Flowers From the Heart
By: Maria
"Aren't they beautiful, Trowa?" Quatre asked Trowa as they sat in his garden that night.
"Hmmm.they're ok." came Trowa's response.
Quatre looked up at his lover's face, trying to understand his response.
"You don't like the flowers, Trowa?" Quatre asked him, sounding like he accused Trowa of killing someone.
"I said they were nice..."
"No you said they are ok. And it was the way you said it. You said as if you dislike flowers. What's wrong with them?!" Quatre asked.
Trowa sighed and shook his head to himself.
"Nothing's wrong with flowers...I just don't have as much love and care for them as you do my sweet. I'm sorry my reply got you upset...that's the way I am." Trowa responded silently.
Quatre pondered his answer for a moment and then said, "so if someone destroyed my garden...or rather all the flowers of the world you wouldn't be upset?"
"I wouldn't cry about it." Trowa said and glanced over at Quatre, who had a sad frown on his face. Seeing Quatre's expression he quickly added, "but I'd be mad and go after who ever dared destroy my Quatre's precious garden."
Quatre gave Trowa a small smile, knowing the last part was said so he wouldn't feel bad. Quatre decided he was too tired to stay up and continue this conversation.
"I'm really worn out. I think I'll go to bed now. Goodnight, Trowa." Quatre said as he got up and walked towards the side door.
"Goodnight." Trowa whispered.
After Quatre left, Trowa was left with his thoughts. 'What is so special about flowers? Quatre holds them too dear to himself. They bloom during spring, alive and fresh, and in the fall they slowly wither in the soon arrival of cold weather. Besides if someone destroyed Quatre's garden it would grow back. Nothing lasts forever.' He thought sadly. Trowa got up and went inside to get some sleep as well.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Next morning: Breakfast Table.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In the morning, everyone was sitting around the table eating breakfast, silently. Well almost everyone...there was one sound...the sound of Duo slurping and chewing his cereal.
"Hey!" Heero said referring to Duo. Who looks up only to have milk drool down his chin. "Keep it down."
Duo shrugs and continues to eat in his usual noisy way. Everyone, minus Duo, sweatdrop.
"Wu Fei, you're going to mow the lawn for me today aren't you?" Quatre asks the Chinese pilot.
"...I can't. I have other arrangements. I'm sorry, I know I..." he was interrupted.
"I'll do it."
Everyone looked up at Trowa in surprise. It was very unusual to see Trowa say anything, much less to VOLUNTEER to mow the lawn. He was more into other handy-man jobs.
"Trowa...are you sure you want to do it?" Quatre asked.
"I just said I would do I?" Trowa said getting up and putting is bowl in the sink. "I'll go and get started." And off walked Trowa.
'I wonder what got into Trowa. He doesn't like having to mow, usually Wu Fei and Duo do it' Quatre thought as Duo made a big slurping sound. Heero got up to put away his bowl, followed by a disgusted Wu Fei. They both headed for the back door.
"Hey!! Heero where are you going?! Let's play something...football or..." Duo began.
"I have work to do." Heero said plainly.
*Duo sticks out his tongue* "Fine jerk. Quatre and me will go and do something. Right, Quatre?" Duo asked Quatre.
"Sorry, I can't I need to clean up around here. Maybe we can all play what ever you want later." Quatre go up and began to wash the dishes. Duo looked bummed as he left the table. *Duo's eyes light up* An idea struck Duo and he ran upstairs to find a football.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Outside: Front Left Lawn~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Trowa just brought the lawn mower to the front yard and the left lawn. He had done the back left, barely coming out of that alive, and was aggravated.
' I still have one more section to finish after this one. I most remember NEVER to volunteer to do yard work again! Stupid machine *kicks mower* It's hard to control. I should tell Quatre to buy a new one or get this one fixed. Hmmm, maybe I should fix it, after I a recover from this work. *sigh* I thought this would help me see why Quatre loves all this stuff. Didn't help any... Maybe I should try gardening with him. Isn't mowing part of gardening....'
His thoughts were interrupted by the sound of someone calling his name. He looks behind him, as the motor to the mower finally starts up, finding Duo running up to him.
