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"Daddys Boys"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: R Warnings: Angst/Language/Sap, Lemon, Post War
Cannon, Hiiro POV Pairings: Brief 2x5/1x2 Summary: Hiiro’s returns in search of Duo to find he has taken a job as an exotic dancer. The confusion he feels over this is complicated when he discovers that Wufei has somehow become the braided boy’s top customer. However, having realized his feelings for Duo are deeper than mere friendship Hiiro is unable to accept the situation and sets his feet on a path to rectify the problem. AN: It’s all Shev’s fault 8P "Daddys Boys"
Ch 2 Duo worked every night but Tuesday so he was on stage when I walked into Daddy’s Boys the next night. I really had no idea what to say to him but it was clear I had to see him. I needed to know if anything I had done had truly driven him to this place. I needed to know if there was anything that could be done to save him from the life he had chosen to live. He deserved so much more than to be ogled and patronized by a bunch of drunken goats that could have cared less what his dreams and desire were. I found someone who found me the boss fairly quickly when I flashed a hundred in his face. The boss turned out to be an older guy, well built enough to have been a dancer at one time himself and seemed particularly protective over Duo which was the only reason I took him off my list of people to maim someday. He decided I must be ok when I slipped a second hundred in his hand and led me toward where Duo was dancing. Gods in Heaven he looked like every wet dream I’d ever had standing up there on that stage. It made my stomach ache and my head hurt as my mind tried to decide which one of these assholes I was taking out first for having the nerve to look at him the way they were. His eyes were closed as they had been the night before when I wandered up to the bar. My head was just about knee level with him and one of the guys huddled around his table started to get pissy with me about it until I leveled a glare on him that might have set his eyebrows on fire. Then Duo’s eyes slowly opened and I forgot about the lot of them. It was almost comical to watch. He saw me but he didn’t, or maybe he just didn’t believe what he was seeing because his body never stopped rolling with that sultry beat and he closed them again, made a little turn around the pole and peeked out from behind it to get a better look. That’s when his eyes went wide and I smiled hoping it would ease the shock for him. “H…Hiiro?” “Hey, Buddy! You’re messing up the show!” one of the men groused but neither of us paid him any mind as Duo stepped closer to me. “Hi,” I smiled offering him my hand and was surprised when he readily took it and let me help in off the stage. “What are you doing here?” “I came to ask you that same question,” I replied gently hoping like hell I hadn’t sounded judgmental or something equally as asinine. “You’re shifts not over is it, Duo?” someone questioned. “I’m… working,” he explained tossing an apologetic glance over his shoulder. I’m afraid my grin turned just a tad feral when I smiled and informed him, “For me.” “You bought m… a room?” he exclaimed. “For the night,” I assured him. “I want to talk to you.” He looked very ill at ease for a moment then I saw the resignation in his eyes as he sighed and nodded and led me toward the private rooms. I made sure we got a different one than the one I had poked a hole in the wall of and had my lines all rehearsed but when the door shut he was suddenly there and all I could do was suck for breath and soak in the heat of his kiss. “Mm…mmmDuo,” I tried but he was pushing me back on the couch. “Wait!” “Why?” he hissed scrabbling to pull up my shirt. “This is what you paid for.” “Stop it!” I growled seizing his hands. “Why are you doing this?!” He stared at me for a long minute in which I got to see the pain in his eyes before he stated quite simply, “It helps me forget.” I was scared, scared of his answer should I ask, scared of not knowing if I didn’t, scared the answer wouldn’t include me and I felt the sting in my throat when I finally asked, “Forget…what?” “You,” he confessed in a tone that seemed to say he thought that would be the end of it but I wouldn’t let him get off my lap. “Duo… why didn’t you ever tell me?” “I tried!” he wailed and I felt the knife turn in my gut as tears threatened the corners of his eyes. “Hell, I did everything but crawl into your damn bed! Or hadn’t you noticed?!” I hadn’t noticed… and I had. He had always been there but I’d never seen it for what it was. I felt like such a fool. “Ah, Gods, Duo!” I gasped clutching him in my arms. “I can’t believe I didn’t see…” “What difference does it make now?” His voice was so… devastated. I didn’t know what to think but my hands were reaching for his face. “Let me take you away from here.” “I don’t need your pity.” “No… Duo, please….” I wanted to say more but my ability to form whole sentences was suddenly scrambled when he clung to me, his body sucking up to mine like raindrops kissing on a glass pane and I was suddenly assaulted with every weapon in that impressive arsenal Wufei had fallen to. I’d never wanted anything more in my entire life. He was wearing this massively distracting costume of black leather and silver chain that made his brown skin glow in the dim light. It was hard enough just to keep my mind on the conversation