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A Taste of Revenge
Heero had to make a split second decision with all the craziness that was going on within the bakery, and with that, he pulled out his gun in his back pocket in hopes of bringing some order back into the bakery. He pulled the trigger back and a single shot was fired into the ceiling, creating a noticeable hole. A wave of silence washed across everyone and even the reporters from the window backed away for the fear of their own lives. Duo was just an inch away from Relena's birthday cake with his left foot just right above the box. Heero quickly slid to where the box was and moved it out of harm's way from Duo's imposing step.
Duo and Wufei blinked at each other before realizing that they both went overboard in their bakery fight. The two noticed two familiar faces within the room, but they couldn't draw a connection to Relena until it finally dawned on them that she was a foreign ambassador. Duo finally broke the silence, "A thousand pardons for our mess, Ms. Peacecraft." And being the flirt he was, he came over to her and dusted the flour that landed on her shoulders. "I'm truly sorry about this incident and so is my partner." Heero watched suspiciously and eventually grabbed Relena to another part of the room with a gun still present in front of Duo, as a sign to stay away.
"Well, I hope you two are happy for making a mess of everything. You can expect Ms. Peacecraft of not patronizing your bakery in the future because of this fiasco," exclaimed Quatre.
Wufei then tried to calm Quatre, "Can we offer you something like coffee?"
"Thanks, but no thanks. Besides, your coffee tastes horrible here."
With that as an insult, fire raged through Wufei's eyes, since he's normally the one to brew the coffee in the bakery. He was about to launch a small handful of flour at Quatre, but Heero noticed it.
"Drop it!"
Wufei slowly let the flour fall out of his hands, since he didn't want to cause any more trouble than Duo has already created. He watched the three customers leave the bakery and afterwards, he turned towards to Duo, who looked like he was guilty of another crime. "Duo..."
"Uh...oh," he gave a guilty grin and ran quickly to the kitchen before Wufei could retaliate on him.
"I'll get you for that!" The two continued to battle into the late hours of the night.
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Outside in the night air, the three were still pursued by Treize's reporters with continual flashes from their cameras. Unknown to the reporters, Heero had a final trick up his sleeve, which involved a pastry bag that he had found on the floor of the bakery before he left with Relena and Quatre.
Quatre noticed the pastry bag, "Um...Heero...why are you carrying that with you?"
"I'm going to stop these annoying reporters." He ordered Quatre and Relena to continue walking towards Trowa's car with the box, while he would remain off somewhere in the shadows for those nosy reporters. After he had watched Relena and Quatre turn around the corner, he hid behind a small alley behind a small dumpster, as he heard footsteps approaching towards his location.
"Where do you think they went to?"
"They couldn't have gone too far," replied cupcake #1. "Everyone follow me."
Heero locked onto his multiple targets and he slowly appeared behind them.
"Do you hear anything behind us?" asked one of the photographers. "I think someone is following us."
Before anyone could reply, the group felt something sticky hit their backs and they noticed that they were covered in red.
"What!! We've been ambushed!! Everyone scatter and get back to the vans ASAP!"
One by one, the group tried to disband, but Heero managed to sneak up on each member and dismantled their cameras along with the incriminating films, except for cupcake #1, who tried to outrun Heero on the Canadian streets. Then in one swoop, Heero tackled the reporter to the ground and asked him where the camera was. All cupcake #1 could do was point to his demolished camera. In less than a second, Heero pried the film compartment lose and ripped the black film into pieces. Heero then grabbed the reporter by the collar, "This is for messing the wrong person." With that, he threw the reporter back down and went on his way. All in all, he destroyed five films and he finally got his revenge on the unknown newsgroup that published his picture.
He walked towards Trowa's car and found that everyone was still waiting for him. He noticed that Quatre was being a little too protective of the box holding Relena's birthday cake. "So how did it go?" asked Relena.
"Mission completed," replied Heero in his casual monotone voice. He then took the box from Quatre's arms and continued his usual routine of taking Relena home for the night.
"What's in the box?" asked Relena.
Heero responded, "None of your business."
During the car ride, Heero and Quatre were making signals to one another about the cake situation. "You should take it, I told you before," whispered Quatre.
