Disclaimer: The characters belong to Sotsu, Sunrise, Bandai Entertainment, I neither claim them nor certainly make any money off them!
Pairing: 6x2
Rating: Lemony in places
Time Setting: Post-series, three years later (minus events in Ground Zero, Blind Target, Endless Waltz as when I started this, I hadn't seen or read about these yet)
Summary: A chance meeting leads to the recovery of a wounded heart.
It was three days before they could return to C-241.
The funeral for Ezra Quinze took place the day after they arrived back on C-125, and a number of the former White Fang members attended along with Zechs, Duo, Heero and Trowa. Denis Unter and Danzer Quinze were there as well, under heavy guard. Zechs had had a long private talk with Danzer afterwards, telling the man what his father wanted him to hear. Danzer seemed calmer after that; Zechs wished him well, feeling compassion for the tortured soul of the man.
Heero and Trowa elected to remain a while on C-125. Heero had investigated into the possibility of adopting Judo, but colonial laws were such that he'd have to wait three more years until he was twenty-one. As Heero and Trowa were only just getting together as a couple, they realized they needed their own stability before taking on the responsibility for child-rearing. Together they decided to make C-125 their home base so they could still see Judo at Peacegarden. And living in the colonies would enable them to serve as better liaisons between the colony government and the Ministry of Outer Space.
Deener said good-bye to her new friends and went quietly with Zechs and Duo to return to her own home at C-241's Peacegarden. There was but one conversation about the future.
"Mr. Kausch did a search through some computer," Deener told them as they sat together having lunch in the central garden court after returning to Peacegarden on C-241. "He found my Aunt Liza and my Uncle Guy." She smiled brightly, though both men were looking at her closely, wondering. "They're here on C-241, isn't that great? I get to meet them tomorrow!"
"That's wonderful, Deener," Zechs murmured, smiling though his heart sank. [They'll adopt her - and they should,] he thought. [I'm not ready to adopt a child anyway, and Duo and I haven't been a couple very long... so why do I feel sad? This is best for her, to be with her own blood. It's best for us.]
"They better know how to play poker," Duo spoke up, giving her a mock scowl. He could see how disheartened Zechs was, and he had to admit it gave him a bit of a twinge, too. Deener was one special little girl.
Deener laughed, clapping her hands. "I'll teach 'em!" Then she sobered, reaching over and poking Zechs in the chest. "Papa Peace, I've got something big to say..."
"Yes?" Zechs murmured.
Two big, brown eyes were fixed on him, and suddenly they were windows into a much older soul. "I wanted you to adopt me, Papa Peace. You and Papa Duo."
"Yes," Zechs replied, automatically reaching over for Duo's hand, which he squeezed, needing the anchor. "We would have liked that."
"But that's not how it's meant to be," Deener insisted, tapping at his chest again. "You and Duo aren't even married yet!"
"Yeah, well, give us time," Duo murmured, then gave his lover a sidelong smirk. Zechs smiled back wanly.
"But you guys don't want a kid hanging around, especially now, DO you?" She asked this of Duo, whose eyes widened.
"How the HELL does she do that?"
"Deener," Zechs broke in gently, "we love you. We'd be proud to make a family with you."
The little girl just beamed. "That's great!! But I think I have a real family waiting for me, guys, one I'm actually related to. I love you both, but I feel sure I'm going to love them, too." Abruptly she threw her arms around Zechs's neck and hugged him. "Thanks, Papa Peace!"
"Mmmm, thank *you*, Deener," Zechs sighed, hugging her back. Then it was Duo's turn. She hugged "Papa Duo" then gave them each a quick kiss on the cheek and was running back into the building, waving good-bye madly, before they could stop her.
Duo brushed back the fallen platinum hair that veiled Zechs's face and gave him a longer kiss to the cheek. "Take me home, love," he murmured, straightening.
Once the door to Zechs's house was closed, Duo felt a tingling beginning within him, an excitement he'd kept leashed for so long. But unlike the first time he'd come here, he'd closed the door to see Zechs walking away from him, going to hang his coat away, then disappearing into the bedroom with his bag.
Duo was still just inside the door, his hands jammed into the pockets of his thin jacket. [Okay, so he's just tired. What, Maxwell, did you think he was going to carry you over the threshhold and into the bedroom to make mad, passionate love with you all night long?] He glanced around, looking the room over, but seeing nothing. [Yeah. I guess I did.]
