December 24th, AC 197
Duo Maxwell gaped at the person standing in front of his door. No... it can't be.... It _can't_ be.... It can't be HER!!!
"Good afternoon, Duo-kun." Relena Peacecraft greeted him with her usual calmness.
Quickly, Duo put back his usual carefree grin and made a surprised exclaim. "Relena-sama! Long time no see! Well, at least I did see you in the TV often." He forced out a flawless fake snicker. "It really surprise me to see you here. What brings you to my humble hoot?" Surely not to hound for Heero, 'cause she damn sure knows he's not here. He suppressed the urge to throttle her at once.
There was a brief pause before the European girl stated, "Are you going to let me in or just let me freeze out here?"
I'll be gladly. "Oh, pardon me for being impolite, Your Highness. Please, come in." Duo opened the door wider for her.
Relena walked into the small house. She took off her pink coat and gave it to Duo. He put it on the hook wishing silently that he could just burn it to ash.
"What do you wanna drink?" He asked as she sat on the red sofa after putting away some clothing and magazines off it. "Coke? Pepsi? You don't drink beer, right? Well I don't have any champagne or bourbon around but-"
"I come here all the way from my place not for a drink, Duo-kun." She cut his words.
"Oh, is that so?" Somehow he wasn't very surprised. "So what is it about?"
"You and Heero." She went right to the point.
Duo made a nervous laugh. "Oh, him and I! What do you want to know? Our best way to pull out a blow back at the war? Our philosophies of peace and war? What? I'm surprised you didn't ask about his favorite food or his hobbies instead."
"How is you relationship with him?"
He exclaimed a fake happy tone. "Him? He's the best friend I ever have!! He's always there to shoot me on the head, to jump from a tall building with no parachute," He laughed at his own apparently failed attempt of joke. "He never let me down." At least never but once... when he decided to be your bodyguard!
"You well know what I mean, Duo-kun." She shot him a look.
At that point Duo was ready for a fight. Cat fight, gunfight, arm to arm combat, whatever the girl was up too.
Relena noticed this. She stared at him skeptically before she suddenly made an exasperated sigh. "Duo Maxwell. _You_ are one big idiot."
Duo blinked. "...Excuse me?"
She rested a palm on her chin and smirked, "Let me guess. You think I come here to say 'Duo Maxwell, keep your filthy hands off my Heero Yuy,' and put out war toward you, no?"
He blinked dumbly. Automatically his head nodded its affirmation.
Relena's shoulder was shaking. Holding up for a while, she finally couldn't take it anymore. She laughed, still in her polite way by cupping his hand to her mouth, out of control nevertheless.
Duo sweatdropped. Is she raving bonkers or something?
She stopped laughing although the giggle was still there. "Duo-kun.... *gasp* *giggle* You, you really bought it, didn't you?" She giggled more.
Now Duo was _reaaaaaally_ confused now. "Excuse me?! I still don't get it!" He yelled exasperatedly.
Relena giggled louder. "Gods!! *gasp* I never laughed this much before!! *gasp* *giggles* This is hilarious!!"
"I give up...." He muttered weakly. He sweatdropped at the sight of a giggling Relena hitting the sofa arm. "Explain!"
"Duo-kun, in this two years, why don't you just tell him your feelings?" Relena was back to normal.
"My feelings?" The braided boy was angry now. First the girl had snatched Heero away from him, then after a year she came here uninvited, interrogating him, making him confused, and now asking why he hadn't tell his feeling to the man he loved?!!
"How could I?! _You_ were always hounding him like a tracking dog, _you_ flirted around him all the time, you even _took_ him away!! How do you expect me to compare myself to the Queen of the World who has namely _everything_?! All that power, money, life style. How can I tell him that I love-" He clamped his mouth shut as realized his out burst. He had promised himself ever since Heero had left that he would never let anyone know that he, Duo Maxwell, loved the Perfect Soldier with all his heart.
Relena had been grinning wider and wider at every word he said. But he saw that it was not the grin the devil wore as it played at its toy.
It's the satisfied grin he himself had when he had finally managed to fool Chang Wufei into confessing his love to Sally Po. He had dared Wufei to confess that he loved her in the New Year party last year. He had refused to at the first, but when Duo had said that he had been coward to deny his feelings, the Chinese boy had enraged and shouted, "Fine! I _do_ love Sally! Are you happy now?!" He had been very embarrassed when he had realized that the whole people had been staring at him sweatdropping, including the blushing furiously Sally.
Duo gaped. "Re... Relena.... You can't be... can you?"
The girl shrugged, giving him a sly look. "Well, I don't know, do I?" She got up and reached to her coat. Duo followed her like an idiot to the door. She stopped right before it and glanced back to him. "You know, I came here with a gift."
"A... gift...?" He echoed dumbly.
She winked and opened the door.
Standing there with a mischievous smirk was Heero Yuy.
"Heero?!!" Duo was really REALLY surprised this time.
Heero glanced at the Peacecraft girl. "Well?"
She winked. "Ninmu kanryou."
"Sou ka...." Heero threw his glance toward the American who's now blushing.
"Now that I finished my mission, it's time for me to get scarce, ne?" Relena teased before she closed the door behind her, leaving the two boys alone in the room.
Heero's smirk hadn't gone yet. He walked closer to the stunned boy. "So... you do love me?"
"No! Yes! No!" Panicked, Duo stammered. He suddenly realized that answering 'no' would be a lie. So he corrected quickly, "Yes!" He blushed again furiously as he saw Heero's smirk gone wider.
"Well, then. Shall we?
Duo yelped as Heero pounced on him and started opening his buttons....
"So? How's it going?" The boy asked as Relena entered the limousine.
"Oh, according to plan," she answered.
"You have planned this for a long time. What made you think it'd really work?"
Relena rolled her eyes. "I was here and there ever since they first met, remember? I'm not that stupid to see the chemistry between them." She mockingly emphasized the 'chemistry' word. "_You_ saw that too."
He smiled softly. "But I'm not crazy enough to fool Duo around like you did. He threw tantrum every time he met you, you know. You should have been an actress instead of a Queen."
"I know," she giggled. "But at least a 'bitchy' Queen invites less enemy." She leaned closer as the car started to run. "So, where are we going now?"
"Un... Trowa's place? My youngest sister Maria must be there."
"Okay, Quatre...."
~owari~
Hime D.