Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ The Sea in I ❯ X ( Chapter 10 )

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Italics ~ thoughts
Warnings: Duo torture, MXM goodiness, teaser/lime?, suggestive content
Pairings: eventual 1x2/2x1, and the pen dabbles around a bit

Input/feedback much appreciated.

 

Notes: thank you guys for reading and especially for reviewing it helps a writer lots ^_^. .

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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the sexies in Gundam Wing AC, I just love to help them live a little.
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X

 

It had been his best guess after seeing when these people had breakfast and dinner. He'd been in Acai for little over a week. Yet what puzzled him most about this new place that he was trying to make his home wasn't that it was underground or that it had more water than any place he knew of, but Heero. It seemed no matter the place his thoughts would end up on the messy haired man. Oddly enough, he caught himself... more like Quatre caught him smiling when he'd been moments away from being accosted by Heero. Duo smiled sleepily to himself, he noticed after the first night he roomed with Quatre, he couldn't hide what he was feeling from him. He figured that ability was what made it easy for Quatre to fool people about what he could see.

 

He wondered if this was some sort of setup because almost every time he had a moment to himself Heero would be there. More like in the area either walking through an entryway just as the other person, usually Quatre, left or he left him. The man had an unerringly knack of finding him. Heero would wait until he noticed him before he approached and just as Duo prepared to make his getaway Wu Fei would appear and the shape shifter was hard for Duo to shake by himself.

 

Quatre knew all the all the ways to hide from Wu Fei, but Duo really thought that sometimes Wu Fei just let him get away with it. When Wu Fei disappeared on him it was usually when Relena was near and at that time Heero didn't do his stalker bit. Relena would preoccupy him so much that Duo had been tempted to go over and trip him just to see if he'd get his attention. It was a strange thing, truly. Relena would rescue him from imminent Heero capture but at the same time he neither felt thankful nor amused when she did it. He actually felt like he was being denied his right to tell Heero off or something close to that.

 

Duo yawned. He was agitated and still half asleep but he was up and moving because Quatre had called him. He scratched his head and yawned again. Quatre was still calling him and didn't quite get why it was taking so long to get to Quatre's room when they were right across the hall from each other.

 

“Geez, Quat it's still early what could be so important? Man! I wish you were awake when Thecla chewed me out and had Wu Fei make me go to my room.” Duo slurred in a sleepy mutter, “Heh, like a little kid.”

 

Duo chuckled, “She really cares about you, you know...”

 

Swaying on his feet, Duo snapped out of his impromptu sleepwalk because/from the near falling feeling.

 

“Wait... what?” He heard his voice carry and tried to orient himself even though he couldn't seem to stop walking. There was an odd pull in his chest. Duo felt something similar whenever Heero was near but this pull was something he always felt. It sometimes started as a quiver under his skin or he'd wake to find himself on the outskirts of Maheran's farms and he'd be facing the mountains. He shook his head, looking around and trying to figure out where he was.

 

“Somewhere at the back of the city,” he sighed, knowing that much from the snorts, grumbling shift of large bodies and the smell of the undercity cattle. He figured he was a tunnel or two away from where they were sheltered since the smell wasn't very strong.

 

Quatre's city was circular, a very big circle and he knew he would eventually run into someone or end up some place familiar. Yet he worried because when he let his mind wander, that thing he could always feel on the edge of his consciousness called. Duo couldn't explain how he'd mistaken it for Quatre's voice because it was soundless.

 

It drew him, a wordless push that pulled him onward no matter how much he fought it. It called to him and he found himself walking through a wide, lichen lit corridor. This place he'd never seen before. The corridor opened to a grassy cavern with small trees dotting around huge stalactites. Duo struggled with himself, taking halted steps as he was compelled forward in a staggering gait.

 

Duo grabbed the top of the nearest tree and its soft canopy broke off in his hand. He grabbed at it and the whole top came off. Duo turned it over and saw thousands of dusty gray gills on the inside of the cap he held. The musky aroma of it drifted to his nose and he understood that the small trees that filled the corridor before him were giant mushrooms and the grass, a kind of moss that squished under his feet. He looked down at his wet shoes and dread filled him as his feet carried him on. Soon he could see and hear the violent flow of the underground stream that fed Acai.

