[Drabble, Summer Camp Week 2] Summertide 2/9 - Sustaining

[Smarty Cat]

This is a follow-up to Elemental. I've decided to see if I could make a self-contained mini-fic arc. Or something like that.

Title: Sustaining
Date Completed: June 30, 2008
Series: Gundam Wing
Genres: vignette
Rating: K+, 10+, whatever. Any younger and you shouldn?t be reading fic online.
Warnings: none
Pairing: 1xR (Heero x Relena)
Word Count: 250


The door closes behind her of its own accord, cutting her off from any air-conditioned sanctuary, and Relena flinches as the summer heat coils its grip around her in a smothering fist. She strikes out alone across the courtyard with food-driven, single-minded determination but is brought up short by a fluttering awareness running across her skin like imaginary fingers.

As her eyes meet his across a sea of sweltering faces, she is both surprised and yet unsurprised to see him. He tilts his head to the side in question and hefts a wicker basket into her line of vision. She blinks but changes direction, forging ahead through the oblivious throngs of her diplomatic peers on a direct line to the ex-guerrilla in their midst.

Each step is awash in physical sensation: the hitch in her breath, the leap in her heart rate, the tug of butterflies in her stomach, the twitching of hands anxious to check hair or neaten clothes. She wishes she could blame it all on the heat or evening's hunger, but she knows it's all him, all because of him.

Be in the moment. Remember how to breathe. Try to smile.

She stops in front of him at a polite distance, unsure whether to greet him physically as well as verbally, and wishes, illogically, that he would take the decision into his own hands by lunging for her despite the heat.

"Supper?" he asks with no other opening.

Relena does smile then.

"Welcome back to Earth, Heero."

[Morganeth]

nice! very nice! Love the way you write!