[Fic] Here There Be Reptiles 2/?

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Author: Sheena (Thunderfoot)

Title: Here There Be Reptiles 2/?

Rating: M (I've given up trying to figure out the American system for ratings) 

Beta: Bronze Tigress

Warnings: 3x4 established pairing. Eventual 5+2. Swearing. Eventual gory stuff (does being chomped by a giant reptile count as gory? *grin*). Shounen-ai/Yaoi (though no lemon). Sexual references. Fusion/Crossover(?) with Jurassic Park 2.

Notation: This Fic has been rated in accordance with the approved TTFF Rating System for Australian and New Zealand fiction.

Archive: www.wufeiduo.net and anywhere else it's archived. If you want it just ask. I don't bite... I do have a tendency to glomp people though.

Disclaimer: I don't own them. Either of them. The Jurassic stuff belongs to whoever wrote it. Gundam Wing belongs to somebody who, unfortunately, isn't me either (though I'd like to believe otherwise in my less than lucid moments). I'm just borrowing them and having a little bit of fun. I'll put them back when I'm finished and they'll be in pretty much one piece... I hope *grin*.

Comments: Y’know, I’m beginning to notice that, for some strange reason, my Duo starts swearing in times of stress. I’ve really gotta work on his language ^_^

** Thoughts **

"Speech"

_emphasis_

//computer stuff//

 

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It didn’t take Duo long, with Wufei in tow, to find Heero. After all, there were only so many places on the boat a person could hide, and Duo Maxwell was nothing if not persistent.

They found Heero on the bridge, ever-present laptop placed on the desk in front of him.

** Am I psychic or what? ** Duo smirked, ** Now, how to go about this... I could ignore him.. .nah! **

Plastering a maniacal grin onto his face, Duo took a flying leap and attached himself to Heero’s back. The boy didn’t even flinch.

That was odd.

"Heero, man! How’s it going? What are you doing up here? Don’t you know that it’s not good for your eyes if you stare at the screen for too long? Your eyes will go square!"

Heero didn’t move. he didn’t blink either. He was just sitting there staring at his laptop with a stunned expression.

** Back up a bit here. Heero looks _stunned_. Well, shit! That never happens ** Duo detached himself from the Japanese boy’s back - it hadn’t been comfortable anyway - and moved in front of him.

Yup, Heero was definitely doing a good impression of a stunned mullet. It was kind of disturbing in a way.

He waved a hand in front of Heero’s face and got no response. "Hellooooo, is anybody in there? Hello, Heero, wakey wakey." Still no response. "Blink damnit! Your eyes will dry out! Earth to Heero, come in Heero." When that didn’t work Duo rapped his knuckles on the boy’s skull.

"Masaka..."

"Oh, he speaks. Sooo, why were you zoned?"

"That’s... impossible."

"Um, actually, it’s not. Trust me, you zoned out there for a while." Heero glared at him. "Well you did! But I guess that’s not what’s impossible, huh? Okay, I’ll bite, what’s impossible?"

"Duo, go and get the others." No please, no explanation - and he wasn’t blinking again.

"I’ll go," announced Wufei from the doorway.

Duo jumped. "Wu, when did you get here?"

"Maxwell, _you_ dragged me here." He turned and walked, well stalked, out.

"Oh, yeah." Duo looked sheepish.

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Wufei had to get out of that room, he had to think. It wasn’t something he could do while standing in that room. When Duo had glomped onto Heero like that he’d felt a twinge of... well, something he couldn’t quite put his finger on.

Actually, it had been more than a twinge. When Duo had glomped onto Heero he’d felt... jealous of Yui. ** That’s ridiculous. Why would I feel jealous of Yui? Maxwell is nothing more than a fellow pilot, a puzzle that needs solving. ** He sighed and made his way towards the cabins. He was assuming that was where Trowa had carted Quatre off to earlier. He really did _not_ want to interrupt them, but a pissed off Yui could be a scary thing.

Then again, a pissed off Quatre could be just as bad... maybe even worse.

