Title: Gundanium Cord Part 7
Author: Lilli Ixy Kay (ShinigamiAOD on ff.net)
Pairings: 1x2 3x4 5xM
Warnings: AU language plotting Hilde [more to come]
Archive: Fanfiction.net [if you want it take it just let me know]
Disclaimer: I had them for a little while but Duo picked the lock on the cage ::sigh:: I don't own them I don't own the song in this chapter I was just trying to spare you my lousy lyrical skills.
Note: Thank you Tsuki for being a wonderful beta. Thank you to Kel, Beguiled, Troublesome, & Space Monkeyfor your reviews.
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Rose colored lips were pulled back into a nervous smirk, and his cheeks began to take on a pink tint. "Uh . . . Hi." He stared at the group of people clustered in his basement, 'damn, each one of them is hot. . . no drool worthy.' His brain was fried do to the stunning site of not just any random strangers, but very hot strangers. Done drooling he turned to Hilde, "Care to share?"
"These are some friends of mine who sorta dropped in. I figured it's Friday so why not bring them to your place, I mean we always hang here on Fridays. It not a problem is it?" Hilde's voice was almost too innocent as she smiled at him.
"Course not. Hi, I'm Duo," Duo held out his hand to the girl in the vinyl outfit.
"Hello, my name is Nina," Noin's voice came out smooth and cultured. 'It would be my luck that she not only looks good but sounds good as well. Shame she isn't male it would be more interesting.' While Duo was a double swinging door he opened more often than not to the male species.
"Hiya, I'm Milan," Marian held out her hand, the mesh shirt riding up to uncover more of the bronze midriff. 'Cute and spunky, always a good combo.'
"Glad to make your acquaintance I'm Kevin," Quatre spoke sweetly. 'Cute boy, too bad he's so angelic looking. Makes me think of a small child of innocence, or a cherub.'
"Hiroma," was grunted from Heero. 'Can we say really hot? Man he's gorgeous and his outfit is way too yummy looking on him.'
"Now that you know names can you please sing? You promised me a new song today." Hilde's whining voice was like nails on a chalkboard to the distracted teen.
"Spoiled brat," Duo muttered shrugging out of the flannel and turning towards a cabinet of guitars. Over his shoulder he instructed, "Make your self comfy, if you want a drink or food get it your self cause I'm lazy and you live here."
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'He has a decent enough attitude, and an interesting fashion.' Heero, strangely enough, was amused by the shirt that the boy was wearing. It was a simple black T-shirt but what had amused Heero was the big bold red lettering that stated, "Practice safe sex...go fuck yourself". 'Well at least he has humor,' Heero thought with a bit more reserve after the boy's comment on being lazy. 'Laziness isn't something the band needs, lets hope humor is all it amounts to.'
"Pretty, where did you get this art done? Is it air brush? This is a neat design, did you pick it or ask for it?" Marian had decided to look at the cases of instruments and was currently gushing overt the art of an electric guitar.
Duo looked over at what guitar she was pointing at, "I did the art, the paint is a thinned acrylic that was done over top of the air brush out line and I did the design."
"Really? Wow, you have a wild imagination and your work is really beautiful. Do you play as good as you paint?" Marian giggled at the blush she saw spread over the boys face. 'Too, cute. He seems the type that doesn't blush often, maybe just when it's something he did is noticed?' She was enjoying herself quite a bit as she watched him squirm next to her.
He mumbled something under his breath.
"What was that?" she asked him.
"'S not that good," his voice was a little louder.
"But it is," she insisted. "The detail is really amazing." 'That's an understatement. I've never seen something so WOW on an instrument. Sure a painting in an art gallery but the detail and vividness of the single color is just impossible. He sure is a talented guy.'
"Thanks," he smiled in embarrassment before grabbing a similar guitar out of the case and walking over to the platform. "It's your night to pick the song Pixie, so what'll it be?" He seemed more at ease now that he was on the platform sitting on the little wooden stool.
"You said your new song would be finished, so come on and play it." Hilde was bouncing around on a few bean bag chairs, Zechs behind her on the bed couch. Noin and Quatre were on either side of him, and Marian was in a pile of the bean bag chairs on the other side of the table from Hilde. Heero stood of to the side watching as the boy moved about the platform. 'He knows what he's doing,' Heero thought as the boy hooked up the amp and adjusted the instrument he held.
