Duo's Christmas Vacation Challenge
~ Quatre's Deserts Way ~
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A week... we've got a week to do this. Why'd I agree to this again? Can I even do this? Duo finished his in a day. Can't be that hard, right? But he had a lot of lyrics doodled down... enough to have another 'song' if he wanted... I sigh. All I have to do is write about something I like... something I love and know... shouldn't be that hard.
Smiling giving a nod I pick up my pen with determination.
Then frown. But what to write about!? Peace? The desert? Music? T-Trowa... I feel my face heat up at the last thought, shaking my head quickly to clear it. No, no! That would be embarrassing for both of us... oh Allah... what have I gotten myself into?
"Yo Q-man!" banging on the door accompanied the happy shouting.
Visitors? Thought he said we couldn't have any visitors? Ugh! I haven't even gotten past three lines yet! Quickly shuffling the paper under others I hurry to the door, checking my shirt and vest making sure I didn't appear rushed for something. I breathe in opening the door, "Hello Duo." Moving to the side to let him in, "What are you doing here?"
"Just came for a visit!!" His has his mile wide grin on... I'm not so sure about that... he usually smiles like that before unknown events happen... I smile. Which usually get pointed right back to him anyways.
"But didn't you say we couldn't have visitors?" I asked cocking my head to the side. He laughed smiling wider.
"Nope! I said ya couldn't see any of the other while writin' on the songs! No one ever said finished people couldn't snoop around the others." Duo explained winking.
"Uh-huh."
"So whatcha doin'?! Written anything yet!" he started bouncing around the room searching.
"Duo no!" scrambling over to the desk I grab a pen and blank of paper, "You can't see it! How can I possibly work with you in here?"
The braided boy pouted, "Ouch Q-man... that hurt... if you didn't want me in here, all ya had to so was say so..." and started for the door dragging his feet.
"Wha... I... Duo!" running to him grabbing his arm, "I didn't mean you had to leave... it's nice you decided to visit me, but I just can't work on this if I'm talking to you..." I sigh, "Honestly, I don't know what I'm going to do on it. But I'm gonna try... I wanna try getting it does as soon as I can... but..."
He nodded, "But you need me not to be here right?" Slowly I nod, "It's ok Q-man. Trust me, I get it. heh, I'll talk to ya laters."
Watching him walk towards the door again I smile, "Alright Duo."
"Oh hey, Q-man?" He stopped with it open, "Ya know where the sugar is?"
I watched his smile widened, eyes started to shine with an inner mischievous light I was positive, not for the first time again, that he was born with, staring all the doctors in the eyes. They probably all took one look at the boy going something like, 'Poor woman... she'll have her hands full with this one...'
Giggling at the images that brought up I knew time was of the essence. I had to finish this 'song' and fast... Other wise... other wise he's going to find the sugar... the SUGAR! Allah help us all if he finds that... I'm not sure how well Trowa or Wufei can hold up to not telling him where it is...
Shaking my head I mentally kick myself. Of course they can hold off on telling him! It's the servants I'm worried about! His sweet and innocent looks, savvy attitude can win anyone over... even servants that know of his extreme hyper ness when he's digested sugar... of any volume.
I push him out of the room shaking my head, "Sorry Duo, I don't know where it would be. Kitchen I would think if its anywhere... ask one of the servants, they can help you." Smiling what I hope is innocent enough; I give him a final wave, "Have a song to work on! Talk to you later Duo!" with that I close the door leaning against it, slowly turning the lock.
"Allah... don't let him find the sugar... don't let him find the sugar..."
Quatre nodded; pushing off from the door heading back to the desk he had been working at earlier before the interruption had came. He picked up his pen, shuffled papers around 'til he found the one, which held three small verses. Nothing more then child's words; but it was something to work with.
Some time later a servant was sent to gather up his friends to meet in the common room. He had finished his 'song'. It was hard, difficult even for him. He had thought, like everyone else he was sure, that writing a song wouldn't be that hard. Boy was he wrong. And his didn't even rhyme much! Allah only knew how the real songwriters came up with this stuff! 'Probably sounds weird without the music at first... but then it all fits together...'
