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"Straight to My Head"Written By: Miss Murdered Disclaimer: I don't own the GW characters - am just borrowing to torment for my amusement Rating: NC 17 Warnings: light angst, awkward romance, some smut Pairings: 1x2 Summary: Heero's yearly Preventer
evaluation is usually an annoying formality. But this year, it is
much more complicated due to a certain Duo Maxwell... "Straight to My Head " Epilogue: Wouldn't Know Where to Start to Replace This
"Very sure," Emilia replied, "you have to write a vow that says everything you feel." Heero looked quizzically at the very serious expression on Emilia's face as they sat at the miniature table on a small chair surrounded by the remains of a stuffed animal tea party. She had given him a purple fluffy notebook and a glittery pen to write with and Heero frowned at the impracticality of the equipment he had been provided with. A notebook did not need to be fluffy and a pen did not have to have feathers coming out of the end. It seemed superfluous. But he saw that it seemed to make Emilia happy that he was using it and that was all that mattered. "Write all the things you feel about Duo," she ordered as she wriggled to get comfier on her chair and took a drink of pretend tea. Heero could hear the tone in Emilia's voice and it sounded far too much like Relena's so he felt it best to follow her instructions. He flicked through the notebook until he reached a blank page and then frowned at the purple page, unable to articulate anything on the page. As his feelings for Duo were complex and jumbled and probably too much for a five year old understand. So instead of writing about how Duo could irritate him, how he could drive him crazy and how he couldn't comprehend a life without him, Heero wrote something much simpler and passed it over to Emilia. She nodded, satisfied. "I think we're ready now. I'll go tell mummy!" Without a second thought, Emilia ran out of her bedroom, shouting for her mother and Heero sat awkwardly on his tiny chair waiting for her to return. When the door opened again, it wasn't Emilia that appeared but Relena who was grinning broadly and seeming to be laughing under her breath. "I wish I could take a picture of you right now," she said as she leaned against the door, looking at the way Heero was sat in her daughter's bedroom. Heero got to his feet and shot a mock death glare. "I'd kill you if you did." Relena laughed. "I feel like that is an empty threat, Heero Yuy. As usual." "Perhap," he replied with a shrug and a smile. "She wants you here… she is just, uh… preparing Duo." Relena pointed to near the window and Heero noted that lines of plush toys had been set up by Emilia as though imitating rows of chairs and he considered what "preparing" Duo meant. He had a feeling that Duo was not going to be happy with whatever Emilia's preparations were but he was also sure that he would do anything for her. "I'm a sucker," Duo had said once and as Duo stepped through the door, he proved her would do anything for Emilia. Even wear a pink tutu and fairy wings over his black skinny jeans and his grey faded band t-shirt. "Don't," Duo mouthed and Heero only smirked in response as Relena held a hand over her mouth to stop her from laughing out loud. As while to all three of the adults in the room, the whole occasion was ridiculous, to a five year old this was very important. Emilia followed Duo twirling a fairy wand and once he got to the end of the "aisle" next to Heero, she stepped ahead of them both, the fluffy notebook in her hand. "We are here today for the marriage of Heero and Duo," she began seriously and she flicked through the notebook, "they have written their own vows." She handed the notebook abruptly to Heero, open on his "vow" and he looked over at Duo who was finding it very difficult to keep a straight face. "My vow is that I love you," Heero said, unable to get rid of the smirk on his face "even when you are wearing a tutu and fairy wings." "Least I said no to makeup-" "Uh-huh," Emilia said, annoyed by their conversation, taking back the notebook and passing it to Duo, who feigned looking for his page. "I guess mine is that I love you, too. And don't mock the wings, dude. They mean I have magical powers, right?" he asked with a wink towards Emilia. Emilia ignored the question and reached for her fairy wand, whirling it around in front of them. "You are now married!" Heero did not know much about weddings being that he had only attended the one but he was sure it did not happen the way Emilia had planned it. Especially when Relena threw glitter over them as part of the celebration. "Why glitter?" Duo whined as he tried to shake it out of his hair. "Emilia said it was part of my role," Relena replied with a grin that made her appear younger, more carefree than Heero had seen her. "And the other part was to supply the celebratory ice cream." The glitter may have annoyed Duo but the ice cream did not and they sat around the large table in the formal dining room, various toppings and sauces spread out along with tubs of different flavours. Duo and Emilia sat closely together, discussing fairies and magic and flying, and Relena sat next to Heero, smiling. "You really didn't have to do this for her," Relena said as she ate a large spoonful of strawberry flavoured ice cream, watching how Duo was now drawing something in Emilia's notebook to illustrate the idea they were discussing. Heero shrugged. "I think Duo suffered more than I did." Relena laughed and leaned her head on Heero's shoulder gently. "There will be a job opening available for both of you whenever you're ready… She adores you both." "Soon," Heero replied, his voice low, "but first we have to go on Honeymoon." Duo looked up then and winked before he returned his attention to Emilia and their drawing. And in that wink, that look, that smile, and in the willingness to wear a tutu and fairy wings to make Emilia happy, Heero knew that Duo didn't just go straight to his head. He was in his heart, his bones and Heero didn't care what the future held for him as long as that future included Duo. ~ * ~ A/N: Thanks for reading - I've really appreciated all the comments that people have left throughout. I wanted to write something I enjoyed that maybe was a bit a cheesy and not too plotty and this was exactly what I needed - a little reminder that I love to write! So a big thank you for those of you who came along for the ride with me - it's been fun!
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