Quatre watched everything that happened. As he saw Heero collapse it seemed like his whole body was shutting down. The emotions of everyone around was too much. Quatre blinked as everything seemed in slow motion like in one of those cheesy love action films. First everything went silent as people's voices turned into muffled cries... The sounds of heart beats filled the room. The machines quietened down. The image of Duo running to the door as the glass door opened. The flowing hair of Miranda flew past him. Sally and Noin slowly ran both with tears forming in their eyes. The fear now written on Wufei and Trowa's face.
Pain, regret, sadness, heartbreak, worry.
All consumed Quatre's body, too much for him to handle. His knees buckled as his vision went grey. Trowa turned as he saw Quatre faint. His lips cried out for Quatre to pull it together. Quatre's eyes shut as he turned back to everyone. Trowa figured that it was an overload of emotions that caused Quatre to faint. It hadn't been the first time Quatre had fainted or almost fainted because of an overload of pain. Just... Why now? Trowa prayed that it didn't mean Heero was dead...
Miranda checked for a pulse on Heero's neck she waited a minute looking at her watch. Had she miscalculated? She had seen the look on Duo's face... Love! If Miranda had killed Heero... Duo would never forgive her and she'd probably never look at the boys the same way again. She prayed to God that she had done it right.
Duo shoved Miranda out of the way, not caring if she was a doctor or not. She'd put Heero in that contraption. Whatever happened would be her fault!
"Heero," Duo cried, gathering up the body into his arms. "No, Heero. You wouldn't even let me tell you! Damn you, 'Ro. You wouldn't even wait two minutes for me to tell you that I... to tell you that I love you!" Tears filled Duo's violet eyes, crashing to the floor, to Heero's chest like so many raindrops.
"No," the brunette wept. "No."
"Quatre? Quatre?" Trowa demanded as his arms wrapped around his lover, hoping to keep him upright.
"Too many," Quatre murmured. "Too much."
Trowa spared one last look at Duo, cradling Heero's seemingly lifeless body, then at Quatre. It wasn't very hard to make up his mind as he turned and pulled Quatre away from them, away from the lab. Maybe distance would dull the emotions.
Maybe.
Duo let the tears continue to fall on to Heero's lifeless body. Miranda could only look away as she saw two just there. It was sad... too sad for words. Wufei rested a hand on Miranda's shoulder to stop the poor thing from crying. Noin and Sally tried to stop their tears flowing from their eyes but it was no use. No tears could be stopped.
"Love you..." Duo's tear's stopped as he watched Heero's chest cough a few times. What? Duo looked at Heero's face. That stoic face was soft, loving... almost sleep like. Duo tried to blink the tears away but they just kept coming.
"Heero Yuy, you baka! I'M GOING TO OMAE O KOROSU YOU!" Duo yelled drawing everyone's attention. Heero laughed at Duo's bad Japanese. Heero placed a hand on the braided girls face and leaned up to kiss her.
"Ai shiteru Duo." Heero slowly sat up and smiled as disbelief came to Duo's face. Was she dreaming? Not likely!
"Heero..." There was a silence in the room before Duo latched on to Duo hugging the boy with all her strength. Heero gave a small chuckle before wrapping his arms around Duo. Noin and Sally bounced around like school girls as they saw the Perfect soldier back to normal. Miranda only hugged Wufei gaining a blush from the loner.
Trowa rested Quatre on the sofa with the help of Terry. Terry went to get something for Quatre to drink while Trowa brushed the stray bangs from Quatre's face. Terry returned back with a glass of water and got Quatre to drink it. Quatre's eyes started to flutter open. Trowa sighed. Looks like the pain had stopped. Quatre turned to Trowa and Terry and smiled amazingly at them.
"It worked," Quatre whispered. Trowa brushed the hair away from Quatre's face.
"What did?" Trowa asked softly stroking Quatre's hand.
"Duo and Heero..."
Miranda wiped at her eyes as she pulled away from Wufei. "It worked," she whispered. "It worked."
