I do not own Gundam Wing or any of the characters from that show,
(but we like to pretend don't we)
for your pleasure:

Pairings: 1x2x5 3x4 (although I don't even think they'll show up in this)

Rating: let's hope for NC-17 ne? But this part's PG for language
Multi-part!

Warning!!!!!!
There's YAOI in here, male on male relationships! Explicit Sex as a possibility, definite male threesomes, and the Characters doing all this Nasty Stuff are underage! You are warned, so don't say I didn't tell you.

As always, review like a crazy person!

Note: for those who did notice the fact that Wufei and Duo thought alike, that was intentional. I kinda want to show how all gundam pilots really are alike, somehow, and how there's depths and aspects of each no one would suspect that makes them the same. For instance how Duo really is a very serious person, despite the clown-like facade, and Wu-man really does have a sense of humor. Thanks for noticing =^-^=

Misery Loves
By Belleluna

PART 4

THIRD PERSON POV

Duo was working diligently in the hanger when Wufei finally came back from his part of the mission. His part was far removed from the rest of the team's, as usual, and it had taken him much longer to finish and escape without leaving a trail.

He was beginning to have doubts about telling anything at all to Duo, what had seemed like a good idea immediately after reading that journal entry now seemed like a grave error. Not only would he be making a connection, he would become emotionally attached, and vulnerable. In his position, that would not be wise, at all.

Finally resolved, he turned from his contemplation of the unaware Deathscythe pilot, heading for the showers, when from behind him, "Are you here to talk, or did you just feel like staring at my ass for the last ten minutes?"

Okay, so Duo wasn't entirely unaware. Highly embarrassed, and blushing, Wufei turned around and tried coming up with an excuse, but he couldn't come up with anything. End result, he just stood and stared, somewhat impassively, as the other boy walked up to him.

"Hey Wufei, I've been meaning to talk with you for a while now," and Wufei panicked, it was entirely out of his mind panic. Luckily, he went into defensive automatic, and harshly turned away from Duo and began to leave before any other words were uttered. If he spoke with Duo now, either Duo would ask the fateful question, or he would change his decision and bring it up. That was not an option.

He didn't really pay any attention to what he said to Duo as an explanation, but he didn't miss how the American's face fell, and then became enraged. It must have really hurt him then....

Wufei shoved back the sudden pang that accompanied that thought. Nevermind that, showers, then sleep. Maybe if he focused on the things that had to be done and nothing else this would pass.

*****

Heero looked up as Duo stormed into their room, slammed the door, and then picked up his hairbrush and threw it at the wall. As an afterthought he picked up a clay pot and smashed that against the wall too. Heero waited till he sat down with a manga and began turning the pages rapidly to say. "Is anything wrong Duo?" Then he sat back to wait Duo out.

"Of course something's wrong. God, fuck that bastard Wufei! What's his problem? All I say is that I wanted to talk with him about something and he blows me off like a cheap date. He acts like I'm nothing but a nuisance and he's got nothing better to do,

"'I'm sorry 02 but I've got to shower, I don't have time for your idiotic ramblings,' he says, then he sniffs like I'm the one that smells like a sewer when he just came from a mission and smells like a *dump* and then walks away without even a by-your-leave. He even yells back 'Some of us actually work on our missions'."

Heero winced at that.

"That motherfuckinggoddamnedbastardsonofawhore wouldn't know work if it bit him in the ass. That colonyscumchinkbeadyeyedprettyboy has no fucking idea who he's messing with! Fuckfuckgoddamitshitshitshitmotherfucker...." That went of for a little while, in 3 different langauages even, for some time before Duo finally settled down.

Finally he sat drained on the bed, and Heero walked over to sit next to him. He put his arm around Duo and began rubbing the back of his neck. "Are you ready to discuss this now?"

"Yeah, I guess so. I think I've got most of it out of my system."
"Why would he do that Heero? I thought I was actually getting through that preppy-ass annoying shell of his. What happened?"

"Do you really want my honest opinion?"

Duo turned to look at his boyfriend. "Yeah, I do."

Heero sighed. "I think he realized that you were breaking through that shell." He took in Duo's suddenly understanding face and nodded. "What you don't realize, Duo, is that all of us have ways of handling the hard lives we now have. You know how I used to be, if I didn't have you as a stabilizing factor, I'd still be like that out of survival. Trowa was much the same, but he has Quatre now that makes him feel more human. Wufei has never had the benefit of this sort of connection, and he knows that if he would let anything like this into his shell, only watered down as friendship, it would break him."

Duo sat processing that, and Heero waited patiently until he was ready to talk. "But why would he blow up at me like that, not even ease away?"

"He may have panicked Duo, or anticipated what you would say. What were you going to talk to him about?"

Duo blushed, and looked sheepish. "Well, it's kinda stupid, but I wanted to learn more about him, and why he is a part of this war, it's kind of a hobby of mine, finding out stuff like that about each of us."

Heero looked at him sharply, "What do you mean by finding out why he's a Gundam pilot?"

"Well, it's like how Quatre can withstand the indignities of upper class, I can be the whore, Trowa can take lack of human contact and you are the ultimate computer, I never was able to find out what part in the picture that Wufei plays. I wanted to learn more about him, to know."

"Duo! No wonder he ran! Don't you realize what that would to do him! My god, think! Think about what you'd be asking him to do!"

Suddenly realizing what Heero was talking about, Duo was horrified at what he had almost done. "Oh my god, I would have asked Wufei to completely lower his walls. I would have taken away the barriers that keep him sane. Oh god Heero! No wonder he spooked. But, how did he know that I would do that?"

"You wrote about all of this in your journal, didn't you?"

"Yeah, why?"

Heero threw an amused smirk at his braided baka, "Duo, you always leave your journal entries on the computer after you're done, I usually have to close them. He probably read it by accident."

Duo suddenly smacked himself on the forehead, "Damn me for a baka, I should have remembered. After reading that he'll be too scared to ever talk to me again! Now how am I gonna find out anything about him?!"

Heero grimaced, "That's really important to you, isn't it Duo?"

Duo grinned, "Well yeah! I want to know about all of you, so that I know your motivations, your reasons for fighting, even mine. If we all know the roles we play we can use ourselves more effectively. It's for The Mission (TM)!"

"You just want to convince me to hack into the scientist's files to find out about Wufei, don't you?" accused Heero.

"Who me?" Duo flushed he's patented innocent-puppy-dog eyes at Heero, if this didn't work he'd....

"Argh! Alright, I'll do it. I'll tell you what I come up with tonight, okay?"

Works every time. "Okay, thank you Heero, you're the best boyfriend ever!"

"Remember that tonight in bed, I've got a suprise for you."

"Eep!"

tbc