Well... not Ion, but...

[sunhawk16]

I have this little ficlet thing. It's kind of in honor of dee_ez_bee's birthday. Though the honor part is kind of dubious. ^^; I don't do short well; you people who can do those little ficlets just amaze me. Somehow this thing ended up being a sequel to 'Doubts' on top of everything else.
So, uh... Happy Birthday, Debi? *big cheesy grin*


Sharing

Duo named the dog Ranger, because, he’d told me, Rin-Tin-Tin just sounded dumb, and Lassie didn’t fit because the pup was a boy. It has something to do with ‘normal’. I’m not entirely sure I understand, but Duo had laughed when I’d suggested ‘Spot’, so I guess I understood well enough.
I had started to have my doubts about the wisdom of buying Duo the beast on his very first night in our home. For some silly damn reason, I had assumed the dog would sleep in the kitchen, in the bed that I had purchased for him. Imagine my… lack of enthusiasm when I’d gotten out of the shower, only to find the thing in our bed. Duo had been lying on his side with his back to the bathroom door, and resting in the concave between his ribs and hip… had been a furry brindle head, soulful eyes watching my every move.
I’m rather fond of that concave, and had been entertaining thoughts of crawling into bed and kissing my way from ribs to ankle bone… until I’d imagined the dog drool.
‘Duo,’ I grumbled. ‘What in the hell is that dog doing in our bed?’
My partner twisted his head around to look at me, and soulful violet joined soulful brown. ‘Ah, come on, Heero… he’s just a baby. It’s his first night in a strange place.’
‘We don’t want to get this started,’ I informed him. ‘He’s going to grow up to be bigger than both of us.’
‘I know,’ Duo sighed, turning over a little bit more, to face me, his fingers rubbing around puppy ears in reassurance. ‘But I thought just for tonight…’
‘If you let him sleep in here once,’ I scolded. ‘He’ll get into the habit and you’ll never get him broken from it.’
‘I know…’ he mumbled again, looking somewhat crest-fallen, and it took everything I had to stand firm in the face of his disappointment, but I knew it was for the best.
I think he’d half been expecting the eviction, had half known on his own that it was a bad idea, because he caved fairly quickly. Rising, he picked the dog up and carried him back down to the kitchen, whispering gently as he went.
I felt like a real jerk, but knew I was right. I was actually rather proud of the fact that I had withstood Duo’s ‘please?’ look. That damn look should be outlawed.
I was not, however, able to withstand his ‘Oh God, Heero; please! ’ look, when the damn dog began to whine loud enough to be heard all the way up the stairs.
I was to learn over the next few weeks, that I might hold out against one or the other of them, but I was seldom victorious when they ganged up on me.
They quickly learned that they worked well together.
So Ranger had spent his first night in our home sleeping in our bed, cuddled up next to Duo like a pup with his mother. I was dead set against letting that habit take root and the compromise had ended with the dog bed in our room on the floor by Duo’s side of the bed. Duo seemed happy that the puppy wasn’t alone, Ranger seemed happy if he had Duo within sight, and I was happy that the beast wasn’t actually in our bed.
And though we called him ‘our’ dog, it was obvious from day one that the mutt was all Duo’s. While my coming and going elicited little more interest than the dog checking to see who had come into his territory, Duo’s leaving was met with a whine, while his returning home was greeted with enthusiastic barking.
If I wanted to find the one, I only had to know the whereabouts of the other. If Duo was in the shower, Ranger would be on the floor of the bathroom. If Duo was watching television, Ranger was as close to ‘in Duo’s lap’ as he could manage.
I won’t say that I ever regretted buying Duo the pup; how could I, when faced with his absolute delight in becoming a pet owner? But I had been rather broad-sided by the sudden realization that Duo was not entirely mine any more.
Dog walks had inserted themselves into the parts of his day that used to be all mine. Evenings on the couch in front the television now found Ranger’s head in Duo’s lap instead of mine.
I wouldn’t call it jealousy, but it was rather disconcerting.
I’m not exactly a stupid person. I had anticipated the dog hair and the chewing. I’d realized that our expenses would go up and that the yard would need to be fenced before the dog got too old. I’d understood that adjustments would have to be made to our life style.
I guess I just hadn’t understood the scope of the adjustments.
Not that all the changes were difficult to make. Duo had… I don’t know what to call it; blossomed? Opened up? Relaxed? I really don’t know, but having that dog in his life had tapped some depth of emotion in him that I’d not seen before.
His lovemaking developed such a level of tenderness that he damn well left me breathless.
Though that too had been complicated by our new acquisition, and our… discomfort sharing intimacy with the beast in the room. It wasn’t until after the fence had been installed though, and for the first time in a while we’d lain down together knowing that there was no chance of an inquisitive pup joining us, that I’d really realized it.
With Duo astride my hips, giving voice to his passion like I’d never heard before, I understood just how much we’d been abstaining without even thinking about it.
Suddenly leaning down, arms braced on either side of my face, he looked deep into my eyes and whispered, ‘Say it?’
‘I love you,’ I responded without hesitation, and by some wonderful coincidence, my words coincided with his release and I got to stare into his eyes as his passion shook him like a rag doll. His almost out of control bucking and thrusting as he came, gave me what I needed to follow.
Spent and exhausted, he lay across me, trying to kiss my neck and managing only to pant against my skin. ‘I love you so much,’ he told me when he could.
‘I know,’ I smiled against his over-heated flesh, cradling him to me to keep him from pulling off just yet. ‘Forever and always.’
