"So now who is this Kari?" I asked. Duo had an uneasy air around him.
"She's..." I could feel him silently ask Quatre if he should go on. Quatre
nodded. "She's your daughter." He said.
"I have a daughter? How old am I?"
"19..." he said.
"What?! How did That happen?"
"I don't know! I don't just go around asking people these things!"
"I'm sorry.. Of course you wouldn't know. How, how old is she?" I asked
kind of hesitantly.
"Three."
"Is anybody there with her? Or would there be?"
"The father's there, he tends to be." He sounded kinda spiteful at that.
"I'm not, married to him or anything, am I?"
"No, but that's not saying he hasn't tried."
"Oh."
"We're here." They helped me out of the car and up the steps of what I
guessed was an apartment building.
"You better do the talking," said Quatre, "he might, hurt us or
something..."
"I don't know him at all anymore, Duo, you do it." I said defensively.
"Fine." He knocked on the door. It creaked open.
"Duo!" It was a very small girls voice. Duo bent over a picked the girl up.
"Hey, I brought you a present." he turned so she could see me.
"Momma!" she giggled happily as he handed the toddler to me. I held the
little girl as she hugged me, and gave a "Well, what do I do now?" look to
no one in particular. Another figure appeared at the door.
"Red! Your back!" It was a man. I made a questioning look, was this him?
"That's him." Duo said, reading my mind.
"Oh."
"Huh?" The man was getting rather confused.
"She hit her head and she doesn't remember you man, now, you gonna let us
in or what?" He stood aside and we walked in.
"You don't remember me?" he asked.
"Um... no." I replied, playing with my toddler. She was pretty cute, not
visually, I mean, maybe she was but she had a cute personality. I felt his
jaw drop.
"But- you remember her!" he said, meaning Kari.
"Not really, no."
"But, you're playing with her like you know who she is!"
"Uh huh. cute isn't she?"
"yeah but-"
"But what?"
"Hmm... Well, I suppose you'll wanna go find our room."
"OUR room? I don't recall you telling me anything about THAT Duo."
"Damnit Your here." The man seemed totally put out by Duo's presence.
"Yes, I am, and I didn't tell her that, cuz it ain't true. I know, I ruin
everything..."
"Yes, you do." he said frowning. I felt Duo smile rather happily.
"Excuse me for intruding, but I'm gonna go, nice meeting you Mr... What's
your name?" Quatre intervened quietly.
"Zach."
"Whatever, see ya Q-man." said Duo. "Ya know, you can leave whenever you
want Zach, I'm sure K-chan won't mind, and Red doesn't even remember you
so..."
"I take it you two don't get along very well... see ya Quatre!" I added.
"I think you've got something there Red." Zach replied with a 'well duh'
atitude.
"I believe she does." said Duo. The door bell rang. I answered it, still
holding Kari.
"Yes?" I could make out a figure that was shorter than me, with an emotion
of covet and desire in her heart.
"AHH!" screamed Duo sarcastically. "Don't let it in!"
"Why not?" I asked.
"Don't listen to him he's insane." said the person at the door. "Hello
Red."
"Uh... who are you?"
"Surely you remember me? I am Relena, I came to get that child you've got
there, I don't believe a blind girl such as yourself is fit to take care of
such a small child."
"You can't have'er Relena." Duo called from inside the room.
"I don't believe your in the position to say that Mr. Maxwell. Thank you,
I'll be taking that now." Relena reached for Kari
"You can't have her." I said. I was already very attached to the toddler,
and I wasn't about to let anybody take her away.
"I'm sorry but you are not fit to take care of her yourself."
"Who ever said she was gonna do that?" said Zach, hey, at least he's good
for something. Relena tried to pry Kari away. This woman was crazy, and an
idiot. I simply turned, and shut the door in her face.
"Has she done that before?" I asked.
"Yup. She want's that kid so she can pretend she's Heero's so he'll flip."
"Me no like mean lady." Said Kari clinging to me.
