Hi! Sorry I haven't written in a long time. Work decided I needed to go to some stupid appoints that were pretty much useless. Hey o well. Not much that I can do about that.
So on with the story.
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Chapter 2
Two months later
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Hope was playing in the garden chasing after a little butterfly giggling the whole time. Quatre, Rashid, and the other Maguanac Corps watched not to far away smiling at her. Though it had only been two months ago since she came into their lives, they all cared for her greatly. She was a ball of joy and energy. Sighing sadly Quatre looked up at Rashid.
"I'll be leaving soon, Rashid. I want you and two others to stay behind to care for Hope." Quatre told the grizzly man
"Do not worry Master Quatre. We will take good care of her while you are away." Rashid replied looking at Hope. "What will we tell her?"
"We'll just tell her I'm on a business trip." Quatre replied looking at Hope while she ran around the garden.
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"Papa. Do you have to go?" Hope asked in a quivering voice.
Quatre wanted to say no, but knew he couldn't. "I'm sorry Hope, but I have to go." He picked up Hope and hugged her. "Rashid and some of the others will still be here with you."
"But I want you, Papa." Hope said crying. "I don't wan ya to leave like Mommy did!"
Quatre was a little taken aback by that **So that's what's been bothering her**
"Shh, Hope don't cry. I'll be back." Quatre said reassuringly.
"You promise?" Hope asked sniffling a little.
"I promise." Quatre said looking into her green eyes.
Hope hugged Quatre and stopped crying a little. "Remember you promised." Hope said now being carried in Rashids' arms.
"I won't forget Hope. Bye." Quatre said waving to Hope.
"Bye Papa." Hope yelled back waving as he entered the car and left.
Rashid looked down at Hope and said, "Don't worry little miss, he'll be back. He promised and he always keeps his promises."
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Three months have passed since Quatre and the others had left to go on a mission, leaving Rashid and two others to look after Hope.
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Rashid looks down at the little mistress as she keeps watch for Quatre. He smiles to himself thinking about the past two months. He never knew how much energy a six-year-old child had until he had to care for her with just himself and two others. He looked forward to Quatres' return so that he could finally get some rest, but he also wished his young Masters' return because he worried for his safety.
"Uncle Rad, are you sure he's coming back today?" Hope asked worriedly
"Yes, Little miss. He said he'd be here today." Rashid reassured the girl
"Then where's he at?" Hope began to whine a little.
Rashid sighed a little, picked her up, and placed her on his lap. "He'll be here today. He's bringing home some friends. He's probably waiting for them to arrive before coming home."
"Really Papa is bringing home friends. Are they nice? Will they be my friends too?" Hope asked.
Laughing at her torrent of questions Rashid hugged her gently. "I'm sure they'll like you. Who wouldn't like a little rascal like you?"
Hope looked up at Rashid and smiled happy to know that she was going to make new friends
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Quatre was very excited to be coming home. He missed Hope greatly, but was a little worried about how the others would take to Hope. The other pilots noticed how happy and nervous Quatre was.
"Hey Q-man why are you so happy? It's just another mansion." Duo wondered
"You also seem nervous, Quatre. Is there a reason for this?" Trowa asked quietly
Quatre just looked at everyone who was awaiting his answer and replied, "I'll explain when he get to the mansion ok."
All he received for an answer was a few headshakes.
**Soon Hope I'll be home soon.**
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They arrived at the mansion around Mid-day. Looking at the beautiful countryside they smiled inside seeing it was peaceful here unlike so many other places. Walking towards the door it was suddenly pushed open and a blonde whirlwind ran past the others jumping towards Quatre.
"Papa! You're home!" Hope squealed ignoring the others that was with her Papa.
Four voices could be heard in a shout of surprise. "Papa!"
Quatre just ignored them as he picked up the little whirlwind that threw herself to him and hugged her. The other pilots just looked at each other completely surprised. Quatre was a father. Who was the mother and when did this happen? Last time they knew Quatre was single and diffidently not a father.
