fic - two chances : 2

Two Chances : 2

"Guess what today is!"

"Tuesday?"

"...Guess again."

Heero admittedly hadn't been paying much attention before.  But Duo's flat tone did the job of sharpening his attention.  As a show of good faith, he minimized the incident report he had been reading before turning to Duo.

Although Duo had seemed miffed by his absent-minded answer earlier, he didn't have that pinch in his expression that spoke of true irritation, so Heero felt he could rule out any truly spectacular miss on his part.  But just to be sure, he ran through their relationship milestones and found nothing corresponding to today.

Alright then, pre-scheduled event?  No, they hadn't planned to meet for lunch today.  Good thing, since he'd already finished his lunch at his desk.  Had he seen or heard anything around the office?  Maybe... "The first day of Hanukkah?" he tried skeptically.

"Whoa, hey, you got it!"  Duo beamed proudly at him.  "Time to celebrate!"

He frowned faintly.  "We're not Jewish."

"Yeah, well we're not Christian or Catholic or anything either, and we do Christmas."

"I believe you said we celebrate Christmas commercialism."

"Yeah, well, Hanukkah's got eight times the commercialism!"

Duo's logic was difficult to argue with sometimes.  "Wouldn't you prefer the twelve days of Christmas, in that case?"

His expression brightened.  "Ooh!  I know!  We should do all three!  That's twenty-one days of presents."

That was not what Heero had been going for.  Time to divert.  "Well, seems I've already missed the first day here.  You'll have to give me a little more notice next time."

"Hm."  Duo gave it some serious thought.  "Well.  I can settle for a kiss today."

"I can do that."

"And two kisses tomorrow."

Heero wasn't sure he liked where this was going.

"And three the day after.  And... that'll be two hundred thirty one kisses, please."

Well, alright, the number sounded daunting, but it was certainly within his power to achieve.  "Can I pre-pay?  I kissed you more than once this morning."

"Starting now."

Heero deployed a tactical sigh to let Duo know what he thought of Duo's arbitrary rules.  "Later, then.  You'll only get the one, so you better make the most of it."

"Well, you can't pay ahead, but no one said you can't pay extra."

"Where would the sense be in that?"  He reveled in his moment of victory while Duo pouted, and moved on before an adequate counterargument to be found.  "Did you come in here just to announce what day it is?"

"Hm?  Oh!  Bachmann just bought fresh fried tasties from the deli for the occasion.  She said we should try some while they're toasty hot."

Heero stared at him for a moment.  "This conversation went pretty far afield."

Duo shrugged.  Wasn't uncommon.  "Come on, let's grab some before people start coming back from lunch."






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