Warnings: Yaoi, Relena bashing
Disclaimers: Don't own GW.
I'm going to use / to switch places, like from Heero's house to Quatre's house. And this : means an action at the previous setting. (I hope that makes sense)
Duo?
Chapter 4: Sound Asleep, or Otherwise?
Heero was roused the next morning when he felt something solid across his legs and side. He opened his eyes and realized that it was still dark. He was lying on his left side, facing his bedside table, so he looked at the clock.
'3:28...' he thought. He looked down at his half-covered top and realized what the strange things laying across him were: Duo.
Duo had his arm over Heero's middle and his leg was apparently sprawled over his own legs.
Heero was not really comprehending this very well and glanced toward the other side of the bed where Duo soundly slept. Duo's head was turned away from him and he was laying on his stomach rather close to Heero, considering how much of the bed that was vacant that he could be occupying. Heero blinked blearily at Duo as he stirred, turning his head to the other side so Heero could see his face and bringing himself closer to Heero.
Heero blinked again. Then he turned around and went back to sleep.
Duo then opened his eyes slightly and smiled tiredly at Heero who had allowed him to edge closer. Duo silently wondered if Heero was not moving him back to his side on purpose, or whether he was just too tired to care...
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Heero woke up again, this time at 8:05. He opened his eyes and rolled onto his back. He stared at the ceiling for a few minutes before he remembered that Duo was probably up now and might want his company.
'He seemed to this morning,' he thought and shook his head. 'No... He was asleep, he didn't know what he was doing.'
'Is that why I didn't move him?' a different part of him asked. 'I know I felt him...' Then his eyes widened. 'He said that I could only feel him if he wanted me to...'
His more sensible side returned. 'He wasn't thinking, he couldn't have done that on purpose if he was asleep... could he?'
His thoughts were then interrupted by his door's creaking and his mother stepping inside. "Good morning, Heero!" she said with a bright smile. Heero sighed, did she really feel it necessary to come in every morning and greet him?
She walked to his bed and sat down at his feet. "Heero, I was wondering if Duo has ever taken anything of yours?"
Heero propped himself up onto his elbows and gave her a confused look.
"Because, I can't find my favourite pen anywhere!" she said and sighed. "I don't know why a ghost would want a pen... but's it's definitely gone." She shook her head. "Well, tell me if you find it!" she said and left, closing the door behind her.
Heero fell back onto his pillows and groaned. "Duo..." he called, sounding like he was just barely keeping ahold of his anger at the braided baka.
Duo drifted in through the wall by the unused fireplace. "You rang?"
Heero glared up at Duo's cheery face. "Did you take my mom's pen?" he asked. Duo tilted his head to one side with a curious look on his face.
"Pen?"
"Yes, pen, it's her favourite pen and she thinks you took it. Did you?" Duo shook his head and smiled. Heero raised an eyebrow and rolled his eyes. Duo shrugged and departed through the same wall. Heero watched the wall for a few moments before swinging his legs out from under the covers and got up to get dressed.
When unfolding his jeans, a purple pen fell out and onto the floor with a small click. Slipping the jeans on, he picked up the pen and inspected it. He sighed. "Duo?"
Duo appeared on his bedstead again, sitting cross-legged and fingering the end of his braid. "Yes?" he said boredly.
"What is this?" Heero asked, holding up the pen with one hand and placing his other hand on his hip.
"That would be a pen," Duo answered blandly without looking up.
Heero sighed. "I know that, but what was it doing in my jeans?"
Duo shrugged. "How should I know?"
"Because you're the only one who's in here during the day besides me, and my parents wouldn't have put it there, you know that."
Duo looked up at Heero with a strange look on his face; he looked either calm or tired and he wasn't smiling, which was odd. It was an almost longing look. He blinked lazily and disappeared.
'That was weird,' Heero thought as he left the room to give the pen back to his mother. He walked down the stairs and into the living room where his mother was writing in a notebook.
She looked up and smiled at Heero when he showed her the pen. "Did Duo have it?" she asked as she took the pen from her son.
He shrugged. "I assume so, it was in my jeans."
"Your jeans?"
He nodded and turned around to go back upstairs to talk to Duo. "Heero?" his mother called him back. He glanced over his shoulder to see her walking towards him. "Are you ok?"
Heero nodded again, although he knew he was lying. He was still wondering about last night with Duo...
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, Mom, I'm just a little tired." She nodded and smiled at him.
Taking that as a dismissal, he turned and climbed the stairs again. "Heero?" a voice called from his room. He looked up. "What's wrong?" Duo appeared in his doorway just as he was about to go in.
Heero blinked at him. "Nothing's wrong."
"I suppose you're tired?" Duo said, raising an eyebrow. Heero blinked again. "I don't believe you."
Heero shrugged. "Then don't."
"C'mon! Tell me! What'd you do?"
'It's what I didn't do...' Heero thought to himself as he remembered that he hadn't moved Duo off of him for some unknown reason. He walked to his chair and opened his laptop. "I didn't do anything..." he said softly. 'Well, that was true...' he thought as he started up the computer.
Duo stood silent for a moment with a strange expression on his face, not like the last one, but this one was thoughtful and perhaps curious. Heero glanced at him to see why he was being so quiet and Duo felt his cheeks grow warm. He looked down and shuffled his feet, which made Heero wonder again if he had done those things last night on purpose.
He looked back down at the screen and decided that he didn't know what he was doing, so he decided to get online. He groaned when an IM came up. Duo walked over to stand behind Heero. "What is it?" he asked.
"Relena..." Heero said with disgust. The type was in pink and it was a very small, neat font:
Hello, Heero! I haven't talked to you in a while, not since you moved.
Heero started typing back with his quick fingers:
Haven't you figured out that I did that on purpose?
Duo's eyebrows raised.
Oh, don't be silly!
"Who is she?" Duo asked as Heero sighed exasperatedly.
"She was a girl who lived on my block in my last house, she can't get it through her thick head that I hate her..." he shuddered. "I think she has some sort of hairspray force field around her head or something."
Duo laughed. "Is she really that bad?"
"Worse..." He started typing again:
Want to talk to Duo? He smiled.
Uh, sure, who's Duo?
You'll see.
Heero got up and handed Duo the laptop. "Is there any way you can communicate that you're a ghost?" Duo stared at the screen and nodded subconsciously. "How?"
Duo grinned mischievously. "People just... know."
Heero shrugged as he started typing:
Hello, Relena, I'm Duo.
/Relena's house/
Hello, Relena, I'm Duo. she read and suddenly felt cold. Her fingers felt like ice and she could definitely see her own breath, this confused her since it was summer. She hesitated to answer.
Are you there? She shivered and tried to type with shaking hands:
I have to go.
Oh? What's wrong?
:Duo grinned and Heero laughed when he told him what was happening to her:
Relena glanced around the room and noticed that it was very dark, even though the window was open the darkness seemed to lock the sunlight away outside of her room. She couldn't even see the window. She started typing again, her hands shaking worse than ever from fear:
Nothing, I just remembered that I have to meet some friends at the mall in 15 minutes.
:Duo and Heero laughed as she signed off:
Slowly, the darkness in her room melted away and the sun shone brightly through the window again. Relena stopped shivering and knew that this had something to do with that "Duo" person. She then rushed from the room.
/Heero's house/
Duo held the laptop out to Heero as he rose from the chair. Heero grasped the laptop and in doing so, his fingers slid over Duo's. Duo turned scarlet and pulled away quickly and hurried to the window. Heero blinked. Duo felt odd... not like last night, probably because there had been clothing between them, but Duo's touch had sent a tingling sensation through his fingers... And he liked it...