"Hey Kari, it's getting late, why don't we go get you ready for bed?" asked
Duo. Giggling she said,
"Ya!" I put her down and let her run to Duo. She seemed to like him a lot.
I smiled and followed them straining yet again to make sure no walls
decided to run up and hit me. I could remember this place, I almost didn't
have to look where I was going. My heart remembered even if my head didn't.
I followed them into a happy feeling room that I presumed was Kari's.
"So, what PJ's do you wanna wear tonight?" "hmm..." she said rummaging through a drawer. "Tee hee, I wanna wear sailor moon!" I laughed imagining sailor moon pajamas. "Okay then you put those on and I, will wait for you outside." "Kay." said the happy little girl. "Mommy, will you umbutton me?" she asked. "I'll try..." I found her shoulders, then the buttons, undoing one then finding the next. I pulled the dress off for her and she put on her sailor moon nightgown. "Kari, tell me, who do you like better, Duo or Zach?" "Duo!" she said as if the thought of Zach scared her. "Duo's much more nicer than Poop-Head." I laughed. "Who's nicer to me? Which one would take better care of us both?" "Um... Poopoo-Head is always buying you present's, but he makes you cry, I don't like it when he makes you cry." she said. "Duo calls you angel, and he's funny, but he makes you mad." "Why does he do that?" "You said it's cuz You wan' him so much but he's always just out of 'ur reach." "Really. Well, you go say goodnight, and he'll tuck you in." "Kay." she said cheering up again. I followed her out and back into the living room, the darker it got, the harder it was to see. It got darker and blurrier, until it hurt to keep my eyes open. My head started to ring, I rubbed it and relaxed, and the pain got worse, I tensed up, and the pain got worse. It grew until I wanted to scream just to hear something besides the painful ringing in my head. I fell to my knees and tried everything I could to make it stop. Then the nightmares started. I saw Zach hit me, I saw him yelling at Kari. I saw him make me bleed. I was crying, I was crying those tears of complete helplessness and pain that few people ever experience. was this what Kari meant by making me cry? I saw explosions and destruction, I saw Hilde kissing Duo, and saw him enjoying every second. I saw Heero and Relena, Relena had Kari, she was cradling her like she was her own child, and Heero with his arms around Relena as if congratulating her. I saw Trowa leave me half dead in the dark, and I saw Wufei with a hungry look in his eyes staring at me, battered and bruised on a hard cold floor. I saw Quatre holding Kari, standing in the middle of more explosions, I saw them get hit... "NO!!!" I finally screamed. "make it stop, please! make it, make it go away!" I said sobbing. I felt soft hands, and strong arms hold me, protect me. Heero, Quatre, and Duo held me. Their hearts reached out, each saying: turn to me, I can make it all go away. "Just make it go away... please..." I saw Relena walk in the door of an apartment, my apartment, with nothing good to do. "Shhh... It's alright, it'll all go away..." said Quatre soothingly. "He's right, It'll all leave, you need some sleep, here, let's go." He helped me up and Heero carried me to my bedroom. "Even if the nightmares leave, they're still real, and they won't go away." I sobbed. "Then we'll have to make them, tell us what happened." "No, It, it won't do any good." "fine, we'll come check on you in the morning." "no, please, don't leave me here alone... I need you!" I said, my head aching. "I'll stay." said Heero. "If you don't want us to go then we won't," said Quatre. "what's wrong with mommy?" Kari worried. "She alright, come on, let's get you back to bed." said Quatre. "I'm not 'sposed to go with strangers." she said. "Come on Kari, I'll take you." said Duo. "I wanna know what's wrong with Mommy first." He girl glared. "She passed out." said Heero slightly surprised. "Mommy?" asked Kari. No answer. "Mommy?" she asked louder. "Is she breathing?" asked Duo. "Yes, but it's uneven..." He didn't sound happy to hear this. Duo held a frightened Kari, looking rather frightened himself.
