Anatomical Cucumbers Part 2
Two and a half hours later, Heero had his anatomy textbook in hand and was standing in front of Duo's room. It was quiet; Heero wondered how long it had been quiet. He was late, because he'd been so focused on his own studying; he'd even managed to filter out the music he had playing through his headphones. He knocked on Duo's door.
"Come in!" Duo called. When Heero opened the door, Duo grinned. "Heero!"
"Sorry I'm late," Heero said. "I got caught up with my own stuff."
"Not a problem." Duo got up from his desk. "Have a seat. I can take the bed."
Heero nodded and sat down. "So how much have you studied?"
"I'm just starting chapter two," Duo said.
Heero noted that chapter three was the one on reproductive organs. "I'm studying chapter three." It was on internal organs. "Let me know if you have questions."
"Will do. Thanks man."
The first half hour was relatively quiet; Duo had a habit of reading certain sentences aloud, albeit under his breath, to make himself remember them. But a loud rap on the door startled him; he wasn't used to people knocking on his door.
Then, he remembered he wasn't in his room.
"Come in!" Duo yelled.
The door opened. "Duo, want to shoot some hoops?"
"Sorry Mike, I'm studying."
"You're studying," Mike said in a disbelieving tone. "What the hell are you studying for?"
"My grades, maybe?" Duo answered.
"Is that..." Mike came closer and Heero kept his head down, trying to focus. "Is that a penis? What the hell are you looking at that for, Duo? You have one!"
"Just because I have one doesn't mean I know what sorts of veins are involved," Duo said dryly. "Get out. I'm trying to focus."
"Fine." Mike tossed the basketball up and caught it again. "Later."
"Close the door, asshole." When the door was closed, Duo looked sheepishly at Heero. "Sorry for the interruption, Heero."
"Not a problem," Heero replied, not looking up.
After a couple of minutes though, he looked up to find Duo watching him. "What?" he asked.
"You look really intense when you study," Duo said softly.
"Duo, if my being here is a distraction then it's kind of counterproductive to your studies."
"No! I'm focused, really!" Duo looked down and immediately began to read. "Hey Heero," he said after a moment. "How do you keep track of these veins and things? The names are different aren't they?"
"Some of them are," Heero said. "Of course, you've got veins running through your entire body..."
"So how do you remember all of the names?"
"I do it just by repetitive studying. Find a method that works for you. Acronyms, writing it out, rhyming, whatever you want."
Duo nodded. "Hey, want to hear something stupid?"
Heero sighed. "Focus, Duo."
"No, seriously!" Duo grinned. "I swear, I'll focus after this."
"Okay." Heero conceded.
"You know what makes a guy hard, right?"
Heero blinked and felt a bit of heat creep up his neck. "Anatomically speaking, you mean?"
"Yeah. The whole blood fills the penis and enlarges it."
"What about it?" The image of Duo molesting his cucumber earlier flashed in his mind and he mentally shook his head.
"You know what happens when a guy comes? Sperm comes out, right?"
"Yes."
"Well, when I was younger, I used to think that it wasn't blood filling up the dick. I thought it was sperm, because once you come, you go soft pretty quickly after that." Duo laughed. "Stupid, huh?"
"Maybe." Heero said. A creative mind was what Heero thought Duo had, not stupidity. No. It wasn't that. Duo merely had not been educated. "Now focus on studying."
Another few minutes passed before Duo spoke again. "Why is it the right foot that gets the least amount of blood?"
"Not the least amount, just the slowest to get the blood. It's furthest away from the heart."
"Oh. Makes sense. I guess that's why a guy can get hard so quickly. Penis isn't all that far away from the heart."
"You seem to know quite a lot about the penis. Maybe you should study the female reproductive system?"
"Oh I'm not done here. Still have the section on the scrotum and the bladder in relation, not to mention the prostate."
Heero sighed and tried to focus again. Duo got up and reached behind him towards his headboard. The movement startled Heero and he turned to look, only to be treated to the sight of Duo's lean abdomen when his t-shirt was pulled up by his movement.
And was that a bulge in his jeans?
Heero shook himself again and tried to focus, noting that Duo was plugging in some earphones. He sighed loudly though, when he realized that Duo turned his music on extremely loud. It didn't look like he was going to get much studying done here. Perhaps he should just go.
"Duo?"
Duo was nodding to the beat he was listening to, his body shifting a little. Heero sighed and tried to focus. He'd stay a little longer.
For a full half an hour Duo studied by himself before he switched off his music and stretched. Heero looked up. "Tired?"
"No. Have a question."
"What is it?"
"I've gotten to the female reproduction system," Duo said. "And I'm just wondering, that whole bit about the vagina? If a girl was a virgin and it hurts her because she's...tight for the lack of a better word...would it hurt a guy?"
