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"The Green Door "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: language, sex Pairings: 2x5, 3x5, 2x3x5, Rx1, MxH Summary: Duo visits an adult novelty store for the first time. A/N: So, decided to write a sequel to this. I’ve
had a few people ask and, well, the mood struck me. "The Green Door "
Chapter Five Wufei had had too much to drink. Actually, he hadn't had enough to drink, because he was still unfortunately conscious. It was his birthday, and Wufei was out at dinner with his mother, father and Lily Peng, a woman that Wufei could only feel pity for. After all, he seriously doubted that she had known what she was in for when Wufei's mother had likely cornered her at the supermarket or church or wherever and invited her to join them for dinner. His father had chosen the restaurant, some Brazilian steakhouse that had Lily looking more than a little green as thick cuts of meat were presented to them on skewers. Wufei couldn't help but notice that the woman was only eating vegetables, and even then was only listlessly poking at them on her plate. She was, however, doing her level best to keep up with Wufei's drinking. They were both on their third glass of wine, and Wufei thought it was a shame they hadn't decided to split a bottle. Hell, they were only halfway through the main course. There was still time. "Lily, your work as a paralegal must be so fascinating," Wufei's mother said. Across the table, Wufei's father cut into his steak, and a pool of red leaked from the meat. Lily grimaced and resolutely looked away, a strained smile plastered on her face as she looked at Wufei's mother. "Yes," she said, "it's very interesting. I just finished working on a case that involved a challenge to the municipal zoning laws and the new apartment complex off of the interstate." It didn't sound at all interesting to Wufei, but then again, that was why he hadn't gone to law school. "And you enjoy being a paralegal?" Wufei asked after his mother gave him a meaningful glare. "It's nice. I'm going to law school at night, though. Being a paralegal pays the bills right now, and I'm gaining a lot of valuable experience." "That's smart," Wufei said, and then realized how patronizing that sounded when his father repeated the same thing. Lily shrugged and drained her glass. "And you, Wufei? Your mother said that you're an entrepreneur." Wufei smirked, earning a grimace from his father. "Yes, I am. Long Meilan and I own a store together. She's an excellent partner." "Oh, Meilan! We see each other at the gym sometimes. Her and her girlfriend - Hilde? They're so cute together." Wufei couldn't help but look a little smug in the face of his parents' disapproving looks. "What kind of store?" Lily prompted. Wufei's mother jumped in before Wufei could ruin the family's reputation. "Lily, you volunteer at the animal shelter, don't you?" The woman frowned slightly, and shook her head in denial. "Oh, no. I'm allergic to dogs. And my cousin had a cat that bit me when we were little - I still have the scars on my arm - and I don't care much for them either." "I have a cat," Wufei gleefully informed her, smirking into his wine glass and then frowning himself when he noticed it was empty. He looked around for the waiter, but the man was nowhere in sight. "Yes, but that cat is getting so old. She'll be dead any day now, I'm sure," Wufei's mother said, either unaware or uncaring about how her words came across. Both Lily and Wufei stared at her. "Maybe you should go to night school, like she does," Wufei's father gestured towards Lily with his knife. "At least she's trying to make something of her life." Wufei sighed and settled back into his chair. Here we go again . "I think it's wonderful that Wufei and Meilan are in business together," Lily said, surprising Wufei. "It's not wonderful. It's stupid, and after they lose all of their money, what will happen? She'll have to go back to her family and beg them to forgive her for being such a disappointment. And he ," his father snarled at Wufei, "will expect me to just overlook the fact that he's made a complete mess of his life." Wufei drew in a deep breath and slowly let it out. He wasn't going to do this here, not now. Not tonight. The waiter appeared, and reached for both Lily and Wufei's empty glasses. "More wine?" the man asked. "Please," they said at the same time. It was the last word anyone said, even though the meal lasted for another half-hour. When the waiter came back to inquire about their feelings on dessert, Lily was quick to demur. "Oh, no. I'm so full," she said. "I couldn't eat another bite." Wufei sincerely hoped she went home and ate something, as she had barely taken a single bite of her meal. "So am I," he agreed. "Four cheesecakes," Wufei's father said, ignoring them. Another half-hour, during which Wufei angrily ate forkful after forkful of a cake that was infuriatingly good and Lily again listlessly poked at her plate. Wufei's father made a show of paying the check, and then it was over. "Oh, you two should split a cab home," Wufei's mother suggested as they gathered their coats and headed for the door. "I know Wufei had a lovely time with you tonight, Lily. We hope to see you again." She stood on her