 

The path he was being made to walk led up to bank. Sweat trickled down his face even though he was getting colder the closer he got to the water. He really disliked being around large pools of water. He hesitated near the stream's bank but his feet dragged him forward. Duo stared helplessly at the blue-green glow from the lichen reflecting off the water's rippling dark surface. Duo's body shook as he dug his heels into the sandy bank, leaving a trailing scuff mark.

 

“Duo?”

 

Duo's exhale of relief gave way to pants as he stumbled several steps backwards and braced himself on his knees while he tried to catch his breath. The pull toward the water was gone, replaced by the familiar niggle in his chest that he'd come to associate with Heero being near.

 

Having my own stalker has itsuses. Duo mused and stood, shaking off the clinging chill. He ducked behind one of the rigid columns of stone when he caught sight of Heero heading in the opposite direction of where he stood. He stepped lightly to make sure his movement was silent as he made his way over to corridor that he'd come through at Heero's back. Duo looked back on impulse to check Heero's position and his foot slipped from under him. He bit his lip when his knee made a loud splat in the moss.

 

“Duo!”

 

He'scoming. Duo pushed himself up in a run. His heart was beating wildly in his chest and it confused him when he felt the beginnings of a smile on his face. He shook his head, this wasn't a game but he was… elated?!

 

“Leave me the hell alone!” Duo shouted, shaking his head again in an attempt to shake the feeling with its realization.

 

It has to be all Heero's doing. He reasoned. He was becoming good at avoiding the man or being around the right people to make their contact minimal. But I'm thrilled that Heero's coming after me? Duo squeezed his eyes shut, not a marginally smart thing to do at the moment, because he was running a path straight into a stalactite. Duo opened his eyes a few feet in front of the stalactite, he didn't have enough time to try and maneuver around it so he crashed into it with his shoulder and rolled chest to back over it.

 

“Duo!?” Duo heard Heero's concern but he had little time to ponder it further, he was running still and he knew he was going to make it to the corridor before Heero could reach him.

 

“Why-” Heero started but Duo tuned him out and ended up looking back anyway. Heero had actually fallen.

 

Heero cursed the mossy floor beneath him and crushed the odiferous mushrooms to push himself back to his feet. “Duo, stop running away from me and listen!”

 

“NO!” Heero was running again and Duo whipped around, his feet sliding in the moss as he shifted his focus back to getting away. Duo's chest hurt from running so much but he wasn't going to let Heero catch him. “Stay away from me! I don't have to do anything you say!”

 

Heero ran up the side of one stalactite and then jumped, slipping across the tops of two mushrooms before landing in a crouch in front of Duo.

 

Duo skidded before he could hop back, his arm bracing his left side.

 

“Duo, Relena didn't heal you?” Heero panted out and Duo held his arm closer to his side, an unconscious response to Heero's penetrating look.

 

Duo waited to see if Heero would stop staring at his side but the cerulean eyes stayed. Duo smirked and feinted to the left. Heero was quick to block his movement, his sharp eyes tracking him with his arms spread wide and low.

 

“She didn't?” Heero pressed, eyes darting back to his.

 

Duo ignored him, bothered by his concern and tried to get around Heero again but the dark haired man caught his arm. Duo twisted out of his grip and punched his arm away, making Heero fall back a step.

 

Heero had his arms back out again, wincing slightly from the surprising force behind the blow.

 

“Answer the question.” Heero persisted as he half glared at him and Duo looked him over with a guarded eye.

 

“You'll let me by?” Duo asked breathless but still bouncing on his feet.

 

Heero promised nothing with his silence and Duo gave him a sarcastic smirk before crossing his arms over his heaving chest and standing still before him.

 

Heero watched him for a long moment then rose from his crouching position. “Answer me.” Heero demanded. Heero's voice was calm while he tried to burn through Duo with his eyes.

 

Duo arched a brow, mocking the Captain with an imitation of one of his most intimidating looks. All the while, he tried not to notice how hot he suddenly felt staring back at Heero whose piercing eyes had never left him.

 

“No.” Duo told him, his smirk becoming a grin when he realized how good it felt to say that and know there would be no consequences. That here, he didn't have to answer to or hide from anyone.

