My mother reentered my room for the second that day, wearing a look that basically told Heero 'let-go-of-my-precious-daughter/son-or-I'll-rip-your-eyes-out-and sell-your spleen-to-the-highest-bidder-on-e-bay'. 

It's amazing what one person can convey to another just through one tiny look.  Heero quickly let go of me and placed his hands protectively over his stomach.

"Is this him Duo?" she hissed, continuing her spleen selling look at Heero.

"Er, yeah.  This is Heero mom.  And-and, he's promised not to tell anyone, haven't you Heero?"

Heero nodded politely to my mother.

"Duo's right.  I'd never tell anyone his secret, I love him." Heero stated calmly.

Well…………that's new.

"You what!?" my mom screeches in a mixture of rage and confusion.

"You do?" I ask in a mixture of hope and confusion.

"Yes.  I do." Heero answered us.

Something inside my mother's brain must've popped, because her left eye had this odd twitching thing going on.  Me on the other hand, I don't know about my brain, but my heart had swelled three times its original size (hey I think I've heard that somewhere before).

"Heero…"I drift off, I had forgotten the rest of my sentence.

"Miss Maxwell?" Heero asks.

"twitch……twitch…" responds my mom's eye.

"Okay……um…Miss Maxwell I know you probably don't want me dating your son…er…daughter." Heero said.

"twitch…nod…twitch…"

"But, I really don't want to be away from him.  I won't tell anyone, I swear.  I'll do whatever it takes…just please let me stay with him."

I don't know what the hell was going through that boys mind, but that was about the dumbest thing to say to my eye twitching mother.  He might as well have sold his soul!  My mom's gonna make my boyfriend into her own personal slave!!! Hmmm….maybe

mom will make him where tight, black, leather around the house.  Yum, Heero slave….drool

ten hours later

Oh right! Back to the story…

My mom gave Heero an evil grin.

"Anything, you say?" she asked him.

I swear Heero's eyes widened, but it could've been the morphine again.

"Yes.  Anything."

"Fine.  Then you can help me with Duo, while she recovers, and that way I can keep an eye on you.  I hope you can do laundry."

"Yeah, cause last time she tried, all my cloths came out purple with blue dots." I whispered into Heero's ear.

"Duo!  That just between us!" my mother snapped, smacking me on the head.

I heard Heero give a small, meant to be unheard laugh, and couldn't help but smile and snuggle up to him.

Spleen selling look take two!  Action!

My mom has some great will power, it must've taken everything to stop that animal instinct of protecting one's young and not ripping their mates to shreds.

"Mom!  Cut that out! You'll scare him away!"

"I really see no downside Duo."

"Mother! If you don't stop, I'll impale myself on a butter knife!  I'll cut my hair!  I'll stop buying shoes!!" I start ranting and raving.

"Okay okay!!  Sweetie, I'll stop, just not the shoes!  Don't be so irrational dear, please!" my mother begs.

I can only imagine how amusing it must be watching the two of us argue like little kids.  I bet Heero finds us hilarious, like a favorite TV show of something.  Hey!  I wanna watch too!

Anyways, through out the day my mom continued what she called, negotiating with the hormone driven savage, a.k.a. Heero.  

The deal turned out to be this, everyday Heero would drive me too and from school, once we got back to my house Heero would stay and help my mom with the house work, cleaning, cooking, whatever.  Then he'd help me with my homework, and if he laid one finger on me I was supposed to scream and yell and call for the police. 

We also had to discuss my little 'secret'.  Of course Heero had to swear on his erm…...uh…well, to put it bluntly he had to swear not to tell a soul or my mother would 'fix' him.  You get the idea.  So, not wanting to be castrated at anytime in the near future, he agreed and everything was all happy again.  Yay!

At School on Monday

As planned, that Monday, Heero and I put our plan into action and that morning before school Heero broke up with Relena, and Relena decided to break Heero's nose.  That was messy. 

Not soon after breaking Heero's face with her evil cosmetics purse from Hell, Relena went off and told everybody the Heero was gay, which is true, but nobody else has to actually know that.  Well that rumor lasted for about two class periods until the school nurse caught me and Heero making out on the bed in the back, then Relena's little rumor was shot to the ground and Heero was straight again.  

Locker After School

"Ready to go home Duo?" Heero asks me.

"Yep.  Ready to be my mother's slave?"

Heero gave me one of those perverted smirks which always foretells impending doom on my party, that or sex.

"I'd rather be someone else's slave." He purrs in my ear, causing me to shiver.  Damn sexy man voice.

"Heero cut it out.  You're so horny." I said, trying to keep the weakness from my voice and the blush from my cheeks.

"Yeah, but you know you don't mind." He continues whispering, pushing me up against the wall, making it very hard not to feel certain parts of him.

"Heero!!" I whine pitifully.

Apparently Duo torture is on Heero's favorites list, since he continued pressing against me and biting my neck.

"Help!  Police!" I call out into the abandoned hallway, causing the both of us to burst out laughing.

"I can't believe you actually did that." Heero tells me, still laughing.

"Notice how none came?  That definitely ensures my safety."

I grabbed his arm and leaned my head on his shoulder.

"I'm scared Hee-chan, will you escort me home?  I'm too weak to make it there by myself." I pleaded in an overly girly voice, even for me.

Heero shook his head at me.

"You're so damn weird Beautiful." He tells me.

"Yeah, but that's why you love me, right?"

"Actually, I think I liked it more when you were bitchy and mad at me all the time."

"We can fix that, just let me go get my purse and I'll throw some stuff at you."

I made a move to go back to my locker, but here grabbed my arm before I could get there and dragged me back.

"No, really Duo, that's…that's fine.  I'll live with the current insane, non-violent Duo." He said, dragging me into his arms.

I laughed.

"Your still embarrassed that you got punched by a girl aren't you?"

Heero's grip tightened slightly and he bent close to me ear.

"No.  Because I didn't get hit by a girl, just a really girly boy."

"Oh and that's such an improvement."

"It is."

"Is not."

"Is too."

"Is not."

"Do I have to prove my point in the janitor's closet?"

"Possibly, but that would risk my secret and your manhood.  Remember?"

Heero made a face.

"We should hurry to your house."

"I thought as much."

To be continued…

Author's Notes:

Well, they finally strangled it out of me.  The 8th chapter.  It didn't really go anywhere, but it's setting up the story for future events.  Be patient my pretties.  cackles evilly and strokes a pet flying monkey

-BlackStar