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"Going the Distance"Written By: Clara Barton Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing. The following
is an intellectual exercise with no intention of profit. That said,
these characterizations, words, and situations are mine. Please ask
before reprinting. Rating: NC 17 Warnings: Angst, language, violence, sex, AU Pairings: 1x2x3 Summary: Duo Maxwell has just signed on to join Team Gundam Wing, an upstart League of Legends team looking to win the World Championships. Duo Maxwell, the first openly gay professional gamer. Duo Maxwell, the guy hated by almost all of Reddit. Duo Maxwell, the guy whose own brother hates him. Duo Maxwell, the guy who really just wants to find a team that doesn't hate him. A/N: This fic is an AU that has the boys playing
professional League of Legends. I'm going to try my best to not get
bogged down too much in game terminology or things like that, but,
well, I WILL reference the game and try to explain as much as I can,
as I go. I'm also way too lazy to make up "new" teams for
the league, so I will be using existing teams and players, with the
exceptions of Team Gundam Wing, Zodiac Gaming, and the Valkyries.
So… I will be referencing real people and real teams. "Going the Distance" Chapter Five "I knew we should have banned Lee Sin instead of Fizz." Duo had to smile as he shook hands with Complexity. "Well, if you hadn't banned Fizz I would have just used him to beat you," Duo had to say. Prolly, the mid laner for Complexity and one of the ten coolest human beings Duo had ever met, arched an eyebrow. "Next time," Prolly offered. Duo nodded. "Next time." TGW finished shaking hands with Complexity and started to cross back towards their side of the stage, but Quatre jumped onto Duo's back and shouted into his ear. "We won!" Duo laughed even as he staggered under Quatre's weight. "We did," he agreed. Quatre slid down and grinned at him. "You were amazing," Quatre told him. Duo shrugged. "We were all amazing," he demured. "No," Wufei stepped up to his side and shook his hand. "You carried us." Duo felt like he had entered the twilight zone, as he shook Wufei's hand. But then he realized - the cameras. This had to be for the benefit of everyone else. "Okay," Relena came up to them, "we've got half an hour between games. Let's go back to the holding room and regroup." Quatre nodded and gestured for everyone to follow him. Heero caught Duo's eye and nodded, a slight smile on his lips that actually made Duo's heart skip a beat. "Congratulations on your first professional win," Trowa said, his lips close enough to Duo's ear that they touched for a moment. Duo stared at him. "Thanks," he managed to say when Trowa stepped away and smirked. It was the adrenaline, Duo was sure, but holy fuck Heero and Trowa were hot and it felt like they were just torturing Duo for fun - as if they knew how much he was attracted to them and couldn't resist teasing him with their damn smiles and their smirks and their laughs and their sexy as fuck voices. Duo managed to pull himself together and follow his teammates back into the holding room. He half expected to run into ZG again, but they were long gone - they only played one game tonight and would play two games tomorrow, their first against Team Solo Mid and their second against TGW. "Okay," Quatre said once they were all assembled and the door was closed behind them. "That game was fucking awesome." Duo had to laugh. Quatre didn't swear often - and the others looked just as surprised and amused as Duo was to hear the word come out of the blonde's mouth. "We just need to do that twenty-six more times over the next eight weeks," Quatre continued. Duo choked on the Coke he had been sipping. "Come again?" He asked. "I think a 27-1 record is a little optimistic," Trowa said, the sarcasm in his voice thick enough to taste. Wufei snorted. "I'm not talking about the victory," Quatre said. "I'm talking about the way we played." "Oh." Quatre arched an eyebrow at him. "Don't tell me that game didn't feel right? Like we were finally listening to each other and working as a team?" "No, it was definitely better," Duo agreed. "We still have a lot of improvements to make," Heero added. Wufei nodded and his eyes flicked over to Duo. "But it was better," Wufei agreed. "A starting point for us to progress from." Relena, sitting on the couch Trowa had previously occupied, appeared to be engrossed in Twitter on her iPad. "What are they saying about us?" Duo had to ask. She looked up at him, and then at the others. "Um..." That didn't sound so great. "What?" Quatre asked with a sigh. She shrugged, but then her lips twitched and it was clear she was trying not to smile. "Not much. Just about one hundred people tweeting about Duo's awesome first blood kill and Trowa's ability to save everyone from death with his sick Thresh plays." Quatre glared at her. "Did you really have to try to make it sound bad?" She shrugged again. "No. But it was