"Found"

Written By: Artemis

Disclaimer: Gundam Wing and its characters are copyright to Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu Agency, and associated parties. I make no money with this fic.

Rating: NC 17

Warnings: Alternate reality, angst, romance, hurt/comfort

Pairings: 6x2, 3x4

Summary: A conversation in an online chatroom leads to much more for two enemy pilots.
Co-authored with Czarina Merquise.

NOTE: This story begins firmly between Episodes 14 and 15 in the series. And pretty much changes everything else to follow! As we had to adapt the actual timing of events in the series a little in places, you can consider this an alternate GW reality (NOT AU as it's firmly based on the series)


Notes on canonical placement of scenario: Colonel Zechs Merquise of OZ is at the Lake Victoria Base in central Africa while his engineering staff rebuilds the recovered Gundam O1. The Gundam 01 was picked up from the plains of Siberia after Gundam Pilot Heero Yuy self-detonated (and apparently died) the Gundam in response to Lady Une's threat to destroy a colony if the Gundams weren't handed over to OZ.

Gundam Pilot Duo Maxwell, stalled on Earth at the moment since the orders from the colonies dried up after the Siberia incident, is staying at one of the houses owned by the Winner family with his fellow Gundam Pilot, Quatre Raberba Winner, somewhere in the Middle East.


"Found "

17)

Zechs had opened his arms immediately as soon as Duo had tensed against them, wanting to sit up. The tears both touched and dismayed the older man; the subsequent confession of love just out and out stunned him to the core of his being. Then Duo's final words sank in. "Go?" Zechs gasped. "Oh, sweet Duo, I can't even *imagine* wanting you to go! A... and that you love me is a greater gift than I can ever imagine receiving." He pressed a fervent kiss to his lover's cheek. "T...thank you, Dancer... I..."

He sat back, staring at the vision before him. He'd been so bent, so focused on Duo's responses and emotions that he hadn't given much thought to his own feelings... but now... Zechs paused to read his own heart. [You big idiot - you've gone and fallen just as hard for him! You're in love, Zechs old man... in love but ahead of you are battles galore and hell to pay... and none of that can change what's just happened. Heh, you wanted a connection with someone. Man, you got just what you wanted... and more... He's worthy of your love a hundred times over. Now... tell him!]

"My Duo," Zechs murmured huskily, "it looks like we're both crazy. Because I seem to have fallen in love rather hard myself. And now, having found you... I'll never let you go." [And to hell with the consequences... somehow I'll just have to make him understand how I must fight against OZ and Romefeller. Somehow...]

"Huh?" Duo asked, tilting his head as if looking at Zechs from a different angle would help him understand what the man was saying. The proclamation had taken the younger man by surprise. "No, shit!" he exclaimed finally, grinning from ear to ear. [He's in love with me!] "Zechs... Wolf," Duo growled playfully. "I'm never letting you go, either!" And without warning he dove on Zechs, knocking the larger man back onto the bed and planting a fierce kiss on his lips.

Suddenly Zechs was pinned by an armful of his gamin little demon, all the wind knocked out of him and no hope for more with Duo's mouth attacking his. And glory of glories, a shower of chestnut silk fluttered everywhere, making him wonder for a precious second if he'd entered some magic dreamland, only this treasure in his arms was real, very real. [No *shit* is right!] he thought happily of his lover's saucy reaction, and abruptly had to break the kiss because he was laughing.

Zechs's chuckles nearly shook Duo off, but the smaller man held tight... he liked being on top... and he joined in the laughter. They were both so happy... and in love. Duo enjoyed this shared happiness and slowly quietened his own laughter to listen to his lover's. He rubbed his cheek on the broad, quaking chest beneath him. "I love you so much," he whispered, not expecting Zechs to hear him over the continued laughter.

[Is there a God for wayward aristocratic pilots after all?] Zechs was thinking as he and Duo subsided from their mirth. [My life has been nothing but chaos, and then this happens to me!] He thought he heard something from Duo, who was draped over his chest, but only caught the words, "...so much." "Duo," he murmured, threading his hand up into the cascade of chestnut hair, "you know, I never believed in love at first sight - I thought that was something for airy dreamers who didn't have a good grip on reality. Until... now. This is real, it's happened."

