Rematch: Part 1

The year is after colony 195, we are currently positioned in the L4 colony, and Duo was being a major pain in the neck.

"Heero, lighten up a bit! I didn't mean to scare you THAT bad!"
"Serves you right."

Duo moaned a bit and held his nose, right where I had punched him. "I think you broke it..." he moaned.

"Let me see it."

He took his hand away from his face and tried to look at it. His eyes crossed, but I don't think it helped him much.

"Hn..."

He uncrossed his eyes and looked at me. "Something tells me I'm not gunna like this..." he whined.

I put one hand on the right side of his nose and lined it up with the direction his nose was supposed to be in. At that moment he closed his eyes and tried to stop shaking. Then I placed my left hand on his cheek and lined up that hand as well. Duo didn't complain, he knew what was going to happen next. I quickly slid my hand across his face until...

"YEOW!!" Duo shouted, "Why'd you have to hit it so hard this time?!"

I didn't answer. He knew why. I punched him harder today than ever before. I started to walk down the hall to my bedroom.

"Oh I get it. I deserved it." he complained. He sounded too snotty for his own good. I stopped, turned halfway around, looked over my shoulder, and just simply glared at him.

He hesitated before speaking again. "I can take a hint." He walked over to the couch and plopped down on it.

I continued to walk down the hall towards my bedroom. I opened the door and started to walk in when I was stopped dead in my tracks. There, sitting on my bed, was Relena.

"How did you get in?!" I asked, quite surprised.
"The front door was open." she answered simply.

/Quatre.../ I thought.

She must have noticed the look I was giving her because she quickly decided to stop giving me pitiful expressions of love trying to be noticed and decided to get right to the point. She held out a small envelope. I took it from her and looked at the return address.
As if knowing what I was thinking, she told me what it was for. "It's for you and the other pilots," she said, then quickly added "from Zechs."

Another surprise. I looked up at her. Immediately, she put on her best smile.

"Get out." I said. She looked up at me, almost surprised, but she got up and walked to the door. Before walking out, though, she turned around and looked at me like she didn't care that in any other case I would've killed her. She backed out slowly, shutting the door behind her.

I set the envelope on the table by my bed and started cleaning up the mess around and on the bed. I noticed Duo's plastic set of fake fangs lying on my bed. /I must've hit him really hard to have knocked those out./ I thought to myself. I looked over to the left of my bed and noticed Duo's cloth bat wings lying on the floor, torn. /He's lucky that's not his throat./ I thought.

By now, I was starting to calm down a bit. I finished cleaning up the room and was making my bed when Trowa walked in.

"What was that about?" he asked.

I just handed him the envelope. "It's from Zechs." I mentioned.

While he was reading the letter, I finished making the bed and was just about ready to go give Duo his stuff back when Trowa told me exactly what I didn't want to hear.

"He wants a rematch."

-TO BE CONTINUED-