Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Flower Fields and Chestnut Hair ❯ Life with Relena ( Chapter 18 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Author: Makiko Igami
Title: Flower Fields and Chestnut Hair
Rating: NC-17 (for more upcoming lemons)
Pairings: 1x2/2x1 (HeeroxDuo), very slight 1xR
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Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing. (Wish I did... $.$) But I don't so I am a poor person who has to live from her parents' money.
Warnings: Crossdressing, yaoi, Lemon (Non-Yaoi and Yaoi in later chapters), sap, fluff, or whatever it's called...
Summary: Heero is sent on a mission to meet a girl. Duo is on a mission too... What will happen after they find out that their missions will bring them together?
Notes & comments: This is the first story I post while I do not really know what will happen in upcoming chapters. I just noticed, I suck... It doesn't come out like I want it to... But I'm still in training... *sigh*
I still tend to write on train... I apologize for *any* misspelling or misunderstanding.
I had 11 positive and 1 negative comments on how I portrayed Relena and Heero in the last chapter... I think it was not *that* bad...
MORE RELENA! But Duo, too, soo...

"..." spoken words
/.../ Duo's thoughts
[...] Heero's thoughts
*...* emphasis
{...} Author's comments
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Heero sighed out loud as Relena announced they had to go to another welfare-premiere. Only this time it was a musical and no annoying opera or private view. Almost the following day after he had moved into her house she dragged him to the next gallery and he had to look at very strange pictures that contained randomly drawn lines in many different colors and had such surreal names like "Woman with nothing in her mind sitting on a bench in hell". The only thing that had come into Heero's mind as he saw that picture was that he wanted to put the idiot who drew this rubbish into hell. How could anybody call this art? It looked like something a three-year-old child had drawn when it was extremely bored. He tried not to look too long at these awful pictures as Relena talked to several important people only she seemed to know. The next day she had asked him out to watch an opera. Another premiere of course. She was very fond of those kind of stuff and since he had vowed to protect her he had no other choice than to accompany her.

After two weeks he thought he'd die of cultural shock.

And every time he met all the people of the upper class that he thought were even more annoying than Duo was sometimes. But Relena handled that and he was glad that he didn't have to talk to anyone. His only job was to look out for possible assassins. But by now no one had made the slightest attempt to kill Relena. It was as if everything the senator had said to him almost two months ago was just a bad dream.

[Two months without Duo...]

Heero wasn't entirely sure if he should be worried or not that he hadn't heard anything from his braided baka. Of course he knew that they shouldn't contact because they knew the lines were probably monitored and not even Duo would risk his life to chit-chat with the one he loved. Or maybe he planned something. Or he had forgotten Heero.

But this was something Heero didn't believe. Like Relena said, Duo was strong. And he was sure that their love was just as strong. He could tell just by the piercing feeling he had in his heart that was preserved for his love.

But to be sure he started his laptop and checked his mails.

Surprisingly he had three mails with the same subject "You've got mail" but from different addresses. The first was from McDonalds, the second from Toys'R'Us and the third seemed to be from Burger King. Heero frowned.

"Why should I get emails from fast-food-restaurants or toy-stores?" he asked out loud. "I don't even buy there..."

[But Duo does...]

Just when he was about to click on erase this came into his mind. Maybe it was Duo who tried to contact him and he used three different sender-addresses so that Heero would really read those mails. The first one only contained text but the other two had something attached. Experimentally he opened the first one and was confirmed in his suspicion. Duo had finally found a way to contact him.

Yo Hee-chan!

How're ya doin'? I'm fine.
I recorded sth. 4 U but it's kinda big so I gonna send it in lotsa pieces from different addys... Big bro's watching me, ne?
Hope ya like it!

Miss ya,
Duo

Heero smiled, for the first time in a considerably long time. His love was alright and hadn't lost his humor after they parted. Everything in the world was alright.

