Disclaimer: Same as Chapter One! But also, I want to give thanks to whoever wrote a story called I've Never because that's what gave us the idea for this chapter. Also, thanks to the author that wrote Duo's First Kiss. That also influenced the chapter a lot. We would give out your names, but we can't find them! Forgive us! People, if you haven't read the stories I just mentioned....they're a must! Thanks again!


Chapter Seven

"The Gathering"

By Magic and The Little Fairy From Nam


"She seems really down lately don't you think?" Hannah commented quietly to Trowa who was standing next to her, holding her blonde head in her hands as she peered across the room at Trinity, who was busy doing her homework. The shorter girl sat on her water bed and gazed over towards her friend with a worried expression on her face. Four of the five guys sat around her at the table as they played cards to pass the time in between their classes. They only had one more left until school was over for the weekend. She randomly placed down her hand and collected the chips from the middle of the circular, plastic red table.

Trowa glanced up from his hand, then placed it down on the table as he folded. Quatre did the same as he looked across the table to Hannah. "What exactly do you mean by down?"

The blonde girl shrugged and looked away from her friend who had declined the offer to play with them. "Ever since the day when everyone found out that Nadir Renada's sister had killed her parents. I'm just wondering if maybe she knew her or something." She tossed a couple chips into the middle randomly; she didn't exactly know for sure what she was doing really, but she seemed to be winning, much to the guys' dismay, as she had the most little round things over on her side.

All of the guys at the table turned over to Heero and glared, besides Wufei and Duo. Wufei, who was leaning against the wall, just smirked slightly and crossed his arms. This was getting quite amusing for him; not only that, but it was great fun to watch all of his fellow pilots being beaten by a woman playing cards that didn't even have a clue as to what she was truly doing.

"We could do something to cheer her up," Quatre offered.

Everyone glanced at each other as if each was wondering the same question: what could they do? Then Relena, in a stroke of genius, poked her head from over on the other side of the couch where she was sitting and smiled at all of them.

"If you all agree, we could hold a party tonight. I don't have any meetings that I have to go to today so if..."

Hannah had already agreed to it even before anyone else said a thing. "Hey, Trinity!" She bellowed across the room.

The brunette's head shot up from out of her history book and gazed at the others in confusion. "What?" They were all staring at her as if she was suddenly mutating into something disgusting, like a giant economics text book.

"You're coming to the party right? Good. I thought so."



***

The girls said that their dorms were too full to have a party, and since the guys' dorms are almost next to empty, they decided to have it over there. They were going to have it at Wufei's and Quatre's, but Heero pointed out that if they even touched something of Wufei's, he would demand that justice be served to the perpetrator of his stuff. So, after the warnings from Trowa which went unheaded, they decided to have it at Duo's and his dorm.

The girls went to their dorm rooms to make themselves 'pretty' after their class was finished up. Hannah didn't see how this was possible because of the fact that this just doesn't happen for her in her opinion, and Trinity didn't really even want to try; boring girls stuff. Relena on the other hand was a different story.

"I didn't know people could get that much make-up on their face at one time!" Trinity whispered to Hannah.

"WWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" Hannah said in amazement as she gazed at Relena who had spent almost a full six hours in front of the mirror.

The blonde just made some off comment about why pacifists have to look great at all times which was went unheard by the two of the girls who continued to stare in awe.

"Would you like to try that on me?! I like clowns... I mean...ummmm...pascifists.." Hannah asked, now afraid of what Relena was going to do to her. She wasn't quite sure if she wanted to see the Princess all angry and huffy at her. She did, generally , have just about the whole world at her command. Then something struck her as weird, but she didn't get time to voice it as Trinity commented on her remark.

"You asked for it," Trinity said to her now freaking out friend as Relena approached her with eye liner.

"NOOOO!!!"

"Oh come here you big baby!" Relena taunted the poor girl.

Hannah ran into the bathroom and locked the door. It seemed Trinity had another unknown talent that they didn't know about; she could pick locks! After Relena was done with her make-up, she picked the lock and pulled out her kicking and screaming friend.