"He was in ALOT of pain," Wufei pointed out.
Miranda laughed, pulling out a stethoscope and eagerly attacking Heero. She worked around Duo, without the heart to push the brunette away. "He may have been in pain, but he's male again!" She skewered Heero with a glance. "You *are* all male again, right? Nothing under the hood we should worry about at the moment?"
Heero blushed, and hide his face in Duo's neck, earning a shrieking 'Aww, how cute!' from Sally and Noin. "All accounted for, thank you very much," he said.
Miranda withdrew a syringe from somewhere, duly taking a blood sample, and eagerly flitting about the lab, doing who knows what with it.
"It worked perfectly," Miranda said. It's exactly identical to the way he was before! As if the change never took place. I'd say he'd probably got a fair amount *more* understanding for women now, but physically he's all male again! Astounding!"
"Pain, Doctor Lucas, Pain," Wufei reminded her.
Trowa came back in, arms wrapped tightly around Quatre, who was smiling. The blonde's smile only got bigger when he saw Duo and Heero, still pretty much wrapped up in each other on the floor.
"Right, the pain factor. Hmm," Miranda double checked her notes and began flitting through several programs and scenarios. "Hn. I can't get rid of the pain, but I can add an sleep inducer and a pain killer into the mixture. It'll knock you out for the duration of the change, and about fifteen twenty minutes after. Yes, yes. That seems to be the best option."
"Sounds a bit like the original change," Wufei surmised. "How long will it take you to fix it?"
Miranda was already flitting around. She was tinkering with the machine, adding a few drops of something here, a few cc's there. Adjust this, twist that.
"Just about... there. That should do it. So who's going to go next?"
"I will," Duo looked up. "I'm going next."
"That will be fine," she nodded.
"Duo," Heero whispered, looking at the brunette. The girl looked down at him. "Ai shiteru," Heero said. Duo smiled brightly.
"Love you, too, 'Ro."
Noin and Wufei helped Heero to sit up, and helped move him out of the room. Duo spared him one last kiss before going back inside the room.
Duo waved at them.
"Wish me luck," He grinned, and then the door closed and locked.
One after another each girl was transformed back into a boy; Duo, then Wufei, then Quatre and Trowa. Finally they were back to normal. Miranda, Noin and Sally watched as Duo, Heero and Terry helped bring the unconscious boys upstairs and into the living room. It would only be a little while before they all woke up from their sleep. Miranda then did a few checkups on them. Apart from knowing if all their parts were there everything seemed fine. Duo and Heero sat on the two seated couch talking while one by one the others started to wake up.
"About time you all woke up," Duo chirped as he laughed at the still half asleep boys. "Miranda told us that when you woke up to ask if you were all fully male." Each one of the half asleep boys blushed. Heero and Duo laughed.
"Now there's a sight for sore eyes."
All the boys turned to see Noin and Sally smiling in the door way. "You guys may not be as cute as you were when you were girls..."
"But you're damn cute now." Noin smiled. Each one blushed at the comment. It was amazing to be back to normal and not worry about hiding anymore. "Hey Miranda has food on and is almost done. Who knew that a Doctor could be good at cooking?" Noin laughed. Sally almost glared at the woman.
"I make one mistake and you can't let it go," Sally glared and everyone laughed.
After all the food was done all the boys sat down and started talking about random things. Each one laughing at something Duo had said. Heero tried to calm down the hyperactive boy only to amuse the others more. Quatre leaned against Trowa and smiled. It was nice to lean on Trowa's smooth well built chest again. Trowa's attention caught Wufei's and both nodded.
"One thing we haven't done in a while is gone out to Jessie's," Trowa stated.
"I think it would be nice to go out after we get back," Wufei added. Duo then wrapped an arm around Wufei and grinned like the Devil.
"Maybe we can add Wufei's Zechs to the equation," Duo suggested. Everyone's mouth dropped. How the hell had Duo figured that out? Wufei then hit Duo in the head.
