his voice. He was sure of it. Instead of answering, Heero just curled his arm around his friend's waist before walking to the door of 'Karaoke Fever'. Opening the door, he was greeted with a blast of noise. Silently wincing, he looked over to see that Duo was already halfway in the door and looking like he was loving it. He stumbled when Duo turned on him and gave a huge smile.
"Look like you're having fun, Heero. Not like you're boyfriend dragged you in here." Heero smirked.
"My boyfriend did drag me in here." He paused for a fraction of a second as Duo's eyes widened in awareness. "At least that's what I'm telling everyone." He put his arm back around Duo's waist before walking to the nearest opened booth. A minute later a young woman stopped by their table.
"What can I get you?" Duo smiled up at her while Heero silently assessed her and how much danger she could be.
The waitress couldn't have been more than a couple of years older then them at most. She had brown hair cut short and above her shoulders it flared out. It was almost the same shade as Duo's only it had a bit more red in it. Her brown eyes were intelligent but mostly hid behind a pair of purple tinted glasses. Her smile was quick and real, as if she was amused by them. Heero was brought back to the present when Duo spoke.
"How about a name, babe?" She just raised an eyebrow before smirking.
"You're boyfriend doesn't look like he likes that suggestion much, otokonoko."
"Hey, how'd you know we were Japanese? Well, I'm not, but we're visiting from…" Heero kicked him under the table.
"I didn't. I'm half so I sometimes slip and use the language. Name's Terra. What can I get you?"
"Beer please, 2." Heero answered.
"Got it. Since you didn't specify what kind, I get to choose." With a wink she was gone. Heero turned to Duo.
"That was her."
"Duh!" Duo rolled his eyes again. "She was pretty."
"Duo, you're supposed to be acting gay."
"For your information, Mr. Hot Shot, I'm bi. So there. I can appreciate both fields." Duo stuck out his tongue in a childish gesture.
"You don't watch it, someone'll take advantage of that tongue, kid." Terra was back, placing two beers in front of both the pilots. Duo glowered.
"Why do you call me all those nick names."
"Cause you didn't give me your name. Plus you act like a-"
"Duo. My name is Duo. And this is my boyfriend Heero. We're visiting-"
"From Japan. Caught that the first time. You sing?" Heero raised an eyebrow at the change in topic.
"Would I be here if I didn't?" It was Duo that responded. Terra grinned.
"Wasn't talking to you, Duo. You're boy toy sing, or just sit here looking pretty?"
"I sing." Heero's voice was so low he hoped she'd miss it. His luck wasn't good today.
"Really. Then you hafta do me the honor of hearing you." She hoisted herself up onto the booth and stood next to him. "Ladies and Gentlemen. We have a special treat for you tonight. We are graced with the presence of none other then the H-man!" She smirked down at him. "And the H-man here is going to sing us the old favorite of 'Kiss from a Rose' by Seal!" There was a smattering of applause. "Hit it Jake!" The song started as she pushed Heero from his seat to the stage. She ignored his glare and sat down next to Duo as the words started.
"There used to be a graying tower alone on a sea
You became the light on the dark side of me,"
Both Terra and Duo sat in awe as Heero sang the lyrics. Duo stared at the brunette for a moment.
"Did you pick the song furthest from his personality?" Duo's voice was soft.
"No. I picked the one closest to his heart." She stared at Duo. "You two aren't as far as you pretend, but listen to his words. They're true. And singing like that isn't just skill. It's heart." Leaving him with that cryptic note, she stood up and walked away.
"But did you know
that when it snows
My eyes become lighter,
The light that they shine can be seen.
Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on a grave.
The more I get of you the stranger I fell,
Yeah,
Now that your rose is in bloom,
A light hits the gloom on the grave.
There is so much a man can tell you, so much he can say
You remain, my power, my pleasure, my pain,
Baby,
To me you're like a growing addiction,
I can't deny
Won't you tell me…"
Duo sat transfixed as Heero sang, his gaze never moving from him. The song finished and Duo watched as Heero jumped off the stage. Neither boy seemed to notice that the bar was thundering with applause, as Heero walked to Duo, leaned down, and touched their lips together.
"Let's go home." Once again, Heero wrapped his arm around Duo's waist and they walked out the door, never noticing the brown eyed gaze that silently followed them.
* * *
Duo lay in bed and scowled at the ceiling. After they had got into the car Heero had given him a very clear, detailed report of everything he'd seen in the club. Apparently, Duo thought, Heero was a better actor then he'd thought. He absently raised his fingers to trace his lips where Heero had kissed him earlier. And scowled again. He kissed me like it was real.
