Chapter 3

He stirred and laid a hand over his eyes in an attempt to block out the sun which seemed to mock him with it's intense growing light. He gave up with a moan of displeasure as he blinked open ebony eyes and glanced in the direction from which the light had been emanating. He sat up from his slouching inside the uncomfortable chair that he had sat in just before he fell asleep. He looked to the right and was surprised to see the awake and smiling face of the one and only Duo Maxwell. He blinked a few more times and wiped at his eyes before turning to completely facing Duo.

"G'morning Fei~!"

Wufei's breath caught in his throat as he stared at the vision before him. Was he dreaming? Was it really him? Was he really awake and smiling? He looked down at his hands and then looked back up into the curious and now worried looking expression on Duo's face. Those violet orbs starring at him, uncomprehending and full of worry struck something deep inside of Wufei he felt like crying. Whether for joy or sadness was hard to tell. At the moment both seemed to weigh equal. He stood and walked that inch or so to Duo's bedside and there he looked Duo over. He inspected the wounds with eyes only and he felt a pang deep in his chest at each wound, bandage and scratch. He fell to his knee's and looked at Duo. He looked up at him like some poor parsoner to a lord or a commoner to a king. He sucked in a shuttering breath and he felt his eyes go warm and begin to quiver with unshed tears. He held those tears back. He held them for fear that if they fell, even one, that they wouldn't stop.

"Fei? What's wrong Fei? You don't look so good."

Something in the statement caused him choke on a breath and he fought to keep all the worry, fear and utter confusion from the last few days from spilling out. It slipped out. One almost silent angered and exasperated cry left his tight and aching throat. He looked up at Duo and as he did Duo laid a hand on the Asian boy's shoulder.

"Fei? What is it? Are you hurt? Is it me?"

That hand. That warms and soft hand with that pale skin was enough to cause all the fight in him to leave. He felt the first tear escape and he cursed himself for it. He hated and despised himself for being this weak. He never let others see his emotions, his feelings. He was horrified that he had let Duo of all people see his weakness. If he had been able to move at that moment, he would have fled. To where? Anywhere but where he was now. Anywhere other than looking into those worried amethyst orbs. Those amethyst jewels that he thought he had lost. They which reflected the very soul who they belonged to. The soul that was almost extinguished.

"Fei? Fei please answer me! Fine~! Wufei! Answer me! What's wrong?"

He looked from those eyes to the stitches above the right temple and right eye and then over to the right arm in its make shift cast. He sat up on his haunches and lifted a trembling hand which floated towards Duo's left hand. He touched that warm hand. Warm with life. He felt more tears escape their black prisons and cursed himself because of them but at the same time he felt a reassuring grip on his hand. He looked to the grip and saw Duo's pale fingers wrapped around his own. It seemed so odd, and yet so right.

"Duo............I'm sor..........I'm Sorry~!" the words that left his mouth had sounded so foreign, so weak.

Duo looked lost. He opened his mouth and then shut it. He did this a few more times and Wufei chuckled through those heavy tears. Tears heavy with regret and anguish. Duo resembled a carp in a Koi pond and the very thoughts that ran through his mind were of Duo swimming in a koi pond and begging for food. Before the words could even leave Duo's mouth Wufei knelt up and in a quick smooth action pressed his lips to Duo's. Duo seemed to freeze at the touch, like analyzing the situation before he finally molded into the kiss.

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He could feel the weight of something on his right arm as he tried lifting it to block out the beginning of light that began seeping through the cracked curtains. He frowned and snarled before finally opening his eyes and blinking them. He closed them again wishing that he could have slept some more, because as his body woke up so did his mind and that meant that he was feeling the throbs and aches of every bruise, cut and yes, even stitch. He opened his eyes again and after waiting the initial few minutes to let his body adjust to being awake, he sat up and glanced around the room. From the clothes on the floor and the trash and amount of objects thrown here and there he could assess that it was his room. But one thing seemed out of place in this mess that was his own. That thing was a person and that person was Chang Wufei.

Wufei laid hunched in an old stuffy chair that had been rescued from the trash corner because Duo had favored it. It was Wufei who had been kind enough to help retrieve and carry it into the hideout. Wufei, he seemed so angelic in sleep and he could almost swear that those lips were as soft as they looked. Wufei pouted in his lip and Duo wanted to just trace a finger along them just to feel their softness. He saw Wufei's eye lids flutter a few times and his heart caught in his chest. It was if it had stopped beating only to beging beating again and this time at a faster pace.