"Why wasn't she brought sooner?" asked the doctor "she was fine, then she just, broke down." Quatre explained. "Will somebody please shut that kid up!?" asked the doctor annoyed. Duo glared as he held a sobbing, frightened Kari. He held her closer, trying to comfort the toddler. The doctor went back to me. I was going to have to go through surgery. My head had been hit much, much harder than we thought. I was scared, I was surrounded by lethal objects that I couldn't see, I was going to be operated on, and the nightmares still hadn't gone away. How could they when the people that cause them are standing right outside? I heard a comforting voice say, "It'll all be ok, just relax angel, it'll all go away, promise." "I hope so Duo... "
"she's alright now, the pressure in her skull's gone down, and her headaches should go away soon." said the doctor, still annoyed with the small child asleep on Quatre's lap, Duo was finally free to stand up and stretch. "How's her sight?" asked Heero. "She's legally blind. There's nothing we can do, those glasses are only straining her yes, throw them away." he said uncaringly as he pulled off his rubber gloves. "Hn." said Heero glaring at the doctor. "Can we go see her yet?" asked Duo oblivious to the previous conversation. "Fine, whatever." They walked into the brightly lit room where I was lying, afraid that moving would set off more spasms and headaches. "How're you feeling?" asked Quatre. "Like someone put a block of cement on my head and decided to leave it there." he laughed softly. "Mommy...!" said an unhappy and almost sobbing Kari. "Hey Kari, what're you doing still up?" I didn't want to sound like I was in pain, she was already so sad... "I don't like it here mommy... The strangers keep asking me thin's that I don' wanna answer, I wanna go home." "so do I baby, so do I..." It just felt so normal talking to her like that, she was my daughter, I remembered that now. I remembered playing with her, and tucking her in to bed at night. I wanted to see her face, to see her smile at me and laugh. I wanted to see her so much... "Kari, come here, we need to talk a little." Duo told her. I felt them leave the room. "what is it Duo?" she asked. "We need to talk about your mommy." he said 'mommy' very hesitantly. He didn't like to think about how that had happened, he wanted to forget it ever happened. "What's wrong with her Duo? She looks at me like she can't tell whether I'm ther or somewhere else." "K-chan, she can't tell whether your there. She can't see Kari, she can't see anything. That's why we're gonna have to help her. make sure she doesn't mistake one thing for another." "Hm." she said meaning yes. "Duo," she asked. "yes?" "tonight, before all this happened, mommy asked me who would take better care of us, you or Zach, and I told her that Zach is always buying her presents, but he makes her cry, and I told her that you call her angel, and you're nice and funny, but you make her mad. She said you make her mad because you're always just out of her reach, what does she mean?" "She means that, that I love Hilde, and that means she can't have me. It was like that before she lost her sight, I don't know if she even cares anymore." "But now /you/ do, and you can't have her because of Hilde." it was Quatre. "Well, know this, you aren't only competing against Zach." "What do you mean?" asked Duo suspiciously. "I mean, that Heero wants her too. You probably don't know this, but not a single emotion gets by her. She can sense your jealousy because you want Kari to be your daughter, not his, and she can tell you want her. Those are her nightmares, you and Hilde, Heero Relena and Kari, and Zach beating her. The nightmares don't go away because they're real." Duo picked up Kari. "Then I'll have to change what's real and what's not."