"DON'T WORRY! SHE'S DONE WITH THE MAKE UP!!!" Trinity screamed over her friends voice, which was hard considering Hannah could get up there with a high C and had great projection.

"Are you sure?" Hannah asked cowering into the corner.

"Yes! Now we have to go to the guys' place," Trinity said, grabbing her friends hand and literally throwing her out the door. They ran crazily to the guys' place, Hannah grumbling all the way, and knocked on the door.

"It's open!" Duo screamed, and the girls walked into the half-clean, half-Duo room.

"This is YOUR side, isn't it Duo?" Trinity said, pointing to the jungle like side of the duct tape.

"Yep. How could you tell?" Duo remarked sarcastically. He was giving Trinity the eye behind her back before Trowa slapped him across the back of his head.

Trowa leaned close to Duo's ear and whispered, "Play nice."

"A little rabbit told me,"Trinity said sarcastically, unaware of the exchange between the two. She picked up a sock and removed it from the spot as she attempted to find somewhere to sit down; generally at the moment she was going for just about anywhere.

"Su... what are we going to do?" Hannah asked, as they all stood around for about ten minutes. "I brought my Silence Glaive just in case."

"PLAY A GAME!" Trinity shouted so loud they all flinched.

"No, we have to wait for Dorothy to show up," Relena said. This comment had several effects on the crowd. Flinches, moans, running for the bathroom, and manic laughter, shared by Trinity, Hannah, and Quatre.

"I don't think she'll be coming anytime soon," said Hannah between laughs. After the bathroom escapade, she wasn't even sure that Dorothy would come within five feet of them all. She had set up her radius, and it wasn't going to be broken for just a gathering with friends. Hannah felt like she held some sort of power; it was nice. So they decided to start anyway.

"What should we play then?" Quatre asked, as he sat down on one of the few chairs the room had in it.

"I'VE NEVER!!" Duo screamed, louder than Trinity, but not louder than Hannah had gotten a couple minutes before. He took pleasure as he watched Trinity flinch just like he had earlier.

Trinity and Hannah gave everyone in the room blank stares at the name. Trowa flinched at the name, remembering what happened the last time they played that game. The two girls glanced at each other and decided that whatever "I've Never" was that it couldn't be all that great considering Trowa looked about ready to go hide in the corner with a stuffed animal.

"Okay, must I explain. It's the game where one person says something that they have never done and everyone that HAS done the thing has to take a drink. Not the whole glass unless you want to, just more than a sip. The drinks will be provided by me," Duo explained to the crowd.

"But Duo, we're under age, "Quatre complained

"I KNOW THAT!" Duo exclaimed. It was enough to of had to celebrate after the war with non-alcoholic beverages that time, but Quatre wasn't going to spoil their fun this time. "Come on, Quatre. Be a man. You can take it."

As this was all going on, Trowa thought, Where is he keeping all of this stuff? I don't wanna know. It's probably somewhere between the petrified pizza and the six pairs of boxers he has lying around, and if that's where it is, I'm not even going to be touching the stuff. With my luck, it's at the bottom of the pile and he will get lost in there. Curls of a smile wrinkled Trowa's face for just a second.

Duo dove into a large pile of something that looked like it could have been clothes. He surfaced with twenty-four bottles of wine. It was a miracle that he could even carry them all, considering that he only had two hands and one mouth. Later, it was theorized that he had somehow carried them in his large, puffy pants, but if that was the case, no one wanted him to admit to it.

"Duo...isn't that a little much?" Relena asked, starting to get worried.

"No. There's just three for each of us."

"Oh." Relena was slightly worried about her reputation. Pacifists must look good at all times, and you can't look good if you're completely smashed. "So who should start?"

"Mission accepted," Heero declared with an evil grin on his face. "I've never blown up the chemistry lab."

Duo and Wufei had to take a swig of the wine.

"I never want to be lab partners with Duo again!" Wufei screamed. "This is injustice!" He said even before he took a swig.

Next it was Hannah. "Hummmmm...I've never seen a mobile suit."

This caused everyone but herself to take a swig of the wine. People were thinking how did she know that while Hannah gave Trinity a quizzing look; Trinity just shrugged lightly and went back to poking her wine bottle as if she expected it to leap up at her and attack her like algebra homework.