"Duo no baka!" Wufei spoke.
"How the Hell did you find out?" Heero asked helping Duo cower from Wufei.
"Hey I might be childlike but I can see when someone likes someone..." Then Duo gave a small wink.
Zechs was completely floored when he finally returned from Ilyana Winner's and back to Preventer's HQ. He walked into his office to find none other than Duo Maxwell perched on his desk. He almost had to do a double take. For a moment, he'd thought it was Dannielle. But no. Dannielle was definitely a girl... and this was definitely Duo Maxwell. Right down to the Preventer's uniform and tell-tale braid.
"Maxwell," Zechs said coolly, not letting his surprise show.
Duo smirked. "Don't do the whole 'Maxwell' thing with me," he said. "I know you're probably surprised to see me. Mission went well, but we're all taking a few days off to rest. We all turned in our reports to Une, but of course she had us deliver them in person," he rolled his eyes.
"Of course," Zechs replied. He thought for a moment. You couldn't make friends without first offering the hand of friendship, he thought, remembering his conversation with Ilyana. Maybe... maybe he really could be friends with the pilots. "She's always been kinda crazy like that."
Duo laughed brightly.
"Listen," The violet eyed boy said, leaning forward. "Me and the others, and Sally and Noin were all planning on hitting Jessie's Bar to kinda celebrate this mission being over and done with." He tilted his head, and once more Zechs was hit with a reminder of Dannielle.
"You don't have a sister, too, do you?" He blurted out before he could stop himself. Duo frowned, and then grinned like he knew something Zechs didn't.
"Nope. Can't say that I do. Anyways, I was gonna ask if you'd like to come out to Jessie's with us, tonight?"
"Why do you want me to come?" Zechs asked, and then cursed himself. But he had to know. They'd never once offered friendship to him, or even simple camaraderie.
Duo smiled. "Because we do," he said. "A few little birdies told us you weren't quite as evil as we thought. So? You wanna come?"
Zechs thought. "Sure. What time? And where is this bar?"
Duo grinned brightly. "We'll be hitting the bar about seven, I guess. Why don't you meet at Wufei's, and he can bring you? You've got his number, right? That'll work! Bye now!"
Wufei looked in the mirror at himself. He didn't look to bad. Black jeans with a white shirt with a white-silver dragon going from his stomach to his chest. Wufei sighed. It was the best he was going to get. Wufei smiled. Trowa's plan was going well, or at least he hopped it was. A knock was heard at the door. Wufei walked over to the door and saw Zechs standing there. Wufei's mouth dropped. WOW!
"Trowa you almost ready?" Quatre asked from the living room.
"Almost," Trowa called back as he grabbed his coat with a small object in it that was very important for the plan. Trowa then shut the bed room door and placed his coat on. He smiled at his little angel. Before anything could be done or said Trowa pushed Quatre up against the door and rammed his lips onto the younger boy's. Trowa's arms wrapped firmly around Quatre's waist, pulling the blond closer each second. Quatre had expected something like this from Trowa since they got back to normal but they hadn't had much time, what with their plans for Zechs and Wufei – which Duo became in on. Also there was going back to base, begging Une to give them all time off plus giving in their reports. Quatre wrapped his arms around Trowa's neck as a tongue invaded his mouth. A moan came from Quatre as their tongues danced together. It felt nice to kiss normally once again. Trowa pulled away and rubbed noses with Quatre's. Quatre only giggled.
"Come on, you hopeless romantic," Quatre giggled giving a peck. "We're going to be late."
"No for once," Trowa started. "Duo will be early." Quatre and Trowa laughed as they walked out of the house and over to the car.
"So he was really alright with it?"
Heero sat in the living room waiting for Duo. So much for getting there early. He should know by now that with Duo you have to get ready extra, extra early. Unfortunately Heero was only an old dog who couldn't learn new tricks in this situation. Heero turned around as he heard a noise and there was his Duo smiling happily at him. Heero hadn't stopped smiling since he had been with Duo. This was something to get use to. However getting use to being around Zechs would be hard, but he was sure all of them could manage.
