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"Bottled Blue "Written By: t-shirt 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: AU/Fantasy, Angst, mild violence, mild
language, fluff, borderline NCS (more like reluctant surrender), non-graphic
lemons, my corky humor lol Unbeta'ed Pairings: 1x2, 3x4, 5+all Summary: When Duo discovers an ancient bottle
his life his irreversibly altered by the beautiful, blue genie that
resides within. AN: This was written some years ago in response
to a fic I read. I so enjoyed the character dynamic’s I couldn’t
resist borrowing the idea and writing a fic of my own using a variation
of the character profiles. The original fic was Blue Bottled Belly
Dancers... by clarysage ^_^ I liked it so much I wanted more so I
wrote this but that was uh... years before I ever thought to post
anything. I don't really remember how closely mine follows the original
but I hope it's entertaining. ^_^ Thanks everyone! "Bottled Blue " Ch 9
“…about damn time,” Quatre grumped the moment Duo stepped from the tent door and back into the satyr’s clearing. Apparently, Trowa hadn’t lost his hold on them... him yet as he still had both of him tightly locked in an embrace holding them to his chest. They looked completely exhausted, especially the blonds who also looked disgruntled and sulky to boot. Duo couldn’t help but laugh at the happy, yet tired little grin on Trowa’s lips. “Hiiro?” Trowa inquired shifting his hold a little. “Asleep,” Duo smiled. “You look...” “...well,” Quatre grumbled sarcastically flashing his lover a dark look since he looked a bit like he’d been hit by a train... or two. “He’s gentle with me,” Duo replied working on tying his long hair back in its customary braid. “Perhaps because I don’t tease him relentlessly,” he added smirking at the `exactly!` expression that washed over Trowa’s face. “Did he take the time...” “...to explain things to you?” the blonds asked. “Mostly,” Duo replied. “I’m still a little unclear on how I can help,” he confessed tying off the end of his braid. “That’s...” “...easy,” Quatre beamed at him with double grins. “Just...” “…sacrifice yourself...” “…to him,” they chuckled as Trowa shifted them and poked them in their sides. “Don’t tease him,” he told them and Duo managed to wipe the gaping fish face off. “We only have to make him see the error of his ways,” he explained. “When he understands he’s doing more harm than good he’ll listen to reason.” “He was going to rape me,” Duo reminded them. “Cant hold that against him,” Trowa grinned wickedly tightening his hold again when Quatre squirmed more fervently to get free. “Yeah, well, I can,” the longhaired boy retorted. “How in the hell am I supposed to talk to him if he’s hell bent on...” “Hiiro would not allow him to harm you,” the emerald eyed satyr cut him off. “He will...” “...always protect you,” Quatre agreed letting go of his annoyance at having been held captive to offer his blissfully smiling lover a kiss on both cheeks at the same time. “No.” Neither Quatre seemed able to get close enough to their green eyed lover suddenly crawling all but inside him at the sound of Hiiro’s voice. A moment later the Jinn’s massive form stepped from the tent and instantly molded itself to Duo’s back slipping an arm around his waist as he kissed his hair softly and Duo just about turned into a puddle of goo. “Why...” “...not?” Quatre whined fearfully crawling over Trowa’s back to hide behind him. “I will not endanger him,” the Jinn replied holding his lover in a way that spoke of possessing his greatest treasure. “What danger?” Trowa smiled waving his hand. “With the three of us to guide him? What could possibly go wrong?” he reasoned. “No,” Hiiro repeated bending to kiss Duo’s neck. “I’m willing to try,” the longhaired boy told him brushing his hands along where Hiiro’s encircled him. “He is your brother after all,” he said thoughtfully. “Shouldn’t we at least try?” Hiiro took a deep breath and let it out within the folds of Duo’s long hair. “As you wish,” he said finally making Trowa jump to his feet in his excitement then groan low in his throat when he realized he was left with little but the warmth of a stray sunbeam lighting on his back, his two illuminated lovers having vanished in a crackle of laugher once again. Duo and Hiiro