Trowa thought for a while before he said," I've never been kissed."

"REALLY?" asked Trinity.

This caused Heero, Relena, Wufei, Duo, and Quatre to take a very long gulp out of their bottles. Trinity glanced oddly out of the side at her eye at Duo as he took his; suddenly around everyone she felt really innocent. At least Hannah wasn't taking a drink or anything.

"I've never been beaten by a women," Wufei said in a long drawl. His eyes narrowed as he gazed evilly at the three women in the room.

"OH REALLY?!" Hannah challenged as she stood up. "I can change that!"It took a couple minutes for everyone to get her back to sitting down and calm again. Heero, Duo, Quatre, and Trinity had to take a sip.

"Hey!" Trinity said after she got strange looks," I was the one that got hit by the change sock!" Everyone (with the exception of Trowa and Wufei) burst out laughing.

"I've never.. hummmmm..." Trinity looked over at Wufei evilly," had my hair in such a tight ponytail that I lost circulation in my head." This was Wufei's turn to drink a long sip, along with Duo, and also Hannah had to take her first sip.

Duo was staring to get rather flushed as he said, "I've never cut my hair."

This caused everyone to take a sip. Everyone pretty much agreed that this was a low blow considering that everyone good and normal would cut their hair. Then again, of course Duo wouldn't have cut his hair.

"I've never been drunk," Quatre slurred out. The room was starting to spin on him.

"You are now," Heero pointed out as a matter of fact.

"Doesn't count."

Heero, Duo and Relena took a sip.

"Relena?" asked Hannah.

"What?!" Asked the already tipsy girl. "Oh...okay." She looked around the room and spotted the still untipsy Trowa. "I've never used more than half a can of hair spray on my hair."

Heero, Duo, and Wufei took a sip, and the whole room turned to looked at Trowa.

"What?" he asked in his usual voice. "It's natural." He crossed his arms across his chest as he dared anyone to say otherwise.

"REALLY?! You mean it naturally defies gravity?" The drunken Duo screamed. Normally, Trowa's hair was absolutely one of the most amazing things he had ever seen, and now that he realized it was natural, it was likened to things like new socks and anime at four in the morning.

Hannah walked up to Trowa and felt his hair. "Yep! We have a winner! It's not crispy!!!!"

The whole room went into shock as Heero said his next I've never. "I've never...crashed someone's computer."

This caused Duo to take his eighth sip, Quatre and Relena to take their fifth.

Hannah thought for a second and said," I've never inhaled the ink jet fumes on my printer... I saw you Heero!"

Heero gave her the death glare TM as he sipped his wine along with Duo.

***

After the game was finished, scores reading Heero (7), Hannah (2), Trowa (2), Wufei (6), Trinity (3), a whopping (9) for Duo, (5) for Quatre and Relena.

Trinity and Hannah looked over at Duo as he opened his second bottle, or at least TRIED. It was absolutely the funniest thing that either of them had ever seen in their lives. It could be likened to a little kid without hands or brain cells attempting to get into a cookie jar with a lock and key on it as well as gundamium siding. Only this kid was drunk, had a 3 meter long braid, and seemed to be apt to using his teeth on the siding more than trying to open it with his hands.

"What should we play now?" the still sober Hannah asked. She was having way too much fun watching everyone do as they were doing. It was almost like being at the zoo, only without the animal noises. For the most part.

"Truth or dare," hiccupped Relena.

"OKAY!!!" yelled Trinity as she bounced up and down. It didn't take much to get her drunk.

"Okay, any consequences?" Hannah asked.

"Just one," slurred Duo," If ya dun wanna do it, ya gotta take a slip."

"Alrighty, Heero you start," Relena ordered.

"Hannah, truth or dare?"

"Truth."

"Did you really knock Aurora unconscious with your change sock?" Heero asked in his usual voice.

"Yep. Let that be a lesson to you all!" She surveyed the room. "Nobody wakes be up without caffeine or money--loose change!"

"Or Trowa," Duo said.