"You're sure you're alright?" asked Heero. "I'm fine, believe me." I answered. I wonder what Duo and Quatre were talking about... "How long do I have to stay here?" "As long as you want to." "Then let's GO." "Fine then." Heero picked me up and placed me on a wheelchair. He pushed it out the door and stopped to tell Quatre and Duo that we were going, Kari hoped on my lap and hugged me, very glad to be going home. "I wonder why they think I need a wheelchair." "I'd'no, but they are lotsa fun!" said Kari giggling, such an optimist, I know she's unhappy, but she's so good at trying to be happy instead. And she's so smart! "Angel, I'm gonna go home, make Heero stay with you if you don't want to be alone, I'll see you tomorrow." "Alright, goodbye Duo." "Buhbye!" said Kari. After a kinda long drive we reached my apartment. I successfully got out of the car myself, but Heero had to help Kari out, she was too little to get out herself. She was a little hesitant, but Heero got her to come out, and carried her to the stairs. "You gonna try to go up yourself?" "Uh huh." "alright, I'll walk behind you incase you fall." "Thanks." I lifted my foot and found the stair, then I put my other foot on the second step, and slowly but surely I made my way up the staircase. we reached the top and Heero taught me to feel each doorway I passed and remember how many there are until my door. We walked in, Zach was waiting. Heero took Kari to her room and put her in bed. I stood at the doorway. Zach wasn't happy, at all. "Remember, you belong to me." he said. "I don't belong to anyone." "You're mine, you better remember that." "I don't belong to anyone, and I never will." "You bitch, you are MY girl and you sure as hell better remember that." he said, slapping me across the face. "I am me, you can't have me and neither can anyone else. There's a difference between belonging to and loving some one. I don't qualify for either, and as far as I know I never have and never will love you." He hit me, I mean he really hit me. Heero walked in to see me standing with a bloody cheek. Zach's ring had made a nice cut. Heero walked up to Zach, calmly, and punched him. He dragged him out the door and locked it, then he went to the bathroom, and came back with some antiseptic and a cotton rolled thingy. He cleaned off the cut, which had stopped bleeding, and brought me to my bedroom. He found me an overlarge tee-shirt and handed it to me, then he walked out of the room to let me change. He came back in when I was done, and put my old clothes in the hamper. He walked me to Kari's room. "She said she wanted you to tuck her in." he said. he felt kind of, sad was the best word. I went into Kari's room, and Heero stayed at the doorway. "Mommy, I love you." "I love you too baby, now try and get some sleep. "Alright." "Good girl." I kissed her forehead. I walked back out to Heero, and I cried. It was all so happy, and sad, and scary, and wonderful. He was slightly surprised at my tears, and he didn't know how to deal with them. Then he remembered Duo, and how he used to hold me when I cried, even if I didn't. He attempted to hold me like he did. A hole formed in the stone covering his heart. He held me, and let me cry. He looked up, he wouldn't let anyone make me sad like this anymore. When I was done, he carried me to my room. he laid me down on my own bed and pulled the covers up to my chin. I was sleeping like a log within minutes. He bent over my sleeping form hesitantly, closed his eyes and kissed me goodnight. He walked out of the room, unaware that small eyes were watching, and small hands wouldn't let anybody but people who were kind to them touch her mommy again. The race was on, Heero, and Duo tied for first, and Zach running far behind, if anyone else wanted to join, they better do it now. Tired eyes closed, and Kari went back to bed.
"Quatre?" "Yeah Duo?" "This sucks." "what does?" "Think." "oh. I seem to remember someone having quite the time at Hilde's last night though." "I know! That makes it all the worse, I can't figure out whether to let Heero have red and just stay with Hilde, or get rid of Hilde and fight for red." "Quite the predicament." "Stop it." "Stop what?" "Nevermind." Duo walked out of the room and decided to go check on Heero and me. He arrived at my apartment to see Zach sitting on the front step shivering. At the sight of Duo, he got up in rage and tried to punch him. Duo dodged it and quickly ran inside, leaning against the door. "Hn?" Heero looked up to see Duo standing at the door, looking at it sideways. "Yeah... I wouldn't open that if I were you." "Whatever." "Wha? Did- did you just say, a whole WORD?" "Yes. Now what do you want?" "Uh.. Just visiting and all, where is she?" "Still sleeping." "And Kari?" "Coloring in her room." "ALONE?" "Yes..." Duo ran to her room to see a most wondrous picture on the wall. "Ugh... I shoulda warned you." // "What the- DUO!" "I didn't do it!" "then explain the new wallpaper." "Heh... likes to color on the walls does she?" "Uh huh, now, fix it." "Yes ma'am."// The memory of Duo's beginning stages of babysitting were still fresh. "Oh man, It's a good thing she can't see this..." "Yeah..." "Well, we better clean it off..." "Uh huh."
