FIVE

Sutoomu

Yes, so this is our lovely little epilogue chapter. Actually, its like the first part of a multiple part epilogue. This story isnt done. I figured out a few more chapters worth of story plot I have to write out. So Five isn't over yet!!

Thanks to my reviewers for chap 22! Lady-Frisselle, NoahBluze, SanzoGirl, Reikan, bloodredblack, summersarebright, HeeroDuo4eva, 1Leesha, Turtle Kid, catc10, Yami no Hikari-Chan, Trixters' Muse, silvertwighlight, yoru, Wing It /love the name/, Kami-Crimson, Kirihana, orphen chica, Tears Falling Freely, Hellfire, Lilith Desiree, NaraOccult, Vitanie Tora, Determined, and duodragoon21! lOVE YOU GUYS, LIKE ALWAYS!

Cookies and tea anyone? With Wufei back home, and Duo, they'll be gone soon. : )

Yeah, so here is the arrival home, and a bit of explaining about the time between the airport and flying home. So I hope you enjoy it. There is more coming, so don't worry. There will be a Session, but I have to figure out how to write it. It's going to be hard. But I shall prevail!

Wufei felt much lighter and happier as he stepped out of the car in front of the apartment building he knew and cherished. Duo stepped out at his heels, and Wufei set an arm around his waist and smiled, beaming with an aura of joy. His eyes lit upon each of his loves exiting the car, and then he looked back up at the window that was their apartment, a few floors up. His smile widened by the thought of being home. He wanted to sleep in his sheets with warm bodies all around him, and drink tea and eat cookies, and relax on the couch to the smell of dinner cooking. He wanted to wake up to the smell of bacon and pancakes. His heart was pounding, and he could barely restrain the urge to run up the stairs.

Trowa reached the door first, unlocking it and swinging it open for Wufei to enter first. He stepped in and felt his heartbeat increase with the urge to be home. He was excited, like a child at Christmas, and he was enjoying it.

"Don't block the door," Duo complained behind him, poking his back. Wufei looked back at him and grinned.

"Race you to the top." And he bolted up the stairs. Duo was quick to catch on, following at his heels and complaining about cheating with a head start. Wufei just laughed as they left Heero, Trowa, and Quatre at the bottom, keeping out of Duo's reach. He reached the top of the stairs and swung open the door to the hallway, and Duo caught him, running into him and knocking them both to the hallway floor. Wufei absorbed the fall and ended up on his back, while Duo fell on his face in Wufei's lap.

Duo panted as he propped himself up on his hands, looking at Wufei through a braid. Wufei flipped the thick plait back onto Duo's back and smiled warmly. "Thank you," he said. "That was fun. I haven't laughed in a while."

"You cheated," Duo huffed, glaring at him, and Wufei laughed. Duo couldn't help smiling as he stood, helping Wufei to his feet just as the others reached the hall.

"The superintendent is going to throw us out if you two don't be quiet," Heero scolded, with no real threat. He was teasing them, and Wufei loved the sound of it.

"Wait until Duo's birthday," Wufei smirked, then put his arm over Quatre's shoulders and licked his cheek. Quatre made a face and wiped it off, but he was still smiling after. "We'll wake the whole building!"

"They'll have soundproofed it by then," Trowa noted as he unlocked the apartment, and the five of them filed in. "If they're wise."

Wufei grinned as he looked at the apartment's main room. It looked just as he remembered. Nothing had changed, except the fact that it was all completely clean. And that wouldn't last for long, with Duo here. Besides, Wufei didn't plan to do any cleaning for a week.

Wufei stood in the middle of them all as they walked about the apartment, unpacking their things. Within five minutes it looked more lived in again. Wufei saw the kettle boiling on the stove, and Duo was digging in his bag for cookies. Trowa was currently in the washroom, and Wufei smiled as he heard him humming softly. He stood in the livingroom, simply absorbing it all. The feeling, the sounds and smells, the peacefulness he felt. The happiness and freedom. And the love.

Wufei wandered into the bedroom and collapsed on his red silk sheets, curling up and cuddling into them with a lovesick look on his face. Heero was unpacking his clothes, and Wufei watched him happily for a moment before letting his gaze drift over to his own empty and bare dresser. He didn't like the lack of jewelry and accessories that normally covered the top, and he made a mental reminder to go buy some new gear to last him until his things returned.

His and Meiran's things were being shipped over next week. It was all arranged on the plane trip home, as had been the arrangements for Taia. Meiran's family still lived in a home here, so she had a place to go back to, but Taia had lived with Tao Shen, and he had sold his home. After a bit of discussion, it had been agreed to let Taia live with Meiran for a short while until Wufei found her a permenant home. Once they had arrived at the airport, Meiran had called and arranged things with her parents. The story was simple and easy. Tao Shen had died by a heart attack, and, with Wufei's guardianship now in Taia's hands, he and Meiran had chosen to divorce. They were still good friends, but they weren't in love, and Wufei had someone else. Meiran's parents accepted the story easily, and welcomed Taia warmly, consoling her on the loss of her husband.

