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GW -- complication (1x2x5) tidbit 3 of ?
What I wrote today. Am still writing. Just want feedback.
Heero woke up when a seagull started calling overhead. On his right, Wufei's sleeping bag was rolled neatly, the place it had occupied empty. On his left, Duo groaned and turned on his side vigorously, apparently trying to bury himself in his sleeping bag to smother the screeching, and ended up headbutting Heero's biceps.
"Ow," he informed Duo in a mild tone.
"Huh?" Duo looked up, blinking owlishly. There was sand on his cheek and temple, close enough to get in his eye. Heero flicked it away quickly because Duo was still too sleepy to realize and had a habit of rubbing at his face when he woke up, and Heero didn't feel like using up half his bottle of drinking water to rinse it out.
"Uh."
"Sand. There."
"Oh. Thanks."
Duo was not witty in the morning. But the seagull seemed to want to compensate. And its voice was a lot louder and shriller. No way to go back to sleep now.
"Stupid bird," growled Duo as he sat up, predictably rubbing his face with the heels of both hands. "Sunrise yet?"
Heero looked at the sky through the net, since he couldn't see the horizon from here. "Not yet. Soon."
Duo started stretching, arms over his head, then arching his back like a cat. "Wanted to see the sunrise over the sea. Just need to go over the cliff-- ahh. Crap."
Heero looked, and noticed that the tide had come in. The waves were now lapping at the dune on which they'd lit their campfire. The reefs were all under the water. There would be a few ways out if Duo felt like scaling the cliffs, but if he'd counted on just walking out of the cove through the shallow water, he was out of luck.
"You can swim here and climb there," he commented, pointing a path to Duo that would bring him quickly to flatter ground.
Duo grinned at him as he squirmed out of his sleeping bag. "Hey, good idea. Want to come with? Come on, it'll be real neat, I bet you've never bothered watching a sunrise since you came on Earth." Well... Duo was right, he hadn't. But -- "And I know and you know that we can't do anything until we receive the spare parts and that won't be before this afternoon at the soonest. So you have nothing better to do than come with me."
Heero sighed. Duo would not take no for an answer. He didn't see what was so fascinating about sunrises -- now sunsets sometimes had interesting, reddish colors, and he would enjoy them on the side if he happened to be out when they happened, but sunrises were clearer, colder -- oh, whatever. Unless Wufei needed him for something, he really had nothing better to do.
"Ah-- fine, if only to make sure you won't fall and drown."
He followed Duo out of the tent and, straightening up, looked around for their teammate. At first, he didn't see him, and assumed that he was in the cave with his Gundam, and then he turned around and caught a glimmer in the shadows of the cliff. Wufei was sitting there, a dozen meters away, sitting cross-legged in the sand with his hands on his knees, and Heero would have assumed that he was meditating, except that he was watching them.
Heero had never been very good at reading moods, but Wufei's were usually easy because they were more often than not holding a part of anger or passion. But right now, he was entirely unreadable. He chanced a greeting nod anyway, but was only met by a faint worsening of the ever-present frown, and the black eyes didn't warm up any.
"Yo, Wu! We're gonna climb over that. Be back in twenty minutes or so."
Wufei didn't answer, only scowled more and closed his eyes, dismissing them. Duo shrugged and started toward the edge of the water.
"Better leave your shoes, 'Ro," he advised when he noticed Heero picking them up. "If we're gonna swim, they'll be a pain to move with and they'll take ages to dry."
Heero eyed the edges of the rocks warily, but didn't comment. If he cut his feet on shells or stone, he'd heal. The biggest danger they would face there was falling and breaking a leg, and having shoes or not wouldn't change that.
The water was cold, but not unbearably so. He waded after Duo, watching where he stubbed his toes on underground rocks to avoid treacherous ground. Catching on to what he was doing, Duo splashed water at him, but he was laughing at the same time, so Heero only smirked smugly back and kept following.
"You're an opportunistic little shit," Duo commented after he had to stumble twice into holes and got wet up to his chest before he could find a correct route.
"As if you didn't know," Heero replied dryly. He'd taken off with Deathscythe's parts after all.
"I had forgiven you! But you choose to persist in your evil ways -- whoa!"
Heero tried not to react for all of two seconds, then let his smirk bloom. That little dance with gravity had been quite entertaining.
"See if you laugh when it's your turn to walk on something! I don't even know what that was, yuck..."
Duo kicked at the seaweed around his legs to clear his path a little and stomped off -- as well as you could stomp waist-deep in water -- toward the little ledge on the cliff. Heero cautiously stayed out of range as Duo started to climb, but as he didn't seem to be annoyed any longer, he followed.
That had been a bad idea, seeing as the first thing Duo did when Heero had his hands on the ledge and his body finally out of the water was to plant a dripping, bare foot quite solidly in the middle of his chest and push.
"That's for being dryer than me, you bastard!"
Trying to keep a hold of the cliff or Duo's foot would have ended up with lots of shred skin, so he let go, falling back in the water with a loud splash. Duo was laughing when he resurfaced. He'd have to dunk him when he got the chance, the cheeky brat was still relatively dry from his shoulders up. But for now, he accepted the hand Duo gave him as a peace offering... if only because Duo was braced quite solidly with the rest of his body and he couldn't pull him down. Revenge would wait for the next occasion.
Heero woke up when a seagull started calling overhead. On his right, Wufei's sleeping bag was rolled neatly, the place it had occupied empty. On his left, Duo groaned and turned on his side vigorously, apparently trying to bury himself in his sleeping bag to smother the screeching, and ended up headbutting Heero's biceps.
