Warning: Shounen ai, implied lemon (nothing explicit) and mpreg

Disclaimer: Don't own, never will.... Stop rubbing it in


Dedication: This story is dedicated to WhiteWolfSearching and this chapter theres a great big loving shout out to Utsubame, w/o whom this chapter wouldn't have been written glomps them both i love ya guys.


Summary of story so far: Duo was going out with Norris, together they decided to undertake an operation to hopefully get one of them pregnant, after some confusion it was found that it was indeed successful on Duo, but not Norris. Duo then kicked Norris out after finding out he was cheating on him. Duo then became an item with one Heero Yuy, Vice Ministers Darlians Bodyguard. As Heero and Duo's relationship grew, Heero accepted Duo's pregnancy and the bond deepened. Recently, Heero was injured protecting Relena, and after some iffy moments recovered enough to return home. After this incident, Duo moved in with Heero.


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Chapter 28


24 weeks


Weeks passed, Heero healed amazingly fast, and Duo acclimated himself to living with Heero. In a somewhat obtrusive fashion, Duo brought in his own furniture (with some friendly help from Quatre and Trowa), reorganized Heero's rooms, and also went through trashing old files and unimportant things that had piled up. Without much fuss Duo sold his apartment and took to Heero's room, where they moved a queen sized bed that had been gathering dust in a guest bedroom. Of course, they being Quatre and Trowa, because Heero was injured and Duo was pregnant.


Three weeks later, Heero had decided he was well enough to go to work again. Needless to say that didn't sit well with Duo.


"You nearly died a month ago Heero! You have no business going into work!" Duo moved himself in front of the door, arms crossed stubbornly across his chest, eyes narrowed and glowing in perseverance. If his belly hadn't been rounded in such a comical fashion it would have been quite intimidating.


"Duo! I've survived worse things than this, please let me go," His voice was pleading as Heero tried to cajole his braided lover into allowing him to leave. The dark haired man was leaving either way, it was just a matter of how.


"Come on. . . . Heero you know you aren't well enough yet! If I poked your side, you would wince! Why do you need to go to work? Every thing's under control," Duo pleaded and leaned against the wall.


Heero stared at Duo for a moment, and Duo stared back resolutely. Heero rolled his eyes, "Fine Duo, I'll just go back upstairs. . . . and sit on my butt and shrivel away from disuse," Heero sighed dramatically and made a big show of trudging up the stairs to their bedroom. As soon as he was out of sight, Duo scampered after him, except he went up to the third story, to the room directly above their bedroom and opened a window. He could hear movement downstairs. Duo frowned. He knew Heero wasn't going to stay.


Pushing aside the screen, without little difficulty Duo pulled himself out of the window and onto the gigantic oak tree growing up beside the house. Shimmying down the branch, Duo brought himself to a stop near Heero's window, hidden from view, and watched.


The window opened, Heero's head popped out, closely followed by his torso, twisting at an odd angle which was most likely very uncomfortable for him as well. Looking around, Heero yanked himself onto the window sill, grabbed onto a metal grate and begin pulling himself down. Duo watched him twist as he avoided the tender spots, where but a few weeks ago bullets had found there mark.


Angrily, Duo slid down the tree after Heero. Heero reached the bottom, stood, straightened his clothes and began walking towards the back fence. Duo growled, rather than following him in the tree, his braided lover scuttled ahead of him in the tree like a monkey. When Duo was in a good position, he dropped down.

An arc of pain shot straight up through the soles of his feet and pulsated in the small of his back. For a brief moment he bowed his head, crouched to the ground; but then Duo brought his face into view with a sardonic grin. "Going to bed, love?"


Heero's eyes widened in shock, Duo loved keeping people off balance but what Heero stuttered next left him just as unbalanced. "Duo! What do you think you are doing!?" His voice resonated in the large yard. Heero reached forward and put a hand on Duo's arm.


"I'm stopping you from doing something foolish! You aren't well enough to go to work," Duo's eyes flashed at the accusatory tone in Heero's voice. "Just now you were sneaking away from here, after telling me you were going to bed!"


