Nuriko: Here comes the next installment of Lunar Symphony.
Duo: Oh and is it a dozy of a chapter.
Nuriko: :smirks: Oh it's far more than that.
Jess: Nuri, what are you planning this time?
Heero: This is beginning to un-nerve me.
Nuriko: This is my way of tormenting you for being mean to Jess the other day.
Jess: I didn't really think you'd punish him.
Nuriko: Of course.
Duo: Her actually letting one of us off with just a threat? :laughs: Never happen.
Jess: :eyebrow raised: You're in a better mood. How come you're on Nuri's side again?
Duo: Because I was told about what's planned.
Nuriko: Not to mention he's not the one I'm angry with this time around.
Jess: :grins: I'm really looking foreword to this.
Duo: :smirk: Me too.
Nuriko: Me three.
Heero: Hn.
Nuriko: On to chapter three!
Heero: Somebody help me. :mutters into the sudden silence:
Chapter Three: Duo POV:
I watched Heero for the longest moment. Morgana was snuggled against my side. I could tell she was tired yet reluctant to go to sleep until she was certain all was all right. She hadn't eaten today, either, but we were both used to going to bed hungry.
"Heero, why now?" I asked softly. "Why do they care about L2 now?" Heero's dark expression softened slightly as he continued to watch Morgana. He always did have a soft spot for children.
"I don't know," Heero answered. He sighed and motioned for Morgana and I to take a seat on the single tan couch he owned. I moved over to it with Morgana and took a seat. Morgana curled onto my lap. Obviously she felt I was safe now, for she was curling up to sleep, just like she did at our home.
"What kind of help will you need?" I asked, smoothing a hand over her braid.
"I'm in charge of cleaning up the drug dealers and other such things. I even have to figure out how to get the children off the streets. In all honesty, I don't know where to begin." I thought on his words a moment. Relena and Quatre would most certainly be dealing with the political aspect of L2. I was fairly certain on that.
"I can help gather the children," Morgana spoke up suddenly. I grinned. It was nice to see she trusted him as much as I did. Offering to help with the children was a huge step toward her trust in him.
"Hn," Heero muttered softly. I could help but grin. Old habits died hard with him, I could tell.
"Don't belittle her, Hee-chan. She's got every child on L2 listening to her. When I had returned to L2, after the wars, she was all ready in charge of them, all of them under her command. Now, no child so much as sneezes without her permission. She doesn't have them scared of her either. They listen to her because she's smart." Morgana adjusted herself so she could look at Heero, her storm gray eyes serious.
"Please Mr. Preventer, sir. I can help too. Once you have a place for them, I'll get them there. I promise I will. Please don't throw me out." I froze, watching tears fill her eyes. Morgana was terrible when it came to rejection. Especially since her parents had simply tossed her aside as soon as she could walk and talk.
Heero's eyes softened and he soon was kneeling in front of her. There was no longer any ice in those stunning blue eyes. My heart skipped a beat and my pulse sped up. Oh, I forgot how much Heero affected me. Obviously I still loved him. I knew I always would. If only I could be worthy of him.
"Morgana, may I call you Morgana?" She nodded at his question. Heero then continued. "I'll tell you what. I'll leave you in charge of the children. You'll be our junior Preventer on the field. How does that sound?"
"Really?" Morgana asked, her eyes growing wide. I couldn't help but smile. Heero had become a shred negotiator during his time with the Preventers. He had also become less cold toward others. That was something I was beginning to love to see.
"Really. On my honor." In the blink of an eye she was suddenly in his arms, her own chubby arms going around his neck. Heero was stunned, uncertainty in his normally unemotional eyes as he looked at me. 'What do I do?' he mouthed to me. I smiled softly, certain my feelings were shining in my eyes.
'Hug her back,' I mouthed in return. With his eyes locked on mine, Heero wrapped his arms around her hesitantly, returning her hug.
"Is there someplace I can sleep?" she asked after a bit. Heero removed his gaze from mine and looked at her.
"I was going to be up all night so you can take my room. Its through the door on the right," Heero told her, pointing toward it. She gave me a hug and kiss before heading toward the room.
"Sleep well," I called. She nodded and soon disappeared behind the door. I cast a sideways glance toward Heero, only to catch his gaze on me. He was checking me out! From the slight hitch in the pulse at the base of his throat, he liked what he saw too. Oh, this could be used to my advantage.
"So, where does that leave you for helping me?" he asked. He was nervous. I could tell because his left hand flinched when he was nervous.
"I can give you a list of every crooked politician, officer, and business man on L2. I can also give you every drug dealer, drug supplier, pimp, and other such low life that is here on L2. Not a thing goes on in L2 that I don't know about. Even after three years, everything was exactly as it was when I was last here."
"So why a street walker?" Heero finally questioned. I could tell he really wondered about what had made me choose this life when Lady Une and Noin were more than eager to have my skills in the Preventers ranks.
"Why not?" I asked back. His hands clenched. He was trying to restrain himself. How sweet. I sighed and stood, moving to stand beside him. "There's nothing else that I'm suited for other than that. It's what I did before I joined the sweepers and I never thought I was good enough for anything else. Being a Gundam pilot was the best I've ever hand it."
I have him a small smile and then leaned in close to him. I pressed against him, my eyes watching the pulse at the base of his throat. It once again began a faster than normal pace. I really loved how much time had changed Heero. True, he was still anal retentive about his home, but he wasn't as in control of his every physical response anymore. I found myself liking this more and more.
"Yet there was always one thing I really missed out on. One thing I wanted and will most likely never have," I told him in a throaty purr, my lips a hairs-breath away from his quickening pulse.
"Wh. . .What is that one thing?" he asked. I smiled against his throat. My Hee-chan stuttered. I was getting to him. This was the happiest moment of my life. The one I loved was affected by my touch and voice. It was all I care about at the moment.
"I wanted to kiss the one who never saw me as nothing more than a street rat. I wanted one moment of pleasurable closeness before having to return to my empty world." I spoke my words from my heart. My lips were now mere inches from his. The one thing I wanted was a breath away. Yet I wouldn't take this from him. I wouldn't steal our first kiss. I wouldn't take his first kiss. Instead I took something else I wanted. I ran my lips down his throat, over his chest, which was now visible to my hungry gaze, and then down to where his pants stopped my lips. I was kneeling before him, but I enjoyed where I was. He tasted like heaven to me. It was certainly a pleasure to tease him.
"I'll get to work on those lists," I said, standing up and moving back. I gave him a smile and headed over to his desk. There I picked up paper and pen and got to work, unwilling to look back at Heero after what I had just done. Taking a page from Heero's book I began everything by making categories. After all, Heero liked his paperwork neat and orderly. I wasn't about to disappoint him now.
Nuriko: So. . .What do you think?
Heero: :death glare: I hate you.
Jess: I hate you too.
Duo: Oh they only hate you because you left it open without any fun happening.
Nuriko: Not to mention it was total torture for Heero and leaves Jess in a lurch.
Heero/Jess: Omae o Korosu!
Duo/Nuriko: Hai, hai. We know.
Nuriko: Until next chapter, ja mata ne.