Title: Secretly Loving You 6/?
Author: sanaaki
Warnings: shounen-ai/yaoi, AU, Heero-centric, romance, sap
Pairings: 1+2+1 (main), not a threesome =P
Rated: PG
Disclaimer: Nothing belongs to me ;_; except the story.
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Notes: Switching back and forth between different POVs.
Recap: Duo turns down a blind date with Heero. He sees a guy he thinks he might be interested in. He finds out that that guy is Heero. Problem is Quatre has decided to set Heero and Wufei up now since Duo turned it down. Duo and Heero have met by random chance but Duo is the only one who knows that they have mutual acquaintances. Will this pair ever get it together?
Feedback much appreciated.
The alarm jarred his consciousness. Heero opened his eyes blearily. He had stayed up with Wufei the night before playing video games. Late nights always threw him off his schedule a bit. He looked over to the clock. 6 am. He really didn't want to miss his daily morning jog and workout. He was supposed to be meeting Wufei for brunch too. They had been seeing a lot of each other lately. He forced himself to get out of bed and eyed himself in the mirror. His hair always seemed so wild and unkempt. He combed his fingers through his hair. He really did need a haircut. Wufei had been nagging him lately to get one. Wufei seemed to take great stock in hair and thought that it should be treated with utmost care. He had taken Hilde's advice and gone to their salon for a haircut. But it looked like time had crept up upon him again and he required another haircut. Zechs, one of the stylists there, had done his hair. He found out later that Wufei was apparently good friends with Zechs. No real surprise there. He recalled Wufei mentioning that a good friend worked at the salon.
Tonight was Relena's party. Maybe today was a good day to get one. He would call Zechs to schedule an appointment with him today. He had actually seen Zechs quite a few times outside the salon and remarkably he had become reasonably good friends with him. They had even taken to working out together. They had something in common. They were both aspiring actors. They saw each other at auditions a lot. There was some good natured competition between them but for the most part they tried their best to help each other further their careers. Unfortunately, Heero wasn't having much success in getting anything other than extras work or modeling jobs.
Luckily, his uncle Odin had left him quite a bit of money when he died so he never had any need to worry about his means of support. But even without the money, he had done well in school and was a whiz in computers so he always had that to fall back on as well. He really wanted to try his hand at acting though. There was just something about acting that called out to him. Perhaps it was his inability to express himself in his life that caused him to turn to a career that necessitated expression. This was his way of living up to the perfection that people seemed to associate him with. In his innermost heart, he knew he fell quite short of that perceived perfection. Acting had somehow become the way to make up for that deficiency. He certainly had enough practice with his family and friends. This was after all merely an extension of that practice. He would find a way to learn to become this perfect person with the normal perfect life, if only to himself. Perhaps he would finally convince himself that he had something worth living for.
"Sorry, Heero. I'm all booked up today and today is my sister's birthday party so I can't even squeeze you in after hours because I promised her I would help her before the party …" Zechs apologized on the phone.
Heero had a sinking sensation. "You have a sister …?"
"Yes. Didn't I mention that before?"
"Her name wouldn't happen to be …"
"Relena …"
Heero groaned. He just hoped Zechs wasn't the overprotective big brother type. He wondered what Zechs would do to him once he found out about his connection to Relena.
"What's the matter, Heero? Do you know her?" Zechs asked him.
"Never mind, Zechs. I'll talk to you later …"
"Hold on, Heero. There is someone else who can probably squeeze you in after hours as a favor to me since he's also usually booked …"
"Oh?"
"The owner of the salon … although I am not sure you would want your hair cut by him …"
"Why? He isn't good?"
"Oh he's the best. He's what makes this salon."
"Then why?"
"Um … How do I put this delicately?" Zechs paused.
"Yes?" Heero prompted impatiently.
"Well … Hilde told me awhile ago that he has a thing for Wufei. He's probably going to be somewhat pissy with you if he finds out you are the one that stole his Wufei away from him. They've been best friends for ages. So … you better watch out or you might end up with the bowl haircut from hell …" Zechs laughed loudly. "You sure you want to take your chances with him?"
