Slowly Fading 
Part 7
By: Elly-chan http://finalheaven.cjb.net/
orangefanta@earthlink.net

Duo was sitting in the bay window off of the dining 
room when Quatre approached him. They were alone, 
Wufei had retired after dinner and Duo had stuck around 
just so he could have some time to think. In his hand was 
a glass of scotch, cooled over the ice. 

"Duo-kun." Quatre sat down in the window beside him, 
looking at him with concern.

Duo looked up and smiled at Quatre, "Oi, Quatre."

"You look like something is bothering you. Are you 
well?" 

The american boy laughed softly, "Hai hai Quatre, I'm 
fine. I guess it's strange to see me thinking instead of 
talking." 

Quatre nodded, "What are you thinking about?"

"Actually.I'm not sure." It was only half of a lie.. he 
new what he was thinking about, but he had no idea 
what it actually was.if that made any sense. He still 
was trying to figure out what it was he was feeling, and 
who it was he wanted.what he wanted. who wanted 
him. Most of all he thought about Wufei and how he had 
been great, helping him through all of this. He'd never 
known Wufei to open up to anyone before. 

"Duo? Are you sure you're okay? I know what happened 
between Hirde and you today."

Duo shook his head, "No, it has nothing to do with 
Hirde."

"It hurts to fall out of love, ne?" Quatre sighed, "I 
wouldn't know from personal experience, but from what 
I've heard, and who I've talked to."

"I wasn't in love with her."

Quatre raised an eyebrow,  "Oh?"

"I never fell in love with her. I never let my weaknesses 
show, and never questioned her about hers. I didn't fall.. 
I-" Duo paused and thought to himself, his eyes 
growing wide, `I.I fell. I let my weakness show, he 
showed me his. Oh Gods.Wufei.' The glass of scotch 
fell from his hand, shattering on the floor below the 
window.

"Duo?" Quatre jumped up and put a hand on Duo's 
shoulder.  He was in some sort of daze, as if he had just 
came into reality with something. "Duo!" He shook him 
gently. 

Duo looked at Quatre, "Gomenasai Quatre, I need to 
go." He stood up and walked out of the dining room, 
leaving Quatre's eyes to follow him out the door, and the 
shattered glass for someone else to claim. 



Wufei watched from the porch off of his room as Duo 
walked out the side door and headed to the gardens. It 
was dark and he could only make out so much. Duo was 
walking slowly, as if he was thinking about something. 
He sat down on a bench just inside the garden and laid 
down, looking up at the sky. 

`He's not star gazing.there are no clouds.' The sky was 
filled with storm clouds, making the night even more 
dark and calm than it should have been.

`What is he doing?' Wufei thought to himself. He had 
obviously came outside to find a nice quiet place to think 
about something. But what?

Before he noticed Duo, Wufei was thinking about where 
he stood. The random acts of kindness he received from 
the braided boy were not things that he expected. And 
they had fallen asleep together that afternoon underneath 
the tree.He couldn't help but wonder what Hirde had 
thought open seeing them, and if anyone else had 
happened to wander by and sneak a glance also. 

He wanted to say it didn't matter that they were caught 
together, but it did. Showing interest in another man just 
wasn't as widely accepted as some things. He could 
imagine more than a few of the others frowning against 
it. Hirde hadn't seemed to mind though, well at least she 
didn't mention it at all. 

"Wufei!" Wufei raised his head and looked at the 
direction the voice was coming from. It was Hirde, 
leaning out over the railing of the porch off of her room. 

"Hello, Hirde." Speak of the devil.

"What are you doing out here?" She seemed kind of 
happy actually. Did this situation with Duo not matter to 
her at all? That was amazing. He had watched her walk 
off crying the other day, and she didn't look okay at 
supper either. Maybe she was trying to cheer up, that 
could be it.

"Nothing." 

"No, you were looking at something!" She moved her 
gaze to rest on Duo. "Oh.."

Wufei noticed a touch of sadness in her voice when she 
saw him. He just shrugged it off, she wasn't his 
problem. 

"Ne, Wufei.What do you guys talk about? I always see 
you together, but you're never talking.that's strange 
for Duo."

Wufei sighed. What should he tell Hirde? What did they 
talk about? They spent time together being alone. On a 
few occasions they had conversations. Duo was usually 
the one that started them, but they were always 
enjoyable even though Wufei didn't let onto it. 
"Anything and everything."