when my eyes so desperately wanted to devour him. His hair was loosely braided tonight and tendrils of the silken tresses hung down from his temples to tickle along my chest and arms. The whole club was designed to tantalize the senses with sweet smells and sultry rhythm’s that my hips found incredibly easy to match as he rolled his near naked ass around on my lap. If I hadn’t let my hands round his hips and pull him tight against me I honestly believe I might have screamed. “I don’t want you to do this,” I heard myself whispered. “I don’t like it when those men…” “Shh,” he hissed and was kissing me again and the pulsating rotation of his hips begged my fingers to dig under the thin thread of his thong and seek out a way to bring him the ecstasy he desired. I wanted to stop, somewhere deep down inside my fear that he would misunderstand gnawed at me but he was so damn hot his whole body was shaking and all I was doing was brushing my fingertips over his ass. I wondered how long he had wanted this, how many nights he had suffered at the hands of others wishing they were mine and thought my chest might split in half when the guilt and elation hit at the same time. Had he wanted me so badly that his desire had pushed him to seek out this sort of relief from others? How could I have been so blind? How could I have allowed this to happen and how in the hell could I deny him now? “Hiiro,” he whimpered when I stepped over the line and slipped a fingertip inside his heat. His voice trembled almost as much as he body and he couldn’t breathe well enough to maintain the fluid kisses he’d been drowning me in. I realized he had lost the battle with the tears when I turned him over and laid him on the couch and he chirped a frightened little surprise but I wouldn’t take him like the others had, like I had seen Wufei do. I wouldn’t give him the freedom to run and hide. He gave a token bit of resistance when I ripped that costume off of him. It came apart relatively easy testifying to the glitzy quality of it. “Hiiro,” he grumbled trying for cross but it came out a little less than petulant. “That was expensive…” “You don’t need it anymore,” I told him then gave him what he wanted. Me. It had been me all along and I’d been too damn stupid to understand but it came perfectly clear the moment I made him mine and I saw the crystalline joy in his eyes. All this time… it had been me his heart longed for. It felt so damn good to hold him I found I could even forgive Wufei his trespass. How anyone could have refused him was just beyond me but I took the time to reach past the costumes and cheap cologne until I was certain I was looking into the eyes of Duo himself when I pushed us over the edge. When the blood stopped rushing in my ears I was blessed with the sweet sound of his weeping, his voice whispering the deepest secrets of his heart as he declared his love for me over and over again. He held me so tight I was certain we would forever be one and for the first time in my life truly understood the concept of contentment. He was all I would ever need. He always had been. I pulled him into my lap because being beneath me in that stage seemed terribly oppressive and he clung to me all the harder. The chair in the room had a clothe throw on it that I managed to snag and wrap him up in and I might have started when the door suddenly opened as I had completely forgotten where we were but there didn’t seem to be the energy left for it. “Duo?” a hesitant voice asked. “Mr. Wellington has been waiting…” “Tell him he quit,” I growled and imagined my eyes had done something ominously scary because he backed out till he was peeking in nothing but a crack in the door. “Please?” I whispered to Duo and felt him shiver as my grip on him tightened in my desperation. “Tell them you quit. I can’t stand the thought of them…” “I don’t sleep with them,” he confessed and I felt a huge weight slide from my shoulders. “D…Duo?” “Get out!” I snarled and was a bit surprised by the sudden rage that made my foot kick out and send a small table crashing into the door. “I’m not a whore,” Duo explained, his tone soft so that I knew he understood how easy that misunderstanding could happen in this situation. “Tell me you won’t come back here,” I begged. “I can’t stand it when those men look at you that way. Tell me we can start over. Duo, please, no more,” I pleaded showering him with kisses, “No more dancing… no more Wufei…” He stiffened and jerked back to gape at me and I suddenly remembered he didn’t know I knew about that. “I saw him here,” I confessed. “Last night…” What was I supposed to say? There was so much going on in his eyes I couldn’t figure out what the hell he was thinking until they finally fell to my chest and I saw guilt and pain settle in. “He let me… pretend he was you,” he rasped, his voice cracking as the bitter shards of the confession were forced past his throat. I wanted more of an explanation but before the questions came clear the answers were already forming. Wufei had always cared for Duo on a deeply personal level. It wasn’t so hard to fathom that he would be agreeable to a physical relationship with him. He was also probably the closest thing to me Duo had available as far as personality went. He was also Asian, a huge factor in the physical aspect. I could almost imagine that if he closed his eyes he might be able to shift his reality just enough to bring his dream into view. It