He shivered as the air began to cool him and I pulled the sheet across us.
I can’t really explain how owning that dog had heightened his feelings, but it seemed to me it had. If I’d had any fears that I’d be sharing his love with the new creature in our life, he laid them to rest by finding untouched depths to his feelings.
His love somehow became… unfettered.
I don’t really understand it, and I suppose I should stop trying to explain it. I only know that from the day I brought Ranger into our home, Duo had flourished somehow.
Not that there weren’t days I didn’t curse the notion that had led me to that dog pound as crazed. Like the time we came home and found that the beast had gotten bored and dug a hole in the backyard big enough to bury a body in.
But my Duo has never been a slacker, and he took responsibility for what was obviously ‘his’ dog. Doing the research, and training the beast like he’d been doing it for years. And Ranger proved to be an apt pupil. He was skittish sometimes, from whatever abuse had led him to the pound in the first place I suspected, but he was not a dumb animal. He learned well, and was quite responsive to Duo’s commands… which was probably a good thing for everyone involved since he did indeed turn into the ‘monster’ the clerk at the pound had promised; topping out at damn near two hundred pounds.
Just as well the dog was willing to follow orders, because forcing him to do anything was pretty much out of the question by the time he was full-grown.
Dogs grow at an alarming rate, or at least Ranger had, and I have pictures of Duo and him together that are almost comical in their progression. Watching the two of them go out for their evening run is… amusing. The top of Ranger’s head is almost as high as Duo’s hip and it has struck me more than once that Duo looks like he’s walking a pony and not a dog. Though where you would find a pony that devoted to a person, I don’t know. Duo doesn’t even need to use a leash to keep Ranger at heel.
Those runs have become part of our evenings, inserted somewhere after the dinner dishes are done and before showers. Not that Duo needs the exercise by any stretch of the imagination, not with his physically demanding job in construction, but a dog the size of Ranger needs to be worked out to avoid the horrors of dog boredom.
I leave them to their jogs, generally going through the mail or doing the laundry while they’re gone, though Duo sometimes asks me to go along. It usually seems a token offer, and while I’ve gone once or twice, it feels a little like Ranger’s time with Duo and I don’t really like to intrude, if that makes any sense.
So I was a little surprised one evening when Duo asked me more than once, seeming almost a bit disappointed when I declined, though it could hardly have been a surprise.
‘Are you sure?’ he asked once more from the front door, Ranger fairly dancing around wanting to be away. ‘It’s a really nice evening for a run.’
I grinned at the sight of Ranger, looking like he could knock Duo on his ass if they weren’t careful. ‘That’s ok… I need to get these bills done anyway,’ I told him.
An odd little, almost wistful look came into his eyes, but he just shrugged and gave me a cocky grin. ‘Your loss then!’ And they were off, Ranger’s tail waving like a banner behind them. I stood at the window and watched them head down the street for a moment before going to sit at the desk with the unpaid bills.
There really weren’t a lot, and it wasn’t going to take me long; power, water, credit card and veterinarian. I wrote the checks and filled out the envelopes, my mind half on Duo and the possibility of showering together when he got back. When I got to the vet bill, I idly glanced over it, wondering just what Duo had taken Ranger in for, and saw it was just an annual check-up. Looked like simply his first year shots.
I had the envelope sealed and stamped before that thought kind of trickled down into my brain. First year check up.
We’d had Ranger a year.
Which meant…
I glanced at the calendar and realized with a guilty pang that it was the actual anniversary of the day I’d brought Ranger home to Duo. The anniversary of the day I’d hung that gold ring around his neck and made it plain I meant to spend the rest of my life with him.
Technically… it was our anniversary.
I forgot the rest of the bills and went upstairs to change into my running shoes and shorts. I knew Duo’s route, and if I cut across the next block and took a short-cut through the school yard, I could get down to the park in time to meet them and finish the last half of their run with them.
I couldn’t help smiling as I ran, thinking about the pleased look that would come over Duo when he saw me.
Or maybe it was just thinking about that whole anniversary thing. A ridiculously romantic notion perhaps, but one that had obviously occurred to Duo. And somehow I found that it pleased me.
My shortcut brought me out on the very path that Duo and Ranger would be on, just going in the opposite direction. I was still in the wooded area at the north end, and I tried to look ahead around the curve and down into the open grounds where Duo would appear. I would meet them and we would finish the run together, and maybe find some way to celebrate our first anniversary together after we got home.
I wasn’t quite clear of the trees when I caught a flash of red on the path ahead of me. Duo was just coming out of the trees on the south end and would be entering the open park a few moments ahead of me. I couldn’t help a grin, seeing those red shorts, and I remember thinking that I would have to tell him how good he looked in red.
And that was when I saw the other man come out of the trees just behind Duo. He wasn’t dressed for jogging and every alarm I owned went off in my head. Instincts told me something wasn’t right, and I never ignore my instincts. I went from jogging to a flat run and shouted a warning, but I think I was just too far away yet. Duo was just registering my presence, not yet understanding what I was trying to convey and the man was suddenly on them. I saw something metallic flash in the fading light and thought my guts had turned to water. Duo turned, ducking as he moved, but clearly taken by surprise.