"Duo?"
He looked up to see Zechs standing in the doorway of the bedroom, his shirt open and looking at him strangely. "Yeah?" Duo responded. [I'm supposed to read his mind, I guess. 'Not tonight, honey, I have a headache...']
"Come here, Duo," Zechs said quietly, leaning on the doorjamb.
Meekly he shuffled over, not even removing his jacket. "Listen, it's been a long day," Duo started to say, unable to look up yet. "It's okay, really. There's a bed in the other room, so..."
"You're not going to need that one," Zechs interrupted, his voice very soft.
[Oh, shit. I really liked how he said that,] Duo thought, getting a tingle again. "No?"
Zechs smiled. [He's adorable.] "No, if you remember, you're sleeping in my bed. With me. Although I have two requests. See if this meets with your approval."
"What's that?" Duo looked up, now standing close to him. [Fuck me, and then fuck me? I can handle that...]
"I want to take a shower alone," Zechs replied, reaching to cup the younger man's face with the palm of his hand. "And I want to wait until I'm rested before I ravish you properly."
[Damn!] "Sure, whatever you say, Heart," Duo murmured, and then yawned hugely, surprising himself.
Zechs chuckled. "You're as dead on your feet as I am, angel. Now, I could very well feel rested in the middle of the night, just to warn you..." He trailed off and smiled, caressing Duo's cheek with his thumb.
"Mmmm, I'll be ready!" Duo exclaimed, brightening up. Then, before Zechs could get away again, he maneuvered into his arms, getting his face inside the open shirt.
"I need a shower..."
"I don't care, you feel and smell wonderful whether you do or not," Duo purred, rubbing his cheek on Zechs's neck, though he had to reach on tip toe a little. "I love you so much, Heart, and I can't wait to make love with you. Can't we have a little nooky anyway?"
Zechs laughed and kissed Duo's hair. "Oh, I have no doubt something will happen. But I'm taking a shower right now." He peeled Duo from his body, still chuckling as he set him aside and turned to go into the large bathroom.
[YES!] Duo thought as he peeled off jacket and shirt finally, then remembered he had a nightshirt in his bag, which was still by the door. Humming to himself, he took it into the other room and took the rest of his clothes off, throwing them on the bottom of the empty closet, and fished out his one nightshirt. [No WAY am I sleeping with him in the nude, not if I'm not getting any,] he thought, then paused to glance around the room. [Wow, I'm really here to stay... in Zechs's place...]
In the shower, Zechs washed quickly and efficiently, an old habit from his days as a soldier, even taking the time to quickly wash his long hair. As he worked, he allowed one of the simmering voices to come back.
[So,] it began, skeptically, [you've let him in.]
[Yes,] Zechs thought with relief and joy, sighing as he rinsed off his back under the spray. [He's brought me out of the dark place to which I'd fled, the place where I didn't allow myself to see reality.]
[Oh. Like where I am.] The voice was cold, derisive.
[Something like that.] Zechs noted that he was fairly relaxed. It was just a voice, what could it do to him now?
[Convenient,] the voice sneered. [So, you've found a rather useful crutch. How fortunate for you.]
[Crutch?] Zechs frowned and leaned his head on the tile, the water beating on his back. [He's not my crutch. I love him and I want to marry him.]
[Marry!] The voice turned contemptuous. [You, married! How do you figure you deserve that? What of your atonement? How can you be so selfish!]
Zechs took a deep breath and resumed rinsing off. [I *am* atoning. I am no longer the man who committed those sins against the Earthsphere. I am as I was meant to be, a man of peace.] Another deep breath, slowly released. [Love isn't about deserving. I will thank God every day for the gift of Duo Maxwell in my life.]
It tried another tactic. [What about Noin? She *loved* you and you rejected her!]
Strangely, thinking about Noin no longer gave him a twitch. [I could not force myself to have feelings for her like that. She wouldn't want that, not if she understood. One day I will talk to her about that.]
[You've got an answer for everything, haven't you?] But the voice was growing fainter.
Zechs turned off the water and began to towel off. [No, I don't. But I have people around me now who might find answers with me.]
There was no response. Zechs put a hand over his heart. He was calm... no panic response. The voices had fled. He had no doubt they'd find excuses to come back from time to time, but he felt in his heart and in his being that somehow in the last couple days, he'd broken their control over him. It could have been Deener's breakthrough when meeting with Danzer Quinze... it could have been the old man gasping his last broken words for Zechs to share for him with his estranged son... or it could have been even the explosive consumption, each of the other, Duo and Zechs on the floor of the shuttle restroom. Something... shook them free.