"Ow," he informed Duo in a mild tone.
"Huh?" Duo looked up, blinking owlishly. There was sand on his cheek and temple, close enough to get in his eye. Heero flicked it away quickly because Duo was still too sleepy to realize and had a habit of rubbing at his face when he woke up, and Heero didn't feel like using up half his bottle of drinking water to rinse it out.
"Uh."
"Sand. There."
"Oh. Thanks."
Duo was not witty in the morning. But the seagull seemed to want to compensate. And its voice was a lot louder and shriller. No way to go back to sleep now.
"Stupid bird," growled Duo as he sat up, predictably rubbing his face with the heels of both hands. "Sunrise yet?"
Heero looked at the sky through the net, since he couldn't see the horizon from here. "Not yet. Soon."
Duo started stretching, arms over his head, then arching his back like a cat. "Wanted to see the sunrise over the sea. Just need to go over the cliff-- ahh. Crap."
Heero looked, and noticed that the tide had come in. The waves were now lapping at the dune on which they'd lit their campfire. The reefs were all under the water. There would be a few ways out if Duo felt like scaling the cliffs, but if he'd counted on just walking out of the cove through the shallow water, he was out of luck.
"You can swim here and climb there," he commented, pointing a path to Duo that would bring him quickly to flatter ground.
Duo grinned at him as he squirmed out of his sleeping bag. "Hey, good idea. Want to come with? Come on, it'll be real neat, I bet you've never bothered watching a sunrise since you came on Earth." Well... Duo was right, he hadn't. But -- "And I know and you know that we can't do anything until we receive the spare parts and that won't be before this afternoon at the soonest. So you have nothing better to do than come with me."
Heero sighed. Duo would not take no for an answer. He didn't see what was so fascinating about sunrises -- now sunsets sometimes had interesting, reddish colors, and he would enjoy them on the side if he happened to be out when they happened, but sunrises were clearer, colder -- oh, whatever. Unless Wufei needed him for something, he really had nothing better to do.
"Ah-- fine, if only to make sure you won't fall and drown."
He followed Duo out of the tent and, straightening up, looked around for their teammate. At first, he didn't see him, and assumed that he was in the cave with his Gundam, and then he turned around and caught a glimmer in the shadows of the cliff. Wufei was sitting there, a dozen meters away, sitting cross-legged in the sand with his hands on his knees, and Heero would have assumed that he was meditating, except that he was watching them.
Heero had never been very good at reading moods, but Wufei's were usually easy because they were more often than not holding a part of anger or passion. But right now, he was entirely unreadable. He chanced a greeting nod anyway, but was only met by a faint worsening of the ever-present frown, and the black eyes didn't warm up any.
"Yo, Wu! We're gonna climb over that. Be back in twenty minutes or so."
Wufei didn't answer, only scowled more and closed his eyes, dismissing them. Duo shrugged and started toward the edge of the water.
"Better leave your shoes, 'Ro," he advised when he noticed Heero picking them up. "If we're gonna swim, they'll be a pain to move with and they'll take ages to dry."
Heero eyed the edges of the rocks warily, but didn't comment. If he cut his feet on shells or stone, he'd heal. The biggest danger they would face there was falling and breaking a leg, and having shoes or not wouldn't change that.
The water was cold, but not unbearably so. He waded after Duo, watching where he stubbed his toes on underground rocks to avoid treacherous ground. Catching on to what he was doing, Duo splashed water at him, but he was laughing at the same time, so Heero only smirked smugly back and kept following.
"You're an opportunistic little shit," Duo commented after he had to stumble twice into holes and got wet up to his chest before he could find a correct route.
"As if you didn't know," Heero replied dryly. He'd taken off with Deathscythe's parts after all.
"I had forgiven you! But you choose to persist in your evil ways -- whoa!"
Heero tried not to react for all of two seconds, then let his smirk bloom. That little dance with gravity had been quite entertaining.
"See if you laugh when it's your turn to walk on something! I don't even know what that was, yuck..."
Duo kicked at the seaweed around his legs to clear his path a little and stomped off -- as well as you could stomp waist-deep in water -- toward the little ledge on the cliff. Heero cautiously stayed out of range as Duo started to climb, but as he didn't seem to be annoyed any longer, he followed.
That had been a bad idea, seeing as the first thing Duo did when Heero had his hands on the ledge and his body finally out of the water was to plant a dripping, bare foot quite solidly in the middle of his chest and push.
"That's for being dryer than me, you bastard!"
Trying to keep a hold of the cliff or Duo's foot would have ended up with lots of shred skin, so he let go, falling back in the water with a loud splash. Duo was laughing when he resurfaced. He'd have to dunk him when he got the chance, the cheeky brat was still relatively dry from his shoulders up. But for now, he accepted the hand Duo gave him as a peace offering... if only because Duo was braced quite solidly with the rest of his body and he couldn't pull him down. Revenge would wait for the next occasion.
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Now. Write more!
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Wufei: jealous? The fact that I want to shag both and would be quite annoyed if they abandoned me to shag each other doesn't make me jealous.
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*pokes you* Write more! It's driving me mad(der), only getting the story in bits and pieces like this!
I'd like to see Wufei pushed so far he just starts grabbing and kissing
and gropingwhenever either of them gets too close. Like if Duo tried to make peace with him, while Heero was taking care of some business and was conveniently out of earshot... *smirks*no subject
*posts another tidbit*
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One thing I've noticed and I've always liked in your fics: You call Heero " 'Ro " and not some disgusting variation of "Hee-chan" or something. ^_^