And that was when Ranger moved.
Duo had trained his dog. Had trained him to come when called, and not to chew on shoes. Had house trained him and taught him to heel. But not once had he ever entertained the idea of trying to turn Ranger into a guard dog. By Duo’s way of thinking, that wasn’t normal. Normal people had dogs that fetched and rolled over. They didn’t have dogs that attacked people.
But that’s just what he did then. Barking and snarling enough for three dogs, he went after that man like a seasoned police dog. Inserting himself between Duo and his attacker and leaping to take the threat down. The mugger was a big man, but he didn’t stand a chance against two hundred pounds of pissed off mutt.
I felt like I was running through molasses getting down that path, and I watched the most of it play out before I ever got there, my trained agents eyes taking in every detail even while my heart tried to climb out my throat.
Duo lost a moment, as Ranger shouldered his way between his master and the threat. Shocked, I think, not only by the sudden appearance of the man with the weapon, but by Ranger’s reaction as well. He recovered quickly as the dog took the assailant to the ground, moving in to disarm the man with a harsh kick to his knife hand.
It was effectively over before I came pounding up to the scene.
The mugger, or whatever in the hell he had intended to be, was balled up on the ground with his arms wrapped around his head yowling like a banshee.
Ranger stood over him barking madly, hackles up and tail as stiff as a board. It was hard to look at him and see the normally rather laid-back animal that lived in our home. The one who would lie at Duo’s feet in the evening and beg for treats by rolling over on his back, presenting his belly to be rubbed.
Duo, though he’d kicked the man’s knife well out of reach, just seemed kind of dazed. I think he was watching his dog more than he was watching his attacker. Still trying to figure out how his ‘baby’ had turned in to the snarling beast in front of him.
I caught him by the shoulders and moved him back, taking my place between him and the man on the ground. Though he didn’t seem like much of a threat any more.
I had to wonder about the intelligence of a robber who would attack someone in the company of a dog the size of Ranger in the first place. But maybe the man had been expecting one of those ‘normal’ dogs as well.
A cell phone call brought the police, and when it was obvious even to dog senses that his master was no longer in danger, Ranger left off barking at the cowering man and went to lean against Duo’s leg, looking up with those soulful brown eyes, watching as Duo gave his statement to the officers in a voice edged with tension and disbelief.
I gave my own statement, perhaps quickening the process just a bit once I’d shown my Preventers’ badge. It was all rather cut and dried, a thing I’d been through a thousand times… just generally on the other side of the note pad.
It was full dark by the time it was all over, and when the last police car pulled away, I didn’t hesitate to go take my lover into my arms right in the middle of the damn park.
‘Are you all right?’ I breathed against his hair, feeling the expected tension in his muscles. Feeling the faint tremble of a body still dealing with an adrenaline over-load.
‘I’m ok,’ he told me, arms squeezing tight in reassurance. ‘It was just… all so sudden…’
I pulled away and looked down at Ranger, still leaning against Duo’s leg and watching everything, as though wishing he had some sort of human to animal translator that might help him truly understand what was going on. I let go of Duo and knelt on the ground in front of our dog, on impulse throwing my arms around his neck.
‘Good dog,’ I whispered into his brindle, tattered ear. ‘Good dog… good boy… thank you. God, thank you.’
I got my faced licked for my trouble, and almost knocked to the ground as he finally pulled away from Duo, tail wagging frantically.
I think Ranger had surprised even himself, and had needed to be told he’d done the right thing.
I stood and slipped my arm around Duo’s waist, tugging gently to get him moving. ‘Let’s go the hell home,’ I told him and he nodded. Ranger fell into step on his other side.
‘Hey,’ Duo said after a moment of walking in silence. ‘What the hell were you doing out here, anyway?’
I grinned sheepishly at him, giving his waist a little squeeze. ‘I finally figured out what day it is.’
I could feel him relaxing just a bit as we walked, and he chuckled. ‘Oh yeah?’
‘Yeah,’ I agreed. ‘And I was thinking we should give Ranger some sort of treat for his first year.’
There was a moment of silence while Duo tried to make up his mind if I were serious or not, and I couldn’t hold out, chuckling at his consternation.
‘Jerk,’ he grumbled affectionately and I pulled him to a stop under the trees.
‘Happy anniversary,’ I told him, and when my lips found his in the dark, I could feel him smiling.
‘Happy anniversary,’ he echoed, meeting the kiss that was fueled just a bit by fading adrenaline.
‘God I love you,’ I moaned in his ear, when the kiss was broken because we had to hold each other tight. Duo shivered convulsively and I rubbed a hand briskly up and down his arm.
‘Come on,’ I soothed, letting go to start us moving again ‘Let’s get you home out of the chill.’
There was an odd tone of amusement in his voice as he agreed, and we started walking again, arms still around each other. ‘Yeah, I guess it is… chilly.’
I tried to look at him, to understand his mood, but it was too dark under the trees. We walked in quiet for a bit, the only sound the pant of Ranger’s breath.
Taken with another whim, I let my hand drop from Duo’s waist to brush the furry, ever-present head that walked beside us.
Maybe I did share Duo’s love now, but it went the other way as well, and I knew I could trust that Duo would be protected even if I wasn’t around.
‘Happy anniversary, Ranger,’ I said, and Duo chuckled, his hand joining mine to touch the soft fur of our dog’s ears.

