Chapter 11

"Thank you, thank you, thank you." Quatre said. "We'll be there in two days. Okay thanks again and bye." Quatre put the phone on it's dock and rushed from his office heading towards his room.

He entered and walked to Aarin who was casually gazing out the window. He still was dressed in his robe.

Quatre wrapped his arms around him. "We have a trial in two days to grant you adoption into my family as my brother." He squealed pulling away from the boy. He turned him and held him at arms length. "But first you need new cloths."

Aarin smiled. "So, are we to go shopping."

"Tomorrow in the morning we leave to go shopping. It's late right now. You can wear my cloths for tonight, get ready for dinner. I have to speak with a few people, if you need anything pull this rope." Quatre indicated to a red velvet rope near the headboard.

Aarin nodded then watched as Quatre left the room with great haste.


Quatre raced to Duo's room. He lightly tapped on the door. It slowly opened a crack and a single blue eye peered through.

"I'm here to extend an invitation to You, your brother and your boyfriends to go shopping tomorrow morning. Will you accept?"

"Yes." Allen and Falcon nearly screamed.

"Yes." The blond reaper said through the door.

"Let me guess, your naked." Quatre said with a smirk.

"Good guess." The black reaper said. "These boys are beating us at strip poker." He laughed.

"Oh have you decided on names yet." Quatre asked.

"I want to be named Sickle." The black reaper said.

"I'm Halo," The blond said.

"Good, good." Quatre smiled.

The door closed and Quatre started to leave. "Oh keep our outing secret okay?"

"Yeah okay." he heard Sickle say. Followed by. "Damn it not again."

Quatre ran down the stairs, onto the first floor. He went down the hall till he reached another group of stairs. He rushed down those into the hanger where Noin and Hilde were 'working' in one of the Torus mobile suits.

"Noin," Quatre called. "Noin I need to ask you something."

"Hold on." Noin's breathless voice called back. She emerged from the cockpit, her mechanics outfit looking out of place and disrupted.

"Giving the cockpit a little extra attention today huh?" Quatre smiled as she descended the flight of stairs leading to the suit's cockpit.

"Yeah, and you interrupted." Noin smiled.

"Well, I wanted to know if you would like to join me and a few others on a trip to the mall to do a bit of shopping at the mall?"

"Of course can I bring Hilde." Noin asked.

"Only if you and she keep this outing a secret. I don't want the others to follow, nor come along."

Noin nodded crossing her heart in promise and mimicking the movement of zipping her lips.

"Thank you, we leave first thing in the morning."


Dinner was the quietest it had ever been. Other then the hushed talks between Quatre, the reapers, Noin, and Hilde. The three boys who were the topic of the discussion sat talking amongst themselves quietly eating the food.

The others watched as Quatre or one of the others pointed at a paper and the others either nodded or shook their head.

Duo attempted to see what was going on but they quieted and covered the paper with their hands.


That night as Quatre and Aarin settled into bed Aarin asked a question. "Why don't you want the others to know, they're you friends right?"

"Ties are broken by betrayal." Quatre replied. "So I don't really want then bothering me at present." He smiled.

Aarin merely nodded. Quatre crawled into bed snuggling close to Aarins back. "Would you like me to comfort you in another manner." Aarin whispered.

"No, just holding you is enough little brother." Quatre whispered. Quatre fell asleep holding Aarin close.


Quatre was up by 4:30 am. He dressed and woke up Aarin handing him a set of cloths before leaving the room. Tapping a panel by the door he retrieved the master key of the house.

He walked briskly through the house till he reached Duo's room. He silently unlocked it and moved quietly through the room till he reached the closet. He slipped in and touched the bunk beds. He felt around till he reached a body and shook it. The body grunted and pushed his hand away. Quatre felt around and grabbed a handful of thick hair. He pulled roughly upon it.

An amethyst eye glared at him. "What Quatre?" Duo hissed.

"Oh sorry, but I was wondering," Quatre tried to cover his mistake. What happened to the microphone at Luck of the Yokai. The forewomen had a complaint that it smelled like ass."

"Um... the boys decided to play." Duo said snickering.

"Thought so." Quatre whispered. "Don't expect that hundred dollars in your pay check next week."

Quatre walked out of the closet and looked at Duo's bed. All four boys were up and muffling laughs.

