Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Games, Gifts and Interruptions ❯ Chance To Walk Away ( Chapter 14 )
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By: Kimpisces 
Wufei and Duo fight over Heero...at Quatre and Trowa's anniversary party and Hereo's not too happy about it...
Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Comedy | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 08.28.2004 | Pages: 5 | Words: 5.3K | Visits: 398 | Status: Work In Progress
Wufei and Duo fight over Heero...at Quatre and Trowa's anniversary party and Hereo's not too happy about it...
Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Comedy | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 08.28.2004 | Pages: 5 | Words: 5.3K | Visits: 398 | Status: Work In Progress
Gifts, Games and Interruptions
{A/N: another one of the reasons that the last chapter was so Heero-oriented was because, we don't actually know what's going on. All we know is the little that Heero was thinking about...which didn't tell anyone anything. So we don't actually know what Duo and Wufei were doing (so make your own accusations with what happens in this chapter ^^
And the chapter title is actually based on my current msn name, which is "You have your chance to walk away, live to see another day" which is lyrics from the song "Step Up" by Drowning Pool which is one of the songs on "The Punisher" soundtrack ^^ ...gotta love that soundtrack!!! (that's actually what I was listening to while I was writing the small fight scene
By the way...the last chapter was all screwed up....so I'm sorry if it was confusing to anyone...it was just my way of having a reason for Heero to be suspicious of both of the other pilots and I needed for it to work so I made it work that way ::nods:: but I couldn't get it to work properly. But hopefully this chapter makes up for it...^^}
Chapter Fourteen: Your Chance to Walk Away
"It's good to see that you could make it Hilde." Duo said as he opened the door to the house again and greeted the newest addition to the party. Hilde nodded to him and slipped inside looking away. "Everyone's in the living room. I hope that you have fun."
"How are you Duo?" Hilde said, not heading to the living room which had probably been Duo's hope. "I hear that Heero and Wufei have finally gotten their acts together and are together now. Are you dealing with that alright? You know that there is always a space for you in my house, right? So if you need a place to stay away from them while you're getting used to it by all means-"
"I'll phone you." Duo said off-handedly, not meaning it in the least. He wasn't going to leave them when they were just starting out. He was almost sure that Heero thought Wufei was up to something which might actually lead to a fight and he had to be here to comfort Heero. If he ended up having to force Heero back to Wufei, he would.
"Alright then, if you promise." Hilde smiled and then slipped her hand in Duo's. "So? Are you coming to the party?"
"I'm on greeting duty for the next fifteen minutes. Then it's Wufei's turn for half an hour and then we're done for the night. Anyone who wants to show up after that, is going to have to let themselves in." Duo said with a simple shrug. "We're not going to become butlers for this party. Me and Wufei want to have some fun too you know."
Hilde nodded and let go of Duo. "Well I'll see you in fifteen minutes then. Talk to you later Duo." Hilde then went to the living room, her eye on someone else to talk to.
Someone rang the doorbell and Duo automatically opened the door, surprised to see Une standing there. "Why, Une, what are you doing here?"
'Wufei invited me. I figured that I should show my courteousy and come and wish Quatre and Trowa a happy anniversary and then I shall leave." Une said simply.
"Oh? Aren't you going to stay around for the partying part of the party?" Duo asked with a smirk.
"Most certainly not. Heero tells me that you helped plan this party so I'm not going to stay here any longer than I have to. I know you better than you think Duo Maxwell and I will NOT get caught up in one of your silly party games just because I didn't have enough sense to leave when you said something about five minutes in heaven or something."
"We're not going to play any little kid games like that."
"I don't believe you." Une said and then handed Duo her coat. "I'll be back for that in about five minutes, so make sure you don't put it too far away." Then she went to the living room.
Duo sighed and closed the door after her, putting her coat in the closet. This was really boring business. Why on earth had he gotten stuck with it for the first shift? Then he remembered, because it was going to be even boring next shift judging by the fact that almost everyone that he and Wufei had bought were here already and it was only twenty minutes into the party. Usually no one showed up on time, they usually just started getting in right now. This was just pitiful.
The doorbell rang again and Duo opened the door to Zechs and Noin. Duo smiled at them and motioned them inside.
"Thank you so much for inviting us Duo." Zechs said with a smile as he led Noin inside. "I can't believe that Trowa and Quatre have actually been together for a full two years now. It seems like just yesterday me, Heero and Trowa were sitting in a diner trying to get Trowa to ask Quatre out."
"You were the one that convinced Trowa to ask Quatre out?" Duo asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Nah." Zechs said, waving Duo off. "It was more Heero's doing. There's something about Heero that makes you afraid to go against what he's telling you to do if you know what I mean." Zechs winked. "But I hear he's gotten himself a boyfriend finally."
Did everyone know about it? Was it included in the invitations for pete's sakes and why was everyone talking to him about it. "Yeah. Heero and Wufei have been going out for about three weeks now or so." Duo shrugged indifferently. "It's probably hard for them. They weren't especially close before so they don't know each other as good as say, me and Heero know each other."
Noin nodded. "You probably feel weird around them, huh? I know it was weird when Zechs and Wufei went out that one time."
Duo shrugged again. "Whatever. They'll last if they're supposed to and I might have the same chance you did if they don't."
