This was a challenge that was never fulfilled, is being reworked, and that I intend to finish. All I wish for is luck and some motivation.
Title: Domestic
Author: Ileana A. (babygray)
Main Pairing: Duo/Heero
Disclaimer: Gundam Wing is not mine. This is pure jest.
Notes: This is a 26-part story, made up of noisefics/drabbles/whatever. It's not chronological, but don't worry too much about that. Reworked, but rough and un-beta'ed.
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--O.P.P.--
He could see Hilde and Sally showing each other frilly, candy-sexy lingerie inside. They weren't that hard to spot; the two of them were making quite a spectacle, over-cooing their approval of the other's choice, making blatantly overt suggestions about 'testing out' the material in the dressing room. At the moment, one of the sales associates was eyeing them with resigned wariness.
It certainly wasn't the first time he and Heero had to wait for them, outside the lingerie store, planted at the bench directly in front of the window displays trying to sell angel innocence along with their bras and panties. It wasn't so much routine as fate that the two women get sucked into the satin and lace every time they visit this particular mall and pass by this particular store, leaving them with the bags.
"They do this to us on purpose," Heero agreed from his seat beside him, a glower on his face.
"At least they haven't tried to drag us in for our 'male expertise'," Duo commiserated. The women used to derive such great pleasure in dragging Duo and Heero into that den of near-naked femininity. They only eased up on their insistence after a fabulous public display of insanity involving Duo and a blood-red push-up bra.
He saw a smirk on Heero's face. "They wouldn't dare," he replied.
"Thinking of doing something crazy if they tried?" Duo asked, doubtful that his soft-spoken lover would. He was always the more sensible of the two.
"Not necessarily. Just hoping for another display of your particular brand of sanity."
Duo leaned close to Heero, curious to see Heero's reaction to a small portion of his 'particular brand of sanity', when gasps from the lingerie store distracted Heero, turning his face away from Duo's nearing lips.
"They're at it again," Heero deadpanned, nodding towards the store.
And indeed they were. Duo takes his eyes from the pair for just one moment, and the two lesbians go at it, kissing each other over a rack of airy teddies as if they just one step away from crawling underneath sheer hems and taking this to a more primal level. Part of him wondered if it wasn't timed, if they weren't watching Heero and Duo, waiting for the best time to ruin their fun, even as they sat outside the store and were forced to wait.
He certainly wouldn't put it past Sally. She was a joker.
In either case, the very heated public display ended, and the two women giggled themselves out the store, hand in hand and grinning from ear to ear.
"Had fun?" Heero asked as he rose from the bench, grabbing the two bags he had placed by his feet. Duo slowly followed suit.
"We're gonna have a baby!" Hilde nearly screamed as she launched herself into Heero's arms. Shocked speechless, he watched as Heero's arms wrapped around the enthusiastic girl, a soft expression on his lover's face. A softness that he could almost call sad, especially as Heero whispered gently, "Congratulations."
Sally's hand was on his shoulder, squeezing gently. As his head turned between Hilde, who was now dangerously close to groping his Heero, and Sally, who was beaming an eerily beatific smile at him, he said the first thing that popped into his head. "How in the world did either of you get knocked up with a dildo?"
He heard Heero groan as Sally's hand slid away. "Nice to see you're still as vulgar as ever," she said, in a tone he could almost call teasing. "Good thing I wasn't planning on asking you."
"Planning on asking me what?"
"If you wanted to be the daddy, dumbass," Hilde replied, pulling away from Heero to give Duo a playful little jab on his arm. Unfortunately, the girl has never really learned her own strength, and that little fist landed with such a wallop that Duo's arm went numb for a second there. Seeing Duo's wince, she replied, "I didn't hit you that hard."
"The hell you did," Duo retorted, trying to rub some feeling back into his arm.
"I'm assuming you're planning on getting pregnant?" Heero asked, steering the conversation back to the topic at hand.
"Hilde is," Sally replied. "There's no way I'm getting myself knocked up."
"Yeah, you're much too manly for it anyway," Duo blurted out without thinking, quickly moving himself behind Heero when he saw Sally's eyes narrow. Who ever knew her femininity was such a soft spot?
"Now I'm certain we won't be asking you," she said darkly.
"Like I would want a kid," he replied, feeling quite safe from Sally's wrath from behind his shorter, but much stronger, lover.
"You don't want a kid, Duo?" asked Hilde, her face full of surprise.
"Of course not," he replied, which was perfectly true. He already had enough problems in his life to deal with, without a screaming baby thrown into the mix for good measure. He would have thought that the fact that he was gay, and irreparably in love with another man, would have spared him from the very idea of having a child of his own. Unfortunately, those two women always had a way of surprising him now and then. "Kids are other people's problems, and I certainly don't need them."
Hilde's and Sally's expressions changed from dark annoyance, on Sally, and sheer disbelief, on Hilde's, to something soft and piteously sad. Unsure as to what caused such a reaction (certainly Duo's words didn't cause such a thing, for they were said with near-righteous indignation), he looked towards Heero for some clue.
But Heero's face was shuttered closed, and a blank expression remained. He knew this reaction, as surely as he knew everything about Heero. He only became that way when he was particularly upset about something, but... was it something he said?
"Heero?" he promptly almost shyly, hoping Heero would be willing to clue him in on whatever it was that was bothering him.
The sound of his name must have startled him, and he shook his head in a vague way, almost negating any more questions for the moment. "Everything is fine," he said almost in a whisper as he adjusted the bags in his hands. "Want to go to the electronics store next?" he asked, finally lifting his eyes to meet Duo's.
No, not everything is fine, and Duo wanted to know exactly what he had said to upset him, but Heero was a stubborn mule, and if he needed to wait, then he would.
He's not going to let Heero keep this problem to himself.