"What is it, Duo? I'm busy."
"I want to ask you to play a passing game with me..."Duo was saying cheerfully when Trowa raised his hand to stop him.
"I can't. I need to mow the lawn. So leave me alone." Trowa turned back to the mower.
"Well if you would have let me finished, you would have been happy to know that I was going to make an offer so you wouldn't have to finish mowing." *evil gleam in his eyes*
Trowa turned back around looking into Duo's eyes.
"What do you mean Duo?" Trowa asked impatiently yet interested in the idea of getting out of mowing.
"Well...I was going to challenge you to a passing game. Whoever dropped the ball first or missed catching a pass would be the one to finish mowing the lawn. Great idea, right?" Duo said knowing he had Trowa's interest. Plus he knew he would lose but he didn't care as long as he got someone to do something with him.
"Ok." Trowa said smiling. He knew he would beat Duo in no time at all and would be able to go and rest. "I'll pass first, Duo."
"I won't lose Trowa." Duo dashed to the opposite side of Trowa.
And so the passing challenge began.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Gundam Hangar~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wu Fei was busy practicing his martial arts techniques, while waiting for Heero to finish his repairs and overview of Wing Zero. They had plans to have a little sword duel after he had finished. Wu Fei was beginning to wonder where Duo was. There wasn't a day when he didn't come in search of Heero and start his usual complaints of being bored and no one wanting to 'hang out' with him.
'He's late. After everyone tells him they are busy he comes running to Heero. Always throwing himself at Heero...odd. He couldn't possibly be sitting still inside the house waiting for Heero to go inside. Maybe he's still eating inside...what a disgusting thought'*he shivers*
"Ok I'm done for the day. Let's going started Wu Fei" Heero said breaking into his thoughts.
"Hmmm...you don't seem to notice that your shadow is missing." Wu Fei pointed out.
"Duo isn't my shadow. He probably found someone to entertain him." Heero said making sure not to show how he really missed Duo. Heero made the first move.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Front Left Lawn~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
'Damn, since when did he become so much better! I should have had him within the first few throws, but now we're in... what...the thirtieth. The only good thing is with his fast movements it keeps me in shape and on my toes. Duo passes him a strong and perfect pass. 'I need to finish this game. I'm tired and need a nice shower.' He passes a long and hard pass right back to Duo.
"Nice pass, Trowa. But..." he said as he caught the ball. "you need to try harder." Duo throws the ball harder and longer. Trowa nearly tripped and dropped the ball as he ran into the lawn mower, pushing it forward.
'Stupid machine!' Trowa yelled in his head. Passing the ball back to Duo, neither noticing the run away lawn mower.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Living Room~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Quatre finished vacuuming up the rug and furniture, when he remembered that he had to go and work in his garden. He was sure that this cleaning up could be done later with the help of the other four gundam pilots. Quatre was about to go to the side door into his garden when he remembered he had put all his gardening tools away in the garage. So he ran to go and get them.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Front Left Lawn~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Trowa finally, after an hour, passed a pass the god of death couldn't catch. He heaved a big sigh of relief and smiled to himself.
"Looks like I won, Duo" he said proudly.
"Yeah,...you won." Duo said looking really disappointed that the whole thing was over.
Trowa seeing the disappointed look took pity on Duo and said, "How about we do this everyday Duo? Not for the price of mowing though. Just this passing game? It was a great work out for me, I...enjoyed it. You in?" Trowa couldn't believe he meant every word he said too.
Duo smiled his big cheesy smile, "You promise, everyday? I'm in."
"Yeah, everyday...Duo..." Trowa was looking around frantically.
"What's the matter Tro?"
"Where's the mower?"
"Well it's...ummm...I don't know" Duo replied.
They both stopped when they heard the sound of the lawn mower chewing up something on the right side of the mansion.
"Quatre's garden!!" both yelled in unison and ran towards the right side of the mansion.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Out Back~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Heero and Wu Fei were done with their work out and were walking towards the mansion, both focusing on his own thoughts.