 

Well, there were some exceptions.

 

But Heero had no power over him here.

 

It seemed that Heero realized this too, because he straightened, one hand lowering to his side while he held the other one out to Duo.

 

Duo was faced with an eerie sense of déjà vu. He'd felt something vaguely familiar when he'd visited with Zechs, but nothing when he was around that Relena girl. His heart did strange things in his chest whenever Heero was around Relena but even that had a familiar feel to it.

 

“Come with me.” Heero entreated his voice provocative and consoling.

 

Duo regarded Heero's out stretched hand and found himself suddenly lost when he came to Heero's smoldering cerulean eyes. Duo's smirk fell away and he fisted his hands at his sides to ensure they didn't succumb to Heero.

 

It's a lie! Duo told himself. He's just doing that to get me to do what he wants. I'm not one of his soldiers, his servant or some pet that'll yap at his every beck and call! Duo glared at Heero and his proffered hand.

 

“Come with me, please.” Heero amended, “I need to talk to you.”

 

He's trying, and just like that, one treacherous thought had Duo's angry glare deflating into a furious pout. He brushed past Heero, tense - half expecting the man to make a grab for him but Heero let him pass. Duo walked on for several strides, then slowed to a stop and blocked out his disappointment with pain as he kicked the wall.

 

He's not following… Why should it matter!? Duo made an exasperated sound. What's wrong with me!?

 

“If you're going to talk,” Duo started unsure of what he was trying to do. Duo had most of his back to the low light coming from the cavern, his face hidden by the darkness of the corridor.

 

Why am I doing this? He frowned down at the smooth, dark path and stepped away from the wall. It was like he didn't understand himself anymore.

 

He sighed, he knew himself well enough to know he needed to stop the lies. He always lied to himself because it was an easy out. An automatic defense he had in a world that made it a habit of taking anything that mattered to him away. But it was getting harder to make up stuff and stick to it when it came to Heero.

 

That in itself gave him reason enough to be worried.

 

Duo smacked himself on the forehead. “I don't see how that's going to happen if you're gonna stay down there.” He blurted out and started walking again but stopped, this time in a dim lit part of the corridor. He didn't hear any movement behind him.

 

Duo glanced over his shoulder and found Heero still standing there looking lost. Then a thought occurred to Duo, he didn't really know the way back but he knew if he went back the way he came he'd get there... eventually.

 

Maybe this was a bad idea? Or maybe he didn't hear me? Although that was hard to believe considering how sound carried in this cavernous place, even the sound of the water carried to where he stood. It made him wonder how he missed it before, because he knew that the moment he heard it, he would have steered clear of it. Then he remembered how he hadn't been all that awake or aware and the insistent inaudible call that pulled at him in every which way it could. It had compelled him to come here and Heero had somehow silenced it... blocked it.

 

Duo shook his head and turned back to Heero at the same time Heero looked to him. Duo smiled, and then quickly hid it when Heero approached.

 

They walked together, Duo a little behind Heero since the sure footed man seemed to know where he was going. Nothing looked the least bit familiar to Duo but as soon as it did he'd ditch Heero no matter his reasons for wanting to talk to him. He needed to talk to Quatre. Maybe the blonde wielder could help him figure out what he was truly feeling.

 

More time passed and Duo watched Heero, paying extra attention to where his hands were at all times. Heero did nothing and more time lapsed in silence.

 

“Heero.” Duo called to him, slightly frustrated and tired of listening to their footsteps echo off the tunnel walls.

 

Heero arched a brow but said nothing.

 

“Newt talks more than you do.” Duo muttered.

 

“You talk to animals now?”

 

“Yes, I do. They talk more than you do and bring valid points to the table.”

 

Heero snorted and kept walking, eyeing Duo covertly out the corners of his eyes. “I decided not to say it.”

 

Duo brought his crossed arms down from resting high on his chest to lay low on his stomach, giving Heero a small frown. “What do you mean you `decided not to say it'? That makes no sense. Why are you still here then?”

 

Heero stopped next to him, the tunnels were still absent of the undercity people because of the early morning hour and the low sounds of the cattle shifting within their shelters told Duo they were close to the farms.

 

“Because.”

