Eye of the Dimen

Chapter Twelve

It was passed midnight when Heero decided to actually go to bed. He had been leaning against the stone wall he had put up to block out the others, watching Duo sleeping peacefully on the fur. He crawled over to lay next to Duo, propped up on his elbow. He brushed Duo's bangs away from his face, running his thumb lightly over the smooth stone. Duo's snapped his eyes open and grabbed Heero's hand in his, his eyes flashing for a moment, before smiling up at Heero. Heero smiled back down at him, he leaned over and kissed him, slipping his tongue into Duo mouth. Duo moaned, and kissed him back, moving his hand so that it cupped Heero's jaw, his other arm wrapped around his back. Heero hand creased Duo's neck.

Heero moved away from Duo's lips, and moved down to his chin, and down his neck, moving slowly, nipping, and licking as he went, making his treasure moan in pleasure. He lifted Duo's shirt above his head, tangling his hands in the material. He started kissing his collar bone and moving down to his nipples, spending extra time on them.

"Heero?" Duo said, pushing Heero away slightly, Heero brought his mouth back to Duo's and kissed him softly.

"What?" He asked softly, kissing Duo again, this time nibbling on his lower lip.

"I…um…"Duo blushed and looked around frantically. Heero kissed him again.

'It's okay." He whispered. "Just let me…." He trailed off moving back to Duo's chest. Duo closed his eyes at the feeling, arching his back slightly to meet Heero's kisses. Heero's hands traveled down Duo's legs, then back up his thighs, where a finger hooks around the waist band of his pants. He didn't remove then yet, first he trailed his kisses down Duo's stomach, filling it flutter when he dipped his tongue in Duo's belly button. Heero leaned up again, and kissed Duo's lips.

"If you don't want to do this yet, we don't have to, I'm not going to force you into anything." Heero said kissing him again. Duo smiled wrapping his still tangled hands over Heero head and around his neck, pulling him down so that his lips touched his ear.

"I love you." Duo whispered, kissing right under Heero's ear. Heero sat up, straddling Duo's waist, and looked down at him in shock.

"You love me?" His voice sounded far away, like he didn't mean to say it. Duo suddenly felt like he shouldn't have said anything, that it was the wrong thing to say at the wrong time to say it. Heero was just sitting there starring at him. Duo looked away from Heero. "Duo, you-."

"No…I'm sorry I didn't mean to say it." Duo said, pushing Heero off him. "I shouldn't have, it was wrong of me." He said, backing away and pulling his shirt back on, the cave suddenly felt very small.

"Duo, you didn't mean it?" Heero asked, reaching out for Duo. Duo shook his head and pulled away from Heero, putting his head on his knees and not looking at Heero, which could have been the reason he missed the hurt expression. Heero lowered the wall and gave Duo his space. Duo started crying silently so the others wouldn't hear him. Heero just starred off into space, sitting near Wing.

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They all worked quietly in the morning, packing the horses quickly. Deathscythe allowed them to pack her back to lighten the load of the other horses. Duo stayed as far away from Heero as possible, Heero just ignored him, giving him his space. Quatre looked from Duo to Heero several times in the course of the morning.

"What's wrong?" Trowa asked, coming up to Quatre on his horse.

"Something happened last night." Quatre said, pointing to Heero, then looking behind them at Duo. "Their usually side by side." Trowa looked at them for a moment.

"I've got Heero, you take Duo." He said. Quatre nodded and they waited a minute. Wufei just rolled his eyes at the news he over heard and stopped his horse so that it was behind Duo a few yards. He was not going to get involved with relationship issues, when the man he loved was miles away on some ship probably.

Trowa road up to Heero and didn't say anything for a moment, thinking of how to ask his question, then settled for something blunt and easy.

"What the hell happened? I thought I warned you last night about hurting him. I mean I know I'm a little slow and stuff but even I knew-."

"I don't know what you mean, I didn't hurt him last night." Heero said, cutting Trowa off.

"Why are you and Duo ignoring each other?" Trowa said, rephrasing his question.

"We're not, he just needs to be alone right now, I'm giving him his space." Heero said, though he felt that there was something more to it then just that, but he couldn't put his finger on it.

"I think you're giving yourself time and space to think." Trowa said.

"Trowa I di-." Trowa nudged his head back towards Quatre and Duo . Heero looked over his shoulder and found Duo with his face in his hands, his shoulder jerking lightly with his sobs.

"He's crying." His voice sounded like he wanted to go back there and wrap Duo in his arms, and sooth him, and kiss him….Heero shook his head and looked away from the boy.