End.

Comments

[kracken.livejournal.com]

*hugs doggie* You know I love it already. ^_^

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

I'm glad somebody does... it's awfully quiet tonight! O.O

[dee-ez-bee.livejournal.com]

*Squeal* Oh Thank you!!! That is so wonderful!!

*grins widely* You realize, you not only gave me a birthday present, but an "un"-anniversary gift as well!?! This would have been our nineteenth wedding anniversary, and BEST friends for 25 years!!!

*grins and dabs at eyes* Yup, you even made me cry in a happy way... my hubby was a K-9 officer too!!!

You fit the bill on so many levels! *sniffles, and giggles*

Thank You!
(let me know when to send Cake Duo out for your b-day)

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

Awww... you got married on your birthday? That's so sweet! You know, you'd told me about the K-9 thing, but I'd forgotten it. I don't really know what made me go with the sequel to Doubts idea, I'd fully intended to try and write something to go with the chibi basketball pic.
I'm glad you liked it. *hugs and snuggles*
Happy birthday, sweetie!

[klingonpoo.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I have to disagree, you do short just as well as you do long. This is great and *bounces excitedly* it is a sequel to 'Doubts'!! I love 'Doubts' (I'm not kidding, I've probably read it at least 20 times) and I am very happy that you continued the story. I often wondered what they named the puppy. I like Ranger. It definitely fits the big guy.

It was nice seeing how their lives and relationship had progressed with the addition of Ranger. I can see Heero caving when Duo and Ranger gang up on him. Resisting one set of large, soulful eyes is tough enough, but two is too much even for Heero. *melts* I adore this story. It is a wonderful continuation. Thanks Sunhawk and happy birthday dee_ez_bee!

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it worked, I wrote it in a bit of a hurry and wasn't at all sure about how it came out. Glad you liked it!

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

Whatever made you think you don't do short well? And remind those two guys that they are part of Ranger's pack; of course he's going to try to protect them! That was lovely! Silly mugger...

