Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ To See You Again ❯ Downtime ( Chapter 27 )

Chapter 27: Downtime

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"Duo, aren't you done yet?" I called from the bedroom as I changed into some sweatpants and tee shirt. Duo had been in the shower for the last twenty minutes and I was getting a little worried by now.

"I'm done Heero. I just have to dry my hair then I'll be out, I promise." I knew Duo took a long time to wash his hair but it was never this long. Soon I heard the loud sound of the blowdryer and walked ovr to the door to peek in at Duo. He stood there by the vanity with a towel wrapped around his waist and was blow drying his hair while running his fingers through the long strands to untangle the knots that formed there. I watched him for a few minutes for his hair to be mostly dried before I pushed the door open and walked in behind him and wrapped my arms around his waist. He shut off the dryer and looked at me in the mirror as I nuzzled his neck with my nose and breathed in his fresh scent.

"You couldn't wait for me to be done, huh?" He whispered and tilted his head so I could have more access to his neck.

I placed a kiss on his pulse point then stared back at him in the mirror. "I can't wait when you take almost a half hour in the shower, then blow dry your hair and tell me you want to do it alone. Why didn't you want me to help you scrub your back?" Duo then down casted his eyes and blushed. I was alarmed when I felt his body tensing, but he didn't try to get out of my grasp much to my relief. "Duo?" He didn't answer. "Duo is this about last night? Do you regret it?"

"NO!" He spun around in my arms and cupped my face with his hands. I was too surprised by his actions that it took me a moment to recover. What I saw in his eyes made my breath catch and I knew from those soft violet jewels that he didn't regret what we did. "No, I don't, but I just felt a little... gross I guess."

"Gross? Why would you feel...?" I started to ask then stopped myself with the embarrassed look Duo gave me.

"The lube in my ass started leaking out and well...I didn't exactly want to sit down with that slick feeling in there." I could understand that and I would probably feel the same way when he started to do those things to me. Maybe that would happen tonight?

I let my thoughts run away as I felt Duo caress my face in slow gentle patterns. He looked as if he were trying to memorize my face and commit it to memory. His face scrunched up so that it held intense concentration and he wasn't looking at my eyes as his touch continued. With his concentration on me, I slipped my hands on his hips and quickly pulled the towel off of him and let it drop to the floor. That got Duo's attention.

"What are you doing Heero?" I just gave him a smirk and picked him up. "Heero!" I took him into our room and laid him down on our bed then stood back to admire him. His face was flushed pink and his body still glistened with moisture from the shower, while his hair was spread out underneath him all and all he was beautiful and was mine.

"I'm just seeing how beautiful you are." Duo's blush turned a bright red and turned his face away. I crawled up onto the bed and straddled his hips and leaned into him. I could feel his body heat but I didn't lower myself enough to feel his skin. He looked up at me with wide surprised eyes before I closed the distance between us and claimed his lips in a kiss. Duo gently kissed me back, his lips so warm and inviting that when I heard the knock on our door I pulled back and growled. Duo chuckled at my frustration but then pushed me off of him to tell me to go and see who was at the door.

I answered it right before the person was going to knock again and he smiled nervously at my disheavled appearance. "I brought you and your friend some breakfast items sir. I was told you didn't order anything and was given this cart to bring to you. Where would you like it?"

"Um...you can just put it on the table over there." I replied to the man and went back over to the bedroom door and closed it so Duo wouldn't be revealed. The man briskly set four trays up and then placed coffee, cups and saucers on the table and two pitchers of juice; one apple, one orange. I looked at the items he uncovered and was pleased to see we had been given pancakes, two Belgain waffles with strawberries and whipped cream on top. The portions were very generous and the last tray had an assortment of fruits on it. "Thank you." I reached into my pocket to tip him but he stopped me.

"No tip is necessary sir. You were quite generous with the last tip you gave me and I thank you. Have a pleasant time enjoying your food sir." He said and walked out of the room. I stood there speechless for a moment then walked over and snatched a strawberry that had whipped cream on it, off of one of the waffles and hid it behind my back. I made my way over to the bedroom and opened it to find Duo in the postion I had left him in. He lay there playing with his hair and looking at the ends intently to see if he had any split ends I guessed.

"Who was at the door?" He asked still playing with his hair.

"Room service. The man brought us some breakfast." I told him and slowly his eyes turned to me.

"What did they bring us?" He asked with a smile forming on his lips. I walked over to him once again and sat on the bed next to him and revealed the strawberry to him.

"Oh I don't know. They had some tasty treats on a platter." I took the strawberry and ran the whipped cream tip of it in his belly button and trailed it up his chest to create a line of cream to his mouth and gave it to his greedy lips. He took a bite and then wrapped his finger around my wrist and pushed the berry to my own mouth for me to take a bite. It was cool and sweet to taste, but then I turned my attention to the work I had done to Duo's clean body a few moments before.

