SHELTER FROM THE STORM
Okay, this takes place just after poor Noin gets her butt kicked by
Wufei. If it sounds a bit funny in places it's because I wrote the
majoirty of it at 2:00 am 6-6;;;
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Warnings: None... maybe sap? Er, and just *slightly* hentai.
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"Noin?" Can I come in?"
"Yeah. Sure."
Zechs slid through the open door and closed it softly behind him.
Noin sat at the foot of her bed, light green tank top and army pants
rumpled. She refused to meet his eyes, keeping her head down.
"You look tired." He settled down close to her, almost but not quite
touching.
She didn't answer, didn't even glance at him.
He sighed, discarding his mask and letting himself fall backwards
onto the bed.
"You can't be a soldier all the time..."
"You're one to talk."
"Noin... Look at me."
She turned slowly towards him, her movements seeming almost painful.
"I failed, Zechs. There's no getting past it." Both her face and
voice were heavy with self-recrimination as she let her eyes slide
shut.
"Hey," he said softly, reaching up to touch her cheek. "It's all
right. Nobody blames you."
"I do."
"Well, love," he murmured, hooking a lazy arm around her neck, "for
once you're wrong." He pulled her down on top of him, letting her
rest against his chest.
"Zechs..."
"No. It's not your fault Noin. Now let it go and relax... I just
want to be with you right now."
She sighed and buried her face in his neck, one hand creeping up to
bury itself in his hair.
"Zechs?" she mumbled semi-coherently. "I love you."
"I hope so. I'd be lost otherwise." A strange, tender little smile
twisted his lips as he ruffled her short hair. "Sometimes I wonder
what I did to deserve you."
She lifted her head to meet his eyes, dark blue to light.
"That's a silly thing to worry about. You're the only one I want.
Deserve me or not, you've got me."
"Mmm..." he framed her face with his hands, pulling her close enough
for a kiss. She let him, responding as the last vestiges of tension
melted out of her body.
There was no more talk.
The morning found them still tangled in the sheets, and eachother.
Zechs awoke as soon as the sunlight touched him and he knew he
should leave but he couldn't bring himself to leave her asleep.
Instead, he gathered her closter, not noticing when her sleepy eyes
opened.
They stayed that way for a long moment, snugged close and simply
existing. That was all that mattered. The storm of life, war, or
anything else the world threw at him could rage all it wanted. They
could weather it all as long as they were... together.
~Fin
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So what'd you think? I have another really short one about my first
impression of their relationship in the anime, and I'm working on a
longer faerytale-ish one. I don't know yet if I'll post either of
them. Anyway, all comments welcome ^-^.