 

Duo stared at Heero who turned to him and only shrugged his shoulders.

 

“'Because' what?”

 

“I decided just being able to walk with you, without having anyone interrupt or you avoiding me was, far better than anything I could say.” Heero smirked. He gestured back to the tunnel they'd come through and its hidden corridor to the underground river, “Besides, you were lost.”

 

Smug bastard! Duo walked up to Heero and pushed him into the wall and tensed, nervous jitters racing up and down his body.

 

Heero stayed by the wall, reclining impassively against it.

 

“That's …weird.” Duo said lamely, unsure of how to digest what the messy haired man had said or his calm posture against the wall. “Why help me then?” Duo looked around, his eyes never leaving Heero for long, waiting for the messy haired man to do something in retaliation. Yet, he knew that Heero had never threatened him with bodily harm before nor did he intentionally hurt him when he tended to his wound.

 

“Why not?” Duo frowned at Heero, tempted to do something more like hitting the man. Anything to shake the calm facade Heero affected.

 

Duo clenched his already fisted hands and walked off instead.

 

“Don't - don't answer my question with a question!” Duo fumed cutting his eyes to Heero as he tried to keep his frown even though he was pleased Heero was following.

 

Heero took the lead again when Duo looked indecisive at a three way split in the tunnel. “Will you stay here if you find this place doesn't suit you?”

 

“Do you think I'd really tell you that?” Duo huffed.

 

“There aren't many options or places a wielder can be safe... You could-”

 

But Duo was already shaking his head, not hearing all Heero had said. “I'm sure as hell not going back there!”

 

Duo stormed ahead of Heero.

 

“Duo.”

 

Duo sighed, the man had infinite patience and he could hear Heero reach out to him again through his voice. It was that same feeling in his chest that made him slow down again.

 

It'sall Heero's fault! He tried to convince himself one more time but it couldn't be farther from the truth. Duo spun on his heel and pushed Heero back. His hand resting, fingers splayed in the middle of Heero's chest.

 

“Look, why do you keep...” Duo made a frustrated sound, unsure of how to say what bothered him about Heero most. “Just... I don't know you, but I want to?! I can't see how you would have an... interest in me? You...” He stared hard at the expression on Heero's face and he found he couldn't continue.

 

Heero stood there waiting and staring back at him with hope and hurt in his eyes, his ever expressive eyes. Duo couldn't find a reason to dislike Heero beyond him being a Captain for Nartob. If he was truthful with himself, he didn't dislike Heero at all. To an extent he trusted him.

 

I... He's interested in me? Duo thought, surprised at himself and more than a little pissed. “Yea, I…” He looked away from the silent man, deep in thought and not sure what he was about to say just then.

 

Heero touched his hand, holding it in his own without putting any effort into keeping it against his chest.

 

Duo looked up from their hands to Heero, whose eyes caught him and he couldn't look away. He realized he didn't want to. That feeling, that inexplicable pull, came back to him full force and he understood it now. He felt this need when Heero was around, like his stomach was empty but more. It was like he was missing something and Heero had it. Duo wanted to fault the suppression thing Heero had done to him before but he knew it was much deeper than that and the decision had never been just Heero's alone.

 

“When this is over, fail or no, I have to go back to Maheran.” Duo listened to the monotone drawl to Heero's voice as a sharp pain exploded in his chest. A ghost of feeling went across the back of his knuckles as Heero's thumb moved, drawing his attention temporarily away from it. “She cannot stay here. She'd endanger everyone here.”

 

Duo tried to swallow past the tacky, dry lump lodged in his throat.

 

“You intend to go back.” Duo's voice sounded lost. It felt like a hollow space just opened up in his chest. He knew who Heero was referring to but that didn't stop the pain from growing in his chest or the emptiness from returning.

 

“For Relena?” Duo's eyes dropped away from Heero's and settled somewhere between their hands and Heero's chest. Duo felt like he wasn't really there anymore. He knew he wouldn't go back. This thing, whatever it was that he felt between him and Heero, he couldn't go back to Maheran and be little more than a drone or his servant. He was free here and though like every place, Acai was not perfect, but at least he didn't have to be alone or live on the streets any more. Here he had a friend, could make even more friends and find a job doing anything he wanted here. If this thing between them had made Heero pursue him thus far, brought him down into the undercity after him, then why couldn't he stay with him?

