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Author's note: I'm sooooooo terribly sorry for not updating this sooner. I have had the chapters, but I was sick for about a week. Then I had doctor visits and stuff, so... Again, really sorry. This is being posted to let you all know that I'm NOT dead and that I am still working on Broken Hearts. It's just going a bit slower that's all. Thank you to those who've pushed my to update, these chapters will be for you!! Thank you to Serenity-san for the lovely review, made me feel very special.
Warnings: guy lovin' and language.
BTW, About a month or two has passed since Duo arrived on L2.
Chapter 7: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.
Duo pulled the jacket he'd been wearing off and draped it unceremoniously over the back of his chair. He grunted a little as he sat down and leaned back. At that moment, a pretty red head peeked around the doorway, and with a smile, entered the room with her arms full of papers.
"Good Afternoon General." she greeted and Duo gave her a pleasant smile. He liked his secretary. She was one of Analise's friends who'd needed a job. Not one to resist a pretty pouting woman who happened to be very pregnant and very emotional, he hired the girl. He hadn't regretted it yet.
"Howdy Maya."
"I have some papers here for you sir." she walked over to the desk and handed the stack to him.
"Oh? Is that what I think it is?" he asked, opening the folder with small blueprints in it.
"It is sir, those are the blue prints to the production facility and also, I've placed the prints for the Maxwell Revival Church and Orphanage in there as well." she said as Duo looked over the building structure and smile.
"Did you meet with the building inspector?"
"I have him scheduled to meet with you tomorrow afternoon at two, is that alright sir?" Duo waved his hand.
"It'll do... Any word on that grant yet?" he asked.
"Approved, Vice President Une said that she would have it sent to you as soon as she's got the time sir. And she told me to tell you that she sends her love." she said and Duo grunted, reading over a few of the other papers she'd handed him.
"Maya, what would I do without you." he said finally, looking up at her in adoration.
The redhead laughed jovially and handed him a small red box. Duo squealed like a child in a candy store as he tore the top off.
"Sir, you would be severely disorganized and pocky deprived." she said with a little laugh as Duo munched happily on the stick in his mouth.
"You're such a dollface Maya, I love you."
"Of course you do sir–Oh! I almost forgot!" She reached into her vest pocket and pulled out another envelope, handing it off to him.
" A Letter from Preventer Barton and Mr. Winner." she said and he took it with vigor, tearing into it before Maya had left the office.
It had been almost two weeks since Duo had heard from two of his good friends. It was all they could manage, and he was fine with that. He'd long since gotten over the small hallow feeling in his chest upon the realization that he couldn't be there, right there with them, so when he received their letters, it made his day brighter. Quatre and Trowa were very busy, and that, he could also understand, as he too rarely found some free time to himself. Wufei managed to call on a regular basis, but Duo had chocked it up to the fact that Wufei was now a medical assistant to Sally. Doctors always had free time. After reading the letter, he moved his gaze to the picture that had accompanied it.
Quatre was a bit taller, not by much though, and his smile was the same as it had always been. Beside him stood Trowa, dressed, again, as always, in his Preventer greens, but a small smile was on his lips as well. In between then, in Quatre's arms, was one of the most adorable little girls Duo had ever set eyes on. Curly red hair was tied back into pigtails and she was smiling much like Quatre and waving at the camera.
"Who's the darling child in Quatre's arms?" asked a low voice next to his ear. Duo shivered.
"My niece, Diana, cute lil shit ain't she?" he asked as he handed the photograph to Zechs, who's eyes roamed over the picture.
"Adopted I presume?"
"From L2 about three weeks ago... Quatre loves her to pieces." Zechs handed the photograph back.
"Adorable." the blond mumbled as he set one of the Styrofoam cups filled with hot liquid on the desk. Duo almost asked how he managed to carry them both in one hand.
"I brought you the solution to your mid-afternoon caffeine deficiency."
"Black, 2 sugars?"
"Black, 2 sugars."
"I love you."
"I know you do." Zechs said, responding as he normally did when the brunette usually declared his love for random reasons. He sat down in the seat across from Duo and watched the brunette silently for a moment. Duo was holding the coffee in one hand as he scribbled something akin to a signature down on a document and placed it in a folder. He found the way Duo moved intriguing. While he had once been used to the smooth movements of the pristine subordinates of Treize, he had gotten used to the jerky and half assed movements of the people he was surrounded by now. However, Duo wasn't either of them.
