Author: Merula
Pairings: 1+2
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Yaoi, drabble
Disclaimer: Gundam Wing is not mine.
Sun's cookie story in the gw_bakery gave me a plot bunny while I was out at Easter Brunch with my family. (yum!) I would've posted it in the Bakery, but um, it's the Duo and Heero from the One Night world and fluffy... well, I don't think this quite gets there. I did try, but... yeah.
A better use for biscotti...
It was raining. Not a light nice April shower, but a torrent of rain that made the windshield wipers an exercise in futility.
So, halfway to their destination, Duo had declared that they were going to stop at the next public building- be it restaurant, bar, supermarket or laundry and simply wait out the storm.
Luckily, the next place had proved to be a tiny bakery. They got a nice seat by the window where they could monitor the rain, two cups of decent coffee and a plateful of very hard cookies.
Duo picked one of the cookies up and tried to gnaw on the end.
"How do you eat these?"
Heero looked up from the paper he had grabbed from a nearby table. "I think you have to soak them in the coffee first."
Duo looked at the cookie dubiously. "But won't that make it crumble? I don't want crumbs in my coffee."
"Maybe you should order a muffin."
"Maybe you should let me soak it in your coffee."
"But then I get crumbs in my coffee."
"But you'll cope because you love me and want me to be able to eat this cookie."
As Heero was struggling to think of a way to prove that he loved Duo and yet not get crumbs in his coffee, the door to the bakery opened and a group of young men came in talking at the top of their lungs. They sat down at a corner table and began a boisterous conversation that made any type of talking at the other tables near impossible. Heero privately dubbed them 'The Idiots' and tried to tune them out.
Duo frowned, his eyes narrowing as he watched The Idiots give the waitress a bad time when she came to take their drink order. Heero, knowing the danger signs, offered him a section of the paper and hoped the rain would stop soon.
Duo was soon immersed in the world news section, but Heero kept one eye on his lover just in case.
As it turned out, Duo wasn't the one he should've been watching.
Heero heard one of The Idiots a fraction of a second after Duo did. Heard one of them say the word 'braid' and another word... one he knew from experience that Duo did not tolerate.
The paper dropped from his hands as he reached out, even though he knew he was too late to stop his partner's reaction...
A cookie flew across the room, skimmed the speaker's nose, hit the wall and then fell into the cup of coffee in front of the young man with a splash.
Duo grinned across the room at the tableful of idiots.
"It just... slipped." He said, his smile widening a bit more. Heero knew that smile. He gave his lover a warning look.
Duo ignored him. He picked up the butter knife, flipped it over his fingers, tossed it in the air and caught it again still smiling at the Idiots. "Good thing I was only playing with a cookie, hm?"
The Idiots were apparently less idiotic than Heero had given them credit for- they were out of the bakery in less than a minute.
Heero shook his head and picked up the paper. "I'm amazed you didn't try and hit him in the eye."
"It was a warning shot," Duo shrugged as he picked up another cookie. "Besides, I might have put his eye out with one of these things. Think how messy that would be to clean up."
"The only way you could've put his eye out would be if you put a spike in the cookie," Heero sighed and looked back down at his paper. Where was the article he'd been reading?
The silence on the other side of the table made him look up again to find Duo regarding the cookie in his hands thoughtfully.
Uh oh. He knew that look too...
"What are you thinking?"
"Spikes would be good, but imagine if we stuck a wee bit of explosive inside? The kind that goes off on impact?"
"Exploding cookies?"
Duo nodded. "I could see ways to use them..."
Heero's lips curved in a smile. "Once again, I'm glad we're on the same side."
Duo winked. "You're the one that suggested using the cookies as weapons."
"I never would have before I met you."
Duo leaned across the table. "And are you sorry you met me?"
The question was teasing- but his tone held a hint of something else.
Heero met Duo's eyes. "Not ever- and you know it." He picked up his paper again. "Though I think you need to run the cookie idea by the lab guys- no trying it at home this time, okay?"
"You're no fun." Duo pouted. Then his face lit up again. "Hey- imagine if the cookies were poisonous! Then anything you dipped them in would get poisoned as the cookies dissolved... Or..."
Heero gave his lover an affectionate smile even as he inwardly hoped that the rain would end soon- before Duo got tired of cookies and decided to turn his imagination loose on the other goods the bakery sold.
He'd never be able to eat in a bakery again...
OWARI
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