 

This is crazy! Just when everything starts to make sense to me… Just when I figured it all out... figured myself out, Heero tells me he's leaving with Relena.

 

“For the One.” At that confirmation, Duo fisted the front of Heero's tunic just beneath his jerkin before releasing it and punching Heero there.

 

“Why does it have to be you? She can have anyone escort her, can't she?” But he felt the pain flare up in his chest as Heero began shaking his head before he even began the second question.

 

“I am her Principal.”

 

Duo looked at him with wide eyes, fists shaking at his sides and felt as if he couldn't breathe.

 

Heero's the One's bonded. A seeker strong enough to wield for her if ever… It made no sense to him. If he has her then why was-ishe pursuing me? “Th-then what is this?”

 

Heero looked at Duo with a slight frown, “I have a responsibility-”

 

“You do,” Duo felt so foolish for being lulled into this by Heero's actions and half explanations, “and I won't stand for being someone's seconds.”

 

“Wait, what are you talking about Duo?”

 

“No! I'm not going to stand here and be a sucker for you. You have your bonded! You have her! You don't-you won't ever need me like that.” Duo shook his head, leveling anger bright blue violets on Heero. He felt like he'd lost everything all over again but he refused to let anything other than his anger show. He needed to leave, “Just go do whatever hell it is you intend to do and leave me out of it!”

 

Heero grabbed his arm, stopping him from walking away from him, “We aren't-Duo!” Heero made a frustrated sound when Duo twisted out his grasp. He got a hold of him again and pulled him around to face him, “You are- Damn it!”

 

But Duo jerked his arms free of Heero's hands and knocked the hand reaching for him away with the back of his fist.

 

Heero gasped, stumbling back a step, stunned again by the strength behind the blow. “Duo! Stop running away from me!”

 

“Whatever!” Duo hit Heero again. He was angry with himself for allowing that possibility, hope, past his guards. He laughed, he would have been safer sticking to the lies. They kept the people who mattered to him most at a safe distance. That way he didn't have to worry about the people who came into his life one moment disappearing in the next. People like the Gaults. They'd been the only constant all his life and that was the whole reason he risked the visits to the Gaults' shop to reassure himself that they were still there.

 

Then there was Heero. He stumbled over the thoughts, of all things really, that concerned this man he barely knew but felt he mattered a great deal to him.

 

When did he start to matter thismuch? It was a question that left him confused because he had no answer and the man was lying to him.

 

No, he's not. Duo sighed letting go of the weak attempt to fool himself. Although it would have been easier to let this all go if he were. He believed him when he said he and Relena weren't bonded. He believed him and he was tired of letting people in then losing them.

 

He was aware of Heero being a Nartob Captain but as Principal to the One? Heero would never give that up for the likes of him. Yet, he still had this bizarre hope that he could find something with Heero like he saw between the Gaults. He knew it wasn't always perfect like the stories made it sound but now that he realized he could have it, he wanted it.

 

He wanted it here, where he had some semblance of freedom.

 

He wanted to scream. It was crazy that he could feel so strongly for a man he'd barely known a month but it was real. When he wasn't trying to ignore them, the feelings were always there. They grew every time Heero did something that proved Duo wrong about what he expected of a Nartob soldier.

 

“This is what's best for you-”

 

“Don't you stand there and make decisions for me!” Duo lashed out, “I decided that I would stay here! You have no say in what I do! You don't know what's best for me! I'm tired of you treating me like some kid one moment and then - then stalk me like I'm your property the next!” Duo yelled at him, his fist sailing toward Heero's face on the last of his angry rant.