Heero blinked.
"I mean, putting on a condom that's too small hurts, right? So why wouldn't that hurt?"
Heero didn't know how to answer that. "Maybe...natural lubrication?" he hazarded the guess.
Duo made a face. "Or maybe the 'feel good' factor outweighs the pain factor? Oh. Now we're getting psychological. Or technically, the chemical signal for pain isn't as strong as the chemical signal for pleasure."
"You know, the male and female reproduction systems were on completely different pages. Why do you keep putting them together?" Heero asked.
Duo blinked, then laughed. "God, Heero! Every other guy thinks about sex, especially when faced with this!"
"Are you implying that everyone writing the test and filling in the diagram would be thinking about sex?"
"Wouldn't you?"
"I'd hope not," Heero answered. "I would be trying to remember the terms. Now I know what you mean by distracted."
"Not my fault," Duo grumbled. "Visual stimulation."
"A breakdown of female anatomy stimulates you," Heero said dryly.
Duo raised an eyebrow. "Who said it was the female anatomy?"
For a moment, silence hung in the air. Heero suddenly realized that a guy as hot and friendly as Duo would probably not be a virgin. He could imagine that girls would be very willing to sleep with such a handsome guy. But his question about whether it would hurt meant that Duo had never...
Or at least, that along with his last statement, implied that he had never...
"Heero?"
"Yes?"
"That doesn't bother you, does it?" Duo asked.
"No." Heero shook his head. "And in that case, I guess the proper answer to your question would be...I don't see how it could hurt more than...intercourse with another male."
"Oh, now we're talking!" Duo grinned. "Now that is something that feels damn fine!" Duo sighed, the grin suddenly gone. "Not that I've had any since I left the asshole that cheated on me."
"What?" The question slipped out before Heero could stop himself. "Sorry," he quickly added. "I don't mean to pry."
"It's okay. It was a few months ago. He decided that he wanted to top, but I don't bottom. He decided to go find someone else to do it, and then he was fucking both of us on alternating days."
"He wasn't worth it," Heero immediately said.
"No, he wasn't," Duo agreed. "So now that you know about my sex life, what about yours?" Duo asked in a joking tone.
"What about it?" Heero asked. "Get back to studying."
"You like studying, don't you?"
"I like learning."
"So...studying doesn't have to be about books."
Heero raised an eyebrow.
"Could be about experiments. Science especially."
"Right."
"So...do you want to?"
"Want to what?" Heero asked, his heart suddenly pounding. Surely Duo wasn't suggesting a hands-on lesson on male anatomy...
"Want to go for dinner?" Duo finally said. "I'm starving."
Heero considered that. He had been planning to cook, but dinner out sounded good.
"Why not?"
Duo shifted. "Why don't we go in half an hour?"
"Thought you were hungry?" Heero asked.
"I am. But I just remembered that I owe a copy of my assignment to a professor, and a call to a friend. Maybe not half an hour. Twenty minutes? I'll knock on your door."
"All right." Heero left Duo's room. It surprised him when he heard the lock engage with a quiet click, and by the time he'd shut his door, loud music was pounding from Duo's room.
How the hell Duo expected to call a friend through that music was beyond him. He lay down on his bed to wait.
Duo knocked on his door just over twenty minutes later. He was a little flushed and Heero could smell a stronger, fresh layer of cologne. He also noticed that Duo had changed his clothes.
"You didn't have to change for dinner," Heero said.
"No, I did." Duo said. "Let's go."
By the time dinner was over, Heeo knew several of Duo's childhood stories and had shared a couple of his own. He also knew that Duo was definitely a very popular guy on campus because every ten minutes someone would stop by their table to talk to him. Of course, it had to have been inevitable since they'd chosen to eat on campus.
"Are you up for studying some more?" Heero asked. "The anatomy test isn't that far off."
"I'm up for more studying." Duo agreed. "I'll even lock my door so we don't get interruptions."
"That's a good idea." Heero went to get his book and Duo waited for him before closing and locking the door.
Heero suddenly wondered if it was a good idea to be locked in the same room as Duo. Every little while he would picture Duo molesting his cucumber, could remember the amused grin from Duo when he'd caught Heero watching his ass. Certainly he was going to embarrass himself?
He realized that Duo was standing very close in front of him; he'd been too busy looking at Duo's ass when he was closing the door to realize the man had moved.
"Are you interested?" Duo asked softly. "Because you keep staring at my ass and it's a little...flattering and confusing."
Heero blushed a little. "Sorry. I didn't mean to make you feel uncomfortable."
"It makes me feel comfortable, but that's only if you're interested." Duo stepped forward when Heero stepped back. "I mean, I've been staring at you and your ass too and I can tell you that I'm interested."