Duo looked at Quatre holding the little girl that he had placed on his side. "Hey Q-man mind explaining."
"Let's' go inside and I'll explain once everything is settled." Quatre replied heading for the door.
"Papa?"
"Yes."
"Are these your friends?" Hope asked innocently pointing at the other pilots.
"Yes, these are my friends. I'll introduce everyone once we get inside ok."
"Ok Papa." Hope said kissing Quatres' cheek.
Once inside Rashid greeted Quatre and Quatre was surprised at how tired he looked.
"Are you all right my friend?" Quatre asked worried
"Yes, Master Quatre. Little miss here just has a lot of energy." Rashid said smiling at Hope.
"Uncle Rad! You were right! Papa did come home just liked you said." Hope said smiling brightly.
"Well let us head to the leaving room." Quatre said "Rashid go ahead and get some sleep, my friend."
"Thank you." Rashid said leaving.
"Even Grown-ups have to take naps?" Hope questioned
Duo laughed at what Hope said and Trowa just smiled. Heero and Wufie were amused but didn't show it. Quatre smiled at her and answered. "Yes even grown-ups have to take naps sometimes."
In the living room Quatre placed Hope on the floor. "I'll be right back I have to get something." Quatre said leaving the pilots with the little girl. Hope looked at her Papa's friends. The one with brown hair everywhere seemed cold, the tall one seemed quite but nice, the one with the black hair looked kinda of mean and the last one with the braid was really nice. Walking up to the one in the braid who was smiling brightly at her Hope asked something that she just had to know.
"Are you a girl?"
Duo looked surprised at her. "NO! I'm not a girl. I'm a guy."
Wufei laughed at what the little onna said at Duo.
"If you're a guy then why do you have such long hair? I thought only girls had long hair." Hope inquired.
Duo just bristled and walked over to the couch and sat down mad crossing his arms over his chest.
Hope looked at the boy with the braid. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to hurt your feelings."
Duo just huffed in answer. Feeling even worse Hope began to sniffle. Wufei noticed this as well as did the others. They were all thinking please don't cry, but Hope couldn't hear their thoughts.
"Now look what you did you braided baka! You've made this onna start to cry." Wufei shouted at Duo. Dou looked at the girl and indeed she was starting to cry and then shouted. "Papa's friend doesn't like me! Wahhhhhhh!" Duo felt bad and picked her up trying to calm her down before Quatre heard her crying.
"Don't cry please. I like you. Please stop crying." Duo pleaded at her
"No y..you don't! Y..you're just s..aying that!" Hope whined louder.
"No I'm not. Really." Duo told her
But Hope didn't believe him and continued to cry. The others were beginning to get highly annoyed with her crying. Wufei had enough of it, he went to Hope, and picked her up. Looking up at Wufei, Hope stopped crying but sniffling could be heard. Staring into her green eyes **Green eyes? Where did she get green eyes from, her mother?** Wufei thought.
"All right onna stop crying. Duo doesn't hate you."
"Really?" she asked trying to stop crying.
"Yes." Was all Wufei said.
Looking straight into to his eyes Hope studied him. Wufei notice that she was staring at him.
"What are you staring at onna?" Wufei asked sharply.
Ignoring how rude Wufei was Hope answered. "Why are you hurting inside? You hurt inside like Papa does. Why?"
Wufei nearly dropped her, the others just stared at her surprised, and silence filled the room.
"So what's your name?" Duo asked realizing that he and the others didn't know Quatres' daughters' name. Duo also hoped to change the subject. He couldn't bare the silence anymore either.
"My name is Hope. What's yours?" She asked
"Duo." He replied and then pointed at the others. "That's Heero, Trowa, and Wufei is the one holding you. The others just nodded their heads when Duo called out their names. "So how old are you Hope?" Duo asked. **She seems to be about 3 but sounds older than that.**
Smiling at Duo she happily replied. "I'm six years old." The others were shocked. How can she be Quatres' daughter if she's that old? After telling everyone her age Quatre walked in.