'I wonder what happened to my braided lo...frie..companion. Quit fooling yourself you love him and besides no one can read your thoughts...thank god for that. I really wanted him there to cheering me on...Duo must of fallen asleep. He doesn't have enough patients to just sit around. I'll go and find him right now.' a soft smile playing on his lips at the thought of Duo.
' I think that was a wonderful warm up. I'm glad to see Heero has improved and helped me gain more improved skills. He still needs a lot more practice to be better than me.' Wu Fei smirked to himself. 'Maybe him and Trowa practice together, Duo isn't much of a partner so Heero can't be working with him. He goofs off to much and he's annoying. Hmmm...wh...what is that noise!' Wu Fei looked towards the mansion, heero doing the same, since he was distracted of his thoughts of Duo by the same sound.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Side Door~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Quatre had all his tools and was ready for a lovely day in his garden. He took hold if the side doors curtain and froze at the sight he saw before him. His flowers were all gone, well they were all destroyed. Quatre opened the door and took a step out to find Trowa pushing the mower over his favorite flowers, Lilies.
Trowa got to the side of the mansion and saw that the mower had already destroyed all but his loves favorite flowers. He still had a chance to save them if he hurried. The flowers were either shredded up or standing but in bad shape. He quickly ran after the mower. Trowa was about to stop the mower when he tripped and grabbed a hold of the mower pushing it forward with his fall.
Duo was staring in shock, at the mess the mower had done, to help Trowa. Trowa turned off the mower and began to get up. He saw he didn't save the flowers in time and he saw Heero and Wu Fei running towards him.
Trowa stood up and heard something hit the ground softly. He turned around and finds Quatre on his knees touching the soft ground and chopped up pieces of flowers.
"What happened?" Heero asked.
"What a mess!" Wu Fei remarked
Trowa stared with great pain at Quatre's pained and horrified expression.
"Quatre...I'm re.." Trowa began.
Quatre stood up and looked at Trowa with a bright smile. "It's ok. Don't worry about it. It's nothing to cry about..." he said, turned and walked back inside. Leaving the others in silence.
To be continued.
By: Maria
"Aren't they beautiful, Trowa?" Quatre asked Trowa as they sat in his garden that night.
"Hmmm.they're ok." came Trowa's response.
Quatre looked up at his lover's face, trying to understand his response.
"You don't like the flowers, Trowa?" Quatre asked him, sounding like he accused Trowa of killing someone.
"I said they were nice..."
"No you said they are ok. And it was the way you said it. You said as if you dislike flowers. What's wrong with them?!" Quatre asked.
Trowa sighed and shook his head to himself.
"Nothing's wrong with flowers...I just don't have as much love and care for them as you do my sweet. I'm sorry my reply got you upset...that's the way I am." Trowa responded silently.
Quatre pondered his answer for a moment and then said, "so if someone destroyed my garden...or rather all the flowers of the world you wouldn't be upset?"
"I wouldn't cry about it." Trowa said and glanced over at Quatre, who had a sad frown on his face. Seeing Quatre's expression he quickly added, "but I'd be mad and go after who ever dared destroy my Quatre's precious garden."
Quatre gave Trowa a small smile, knowing the last part was said so he wouldn't feel bad. Quatre decided he was too tired to stay up and continue this conversation.
"I'm really worn out. I think I'll go to bed now. Goodnight, Trowa." Quatre said as he got up and walked towards the side door.
"Goodnight." Trowa whispered.
After Quatre left, Trowa was left with his thoughts. 'What is so special about flowers? Quatre holds them too dear to himself. They bloom during spring, alive and fresh, and in the fall they slowly wither in the soon arrival of cold weather. Besides if someone destroyed Quatre's garden it would grow back. Nothing lasts forever.' He thought sadly. Trowa got up and went inside to get some sleep as well.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Next morning: Breakfast Table.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In the morning, everyone was sitting around the table eating breakfast, silently. Well almost everyone...there was one sound...the sound of Duo slurping and chewing his cereal.
"Hey!" Heero said referring to Duo. Who looks up only to have milk drool down his chin. "Keep it down."
