Always and forever By: Vanima Edhel

CHAPTER 3

(About a month later) Quatre was driving home from one of his psychology meetings. He wasn't in a very good mood and wasn't really paying attention to what he was doing. He had had such a bad day. First he had dropped the toothpaste tube cap down the drain, then he had spilt his hot chocolate on himself, then his old car wouldn't start and he had to replace something else in it, then when he had gotten done shopping for his beloved Trowa's anniversary gift he realized he had locked the keys in his car. All in all it wasn't a really good day, and to top it all off his counselor hadn't been real helpful to him.

He just hoped Trowa was having a better day.

Quatre arrived home and unlocked the front door. "Hello! Anybody home?" Quatre called. He set his jacket on the counter and picked up a note that was lying on the counter.

"Dear Quatre" It read, "Come find me. Duo and Heero went out somewhere and Wufei is working with Sally on some Preventers project so we have the house to ourselves. Let's have a little fun...

Love Trowa"

Quatre giggled at his Trowa. He set down his keys and wallet on the table and carried his present up the stairs.

He opened the door his room. The lights were out and as Quatre flipped them on the room was empty. He closed the door and moved on to the other side of the hall. Heero's door was closed and Quatre decided that it would be better not to go in there.

Duo's door was half-open and as Quatre stuck his head in and flipped on the light nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

He tried Trowa's room next. As he opened the door and was reaching for the light switch and strong pair of hands reached out of the darkness to enfold him.

As Quatre's eyes got accustomed to the dark he saw that candles were lit all over the room. "Trowa?" Quatre said. "Shhh, My beloved. No need for words." Trowa gently claimed Quatre's lips with his own. When they broke apart Trowa lead Quatre over to the bed. After slipping off his shirt Trowa laid down on the bed. After a moment Quatre followed him; his present for Trowa lying forgotten near the door.

Trowa pulled Quatre closer to him and kissed the blond pilot again. Quatre decided to take advantage of the situation and slowly slipped his tongue into Trowa's mouth. Trowa, surprised at first at Quatre's bold move responded in turn by reaching up to stroke Quatre's neck and ears.

Quatre sighed into Trowa's mouth. Quatre broke the kiss and leaned back on the bed. "Happy Anniversary Trowa. Oh, I got you something." Quatre quickly jumped up and ran to where the present lay on the floor.

Returning to the bed Quatre handed the present to Trowa. Trowa flipped on a small lamp on the bed-side table. He unwrapped the paper to find a plain brown box. "Oh Quatre! What a lovely box." Trowa teased. "Open the box, Baka." Quatre growled back.

When Trowa opened the box there was a Beautiful necklace inside. "Oh Quatre! It's gorgeous!" Trowa exclaimed. The necklace was a bluish silver chain with opals set in it every inch. "Turn it over." Quatre instructed. On the backside was engraved the words Always and Forever. "It means we will be together always and forever." Quatre stated.

"Thank you so much!" Trowa said. He gave Quatre another kiss as he reached into the drawer beside the bed. He pulled out a small box. "Here you are." Quatre pulled of the wrapping to find a box. Opening the box he found a silver key.

"Thanks Trowa." Quatre said a little confused. "What's it to?"

Trowa stood up and pulled Quatre over to the window. He pointed down to the garage. Through the skylight Quatre could see a new car.

"I...Is that for me?" Quatre wondered. "Yup." "Oh, Trowa. You shouldn't have. How will I ever repay you?" Trowa snorted. "You already have with that necklace." "Yeah, but a car?" Quatre asked incredulously.

"Oh. You deserve it cat." Trowa told Quatre with a hug. "So you wanna go for a ride?" Quatre asked Trowa with a sidelong glance.

"Sure. Let's go play with your new toy." He ruffled Quatre's hair. They drove downtown to a nice café and had lunch in a small park across the street. They spent the evening at the movies and got home late. When they arrived back at the house everything was silent. As they walked in the door to the living room though the lights came on and all their friends jumped out from behind furniture.

"SURPRISE!" they yelled. Quatre and Trowa saw a sign that said "HAPPY ANIVERSARY". Trowa shook his head and Quatre laughed. "Aww. You shouldn't have." Quatre said.

Duo came up and slung an arm around Quatre's shoulder. "Of course we shouldn't have," he said, "But we did." He laughed and pulled Quatre towards the group of people at the center of the room. Trowa followed silently.

Slightly after one A.M. people began to drift off to bed and Trowa captured Quatre and pulled him upstairs to go to bed. They went into their separate rooms but soon Trowa went into Quatre's room. Trowa was dressed in a robe of green and Quatre was in a long white night shirt. Trowa came over to Quatre's bed and kissed him goodnight.

"Goodnight Trowa."

"Goodnight Quatre." Trowa said and went back to his room.

About an hour later Trowa woke up screaming. Quatre was awake in an instant and ran into Trowa's room. He shook Trowa. "Trowa! Trowa! What's wrong?" Quatre asked.

Trowa gasped as the memories of his nightmare came back to him. "Quatre." Trowa locked his arms around the little blond. "I dreamed you died."

"There, there Trowa. It was just a dream, go back to sleep." Quatre soothed the other pilot. Trowa lay back and Quatre kissed his forehead.

A few minutes later after Quatre had gone back to his room and had gotten settled in bed when he heard someone enter. He smiled, he could tell it was Trowa by the way he walked.

"Quatre?"

"Hmm?"

"Could I sleep with you?"

Quatre grinned. "Sure Trowa."

Quatre felt Trowa's warmth next to him as Trowa slid onto the bed. He smiled to himself and snuggled up to Trowa.

"Trowa?"

"Hmm?"

"I love you."

"I know Cat. I love you too. Don't ever leave me k?"

"Alright. G'night"

"Goodnight."

Trowa felt Quatre snuggle in next to his chest and kissed the boys hair. They both fell into a content sleep holding each other close.