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"Baby Series 3"Written By: Karina Rating: PG Spoilers: None Disclaimer: I don’t own Gundam Wing or the Characters from the series but the baby is mine. Pairing: Duo + Wu Fei Notes: Challenge 148. Baby Series 3 #218. Takes place following No Small Insult. Many thanks to ShenLong for her work betaing
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Dragonfire "Fei…" "I am hardly feeling friendly toward Winner at this time, and I stand by my words. He will speak with you on the inappropriateness of the direction of your affections. One must cater to the masses if one is in a position of responsibility. Nothing must stand in the way; nothing and no one. I am surprised Barton has not left him. The Winner can not be seen to have a relationship with another male. Certainly not an open relationship. When the Elders of L4 learn it is more than inappropriate rumour they will in turn have the same discussion Winner has foisted upon me. We shall see how obedient to propriety Quatre will be then. How long it will be before Barton is cast aside?" Duo's eyes widened and Chang sucked in a deep breath. It was a measure of his repressed anger over the whole mess that that tirade had slipped through his guard. Quatre was Maxwell's friend and Duo would not appreciate hearing Wu Fei's thoughts on his friend. But it was done and Duo was in no fit condition to tolerate his bouts of temper. He was more than merely tardy for his appointment but he could not simply walk out on Duo either. And of course there was Winner who could arrive at the door at any second. He really needed to work on anger management. "Fei…" "I will not hide my anger over his interference in affairs that do not concern him. He is not a bad man, not by any length of measure, but he is an interfering, meddling bastard. All too often he conveniently overlooks what is inconvenient for his grand designs and someone must ultimately pay for that inconvenience. I am sorry, I know he is your friend, but at the moment I am feeling less than friendly toward him and I will not deceive you. I am well aware my temper is something I must work at to overcome, but I abhor pretention." "I had hoped you two had buried the hatched." "I do not so easily forget and forgive injustice. It is a fault with my character, but it is who I am. There are things I can change about myself and things that I can not, and I do not appreciate a `friend' ripping my plans apart without consultation. That he expects me to grin and move on…Such is not my nature. It is not who I am. This Chang is a mean bastard who holds onto grudges and it is best you understand that about me before we go any further with talk of a relationship between us." Duo sighed softly and inched his way up in the bed; just enough to emerge from his nest and reach out to rest a hand against the cheek and jaw of the scowling man. Chang's dark eyes were intense and blazing with honest hurt and pride. "You are a prickly dragon, Chang. I've known that all along and I don't care if I get singed by dragonfire. It's a small price to pay for the treasure my dragon guards. Go on. We'll talk more later, after I've seen off Quatre and you attend to business. You'll give a new meaning to the word tardy if you totally miss the meeting." ~ * ~ |
