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Names to remember this chapter:

Duo's brother Solo and his wife Violet

Duo's brother Tres and his wife Molly

Duo's cousin Harriet, her husband Ryan

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Chapter 5 (A bunch of puppies)

-A few hours later-

Duo took a second from where he was talking to his brothers and looked around the living room. He quickly came to the conclusion that sometime between dinner and the evening coffee, he had lost his boyfriend. Getting to his feet he walked through the kitchen to the dining room to the sitting room but without finding his Chinese lover.

Duo realized with a feeling of dread that his boyfriend was probably hiding. That Wufei wasn't comfortable in a crowd was clearly an understatement and Duo was a bit worried. He started to look through all the bedrooms, the study, the library and even the closets in search of his missing lover.

'The house is big, but it isn't -that- big! Where could he be? His coat is still hanging in the hallway so he hasn't gone outside.' Duo thought before walking back to the living room where most of his family was gathered.

"Hey, has anyone seen Wufei?" His question was only met with negative responses. He was getting very worried now. What if Wufei had been so uncomfortable that he had left without his coat? What if he was lost? What if-?

His worrying was interrupted by his cousin Harriet who tapped him on the shoulder.

"Duo, have you seen Jammie or Noel?"

He thought for a second. There was so many kids running around, but he hadn't seen the two six year old twins anywhere lately. "No."

His cousin sighed. "Strange. I haven't seen them for hours. If you see ether of them could you tell them that I'm looking for them and that we are going to leave soon?"

Duo nodded. "Yeah, sure... hey, when was the last time you saw them?"

"After dinner... Now that you mention it, they were talking to your boyfriend a while after that."

A little light went on in his head. "Ah. Well, I'm guessing that if we find one, we find all of them."

Together they started to go over the house with a fine-tooth comb… but without luck. The mysterious part was that more and more children started to disappear until they were missing five out of ten children. His brothers and their wives soon joined the search to find their own children and Harriet pulled her husband Ryan away from the TV to help them, but without result. Not until Harriet came silently laughing up the basement stairs. She gesticulated for them to be quiet and lead them down the stairs, through several junk filled rooms, through their grandfather's workshop and through the door that lead into the old underground garage. The first clue that someone was down there was the rattling sound of a old space heater that someone had plugged in and their attention was soon caught by the dim light that came from the back of the old rusty car standing in the middle of the over filled room.

"God, I can't believe that grandpa still has this piece of crap." Duo said as he dusted away some dirt from the hood.

"The 1974 Toyota Corolla station wagon is a classic." Harriet's husband Ryan protested.

The rest rolled their eyes but didn't protest. No one wanted to hear another lecture about 'classic' cars again.

They walked around the car and over to the open trunk. At first sight it seamed like the big trunk was empty but at a closer inspection reviled that so was not the case.

The backseat had been felled down and the floor of the usually spacey trunk was filled with blankets, pillows and empty cookie plates and in the middle of it all they found Wufei asleep under a pile of children. Some were curled up against his side while the older children were asleep more or less on top of him.

"Does anyone have a camera?" Molly whispered.

"It's upstairs, don't wake them up, I'll go get it." Ryan whispered back before he quickly made his way over the oil stained floor and out the door.

"Aww, they are so cute. Like a bunch of puppies." Solo grinned and pulled his silently laughing wife up against his chest.

"Ever thought about getting children Duo?" Harriet whispered.

Duo didn't answer at first because the truth was that he not only had thought about it, he had dismissed the thought almost instantly. No, he did not want children. But looking down on his sleeping angel who was being used as a pillow by several of them he started to reconsider.

"Maybe. I don't know." He said quietly.

Harriet smiled. "Well, if you plan on keeping this one, you are going to have to do more then think about it."

"Yeah, this one has 'I want to have kids' written all over him." Molly giggled quietly.

Duo suddenly had a vision of small dark eyed children running around calling him daddy. He surprised himself by not panicking over the thought. He took another look at his lover. Maybe if they found a surrogate mother and used Wufei's genes. He -so- did not want to raise a kid that took after him. He'd be bald and insane before the kid was old enough to leave the house. No, dark eyed angels was a lot more enticing.

"I think Kate found herself a new teddy bear." Tress whispered and pointed at the small girl who had wrapped herself tightly around one of Wufei's arms.

"And I think Wufei is going to have to wash his hair." Solo grinned and pointed to where his daughter was drooling heavily over a handful of Wufei's dark hair. The rest of the adults snickered.

Ryan returned with his camera and managed to snap of a couple of pictures before the first of them woke up. Heero groaned out a irritated 'go away' and throw his plastic gun at them before hiding his face in Wufei's stomach. This woke up Noel who was sleeping on the other side of the Asian. Moment later, so did Jammie who had been sleeping on top of her brother.

"Mom?" She mumbled sleepily with her eyes barely opened. None of them seemed very interested in getting off their pillow. Duo could sympathize with them since he knew very well how comfortable Wufei was to sleep on.

"Time to go." Harriet said softly and held her arms out to her daughter.