 

* * *

 

Heero caught Duo's fist then the other when it came at him from the side. He wanted Duo with him at all times but he knew Duo wouldn't be safe or happy in Maheran. Watching Duo here had shown him that. If he brought him back, he'd have to go back into hiding because Heero had little doubt Jirrad would forget a face. Heero looked at Duo's pinched, anger bright eyes and sighed, “Duo, I want you-”

 

Heero let go of Duo's hands, taken aback by the sudden and painful clack of teeth and press of lips to his. Heero looked into Duo's eyes and found the surprise he felt reflected in the wide violet orbs. They stayed like that in a painful lip lock that was more teeth than lips. Although, Heero wasn't the least bit disappointed, he drew back with a half smile and tingling lips, “Duo, we-”

 

Heero chuckled, cut off again by the inexperienced press of lips that was gentler this time but Duo had his eyes squeezed shut with a blush high on his cheeks. Heero slid his hands up and down Duo's sides before they settled on his shoulders. Heero rubbed the tense muscles of Duo's shoulders and then kissed him like he'd been wanting too since the day he'd seen him in the shop. He began with the gentle press of lips, a kiss that led to another as he coaxed Duo's lips to move with his. Their tongues meet just over the ridge of Heero's teeth and the wild haired man felt a shock of cold familiarity. He sucked Duo's tongue into his mouth and pulled Duo to him to deepen the kiss.

 

Heero had been looking for Duo for so long then when he found him he could only watch him from afar. It tore at him watching Duo struggle and live off of scraps or nothing at all. Before they came to Maheran, Duo didn't have to want for nothing. A couple of times, he chanced leaving food and water at the meager hovel Duo had made for himself in a narrow alley near the outskirts of Maheran. But that stopped when Duo abandoned it and it took him nearly two weeks to find him again. He had the Gaults to thank for that because Duo stopped by once, sometimes twice a week to see them. From then on, Heero decided to remain distant if he didn't want Duo to be discovered or runaway from him again.

 

Duo whimpered into his mouth and made him whole, made him complete. He wanted,needed more.

 

* * *

 

He's taking... too much... Of what Duo couldn't put a word to but the sudden distressed thought that entered his mind was enough to snap him out of the lull he was quickly falling into. He was starting to not feel anything but unlike when Heero had pinned him out in the desert, he couldn't breathe at all. Duo pushed but Heero didn't budge pressing into him and holding his head in place. Duo bit Heero hard enough to draw blood and the man loosen his hold on him, panting in his face.

 

Duo shoved Heero away from him.

 

For a moment that felt longer than two blinks of his eyes, Duo felt like clawing at his neck and chest to try and get himself to start breathing again. Then the moment passed and he took shaky breaths with his heart beating oddly in his chest against a slight pressure there. Duo panted, stumbling several steps back. He was still winded, his lips bruised and throbbing in time with his heart. The skin of his wrists, the back of his hand, his head tingled - burned with that same warmth when Heero had suppressed him at the camp. It was a sluggishly spreading, pleasurable heat that made Duo pant for other reasons and the flesh between his legs stiffen with interest.

 

Duo found Heero's eyes, they were glowing lowly - the blue of his eyes brighter than he remembered. Duo's heart sped up in his chest at the hypnotic sight. Heero's eyes and his body language changed as he stalked slowly toward him. Duo found himself stuck where he stood even though his instincts were telling him to flee but Duo found himself pinion by Heero's eyes.

 

Duo didn't know what else to call the look that Heero was giving him except hunger. He found he could move suddenly but the futile step he took backward made Heero stop the slink in his gait and practically jump to eliminate the distance between them.

 

“Heero, I don't-” Duo bit his lip. Heero put a hot hand on his shoulder and the other around his waist, pulling them together.

 

Duo had both hands against Heero's chest ready to push him back but his eyes went wide at the heat coming off of Heero. It hadn't been there when he kissed him or when they were wrestling earlier. Heero was burning up. “You have a fever? But-”

 

“Shh.” Heero silenced Duo with a kiss of his own.

 

Duo relaxed when Heero only pressed his lips to his. It was not overly demanding nor did it feel as if Heero was trying to swallow him through his mouth. The soft press of lips became little pecks that made Duo give an uneasy laugh, his concern for Heero was more than he could pretend to ignore. Duo's worry was replaced by sensual heat, pooling low in Duo's stomach as he caught those cerulean blues watching him beneath black lashes. Duo could feel Heero, he was hotter then he thought was normal and the smell of his perspiring skin…the faint scent of the melon nut soap, sweat and Heero filled his nose.