Noin and Zechs smirked at each other at that comment. Everyone knew that they had started their relationship during the time that Zechs was still upset about Wufei dumping him. No one had thought it would last, especially them. Everyone had just thought that it was a rebound thing. But six months and counting had gone by so most people were willing to admit they were wrong by now.
"You guys should get in there and wish Trowa and Quatre a happy anniversary." Duo said, ushering them inside. "Go on and have fun. I'll catch up with you later. My shift is almost over you know." Duo said with a wink and then turned back to the door.
"You're doing a good job." A monotone voice said from behind him.
"What the-" Duo said, jumping slightly and whipping around. He glared at the messy-haired boy when he saw him. "Heero! You nearly gave me a heart attack. You don't have to do that all the time you know."
Heero shrugged and yanked on Duo's braid. "Come on, Wufei is pre-occupied with the drinks so you're going to have to go and get him. I can't get anywhere near him but I'm sure you can squeeze through the crowds." Heero grinned. "You're good at that. Now go and get Wufei to do his shift. It's his turn. I'll watch the door while you're gone."
"Okay." Duo said with a small smile. "I'll be back in a minute with Wufei."
Heero nodded and waved Duo off.
Duo made his way into the livingroom and figured out where Wufei was in a minute. He smiled to the random people that acknowledged him but mainly headed straight for Wufei. He went up to the Chinese boy and tapped him on the shoulder. "Hey Wufei."
"You should be at the door!" Wufei hissed as he saw Duo behind him. "You can leave the door unattended yet. You know that. I know I'm running a little bit late but that's no reason for you to come and get me, leaving the door alone."
"I didn't." Duo said with a glare. "Heero came and told me to get you and he's watching the door while I am." Duo growled low in his throat and Wufei rolled his eyes. "I'll play bartender now for a while."
Wufei said nothing and merely nodded, handing the drinks over to Duo and then walking away as if nothing was wrong and heading for the door. He was walking a little heavier than usual and Duo decided that he was probably angry that Heero had gone and took over his shift for him for the first few minutes. Who knew what was really going through Wufei's mind right now and who cared?
"So, who wants what?" Duo called out and instantly he got a bunch of orders and Duo went to work instantly.
A couple of years ago, Duo had gone and taken a bartending class so that he could mix drinks like this at his own parties and right now he was greatful that he had done so. There were some drinks that he wouldn't have ever heard of if it hadn't been for that but Duo was able to mix them like a pro, even if it did take a second to remember what each drink was.
"You're doing a good job." Quatre said with a smile. "You know that. I must admit that this party is going better than I thought it would with both you and Wufei running it. But that seems to be okay. I'm glad that you guys put your differences aside for this party."
"Thanks Quatre." Duo said with a smile. "I'm glad that we did too. This is fun. I haven't had this much fun for a long time. I love making drinks and the greeting people at the door was even enjoyable." Duo gave Quatre a hug. "I'm happy for you too. Two years with Trowa and you two are still going strong. You know, I was mad that you got together with him in the beginning." Duo winked. "I thought that we might get together before you got tied but I guess it's too late."
Quatre laughed. "I'm not tied to him yet. We're only together, not married."
"I know better than that." Duo said with a laugh. "So what does one half of the couple of honor want to drink?"
"Just make me something good." Quatre said with a wave. "I don't care what it is."
"One mystery drink coming up." Duo said with a grin and then handed Quatre a drink.
"Thanks a lot Duo." Quatre said, tipping his glass slightly in a mock salut. "I gotta go rescue Trowa from the crowd before he gets mad at me for letting him go through that torture for so long." Quatre smiled and then was gone to rescue his koi.
"I'll have a beer." Heero said, coming up beside Duo. "We need to talk."
"What?" Duo said with an odd look. "Right now? Can't it wait?"
"It can wait." Heero said with a nod. "But I'm just warning you that we need to talk later. Okay?"
"Yeah, sure buddy." Duo said, clasping Heero's shoulder with one hand while handing Heero a beer with the other. "Come on, you should go and dance with someone."
"I thought you couldn't leave you spot."
Duo laughed. "I meant with Wufei."
"He's still at the door." Heero said with a smudge of regret in his voice. "So I'm kinda just going to hang out here until he gets away from it. There's no one else here I'd rather talk to anyways."
"I don't know if that's a compliment or an insult." Duo admitted but then smiled. "But I'm going to take it as a compliment." Duo grabbed himself a beer and took a swig from it. "So, is it bad?"
"What/"
"What you want to talk to me about."
"We're not going to play twenty questions."
"Why not?"
"Why not what?" Relena asked as she came up to the bar.
"I didn't know you drank." Duo said, quickly changing the subject effectively.
"I don't." Relena said simply. "But I figured that it was only fair that I come and talk to the hosts."
"Well that's nice of you." Duo said with a smile.
"Relena!" Hilde said coming over to them. "You have to come and tell me where you got those shoes. Those shoes are just the most-" Duo couldn't hear anymore of the conversation as the crowd overtook them.
"The hosts my butt." Duo said with a laugh. "She came over here to talk to you Heero. I swear that girl is still hot on you."
"Relena knows that I like guys."
"What's that got to do with anything? She probably figures that she can convince you otherwise." Duo grinned and punched Heero in the shoulder. "I guess she's the only person here who doesn't know that you're with Wufei."