"Yeah, but I'm surprise he didn't enquire about Wufei." Duo chuckled walking to grab his leather jacket. "Oh well. Hope everything goes alright tonight." Heero nodded and walked over to Duo.
"I'm sure everything will be fine." Heero said before kissing Duo.
"And I didn't really give him any chance to say no or back out," Duo giggled, pulling his lips away from Heero's. He was really going to have to get used to this. Not much had really changed between them... but oh, wow... he could certainly get used to the kisses. Kisses were really, really, really nice. Especially when it was Heero Yuy the one giving them to you... oh, wow...
"Duo no baka," Heero chuckled lovingly, pulling away. Some things were just... simply Duo.
"But *your* baka," Duo laughed, kissing him once more before pulling him towards the door. "Now come on! I wanna get there on time. Wufei told me that we really don't want to miss tonight!"
"Hmm?"
"I don't know, but I'm gonna find out, so come on!"
"Okay, okay. Let's go."
"H...Hello," Wufei said. Zechs was standing in front of him, dressed to kill in black slacks and a ruby red button-down shirt, the top few buttons undone.
"Hello, Wufei," Zechs replied. "Duo told me to... You were expecting me, right?"
"Oh, yes. Of course. Forgive me. He called an hour or so ago to tell me. I'm afraid he and Quatre have their eyes set on matchmaking, since they're all so happy and in love," he sighed.
Zechs chuckled. "So... who's the lucky lady for Duo? I hadn't heard he was going steady with anyone."
"He wasn't. And if Heero hears that you called him a lady, you'd best run and hide."
"Yuy? Duo and Heero Yuy? Well, I'll be... I never would have expected that."
Wufei looked at him. "Really? All of us did. Those two were perfect for each other... they just needed to realize it."
Zechs laughed. "Yeah, I guess so. Oh, and before I forget..." He dug in his pocket and withdrew a thin silver chain, a small yin-yang symbol dangling on the end of it.
"My pendant," Wufei gasped, before he realized what he'd said. His hands went for the family heirloom before he even realized he moved.
"Yours?" Zechs asked, twisting his hand out of the way, bringing the necklace out of Wufei's reach. "I thought it was Lian's. Just who was that at Ilyana Winner's place? And why is Lian Chang listed as deceased? Tell me, Wufei... just what the hell is going on here?"
Wufei had to think quickly or otherwise he was in big trouble. Think! What would Heero or Quatre say in this position? That was it tell the old story of how Lian actually gave it to Wufei.
"I gave it to Lian awhile ago. It was mine." Of course he had to change the people around. "I gave it to her after the colony was destroyed."
"Then how do you explain why she is said to be deceased?" Zechs asked moving his arm as Wufei tried to pounce on it.
"Damn it Zechs! I don't know! Just give it back!" Wufei snapped. He may have liked Zechs but God he was annoying.
"Make me!" Zechs smirked. Only one thing boiled in Wufei's mind. Wufei grabbed Zechs' shirt and pulled downwards on it. Wufei's lips crushed Zechs' lips causing the taller pilot to almost stumble to the ground. Zechs might have been confused but he couldn't help but feel that this was right. Zechs wrapped his arms around Wufei's waist as Wufei's arms slipped around Zechs' neck. The kiss was urgent yet the fires of passion and desperation flew all around them. Their teeth nip on soft lips that spread apart to let tongues intertwine in a fiery wild kiss. Wufei pulled away and quickly snatched the pendant away from Zechs. It was then he realised what he had done. CRAP!
Wufei turned away from Zechs as Zechs pondered. The kiss felt the exact same as when he got kissed by Lian... They were brother and sister but that didn't mean that they had the same kiss. No, it couldn't have been... Could it? Could Wufei somehow be Lian? It would make sense. Now that Zechs thought about it, it was very possible that the Gundam Pilots where those girls. Cat was Quatre, Lian Wufei, Duo Dannielle... Kimi was Heero and Tania was Trowa! Also Tania and Cat where supposedly going out so it made sense if they where Quatre and Trowa. Plus the way they acted. It made sense apart from why they were girls.
