Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ To See You Again ❯ Office Hours ( Chapter 13 )

Chapter 13: Office Hours

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The aroma of freshly brewed coffee slipped into my nostrils, summoning me from my peaceful slumber. I had a timed coffeemaker, so I could wake up in the morning by smell rather than sound. It was a much more pleasant way to wake up as well. Alarm clocks were an annoying way to wake up and I preferred to have coffee as my awakening method, since both the smell and the taste beckoned me to arise.

Slowly, I let my eyes flutter open and was greeted by the friendly morning sun that illuminated my room. My curtains were still closed, but due to the fact that my room was painted a light pale blue, the room absorbed the incoming light of the dawn. I looked at the beautiful young man still asleep in my arms. He looked so calm while he slept, the smiles and grins all gone from his expression and in their place was a look of complete serenity.

I didn't want to move for fear that I'd risk waking him, but I had to get up and get ready for work, even though I didn't want to. As gently as I could, I slipped my arm out from underneath him, then pulled my other hand away from him and laid him down on his back. He moaned at the loss of my body heat and went to grab me. I slipped the pillow I had been using into his arms and against his chest. He hugged it and burrowed his face in it as I got off the bed and crossed the room to my closet.

Digging through my clothes, I took out what I needed for work. Margo was pretty easy going when it came to dressing for work. We had to dress up, but didn't need to come in with suits, ties, and uncomfortable shoes, thank goodness. I grabbed a button-down lilac colored shirt and brown dress pants and made my way into the bathroom to change.

My small pot of coffee awaited me and I got out my big tall mug and poured the rich, warm dark liquid into it, putting in my milk and a spoonful of sugar as I walked around the kitchen. I found a pad of paper and a pen and quickly wrote a note to Duo. Basically telling him he could help himself to anything in the frig and cupboards while I was at work. I also wrote that he could look through my closet and drawers to find anything he would like to wear. Duo was slightly more slender than me, but took the same size as I did it seemed. I only found out because of searching through his wardrobe at his apartment last night, when I chose his outfit.

I still had a hard time understanding why he had so many leather pants, besides the fact that he looked so sexy in them and they fit to every contour of his body perfectly. I had to think straight. Not fantasize about Duo and how sweet he looked while he slept. I could feel my chest constrict at the thought of being away from him. I was becoming pathetic and I knew it, but I wasn't about to care. I pushed those thoughts out of my mind and thought `work first, see him later.'

Swallowing down the remainder of my coffee, I glanced up at the clock, 8:30, and time to leave. I placed the note on the table and grabbed my briefcase that held my laptop. I shoved my wallet into my back pocket, slipped on my black shoes, and grabbed my keys. I locked the door and made my way down to my car to drive to work alone.

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The morning was slowly going by, just as I thought it would. I had only to work on some game program that had malfunctioned and deleted half the background settings. Somehow, all the commands got jumbled and it took me three hours to straighten them all out once more, so they would work properly. I went on my break when I was finished and went to the recreation room with the coffee maker in sight.

I was definitely looking for another fix of caffeine before getting something else to work on and then turned the corner, surprised to see Angela there.

"Hello Heero. How was your weekend?" She asked, starting up our ever-friendly office conversation.

"It was fantastic!" She quirked an eyebrow at me and I continued. "I actually went to a dance club that Margo advertised on the bulletin board. The club was having a dance contest and I won it with a guy I met there." Angela handed me a mug of coffee and I nodded my thanks before taking a small sip.

"Well, it's about time you lived in the outside world rather than the electronic one you're always meddling in." She smirked. "So, what did you win?"

"A trip for two to Niagara Falls and a week stay at the Grand Falls Hotel. I have to see if Margo will let me take that week off."

"I'm sure she will. She'll probably run over and hug you just for actually getting away from the office for a change and going on a vacation. You really deserve it after all the things you do around here. If you want I can check the schedule. Which week do you need off?"

"The trip is set for the week after the next one." I slowly drank my coffee as she answered.

"It's that soon? Whoa. I'll check it right away then for you, to see what's going on then. Why don't you see Margo now? The last time I checked she was still in her office. I feel bad for her. She's been looking over forms all morning long for the new firewall system we're creating. You'll be on the project too, so you better be ready to handle it." She warned lightly. A firewall system took time to create and modify, but it wasn't as bad as some of the programs that were in the works.