Just wondering here... How come there are never any cats...? Aside from the Sally and Wufei circus.

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

You know, I'd fully intended on giving Duo a cat in Ion, but the time just never seemed right and Heero keeps glaring at me anyway. Sally really was supposed to give them the devil cat. Damn characters will just never follow the script! ^^;

[bloodywingz.livejournal.com]

Very Good Story. Thank you for sharing it with your loyal fangirls... Happy squeal and hugs!!

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

I have loyal fangirls? *grins* Glad you liked it!

[trixie-chick.livejournal.com]

oh, purr. squee!!! love it... love how heero reacts to the dog, and how duo just opens up... can never have too much love. ^_~

and MAN, you had me scared!!!! when heero started to go out for the run, i was thinking... sunhawk's gonna do something. she is. she's EEEEEEVIL, and something's gonna be wrong with duo... but you let the dog save him! yay!

^_^

and heero was so... awesome, telling the dog he was good. *purrs* that's awesome.

yay, you rock!!

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

I am EEEEEVIL! Bwhahahahaaaaa! *snicker*
But not quite that evil. ^__~

[lorryl.livejournal.com]

Awww..I loved it!...And I'm a cat person!

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

Oh really? Explains the icon. ^___~
Oddly enough, I haven't owned a dog in over sixteen years, and currently have two cats, but that damn puppy wouldn't leave me alone after I didn't name him in the first story! ^^;

[bloodywingz.livejournal.com]

course you have loyal fangirls. Tossing you a mountain dew and a carton of Heath Ice Cream... Or if you prefer. Reese's ice cream. =)

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

Ack! Decisions! Decisions! ^o^

[blackheisei.livejournal.com]

::reads....silence....reads again...:: aww! Wonderful! ::tries to hide wet eyes:: I needed that, actually. thanks.

::ponders:: Ranger remindes me of my neighbors pit bull, Zeus. ::hugs Zeus:: he's such a sweetheart, and his owners just ignore him. I keep trying to convince my Grandparents that no one would mind if he just kind of moved in with us. It isn't working. ::sigh::

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

*pokes at you* I made you weepy? Really? You're not just saying that? *beams*

[ravensilver.livejournal.com]

Oooooohhhh... a sequel to "Doubts"!! What a wonderful thing to wake up to... considering I had to forego my usual amount of sleep in favour of driving my daughter to school this morning (which I *never* do, by the way... that's what school busses are for... but there are extenuating circumstances). So a wonderful loving story to go with my morning tea was just what I needed. So very beautifully done.

Thank you.

{{{{{hug}}}}}

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

It's funny, while the 'nameless puppy' had been nagging at me a little, I'd never really planned a sequel. This kind of came out of left field. Glad you liked it. Even if you had to get up early to read it. ^__~

[aomurasakiai.livejournal.com]

Ficlet... by your definition, ne? ^_~ I *cannot* imagine how you can write so long. I have trouble hitting a double digit page. *sweatdrops* BUT! I'm definitely a big fan of long one-shots. *g* And of course a big fan of yours. I don't care HOW long it took me to read the Ion Series and the Road Trip Arc. lol I've read everything by you and I find myself going back to re-read and re-re-read and re-re-re... yeah. *bows deeply to you* You're one of THE greatest (angst) writers so I shall look forward for more. ^_^

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

Hey! Don't mock the size of my ficlets! This is short! ^^;
And knock off that 'great' stuff... you're making me blush here! *blush*
:P

Re: Yay!

[(Anonymous)]

This is awesome!! Doubts is one of our faves and we are happy to see a sequel.
Though we were tempted to smack Heero (gently of course) for not realizing that Duo's 'blossoming' had as much to do with the dog as it did with Heero finally confirming his feelings. (That is right, isn't it?? Or are we just deluded? It wouldn't be the first time...)

What a nice way to start Monday morning...

Merula

Re: Yay!

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

*beams* I was starting to fear that I hadn't gotten that part across very well, since nobody had commented on it! Yes... poor Heero has a couple of misconceptions about just how important his words are to Duo. ^___^
Glad you enjoyed!

[blueandflawless.livejournal.com]

Awww... so sweet! Love it, Sunhawk!

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

*beams happily*

[kitana-bradford.livejournal.com]

Awww! ::wibbles:: I want to addopt a Duo. Or a Sunhawk! ::nuzzles::
How come you have to be so damn good at everything? XP
You don't even own a dog and yet you kept Ranger so damn realistic!

