Someone Like You

[tornin1/2]

Someone Like You

Songfic 2xR

Disclaimer- I don’t own the song, ‘Someone Like You’ it was written and performed by Wet Wet Wet, so therefore belongs to them (as far as I know). Also the Gundam Wing Characters belong to Bandai, Sunrise and Sotsu Agency. I have no money and am not looking for a lawsuit. This is completely non-profitable.

For all the Heero lovers out there, I am extremely sorry but to make this fic make sense I had to have a bit of Heero bashing, but its not that much.

//Give you broken heart
To me
Let give you my soul,
For you to keep
Just give me some words,
To speak//

I sat there on the sofa with a very dishevelled Relena crying on my chest, I stroked her gently to try to calm her down but nothing I could do would soothe her dampened spirits; not even one of the zillions of jokes that she usually found very funny. Her black mascara stained my newly washed white T-shirt, as it poured out of her eyes with the tears; but I’m not the kind of guy to throw a damsel in distress out of my apartment just because she was ruining my shirt.

I just wish she would tell me the whole story, all she’d say was that that jerk Heero had broken their six-month engagement, having only just made it three months ago. She clutched the ring so tightly in her hand I could barely see the golden band. If it were me, well, apart from beating Heero to a pulp and all that, I’d’ve sold the ring by now and used the money to buy myself something really expensive.

But, its not me and by the look of things all I’ll be doing for the next few weeks is blindly comforting my melancholy friend here, and giving her advice that I’m not even sure is the right advice to give.

What I can’t believe is why she came to me! Yeah, we’re friends, its just, ever since Heero and her got together its been as if I’ve been blocked out of her life- as if I was just some background ornament or a picture on the wall. Any normal person would be angry with that, you know, being forgotten for months when someone’s found someone else to think about, and then when that someone else leaves them, the someone comes back to you. Maybe you don’t understand what I’ve just said but many people have been through it and don’t like it. But- I kinda don’t mind. I’m sorta glad Heero broke up with her, it might actually give me a chance- to tell her how I really feel.

//I’m gonna leave it down,
cos all I wanna do is be with you//

‘Duo?’ She finally speaks, maybe she’s going to tell me the whole thing now.

‘Yeah, Relly, I’m listening,’ That did sound a bit cheesy I guess, but you do say some really cheesy things to the ones you love.

‘Why did he- why did he break up with me? What did I do?’ She broke out into a fresh batch of tears, I felt a cold, sharp pain in my chest; it hurts me to see her in a state like this.

Why? Why indeed? I used to think I understood the ‘perfect soldier,’ but with each passing year since the wars, he just seems to grow more and more distant to the rest of us. You’d think by now he’d be used to socializing and all that, after all the balls he’s had to go to for Relly’s sake.

So because I didn’t know the real answer, I just told her the most comforting think I could think of.

‘You must remember that he’s the perfect soldier. Raised and trained to be prepared for death at all times. Maybe he just doesn’t want to hurt your feelings cos he knows he’s gonna leave you in the end.’ did that sound comforting to you? cos it sounded like a whole load of rubbish to me, and if that really was his excuse, then he must be crazier than I thought. If I was blessed with a woman like Relly, I wouldn’t leave her for the world. ‘Til death do us part.

It’s such a shame none of this can be put into words. It would just drive Relena away from me, then she’d have no one to turn to. I would have no one to turn to.

//Someone like you,
Someone like you
Someone like you no fool can suffer
I just can’t wait long enough
For someone else to take your love//

Well, it’s been a week since Relly stayed at my apartment, I managed to cheer her up enough for her to go back to her high status job of being the Vice Minister of the ESUN.

I always wonder how she does it. At the tender age of fifteen she took on the tremendous job of leading the Earth and Colonies on the path of peace. Now at the young age of twenty-one, she suffered what no one, in my opinion, should ever have to suffer, not after having been through all she’s been through; a broken engagement .

She’s back in the Sanq Kingdom now, I watch her everyday on TV, but she doesn’t seem as happy as she used to be. Her smile doesn’t reach her eyes. I know that if she’d stayed with me on L2 colony, she’d be happy again. She’d’ve grown to love me. Perhaps/

That’s love and a huge amount of hope talking, why would she want me, an ex-Gundam pilot, when she was just about to marry the best one out of us all. Our relationship wouldn’t survive cos she’d probably compare everything I do with everything he did.

But I’d still like her to give me a chance.

//Let me open my heart
for you to see
Let me give you my soul,
For you love to go
Just let it go with me//

Relena phoned me yesterday, she finally managed to tell me what had happened. Heero must have hurt her really badly for it to have taken this long for her to confide in practically her closest friend.

Anyway, the story goes something like this if I put it briefly; Heero had to go away on a Preventers mission sometime before the break-up, except Relly didn’t know there was gonna be a break-up then, well during his time away, he met this low-down scumbag named Ross Quailin, who seemed to think that it would be fun to see Relena unhappy. I’ve met him a few times on some missions also, he works on the Mars Project with Zechs and Noin. I never hung around with him though and I never did think Heero would either.

He’s an anti-peace activist you see, and doesn’t like all this pacifist business, so to get back at Relly for destroying the one thing that made him happy, war, he decided to take away her happiness too. So he persuaded Heero somehow, I don’t know the details, to break his engagement with Relly. And that’s what the stupid baka did.

Frankly, think Heero didn’t deserve Relena anyway. She deserves someone better, someone who’d take care of her and love her ‘til the end of time. She deserved someone like me.