couldn’t help but laugh at the pitiful expression on his face. “You’ve had your fill,” the Blue Jinn chuckled holding Duo close to his chest. “I suppose I can take yours off on a world tour then?” Trowa countered snidely as they moved toward the edge of the clearing. Duo busted out laughing when the satyr suddenly poofed and became fully goat. “Mutten for supper tonight?” Hiiro grinned as the goat bleated and snorted stomping its hoofs in their trail. “Hiiro,” Duo admonished trying to control his laugher. “That’s not nice,” he said failing miserably as Trowa did his best to glare at them with his little green goat’s eyes. “No one will ever take you from my side again,” Hiiro told him steeling all of his mirth away before he kissed him warmly and led their disgruntled little goat friend out into the trees. * “What makes you so sure he’ll show up?” Duo asked watching his lover stoke the blue flame he’d been working on in the sand. There were no logs or kindling to support it, just the flame and Hiiro’s insistence that it remain. “Because when he calls to me… I come.” Duo spun around to face the dark eyes of the Black Jinn, his heart suddenly racing as his mind wondered what in the hell he was doing there in the first place. He had only a moment to consider before the raven haired boy was engulfed by sapphire fire, the sudden blaze lighting up the night sky and knocking Duo back five feet to land on the sand near Trowa’s hoofed feet. Duo gasped and scramble upright again just as a shadow pushed the flames away and then they were gone and the two Jinn’s stood staring daggers at each other. “Is that any way to welcome an invited guest?” Wufei sneered. “How’s this?” Hiiro asked then punched him square in the face sending him flying back ten feet to crash into the earth. When the sand cloud settled the raven haired boy sat there holding his aching jaw and glaring death at his irate brother. “Hiiro!” Duo barked in admonition but neither appeared to have heard him. “What in the hell was that for?!” Wufei snapped regaining his feet. “If you ever lay a hand on him again I’ll set your toenails growing inward!” Hiiro snarled advancing on him. Wufei paused to glance at where Duo was trying to retain his composure and grinned. “Felt that did you?” he chuckled. “He’s a fine catch,” he went on circling around so Hiiro couldn’t get a lock on him. “Perhaps we could share him later?” he mused raising his brows then suddenly the sand itself reached out and tried to pull him under. He lashed out and fought for a minute before he finally freed himself of the spell and stood panting and glaring indignantly at his brother. “You’re being awfully bitchy over a human slave,” he pointed out sounding honestly peeved now. “But that’s been your problem all along hasn’t it?” he said circling around again. “Go home,” Hiiro told him flatly. “It was your obsession with them that brought you to this end,” Wufei told him ignoring the command. “Killing humans is not going to help free me,” Hiiro retorted. “Chaining them to your bed isn’t going to work either,” Wufei countered. “Though that one might be a welcome distraction for awhile,” he added leering at Duo again. He had no time to guard himself as Hiiro suddenly slammed into his chest knocking him backwards until he was sitting on his chest and nailing him in the face. “STOP IT!” Duo cried rushing forward. “Hiiro! Don’t! You’re hurting him!” he yelled daring to reach out and touch the arm that was holding his prey as he pummeled his elegant face into the sand. “Please! Hiiro... come on... please…” Duo soothed becoming more confident in his touch as his lover slowed and regained control but Wufei’s pretty face already looked like someone had run over it with a lawnmower. Duo grimaced but felt his heart lighten a little when he saw the damage was already healing itself. “Come on,” he coaxed his lover to remove his weight from the injured Jinn. “This isn’t why we came here,” he reminded him. Hiiro never took his angry eyes from Wufei’s as he obeyed his slave’s gently spoken commands and moved away. “Always on the human’s side,” Wufei grumbled dragging himself to his feet, his elegant face all but healed from the brutal beating as he rolled his neck and snapped the bones back into place. “It’s always the same,” he sighed. “It’s your