He opened the other two mails and downloaded the attachments into a specially secured directory. When he checked his mail again afterwards he found another mail with another attachment and downloaded it as well. Just then he heard a soft knock on his door and Relena's soft question if he was ready to go out. He grunted, put on the jacket of his suit quickly and shut down his laptop.

~z~

The musical they watched was more like an opera to him. The actors sang all the while and just spoke normal sentences occasionally. It was telling the story of some young adults living in a big city who struggled with their shattered dreams, self-chosen poverty, the wish not to adapt and a lethal disease. The music started with forceful rock tunes, had some ballads and was rather good although Heero had thought all his receptors for good art had died during the last two months.

Relena beside him had watched with the same emotionless stare as he had {1} but he noticed that she had been sitting on the edge of her seat, tensing every time something bad happened. He definitely could see tears welling in her eyes as one of the major roles died, a funny cheerful drag-queen that somehow had reminded him of Duo, leaving his friends and boyfriend behind. Heero, too, had tensed at this particular scene. It was a total sappy reprise of the song they had sung at the beginning of the second act that made the actor who sang it cry openly. Heero was surprised that you could play with so much emotion that it made you really sad. He was sure he couldn't do anything like that.

[Well, maybe if it were Duo... Yuy, face it. You're a block of ice when it comes to emotions to anyone else than Duo.]

He hid his sadness in a deep sigh at the end of the musical and wasn't quite sure if it had a good or bad ending. It confused him. The girl died, right? And then she came back to life. But didn't she have this lethal disease as well? So she'd die sooner or later. Why would it do any good if she survived this time?

He tried his best not to look too puzzled as he and Relena climbed into her limousine afterwards. The Vice Foreign minister seemed to be upset about something.

"I have to do something against this!" she stated heatedly.

"It's just a musical"

"Heero, you don't understand, things like that *are* happening on the streets! Poor people like this Roger and Mimi have to fight for their life every day," she explained. "I have to help them!"

"Relena, calm down. They *wanted* to live that way, at least some of them. They chose it voluntarily, to fulfil their dreams, to make them true, to find inspiration, to love, to just live."

"You tell me to calm down? Listen to yourself, you're as heated as I am", she teased.

Heero blinked several times, noticing she was right. But before he could say anything in response she added, "How come you understood the deeper sense of the musical better than I? Did you know it before?"

Heero shrugged.

"I don't know... I just kinda liked it..."

Relena smiled openly.

"That's the first time I heard you say that of anything we've seen lately."

"It's because it's the first time I liked something you dragged me to."

"And you don't say that just because it had a gay pair in it? With a drag-queen that acted much like Duo on a sugar high?"

She eyed him suspiciously as he looked down and blushed a little.

"Well, I kinda liked the lesbians... That girl with this moon-performance was great..." she added thoughtfully. "But everybody was great! It wasn't like these unreal musicals you usually get to see. It was taken out of real life!"

To make it short they both agreed that they had liked it and were discussing the musical the whole way back to Relena's mansion.

Before he went to bed that day Heero downloaded ten more compressed files. And when he got up the next morning twenty-three more files were waiting for him. He wondered slightly if Duo didn't get any sleep or if he was on the other side of the earth since he sent most files at nighttime. How *big* must this special video be? It seemed like the emails would never stop.

Before he could get tired of waiting for the last one Relena called him for breakfast.

~z~

She was reading the newspapers and billboard magazines. You almost couldn't find the food under the piles of paper lying on the table. All the local papers had pictures from last night on their covers. Some of the others showed pictures of senator Secunda and his grinning nephew. Heero grunted to state as well his disapproval as his presence.

For two months nothing else seemed to concern the press more than the niece that turned out to be a nephew or the Vice Foreign Minister and her new mate. One day they had a picture of Duo on the cover and the next it was a badly taken photograph of Heero and Relena in the backyard of her mansion. The headlines were either "Who's that guy who dressed up as his dead sister?" {2} or "Who's the one that stole the Minister Peacecraft's heart?"