He watched as a caramel hand rose to cover his eyes in the same fashion that he had wanted to do earlier. An annoyed and tired groan ecscaped those pouty lips and Duo smiled widely. Who ever thought that Wufei wasn't a morning person~! He waited with baited breath as the hand slid away and midnight black eyes opened and blinked. They closed again much to Duo's dismay and then opened again as they focused. He watched as Wufei sat up and stared at the window with a glare that Heero would be proud of, almost as if he were trying to scare the sun away.

Wufei turned away from the window and took a long blinking look right in his direction and all Duo could do was smile widely at the whole scene that was playing out before him. He saw Wufei blink and the confusion fill his face and then he watched as Wufei rubbed his eyes in a very cute fashion. When Duo turned to face him again he almost chuckled.

"G'morning Fei~!"

Wufei seemed so...lost in thought and he seemed to crumple before his very eyes. Why was Wufei gasping. Did Wufei knowing he was gasping? Wufei seemed to be trying to comprehend what was happening. Had he been that worried? Why? Did he care for him? Should he ask? Were those tears forming in those lost looking black eyes?

"Fei? What's wrong Fei? You don't look so good."

Wufei seemed to choke down on what seemed like a cry caught in his throat. Was he gonna scream? Is soemthing wrong with him? Is it my fault? What happened? Is it what happened to me that has him this worked up? Should I do something? What? Why? He had never seen Wufei cry before? Did Wufei even cry? All people cry, but why was Wufei about to cry?

He couldn't take it anymore. He had never wanted to see Wufei like this. NEVER! He lifted his good arm and laid it on Wufei's shoulder which shuddered from the contact and the suppressed tears that threatened. He wanted to enjoy this touch. He wanted to revel in it. But how could he? Wufei seemed to be breaking down, falling apart right infront of him.

"Fei? What is it? Are you hurt? Is it me?"

Finally! He had finally asked some of the questions going through his head. Would he answer them? Would he run? What will he do? Then he saw it. He saw that first crystaline tear ecscape from those clouded ebony eyes and he felt like the world had shifted. He had seen tears before, but this one was special. This tear was Wufei's and Wufei never cried so it was a rare thing indeed to see. He looked down at Wufei's quivering shoulders and without warning Wufei's head lifted and he was left starring into those deep almond eyes, for once at a loss for words.

"Fei? Fei please answer me! Fine~! Wufei! Answer me! What's wrong?"

Wufei seemed to sit there for a few minutes before breaking his eye gazing to look at the gash above Duo's left eye with it's dark stitches and then to Duo's right temple where yet another set of dark stitches were. He looked down then. He stared at Duo's right arm in it's makeshift cast that had Heero's handywork written all over it.

He then saw Wufei's trembling hand reach for and touch his hand. He felt the warmth of that hand and yet he couldn't enjoy it. How could he? Wufei was beginning to worry him with such odd behavior. He looked down at that caramel hand with those fine bony fingers and he wrapped his own around them in a reassuring gesture. He saw Wufei's eyes widen and watched as he looked at their intertwined hands. He then watched as Duo looked up at him with those moist eyes and line streaked cheeks and he wanted so....much to pull Wufei onto his lap like a lost child. His line of thought was stopped when he saw Wufei's mouth move.

"Duo............I'm sor..........I'm Sorry~!"

Duo stared back at Wufei for what seemed eternity. He had only heard Wufei appologize a few times and ofcourse he knew that Wufei had admitted to others that he was weak, but why was he calling himself weak this time? Was it because of the tears? Was it because of him? Why? He sat there lost. What was he supposed to say? Could he say something? Should he? He opened and closed his mouth a few times trying to form words that would comfort the lost pilot but nothing would come and then he heard an odd and unexpected sound.

He looked at Wufei and saw that he was chuckling. Why? What had amused him? Was this all a very cruel joke? Was the asian pilot pulling a prank on him? Did Wufei even have a sense of humor? He wanted to know~! But then something unusual happened.

Wufei knelt up and in a quick fluid motion and pressed his lips to Duo's. Duo seemed to freeze at the touch. He had not expected this. Not at all. What was he supposed to do? Was he supposed to do anything? But all thoughts and questions seemed to flow out of him and he smiled and melded his lips against the other pair of lips. He was happy. He could finally answer the question that had floated through his mind earlier. No, not the one about the softeness of Wufei's lips. Although......that one had been answered as well. They were very soft~! But, no. The question on what he was to Wufei. What they were. What Wufei felt for him. That had been answered. Evidentally Wufei felt something and it had made him cry and kiss him. He was rather happy with this fact.

Now......what to do now that he knew.....................

To Be Continued................

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