Like he really liked me that way. And then walked to the car and talked about the damn mission. A silent voice admonished him quietly. 'He's supposed to act like he cares for you, Duo. And he does. You're his friend.' Another voice piped up. 'And until you seduce him or tell him flat out, he's not going to think about you that way seriously. Because he'll think it's wrong. Remember why you called this mission "Fix Wing"?' Duo smiled slightly.
'Fix Wing' stood for everything he was trying to do. The doctors were evil in Duo's mind, doing things solely for what they believed in. It was a good thing they were on the good side, Duo had often thought, because if they thought that one theory on the evil side was more in their favor… well, the Gundams would be something that the populace had to fear. Either way, in the midst of their training, all of the pilots had lost something. Or forced to give it up, depending on which way you looked at the situation. Some, he reflected, would simply call it innocence. Duo supposed that was the best word anyone could ever come up with. But whereas the other pilots had lost something important, Dr J (that sadistic bastard) hadn't just taken away Heero's innocence, he had broken something inside the pilot to the point that Heero felt that he could show no emotions. The point of the mission was to fix or at least try to mend what Dr J had done and try to show Heero that emotions, specifically loving him, were okay.
He looked mournfully at the empty side of the bed and sighed again. Heero had taken care of the problem Duo had worried about earlier-the sleeping arrangements. He pointed out that on previous missions where they were required to share one bed, neither of them had slept well and that had interfered with their mission the next day. Because, the stoic pilot had said, this was a longstanding mission and they had no idea how long it was going to take, it was better to just have one of them on the couch until they could convince the constructers to finish the extra room. Duo grimaced. The 01 pilot had no idea that the reason that his friend had such a hard time sleeping was because there were other things he's rather be doing while in bed with someone. Duo snorted for a second imagining Heero's face if Duo tried to seduce him the first time they'd been forced to share a bed. However, he had no idea what had kept the other pilot awake. He assumed it was because Heero was so attuned to wake at the slightest noise that movement on the bed next to him was intolerable. He had no idea how wrong he was.
* * *
Heero gritted his teeth in frustration and he stared at the door to their-*Duo's*-room. Part of him was tempted to walk in there, crawl into bed with Duo and see what his friend would do. But seeing as how he was raised to survive, the wing pilot decided to stay on the couch. His body was having other ideas. 'Who would have thought that the "perfect soldier" would be having hormonal problems because of one. damn. kiss.?!' Heero snorted and then turned over so that his back faced the door. There was no way he was going to sleep tonight.
There was something odd about that girl, the waitress. There was something cunning in her, something that flashed in and out of her eyes so fast that only one trained to read emotions would be able to catch. She was smart, intelligence wise, also. He noted that when both Duo and himself had sat down, she assessed them before ever coming over to the table. Then, through pissing Duo off, she managed to find out his name without ever having to ask. And the way she looked at him… he narrowed his eyes. It was as if she could see things that she shouldn't. He wasn't speaking of mind reading, or knowing that he was a Gundam pilot, but more of his feelings for Duo. She looked at him and something in him screamed that she knew. She knew that it was all an act… but that he wanted it to be real. And so she'd picked a song that would force him to at least sing the words he longed, somewhere deep in his heart, to say.
He sighed and looked at his watch, noting that there was only about 3 more hours before he planned to get up. Maybe he was being paranoid, he thought… but the instinct that had kept him alive for so long told him he wasn't.
* * *
It was pounding that woke both pilots the next morning. Duo and Heero both jumped from their beds and grabbed their guns, running towards the source of the noise. And not noticing, in the hurry, that they wore only boxers. When they met in the hallway, both of their eyes were cool and serious. They then moved simultaneously towards the stairs that lead to the basement and kicked open the door, Heero sweeping to the top and Duo to the bottom. They were surprised when a hammer came hurling at their heads and a gun clicked a second later. It was a precious second they had wasted, staring in disbelief at the sight in front of them.
Standing in front of them was a girl, dressed as if she was ready for a day of construction. Except for the gun in her hand, she had on a tool belt-but that wasn't what surprised them. What surprised them was that they knew her. That they'd in fact seen her the night before. Narrowing her eyes, she kept the gun steady.
"What in Selene's name are you two doing here?"
End Chapter
Phew. There goes another chapter, only a little over 4 pages, but hey, a chapter's a chapter, right? Oh, the reason I was a little slow was because I'm totally swamped with getting college admissions in AND getting all my school work in on time. I figured since I got an A in psychology for mid-trimseter reports, I would, in tern, reward all of you.
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