Walking slowly, _very_ slowly, down to the cabins, Wufei continued to mull over what he knew of Duo. ** He plays the joker and yet he calls himself Shinigami, the God of Death. He acts like an air headed fool around us and yet... I’ve seen his results at school. He’s no fool. I saw those books he was reading in the library, they were _not_ light reading. There appear to be some brains to go with his beauty. ** He blinked. That was about the fourth time he’d caught himself thinking along those lines.

Plus, he realized with a groan, he’d been ogling Duo’s body earlier. ** And I was doing it the other day. Then I was jealous of the attention he gave Yui. Dear Gods! I’m falling for Duo Maxwell. **

He wasn’t anywhere near as surprised as he thought he would have been at such a discovery. **I think I need to have a talk with Trowa later.** The boy had a good ear for listening - he’d discovered that early on - and the advice he gave was often well thought out.

Wufei had reached the cabins during his musings. ** Damn **. He really did not want to face Quatre if he interrupted anything. Yui be damned, if he heard anything he was _not_ going to knock on that door. _He_ could come and get them if it was that important.

Listening intently, with more than a little embarrassment, he held his breath. ** Well, I can’t _hear_ anything. That’s a good sign. **

He walked to the door of Quatre and Trowa’s cabin and knocked on it. There was a groan and a muffled curse that sounded suspiciously like the blonde Arab.

** Then again, maybe they’re just very quiet. **

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Curled up next to Trowa, Quatre was content. Moments like these were few and far between, so he was a little miffed when someone knocked at the door. He groaned and swore softly.

"Barton, Winner, if you two are finished, Yui wants to see us all up on the bridge immediately." Wufei sounded almost embarrassed.

** Poor Wufei, probably drew the short straw and had to come down here. ** Quatre snickered. "Okay, Wufei. Thank you."

The sound of hasty footsteps heading away from the door was his only reply. Still snickering, Quatre poked his lover in the ribs. "Trowa, wake up."

A hand snaked out and grabbed his wrist. The next thing he knew he was underneath Trowa and getting a thorough kissing. "I heard. We’d better head up before Heero comes looking for us."

"Mmmmnn... Don’ wanna," Quatre tried to pull Trowa down for another kiss.

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Twenty minutes later found all five pilots on the small bridge. Heero, still looking a little dazed, was seated in front of his laptop. Duo appeared to be annoyed about something. He kept glaring at Heero from the small corner where he was holding up a wall. Wufei was standing near Duo and kept looking at the long haired boy oddly.

** Could it be Wufei is finally noticing Duo? Poor Quatre may not get to play matchmaker after all. ** Trowa chuckled silently. He was standing on the opposite side of the room from Wufei and Duo with Quatre standing next to him.

Never one to beat about the bush, Duo got straight to the point. "All right, Heero, _now_ can you tell us what was so damn impossible?"

"Isla Sorna was owned by a corporation known as InGen back in the late twentieth century. They also owned Isla Nebula. There they built a theme park which never opened. At least four people died of unknown causes. There were no bodies."

"What does that have to do with where we are going, Heero?" Quatre had begun to rub at his chest. The Five Deaths, the local’s fears about that chain of islands...

Trowa gave him a concerned look and wrapped an arm around his waist. He had a pretty good idea what was going through the blonde’s head. Much the same as what was running through his mind.

"Isla Sorna was a breeding ground for the park. It was also listed as a biological research facility."

"_Shit_!" Duo was off the wall he’d been leaning on.

"They specialized in DNA and cloning. They successfully cloned some extinct animals and bred them for the park." Heero began typing quickly on his laptop. "When the park failed to open, due to something they have labeled as a ‘technical glitch’, they abandoned Isla Sorna and turned the animals loose."

Wufei looked thoughtful. "My guess is OZ is after the cloning research. It’d be easy to clone their best officers..."

"Nuh-uh, though I get where you’re coming from Wu, and that may be _some_ of their reasons for going there, but you’re forgetting something. Our mission was to stop OZ getting their hands on the local _wildlife_." Duo gave Heero a hard look. "There’s something you’re forgetting to mention. What _aren’t_ you telling us? What _exactly_ did they clone?"