"Bowl haircut?" Heero didn't quite get it.
"Yeah, you know … put a bowl on your head and cut only the hair that is outside of the bowl …" Zechs laughed even more. Heero grimaced at the image that brought forth. He definitely did not want a "bowl" haircut. Maybe this wasn't such a good idea … "I'm kidding Heero. I'm sure Maxwell would not resort to that. At least I don't think he would …" Heero rolled his eyes. Zechs wasn't exactly giving him much confidence about this Maxwell guy. "No seriously, Heero, he has a reputation to maintain. He'll take care of you … I'll set it up … I won't even mention Wufei. Come around 6 p.m. If anything changes, I'll let you know, ok?"
"Fine." Heero hoped it turned out well. He wasn't sure if he really wanted to meet a rival for Wufei's affections. So far things had gone smoothly. It was kind of odd though that Wufei hadn't mentioned or introduced him to this best friend of his. Perhaps Wufei had feelings for Maxwell also and hadn't wanted Heero to know. But they hadn't really met up with anyone lately though. They had basically spent most of their time with each other. Maybe he was looking into things too much. It was best not to dwell on it. He would go work out instead and clear his mind.
He saw Trowa and Quatre at the gym. He saw them relatively regularly whether at the gym or for dinner. He waved at them and walked over.
"Ready for tonight?" Quatre asked. He was taking a break and drinking bottled water. Trowa was beside him doing crunches on another machine.
He shrugged. There really wasn't much to get ready for. He was really there to just show his face and drive the point home to Relena that he was really not interested in her. She had taken to calling him again lately making up excuses for him to see her. He hadn't been able to deny her, much to Wufei's annoyance. He wasn't quite sure why he couldn't say no to her. She reminded him of someone, although he couldn't quite pinpoint who it was she reminded him of. So her late night calls for him to come over and kill roaches, her pleas for him to come fix her computer, her paranoid assumptions of vagrants out to get her necessitating his keeping her company at odd hours did not go unheeded as they should have. It wasn't as though she didn't have a bevy of admirers and friends to do those things for her, with the exception of the computer problems, which did happen to be his area of expertise. Somehow, it was always him who she turned to for help. No one else would do.
"Heard Lena's been keeping you busy …" Trowa grunted out. "You sure you don't like her?"
"We're just friends."
"Men and women can't be friends …" Trowa stated.
"'When Harry Met Sally' is a straight movie Trowa …" Quatre interrupted.
"Oh yeah …"
Heero rolled his eyes.
"Well, I am bi," Heero pointed out as an afterthought.
"Which brings us back to my original statement. Men and women can't be friends," Trowa calmly restated amidst more grunting. It was Quatre who rolled his eyes this time.
"Trowa … you just don't like women. You and Wufei should join the women hater's society. It's a miracle you two even have women friends."
"I like women. I just like them far from me."
"What about Relena, Dorothy and Hilde?" Heero was surprised to hear this about Trowa. Since when had Trowa developed an aversion towards women.
"He's ok with women … we're just joking around …"
"I'm not," Trowa reiterated. "I've never been able to be good friends with a woman. There's always some interest involved even if it is clear that I am 100 percent gay. Dorothy is different because she's really a man masquerading as a woman …"
"Trowa!!!!" Quatre admonished.
"It's true. She's more like a guy than a girl. She treats us pretty coldly for a girl …"
"Well, that may be so but I think that is because she is more interested in her career than anything else."
"Hilde has a short attention span so she's ok …" Quatre snickered at that.
"And Relena has never shown an interest in guys before Heero here so …"
"True, true," Quatre nodded thoughtfully in agreement.
Heero supposed he should be flattered but he wasn't. "Well I'm with Wufei now. It's a moot point. Nothing is ever going to happen between us so friends is all we can ever be."
"Haven't seen Wufei around lately. What's he up to?"
"He's decided to take some classes to further himself so he's been pretty busy."
