Disclaimer: Gundam Wing belongs to them, not to me (probably a good thing).
Title: Memories
Author: aomurasakiai
Pairing: Heero/Duo
Rating: PG
Warnings: Post-EW, Shounen Ai, WAFF/Sap
gw500 challenge: #04 - "digging"
Word Count: 550
Twenty-five-year-old Heero Yuy returned home from work on a rainy Saturday night. He shook off his wet umbrella and placed it by the door to dry.
"Duo?" he called out, wondering what the braided man could be doing that was keeping him so quiet. He set off to search for his missing lover, heading towards their bedroom since it was the most likely place to start looking. His instincts were correct when he found the other rummaging around inside the closet.
"What are you up to?" Heero asked amusedly as he moved closer to the braided American.
"Looking for something," came the other's voice from deep inside the small storage space.
"Need any help?"
"No, I -- Yatta! Found it!" Duo emerged from the darkness, holding a wooden box. The unruly-haired ex-pilot gave him an odd look but all his lover did was motion him to the bed before following. Once they were comfortable, Duo lifted the lid and Heero saw that the box contained pictures within, dating back to the First Eve War.
"I was worried I'd lost these." The violet-eyed man smiled wistfully as he pulled each one out. Heero blinked, slightly surprised when he realized that the box's contents had nothing but pictures of him.
"They're all of me?" Duo smiled and nodded.
"All of these were before we got together." His expression turned serious as he reminisced. "I had wanted something to remember you by should we ever separate during the war. Or after… or if either of us…"
"You were attracted to me back then?" Heero asked, cutting the other off. He didn't want to think of what could have happened if either of them had died back then. The Japanese man knew that he would have never be able to learn what a wondrous thing love was. He wouldn't give it up for anything.
"Enough to risk my neck in taking all these pictures of you," Duo said, smiling again. Warmth filled and flowed through Heero, like it always did whenever he was with his braided lover. He smiled back before pulling the other man into his arms and giving him a soft kiss. It was a short but tender one and when they broke apart, Heero leaned back against the pillows with Duo settling down beside him.
"So, tell me how you went about taking all of these without me noticing," Heero said while picking each one up and glancing at his younger self.
"Well, this one was taken the day when you were so absorbed about fixing Wing."
"You mean the day before I took off with Deathscythe's parts?" the cobalt-eyed man said with a smirk.
"Shut up you. Remember who it was who hauled both of our Gundams from the ocean!" Duo retorted back, swatting the other's arm.
"All right, all right. You win," Heero replied, laughing. "You had a camera with you back then?"
"I had one of those spy cameras. It's concealed within a ballpoint pen and when you click the top down, it takes the picture. Nifty, ne?"
"So that's how…"
"And I am a master of stealth." Duo grinned cheekily. Heero picked up another picture, this time one of him sleeping.
"You definitely are," Heero agreed and they both continued to rediscover Heero's past through Duo's eyes.
Owari
Note: The spy camera idea I actually got from a Chinese drama series. It's a cool looking thing, despite it being a pen.