"Borrow Duo's cloths for now we leave at 5:30." Quatre said.


Noin was in the middle of a wonderful dream. She was riding a horse naked as it loped through a vast lush valley of four foot grass, and wildflowers, when suddenly an earthquake hit and she fell into a deep dark cavern where a voice said. "Noin, Noin, wake up."

She opened an indigo eye glaring at Quatre. "It's 4:55 in the morning what do you want?"

"Get up we leave at 5:30," Quatre said. "I already have the others up and getting ready."

"Fine, fine." Noin said rising up out of bed. "I haven't woken up this early in years. I finally know why I was glad OZ disbanded."

Quatre smiled and shook his head, departing from the room. As he closed the door he heard the tale-tell noises of Noin slapping awake Hilde who had punched Noin for attempting to wake her up.


They had departed by 5:25, and arrived in New York. From there they went to Los Angeles, France, San Francisco, Japan, China, and Mexico, all on the boys desires.

On clothes alone Quatre spent $5,000 per boy, reapers included, the women lets just say spent a lot more then all five boys combined. Quatre was thankful he had a large bank account.

Next was furniture shopping, but first they had a slight lunch break to discuss limitations.

Quatre had brought an entire layout of his five story house. Each 2x4 paper had color layouts of each floor room for room. "They're updated each month." He said. "I always make sure to know what in my house is where."

"Whats with the black room without a name?" Allen asked.

"Nothing for you to be concerned with love." Sickle cooed. He chose Duo's prized all black spandex outfit. Since sickle was just one size bigger then Duo it was skin tight on him showing every indentation upon his body.

Halo smiled as Falcon began looking at each floor of the house. He compared the room sizes of those that were empty and finally settled on one.

"Halo," Falcon said. "How about this one?"

Halo looked at the chosen room. It was on the fourth floor. It was large and spacious, nearly big enough to install a hot tub. The bathroom was half it's size but had a large tub built into the ground.

"If you want a more detailed look at that room," Quatre said rummaging in the briefcase he brought. "Then I here."

A larger layout of the room was placed before them. "Thank you." Halo mumbled as he and Falcon looked at it. The closet was large, big enough actually to be another room.

"Well, how bout it?" Falcon asked.

"Okay," Halo said "This room, is the one we want." Halo signed his and Falcons name on the floor layout within the square that was to be their room.

"Alright, Sickle have you made your choice." Quatre asked.

"Yeah, fourth floor room at the end of the hall." Sickle showed the chosen room. It was nearly identical to Halos but just slightly smaller. "It has a fire escape that leads to the roof. That constitutes late night excursions to go skinny dipping."

Allen giggled. He leaned onto Sickle's shoulder and Sickle held him firmly.

"Are you a couple?" A women asked.

"We're all siblings." Quatre smiled rolling up the maps. "He's just the odd one out."

"Oh, forgive me." The women said walking away.

Aarin giggled. He still had the second floor map. He signed his name in the room next door to Quatre's. "Okay I chose mine."

"Well now thats that settled, lets go shopping." Noin said.

"Noin, you have enough in your room." Quatre said.

"Oh, but, come on, please?"

"No Noin, maybe some other time." Quatre smiled.

"Okay." Noin said.


"Where could they have gone?" Wu-fei asked. He was in a panic and pacing the house.

He pulled out his cell phone and dialed Quatre's only to get the voice mail for the hundredth time today.

Duo tapped his foot angrily. He stood in a robe lips pursed and amethyst eyes a blaze with anger.

"They took my spandex." He growled.

"You have others." Heero said unconcerned. He was typing on his laptop sending an e-mail.

Zechs and Trowa looked at the other three.

"This isn't like Quatre." Trowa and Wu-fei said.

"I can't believe he left without my knowledge. He took the boys and the reapers. He's talking on his private line and... and... and he kicked me out of his room, but allowed that... that... that whore to sleep there."

"Calm down." Zechs said. "We all need to calm..."

"Shut up," Wu-fei screamed. "Mind your own lover."

"Don't vent your anger on me, Wu-fei Chang. Its your fault for announcing to the world you loved me. It is in no way mine." Zechs yelled back standing up.

This caught Duo and Heero's attention. They eagerly watched the exchange.