Smiling he nodded as the others came in. Yes, that was most likely the case. After all, he could write music. And music by itself was just a bunch of dots and lines on white paper, nothing more; nothing less. Until... until the dots and lines were read, being played, then, and only then, did it become more then just black blots. It became a song... one that could calm the soul, start a fire, and tell of pouring rains or the pains of the heart. Music truly was a wondrous thing.
"Winner, you summoned us?" Wufei's rich voice broke through his musical revive.
"Ah yes." He chuckled sheepishly.
One braided rabbit hopped over to him smiling wide, "You finished didn't you!? Didn't you!?"
"Baka! Let him speak."
Frowning Duo turned sticking his tongue out at the expilot of Wing Zero. "Quatre?" the tall silent one questioned sitting in a large plush navy chair.
Smiling as he turned Quatre nodded, "Yes, I finished my song... don't know how good it actually will be, but it sounds fine just reading it."
Propping himself on the arm of Duo's chair the Chinese boy smirked, "Do not belittle yourself Winner, we know it will be better then Maxwell's." Chuckles came from the other pair as Duo swatted at Wufei's leg with an indigent "HEY!"
Quickly shaking his head Quatre rattled his page getting their attention, "Would you like to hear it?" he asked trying to avoid the 'lovey-dovey spat' as Duo called them, he knew was going to come. Even if it as just a mask for showing affection, Duo tended to start them too often... they all knew Wufei loved the Braided Baka... no need to start a lover's quarrel over it. He chuckled.
"Read!" Duo started chanting, "READ!"
"Yes, please enlighten us to your song wisdom and tactic for shutting the Braided Baka up." Heero smirked making the others laugh and stare at him for his use of a complete sentence.
Giggling the Arabian cleared his throat and started to read...
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"Deserts Way"
By: Quatre R. Winner
Starlight,
Shines bright,
In the Desert air tonight,
Weathers cool,
The air blows cold,
As stars twinkle,
Both new and old,
Christmas' come,
The funs just begun,
As people gather to sit and chatter,
By the fires warm amber glow,
Cold winds blow,
To chill the bone,
While tea and coco,
Are passed along,
Christmas songs sung 'round the fire,
Kids and parents wait with desire,
As plump old men in red and black,
Crest the sand dunes heading back,
Night slowly fades,
As the sky turns a orange haze,
The nights cold melts to warming rays,
Daylights coming as people keep humming,
Christmas' here!
All the people cheer,
As Santa's in red and black,
Hurry back in their Mexican hats,
The Desert days,
With inferno rays,
Burn past the Christmas night,
People stand ready for flight,
The Santa's come on the run,
Sacks banging against their backs,
"Everything's here, Everything's packed!
Lets get inside before we fry!"
Christmas' come,
The days just begun,
As people run inside to hide,
From the mornings burning rays,
Freezing waits,
Scorching days,
And Giant Santa's...
Is the Desert Christmas way"
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Smiling softly Quatre finished his homemade song. He was wrong... it sounds good out loud too. Everyone was silent. He was starting to wonder if it was a good silence... or a bad silence... waiting was starting to get to him... all they did was stare, well Duo blinked a few times... That was it, he was going to ask them. "G-"
"Woow... Q-man that was GOOD!" came a drawled breath from the braided boy, "That was WAY better then MINE!" it had a whine to it that everyone in the room smiled at, knowing it was nothing but kidded praise.
"Winner that was an exceptional 'song'" Wufei started, "It was more like a poem."
He nodded, "Yes... when I was thinking of what to do it on, I drew up a blank. I wasn't sure what I should write it on." Pausing he sipped from his tea Trowa handed to him, "Then it sort of came to me that I should write about something I loved" smiling, "I thought up and discarded many things, but the Desert stuck with me, as it had my whole life. So I wrote about it."
"Is what is in the poem true?" the curious side of Heero that had been developing since the Eve Wars had ended, got the better of him on this one.
They blinked, not having expected that question at all, let alone coming from the person it did. "Erm..." Quatre blinked twice more and nodded smiling softly as the memory over took him. "Yes... yes it is Heero..." turning his aqua gaze from his tall love to the poker faced Japanese boy. "I remember when I was a small boy my whole family-"
Duo snorted interrupting him, "Yeah, all seventy-two of them!" He still didn't know how someone lived like that. So many people being around him. Quatre had himself, his two parents, twenty-nine sisters and the forty faithful manquics, that were constantly around him up until his thirteenth year. When the Wars started up.