"Stopping me from doing something foolish?" Heero's nose flared as his eyes went level with Duo's eyes. "I'm not the one who is six months pregnant here!" Duo opened his mouth to argue, but Heero cut him off angrily. "My going to work may not be the smartest thing to do, but at least I have a choice! That child that you are carrying has no say in whether or not his father jumps out of a tree," For flourish, he placed his other hand on Duo's distended belly. "Potentially endangering both of their lives!" Heero let Duo's arm go and turned on his heel. "I may be stupid but at least I'm not putting others to risk!" With a wave of his hand Heero began walking stiffly around to the front of the house, toward the garage.


Duo puffed out his breath angrily, ruffling his bangs. So now Heero was mad, and he was going to work, which Duo had ultimately wanted to prevent. Sure he was pleased that Heero had cared, but not so pleased that Heero was just going off anyway. Duo had gone through all that trouble and all it did was tick Heero off. Duo's violet eyes watched Heero's retreating back, and within those violet orbs, you could almost see the gears clicking.


Suddenly, Duo lurched forward, a pathetic cry squeaking out. Duo reached out and caught himself with his hands and stayed there, on the ground, head bowed and braid trailing onto the yard. Hearing the cry, Heero turned around. Seeing Duo on his hands and knees brought Heero straight to Duo's side.


"Duo? Duo! Whats wrong?!" Carefully, Heero put his hands on Duo's shoulder and turned him over, cradling the pregnant man next to his chest.


The braided man's eyebrows crinkled as he concentrated on the pain in his lower back and thighs. "Hurts. . . ."


Heero frowned, and lifted Duo. "Do you want me to call a doctor? Take you to the hospital?" Duo frowned in return.


"No, no really I'm fine," Duo didn't like that Heero was carrying him, but if he said something, it might undermine Duo's "need" and Heero may still try to go to work.


"Well. . . . Can you at least tell me whats wrong Duo?" Heero shifted Duo in his arms as he opened the back door to carry Duo inside.


Duo grunted and made a small pained laugh. "Shouldn't have. . . . jumped from the tree."
Heero smiled at Duo's attempt at a joke and carried Duo to their room and lay him on the bed. The Prussian eyed man turned, intending to call a doctor, but Duo reached out and clutched his wrist. "Don't leave me Heero, stay here."


Duo's pleading voice, and bright violet orbs convinced him. So he sat down gingerly on the edge of there bed, but Duo made motions for him to lay down. Sighing, Heero stretched out next to Duo, and settled in as Duo wrapped his arms gently around Heero's chest. Heero relaxed into the warm embrace. Slowly, Duo inched upwards and placed a soft kiss on Heero's lips, pulled back and then fell forward once more, kissing him with a hungry passion. This was one of the many things he had thought he had lost those three weeks ago to the assassin.


Growling a bit possessively at the thought, Duo intensified the kiss, and Heero responded, groaning and bringing his hands up to Duo's body and splaying them out across his back. Frantically Duo pulled at Heero's work shirt and somehow managed to get it off in his frenzy. Heero did the same and then proceeded to kick the covers off the bed. With a feral smile Duo attacked. . . .


tsuzuku


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Okay, nothing really happened in this chapter... at first it was full of revelations from both sides and then Utsubame reminded me of what i had promised would 'happen' during this chapter. Actually during last chapter but it got postponed.


I am so sorry about the wait. Thank Utsubame, she's the one who kicked my butt into writing this. . . . directly. Really though it was rereading the reviews that really got me writing... THANKS SO MUCH! glomps all reviewers


Über thanks to: Sweetpea, Wolfgirl333, Kiyomi, Soon to be World Renowned Gracie, Trio-spade, Akennea, Calencoireiel, kaori-chan, lycanthroperunner, Chain (thanks for rememberin' the baby ^^*), PSL, PATTY 40 (thanks for the compliments, they are a real morale booster), Kuiya, rikasakuraduo-heerosyliaspike, Du-kun, LadyDragonWolfKnight, Devil1, Ink2 (they weren't lying about Duo's reason for being there, they were just joking and saving some of the hassle of actually saying "wanna move in with me" ^_^), Honor, SuperPoodle, Solo D. Maxwell-Yuy, Mariana, Fragile Reflection (love the penname), Shinigami-Sniper, Deity of Sorrow, Arin.


~Annie ^^*