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.
Another Note: It's silly to say, but the colonist culture Heero and Duo
share in this story is actually my own colonist culture, and there are only so
many things I can translate into something vague enough that I'm comfortable
with. (It took forever for me to get used to the idea of 'colonial' and 'common' language.) But the food mentioned in this part is such a
part of my culture, it was hard for me to give it a vague name. So the word I went with is not the word I would use, but it was the best I could use. Geh.
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--Quiet Night--
Heero smiled at the sound of Duo's moan as he drew the other man closer to him. His neck smelled of soap first and grease second, and Heero knew he could spend the whole night on the floor, sitting behind this man and placing lazy, open-mouth kisses on the skin of Duo's nape.
There wasn't anything particularly interesting on, just a science fiction movie they had seen countless times already. Dinner had been pork fried rice and pepper steak from the Chinese takeout place around the corner. What made the night special was that, for once, the house was quiet and theirs alone, and it was only a matter of time before Heero's lazy kisses turned down a natural, sexual course, leaving them naked, sated, and sprawled in front of the TV for Odin to find (and embarrass them for) in the morning.
Duo, tilting his head to the side, began to stroke one of Heero's thighs as they rested on either side of him. "Wonder what we would do if we were in that situation," he said absent-mindedly.
"What situation?" Heero said asked Duo's skin, his eyes darting up at the screen.
"That one," he replied, jutting his chin and indicating with his nose at the screen. "They escape the bad guys by jumping out of a blown-out window and falling fifty stories. Just wondering if we could ever do that."
"Jump off a high building?" Heero rephrased. "Well, you are known to partake in back-yard wrestling and other risky behavior."
"Somehow, I don't think teasing Quatre's girlfriend or busting light bulbs on my back comes close to jumping out of a building. I mean, that guy ends up with a broken leg."
"Because he opened his parachute too late." He placed a long-delayed kiss on the side of Duo's neck. "I would think you're smarter than that."
"Yeah?" Duo replied, leaning his head as back as he could to catch Heero's lips with his own. Heero nibbled at the offering, licking at the taste of soy sauce that he found lingering there still. His hands, sliding Duo's chest on their own, followed the paths they have known for years and slipped underneath Duo's clothes.
The cordless phone they had on the couch hours ago began to ring then, just as Heero nearly had Duo turning to face him completely. Duo pulled away from Heero's lips with a lingering scrape of his teeth. Smiling a shy smile of apology, he reached for the handset. "It's probably just Hilde calling to chat."
"Then let it ring," Heero said as he tried to draw Duo's attention, and his lips, back to him. "You get her talking, and she'll never stop." That rogue hand of his slipped down and played with the fuzz of hair just underneath the hem of Duo's pants.
"You have plans down there?" Duo said, his hand still on the ringing handset, though his eyes were drawn to the more interesting of the two summons.
Heero only smirked as that rogue hand of his sneaked further down the fur at its fingertips.
A loud, urgent banging on their door stilled Heero's fingers at the edge of Duo's cluster of curls. It couldn't be his father; Odin, who had a key and didn't need to knock. He had gone to watch the cockfighting a couple blocks down the street, and that wouldn't be ending for at least a few more hours. He groaned mentally as Duo handed him the phone and pulled away completely.
So much for a nice, quiet night at home, he thought as he answered the phone with the press of a button.
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So much for a nice, quiet night, Duo thought as he opened the door, not surprised in the least to see Hilde on the other side. "Had fun trying to break through my door?" he asked the woman, spotting Sally's tall, blonde head behind her.
"Heero's home, right?" Hilde asked, not bothering with pleasantries as Duo moved to the side to let the visibly pregnant woman move past him and into the house. Hearing Heero answer the phone, she moved towards the sound, focused on her goal.
"She's been manic for the past hour," Sally offered as a greeting to Duo as she closed the door behind her. "I was planning on taking her to that new Italian restaurant that opened up on Rt. 80, but then she got an urge for colonist cooking, and wouldn't stop complaining until I drove her here."
"I think there's some rice left over from yesterday, but Odin may have gotten to it earlier." Duo looked over to Heero. He had gotten off the floor as well, and with the handset against his ear and an apologetic hand on Hilde's shoulder, he walked off to the kitchen, a serious, concerned expression on his face. He was talking quickly, softly, in the colonial to whoever it was on the other end. "Why didn't you go to 'Mountain Boy' if she just wanted colonist food?"
"Because their food is too greasy," Hilde answered over her shoulder as she waddled a tad to the kitchen, chasing after Heero even as he walked out the kitchen and onto the back porch.
Duo frowned at the behavior. "Well, I'm pretty sure Heero still has a few leaf-pies in the freezer."
Hilde literally cooed at the thought. "I love those!"
Duo smiled at the pregnant woman as he edged by her towards the back door. "One would think you're a full-blooded colonist, too, if you keep talking like that. Sally, could you fill the big pot and get the water boiling? I'll be right back."
Sally nodded at him as he walked through the screen door, listening for the sound of Heero's voice.
The back yard was barely 12 by 25 feet, and was surrounded by all sides by brick and cement, but along the side of the house, was a walk lined by a lush jungle of a garden that Heero tended well. It was at the end of the walk, by the evergreen bushes they had inherited when they had first bought the property, where he found his boyfriend. He was leaning his shoulder against the gate that lead out to the street. The sky just above the day care center across the street was a reddish darkness, and the streetlights were flickering on.
"Of course, I remember, but you know that it's not something I can just say yes to," Heero said as Dou approached. He could barely hear the person on the other end as he came to a stop at Heero's side, waiting for his chance to ask who it was.
He didn't even get his chance when Heero cupped the transmitter end and said in his soft, nasally voice, "Relena wants to come by."
"Hilde wants food, so I'm guessing we won't be left alone to ourselves for a while anyway," Duo answered, shrugging even as he implied his consent to having the woman over.
Heero removed the hand covering the transmitter and took Duo's hand, silently thanking him as he gave Relena permission to come around.