As Duo started up the staircase, the older boy from before stopped him with a hand on his shoulder. Heero stopped, just out of sight in the shadows, and turned back to listen. Duo turned to face him with a cheerful smile, which the taller boy did not return. "I don't know what the rules were like in the Colonies," he began, "but I'm the Slytherin prefect -- Liam Nigelus -- and if you don't follow the rules around here, then you'll answer to me for it."
Duo paused for a moment, taking the prefect's measure, before his smile returned; a subtilely different smile. "Is that the Hogwarts rules, or the Slytherin rules?" he inquired brightly.
Liam released his shoulder, and gave him a hard look for a moment before releasing him. "You're pretty quick, for a space boy," he commented.
Duo laughed then, backing a step away and starting up the stairs. "Liam, I am so quick the stars can't even catch me," he threw over his shoulder.
By the time he reached the third-year room, most of the other students were in bed. Heero sat on the edge of the extravagant, canopied, four-poster bed, braced against the headboard, and stared out the window. Duo slowly lowered himself to the bed on the other side of the window, stretching out on top of the covers and crossing his arms behind his head. After a time, he reached into his sleeve and pulled out the long wooden rod that he had brought for this school and turned it over in the moonlight coming in from the window, staring at it. He tapped on it, and a bright dribble of green fire leaked from the tip.
"Hey, Heero?" Duo said when he knew that everyone else was asleep. "Didja keep track of the route the train took to get here?"
"Yes." Heero turned away from the window, and shot a glance over at the outline of Duo; partner and fellow mobile suit pilot and object of his affection. "I know where we are." Hard enough before now, trying to catch some time together; even harder now, when they would almost never be alone.
"Heero?" Duo sighed. "This is one weird place we're in."
"Hm." Heero looked one last time at the moon outside the window, and lay back down on his bed without answering.
Re: Heero Yui and the Organization of the Zodiac
Date: 2006-02-21 06:52 am (UTC)As Duo started up the staircase, the older boy from before stopped him with a hand on his shoulder. Heero stopped, just out of sight in the shadows, and turned back to listen. Duo turned to face him with a cheerful smile, which the taller boy did not return. "I don't know what the rules were like in the Colonies," he began, "but I'm the Slytherin prefect -- Liam Nigelus -- and if you don't follow the rules around here, then you'll answer to me for it."
Duo paused for a moment, taking the prefect's measure, before his smile returned; a subtilely different smile. "Is that the Hogwarts rules, or the Slytherin rules?" he inquired brightly.
Liam released his shoulder, and gave him a hard look for a moment before releasing him. "You're pretty quick, for a space boy," he commented.
Duo laughed then, backing a step away and starting up the stairs. "Liam, I am so quick the stars can't even catch me," he threw over his shoulder.
By the time he reached the third-year room, most of the other students were in bed. Heero sat on the edge of the extravagant, canopied, four-poster bed, braced against the headboard, and stared out the window. Duo slowly lowered himself to the bed on the other side of the window, stretching out on top of the covers and crossing his arms behind his head. After a time, he reached into his sleeve and pulled out the long wooden rod that he had brought for this school and turned it over in the moonlight coming in from the window, staring at it. He tapped on it, and a bright dribble of green fire leaked from the tip.
"Hey, Heero?" Duo said when he knew that everyone else was asleep. "Didja keep track of the route the train took to get here?"
"Yes." Heero turned away from the window, and shot a glance over at the outline of Duo; partner and fellow mobile suit pilot and object of his affection. "I know where we are." Hard enough before now, trying to catch some time together; even harder now, when they would almost never be alone.
"Heero?" Duo sighed. "This is one weird place we're in."
"Hm." Heero looked one last time at the moon outside the window, and lay back down on his bed without answering.
~tbc~