Slightly belated Valentines Edition that was mostly Lily's brainchild, my fault it didn't get posted yesterday, very late day of work and passed out before I could edit it. Regardless, enjoy, and if you so wish please review.

Oh and this is the continuation of the chapter where they are rooming together during 195 right after Heero found out Duo was a girl, just to avoid confusion since we're jumping all over the timeline.

Valentines Day, After Colony 195

Duo's shower had taken as long as it always did unfortunately, the price a girl pays for having so much hair that they actually like pampering, and apparently she had taken long enough for Heero to get bored and leave their dorm room.

Sighing she threw on a tank top and shorts before wrapping her still wet hair in a towel before plopping on her bed. She stared at the ceiling idly for roughly two minutes before coming to a decision.

"Yup, I'm bored."

With that she booted up her laptop and pulled herself up into a sitting position while staring at her open browser, now what to do?

"Well, can't reconnoiter the base till night fall, so maybe just watch videos till I pass out? Boring, wonder what Heero's stalker looks up when she's bored... Maybe how to get over the fact that he's just not that into you? Nah... Obviously been avoiding that advice..."

Pondering that a moment a thought occurred that caused her to grin, Heh, alright.

Clicking the search box she quickly typed in 'How do you help keep your friend safe from clingy stalker wannabe girlfriends?' Hitting 'Enter' she leaned back and of all things Valentines Day adverts popped up.

"Oh... K..." Raising an incredulous brow she sifted through the completely unrelated links vaguely wondering who was tagging all this nonsense when something caught her eye.

"Huh, Valentines traditions around the Earth Sphere, why not." Most of it was just superfluous excuses for girls to demand their boyfriends be extra romantic for a day which, not being a romantic herself, didn't interest her in the slightest.

Then she got to Japan. An evil grin began spreading across her face as she read the fine details of that nations tradition for the holiday, and what followed on White Day.

She wasn't a romantic, but a girl could never get enough free chocolate at the cost of baffling their friend for her own amusement, now how to rope Heero into this?

As the Deathscythe's pilot broke out into what she assumed were manic giggles in her room, the Wing's pilot stopped his leisurely stroll across campus and felt a shiver run down his spine.

Blinking the Japanese boy glanced about in confusion before carrying on shaking his head slowly, "Odd.." was all he muttered after that.

Later That Day

While Duo combed out her hair she reflected on how glad she was that Heero was off being his usual antisocial self and hiding from her. Well she assumed his absence meant he was hiding from her, since apparently too much time near her made him twitchy, which was both amusing and useful for her current plans.

His habit of avoiding that which he did not understand had in fact enabled her to go off and make chocolate to gift to Heero, which turned out to be surprisingly more difficult than she expected. Who knew that you couldn't just toss chocolate into a saucepan directly over a flame without burning it? Really it worked for canned chili and you know, they both had beans in them after all so it should have worked out well enough.

Eh, regardless after several hours of scalding chocolate and ruining a kitchen that she was soooo glad was not hers, Duo acquired a box of decent looking if not professionally made candies.

Now she was moving onto the next bit of her plan to surprise him, by dressing up as a normal girl to gift him the chocolates, preferably in public so people could take pictures of his likely befuddlement. Of course she could give it to him as her normal self, but where was the fun in that?

Far better to further bewilder the poor pilot by confronting him with the biggest puzzle he knew of, namely her.

Besides, his look of confusion was just far too adorable! Though surprisingly difficult to get him to make, so she had to milk it while she could.

Now for the setup, she was pretty sure she still had a nice violet sundress buried in her bag that matched her eyes, something simple that would work as a disguise if she ever needed a quick escape. After all, to the majority of the world, Duo Maxwell was a boy. But for now it would work to surprise the other teen. Diligently brushing her hair out rather than weaving it into her signature braid she could only grin in the mirror as she took in the loose chestnut waves falling down her back.

Time to confuse the hell out of one Heero Yuy, payback for her poor Gundam.

Heero shivered once again, for what seemed to be the tenth time this hour alone, growing irritated he was beginning to wonder if there was something wrong with him. It was ridiculously warm outside, and yet he felt a chill running down his back, and had been feeling it all day. If he had any understanding of superstitions he would have taken it as a bad sign, but for now he just assumed it was an indication of an impending cold.

It would not be until long after that he would connect it to the antics of his roommate and realize that it should be taken as a signal of upcoming mayhem.

For the time being though he continued walking along the footpath leading to a mostly abandoned courtyard, which he admitted annoyed him slightly. All this wasted space, in the colonies personal space was a luxury, here on Earth it was a frivolity.

He was broken from his reverie when a pretty young woman in a violet sundress stepped before him grinning widely. The first thing he took note of was her long brown hair blowing in the wind, the next was the amused glint in her eyes which oddly matched her dress.

It was the smile though, the smile was distressingly familiar.

"Happy Valentines day Hee-chan!" Thrusting a small box forward Heero accepted it while staring down at the item in confusion, it appeared to be full of some sort of candy.

"Thank, you?"

She grinned even wider in reply, "You're welcome Hee-chan, enjoy, can't wait to see what you get me for White Day!"

Spinning on a tip toe the girl began running away before turning around again, grin reaching Cheshire cat width, "Oh by the way, the showers free now, gotta go buddy!"

As the pretty teenager left his line of sight Heero's eyes widened in horrified shock. THAT had been his obnoxious roommate and fellow Gundam pilot Duo Maxwell, who had only this afternoon revealed herself to be a girl.

And...she had given him chocolates for Valentines Day? What did you even celebrate on Valentines Day? And what was White Day? Was she challenging him to something? What was with the dress?

Wait he thought she was pretty?

No no no, focus. Maxwell was challenging him to something that involved candy, Valentines, and a White Day, he had to figure this out, it was his goal for the day his...

"Mission Accepted."