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"A total eclipse of the heart

Once upon a time there was light in my life

But now there's only love in the dark

Nothing I can say A total eclipse of the heart"

I. A . 10:

Heero looked at the dark canopy of his bed and frowned. Who was this man with the chestnut rope of hair, and why did he haunt his dreams like this. Since Heero saw Duo on the Television he couldn't shake that face out of his vision. Even when He and Relena lay in bed together he couldn't stop thinking of the elusive man.

Heero turned his head and looked into the face of the Peacecraft next to him. He lightly brushed a kiss across her face, just sending another flash of his jovial face thought Heero's mind. The violet eyes flashed into his mind as he looked at the closed ones of the naked, sleeping woman.

Heero held Relena hoping that having her closer would drive the vision of this so-called "Duo" out of his mind. "What's wrong with me?" He whispered into her rose scented hair. Holding her close and smelling her perfume only rewarded him with an almost surreal vision of this Duo in a small rose garden in the middle of a desert.

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In it Heero was looking up at the sky with tears in his eyes. At the moment he couldn't remember as to why, but it seemed only natural. He heard a rustle in the roses behind him. He pulled out his gun from behind his back fearing something. He was not sure as to what he feared though. There he stood, this god with violet eyes. Heero turned to face him full and found that the man behind him was naked.

His clothes lay in a pile on the ground. He gestured for him to follow, and jumped into a small pool, the branched out into a river. Heero followed in a trance it seemed. This young man took control of him, and he liked it this jubilant teen seemed to have a control much more powerful than whips and chains, was it love?

The braided teen broke the surface of the water and shook it from his face laughing loudly. Heero followed him into the water. He swan close to the slim body of the young man. For a short while they played games in the clear water, most of which involved Heero getting exorbitant amounts of water in his nose and ears.

After a few hours of this midnight skinny-dipping Duo helped him to the shore and on the sandy beach they made love. When they had finished duo fell into Heero's arm and lay breathing heavily. Heero patted down the chestnut strands that had gotten into his face, and smiled. Even after swimming and making love, his hair still smelled of strawberries.

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Heero awoke from the strangely pleasant vision and for the first time since his arrival smiled. "Well that may be the first time I have seen you smile honey." Came a slightly groggy voice from next to him. Heero hadn't noticed that it was morning hen he first woke up. He hadn't realized that he had only dreamt the pleasant man, and the rose garden.

Heero blinked the sleep from his eyes, and rubbed his left eye with the palm of his hand. "Good morning." He yawned. Relena grasped onto his middle and pulled herself on top of him. "Don't you have to go to work?" He asked her as she looked down into his eyes.

Her eyes shone with lust as she mumbled, "Even the president of the ESUN has to have a day off every once in a while." She smiled and lowered her head slowly towards him. Her hair covered the pillow under his head; it streamed down the side of the pillow like water. "I love you Heero, I really do."

Their eyes met momentarily before she closed hers and touched her lips to his. Her warm body aroused Heero, but for some reason there was something shallow about their sex. With this Duo creature in his dreams it was different, with him there was something more. He wanted that something more than anything. He wanted to love, again. But was the Duo on the television the same as the Duo in his dreams?

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TBC

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After the next chapter, I am going to put a teaser for "Fare well my Concubine..."

Release date: 7/10/04

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