fault…!” “...anyway you great oaf!” the Quatre’s snapped hiding half behind Trowa who looked none to confident about his ability to protect him and kind of like he wished he’d just shut up. “Is that true?” Duo asked his lover shocked by the idea. “It...” “...is!” “If he hadn’t killed Tutankhamun for his sin of imprisoning Hiiro in the first place he might have freed him long ago,” Trowa offered supporting his lovers claim. “You killed King Tut?” Duo’s astonished tone surmised. Wufei sighed and slicked his black hair back though it was already as smooth as glass. “So… that’s why you’re so intent on freeing Hiiro,” the longhaired boy realized aloud. “If you hadn’t gone off screwing around with that boy in the first place…” Wufei snapped suddenly. “I fell in love!” Hiiro retorted then flashed a look in Duo’s direction and seemed to shrink a little. “At least,” he amended softly “.I thought I had.” “Hiiro,” Duo sighed smiling as he heart swelled again. “And there you go again!” Wufei snarled suddenly. “Taking another of them as your bride! When will you learn?!” he shouted as the rage grew in his eyes. “They are nothing! Creatures incapable of truly loving anything other than their own kind! Look!” he bellowed tossing a hand at Trowa and Quatre. “Look well! See what your idiot beliefs in human hearts has caused!” Duo swallowed. Had it been Hiiro’s sin that caused their dilemma as well? No, love isn’t a sin. “How many more must we loose!? What more will you sacrifice for the likes of him!” the raven haired boy concluded pointing an accusatory finger straight into Duo’s face. Hiiro took one look at his lovers beautiful, flustered violet eyes and smiled. “Everything,” was his immediate reply. Wufei was not amused. He just stood there for a long moment staring at that silly little grin, the way Hiiro was so easily lost in the depths of Duo’s eyes then finally he cocked his head to the side and asked. “You would trade even my life for his?” he asked. Hiiro didn’t answer for a long moment and when he did there was a definite note of apology and regret in his tone when he replied with a simple, “Yes.” “So be it,” Wufei smiled. “NO!!” Duo screamed as the ground suddenly opened up to swallow the raven haired boy. Hiiro dove forward and managed to grab his hand but the desert was quickly pulling him under anyway. “What’s happening!?” Duo called over the rush of the wind that had begun to swirl in a storm around them, the sand stinging his skin and eyes as he watched his lover fight for his brother’s life then Duo suddenly screamed and collapsed in convulsions of pain. “DUO!” Hiiro shouted only barely holding onto Wufei’s hand. “He’s begun...” “...the transference!” Quatre shouted over the gale as he checked Duo’s condition. “Stop!” Hiiro ground out pulling with all his might on Wufei’s arm but the Chinese boy appeared too far gone to hear him. His body shook and his black eyes were rolled back so far in his head all he could see were the whites. “STOP! YOU DON’T HAVE TO DIE!” Hiiro shouted again turning his face to his ailing lover as he cried out and whimpered from the pain. Wufei was infusing him with his power, giving over to him his own life force, sacrificing his life in the hope that Duo might succeed where he had failed but would Duo survive it on his own? “Wufei… please,” the Blue Jinn begged softly looking into his brothers white eyes then back to Duo’s shaking form. The boy’s violet eyes turned up to regard him though he could see the pure anguish within and feel the pain he endured in his own body. “Don’t,” Duo rasped watching Hiiro’s
eyes dart from Wufei to himself clearly contemplating what he should
do. He saw his decision written in the regret on his face as he turned
this sapphire gaze back on his lover. “Don’t you dare let
him die,” Duo ground out between clenched teeth then doubled
up in pain and in an instant Hiiro was by his side, his hands drawing
away some of the enormous amount of energy that was searing Duo’s
body, scorching his very bones, easing the pain enough for him to
look up again and see Wufei disappear beneath the sand. “NOOOOOO!”
he screamed pushing his way out of Hiiro’s grip and without a
second thought he dove into the quicksand where Wufei had vanished
head first.
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