"The Three of Us "

Written By: Miss Murdered

Disclaimer: I don't own the GW characters - am just borrowing to torment for my amusement

Rating: NC 17

Warnings: m/m sex of varying degrees of smuttiness, two dudes, three dudes, masturbation, voyeurism as well as angst, sap and bad language

Pairings: 1x2x3 but all combinations of that in pairings as well as in a threesome context.

Summary: An ongoing series of short drabbles exploring the dynamics and complexity of the 1x2x3 relationship.

A/N: This is an ongoing series of short drabbles that is my attempt to explore how the 1x2x3 relationship would work. I will update semi–regularly with three chapters at a time told from Duo, Trowa and then Heero's perspectives. Some will be feelsy/angsty, some will be porny, and some will be sappy.

They have no chronology or order apart from the fact it is set post–EW.

Beta'd by ELLE

"The Three of Us "

Plague

The party was dull, Trowa wearing his enforced suit as it was a black tie event and he was watching from the edge of the room as people flitted past carrying champagne. They attended as Quatre was making an effort, making an attempt to come to terms with their three-way relationship and while there was not approval, it was slowly getting somewhere. Healing that fractured relationship.

Heero was speaking with the blond man, Trowa had yet to feeling that he had nothing to say – he had never told Quatre he wanted a relationship nor that he had feelings for him but still he felt a little responsible for how things had happened. It didn't mean that he felt he could articulate it.

It was then as he eyed up Heero, that he realised that Duo was missing, he had been at the bar talking to Wufei but now Wufei was talking to some old guy in a suit and Duo was nowhere to be seen. Trowa quickly scanned the room and then walked out of the party guessing that Duo had gone for a smoke. It was something Trowa was tempted to do.

He went outside, finding a few people stood talking in the brisk night air, and walked silently towards Duo, leaning against the wall in the shadows, his gaze looking into nothingness.

"Got a smoke?" he asked to which Duo jumped having not heard him.

"Jesus, fuck, babe! I'm gonna put a bell around your neck one day."

Trowa just arched an eyebrow and Duo offered him a cigarette, Trowa lighting it with a small silver lighter, engraved, that Duo had bought him once.

They both leaned against the wall and Trowa didn't press, didn't ask, knowing that Duo would only speak if necessary.

"You know I should stop smoking these… don't wanna die coughing up my lungs. I've seen that shit."

And Duo went quiet again, finished his cigarette as he looked away, into the distance as this was what Duo's disappearance from the party was about. It wasn't about Quatre, or the rich people, or whatever. Duo had been quiet for a few days, pre-occupied and distant. Both he and Heero had noted it but knew not to ask, not to press and instead, they waited for Duo to say anything.

"You ever seen someone die like that? You know, coughing up blood and shit?"

"Yeah," he answered.

He didn't elaborate – didn't need to say about sicknesses that had travelled through temporary homes, how he'd spent so much of his childhood in areas decimated by poverty and fighting, and with that, he'd seen people dead or dying like that. A yeah was all that was needed. Trowa knew enough about L2 – enough about the viruses, the plagues that ripped through that colony, to know why Duo asked. Instead of talking about it, Trowa took a deep drag of his cigarette before throwing it to the floor and letting the embers die out, and then grabbed at Duo's chin, kissing him, their mouths tasting of smoke and alcohol.

"We should go and find Heero," Trowa said softly as they separated and Duo nodded, a small smile gracing his face.

"Thanks."

"For what?"

"Just for being here for me."

And Trowa leaned down for one more kiss, whispering "always" against his mouth before their lips joined softly.

Chapter 30

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