When Duo moved, it was with the practiced grace of a killer, a soldier with perfection. He almost snorted, Heero Yuy.. The Perfect Soldier had nothing on the man sitting before him. Duo's movements were smooth, calculated, and proper, even if it was well disguised beneath the shaky exterior of a bundle of hyper 21 year old. He chocked it up to Duo's specialization in stealth. He was loud when he had to be and quiet when it was necessary. Which is why the Lightning Count was impossibly smitten with him.
"I've your team picked out now." he said, pulling himself from his thoughts. He got a satisfied look on his face when Duo ceased his activities and looked at him.
"What? Really? You mean I get to get out of this office and DO stuff?" he asked and Zechs chuckled.
"They were personally chosen by myself and I believe that you will feel very at home being their instructer." he said and Duo beamed. " I'm sure they'll have no problem keeping up with your changing personality as well."
"Hey, at least I keep things interesting." Duo pouted, turning away from Zechs in mock pout. The Count only shook his head and gave his superior a look that told him he was hopeless.
"Come, I'll take you to them."
"KAY!!!" Duo jumped from his seat like an obediant puppy and followed the taller of the two out of his office.
They walked past the mess halls and out towards the gymnasium. Duo grinned to himself upon seeing the new facility not too far away with construction workers moving in and out of steel beams. Another trainign facility would be up in about three weeks now, and he couldn't wait. He had special plans for that one. Zechs put a hand to his shoulder and directed him into the gym to pry his eyes off of the forming building on the other side of the sir field. Many of the soldiers spent their afternoons in this facility with their instructors. Older individuals held their groups of six together, shouting orders, barking tips, and their recruits, normally people younger than them, were striving to keep up with the orders and the regimen their General had set out for them.
It was an almost well known fact that every one of the instructors Duo had picked to be team leaders had respected their Young general. Many knew him and had fought along side of him, and those who didn't, heard the stories and respect bubbled into their opinions as well. They all tried their pest to please their general, and nine times out of ten, he wasn't disappointed. Duo smiled, a month ago, these people had no clue what they were doing. A hand on his shoulder made him look up at Zechs who was pointing off to his left.
He followed the finger and saw a man and what was, presumably, his wife, standing next to each other and dissecting guns that desperately needed cleaning.
"Kenneth and Maria Heat, both in their late thirties." Zechs said. Duo did a once over and assessed them quietly. Kenneth Heat was a tall man with short blond hair, cropped military style, and was graying at the roots. His chin was stubbly and Duo saw a dwindling cigarette dangling from his mouth as he spoke to the blond beside him. She was very pretty for being a woman in her thirties and Duo knew immediately that the two of them made a perfect couple.
"Ex-Oz soldiers. They worked under Treize for two years before they left. They were some of the first people to join the Preventers when we branched to L2. Kenneth may be a big guy.. But his strength is impressive and his knowledge of maps and the workings is crucial. His wife as well is a very established Military doctor and in certain conditions can be very useful with a hand gun." he said as Duo nodded, looking over them again while Zechs searched out the next person.
"There...see the two boys off to the side?" Zechs said and Duo watched as two identical blonds sparred with each other, long swords Duo didn't think were even made anymore poised in perfect stance. He was painfully reminded of Wufei.
"Ibiki and Ebisu Shuichi... both 18, and the last of a dying breed." he said and Duo snorted.
"So you're saying they're modern samurai?"
"Something like that, novice at most.. But they're young."
"They remind me of Wufei.. They have sticks up their asses too?" he asked an Zechs chuckled.
"No, I fear they are probably more like you than anything. But they're useful, and they have much room to improve. See the man watching them? That's Jason O'Connor." he said and Duos eyes landed on a man in his late twenties with red hair and bright green eyes. His face was flecked with freckles.
"Pure Irish, he's got a temper, that one, but his knowledge with heavy artillery and with connections back home, he rivals even that of Trowa."
"We'll see, no one is better than Trowa." Duo said and he let his eyes wander his team once more. They seemed to be well balanced, and he was sure that once he'd joined, it would make a complete circle, after all no one could perfect his forte like he could.
"They'll be good, I'm already excited." Duo said.
"I've given the liberty of telling them who their leader is up to you, I figured you'd perhaps... like some fun with them."
"You mean I get to mess with their heads? Have I ever told you how much I love you?"
"Plenty of times."
"Good, c'mon, I need more coffee."
There you have it ya'll.. Hopefully this will tide you over until I have the time to post the other ones.. Have a nice day and don't forget... Reviews make me update faster and they make my day!!