Post Heero-clusterfuck. Or as I prefer to call it, "SNAFU-ligans." ...Enjoy. Listen to: Sing, Sing, Sing (with a swing)! by Benny Goodman.

CAVE DRACONIS DORMIENS


Email from Duo Maxwell to Relena Dorlian, formerly Peacecraft; Encryption level Alpha 1. Retrieved from Sanq Spaceport archives before routine 76 hour deletion.

From: Dmaxwell15_ sanq spaceport . com

To: relena_Dorlian sanq . gov

RE: latest update/lowdown

Hey 'Lena-baby!

Checked my old email, and saw your note. Anyway, this is my new email for now. I'll also have one for Sanq U.

Soooo, here's the dirt: there will not be a wedding anytime soon. So yeah, cancel my registry at Henshaws A.S.A.P. Not that there ever WAS a freakin' wedding in the works. Blah. Or a freakin' registry. Except in Hilde's dreams.

Hilde's pretty pissed at me still. Guess she bitched out Hee-man when he called her trying to get a hold of me. I've been pretty incommunicado, I know. Busy setting up the new life, y'know? I'm a certified pilot/transport operator for a (mostly) new shuttle—based primarily outta Sanq Spaceport (as ya can see from the email there).

So, what's this about you having some new crush/squeeze/flame? Eh? Hee-man gone schitzo on you yet and given you everything but the condition of the guy's tonsils yet?? Heh. Need any... "help" deterring the "Man w/ a Mission" from going too overboard yet? Lemme know. I'll be happy to run some interference...Seriously.

'Cause you know he's already tried to recruit me for some weird-ass, harebrained scheme of his already. I hadn't like arrived for like even an hour or so, and Iron Man was popping up at my hatch at an ungodly hour of the morning (the one where unicorns, rainbows and leprechauns frolic—y'know, like butt-crack-o'dawn early). I was pretty tired from the flight in from Sweepers base, and not caffeinated enough to stand more masochism, so I booted him out and gave him the "hell NO" what-for. Man, he wouldn't give me the mission specs or anything. AND he didn't come bearing coffee. Forget bastardry, that's just DUMB...he knows me in the morning.

Hope he's not too pissed at me. Man, the dude punches you when he's not pissed at you, so I'd hate to hafta think what he'd do if he WAS. Did I mention again how glad I am that you finally got over your crush on the guy? Safer for all our sanity. And yeah, yeah, I know you're gonna say none of us Gundam boys are terribly on the right side of sane...and ...not that I've given my little crush up, but hey.

Anyhoo, you're also talkin' to the newest acceptee for the Sanq University School of Engineering and Technical Sciences/nerd/dorkus. Oh yeah, I can smell the broken glasses and pocket-protectors from here man! Uhh, not that I need the glasses.

Hey, speakin' of glasses, you've got your sunglasses, right? Sounds like it's gonna be sunny and breezy in Cyprus this December. It may be a bit chilly too—at Q-ball's annual Pilot's Reunion. We'll see, eh? Oh, and I'm thinking that there will be mayhem at least one night—we've gotta get the guys out to a nightclub or something.

*Some* of us will have to be told it's a mission in infiltration though, I bet. What weird costume do you think we can get Quatre and Heero into? Trowa's not much of a challenge—man wears tights an' polka dots in the circus, for God's sake! Wufei'd probably have a hernia if we tried to get him into a muscle shirt...though we could just tell him it's a mission too??? 'Course, if he found out it wasn't, we'd have to listen to his bitchin' about INJUSTICE for the rest of the night.

On second thought, forget that—no fun at all!

Anyway, I'm packing up my skanky clubbing clothes—so make sure you've got something that I'll approve...maybe some Fuck-Me boots or something? We'll see. If nothing else, we'll sneak off and go shopping. Should be fun!

Ah, I'd better go. Got a lot more stuff to be getting done. Hope this update helps a bit!

Ciao!

-D

PS: How's Muffy? Watered him lately?

Coming soon...Relena's reply! Ah, to be a poor, abused cactus. Hmm, I wonder if I've watered my cacti lately.... In the interim, please leave a more-than-one-sentence review! Isn't it cute how Duo calls his mad love obsession "my little crush"?? heehee