 

Duo shivered when Heero's hands found their way under his shirt, slid over the dressings of the bandage before they burned against his skin. Duo half-heartedly tried to hold Heero's arm still to stop his roaming hand and subsequent burn that ignited everywhere Heero touched him. He gasped and moaned when Heero's hot hand wandered over his chest. Heero caught the embarrassing sound in his mouth and deepen the kiss. This time when their lips met Duo felt that odd pull from before swell and mingled with the building heat in his body.

 

He groaned and Duo's eyes snapped open at the feel of it.

 

It was like everything clicked into place. They were connected in some way deeper than the intimacy of their mouths. They were breathing, his exhale out became Heero's inhalation, in time with each other, their bodies were in tune. He put both of his hands into Heero's thick wild hair and took control of the kiss. He felt something in him open and he gave Heero as much of it as he could. Heero moaned and Duo felt the jerk of Heero's erection against his thigh. Duo's own erection throbbed achingly within the confines of his pants. Duo felt his heart pulse along his erection in anticipation when Heero dropped down to one knee with one last swipe of his tongue along his bottom lip. Heero pressed his face into Duo's stomach, nipping at the skin through the thin material of his tunic and moving downward.

 

“Hah-! Heero!” Duo pushed on Heero's shoulders. Heero pulled back enough so that he could grab Duo's tunic and rip it open up the middle. Duo caught only a glimpse of Heero's glowing eyes again before lips were leaving burning kisses where all the little red marks from Heero's teeth were. Duo shivered at the hot hand cupping him through his pants and then he tried to pull back when Heero started nipping new places, too close to where Heero stroked him. But strong hands held his hips and gripped him by his rear, holding him in place.

 

“Ngh, stop-!” Duo panted, face flushed as he pulled at Heero's hair and feeling lightheaded at the pool of heat and pressure in lower regions.

 

Heero obeyed, surprising Duo with the sudden lack of motion. Duo frowned down at him and Heero licked his rosy lips, his forehead dropping to rest just beneath Duo's bellybutton. He stayed there and simply breathed against him, “Hee-uh!”

 

A hot trail of heat ran up to his chest after clever fingers ran up his body to toy with one nipple while Heero mouthed Duo's erection through his pants. Duo gasped and grabbed Heero's hand when he pinched the sensitive nub. Duo peeked down at the sudden pressure against the head of his cock to find Heero already leaning back with a departing lick to the growing wet spot in Duo's pants. Heero pulled on his hips and Duo's knees dropped from under him.

 

Duo ended up straddling Heero's thigh, his arms propped up on Heero's shoulders with his fingers entangled in Heero's wild hair and Duo's head resting against the side of Heero's as they panted against each other. Heero sent a trail of heat along his right hip as he slipped a hand into the back of his pants. Duo jerked at the touch and squeezed Heero's thigh between his legs making Heero gasp. Duo smirked when Heero's hand found its way back to his hip to hold him still after he squeezed and rubbed against the harden flesh held by Heero's tightening pants.

 

Duo moved against Heero again, liking the subtle gasp when Heero let go and the pressure from Heero's hand let up. Duo pulled open the ties of Heero's jerkin, his hands curiously mapping the hard, defined chest profiled through the brown tunic Heero wore. Duo leaned back, watching the flutter of Heero's dark lashes against the slightly flushed and heated skin of his face. He waited until Heero opened his eyes to see that low blue back glow that made his heart speed up and his body freeze for just a moment. He watched Heero's kiss bruised, rosy mouth open slightly to release again that subtle breath as Duo pressed against him.

 

Duo had the sudden memory of a younger Heero showing him his bleeding thumb and then passing him the knife where he also cut himself.

 

It was a strange thing to remember at a time like this but it told him one thing, he and Heero had met before. Duo frowned down at Heero, his hands clenching in Heero's hair before he jerked Heero's head back and kissed him hard.

 

“You're mine.” Duo whispered, surprised at what he'd said and feeling a little disoriented by the vehemence of the possessiveness he felt.

 

“Mine alone.” And he realized he meant it.

 

Duo freed one of his hands from Heero's hair and rested it shakily against Heero's left breast before he kissed Heero again, putting all he felt into the kiss. Heero shivered under him and Duo didn't think he would've noticed it if he hadn't had his hand on Heero's chest.

 

“Yours.” Heero agreed when the kiss ended with the soft smack of their lips.