Duo knew it must have been wonderful to have all those people around him, caring for him, loving him. He knew... because he never had that growing up. He had a few people - three actually - that loved and cared for him. But... like anyone else that seemed to get close to him, all those years ago, they died. He believed, started calling himself Shinigami then. When the last two - final straw holding his fate driven, terror torn life together - had perished; he became Shinigami. He learned to pilot and master Deathscythe, never getting close to anyone ever again.
But these four boys, now young war grown men, had something about them that drew him in. They neither pushed him away, nor really made him feel welcomed. They accepted him as he was, no questions asked, quietly. Quatre was about the only one that ever showed compassion and true friendship towards him outwardly. But the others, something he loved about them, showed it through the little things they did, little things that were said between them; heh even his and 'Fei's fights were a show of affection.
Fight for, and with, the one you love right? Smiling he leaned sideways, his right arm snaking around his Chinese partner's waist, hugging him while he listened to Quatre's tale. He felt a firm hand rest on his shoulder giving it a small squeeze, Wufei smiled
"When I was younger, just up until the Wars started, we lived in the Siberia deserts. When Christmas time rolled around we would all gather some things together and move to our special spot a few miles south. It was said that one of my great grandparents had perished at this spot years before I was born, one Christmas Eve."
"Wait!" Duo interrupted him again, "You mean you were born on Christmas Eve??" he really didn't think that's what Q-man meant, but it sounded that way, he didn't wanna interrupt his story, he just needed to know.
Quatre chuckled shaking his head, "Sorry, no Duo, I wasn't born on Christmas Eve... I simply meant that one of my great grandparents had died on Christmas Eve, some years before I was born."
"Ohhh... okay, see that's what I thought."
Smiling Quatre went on, "On this spot my great grandpa Alic, built a new house, one that could hold several families easily. Every Christmas that I can remember was spent waking up early four days before to travel down to this place. Several of my uncles and a few manquics would stay behind to make sure all the presents were accounted for, wrapped and placed in several packs ready to go. Then they would 'dress up' in what your American Santa would wear... but with one change... the hat."
He giggled, "Instead of the red felt Santa hat your Santa wears, ours wore a Mexican sombrero to help keep the sun off their faces. Anyway, to make a long memory short... They would trek from our home to this house in the south, on camels. Half way between the two, they would send the camels back home and come the rest of the way on foot. They would crest the northern sand dune running down it and could keep running until they reached the house and entered it. Every time, it amazed me at the timing.
"Every year it was the same. Just as the nights sky was fading out to the morning rays, they would be walking across the sand dunes top, looking like knights coming to our rescue." A giggle, "But they only carried our Christmas presents. We would follow them once they reached us straight into the house and out of the days raising heat. The desert can be unforgiving to those without wit enough to seek shade from it's inferno temperatures." He concluded his story.
Duo groaned burying his head deeper into Wufei's side, "Don't reminds us... I don't think we forgot the LAST time we were in the desert... Gods that was NOT cool!"
"Rather hot actually."
"Hn."
Quatre just shook his head at them all amused. A yawn brought his attention to the other couple. He watched as the young Chinese man gently swept his golden hand over the sleeping American's head, smoothing back his chocolate locks. "I think" standing, stretching arms above his head whispering so as not to awake the braided boy, "we should follow Duo's example and head to bed now. It's been a long day."
"Hn" nodding to each, Heero left for his room.
Smiling Trowa lead a sleepy Quatre to their room, leaving Wufei sitting on the arm of the couch, watching his sleeping lover. Pushing the other young man back in the chair he stood with a stretch, watching the sleeping form sigh, frowning at the loss of body heat on the cool night. Letting a rare smile curve his lips the golden skinned boy slowly shook his head, "Baka..." before leaning down, gathering the other in his arms; one under the legs, the other behind his back. The slightly taller teen immediately tried to snuggle deeper into his hold, "mmph... 'Fei..." Shaking his head once more, almond eyes shinning with love and amusement, Wufei left the room climbing the stairs to their own bedroom.