"Hey Hope. I've got a present for you." Quatre told her.
Jumping from Wufei's arms she ran over to her father and jumped up and down squealing forgetting all about crying earlier. "Whacha get me! Whacha get me!" Quatre laughed at her antics and noticed the others smile slightly though still in a state of shock.
"Close your eyes." Hope closed her eyes and waited. Taking out the box he had behind his back he placed it in front of her. "Ok Open your eyes and look inside."
Kneeling on the floor Hope carefully opened up the box and gasped. "She's pretty!" Hope shouted out picking up the gray kitten. "What's her name?"
"Well that's up to you." Quatre told her
"Umm. I'll call her Mittens. Is that ok Papa?" Hope asked looking at Quatre.
"That's fine. You know the others are back." but before he could finish she was gone in a flash with the kitten in her arms. Quatre just laughed. **Poor Rashid! Now I know why he was tired. She's a big ball of energy to handle by yourself and only two others.** Turning towards the guys he saw they wanted an explanation and they wanted it now.
"So Quatre how long have you been a father? And who's the mother?" Duo asked before the others could.
"Only four months. Hope is an orphan. I found her in a meadow not far from here. I don't know who her parents were and she informed me that she doesn't have any other family. So I adopted her."
"So why does she call you Papa? Wouldn't brother have been better?" Trowa asked
"Well yes, I tried to get her to call me by my name or brother, but she insisted on calling me Papa." Quatre answered.
"Does she know about you being a Gundam Pilot?" Heero asked
"No, and I plan to keep it that way if possible. All she knows is that when I leave I'm on a business trip." Quatre said.
"Quatre has she been around any other girls?" Duo asked.
"No I don't think so. It's just been her, the Maguanacs', and me. Why?" Quatre asked
"Nothing." Duo said
Wufei caught on why Duo asked that question and smirked. "I think it's because that little onna asked if Duo was a girl."
"She did what?" Quatre asked surprised and laughing at the same time.
"Hey that's not funny one bit!" Duo huffed
After a few minutes he calmed down. "That little minx. I'm sorry Duo. I hope she didn't hurt your feeling to bad."
"That's all right. She already apologized." Duo said
"Good." Quatre said. "Dinner will be done shortly ok guys. I have to call Iria."
"Why Quatre is something wrong?" Trowa asked from the corner of the room.
"No. None of my sisters' know about Hope. I don't think I could handle all of them wanting to come and visit their new niece. Also since Iria is a doctor I want her to check up on Hope. She hasn't seen a doctor for a normal check since staying with me." Quatre replied leaving.
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Shortly after Hope came running in and hid behind Wufei who was leaning against the wall in the corner of the room.
"Eh what are you doing." Wufei asked
"Shhh. don't say anything please." Hope said quietly
Before he could ask what she was talking about two of the Maguauac's ran in covered in pink paint. Duo started laughing and fell off the couch from laughing so hard. "What happened to you guys?" Duo asked between laughter
"Hope decided that she rather see us in pink than her room." One of them said
"Have you seen her?" the other asked looking around the room.
"I think the little onna ran up stairs." Wufei said surprising Duo
"Thank you. We're going to get you for this Hope!" the two shouted.
"Are they gone?" Hope asked peeking out from behind Wufei.
"Yes they are so you can come out now." Wufei told her
"Thank You Uncle Wuffy!" Hope said happily hugging him and running out of the living room. Leaving behind a very surprised Wufei
"Uncle Wuffy!" Duo said laughing even more
"Shut up! You braided baka!" Wufei yelled at Duo
"Ah but Wu-man!" Duo whined
"That's it PREPARE TO DIE MAXWELL!" Wufei shouted chasing Duo around the room and out into the hall.
Heero and Trowa just looked at each other and sighed thinking to themselves. **Will those two ever grow-up.**
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So what do you think so far?
Please review!