"Guess you guys are doing well …?" Quatre probed.
"I suppose." Heero decided to take that moment to walk over to a machine far away from them. That however did not prevent him from hearing Quatre's whispered comment to Trowa, "Not one for being particularly forthcoming is he?" Heero smirked to himself.
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"So Maxwell … you have time after hours to squeeze another appointment in?" Zechs called out over to Duo while cutting his client's hair.
"Tonight's Relena's party, Zechs … "
"I know which is why I can't take care of him. But he's a pretty good friend of mine. He really could use a haircut …"
"I don't know …" Duo stalled. It wasn't as if he couldn't do it. He was just in a somewhat crappy mood. He knew that tonight he would have to see Wufei and Heero together. He was in a somewhat contradictory mood. On the one hand, he was dying to see Heero again and get to know him. On the other hand, he knew it would be bad news to be faced with the temptation to chase after his best friend's guy. He really did not want to hurt himself or Wufei like that. They had been friends since middle school. He valued his friendship with Wufei. Sometimes though, he thought maybe he had built up Heero in his head and that maybe it would be a good thing to see him again. Dispel any notions of infatuation he felt. Somehow though, he had managed not to see either of them in the last several weeks. It hadn't been on purpose though. Wufei had always been like that. Once he started going out with someone he really liked, he got very serious and committed and wrapped up in his new boyfriend. Duo had always hated that aspect of Wufei. It was as if his friends didn't exist anymore. He knew it wasn't that Wufei didn't care about his friends anymore but Wufei didn't believe in doing things half-assed. He wanted to give his all to a relationship. That was why he had been so devastated in his last relationship. Failure was just not an option with Wufei. It probably stemmed from losing his entire family in an accident when he was younger. It made Wufei doubly possessive of people that he cared about. He didn't deal with loss well. Not that Duo could blame him. That kind of tragedy never left anyone unaffected. Duo himself felt that kind of loss as well. Something he really didn't want to dwell on.
"Come on, Maxwell. Relena's party starts at 7:30. Plenty of time to squeeze my friend in."
Duo made another noncommittal noise. "What if I told you he was gorgeous?"
"How gorgeous?" Duo shot back jokingly.
"Well almost as gorgeous as me but not quite …"
Duo laughed at Zechs' vain reply.
"Plus … he's a model slash actor just like me. I'm not kidding about him being easy on the eyes. And he's really smart too. I don't even know why he got into acting to tell you the truth but seriously he's a very nice guy …"
"You trying to set me up?" Duo eyed Zechs suspiciously.
"Er … no. Actually he's already taken. Just trying to give you incentive to cut this guy a break. I know you can take care of him and make your way to Lena's with plenty of time to spare … No harm in taking in some eye candy beforehand right?" Zechs cajoled.
"I'm not that shallow, Zechs … maybe one of the others can do it …" Duo dodged.
"No one else is available …" Zechs walked over to him with a magazine in hand. "Here, maybe this will persuade you …" Duo looked at the magazine layout and almost dropped his scissors in shock. His mouth dropped open. He felt like a gaping goldfish. There, in the center of the layout, was a bare-chested lean muscled Heero laying propped on his side in the sand in sinfully tight jeans looking like a sculpted god, his hair falling sexily into his intense eyes. Even though the photo was in black and white, one could still see those beautiful eyes burn with power and passion. What Duo would give to be one of those miniscule grains of sand scattered over Heero's body …
Zechs pushed a finger under Duo's chin to close his mouth. "Put your tongue back in, Duo. Told you he was hot. Change your mind? You can even keep that magazine …" Zechs winked.
Knowing this was a bad idea, he was about to refuse, "Yeah, I'll do him …" Duo was shocked at what had come out of his mouth instead. Zechs smiled knowingly and walked back to his client. Duo groaned. What was he getting himself into?
To be continued …?
