Chapter Nine

Duo slowly ate his breakfast. Savoring each and every bite as it rolled across his tongue. The pancakes practically melted in his mouth. Trowa obviously used real bananas for they had none of that artificial banana candy taste. The syrup was perfect, smooth, light and not too sweet. Duo gently placed another bite on his tongue and began to look around the kitchen. For the life of him he could not remember having any bananas in the apartment recently. They had eaten the last of them almost three weeks prior.

Heero and Wufei watched him eat piece after piece with a goofy grin slowly taking over his features and his eyes closed in bliss. Heero was tempted to look under the table to verify that Trowa was indeed gone and not under it giving Duo a slow and sensual blowjob. Wufei instinctual held his hand knowing what his partner was thinking, for he was thinking pretty much the same thing. Duo's reaction to the pancakes was causing a reaction in Heero, namely his pants. Still having Wufei's hand in his carefully pulled their hands to rest on his lap. Wufei instantly felt the half hard cock under his hand and sent his lover an admonishing look.

As Duo took his next bite they expected him to close his eyes and tilt his head back instead he began to look around the kitchen. They both followed his gazed. It was Wufei that voiced his curiosity first, "Duo what are you looking for?"

"Bananas, I was wondering where he got the bananas. I do not recall us having bought any in the past three weeks."

Duo turned to face his friends and was graced with an all knowing smile spreading across Heero's face. Tilting his head and eyebrows rose in silent question he waited for Heero to speak. "He went out early this morning and bought them from the fruit stand on the corner, two blocks down. He said that the ones at the stand down stairs were not ripe enough. That they were too green or something similar to that."

With a dreamy far off look that was mixed with confusion, love, and the tiniest amount of pain Duo explained. "The green ones would never work. They are not ripe enough and far too hard. The perfect ones are speckled with brown spots. Those have the strong banana taste without the taste of being spoiled and they are soft enough to mix with the batter."

The last bite of the stack of five pancakes was finally devoured or maybe savored is the more appropriate term. It took Duo practically seventeen minutes to eat them. Both Heero and Wufei were expecting him to lift the plate and lick it clean. Alas they were disappointed. Setting his fork down he leaned back with a satisfied smile on his face.

Duo Maxwell was ready to face the day. Swiftly he stood from his place, gave a nice long stretch, scratched his stomach, and headed off to his room. He had final report to type and turn into the boss lady. Quickly he dressed in his Preventers' uniform. Heading straight for the door he grabbed his jacket and keys. "I'll se you guys later tonight. And Wufei you may want to get Heero neutered because if guys are late again Une is going to do for you." He left with a click of the door and a turn of the lock. He was right of course; Heero and Wufei were doing the horizontal tango…again.

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In less than fifteen minutes Duo was parked in the agent parking lot and riding the elevator up to the fourth floor where his office resided. Though his walk was brisk he was in good cheer looking forward to the day mostly due to his favorite breakfast made by a certain green eyed man. He stepped into the office he shared with Wufei moved to his desk and started up his computer. Une kept Heero and Wufei separate or at least not have an office together because the two were worst than rabbits. A quarter of the way through his final report there was soft knock on the door.

Duo replied enter to the knock without taking his eyes off the monitor. Trowa was standing in the now open doorway just watching until Duo acknowledged him. Finishing up the paragraph he was writing he looked up to see who entered his office only to see Trowa slightly leaning on the door jam. "Good morning Trowa."

"Morning Duo." Trowa stepped further into the office.

"Thanks for the pancakes this morning. They were almost as good as Sister Helen's."

"Well nobody is perfect and I just thought that you could use them. You know after the long mission and having an unexpected visitor."

Duo looked hard at Trowa for a split second noting that though he seemed relaxed leaning on the door jam he was in fact slightly tense. All Duo wanted at that moment was to put him at ease. "Why don't you stop loitering in the doorway and have a seat. " He gestured to Wufei's unoccupied seat. With an air of casualty, that was not pulled off well, Towa took the proffered seat. "How did your meeting with Anne go?"

An eyebrow raise was Trowa's initial answer, "on a first name basis with the boss? That is kind of scary."

"Well, you know the ole Maxwell charm."

"Yes I do."

Those three words caused Duo to do his best impression of a tomato. "Heero and Wufei say that I have her wrapped around my finger. I think they wrong, partially. I mean she does call me little brother."

"You do have her wrapped around your finger."

"Glad to see you finally made it to work." Duo snickered as Wufei set his stuff on his desk. It immediately ceased as Wufei's phone rang.

Nervously Wufei picked it up and gently placed it to his ear. Une was pissed. "Chang get your ass in my office NOW!" Really pissed, Duo was pretty sure everyone on the floor heard that and it wasn't even on speaker. Wufei looked dejected as he set the phone down on the receiver effectively ending the call. Then he began grumbling about Heero and castration as he headed for Une's office.

"Should I ask?"

"Really, they are worse than rabbits."

"Well, I should probably get to my office."

"Who is office roomy?"

He pulled a paper from his pocket and read off the name Une gave him. "Um, office 406, Peters."

"Peters is a good man, the size of a small house, but a good man. As soon as Heero and Wufei recover from their castration we will hold a team meeting and introduce you to everyone."

"Sounds good to me. See you later."

"Later."

Okay so it is now obvious to me that I will not be able to tell him or at least not for the time being. I will wait until he gets settled and the time is right. I can at least let him know that I hold no ill will towards him and eventually that I am still interested.

Wufei walked back into the office with a blush on his cheeks and hooded eyes. Must have been bad. "Does your boyfriend still have his valuable parts?" Wufei looked up and his cheeks darkened to an even deeper shade of red. "What happened?"

He sat in his chair all proper before slumping. He ran his hands down his face as Duo waited patiently for him to speak. "She said that it was unacceptable that two of her top agents were late for the third time in as many weeks. That if we could not control ourselves to wake up earlier or video tape it giving the tape to her next they were going to be late."

"She asked for a tape of you and Heero having wild monkey sex?" At Wufei continued nod Duo's mouth dropped open and hit the floor. "Did you ask why?"

"Actually Heero did ask. He recovered before I could from the shock. She said it would be archived for some secret organization and she needed a good one because she hasn't been able to present one in awhile. It doesn't make sense to either."

"I doubt you'll be late anymore."

"Heero and I will most definitely try not to, but Heero suggested we should buy a video camera just in case." A loud thud was the end to that conversation as Wufei banged his head on the desk.

Duo promptly changed the subject. "Trowa is paired with Peters and I told him that we would arrange a meeting with the rest of team to do intros."

A smirk was on Wufei's lips and it totally creep the hell out of Duo. "Sure, everyone should be here today and in the office. So, what were the two of you taking about before I arrived? I distinctly noticed a blush when I walked in."

"Wipe that smile off your face it was nothing. We just talked briefly about the pancakes, his meeting with Anne, I mean Une, you and Heero being worse than rabbits and him being paired with Peters."

"So, no confession."

Duo shook his head, "no it just didn't feel like the right time."

"Good for you. Don't do it because you think he wants to hear it. Tell him because you want to tell him."

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The calls were made and everyone met in the conference room for the game 'get to know your new teammate'. Trowa is no tiny guy, but Peters kept picking him up and hugging him, or squeezing him to death if you asked Trowa.

"You did not warn me that Peters likes to hug, a lot!"

"Must have slipped my mind."

A/N: Please review I like to know what you all are thinking. Whether you agree or disgree with the direction I am taking the fic or a particular scene or scenario. I love feedback! Even flames, no really I do. So please reveiw and thank you to all my readers I hope you enjoyed this chapter. More to come after I update Meine Besessenheit.