"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 "

Duo Maxwell was just getting out of the shower after another day "hiding out" in the dusty, hot desert with his new friend and fellow Gundam pilot, Quatre Raberba Winner. The blond Arabian was a welcome change in the lonely life Duo had reluctantly grown accustomed to... and he had been the first of the Gundam pilots to actually accept him.

[Heero was such a jerk. Like it would've killed him to talk to me...] Duo immediately regretted his thought. [But he is dead... committed suicide in Siberia. I still can't believe he actually did it.]

The slender boy padded over to his bed and sat down as he towel dried his long, chestnut hair. "Now what?" he said aloud, his loneliness all too quickly coming back to him. [I like Quatre, but I don't think I can take another evening of him moaning about his boyfriend.]

Duo looked around the comfortable quarters he'd been so generously given by his new friend. Obviously Quatre had a lot of money, and another thing Quatre had that Duo didn't... the thing that really mattered to Duo... was family. Quatre had sisters, lots of sisters, and an army of Maguanacs who served him faithfully and truly adored him.

"He's happy," Duo sighed.

His large, cobalt blue eyes gazed over to the computer on the desk. [I've heard of people connecting that way. Wouldn't that be funny if I found someone on the GlobalNet?!] he thought and chuckled aloud.

Suddenly the idea didn't sound so bad. Even if he just surfed the Net a while, and possibly found a decent chat room to connect with someone for a couple of hours... maybe that'd be enough to sate his loneliness... if only temporarily.

He jumped off the bed, pulled on a pair of shorts and a t-shirt, and then walked over to the desk. Turning on the power, he settled into the chair and waited the few seconds for the system to boot. In just a few short minutes he was looking for a home for the evening... a chat room where he'd find some companionship?... a place to flirt?... a real connection?

"Hey, what's this?" he wondered as his eyes caught sight of a chat room called "M4M w/ LH." [I do like guys with long hair...] "What the heck," he said aloud, joining the chat even as he was laughing at his alias... BraidBoy.

Chapter 3

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