Pairings: 6x2 (primary), also 1x3 (just in chapter 1)
Disclaimer: The characters belong to Sotsu, Sunrise, Bandai Entertainment, I neither claim them nor certainly make any money off them!
Rating: Lemony in places
Archive: "Orphans" is at "Tresses: The 6x2 ML Archive" at: http://6x2ml.cjb.net/ (This story will be archived there as well.)
Time Setting: Post-series, three years later (minus events in Ground Zero, Blind Target, Endless Waltz as when I started "Orphans", I hadn't seen or read about these yet)
Summary: Zechs and Duo are planning to get married.
Note: The vast bulk of this was written well over a year ago, all but chapter six. Just FYI.
Just as Zechs reached to pull his fiance against his body once Relena and Quatre had left to pick out flowers, the phone rang.
"Don't answer it," Duo moaned as his slipped his hands up the hard, muscled back of his tall lover.
"I should," Zechs replied reluctantly. "It could be something regarding the wedding..."
"Take a message or tell them Relena will get back to them!" Duo called after as Zechs went to the kitchen area to answer the phone.
"Hello?" Zechs inquired.
"Zechs?" a woman's voice responded. "I don't know if you even know who I am, but... my name is Sally Po."
Frowning, Zechs shrugged as Duo joined him. "Sorry, I don't know any 'Sally Po'..."
"Gimme that!" Duo exclaimed suddenly and took the phone from him. "Sal!" he said into the phone with easy friendliness. "How the hell are you? Did someone get in touch with you? I didn't know where you were to let you know... this is about the wedding, right?"
"Yes!" Sally laughed, then pouted to match the expression on her husband's face as he gave her a look. "Someone sent us an invitation - but I wanted to check with you guys personally. Ah, Duo... you're really getting married to... Zechs?"
[Here we go,] Duo thought grimly. He hated having to explain the "new" Zechs to everyone he'd known in the war. Howard had been bad enough, though the old scientist and Zechs had made peace between them. "I am... you got a problem with that? You don't know him now..."
"Er, no, I guess I don't..." Sally answered honestly. "I was hoping it was someone's bad joke, but apparently this is legitimate. So you're saying he's changed?"
Duo counted to five before answering. Sensing his tension, Zechs hit the speaker button so he could listen in. Unbeknownst to them, Wufei on the other end was doing the same. Duo responded finally. "You know, no one's twisting your arm to come or even support us. Look... I'm not going to bust my butt trying to convince you that this relationship is the best thing that ever happened to either of us. I'm damn tired of doing that, actually."
"Duo..." Sally was taken aback by the ex-pilot's vehemence. "Um, I had no idea..." Beside her, Wufei was eyeing the phone warily, his black eyes narrowed in suspicion. Something wasn't right here, he was sure of it.
"Sorry, Sal, don't mean to be so defensive," Duo went on, lightening up his tone of voice automatically. "Sheesh, the war is over, you know what I mean? Water under the bridge, that sort of thing. Come if you want, watch us make goofy eyes at each other, and eat the finest damn steak dinner ever at the reception. Or not. Up to you, Sally Po!"
"Thank you, Duo," Sally responded, subdued. She was confused -one minute Duo was almost angry, and the next moment he was airy and breezy. Same old Duo... but Wufei looked like he wanted to bite something in half. "Well, we're here in the colonies - it would be great to see you again, Duo... and we'd love to meet your man."
Duo sagged back against Zechs in relief. "Hey, that's super! We'll all have a great time. Well, I can vouch for the food, but Relena just got in today, and... heh, who knows what else will be going on, eh?"
[Relena's there?] Sally thought. Wufei stalked away. "Oh, sure, Duo," Sally responded. "Well, we look forward to seeing you on the 22nd!"
"Sure thing, doll. See ya!" Duo hung up the phone, frowning. "That was sure strange."
"She said 'we'," Zechs pointed out, wrapping his arms around him. "Sounds like she's married."
Duo clasped the arms holding him gratefully. "Heh, she's quite a catch. Say, damn it... I forgot to ask her if she knows where Wufei is!"
Zechs did not respond but kissed Duo's hair instead. He couldn't help the mental association that the name "Wufei" always brought to mind. He regretted nothing about the war more than the fact that Treize Khushrenada had died. And Chang Wufei was forever linked to that unpleasant fact, having delivered the killing blow to Treize's mobile suit with his Gundam's beam trident. [Treize would have understood what Duo and I have,] he thought solemnly. [Even if there had never been anything between Treize and myself, we had been very good friends... until the miserable necessities of war drove us apart... I think he would have understood about Duo...]
"Zechs?" Duo murmured after a moment, wondering why his lover was so quiet. When there was no answer, Duo squirmed free and turned around to face him. He looked up in wonder to see his lover's solemn expression. "Zechs, what? Don't tell me you've got voices..."
"No voices," Zechs murmured, laying hands on Duo's shoulders. "I was just thinking about Treize. I think he would have been glad you found me."
[Oh, shit, he shouldn't be thinking about *him*...] Duo slipped his arms around his lover's waist. "Whatever. So, where were we before we got so rudely interrupted?" He reached up to press eager kisses against Zechs's neck and chin.