"Yeah, he is with me." Wufei repeated as he came up behind Duo. "Everyone's here that we invited. Anyone else who comes is just someone who wants to take advantage of free alcohol."
"Well then you'd better go lock the door." Duo joked.
"Very funny Duo." Wufei said neutrally. "Heero? You want to dance?"
"Sure." Heero looked over at Duo. "We'll be back after the dance Duo."
"Go and enjoy yourself." Duo waved Heero away. "You just remember that you own me a dance later."
Something flickered in Wufei's eyes and he grabbed Heero's hand and led him away to the part of the living room that people were using as a dance floor. Duo watched them for a moment and then went back to his bartending and was taken by complete surprise when suddenly Heero was in front of him close to ten minutes later.
"Come on Duo, you owe me a dance."
"Right now?" Duo asked. "Why don't you just go and dance with Wufei somemore and when people stop drinking so much, I'll have a dance with you."
"Duo-" Heero growled and Duo realized that Zechs had been right about what he had said earlier. There was something about Heero that made you almost afraid to not do what he was telling you to. "You owe me a dance."
"Alright. But what about the bar."
"Wufei will watch it." Heero said simply and then dragged Duo out onto the floor.
"Are you sure that Wufei's okay with this?" Duo asked, shooting a worried looked back at Wufei. "I mean, he doesn't really look all that happy about this, if you know what I mean."
"So?" Heero asked and then began to dance lightly to the music.
"Alright then." Duo began to dance too but much more timidly than he ever usually danced.
"Come on Duo, loosen up. Wufei's not going to yell at you for dancing with me." Heero said with a sigh. "If you really don't want to dance with me, than I guess you can go back to the bar."
"No." Duo said, shaking his head. "Alright lets dance."
Duo let himself go and just danced, not caring that Heero's boyfriend was probably watching them the entire time. Not caring that there were people all around him, only really knowing that Heero was dancing with him. And if anything happened, it would be Heero's fault!
Duo and Heero danced reasonably far away from each other, Duo thought. They weren't incredibly far apart but they weren't all that close either. Much farther apart than they usually were when they were dancing. Heero had that much conscious thought. Duo brought his hand around Heero to hold him in position as they danced a perfectly cheorographed dance.
The next thing Duo knew, he was being thrown onto the floor and it was like everything went quiet as everyone in the entire room turned to see what was going on.
"What in the hell do you think you're doing?" Wufei yelled as he stared down at Duo.
*****
Wufei didn't know what had happened. All he knew was that he had looked over at Duo and Heero and saw, as plain as day, Duo's hand on Heero's lower back. So low in fact that most people would not count that as Heero's back. Wufei had seen red and that was all there was to it.
Now Duo was on the floor and Wufei had put himself between Duo and Heero like a mother between her child and a bully.
"What in the hell do you think you're doing?" Wufei hissed as he looked down at Duo with what he figured was a glare on his face. "You idiot! Heero said dance with him. Not molest him!"
"We /were/ just dancing." Duo said, standing up, with his face scrunched in a way that made it look like had just bitten into something sour. "We weren't doing anything Wufei so I don't know what your problem is but you need to just smarten up."
"I don't need to smarten up." Wufei said sharply. "You do." Wufei pushed Duo back. "You'd better stay the hell way from Heero. I don't know what you're trying to do but it won't work. Making Heero feel sorry for you so that he lets this whole threeway thing go through. I don't think so. Not as long as I'm the one that's Heero's boyfriend."
"I don't care about that stupid threesome thing anymore." Duo snarled. "I told you that when I said that I would help you with this damned party! That's why you decided to work with me, remember?"
"Yeah well I didn't believe you then and now I know why." Wufei's eyes held the spark of fire that looked like it was ready to burn Duo alive without another thought. "You just can't take the fact that I finally got something that you didn't. Can you?"
"What the hell!" Duo exclaimed as he moved closer to Wufei, pushing him back a little bit. "You're just a little insecure slut! You deserve to have Heero, you know that! You should have been happy that I proposed that stupid threesome thing. Maybe it would have hidden the fact that you are an overly possessive pig!"
"The pot calling the kettle black it sounds like." Wufei snapped. "You just can't handle the fact that Heero actually found someone besides you to go with. It kills you doesn't it to know that someone you wanted doesn't want you."
Neither of the two ex-pilots realized that everyone was looking at them until Quatre appeared at Wufei's shoulder and pulled on it. "Come on Wufei, lets go and take a walk. There's no need to do this now."
"Yes there is!" Wufei hissed. "If we don't do this now, I"m going to have to do this over and over again because Duo here isn't going to give up anything."
"What is there to give up? Heero's not yours. He's still my best friend!"
Trowa appeared now, pulling on Duo's shoulder. "Come on, lets go."
"NO!" Duo exclaimed pushing Trowa away and then lunging at Wufei.
Everyone watched in horror as Wufei and Duo rolled around on the ground for a moment, each delivering punches and kicks to placed that made most of them men either wince or cringe. Then Heero reached down and pulled them away from each other, actually throwing them about five feet in either direction.
"GET OU!" Heero yelled to everyone else, not concerned with his reputation at the moment.
Everyone ran out of the house in record time and in about two minutes the only people still in the house was Trowa, Quatre, Wufei, Duo and Heero.