"Yeah...but I don't think it's going to make another 30 minutes, because the frosting may melt off since parts of it is made of whipped cream."
"Fine we'll do paper, scissors, and rocks then, to settle the score."
"Fine."
The two men then played one game of paper, scissors, and rocks, in which Heero won.
"What are you two up to?"
"Oh nothing, just nothing...Relena."
"Whatever you say, Quatre."
"That was a close one."
"I heard that. Can't a girl get some sleep around here."
Quatre then shrugged to Heero and took the box from him. The car eventually pulled up into a driveway. "Good night then." He managed to carry the box up the driveway and after juggling the box with one hand, he punched in the garage combination code to enter.
Trowa eventually made his way to Relena's residence, and by the time the car had pulled up into the long driveway, Relena was about to doze off.
"I guess I'll walk you home." He was the first one to step out of the car and took Relena by the hand and led her out into the night air. The two remained silent until they reached the front patio door. "I'll see you tomorrow then at my usual post."
"Do you want to stay for the night? It wouldn't be any trouble at all...it's getting late."
"Um..."
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"What happened to all of you?" asked Treize with an appalled look to his staff members that were colored in red icing.
Cupcake #1 responded, "We were ambushed by the unknown security guard. He destroyed all of our films." He then placed his demolished Cannon camera on Treize's desk.
"Not just quite yet," a feminine voice was heard. "I have the films, you wanted." She handed Treize the newly developed pictures of Relena's bakery fiasco along with Quatre and Heero. "My sources say that the man covered in the flour is Relena's advisor, Quatre Winner. But in this photo with the security guard on top of Ms. Peacecraft, his name is Heero Yuy."
"Nice work, Lady. The pieces of the puzzle are finally completed then." He called out to the rest of the staff members, "Everybody, let's start making our midnight deadline." With that, all of the staff members filed out of Treize's office except for Lady. "I knew I could count on you."
"What can I say," she was interrupted by a kiss. "I guess we'll have this photo of Ms. Peacecraft with Mr. Yuy on our front pages for tomorrow then."
"It sounds good to me."
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The sunlight filtered slowly through the window at Shinigami's and Chang's Bakery. Both of the bakers were asleep behind the display cases, each of them had more chocolate and strawberry stains on their aprons.
"I wonder where on earth could Duo be? He was supposed to be home by 11:00." Hilde continued to walk down the street towards the bakery. After walking about five minutes, she peeped through the bakery window and found a sight that she didn't believe. The bakery was in total disarray with frosting and chocolate stains on the walls. The flours and ceilings were dusted with flour, sugar, and baking powder. "What happened here?" She decided that Duo was somehow behind this and before long, she stepped inside to find her love. "Duo...are you in here?" She heard a groan coming from the left display case and to her amazement, she found Duo lying on the floor with his Viking hat in his hand.
"Did I win?"
"I don't know, but you and Wufei sure made a mess of this bakery. It's going to take days to clean up this mess. I missed you last night. How come you didn't call me?"
"I was busy here."
"I can see that."
Duo then took Hilde into his arms and placed a slight dusting of flour on her nose. "I think my bakery days are over for now."
"Well...I'm not too sure." She then threw a small handful of flour back at Duo.
The two were having their mini flour fight, when Wufei awoke. "What's going on in here?"
"Hey partner, have a nice snooze?"
"Funny." He snickered at them. He began to examine the damage that Duo and him caused to the bakery. Right then, Sally had entered the bakery with a box of ingredients for her customers.
"What happened here?"
Wufei replied, "Don't ask."
Duo then interrupted the two, "Let's just call it a temporary truce. I mean obviously we both can do serious damage with the flour and chocolate."
"Agreed." With that, the two shook hands but not before Duo decided to have one final trick up his sleeves. He had place a small plastic bag of melted chocolate in his hands that had a hole in it.
Wufei showed a distorted look on his face, "I didn't know that you had sweaty and sticky palms, Maxwell."
"You sure about that, Wufei?"
Wufei then looked down towards his right hand and noticed the chocolate oozing from his fingers. "I'll get you for that one."