I bent down on my hands and knees and lapped at the whipped cream in Duo's navel. Duo's eyes closed approving my actions then I ran my tongue up Duo's chest, removing the sweet cream from him better than any washcloth could. I placed a kiss above his heart as he moaned in contentment. I smiled against his skin then placed a soft kiss on his lips before I got up and retrieved a robe to wrap him up in. Duo opened his eyes and let me slip a robe around him and put his arms through the sleeves.

"So are you ready to enjoy your food?" I asked as I pulled him out the door.

"You better believe it."

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Duo and I finished our breakfast at a leisurely pace and then talked a while about the little things that so far made this vacation special, other than the fact that we were together and had enjoyed Quatre and Trowa's generousity. We went through the digital pictures Duo had taken of the falls and the secret pool we had discovered on our hike. Some of them had come out better than others, but we kept every single one and chose which ones we thought would make nice postcards for our friends. Duo suggested we go print out the photos that we were going to use and make the postcards we wanted to send out today. I agreed and soon found myself dragged back into our bedroom as Duo began to strip me of my clothes and dress me in ones that he thought would look good for our day out. I didn't mind at all that he dressed me in whatever he wanted. I trusted Duo's fashion sense and it didn't really matter to me what I was wearing while Duo's hands were on me.

We soon left the hotel and were walking through the city for a change instead of driving around in the limo. It felt nice to be walking again and taking in the sights the city had to offer. Duo didn't seem to care what anyone else thought of us either. He held onto my hand tightly and every so often he would let go and wrap his arm around my waist instead. I caught some people shooting us disgusted stares, but I didn't care either and just shot them a glare of my own and pulled Duo closer to me.

We arrived at a store that converted memory files into pictures within an hour and seeing that no one else was in the shop I figured that it would be done in no time.

"Can I help you?" A woman with long red curly hair asked us from behind the counter.

"Yes. We have some photos from our digital camera and want to know if you can turn them into postcards." Duo asked brightly and sending her a smile. She beamed smile of her own and looked at the camera we brought with us.

"Just step over here and let me hook it up to the Mac."(1) She took the camera from us and took out a cable wire and hooked the camera up to the Mac and then brought up iphoto on the screen. We watched as all our pictures came up on the screen and Duo began to tell her which ones we wanted. She minimized the photos that we wanted, then brought up a few different templates we could use for the postcard backing. Duo chose the ones he liked then turned to me to see if I thought the same. I nodded at which ones I thought looked the most pleasing and then she set the pictures up with the backing in the order Duo chose. It took a few minutes before we had well over what we needed to send out, but Duo insisted on having a lot for christmas cards. I couldn't say no and let him have his way. The woman printed out the rest of the pictures for us and said that she'd burn all the pictures to two Cd's for us as well. When she was finished, we had a lot of pictures that were to be put in an album and postcards that had to be sent.

"That'll be seventy-five dollars and fifty cents." I paid her the money and thanked her as she unhooked the cable and I returned the camera to the pouch I had brought and stored the Cd's and picture album in there as well. The next stop was the post office and Duo and I took our time writing to our friends and compaired what we wrote with one another. I laughed at some of the things that Duo had written on his postcard to Quatre and Trowa.

"Duo, I don't recall 'giving you a bath like a mother cat would give to her kittens.'" I quoted.

"You did too Hee-chan. Right after you made me sticky with that whipped cream this morning." I heard a gasp come from behind us as a older woman, who could of been my grandmother if I had one, stared at us horrified. Apparently, Duo had been a little too loud. He smacked a hand over his mouth when he noticed the woman staring at us. The woman huffed and said something like, 'Young people these days experiment too much.' I snickered at her comment while Duo's face was still stained pink with embarrassment. I just shook my head and read what else he put down, hoping I wasn't mentioned doing something 'else' to Duo. Thankfully, he skipped what we did last night and I guessed that he was going to stay quiet about that.

Duo was finished with his postcards after I had finished reading over them and we bought stamps and sent them off to our friends. "So what else do you want to do Heero?" Duo asked as we exited the building. I thought a few minutes and looked around the street. There was a restuarant on the otherside of the road and without thinking, I grabbed Duo's hand and crossed the street. No one had the chance to run us over since there was a pedestrian walkway and cars stopped while we crossed. Or at least, I crossed and was dragging Duo behind me. The restuarant looked like it was a nice place to eat and seemed inviting enough. It was called Stone Bridge.

Turning to Duo I asked him with my eyes if he wanted to eat. I heard a loud growl erupt from his stomach as he opened his mouth. He giggled, "I guess my stomach answered for you Heero. It looks nice, so lets see if they can fill me up." Duo gave me a wink and I chuckled at his antics. It took a lot to fill Duo up since he always seemed to eat like his stomach was a bottomless pit. We went in and the host took our coats and a waitress sat us down opposite each other and gave us menus, then left us to decide on what we wanted to eat.