"You two are being incredibly childish!" Heero barked at the two pilots on the floor still. "I don't know what got into you Wufei but I don't think that this was the time or the place for you to get into it with Duo. And Duo, why in the hell did you tackle Wufei like that?"
Neither of the boys responded to Heero, instead they just hung their heads in shame.
"Now, I'm going to ask both of you to make a choice." Heero growled. "Either you two are going to work this out or you two are going to both be stuck here with each other while I walk out of that door to one of Quatre's many mansions. And I will NOT phone you or make any contact with you for the next five years. Do you understand me?"
Wufei and Duo looked away from each other and then nodded, sighing. Both of them equally aware that Heero would go through with his threat.
"If Wufei wasn't so insecure about us dancing-" Duo started but Wufei interrupted him before he could get too far.
"Oh? So this is all my fault?" Wufei asked disbelieving. "It's your fault because you went and started to prove to everyone that you had a complete and total obvsession problem with MY BOYFRIEND!"
"I do NOT have an obsession problem with your boyfriend." Duo growled.
"Yes you do!"
"No I don't!"
"Both of you stop it now!" Heero interrupted the two of them with a stomp. The two boys stopped sheepishly and looked around the room.
Heero fished in his pocket for a key and handed it to Quatre and Trowa. "This your key. At least your anniversary won't be completely and totally ruined." Heero smiled. "I want you to forget what just happened and go and have a great night. By the way." Heero looked at his watch. "You have reservations for that restaurant you were trying to get a table at, in about half an hour. Be five minutes early or they might give your table away." Heero smiled. "Now go and have fun." Then Heero turned towards the two remaining pilots. "I'll deal with these two."
"Thanks Heero." Quatre said, going up to Heero and giving him a kiss on the cheek. "Don't get too mad at them. It's natural to be jealous in the beginning, you know."
"Hn." Was Heero's only reply.
"See you Heero." Trowa said with a pat to the back. "Don't kill them."
"There are worse things than death." Heero responsed.
"Don't do any of those things to them either." Trowa retorted.
"I'll try."
"That's all I ask." With that Trowa and Quatre left the house and the three pilots all alone.
"I am not a toy." Heero stated simply as he sat down between the two of them. "Therefore you two can not treat me like this. I am not something that either of you are going to own. I am a person who wants to be with both of you but in different ways and if you can't understand that than this is your chance to walk away."
Wufei and Duo nodded solemnly.
"I'm going to go to my room. In half an hour I want you two to come up there and tell me what you have come up with in terms of some sort of solution for this thing." Heero growled. "And if you come up with a schedule of when you can each see me, I'm going to dump the both of you and neither of you will be my boyfriend or my friend. End of discussion." With that Heero walked upstairs.
"Heero's mine." Wufei snapped as soon as Heero was out of earshot.
"Heero won't like us fighitng again." Duo said with a sigh.
"Yeah." Wufei admitted.
"I'm not going to give him up because you two are going out now."
"I'm not going to give him up because you two are best friends."
"This could take a while."
Wufei nodded in agreement. How did Heero expect this to work.
"Want to have a drink?" Duo asked as he stood up. "I'll make you something."
Wufei nodded again and followed Duo to the drinks. Duo made him something and Wufei didn't even look at it before he downed it. "So what do you think happened between us two to make us so, different towards each other. I used to like you, you know."
"Really?" Duo asked. "I used to like you too."
"So then what's our problem?"
"Heero." Both of the boys answered at the same time.
"So what are we going to do about it?" Duo asked as he picked up a beer and then headed over to a bunch of chairs that had been set up by the wall. "We can't keep fighting like we did tonight otherwise we'll never get anywhere and we both already said that neither of us were going to give Heero up."
"What do you think you're going to get out of this?" Wufei questioned. "I mean, he already chose me."
"Yeah but if you two break up-" Duo let it trail off.
"We're really being stupid." Wufei admitted.
"Yeah, we really are being stupid." Duo agreed.
"How about we just call a truce." Wufei suggested.
"What kind of truce?"
"I get to be Heero's boyfriend and you get to be Heero's best friend and if we ever break up, you get first dibs on Heero." Wufei suggested.
"How about you have to let me join you in any movie watching in the house."
"Then you have to let me join you in any basketball playing."
"We'd have an uneven amount of players." Duo pointed out.
"Not if Trowa joined in."
"We trade off being on Heero's team?" Duo asked.
"Yeah." Wufei smiled. "This sounds like some sort of political neogation."
"I wonder if Heero does like being treated like a king."
They both wrinkled their noses and shook their head. "Nah!"
"Should we go tell Heero that we came up with a solution?" Duo asked.
"And tell him that it was this easy?" Wufei shook his head. "Besides we still haven't covered the whole who sits where during moving watching and other limits."
"Like?"
"Like your dancing today."
"What was wrong with it?"
"Well-"
*****
Heero smiled as he listened to the two of them. At least they were working things out..
Even if they were treating him like an object still....
