The X-Gene Part 5
What a Lion Wants
"Ok, let me try this again. Why are you smelling me?" Duo asked as Heero circled him and continued to take in his scent. "I'm trying to answer a question." The telepath blinked at this unexpected answer. "Well why don't you just ask me?"
"Ask you what?" Duo huffed at the thick-headedness of his companion. "Whatever question you're trying to answer." Heero shrugged. "Because you won't be able to answer it." The violet-eyed boy quirked an eyebrow at this. "How do you know?"
"Because... I just do." Heero's head shot up when he heard giggling. "What's so funny?" Duo shook his head. "You're just so confident that I won't be able to answer you that you've taken to smelling the back of my neck instead of just asking me."
"Hn, fine. Tell me what it is about you that makes the lion in me so drawn to you." The shorter boy stopped laughing abruptly. "What?" Heero smirked. "You heard me. Now answer me." Duo was pale and his jaw hung open but he was finally able to pull himself together enough to reply. "Well, I'm not really sure-"
"Hn, thought so." Heero smirked and was about to go back to the task of smelling Duo's hairline, when Duo huffed and smacked him slightly. "What I was going to say was, I'm not really sure but if you let me read you, I might be able to tell you what the lion is thinking."
Heero contemplated this for a moment, he didn't really like the idea of letting someone he'd just meet into his mind but on the other hand, he did want to know what was wrong with him. "Alright." He said simply. Duo's eyes widened almost comically as he regarded Heero.
"Jeez, you're awfully trusting aren't you? Well, ok... let's sit on the couch." Once they were seated facing each other, Duo took Heero's hand and held it tightly as he closed his eyes. "Don't you need to touch my head or something?"
"You're a real space cadet you know that? I only need to be in contact with you, now shut up and let me do my thing." Duo closed his eyes again and began to concentrate on Heero's lion half. He gasped suddenly and blushed a beautiful pink. "What? What's the matter?" Heero asked, bewildered by Duo's odd reaction.
"Umm... I think I know what's wrong." He opened his eyes and bit his lip, fidgeting as he tried to put into words what he'd seen. "Just spit it out!" The cobalt-eyed boy commanded. He was frustrated now and he just wanted Duo to give him an answer so he could get Dr. J to fix whatever was wrong with him.
"Oh believe me, this is not something you just want me to spit out." Duo replied struggling to find the right words for a few more minutes before he sighed and just got it over with. "Ok, I'm not quite sure how to say this but... apparently... and you might not even believe me I mean why would you, you just meet me and-"
"Duo." Heero growled cutting off the other boy's rant. "Ok... here goes. You're lion side wants... a mate."
TBC...
Phew, another week under my hat. Ahh Saturday and Sunday, my only days off, I PLAN TO ENJOY THEM!!!!
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