Duo shrugs and continues to eat in his usual noisy way. Everyone, minus Duo, sweatdrop.
"Wu Fei, you're going to mow the lawn for me today aren't you?" Quatre asks the Chinese pilot.
"...I can't. I have other arrangements. I'm sorry, I know I..." he was interrupted.
"I'll do it."
Everyone looked up at Trowa in surprise. It was very unusual to see Trowa say anything, much less to VOLUNTEER to mow the lawn. He was more into other handy-man jobs.
"Trowa...are you sure you want to do it?" Quatre asked.
"I just said I would do I?" Trowa said getting up and putting is bowl in the sink. "I'll go and get started." And off walked Trowa.
'I wonder what got into Trowa. He doesn't like having to mow, usually Wu Fei and Duo do it' Quatre thought as Duo made a big slurping sound. Heero got up to put away his bowl, followed by a disgusted Wu Fei. They both headed for the back door.
"Hey!! Heero where are you going?! Let's play something...football or..." Duo began.
"I have work to do." Heero said plainly.
*Duo sticks out his tongue* "Fine jerk. Quatre and me will go and do something. Right, Quatre?" Duo asked Quatre.
"Sorry, I can't I need to clean up around here. Maybe we can all play what ever you want later." Quatre go up and began to wash the dishes. Duo looked bummed as he left the table. *Duo's eyes light up* An idea struck Duo and he ran upstairs to find a football.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Outside: Front Left Lawn~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Trowa just brought the lawn mower to the front yard and the left lawn. He had done the back left, barely coming out of that alive, and was aggravated.
' I still have one more section to finish after this one. I most remember NEVER to volunteer to do yard work again! Stupid machine *kicks mower* It's hard to control. I should tell Quatre to buy a new one or get this one fixed. Hmmm, maybe I should fix it, after I a recover from this work. *sigh* I thought this would help me see why Quatre loves all this stuff. Didn't help any... Maybe I should try gardening with him. Isn't mowing part of gardening....'
His thoughts were interrupted by the sound of someone calling his name. He looks behind him, as the motor to the mower finally starts up, finding Duo running up to him.
"What is it, Duo? I'm busy."
"I want to ask you to play a passing game with me..."Duo was saying cheerfully when Trowa raised his hand to stop him.
"I can't. I need to mow the lawn. So leave me alone." Trowa turned back to the mower.
"Well if you would have let me finished, you would have been happy to know that I was going to make an offer so you wouldn't have to finish mowing." *evil gleam in his eyes*
Trowa turned back around looking into Duo's eyes.
"What do you mean Duo?" Trowa asked impatiently yet interested in the idea of getting out of mowing.
"Well...I was going to challenge you to a passing game. Whoever dropped the ball first or missed catching a pass would be the one to finish mowing the lawn. Great idea, right?" Duo said knowing he had Trowa's interest. Plus he knew he would lose but he didn't care as long as he got someone to do something with him.
"Ok." Trowa said smiling. He knew he would beat Duo in no time at all and would be able to go and rest. "I'll pass first, Duo."
"I won't lose Trowa." Duo dashed to the opposite side of Trowa.
And so the passing challenge began.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Gundam Hangar~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wu Fei was busy practicing his martial arts techniques, while waiting for Heero to finish his repairs and overview of Wing Zero. They had plans to have a little sword duel after he had finished. Wu Fei was beginning to wonder where Duo was. There wasn't a day when he didn't come in search of Heero and start his usual complaints of being bored and no one wanting to 'hang out' with him.
'He's late. After everyone tells him they are busy he comes running to Heero. Always throwing himself at Heero...odd. He couldn't possibly be sitting still inside the house waiting for Heero to go inside. Maybe he's still eating inside...what a disgusting thought'*he shivers*
"Ok I'm done for the day. Let's going started Wu Fei" Heero said breaking into his thoughts.
"Hmmm...you don't seem to notice that your shadow is missing." Wu Fei pointed out.