"Not yet, don't forget that we're on a temporary truce," shaking his finger at Wufei.
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Across the town, everyone was already running about the embassy preparing for the big day of Relena's birthday. Aidan and Riley were on their separate tasks of busying themselves with the decorations, while other staff members were busy finishing up their last minute proposals for upcoming meetings. No one even noticed that the birthday girl was missing from the morning's activities along with a known security guard.
Back at Quatre's home, he was making a fresh pot of coffee when he pulled out the morning papers. He was sipping a glass of orange juice when his eyes noticed a peculiar picture of Relena and Heero on the front page. He immediately spat the orange juice out of his mouth, "Relena is not going to like this." He continued to read the headlines, "Relena and Her Secret Lover...The Inside Story." He walked over to one of the kitchen phones and called the embassy to see if Relena was there yet. The phone on the other end ranged endlessly until a familiar voice was heard on the other end.
"Aidan, is Relena in yet?"
"No, she isn't in yet. Why?"
"Who picked up the morning newspapers today?"
"Me."
"Did you look at them yet?"
"No, but should I?"
"DON'T!!" he screamed on the phone, which made Aidan's eardrums ring in pain.
Usually when Quatre screams on the phone about an order, Aidan knows that something is up, and before Quatre could do anything about it, he heard papers shuffling in the background. "Oh no, this is not good. Why is there a picture of Relena and Heero on the front page?"
"You found out." Quatre then tapped his head slightly on the wall in frustration. In the background, other staff members could be heard and the secret about Relena and Heero was finally out. "Don't tell me, the rest of the staff knows too."
"Yep. What do you want me to do...unplug the phones lines?"
"That won't do, we'll just let this story run its course, it's out of my control now." He hung the phone and prepared for the day, knowing that he'll be manning the switchboard. "Here we go again."
TBC
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Will Relena find out about her candid photo in the newspaper? What was Heero's decision? Will Relena's surprise party go off without a hitch? Let me know what you think, I always appreciate your comments and thanks. ^_^ Until then, ciao!!
*****
A Taste of Revenge
Heero had to make a split second decision with all the craziness that was going on within the bakery, and with that, he pulled out his gun in his back pocket in hopes of bringing some order back into the bakery. He pulled the trigger back and a single shot was fired into the ceiling, creating a noticeable hole. A wave of silence washed across everyone and even the reporters from the window backed away for the fear of their own lives. Duo was just an inch away from Relena's birthday cake with his left foot just right above the box. Heero quickly slid to where the box was and moved it out of harm's way from Duo's imposing step.
Duo and Wufei blinked at each other before realizing that they both went overboard in their bakery fight. The two noticed two familiar faces within the room, but they couldn't draw a connection to Relena until it finally dawned on them that she was a foreign ambassador. Duo finally broke the silence, "A thousand pardons for our mess, Ms. Peacecraft." And being the flirt he was, he came over to her and dusted the flour that landed on her shoulders. "I'm truly sorry about this incident and so is my partner." Heero watched suspiciously and eventually grabbed Relena to another part of the room with a gun still present in front of Duo, as a sign to stay away.
"Well, I hope you two are happy for making a mess of everything. You can expect Ms. Peacecraft of not patronizing your bakery in the future because of this fiasco," exclaimed Quatre.
Wufei then tried to calm Quatre, "Can we offer you something like coffee?"
"Thanks, but no thanks. Besides, your coffee tastes horrible here."
With that as an insult, fire raged through Wufei's eyes, since he's normally the one to brew the coffee in the bakery. He was about to launch a small handful of flour at Quatre, but Heero noticed it.
"Drop it!"
Wufei slowly let the flour fall out of his hands, since he didn't want to cause any more trouble than Duo has already created. He watched the three customers leave the bakery and afterwards, he turned towards to Duo, who looked like he was guilty of another crime. "Duo..."
"Uh...oh," he gave a guilty grin and ran quickly to the kitchen before Wufei could retaliate on him.
"I'll get you for that!" The two continued to battle into the late hours of the night.