more fun that way." "We should talk about our strategy for the next game," Heero spoke up. Quatre shook his head at Relena, but then turned back to the guys. "Yeah," he agreed. "The Valkyries play this game really differently than we do." Duo had to nod in agreement. Even though VK was fairly disorganized at this point - and he couldn't imagine their game against ZG earlier had done anything to improve their morale or their communication - they liked to use off the wall team compositions that were hard to defend against. "There's a chance their game against ZG will leave them even weaker," Trowa mused. "But it might have also inspired them to pull themselves together." Heero nodded in agreement. "True," Quatre said. "I think Lucy Noin and Cathy Bloom are going to be our biggest challenges." Duo had to agree. Lucy, their marksman, and Cathy, their support, were amazing players. They had flawless communication between them, even if the rest of the team didn't, and when they decided it was time to start roaming the map and getting kills, they generally succeeded. The problem so far, however, had been that most of their opposition had decided to camp their bottom lane and make sure they stayed as far behind as possible. "We can shut them down if I camp bottom," Duo offered. "Who do we focus the bans on?" Wufei asked. Quatre looked thoughtful, but Heero looked over at Duo and raised an eyebrow. "What?" Duo asked and wiped at his face - did he have something on himself? "You're friends with their Jungler," Heero said. "Yeah," Duo agreed uneasily. "How deep is her champion pool?" The question wasn't exactly unexpected. Each team played every other team four times over the spring season. Duo had known he would have to face off against his best friend at least four times - more if they made it into the playoffs, and then even more when the summer season started. Duo had known it was likely he would be asked to critique Hilde's skills and work on strategies to defeat her team. But it didn't mean he wanted to develop a strategy against her. It didn't mean he wanted to share her weaknesses with his team and use them against her. "Not that deep," he finally admitted when he realized everyone was staring at him. "Can we ban her out?" Trowa asked. Duo drew in a deep breath. Fuck this was hard. "Yeah," he admitted. "We can." Quatre nodded and he stroked his chin thoughtfully. "Should we?" The blonde asked. Wufei snorted. "What do you mean should we? Should we press an advantage? Are you asking because Duo is friends with her or because they're girls? We shouldn't treat them differently than any other team we face." "I agree," Quatre said. "That's why I'm asking. Should we ban out Hilde or should we focus bans on some other position? Should we try to ban out their top laner? Or their mid laner? Or just ban out champs we don't want to deal with? I'm asking if targeting Hilde is our best strategy, or if Duo can shut her down without the bans." Duo shrugged one shoulder. "Maybe. She knows the way I play, so she'll try to anticipate my moves. She'll know I'm going to camp bottom and try to force plays up top or mid." Quatre nodded. "Then let's ban out their mid laner. Dorothy's really only untouchable on Syndra, Kassadin and Orianna. If we can ban those three and pick up Lulu as our first pick for me then I think we'll have her under control. Wufei, is that okay with you? If we let Sylvia get her top choice for top lane?" Wufei rolled his eyes. "Her first pick doesn't scare me at all. She can't touch me." Duo felt his lips twitch and he wanted to say something, to make some snarky comment about Sylvia probably not wanting to touch him, but he restrained himself. Someone knocked on the door, signalling that it was time to head back out to the stage. "Okay," Quatre grinned at them again. "Let's go back out there and be awesome again." -o- "If you try to touch my ass, I'll rip your arm off," Hilde said to him as Duo approached her after the game to shake her hand. "Ew," Duo made a disgusted face. "Why would I want to touch your ass? It's all... feminine and... girly." Hilde rolled her eyes but then she hugged him, in full view of the studio audience and the cameras, and Duo hugged her back. "Good game," she whispered. "You too. I'm going to get you back for killing me in my own Jungle, though." Hilde pulled away and smirked at him. "What are you doing later?" She asked. "We were going to grab some pizza and watch the European Union games over at our house tonight." Duo bit his lip. It had been forever since he had hung out with her. "Your guys are welcome to come too," she added, after looking back at Dorothy, the team captain, for confirmation. Duo arched an eyebrow at Quatre, shaking hands with Dorothy. Quatre shrugged. "Sounds like fun," he said. "I'm in." "Think Wufei will come?" Hilde asked Duo and winked at him. Duo realized that Hilde had no idea what had happened backstage with Wufei and Ralph, and he wondered if he should tell her. "Hey guys," Quatre