"I was drunk, I didn't know what the hell I was saying." Wu-fei retorted. "If you didn't cheat on your lover with me then maybe I wouldn't have fallen in love with you."

Trowa took the pause in Zechs to back as far away as possible. He huddled over by Duo.

Heero adjusted his laptops camera. So far he had caught the entire argument.

"Oh, you say you were too drunk to know what the hell you were saying, huh?" Zechs said. "Well then why the hell did you cover your mouth afterwards looking like a little kid with his hand caught in the cookie jar? Tell me. You were sober enough to do that but not actually hold your fucking tongue."

"It's Duo's fault for suggesting the stupid question." Wu-fei said avoiding the question.

"Don't pass the blame to him, Chang." Zechs said. "Your always trying to pass it off. Step the fuck up and take your own mistakes. Besides you chose truth when you could have chosen dare."

Wu-fei realized everyones attention was on him now. "So it's my fault for pushing my lover away all because you made me fall in love with you, huh?" He said looking for an outlet.

"Yes." Zechs said.

"Trowa has Zechs ever told you what he says about you behind your back?"

"Don't drag him into this." Zechs screamed.

"I'm sure you want to know right?" Wu-fei said.

Trowa shook his head, however the look of wanting had already gave him away.

"At one point he said 'My Sylph is annoying, always wanting something. At least with you I don't have to listen to so many complaints.'" Trowa looked at Zechs. "Oh and then there was the time we had a threesome with Quatre, wait no Quatre was asleep, date rape drug was what we slipped into his drink at the club, I believe. Zechs bought it, I didn't know until he actually passed out."

Heero and Duo exchanged glances.

"Be quiet." Zechs said panicked. He was clenching and unclenching his fist.

"Oh and I remember just last year, while you and he were in an extended fight he burned every last one of your pictures. Not to mention wrote a book within which you were a homicidal killer who was eventually killed by he himself. Don't believe me then read 'Emerald Gun.' It's in the library."

Tears streamed down Trowa's face. He stormed past Zechs and Wu-fei.

Wu-fei looked at Zechs smugly. Zechs was beyond the point of reasoning, he flung a fist at Wu-fei hitting him square in the jaw.

Wu-fei fell onto the coffee table and Zechs pounced on him beating Wu-fei up.

Duo and Heero moved in. Heero wrestled Zechs off of Wu-fei and Duo pinned Wu-fei down.

"You had no right Chang no right." Zechs yelled as he kicked at Wu-fei. "No fucking right."

Wu-fei's face was bloody, it was obvious he had a busted lip and a broken nose. He thrashed beneath Duo attempting to try and avenge himself.

Heero struggled to move Zechs as far from Wu-fei as possible. He finally got the elder gentlemen from the room and was escorting him down the hall to the second floor stairs.

"I'm fine." Zechs said pulling from Heero. "I'm going to 'the room' if anyone needs me."

Zechs trudged up the third floor stair case. Blood idly dripped from his knuckles.

Heero walked back down the stairs he pulled out his cell and called Sally to attend to Wu-fei. When he walked into the room he saw Duo pinned to the wall with his back to Wu-fei. His robe had be discarded and by the abrasions on Duo's skin it was most likely ripped off him. Wu-fei was about to attempt to force himself into Duo who was squirming madly trying to break out of Wu-fei's pin. Heero pulled Wu-fei off Duo and held him in the sleeper hold. It took a while for the boy to fall asleep, and when he did Sally rushed in.

"He got into a fight with Zechs." Heero informed her. "Then he tried to rape Duo."

Heero looked at Duo. He had crouched down and drawn his knees to his chest. Apparently after his last rape he was traumatized by the prospect of having to endure such pain again.

Sally picked Wu-fei up and tossed him over he shoulder. "I'll put him in restraints for now." She said.

Heero grabbed Duo by his arm and pulled him to his feet. "Come on, lets get you taken care of."

Duo started to cry. He flung his arms around Heero's neck. "I was scared, so scared." He cried into Heero's chest.

Heero wrapped his arms around Duo lightly petting his head. Heero carefully led Duo from the room and up the stairs. He went to Duo's room and walked Duo over to the bed. He helped Duo lay down and tucked him in.

As Heero was about t leave Duo whispered. "Don't go, man. Please don't go."

Heero stayed, he pulled up a chair and sat at Duo's bedside.