"Alright, Noin. I'll have the place ready. You'll have to convince the others, though. I won't have time. And please." Quatre was desperate, "Get them here early, I'll need help with the cake. I have never learned how to bake, and it would defeat the purpose if we just bought one."

"Don't worry about it, Quatre. I'll have them there." Noin replied, amused. "But you and the guys will have to deal with those cake arrangements. The girls and me are going to have to distract her. We'll take her to the mall, movies, anything to distract her. You'll have to do the rest."

* Gulp * Quatre thought * none of us can cook!! Unless?? Heero, maybe?? Huh! Yeah right, and I could sew the moon and stars into a patchwork quilt.. Not likely. Gulp * "uh." He was very close to tears at that point. * Poor Relena. * "Yeah. I guess we can manage that."

"Right!!" Noin smiled, "That's the spirit!! Well, we'll see you then!"

Bip. Bip. Both transmissions ended.

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"I'll be there. Catherine talked me into it a while ago." Trowa looked over at his sister, who was grinning wildly. "Somehow I have a funny feeling I'm going to regret this decision, though."

"Only if you don't go through with it!!" Catherine whispered.

Then Noin added, "No, Trowa. But you had better get her something. This b is /b for her birthday, after all. Even if that's just an excuse to get her away from her work. And please be early. I'll see you both then."

Bip. Bip.

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"You WILL go!!!" Hilde brandished a metal wrench in Duo's direction.

"Wha...I....Of course I'll go!!" Duo yelped. "If you'll just let me explain.."

"You ARE going! Whether you like it or not!!" Hilde yelled, slipping out from under the ship's hull. She threatened Duo, who was across the ship, with the wrench again. Duo shrank back against the wall, his hands in the air.

"Hey, ok!! That's what I've been saying!!" He replied, and Hilde dropped the wrench and dove at him to give him a kiss.

Duo blinked and said, "Well, if THAT's how you feel."

Hilde blushed.

The ship saw any number of things that day which it had never before seen. No longer could it be called innocent from that day forth.

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"Let me in, Woufei!!" Lieutenant Noin had saved the two most difficult pilots for last. She had decided to visit Woufei in person, just in case she would have to knock him out and carry him with her to make him go. "Woufei, I know you're in there! Open up!!"

"I'm busy." Came the muffled reply.

"Really? Well, if you don't open this door, I'll have to ask my officers to break it down." Noin replied with cool indifference. "And you'll be the one paying for repairs."

That got him. The door banged open and Woufei stood several feet inside the room. He was wearing an old-style traditional Japanese exercise outfit. A student looked up from practice. The boy looked perplexed and lost his balance, falling hard on the floor.

(AN: Yoga, people- you yoga people know what I mean)

"Li." Woufei growled, still watching the leutenant, "How many times to I have to tell you, Child!! Control is everything! If you cannot control yourself, how dare to control the lives of others in honorable combat?!"

The boy was shakeing, but he returned to his yoga position.

"What do you want Onna?" Woufei asked, with barely concealed contempt in his voice.

"You are coming to a party for Miss Relena's birthday." Her face and voice showed no emotion. Her statement was quite clearly an order, though. She was flanked by four officers.

"No, actually, I'm not." He replied, "There is no reason for me to waste my time in such a dishonorable fashion."

"You and your honor and justice!!" Noin scoffed, "Is it honorable that a girl of nineteen has been pushed into the Prime Minister's office, and works such long hours that she's loosing twenty pounds a month?? If you tell me that's justice, I'll clomp you one!!"

"Fine." Woufei growled, "but I don't see how more excitement will help matters any."

"Thank you."

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