Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from Gundam Wing ::sniff sniff:: all GW stuff belongs to their respective owners... WWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!! but I want to own GW!!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
Duo: It's all right Liss, we still like you anyway!
Shinigami Liss: You do? ::happy:: YYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As Duo stretched his arms and black leathery wings, he moaned with pleasure. It felt *so* _good_ to simply stretch his wings. He had to keep them folded up under his clothing, lest one of the other pilots find out exactly what he was. Sure, he had told them that he was Shinigami, but they thought that he was joking. Well they were wrong, Duo Maxwell never lied.
Once Duo finished stretching, he looked down at the sleeping form next to him. Heero Yuy, the only human that knew who and what Duo Maxwell really was. Heero was the only person who loved Duo for _all_ that he was, and Duo loved him even more for it.
When consciousness returned to Heero, his cobalt eyes met violet ones that smiled and twinkled all on their own. Heero smiled at his lover and sat up. He saw that Duo was flicking his wings and reached out a hand to caress the lovely black limbs.
A shiver of pleasure shook Duo when Heero stroked his wings. He loved having them petted, and somehow Heero knew this. Duo took the other boy in his arms and brought the other�s lips up to meet his.
BEEP!! BEEP!!
It was Heero�s laptop. Heero broke the embrace and got up. Wearing only boxers, he walked over to the object that had made the noise. Duo frowned at the machine that stopped their actions, but he too went to see why it beeped.
"Ya know, one of these days I�ll wind up throwing that thing out of the window for what it does." Duo said.
"Hn." Was all he got for a reply. //Shesh// thought Duo, //Anything that deals with a mission� and back comes the �Perfect Soldier� mask. Grrrrr�. If it weren�t a part of Heero, I�d probably hate it�..//
Heero opened the new message and read it. "It�s a new mission." He stated, pointing out the obvious.
"Go figure�." Duo said over his shoulder as he read the new assignment. "Hmmm�. Destroy the new base at the old JFK port. That�s not that hard, I wonder why they�re sending all five of us�.."
"Doesn�t matter. Get dressed, I�ll tell the others." Heero said while putting on his green tank-top and spandex shorts, and headed out the door.
Duo sighed as he watched Heero leave the room. Duo hated watching Heero go off on a mission. He never had to worry about losing Duo, it isn�t possible for a human to kill Death. But Duo worried about Heero every time that the other boy got a new assignment. Duo wasn�t quite afraid of losing his lover, but he had heard from quite a few souls that dying could be ***very*** painful, and he didn�t want Heero to be hurt anymore than absolutely necessary. Duo shrugged his shoulders and started to get dressed.
A few minutes later, Duo walked into the kitchen to find a familiar scene. At the table, Quatre and Trowa were snuggling, Wufei was off to the side exercising, and Heero was typing away on his downstairs laptop.
"Morning Duo!" Quatre said when he noticed the new arrival. "Heero told you about the new mission, right?"
"Yeah." Duo replied while looking for box of cereal. When he came up empty handed, he pouted. "Nooooooooo!!!!!!!!! I want some cereaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!"
"Duo, shut up." Heero told the boy.
"Heero, don�t you think that you should be nicer to him?" Quatre asked when he saw Duo�s violet orbs begin to water.
"Hn." Was Heero�s reply as he folded up his laptop. "We need to get moving so we can get to the target on time." At this, Heero stood up and walked toward the Gundam and airplane hanger.
"I don�t understand him." Duo brooded to himself, "One minute he�s kind and gentile, and the next he�s silent and stingy."
"Don�t worry," Quatre said to Duo as he put a comforting hand on Duo�s shoulder. "Heero loves you, he just can�t let himself show it when others are around." At this, Duo smiles evilly to himself.
"Yeah� I know."
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Heero sighed as he fell into the seat next to Duo in the lounge of the plane. He just put the Gundam carrier on auto-pilot, and it would stay there for the next eight hours. Flying across the Atlantic Ocean to North America was too long to be piloting, even for him. Duo sensed his unease and started to massage his shoulders, getting a moan of pleasure to come from Heero.
"You�re so tense." Duo commented, "Had that bad of a morning already?"
"There�s just something about this mission that bothers me�" Heero started, "like you said, they normally wouldn�t send all of us just to destroy one base. Each of us could that on our own. �"
"Hn." Duo said, finding a tension spot that caused a chain of moans to rumble from the other boy�s throat. Heero smiled as he got an idea. The other pilots were in their own planes � meaning Duo and Heero wouldn�t be disturbed.