*****
{A/N: it's actually sad but once that happened to me (no it wasn't the grade nine thing..unfortunately) ...someone told us if we dind't talk it out we'd end up losing what we were fighting about so we talked it out in about a minute ::shakes her head:: it's weird but eh..whatever
Alright..i don't know what's going to happen in the next chapter yet but eh, we'll figure it out when i get inspired..give me about a week ...lolol
sorry I'm not going to reply to anyone's comments...I haven't read any of them yet...I just wanted to get this chapter out before I did anything...(two updates in one day ^^ go me ^^
R&R please..i need to know someone liked this...}
{A/N: another one of the reasons that the last chapter was so Heero-oriented was because, we don't actually know what's going on. All we know is the little that Heero was thinking about...which didn't tell anyone anything. So we don't actually know what Duo and Wufei were doing (so make your own accusations with what happens in this chapter ^^
And the chapter title is actually based on my current msn name, which is "You have your chance to walk away, live to see another day" which is lyrics from the song "Step Up" by Drowning Pool which is one of the songs on "The Punisher" soundtrack ^^ ...gotta love that soundtrack!!! (that's actually what I was listening to while I was writing the small fight scene
By the way...the last chapter was all screwed up....so I'm sorry if it was confusing to anyone...it was just my way of having a reason for Heero to be suspicious of both of the other pilots and I needed for it to work so I made it work that way ::nods:: but I couldn't get it to work properly. But hopefully this chapter makes up for it...^^}
Chapter Fourteen: Your Chance to Walk Away
"It's good to see that you could make it Hilde." Duo said as he opened the door to the house again and greeted the newest addition to the party. Hilde nodded to him and slipped inside looking away. "Everyone's in the living room. I hope that you have fun."
"How are you Duo?" Hilde said, not heading to the living room which had probably been Duo's hope. "I hear that Heero and Wufei have finally gotten their acts together and are together now. Are you dealing with that alright? You know that there is always a space for you in my house, right? So if you need a place to stay away from them while you're getting used to it by all means-"
"I'll phone you." Duo said off-handedly, not meaning it in the least. He wasn't going to leave them when they were just starting out. He was almost sure that Heero thought Wufei was up to something which might actually lead to a fight and he had to be here to comfort Heero. If he ended up having to force Heero back to Wufei, he would.
"Alright then, if you promise." Hilde smiled and then slipped her hand in Duo's. "So? Are you coming to the party?"
"I'm on greeting duty for the next fifteen minutes. Then it's Wufei's turn for half an hour and then we're done for the night. Anyone who wants to show up after that, is going to have to let themselves in." Duo said with a simple shrug. "We're not going to become butlers for this party. Me and Wufei want to have some fun too you know."
Hilde nodded and let go of Duo. "Well I'll see you in fifteen minutes then. Talk to you later Duo." Hilde then went to the living room, her eye on someone else to talk to.
Someone rang the doorbell and Duo automatically opened the door, surprised to see Une standing there. "Why, Une, what are you doing here?"
'Wufei invited me. I figured that I should show my courteousy and come and wish Quatre and Trowa a happy anniversary and then I shall leave." Une said simply.
"Oh? Aren't you going to stay around for the partying part of the party?" Duo asked with a smirk.
"Most certainly not. Heero tells me that you helped plan this party so I'm not going to stay here any longer than I have to. I know you better than you think Duo Maxwell and I will NOT get caught up in one of your silly party games just because I didn't have enough sense to leave when you said something about five minutes in heaven or something."
"We're not going to play any little kid games like that."
"I don't believe you." Une said and then handed Duo her coat. "I'll be back for that in about five minutes, so make sure you don't put it too far away." Then she went to the living room.
Duo sighed and closed the door after her, putting her coat in the closet. This was really boring business. Why on earth had he gotten stuck with it for the first shift? Then he remembered, because it was going to be even boring next shift judging by the fact that almost everyone that he and Wufei had bought were here already and it was only twenty minutes into the party. Usually no one showed up on time, they usually just started getting in right now. This was just pitiful.
The doorbell rang again and Duo opened the door to Zechs and Noin. Duo smiled at them and motioned them inside.
"Thank you so much for inviting us Duo." Zechs said with a smile as he led Noin inside. "I can't believe that Trowa and Quatre have actually been together for a full two years now. It seems like just yesterday me, Heero and Trowa were sitting in a diner trying to get Trowa to ask Quatre out."
"You were the one that convinced Trowa to ask Quatre out?" Duo asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Nah." Zechs said, waving Duo off. "It was more Heero's doing. There's something about Heero that makes you afraid to go against what he's telling you to do if you know what I mean." Zechs winked. "But I hear he's gotten himself a boyfriend finally."
Did everyone know about it? Was it included in the invitations for pete's sakes and why was everyone talking to him about it. "Yeah. Heero and Wufei have been going out for about three weeks now or so." Duo shrugged indifferently. "It's probably hard for them. They weren't especially close before so they don't know each other as good as say, me and Heero know each other."
Noin nodded. "You probably feel weird around them, huh? I know it was weird when Zechs and Wufei went out that one time."
Duo shrugged again. "Whatever. They'll last if they're supposed to and I might have the same chance you did if they don't."
Noin and Zechs smirked at each other at that comment. Everyone knew that they had started their relationship during the time that Zechs was still upset about Wufei dumping him. No one had thought it would last, especially them. Everyone had just thought that it was a rebound thing. But six months and counting had gone by so most people were willing to admit they were wrong by now.