If you don't I'll send a sugar high Duo after you!
Hehe
Bye-bye
So on with the story.
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Chapter 2
Two months later
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Hope was playing in the garden chasing after a little butterfly giggling the whole time. Quatre, Rashid, and the other Maguanac Corps watched not to far away smiling at her. Though it had only been two months ago since she came into their lives, they all cared for her greatly. She was a ball of joy and energy. Sighing sadly Quatre looked up at Rashid.
"I'll be leaving soon, Rashid. I want you and two others to stay behind to care for Hope." Quatre told the grizzly man
"Do not worry Master Quatre. We will take good care of her while you are away." Rashid replied looking at Hope. "What will we tell her?"
"We'll just tell her I'm on a business trip." Quatre replied looking at Hope while she ran around the garden.
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"Papa. Do you have to go?" Hope asked in a quivering voice.
Quatre wanted to say no, but knew he couldn't. "I'm sorry Hope, but I have to go." He picked up Hope and hugged her. "Rashid and some of the others will still be here with you."
"But I want you, Papa." Hope said crying. "I don't wan ya to leave like Mommy did!"
Quatre was a little taken aback by that **So that's what's been bothering her**
"Shh, Hope don't cry. I'll be back." Quatre said reassuringly.
"You promise?" Hope asked sniffling a little.
"I promise." Quatre said looking into her green eyes.
Hope hugged Quatre and stopped crying a little. "Remember you promised." Hope said now being carried in Rashids' arms.
"I won't forget Hope. Bye." Quatre said waving to Hope.
"Bye Papa." Hope yelled back waving as he entered the car and left.
Rashid looked down at Hope and said, "Don't worry little miss, he'll be back. He promised and he always keeps his promises."
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Three months have passed since Quatre and the others had left to go on a mission, leaving Rashid and two others to look after Hope.
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Rashid looks down at the little mistress as she keeps watch for Quatre. He smiles to himself thinking about the past two months. He never knew how much energy a six-year-old child had until he had to care for her with just himself and two others. He looked forward to Quatres' return so that he could finally get some rest, but he also wished his young Masters' return because he worried for his safety.
"Uncle Rad, are you sure he's coming back today?" Hope asked worriedly
"Yes, Little miss. He said he'd be here today." Rashid reassured the girl
"Then where's he at?" Hope began to whine a little.
Rashid sighed a little, picked her up, and placed her on his lap. "He'll be here today. He's bringing home some friends. He's probably waiting for them to arrive before coming home."
"Really Papa is bringing home friends. Are they nice? Will they be my friends too?" Hope asked.
Laughing at her torrent of questions Rashid hugged her gently. "I'm sure they'll like you. Who wouldn't like a little rascal like you?"
Hope looked up at Rashid and smiled happy to know that she was going to make new friends
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Quatre was very excited to be coming home. He missed Hope greatly, but was a little worried about how the others would take to Hope. The other pilots noticed how happy and nervous Quatre was.
"Hey Q-man why are you so happy? It's just another mansion." Duo wondered
"You also seem nervous, Quatre. Is there a reason for this?" Trowa asked quietly
Quatre just looked at everyone who was awaiting his answer and replied, "I'll explain when he get to the mansion ok."
All he received for an answer was a few headshakes.
**Soon Hope I'll be home soon.**
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They arrived at the mansion around Mid-day. Looking at the beautiful countryside they smiled inside seeing it was peaceful here unlike so many other places. Walking towards the door it was suddenly pushed open and a blonde whirlwind ran past the others jumping towards Quatre.
"Papa! You're home!" Hope squealed ignoring the others that was with her Papa.
Four voices could be heard in a shout of surprise. "Papa!"
Quatre just ignored them as he picked up the little whirlwind that threw herself to him and hugged her. The other pilots just looked at each other completely surprised. Quatre was a father. Who was the mother and when did this happen? Last time they knew Quatre was single and diffidently not a father.