said to the rest of the team. "The Valkyries have invited us over to hang out." Trowa and Heero looked at each other, silently communicating in that way they always did that made Duo feel weirdly lonely, but then they both shrugged. "Jeez, think they can calm down a little?" Hilde muttered. Duo had to laugh. It was definitely rare to see either Heero or Trowa get that worked up about anything. Even after winning two games in a row, it was hard to see much change in their demeanor. "Only for a few hours," Wufei spoke up. "We have a game tomorrow afternoon against ZG and I will not let a lack of sleep slow down the rest of you when we face those assholes." Duo loved that Wufei managed to turn it into an insult against both ZG and his teammates. "Sounds like a plan," Quatre said, ignoring the insult. "If you're getting pizza we'll get soda and snacks?" "Perfect!" Hilde said and grinned at Wufei. Wufei looked at her like she was insane and Duo barely held himself together. "See you soon," he told her and walked back to get his gear. The audience had already started to file out - their game had been the last of the night - and Duo looked over the departing crowd and smiled. He'd done it. He had won - two games in a row - on this stage. With his team. With the whole world - or at least a few hundred thousand people - watching. He wasn't a failure. "Duo! You're the sexiest gamer nerd alive!" He dropped his mouse onto the group and had to crawl around on his knees to find it. When he stood back up he could see Jason standing at the foot of the stage, holding a sign that said 'Duo Maxwell is my hero.' Duo had to grin. He dropped his backpack onto the floor and crossed the stage. He jumped down to join Jason on the ground. "You came." "Of course I did. I said I would." They stared at each other for a moment, Jason smirking and Duo grinning at him like an idiot. "I really want to kiss you right now," Duo confessed. "But I'm pretty sure people would film it or get photos and put it all over the internet and I don't want them to say shit about you. Or about us." "Okay," Jason shrugged. "Just know that as soon as we get behind closed doors I'm going to kiss you and start ripping your clothes off because watching you jump up from your chair and cheer after you won was adorable - super dorky - and weirdly hot." Duo arched an eyebrow. "I'm not sure how I feel about being called weirdly hot," he murmured. Jason chuckled and then gestured to the stage. "How long until you can leave?" "Oh - we're packing up now actually." And then he remembered."Uh." Jason gave him a look. "Uh?" He echoed. Duo scratched at the back of his neck. He realized abruptly that he had completely forgotten about Jason. He hadn't thought about him once since walking into the studio that afternoon and signing in his name. Shit. He really was a terrible boyfriend. And Jason had come - had made a stupid sign and had shouted out in front of the - admittedly half empty - audience that Duo was the sexiest gamer nerd alive. "Our team is actually going to hang out with the Valkyries for a few hours." "So you do know how to party." Duo smirked. "If by party you mean we're going to grab pizza and watch the European league games from today, then yes. Yes we know how to party." Jason stared. "You just spent all night playing - and now you're going to go watch more games?" Duo nodded. Jason looked torn between irritation and amusement. "You are such a nerd," he finally muttered. "I know. I'm really sorry. Do you want to raincheck on our victory celebration?" "Do you?" Jason asked. "Um, yeah? I mean - please? I was really looking forward to it." Until he had forgotten about it. "No, I meant, do you want to raincheck or..." he sighed and his face made it clear he couldn't believe what he was about to say, "or I could come with you to... watch video games and we could still celebrate after?" Duo didn't care if anyone was still watching, he hugged Jason. "You are the best," he told him. Jason patted his head. "I know. I know." Duo laughed and pulled away. "Let me grab my gear - if you wait right here I'll come back and I can ride over with you." Jason nodded and then he looked past Duo. "Whoa. Hottie number one and hottie number two look like they're thinking of ways to kill me slowly." Duo frowned and turned to see Heero and Trowa glaring at them. "Um... I think maybe that's me they're glaring at? I'm holding them up - and Heero wasn't thrilled about... whatever. I'll be right back." Duo jumped back onto the stage and walked over to his team. "Sorry about that," he said. "Didn't mean to hold you up." Quatre shrugged. "It's fine." Relena nudged his shoulder. "That's your guy? He's cute!" Duo blushed and nodded. "Yeah. That's my guy." Heero and Trowa were still glaring at Jason. "Guys?" Duo tried to get their attention. "I'm going to ride over to the VK house with Jason. If that's cool?" Trowa frowned and Heero actually scowled. "He's going to watch the games?" Trowa sounded almost