Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Life With Heero ❯ Not a Particularly Pleasant Experience ( Chapter 19 )
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By: Calic0cat 
Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / / Romance | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 01.13.2003 | Updated On: 09.03.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 836 | Visits: 1.4K | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / / Romance | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 01.13.2003 | Updated On: 09.03.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 836 | Visits: 1.4K | Status: Completed
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Title: #19 Not a Particularly Pleasant Experience
Arc: Life With Heero
Author: Calic0cat
Story Completed: Jan. 11, 2003
Revised: April 18, 2005
Genre: Shonen Ai/Yaoi, Angst, Friendship Fic, Domestic, Drama
Pairing: None yet
Rated: FRT (Fan Rated suitable for Teenagers)
Warnings: Language (Coarse Language, Profanity)
At my site http://www.calic0cat.net and at Mediaminer.org under Calic0cat. Anyone with archive permission for my other fics can help themselves; anyone else, please ask.
Disclaimer: Duo and Heero and the rest of the GW gang aren't mine. This story is. Nuff said.
Author's Notes: This is an open-ended arc focussing on Duo and Heero's lives together, starting about two years after Endless Waltz. The length of each story in the arc will vary, anywhere from ficlet to multi-part. Warnings, rating, genre, and POV will vary from story to story as well. The arc as a whole will probably never truly "end", but the smaller plot arcs within it will.
'Thinking'
"Speaking"
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Feeling distinctly uneasy, Duo looked from the open door of Heero's *empty* office to the closed one of Hilde's. 'Shit, she better not have decided to make any of her snide remarks,' he thought unhappily. 'I thought I got through to her about that, but I can't think of a single good reason for Heero to be in her office with the door closed; he's only supposed to be dealing with me, not her. And considering how abrupt she is with him, I can't imagine him deliberately seeking *her* out...'
Before Duo could decide whether or not to go knock on the door, it opened. Heero exited the room first, looking somewhat tense, followed by Hilde. Who wouldn't look him in the eye. 'Fuck. What did she say to Heero that's bad enough she won't even look me in the face?'
"Heero?" Duo said questioningly.
Heero shook his head in a clear signal to let it go for now. "We need to get going, Duo. We have to drop these papers off at the courier service on the way home."
"O-o-k-a-ay..." Duo answered, gaze darting back and forth between his two friends. Hilde simply continued out of the building and into the house next door without even speaking to him.
Following Heero into his office, Duo asked, "What's going on, Heero? Did Hilde..."
"Don't blame Hilde," Heero interrupted, "I deliberately sought her out." He picked up a priority shipping envelope from the desk, his back towards Duo.
Eyes fixed on Heero's stiffly-set shoulders, Duo encouraged carefully, "Oh?" Somehow, he didn't think the papers that Heero was now sliding into the envelope were the reason for Heero's actions.
"I... needed to know what her problem with me was. She told me. We have - I hope - reached an understanding." Heero paused to seal the packet. "I won't say that it was a particularly pleasant experience, because it wasn't. For either of us. But I think that it was necessary."
'And Heero's never shied away from doing something that he felt was necessary, no matter how unpleasant the task might be,' Duo acknowledged silently. Heero's definition of necessary might not always be in perfect accord with his own, but he trusted Heero; his friend wouldn't deliberately do anything that would harm him or one of his other friends. He might never know just why Heero had felt that it was necessary to confront Hilde, but he firmly believed that Heero had felt that way. That was good enough for him.
Setting the envelope down on the desk very precisely, Heero turned towards Duo. "I... I could really use a hug from my best friend."
Duo didn't know quite what to think of Heero's explanation, and the quiet, uncertain request took him slightly by surprise, but he didn't hesitate. He'd spent a lot of time and effort teaching Heero that it was okay to want support and reassurance from a friend, that it was okay to need comfort, okay to *ask* for it. That friends were supposed to be there for each other, an unfailing support system in times of trouble or uncertainty. Now that Heero was finally asking, he certainly wasn't about to refuse.
Stepping forward, Duo pulled his best friend into an affectionate, reassuring embrace, providing a tangible reminder that, no matter how unpleasant things might have gotten with Hilde, Heero was still his best friend, still someone that he trusted and cared for. Slowly, the steel-spring tension of Heero's muscles began to ease, thanks to the hug's influence.