toes to press a kiss to Wufei's cheek. Wufei glared at her, but she simply smiled brightly, and then she and Wufei's father walked out of the restaurant arm-in-arm. "I can call an Uber," Wufei sighed. "Fine," Lily said, voice dull and the fake smile finally gone from her face. They stood in awkward silence together for ten minutes until their car arrived. Cramming into the backseat together, Wufei made sure to keep a respectable amount of space between them. The last thing he wanted to do was crowd the clearly miserable woman. "Do you want-" "I'm not going home with you," Lily interrupted him. "I only did this so my mom would leave me alone for the next two weeks about finding some nice Chinese guy. And you're- you're handsome, okay, but you're not my type, and I'm not going to sleep with you. Even if it is your birthday." Wufei was startled into a laugh, and Lily looked at him like he was going insane. "I just wanted to ask if you want to give the driver your address so he can drop you off first," Wufei clarified. Lily flushed. "Oh." The rest of the ride was uneventful, and when the driver pulled to a stop in front of Lily's apartment, Wufei turned to her. "I'm sorry. Tonight was terrible, and you deserved better than that. Certainly better than me. Or my family." Lily looked slightly mollified. "Meilan and I own The Green Door ," he said, in a sudden and overwhelming moment of fuck it . "The- the sex shop?" Lily asked, eyes wide. Wufei nodded. "My father is convinced we're going to go out of business any second - we aren't - and my mother thinks I'm doing it just to make her die of shame. And I'm bisexual." "Wow. Wow . And I thought I was rebelling when I went to my senior prom with Chad Brown." Lily laughed and shook her head. "No wonder your mom keeps trying to pimp you out." Wufei sighed. "It's only March, and you're the tenth girl she's tried to set me up with this year." Lily winced. "Ouch." She cleared her throat and held out her hand. Warily, Wufei shook it. "It was nice to meet you," Lily said. "Good luck with your life." Wufei smirked. "You too." She got out of the car, and Wufei leaned back against his seat and sighed. "Where to?" the driver asked. Wufei sighed again, and looked at the time. It was almost ten, which meant that the store was closed. He wondered if Meilan and Hilde felt like meeting him for a drink. Wondered if Trowa was free. " Hop's Place ," Wufei decided. He sent a text to his friends, suggesting they were all terrible humans who had left him alone to suffer through dinner with his parents on his birthday, and saying that they could make it up to him by meeting him at the bar and helping him get embarrassingly drunk. Meilan texted back a moment later. We'll come for one drink. ONE. Trowa's text was more promising. Only if I get to tuck you in after. Wufei smirked and sent back a response. I was going to insist on it, actually. Trowa sent back a winking emoji face, and then a suggestion that gave Wufei pause. Invite your librarian. I want to meet him . Wufei had spent the night with Duo on Tuesday, and it had been unexpectedly pleasant to wake up beside him, even more so when Duo gave him a blowjob first thing that morning and insisted on making him a breakfast of scrambled eggs, toast and coffee before he left for work. They had texted a few times on Wednesday, had made tentative plans to meet for lunch on Sunday, but Wufei hadn't told Duo that Thursday was his birthday. He wondered... Part of him was convinced that introducing Trowa to Duo was the quickest way to send Duo running far and fast in the other direction, but part of him was incredibly curious about the potential dynamic between the two men. And Wufei was just drunk enough to let his curiosity win out. He texted Duo. I'm going to Hop's Place with a few friends to celebrate my birthday. Want to join us? Wufei was already inside the bar, already nursing a pint of Ringmaster Red Ale , when his phone buzzed and Duo's name flashed across the screen. I'd love to. But I didn't know it was your birthday. Do you take rain checks on gifts? Or am I going to have to take twenty minutes to make you a macaroni picture frame before I come? Wednesday was apparently craft day at the library, and yesterday Duo had sent Wufei a few photos of some of the more inventive, and move tragic, attempts to decorate picture frames. Rain checks are acceptable. But I can think of a few hands-on gifts you can give me if you insist. The door to the bar opened, and Meilan and Hilde walked in, clearly in the middle of an argument about something. Sounds good. I'll be there in ten minutes. Wufei put his phone down after reading Duo's text, and looked up at the two women with an arched eyebrow. "Okay," Meilan said as she sat down, shooting Hilde a glare, "tell us how your date with Lily went." Wufei scowled. "How do you two know about that?" Hilde grinned. "Last night at the gym. I spotted her while she was doing some weight training, and she mentioned it. C'mon, it was a total disaster, wasn't it? Who ruined it - your mom or your dad?" A waiter appeared and took their orders, giving Wufei a moment to relive the travesty that dinner had been. "Both of them," he growled. "Both of them ruined it." "Damnit," Meilan muttered. "You don't think one