"Wufei..." Zechs didn't know what to say. "Why did you kiss me?"
Wufei only placed the pendant around his neck and kept turned away from Zechs. "I treasure this pendant and so does Lian. We've never let anyone touch it!" Wufei then turned around to face Zechs. "Zechs I have feelings for you and I can understand if you like my sister more than me but I want to know now if you like me?"
"QUATRE! TROWA!"
Quatre and Trowa turned to see Heero and Duo walking into the bar. Both smiled as they saw the two. Duo bounced over to them and gave Quatre a hug before they sat down and ordered a few drinks.
"Where are Fei and Zechs?" Duo asked taking a swig of his beer.
"They'll be here a little while. Their probably talking right now." Trowa explained.
Duo nodded and took another swig of his beer and saw that the pool table was free. "Come on Quatre. I'll play you in pool!"
"You're on!"
Trowa tilted his head to the side.
"Heero," he asked, "Should I be worried that your boyfriend enjoys dragging mine off to 'play' all the time? They do do that quite often, don't they?"
Heero smirked lightly, watching the two walk towards the table. "They do. But as long as at the end of the day Duo is still *my* boyfriend, I don't care. Besides... children will be children, as Sally always says when Duo does such things."
"If Duo's a child... does that make you a paedophile?"
Heero quirked his eyebrow at his taller friend. "Trowa? Has anyone ever told you that you have a very odd sense of humour?"
Trowa nodded sagely. "Quatre does. All the time. But I usually shut him up by kissing him senseless."
Heero couldn't help it... he laughed.
"Do I like you?" Zechs repeated. "Of course I do. I wasn't exactly beating you off with a stick just now, was I?"
"Ugh," Wufei growled. "You know what I mean. Do you like *me* or do you like *her*? Was kissing me any different than kissing her?"
"How did you know I kissed her?" Zechs asked quietly. Wufei's eyes betrayed his shock at his miscalculation. He was letting his emotions override his sense of judgement... he wasn't *thinking* about what he was *saying*. And that wasn't always a good thing.
"She told me," Wufei snapped, growing angrier. Angrier at himself, at Zechs... at everything.
"When did you find out you had feelings for me?" Zechs questioned. He didn't know how... but he instinctively felt that Lian was Wufei. He didn't know how or why... but it made things immensely easier... and yet so much more complicated at the same time.
Zechs stood his ground. The ball was in his court now, so to speak. He had the upper hand, he was in control, and some part of him got some quiet little thrill out of dominating Wufei like this, out of making such a strong man weak in the knees.
Wufei backed up. "What?"
"When did you find out you had feelings for me? I've never spent more than five minutes in your presence for the entire time we've known of each other. All together, I've sent more time with your *sister* than I have you. So? You only realize you like me when you find out I like your sister? Is that how it goes, Wufei?" He walked forward, backing Wufei up against the now closed door of Wufei's apartment. Once again Wufei had that fleeting feeling of being between a rock and a hard place.
"I... I..." Wufei was floundering. He'd been caught in his own game, he realized. Looking into those expressive gray eyes, he realized he was already lost. Zechs knew.
Zechs reached out, placing a hand on either side of Wufei's head to keep him locked in place.
"Well?" Zechs breathed; face mere centimetres from Wufei's. "Is that how it is?"
Wufei bit his lip, nodding. He'd do anything to just make this stop. He didn't like this feeling of helplessness.
"I think not," Zechs countered. "I think... you've been lying to me all week, Chang Wufei. And I'll have none of it. I don't like being toyed with. That kiss felt way to familiar. I think I've kissed you before, Wufei. Only... I didn't know it was you. Do you realize how I've tortured myself all week? I couldn't determine if I liked Lian for her... or because she reminded me of you."
