Happy Thanksgiving!
Oct. 10th, 2005 11:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calic0catHappy Thanksgiving to all the other Canadians out there! Thought I'd better get busy and post this before heading off to my brother's place for a small family dinner. Whether you're waiting to sit down to Thanksgiving dinner, or just about to go on lunch break, here's this week's little bit of fic to go along with it...
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Title: #106 Preparation - Part 7
Arc: Life With Heero
Author: Calic0cat <calic0cat@fastmail.fm>
Story Completed: October 9, 2005
Genre: Shonen Ai/Yaoi, Friendship, Romance, Domestic, Drama
Pairing: 1x2x1
Rated: FRT (Fan Rated suitable for Teenagers)
Warnings: Language (Coarse Language, Profanity)
Archives: At my site http://www.calic0cat.net and at Mediaminer.org under Calic0cat. Anyone with archive permission for my other fics can help themselves; anyone else, please ask.
Disclaimer: Duo and Heero and the rest of the GW gang aren't mine. This story is. Nuff said.
Author's Notes: This is an open-ended arc focussing on Duo and Heero's lives together, starting about two years after Endless Waltz. The length of each story in the arc will vary, anywhere from ficlet to multi-part. Warnings, rating, genre, and POV will vary from story to story as well. The arc as a whole will probably never truly "end", but the smaller plot arcs within it will.
'Thinking'
"Speaking"
*** Time passing or scene change
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Blinking sleepily, Duo smiled affectionately, his face barely visible in the dim light of early morning. "Hey."
"Hey," Heero murmured hesitantly in response to the soft greeting. He wasn't quite sure how to act after the release of emotional control that had accompanied last night's physical release. He still felt raw. Exposed. Vulnerable.
Suddenly, Duo's actions *last* weekend made one whole hell of a lot more sense, and Heero felt a pang of regret for not having handled things better at the time. If Duo had felt even a fraction as emotionally confused and hypersensitive then as he had last night, then Duo's - well, "clinginess" was too strong, but he couldn't think of a more appropriate term - in the immediate aftermath was completely understandable; he'd done exactly the same thing, after all.
It was no wonder that, the next morning, Duo had wanted to fall back into the familiar territory of best friends hanging out together while he had a chance to think things through and adjust. Now, Heero needed the same time to process, and he just hoped that he could find his own mental and emotional balance as quickly as Duo had.
And that Duo would remember his own experience well enough to give him the chance without making him ask for it. Heero really didn't think he was ready to talk about last night just yet.
He wasn't too sure that he would ever *want* to talk about it. It had been incredible and terrifying; it had lasted forever and been over too damn fast. If Duo had hesitated for even a heartbeat, or if he'd allowed himself a single moment to think instead of just *feel*, it wouldn't have happened at all. That it *had* happened was a huge relief, but he couldn't help but worry about not only the less-than-perfect aspects, like his little emotional meltdown afterwards, but also about if and when he'd manage to make it happen again.
Duo's voice and a gentle poke in the ribs broke into Heero's train of thought.
"Hmm?"
"Your shoulder?" Duo repeated patiently. "How is it this morning?"
Heero rolled it cautiously, then raised and lowered his arm slowly, testing its response. Muscles and tendons twinged and ached a bit, and his range of motion was still slightly restricted. "Better, but not a hundred percent," he admitted a bit absently, his mind already drifting back to the question of exactly why last night had worked, and how he could repeat it.
After all the time that he'd spent making careful plans for later, after the inventory was over, last night's success had in fact been the result of an impulsive, spur of the moment decision. They'd both been aroused, they'd been in the privacy of their bedroom, they'd been very relaxed and comfortable with each other... The massage had definitely played an important role, but being tired had also made it easier for him to shut his brain off and just *feel* and let himself go with the flow. Maybe...
A slightly less gentle poke in the ribs interrupted Heero's thoughts again.
"Dammit, Heero, stop thinking so hard," Duo scolded, his tone one of exasperated affection. "Don't try to analyze last night, you'll just tie yourself up in knots. Just accept it as the great time it was, okay?"
Caught, Heero couldn't help but chuckle ruefully. Duo knew him all too well. "I'll try."
"Good." Duo rewarded him by brushing a soft, reassuring kiss over his lips before rolling out of bed. "Listen, why don't you go grab another hot shower, see if you can loosen that shoulder up a little more while I see if I can scrounge something up for breakfast?"