He carefully but quickly made short work of disrobing Duo of his shirt, shoes and pants, sliding on a loose white shirt and his sweats, then, every so preciously, he let down Duo's hair running quick fingers through it before binding it loosely at the nap of his neck. Slowly he laid him back on the bed covering the fey lad up before changing for bed himself, pulling the sheets to his chest and falling asleep with the last, warm feeling, of Duo snuggling up to him like he was a large teddy bear, his chest the pillow for the silky head. Sleep's waiting arms claimed a smiling Chinese that night.
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Wow... that was a bit long wasn't it? ::chuckles smirking happily:: I honestly didn't think it'd be that long. I was expecting it to be a bit shorter, 'cause at the beginning I was low on what to put in it... but then the song started coming together for me. Oh yeah, what'd ya think of his song? Cute, ne? And most of it actually rhymed! Wow, and unlike Duo's, it managed to deal with Christmas! And had a background to it... Neat... ::laughs::
Some might wonder what christmas song it was actually done to... and I'm tempted to say a mix of songs... just for the fact I was listening to 'Flize Navidad' the whole time I was writing it, but the song that gave me the idea was 'Silver Bells'... hehe So I guess take your pick... but the beginning does go with 'Silver Bells' a bit. heh ^_^;
Okies, I'm gonna put this here so I can cut it out of future chapters. ::nods:: Yes, in the chapters there might be a spot or two tha does switch between, say, Duo's POV and 3rd person POV... without warning! So be a good reader and remember that. ::chuckles trying to look innocent:: Naw, seriously though, they will switch between that, but not often enough, so no worries... heh
Erm.. umm... Review. Yes, please defintintly REVIEW! ^__^ Love those. I think the next one that'll be out is umm.. ::goes and consults with the guys and comes back smilin':: And the virduct is... HEERO'S! heh Duo seemed overly happy that Heero's going next... Wonder why? Oh well, we'll find out soon! Kami knows I don't know why either. ::laughs bowing:: Arigatou for reading this! Please stick with me for the othe chapters and please remember to Review! Arigatou!
Ja ne!
Anime Redneck
12-13-02
4:45am
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~ Quatre's Deserts Way ~
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A week... we've got a week to do this. Why'd I agree to this again? Can I even do this? Duo finished his in a day. Can't be that hard, right? But he had a lot of lyrics doodled down... enough to have another 'song' if he wanted... I sigh. All I have to do is write about something I like... something I love and know... shouldn't be that hard.
Smiling giving a nod I pick up my pen with determination.
Then frown. But what to write about!? Peace? The desert? Music? T-Trowa... I feel my face heat up at the last thought, shaking my head quickly to clear it. No, no! That would be embarrassing for both of us... oh Allah... what have I gotten myself into?
"Yo Q-man!" banging on the door accompanied the happy shouting.
Visitors? Thought he said we couldn't have any visitors? Ugh! I haven't even gotten past three lines yet! Quickly shuffling the paper under others I hurry to the door, checking my shirt and vest making sure I didn't appear rushed for something. I breathe in opening the door, "Hello Duo." Moving to the side to let him in, "What are you doing here?"
"Just came for a visit!!" His has his mile wide grin on... I'm not so sure about that... he usually smiles like that before unknown events happen... I smile. Which usually get pointed right back to him anyways.
"But didn't you say we couldn't have visitors?" I asked cocking my head to the side. He laughed smiling wider.
"Nope! I said ya couldn't see any of the other while writin' on the songs! No one ever said finished people couldn't snoop around the others." Duo explained winking.
"Uh-huh."
"So whatcha doin'?! Written anything yet!" he started bouncing around the room searching.
"Duo no!" scrambling over to the desk I grab a pen and blank of paper, "You can't see it! How can I possibly work with you in here?"
The braided boy pouted, "Ouch Q-man... that hurt... if you didn't want me in here, all ya had to so was say so..." and started for the door dragging his feet.
"Wha... I... Duo!" running to him grabbing his arm, "I didn't mean you had to leave... it's nice you decided to visit me, but I just can't work on this if I'm talking to you..." I sigh, "Honestly, I don't know what I'm going to do on it. But I'm gonna try... I wanna try getting it does as soon as I can... but..."