They had left Meiran and Taia at the Long residence, and had come straight home. Now Wufei was relaxed. All his pent up excitement of coming home was easing out of him, leaving a state of relaxing, peaceful calm. He was home, and he never wanted to leave his bed. Heero looked over at him and smirked as he saw Wufei's gaze back on him. The muscled young man reached over his head and pulled his shirt off, revealing his tanned skin to Wufei's approving eyes.

"Are you purposely doing this to torture me?" Wufei asked. Heero grunted and walked out of the room, smirking like the sexy jerk he was. Wufei stared sadly at where he had last seen Heero, and then Duo appeared to replace him, putting a smile back on Wufei's face.

"Hey, Dragon," Duo called as he approached. He stopped a foot from the bed and crouched on his knees to look in Wufei's eyes. "Look what I got." Duo waved a hand in front of Wufei's face, and he caught the tantalizing smell of chocolate cookies.

"Gimme," Wufei reached for it with a smile, which turned to a pout as Duo pulled it just out of reach. Wufei stretched his reach for it, and Duo pulled it back again. The actions were repeated three more times before Wufei huffed. "Duo, just give me the cookie! Please? I don't want to get out of bed!"

"You want this cookie, you're going to have to earn it!" Duo declared, dancing it around just out of Wufei's reach.

"Duo, don't tease him," Quatre scolded as he came in and saw the scene. "Let him enjoy his bed." Quatre looked at Wufei, who was holding a feather pillow in the clutches of an arm, a sign of his defiance to get out of said bed to get the cookie. From the look in his eyes, however, he badly wanted the cookie. Quatre remembered what he had originally come in to say and said it, then. "Tea's ready. Come to the kitchen." He turned and left.

Duo was watching Quatre leave when Wufei pounced out of the bed and tackled him. For the second time, they collapsed together in a heap on the floor, but this time, Wufei was on top of Duo. And he was content to stay there, eating his cookie so the crumbs fell onto Duo's mouth. Once the last bit was in his mouth, Duo grinned and licked his lips clean. Wufei turned it into a kiss, which made Duo shift uncomfortably beneath his very close body.

"You better get off me, Wu," Duo chuckled nervously. "Or you'll be feeling my passion for you. Literally."

Wufei smirked, as he could feel it, and kissed Duo again, his own abdomen tightening. "If I could persuade Quatre to join, I'd fuck you all right now."

"Mhm," Duo nodded beneath him. "Blondie will never go for that. He's too high society to give up his morals."

"Is that so? Shall we work on that?" Wufei asked innocently, as though he wasn't scheming, which he was. He kissed Duo again and smiled, then kissed him again, Duo 'mm-ing' his agreement. "You're very fun to lay on top of," Wufei remarked. "I doubt you'll ever be the fucker. You'll be the one getting fucked, all the time."

"I've no objections," Duo agreed easily. "So...," he mused, searching for another random thing to say to keep the conversation going. This time, it wasn't a normal random thing, however. "How was Mei, then? You married her. You're the experienced one of us..."

"Duo, I didn't sleep with Meiran," Wufei's smile vanished, replaced by a frown. How could Duo even think that? "Well, I did, but we never had sex. We never even cuddled or kissed. It was the wedding and that's it."

Duo snorted underneath him. "I'm honestly supposed to believe you married a hot girl and didn't fuck her once?"

"Yes!" Wufei got off of Duo and stood in protest. "I'm saving myelf for you four, and you know that!"

"Don't get pissy at me," Duo scowled, getting to his own feet as Wufei walked out the door. Wufei was upset that Duo followed him, as he had wanted to put a little distance between Duo and him. If he knew anything about Duo, he knew that there were more questions than just that. And the fact that Duo couldn't take his word as the truth was hurting him. "I don't know everything about you. All I did was ask..."

"Duo, you shouldn't have to ask," Wufei stopped by the couch and turned to face the sulking young man. He kept a rein on his immediate defensive temper, holding it back and talking calmly. He could be just as good as Trowa and Heero at this, if he tried. "I love you, Duo. And I still loved you when Meiran was walking up the aisle, and when we kissed. I still loved you when I went home on my wedding night, drunk off red wine. And I still loved you every night I laid in bed beside Meiran! Duo, I love you!" Wufei paused to breath, his emotion rising without his immediate notice. He calmed his heart and mind through a quick meditation, then looked at Duo. The others had gathered about them when his voice rose and his words were heard, but they kept their silence. "I love you, Duo. You have to start believing that."

Duo huffed and rolled his eyes. "You didn't have to go all that dramatic to tell me you love me. I know that."