[I'm healing well,] Zechs thought, bending over with a little smile as he rubbed his long hair dry. [I can feel again... and I feel now my deep love for Duo. Now... now I can love him.]
After brushing out his hair and donning a silk robe, he went in search of his lover. He found Duo sitting on the bed in the other room, wearing a voluminous black nightshirt that hung down to his knees. Droplets of water still beaded on his forehead and tendrils of hair from an impromptu shower taken in the guest room's private bath. Zechs sat down on the bed next to him. "We both smell a lot fresher," he observed mildly, picking up the tail of Duo's braid and sniffing it.
"Gimme that!" Duo exclaimed, yanking his braid back, but Zechs only pulled it gently free again from around the other side of Duo's back, his long arms effectively circling his little lover. "Um..." Duo tried to speak again, but Zechs was *very* close all of a sudden, his lips only inches from his.
"But I like the braid," Zechs purred, then kissed Duo's cheek tenderly. "I'd like to invite it to sleep with me. May I?"
Duo was breathing a little fast already, but he managed a smirk. "I'm it's manager. You gotta go through me, first."
"Through you?" Zechs looked sidelong at him with no little heat in his glance. "Is that anything like 'into' you? I'd like to do that very much..."
Duo's mouth went dry. [I'm being seduced!] he realized abruptly, wondering why he was so slow on the uptake. [I thought he was tired!] "Is that before or after you *rest*?" Duo asked, snickering.
The ice-blue eyes widened slightly. "The shower... was very restorative." A long-fingered hand slid up Duo's chest and undid the first two buttons on the nightshirt, then slipped inside. "I had a talk with myself, Duo."
[What is he... oh, shit... the voices again?] "Er, what did you say?" Duo asked, then gasped as fingertips pinched one nipple lightly. [Shit!]
Zechs whispered so that his breath could be felt on the other's skin. "I said that I am no longer the Milliardo Peacecraft who tried to destroy the Earth."
Duo felt a rush of adrenaline. [He...he's healing? Zechs, love...] "You... you said that, Heart?" he asked in a small voice, then hissed as the other nipple was fondled.
"Yes... because an angel made me face what I am now." Zechs pressed a little kiss to Duo's cheek, then again and again. "He persisted until I would open my eyes and see it for myself... accept myself. Accept the repentance I have already done... and not compound things by withholding the love in my heart from others... from him..."
"Oh, Zechs, love," Duo sighed, sliding his arm up his lover's as he turned to face him more. "I didn't do anything special. I just..."
"I know," Zechs interrupted, whispering close to his mouth now. "You were just Duo. I am a blessed man indeed, to have you beside me."
"Oh... oh!" Duo felt he was melting inside, hearing words that he'd ached to hear from his beautiful lover. "I'll always be here..."
Their mouths met at the same time, as they sought to express the fullness of their hearts in a soul-searing kiss. Their tongues tangled in a hot dance of passion, then Zechs pulled free, fixing Duo with a heated gaze as he gathered his little love into his arms and stood. "Time to really make you mine," he murmured, smiling.
Duo wriggled happily in his arms, making Zechs have to hold onto him tightly or else he'd go flying onto the floor. "Oh, and I'm so ready! Whooo-eeee! I'm gonna get laid for real tonight! Yes!"
Zechs laughed as he managed to carry his energetic lover into the master bedroom where he deposited him on his feet again. "First, this is coming OFF!" he exclaimed, already pulling the nightshirt up off Duo's body. Then, holding his gaze as Duo stood, a little unsure in his nudity, Zechs untied the belt of his own robe and slipped it off his shoulders, revealing himself to his lover as well.
Duo, playing with the tail of his braid, couldn't help but look the taller man up and down, appreciating his beauty. "Oh, fuck, but you're beautiful, Zechs," he sighed, feeling his own arousal surge. In fact, he could feel himself getting hard, just from viewing the tall, perfectly sculpted body of his lover. "I need you so badly... I need you inside me, baby..."
"You're beautiful as well, angel," Zechs murmured, one hand on Duo's shoulder, the other stroking him from throat to side to belly. "You've grown up into a fine man, you know..."