*****
Outside in the night air, the three were still pursued by Treize's reporters with continual flashes from their cameras. Unknown to the reporters, Heero had a final trick up his sleeve, which involved a pastry bag that he had found on the floor of the bakery before he left with Relena and Quatre.
Quatre noticed the pastry bag, "Um...Heero...why are you carrying that with you?"
"I'm going to stop these annoying reporters." He ordered Quatre and Relena to continue walking towards Trowa's car with the box, while he would remain off somewhere in the shadows for those nosy reporters. After he had watched Relena and Quatre turn around the corner, he hid behind a small alley behind a small dumpster, as he heard footsteps approaching towards his location.
"Where do you think they went to?"
"They couldn't have gone too far," replied cupcake #1. "Everyone follow me."
Heero locked onto his multiple targets and he slowly appeared behind them.
"Do you hear anything behind us?" asked one of the photographers. "I think someone is following us."
Before anyone could reply, the group felt something sticky hit their backs and they noticed that they were covered in red.
"What!! We've been ambushed!! Everyone scatter and get back to the vans ASAP!"
One by one, the group tried to disband, but Heero managed to sneak up on each member and dismantled their cameras along with the incriminating films, except for cupcake #1, who tried to outrun Heero on the Canadian streets. Then in one swoop, Heero tackled the reporter to the ground and asked him where the camera was. All cupcake #1 could do was point to his demolished camera. In less than a second, Heero pried the film compartment lose and ripped the black film into pieces. Heero then grabbed the reporter by the collar, "This is for messing the wrong person." With that, he threw the reporter back down and went on his way. All in all, he destroyed five films and he finally got his revenge on the unknown newsgroup that published his picture.
He walked towards Trowa's car and found that everyone was still waiting for him. He noticed that Quatre was being a little too protective of the box holding Relena's birthday cake. "So how did it go?" asked Relena.
"Mission completed," replied Heero in his casual monotone voice. He then took the box from Quatre's arms and continued his usual routine of taking Relena home for the night.
"What's in the box?" asked Relena.
Heero responded, "None of your business."
During the car ride, Heero and Quatre were making signals to one another about the cake situation. "You should take it, I told you before," whispered Quatre.
"Yeah...but I don't think it's going to make another 30 minutes, because the frosting may melt off since parts of it is made of whipped cream."
"Fine we'll do paper, scissors, and rocks then, to settle the score."
"Fine."
The two men then played one game of paper, scissors, and rocks, in which Heero won.
"What are you two up to?"
"Oh nothing, just nothing...Relena."
"Whatever you say, Quatre."
"That was a close one."
"I heard that. Can't a girl get some sleep around here."
Quatre then shrugged to Heero and took the box from him. The car eventually pulled up into a driveway. "Good night then." He managed to carry the box up the driveway and after juggling the box with one hand, he punched in the garage combination code to enter.
Trowa eventually made his way to Relena's residence, and by the time the car had pulled up into the long driveway, Relena was about to doze off.
"I guess I'll walk you home." He was the first one to step out of the car and took Relena by the hand and led her out into the night air. The two remained silent until they reached the front patio door. "I'll see you tomorrow then at my usual post."
"Do you want to stay for the night? It wouldn't be any trouble at all...it's getting late."
"Um..."
*****
"What happened to all of you?" asked Treize with an appalled look to his staff members that were colored in red icing.
Cupcake #1 responded, "We were ambushed by the unknown security guard. He destroyed all of our films." He then placed his demolished Cannon camera on Treize's desk.
"Not just quite yet," a feminine voice was heard. "I have the films, you wanted." She handed Treize the newly developed pictures of Relena's bakery fiasco along with Quatre and Heero. "My sources say that the man covered in the flour is Relena's advisor, Quatre Winner. But in this photo with the security guard on top of Ms. Peacecraft, his name is Heero Yuy."
"Nice work, Lady. The pieces of the puzzle are finally completed then." He called out to the rest of the staff members, "Everybody, let's start making our midnight deadline." With that, all of the staff members filed out of Treize's office except for Lady. "I knew I could count on you."
"What can I say," she was interrupted by a kiss. "I guess we'll have this photo of Ms. Peacecraft with Mr. Yuy on our front pages for tomorrow then."