Thanks for the feedback everyone!!! Loving the responses ^____^
Author: sanaaki
Warnings: shounen-ai/yaoi, AU, Heero-centric, romance, sap
Pairings: 1+2+1 (main), not a threesome =P
Rated: PG
Disclaimer: Nothing belongs to me ;_; except the story.
Archives: Eventually The Metaphysical: Gundam Wing Fanfiction at http://www.geocities.com/akikos_mandolin and http://www.fanfiction.net/~sanaaki
Eventually I'll find a spot on my newbie blog (http://silent-whispers.cjb.net/ )
Notes: Switching back and forth between different POVs.
Recap: Duo turns down a blind date with Heero. He sees a guy he thinks he might be interested in. He finds out that that guy is Heero. Problem is Quatre has decided to set Heero and Wufei up now since Duo turned it down. Duo and Heero have met by random chance but Duo is the only one who knows that they have mutual acquaintances. Will this pair ever get it together?
Feedback much appreciated.
The alarm jarred his consciousness. Heero opened his eyes blearily. He had stayed up with Wufei the night before playing video games. Late nights always threw him off his schedule a bit. He looked over to the clock. 6 am. He really didn't want to miss his daily morning jog and workout. He was supposed to be meeting Wufei for brunch too. They had been seeing a lot of each other lately. He forced himself to get out of bed and eyed himself in the mirror. His hair always seemed so wild and unkempt. He combed his fingers through his hair. He really did need a haircut. Wufei had been nagging him lately to get one. Wufei seemed to take great stock in hair and thought that it should be treated with utmost care. He had taken Hilde's advice and gone to their salon for a haircut. But it looked like time had crept up upon him again and he required another haircut. Zechs, one of the stylists there, had done his hair. He found out later that Wufei was apparently good friends with Zechs. No real surprise there. He recalled Wufei mentioning that a good friend worked at the salon.
Tonight was Relena's party. Maybe today was a good day to get one. He would call Zechs to schedule an appointment with him today. He had actually seen Zechs quite a few times outside the salon and remarkably he had become reasonably good friends with him. They had even taken to working out together. They had something in common. They were both aspiring actors. They saw each other at auditions a lot. There was some good natured competition between them but for the most part they tried their best to help each other further their careers. Unfortunately, Heero wasn't having much success in getting anything other than extras work or modeling jobs.
Luckily, his uncle Odin had left him quite a bit of money when he died so he never had any need to worry about his means of support. But even without the money, he had done well in school and was a whiz in computers so he always had that to fall back on as well. He really wanted to try his hand at acting though. There was just something about acting that called out to him. Perhaps it was his inability to express himself in his life that caused him to turn to a career that necessitated expression. This was his way of living up to the perfection that people seemed to associate him with. In his innermost heart, he knew he fell quite short of that perceived perfection. Acting had somehow become the way to make up for that deficiency. He certainly had enough practice with his family and friends. This was after all merely an extension of that practice. He would find a way to learn to become this perfect person with the normal perfect life, if only to himself. Perhaps he would finally convince himself that he had something worth living for.
"Sorry, Heero. I'm all booked up today and today is my sister's birthday party so I can't even squeeze you in after hours because I promised her I would help her before the party …" Zechs apologized on the phone.
Heero had a sinking sensation. "You have a sister …?"
"Yes. Didn't I mention that before?"
"Her name wouldn't happen to be …"
"Relena …"
Heero groaned. He just hoped Zechs wasn't the overprotective big brother type. He wondered what Zechs would do to him once he found out about his connection to Relena.
"What's the matter, Heero? Do you know her?" Zechs asked him.
"Never mind, Zechs. I'll talk to you later …"
"Hold on, Heero. There is someone else who can probably squeeze you in after hours as a favor to me since he's also usually booked …"
"Oh?"
"The owner of the salon … although I am not sure you would want your hair cut by him …"
"Why? He isn't good?"
"Oh he's the best. He's what makes this salon."
"Then why?"
"Um … How do I put this delicately?" Zechs paused.
"Yes?" Heero prompted impatiently.