"I..." Duo gulped as Zechs pulled him in against his body. "I'm still too scrawny..." He gasped as he felt something hard against his belly - Zechs's long, hard erection.
"You'll always be perfect for me. I love how you fit against my body..." Zechs slipped a hand down to cup his buttocks as he maneuvered Duo's torso to fit tightly against his, his other arm circling and supporting his back. "Love to feel you..."
"Z...Zechs," Duo murmured, then arched his back as Zechs bent his head to suckle against the side of his neck, bringing the blood to the surface. "Oh, SHIT!"
"I don't even have you in bed yet," Zechs teased against his neck, chuckling. "I'll have to remedy that..." He let off tasting him in order to release him. "Do you want to be put in bed or can you get on it by yourself?"
"The fastest way," Duo laughed, and leaped onto the bed, landing in the middle on his back. Then he emitted an OOFF as Zechs followed immediately, putting his long body exactly where it had just been - entirely along the length of Duo, fitting in just as before. A shower of platinum followed. "Meeep!" Duo exclaimed and filled his hands with it as he hugged Zechs hard around the neck, eager to love and be loved.
With a low moan, Zechs captured Duo's mouth again, but wasn't content to merely kiss his angel, already rubbing his erection against Duo's. The younger man gasped into his lover's mouth, thrilling with the press of the larger body completely covering his. [He wants to consume me - he's not kidding! Oh, and I want it, all of it, all of him!] he cried internally, holding on tightly, pushing up against Zechs's erection as best as he was able.
Gasping, Zechs pulled his mouth free again. "I'm not crushing you, am I?" he asked between kisses to Duo's face, not pausing in his ministrations.
"N...no," Duo managed to reply, just holding on as his beautiful man loved him so attentively. "J...just don't stop..."
"Never going to stop loving you," Zechs murmured huskily, then began to run his tongue along Duo's jaw up to his ear, then down along the line of his neck.
"Ahhhh..." Duo moaned, throwing his head back. "N...never?" He still pushed against Zechs, wanting more stimulation.
"I'll give it a try," Zechs murmured against his throat, the deep, rich voice taking on a note of amusement. "Just tell me what you want."
"You, everything," Duo laughed. "But mostly..." He held his lover tight again, pressing his cheek against his. "Make love to me, really make love, Heart, inside me. I want you there, where you belong."
Zechs pressed his lips tenderly to Duo's ear, holding him just as tightly, rolling them over to their sides now. "I thought to relax you first... but you're ready for me, baby, aren't you? You need me now..."
Duo nodded, his heart thudding in his chest, but he knew he could wait no longer, he wanted to be joined with Zechs so badly! "Want you, Heart!" Eagerly he pushed against his lover, winding his top leg over Zechs's.
"Mmmm, I can see that, angel," Zechs replied, chuckling. "Now, let's get you ready for me." He slid his hand down to Duo's ass, then slipped a finger into his crack to press it against his entrance. At the same time he continued to press kisses against Duo's face and neck, unable to resist tasting as much of him as he could reach.
Duo arched his back, moaning. "Oh, God, yes, o...open me up for you, love..." Suddenly he wriggled wildly in Zechs's arms, overcome with arousal. "Shit! Need you so bad!"
His lover's excitement went straight to his groin. "You little demon!" he exclaimed, laughing, and sat up to avoid the writhing body making a mess of the bed. "I can't love you when you're all over the place, angel!" The moment Duo seemed to calm, Zechs pulled him into his arms again. "You have to relax... otherwise you'll just have to wait longer to feel me inside you, baby." He nuzzled Duo's ear, playfully nibbling on his earlobe. "I can relax you if you let me..."
"Huh?" Duo groaned as his earlobe was thoroughly tasted. "Man, you make me so hard, Zechs, shit!" He wriggled some more, though less vigorously. "How can I relax? I want you so bad!"
Long-fingered hands were gently pushing him onto his back. "This will relax you... and I'm hungry to taste you anyway, so..." With a wink of one crystalline blue eye beneath the spill of platinum tendrils around the man's face, Zechs levered himself into position beside the lower half of Duo's body and claimed the weeping arousal with his mouth.
"Yow, Zechs!" Duo exclaimed, almost throwing his lover off as he bucked his hips abruptly with the sudden enclosure of hot mouth around his erection. An arm pressed against his belly, then, holding him down. "Oh, shit, YES, hold me down and have your way with me," Duo gasped, loving the subtle control the older man exerted on him. Duo knew that he would also enjoy mutual lovemaking with Zechs, but right now he wanted to lose every scrap of control and give it all to his beautiful man, let the other play his body like an instrument! He reached back and grasped the iron spokes of the headboard as if he'd been tied to it. "Yes, YES!"