Duo looked at Quatre holding the little girl that he had placed on his side. "Hey Q-man mind explaining."
"Let's' go inside and I'll explain once everything is settled." Quatre replied heading for the door.
"Papa?"
"Yes."
"Are these your friends?" Hope asked innocently pointing at the other pilots.
"Yes, these are my friends. I'll introduce everyone once we get inside ok."
"Ok Papa." Hope said kissing Quatres' cheek.
Once inside Rashid greeted Quatre and Quatre was surprised at how tired he looked.
"Are you all right my friend?" Quatre asked worried
"Yes, Master Quatre. Little miss here just has a lot of energy." Rashid said smiling at Hope.
"Uncle Rad! You were right! Papa did come home just liked you said." Hope said smiling brightly.
"Well let us head to the leaving room." Quatre said "Rashid go ahead and get some sleep, my friend."
"Thank you." Rashid said leaving.
"Even Grown-ups have to take naps?" Hope questioned
Duo laughed at what Hope said and Trowa just smiled. Heero and Wufie were amused but didn't show it. Quatre smiled at her and answered. "Yes even grown-ups have to take naps sometimes."
In the living room Quatre placed Hope on the floor. "I'll be right back I have to get something." Quatre said leaving the pilots with the little girl. Hope looked at her Papa's friends. The one with brown hair everywhere seemed cold, the tall one seemed quite but nice, the one with the black hair looked kinda of mean and the last one with the braid was really nice. Walking up to the one in the braid who was smiling brightly at her Hope asked something that she just had to know.
"Are you a girl?"
Duo looked surprised at her. "NO! I'm not a girl. I'm a guy."
Wufei laughed at what the little onna said at Duo.
"If you're a guy then why do you have such long hair? I thought only girls had long hair." Hope inquired.
Duo just bristled and walked over to the couch and sat down mad crossing his arms over his chest.
Hope looked at the boy with the braid. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to hurt your feelings."
Duo just huffed in answer. Feeling even worse Hope began to sniffle. Wufei noticed this as well as did the others. They were all thinking please don't cry, but Hope couldn't hear their thoughts.
"Now look what you did you braided baka! You've made this onna start to cry." Wufei shouted at Duo. Dou looked at the girl and indeed she was starting to cry and then shouted. "Papa's friend doesn't like me! Wahhhhhhh!" Duo felt bad and picked her up trying to calm her down before Quatre heard her crying.
"Don't cry please. I like you. Please stop crying." Duo pleaded at her
"No y..you don't! Y..you're just s..aying that!" Hope whined louder.
"No I'm not. Really." Duo told her
But Hope didn't believe him and continued to cry. The others were beginning to get highly annoyed with her crying. Wufei had enough of it, he went to Hope, and picked her up. Looking up at Wufei, Hope stopped crying but sniffling could be heard. Staring into her green eyes **Green eyes? Where did she get green eyes from, her mother?** Wufei thought.
"All right onna stop crying. Duo doesn't hate you."
"Really?" she asked trying to stop crying.
"Yes." Was all Wufei said.
Looking straight into to his eyes Hope studied him. Wufei notice that she was staring at him.
"What are you staring at onna?" Wufei asked sharply.
Ignoring how rude Wufei was Hope answered. "Why are you hurting inside? You hurt inside like Papa does. Why?"
Wufei nearly dropped her, the others just stared at her surprised, and silence filled the room.
"So what's your name?" Duo asked realizing that he and the others didn't know Quatres' daughters' name. Duo also hoped to change the subject. He couldn't bare the silence anymore either.
"My name is Hope. What's yours?" She asked
"Duo." He replied and then pointed at the others. "That's Heero, Trowa, and Wufei is the one holding you. The others just nodded their heads when Duo called out their names. "So how old are you Hope?" Duo asked. **She seems to be about 3 but sounds older than that.**
Smiling at Duo she happily replied. "I'm six years old." The others were shocked. How can she be Quatres' daughter if she's that old? After telling everyone her age Quatre walked in.