"It sounds good to me."
*****
The sunlight filtered slowly through the window at Shinigami's and Chang's Bakery. Both of the bakers were asleep behind the display cases, each of them had more chocolate and strawberry stains on their aprons.
"I wonder where on earth could Duo be? He was supposed to be home by 11:00." Hilde continued to walk down the street towards the bakery. After walking about five minutes, she peeped through the bakery window and found a sight that she didn't believe. The bakery was in total disarray with frosting and chocolate stains on the walls. The flours and ceilings were dusted with flour, sugar, and baking powder. "What happened here?" She decided that Duo was somehow behind this and before long, she stepped inside to find her love. "Duo...are you in here?" She heard a groan coming from the left display case and to her amazement, she found Duo lying on the floor with his Viking hat in his hand.
"Did I win?"
"I don't know, but you and Wufei sure made a mess of this bakery. It's going to take days to clean up this mess. I missed you last night. How come you didn't call me?"
"I was busy here."
"I can see that."
Duo then took Hilde into his arms and placed a slight dusting of flour on her nose. "I think my bakery days are over for now."
"Well...I'm not too sure." She then threw a small handful of flour back at Duo.
The two were having their mini flour fight, when Wufei awoke. "What's going on in here?"
"Hey partner, have a nice snooze?"
"Funny." He snickered at them. He began to examine the damage that Duo and him caused to the bakery. Right then, Sally had entered the bakery with a box of ingredients for her customers.
"What happened here?"
Wufei replied, "Don't ask."
Duo then interrupted the two, "Let's just call it a temporary truce. I mean obviously we both can do serious damage with the flour and chocolate."
"Agreed." With that, the two shook hands but not before Duo decided to have one final trick up his sleeves. He had place a small plastic bag of melted chocolate in his hands that had a hole in it.
Wufei showed a distorted look on his face, "I didn't know that you had sweaty and sticky palms, Maxwell."
"You sure about that, Wufei?"
Wufei then looked down towards his right hand and noticed the chocolate oozing from his fingers. "I'll get you for that one."
"Not yet, don't forget that we're on a temporary truce," shaking his finger at Wufei.
*****
Across the town, everyone was already running about the embassy preparing for the big day of Relena's birthday. Aidan and Riley were on their separate tasks of busying themselves with the decorations, while other staff members were busy finishing up their last minute proposals for upcoming meetings. No one even noticed that the birthday girl was missing from the morning's activities along with a known security guard.
Back at Quatre's home, he was making a fresh pot of coffee when he pulled out the morning papers. He was sipping a glass of orange juice when his eyes noticed a peculiar picture of Relena and Heero on the front page. He immediately spat the orange juice out of his mouth, "Relena is not going to like this." He continued to read the headlines, "Relena and Her Secret Lover...The Inside Story." He walked over to one of the kitchen phones and called the embassy to see if Relena was there yet. The phone on the other end ranged endlessly until a familiar voice was heard on the other end.
"Aidan, is Relena in yet?"
"No, she isn't in yet. Why?"
"Who picked up the morning newspapers today?"
"Me."
"Did you look at them yet?"
"No, but should I?"
"DON'T!!" he screamed on the phone, which made Aidan's eardrums ring in pain.
Usually when Quatre screams on the phone about an order, Aidan knows that something is up, and before Quatre could do anything about it, he heard papers shuffling in the background. "Oh no, this is not good. Why is there a picture of Relena and Heero on the front page?"
"You found out." Quatre then tapped his head slightly on the wall in frustration. In the background, other staff members could be heard and the secret about Relena and Heero was finally out. "Don't tell me, the rest of the staff knows too."
"Yep. What do you want me to do...unplug the phones lines?"
"That won't do, we'll just let this story run its course, it's out of my control now." He hung the phone and prepared for the day, knowing that he'll be manning the switchboard. "Here we go again."
TBC
*****
Will Relena find out about her candid photo in the newspaper? What was Heero's decision? Will Relena's surprise party go off without a hitch? Let me know what you think, I always appreciate your comments and thanks. ^_^ Until then, ciao!!