"Okay," Heero agreed. He vaguely remembered Duo wiping them both down before getting them under the covers last night, but, sore shoulder aside, a shower was probably still a good idea.
Rolling out of bed himself as Duo dragged on a pair of boxers, Heero asked with studied nonchalance, "So, last night was great, was it?" Sure, they'd both gotten off, but the aftermath had been a little... rocky. 'Not to mention damn embarrassing,' he thought, wincing mentally. 'Duo didn't make a big deal out of it, but I kind of... fell apart... on him...' Somehow, he didn't think that was a recommended way to wrap up a passionate interlude.
Duo laughed, picked a crumpled towel up off the floor, wadded it up, and threw it at Heero. "Now, you're just fishing for compliments." On his way out of the door, Duo flashed a quick grin over his shoulder. "But yeah, Heero. It was."
An involuntary grin on his own face, Heero hugged the musky-scented towel against him as he headed off to shower. Last night hadn't been perfect, but maybe it had been good enough.
Good enough for a start.
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Date: 2005-10-10 09:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-11 09:15 am (UTC)After all the trouble they've had getting to this point, a slight case of morning after nerves was pretty much inevitable!
Duo telling him he was just fishing for compliments was great.
That response just really seemed to fit the situation and the guys. Leave it to Duo to keep things from getting too heavy and serious. *grins*
Glad you liked it; should be more soon!
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Date: 2005-10-10 09:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-11 09:18 am (UTC)Definitely an important step in the right direction for these two!
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Date: 2005-10-10 02:13 pm (UTC)This part is perfect! Morning after Heero is cute. Duo telling him that he's just fishing for compliments was funny. Thanks! I can't wait for more!
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Date: 2005-10-11 09:28 am (UTC)Thanks! It was the nicest Thanksgiving I've had in quite a while, I think. Very low-key, and since we held it at my brother's place, cleanup was much easier (they have a dishwasher; we don't).
This part is perfect!
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!
Morning after Heero is cute. Duo telling him that he's just fishing for compliments was funny.
I considered skipping over the "morning after", and just jumping ahead to them working on the inventory and maybe making a reference or two back to it. But Heero's reaction really did deserve a full part to itself. He takes everything so seriously - good thing that Duo knows just when and how to lighten things up!
Glad you enjoyed it, and there should be more soon.
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Date: 2005-10-10 04:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-11 09:35 am (UTC)Thanks - it was a pretty nice day, since we just had a quiet dinner with immediate family. None of the hassles that can so often spoil the really big holiday get-togethers.
Love the vulnerable Heero. He was so unsure of himself and I loved the way you made him act towards Duo, very realistic.
Thanks! I hoped that his reaction would come across as being very realistic. After everything they've been through to get to this point, I couldn't imagine him being completely calm, cool, and collected over the whole thing.
Glad you enjoyed it, and there should be more soon.
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Date: 2005-10-10 05:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-11 09:42 am (UTC)i loved Duo repeatedly poking Heero out of his thoughts- and knowing exactly what was going on in Heero's mind.
Duo's own previous reaction and his knowledge of how Heero's mind tends to work meant that he knew better than to let Heero get too caught up in thought. Much better to lighten things up and remind him of the good points.
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Date: 2005-10-10 05:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-11 09:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-10 08:18 pm (UTC)Great job and I hope more comes soon.
~ Ariel
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Date: 2005-10-11 09:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-11 05:56 am (UTC)Heero's just too cute in this.
And I hope you had a happy thanksgiving. =) Canadian here too, so I'm still getting back into the grind of things today.
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Date: 2005-10-11 09:54 am (UTC)I hope you had a happy thanksgiving. =) Canadian here too, so I'm still getting back into the grind of things today.
Thanksgiving was nice; dinner was just the immediate family, so it was very low-key - though there was still an awful lot of food on the table! not to mention on my plate... good thing these food-oriented holidays don't come around more often... *eyes scales and backs away*
Since I had last Thursday and Friday off, getting back to the grind today is really, really Not Fun. :P
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Date: 2005-10-11 03:55 pm (UTC)Lets not talk about the amount of weight we have to have gained. I made baklava. Can you say +100lbs?
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Date: 2005-10-18 08:13 am (UTC)Glad you liked it!
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