His breath washed over Wufei's face.
"I guess we know the answer now," he said before crashing his lips down on Wufei's. This kiss was just as brutal and passionate as the last, but Zechs was now the aggressor. His teeth nipped at Wufei's bottom lip, and his tongue plundered the other's mouth.
Wufei whimpered and Zechs swallowed the sound, hands moving to hold the Chinese man up, to pull him into the kiss.
"Kiss me, damn you," Zechs whispered against Wufei's lips. "Kiss me like I know you can, little dragon."
The commands broke through Wufei, and he did. He kissed Zechs back. Lips met, teeth nipped, tongues warred and danced in a battle as old as time. Zechs growled approval as his week of wondering, of torture was finally laid to rest in a storm of passion and fire.
Wufei just wanted to stay here and not go out with the others. But he had promised them and so he would have to bring this to a close sooner or later. A knock came on the door they where resting on. Both groaned and pulled away from each other. They opened the door and there stood Sally.
"About time," she said folding her arms. "We promised to give you a lift, now come on!" She placed her hands on her hips as she looked at the men... flushed faces, pink lips... Looks like Quatre's matchmaking had finally come to an end. Sally watched as Wufei went around his house looking for last minute things before walking to the car with his friends. Sally could see the slight brushing of hands and the quick winks and glances at each other.
Quatre laughed as Duo grumbled about losing in the game of pool. It hadn't taken Quatre a good ten minutes to completely annihilate Duo. Duo was growling as Quatre continued to tease but Duo knew that and calmed down. The sound of the door to the noisy bar opened and there stood the four remaining adults of the group. Duo and Quatre called out to them. As the others walked over to them they all smirked as they saw the look in Wufei and Zechs' eyes.
"Pay up Duo." Trowa said holding out his hand. Quatre sighed as Duo handed over the twenty dollars he had bet. Trowa had bet that Wufei and Zechs would be together before they got to the bar while Duo thought they'd get together at the bar. Quatre and Heero had decided not to get involved and they were glad they didn't. Wufei would kill them if they had seen that.
Duo jumped from the bar stool and swung an arm around Wufei's neck and grinned. "Hey Fei how about buying first rounds?" Duo chirped. However all Wufei did was remove the arm from his neck and said.
"You lost a bet to Trowa and now you're asking me? I don't care what your bet was but I think you should buy the first round." Duo's mouth went wide open as a slight smirk crossed Heero and Quatre's face.
"You should care Wufei!" Quatre said.
"You of all people Wufei." Heero added.
Wufei's eyes narrowed at the two. "Why?"
Quatre giggled. "Because they were betting... on you and Zechs hooking up. About how long the two of you would last."
"Trowa won because he said 'before' you got here. Duo was gonna give it an hour or two after you got here," Heero added.
"Zechs and Wufei are both stubborn... but no one can accuse them of being 'slow'," Trowa defended himself, wrapping his arms around Quatre from behind and resting his chin on the blondes head as both lovers examined their friend... and their friend's new lover.
"In that case," Wufei smirked. "I vote Duo buys the first round... and Trowa buys the second!"
Zechs couldn't help it. He burst out laughing and turned to Sally.
"Are they always like this?"
"Yup," the pigtailed doctor smiled. "Better get used to it, pal. You're a part of it now!"
"The fun has arrived," came a sing-song voice from the door as Noin burst through, laughing.
"Howie!" Duo exclaimed, seeing the old man beside her in the outlandish Hawaiian print shirt. "Dude! I didn't know you'd be here!"
"An old friend of mine told me she'd just helped five boys with a bit of a medical crisis," Howard said with a smirk as he got close to the group. "So's I asked myself, 'Now Howard... what five boys do you know who'd have a medical crisis that'd need help from a geneticist?' I figured one way or another... it had something to do with your kids. Knew for certain when Mira let slip something about drama and 'those gorgeous violet eyes'!"
The group all chuckled.