He nodded, "But you need me not to be here right?" Slowly I nod, "It's ok Q-man. Trust me, I get it. heh, I'll talk to ya laters."
Watching him walk towards the door again I smile, "Alright Duo."
"Oh hey, Q-man?" He stopped with it open, "Ya know where the sugar is?"
I watched his smile widened, eyes started to shine with an inner mischievous light I was positive, not for the first time again, that he was born with, staring all the doctors in the eyes. They probably all took one look at the boy going something like, 'Poor woman... she'll have her hands full with this one...'
Giggling at the images that brought up I knew time was of the essence. I had to finish this 'song' and fast... Other wise... other wise he's going to find the sugar... the SUGAR! Allah help us all if he finds that... I'm not sure how well Trowa or Wufei can hold up to not telling him where it is...
Shaking my head I mentally kick myself. Of course they can hold off on telling him! It's the servants I'm worried about! His sweet and innocent looks, savvy attitude can win anyone over... even servants that know of his extreme hyper ness when he's digested sugar... of any volume.
I push him out of the room shaking my head, "Sorry Duo, I don't know where it would be. Kitchen I would think if its anywhere... ask one of the servants, they can help you." Smiling what I hope is innocent enough; I give him a final wave, "Have a song to work on! Talk to you later Duo!" with that I close the door leaning against it, slowly turning the lock.
"Allah... don't let him find the sugar... don't let him find the sugar..."
Quatre nodded; pushing off from the door heading back to the desk he had been working at earlier before the interruption had came. He picked up his pen, shuffled papers around 'til he found the one, which held three small verses. Nothing more then child's words; but it was something to work with.
Some time later a servant was sent to gather up his friends to meet in the common room. He had finished his 'song'. It was hard, difficult even for him. He had thought, like everyone else he was sure, that writing a song wouldn't be that hard. Boy was he wrong. And his didn't even rhyme much! Allah only knew how the real songwriters came up with this stuff! 'Probably sounds weird without the music at first... but then it all fits together...'
Smiling he nodded as the others came in. Yes, that was most likely the case. After all, he could write music. And music by itself was just a bunch of dots and lines on white paper, nothing more; nothing less. Until... until the dots and lines were read, being played, then, and only then, did it become more then just black blots. It became a song... one that could calm the soul, start a fire, and tell of pouring rains or the pains of the heart. Music truly was a wondrous thing.
"Winner, you summoned us?" Wufei's rich voice broke through his musical revive.
"Ah yes." He chuckled sheepishly.
One braided rabbit hopped over to him smiling wide, "You finished didn't you!? Didn't you!?"
"Baka! Let him speak."
Frowning Duo turned sticking his tongue out at the expilot of Wing Zero. "Quatre?" the tall silent one questioned sitting in a large plush navy chair.
Smiling as he turned Quatre nodded, "Yes, I finished my song... don't know how good it actually will be, but it sounds fine just reading it."
Propping himself on the arm of Duo's chair the Chinese boy smirked, "Do not belittle yourself Winner, we know it will be better then Maxwell's." Chuckles came from the other pair as Duo swatted at Wufei's leg with an indigent "HEY!"
Quickly shaking his head Quatre rattled his page getting their attention, "Would you like to hear it?" he asked trying to avoid the 'lovey-dovey spat' as Duo called them, he knew was going to come. Even if it as just a mask for showing affection, Duo tended to start them too often... they all knew Wufei loved the Braided Baka... no need to start a lover's quarrel over it. He chuckled.
"Read!" Duo started chanting, "READ!"
"Yes, please enlighten us to your song wisdom and tactic for shutting the Braided Baka up." Heero smirked making the others laugh and stare at him for his use of a complete sentence.
Giggling the Arabian cleared his throat and started to read...
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"Deserts Way"
By: Quatre R. Winner
Starlight,
Shines bright,
In the Desert air tonight,
Weathers cool,
The air blows cold,
As stars twinkle,
Both new and old,
Christmas' come,
The funs just begun,
As people gather to sit and chatter,
By the fires warm amber glow,
Cold winds blow,
To chill the bone,
While tea and coco,
Are passed along,
Christmas songs sung 'round the fire,
Kids and parents wait with desire,
As plump old men in red and black,
Crest the sand dunes heading back,
Night slowly fades,
As the sky turns a orange haze,
The nights cold melts to warming rays,
Daylights coming as people keep humming,
Christmas' here!