To his surprise and joy, Zechs collected him up against his body and took his mouth for a deep kiss in response. In seconds their desire became urgent, their tongues twining in a dance of passion. Somehow Duo landed on his knees in one moment, and in the next, Zechs was pushing him back to lie on the kitchen floor, his hands busy working Duo's pants open.
"Have I had you on the kitchen floor yet?" Zechs nearly growled at his little lover, who looked up at him in awe and adoration.
"N...no..."
"Good," Zechs replied, managing to get Duo's jeans down around mid-thigh. Before his little man could gasp another word, he took the exposed cock into his mouth and began to suck on it.
"Yow, ZECHS!" Duo exclaimed, thrusting once with his hips until an arm pinned him in place. He grinned, loving the eager possessiveness of his fiance. "Shit, Heart, just take me why don't you?"
"I have, I am," Zechs muttered, coming up for air for a moment before he dove in to capture his prize again. Somehow his renewed grief over Treize served to fuel his passion for Duo hotter. He had lost Treize forever to love, friendship, and life, but now he had Duo and nothing would ever separate them. [I need him so badly... just want to love him, marry him, make him happy... Treize would want that for me now, I know it...]
Duo, moaning, filled his hands with soft, platinum hair, pulling it down gently to caress his hips and inner thighs. [My man gets so intense,] he thought, moving his hips slightly to gently thrust into his fiance's hot mouth. [He warned me... just so he's not thinking I'm a replacement for a dead general... I think he really loves me for *me*... doesn't he?]
Zechs surfaced again. "God, Duo, you taste so fucking good," he muttered, rubbing his face over the saliva-slickened erection in his hand. Abruptly he surged up to capture Duo's mouth in a quick, hard kiss. "Do you know how much I love you? Do you have any idea what you've done to me, for me?" he murmured, looking deeply into the widened cobalt eyes after pulling back off his mouth.
"Ummmm...?" Duo could hardly speak, so taken aback by Zechs's hot ardor. "Ah, yeah, sure, I know... you... you've done a lot for me, too, Heart. I love you so much, too..." [Huh, he really means it... it's *me* he loves. I'm sure of it...]
As soon as Duo paused, he was getting royally kissed again, even as Zechs deftly worked his jeans off the rest of the way. [Oh, shit, he's really going to fuck me on the kitchen floor!] he realized, his cock twitching. [God, he's so fucking intense! I love intense! It's like he's worshipping my mouth and body... oh, yeah!] Suddenly he was laughing in Zechs's mouth.
"What's so funny?" Zechs asked, pulling out abruptly to peer down at him.
"Nothing's *funny*, I'm just so freakin' happy!" Duo crowed, tugging playfully on two long platinum tendrils that hung to either side of his lover's face. "You're just so awesome!"
"I'm going to have you right here, you know," Zechs muttered, pulling the jeans off the rest of the way, letting them fly to land behind him somewhere. "Whether you're laughing or not!"
"Whooo!" Duo crowed again, delirious, then whooped as Zechs captured his cock in his mouth again. "Oh, yeah, baby! Eat me right up! Take me, take me!" He let loose a coyote yell, still tugging on Zechs's hair.
Zechs pulled off again, though he was half-laughing by now himself. He pulled his hair away from Duo's grasp, then shook his head like a dog, spilling platinum everywhere. "You want to get fucked or not?" he growled.
Duo answered with another coyote yell, then pumped his hips upward, bumping Zechs's chin. "You betcha, you big stud!"
His hips were roughly grabbed and pinned to keep him from repeating that little maneuver. "I'm going to nail your sweet ass to the terraza!" Zechs began opening his own pants with his free hand.
"Heh, what if I get terraza burn?" Duo levered himself up on his elbows, watching avidly.
Ice blue eyes fixed on him for a hot moment, burning with inner fire. "Then I lick it to make it feel better and you'll have to stand during your wedding dinner," Zechs retorted. Then he released him altogether to sit beside him and work his pants off the rest of the way. Duo was just beginning to rock his hips from side to side seductively when he was grabbed again as the second pair of jeans went flying.
"Hey!" Duo started to yell in mock-protest, then emitted an "Ooof!" as Zechs landed his body fully on top of him, sliding and shifting in order to fit their erections together. "Oh, shit, I love this," he murmured, grinning as his body was covered with the bigger one of Zechs. "God, I need you to fuck me, Heart," he begged while his neck and face was being devoured with kisses.
"Let's see," Zechs muttered between kisses, "how do I want to take you?"
"Oh, fuck," Duo panted as his right nipple was worried and suckled. "Please, please, from behind? God, I love it both ways, but I need you to really lay claim on me, take me hard!"
"I can do that! Up, up!" Zechs hauled himself off his pinned fiance, settling back on his knees as Duo scampered into position. "Oh, you look so hot like this," he muttered, giving Duo a slap to his bottom.
"Whoooo!" Duo crowed, waggling his ass at him.
Zechs was already stroking himself, sliding the slippery pre-cum leaking out around the head of his swollen cock. "Hold that thought," he ordered, then leaned over to open a nearby lower cabinet. Snagging a bottle of olive oil, he returned, setting it to the side. "Mmmm, a vision..." he murmured, and reached for Duo's ass.