Though, personally, I think my favorite part of the entire fic was the "Oh God, Heero; please!" look. ::topples over laughing::

I'm trying to get some feedback for you here but it was all so good I don't half know where to start!
::blinkblink:: I love how you describe everything. Especially your lemons. You're really good at them, have I ever told you that? You're so good at pulling the emotions into things and describing them from a different angle other than your every day perspective and it distinguishes your fics from all the fics online out there ::luvluv::
And you do it completely naturally, don't you?
You suck, Hawk. ::grins::
Glad you posted that!

Oh! And happy birthday to Dee!!!

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't own a dog now, but I did own a dog for... *ponders* let's see, it had to be something like fourteen or fifteen years. Big ol' mutt, part husky, part shepherd and God only knows what else.
Glad you liked it... even if I do suck. ^___~

[nitelyfe.livejournal.com]

Funny that you 'doubt' yourself about your ficlets, which are longer and far better than most that are strewn all over the net. I loved it and I loved the thoughts Heero had about the changes in their lives because of Ranger. :) I only wish I could have a dog or cat, but allergies sort of made that a no go. We have ferrets though, and they're our babies. (Always loved that one pic of Heero holding a ferret, no idea what the source of that one is.)

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

It took me until I was in high school to finally get a dog, because both of my brothers were allergic. Funny how that seems to have skipped me somehow.
The picture of Heero with the ferret in his jacket? I think that's actually a modified picture from a DJ of Heero with a puppy... or maybe I dreamed that. I seem to remember seeing that picture in a DJ though...

[aqua-eyes.livejournal.com]

Lassie didn’t fit because the pup was a boy

*raises a finger* is duo aware that Lassie is actually a male dog? The bitches were just too intellagent for the repetative filming process, and thus male dogs were used.

*mimbles* i watch the animal channel to much.

*ahem* ^^;

and go heero. should not let the dog think its dominant...

okay. i'll shut up. i just LIKE dogs. okay? ;)

love it. gooooood doggie. :D though on this program about battersea dogs home this guy had a german shepherd for two days, a guy went to mug him, and the dog reacted like a trained police dog, and held the mugger till the cops got there. :D

yes. shutting up.

brillinat fic. i like doggies. add sappy 1x2x1 and :hearts: all the way.

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

Ah! But that all depends on how you look at it! Technically, 'Lassie' was a girl... she was just played by a guy! Hey... is that like a cross-dressing dog? ^^;
Uh... what's a 'battersea dog'?

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

*waves* Hello random person. ^__~
Glad the fic was worth the trip!
Hey... cute icon! *giggles*

Awww...

[calic0cat.livejournal.com]

What a great sequel to "Doubts"!

Too bad Heero hasn't figured out that it wasn't the dog that made Duo blossom... *sighs and shakes head* Silly guy. And then he thought that Duo shivered because he was *chilly*... *sighs again* Geesh. Hope he's not an investigative agent with Preventers... He's got a bit of a habit of misreading the evidence going on, doesn't he?

Re: Awww...

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

Heero just doesn't appreciate his own importance, I guess. ^__~ It must be because of the dog... ^^;

[infini-t.livejournal.com]

OH~! You toyed with my emotions over and over again! I think i inched toward the monitor just a little...when the mugger showed up!
I love this fic~!!!!
Heero is such a "straight arrow" sometimes and i think that's why he is so adorable...when he finally realized what's going on.

Ahhh...i can go to bed happyyyyyyy now~! *wink~!*

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

Aww! I made you happy? *grin* Night night, sugah!

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

TWO of them? *grin* That must have been one hell of a 'please' look! ^o^

[nataliethompson.livejournal.com]

This was great! I wasn't expecting a sequel to 'Doubts', so it was an unexpected surpise, but a good one. It was the highlight of my day, even. *hugs* You're such a gifted writer! I hope you one day realize how talented and great you are, and soon. Sometimes you're a bit too self-critical for your own good, you know? *wide grin*

So...do I really need to remind you about Ion? *wanders off, chuckling*

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

It was an unexpected surprise to me too! ^^;
I'm not self-critical, I'm just a... realist. Yeah, that's it! ^__^
Ion? What's that again? :P

*bounces around*

[loika.livejournal.com]

^____^ Wahh~~~~~~~~ It was so cute. *hands Ranger a cookie* Isn't he a special boy? XD

Re: *bounces around*

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

How odd... I thought I replied to this. O.o
I think I said something much wittier last time. *snicker* The best I can come up with right now is, 'Thanks!' ^__^