scandalized. "Yeah. For a bit at least. We might not stay that long." Relena muttered something about sex and dining room tables and Duo stepped on her foot. "Ow!" She shoved him away. "Sorry. I'm clumsy," he said and smiled at her. "Whatever. Run along to your hot fanboy. We'll see you over there." -o- "You live here?" Duo tossed his keys onto the desk beside the front door and set his backpack down beside it. He would get them later. Advancing on Jason, Duo grabbed the hem of his t-shirt and pulled it over his head. "Yeah," Duo answered and starting to kiss and lick Jason's clavicle, running his tongue around the edge of his sexy tattoo. Jason chuckled and grabbed Duo's head, pulling him up and into an open-mouthed kiss. "Maybe there's something to this gamer nerd life," Jason decided. Duo grabbed Jason's hand and started to drag him towards the stairs. "If by something you mean sharing a house with six other people, yeah. Actually - no, it's pretty awesome," he admitted. Jason pushed him down onto the stairs and kissed him again, his tongue battling with Duo's and his hands running over Duo's chest under his shirt. "Which room is yours? Or are we just going to fuck right here?" Jason asked Duo, whispering the words into Duo's right ear just before biting down on his earlobe. Duo moaned. The idea had merit - but the risk of having any of his team come back and find them was too high. "Right behind us," Duo moaned again when Jason sucked on the flesh he had just bitten. Duo wiggled out from under him and dragged him up the rest of the stairs and into his bedroom. He kicked the door closed and reached for Jason's pants. Jason chuckled as Duo jerked his belt off. "Eager?" Duo snorted. "I've been eager ever since you started massaging my dick with your foot halfway through the second game we watched." Jason smirked. "I had to do something to keep myself awake. I'm sorry, Duo. I can watch you play - but watching you and ten of your closest nerd buddies geek out over Froggen or xPeke or whatever is... not my idea of a good time." Duo unzipped Jason's jeans and shoved them down his narrow hips. He knew he wasn't exhibiting a lot of finesse. But it had been a long fucking time and Jason had been teasing him all night and he really, really just wanted to feel his cock. "And what is your idea of a good time?" Duo asked as he pulled Jason's boxers down as well. Jason's cock was already hard, and Duo licked his lips in anticipation at the sight of it. God, it had been too long. Jason made a sound in the back of his throat and pulled Duo against him for another kiss. Duo could feel the stab of his cock against his groin and he rubbed against it, his own cock still trapped in his boxers and track pants but at this point any friction was good. "This," Jason moaned when Duo pulled away and licked a trail down his chest. "This is my idea of a good time." "Mhm," Duo agreed. He knelt down and licked the head of Jason's cock. He could feel his own pulse racing and fuck - Jason tasted oh so damn good. He ran his tongue down the shaft and Jason thrust against him. "Something you want?" Duo asked and looked up at him with a wicked grin. "Anything you want to give me," Jason said and his gray eyes were dark and hooded with lust. "Mhm. Anything I want to give you... well, for starters, I'd like to give you a blow job." "I'm okay with that," Jason said. Duo chuckled and then returned his attention to the cock in front of him. He opened his lips wide and bobbed his head forward, slowing taking Jason into his mouth until he could feel a nudge at the back of his throat. "Oh fuck that feels good," Jason groaned and his fingers tangled in Duo's hair, tugging him forward. Duo took the hint and started to move, slowly working his way up and down Jason's cock. He'd always enjoyed this - always loved the feel and taste of a cock in his mouth and he knew his Reddit enemies would just love knowing how much of a cocksucker Duo really was. But at this moment, he didn't really care. At this moment, he wasn't alone. He wasn't on a stage in front of an audience who hated him or at best didn't care about him. He wasn't in a hallway with his brother squeezing his shoulder hard enough to bruise. Jason came with a gasp and a sudden, deep thrust of his hips into Duo's mouth. "God, thank you," Jason said. He pulled Duo up to his feet and kissed him. Duo barely had the chance to swallow down Jason's semen, but he didn't seem to care. He kissed Duo just as hungrily as before. "My pleasure," Duo assured him. "Anything else I can do for you? You did sit through three games at the VK house tonight and sort of behaved yourself." Jason chuckled and pushed Duo back towards the bed. "I wouldn't mind you giving me a chance to fuck you," Jason said, "but give me a few minutes to recover." Duo nodded. "It's been awhile for me," he warned Jason. "Then we can be productive while we wait and stretch you," Jason suggested. He reached for Duo's TGW track jacket. "This has to go, first," he murmured and