Duo gasped a little as the cheeks of his ass were grasped and parted, then whimpered as a hot wetness licked at his opening. [He... he's rimming me!] he realized, and grasped his own rampant erection, giving it a few strokes. "Ohhhh, that's so good, Heart..." He felt himself relaxing with the ardent licking, and concentrated on relaxing further for his lover. "Need you bad..." he whispered, pressing his ass back against Zechs's invading tongue.
Then he felt his beloved fingering him with something cool and slippery. [What, did he have lube stashed in here just in case?] Glancing around the side, he spied the bottle of olive oil. Chuckling, he shoved back onto the finger hard. "I want the real thing! I can take you in, love, just put it in..."
He was rewarded with two fingers working to stretch him a little roughly. But Duo knew he was already loose, and he moaned. "Z...Zechs..."
"Yes, it's time," Zechs murmured, straightening and positioning himself. Carefully, but with one, long, steady motion, he entered Duo fully until he was flush against the cheeks of his lover's ass. He grasped Duo's hips in his large hands and held himself still, giving him time to adjust.
"P...please... oh, damn, Zechs, please..." Duo pushed back to impale himself deeper. "'m ready, just... j...just start..." He couldn't prevent a few needy whimpers from escaping.
"Yessss," Zechs hissed, pulling out and then pushing back in again, beginning a steady rhythm, holding Duo's hips tightly. "Mine, all mine, need to claim you again and again..."
"Oh, God, yes," Duo cried, stroking himself as Zechs pounded into him. "All yours, forever! Only yours, Zechs!"
As urgent as their lovemaking was, it took them no time at all to reach the edge, then fall over it together, each screaming his lover's name as they convulsed into a heap on the floor. Still shuddering, Zechs pulled Duo up into his lap, holding him tightly in his arms, rocking a bit as they recovered from the intense orgasms.
"Ohhhh, my sweet Duo, my Angel," Zechs crooned in his fiance's ear, kissing the side of his face and jaw repeatedly. "Love you so much..."
Duo was melted into a puddle of ex-pilot as he sagged within Zechs's embrace, clinging to him limply. "Ah, shit, that was fantastic, Heart!" he exclaimed, breathing hard. "Love you, too, baby, oh, SHIT that was great!"
They cuddled on the floor for several long minutes, whispering little nothings to one another, until Duo started to laugh.
"What's so funny?" Zechs asked, smiling as he looked down into Duo's grinning face.
"Nothin'! I'm just so damn happy!" Duo crowed, wiggling gleefully in his big lover's arms, the braid flying around him. "Whooooo!"
Zechs laughed, which caught Duo's immediate attention. "Zechs!! You're LAUGHING!"
"You're silly and funny and very delightful," Zechs replied, grinning openly. "Why shouldn't I laugh? I'm damn happy, too!" With an impulsive smack to Duo's lips, he hugged his angel hard, nuzzling the nape of his neck.
"Oh, I love this," Duo sighed, hugging back just as hard, rubbing his nose in the luscious, soft, platinum hair. "God, I can't wait to marry you! You're going to be my *husband*, you, my beautiful, sexy, brilliant, kind, gentle, sweet, powerful Zechs!"
"And you're going to be *my* husband!" Zechs exclaimed in return, still chuckling. "My sweet angel Duo, my gorgeous, hot, smart, sassy, darling..." He laughed again. "God, I feel so good with you in my arms. I never, ever, thought I could find someone who could make me feel like this."
"Ditto, Heart," Duo sighed, then chuckled. "We'd better clean up. I don't think you want Relena walking in and finding us like this."
"Damn, you're right," Zechs groaned, but as he brought his head up, Duo caught a glimpse of a wicked smile right before his big lover dove into his mouth for a fervent, deep kiss.
They eventually got cleaned up. They even managed to do it before Relena came back.
The next morning, Duo begged off sharing one of their extensive breakfasts up on the roof garden. "I got this experiment running at the college," he explained. "Howard will have my head if I don't check on it, even if I am getting married today! Sorry, sweets, gotta go!" He grabbed a cup of coffee and vanished out the door.
Sighing deeply, Zechs chose to go back to bed. He wasn't likely to get a lot of sleep that coming night, he was hoping.
Half way to the college where Duo was in an advanced degree program working under the tutelage of Dr. Howard, he stopped to buy a newspaper. [Memento for my wedding day!] he thought happily. He did not see the car that pulled up alongside where he stood on the sidewalk.
Behind him he heard his name being called. "Duo Maxwell."
Spinning around, Duo saw a long, black car with the window rolled down. He peered in. "Hey... it's you!"
"We need to talk, Duo, get in," the voice of the occupant snapped. "Now."
Shrugging, Duo got in the car, as usual supremely confident of himself. They'd just have a short chat and maybe the other could drop Duo off at the college.
Once the door shut and the car pulled away, Duo was about to speak to him when he felt a sharp prick in his neck. "What the... oh... shit..."
He slumped to the side, unconscious.
The car continued on to the spaceport.
TBC