All the people cheer,
As Santa's in red and black,
Hurry back in their Mexican hats,
The Desert days,
With inferno rays,
Burn past the Christmas night,
People stand ready for flight,
The Santa's come on the run,
Sacks banging against their backs,
"Everything's here, Everything's packed!
Lets get inside before we fry!"
Christmas' come,
The days just begun,
As people run inside to hide,
From the mornings burning rays,
Freezing waits,
Scorching days,
And Giant Santa's...
Is the Desert Christmas way"
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Smiling softly Quatre finished his homemade song. He was wrong... it sounds good out loud too. Everyone was silent. He was starting to wonder if it was a good silence... or a bad silence... waiting was starting to get to him... all they did was stare, well Duo blinked a few times... That was it, he was going to ask them. "G-"
"Woow... Q-man that was GOOD!" came a drawled breath from the braided boy, "That was WAY better then MINE!" it had a whine to it that everyone in the room smiled at, knowing it was nothing but kidded praise.
"Winner that was an exceptional 'song'" Wufei started, "It was more like a poem."
He nodded, "Yes... when I was thinking of what to do it on, I drew up a blank. I wasn't sure what I should write it on." Pausing he sipped from his tea Trowa handed to him, "Then it sort of came to me that I should write about something I loved" smiling, "I thought up and discarded many things, but the Desert stuck with me, as it had my whole life. So I wrote about it."
"Is what is in the poem true?" the curious side of Heero that had been developing since the Eve Wars had ended, got the better of him on this one.
They blinked, not having expected that question at all, let alone coming from the person it did. "Erm..." Quatre blinked twice more and nodded smiling softly as the memory over took him. "Yes... yes it is Heero..." turning his aqua gaze from his tall love to the poker faced Japanese boy. "I remember when I was a small boy my whole family-"
Duo snorted interrupting him, "Yeah, all seventy-two of them!" He still didn't know how someone lived like that. So many people being around him. Quatre had himself, his two parents, twenty-nine sisters and the forty faithful manquics, that were constantly around him up until his thirteenth year. When the Wars started up.
Duo knew it must have been wonderful to have all those people around him, caring for him, loving him. He knew... because he never had that growing up. He had a few people - three actually - that loved and cared for him. But... like anyone else that seemed to get close to him, all those years ago, they died. He believed, started calling himself Shinigami then. When the last two - final straw holding his fate driven, terror torn life together - had perished; he became Shinigami. He learned to pilot and master Deathscythe, never getting close to anyone ever again.
But these four boys, now young war grown men, had something about them that drew him in. They neither pushed him away, nor really made him feel welcomed. They accepted him as he was, no questions asked, quietly. Quatre was about the only one that ever showed compassion and true friendship towards him outwardly. But the others, something he loved about them, showed it through the little things they did, little things that were said between them; heh even his and 'Fei's fights were a show of affection.
Fight for, and with, the one you love right? Smiling he leaned sideways, his right arm snaking around his Chinese partner's waist, hugging him while he listened to Quatre's tale. He felt a firm hand rest on his shoulder giving it a small squeeze, Wufei smiled
"When I was younger, just up until the Wars started, we lived in the Siberia deserts. When Christmas time rolled around we would all gather some things together and move to our special spot a few miles south. It was said that one of my great grandparents had perished at this spot years before I was born, one Christmas Eve."
"Wait!" Duo interrupted him again, "You mean you were born on Christmas Eve??" he really didn't think that's what Q-man meant, but it sounded that way, he didn't wanna interrupt his story, he just needed to know.
Quatre chuckled shaking his head, "Sorry, no Duo, I wasn't born on Christmas Eve... I simply meant that one of my great grandparents had died on Christmas Eve, some years before I was born."
"Ohhh... okay, see that's what I thought."
Smiling Quatre went on, "On this spot my great grandpa Alic, built a new house, one that could hold several families easily. Every Christmas that I can remember was spent waking up early four days before to travel down to this place. Several of my uncles and a few manquics would stay behind to make sure all the presents were accounted for, wrapped and placed in several packs ready to go. Then they would 'dress up' in what your American Santa would wear... but with one change... the hat."