But do you believe it, Duo? Wufei thought with pain. He understood now. In a moment, he had grasped understanding of how Duo lived his relationship. He lived it as though it was his past, and the trust-no-one and secretive nature of his past was not the right way to have a relationship. Sessions alone couldn't fix this. They sounded like a good way to heal things, but there were obviously some things that weren't mentioned in sessions. They surely each had their own secrets from each other. Things they kept to themselves. Wufei hated thinking of that. He wanted to be a surrogate husband to each of them, and husbands and wives, uh, husbands shared everything, unlike the situation right now. They needed something bigger than a simple Session to not only heal, but make new. They needed something...

Wufei slowly smiled as the thought slipped into his mind. He had done a bit of debating upon how to begin healing his loves hearts from when he had left them ont he plane ride home. It didn't matter what the reason was, he had still left with only a note, and he had hurt them deeply. Wufei understood that he had to mend their relationships, and he had wondered at how the Session would do. Now, however, he had a different idea...a wonderful idea, that was forming as Quatre pulled everyone over for tea.

"Wufei, stop smiling," Heero ordered, jolting Wufei out of his thoughts. "You're scaring me." Wufei blinked and nodded, letting the continuous grin fade. A moment later, he was lost in thought again, forming his plan bit by bit. "Now you're frowning," Heero touched Wufei's shoulder, and he started.

"Heero, you scared me," he breathed, recovering from the sudden startle. He had not at all expected the touch. He had been so zoned out, so immersed in his plan that he had forgotten where he was. It came back to him now, as he saw the cup of tea in front of him.

"What are you thinking about?" Quatre asked casually, stirring his herbal remedy. Wufei looked at him with confused eyes and he continued. "Whenever someone zones out that bad, it's because they're thinking. What are you thinking about?"

"How I have the four kindest, most loving, most caring, most adorable, and most sexy loves," Wufei smirked, improvising, then sipped his warm tea. "And about the future."

"Us included," Duo stated impulsively, pouring sugar into his tea cup.

"Of course," Wufei smiled, ignoring this subtle accusation. He would cure Duo of it soon. He hoped, if what he had in mind worked. "Can we go shopping after tea? We can get lunch from Food Fracas to go and have a picnic in the park, and then we can do our errands, for shopping and groceries. Then, when we come home, we can have an evening to ourselves."

"When shall we have the Session?" Trowa asked, his face clear of emotion, but his eyes dark as he drank his tea. When Heero and Wufei had arrived at the airport, after dealing with Tao Shen, they had explained, in vagueness, what had happened to Quatre, Duo, and Trowa. Tao Shen's death had created more issues to be resolved and healed. Heero had used his gun, and had killed again, and Quatre was at odds with himself about the evil uncle's murder, after he found out. That, added to the rest of the issues created by this entire incident, meant a large Session. Or more than one, most likely.

Wufei frowned at Trowa for bringing it up. "Can we just spend tonight together? Can we just watch a movie and cuddle all night? We can do the Session tommorrow. We'll be fine until then. Right, Duo?"

"I agree with 'Fei," Duo nodded. "I don't wanna do a Sess tonight. I wanna cuddle with my Dragon."

"We have been apart for a lot of nights," Quatre agreed. "I'd like to have a special night."

"A really special night," Wufei added.

Trowa looked at Heero with an eyebrow raised, as though asking a mental question. They were squared against three sappy, lovesick lovers who wanted to be together, and neither Heero nor Trowa disagreed with the idea of being together. Heero, however, took the emotional condition of their group rather seriously, and he rarely let a Session wait.

"Hn," Heero grunted, shifting in his seat. "We'll have our Session tommorrow morning, then."

"Great," Wufei beamed as Heero agreed to let it wait. "Let's finish up our tea and go, then. Duo, pass me a cookie."

"Yes, Master," Duo passed the bag of cookies over.

"Thank you, slave," Wufei winked. "I'll reward you later for your good behaviour." Duo blinked in wondering for a moment, then just grinned. Wufei watched the familiar site of Duo smiling and sighed mentally, amazed at how incredibly beautiful Duo looked when he smiled. His gaze passed over to Quatre, sipping his tea like the well brought up gentleman he was, then half fighting with Duo for the cookie bag like the silly teen he was. He watched Trowa snatch the box out of both their grasps and then toss it to Heero as Quatre hit him in the arm. Heero put a cookie to his mouth and took a bite, and then Duo snatched the box back. Wufei chuckled, and snatched it away from Duo, who protested with a sharp 'hey, my babies!'.

"Shit, I love you guys," Wufei laughed as he fed Duo a cookie, then took another sip of his tea, after containing his laughter. When he put it down, his chuckles had subsided, and he was calm again. "And I really mean that. I love you with my entire being." He smiled as they returned the sentiment. Looking at Wufei, you could tell he was happy. And he was. His entire being was happy, and rejoicing inside him.

And as he watched his loves and listened to them talking, his subconscious was forming a plan. A special plan, to show four special someones how much he loved them...

Did you enjoy it? Do you wanna know what 'Fei is planning? Well, so do I, so ask my muse. Something is going to happen, but even I don't quite know yet...I don't think it was too bad. Anyhoo, just review and tell me your opinion, and I'll start working on the Session chapter. Bai!

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