[He truly wants to give me everything,] Zechs thought, marveling as he concentrated on his task. [I want to let go and be just as wanton and eager with him, not holding back... I don't have to be afraid of hurting him...]
At last he let his desire guide him. Letting loose a low moan from the back of his throat, Zechs settled into sucking harder up and down the rigid length of Duo's erection. He slipped a hand beneath Duo and inserted a finger up his crack to his entrance, then carefully slipped it inside.
At the welcome intrusion, Duo threw his head back and opened his legs wider, aching to be entered, aching for the finger to move, become more, anything and everything. Zechs's avid sucking was bringing him rapidly to the brink, but the insertion of the man's finger effectively stripped any control Duo had left. With a low scream, Duo came into Zechs's throat, feeling as if his entire body was being drained of seed. Then he groaned as a mouth covered his again, kissing him with lots of tongue... and Duo grew hard again realizing Zechs was essentially feeding him himself.
Then Duo was left to pant and collapse as his legs were pushed up against his chest while Zechs worked on stretching his opening. "You... you're right, 'm relaxed," Duo muttered, blissed out on the flood of endorphins rushing through him. "Oh, fuck, you're so incredible and so hot..."
"You drive me wild," Zechs breathed harshly in his ear, then nuzzled against Duo's neck, suckling, as he continued to stretch the mostly pliant Duo's entrance. "I can't get enough of you," he added, then sucked on a fold of skin at Duo's neck to worry the blood to the surface.
[And I'm supposed to relax?] Duo had the incredulous thought, but in fact his body was relaxed after the orgasm, and he moaned as he felt himself opening wider, preparing to be entered. [How did he do that? His touch is incredible,] he thought, feeling completely vulnerable to his lover, his legs open wide, his head tilted to the side to expose his neck. It seemed like Zechs just instinctively knew where to touch him, how much, for how long, exactly what Duo needed to yield his body to him. [I know the guy has talents, but sheesh!]
Duo heard a whimper escape his throat as Zechs's fingers finally left his body. Then his beautiful blond lover was looming over him again, smiling, pride and happiness in his eyes. "It's time, angel. You still want me, baby?"
[SHIT!] he screamed in his own mind, deliriously happy. "You bet I want you! Now, please!" Duo begged, grinning. Then he laughed outright when he saw Zechs holding a tube of lubricant. "Where did you get *that*?"
"Oh, it's found its way under the pillow somehow... some time ago," the older man murmured with a secret smile. When he applied some of the gel to Duo's entrance, he hastily kissed the inside of the younger man's thigh when Duo wriggled a bit at the cold substance. "It'll be warmed up soon enough."
"No, it feels good. It's just a little weird," Duo sighed as his lover's fingers soothed the gel around. "I'm ready for you, Heart," he murmured, his voice going deeper and more quiet. "Please..."
The aching need in that voice struck deep into Zechs. "All you want, baby," he whispered as he slicked the gel on himself and positioned himself. "Relax and take me in, love..." Then, holding his breath, he slowly pressed the head of his cock into the softened opening.
Duo reached out blindly abruptly, and came into contact with Zechs's arm. Immediately he clasped his lover's wrist as Zechs did the same, making an easier connection between them as the more difficult one ensued. Holding on hard, Duo threw his head back and closed his eyes, concentrating on the incredible feeling of being entered and filled with his lover. There was a little discomfort as he adjusted, but no pain - and he could have cried at the thought of how carefully Zechs had prepared him for this.
He heard a sharp inhale and looked up quickly to see Zechs looking more wanton and beautiful than he'd ever seen him, his face relaxed into the planes of desire, the ice blue eyes slits, lips parted, platinum hair spilled like raw silk over the man's face and shoulders. With a shock, Duo realized belatedly that Zechs was fully within him now, and a whimper escaped him. They'd done it!
Releasing his lover's wrist, Zechs leaned far over Duo, adjusting his position so he remained within while laying on him enough that he could kiss him. After a second whimper was emitted, Zechs took his angel's mouth lovingly, soothing by caressing Duo's tongue with his. Only when he felt Duo beginning to calm again did he begin to move a little within him.
