Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Helping Hands ❯ Part 10 ( Chapter 10 )

I don't own them, earns it's rating for language in this part, and Katherine's a hentai. Enjoy! Read and review please!

 

Helping Hands part 10


Duo walked out of his room, intending to go to the master bedroom, since that's where Heero was planning to search next, when he heard the sounds of someone typing coming from Heero's bedroom. He looked in from the open doorway and was delighted to see Heero, sitting with his back to the door, typing away at his laptop. Dream or no dream, he should still get a reaction from Heero, thanks to Duo's teasing a couple of days earlier.

Heero wasn't paying much attention to his surroundings. He was busy forcing himself to concentrate on the messages he was responding to, instead of thinking about Duo, so he was quite surprised when a warm body suddenly leaned against him and a voice spoke in his ear. "Hi, Heero. Watcha doing?"

"Duo?" Heero abruptly realized that Duo wasn't wearing a shirt and his naked chest was pressed against the skin of Heero's back, shoulder and arm, left bare by the tank top he wore. Heero didn't think, he just reacted for once, turning his head to stare longingly at Duo's mouth, only inches away. His eyes darkened with desire and he moved slightly, pushing back against Duo and reveling in the skin-to-skin contact.

Duo's own eyes widened at the expression of desire on Heero's face and the feel of his body shifting closer. "Heero?"

Heero froze, the surprise in Duo's voice snapping him back to awareness of his own actions. He jumped to his feet, shoving Duo away, hard enough to make him fall, and stood with his back to Duo, hands clenched into fists at his sides.

"Damn it! Heero, what the hell are you doing?!"

Heero's hands relaxed after a moment and he turned around. Duo, sprawled on the floor where he had landed, found himself staring into the cold, impassive eyes of the Perfect Soldier.

"Baka. You shouldn't sneak up on me. Get up and get dressed. We have work to do." Heero stalked out of the room, completely dismissing Duo, who was still sitting on the floor, now grinning like the idiot that Heero had named him. If Heero had seriously wanted to hide his attraction to Duo, then he should have taken into account the fact that spandex didn't hide a damn thing. Duo picked himself up off of the floor and went to get dressed, before getting himself some breakfast and then heading up to the attic to search and to plan his next move.

Heero went to the master bedroom, closed the door, and promptly lost all traces of his impassive facade. "Oh, Kami, he knows. Heero no baka! How could I have been so stupid? I have better control over myself than that!" At that point, Katherine decided she had heard enough.

"Maybe that control has been part of your problem. Your reaction to Duo wasn't stupid, but the way you're acting right now sure as hell is." The ghost materialized as she spoke and found herself staring down the barrel of a gun again. She gave an amused snort. "I'm already dead, so that's pretty useless."

Heero glared at her and put the gun away. "What are you doing here?"

Katherine's amusement increased. "Well, hell, this is a haunted house and I'm the ghost that's been haunting it for the past 300 years. What do you think I'm doing here?"

Heero's glare intensified. "I meant what are you doing here now. I thought you only appeared at night, to relive your death or call for your husband."

"Your presence freed me from that. For now, at least, I can wander around the house as I please, watching everything that goes on." She grinned suggestively and batted her eyelashes at him.

Heero's glare changed to an expression of disbelief. "You're flirting with me?!"

"Why not? You're young, handsome, have a pulse. What more could a ghost want?"

Heero resumed glaring. "I already have one smart-mouthed baka to deal with, I don't need another one."

Heero and Katherine were so focused on one another that neither of them heard the odd, muffled noises outside the room. Duo was leaning against the door, trying desperately to suppress his laughter as he eavesdropped on the conversation. His room was by the master bedroom and he had stopped to listen at the door when he heard the sound of a woman's voice coming from the room.

"If baka means idiot, then that's the pot calling the kettle, darlin'."

Heero gave her a blank look. "I mean that you're the idiot, not him. Or me, for that matter. He's not the one walking around with a raging hard-on and trying to pretend that he didn't just all but beg his partner to fuck him senseless. And from what I've seen, being temporarily senseless would do you a world of good. So would losing that control you cling to. Yeah, a good fuck is just what you need. And, Duo..."

"ENOUGH!" Heero interrupted her, shaking with anger and embarrassment.

Katherine looked at him and shook her head. "Still in denial, hm? You really do need to talk with Duo about this, instead of me."

Heero, realizing that getting angry with a ghost wouldn't accomplish anything, made an effort to calm himself down. "I have nothing to discuss with him. My body's reaction to his nearness is perfectly normal for someone of my age and inclinations. Inconvenient, but normal. The most I could get from him is a release of sexual tension, and I can get that on my own, without his help."

Katherine sighed. "It's not the same. Heero, I know that you're in love with Duo, and Duo may not know how you feel about him, but he does know that you want him."

"I am not in love with Duo Maxwell!"

"Well, at least you're not denying that you want him. That's progress, I suppose. Are you going to do anything about it?" Heero glared at her again.

"I didn't think so. Heero, you may not do anything about your attraction to Duo, but I bet that he will. You need to decide what you're going to do when he makes a move, and you need to decide soon, since he doesn't exactly strike me as the patient type. Think about it, and while you're thinking, you might want to consider admitting your feelings for him."

He opened his mouth to respond, but before he could say anything, Katherine faded away, leaving him alone in the room. He shook his head and spoke so softly that she might not have heard him, even if she had still been in the room. "Katherine, I can't even admit how I feel to you and you seem to know already. How can I tell him?" He sighed and began his search of the room.

Outside the door, hearing nothing but silence now, a very thoughtful Duo continued on his way.

tbc...