"But Fey didn't finish the story." She mumbled and put her head back down one Noel's back, who had followed Heero's example and hid his face in Wufei's soft sweater.

"I'm sure he can finish it tomorrow." She said and put her knee up against the bumper to get closer to her children.

"Why can't we stay here?" She whined.

"Well you can't sleep on Wufei all night or he is going to be very uncomfortable tomorrow from sleeping all curled up like this." Duo very much doubted that, since he had seen Wufei fall asleep in a hell of a lot of stranger positions than this without any problems the next day, but he really wasn't stupid enough to say this out loud as Harriet continued. "And grandma doesn't have enough beds for everyone so we are staying with your uncle Scott. You can see Wufei again tomorrow."

The girl was reluctant but let herself be lifted off her brother. The relieved mother carried her sleepy burden away from the car as Ryan took his turn and picked up his once again sleeping son.

Heero who woke up when Solo tried to pick him up and protested sleepily but in the end he also let himself be carried away. This left Anna, Kate and Wufei still sleeping in the car. That Wufei hadn't woken up didn't surprise him at all.

Anna who was sleeping soundly did not even twitch when Violet carefully uncurled her fingers to release the sleeping man's hair and lifted her up in her arms. Kate on the other hand did wake up enough to put up a bit of a fight by refusing to let go of Wufei's arm. But after a while and several promises from Molly that she would get to see Wufei again tomorrow she let herself be carried away by her mother.

Wufei was left lying on the floor of the car in his now wrinkled sweater. Duo climbed into the car and laid down next to him. He stroked some loose hair away from the beautiful face with a soft smile. He was very tempted to carry his sleeping boyfriend to the car but he knew that he would never be able to carry him up the stairs. Wufei wasn't all that heavy but he was not -that- light.

"Come on Wufei, time to go." He said and petted the silky hair. Wufei didn't move. "Come on sweetheart. Time to go." He said a bit more forcefully but without result. He shook the shoulder in front of him. "Wufei, Wu? It's time to go home now. Wake up." Wufei groaned and rolled over away from him. "Oh, no you don't. Wu, wake up babe. Come on now." He said and leaned over to kiss his temple.

Wufei only grumbled in response.

Duo laughed and nibbled on his ear. "Wuuuu, come on. Don't make me wake you up with sex in my grandmother's house."

"Hmm, sex?" The darker man mumbled as he rolled to his back.

The braided man snickered. "Trust you to catch the most important part."

Wufei just blinked and looked around the back of the car.

"It's late. The kids went home."

"Oh."

Duo grinned and stroked his chest. "You can see them again tomorrow."

"Okay." Wufei yawned.

"I don't know how you do it. For someone who doesn't like being around people, you sure attract a lot of kids."

The shorter man just shrugged. "They're easier. Kids are a lot more honest and they didn't take life as seriously as most adults."

"What were you doing down here in the first place?" Duo asked curiously.

Wufei looked embarrassed. "Noel dropped his new action figure down the stairs and didn't want to go get it alone. So, Jammie came and got me so we could go together. We couldn't find it. Your grandparents sure collected a lot of...ehm."

"Junk." Duo filled in.

"Yeah, junk. It took us forever. Especially since the light went out after a while and we only had a small flashlight that Jammie found. Did I ever mention that I don't like the dark? That I might even be slightly scared of it?"

Duo shook his head in amusement.

"Well I am. And so is Jammie and Noel, so we were all kind of stuck together down here, like in some bad horror movie." Wufei faked a shudder.

Duo laughed and kissed his lover's temple. "Did you at least find the action figure?"

"Yeah, Jammie found it by the stairs in an old paint bucket."

Duo who immediately thought about his own beloved action figures gasped. "Oh no! Did you get it clean?"

Wufei laughed "We didn't need to. The paint had dried out years ago."

Duo hummed and took a deep breath in his lover's silky hair. "And then what happened?"

"Well, Jammie wanted to explore... I didn't think your grandparents would have minded."

Duo shook his head and waited for his love to continue. "We looked around for a while until Noel found the door to the garage and wanted to go inside. We found the car... it's a really cool car by the way. The backseat was down and there were a few blankets in the back so we kind of built a nest in there. Noel went and got Heero, and Anna followed her brother. Kate followed Jammie when she snuck upstairs and got some cookies. So we ate cookies and told stories."

"Sounds like you had fun." Duo put his head down next to his lover. "I got a bit worried there for a while when I couldn't find you. I didn't expect to find you hiding the basement."

Wufei looked embarrassed. "Yeah, well it was nice to get away for a while."

Duo stroked his lover's cheek. "The next time you feel you have to get away, let me know and we'll leave."

Wufei shook his head. "You were talking to your brothers and you did say that you hadn't had much time to catch up with them."

"Doesn't matter. You matter, so please tell me next time."

Duo's heart jumped as beautiful wallflower smiled with bright eyes. "I will."

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A/N

I hope you liked it. I'm going to try to get the next chapter done by friday but I can't promise anything. Work is turning... hectical.

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