Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Triangles ❯ Chapter 3

~Duo POV~

It's dark. And there's the smell of antiseptic. Antiseptic? Oh hell. I remember the gun, and as if on cue, a dull ache makes itself known. Breathing hurts. And I still smell that damn antiseptic. I hate hospitals.

The darkness thins a little, and I realize I can hear. Two voices are carrying on a conversation over my head. They probably think they're being quiet, but now that I can hear something besides my own heartbeat and ragged breathing, they seem almost like they're shouting.

"-really going to shoot me, Heero?"

Relena. My heart skips a beat, knowing she's still here with me. But Relena would never leave someone to bleed and die. She's too-

"I don't know. I think I would have. When I saw the two of you…I just couldn't handle it. Especially right on the heels of…" Heero. Well, my partner didn't leave me, either. He sounds guilty, if it's possible for his voice to have that much variation. Don't feel guilty, I know you didn't mean for all this to happen.

"Of declaring your own feelings." Relena sighed. That's got to hurt her. I wish I could comfort her, but I can't seem to move at the moment. "I know it's frightening, the idea of living without the person you most want."

Heero apparently heard the bitterness in her tone, too. I can sense him reaching across the bed, over me, but he doesn't make it all the way across. "Relena…"

She laughs slightly, humorlessly. "Since I first saw you falling from the sky, Heero, I've known that there was something special about you. I've been chasing after you to try to figure it all out. But like any shooting star, you didn't want to be caught. I've always thought I loved you, but now I'm not so sure. I don't know if I love you, or the potential of stability that you carry with you."

Relena's fingers brush my hand, and I feel tingles. They feel so good that I reflexively try to hold onto her hand, my eyes fluttering open, only to close again immediately. When did light start hurting so much?

At my movement, Relena clutches my hand, "Duo!"

Heero's hand grips mine firmly on the other side. "Duo."

I try not to think about the fact that Heero's touch causes tingles too.

~Heero POV~

He's woken up. The wave of relief is almost crushing. Proof that there is some power in belief. I'll have to respect Duo's religious tendencies more in the future. He makes a small eeping sound and I realized how tightly I'm clutching his hand. I consciously relax my grip. "Sorry, Duo. I'm just so glad you're awake."

His voice is rough, but he's coherent. "Glad to be awake, too." He lightly squeezes my hand. "Glad you're both here."

It's Relena who realizes why he's not looking at us and turns the lights down. As the room dims, Duo's eyes open and he focuses first on Relena leaning over him and then on me as she sits down. "Where are we?"

I exchange a look with Relena, and we both know what he's asking. It's Relena who tries to answer him. "Hopefully not pulling guns on each other anymore."

Duo chuckles, then hisses and tries to curl up in a ball. I release his hands to grab his shoulders and push him out straight. "It will hurt less in the long run if you keep the muscles stretched."

"So says Mr. Impervious-to-pain Yuy." Ordinarily, that would be an insult from Duo, but now it seems affectionate. Maybe he does care. But considering where my hope has gotten us so far, I firmly squash the feeling. None of us needs this right now.

I feel Relena watching us, and smiling slightly.

As I turn to ask her what's so amusing, she just smiles more. "We're all blind, you know that?"

"Yeah." Duo agrees with her while I'm still trying to process the statement. Blind? To What? What is she talking about?

~Relena POV~

How to explain this to Heero? What good is it being a politician if I never seem to have the right words when I need them?

"We all…we all have feelings for one another. Kind of like a triangle, but it's not all moving in one direction." Oh, that was good. Really made sense.

Heero looks considering though. He looks first at me, then at Duo. "So…it would seem that to avoid anymore fits of violent jealousy," Heero looks wry, "we should…test our triangle."

"T-test it?" Duo coughs, bringing our attention back to him.

"A triangle is a very strong geometric figure." Heero's actually smirking.

I laugh. I laugh at Duo's shocked look, at my own realizations. I want Duo to kiss me, I want to find out what it feels like to kiss Heero…and I want to see what exactly it is between Heero and Duo. And I laugh because I can't believe I want any of this.

"Then let's test it." I jump in before I can lose my nerve. I lean forward and kiss Duo. It's tentative, light, a chaste kiss really. And it sends tingles all the way down to my toes. Then Duo takes control of the kiss and the tingles become an earthquake. I lean back only when I can no longer breath, and stare at him in shock. Duo smirks, a look he had to have borrowed from Heero.

Then hands touch my face, turning my head and moving into my hair. Heero looks into my eyes and smiles, a tiny smile, but a smile, for me. Duo's kiss might have left me shaking, but Heero's smile makes sure I can't stop. He pulls me to him, and kisses me, awkwardly, but with slowly growing confidence. I tremble as he releases me, and I stare back and forth between the two. Heero looks slightly shocked, but who wouldn't be? Then I notice the twined hands, together this entire time. I focus on the hands, and smile.

Heero takes the cue and leans over to kiss Duo. There is a sweetness to it that causes the tingles to coil together in the pit of my stomach. Watching the two beautiful boys kiss, I realize that it doesn't bother me. In fact, it makes the kisses I just shared with them seem all the more special.

I think this might just work.

~Owari~