A/N: I'm boooorrrreeeddd.. I need to start just going to sleep.
"So, what PJ's do you wanna wear tonight?" "hmm..." she said rummaging through a drawer. "Tee hee, I wanna wear sailor moon!" I laughed imagining sailor moon pajamas. "Okay then you put those on and I, will wait for you outside." "Kay." said the happy little girl. "Mommy, will you umbutton me?" she asked. "I'll try..." I found her shoulders, then the buttons, undoing one then finding the next. I pulled the dress off for her and she put on her sailor moon nightgown. "Kari, tell me, who do you like better, Duo or Zach?" "Duo!" she said as if the thought of Zach scared her. "Duo's much more nicer than Poop-Head." I laughed. "Who's nicer to me? Which one would take better care of us both?" "Um... Poopoo-Head is always buying you present's, but he makes you cry, I don't like it when he makes you cry." she said. "Duo calls you angel, and he's funny, but he makes you mad." "Why does he do that?" "You said it's cuz You wan' him so much but he's always just out of 'ur reach." "Really. Well, you go say goodnight, and he'll tuck you in." "Kay." she said cheering up again. I followed her out and back into the living room, the darker it got, the harder it was to see. It got darker and blurrier, until it hurt to keep my eyes open. My head started to ring, I rubbed it and relaxed, and the pain got worse, I tensed up, and the pain got worse. It grew until I wanted to scream just to hear something besides the painful ringing in my head. I fell to my knees and tried everything I could to make it stop. Then the nightmares started. I saw Zach hit me, I saw him yelling at Kari. I saw him make me bleed. I was crying, I was crying those tears of complete helplessness and pain that few people ever experience. was this what Kari meant by making me cry? I saw explosions and destruction, I saw Hilde kissing Duo, and saw him enjoying every second. I saw Heero and Relena, Relena had Kari, she was cradling her like she was her own child, and Heero with his arms around Relena as if congratulating her. I saw Trowa leave me half dead in the dark, and I saw Wufei with a hungry look in his eyes staring at me, battered and bruised on a hard cold floor. I saw Quatre holding Kari, standing in the middle of more explosions, I saw them get hit... "NO!!!" I finally screamed. "make it stop, please! make it, make it go away!" I said sobbing. I felt soft hands, and strong arms hold me, protect me. Heero, Quatre, and Duo held me. Their hearts reached out, each saying: turn to me, I can make it all go away. "Just make it go away... please..." I saw Relena walk in the door of an apartment, my apartment, with nothing good to do. "Shhh... It's alright, it'll all go away..." said Quatre soothingly. "He's right, It'll all leave, you need some sleep, here, let's go." He helped me up and Heero carried me to my bedroom. "Even if the nightmares leave, they're still real, and they won't go away." I sobbed. "Then we'll have to make them, tell us what happened." "No, It, it won't do any good." "fine, we'll come check on you in the morning." "no, please, don't leave me here alone... I need you!" I said, my head aching. "I'll stay." said Heero. "If you don't want us to go then we won't," said Quatre. "what's wrong with mommy?" Kari worried. "She alright, come on, let's get you back to bed." said Quatre. "I'm not 'sposed to go with strangers." she said. "Come on Kari, I'll take you." said Duo. "I wanna know what's wrong with Mommy first." He girl glared. "She passed out." said Heero slightly surprised. "Mommy?" asked Kari. No answer. "Mommy?" she asked louder. "Is she breathing?" asked Duo. "Yes, but it's uneven..." He didn't sound happy to hear this. Duo held a frightened Kari, looking rather frightened himself.