"Of course, obviously what happened last night hurt him in some way." Heero just barked out a laugh.

"I should be the one in tears!" He growled out. Trowa flinched away at the comment, his eye went wide.

"Heero, I've never heard you talk like this, what the hell happened?" Trowa asked again.

"Look, last night things got a little heated up, I told him I would stop if he wanted to and he said he loved me, but before I could ask him if he meant it he pushed me away and said he didn't mean to say it, that's it." Heero looked away from Trowa.

"So what was happening scared him, what do you expect he's-."

"He took it back Trowa!" Heero almost yelled, keeping his voice down so that Duo wouldn't hear him.

"What!" Trowa said.

"I said that he took it back, he doesn't love me." Trowa looked back at Duo then back at Heero doubtfully.

"How long did you pause before you started talking to him?" Heero winced slightly. "Damnit Heero, you expect him to take your silences as speechlessness when something like that is confessed. It's a confusing enough emotion, I'm sure he didn't need that adding to it. He's probably scared out of his mind about it, what the hell do you expect. What did you do when he pushed you away?" Trowa asked.

"Moved away from him, I went and sat with Wing." Heero said quietly.

"You idiot. You should have tried to corrected things, now you're pushing him further away." Trowa reined in his horse. "Ass." He said, moving back to wear Quatre and Duo were. Heero just sighed and kept going.

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"Duo, are you okay?" Quatre asked, putting a hand on Duo's shoulder.

"I wish that none of this happened,." Duo said quietly, not looking at Quatre.

"What! But you would still be in that cave, or worse, Trieze could have you now." Quatre said. "What would make you wish that?" He asked. Duo put his face in his hands.

"I told him I loved him." Duo sobbed.

"Do you?" Quatre asked.

"I don't know anymore." Duo admit tined. Quatre smiled slightly.

"Well, I have question to answer yours. Who is the one person you think of most, above all people, the person who you would risk your life for, and the person who you want to give everything too? If it's no one then you're not in love."

"But I would give my life for you, and Trowa….maybe Wufei." Quatre smiled at that.

"Trust me that's a hard one for us too."

"But you know, I do think of Heero all the time, everything I do I want to do for him, and I want to be with him, and last night, I wanted to give myself to him. But he just starred at me, he didn't say anything for the longest time, when he did start talking I panicked so I pushed him away, I said I didn't mean it." Duo said, sobbing into his hands again. Quatre frowned.

"But you did mean it." Quatre said. "Duo, talk to him, don't let this go further then it already has." Duo just remained silent and Quatre left him alone. Ridding along side Trowa who was coming back to them.

They rode through the night, not wanting to take the chance of the Oz guards catching up with them, or one of Lady Une's creatures attacking them when they were sleeping. They reached the port early the next morning. Heero went in to talk to the Port owner, leaving the others to find the Inn in the nearby city of Itony.

"When will a ship be setting out, again?" Heero asked.

"I don't know, depends on how much money you have." The man said, Heero rolled his eyes, and reached into his pocket, pretending to search for a bit while he made a few large nuggets of gold.

"Will you take these, it's all I have left." Heero asked, placing a few hand size nuggets on the desk in front of the man. The mans eyes grew incredibly large, he reached for them but Heero covered them with his hand.

"Are they real?" The man asked.

"I will let you check after we talk." Heero said.

"Your ship will be ready at dawn."

"With enough food for the trip to Tylol?"

"Of course."

"It has to be fast and have a crew also, a trust worthy one, one that I will personally check out for myself in the morning before we leave." Heero said.

"Let me check the gold." The man said, Heero pushed one of them towards him. The man checked it and nodded.

"You got it." He said. Heero put the others in his pocket.

"Good, then that one can be the down payment, I'll let you have the rest once I check the crew." With that Heero walked out of the shop and ran into a taller man with dark brown messy hair like his.

"Heero!?"

"Odin, you're not suppose to be here. I thought you're letting Heldi to wait for us." Odin waved it off.

"I got stuck here because of the storm, so I guess I'm going to travel with you guys now. So where's the little kitten?" He asked, Heero lifted an eye brow.

"Who Wufei?" He asked. Odin laughed full out, doubling over and holding his side.

"Wufei may be a nice piece of work, a kitten no, a dragon? Yes. But I was talking about the subject of you're Quest." Odin said.

"Lay off Odin." Heero warned.

"Why?" He asked, stopping his laughing and straightening up.

"Because I said so." Odin's lips spread into a knowing smile.