Hannah looked at the drunken pilot. Wouldn't it be funny if I made him take another sip? "Duo. . . . truth or dare?"

"Dare."

"I dare you to go under your bed."

Trowa looked rather scared as Duo considered it ( do you blame him?).

"I'll take a sip," the Brady-boy said before he chugged half the bottle. Trinity grabbed it away from him.

"That's more than a sip, Duo. Duo?!"

"Wah?"

"Your turn."

"Oh. . . . . Aurora. . . .truth or dare?"

"Dare."

"I dare you to finish the rest of this bottle. . . or take a sip."

"That's stupid Du. . . . " Wufei didn't get to finish because he just had to watch as Trinity downed the rest of the bottle and went back for more of her own, only to be stopped by Hannah.

"You could've taken a sip, Aurora," said Hannah as she held up her drooping friend.

"Oh, oops. Never thought of that."

"Well, it's your turn anyway."

"Okay. . . . . Relena. . . truth or dare?"

"Dare."

"I dare you to. . . . . . wash all of that make-up of your face."

"I don't think so," Relena said before she took a sip. "Trowa. . . truth or dare?"

"Truth."

"Okay, do you like like Hannah?"

Trowa slowly toke a sip as he turned a bright shade of tomato, causing everyone but him and Hannah to burst out laughing.

"Quatre, truth or dare?" asked the still sober Trowa.

"Dare!"

"I dare you to. . . . walk out to Dorothy's dorm, knock on the door, and give her a big fat kiss when she answers," Trowa said with a straight face as he placed the curse on poor Quatre.

"I think I'll. . . . . " Quatre looked between the door and his wine bottle in front of him and since he was quite drunk he said," kiss Dorothy."

The whole room went into shocked silence, and soon everyone was walking quietly (as quietly as a bunch of slightly to really drunk people can walk) behind Quatre towards Dorothy's room.

"OH DOROTHY!!!" Quatre yelled as he knocked on the door.

"GO AWAY!" was the response he got for the Ex-Double Brow.

"I want to kiss you!" Quatre screamed.

There was a long silence before Dorothy came to the door and opened it. "Really?"

Her answer was a big fat kiss from Quatre that lasted at least a minute, as Duo and Trinity fell over onto the ground, laughing. When it was done, everyone was either on the ground laughing, or just plain shocked to see their friend kiss the ExDouble-Brow.

"Well that was. . . .different," Heero said, shaken.

Quatre ran away from Dorothy, towards the water fountain screaming," SHE'S GOT NACHO BREATH!!!"

After calming down the ranting Quatre they went back to the room and back to the game.

"It's most definitely Quatre's turn," Wufei said.

"Wufei. . . . Truth or dare?"

"Dare, I'm not weak."

"Oh really?" Hannah asked. "Quatre! Tell Wufei to dress up like a girl!"

"Okay, Wufei. Dress up like a girl."

Wufei went ridged. "This is . . . . "

"INJUSTICE!!!" The drunken Trinity yelled along with Duo.

"You're weak, aren't you?"" Trinity said with evil laugh.

"But you're not weak. . . . right Wufei?" Heero asked, an evil grin creeping onto his face.

"I'll do it you weaklings!"

"Relena, if you would do the honors. . . " Quatre said as he pulled Wufei over to Relena. (Did I mention that Relena has had six drinks?)

She soon had Wufei's face covered in blue eye shadow, black eye liner and "Love's Passion" colored lipstick. Oh, the fun didn't stop there! Hannah helped Relena shove Wufei into one of her dresses, full with a bra and water balloons.

"Wufei! You make one sexy woman!" The tipsy Duo said sarcastically.

"This is just. . . unjust!!!!" Wufei yelled as the others burst into fits of laughter.

When the laughing stopped, Trowa asked the still laughing (ok so it didn't stop) Duo," So Duo. . . . who do you like?"

"Yeah, Duo," Trinity asked getting is his face.

"Hey! This isn't a truth so I don't have to say!"

"Okay, okay.. Wufei, Heero's the last person."

"Heero. . . .truth or dare?" Wufei asked, still mad at everyone. Possibly life in general as well; he wasn't quite sure at the moment.