The younger man raised himself up a little to look at his love. "Yeah, I know what you mean. This feels right," he said with a little grin and then rubbed the tip of his nose against the other man's. He stayed like that, with his face close to Zechs, breathing in his scent. "I told you about my dream man," he began again, his large blue eyes blinking. "He was all I had... a fantasy to keep me warm and safe. Pretty silly, huh?" His hand came up and combed through the long fall of white hair around Zechs's face. "Then I met you... and I realized my dream man was a real person. He's you!"

"Not silly," Zechs breathed, smiling. The lively young man's touch to his face was so loving and reassuring, his nearness intoxicating. "And I'm honored, truly, Dancer."

"Thanks," Duo grinned. "I'm still blown away by that... finding you... my dream man," he said and leaned in to give Zechs a little kiss. When he pulled back his chest was sticking a little to his lover's. "What the..?" he muttered, looking between them, and then gave a snort as he realized it was his drying cum. "Looks like we're stuck on each other in more ways than one!" he laughed.

Giving him a sly look, Zechs slid both hands down Duo's back to cup the round globes of his ass, squeezing gently. "I wouldn't mind terribly being stuck *in* you, frankly," he murmured, then winked as he joined in the chuckle.

"Is that right?" Duo asked, giving a very nice wiggle of his ass. "Maybe if you're good..." He slithered out of Zechs's grasp and jumped off the bed. "I'll let you seduce me again." He winked and turned quickly, sending his long chestnut hair swooshing behind him as he headed to the bathroom with a decided bounce to his step. Halfway across the room he stopped, turned back to his still reclining lover and said teasingly, "Or maybe my Wolfie will let me seduce him this time?" And then he darted into the bathroom before Zechs could throw a pillow at him... or worse.

[He's already seduced me,] Zechs thought wryly, slowly sitting up on the bed. [And that damn little wretch called me that name again! Ohhh, but I'm lost, I'm lost... that hair, that sweet little ass, that saucy grin and those damn puppy-eyes... what have I done? But I do love him...]

He bent over, his head in his hands, listening to the sound of splashing water and some strange vocalizations he couldn't make out. The boy with the dancer's body was either singing or simply talking to himself, he wasn't sure. [I should go in there and spank him for calling me that... nah, I don't think we're ready for that sort of thing... yet.]

Zechs thought briefly about his friend, Treize. [He'd be happy for me... until he learns that I've made my decision. Oh, Treize, I didn't want it to have to go this way, but as long as you're Romefeller's heir apparent or whatever Dermail's grooming you for, I must oppose you. I know your lady love is deceiving the colonies at this moment... I know that's what you've been told to order her to do. We both know it's wrong...]

Duo was deliriously happy in love. "Wolfie," he snickered as he turned on the bathroom faucet. [I know he doesn't like me calling him that, but it's just too tempting.] He chuckled as he thought of his tall, handsome and slightly too serious lover. Wiping his chest with a wet washcloth, Duo moaned, enjoying the feel of the warm, moist cloth. His skin was hypersensitive now from his lover's expert attention... the thought pulling another moan from him. A glimpse of himself in the mirror told the young man of the transformation he had undergone... sated eyes, disheveled hair, relaxed posture. "You definitely look well-fucked, Maxwell," he grinned. But it was more than that. He knew that meeting Zechs and falling in love had changed everything... which brought his mind back to the very real reason he was on the Earth in the first place.

"Damn," he said, letting the washcloth flop into the sink. "What am I going to tell him? Oh, and by the way, I'm a G..." he stopped himself from saying it aloud. [But I have to tell him... I love him.] Shaking his head, the young pilot picked up another washcloth, wet it and strode back into the bedroom. Zechs was sitting meditatively on the bed. He looked entirely too serious for Duo's taste. Taking a length of his chestnut hair, the young man ran it over Zechs's hands and face and asked cheerily, "How about I clean you like last time?"

The sudden shower of brown silk over his face and his lover's bright voice woke Zechs from his reverie. Gathering the flowing hair into his hands, he straightened and pressed it to his face, taking a moment to savor the clean scent and silkiness of it. Then he sighed, "I'd like that." Releasing the hair, Zechs lay back down on the bed again at length, ready to let his Dancer clean him off like he had before. "After all, practice makes perfect."