"You guys should get in there and wish Trowa and Quatre a happy anniversary." Duo said, ushering them inside. "Go on and have fun. I'll catch up with you later. My shift is almost over you know." Duo said with a wink and then turned back to the door.
"You're doing a good job." A monotone voice said from behind him.
"What the-" Duo said, jumping slightly and whipping around. He glared at the messy-haired boy when he saw him. "Heero! You nearly gave me a heart attack. You don't have to do that all the time you know."
Heero shrugged and yanked on Duo's braid. "Come on, Wufei is pre-occupied with the drinks so you're going to have to go and get him. I can't get anywhere near him but I'm sure you can squeeze through the crowds." Heero grinned. "You're good at that. Now go and get Wufei to do his shift. It's his turn. I'll watch the door while you're gone."
"Okay." Duo said with a small smile. "I'll be back in a minute with Wufei."
Heero nodded and waved Duo off.
Duo made his way into the livingroom and figured out where Wufei was in a minute. He smiled to the random people that acknowledged him but mainly headed straight for Wufei. He went up to the Chinese boy and tapped him on the shoulder. "Hey Wufei."
"You should be at the door!" Wufei hissed as he saw Duo behind him. "You can leave the door unattended yet. You know that. I know I'm running a little bit late but that's no reason for you to come and get me, leaving the door alone."
"I didn't." Duo said with a glare. "Heero came and told me to get you and he's watching the door while I am." Duo growled low in his throat and Wufei rolled his eyes. "I'll play bartender now for a while."
Wufei said nothing and merely nodded, handing the drinks over to Duo and then walking away as if nothing was wrong and heading for the door. He was walking a little heavier than usual and Duo decided that he was probably angry that Heero had gone and took over his shift for him for the first few minutes. Who knew what was really going through Wufei's mind right now and who cared?
"So, who wants what?" Duo called out and instantly he got a bunch of orders and Duo went to work instantly.
A couple of years ago, Duo had gone and taken a bartending class so that he could mix drinks like this at his own parties and right now he was greatful that he had done so. There were some drinks that he wouldn't have ever heard of if it hadn't been for that but Duo was able to mix them like a pro, even if it did take a second to remember what each drink was.
"You're doing a good job." Quatre said with a smile. "You know that. I must admit that this party is going better than I thought it would with both you and Wufei running it. But that seems to be okay. I'm glad that you guys put your differences aside for this party."
"Thanks Quatre." Duo said with a smile. "I'm glad that we did too. This is fun. I haven't had this much fun for a long time. I love making drinks and the greeting people at the door was even enjoyable." Duo gave Quatre a hug. "I'm happy for you too. Two years with Trowa and you two are still going strong. You know, I was mad that you got together with him in the beginning." Duo winked. "I thought that we might get together before you got tied but I guess it's too late."
Quatre laughed. "I'm not tied to him yet. We're only together, not married."
"I know better than that." Duo said with a laugh. "So what does one half of the couple of honor want to drink?"
"Just make me something good." Quatre said with a wave. "I don't care what it is."
"One mystery drink coming up." Duo said with a grin and then handed Quatre a drink.
"Thanks a lot Duo." Quatre said, tipping his glass slightly in a mock salut. "I gotta go rescue Trowa from the crowd before he gets mad at me for letting him go through that torture for so long." Quatre smiled and then was gone to rescue his koi.
"I'll have a beer." Heero said, coming up beside Duo. "We need to talk."
"What?" Duo said with an odd look. "Right now? Can't it wait?"
"It can wait." Heero said with a nod. "But I'm just warning you that we need to talk later. Okay?"
"Yeah, sure buddy." Duo said, clasping Heero's shoulder with one hand while handing Heero a beer with the other. "Come on, you should go and dance with someone."
"I thought you couldn't leave you spot."
Duo laughed. "I meant with Wufei."
"He's still at the door." Heero said with a smudge of regret in his voice. "So I'm kinda just going to hang out here until he gets away from it. There's no one else here I'd rather talk to anyways."
"I don't know if that's a compliment or an insult." Duo admitted but then smiled. "But I'm going to take it as a compliment." Duo grabbed himself a beer and took a swig from it. "So, is it bad?"
"What/"
"What you want to talk to me about."
"We're not going to play twenty questions."
"Why not?"
"Why not what?" Relena asked as she came up to the bar.
"I didn't know you drank." Duo said, quickly changing the subject effectively.
"I don't." Relena said simply. "But I figured that it was only fair that I come and talk to the hosts."
"Well that's nice of you." Duo said with a smile.
"Relena!" Hilde said coming over to them. "You have to come and tell me where you got those shoes. Those shoes are just the most-" Duo couldn't hear anymore of the conversation as the crowd overtook them.
"The hosts my butt." Duo said with a laugh. "She came over here to talk to you Heero. I swear that girl is still hot on you."
"Relena knows that I like guys."
"What's that got to do with anything? She probably figures that she can convince you otherwise." Duo grinned and punched Heero in the shoulder. "I guess she's the only person here who doesn't know that you're with Wufei."
"Yeah, he is with me." Wufei repeated as he came up behind Duo. "Everyone's here that we invited. Anyone else who comes is just someone who wants to take advantage of free alcohol."
"Well then you'd better go lock the door." Duo joked.
"Very funny Duo." Wufei said neutrally. "Heero? You want to dance?"