"Dare," Heero said, challenging Wufei.

"I dare you to. . . tell the two girls about your spandex."

"Fine. I wear spandex when I fight in the suits. When I lose, they get tighter."

"Have you ever self destructed because of that?" Hannah asked the blushing Heero.

"Yeah," Heero said, shortly. "But Trowa had to save me."

"Well, that's the end of that game," Trowa said.

"Oh. . . . hardly anyone drank!" Duo complained. "Time for spin the bottle."

"What?!" Was everyone's response. Two games was enough, but three games was going to hit them all hard. Luckily, they didn't have class the next day, but still. No one wanted a drunken band of weirdos around, and a drunken band of weirdos was out of the question. Though, it was probably too late to do anything about that.

"Well, hardly anyone drank, and I need to get rid of this stuff!"

"Okay, okay," Trinity said,"what kind of spin the bottle?"

"The kind were if it lands on the person, you either have to kiss them on the lips. . . . or on the cheek or take a big drink. . . . . *laughs* this could be evil *hiccups*," Duo slurred out.

He ran over to the kitchen and grabbed an old Coke bottle and gave it to Heero. "And as usual, Heero you start."

Heero looked at the bottle as if it was going to bite him for a while, until he finally put it into the center of the circle and spun it. With all of his luck (we're feeling nice right now) it landed on Relena. He then, of course kissed her on the lips. It was a long kiss, which then resulted in them going into the other room.

"Well. . . . there's some happy customers," Duo said, "who wants to spin next. How 'bout you , Wu-Chan?"

"What did you call me?" Wufei asked, outraged.

"Nothing. . . . just spin the bottle."

Unfortunately for Wu-chan, it landed on Hannah, who gave him a death glare. "I'll take the drink." He wanted to keep his life after all.

It was then Hannah's turn to spin the bottle. It landed on Quatre, who she kissed on the cheek. Then it was Quatre's turn. He spun it, and it landed on Trowa. (Now, we don't get into that kind of stuff okay!?) He quickly grabbed the wine bottle and almost downed the whole thing at once. At this point, a very pleased looking Heero and Relena emerged from the next room.

"Now, Relena. That's the type of thing that gets politicians in trouble," Hannah said, laughing.

"You wouldn't care if you were kissing Heero!" Relena said as everyone tried really, really hard not to think about this.

After a few more spins with guys landing on guys (this translates roughly into lots of drinks for the guys) it finally got to Duo spinning the bottle. It landed on Trinity who was jumping up and down on Trowa's bed, just because she couldn't really even find Duo's and she wasn't really sure that if she could that she would even want to go over there to that side. Trowa wasn't quite as happy as Trinity was, and was plotting how to get back at this drunken child when he noticed that Duo had gone white.

"What? Don't you want to kiss her, Duo?" Trowa asked, trying not to smile. This was going to prove to be entertaining.

"Wah?!" Trinity asked as she plopped down on the floor next to Duo. "Duncha wanna kiss me, Duo?" She inquired; she was, obviously to them all, very, very drunk.

"Dear. You're drunk. You'd regret it later." Duo twirled his bottle of wine around in his fingers like a batan as he looked her squarely in the eyes (as squarely as a drunken Duo can).

"You really are drunk aren't you, Aurora?" Hannah asked, looking worriedly at her friend.

"Yeppers peppers eppers!!!!"

Trowa raised an eyebrow, as did Hannah. Trinity looked at them and tried to do it herself, but it still wasn't happening.

"I wouldn't take another drink if I were you, Duo," Heero warned the drunken boy.

"So you're just going to have to kiss her," said Trowa.

Duo looked cross-eyed at the two and then glared around the room. It was becoming a frickin' conspiracy, it was a cold, cruel world after all, and everybody was against him, even the security feret which resided under his bed, or what was left of it. After a bit Wufei screamed, "Oh just kiss her you weakling!"

Duo leaned in and kissed Trinity, on the lips just to prove to Wufei he wasn't a 'weakling' or anything, quickly before he backed away.

"Hey! I've been kissed!!!" Trinity slurred out as Duo blanched. It as then her turn and her bottle landed on Hannah. "Give me that wine bottle," She ordered to Duo and she took a chug.

