Charmed
by KatiKat
"Thank you for the wonderful evening, lover," Zechs purred as he
leaned over to Wufei, who was sitting in the passenger seat of his truck and
nuzzled his ear. "You sure I can´t come up with you?"
Wufei leaned into the touch for a couple of second before pulling away with a
sigh. "Yeah, I'm sure." He looked out of the car window at the old
house where his family was living. "It´s not that they wouldn´t accept
you... us. But... well... we - me and my step-brothers - are a really...
unusual family."
"I can do unusual," Zechs answered with certainty as he leaned back
in his seat.
Wufei turned to look at him in the darkness of the car. "Yeah, I
know," he whispered and intertwined the fingers of his left hand with his
lover´s. "But I´m afraid, that we are too unusual even for you."
Just when he ended his sentence, a big ka-boom could be heard coming from the
house. They both turned to the house immediately, seeing the windows on the
right side of the house explode.
"Shit!" Wufei exclaimed and tore his hand out of his lover´s.
"What the..." Zechs started but was interrupted by Wufei who threw
the passenger door open and sprang out. Not giving the strangeness of seeing
his lover´s house almost explode a second thought, Zechs jumped out of the car
too and pulling a gun from his shoulder holster, he started after the Chinese
man.
Wufei ran up to the house and threw the front door open, revealing a chaos of
broken or overturned furniture. Cursing silently, he moved further into the
hall before someone stopped him from behind. He turned around to see his cop
lover halting his progress and cursed again.
"Zechs, what are you doing here?" he asked, exasperated.
Zechs looked at him incredulously. "I am a cop. When I see a house
explode, I go check it out."
Wufei rolled his eyes. He didn´t have time for this. He had to find his
brothers and help them. "Look.. there is nothing for you to do here and I
would prefer if you left right now." His voice was filled with impatience.
For a moment he really wished he had Trowa´s powers to stop time now to keep
his lover from seeing what he would surely see if he moved further into his
devastated house.
"I don´t think so. Now, you wait here and I will check the house,"
Zechs told him and stepped around him.
Wufei turned around, trying to stop the blond man when he saw someone fly
through the air with a shriek that tore at his ears and land heavily among the
shards of their grandmother´s mirror which he took down as he hit the wall.
Zechs stopped dead in his tracks and Wufei peered around him to see the black
figure move. Black, lots and lots of black. And hair. Yup, that´s Maxwell.
"Oh man, I will kick it´s ass all the way down to hell," the young
braided man swore as he scrambled back to his feet. He started back to the
living room from where he came flying just a moment ago, when he noticed the
men standing at the door. "Wu, you brought a visitor," he exclaimed
cheerfully. "Nice to meet you. I am..."
"Duo!" came the shout out of the kitchen. Yeah, Heero was on the war
path again.
"Sorry, but my fanclub is calling. By the way, we could really use your
help here, Wu. This is a tough little bastard." Then he turned and ran
back through the living room to the kitchen.
"Who..." Zechs started incredulously. Did he really just see a man
fly through the air, hit the wall and then stand back up and walk away as if
nothing happened?
"That... that was my brother´s lover," Wufei explained. "He...
he isn´t from here." Yeah, hell is really not anywhere near here-
thank God. "Look. I have to go help them, please go."
"No way!" Zechs argued.
"If I have to, I will knock you out, Marquise. So just fuck off!"
Wufei shouted. Oh god, he was really picking Maxwell´s language. The demon would
be so proud.
Zechs opened his mouth to say something when suddenly a shout for someone
called Quatre could be heard. Not even a second later blue light appeared in
the hall, and a young blond man materialized in front of the arguing pair.
Zechs´ jaw hit the floor.
"Oh shit," Wufei cursed while hiding his face in his hands. He really
didn´t want his lover to find out the truth about his family like this.
The blond man - Quatre obviously - froze seeing the unknown visitor.
"Oops," he squeaked and ran off to the kitchen from where a really
strange growling and hissing was heard.
"Ehm, that... that was Quatre. My other brother´s lover." Wufei
sighed. It really didn´t matter now what Zechs would or would not see in their
house and nothing short from knocking the blond man out would keep him away
from their house. "Just stay behind me, okay?" He stepped around him
and ran to the kitchen too.
Wufei stopped at the open door and peeked into the disaster area that had been
their kitchen just this morning. It would do him no good to run in unprepared
for what he would see. He could feel Zechs press himself against his back and
he was really glad that the blond man was listening to him for once.
He looked around and saw Trowa lying on the ground among the rest of what used
to be their kitchen table. Quatre was leaning over him healing the bleeding
wound on his forehead. Heero was puttering around the stove cooking some sort
of really smelly elixir, unconcerned about the mess he was creating on the
stove, floor and every other place that was still in one piece. A rare thing
for Mr. "Clean Freak". Not seeing Duo or the object that caused their
house to almost fall down in ruins, he figured out that the struggle moved back
into the living room again.
Finally, Heero turned around and spotted his brother. He gave him a very pissed
off look and waved a dripping spoon in his direction. "Where the hell have
you been? We have tried to call you for hours!"
"Sorry, my cell phone died on me. What happened? Does Duo need my help?"
Heero took a small bottle and started to pour the smelling, ugly green
substance in it. "They set Cerberus on us! The Cerberus, would you believe
it? The dog is more interested in chewing on our furniture than in killing us -
well.. if you don´t try to take a toy away from him. You will have a fit when
you see the mess in the living room. And Duo doesn´t need our help. He likes to
play with animals."
