This Is Not My Day; 5 mike anderson Normal mike anderson 2 115 2001-11-05T20:49:00Z 2001-11-09T01:19:00Z 4 1138 6488 me 54 12 7967 9.3821

This Is Not My Day; 5

The Chocolate Caper & Self-Help Books

Walking past the kitchen Heero could hear the maguanacs arguing about what kind of paste to put on the finger food, and the kind of filling to put in the pitite-fores.

"You cretin!   This should not have pickles in it."

He wondered when they had developed bad French accents.   Someone was taking their job a bit to seriously, but then he shouldn't talk.   He walked up the stairs and looked in on a sleeping angel.   Relena's hair was fanned out around her head causing a sleeping beauty like effect.   Satisfied that she was safe he hoped her headache was gone.

He kept walking down the hall.   He peered in Duo's open door and noticed a box of chocolates on the bed.   It seemed to be bathed in golden light, not unlike the cherub down the hall.   He felt himself being drawn towards it.   The chocolate seemed to be beckoning him.   Eat me Heero, eat me; Duo will never know.

Snatching the box off the bed, he ran into the hall.   Seeing Duo coming up the stairs and Trowa coming out of his room down the hall, he dove through the nearest door.

Trapped in the darkness he heard Duo's door closing.   There was a second long pause before Duo's feet came trampling out into the hall.

"Where are the chocolates Wufei gave me for Christmas?   I bet he stole them back."   Someone screeched then came the sound of a body falling to the floor.

"Sorry Trowa, I didn't mean to run into you.   I didn't mean to hit you so hard either, I thought you were Wufei coming after me with his sword again.   You know if you cut your hair you wouldn't have a blind spot the size of Canada.   By the way, have you seen the chocolates Wu-man gave me?"

*Silence*

"I'll take that as a no.   Just as well, Wufei probably poisoned them or something.   I wouldn't trust that guy to give a gift willingly."   Heero swallowed a chocolate covered cherry.   He then realized he was eating the candy Duo was talking about.

Choking, he looked around the linen closet for a place to spit out the chocolate.   He dove into a pile of dirty blankets to muffle his coughing.

"Trowa, did you hear something?"   Duo asked a very still Trowa.   Getting the typical answer he went over to the nearest door to investigate.   Ignoring the coughing blankets and linen his eyes went straight to a bit of gold sticking out from the laundry.

"My chocolates!" he exclaimed as he grabbed the box.   Heero reluctantly let go of it, lest he was caught.   Duo slammed the closet door, leaving Heero in darkness again.

"I found my chocolates Trowa, Duo the detective is back in action!   I bet someone hid them in there so they could come back and eat them later.   I'm going to wait here all night to catch the thief, or until I get hungry, or the party has started.   I'll catch him!   Come on Trowa, we'll hide in your room.   Trowa?   Trowa?   Hey Trowa, are you asleep?

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Heero sat alone in his dark prison, trying to figure out how to leave without detection.   The minute he went into the air duct alarms would go off.   Maybe he shouldn't have made his high-tech security system as complex.   There was no way in or out of any room without triggering an alarm somewhere.

Wasn't he a genius!

Outside there was a commotion and someone yelled, "Dang it Duo!   I didn't steal your chocolates! Why would I, Wufei gave me a box too.   I'm going into the linen closet for some linen.   That's what the linen closet is for!"

The light snapped on and the door was slammed shut.   From outside came a scream of pure torture.

Relena sighed and let Duo's braid out of the door.   Heero stood up in the back of the room.   She turned around and her face became one of pure shock

"We're out of clean towels."

Heero snuck up behind her and placed his hand over her mouth and the other one around her waist.   She bit his finger and elbowed him in the stomach.

"Hey Perfect Soldier, why do I even bother protecting you?   You seem to be doing a good job yourself." He grumbled.

"Heero?   Oh my goodness, you scared me.   Why are you sneaking up on me in the linen closet? Why are you being so sarcastic today and why are you even in the closet?"

"I'm having a bad day."

"That's crazy, your day's been fine.   Lets see; you're room got messed up a bit, you ruined your tuxedo, you peed your pants…"

"It was orange juice."

She continued,   "You lost your pants, and you tripped Trowa on his ladder.   Ok, so your day's been bad, that doesn't explain why your in a closet."

"Chocolate."

"You're the one who stole Duo's chocolate!"  She started to laugh at him.   What a terrible punishment.

"You know Duo won't let you in or out of this room.   Why don't you go through the air duct?   Oh, that's right HACK is turned on.   It's your own fault Heero."

He stared at her; she was still slightly laughing at him.   Her bright smile and twinkling eyes made his lips turn up slightly.

"You're going to get me out."

She looked at him, her head at a questioning tilt.

"What do you have in mind?"

He outlined the plan to her.   She smirked at him.   It looked like she was taking on some of his better personality traits.

"That sounds like a great idea.   It's almost as good as eating stolen chocolates in a linen closet."

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Relena sauntered away from the linen closet, and passed Duo and Trowa.   She smiled and continued walking downstairs.

While Duo was inspecting Relena for any traces of chocolate Trowa slowly got up from his seat and tried to sneak away.   Duo turned around and pushed Trowa back into his seat.   Busted!

"You know something Trowa, I don't think it was Relena.   She doesn't look like the type to eat someone else's food, since I don't think she even eats all of her own food."

Trowa sighed and picked up his book; it seemed like he might be stuck there for a while.

Suddenly Relena ran up the stairs and over to Duo.

"Guess what!   Quatre wishes you to go downstairs and taste test the food; after all, no one knows cuisine like you do."

Duo's face lit up like the fake little Christmas tree twinkling in his room.   He ran off, tripped and fell down the stairs.   Calling up that he was all right he kept running.

Trowa looked up from his book and nodded to Relena.

"Duo wasn't needed, was he?"

"No, how could you tell?"

Trowa nodded towards Heero sneaking out of the closet with a sheet over his head.   As he tip-toed by Trowa stuck his foot out and tripped him

Heero got up before he was even done falling.   He ran, sheet and all, into a nearby bathroom.

A woman screamed 'perverted ghost' as Heero ran out and back into the linen closet.   A second later he came walking out minus the sheet.

He acknowledged Trowa and Relena as he walked by.

"Heero," Trowa muttered from his book.   Relena was busy trying not to laugh to great him properly.   Heero continued to walk to his room.

"His idea." Trowa stated.

"All his, why did you trip him?"

"The book said to."

Reading the cover she looked at him questioningly. "' Most Popular Circus Tricks'  What are you in, the clown section."

"It's just a cover.   The book is called, 'Anger Management When Dealing With A Trickster, And How to Fight Back.'"

"That's quite a title."   She grabbed the book from his hand and started to read it out loud.

"*Step 3* Act like the trickster.'   You know something Trowa; I don't think Duo would have tripped Heero.   He would have been to busy laughing at him.   It wasn't very nice."   The effect of her scolding was ruined when she burst out laughing.

"I had to put up with Duo all afternoon because of Heero."   Trowa shrugged.

"Will you let me borrow that book sometime?"   He nodded his consent as he went back to reading.