"Mmmm, and I want to be perfect for you," Duo grinned. Getting up on the bed, he straddled Zechs's thighs and knelt over him. He began to wipe the well-formed chest in circular motions with the warm, wet cloth. "Feels good, huh, lover?" he asked, putting all his growing devotion for this man in each stroke of the cloth.

"You are perfect and that feels wonderful," Zechs murmured, his eyes falling closed.

The fact that Zechs seemed subdued now bothered Duo. [He's probably wondering how I fit into his soldier's life... What would I be? A camp follower?] A little chuckle escaped the younger man and Zechs opened his eyes to look up into his little lover's face. "Just thinking..." Duo smirked and leaned down to kiss him.

Zechs received the kiss warmly, his hands coming up to filter into the lush hair again. When their lips parted, he breathed, "Yes, as was I."

Duo slowly moved away from Zechs's face, sliding down the taut body until his mouth hovered over one rose colored nipple. "Thinking about us?" he asked, giving the bud a long lick.

A groan was released from somewhere deep in Zechs's chest. "Keep that up and I won't be able to think," he muttered, but his fingers caressed his young lover's head and face. "How can I not think about us, little one? You shatter me."

Gasping, the younger man looked up at his lover. "Man... this has hit me hard, too. I feel completely transformed," he admitted and slid back up to take Zechs's mouth in a hungry, loving kiss.

Now, clean or not, Zechs wrapped his arms around his lover and kissed him deeply and thoroughly. [Transformed... this is transforming my entire life, that's for sure! And I'm going to let it!]

Abruptly Zechs rolled over, reversing their positions, a knee wedging Duo's legs apart as he thrust his groin up against his lover's, still kissing him to within an inch of his life.

[Mmm, Zechs, you get hard so fast!] Duo thought as he moaned at the thrust. As much as he liked being on top, the smaller man liked being underneath his lover that much more... feeling his weight and height cover him. The kiss was deep and long, and Duo was beginning to need air, but even if it meant death he wasn't going to pull away from that hot mouth. [Shit, I hope he's planning to fuck me again.] He thrust back, making delicious contact with Zechs's hard cock. "Ohh..." he moaned through the kiss.

Zechs pulled off of Duo's mouth, breathing hard as he reached down to pull one of Duo's legs up against his hip. "That, my darling Dancer, was for *not* calling me that nasty little name a second time a little bit ago," he explained with heat in his eyes and fire in his groin. "I think you were thinking about that... so there. Regardless, would you be so kind as to allow me to have you yet again?" He continued to thrust against Duo slowly, suggesting another sort of thrusting.

With his mouth released, Duo took in a lung full of air. He listened as Zechs advised him, gently, but firmly not to call him "Wolfie" again. The younger man bit back a smile. [He loves me... otherwise he would've beaten me senseless by now.] He pondered the odds of using that name again and getting away with it, but Zechs's hungry thrusts were drawing his attention away from such foolishness. [I love him like this... he really is my Wolf.] And then he heard that wonderful, carefully worded question. "So polite," he grinned in response, touching the handsome face. "Of course, you can fuck me."

"Then fuck you I shall, my sweet," Zechs whispered hotly as reached for the discarded tube of lubricant on the other side of the bed. He settled back onto his knees and applied lube to his reawakened erection. After checking to be sure Duo was still stretched enough for him, he slid home slowly, watching his beautiful little lover's face avidly.

The younger man was thrilled at how easily he could take his lover into him. Now that he was no longer a virgin, he felt a freedom in his sexuality, a freedom to share himself with this man... and this man only. He wrapped his legs around Zechs's thighs and pushed back into each thrust. "Yessss..." he moaned, feeling the length of hardness going deeper inside him. "Faster, Wolf... I want you hard and fast."

Beginning at a medium pace at first, Zechs pulled Duo's legs up to fit around his waist, and then leaned over him on his hands, his white-blond hair spilling forward. As he fucked, he captured his lover's mouth, diving in deep. Hunger surged through them both as they kissed, and the pace began to pick up.

