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"Baby Series 3"Written By: Karina Rating: PG Spoilers: None Disclaimer: I don’t own Gundam Wing or the Characters from the series but the baby is mine. Pairing: Duo + Wu Fei Notes: Challenge 115. Baby Series 3 #114. Takes
place immediately following A Connoisseur. Many thanks to ShenLong for her work betaing
this fic.
Challenging Him Could he ever shower again and not look to see if Maxwell was lurking? As they showered after their exercise routines would he feel those eyes on his body? He would be on edge waiting for it… and have to look at that lithe, sleekly muscled form to be sure. But he would not drop his gaze below the waist! Damn, Maxwell was grinning at him, a wide knowing grin. He was challenging him? The grinning loon was actually challenging him to LOOK! "It never hurts to live a little dangerously, Fei. Makes the blood flow in your veins and you know you are alive." "You appear to enjoy living on the edge. One day you will overbalance and fall." "And I hope I'll have someone there who cares enough to reach out and catch me." The laughing idiot was gone, a quicksilver change of face Duo had mastered a long time ago. Duo Maxwell had many faces and he could play the fool, hiding the deeper side of himself beneath flamboyant cajolery. It was best if people did not know what to expect of him, too many dismissed him for a likable but socially green young man. Too many dismissed him, overlooking the fact that his face had been plastered all over the airwaves as the captured Gundam pilot. He was not green to the ways of the world; always alert and far from innocent, living through hell before and during the war. He had watched his friends, those he accounted as his family, die in a variety of horrible ways and he had survived. You did not survive all he had and remain innocent. "I've seen a lot of serious shit. I've seen people die howling their eyes out; screaming at fate and God, and some die in peace, content with their lot. They are the ones who have lived to the full, who are content with what they had and willing to go on and, maybe, find something beyond to enjoy to the limit. I'm pretty much a man of extremes, Wu Fei. I have to move, to look, to see; test my limits in everything I do. It is who I am, what I am, and if I only live until tomorrow then I want to know I lived well and lived a lifetime." "You are frightening sometimes. Your intensity is enough to make me step back and wait for the hurricane to pass as you move by. I am not as you are. I am more… sedate?" "No two people are the same. It takes an infinite number of personalities to make the world what it is. I don't want you to be me, Wu Fei. I can't fall in love with me. We all have our private places deep inside; places that only someone special can know. I want to be your special someone and see that private place in you." ~ * ~ |
