Title: Count Me In ch 11/11

Author: WickedGame

Warnings: Foul language. 1x2 lime.

Notes: Beta-ed by Adaina. Chapter title courtesy Panic! At the Disco.

Chapter Eleven – I Write Sins, Not Tragedies

Duo practically leaped out of the car when it hit the curb in front of his house. How could he have been so crass? He had taken off in the middle of Relena's speech after coming to his big epiphany about the way he felt. Hilde must have known it would hit him sometime. Now he not only had something he had to do but he had someone he owed an apology to.

Heero had been sitting there with him waiting for Duo to say something, anything to reassure him that Duo felt the same way and Duo had said nothing. Duo had screwed up and he only hoped he could make it up to Heero before things got too bad between them.

He had sat there and listened to Relena speak while thinking on what Hilde said at the same time. Relena was right, love is blind and he had been the most blind out of all of them. Heero had been trying to tell him without words how much he cared and he had done nothing to let Heero know that he cared at all. Shortly after that moment he had left the estate.

When he opened the door Heero was standing amongst a small pile of boxes.

"What the hell are you doing?" Duo asked, stalking toward him.

"We don't have to pretend to be lovers anymore, so I'm going to leave," Heero said calmly, not looking Duo in the eye.

"The hell you are!" Duo shouted. He grabbed Heero and pulled him into a hug.

"Please let me go, Duo," Heero said hoarsely.

"No. Not now, not ever," Duo insisted.

Heero closed his eyes and wanted to give up, but he used his strength to worm his way out of Duo's grasp instead.

"Don't pretend to care now," Heero told him.

Outside a horn beeped.

"My taxi is here," Heero started to grab a box. Duo watched dumbly from where he stood for a second before he sprang into action and knocked the box away.

"Two nights ago you told me you were falling in love with me. Do you remember that?"

Heero's eyes widened. He did not want to remember what he had said while Duo was drunk and touching him, but he did.

"I thought you didn't remember a whole lot of that night."

"I remembered it this morning, while I still had my arms wrapped around you," Duo said softly, his eyes burning.

Heero shuddered at the remembered feeling of being in bed with Duo, but he still made to pick up a box. "So what? You made it pretty clear that even if I did love you that you didn't return that feeling, so I'm moving on."

"Why? Why are you givin' up?" Duo asked.

"I can't stop wanting you. I can't stop wanting to touch you, kiss you, and hold you. You make me want things. I'm not going to be your fucktoy so I'm leaving," Heero walked toward the door when he heard the beeping again.

"Do you love me?" Duo asked, his voice fragile.

Without turning around Heero muttered in the affirmative.

"What if it wasn't pretend? What if you weren't my fucktoy? What if…I loved you too?"

Heero's hand stopped on the doorknob. "Don't fuck with me. I don't deserve it no matter how you feel."

Duo came up behind Heero and wrapped his arms around that slim waist. "I'm not fucking with you. I'm sorry it took me so long to see it. I'm sorry I didn't feel it as soon as you did. I'm sorry everything happened the way that it did. It took me so long to figure out that you made me feel the way Relena makes Hilde feel.

When Relena was giving her speech all I could think about was how it all applied to you and me. Right before you left me there you had changed and I didn't like it. You were cold, distant, and aloof all of a sudden. All I could think about was about how much I missed you, even for the short amount of time you were gone. I missed your laugh, your smile, the way you hold my hand, the way you kiss me…I finally figured it out right then that you make me want to be better. You make me want to be something more than I am."

When Heero was silent in response Duo started to lose hope. He lowered his mouth to Heero's ear. "Please don't leave me. I love you."

Heero closed his eyes and lowered his head. Tears threatened to fall but didn't. He absently heard the taxi drive away without him in it. Endless moments passed before he could find the power to speak. The words resonated in the room and in his ears.

"I'll stay."

Duo turned him around and kissed him: gently at first, and then more urgently as time passed. When they finally made it to Heero's bedroom they disrobed each other slowly, kissing and sucking on every inch of exposed skin. As Heero took Duo for the first time they were slow, gentle, and intense, making love with reverence. They felt like they had all the time in the world for once. Their sentiments and noises grew in volume until the end, when Duo finally screamed his love for Heero as he came.

"See? This is real," Duo said as he kissed Heero's chest, "This is permanent. This is right. It feels right."

Heero smiled at Duo and kissed the top of his head, "I know."

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-Two Months Later-

No one that knew the four of them was surprised when Hilde and Relena asked Duo and Heero to stand with them at their wedding.

The wedding of the Vice Foreign Minister to a former soldier and scrap yard dealer had indeed caused an uproar. Quite a few politicians had even tried to have Relena ousted from office. But the public was largely behind her. She already held their hearts, and Hilde had won them over easily with her charm and wit when dealing with the public. In the end the government had been forced to state their support of Relena and Hilde. Everyone except the gossip-hungry press basically left them alone after that.

A few select members of the press were around today, hand selected to take pictures of the wedding and reception. Hilde and Relena had both decided on tea length white dresses. Hilde's had a suit jacket and looked almost tomboyish. Relena's, however, was the epitome of femininity, with lace and ruffles and little matching gloves. Hilde had rolled her eyes but had smiled brightly anyway. It was no secret that she adored Relena even if she were wearing a paper bag.

Relena and Hilde had been ecstatic to hear that their ex-husbands had made up. They had even given them a present before the wedding: two tickets to a private island in the tropics. They expected the pair of men to go away and stay away from everyone and everything for a couple of weeks before returning to work at the office.

They planned to do just that. It was the best plan they had heard yet.

Heero walked over to a table where Duo sat talking to Wufei and Sally.

"Good evening Yuy," Wufei said politely.

"Wufei, Sally, nice to see you both," Heero nodded his head at the pair.

"Congratulations Heero. I always knew you and Duo would make a great couple," Sally teased. Wufei rolled his eyes at her.

"Thank you," Heero told her sincerely.

"Sally was telling me about how she and Chang here are going to have another kid," Duo smiled and reached for Heero's hand.

"Congratulations to the two of you," Heero smiled a genuine smile of happiness for his two friends.

"Thanks," Sally said with a smile.

"What's up Heero?" Duo asked as Heero pulled him out of the chair.

"Come dance with me," Heero ordered.

"We never dance in front of our friends. Except for that one time with Q and T at that one night club with the leather booths…" Duo's voice trailed off as Heero pulled him close.

The slow music relaxed Duo and he placed his chin on Heero's shoulder.

"Duo?"

"Hmmm?"

"Do you think that we could do what Hilde and Relena did?"

Duo lifted his chin. Did Heero sound nervous?

"Which thing that they did?"

"Get married."

Duo smiled at Heero and kissed him lightly; dismissing the catcalls from people they knew in the background. It seemed that Heero's brain was already generating a new plan for their relationship and Duo braced to hang on for the wild ride.

"Hey Heero, you know what? If you're game then count me in." Duo smiled brightly and his eyes twinkled with mirth.

"Really?" Heero asked; looking a little shocked that Duo had agreed.

"Heero buddy, you can bet on it."

-The End-