Hello everyone! Sorry for the long (VERY LONG) and slow process of this fic. I just haven't felt like writing for a long while, and then I wrote this chapter little by little, and here it is.

OBS!!!

By the way, would you be terribly upset if Trowa hooks (sp?) up with a girl?

Zechs got a little anxious; surely it wouldn't take this long to answer a simple 'yes' or 'no' question. Besides, this was Duo before him, he shouldn't get so quiet. It was quite worrying. Zechs could see the violet eyes were wider than usual and that his mouth worked to make sound that didn't come out. The blond man made as if to get up from the bed but was stopped by two slim, but strong arms coming around him from behind and encircling him.

Duo almost panicked as he saw Zechs swinging his legs over the edge of the bed and just as he was about to step out of Duo's reach, his mind, which had gone on a short vacation and brought nice souvenirs in form words, and his tongue seemed to come back to his body, and he was able to wrap his arms around the broad back in front of him.

"Of course I'll go out with you Zechs! You're the best thing that's ever happened to me! And I know that sounds very cheesy and we have only known each other for a couple of days, but it's the truth!"

Duo knew that he was rambling and managed to stop himself. He got additional help when the blue-eyed man twisted his body around to kiss him. The kiss lasted longer than it was meant, but neither man could break apart willingly from the sweet lips beneath their own. At last, when the air seemed to have vanished from their lungs they broke apart. They looked at each other while they sucked in great mouthfuls of air.

"I was getting worried when you didn't answer." Zechs said after he got his breathing under control.

"You should be proud! It's not easy to get me tongue-tied." Duo said in a flash of humor, though he was still confused as to why someone like Zechs would want to go out with him.

"While I do feel proud, I'm also wondering about your confusion. I would have thought you would be used to men asking you out."

Guys where actually flocking around him on the few times he'd been out at club's or some restaurant, only regular John Doe's, of course, and sometimes old perverts that just wanted to bed someone about as young as their own sons to prove that they were not getting old just because their hair were getting grey or falling out.

"There's always some guy or other that's tried to get me to go out with them, but there's never been any spark or any other feeling except for indifference and sometimes resentment. The resentment is for my own good looks that just pull the perverts in, of course. Plus, I have to wonder about the state of mind of a former prince of Sanc, asking out a poor street-rat."

Zechs felt himself get angry when the handsome young man in front of him declared himself a street-rat who wasn't worth person with Zechs status while.

"Listen to me, Duo. You are not a street-rat. You are one of the most beautiful young men I have ever met, and I am including some women in that count also. I like your personality, because it is so different from my own and somehow balances me in a way that feels incredibly good."

Duo felt relieved and slightly disbelieving, but couldn't say anything, for his mouth threatened to split in two from the thousand-watt smile that was shining out at Zechs.

"You're a great guy, you know that? I hope you don't let people tell you otherwise."

Zechs smiled self-consciously.

"Likewise, my beautiful one. Come, let us dress before the other pilots track us down and murder us."

Duo's laughter was well worth the slight ache in his chest for remembering that his own former lover was one of the pilots.

"Heero, what should we do about those three? Can we just let them walk away with this injustice done to us?" Wufei was feeling very angry and somewhat hurt by his former lover's breakup and betrayal.

Heero was quiet. He had been sitting in the same chair for over half a day now, both Quatre and Wufei believed it was the shock of Duo talking back to him that way. Heero was not used to being refused by a lover, and certainly not by Duo who was very soft-spoken and gentle towards his loved ones, though his temper flew from time to time.

"Wufei, I think its best if we leave him be for some time. I don't think he's ready to face the fact that he's lost Duo." Quatre had always been one to look at things logically, though sometimes that ability failed him. He was still upset about Trowa's refusal to join in their relationship. What could be better than the five Gundam pilots together in an unbreakable bond with each other?

The two pilots left there partner to brood by himself. They stopped by with dinner, which went untouched, and a message that they went to bed, but still the Japanese man did not acknowledge them. That night was the coldest for the remaining three.

Trowa entered the hotel room only to find the other two curled up asleep in their bed. He smiled softly, it would be a shame to wake them, but they needed to get far away before the other pilots came barging in.

"Duo, Zechs, it's time to wake up."

"…" No result. Trowa knew that Duo was a heavy sleeper and a reluctant to wake, but he had not thought Zechs would be the same. Maybe it was contagious… He tried shaking the shoulder that was closest to him and was rewarded with an elbow that almost poked his eye out. After falling on his ass and cursing loud and clear, which had no effect either, the green-eyed man grabbed the end of the madras and pulled with all his strength until the two in the bed crashed to the floor in a jumble of arms and legs and bare upper bodies. The sheet, unfortunately, did not cover all the 'naughty' parts of the couple, so Trowa shrieked and tried to shield his virgin(or not so virgin) eyes while at the same time informing them that they had missed breakfast AND lunch and would therefore not get anything to eat before they arrived at their new home.

"Home? What home?" came the sleepy question from the younger of the two men on the floor. The older man's mind had woken up enough to be sensible enough to not stare and drool at the naked backside residing only a few centimeters from his own body, but pulled up the sheets so that he and his partner were sufficiently covered for thee third party.

"The home that we're going to check out now, if your Highness would be so kind to rise and shine from his beauty sleep. Come on you two. I have my car parked down in the front, and I'm not waiting any longer than ten minutes before I drive off on my own." Trowa went the few steeps needed to get to the other bed and sat down lightly on the edge.

"The countdown starts… now! 10:00… 9:59…"

The blond man sleepily lifted his head and glanced at his companion before flinging a pillow in the general direction of the talking alarm clock. It missed completely, of course, but what can one expect from a half-sleeping man?

Well, what do you think? As I said, I haven't felt much like writing in a while. That's how I am; I'm slow at writing and posting. Anyway, thanks for reading and for having the patience to stick with the story this far.

Ame