Title: The chicken soup conspiracy
Author: Kidishcaresh
Pairing:
Word count:
Theme: Sickness
Timeline: AU
Author notes: A series of short fics about being sick. In which our beloved gundam wing characters have to deal with sickness and the age old cure of chicken soup. If you have any other household cures for fevers and or other illnesses let me know.
Warning: High T rating for implication to mature actions and use of the word sex.
CHALLENGE: I'm utterly bored when I get home from so I will have plenty of offline evenings which I intend to spend writing! I saw someone else's fic series containing this idea and decided that it was the perfect solution to my problem! So I decided to let you; the readers to challenge me to writing you a story! How it works: Simple really, you send me a review or PM if you prefer that. In this review/PM you tell me the following:
1. The pairing or the two characters this fic will center on.
2. The condition or injury you want mentioned as well as which of the two has it.
3. The setting. Where will the story take place? Where are the characters going to be and do they eventually move somewhere else?
4. Genre. Comedy? Romance? Angst? Drama? ETC.? A combination thereof?
5. The challenge. Here you tell me what you wish to see, or a word(s) that must be used in the fic.
Challenge: My second challenge also by StandingOnTheRooftops
1: Relena and Duo (doesn't have to be romantic; they can just be friends)
2: Relena; gun-shot wound
3: government gala; hospital; Relena's home
4: Comedy
5: Someone has to say 'I love you lots... like Dippin' Dots!' (Y'know, the little froze ice cream balls? LMAO.)
Disclaimer: I own nothing except my OC's.
Chapter 9,
Relena stared blankly at her stomach. She'd been dancing not ten minutes before and now she was sitting on the ground with a hole in her body and an ever growing red stain on her dress right under her heart. As she heard screaming all around her and people calling her she flashed back over the happenings that led to this.
She'd been dancing with Heero when she saw the glint of a gun. Following the path she realized that she wasn't its intended target. She'd not really thought about the consequences back then, but knew if she didn't do something Duo would die. She'd twirled away from Heero until she was dead in the bullet's path. This threw off the shooter which resulted in his aim faltering and the bullet piercing her body just below her heart. It bled like a bitch as Duo so eloquently put it, but it would luckily not be lethal.
Party goers all around screamed like crazy until Duo bellowed over them all.
"I love y'all lots like Dippin' Dots, BUT WOULD YOU PLEASE SHUT THE HELL UP? Thanks." he hollered before returning to his usual tone of voice. Relena couldn't help herself and burst out in laughter. She winced as her injury strained with the uncontrollable motion.
"Whoa there princess, take it easy. Heero will kill me if you start gushing like a fountain." Duo said pressing the makeshift bandage against the injury again. Just then the ambulance people finally arrived and Relena found herself once more feeling rather numb as the world seemed to be on super speed while she was going through it in slow motion. She was vaguely aware of hands on her person, doctors and a needle diving into her skin before everything went hazy and multi-color. There was a lot of yelling and cursing in the distance, but Relena couldn't be bothered by it and then everything went black.
Duo watched as the medics hoisted Relena onto one of those medical stretcher bed things on wheels. He couldn't be particularly bothered to figure it out and simply went along as they pushed the whole contraption into the ambulance and checked on Relena. During the ride Relena seemed to be very out of it already. One of the medics administered a painkilling medicine and then things seemed to go to hell. Relena's body seemed to not take the medicine too well.
"Duo…you're purple…" she murmured before giggling helplessly. She went on to tell him that the medics were orange red and green respectively and then started to sing some silly song of sorts.
"Jesus what kind of meds did ya give her? She's downright high on the bloody things!" Duo hissed at the medics who shrugged.
"It's just standard painkillers sir. I've never seen anyone have this kind of reaction to them." the medic said hissing in shock as Relena then proceeded to pass out. A quick check up proved she was alive and relatively well. They had reached the hospital by then and Relena was carted into the operating room and Duo was left to wait patiently. He received mail from both Zechs and Heero demanding updates as they became available as the former was still on Mars and the latter was on a mission and neither would be able to make it back within less than a week's time. After getting them updated with the latest happenings Duo sat down and waited.
"Mister Maxwell? I'm doc Connors. I operated Miss Dorlian. She's in the recovery room right now. The operation went fine and I was also asked to inform you that the reaction she had to the painkillers is normal for her. Miss Dorlian has never had more than some regular painkillers. So it's perfectly normal for her to be a bit shall we say high from the morphine we administered earlier and the slightly milder set of painkillers she must take until she's fully recovered. " the doctor said. Duo nodded and mailed Heero and Zechs the news. The former replied by asking him to wish her a speedy recovery from him and the latter simply laughed and asked him to make sure to tape it all.
"I can't believe you did that Duo!" Relena moaned staring at herself on the recording that Duo was showing on her birthday party that year. She had recovered just fine from the near fatal gun wound she received a year before. Duo had kept his promise to Zechs to record Relena's drug induced fun filled sick days. The footage ranged from her singing silly 50-70's songs to her pointing at random empty spaces and claiming there were pink ponies and cotton-candy rabbits there and for Duo to get her one. Duo had not shown anyone the tape until today. He'd brought them with him and insisted they all watch the comedy movie he'd brought. Relena unsuspecting and innocently had agreed with the rest until she saw herself laying in the hospital bed and pointing up at the ceiling claiming that she wanted to try some moon cheese. If she hadn't been incredibly embarrassed she'd have found it funny too, but as it was she couldn't yet determine whether she wanted to throttle the braided boy or get back at him. She instead watched with a sort of morbid fascination how some pain medication had her acting crazy like that. She couldn't help but laugh though when a scene popped up where Wufei had been visiting and she had proceeded to chew on his hand for no clear reason and Wufei tried his best to free his hand from her mouth only to have her drop his one hand and grab the other which she then patted contently causing the poor Chinese man to stare at her in shock before demanding Duo do something other than record that. All in all Relena concluded the whole thing had ended relatively harmless and she wouldn't even have a scar as proof of it. She had to admit that despite this embarrassing tape Duo had taken exceptionally good care of her while she recovered and he'd thankfully erased the part where Relena decided she didn't need any undies and removed them before putting them on Duo's head. That would've definitely tipped the scale toward killing him in his sleep…if the braided menace ever slept. Relena made a mental note to have that looked into and prepare some payback for this embarrassment. Wufei would help her she was certain and if she played her cards right she could convince Trowa and Quatre to help her too and they would help her convince Heero.
"Beware Mister Maxwell. You'll get what's coming to you yet. hehehe." Relena whispered vindictively as she watched the braided boy regale more tales of random events and things that were apparently worth telling her birthday guests. She had to admit he knew how to liven up a party though.
Okay that's it. Read and review?
