It was a cold, dark and stormy night. The wind howled outside the small cottage in the middle of the woods. The windows rattled and strained, protesting against the ferocity of the elements.
Inside it was nearly as dark.. Save for one candle happily dancing away, regardless of the fact that it's meagre light did next to nothing.
Huddled around said handle, a handful of playing cards each, two boys sat opposite each other on the floor. One was strangely quiet...the other...well, he was...
"Arse!"
"Excuse me?"
"ARSE!!"
"Um...'Fei you're not supposed to say 'arse'."
"And why not?? I'll say it if I please...and right now I feel like it!"
"No, your supposed to spout tirades about justice...and honour..and.."
"Gobshite!"
"NO! Have you been eating those green M&M's again??"
"No...." Wufei hid behind his cards, his eyes peeking out over the top every now and then.
"You have haven't you!? You know what those things do to you!" Annoyed, Duo threw his hand at the Chinese boy and held out his hand. "Give me them."
"No." Wufei stuck his tongue out which was bright green.
"Wufei" Duo's tone was warning "Give me the Green M&M's"
"No. Mine."
Their eyes locked, neither intending to back down. Slowly both of their gazes traced across to Wufei's bag and back again.
In about 10 seconds they had dove for the bag, wrestled for it with Wufei coming out the winner, simply because he had more muscle than the smaller American boy. Wufei reached inside and pulled out a bag full of green M&M's, tipping it up and pouring half of them into his mouth before sitting down, his cheeks puffed out like a hamster.
"I hate you..." Duo groused and found his seat by the candle again. "I hate you even more on E-Number hypers." It always amazed him how Wufei had the patience to sort all of his M&M's by colour...and then he'd eat them all in colour order - with the green ones last.
Wufei merely 'Mmffed' in response, trying to chew the slightly melted chocolate treats.
Duo rolled his eyes and lay down, determined to get some sleep to escape from his hyperactive boyfriend...sometimes he thought that 'Fei was too stuck up..and other times he was glad of it. Now was one of those times...he was cold, tired and thoroughly miserable. He sighed and closed his eyes.
Wufei finally swallowed the mass of gooey chocolate and sugar shells and scooted over to Duo.. he knew his partner was bored...and a bored Duo usually led to a depressed Duo...having nothing to distract him from thinking too much.
He settled himself in behind Duo and wrapped his arms around his middle, pulling him up against his chest and planting a sticky kiss asgainst the other boy's temple.
"Grooooosssss..." Duo muttered, half asleep...He yawned and rolled over to snuggle against Wufei. "G'Night..."
"Night..." Wufei closed his eyes, he may as well get a nap...it's be a couple of hours before those M&M's kicked in again