"Thanks Angela. Can we go right now?" She drank the rest of her coffee and then took both my empty mug and her own, over to the sink to be washed later.

She turned to go back to her desk and I followed her all the way there. Angela's desk was right in front of Margo's, since she was her secretary as well as the receptionist. Angela took out a binder and started sifting through the pages until she reached the week I wanted to take off. I looked over her shoulder, looking at it. There wasn't anything-major going on that week, or anything they would desperately need me for, to make me stay. That relieved some of the tension, since I had already asked Duo to come with me on the trip and told him it wouldn't be a big deal to take that week off. I really didn't want to lie to him and it looked like I wouldn't have to.

Duo. I wondered if he had woken up by now and found my note. My mind also ran through the outfits he could come up with. My wardrobe wasn't huge, but still…He probably could create his own style no matter what he had to work with. My mouth quirked at that thought of what Duo could do with my clothes and that's when I noticed Angela staring at me with a knowing look on her face.

"So, how bad have you fallen for this one Heero?" I snapped my face towards her. She smiled wickedly at me. She knew something was up. "You're radiating with happiness right now, it's hard not to notice. So who is it? The guy you met at the club and danced with or someone after that?" My mouth went dry. I couldn't deny or acknowledge what she said. "So when can I meet the man that stole my Heero away?" I finally found my voice, swallowing a lump that lodged in my throat.

"The guy I was dancing with at the club is my new boyfriend. I don't know when or if you'll ever meet him. By the way, the last time I checked, I wasn't owned by you or anyone else." She took the hint and gave me a wry grin.

"Oh is that right. Well, I bet that new lover of yours, knows whom you belong to. I like seeing you happy, even if it can be taken both ways. Go see Margo, now, before I kidnap you and keep you for myself."

I laughed, Angela was always entertaining to be around and her double meaning of the word `happy' didn't sneak past me. I just grinned at her and went over to Margo's office door.

"Talk to you later Angela, and I better not see you out here with rope and duct tape later. Understood?"

"Yes sir. See you later." She saluted me and I walked into to Margo's office.

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Margo was sitting at her desk, glaring at a bunch of forms that I could see were spread all over and across it. She picked up some and moved them around and then went back to glaring at all of them. After a few seconds, I decided it was time to announce my presence.

"Margo, can I talk to you?" I asked as she glanced up from the papers. A smile graced her lips, hiding the glare she was using on the forms.

"Of course you may Heero, anything to get me away from these damn forms if only for a minute. I wish I could just rip them up. I swear I'll be blind by the time I go through them all. So, what's on your mind that I can alleviate?" She gestured for me to sit down and I made my way over to the chair in front of her desk.

"Well I wanted to first tell you that I finished with the jumbled game program and it's ready to be shipped out." She nodded in comprehension. "I also wanted to know, if I could take a week off for some vacation time the week after the next one? I won a trip to Niagara Falls and I…"

"Say no more Heero. Of course you can go on the trip. You hardly ever take any days off the way it is and I think a vacation would do you some good. Are you going to take someone with you?" I nodded.

"Yes, I'm going to take my boyfriend there with me. He has never been there either, but his friends have and told him it's very lovely there. I actually have you to thank for meeting my boyfriend."

"Me? How did you meet your new boyfriend because of me?" She asked confused.

"The flyers you put up at the end of the week finally caught my attention and I went to the club you had advertised. I went there and met him while there was a dance contest going on and he was my dance partner. It became more afterwards." She smiled and I knew I blushed.

"I'm glad you found someone and had some fun on the weekend as well. Now, just go tell Angela to put on record that you you'll be off that week and the one after it." My eyes widened and I was about to protest, but Margo stopped me. "You need another week off to recuperate. I can't have you in here if your exhausted. Don't worry; it's a paid vacation, so I better not see you in here until the week after you go on your trip. You can take the rest of today off as well, since you finished with that gaming program, there's nothing else for you to do today. Now off with you." She made a motion with her hands as if she were shooing me away.

"Thank you Margo. I hope that pile of papers goes down for you. Have a nice afternoon."

"Boy do I hope so, but have a nice afternoon as well."

I left and told Angela the details of my vacationing status and she recorded them all down. I dropped off the program to the mailing room for the program to be shipped out and went to get into my car.

I could hardly wait to get back to Duo.

TBC…

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