AN/Disclaimer : This fic is Alternate Universe running from partway through the first war and continues until after the end of Endless Waltz in the GW universe, and begins before and ends several months after Saffron is defeated in the R1/2 universe. (Duo 15, Ranma 17 at beginning), Warnings: AU, OOCness, Yaoi, & Het.
By the way to people who've read chapters 1-6 before, I did some editing and made a few revisions. You might want to read parts of it again. Thanks to everyone who had reviewed, you know who you are.
You've Got Mail
Chapter 7
In the shower after Fei finished dressing an' left, I couldn't help think 'bout one of the nicest bodies I'd ever seen. even if you count seein' Shampoo an' Nabiki in swimsuits. Course, I'd only gotten brief glimpses as he got dressed. He'd turned bright red soon as he spotted me watchin' him spun 'round an' put his clothes on with his back to me just as fast as he possibly could . Still, I saw enough to confirm what I'd felt curled around him the night before while I had enjoyed the show.
'Enjoyed the show'. That thought brought me to a screeching halt as I froze, my hands still buried in suds as I washed my hair. Gah! I was turning into the pervert Akane accused me of being! I was worse Ryouga! That's when a truely frightening thought occured to me.
I was turning into Happosai.
Next thing I knew I was sitting on the floor of the shower with the water pounding down on my head, my skull an' tailbone aching. What can I say? I panicked. Wouldn't you?
I sat there an' stared at the wall of the shower in shock 'til Kat pulled the shower curtain back an' asked me what was wrong. What ever I said in reponse couldn't have made much sense or done anything to reassure him since instead of leaving me there to finish my shower he turned the water off, an' had Duo help him haul me to my feet. At which point the two of them started trying to dry me off. Kat taking the dragon whisker out of my hair an' the feeling of it growing down my back at high speed snapped me out of my daze.
I snached the whisker back an' tied it into my hair just as fast as I could, but by the time I'd stopped my hair growing it was already down to my butt. That's when I realized that I was standing in the middle of the bathroom, stark naked except for the towel Duo had been drying my chest off with. I yelped... and fell on my ass. Had my voice been any higher it would have been a screech, but guys don't screech, only girls do, you know that, right? An'anyway, what was it with me an' fallin' down 'round these guys? Any time something suprised me 'round them over I went. I still haven't figured it out.
Turns out Duo must have been leanin' on me 'cause as soon as I started fallin' backwards towards Kat, he started fallin' too. At least Kat got outta the way so all I landed on was the bathroom floor. Duo on the other hand, landed on me. Luckily the towel he'd been using somehow mannaged to stay between us.
So there we where, me flat on my back on the cold tiles an' Duo face-planted in my lap. One hand grabbin' my hip an' holdin' the towel, the other on the opposite thigh, an' Kat standin' over us, hand over his mouth, his eyes as round an' shiny as a pair of new coins.
I did the only thing I could think of. runnin' outside wearin' only a towel was not an option. I slammed my eyes shut an' stayed as still as possible while tryin' to pry Duo off of me. Wasn't long before I had to open my eyes though...
For some reason he wasn't helpin' one damn bit. When I tried ta lift him off of me an' move him onto the floor, he let go of the towel, wrapped both arms 'round my legs, wiggled up so his head was on my belly, got comfortable, an' started talkin'.
Fast.
In English.
Now don't get me wrong, my English is actually pretty good an' so is my Chinese, well Mandarin Chinese anyway. As much traveling as me an' Pops did someone had to be fairly fluent. I mean come on, do you really think Pops would be willing to work at learning more than a couple of important words in languages other than Japanese? Who do you think got the job of learning to communicate with the locals? Me, that's who.
Still, I was lucky, I didn't have to learn both totally on my own. I'd started learnin' some English from my mother before me an' Pops started that trainin' trip an' I learned more everytime I got stuck goin' to school. That's where I started learnin' Chinese too, since I figured the idiot would be haulin' me over there at some point. After dealin' with some of Pops hairbrained ideas I'd learned to try to figure out where he was gonna take me next.
Turns out that pretty much everywhere we ended up goin' there was usually at least one person who spoke a bit of either English or Chinese. That made learnin' what ever language I needed to know to understand my current teacher much easier. It also made gettin' Pops outta jail a lot easier.
But, enough of that. Where was I...? Oh yeah, on my back on the bathroom floor with Duo on top of me talkin' faster than anyone I'd ever heard.
He was talkin' so fast that I caught maybe one word in five, if I was lucky. An' he just kept goin' an' goin'! I was startin' to wonder if he was breathing through his ears when he finally stopped to take a breath.