At the same moment, Duo came flying through the door leading into the living
room and slid across the tiled floor to Heero´s feet. "Heero, I thank you
for your trust in my abilities to tame the beast, but could you please hurry
up? It started sniffing at the fireplace and you don´t want it to piss on the
polished wood, do you?" Duo ranted as he pulled himself up again.
"Oh, our visitor again. Hi." He reached his right hand. "I am
Duo Maxwell."
"Zechs Marquise," he answered as he took the offered hand
automatically.
In the back of the kitchen Quatre finally managed to get his lover back on his
feet and hearing the name he turned around and smiled at the cop. "Oh, so
you are Wufei´s lover. Nice to meet you," he answered and took his hand
too, shaking it enthusiastically.
Trowa only nodded to him, carefully leaning against his lover. The wound on his
forehead was gone but he had a headache of the size of Manhattan.
"Finished!" Heero cried out, holding the small bottle up
victoriously. "Duo, you will hold him down, Quatre you will throw the
elixir and the three of us will read this spell. I found it in the Book of
Shadows while Duo was playing in the living room."
"What..." Zechs started to ask but Duo waved him off.
"Later, dude." He turned around and headed back into the living room.
"Here, doggie, come here boy." The only answer he got was a enraged
snarl. "Touchy aren´t we?" The scratching, screeching sound started
again making the house shake in its foundations.
"It´s better if you stay here, Zechs," Wufei said as he turned around
and patted his lover´s chest. "You can´t do anything to help us in there."
With that, Heero pushed the bottle into Quatre´s hands and the three brothers
to the living room too.
"Don´t worry. You will get used to it. Or you might run screaming,"
Quatre said to the gaping policeman as he passed him.
"Stay here?" Zechs said to himself. "To hell with staying
here!" Raising his gun, he followed the blond man but stopped dead in his
tracks at the door to the living room. Well, there was not much left of the
living room. And among the ruins of antique furniture, a big black beast with
red glowing eyes was wrestling with the black clad braided man. Duo was sitting
on it´s back, trying to choke all of its three heads at once but failing
miserably.
"Y... you sh... should h-hurry up," Duo stammered as the beast tried
to jump up on all of his four feet to shake him off like a wild horse. "He
cou... could de... decide that I... I tas... taste go... good af..f..fter
allllll."
"Quatre!" Heero called and the blond man threw the bottle on the
ground in front of the beast. Immediately a grey, awful smelling cloud
appeared.
The three brothers then started to read from the piece of paper Heero held in
his hand:
"Beast from hell,
hear our spell.
To hell you return,
in fire you burn."
In a moment, red flames appeared from nowhere and engulfed the howling beast a
moment later after Duo jumped down from its back. In a couple of seconds it was
over. Zechs´ jaw hit the floor once again.
"Oi, oi, oi," Duo moaned as he scrambled to his feet once again.
"I am too old for this shit."
"Duo, watch your language," Quatre exclaimed, horrified.
Wufei walked over to the fireplace and picked up the destroyed katana sheath.
"Hey, it chewed on my sword! Injustice! I hope it cut its tongue on
it!"
The others walked around the room picking up a thing here, kicking a shard
there. From their unhappy, but not shocked looks, it was obvious that this
wasn´t the first time something like that happened.
"I don't think the insurance will pay for it this time," Trowa sighed
as he poked at the shards in the broken window. Everybody nodded. It was
getting really expensive to keep saving the world these days.
Heero helped Duo dust his clothes off. "You okay?" he asked, lifting
his chin.
"Aww, Hee-bunny. I knew you cared," exclaimed the dirty young man and
threw his arms around his lover, sending them both crashing to the floor among
the rest of some plants and dirt.
Finally turning around, Wufei realized that his lover was there. That he saw
everything, the hell dog, the spell. Oh god. It was good that he was a buddhist
for he had used the God´s name one time too many today.
He stepped closer to his lover and coughed a little unsurely. "Well, I
think... uhm... I think I should introduce you properly."
Zechs only looked at him and blinked.
Wufei moved to stand in front of Zechs and looked up to meet his eyes.
"Well, you wanted to meet my family, right?" he asked.
Zechs nodded. There was nothing he could say. If he opened his mouth, he would
start babbling. Yeah, something along the lines of "there was a three
headed dog in your living room". But if his lover stayed cool he would
too, right? A Cerberus in your living didn´t mean the end of the world, right?
Right?
Wufei stepped to the side and caught Zechs´ arm tightly as if afraid that his
lover would bolt any moment. "So.... Guys, this is Lt. Zechs Marquise.
Zechs, this is my family." He waved his arm at the four men who didn´t
listen to him at all.
Zechs trailed his eyes from Duo who was sprawled on top of his lover, to Heero
who was trying to push himself up from the pile of leaves, dirt and water he
was currently lying in thanks to the overenthusiastic hugging of the braided
demon, to Quatre who was looking unhappily at the shards of a broken ballerina
statue. He lastly looked at Trowa, who was still poking at the shards in the
broken window.
Zechs sighed. This would take some time to get used to...
"Well, you didn´t lie."
Wufei frowned. "Huh?"
"Your family is really unusual."
Somewhere in the house something heavy crashed to the ground. Nobody noticed...
The End.
