The Gundam gang doesn't belong to us…

Pairings are 2xR a little 3x4 and past 1x2 1xR.

This is our first GW story, sorry if it's not the best out there but we hope to improve over time.

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Duo rubbed the remaining sleep out of his eyes, finally forcing his feet to hit the floor and push him up out of the bed. After a good stretch, a scratch to his head and another yawn, he cracked his back turning, as he heard the bathroom door open.

"And there she is. Miss America." He grinned at her as he spoke.

"No time for your nonsense, Duo. I gotta run." The blonde girl spoke hastily as she stood in front of the mirror to take one last glance at her hair and make-up. She was smoothing down a fly away strand when she noticed that he was behind her with his hands placed loosely around her waist, his nose nuzzling her hair as he kissed her neck.

"Why can't you believe it when I tell you you're beautiful?"

She squirmed away from him as if he wasn't there and sat on the bed to slip on her heels.

"It's not that I don't believe you. It's simply that I don't believe it, okay?" She rose again and grabbed her purse off the dresser as she made her way out the door. Stopping only a second when she heard the man's voice asking about the coming night. She made eye contact with him.

"I've got plans. But I'll call you." She gave him a quick wink and then was gone.

"God damn it Relena." Duo sat in defeat on the edge of the bed. "If only you could see yourself as I see you…as he saw you. You'd think you were the most precious creature in the universe."

Later that evening the first thing that Relena Dorlian did was to kick off her shoes and totally collapse onto her bed. It had been another thankless day in a world of thanklessness.  She groaned somewhat as she heard the ringing of her vid-phone and without looking she reached over and flipped it on.  "Relena Dorlian, here." She said in the most saccharine sweet voice imaginable.

"Hey babe just wanted to check in on ya."

"Oh it's you." She stated flatly as her voice went back to an irritable state.  "I told you I'd call."

"So I beat ya to it. Besides whenever you tell me you'll call it can take weeks for me to hear from you."

"You sound as bad as a teenage girl with her first crush…and believe me, I know what I'm talking about."

"Make all the sarcastic remarks ya want lady, ya can't stop me from worrying about you."

"You're an idiot. Leave me alone." She cut off the link before he had a chance to reply and with a heavy sigh she rolled over on her side. "Damn it Duo. I hate it when you patronize me like that."

Duo cursed somewhat as he saw the screen go black right before he was able to explain himself to her once again. True at the beginning of their relationship it may have been to comfort him, but over time it had come to mean more to him then anything else that had ever affected his life. Now if only he could find someway to prove the same truth to her, to make her believe that she was more than a human puppet, to be used and abused by all that knew her.

~3 years earlier~

"Why are you here Duo? Come to finish the job Heero never did? Well by all means…" She stepped away from the door, holding it wide open allowing the longhaired man to enter, a gun held tight in his hands.

"Do you really not care if you live or die? Hell, you sound just like him, though I thought when he had me it'd give him something to live for."

"I've no care for your pain Duo. I've enough of my own. So don't expect a shoulder to cry on here. It wasn't my fault he died."

"Fuck what you know bitch!" He noticed she didn't even flinch as he gripped the collar of her gown and slammed her back against the wall, planting the gun's nuzzle point blank between her eyes. "You don't know half the reason he killed himself. You made his life hell."

She snorted a sarcastic laugh, her eyes daring him to shoot. "Tit for tat, I died inside when he left me for you. So shoot me or get the hell out."

He returned her glare with one of his, even as the click of him cocking the gun broke the silence of the room. His finger began to shake as he pulled back on the trigger, but as he was about to kill her, he lost all resolve and dropped the weapon, instead crushing her lips to his in a brutal and revenge filled kiss.

She struggled against him but found her wrists pinned against the wall above her, just as her feet were crushed under his own to prevent her from kicking; she did the only thing she could think of and bit down on his tongue. He damned her to hell and stepped back, though instead of releasing her he used his hold to throw her to the ground. She hit against the side of the couch and was stunned, but not enough to where she was unable to grab the gun and face it toward where he stood.

He could only stare down at her and notice the tears in her eyes and the battle between fear and anger that waged in her mind. "You don't really want to shoot me, princess. I mean what would it mean to your reputation?  You're the world's shining lady of the light. The epitome of purity and perfection can't have her clean white hands soiled with blood, now can she."

She cocked a side-grin. "You're right Duo, I don't want to kill you." She began to lower the gun, only to turn it on her own person, holding it tight against her temple. "I really want to kill myself. Make it easy on you, ya know, make it easy on everyone."

"Christ! Relena!" Duo reacted on instinct as he lunged himself forward grabbing her wrist again, prying the gun away even as it went off, shattering the bulb of the room's lamp.

Relena could not hold back her tears any longer and began to sob, not even noticing the weight of Duo's body on top of her or the fact that the shoulder of her blouse was becoming, soaked by his own tears.

"Shit, Relena, I didn't come to kill you…or hurt you…I just wanted to scare you…make you feel my pain. I'm sorry."

Relena's voice broke between her own sobs as her hands instinctively began stroke his back and hair. "I don't know…what to…say."

Duo lifted his head slightly, his gaze meeting hers.  "Then say nothing, just help me to understand.

"Understand what?"

His only answer was to kiss her again, though this time it was a kiss of tender pleading, longing want, and much needed comfort.

~End Flashback~

Relena woke with a jolt, sitting straight up, realizing that she was in her bedroom, and not the hotel room where her and Duo had first made love. Made love? She laughed at herself, for thinking of it in such terms. Love was for suckers. It had been nothing more then a pity fuck for both of them, one that was supposed to have ended that morning, but now for some reason or another had lasted for the last three years.

She rolled back her head as she rose from the bed to make her way into the bathroom. "Why the hell do you still come around, Duo? And what the hell is it you wanted me to help you understand?"

TBC…