Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Urgent Call ❯ Back to Reality ( Chapter 6 )

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Chapter 6

"Ok, ok, yes, yes colonel, as soon as I can, yes ma'am, goodbye ma'am." He hung up. "That's the twenty-third time she's phoned me in a week!"

"She still going on at you to get back to headquarters?" Heero rocked the cot next to the sofa. Duo had taken a week leave of absence and, although Une had seemed relieved that she wouldn't have Duo's face peeking over her shoulder while she tried to mollify a very unhappy department of colony transportation, she seemed less than happy with his refusal to provide any details referring to where he was, what he was doing and who he was with.

She had also not been too happy with the closing comment made down the vid-mobile-phone, at the end of that first conversation, which had run somewhere along the lines of `yes ma'am, yes Commander, Colonel, Lady Une ma'am, sir!' which had been accompanied by a cheeky mock-salute. Trying to show her disproval and also to keep tabs on her wayward officer she had proceeded to call him at least three times a day since then.

"Yeah, she's got a point though, I've been gone over a week, she's arranged a shuttle back for me at two. Err… Heero where should I say I've been?"

"I don't know make something up, private business or something similar to that, just please Duo, don't mention me and Miri."

"No problem, after all, I'm used to covering for you."

"Thanks, again."

Duo smiled, he didn't really want to leave, but he knew staying longer would result in Une becoming suspicious, well, even more suspicious than she was anyway...

"Right I'd better go get my few things together."

He walked into the spare room to collect his few belongings, as he returned the door shut just a little too heavily behind him.

"Whaaaaa!"

Heero leaned towards the infant but Duo jumped forwards, "Let me, I was the one who made her cry in the first place and I have to leave soon, I want to look after her a couple more times." He winked, "I think I'll leave changing the nappies to you though."

The mother sat back, anyone else and he wouldn't have dreamt of trusting them with his child, however Duo had spent the week caring for the both of them, not that Heero couldn't look after himself, but Duo had insisted. He had nearly had a heart attack actually after finding out that Sally had to leave and go back to work, the blonde woman making promises to check over the other pilots discretely and assuring Heero that if he needed `anything, anything at all' he was to call her immediately as she was still stationed on L3 until Christmas.

"Shush," The Deathscythe pilot hushed as he gathered Mirielle in his arms, "Uncle Duo didn't mean to wake you up, shush beautiful, there's a good girl, turn off the waterworks"

She stopped crying and started to giggle as Duo tickled her stomach gently. When she seemed happier he handed her over into Heero's waiting hands. Then he checked his watch and winced, "I'd better be off."

"Ok."

"You should come to Earth, I'll be going there soon, visit me and the rest of the pilots, I'm sure they'd be happy to see you again, they miss you you know. Tro and Quat still ask about you every time I see them course Fei's still missing but I'm sure he'd ask about you if he was here and I know they'd both love to meet little Mirielle Duet here, you know what Q's like with kids!"

Duo kissed the smiling little girl on each cheek, gripped Heero's shoulder and turned toward the door, "Hope to see you both soon. Call if you need anything, anything at all," he said, unconsciously echoing Sally's words of a few days earlier, "screw Preventers, screw Une… Well," he corrected himself seeing the look on Heero's face, "not literally, seriously though, call and I'll be on the first shuttle over, even if I have to steal one. I'll be up every weekend anyway, what harm is a couple of extra days going to do?"

They both smiled,

"Bye Duo and thank you for… well everything."

"No problem, after all," he winked, "what are friends for? I'm expecting daily updates by the way," he reminded, "anything that she does or anything that happens, if she had a bottle and you take the rubbish out I want to know about it, understand Yuy?"

"You've already told me and I've already answered but ninmu ryoukai anyway."

Duo grinned, "and a ninmu ryoukai to you too Heero," he called after him as the door closed, "topped off with a omae o korosu, just to be polite."

Heero shook his head smiling. He knew that he would likely get a call from a mother-hen American pilot within the hour checking to see if they were alright, he knew that Duo, despite his jokes, was truly worried about leaving them and he really appreciated it, he hadn't really realised just how much pressure he had been under these last few months worrying about how he was going to cope with a baby or even give birth, knowing that Duo and Sally were just at the other end of a vid-phone was a huge relief… even if he'd never admit it.

TBC

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