Maybe the conversation with Hilde hadn't been "a particularly pleasant experience", but Heero had gotten through it more-or-less okay, so things couldn't have gotten *too* ugly.
He hoped.
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Title: #19 Not a Particularly Pleasant Experience
Arc: Life With Heero
Author: Calic0cat
Story Completed: Jan. 11, 2003
Revised: April 18, 2005
Genre: Shonen Ai/Yaoi, Angst, Friendship Fic, Domestic, Drama
Pairing: None yet
Rated: FRT (Fan Rated suitable for Teenagers)
Warnings: Language (Coarse Language, Profanity)
At my site http://www.calic0cat.net and at Mediaminer.org under Calic0cat. Anyone with archive permission for my other fics can help themselves; anyone else, please ask.
Disclaimer: Duo and Heero and the rest of the GW gang aren't mine. This story is. Nuff said.
Author's Notes: This is an open-ended arc focussing on Duo and Heero's lives together, starting about two years after Endless Waltz. The length of each story in the arc will vary, anywhere from ficlet to multi-part. Warnings, rating, genre, and POV will vary from story to story as well. The arc as a whole will probably never truly "end", but the smaller plot arcs within it will.
'Thinking'
"Speaking"
*** Time passing or scene change
#################################################
Feeling distinctly uneasy, Duo looked from the open door of Heero's *empty* office to the closed one of Hilde's. 'Shit, she better not have decided to make any of her snide remarks,' he thought unhappily. 'I thought I got through to her about that, but I can't think of a single good reason for Heero to be in her office with the door closed; he's only supposed to be dealing with me, not her. And considering how abrupt she is with him, I can't imagine him deliberately seeking *her* out...'
Before Duo could decide whether or not to go knock on the door, it opened. Heero exited the room first, looking somewhat tense, followed by Hilde. Who wouldn't look him in the eye. 'Fuck. What did she say to Heero that's bad enough she won't even look me in the face?'
"Heero?" Duo said questioningly.
Heero shook his head in a clear signal to let it go for now. "We need to get going, Duo. We have to drop these papers off at the courier service on the way home."
"O-o-k-a-ay..." Duo answered, gaze darting back and forth between his two friends. Hilde simply continued out of the building and into the house next door without even speaking to him.
Following Heero into his office, Duo asked, "What's going on, Heero? Did Hilde..."
"Don't blame Hilde," Heero interrupted, "I deliberately sought her out." He picked up a priority shipping envelope from the desk, his back towards Duo.
Eyes fixed on Heero's stiffly-set shoulders, Duo encouraged carefully, "Oh?" Somehow, he didn't think the papers that Heero was now sliding into the envelope were the reason for Heero's actions.
"I... needed to know what her problem with me was. She told me. We have - I hope - reached an understanding." Heero paused to seal the packet. "I won't say that it was a particularly pleasant experience, because it wasn't. For either of us. But I think that it was necessary."
'And Heero's never shied away from doing something that he felt was necessary, no matter how unpleasant the task might be,' Duo acknowledged silently. Heero's definition of necessary might not always be in perfect accord with his own, but he trusted Heero; his friend wouldn't deliberately do anything that would harm him or one of his other friends. He might never know just why Heero had felt that it was necessary to confront Hilde, but he firmly believed that Heero had felt that way. That was good enough for him.
Setting the envelope down on the desk very precisely, Heero turned towards Duo. "I... I could really use a hug from my best friend."
Duo didn't know quite what to think of Heero's explanation, and the quiet, uncertain request took him slightly by surprise, but he didn't hesitate. He'd spent a lot of time and effort teaching Heero that it was okay to want support and reassurance from a friend, that it was okay to need comfort, okay to *ask* for it. That friends were supposed to be there for each other, an unfailing support system in times of trouble or uncertainty. Now that Heero was finally asking, he certainly wasn't about to refuse.
Stepping forward, Duo pulled his best friend into an affectionate, reassuring embrace, providing a tangible reminder that, no matter how unpleasant things might have gotten with Hilde, Heero was still his best friend, still someone that he trusted and cared for. Slowly, the steel-spring tension of Heero's muscles began to ease, thanks to the hug's influence.
Maybe the conversation with Hilde hadn't been "a particularly pleasant experience", but Heero had gotten through it more-or-less okay, so things couldn't have gotten *too* ugly.
He hoped.
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