"Sure." Heero looked over at Duo. "We'll be back after the dance Duo."
"Go and enjoy yourself." Duo waved Heero away. "You just remember that you own me a dance later."
Something flickered in Wufei's eyes and he grabbed Heero's hand and led him away to the part of the living room that people were using as a dance floor. Duo watched them for a moment and then went back to his bartending and was taken by complete surprise when suddenly Heero was in front of him close to ten minutes later.
"Come on Duo, you owe me a dance."
"Right now?" Duo asked. "Why don't you just go and dance with Wufei somemore and when people stop drinking so much, I'll have a dance with you."
"Duo-" Heero growled and Duo realized that Zechs had been right about what he had said earlier. There was something about Heero that made you almost afraid to not do what he was telling you to. "You owe me a dance."
"Alright. But what about the bar."
"Wufei will watch it." Heero said simply and then dragged Duo out onto the floor.
"Are you sure that Wufei's okay with this?" Duo asked, shooting a worried looked back at Wufei. "I mean, he doesn't really look all that happy about this, if you know what I mean."
"So?" Heero asked and then began to dance lightly to the music.
"Alright then." Duo began to dance too but much more timidly than he ever usually danced.
"Come on Duo, loosen up. Wufei's not going to yell at you for dancing with me." Heero said with a sigh. "If you really don't want to dance with me, than I guess you can go back to the bar."
"No." Duo said, shaking his head. "Alright lets dance."
Duo let himself go and just danced, not caring that Heero's boyfriend was probably watching them the entire time. Not caring that there were people all around him, only really knowing that Heero was dancing with him. And if anything happened, it would be Heero's fault!
Duo and Heero danced reasonably far away from each other, Duo thought. They weren't incredibly far apart but they weren't all that close either. Much farther apart than they usually were when they were dancing. Heero had that much conscious thought. Duo brought his hand around Heero to hold him in position as they danced a perfectly cheorographed dance.
The next thing Duo knew, he was being thrown onto the floor and it was like everything went quiet as everyone in the entire room turned to see what was going on.
"What in the hell do you think you're doing?" Wufei yelled as he stared down at Duo.
*****
Wufei didn't know what had happened. All he knew was that he had looked over at Duo and Heero and saw, as plain as day, Duo's hand on Heero's lower back. So low in fact that most people would not count that as Heero's back. Wufei had seen red and that was all there was to it.
Now Duo was on the floor and Wufei had put himself between Duo and Heero like a mother between her child and a bully.
"What in the hell do you think you're doing?" Wufei hissed as he looked down at Duo with what he figured was a glare on his face. "You idiot! Heero said dance with him. Not molest him!"
"We /were/ just dancing." Duo said, standing up, with his face scrunched in a way that made it look like had just bitten into something sour. "We weren't doing anything Wufei so I don't know what your problem is but you need to just smarten up."
"I don't need to smarten up." Wufei said sharply. "You do." Wufei pushed Duo back. "You'd better stay the hell way from Heero. I don't know what you're trying to do but it won't work. Making Heero feel sorry for you so that he lets this whole threeway thing go through. I don't think so. Not as long as I'm the one that's Heero's boyfriend."
"I don't care about that stupid threesome thing anymore." Duo snarled. "I told you that when I said that I would help you with this damned party! That's why you decided to work with me, remember?"
"Yeah well I didn't believe you then and now I know why." Wufei's eyes held the spark of fire that looked like it was ready to burn Duo alive without another thought. "You just can't take the fact that I finally got something that you didn't. Can you?"
"What the hell!" Duo exclaimed as he moved closer to Wufei, pushing him back a little bit. "You're just a little insecure slut! You deserve to have Heero, you know that! You should have been happy that I proposed that stupid threesome thing. Maybe it would have hidden the fact that you are an overly possessive pig!"
"The pot calling the kettle black it sounds like." Wufei snapped. "You just can't handle the fact that Heero actually found someone besides you to go with. It kills you doesn't it to know that someone you wanted doesn't want you."
Neither of the two ex-pilots realized that everyone was looking at them until Quatre appeared at Wufei's shoulder and pulled on it. "Come on Wufei, lets go and take a walk. There's no need to do this now."
"Yes there is!" Wufei hissed. "If we don't do this now, I"m going to have to do this over and over again because Duo here isn't going to give up anything."
"What is there to give up? Heero's not yours. He's still my best friend!"
Trowa appeared now, pulling on Duo's shoulder. "Come on, lets go."
"NO!" Duo exclaimed pushing Trowa away and then lunging at Wufei.
Everyone watched in horror as Wufei and Duo rolled around on the ground for a moment, each delivering punches and kicks to placed that made most of them men either wince or cringe. Then Heero reached down and pulled them away from each other, actually throwing them about five feet in either direction.
"GET OU!" Heero yelled to everyone else, not concerned with his reputation at the moment.
Everyone ran out of the house in record time and in about two minutes the only people still in the house was Trowa, Quatre, Wufei, Duo and Heero.
"You two are being incredibly childish!" Heero barked at the two pilots on the floor still. "I don't know what got into you Wufei but I don't think that this was the time or the place for you to get into it with Duo. And Duo, why in the hell did you tackle Wufei like that?"
Neither of the boys responded to Heero, instead they just hung their heads in shame.
