[connection] Title: Connection
Prompt: #46 - Call
Genre: fluffy
Warnings: no spoilers
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 849

Disclaimer:- I don't own Gundam Wing. I don't even own the prompts that I'm using to write the fics. I only own a somewhat crappy computer and it's not worth a lot. I'm not making any profit with my fics. You will have another 99 chances to believe in what I say 8D

Notes: beta-ed by the amazing nyanya_nobara (thank you so much! *chus*)

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The first ring made me wake me up instantly and the second didn't even finish before my arm reached efficiently to the bedside table, snatching the cell phone in a quick movement.

'Yuy,' I snapped, my eyes searched for the clock over the table on the other side of the room. The red numbers on the display told me it was a quarter to four.

'Did you know that the only shuttle from L2 to L1 that arrives at the same day leaves at three in the morning?' a familiar voice sounded on the line.

'Yes,' I replied yawning, my body relaxing and dropping back over the sheets. 'There are only two daily shuttles from L2 to L1. One leaves at three in the morning with an estimated arrival time of tweenty three hours on the same date. The other shuttle leaves at seven in the morning with an estimated arrival...'

'Yeah, yeah, right Heero. I get that you have the entire schedule of flights memorized,' he said. Even though I couldn't see it, I knew he had a smile on his lips.

'Duo, do you have any idea what time it is?' I asked, trying to figure out his reasons for calling me in the middle of the night. He certainly had a habit of calling me during weird times of the day, but this was the first time he had called me so late...or so early.

'I'm not too sure Heero. My watch is still set on L2's time...'

'And I suppose...' I asked around another yawn, 'that you're not on L2?'

'You are the king of logical thinking at four in the morning, Heero,' he replied, clearly letting me sense the amusement in his voice.

'So you do realize it's four in the morning? Great, that saves me the trouble of reminding you that I have to leave for work in less than three hours. I will talk to you tomorrow Duo. Bye,' I said, posed to hang up and go back to sleep.

'Hey, hey, wait a minute buddy. Why are you in such a hurry to hang up the phone?'

'Duo,' I started as calmly as possible, rubbing one of my eyes with the hand that wasn't holding the phone to my ear, 'It's four in the morning. I'm sure that whatever it is that you want to tell me, it can wait another couple of hours.'

'That's where you are wrong Heero,' he said triumphantly. 'What I have to tell you can't wait another minute.'

I sighed deeply into the receiver and covered my eyes with my arm. 'Then what, if I may ask, is so enormously important that you have to tell me, that can't even wait another three hours?'

The other side of the line went silent.

'Duo?'

More silence.

I moved my arm from my face to look at my phone and check if perhaps I had lost signal or something. Barely a second later, I felt a sudden weight drop over my body.

My expression must have done something extremely funny because Duo - who somehow showed up in my bed, comfortably sitting over me - laughed in delight. His laughter stopped just as suddenly as it had started, and suddenly he was looking at me quite seriously.

Before I could mutter another word, or ask him exactly how he managed to get here, his hands moved and rested over my face. He got closer and closer until his lips met mine in the briefest of touches.

I must have closed my eyes without noticing, because when I opened them again, Duo's hands were still on my face, but his lips were far from mine, smiling softly with just a hint of smugness.

'Was that what you had to tell me that couldn't wait?' I inquired, still a little disoriented, but letting that smile of his infect me nonetheless.

He just nodded.

'Do you think that breaking into my apartment at four in the morning was really necessary?' I asked, raising an eyebrow at him.

He shrugged, 'It's called "being spontaneous," Heero.'

'At four in the morning?' I insisted.

'Some connections don't choose time to happen,' he replied cheerfully. 'Especially, inside my head.' He finished that with another soft smile, tapping his index finger over my temple.

I shook my head a little. It was only then that I noticed my cell phone was still clutched in my hand. On a rare impulse, I looked at the display and read what was written there.

I couldn't contain the small grin that graced my lips.

Moving rapidly and unexpectedly, I placed one of my hands on Duo's neck and pulled his face towards mine while moving in his direction at the same time, making our lips meet sweetly in the middle and surprising the brunette.

I reached out for one of his hands and placed my phone on it, letting him see what was written on the display.

'Connected to Duo'

He smiled, and I smiled back, coming to the sudden conclusion that some connections really don't choose time.

They just happen.