"Oh goody. My turn." Hannah mumbled. If this hits Wufei, than I'm just going to have to kill Aurora. She put the bottle down and gave it a turn.

No, it didn't land on Wufei, but on the magic haired Trowa. She let out a squeak as there was hooting and hollering in the background. "You stole my wine bottle didn't you Aurora?" She said as she glared at the laughing girl.

"NOW YOU GOTTA KISS 'IM, HANNANNAH!" Trinity said between laughs.

"Maybe I'll just take Duo's. . . . oh wait, it's empty. Well. . . FINE THEN!" She leaned over and kissed Trowa on the cheek.

"You wimp," Trinity said.

"You drunk."

"Am not!"

"Are too!"

"Am not!"

"Then try to walk a strait line without falling over."

"I'd like to see her stand up without falling over," Trowa commented with smirk.

Trinity gave them both the death glare, and Heero because she could swear that there was two Hannah's, as she started to stand up. It really didn't work though because the room started to tilt up and down as she got higher. She finally gave up and started to sit down, which didn't work that much either, because she landed like a sack of potatoes on Duo.

"Oops... " Trinity said as she looked up into his face. He ruffly shoved her off as he slunk, swaying slightly as if there was a strong breeze, over to his bed where he decided he would sit and sulk for a bit.

"This is getting quite sad," Relena said as she looked at the drunken Trinity and then at Duo.

"We should play 'make someone's nose bleed'," Heero looked around trying to find someone that wasn't drunk.

"NOT MINE!" Wufei screamed.

"What would be the prize?" Quatre asked.

"You get to do whatever you want, to or with who ever you want for fifteen minutes," Heero responded, "now to find the victim."

He looked over the crowed of drunk (or not) people until his eyes landed on Hannah, who looked overly sober.

"Hannah. . . . . . "

"NO, NO ,NO, NO, NO! Pain!!!!" I have a very low tolerance for pain," she looked around at the crowd. Most of them were drunk. "Oh okay, but you can't touch me. And just in case. . . . I've got my silence glaive."

"But then how. . . . " Duo began to ask as he glanced up intereged.

"Fine," Heero said in his end of discussion voice. "Mission Accepted."

It was like playing a game of pin the tail on the donkey with the blindfold, no one could hit Hannah, not even the 'Perfect Soldier'-- that was good, and yet scary at the same time.

Hannah soon got tired of this game and left to get something. She came back, not missed by the others who were still trying to make her nose bleed, with her change sock. She whacked herself in the face after muttering, "Oh this is going to hurt." Soon a small stream of blood was running down her face. "All right! Go me!"

"Who won?" asked a falling over Quatre.

"I did," said Hannah. "I made my nose bleed."

"That's not far! You didn't fallow rules!" Trinity yelled, slightly shocked at her friend.

"There were no rules," Hannah said with a smirk, "Just to make my nose. Now I get to do whatever I want with myself for fifteen minutes. Bye!" Hannah left the room and turned back in the door way to say, "This party just got weird, so I'm gonna go and leave you drunken fools to yourselves.

Trowa asked, "you're not going to leave me with them are you?" The odd haired pilot walked towards the door and left with Hannah.

"OooOOOOOOooOOOOooOOO," Relena and Heero yelled as they left the door.

Outside the door, Hannah said,"We should stay at the party and watch them get even drunker. Did I bring my Silence Glaive? I'm afraid of leaving them with sharp pointy objects."

"I have it," Trowa said, "and no I don't wanna stay. Duo gets scary."

"You speak from experience?"

*Groans*

"Tomorrow we get to learn how to pilot mobile suits," Hannah said, frightened.

"This could get bad," Trowa said smirking," just think. . . . .major hangovers and trying to pilot mobile suits."

"Oh no. . . . not Duo. . . . "

"It can't get any worse than how he pilots already. I don't let him drive. . . . EVER," Trowa said, grimacing as he remembered the last time Duo tried to drive, they ended up in the living room of a very nice old lady.

The voices of the more than slightly drunk followed them through the halls.

***