A mild beat started up than stopped. Duo messed with the strings making a few more adjustment, then once again he started up the beat. It started a little shaky then smoothed out, after a few seconds Duo's voice mixed into the cords:
"Do we know how to get the message across
We turn the lights off to find a way out
No time to get through to grasp what was lost
Don't turn the light off and leave me in the dark
Hey, I'm pleading, my soul is bleeding
I don't want to be left alone, not when I'm right next to you
What are you thinking, it's so misleading
Is it not for me to know, I think it's just hard for you to show
"We never spoke in the words that we want
We turn the lights off to find a way out
We've never chosen to keep what we've got
Don't turn the light off and leave me in the dark
"I thought it would be nice to lie down and close my eyes
It never occurred to me that I am already asleep
"Don't be the one to be let go
Don't be the one to be alone"
The song ended on a hard cord that dropped out. Duo looked up from the instrument he held, Hilde had begun to clap like a small child, yelling gleefully, "pretty, pretty."
"You wrote that? It was really good. Where did you learn that?" Marian was firing questions at Duo in rapid session. 'He's good, really good. The CD did not do his voice justice, and his music is so unique. I rarely hear a song that doesn't have a beat that's been used a hundred times.' Marian's thoughts had the same amazement in them that her voice did.
"I just picked it up," Duo spoke meekly as his face flamed.
'He does have talent, but I want to find out more before making any sort of decision on the matter. For all I know he could be an escaped convict, and I wont have anything ruin the band.' Heero's thoughts were miles away from the others having learned to block out people such as Marian.
'This is to funny, Duo never blushes, but this is the second time today. I won't let him live this down, ever," Hilde was smirking along to her thoughts. 'Revenge is so sweet, especially after the glue incident. "Don't be modest Duo, you are talented in many things," Hilde's voice was suggestive in her comment.
"Too bad you'll only know one," Duo returned. The change of topic turned him back to his usual, teasing self.
"I wouldn't want to know, your talents lie to the other side anyway." Hilde had fallen into the teasing with a familiar grace.
The teasing continued for a good ten minutes when Zechs broke in, "Now children behave, we have guests." Duo stuck his tongue out at the man.
"Could we here another song?" Quatre's question was a soft whisper compared to the other's.
"Sure," Duo's voice was hyper sounding now that he wasn't a nervous wreck.
By about 1 AM Duo's voice had gotten a little rough and he was tired. Looking around the room he realized that so was everyone else. He had been singing for most the night but had talked briefly with Hilde's friends. They had flown in from out of state and were here for the next couple of days. "Do you guys have a hotel? If not there is room here and....," Duo broke into a huge yawn in the middle of his sentence. "And you could stay."
"Wow, that would be great. We hadn't had the chance to go to a hotel and get a room yet," Noin herself yawned at the end of the sentence.
"Pixie, Zechs, are you stayin' or goin'?" Duo asked as he unhooked the guitar and put it in it's case.
"We'll stay," Hilde answered for the both of them.
"'Kay, you guys know where your rooms are. The rest of you can follow me." Duo was dragging himself to the stairs, not caring if they followed for he was too tired.
He reached the top of the stairs then went back towards the front door. He then began up to the second story, "Hope you don't mined sharing rooms."
"Not at all," Quatre, ever the polite one, answered the rhetorical question.
Duo stopped in front of a door, third on the left from the stairs. He opened it. "This is the bathroom. There is a pack of unused toothbrushes under the sink and toothpaste in the cabinet above it. The shower is basic and towels are in the closet behind the door. There is also extra shampoo, soap, and conditioner in there." He pulled the door closed and walked to the door almost directly across from it. Opening that door he said, "This room is for the girls."
Noin and Marian both stared in amazement at the room that they were given. A large wrought-iron canopy bed was in the center of the room; the iron was black and the sheer curtains that hung from it were a deep purple. A thick Indian styled comforter was on the bed, it was dark purple and lavender. The plush carpet was a matching lavender, and the walls were only slightly darker. The furniture in the room was white wicker with pale purple handles, and there was a large bay window with purple seat cushions and pale purple pillows.
"If you need extra blankets or pillows they are in the closet next to the stairs." Duo moved on to the next door on the right. "This is your room," Duo opened the door.
This room was a very close replica of the last one with a few differences. Instead of purples there were blues and where the last bed was a canopy this one was a simple four-post maple wood bed. And instead of wicker furniture there was dark maple furniture.
"Thank you, again, for letting us stay," Quatre said politely.
"Not a problem. If you need anything I'm the last door in the hall. Just be careful when opening the door - Baka is really hyper and likes to jump on people," Duo warned.
"Baka?" asked Quatre.
"My Akita; he stays in my room most the time when Hilde's here, he likes to pounce her a lot," Duo said chuckling. "See you in the AM." With that he left.
Closing the door Quatre asked, "So what do you think?"
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