of them ruined it more than the other one did, though, do you?" Wufei frowned, but then his wine-addled brain caught on. He sighed. This was a game that Meilan and Hilde played from time to time, wagering just how awful Wufei's family dinners were and trying to guess which of his parents made the evening a total disaster. "Is Lily a vegetarian?" he asked. "Yeah. Actually, I think she's a vegan," Meilan answered. Wufei snorted. "Then my father ruined it the most. He's the one who picked a steakhouse for dinner." "Ouch," Hilde winced. "And Lily's so great." Wufei had to nod. Her little speech in the Uber had intrigued him. Too bad his parents had ruined any chance of them ever dating. Meilan and HIlde's drinks arrived, Meilan with her customary vodka-tonic and Hilde with her equally predictable vodka-cranberry. Hilde offered Meilan a salute, and Meilan accepted it with a smirk. "So, Trowa mentioned that you might have met someone," Meilan said. Wufei sighed. Of course Trowa hadn't kept his mouth shut about Duo. Then again, Wufei had been the one to text Trowa on Wednesday morning to brag about the librarian making him breakfast after a phenomenal night - and morning - in bed. "I might have," Wufei agreed. Hilde rolled her eyes. "Oh, come on. Tell us about him. Or is it a her?" "It's a him," Trowa said, walking up to the table with a smirk. Wufei hadn't even noticed him come into the bar. The taller man smirked in the face of Wufei's glower, and bent down to press a quick kiss to Wufei's lips. "Happy Birthday," Trowa said. "Thanks," Wufei grumbled. It hadn't, up to that point, been all that happy. "You know, my mother tried to tell Lily that it wasn't a problem that she didn't like cats because Nataku would probably die soon?" Hilde stared at him, and Meilan choked on her drink. Trowa just smirked and sat down beside Wufei, throwing his arm across the back of Wufei's chair and shaking his head. "Your mother is unbelievable," Trowa said. "That's one word for it," Meilan muttered. "So, back to this guy ," Hilde said with an eyebrow waggle. "Tell us about him." Wufei shrugged. "He's... nice." "Oh, wow, nice . That's a ringing endorsement," Hilde muttered. "You used a few other words to describe him to me ," Trowa smirked. "Let me pull out my phone and-" Wufei grabbed Trowa's hand before he could reach for the phone. He remembered, all too well, what he had said about Duo. The unnecessary detail he had gone into when describing Duo's excellent fellatio techniques. The photo of the eggs he had sent. "He's more than nice," Wufei snarled. "He's- he's here," Wufei concluded, looking up to see the man in question enter the bar. He couldn't help but smile as Duo's gaze scanned the dim interior before landing on them, couldn't help the way his pulse seemed to flutter when Duo smiled back at him, the expression wide and open, lighting up his entire face. "Wait- wait, what?" Hilde looked from Wufei to Duo. "Duo? You- your guy is Duo ?" "You know him?" Wufei asked, looking away from the man approaching and to the short-haired woman instead. Hilde snorted a laugh. "Of course I know him. He was the one guy I ever fucked. We went to high school together. He's one of my best friends. Meilan knows him." Wufei looked at the other woman, who nodded. "He's been over to our house a few times, yeah." "What, seriously?" The two women smirked at him, but then Duo arrived at their table and Hilde stood up to hug him. Duo looked a little confused to see the two women, whom he apparently knew, but his confused look turned into a slight frown when he looked over at Wufei and Trowa. Trowa, with his arm across the back of Wufei's chair and a smug smirk on his face. "Hey," Duo said cautiously. "You, uh, you all know each other?" Wufei nodded slowly, and it felt like all of his drinks were very suddenly catching up with him as Duo sat down in the open seat between Wufei and Meilan. Duo's eyes flicked over to Trowa. The auburn-haired man held out his hand, the one not on the back of Wufei's chair. "Nice to meet you. I'm Trowa." "Duo," he said, and shook the proffered hand. Trowa continued to smirk. "Wufei's said a lot about you," Trowa said, not even wincing when Wufei stomped on his foot under the table. "You're a librarian?" "Yeah. I am. He hasn't mentioned you, though." There was the slightest hint of irritation to Duo's voice. The waiter came by to take their drink orders. "I'll have what he's having," Trowa gestured towards Wufei's drink, which he surely recognized as one of his own company's beers. Duo glanced at the menu on the table. "You've got the Three Ring Lager on draft?" he asked. The waiter nodded. "Of course," he sighed, glaring at Trowa, who made it a point of ensuring that all of his company's beers were on tap at Hop's Place . "One of those, then," Duo decided. "So," Hilde asked as soon as the waiter walked away, "how did you and Wufei meet?" The long-haired man froze for a moment, eyes cutting over to Wufei even as his cheeks turned pink. "The library," Wufei lied for him. "The library?" Trowa echoed, smirking. He, of course, knew the truth. "What were you doing there?" "Getting a book," Wufei ground out. Trowa nodded solemnly, as if he wasn't silently laughing his ass off. "Well, as far as rebound dates go, I'm