Awe he's so cute!
Quatre quickly raced up the stairs, and flung the door open. The others appearing behind him, staring in shock at the scene in front of them. Duo was laying on the bathroom floor, water and soap suds splattered everywhere, some clinging to the roof and sliding down the mirror. A small naked Heero was huddled in the corner by the toilet, a towel tightly wrapped around his shivering body.
"Duo, what's going on?" Wufei asked, still surveying the damaged bathroom
"I was trying to give Heero a bath"
Sighing, Quatre went over and picked up the bundled boy "Heero, I know you don't like water but you have to have a bath."
"Why?" a small little voice asked so quiet that Quatre and the others thought they never heard it in the first place.
"Well," Quatre replied, getting over his initial shock of the child talking "You were wet and dirty, we can't have a dirty little boy running around the house now can we?"(1)
"No" Heero sighed in defeat, letting Quatre place him back in the luke warm water and proceed to give him a bath.
In the meantime
"What was the screaming about Duo?" Trowa asked, understanding why the distressed child would scream but not Duo.
"Heero grabbed my braid and pulled it." Duo finished off by rubbing his forehead, where a large bump was beginning to form.
"Y..you.. smacked your head on...the bath tub!" Wufei sputtered, trying to speak and laugh at the same time
"Shut up! It hurt…" Duo mumbled, swearing under his breath when he looked in the mirror and saw the large bump himself.
"M..maybe you should keep the braid...w...we could lead you into walls with it or maybe low hanging lights" Wufei said, still not able to contain his laughing.
"I'll kill you!' Duo screamed, lunging at Wufei, who in the meantime stepped out of the way, leaving a direct path for Duo into the door.
-Thud-
This time, both Wufei and Trowa burst out laughing.
"Awe man!" Duo exclaimed examining the twin bumps on his head in the mirror
Dinner was just getting finished off; Quatre was finishing up mixing the dough for the biscuits, while the others were sitting on the couch relaxing. Duo had wrapped several bandages around his forehead, Heero was sitting down on the plush rug in front of the T.V. intently watching it, sitting in Duo's lap, cleaned and dried in his new blue flannel pajamas, Trowa was reading a book quietly on of the chesterfield, and Wufei was obsessively cleaning his katana. Quatre was too focused on making supper to notice the 'offensive' material Duo was allowing Heero to watch. Only when an extremely loud scream of "SHUT UP!" came from the T.V, did Quatre look up and see Duo and Heero sitting on the floor intently watching a Linkin Park video.(2)
"DUO, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!" Quatre yelled, stomping over to Duo, who looked baffled.
"Wha"
"How could you let Heero watch this garbage! He's a small impressionable five year old! You're polluting his brain!" Quatre continued to mutter on, switching through the T.V. channels. Heero's head whirled in confusion when a field and brightly coloured 'things' danced around with a laughing baby sun in the sky,(3) Heero's expression screaming 'what-the-fuck'?.
"What the fuck!" Duo exclaimed, and mentally cursed himself when Heero looked up from his lap, with large blue eyes.
"Duo! Watch your language! This show is proven to help children improve their brain and thinking levels. Better than your stupid rock music. come along, Heero" Quatre mumbled picking up the small boy and putting him in a chair at the dinner table, now dubbed 'Heero's chair'.
Dinner that night was uneventful; Heero was too tired out from going to the mall and the bath experience to make any trouble. After dinner, everyone was quietly sitting down watching some documentary on the king penguins, Heero sitting cross legged on the floor in front of a small table colouring, a content smirk on his face. The whole colouring experience seemed to be going well until one of the 'defective' pencil crayons snapped. Heero gave the pencil a quick glare before moving on to another one continuing to colour with his tail twitching happing to the background music of the T.V. program.
'Snap!'
Another pencil broke, Heero glared at this one with more anger and picked up another one coloring hard, his face scrunched up, and ears pressed flat.
'Snap!'
Wufei automatically backed into the couch when he saw the same look on Heero's face he had had on in the store when he was forced to try on pink clothing. With a angry 'huff' Heero rose from the table, and threw the pencil crayon across the room, causing it to bounce a few times on the hardwood floor and roll to a stop. With his arms still crossed and tail twitching Heero plopped himself down on Trowa's lap, glaring angrily at the T.V.
"I think its time for bed."
Everyone was too tired to care that it was only nine o clock, and Heero just flopped down on the bed not even bothering to curl up. Duo was confident that this night he would actually sleep the whole night on the bed.
Duo didn't know what time it was, and he didn't really care at the moment. After a hour of laying in bed Duo had enough! He hadn't had a smoke all day, and if his memory severed him Quatre hid his cigarettes in a cabinet above the sink. So, quietly he snuck down the stairs and made his way stealthily into the kitchen. Yes, Duo felt guilty about it and his pride lowered when he realized that a five year old had more restraint them him, but right now HE DIDN'T CARE! All he wanted was his cigarettes. When Duo finally made it to the kitchen, he stopped in shock and fear. there was a figure of a person sitting on the counter...Oh shit!
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Foot notes
(1) Minds out of the gutter people! not that kind of dirty! GOD!
(2) Linkin Park is one of my all time favorite bands and 'one step closer' was the first song of theirs I heard….. They rock, I could see Duo and Heero liking them….ponders
(3)You all know the evil show I'm talking about, I don't even want to mention its name, evil, that show is polluting children's minds. Should be taken off the T.V! If you don't know what I'm talking about then consider yourself lucky.