"Oh, has the little kitten been adopted already, darn and I was hoping to give him-." Heero punched him in the gut, hard.

"Don't you dare say it." Heero warned.

"Say what?" Odin asked though his teeth, wincing in pain.

"That sick comment about cream that you used with that girl at the pub in Myricsees Highland." Heero growled. Odin smiled.

"Damn, I really already used that one?" he asked.

"Multiple times." Heero said bluntly.

"Well it must be working, if I keep using it." Heero punched him in the gut again, and walked away. "I'll see you tomorrow on the ship." Odin said, gasping and smiling, waving at Heero as he walked away.

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Heero walked into his and Duo's room sometime later, finding Duo already asleep, and still in his cloths at that. Heero sighed and removed Duo's boots, arm covers, and over shirt, making sure to tuck him in, and went to do the same for himself. He blew the candle out and closed his eyes to sleep.

A half hour later he woke to his bed shifting. He remained still as Duo crawled into his arms and snuggled to his chest. He felt Duo's breathing calm into sleep. Once Duo was a sleep, he carefully crawled out of the bed, not wanting to wake Duo, but he wasn't ready to…well be forgiven. He had thought about it and pausing had been the wrong choice, but not talking to Duo that night had been even worse. He crawled into the other bed.

He heard Duo moving around in his bed, and heard the quiet whimper. He listened as Duo got out of bed and walked towards the door. He stopped long enough to throw something at Heero, and left the room. Heero listened as Duo knocked on the door next to him and he heard Quatre answer the door, talking for only a few seconds before shutting it again. His hand trailed to the object that had landed on his bed. It was Duo's necklace. Heero closed his eyes, this was going to be a long night.

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Heero woke to the sound of his door opening, hoping it was Duo coming back in, he sat up and frowned when he saw Quatre.

"I'm just getting Duo's cloths." Quatre said a little coldly, he had thought that if Duo crawled up in Heero's arms it would have worked, but obviously Heero was a little bit more of an ass then he thought he really was.

"Will you give this back to him, he dropped it last night." Heero said, handing the necklace towards Quatre.

"Funny, he said he threw it at you." Quatre said ignoring the necklace, and grabbing Duo's cloths off the chair.

"Look, I'm going to talk to him today. I just thought that last night wasn't a good time-."

"I don't think anything you say can fix what you have done." Quatre growled out.

'What?" Heero sounded heart broken.

"Duo said you moved away from him when he tried to stay with you. You could have just hugged him and stayed there with him and he probably would have forgotten everything." Quatre said. "He cried all night last night, his damn heart is broken because of you…all because you thought it wasn't a good time." Quatre growled out, his voice rising slightly.

"But I don't….I just wanted to say the right thing, to just stop having these misunderstanding. I just want him to love me." Heero said, whispering the last part.

"He does, but he thinks he's doing everything wrong now, and that he can't make anything right. He's tried, but you just shrugged him off. He's not going to try again, I won't let him. It's up to you to make things right." Quatre said. "To make it easy on you Heero, I'll give you a way to do this. Kiss him and say you're sorry…tell him that you love him." Quatre said.

"Just like that?" Heero asked.

"Sometimes, that's all it takes." Quatre said, leaving Heero's room. He dressed quickly and left the room. He found Trowa down with the horses.

"I'm going to put them in my shadow, they'll be put asleep and won't require any food or drink until we reach Tylol." Trowa said, Heero nodded in agreement, and helped Trowa put the horses into his shadow. Soon Quatre and Duo were walked out from the Inn, Duo's head was bowed and he looked utterly depressed.

"Duo…I'll meet you down at the ship, I have to talk with Trowa…in private." Quatre said. Duo just nodded. Then turned to see Heero was approaching. Duo turned again and started walking in the other direction, but Heero grabbed his arm and pulled him into an alley for privacy.

"Here." He said, grabbing Duo's hand and putting the blue necklace into in. Then he gently tilted Duo's head upward and pressed his lips to Duo's. Duo didn't respond to the kiss, but Heero felt the gasp, so he knew that Duo was trying hard not to respond.

"I'm sorry, I really am." He said, nuzzling Duo's neck. Duo smiled, though he tried not to. "You just surprised me when you said it, that's all." He said, he kissed Duo again, this time he responded kissing him back with full force. They pulled away.

"Will you give me a second chance to show you how much I love you.?" Heero asked, looking Duo in the eye.

"Only if you kiss me again." Duo said with a smile. Heero happily complied to the terms and pulled Duo into another kiss.

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I personally like this chapter. Though it gets so much better. :D