Author: Merula
Pairings: 1x2
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Yaoi, drabble
Disclaimer: Gundam Wing is not mine.
Asked by ravensilver: ON Heero/Duo, angst, something lost, something gained.
One Night Drabble 18
I usually hear Duo come in. He'll slam the door just enough to echo, or drop his boots on the hallway floor- some small noise that lets me know he's home. It's just a part of our safety routine- it's never a good idea to sneak up on an assassin- even inadvertently.
The change in light by the doorway makes me spin in my chair, knife out and ready to throw.
"It's me," Duo holds his empty hands up and gives me a weary smile. "Sorry. Forgot."
Alarmed, I reach out a hand to him, sliding the knife back into its sheath. It's not like Duo to forget. Then again, considering his day, I shouldn't be surprised.
His fingers slide over mine and he lets me pull him down onto my lap. "Like always. They called us all in, did the physicals, then let us go."
I don't want to push. "How are all your- siblings?"
"Crazy," he sighs and puts his head on my shoulder. "They seem to get crazier every time I see them. I used to... I used to understand them. Now... now they seem so different than me." Another deep breath. "Do you think it's because I've killed so many of them?"
"Do you think it would change that?"
"It didn't seem to before," he shifts a little, curling himself closer. "Before I would hear the voices too- I would understand Maya's songs- I knew why Kira was mad- now..."
He falls silent, deep in thought, and I just run my fingers over his braid, trying to soothe. I don't know what to say- how to help him with this. I'm not sure I want to- except that it seems important to him.
"Now," he says again and lifts his head up to look at me, his face lightening. "Now I just sit in those sterile rooms as they do their tests, and I think of you. I know you're at home, waiting for me, and I can't hear the voices- I don't understand the others- because I'm thinking of you."
"I'm sorry-" I try and he smiles, leaning forward enough to kiss me.
"I'm not."
OWARI
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