seriously rocked my world to think that dream had been me. “I am so sorry, Duo,” I whispered softly letting my hand brush gently over his hair as I held him close. “You needed me and I wasn’t there.” I couldn’t believe the pain that fact brought to my heart. “Please,” I begged brushing the bangs from his damp face. “Can we please just go home?” I thought my very soul would shatter when he looked at me with soulful eyes and replied, “I don’t have a home.” “Yes you do,” I smiled kissing him warmly. He curled into my lap and I held him for a time hoping against hope that he would choose the easy road because if he fought me it promised to be a long, hard battle. I’d never give up though; I’d make him see how much he meant to me no matter how long it took. There was a great sigh of relief from me when he finally sighed… “Let’s go home.” So I took him out of there. Several of the other dancers came to get in our way when they realized we were headed for the door but each one turned tail when they saw the danger in my eyes. The only one that kept coming was the owner and he looked none to sure about his own daring. One look at Duo seemed to change his path from stubborn protectiveness to hopeful indignation and he smiled excitedly when he asked. “Is that him?” Duo nodded a bit dopily, a silly grin on his face and I felt oddly like the cock of the walk knowing that he had confided my existence to this man. “Took you long enough,” Daddy smiled making way. “You take good care of him!” he called after us and I tossed a wave over my shoulder but neither one of us looked back. I ditched the throw when we got to the car in favor of my coat and left it lying in the parking lot. He sat for a time looking out the window and I felt something creeping between us that scared the living shit out of me so I reached over and took his hand. The action severed whatever it had been and he fairly collapsed against my side. “Hiiro?” “Hm?” I hummed happily resting my head on top of his. “Where do we live?” he asked making us both laugh out loud. I explained that our place, at the time, was a hotel room I’d procured while I was searching for him and we agreed to look for an apartment once things had settled. I still don’t know where he had been living; we never went there. He borrowed my clothes until we bought him some of his own and he never asked to return for any personal effects. We had walked away from that place together and he’d never looked back. The only discomfiture that followed was Wufei and I couldn’t have been more proud of either of them in how they dealt with the situation. They truly were very good friends and once I had returned their relationship fell back into an amiable consistency with little to no effort. I had a little trouble knowing Wufei had been with Duo in a way I never wanted anyone to touch him but me but considering my lack of presence I had to face up to the fact that at least he had been there. When Duo had needed me so badly and I hadn’t been around Wufei had stepped in and made sure he didn’t fall. My gratitude far outweighed whatever jealousy remained in my heart. It wasn’t long before he had taken a job as a pilot for a small currier company. The trips were short so he was home most of the time and sometimes I would go with him and we’d take little mini-vacations. I honestly thought I would lose my mind the first time he hit the autopilot on a return trip and attacked me in mid flight. The air is thinner up there heightening the senses and he took full advantage of it. We do that now and then now just because it feels so damn good. Inside of six months our lives had become something of a dream. Gone where the days of confusion; long past were the feelings of loneliness and dislocation. I had expected the quality, or at the very least, the frequency of our sexual relationship to slacken over time but the more I had of him the more I wanted. It was almost strange the way my love for him would overwhelm and then I just had to have him as close to me as possible. I wondered why it had taken me so long to understand as his skin glided under my touch once again. I couldn’t fathom there having been a time when my mind could have been so clouded that I couldn’t see the absolute adoration in his eyes. It came to me then, as I held him close and softly rocked him in the dark. It wasn’t enough just to understand how much I needed him, how deeply my love for him had rooted in my heart. That alone could never have brought me the peace I felt whenever he was by my side. It was the depth of emotion I saw when I gazed down upon him, so beautiful in the dim light of our bedroom, his body slick with sweat, his mouth opened just so in anticipation of my kiss. It wasn’t just that he was my whole world; it was the overwhelming knowledge that I was also his. True happiness comes when one is able to bring happiness to the ones they love. I cannot convey the joy it brought me to understand that his happiness was contingent upon my own. We balanced each other, fed on the delicate medley of emotions that we had created together and forged a life where neither of us was left wanting. They say true love isn’t easy but it is also utterly impossible to stop. I couldn’t comprehend how I could have missed that so long ago but I knew even as I coaxed him to the brink of reality, I would never, ever let it go again. owari :)
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