 

Duo stared at Heero a long moment and Heero stared back at him with a drunken expression. Heero's tongue snuck out to wet his lips. Duo leaned down, kissing Heero again and chasing Heero's tongue back into his mouth.

 

“Then don't leave me…” Duo sat up slightly, sliding his other hand out of Heero's soft hair to drape his arm across his shoulders. Pain welled up in his chest despite the connection he felt between them that told him Heero wouldn't leave him. It told him he wasn't wrong about the depth of what Heero felt for him but he knew Heero was determined to go. Duo looked at Heero sadly and was about to speak when he was suddenly ripped away from the enthralled man.

 

Duo cursed, his erection throbbing in a painful way after slamming against Heero's knee. The pain warred with the rest of his body which was shaking and aching for more contact with Heero. Heero was sitting on one leg, the other stretched out in front of him, panting and alternatively growling at the person who had separated them.

 

“I should kill you here and now.”

 

“No!” Duo shook his head and had to struggle with Wu Fei to let him turn and face him. “Wu Fei!”

 

Wu Fei let him go and Duo found he wanted to crawl back to where Heero still sat, leaning with his tunic rucked up, unbutton and showing the tan skin of his stomach and chest. He wanted to be on the floor with Heero and let whatever was going to happen happen. Duo found himself yanked backwards once more and pulled behind Wu Fei. Duo thumped his head against the firm muscle of Wu Fei's shoulder, he'd never thought about it this way before. Never so intensely as this. Anytime he had indulged, it had been a quick and meaningless release. He didn't think it could have a deeper meaning other than an easy way to get coin. Like he'd seen some of the working ladies do while Duo helped himself to their men's unguarded purses.

 

But he didn't know how to make Wu Fei understand... to just let him go to Heero.

 

So Duo stared over Wu Fei's shoulder and winced when he tried to move from the behind the shape shifter. Wu Fei had a tight grip on his arm and squeezed it again to remind him of that.

 

“Heero,” Duo could see Wu Fei's jaw shift as he gritted his teeth, “Quatre wants you to met him at your room.” Wu Fei growled down at Heero and Duo watched Heero struggle to his feet.

 

I did that… Duo blushed and watched Heero's nose twitch oddly and his dilated, back lit blue eyes lock with his.

 

“Not without Duo.”

 

By the One! Duo felt his erection pulse warmth against the inside of his hip, the man's voice was a sexy deep that went straight to his cock.

 

Wu Fei's growl was more audible then the quiet rumble Duo had felt when he'd been pulled against his chest. “Dog, don't make me repeat the request.”

 

Heero didn't budge. Wu Fei pulled Duo around and rubbed the corner of his mouth down the side of his face.

 

Heero scowled, stepping forward.

 

Duo looked at Heero with wide confused eyes and tried to push Wu Fei away. Duo winced when the shape shifter pulled his braid to get him to expose his neck and Wu Fei ran his mouth down the side of it.

 

“What are you doing?!” Duo had the heel of hand pressed and pushing against Wu Fei's forehead.

 

“Wu Fei!” Heero snapped advancing on them.

 

Wu Fei smirked, still holding Duo's arm and putting his arm firmly around Duo's waist, pulling Duo close to him. “You can move now can't you? You can't smell him as much as before.” Wu Fei gave Heero a dark look, “Go. I'll not bind someone to me who is unaware of who they are.”

 

The snarl on Heero's face was outdone by the intensity of his eyes and Duo found his eyes travelling down Heero's body to where his jerkin and tunic stopped at the top of his thighs. Duo could see where Heero's left trouser leg was tighter than usual, showing off the outline of Heero's muscled thigh and the length of his erection on the inside of that thigh. Duo found Heero's eyes again and he shivered at their intent look. Another yank from Wu Fei had Duo stumbling backwards and back behind the shape shifter.

 

“Heero.” Wu Fei growled out, “if you want to want to reach your men unscathed, you should go now.”

 

Duo felt his arousal wane and his breath hitched strangely as he waited for Heero to choose. He fisted the back of Wu Fei's tunic and Heero walked past them. Duo slumped forward against Wu Fei's strong back like a marionette that just had its strings cut.

 

 

Tbc…