First thing I did was clap a hand over his mouth and try to sit up. When that didn't work, I flipped the two of us over, rolled off him, an' then sat up. Unfortunately leaving my towel behind. Not that I noticed as confused as I was by what few words I'd understood.
It wasn't 'til I stood up an' noticed him starin' at me clutching my towel that I realized I was naked. I grabbed the first thing to hand an' did my best to cover myself. Not very well I might add, since what I'd grabbed was the hand towel beside the sink. But, hey, It was better than nothin' right? Right?
When I had the towel arranged to my satisfaction, Duo was on his feet an' the prettiest shade of red I'd ever seen. He was tryin' to back outta the door with out me noticin' an' kept lookin' at everythin' but me. Given what he'd tried to tell me, I figure if he got away now, I'd never get him alone again. An' we really needed to talk.
ooOOoo
Twenty minutes later I was dressed an' calmed down. Duo had only gotten worse. I could almost see him vibrating in place as he sat on my bed from where I sat in a chair by the headboard. I don't think I'd ever seen anyone as nervous an' upset as Pops when he found out my mom was gonna show up at the Tendos before. the worst part was that he wasn't acting anaything like the Duo I was used to. It only got worse when I asked him to repeat what he'd said in the bathroom, slower this time.
The bright red blush came back an' he started mumblin', his eyes focussed on his knees. He didn't even notice me leanin' closer so I could actually hear him. To keep things short, the jist of the problem was that he was jealouse. Of me an' Wufei. An' on top of that while he knew what he wanted, just the idea was enough to scare the shit out of him. Turns out he nearly got raped a couple of times by a couple of soldiers in an alley as a kid, after something he called the Maxwell Church Massacre, and was raped when he was captured by Oz a couple of months earlier. He lso said somethin' about the worst part was bein' still interested in guys but bein' scared of gettin' close to anyone. By the time he stopped talkin' he was actually cryin' an' had his head buried in my chest.
Duo, the one who teased the hell out of everyone, never stopped grinnin', an' could even get a chuckle out of Heero an' Trowa.
I could hear someone growlin' but it wasn't 'til he clammed up an' tried to pull away that I realized it was me.
I did my best to calm down so he would too. It took a while, but it eventually worked. Sittin' there holdin' him on my lap I made a promise to myself that I'd find out who'd done this to him an' kill 'em if no one else had gotten to 'em first.
Lookin' back I can safely say that the only other times I've ever been that angry was when I first realized Pops haad turned me into a girl, an' dealin' with Saffron. I've come damn close a time or two since when Oz had one of the guys, but not even Herb or Ryouga could get me that pissed off. That was also the first time I seriously wished that I could kill someone, tear them limb from limb. Not even Saffron when he killed Akane got that reaction.
Soon as Duo fell asleep Kat walked in the door, pale as a ghost, with Trowa right behind him. He only said two words.
"What happened?"
By this time I'd figured out that Kat could somehow sense what other people were feeling. No wonder he was worried an'looked like a ghost. He'd probably been gettin' stuff from both me an' Duo full blast. Knowin' what I was feelin' an' havin' an idea what it would take to turn Duo into the wreck he'd been, I was suprised the boy wasn't curled up in a little ball somewhere.
I told 'em what Duo told me an' I know I didn't have to tell 'em how I reacted to it 'cause I was doin' it again.
Kat just about went balistic. The only thing that kept him from goin' nuts an' eventually calmed him down was Trowa grabbin' him an' tellin' him he was disturbin' Duo.
Seein' him like that, I could finally believe what I'd heard 'bout him goin' nuts an' blowin' up a colony. Take one piece of advice people, do not hurt anyone Quatre Raberba Winner cares about. If you do, You've as good as signed your own death warrent if he thinks that's what'll hurt you worst.
Eventually, Trowa an' Kat left, an' I was left sittin' on the bed with a sleeping Duo fastened to my waist. Not that I was too upset by this, I was still had a crush (at the very least) on him after all even nthough I liked 'Fei too.
That reminded me. 'Fei... this morrnin'... What a mess.
What the hell was I gonna do?
AN: Thanks for bearing with me people and I'm sorry this has been so long in coming. My laptop is dead, the processer is fried. Still five years is a pretty good lifespan for a laptop from what I've heard. Hopefully at some point we'll be able to salvage the hard drive so I don't loose all my music. I think I managed to recreate most of the original chapter 7 since I got back from Mexico (no I didn't go to Cancun). Hope you like it, and I'll get the next bit up as soon as it's done.
Also just to let you know, most of the NWC are going to be walkon characters at most. Don't expect a lot of character development there...
