Observations and Intrigue

By Gacktosan

Disclaimer: I don't own GW, or any of its characters.

Chapter 3: A Watched Pot-roast

Duo made it to Heero's house about 5 minutes after the bed-headed pilot did. Parking his car and putting the roof back up, Duo took the time to make sure he was presentable before walking into the house of possibly the sexiest man alive. Pushing the bangs out of his face, he began to make his way to Heero's door, when a husky voice interrupted him.

"You coming in any time soon, or am I paying to cool off the outside," Heero asked as Duo made his way up the steps.

"Hey...you can't rush beauty."

"Sure you can, it's called getting behind him and pushing, " Heero replied as he grabbed Duo's hand and pretty much pulled him into the house.

"Ouch. I know you want me, but could you give me a few minues to get ready?"

"Hardy-har-har. At least you're cracking jokes like usual. I suppose I should be flattered that I left you pretty much speech-less earlier."

"Yeah. I guess I just can't make any wisecracks around sexiness," Duo said, before he realized exactly how he worded that sentence.

"You think I'm sexy? And here I thought I was the only one pining for another pilot."

"Well, now that you ask, yeah, I do. And what do you mean pining? Do you mean to say that you have been interested in me for some time now?" Duo asked, with one eyebrow raised above the other.

"Yeah. Well, it was a little more than interest. More like an obsession.

"Eh?! I can't believe it. Mr. Perfect Soldier longing for a "baka" like me. Talk about weird. Jeez, I guess I don't know what to say to that. I mean, I'm definatle flattered, and the feeling is mutual, but it's still kind of shocking."

"I know what you could say."

"And what is that," Duo asked looking up.

"This," Heero said, and quickly closed the marginal gap between the two. A second later, he had his lips firmly planted against Duo's, kissing him for all he was worth. He soon found that he had his arms around Duo's waist, and was pulling him closer. He felt their bodies touch, causing the lust he was feeling inside to increase tenfold.

Duo was in heaven. If it was possible for Shingami to actually BE in heaven, that is. Heero was kissing him, and he was kissing Heero back. Without even thinking he reached out to put his arm around Heero's neck, causing the chocolate-haired man to emit a moan of pleasure. The two continued, just as they were, for a few seconds longer until they had to seperate to re-introduce oxygen into their lungs.

"Wow, that was...amazing," Duo half-moaned, half-whispered into Heero's ear.

"Yeah," Heero said dreamily. "That was definately worth the time I spent waiting for you." Heero once again move close to Duo, but stopped short as he remembered something very important that was going on in the other room. "Shit! Dinner. It's gonna burn," he said as he ran off into the kitchen, leaving Duo leaning forward, waiting for the kiss he was expecting.

Realizing what Heero had said, Duo took off after him into the kitchen, know that Heero's culinary skills were somewhat lacking. He entered to find the other pilot fanning a somewhat burned roast. "It's ok, I don't mind eating charred beef. It's better than some of the stuff you cooked during the war."

"Oh. Sorry about dinner. I didn't hear the timer go off. I was kind of...caught up at the moment."

"Don't worry about it. The kiss was worth it. How about we order take-out instead, and watch that movie you were talking about."

"Sure. What kind of take-out do you want? I've got menus for a few different Chinese places, a seafood place, and an Italian place."

"Can we order Italian place? I haven't had lasagna in a while."

"Sure, let me get the menu."

"Don't bother. I've got the number programmed into my cell-phone."

"Umm, Duo, don't you find that kind of strange?"

"Haha, not really. For the first few months after I moved here, I only ate take-out. In fact, they had dubbed my favorite item 'The Maxwell Special'"

"Oh my god. That's so funny," Heero said, fighthing, and losing to, an impressive fit of laughter.

"I know, isn't it. I guess I liked their food a little too much for my own good."

"Oh well. Hey, I'll take lasagna too, just have them charge it to my card, though," Heero said, and handed Duo his credit card.

"You trust me enough to let me use this?"

"Why not, it isn't like you can actually use it for anything. You probably won't be leaving any time soon."

"Ooh, promises, promises. So, why don't you go get that movie ready while I order dinner?"

"Alright. We're going to be watching an anime called Patlabor. Is that ok?"[1]

"Yeah. I love that anime. I suppose it has something to do with the mech aspect of it though," Duo said as Heero went into the other room to get the DVD player ready.

Five minutes later, Duo was walking into the living room, where Heero was sitting on the couch, waiting, with the DVD remote in hand. He quickly took a seat beside the other man in anticipation of the anime they were about to watch. The movie started, and Duo barely noticed he had leaned into Heero, and that Heero's arm was around Duo's body, pulling him closer.

"Hey, Heero," Duo asked, looking up at Heero.

"Yes?" he replied, after claiming Duo's lips for the second time in less than an hour.

"I hate to move, but the food should be here any minute, and I'm getting kind of hungry. And while you are quite tasty, you aren't filling enough to keep me from wanting food."

"It's ok. I'm getting a little hungy myself."

As soon as Duo got up, the doorbell rang, signaling the arrival of their dinner. Heero quickly signed the credit card receipt, and took the food into the dining room. He entered to find that Duo had set out plates and silverware, and was waiting patiently for their food so that he could dig in.

"Hmm. Smells good," the braided pilot said as his friend walked into the room carrying food.

"It looks good too."

The two men made quick work of their meal, and promptly returned to the living room to finish watching their movie. Neither one got to see the end of the movie, as they had fallen asleep in each others arms.

A/N: I couldn't really think of a good spot to end this chapter at, so I took the easy way out. I know, I know, but I was hungry...and all my talk of lasagne made me need food.

1: Patlabor is one of the few mech-anime other than Gundam Wing that I actually like. I used it because a) i like it, b) i couldn't really think of any other anime at the time, and c) it was on TV as i was writing a good portion of the chapter.