"I think I have an idea that might help�" Heero said as he turned around to face his lover.
"Hmmm?" Duo questioned. Then he understood what Heero meant, and smiled.
Heero quickly pounced on Duo, throwing them both against the cushion of the seat. As Heero�s mouth claimed Duo�s, his hands searched for the end of Duo�s braid. The elastic snapped off, and the braid started to slowly unravel. Getting impatient, and feeling Duo�s hands tugging at his tank-top, Heero ran his fingers through the braid, releasing the mane. Their mouths separated quickly as Heero�s shirt was removed and then their lips found each other again. While tasting the other, Heero started to take Duo�s shirt off. They parted again, taking in the joy of just staring into each other�s eyes. Then Heero heard Duo�s slight chuckle and found himself being thrown onto the floor with Duo on top of him. Duo was absolutely beautiful, Heero decided as Duo clamped his mouth on to Heero�s and Duo�s hands moved to his lower body.
Later, when Heero woke up, he stroked Duo�s brown hair and stared at the heart-shaped face that rested on his bare chest. Duo Maxwell, his beloved. Heero didn�t care that his koi was Shinigami, he felt whole when he was with Duo. Actually, Duo�s identity helped. Heero never had to worry about losing Duo because Death can�t die. That was one of the reasons that he was happy when he found out the truth about Duo, it made it so much easier for the soldier part of him to handle a romantic relationship.
All of a sudden, an alarm went off in the cockpit. Duo stirred, his wings flapping which caused his hair to start to tangle.
"Duo�" Heero called to the boy while shaking him slightly.
"Hmmm?" Duo incoherently asked.
"We have to get up, we�re going to land soon." At that, Duo sat up and stretched. He pulled his hair together and brought it to his front so he could braid it, and then looked for the discarded elastic. They got dressed and headed towards the cockpit.
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"So, the base is right in front of us?" Duo asked.
"Yes. It should come into sight just about � now." The image of Quatre on the Deathscythe�s monitor said as the foliage finally ended to reveal their target. It was dusk, which was meant so they would have an advantage.
The Gundams walked out into the open and the pilots went into their own fighting styles and started to wreck the place. The mission was going a little too well, only 500 other Mobile Suits came to meet them.
They were almost done with the base that was above ground, when thousands of land mobile dolls appeared out of seemingly no where. And the land dolls were joined by hundreds of Aries mobile dolls. The Gundams were clearly outnumbered and outgunned.
"Shhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttt!!!!" Duo yelled for lack of any better words. Upon seeing the flight bound dolls, Wing flew into the air to battle them while the other Gundams fought the land mobile dolls. Soon, swinging scythes, curved sabres, laser swords, and a outreaching dragon claw were all that could be seen. The five mechas had destroyed most of the mobile dolls, but by that time, Hevayarms was out of ammunition, Shenlong�s Dragon claw was destroyed, and Wing was no longer capable of flight. Only the Gundams Deathscythe and Sandrock weren�t horribly damaged.
"We -static- have to -static- get out of here before -static- there�s nothing left of us!" Quatre told the others who agreed reluctantly. As they were preparing to leave, Duo noticed something wrong about the formation of Aries dolls around Wing. It clicked a little too late.
"HEERO!! LOOK OUT! THEY�RE RIGHT BEHIND YOU!!!" Duo screamed to the Japanese pilot. Duo was *very* late. As soon as the words left his mouth and before the Wing pilot could register them, The Aries destroyed Wing�s limbs and hooked a tow-cable around the torso of the mecha, rendering it defenseless.
"DUUUOOOOOOO- !!!!!!" Heero yelled before his connection was cut off by a blast to Wing by one of the manned Mobile Suits.
"NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! HEERO!!!!!!!" Screamed Duo. Some instinct, or perhaps clairvoyance, told the American Pilot that the Japanese pilot was still alive, but the same gut feeling told him that Heero was lost to him and couldn�t be retrieved.
Author�s Notes: What do you think? It�s my first Fic, so I wouldn�t be too surprised if you didn�t like it� but I hope you did!! The next part should get put up in a week or so. This fic is in response to all the fics I�ve read where Duo has to tell Heero that he�s really Shinigami. In this one, Heero already knows. So anyways� **PLEASE** tell me what you think. E-mail me!!