"Why wasn't she brought sooner?" asked the doctor "she was fine, then she just, broke down." Quatre explained. "Will somebody please shut that kid up!?" asked the doctor annoyed. Duo glared as he held a sobbing, frightened Kari. He held her closer, trying to comfort the toddler. The doctor went back to me. I was going to have to go through surgery. My head had been hit much, much harder than we thought. I was scared, I was surrounded by lethal objects that I couldn't see, I was going to be operated on, and the nightmares still hadn't gone away. How could they when the people that cause them are standing right outside? I heard a comforting voice say, "It'll all be ok, just relax angel, it'll all go away, promise." "I hope so Duo... "
"she's alright now, the pressure in her skull's gone down, and her headaches should go away soon." said the doctor, still annoyed with the small child asleep on Quatre's lap, Duo was finally free to stand up and stretch. "How's her sight?" asked Heero. "She's legally blind. There's nothing we can do, those glasses are only straining her yes, throw them away." he said uncaringly as he pulled off his rubber gloves. "Hn." said Heero glaring at the doctor. "Can we go see her yet?" asked Duo oblivious to the previous conversation. "Fine, whatever." They walked into the brightly lit room where I was lying, afraid that moving would set off more spasms and headaches. "How're you feeling?" asked Quatre. "Like someone put a block of cement on my head and decided to leave it there." he laughed softly. "Mommy...!" said an unhappy and almost sobbing Kari. "Hey Kari, what're you doing still up?" I didn't want to sound like I was in pain, she was already so sad... "I don't like it here mommy... The strangers keep asking me thin's that I don' wanna answer, I wanna go home." "so do I baby, so do I..." It just felt so normal talking to her like that, she was my daughter, I remembered that now. I remembered playing with her, and tucking her in to bed at night. I wanted to see her face, to see her smile at me and laugh. I wanted to see her so much... "Kari, come here, we need to talk a little." Duo told her. I felt them leave the room. "what is it Duo?" she asked. "We need to talk about your mommy." he said 'mommy' very hesitantly. He didn't like to think about how that had happened, he wanted to forget it ever happened. "What's wrong with her Duo? She looks at me like she can't tell whether I'm ther or somewhere else." "K-chan, she can't tell whether your there. She can't see Kari, she can't see anything. That's why we're gonna have to help her. make sure she doesn't mistake one thing for another." "Hm." she said meaning yes. "Duo," she asked. "yes?" "tonight, before all this happened, mommy asked me who would take better care of us, you or Zach, and I told her that Zach is always buying her presents, but he makes her cry, and I told her that you call her angel, and you're nice and funny, but you make her mad. She said you make her mad because you're always just out of her reach, what does she mean?" "She means that, that I love Hilde, and that means she can't have me. It was like that before she lost her sight, I don't know if she even cares anymore." "But now /you/ do, and you can't have her because of Hilde." it was Quatre. "Well, know this, you aren't only competing against Zach." "What do you mean?" asked Duo suspiciously. "I mean, that Heero wants her too. You probably don't know this, but not a single emotion gets by her. She can sense your jealousy because you want Kari to be your daughter, not his, and she can tell you want her. Those are her nightmares, you and Hilde, Heero Relena and Kari, and Zach beating her. The nightmares don't go away because they're real." Duo picked up Kari. "Then I'll have to change what's real and what's not."
