Title: Stalking Duo 3/?
Author: Spider-Jen
Rating: NC17 (for later parts)
Pairings: 1x2, 2x2
Warnings: Yaoi (boyxboy), AU, a bit creepy?, No Beta
Summary: Heero leads a dull and drab existence until he sees a vibrant young man on his ride home.
Part 3
The next day Heero called out from work. His boss seemed rather surprised, but told Heero that anyone that worked as diligently deserved a day off once in a while. Heero assured him he would report for duty the next day and be twice as productive.
After following Duo to work, Heero took a cab to the car rental place he'd called that morning. Back at his apartment he dug into his closet for his surveillance equipment and packed most of it into the van, then changed into his painter's coveralls.
He drove directly to Duo's apartment building, he slipped inside when someone was leaving. Once inside he made his way to Duo's apartment. The lock was ridiculously easy to break into.
Heero was glad he thought of bringing a security system along. After taking in the apartment, Heero proceeded with the setup. Cameras were placed in every room and outside the door. Every point of entry was linked to the security system and could be disabled by remote. Wire taps were placed on the phones.
While there Heero couldn't help, but appreciate how inviting Duo's apartment was. The coach looked worn, but comfortable. There was clutter, but it felt well lived in. Duo had fuzzy purple slippers near his bed and coffee ice cream in his freezer. His bathroom had an old fashion tub which was lined with bubble bath and lotions, 2 big well used candles on the side. Heero took a smell of his shampoo, it smelled like oranges and perhaps some flower, he was sure made Duo smell divine.
Heero refrained from booting up the laptop on the desk in the living room. To Heero a computer was very personal and he didn't want to invade Duo's privacy.
Duo's closet was filled with comfortable looking clothes, sports equipment cluttered at the bottom. Pictures littered the dresser in his room. A very young looking Duo sitting between a nun and a priest. A picture of Duo with his hair down, flowers scattered between the strands, looking quite drunk, his arm around a laughing blonde man with a baby face.
Heero picked up the photo and turned it around. The back had the words "Duo and Quatre Cancun '04". Heero deduced 'Cat' was for Quatre and assumed this was the Cat that had set Duo up on his blind date.
Glancing at the clock near the bed, Heero discovered he was running out of time. He did a last minute check that all of his work was not visible to the untrained eye. Next a quick visit to Duo's office.
Shedding his coveralls Heero donned his navy suit and clip the security badge for Prism Programming to his lapel. Heero would have to advise the company of their lack of security at a later time. The badge was hardly difficult to forge. He spent two hours making his fake id at 4 o'clock that morning, it didn't have a hologram or an embedded microchip.
The gentlemen at the front desk let him in without a second glance as he scanned his card. Of course, Heero had added himself to the employee database the day before. He made his way to the fourth floor and hid by the copier and waited for Duo to leave his cubicle for a break.
Once he was gone, Heero sat at his still warm seat and installed the surveillance camera in the eye of stuffed panda bear sitting on the monitor. He also installed a micro tap on the SD chip of Duo's cellphone. He was done in less than 4 minutes and out of Duo's chair before he was back with a new cup of coffee.
Heero again kept watch until the 5 o'clock quitting time. Then he followed Duo unto the subway and safely into his apartment disarming the security system until he was sure he was inside.
***
Back at his apartment Heero booted up his laptop and linked up to his surveillance system. The video feed came right up, loading eight mini camera views. He enabled the follow feature and immediately the camera feed from the kitchen filled the screen. Duo was standing at the kitchen counter putting some spaghetti in a pot. Turning up the volume he could hear Duo humming to himself. Heero predicated that Duo had a lovely singing voice.
Just as Duo was putting the lid on the pot, music could be heard from another room.
"Shit!" Duo exclaimed darting into the living room and lunging over the back of the couch into his coat pocket. The video fed automatically following him into the other room. He took the cellphone out of his pocket and the pop song that was his ringtone stopped when he slide the phone open.
"Hello?" He said, just slightly out of breathe.
"Hi!" The cheerful voice rang from the audio of the phone tap.
"Hey, Cat! What's up?" Duo climbed over the couch and curled up in a ball with his legs to his chest.
"Um, hello, you haven't called to give me the details of your date."
On the video Heero watched Duo roll his eyes. "Jeez Cat, sorry I got mugged, I'll try not to let that happen again."
"Mugged?! My god, Duo are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. Cops had me giving my statement for hours."
"What happened?"
While Duo recounted events of the previous evening to his friend. Heero did a search for anyone named Quatre living in the area. It was not a common name and the most prominent name was Quatre R Winner a very well known, very wealthy, young business man. It was easy to find a picture of him. With his golden blonde hair and aquamarine eyes he was definitely the Quatre from the picture in Duo's bedroom.
"My, so he just disappeared, no your welcome or phone number or anything."
"Cat, why would he leave his phone number?" Duo asked incredulous.
"Duo, I certainly hope that if an attractive young man came to your rescue, beating up three miscreants you would at least have the presence of mind to get his phone number."
Duo rolled his eyes again. "Only you would be thinking of my love life during a mugging."
Quatre scoffed, "What love life?"
"Hey, I went out on your blind date. I've appeased the dating gods!" Duo defended.
"Right, how was the date?" Quatre swooped in like a vulture with fresh meat.
"It was fine." Duo shrugged, as he started picking at the lint on the couch.
"A little more detail, please?"
"Dinner was good , he was nice-"
"You mean he was boring." Quatre cut in.
"Yeah, alright I thought he was a bit bland."
"Well bland is better than stealing money from you."
"Hey, I told you I'm not dating jerks anymore. But is it so much to ask to find someone attractive and interesting. And I don't mean they have to be a male model, but good hygiene would be nice."
Quatre chuckled. "Alright someone with a bit more personality then."
"No offense Cat, but I'd like to just meet a guy the regular way."
"Then you'll come out with us to Eden?" The blonde sounded excited.
"Yes." Duo sighed. "Look Cat, I gotta go my pasta is probably paste by now."
"Alright. I'll talk to you later."
Closing the phone, Duo went back to the kitchen and started serving up his dinner. Heero left the laptop open and walked into his own kitchenette grabbing a frozen dinner and placing it in the microwave.
When the microwave chimed, he grabbed his chopsticks from the draw and joined Duo who had started to eat his spaghetti. Sitting on the floor across from the laptop, Heero pulled the plastic film off his meal and started to eat.
The young man on the laptop flipped on the radio sitting on the kitchen table, pop music started to play softly in the background. Duo was thumbing through a computer gaming magazine as he ate and occasionally sang along with the music. He was right, Duo does have a lovely singing voice.
TBC