He giggled, "Instead of the red felt Santa hat your Santa wears, ours wore a Mexican sombrero to help keep the sun off their faces. Anyway, to make a long memory short... They would trek from our home to this house in the south, on camels. Half way between the two, they would send the camels back home and come the rest of the way on foot. They would crest the northern sand dune running down it and could keep running until they reached the house and entered it. Every time, it amazed me at the timing.
"Every year it was the same. Just as the nights sky was fading out to the morning rays, they would be walking across the sand dunes top, looking like knights coming to our rescue." A giggle, "But they only carried our Christmas presents. We would follow them once they reached us straight into the house and out of the days raising heat. The desert can be unforgiving to those without wit enough to seek shade from it's inferno temperatures." He concluded his story.
Duo groaned burying his head deeper into Wufei's side, "Don't reminds us... I don't think we forgot the LAST time we were in the desert... Gods that was NOT cool!"
"Rather hot actually."
"Hn."
Quatre just shook his head at them all amused. A yawn brought his attention to the other couple. He watched as the young Chinese man gently swept his golden hand over the sleeping American's head, smoothing back his chocolate locks. "I think" standing, stretching arms above his head whispering so as not to awake the braided boy, "we should follow Duo's example and head to bed now. It's been a long day."
"Hn" nodding to each, Heero left for his room.
Smiling Trowa lead a sleepy Quatre to their room, leaving Wufei sitting on the arm of the couch, watching his sleeping lover. Pushing the other young man back in the chair he stood with a stretch, watching the sleeping form sigh, frowning at the loss of body heat on the cool night. Letting a rare smile curve his lips the golden skinned boy slowly shook his head, "Baka..." before leaning down, gathering the other in his arms; one under the legs, the other behind his back. The slightly taller teen immediately tried to snuggle deeper into his hold, "mmph... 'Fei..." Shaking his head once more, almond eyes shinning with love and amusement, Wufei left the room climbing the stairs to their own bedroom.
He carefully but quickly made short work of disrobing Duo of his shirt, shoes and pants, sliding on a loose white shirt and his sweats, then, every so preciously, he let down Duo's hair running quick fingers through it before binding it loosely at the nap of his neck. Slowly he laid him back on the bed covering the fey lad up before changing for bed himself, pulling the sheets to his chest and falling asleep with the last, warm feeling, of Duo snuggling up to him like he was a large teddy bear, his chest the pillow for the silky head. Sleep's waiting arms claimed a smiling Chinese that night.
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Wow... that was a bit long wasn't it? ::chuckles smirking happily:: I honestly didn't think it'd be that long. I was expecting it to be a bit shorter, 'cause at the beginning I was low on what to put in it... but then the song started coming together for me. Oh yeah, what'd ya think of his song? Cute, ne? And most of it actually rhymed! Wow, and unlike Duo's, it managed to deal with Christmas! And had a background to it... Neat... ::laughs::
Some might wonder what christmas song it was actually done to... and I'm tempted to say a mix of songs... just for the fact I was listening to 'Flize Navidad' the whole time I was writing it, but the song that gave me the idea was 'Silver Bells'... hehe So I guess take your pick... but the beginning does go with 'Silver Bells' a bit. heh ^_^;
Okies, I'm gonna put this here so I can cut it out of future chapters. ::nods:: Yes, in the chapters there might be a spot or two tha does switch between, say, Duo's POV and 3rd person POV... without warning! So be a good reader and remember that. ::chuckles trying to look innocent:: Naw, seriously though, they will switch between that, but not often enough, so no worries... heh
Erm.. umm... Review. Yes, please defintintly REVIEW! ^__^ Love those. I think the next one that'll be out is umm.. ::goes and consults with the guys and comes back smilin':: And the virduct is... HEERO'S! heh Duo seemed overly happy that Heero's going next... Wonder why? Oh well, we'll find out soon! Kami knows I don't know why either. ::laughs bowing:: Arigatou for reading this! Please stick with me for the othe chapters and please remember to Review! Arigatou!
Ja ne!
Anime Redneck
12-13-02
4:45am
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