Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Tangled Web ❯ Dawn Reflections ( Chapter 1 )

Disclaimer: None of this belongs to me ::sigh::
Warnings: OOC Wufei, my sorry attempts at humor, oblivious Duo
Pairings: One-sided 5x2, 1x2

The sound of something large forcefully entering the lake shook Chang Wufei from his early morning meditations. He opened his eyes expecting to see a deer, or possibly a moose going for a swim, but he was disappointed. The creature in the water was no forest quadruped, but something more human in origin. His mind snapped to attention. Aside from Yuy, he was the only pilot that he knew of that would be up this early and 01 would never do something so recreational as take a swim for fun. And from the sound of it, whoever was currently swimming was having a blast. An Oz soldier wouldn't be making this much noise if he was trying to find them, so who was it?

Wufei crept up to a tree and peeked around it to see who the occupant of the lake was.

A water sprite.

Dazzled, Wufei ducked back behind the tree. It had to be a water sprite, nothing human could be that beautiful. He couldn't help but take another look, so he crept even closer.

The figure in the lake was frolicking with the joyful abandon of a child. With water glistening on perfectly proportioned limbs and perfect skin that seemed to glow from within, it was nothing less than a creature of pure fantasy. Wufei had never seen a more perfect sight.

With a mind full of childhood fairy tales where lucky men meet beautiful maidens from heaven by enchanted lakes, he started to race toward the lake, lest his water sprite escape him. He was stopped dead in his tracks when the figure in the water tossed its long, chestnut hair away from its face to reveal... the face of 02?

Maxwell!?

Wufei quickly hid again, wondering if his wild blundering through the forest had been noticed. 02 seemed to be making enough noise to drown out a mobile suit attack, so he was probably OK.

He started to sweat. Maxwell? How could I have failed to notice how beautiful he was until now?

"Gah! I could have sworn I wasn't gay when I woke up this morning..." Wufei smacked his head against the nearest tree in an attempt to knock some sense into it, but the fact still remained that Duo Maxwell was the most gorgeous piece of work he had ever seen.

One more quick glance back at the lake was all it took to confirm that.

OK, so I want Maxwell. Wufei processed this new information. Now what do I do?

He quickly ran through his repertoire of pickup lines, then smacked his head against the tree again.

"I can't use that one, Duo probably doesn't even know what his sign is since he's an orphan." He discarded the rest of them as ridiculously pointless.

Maybe if I brought him flowers? He imagined a scene where he casually strolled up the shore of the lake and offered Glistening Wet Duo help with toweling his hair dry and then smoothly tucking a wild rose into his braid when it was done. His imaginary Duo would look up at him with wonder in his eyes and...

"Is there a problem 05?"

Wufei almost swallowed his tongue. "Y-Yuy, what are you doing here?"

"I out was scouting the perimeter and saw you hit your head on a tree. Are you concussed? You have a glassy look in your eye."

"No, I, I'm fine. I was just, erm, meditating."

"Your way of meditating and mine are very different." Heero raised an eyebrow, but said nothing further.

In a moment of wild insanity (possibly from the multiple blows to the head), Wufei decided to ask Heero for advice.

"Yuy, how would you go about making someone interested in you?" Wufei blurted out.

Heero's eyes narrowed, "Why do you ask?"

"It's for a mission." Idiot! Wufei shouted at himself. There's no way Yuy is that stupid.

"A mission, eh? 01 responded with a strange gleam in his eye. "Well in that case, I must help you. Observe." With that, Heero turned on his heel and headed toward the lake at a brisk pace.

Ok, maybe he is that stupid, 05 thought to himself triumphantly.

"Duo!" Heero barked.

"Coming!" 02 swam to shore and shook himself thoroughly to get the water off.

"Baka." Heero wiped water off of his face. He tossed a glance back at a now horrified Wufei, then turned to Duo and said, "I have some extra C4 explosives back in my room, do you want them?"

Duo's face lit up like a kid at Christmas and glomped the taciturn pilot with glee. " You always give the best presents, Heero!"

"Just wait until you see what else I have in my room for you."

"Ooo, I can't wait!" Duo bounced up and down.

Heero slung an arm over Duo's shoulders and smirked at Wufei's hiding spot.

Was it Wufei's imagination, or was there a warning in that smirk? He took a quick inventory of all of his favorite extremeties and decided that he didn't feel like parting with any of them in the near future. Looking out over the lake, he thought to himself, *You know, that Barton is a pretty hot number. I wonder if he likes to swim?*