thinking you're definitely winning out over that idiot Zechs is running around with," Hilde said. Duo scowled, and Wufei arched an eyebrow at him. "It's nothing. It's- Look, it's your birthday. Talking about my ex is like the worst thing we could do to celebrate it." Meilan snorted, and took a long sip of her drink. "Not as bad as the family dinner Wufei just survived." Duo arched an eyebrow at him, and Wufei sighed. "My family is... difficult." "Understatement," Trowa and Meilan muttered at the same time. "How so?" Duo asked, seemingly genuinely interested and concerned. With another sigh, Wufei launched into the abbreviated version of why his family was difficult . The retelling of his family saga - with interjections from Hilde, Meilan and Trowa - carried them all through several rounds of drinks and two breaks for shots of tequila. It wasn't until he had finished by recounting the absolute disaster that his birthday dinner had been that Wufei realized how late it was. That realization was immediately followed by another - he was drinking water. At some point, someone had had the good sense to make him switch from beer to water. He had no idea who it had been, but he was grateful as he took a lengthy sip. "Well, some of us have to open the store tomorrow," Meilan said as she rose to her feet. Hilde paid for their drinks, and then the two women walked around the table and kissed Wufei on the cheek, wishing him happy birthday, and then said their goodbyes. Leaving Duo, Wufei and Trowa. Duo, who Wufei couldn't help but think looked incredibly handsome. Wufei loved the way the other man's mouth, even when in a resting position, had the faintest upward curve to it. As if Duo was always ready to laugh or smile. And his eyes, flashing between blue and violet, were intoxicating when he fixed his gaze on Wufei, as he was now. Trowa, whose tall, lean body radiated heat, and whose shoulder was especially comfortable against Wufei's cheek. He smelled nice too. That same scent that Wufei always identified with Trowa, crisp and clean, with the slightest hint of lemongrass. "He's pretty far gone," Duo said, still looking at Wufei. "I know. I'm sure he had a bottle of wine when he was with his parents. and he had, what - two, three beers before you switched him over to water?" Trowa's voice rumbled pleasantly against Wufei. It would be nice to sleep just like this, leaning against Trowa, watched over by Duo. "Shitty way to spend a birthday," Duo muttered, raising his glass to sip from it. "It's not shitty," Wufei argued. "It's perfect. Spending it with you two." Duo's eyes widened and finally left Wufei's face, glancing over to Trowa. Wufei felt Trowa chuckle, and smiled slightly in response. Trowa didn't laugh enough, and when he did, his entire face transformed. "He gets like this when he's drunk," Trowa said. "Any minute now, he's going to proposition both of us and-" "That's a good idea," Wufei interrupted. "You two. And me. Me too. Us three," he finally decided. "We should-" "We should get you home," Trowa concluded, cutting Wufei short. "Before you pass out." Wufei frowned. "I'm not going to pass out. I'm not tired. But home - that's a good idea. Let's go home." Wufei remembered what his mother had said earlier, to Lily, about Nataku dying soon. "You're okay with cats, aren't you?" he asked Duo. The other man nodded cautiously. "Yeah? Not as like... sexual partners, though. But as... pets?" "Good. I have a cat. She's not going to die soon, though. She's only eight. She wouldn't bite you. Unless you deserved it." Duo looked on the verge of bursting into laughter, but he nodded solemnly. "I'll try not to deserve it, then," he said. "Good. Good. Let's go home." "I walked here. Any chance you drove?" Trowa asked Duo. "Yeah, I did. I don't know where he lives, though. We just started dating and-" "I can give you directions. Here, help him up while I settle our bill." Trowa shifted away from Wufei, who scowled up at him until he felt Duo's arms around him, pulling him to his feet. "Hey," Wufei said, leaning forward to press a kiss to Duo's chin. "Hey, yourself, Birthday Boy," Duo responded. Wufei grinned, and Duo rolled his eyes. "You're such a lush," Duo muttered, his voice fond and his lips tilted up into a smile. Wufei wanted to kiss his smile. He liked the way Duo's smile felt against his mouth. He closed the space between them and did just that, sighing in pleasure when Duo kissed him back, his smile slowly melting away as his lips parted and their tongues met. "Alright, you two, let's not start making out like horny teenagers," Trowa said. Wufei pulled away from Duo and frowned up at Trowa. "That was just one kiss. That wasn't making out. You kissed me earlier," he added. "No one complained then." Duo cleared his throat. "Um, I think we should get you home, Wufei," he said, no longer looking at Wufei, his lips no longer curved into any kind of smile. The two men escorted Wufei out of the bar, and Duo helped him into the front passenger seat while Trowa climbed into the back. Wufei closed his eyes as Duo drove, listening to Trowa's familiar, soothing baritone voice deliver directions, and he couldn't help but wonder what Trowa's voice would sound like as he cried out Duo's name in ecstasy. -o- Chapter 6 |
