Unannounced visit...

[selfdetonation.livejournal.com]

[Heero... is doing nothing. For once in his life. He has no plans, nowhere to be, no one to see, nobody coming over... It's taken a while to get used to it, but he's finally decided that taking the quarter off from school is the best thing he's ever done for himself. Seriously, when was the last time he hadn't overloaded himself with something? Grade school?

He sits down on the couch and opens his laptop. It's 2:00, almost an hour after he last checked. There has to be something new to look at. It's the internet, after all...]

Comments

[maxwellian.livejournal.com]

What.. What are you apologizing for?

[pridefulscholar.livejournal.com]

I should not have been such a coward that I cut off all contact. My behavior was inexcusable.

[maxwellian.livejournal.com]

Hey, man, don't worry about it. You're back now, right?

[pridefulscholar.livejournal.com]

It should not have taken me so long to do what was right. I should have been strong enough to confront my mistakes when I made them, not so weak that I made others on top of them.

[maxwellian.livejournal.com]

[Duo isn't really sure how to handle Wufei in this state..]

Really, it's okay. You came back. [And that's really the gist of it, for Duo. Not that he'd admit it very often; he is bothered by the fact that Wufei just... disappeared like that.]

[pridefulscholar.livejournal.com]

[Wufei manages to look up at Duo (albeit not for very long), and some of the tension he has been carrying around with him for goodness-only-knows-how-long eases.]

Thank you. I will do my best to be more deserving of your friendship in the future.

[maxwellian.livejournal.com]

You deserve it just fine! Doesn't he, Heero? [and without waiting for a response..] Okay, except maybe when you leave us behind for forever and never call or write or anything. I'd be okay with you not doing that anymore.

[selfdetonation.livejournal.com]

[For one last time, Heero looks from one to the other, and then shakes his head with a half-smile.]

So this is why you two came here?

[pridefulscholar.livejournal.com]

[Another moment and Wufei has mostly regathered himself, and rebuilt his shield of pride and aloofness into something closer to where it should be, but it's not quite as bitter as it was before.]

I would have stayed with that woman if I knew he would be so flippant.

[maxwellian.livejournal.com]

[Closer to normal is good]

You really need to pay a little more attention there, 'Fei. You should know me better by now.

[selfdetonation.livejournal.com]

Wait. "That woman"? [He's pretty sure he already knows the answer, but he's going to just wait and hear it anyway.]

[pridefulscholar.livejournal.com]

Sally. [He doesn't feel like offering more information.]

[maxwellian.livejournal.com]

Po? The one who wears her hair all twisty and threatens me with needles?

[selfdetonation.livejournal.com]

... Are you staying with Sally while you're here?

[pridefulscholar.livejournal.com]

Temporarily.

[maxwellian.livejournal.com]

Temporary until what? You get sick of us and run off again? [He's cracking jokes about something that bothers him. Are we surprised?]

[selfdetonation.livejournal.com]

[No. Not one bit. Heero's so used to it that he pays it no mind, though~]

I see. So you're going to find your own place soon, then? [Pause... and a very, very faintly amused look on his face.] The way you and Catalonia both seemed to just show back up, I almost thought you were staying with her. [He's teasing. In a very Heero manner, meaning it's likely that no one can tell. Oh well...]

[pridefulscholar.livejournal.com]

[There are a few seconds of unadulterated shock while Wufei is trying to wrap his mind around the idea of staying with Catalonia]

What? [some sputtering] Of course I'm not staying with her! She's bothersome enough without having access to my living space.

[maxwellian.livejournal.com]

You're making it sound like she might kill you in your sleep, you know. ... Then again, we're talking about Dorothy Catalonia. Can't be too sure.

[selfdetonation.livejournal.com]

[Heero just rolls his eyes.]

I don't understand. She isn't as terrible as you two keep saying.

[pridefulscholar.livejournal.com]

I didn't call her terrible. You would be wary of her, too, if you had— [... which way to end that sentence? Refer to what he was still coming to grips with, or just make a gripe towards their time spent together in CA?]

[maxwellian.livejournal.com]

[Whups, taking too long there, 'Fei]

If we had? Sounds chilling, man, I'm shaking right here just thinking about it.

[selfdetonation.livejournal.com]

[And all you get from Heero is an expectant look...]

[pridefulscholar.livejournal.com]

[He scowls at Duo.]

She has the power to force people to do what she wants. [His clenched teeth say he knows how unlikely what he's saying sounds, but he can't find another way to explain it.]

[maxwellian.livejournal.com]

.... What?