[We did it, my beautiful, gorgeous Heart is inside me!] Duo was still crying, and indeed his eyes were moist as he filled his hands with satiny white hair and hung on, feeling no less like his body was remade to mold around the hard length of his man's erection. He seemed to be incapable of anything but whimpers and little needy noises, especially after Zechs started kissing him again. [I'm yours, body, soul, mind, spirit,] he thought, feeling his heart burst with joy to be so connected with his wonderful lover.
Then they broke the kiss, gasping as Zechs moved in and out in earnest, beginning a smooth rhythm of pumping. "So hot, so tight," Zechs moaned, the fire within him fueled hotter by the frantic pulling on his hair and Duo's continual symphony of needy noises. The need to consume, to possess, rose up strong within the older man. He wanted nothing more than to pound away in a hot frenzy of lust, but love tempered the fever into reason and a return of his powerful sense of protection and nurturing. His own physical ache for Duo was thus melded with his equally strong intent to make this an intensely loving experience for the beautiful and giving young man in his arms. "Duo... my Duo, my angel," he cried as he thrust in the same smooth, deep rhythm, his heart full.
"M...more, need more, Heart," Duo gasped, throwing his arms hard around the man's neck, his hands still clasping thick satin lengths of platinum hair. "F...faster..."
"Love you, little angel," Zechs managed in a choked voice as he increased his tempo, stealing kisses where he could to cheek, mouth, ear, jaw, throat, trying to use every part of his body he could to show his angel how deeply he loved him. "Love you forever, sweet angel..."
The endearments melted Duo all the more, and his tears of joy fell unabashedly. "Love you, Zechs..." Then as a slight shift in angle of penetration caused a bright bloom of pleasure to erupt within him, Duo was pushed past coherency into moaning.
"My angel!" Zechs groaned against Duo's neck as he licked and suckled on his skin, his thrusting growing more frenzied. "Duo!" he cried as he came finally, his whole body shaking with the power of his orgasm. Still he thrust, needing to push Duo over the edge as well. Zechs, breathing hard, shifted back onto his folded knees and clasped Duo's weeping hardness to stroke him, still thrusting even as he softened. "Come for me, baby!"
It only took a handful of strokes and Duo was crying out Zechs's name and spurting onto his belly. Zechs, thrilled and relieved and happy all at once, felt the joy explode between them, and he collected Duo back up in his arms again, holding him tight while they both subsided. The older man couldn't kiss Duo enough, and though Duo was trying to catch his breath, he had to deal with Zechs kissing his mouth, and all over his face, then his mouth again. "Oh, God, Heart, that was magnificent," Duo groaned as a last shudder shook him. "You're so good... no, make that incredibly fantastic!"
"My little angel man," Zechs cooed, petting and kissing avidly. "Love you so much..."
[Oh, God, this man is too much,] Duo thought happily, getting his own caresses and kisses in now as he came back to himself. [I've died and gone to heaven above, whoooo!] "I'm getting you royally sticky, my prince," he teased, playing with Zechs's hair.
"Sticky for you is perfectly acceptable," Zechs replied, smiling more openly and easily now. "And you really don't have to refer to my former heritage..."
"But I will," Duo insisted, rubbing a soft piece of the thick, satiny platinum hair against his cheek. "You may not have a kingdom to be king or prince to any longer, love, but I would take you as my royal prince. To rule me..."
Zechs pulled away just enough to look down into those wide, cobalt eyes. [He's serious... he believes in me that much. Is his belief misplaced?] He waited to see if one of his voices was going to speak up, but there was nothing, to his relief. Slowly he smiled. "I would be honored to be the caretaker and king of your heart, my angel."
Duo's face brightened up like a thousand stars. [He's accepted! The old Zechs would have said he wasn't worthy or some shit like that.] "Oh, yes, my Heart, my King!" he exclaimed, hugging Zechs's neck tightly. "I love you!"
"And I love you, sweet angel," Zechs murmured, sighing his happiness.
Suddenly Duo had released him and was squirming to get out from under Zechs. "Whooo, I'm a mess," he declared, sitting up and smearing his fluids on his belly with a finger. "Ha, ha, so are you!" he laughed as Zechs levered up as well. "I can fix that!" And before Zechs could grab him, Duo bounced up and ran to the bathroom for a washcloth.
Shaking his head and chuckling softly, Zechs mused that he more than had his hands full with the ebullient Duo Maxwell.