You’re probably thinking right now, ‘so why don’t you make a move Duo, you stupid joker.’ Well, my answer to that question is, I would if I could but she said herself, ‘Duo, I don’t think I ever want to be in another relationship again.’ In those exact words.

It could have been the hurt that made her say those things, but you should have seen her eyes, they were so sad. They were filled with tears after she’d just wiped them away, her mascara was running down her face like twin rivers and left black trails down her cheek and her dischevelled hair flopped limply over her face.

She wasn’t the strong, Vice Minister I see everyday then, she seemed so- so vulnerable.

Because of that, I’ve decided to wait until the time’s right. I just pray that she doesn’t find someone else in the mean time, I’d probably go beserk and end up in a mental institute or killing myself. Besides, I don’t want to drive her away, if keeping this secret between me, myself and I will keep her at hand, then so be it. I don’t know what I’d do if she just stopped being friends with me because I cant’ keep my loose mouth shut.

//Have I ever let you down?
Cos all I wanna do is be around//

I’ve just gone and blown my chance of ever being with my one true love. I don’t know what I said that was so terrible that it would cause her to run away, oh, yeah I do, the three big words, ‘I love you.’

I can’t actuallt believe I told her that, so now I’ve lost it all cos of my incapability to keep my own secret. Jeez, I’m such a dope. But then why should she run away? I’ve always treated her better than Heero ever did. The first thing I ever did for her was try to save her life. Or maybe I’m just some freaky monster that scare’s people away.#

So I’m sitting in my small apartment, at my small table eating my dinner of fried chicken and a large plate of rice. A large meal always helps to soothe my dull spirits, must mean that I’m always sad then.

After eating my dinner I sadly wash the dirty dishes, thinking of all the things I could possibly have done to make her afraid of being with me.

//Someone like you
Someone like you
Someone like you no fool can suffer
I just can’t wait long enough
For someone else to take your love
And I can learn to live again
And wash away the hurt inside//

After that I watch some TV, and who do you think I see, Relly. She doesn’t seem as sad as she looked in her previous appearances, in fact she’s smiling. Some interviewers were asking her questions, something about where she was going for the next fortnight.

I don’t actually remember any of the other questions because what she said next really shocked me.
She said, ‘where I’m going for the next fortnight is strictly confidential, what I will say,’ she was blushing at this point, ‘is that I’m going to spend time with someone I really care about on L2 colony.

Mow that really blew me away, I felt like I’d been standing inside a massive metal bell, which had been struck with a tremendous deafening blow. The blood rushed to my ears and I had to fight the urge to shout ‘WHOOPEE!!’ and punch my fists in the air as I run around the room, knocking everything out of place.

I admit, I did for a split second doubt my Relly, (it feels so good to call her mine), but then I thought who else would she care about and who lives on colony L2. So I doubted no more.

She came, she saw and she conquered. I think that puts everything that took place that fortnight she was here, quite well and simply. But for those of you that want the details. It was around ten in the evening when I heard knocking at my door, about three days after the broadcast on TV. It was raining hard and the wind blew violently messing up her hair. It’s funny how anytime I see her these days, her hair is always messed up, anyway, her umbrella had turned inside out and I had to hurry her in to get dry by the fire.

Relly explained to me that even though it took her a little over a month to decide, she could see how much I love her. So she’ll give us a try, as long as I don’t blow her off like her ex-fianc?e did over a year ago.

So now I’m sitting once more on my sofa with Relly in my arms, except this time its winter and we’re by the fire. She’s playing with my braid and we’re whispering sweet nothings in each others ears. We’re both absolutely happy with not a care in the world, except each other of course.

Oh! I almost forgot to tell you while drowning in the radiant beauty of my Relly’s lovely eyes, that we’re getting married next year! We chose April cos its in spring, and spring is when new things are born. Like our new life together. ]

Whoever thought I’d end up with someone like her? I sure didn’t.

//Someone like you
Someone like you
Someone like you no fool can suffer
Someone like you no fool can suffer//

The End

A/N- I liked this one, I think it’s the best songfic I’ve everdone. I tried to write from Duo’s perspective completely, so it’s kinda chatty and shows his feelings as much as I could manage.
Please reply and tell me what you think.

tornin1/2

[aku_ryo]

very nice and sweet songfic, and i didtn think you really heero bashed at all. I'm not a huge 2XR fan bu this was very nice -
cheers

aku aku

[lilac310]

It's really nice.....it actually suits Duo's cheery and babbling personality!!!!!!!!

[tornin1/2]

thank you i didn't really want to bash Heero anyway, so that's a relief.
and i thank you both for your comments.
tornin1/2

[Vastulja_Sata_Menton]

Very good. This is the second fic i've read about duo and relena gettin together...and at first i was like..."Hell no!" but now i think the pair is kinda growin on me..^^

[War Dove]

I really liked this story, it was laid back in the aspect that thier relationship slowly progressed. I enjoyed this a lot.

[Beck]

YAY! At least they are happy together and I wanted to smack Heero with my Nerf Bat of Doom for treating her so shitty. GO DUO!

[tornin1/2]

oh thanx all of you!
to tell the truth i didn't really think that this fic would last long, but i'm glad you liked it.

and Azylres_2X6_1X5_4x3, i'm glad that you are slowly beginning to diverse, but i still do LOVE 1xR FICS! *looks around cautiously to see Rose* heh heh heh
c-ya!
torn