slowly unzipped it. Duo helped him pull it off. "Anything else?" Duo asked. "This too," Jason said and plucked at Duo's TGW shirt. Duo pulled it over his head and he shivered at the way Jason's eyes tracked over his naked torso. "Anything else?" He asked again. "These," Jason ran his finger along the waistband of Duo's track pants. Duo pushed them down, taking his boxers with them because as sexy as it was to have Jason ask him to undress one article of clothing at a time, he remembered that he'd worn his lucky boxers today - gray boxer briefs with Pokemon characters on them that Hilde had bought him two years ago - and quickly stepped out of the pants and boxers. He kicked them under the bed, praying Jason hadn't seen anything. But Jason seemed intent on Duo's body. He ran his hands down Duo's sides, over his hips, and down to his ass. He squeezed Duo's ass cheeks and pulled him close, so that Duo's hard, leaking cock rubbed against him. "Yeah. I'm thinking you really are the sexiest gamer nerd," Jason murmured and kissed him again. Duo manouvered them back onto the bed. Jason lay down and Duo straddled him. They kissed each other and ran their hands over each other's bodies, teasing and caressing and despite the fact that Duo was incredibly aroused and really wanted to get off, he realized this was the most relaxed he had felt in a month. He didn't feel any pressure, and none of the crap in his personal life mattered at all. It was a relief. To just be here, in this room, on this bed, with this guy. "Lube?" Jason asked. Duo rolled over and reached for the lube and pack of condoms in his nightstand. When he had moved in he had been positive they would gather dust. Jason took the lube from him and squeezed some onto his fingers before reaching back to start stretching Duo. "You're really tight," Jason commented. Duo rocked against him, enjoying the feel of fingers working at him and the friction of Jason's hardening cock against his own. "Yeah," he moaned. "Sorry." "No need to apologize. I just don't want to hurt you." Jason added a second finger and searched for Duo's prostate, grinning in satisfaction with Duo groaned. "Fuck, that's intense," Duo said. "Want me to add a third finger?" Duo nodded and Jason complied. After a few minutes of Jason fingering him, slowly working his fingers deeper and scissoring them open, Duo was ready for more. He reached for the condom and tore open the package. Jason watched him as he rolled it onto his cock. "Straddle me again," Jason suggested and Duo grinned. He'd always enjoyed sex from the position. He didn't really care one way or another who fucked who - but getting to maintain eye contact was a big thing for him. Riding a guy's cock, or having a guy ride his, was another big thing. He spread lube down Jason's cock and then straddled him again. Slowly, he eased himself down, working his way past his body's initial resistance and then sinking down fully with a sigh. It was a lot, the dull burn of penetration and the feeling of being completely filled, but after a moment he had adjusted. "You okay?" Jason asked. Duo appreciated that. He leaned down to kiss him again. "Yeah. Perfect," Duo assured him and then he rocked forward before sitting back down again. Jason groaned. "Fuck. Yeah. Perfect," Jason repeated. Duo set a leisurely pace - he was damned sure he was going to take his time to enjoy this. Jason reached out and started to stroke Duo's cock, his own rhythm firm and faster than Duo was moving. Duo had to grin when, after a few minutes, Jason started to thrust upwards impatiently. "Not so perfect anymore?" "It feels great," Jason said. "But it also feels like you're teasing me." Duo chuckled. "More like teasing both of us. You want something more like this?" He changed his pace, lifting himself up and pushing down faster and harder, until he could hear the slap of their flesh together and one of Jason's hands abandoned his cock to clutch Duo's hip. "Yeah, oh fuck yeah," Jason moaned. Duo could feel his orgasm building - Jason wasn't putting a lot of attention or effort into getting him off, but the constant pressure against his prostate did most of the work and when he came he felt like a huge weight had been lifted from his shoulders. Jason came a moment later, his body reacting to Duo's spasming muscles. "Oh my god. Thank you." Duo leaned down to kiss him. "Happy victory celebration," Jason said with a grin. -o- Thresh: a support champion who is considered by many to be ridiculously "OP" or overpowered. He can shield his teammates, he has good attack damage, he makes this ghost prison to slow and damage enemies and, above all, he has this lantern he can throw out and his teammates can click on it to sling-shot to his location. So Thresh can use this to save them from death and/or to set up a sneak attack. He's kind of stupid like that. If you want to see the sickest Thresh plays ever, Youtube BunnyFuFu Thresh. He's widely believed to be the best Thresh player in North America. ~ * ~ |