"Ah." Hirde paused, wondering what she should say 
next. "You must be close."

Was she implying something? She wasn't exactly dumb 
to the clues.Wufei couldn't help but steal glances at 
Duo now and then. "No."

"No? You could have fooled me. It's as if you speak 
without even talking. Each of you has the others 
undivided attention so that-" She paused. "Oh 
nevermind."

"We don't even need words to communicate." 

Hirde nodded, "Hai."

"It's not like that." 

"Oh.okay then." 

Wufei had lied. It was like that. That described what was 
between them so perfectly. How come he hadn't come 
up with that explanation before his ex-girlfriend did? 
Come on Wufei, get your head out of the gutter and 
think of more intelligent things to say! 

"What is he doing out there anyway?" Hirde questioned, 
looking at Duo. 

"I'm not sure, I was wondering the same thing." Just as 
he said that the rain started to fall. It was an immediate 
downpour, causing Hirde to shriek and run inside. 

Wufei stayed standing out on the porch, the rain soaking 
through to his skin. He was so deep in thought that he 
didn't even notice when Duo jumped up and ran inside 
to escape from the rain. 



Duo stopped before the door to Wufei's room, which 
was also his now. He played thoughts in his mind of 
what he should do when he walked in. He didn't know, 
he could just ignore it, but that really wouldn't work.

He opened the door to walk into an empty room. He 
knocked on the bathroom door, and not getting a reply 
he stopped knocking and sat down on the bed. `He must 
have gone out.' 

Then he felt a small breeze, and heard the faint fall of 
rain. He looked out to the porch, rain streaked the glass, 
but one of the doors was partially left open. He stood 
and headed towards the door, opening it wider and got 
hit with the pouring rain. 

There he was. The mere sight of him standing there 
made Duo's heart nearly stop. His hair was down, 
matted to his face by the rain, and his white chinese style 
outfit was clinging to his body.

His back was to Duo, and he never turned. The noise of 
the rain drowned out the opening of the door and Duo's 
footsteps as he walked up to Wufei, wrapping his arms 
around the chinese boy from behind. Wufei gasped and 
turned his head around quickly, only to be stopped by 
Duo's lips kissing his neck softly. 

Wufei's heart was beating fast, and he spoke, "Duo."

Duo brought his lips up to Wufei's ear, "Wufei." He 
kissed the boys ear gently and pulled him closer to him. 

"Duo, what are you-" Wufei was cut off in mid 
sentence when Duo spun him around and kissed him 
hard on the lips. Duo didn't care what Wufei thought at 
the moment. He had just realized whom these feelings 
were coming from. And he felt loved! There was no way 
he could reject him.was there?  Duo pushed these 
thoughts from his mind and focused on the kiss. He 
wasn't getting any kind of reaction from the other boy.

Standing on one of the many porches on the east side of 
the house, in the pouring rain.one american boy with 
long braided hair carefully seducing an extremely 
surprised chinese boy with his dark hair plastered to his 
face, both of them not sure as to what they are doing. 
What a sight they must have been.

Duo broke the kiss and raised his hand to touch the side 
of Wufei's face, whispering his name again softly and 
looking into the boy's eyes. 

"I can taste the scotch on you, Duo." Wufei 
hesitated.he knew there was something behind all this, 
Maxwell wouldn't just do this for no reason. 

"I only had half a glass, don't worry. I know what I'm 
doing." Duo leaned over to claim Wufei's lips as his 
own once more, softer this time.

Wufei broke away, "You're sure.?"

"I hope so." Duo grabbed Wufei's wrist and led him 
inside into their room. He stopped in the middle of the 
floor, halfway to the bed, and kissed Wufei again, 
wrapping his arms around him and raising one hand to 
run through his hair. Unlike the first time, Wufei reacted 
by prying apart Duo's lips with his tongue to make the 
kiss even deeper. He pressed his body against Wufei's, 
the sensation making Wufei moan softly. 

Duo took his hands from around him and began to 
unbutton his top with unusually calm fingers. He broke 
away from the kiss and moved down to kiss at Wufei's 
neck and the other boy titled his head to the side giving 
him easier access to suck and bite gently on a small 
patch of sensitive nerves. As he unbuttoned the top, he 
let his fingers ever so slightly tease the chinese boy's 
nipples, bringing a small whimper from Wufei. 