"That's the Maxwell Charm," Duo laughed. "I'm unforgettable! Now Howie! You've gotta help me whip Quat's butt in pool!"
"You're on, Maxwell," Quatre laughed pulling away from Trowa. "There's a *reason* that I'm the tactician in the group!"
The two drug Howard away, Duo muttering something about using Quatre to hustle people with his puppy dog eyes and innocent looks.
"I don't see how I never saw it before," Zechs shook his head. "I mean... it was all staring me right in the face. Literally! And you say I'm not 'slow'."
Trowa chuckled. "Okay... so you *are* a little slow. Let's just chalk it up to us being very good actors."
"Actresses," Noin corrected.
"So..." Wufei asked in a whisper, sliding close to Trowa as Heero placed their order at the bar. "When and how are you going to do this?"
Trowa smirked. "You'll know," he said cryptically. "Just wait and see."
"Wait and see what?" Noin asked causing everyone to look at Trowa and Wufei. Both looked at each other and sighed.
"Fine I was..."
"So you're finally going to ask?" Heero said with a smirk on his face. "Funny I always thought Quatre was the type but not you." The older three just looked at each other completely confused. Trowa glared at Duo.
"Wasn't Duo to get first rounds?" Sally asked watching them. Heero jumped down off the seat, grabbed Duo while Quatre was still hammering him and dragged him over to the bar to buy drinks. The night went on great more drinks were bought they all decided to have a pool championship in tag teams with Howard helping out any team when needed. In the final were Quatre and Trowa vs. Heero and Duo. It didn't take long for Quatre to completely thrash the couple. After a pool competition Duo got shots. Wufei, Heero, Quatre and Trowa groaned when they saw them.
"No one can beat him why do we bother?" Wufei whined leaning on Zechs. Zechs looked at his lover.
"What's wrong?" Zechs asked as Wufei looked up at him.
"Drinking contest... Duo wins every time." Quatre seemed to try and hide himself behind Trowa as Wufei spoke. This was going to be bad.
"I'll have a go I'm pretty good at hold my drink." Zechs said unaware of the danger of facing Duo in a drinking contest.
After ten minutes the only ones left where Duo and Zechs. Wufei and Quatre couldn't believe it. They had finally found someone who was good enough to hopefully beat Duo in a drinking contest. The final shot – or at least everyone hopped. A small shot of vodka. OH GOD! Was everyone's reaction! 3... 2... 1... GO! Down the drinks went burning their throats. Duo obviously couldn't take much more as he spat it over the floor. Everyone cheered as Zechs placed the empty cup on the bar table.
While everyone was cheering Wufei nudged Trowa. Trowa saw the glint in Wufei's eyes and nodded. He mentally sighed, it's now or never. Trowa grabbed Quatre's hand and pulled him away from the group. Trowa moved so that Quatre and himself were side on to the others. Trowa smiled slightly at Quatre's confused face. "Quatre there's something I want to tell you."
"What Trowa?"
Everyone watched as Trowa said something to Quatre that seemed to make Quatre stop breathing... Almost in shock. Quatre's hands where placed over his mouth as Trowa said something.
"What's going on?" Noin asked as she sat between Zechs and Howard.
"It's what Trowa's been planning all night!" Wufei stated as he smiled at Heero then they saw it happen.
"Quatre we've known each other for many years and from the moment I met you I knew I loved you. That you where the only person for me, the one I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. The only one I have ever loved." Quatre's hands went to his mouth – did he know already? "Even when you shot at me in Zero I couldn't stop loving you. Quatre you're my perfect guy. I'll never love anyone like I love you. So Little One what I'm asking is..." Trowa got down on one knee and pulled out a ring. "Will you marry me?"
Tears came to Quatre's eyes as he nodded. He didn't have to think about it. "Yes... Yes I will." Trowa placed the ring on Quatre's finger. As Trowa stood Quatre tackled him in a hug crushing their lips together. "I love you Trowa."
"I love you too, my Little One."
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