"Dinosaurs. They cloned dinosaurs."

Duo blinked, and then gave a harsh bark of laughter. "You’re shitting me, right?! This is some kind of joke right, Heero?"

Heero caught his eyes and held his gaze. "Iie."

"Fuuuuuck," Duo groaned.

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It was official. Heero Yui had finally lost the plot completely. He’d gone bonkers, gone off the deep end, cracked, flipped, lost a few screws, Duo was sure of it. ** Those psychotic laughs of his should have clued me in right away that something was wrong in his head. **

"All right, Yui, there is no _way_ you said what I think you just said. There is no way, absolutely no fucking _way_ they could’ve cloned dinosaurs! It’s impossible."

"Duo, what do you mean? Cloning _is_ possible, it has been done before." Quatre looked out at him from Trowa’s protective embrace.

"I’m telling you, Q, it’s impossible. No-one has _ever_ been able to obtain a complete DNA strand of _any_ type of dinosaur. The way Heero was talking they’ve cloned more than one species. Dinosaur_s_, I head the ‘s’, that means _plural_." If he had been in a better mood the stunned expressions on their faces would have been funny.

"I’m gonna go and check the equipment for landing if anybody needs me." He stalked out of the bridge and down towards where the gear was stowed.

** They probably think I’m overreacting, ** he snorted. ** Of course they think I’m overreacting. You’ve never given any hints that you’re anything other than a ‘Braided Baka’ ** He winced. Masks could suck sometimes, there was no doubt about it.

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Another piece of the Maxwell puzzle had been thrown out. **Beautiful, complex, intelligent, and he appears to know something about dinosaurs.** Wufei glanced around at the remaining pilots, all of whom were doing fair impersonations of fish out of water. It was rather funny when he thought about it.

** If Yui is correct, ** He felt the flare of jealousy at the thought of that name. ** I have _got_ to get that under control. But if he is correct, then Duo’s knowledge may come in handy. **

"Duo is right," Heero stated. "No full DNA strand of any type of dinosaur has ever been found."

Wufei could almost hear the ‘but how the hell Duo knew that I _don’t_ know’ in Yui’s voice.

"Then how could they clone a dinosaur if they didn’t have a full DNA strand? I didn’t think it was possible." Quatre was looking paler than he usually did.

"Genetics may not be my strongest subject, but I’m willing to bet they added in something to make a complete strand." At Heero’s nod Wufei’s eyes widened. "They could not have used a human’s, have they no honor?!"

"No, they used frogs."

Simple and to the point. But the mental image of a croaking, hopping Tyrannosaurus-Rex that flitted through Wufei’s mind caused him to snort with suppressed laughter. ** Tyrannacroakus-Rex. **

Trowa just raised an eyebrow.

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"Have you anything else to report, Heero? He shook his head and Trowa looked at the others. "Anybody else?"

"I am kind of curious how Duo knows so much about dinosaurs, especially a fact like the DNA.

"I have found, Winner," stated Wufei, "that there is much more to Duo Maxwell than meets the eye. We have barely scratched the surface on who he is. Barton, may I speak to you a moment in private?"

Trowa nodded and motioned Wufei to follow him. He bent down and placed a kiss on top of Quatre’s head. "I’ll be back soon."

"I’ll go see if Duo is all right."

Trowa walked out of the bridge and headed towards his cabin. He could hear Wufei following behind him. Reaching the door, he motioned the Chinese teen inside.

"What do you want to talk about?"

"How did you know you were in love with Quatre?"

Trowa could almost see the victory dance Quatre would be doing were he there. He suppressed a smirk. "Any reason you want to know?"

"I..." He seemed to think a moment. "I have found myself... thinking about a.. about someone. I find myself unable to look away when they enter the room and am extremely jealous when they show affection to other people."

** I think I have a fair idea who this ‘someone’ is, if the past week or so and Quatre are anything to go by. ** he smiled slightly. "It’s Duo, isn’t it?"

Wufei’s expression developed a classic deer-in-headlights look before he seemed to deflate. "Am I that obvious?"

