04-Sep-2000
Category: Sap, Shonen-ai
Rating: PG
Pairings: 3+4
Warnings: None
Feedback: C&C
Notes: Feeling sappy. Sorry. Very loosely based on an R.E.M. song called Nightswimming from the album, Automatic For The People. It's not exactly a songfic since I only use one line from the song.
Also '--denotes thoughts--'
Disclaimer: Gundam Wing and its characters belongs to Bandai, Sunrise and Sotsu Agency and are only being used for non profit entertainment purposes.
Trowa drove through a small town. He felt the town was familiar to him. Of course, he often thought that since as a former Gundam pilot he had visited or lived in many places. A quick glance down at the picture on his dashboard confirmed that he had indeed been in this town before.
F L A S H B A C K
Trowa and Quatre were driving to their next safe house. They had just picked up supplies to last the pilots for a few weeks before Quatre spotted a lake nearby.
"Trowa! Pull over!"
Trowa jumped. "What?"
"Look! There's a lake. Let's go swimming!" Quatre smiled.
"If you haven't noticed, it's hardly a secluded area," Trowa pointed out.
"Come on. It's night and there doesn't seem to be anyone around at the moment," Quatre said and he started turning the steering wheel closer to the lake, in spite the fact that Trowa was the person actually driving.
"Quatre!" Trowa nearly squeaked as he found himself wrestling with the steering wheel. "Okay, okay," he conceded as he finally parked on a dirt road close to the water.
Quatre hopped out of the car and began stripping. Trowa shook his head in amazement.
"Trowa! Let's go!"
Trowa got out of the car and followed the bouncing boy down to the water's edge. He also began to disrobe but not with as much enthusiasm. "Quatre, I don't think skinnydipping so close to town is such a great idea."
"Ah, Trowa, what's the worse they can do? Give us a fine? Parade us naked in the street? Say, now that's an idea," Quatre laughed.
"Quatre!" Trowa was thankful it was nightfall, otherwise Quatre would have seen the blush. The moon was full in the sky making Quatre's skin shimmer in the moonlight.
SPLASH!
"Trowa, the water feels great. Hurry up!"
"Quite yelling, you'll wake the whole town," Trowa said, before jumping in the water himself.
The water felt soothing and cool on this quiet August night. As Trowa continued to stay submerged, he marveled how the water felt like a silky embrace all over his body. He continued his submersion for a second longer before coming to the surface. He saw Quartre looking for him slightly alarmed, so he submerged again and resurfaced inches from Quatre.
"Boo."
"Trowa! You know I hate when you do that. Some of us weren't born dolphins you know!" He forgave Trowa with a quick kiss.
They swam and played for what seemed like hours, before they decided they had better get to the safe house.
"I'm sure Duo is starving by now, don't you think?" Quatre laughed, as they walked back to the car.
Trowa chuckled. "I suspect you're right."
Quatre tossed his shoes in the backseat and heard a clunk. He looked in the back and spotted a polaroid camera. "Trowa, how about a picture? Looks like Duo left one of his cameras here."
"You know I hate being in pictures," Trowa sighed.
"Please?"
"It's night. It probably won't even come out."
"I don't care. Come on," Quatre said as he pulled the taller boy to him and pointing the camera at them.
Trowa started to slouch down so they both could be in the picture, with the small town in the background.
E N D - O F - F L A S H B A C K
Trowa was looking at that picture. He couldn't contain his smile. The image of two wet boys, one blond smiling broadly and one brunet looking morose. Not really remorse. The morose looking one doesn't completely hide the glint of contentment in his emerald eyes.
He drove over to the lake. The water was full of people of varying ages splashing about and laughing. The moon was full, not unlike that night so many years ago. But this was not quite the same. He smiled ruefully to himself and thought, 'Nightswimming deserves a quiet night.'
He turned the car around and continued his travels alone.
OWARI
(:./babaca/nightswim)