The dark haired pilot kissed back with the ferocity of battle, groaning into his lover's hot, needy mouth. He wanted his Wolf to go deeper into his body and his soul... needing, loving this man intensely. Zechs was expertly increasing the speed of his thrusts and his little lover's need to be possessed by him. With eyes closed in delirious pleasure, Duo's hands reached up into Zechs's silken white hair, grabbing fistfuls as he continued grinding himself onto that wonderful cock.

As Duo was so eager and willing, Zechs allowed himself to let loose with him. The pull on his hair sparked an animalian response; growling, he pulled out of the kiss and slid his hands under Duo's shoulderblades as he lay his full weight on him, leaning only on his forearms to increase his speed. In moments, utterly abandoned to lust, Zechs was pumping into his lover swiftly. Even so, he automatically held back the full force of his thrusts, unable to bear the possibility of hurting Duo.

"God, yes!" Duo shouted, as Zechs pounded into him. This was exactly what he needed and exactly what he wanted to give his lover. It was a gift to his Zechs, the man who had made his first time so special and so beautiful. "Yesss.... take me... all of me," he exclaimed, his hands stroking through his love's long hair and over his back.

Now Zechs was moaning as his climax approached. "Yes... yessss... take you... all of you! You're mine... Dancer.... MINE!" His words were interspersed with grunts as he switched to several deep, hard thrusts, all of which were right on the mark, judging by Duo's ecstatic expression.

For all his inexperience, Duo knew that Zechs was close... so very close. He could feel it in his lover's urgent thrusts and hear it in his hungry, fractured speech. Duo held onto Zechs's biceps as the man rode him. "YES!" he cried out, his lover's cock pistoning in and out as the bed creaked beneath them. "I'm yours, Wolf!"

Finally, caught in a maelstrom, Zechs sped up in a last frenzied flurry of fucking before gasping sharply as an unusually and violently hard orgasm shook his body. He growled fiercely and dove down as his orgasm took him... his mouth latching onto Duo's throat, biting, sucking possessively.

"Ahhnn...Oh!" Duo called out in surprise and erotic delight. "Yes, Zechs! Mark me... YOURS!" The feeling of his lover, hard and demanding at his throat, sent Duo over the edge... "Yessss... Yours!" he exclaimed as the force of the most powerful orgasm of his young life swept through his body.

Immediately, as Duo spasmed beneath him, Zechs rolled to his side, shuddering, and this time it was he who made a tiny whimpering sound to lose the intimate contact with his lover. But he pulled Duo close, his own limbs trembling, tightly embracing him as if never to let him leave his arms. "D...Duo..." he groaned as the last quakes finished shattering them both. [I've never... I've never come like that before... never...] "Love you... Duo..."

"Oh, man," Duo panted, sated from intense sex and happy from his lover's words. "Love... you," he said, still shaking from the last of his orgasm. He snuggled into Zechs's arms like a baby, weak and needy. "Love you... so much," he repeated as another small pleasure wave coursed through him. And then he noticed Zechs's arms trembling as they surrounded him tightly. [So, intense... for him, too.] "Okay... love?"

Zechs couldn't speak again, not yet. Resting his head atop Duo's, his eyes closed tightly, all he could do was hold onto the lifeline in his arms. His composure was shattered to pieces and scattered to the four corners of the bed, not likely to return very quickly. [I... I need him,] he realized with a shock. [It's not enough that I love him, but I need him in my life. Him...]

The arms around Duo were almost uncomfortably tight as if Zechs didn't want to let him go... ever. [Could it be true?] Duo was suddenly hyperaware of the man he was nestled against. "Pretty intense, huh? You and me, I mean. Not what either of us expected... I'm guessing. But I'm happy... really happy with what's happened." He knew he was rambling, but he did that sometimes when he was nervous, and Zechs's silence definitely made him nervous. "You don't have to talk... if you don't want to, but I'd like to know you're okay." [Are you thinking you could love me forever, Zechs? Could you possibly want me in your life?]

The arms untensed a little. "Yes, I'm all right," Zechs murmured, kissing his hair. During the boy's speech, he felt himself slowly returning to the here and now from the state of sexual bliss to which he'd momentarily disappeared. "It was very... intense." He paused and Duo heard a long, languid sigh above him. Then Zechs was shifting onto his back, tucking his lover in along his side so that Duo's head rested on his chest. [I'm just destroyed, nothing major,] he thought, then whispered, "Everything is very, very good..."