"Only to Quatre and myself. I don’t think Duo’s notice yet." Trowa replied. ** Only because he’s too busy fixating on _you_ to notice you’re doing the same to _him_. **

"All I can suggest is to talk to him. You might be surprised."

"Thank you, Trowa." Wufei bowed and left.

** Who would have thought I’d end up giving _romantic_ advice to a fellow pilot? ** He shook his head and chuckled quietly.

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Quatre found it harder than he originally thought to find Duo. He wasn’t with the equipment like he said he would be, though it was strewn about as though he’d been there at some point. Quatre eventually found him sitting on the railings at the bow of the ship, watching Isla Sorna loom steadily closer in the distance. "Duo, are you okay?"

"Yeah, Q, I’m fine. What are you doing out here? I would’ve thought you’d be shacked up with Tro again by now."

"Well... I was looking for you actually." He pointedly _ignored_ the Trowa comment. No need to give Duo more ammunition for his teasing. "Mind if I join you?"

"Be my guest." This was a different Duo to what he was used to seeing. He was... calmer somehow.

"So... How did you know about that dinosaur stuff?" He asked as he perched on the railing next to Duo.

Duo gave a small smile. "It was a childhood thing. I was fascinated by them so I read everything I could."

"Oh." He started to develop a sly grin that, if Duo had seen, would have sent him running for cover. "So _tell_ me Duo, what _do_ you think of Wufei."

"What do you..."

"I’ve _seen_ the way you look at him. Admit it, you like him" Quatre was practically bouncing and grinning his head off. Given where he was seated, Duo was worried the boy was going to bounce right off the railing and into the water. How he was going to tell Trowa that his lover was fish food was not something he wanted think about. "Q, you’re making me nervous. Stop bouncing."

Quatre stopped bouncing. ** Come on, admit it! I’m going to get the two of you together if it kills me. ** He gave the braided teen a sidelong glance. "I won’t tell him, don’t worry."

Duo just stared at him.

When that reassurance didn't work he decided to pull out the heavy artillery. It was time to use his secret weapon. Years of growing up among his twenty-nine older sisters had honed this particular attack to an art form. Repeated use did _not_ make the victim immune. He should know, he used it on Trowa often enough and it _still_ worked on him just as well as the first time. Even Heero ‘the Perfect Soldier’ Yui crumbled under its attack.

He _looked_ at Duo.

Duo’s eyes widened and he started to back away. "Don’t look at me like that!"

He let his eyes mist over a little.

"I said _don’t_, it isn’t going to work." He didn’t sound so certain though.

He widened his eyes.

"QUATRE!"

** Just a little more should do it. ** He began to tremble his lower lip.

"Shit! Oh, no, don’t _please_. Don’t _do_ that!"

His eyes teared up a little more. ** I think I got him. **

"All right, all right! Enough already. Yes, I like him. Are you happy now?" Duo did not look very happy. How the hell did Quatre _do_ that? He knew he had been manipulated and that was what annoyed him the most.

"Not quite." His face transformed into a grin. There was not a trace of a tear anywhere. "How much and for how long?" He fought back a snicker. ** Cheer up, Duo, not even _Heero_ can stand up to ‘The Look’. All bow to the master of the puppy eyes. **

"Quatre!"

Quatre’s bottom lip began to tremble again.

Duo couldn’t _quite_ hide the grin on his face. "You’re a manipulative little bastard. You know that, don’t you." It wasn’t a question.

Quatre simply nodded and kept _looking_.

"I can’t stop thinking about him," Duo sighed. He looked out towards the island, which had grown in size since their conversation had begun. "And I’ll think about him at the _strangest_ times." Quatre arched an eyebrow but he didn’t elaborate.

"I seem to notice the smallest things about him. Like how the cheek muscle below his left eye will twitch slightly when he’s pissed. I find it adorable. You may _not_ tell him I said that! As for how long, well, a while I guess. I can’t really put a finger on an exact time where I sat up and proclaimed ‘I love Chang Wufei’"

"Thank you, Duo, for being honest." Quatre placed a hand on his shoulder. ** I promise, I will get you two together. **