"Well … Hilde told me awhile ago that he has a thing for Wufei. He's probably going to be somewhat pissy with you if he finds out you are the one that stole his Wufei away from him. They've been best friends for ages. So … you better watch out or you might end up with the bowl haircut from hell …" Zechs laughed loudly. "You sure you want to take your chances with him?"
"Bowl haircut?" Heero didn't quite get it.
"Yeah, you know … put a bowl on your head and cut only the hair that is outside of the bowl …" Zechs laughed even more. Heero grimaced at the image that brought forth. He definitely did not want a "bowl" haircut. Maybe this wasn't such a good idea … "I'm kidding Heero. I'm sure Maxwell would not resort to that. At least I don't think he would …" Heero rolled his eyes. Zechs wasn't exactly giving him much confidence about this Maxwell guy. "No seriously, Heero, he has a reputation to maintain. He'll take care of you … I'll set it up … I won't even mention Wufei. Come around 6 p.m. If anything changes, I'll let you know, ok?"
"Fine." Heero hoped it turned out well. He wasn't sure if he really wanted to meet a rival for Wufei's affections. So far things had gone smoothly. It was kind of odd though that Wufei hadn't mentioned or introduced him to this best friend of his. Perhaps Wufei had feelings for Maxwell also and hadn't wanted Heero to know. But they hadn't really met up with anyone lately though. They had basically spent most of their time with each other. Maybe he was looking into things too much. It was best not to dwell on it. He would go work out instead and clear his mind.
He saw Trowa and Quatre at the gym. He saw them relatively regularly whether at the gym or for dinner. He waved at them and walked over.
"Ready for tonight?" Quatre asked. He was taking a break and drinking bottled water. Trowa was beside him doing crunches on another machine.
He shrugged. There really wasn't much to get ready for. He was really there to just show his face and drive the point home to Relena that he was really not interested in her. She had taken to calling him again lately making up excuses for him to see her. He hadn't been able to deny her, much to Wufei's annoyance. He wasn't quite sure why he couldn't say no to her. She reminded him of someone, although he couldn't quite pinpoint who it was she reminded him of. So her late night calls for him to come over and kill roaches, her pleas for him to come fix her computer, her paranoid assumptions of vagrants out to get her necessitating his keeping her company at odd hours did not go unheeded as they should have. It wasn't as though she didn't have a bevy of admirers and friends to do those things for her, with the exception of the computer problems, which did happen to be his area of expertise. Somehow, it was always him who she turned to for help. No one else would do.
"Heard Lena's been keeping you busy …" Trowa grunted out. "You sure you don't like her?"
"We're just friends."
"Men and women can't be friends …" Trowa stated.
"'When Harry Met Sally' is a straight movie Trowa …" Quatre interrupted.
"Oh yeah …"
Heero rolled his eyes.
"Well, I am bi," Heero pointed out as an afterthought.
"Which brings us back to my original statement. Men and women can't be friends," Trowa calmly restated amidst more grunting. It was Quatre who rolled his eyes this time.
"Trowa … you just don't like women. You and Wufei should join the women hater's society. It's a miracle you two even have women friends."
"I like women. I just like them far from me."
"What about Relena, Dorothy and Hilde?" Heero was surprised to hear this about Trowa. Since when had Trowa developed an aversion towards women.
"He's ok with women … we're just joking around …"
"I'm not," Trowa reiterated. "I've never been able to be good friends with a woman. There's always some interest involved even if it is clear that I am 100 percent gay. Dorothy is different because she's really a man masquerading as a woman …"
"Trowa!!!!" Quatre admonished.
"It's true. She's more like a guy than a girl. She treats us pretty coldly for a girl …"
"Well, that may be so but I think that is because she is more interested in her career than anything else."
"Hilde has a short attention span so she's ok …" Quatre snickered at that.
"And Relena has never shown an interest in guys before Heero here so …"
"True, true," Quatre nodded thoughtfully in agreement.
Heero supposed he should be flattered but he wasn't. "Well I'm with Wufei now. It's a moot point. Nothing is ever going to happen between us so friends is all we can ever be."