"Hey Hope. I've got a present for you." Quatre told her.
Jumping from Wufei's arms she ran over to her father and jumped up and down squealing forgetting all about crying earlier. "Whacha get me! Whacha get me!" Quatre laughed at her antics and noticed the others smile slightly though still in a state of shock.
"Close your eyes." Hope closed her eyes and waited. Taking out the box he had behind his back he placed it in front of her. "Ok Open your eyes and look inside."
Kneeling on the floor Hope carefully opened up the box and gasped. "She's pretty!" Hope shouted out picking up the gray kitten. "What's her name?"
"Well that's up to you." Quatre told her
"Umm. I'll call her Mittens. Is that ok Papa?" Hope asked looking at Quatre.
"That's fine. You know the others are back." but before he could finish she was gone in a flash with the kitten in her arms. Quatre just laughed. **Poor Rashid! Now I know why he was tired. She's a big ball of energy to handle by yourself and only two others.** Turning towards the guys he saw they wanted an explanation and they wanted it now.
"So Quatre how long have you been a father? And who's the mother?" Duo asked before the others could.
"Only four months. Hope is an orphan. I found her in a meadow not far from here. I don't know who her parents were and she informed me that she doesn't have any other family. So I adopted her."
"So why does she call you Papa? Wouldn't brother have been better?" Trowa asked
"Well yes, I tried to get her to call me by my name or brother, but she insisted on calling me Papa." Quatre answered.
"Does she know about you being a Gundam Pilot?" Heero asked
"No, and I plan to keep it that way if possible. All she knows is that when I leave I'm on a business trip." Quatre said.
"Quatre has she been around any other girls?" Duo asked.
"No I don't think so. It's just been her, the Maguanacs', and me. Why?" Quatre asked
"Nothing." Duo said
Wufei caught on why Duo asked that question and smirked. "I think it's because that little onna asked if Duo was a girl."
"She did what?" Quatre asked surprised and laughing at the same time.
"Hey that's not funny one bit!" Duo huffed
After a few minutes he calmed down. "That little minx. I'm sorry Duo. I hope she didn't hurt your feeling to bad."
"That's all right. She already apologized." Duo said
"Good." Quatre said. "Dinner will be done shortly ok guys. I have to call Iria."
"Why Quatre is something wrong?" Trowa asked from the corner of the room.
"No. None of my sisters' know about Hope. I don't think I could handle all of them wanting to come and visit their new niece. Also since Iria is a doctor I want her to check up on Hope. She hasn't seen a doctor for a normal check since staying with me." Quatre replied leaving.
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Shortly after Hope came running in and hid behind Wufei who was leaning against the wall in the corner of the room.
"Eh what are you doing." Wufei asked
"Shhh. don't say anything please." Hope said quietly
Before he could ask what she was talking about two of the Maguauac's ran in covered in pink paint. Duo started laughing and fell off the couch from laughing so hard. "What happened to you guys?" Duo asked between laughter
"Hope decided that she rather see us in pink than her room." One of them said
"Have you seen her?" the other asked looking around the room.
"I think the little onna ran up stairs." Wufei said surprising Duo
"Thank you. We're going to get you for this Hope!" the two shouted.
"Are they gone?" Hope asked peeking out from behind Wufei.
"Yes they are so you can come out now." Wufei told her
"Thank You Uncle Wuffy!" Hope said happily hugging him and running out of the living room. Leaving behind a very surprised Wufei
"Uncle Wuffy!" Duo said laughing even more
"Shut up! You braided baka!" Wufei yelled at Duo
"Ah but Wu-man!" Duo whined
"That's it PREPARE TO DIE MAXWELL!" Wufei shouted chasing Duo around the room and out into the hall.
Heero and Trowa just looked at each other and sighed thinking to themselves. **Will those two ever grow-up.**
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So what do you think so far?
Please review!
If you don't I'll send a sugar high Duo after you!
Hehe
Bye-bye