"You're sure you're alright?" asked Heero. "I'm fine, believe me." I answered. I wonder what Duo and Quatre were talking about... "How long do I have to stay here?" "As long as you want to." "Then let's GO." "Fine then." Heero picked me up and placed me on a wheelchair. He pushed it out the door and stopped to tell Quatre and Duo that we were going, Kari hoped on my lap and hugged me, very glad to be going home. "I wonder why they think I need a wheelchair." "I'd'no, but they are lotsa fun!" said Kari giggling, such an optimist, I know she's unhappy, but she's so good at trying to be happy instead. And she's so smart! "Angel, I'm gonna go home, make Heero stay with you if you don't want to be alone, I'll see you tomorrow." "Alright, goodbye Duo." "Buhbye!" said Kari. After a kinda long drive we reached my apartment. I successfully got out of the car myself, but Heero had to help Kari out, she was too little to get out herself. She was a little hesitant, but Heero got her to come out, and carried her to the stairs. "You gonna try to go up yourself?" "Uh huh." "alright, I'll walk behind you incase you fall." "Thanks." I lifted my foot and found the stair, then I put my other foot on the second step, and slowly but surely I made my way up the staircase. we reached the top and Heero taught me to feel each doorway I passed and remember how many there are until my door. We walked in, Zach was waiting. Heero took Kari to her room and put her in bed. I stood at the doorway. Zach wasn't happy, at all. "Remember, you belong to me." he said. "I don't belong to anyone." "You're mine, you better remember that." "I don't belong to anyone, and I never will." "You bitch, you are MY girl and you sure as hell better remember that." he said, slapping me across the face. "I am me, you can't have me and neither can anyone else. There's a difference between belonging to and loving some one. I don't qualify for either, and as far as I know I never have and never will love you." He hit me, I mean he really hit me. Heero walked in to see me standing with a bloody cheek. Zach's ring had made a nice cut. Heero walked up to Zach, calmly, and punched him. He dragged him out the door and locked it, then he went to the bathroom, and came back with some antiseptic and a cotton rolled thingy. He cleaned off the cut, which had stopped bleeding, and brought me to my bedroom. He found me an overlarge tee-shirt and handed it to me, then he walked out of the room to let me change. He came back in when I was done, and put my old clothes in the hamper. He walked me to Kari's room. "She said she wanted you to tuck her in." he said. he felt kind of, sad was the best word. I went into Kari's room, and Heero stayed at the doorway. "Mommy, I love you." "I love you too baby, now try and get some sleep. "Alright." "Good girl." I kissed her forehead. I walked back out to Heero, and I cried. It was all so happy, and sad, and scary, and wonderful. He was slightly surprised at my tears, and he didn't know how to deal with them. Then he remembered Duo, and how he used to hold me when I cried, even if I didn't. He attempted to hold me like he did. A hole formed in the stone covering his heart. He held me, and let me cry. He looked up, he wouldn't let anyone make me sad like this anymore. When I was done, he carried me to my room. he laid me down on my own bed and pulled the covers up to my chin. I was sleeping like a log within minutes. He bent over my sleeping form hesitantly, closed his eyes and kissed me goodnight. He walked out of the room, unaware that small eyes were watching, and small hands wouldn't let anybody but people who were kind to them touch her mommy again. The race was on, Heero, and Duo tied for first, and Zach running far behind, if anyone else wanted to join, they better do it now. Tired eyes closed, and Kari went back to bed.
"Quatre?" "Yeah Duo?" "This sucks." "what does?" "Think." "oh. I seem to remember someone having quite the time at Hilde's last night though." "I know! That makes it all the worse, I can't figure out whether to let Heero have red and just stay with Hilde, or get rid of Hilde and fight for red." "Quite the predicament." "Stop it." "Stop what?" "Nevermind." Duo walked out of the room and decided to go check on Heero and me. He arrived at my apartment to see Zach sitting on the front step shivering. At the sight of Duo, he got up in rage and tried to punch him. Duo dodged it and quickly ran inside, leaning against the door. "Hn?" Heero looked up to see Duo standing at the door, looking at it sideways. "Yeah... I wouldn't open that if I were you." "Whatever." "Wha? Did- did you just say, a whole WORD?" "Yes. Now what do you want?" "Uh.. Just visiting and all, where is she?" "Still sleeping." "And Kari?" "Coloring in her room." "ALONE?" "Yes..." Duo ran to her room to see a most wondrous picture on the wall. "Ugh... I shoulda warned you." // "What the- DUO!" "I didn't do it!" "then explain the new wallpaper." "Heh... likes to color on the walls does she?" "Uh huh, now, fix it." "Yes ma'am."// The memory of Duo's beginning stages of babysitting were still fresh. "Oh man, It's a good thing she can't see this..." "Yeah..." "Well, we better clean it off..." "Uh huh."
A/N: I'm boooorrrreeeddd.. I need to start just going to sleep.