"The lobster looks good to try Heero. I think I want that."

"I never knew you liked lobster." I told him as I peered over my menu at him.

"Well, a few months ago Quatre took Tro and I out for dinner and got us all lobsters and some crayfish too. I like crayfish since their like mini lobsters, but I don't see them on the menu, do you?"

"No, I don't so lobster it is." The waitress returned with glasses of water for us and took our order for two lobster dinners and some champagne then left us to wait in peace. A few minutes passed and she brought us an opened bottle of the champagne and two tall glasses and pour it for us. She then left us alone to talk amongst ourselves.

Duo took his champagne and sipped some of it before placing the glass back on the table. I watched him as he avoided my eyes and played with his cloth napkin some before putting it in his lap. He looked...sad, scared even for some reason. It was such a dramatic change from his happier mode just moments ago. It worried me as he kept his eyes off of me.

"Duo?" Duo's eyes finally looked at me as I gave him a questioning look. "What's the matter? Why do you look so sad?"

"I...Heero, I-I have to tell you something." He rushed to say.

"Then say it." I told him and waited for him to respond and he opened his mouth to say something.

"Are you alright gentlemen?" A waitress walking by asked.

"Yes, we are fine." I told her and turned back to Duo to wait for him to tell me what he had to say.

"Actually, can you tell me were the restroom is?" Duo asked her.

"Certainly, you go that way and take a left, then go until you see the bar and make a right." She smiled at him.

"Thank you. Excuse me." Duo got up and walked away from the table to the restroom, leaving me there shocked at how fast he left. He wanted to tell me something one minute and he's gone the next? What was going on? I thought to myself. Maybe Duo just needed some time to get his thoughts together. I decided I would leave him alone for a while and waited for his return.

Our food came and he still didn't come back. Even the waitress asked where my 'friend' had gone, but I just said he left for a few minutes. She accepted my reply then left with our food hot and waiting to be eaten on the table. I finally got up and went to go see what Duo was up to in the bathroom for so long and as I approached the door I listened for anything unusual. There wasn't anything that I could hear wrong, so I went in.

"Duo? Are you in here?" I called and looked under the stalls for his feet and found him in the last one. "Duo, why are you still in here?" I asked as I pushed open the door and found him sitting on the toilet with his face in his hands. Gently I removed his hands and saw that his eyes were red and tears pooled in his eyes and down his cheeks. I felt a sharp pang in my heart as I saw Duo looking so miserable. Crouching before him I took his face in my hands and wiped his tears away with my thumbs. He gave me a watery smile and I pulled him into my arms to hug him close and rub his back.

"I'm sorry I had to leave you so quick Heero, but he would've seen me." Duo said into my neck as his arms tightened around me more.

"Who would've seen you? Duo I don't understand." I whispered back to him in his ear. He pulled back and looked at me and started to tell me.

"Remember how I told you my ex had friends that..." I put my finger to his lips so he wouldn't have to say it and nodded. I figured he meant the people who raped him. I took my finger away to let him tell me. "...one of them is here. I saw him but, he didn't see me. At least, I don't think he did. I don't want him near me Heero. Please. Please protect me from him." His eyes begged me and he was pleading with me to keep him safe. What else was I supposed to do?

"You know I won't let anything hurt you." Duo nodded his head. "You know you can trust me." Another nod. "Will you come back out and eat with me?"

"Yes, but I don't want..."

"...to sit by yourself." Duo looked at me surprised. "I'll just move your food over by mine. It's no trouble Duo." I smiled at him then kissed his forehead and helped him stand. Duo latched himself to my hand in a death grip as I lead him back to the table. I put Duo in the booth first then sat next to him, our thighs touching. I moved Duo's lobster in front of him and his champagne over closer to him as well. I smiled at him as he began to dig in and let the taste of his dinner cheer him up. I tasted my own and enjoyed the sweet buttery taste of it caressing my tastebuds. We enjoyed the rest of our dinner and I watched from the corner of my eye how Duo was doing. He calmed down quite a bit as we finished our meal and the waitress brought our check. I paid it and poured another glass of champagne for Duo and myself.

Duo was still wary but don't show it. He didn't look around for fear of being spotted. I knew Duo was still worried so I called Collin and told him to meet us in front of the Stone Bridge. He assured me he would be there in ten minutes. I relayed this to Duo who looked grateful and finished his champagne.

We picked up our jackets and left just as Collin pulled up to the curb before us and we got in and made our way back to the hotel. Collin wished us goodnight and drove up to his hotel that he stayed at. I lead Duo back to our room and as soon as I shut the door, Duo was all over me.

TBC

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(1) Mac are the best at uploading photos in my opinion and it seems everyone that I know uses them for this purpose.

So sorry it took this long to update. Like I said earlier, my schedule was insane and everything needed my attention at once. But good news is: I'm off for six weeks from school, so I can update more often. Well unless something else goes wrong. ~*sigh*~

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