"Haven't seen Wufei around lately. What's he up to?"
"He's decided to take some classes to further himself so he's been pretty busy."
"Guess you guys are doing well …?" Quatre probed.
"I suppose." Heero decided to take that moment to walk over to a machine far away from them. That however did not prevent him from hearing Quatre's whispered comment to Trowa, "Not one for being particularly forthcoming is he?" Heero smirked to himself.
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"So Maxwell … you have time after hours to squeeze another appointment in?" Zechs called out over to Duo while cutting his client's hair.
"Tonight's Relena's party, Zechs … "
"I know which is why I can't take care of him. But he's a pretty good friend of mine. He really could use a haircut …"
"I don't know …" Duo stalled. It wasn't as if he couldn't do it. He was just in a somewhat crappy mood. He knew that tonight he would have to see Wufei and Heero together. He was in a somewhat contradictory mood. On the one hand, he was dying to see Heero again and get to know him. On the other hand, he knew it would be bad news to be faced with the temptation to chase after his best friend's guy. He really did not want to hurt himself or Wufei like that. They had been friends since middle school. He valued his friendship with Wufei. Sometimes though, he thought maybe he had built up Heero in his head and that maybe it would be a good thing to see him again. Dispel any notions of infatuation he felt. Somehow though, he had managed not to see either of them in the last several weeks. It hadn't been on purpose though. Wufei had always been like that. Once he started going out with someone he really liked, he got very serious and committed and wrapped up in his new boyfriend. Duo had always hated that aspect of Wufei. It was as if his friends didn't exist anymore. He knew it wasn't that Wufei didn't care about his friends anymore but Wufei didn't believe in doing things half-assed. He wanted to give his all to a relationship. That was why he had been so devastated in his last relationship. Failure was just not an option with Wufei. It probably stemmed from losing his entire family in an accident when he was younger. It made Wufei doubly possessive of people that he cared about. He didn't deal with loss well. Not that Duo could blame him. That kind of tragedy never left anyone unaffected. Duo himself felt that kind of loss as well. Something he really didn't want to dwell on.
"Come on, Maxwell. Relena's party starts at 7:30. Plenty of time to squeeze my friend in."
Duo made another noncommittal noise. "What if I told you he was gorgeous?"
"How gorgeous?" Duo shot back jokingly.
"Well almost as gorgeous as me but not quite …"
Duo laughed at Zechs' vain reply.
"Plus … he's a model slash actor just like me. I'm not kidding about him being easy on the eyes. And he's really smart too. I don't even know why he got into acting to tell you the truth but seriously he's a very nice guy …"
"You trying to set me up?" Duo eyed Zechs suspiciously.
"Er … no. Actually he's already taken. Just trying to give you incentive to cut this guy a break. I know you can take care of him and make your way to Lena's with plenty of time to spare … No harm in taking in some eye candy beforehand right?" Zechs cajoled.
"I'm not that shallow, Zechs … maybe one of the others can do it …" Duo dodged.
"No one else is available …" Zechs walked over to him with a magazine in hand. "Here, maybe this will persuade you …" Duo looked at the magazine layout and almost dropped his scissors in shock. His mouth dropped open. He felt like a gaping goldfish. There, in the center of the layout, was a bare-chested lean muscled Heero laying propped on his side in the sand in sinfully tight jeans looking like a sculpted god, his hair falling sexily into his intense eyes. Even though the photo was in black and white, one could still see those beautiful eyes burn with power and passion. What Duo would give to be one of those miniscule grains of sand scattered over Heero's body …
Zechs pushed a finger under Duo's chin to close his mouth. "Put your tongue back in, Duo. Told you he was hot. Change your mind? You can even keep that magazine …" Zechs winked.
Knowing this was a bad idea, he was about to refuse, "Yeah, I'll do him …" Duo was shocked at what had come out of his mouth instead. Zechs smiled knowingly and walked back to his client. Duo groaned. What was he getting himself into?
To be continued …?
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