Chapter 27

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'Dying' with Laughter

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The early morning silence was broken with a shrill alarm going off in Quatre's mansion.

Serena jerked up and grabbed a sleepy Sammy and rushed out of her room, frantic. Is it a fire? Another attack? She looked around for the others and ran down to their wing of the mansion.

The sight that greeted her made her pause, eyes wide.

All the pilots were standing in the hallway glaring at Duo who was holding a camera in his hands and laughing like a maniac. But that wasn't what gave her pause. It was the state of the boys' hair.

Serena let Sammy slip from her grasp and he stood by her side and stared as well.

Wufei was standing closest to her and glaring daggers at Duo, ready to explode. His hair was a deep red color and it was dripping on his pajamas.

Trowa was on her other side his hair a forest green, his arms crossed as he calmly stared at Duo. Quietly plotting his demise.

Quatre was slightly farther away, his hair a cool blue. He was blushing slightly from embarrassment or anger, Serena couldn't tell.

Lastly Heero was coolly standing the closest to Duo, which really made the braided pilot cautious. Heero's hair was a bright pink, which for some reason made Serena think of some girl that was a total bitch.

This got Serena snickering behind her hands and her shoulders shaking from holding in a loud laugh.

The pilots all turned to her, eyes narrowed. Serena held up a hand to them but continued to laugh.

Sammy looked up at his sister. She better stop that before they really get mad. He took a step away from her before he got caught up in the brawl that was sure to ensue.

Wufei's eyes wandered back Duo, who was preoccupied with taking picture of Serena in a nightgown to worry about him. Wufei slowly slid back into his room and back out moments later a sneaky smile on his face.

He raised his sword and let out a battle yell. "MAXWELL!!!" and charged at Duo and swung his sword around trying to cut off Duo's braid.

Duo's eyes widened and he let out a girlish yell and ran towards Serena and pounced on her.

Serena let out a squeak as she was tackled. She pushed up on Duo and stood up. Duo stood behind her as Wufei charged up to them.

Serena eyed Wufei and held up a hand. "Don't you hurt my D-chan."

Everybody stopped as she said that. Was she remembering? Wufei stood steps from her and she smiled at him. He hadn't stopped because she had asked him to, but from shear amazement. "Thank you Fei-chan." And she leaned forward and hugged him tightly.

Wufei slowly let his sword drop and brought his arms around her and hugged her back. He looked at Duo over her shoulder and he shrugged and looked at the other guys who were just as dumbfounded as they were.

Sammy looked up at his sister. Was she better now? He frowned.

Quatre stepped up and coughed to get Wufei's attention and nodded his head at the still unpunished Duo.

The Chinese nodded as he looked at Duo. He calmly set Serena away from his and picked up his sword and started running after Duo again.

Duo's eyes widened and he ran as quickly as he could. All you could see was his braid and his girlish squeals as Wufei, Trowa, and Heero ran after him to extract their revenge.

Serena collapsed on the floor and rolled around in laughter. "I'm dying here! That was so funny. These guys are ok Sam. Maybe we can live here after all."

The little boy sighed. I guess she doesn't remember. His gaze roamed the room and landed on Quatre who was still there and heard what Serena had said.

Sammy sniffed and walked over to him and hugged him tightly.

"Its ok Tiger. She'll remember in her own time. Have patience." He whispered. He then set Sammy away from him and walked after his friends.

Serena and Sammy followed him and looked around for the other pilots. "Where are they?" asked Serena.

"I have no idea." Quatre walked to the kitchen and stepped in and stopped in his tracks.

"What?" questioned Serena. He motioned her and Sammy to come here and they walked up behind Quatre and their eyes widened.

Duo was sitting at the kitchen table surrounded by the others with a lamp in his eyes like he was being interrogated. "We understand it Duo that you have purposely tricked your friends by pulling the alarm and putting hair dye in buckets over their doors so when they opened them their hair would change color. Is that correct?" Oh, he was being interrogated.

But that wasn't the only thing. The box that Duo thought he hid so well was on the table filled with incriminating things. Which in reality was Trowa's old box of circus things.

But what was really funny was how Duo looked. The pilots got a hold of the rest of the dye and some other things so Duo's hair was dyed rainbow colored like a clowns with a red fuzzy fake nose on his own. His face was covered in clown make-up and a blue tear was painted under his right eye.

Serena's eyes filled with tears as she laughed silently.

"Confess Duo! We know you're guilty. You won't even get out on bail. A sentence of 2 weeks with house cleaning duties. No help, no fuss. And we mean the whole house, that means inside and outside. Top to bottom." Growled Wufei.

Duo's eyed widened. "But-"

Trowa interrupted him. "No buts."

The braided pilot pouted but nodded.

Serena walked into the room silently and picked up the camera that Duo was using and took a picture of Duo looking like a clown with the three other pilots surrounding him with their respective hair colors.

She smiled sweetly. "This is one for the books."

They were so happy that she was smiling that they didn't mind that they look ridiculous with their hair dyed and wearing their pajamas.

She turned and motioned Quatre and Sammy to join the picture as well. They all posed as she took another picture and smiled. "There. That should do it." And she set the camera down.

Duo then walked out of the room. He was just happy that they didn't kill him or worse, cut off his braid. He shuddered and left while the getting was good.

Serena watched Duo leave and smiled not too sweetly and walked to the others.

"Hey guys. I have an idea." And she whispered something to them. They all nodded.

"Great idea Sere." Said Quatre.

She giggled and sent a wicked look towards the door that Duo had disappeared through.

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Three people were standing around an object in one of the person's hands.

Someone laughed loudly. "That's our girl. Wicked to the bone." And the person popped some popcorn in her mouth.

"Shush. She'll hear you." Whispered another.

"Hey she stole my popcorn!" said the third person in the group and they pouted. "But that was so funny." And giggled. " I want to see the clown man again. I never saw a clown with hair like that though." The person took on a considering look and pouted slightly. "I wanna go to a circus." They ate some more popcorn noisily.

"Shush. I just know she'll find us." Said the second person.

"Oh don't be a stick in the mud. The old bat can't hear us." Replied the first person.

"The old bat huh?"

The three people squealed and turned around to face the fourth person to talk, popcorn falling around them because they had accidentally threw it up in the air.

"What are you three doing?"

"Nothing." The all chorused.

"Right." And she stepped closer to the group.

The second person gulped and the first person elbowed them.

"I have my eye on you three." And the woman walked away regally.

They all exhaled with relief.

"I told you."

"Shut up."

Behind their backs a mirror gleamed magically before slowly dimming to reflect their backs, as a regular mirror should.

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Well end of chapter. What do you think of Duo's trick? Lol :) Seems Serena is getting closer to the pilots. Please Review. Love ya!