"Yes, good... I could stay like this all night," Duo agreed, snuggling against Zechs's broad chest. [Actually, I could stay like this... with you... forever.] His orgasm had finally abated, but Duo still felt deliciously sated from the experience and from being close to his love. He brushed his hand lazily back and forth over Zechs's strong torso, following its contours as his lover's hand caressed his hair.

The silence between them had drawn out again... becoming almost painful to Duo who spent so much of his life talking. He could still feel Zechs's subdued mood and with a deep breath he resigned himself to asking about it. Lifting his head, Duo looked into Zechs's ice blue eyes... eyes deep in thought, and eyes more soothing to him than a cool summer's breeze. "I'll make you a deal," he said, gently poking his finger into the man's side and smiling mischievously, "you tell me what you're thinking and then I'll do something for you."

"Sounds nice," Zechs murmured, capturing the errant fingers. He brought them up to his lips to kiss, then kept them as his hand sank back to his stomach again. "I was thinking about how very good you are for me, my Duo. In fact, I have four wonderful reasons why you are so good for me." As yet, his gaze was somewhat unfocused, still blissed-out.

"Only four?" Duo chuckled and then leaned up to kiss Zechs on the cheek. "Don't worry... I still love you," he said with a bright smile.

Zechs smiled back. "Four really huge things, though," he explained, one hand playing in Duo's long tresses. "One - that was, I believe, the most violent orgasm I've ever had! So intense... significant that it occurred right after being told someone was in love with me." He sighed again, his eyes falling closed, the silken threads between his fingers like velvet. "Two... I don't think I've laughed this much since I was a child... and it feels really good to have someone to laugh with. I've been... missing that. Three... smiling... I don't know when I've smiled so much last either. Four..." Zechs sighed again, and it sounded suspiciously like a purr. "It's been very long since I've felt this relaxed."

He made a another deeply pleased sound, then added softly, "Thank you, love. I think..." He trailed off as if falling asleep.

Duo hung onto to every word, absorbed every syllable Zechs uttered in his seductive, low voice. His heart thumped inside his chest as he listened with silent lips and wide eyes. No one had ever told Duo these things, actually told him that he made a difference in their life, at least not since his best friend Solo, and that was so many years ago. And now this accomplished and elegant man was telling him that he, Duo Maxwell, had provided all these wonderful things for him. Reading between the lines, Duo heard Zechs also saying that his life was stressful and unhappy which made Duo more determined in his love. [I wish he'd really let me help him... let me in.]

"Wow," Duo finally gasped as Zechs's list ended. "I'm blown away... Thank you for telling me that." He scooted up and kissed Zechs on the tip of his nose. "And you're very welcome. I've loved every minute with you and that was an absolutely fabulous orgasm," he grinned and kissed the man he loved with all his heart on the lips. "But I've interrupted you," he began again. "You were going to tell me something else?" He asked with hopeful eyes.

Zechs chuckled at his little lover's persistence, his blue topaz eyes opening again to regard him fondly. "Just that I think..." He tightened his fingers around Duo's. "I think I must need you." [Yes - to save my heart and probably also my soul,] he added to himself.

"Zechs... I... I don't know what to say," Duo muttered with watering eyes. "No one's ever needed me before." [Not even that bastard Professor G. If he didn't have me to pilot Deathscythe, he would've found some other poor sap.] "You've given me so much already...," the boy continued, a tear rolling down his cheek. "You've filled my heart... And now... to say this." He swiped at the tear with his free hand. "You may not realize this with all my rambling, but I'm... I'm speechless," he said with a shaky, tearful laugh.

The tears stabbed Zechs deep, and as he restored his threatened composure, he kissed the tears from Duo's face. Then he abruptly scooped the boy up into his arms, shakily getting off the bed and standing. "I'm honored," he said with a wink. "But right now it would be nice to get clean, both of us. May I braid your hair before giving you a bath, my Duo?"

"You're too much!" Duo squealed with delight as he was smoothly swept up into his lover's strong arms. "Yes and yes!" he grinned, wrapping his arms around Zechs's neck and kissing him.


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