At first Relena tried to deny everything but got tired of doing so pretty soon since no one seemed to believe her. So she and Heero were a couple, at least for the press.

Heero couldn't have cared less if hadn't been concerned of what Duo thought of him. Did he believe the lies in the billboard magazines? Heero hoped not. And what would happen if those slimy reporters dug just deep enough to discover he had been together with Duo when he played a girl? By now he was already able to picture the headlines. "The Vice Foreign Ministers date, gay? Or just easy to fool?"

Relena looked at him and smiled apologetically. He caught a glimpse of the article she was reading, well, rather he saw the picture and the headline.

"A sweet little kiss"

Heero growled as he sat down and poured himself some coffee. The picture showed how he held Relena's hand, looked into her eyes and leaned down slightly. {3} It looked like a kiss, maybe but it was really just the attempt to tell Relena something before she disappeared in the Ladies' Room. Heero tried his best not to plan stomping into the paper's office and shooting the chief editor in the head. If he had done so every time there'd be nobody to publish a newspaper anymore. So nobody said anything about he newest gossip. Both Heero and Relena just ate their breakfast in comfortable silence like they did every morning.

Afterwards Heero would make his daily walk around the mansion's yard, not letting himself relax like he had with Duo. He had a strict schedule that he lived every day and lived it every day with grim determination. He would never let his guard down again so that he was tricked so easily like he had been by senator Secunda.

~z~

A refreshing walk through green nature later he sat down again on his laptop and checked his mails once again. Another 48 mails appeared in his in-box, the last one only a text-file again.

Yo Hee-chan!

Hope ya received all the files. Enjoy the video.

Still missing you,
Duo

Heero smiled and sighed before he started decoding the numerous files. He wished he could tell Duo how much he missed him but wasn't sure where to reach him. He had asked Wufei if the Preventers received any news from Duo after they had parted but the Chinese man had only shook his head. So Heero hadn't even tried to use the usual way. He knew it would be monitored and he didn't want to endanger Duo any more than he already had. So the only link they had was one-sided.

He sighed again as he started the video.

Due to the compression the solution wasn't exactly great but Heero's heart skipped a beat as he saw the grinning counterfeit of a certain braided American.

[Duo...]

He looked exactly like on all the pictures in the press. Happy, cheerful and a bit sly but Heero noticed sadness and exhaustion in those beaming dark blue eyes as well. Poor Duo. What did he have to go through? The tiny image of Duo on his screen started to talk.

"Hi Hee-koi! I got a little bored one day and my uncle allowed me to use a camera so I thought I send you a little life-sign," the face that took the whole screen explained. "But I warn ya! Whatever happens, watch it till the very end! I have important information recorded for ya, too."

Duo moved away from the camera so that you could see the room he was in. It looked an awful lot like the one he had lived in with the senator but yet it was slightly different. For example the big four-poster bed Duo went to sit on wasn't made of mahogany any more but of cherry-wood and the carpets had different colors.

"And since I am the evil guy I am I put it just at the end so that you will watch the whole movie."

He shifted a little on the bed, playing with his braid.

"Not that I think you won't... But I think you might skip the end," he grinned his evil smile. "So I warned you now. Thank you very much."

He moved back to the camera and turned it off.

Half a second later his face was on the screen again and he added, "Oh, and send Relena my greetings!"

To be continued...
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{1} Am I the only one who noticed that the shape of their eyes almost look the same? Well at least in Endless Waltz as far as I remember... It's scary...

{2} Nuriko!!! Ahem... another bad joke… happens once in a while... #^_^#

{3} That's what I think of the picture from Blind Target. I looked at it and screamed, "It really shows you *nothing*!!!!!!"
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Please slap my muses... I've been working on this chapter for ages and I'm still not happy with it... There's one scene in the next chapter I wanted to write in this one but I ran out of time and words... It didn't like to come into my mind...
PS: Who couldn't have guessed which musical I was talking about: It was RENT.