"Now, I'm going to ask both of you to make a choice." Heero growled. "Either you two are going to work this out or you two are going to both be stuck here with each other while I walk out of that door to one of Quatre's many mansions. And I will NOT phone you or make any contact with you for the next five years. Do you understand me?"
Wufei and Duo looked away from each other and then nodded, sighing. Both of them equally aware that Heero would go through with his threat.
"If Wufei wasn't so insecure about us dancing-" Duo started but Wufei interrupted him before he could get too far.
"Oh? So this is all my fault?" Wufei asked disbelieving. "It's your fault because you went and started to prove to everyone that you had a complete and total obvsession problem with MY BOYFRIEND!"
"I do NOT have an obsession problem with your boyfriend." Duo growled.
"Yes you do!"
"No I don't!"
"Both of you stop it now!" Heero interrupted the two of them with a stomp. The two boys stopped sheepishly and looked around the room.
Heero fished in his pocket for a key and handed it to Quatre and Trowa. "This your key. At least your anniversary won't be completely and totally ruined." Heero smiled. "I want you to forget what just happened and go and have a great night. By the way." Heero looked at his watch. "You have reservations for that restaurant you were trying to get a table at, in about half an hour. Be five minutes early or they might give your table away." Heero smiled. "Now go and have fun." Then Heero turned towards the two remaining pilots. "I'll deal with these two."
"Thanks Heero." Quatre said, going up to Heero and giving him a kiss on the cheek. "Don't get too mad at them. It's natural to be jealous in the beginning, you know."
"Hn." Was Heero's only reply.
"See you Heero." Trowa said with a pat to the back. "Don't kill them."
"There are worse things than death." Heero responsed.
"Don't do any of those things to them either." Trowa retorted.
"I'll try."
"That's all I ask." With that Trowa and Quatre left the house and the three pilots all alone.
"I am not a toy." Heero stated simply as he sat down between the two of them. "Therefore you two can not treat me like this. I am not something that either of you are going to own. I am a person who wants to be with both of you but in different ways and if you can't understand that than this is your chance to walk away."
Wufei and Duo nodded solemnly.
"I'm going to go to my room. In half an hour I want you two to come up there and tell me what you have come up with in terms of some sort of solution for this thing." Heero growled. "And if you come up with a schedule of when you can each see me, I'm going to dump the both of you and neither of you will be my boyfriend or my friend. End of discussion." With that Heero walked upstairs.
"Heero's mine." Wufei snapped as soon as Heero was out of earshot.
"Heero won't like us fighitng again." Duo said with a sigh.
"Yeah." Wufei admitted.
"I'm not going to give him up because you two are going out now."
"I'm not going to give him up because you two are best friends."
"This could take a while."
Wufei nodded in agreement. How did Heero expect this to work.
"Want to have a drink?" Duo asked as he stood up. "I'll make you something."
Wufei nodded again and followed Duo to the drinks. Duo made him something and Wufei didn't even look at it before he downed it. "So what do you think happened between us two to make us so, different towards each other. I used to like you, you know."
"Really?" Duo asked. "I used to like you too."
"So then what's our problem?"
"Heero." Both of the boys answered at the same time.
"So what are we going to do about it?" Duo asked as he picked up a beer and then headed over to a bunch of chairs that had been set up by the wall. "We can't keep fighting like we did tonight otherwise we'll never get anywhere and we both already said that neither of us were going to give Heero up."
"What do you think you're going to get out of this?" Wufei questioned. "I mean, he already chose me."
"Yeah but if you two break up-" Duo let it trail off.
"We're really being stupid." Wufei admitted.
"Yeah, we really are being stupid." Duo agreed.
"How about we just call a truce." Wufei suggested.
"What kind of truce?"
"I get to be Heero's boyfriend and you get to be Heero's best friend and if we ever break up, you get first dibs on Heero." Wufei suggested.
"How about you have to let me join you in any movie watching in the house."
"Then you have to let me join you in any basketball playing."
"We'd have an uneven amount of players." Duo pointed out.
"Not if Trowa joined in."
"We trade off being on Heero's team?" Duo asked.
"Yeah." Wufei smiled. "This sounds like some sort of political neogation."
"I wonder if Heero does like being treated like a king."
They both wrinkled their noses and shook their head. "Nah!"
"Should we go tell Heero that we came up with a solution?" Duo asked.
"And tell him that it was this easy?" Wufei shook his head. "Besides we still haven't covered the whole who sits where during moving watching and other limits."
"Like?"
"Like your dancing today."
"What was wrong with it?"
"Well-"
*****
Heero smiled as he listened to the two of them. At least they were working things out..
Even if they were treating him like an object still....
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{A/N: it's actually sad but once that happened to me (no it wasn't the grade nine thing..unfortunately) ...someone told us if we dind't talk it out we'd end up losing what we were fighting about so we talked it out in about a minute ::shakes her head:: it's weird but eh..whatever
Alright..i don't know what's going to happen in the next chapter yet but eh, we'll figure it out when i get inspired..give me about a week ...lolol
sorry I'm not going to reply to anyone's comments...I haven't read any of them yet...I just wanted to get this chapter out before I did anything...(two updates in one day ^^ go me ^^
R&R please..i need to know someone liked this...}