"Duo isn't my shadow. He probably found someone to entertain him." Heero said making sure not to show how he really missed Duo. Heero made the first move.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Front Left Lawn~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
'Damn, since when did he become so much better! I should have had him within the first few throws, but now we're in... what...the thirtieth. The only good thing is with his fast movements it keeps me in shape and on my toes. Duo passes him a strong and perfect pass. 'I need to finish this game. I'm tired and need a nice shower.' He passes a long and hard pass right back to Duo.
"Nice pass, Trowa. But..." he said as he caught the ball. "you need to try harder." Duo throws the ball harder and longer. Trowa nearly tripped and dropped the ball as he ran into the lawn mower, pushing it forward.
'Stupid machine!' Trowa yelled in his head. Passing the ball back to Duo, neither noticing the run away lawn mower.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Living Room~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Quatre finished vacuuming up the rug and furniture, when he remembered that he had to go and work in his garden. He was sure that this cleaning up could be done later with the help of the other four gundam pilots. Quatre was about to go to the side door into his garden when he remembered he had put all his gardening tools away in the garage. So he ran to go and get them.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Front Left Lawn~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Trowa finally, after an hour, passed a pass the god of death couldn't catch. He heaved a big sigh of relief and smiled to himself.
"Looks like I won, Duo" he said proudly.
"Yeah,...you won." Duo said looking really disappointed that the whole thing was over.
Trowa seeing the disappointed look took pity on Duo and said, "How about we do this everyday Duo? Not for the price of mowing though. Just this passing game? It was a great work out for me, I...enjoyed it. You in?" Trowa couldn't believe he meant every word he said too.
Duo smiled his big cheesy smile, "You promise, everyday? I'm in."
"Yeah, everyday...Duo..." Trowa was looking around frantically.
"What's the matter Tro?"
"Where's the mower?"
"Well it's...ummm...I don't know" Duo replied.
They both stopped when they heard the sound of the lawn mower chewing up something on the right side of the mansion.
"Quatre's garden!!" both yelled in unison and ran towards the right side of the mansion.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Out Back~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Heero and Wu Fei were done with their work out and were walking towards the mansion, both focusing on his own thoughts.
'I wonder what happened to my braided lo...frie..companion. Quit fooling yourself you love him and besides no one can read your thoughts...thank god for that. I really wanted him there to cheering me on...Duo must of fallen asleep. He doesn't have enough patients to just sit around. I'll go and find him right now.' a soft smile playing on his lips at the thought of Duo.
' I think that was a wonderful warm up. I'm glad to see Heero has improved and helped me gain more improved skills. He still needs a lot more practice to be better than me.' Wu Fei smirked to himself. 'Maybe him and Trowa practice together, Duo isn't much of a partner so Heero can't be working with him. He goofs off to much and he's annoying. Hmmm...wh...what is that noise!' Wu Fei looked towards the mansion, heero doing the same, since he was distracted of his thoughts of Duo by the same sound.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Side Door~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Quatre had all his tools and was ready for a lovely day in his garden. He took hold if the side doors curtain and froze at the sight he saw before him. His flowers were all gone, well they were all destroyed. Quatre opened the door and took a step out to find Trowa pushing the mower over his favorite flowers, Lilies.
Trowa got to the side of the mansion and saw that the mower had already destroyed all but his loves favorite flowers. He still had a chance to save them if he hurried. The flowers were either shredded up or standing but in bad shape. He quickly ran after the mower. Trowa was about to stop the mower when he tripped and grabbed a hold of the mower pushing it forward with his fall.
Duo was staring in shock, at the mess the mower had done, to help Trowa. Trowa turned off the mower and began to get up. He saw he didn't save the flowers in time and he saw Heero and Wu Fei running towards him.
Trowa stood up and heard something hit the ground softly. He turned around and finds Quatre on his knees touching the soft ground and chopped up pieces of flowers.
"What happened?" Heero asked.
"What a mess!" Wu Fei remarked
Trowa stared with great pain at Quatre's pained and horrified expression.
"Quatre...I'm re.." Trowa began.
Quatre stood up and looked at Trowa with a bright smile. "It's ok. Don't worry about it. It's nothing to cry about..." he said, turned and walked back inside. Leaving the others in silence.
To be continued.