"I..." Heero could smell Duo's cologne and it was intoxicating. He swallowed and opened his mouth to answer.
But he couldn't. Duo's lips were suddenly pressed against his in a gentle kiss, tongue invading his mouth. Heero tried to pull back but Duo's hand was there behind his head, fingers in his hair to hold him in place. His textbook and his arm were in the way between them, but Duo's other hand was removing the book. He dropped it to the floor, and then Duo pulled back with a curse.
"Fuck!" He stepped back, glaring down at the book. "I had to drop that on my toe!"
Heero couldn't help but laugh at that. Duo was suddenly laughing with him, and when they stopped, they looked at one another.
"Do I have to say sorry?" Duo asked softly. "I don't really want to."
Heero considered this. He was interested, but he hardly knew the man. "I..."
"I know you hardly know me. And I hardly know you," Duo suddenly blurted. "But I swear, I'm not here to play. I mean, this wouldn't be just a...a fling. Unless that's really what you want. Then I really will apologize."
Heero suddenly wanted to throw caution to the wind. He'd known Duo for less than a day, and the man had succeeded in molesting his cucumber, changing his study habits and getting him to talk about his childhood. It told him that he was more comfortable with Duo than he'd been with anyone on this college campus, and that was certainly a start.
"I...I should apologize," he finally said. Duo's grin froze. "For my book falling on your toe, I mean. Even if you had dropped it yourself."
Duo's expression changed from the frozen grin to a bigger smile. Then, he was pushing Heero against the desk and kissing him, holding him tight. Heero's arms slid around Duo's body, holding the solid warmth close as he rest his hip against the desk and savoured the kiss.
When they broke the kiss, Duo leaned his forehead against Heero's. "I've a ton of things to say to you."
"Like?" Heero asked.
"I've seen you before. In class. Coming back to the dorm. I found out you lived across the hall and you were in my class so I wanted to be friends."
Heero pushed Duo back a little and studied him. "Anything else I have to know, other than that you stalked me?"
"I played my music loud to get your attention. I was hoping you'd come over to tell me to turn it down and then I'd have a chance to know you. Take you out to dinner to apologize or something. When you didn't, I was ready to try something else. It was a coincidence though, that you were at the grocery store when I was."
Heero raised an eyebrow. "The loud music got me annoyed, that's for sure."
"I'll make it up. Right now." Duo leaned close to whisper into Heero's ear. "I'll show you what I do sometimes, when the music is turned up loud enough that no one from outside can hear me."
He felt Duo's arousal against his hip. "That's not the only thing that annoyed me."
"What else?" Duo asked, kissing his neck. "I'll make it up to you. All of it. And then some."
"You...molested my cucumber."
"I what?" Duo asked, pulling back to stare incredulously at Heero.
"You did. When you were talking to me earlier at the grocery check out."
"Well, I did tell you that sex is on every other guy's mind," Duo replied defensively. "I didn't even notice it. What did I do?"
"You were stroking it."
"Okay. I'll make up for that too. I'll stroke your other cucumber."
Heero chuckled and kissed Duo gently. "I admit that your stroking my...other cucumber was on my mind."
"Good." Duo reached hugged Heero close and let his hips rub against Heero's. The next thing Heero knew, loud music sounded from behind him and he jumped.
"Sorry." Duo said into his ear.
"Why does it have to be so loud?"
"I told you I was going to show you what I do when the music is loud enough that no one can hear me."
"This time," Heero conceded. "I take it you mean that we're going to do some...physical examination of the male anatomy?"
"Yes," Duo hissed, pulling Heero away from the desk and to the bed. He fell back, pulling Heero down with him. With the speakers turned towards the door, Heero found that he could hear Duo better from the bed even though he could feel the music vibrating through the bed. "C'mon Heero," Duo said, his hands running all over Heero's torso. "I'm more interested in hearing you make some music."
Heero leaned over Duo to speak into his ear. "You can try. I've never been particularly vocal in bed..."
Duo reversed their positions, a predatory grin on his lips. "A challenge," he said, tracing Heero's lips with a finger. "You're on!"
By the time they were finished, sweaty bodies cooling down as they caught their breaths, Heero was thankful for the loud music thrumming through the bed and his heart.
"God you're hot," Duo groaned, nuzzling him. "And your voice, good God, that alone could make me..."
Heero had to admit that Duo had certainly met and surpassed his challenge to make him vocal. He smiled and nibbled on Duo's earlobe before speaking another challenge.
"Next time, let's see how quiet you can keep," he whispered. "Music off. You can think of the music we just made, but no more than that."
"You're on, Heero. Just remember which one of us was louder earlier."
Maybe leaving the music on wasn't such a bad idea after all.
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