When Wufei's top was discarded onto the floor, Duo 
pushed him over to the bed and laid him down, crawling 
on top of him. Thoughts ran through Wufei's head about 
how this was always just a dream.but Duo was real. He 
was so real this time. `Gods, please don't let it be a 
dream.' 

Duo sat up, straddling the other boys waist, and removed 
his shirt to expose a pale well developed muscular chest. 
Wufei couldn't help but think of how much he wanted 
that pressed against his, and he reached up and pulled 
Duo down hard against him, kissing him. 

Duo let his hand fall, brushing slightly over Wufei's 
growing erection. Wufei gasped at this feeling and 
immediately pushed up his hips, wanting more. Duo 
broke the kiss to kiss at Wufei's neck and down to his 
chest, teasing his nipples with his tongue, circling them, 
then flicking them, and putting his lips on them and 
sucking gently. As he was doing this he was also 
undoing the tie around Wufei's pants, and slid his 
fingers under the rim, looking up to Wufei for a sign that 
it was okay. 

Wufei nodded. Duo smiled and brought himself up off of 
Wufei's waist and Wufei raised his hips so that his pants 
could be slid off. After that was done, Duo slid off the 
bed, kissing down Wufei's stomach, circling his belly 
button, then slid his boxers off to reveal his erection. 

Duo took it into one of his hands and began to stroke it 
gently, getting a moan of pleasure from Wufei. 

"Oh Gods.Duo." Wufei gasped and pushed himself 
into Duo's hand. Duo looked up at him and smiled, 
seeing the boy with his head back and his eyes closed 
tight, his hands at his side, lightly clenching the sheets 
made Duo decide to stop teasing. 

The braided boy lowered himself a little more so that his 
face was right in front of Wufei's erection. He flicked 
his tongue out to lick the tip of it quickly, then without 
hesitation took the tip of it into his mouth. Wufei's 
hands clenched the sheets tighter and he cried out at the 
feeling of his long dreamed of lover taking him into his 
mouth. 

Duo began to move his mouth up and down on Wufei's 
erection, running his tongue over the tip of it before 
coming down again. His movements sped up and 
Wufei's arched, pushing himself deeper into Duo's 
mouth. 

The sight and reactions of the chinese boy didn't help 
Duo's erection. As he was doing this to the boy, one of 
his hands slid down and unbuttoned his pants to slide 
them down and begin stroking himself softly. As 
Wufei's breathing grew louder, Duo's strokes grew 
harder and faster, causing him to moan, making Wufei 
arch and spill his seed into Duo's mouth. Wufei then 
relaxed, his breathing slowing and his hands letting go of 
the sheets.

Wufei could taste himself on Duo's lips when the boy 
came up to kiss him deeply, their tongues playing 
together. He pulled Duo close, feeling the other boy's 
erection rub against his stomach. 

Wufei pushed on Duo and flipped him over on his back 
so that he was lying next to him. Wufei then rolled over 
onto his side to look down at Duo's erection, moving 
one hand to stroke it gently. Wufei looked up and caught 
Duo's gaze in his hold, making his heart beat even 
faster. Duo smiled and Wufei returned it, beginning to 
stroke him harder. The chinese boy leaned over to take 
Duo's lips as his own, sucking on his bottom lip and 
then kissed his way down to Duo's neck, biting him 
hard. 

Duo cried out in pain and pleasure when Wufei did this. 
Wufei then licked the wound and began sucking on it, 
positive that it would leave a mark. "Wufei."

Wufei ran his tongue lightly up to Duo's ear, whispering 
Duo's name in return.  

At those whispers against his sensitive ear and Wufei's 
rougher strokes, Duo felt him self reach the edge, his 
seed spilling out into Wufei's hand. 

Wufei kissed him again, softer this time, and pulled him 
close. Duo wrapped his own arms around Wufei and 
closed his eyes. "Ne, Wufei.can I sleep holding you?"

Wufei nodded and pulled Duo closer as he pulled up the 
sheets to cover the both of them. Wufei soon drifted off 
into sleep, leaving Duo alone to think about what had 
just happened, and to feel the beating of Wufei's heart 
match in time with his own.