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Here she was again. Standing outside Quatre's door, watching the butler who led them there knock on the door. "What the hell does Quatre want now?!?" Ellie thought to herself angrily. She was a little peeved that Quatre had to interrupt a perfect day.
"Come in!" Quatre's voice came from the other side of the door. Ellie opened the door and marched in with Duo in tow.
"What do you want Quatre?!" Ellie said trying to hide the fact that she was pissed. It wasn't working very well. Quatre gave her this look, that meant "so-I-see-the-date-went-well-then?" Ellie countered that look with a "you-are-so-dead" glare.
"um, thanks for coming." Quatre coughed uncomfortably.
"What's up Quatre?" Duo asked slumping into a nearby chair. Ellie stood with her arms crossed still glaring at her cousin.
"Well Duo, this meeting is really just for you and the guys."
Ellie took her eyes off of Quatre and noticed that the other boys were in the room too.
"Really? Then why'd you ask Ellie to come?" Duo asked putting his feet up on Quatre's desk.
"Well, It kinda concerns her too." Quatre grunted as he pushed Duo's feet off his papers.
"Get on with it." Wufei snarled from the corner where he was sitting reading a book.
"Duo, I was wondering if you would like to stay for the rest of the summer. I know you only initially was going to stay for a couple weeks, but I already asked the other boys and they said that they were free to stay, so you're the last one."
"Sure why not?" Duo shrugged.
"Oh Wufei, is Sally staying?" Ellie said looking over at him.
"Nah, she said she had to go back home and do something, probably stupid onna stuff."
Duo jolted upright. "Yo Wufei. I thought you gave up that sexist stuff?"
"Only around Sally. Have you seen that girl with a gun? I'd be insane to say anything sexist around her!" Wufei said closing his book.
"So it's all settled then. Everyone, but Sally is staying for the summer." Quatre said ignoring Wufei. "Is there anything else you need? I mean that you already haven't got. You know, for your stay."
"Well, it would be a lot more fun, if you had a games room or something. Or at least a TV. I've been getting sick of playing croquet." Heero said from beside the fire place where he was sitting with Trowa.
"Games room? Didn't I show you that already?" Quatre asked standing up.
"No you didn't. Do you have a games room Quatre?" Trowa said standing up too.
"Of course I do! What do you think I drink tea for fun?" A series of murmurs came from the group. "You thought I drink tea for fun?! NO! yes I do have a games room. Follow me." With that Quatre led the group out of the sitting room and down the hall towards the basement.
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They all stood in front of two huge oak doors. Quatre was in front, and he opened the doors to reveal a large room. There was a pool table and an Air hockey table in one end. And a tv with a playstation 2 hooked up, and thousands of video games. There was a door on the far wall leading into another room. Both Ellie and Duo spotted the Playstation and screamed.
"YOU'VE GOT PLAYSTATION?!" They both shouted in unison. Ellie looked at Duo and Duo looked at Ellie.
"YOU LIKE PLAYSTATION TOO?!" they shouted in unison pointing at each other.
"what's your favorite game?" Ellie asked duo excitedly.
"I like the explosion games, but I kinda like the Final Fantasy's too."
Ellie screamed. "I LOVE the final fantasy's!!!" They both ran towards the tv, and jumped on the couch, grabbing the controllers.
"Um…ok…Wufei? Wanna play pool?" Trowa asked, taking his eyes off the game freaks who were shouting at the tv screen whenever they "lost a point."
"Yeah." Said Wufei walking over to the pool table.
"Damn I'm gonna miss the game cuz those guys are occupying the tv." Heero said to himself.
"You want to watch the game? Don't worry I have a tv room too. This is just games. Here the TV is through here." Quatre led Heero through the door on the opposite wall.
Suddenly they heard Heero scream, and everyone came running through the door where Quatre led him.
"Woo-hoo man! That's a kickass tv Quatre!" Duo said laughing. The Tv was massive, it spanned one wall and went all the way up to the ceiling. Heero was in shock.
"It's hooked up to satellite too." Quatre said a bit smugly. Heero sat down on the couch and picked up the remote.
"Ai shiteru Quatre." Heero looked over to Quatre with tears in his eyes.
"Wow, new line eh Heero? You really wanted to see this game huh?" Trowa said as he tried to hold back a laugh.
"Wanna go back to the playstation?" Duo said turning to Ellie.
"Sure." She smiled back. Trowa and Wufei followed them and continued their pool game while Quatre stayed with Heero and watched they game, on his massive tv.
"I've never seen Heero like that before." Ellie said not taking her eyes off the screen.
"Let's just say, He REALLY like his sports." Duo said laughing. Suddenly all the power went out.
"SHIT!!!" Duo and Ellie yelled in unison as they watched they're game disappear.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" Heero's voice came from the other room.
"What happened?" Ellie could hear Trowa's voice from near the pool table. Remembering, she reached into her pocket and pulled out a mini flashlight that she always kept with her. She turned it on and shined it in Duo's face.
"Hey sunshine. What's cooking?" Ellie said sarcastically.
"Shut up. Let's go find Quatre." They got up off the couch and slowly made there way over to the pool table to get Trowa and Wufei.
"OUCH! DAMMIT!" Duo shouted.
"What? What happened?" Ellie said as she flashed her light on duo.
"Stubbed my toe."
"oh…whatever." Ellie said turning back to the pool table.
"way to show compassion Ellie." Duo limped after her.
"Hey, at least one of us is prepared." Wufei said when they reached the pool table.
"Meh, I was a former girl scout. It kinda grows on you after a while." Ellie shrugged.
"Yo-you were a girl scout?" Duo laughed.
"Shut up!" Ellie shouted and stepped on to his stubbed toe. She smiled with satisfaction when she heard him yowl in pain.
"Let's go find Quatre and Heero." Trowa said as he walked towards the door. They found the guys still sitting on the couch in the dark.
"What happened?" Trowa asked Quatre.
"Power failure I guess. Don't worry I got candles upstairs." With the help of Ellie's flashlight they all managed to make it upstairs and light a few candles, spreading them around the sitting room.
"Everybody can take a candle I guess, you know just in case you want to go anywhere, well except for Ellie though, she's got her flashlight." Quatre said handing out the candles.
"Uh, actually I'm going to need one too Quatre, my batteries seemed to have run out." Ellie placed her flashlight on the desk and took a candle.
"The power should come on soon." Trowa said as he sat down near the fire.
"Hey you wanna go explore?" Duo whispered to Ellie.
"Of course." Ellie smiled back.
"Yo Quatre, we're gonna go look around, maybe find out why the powers out." Duo said as they walked towards the door. Closing the door behind them they snickered and headed back to the library.
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