7 Aug 2003
Title: Coming Home
Author: Shi-chan (keira_chan1x2@yahoo.com or reverie@come-september.org or
ald2x@mtsu.edu)
Pairings: 1+2
Warnings: slight shounen ai
Categories: fluff
Archive: my site (http://forgeries.absolute-terror.net/), GWA (under Willow), others just ask.
Summary: After years being away, Heero returns home.
Author's note: Hi minna! I just wanted to say I'm back (hopefully for good) and here's a gift to you, Heero's return, much like my own. :)
I've been gone so long, but nothing's changed.
You're still the crazy idiot who piloted the dreaded Deathscythe during the wars. Only you're sadder now.
Did I stay away too long?
Did I hurt you too much?
I've changed, Duo. I'm not the same cold bastard who 'hn'ed at your jokes, or glared at you for rambling... well, maybe I am. But not so much anymore. I can joke, and laugh, and smile... and love.
I've learned so much while I was gone. Mostly about myself...
I learned that I missed hearing your voice chattering on while I typed. I missed the mess you left on the bathroom counter -- you did that just to annoy me, I know, because your house is so neat and tidy. I missed the way you'd touch me, ever so carefully, making it as casual or accidental as possible, everwhile it was so intimate of a gesture for you. You don't touch anyone else the same way, with such reverence.
But most of all, Duo, I missed you.
I missed waking up on one of those rickety little dorm beds and looking across the small space to drink in your sleeping form. I missed watching you as you dreamed. You. I missed you.
But I'm finally home, Duo.
I'm finally back.
For good.
And I've wanted to tell you for so long.
I know you love me, Duo.
I can see it in your eyes, even now. I hurt you so much when I left. And sorry isn't nearly enough to make up for that pain.
I wish I could erase all those tears you've cried, wipe them away and keep them from coming back. I want to reach out to you and caress you like you have always done me... so tenderly, so worshipful. But I don't want to make my caress seem like an accident, Duo. I want you to know that it's real, that it means I care, that it means...
I love you, Duo.
Tadaima.
Owari ~
(:./willow/coming)
