Valentine's Day
By: Alicia Maxwell Winner
Disclaimer: If I owned Gundam Wing don't you think I'd be living in some big mansion making this story into a motion picture and being continuously asked for autographs?
A/N: This involves the gundam pilots' children so to avoid confusion I've made a list of the parents and ages of each-
Heero and Relena- Yoshiyuki(4yrs.) and Melissa(7yrs.)
Quatre and Alicia- Kristina(7yrs.) and Jason(6yrs. Advanced learner)
Duo and Hildie- Dan and Heroki(7yrs.) and Hildie and Jessica(5yrs.)
Trowa and Cathy- Blair and Toki(7yrs.) and Katerina(6yrs.)
Wufei and Sally- Tsái-Shen(7yrs.)
"Okay class, go put your valentines in the mailboxes on the windowsill," the teacher instructed. Suddenly the students began flocking to the tissue box mailboxes they had made earlier or- at least- most of them did.
"Such a stupid holiday," Heroki complained.
"Yeah if we have to have such a dumb holiday the least they could do is give us the day off," his slightly older brother Dan yawned.
"Love, feh! What a stupid emotion!"
"Well isn't it obvious you were raised by Wufei?" Toki laughed.
"Shut up Barton!" Tsái-Shen barked.
"Which one of us?" Blair asked.
"Your stupid counterpart of course!"
"He's not my counterpart, he's my brother and he isn't stupid."
"If he ain't dumb why's his tongue stuck to an ice cube?" Dan cocked an eyebrow.
"Hmm?" Blair turned to his brother who was desperately trying to pull an ice cube off his tongue. "Toki! Where the hell did you get an ice cube?!"
"Ooh Blair cursed…," Heroki teased.
"Oh shut it Maxwell. I've heard you say much worse."
"Which one of us?" Dan asked mocking Blair.
"Both of you. We've all heard you two use almost every word in the book," Jason said with his nose still shoved in a textbook.
"Hey where's your sis, Winner?" Dan looked over at Kristina's empty seat.
"Windowsill. She came in with a whole stack of valentines this morning."
"Don't tell me she actually believes this is a good holiday," Heroki cocked an eyebrow.
"Nah she's just strange like her mother," Toki mumbled over the ice cube.
"How can you be so cruel as to call your own aunt strange?" Melissa scolded.
"Easy Yuy- Aunt Alicia encourages us to call her strange," Blair explained.
"Oh well… that's bizarre," Melissa blinked.
"What did you expect? Aunt 'Licia is princess of the wolves. Of course she's gonna act strange," Blair yawned.
"Valentine's Day sucks," Dan retreated to the original topic.
"It's not that bad. Let's you know who to avoid for the rest of your life at least," Melissa giggled.
"Okay kids you can go check your mailboxes now," the teacher said.
"Here guys," Kristina came over and dropped the boxes she was carrying onto the floor. "I was over there anyway so I figured I'd save you all a trip. Now let's see… Dan… Heroki… Toki… Blair… Melissa… Jason… Wufei's stupid son… and me," Kristina distributed the boxes.
"Take a look at this," Dan dumped out a pile of cards from his box. "One more reason why I hate this holiday."
"Dang you got a lot."
"So did I," Heroki notified the others as he peered into his box.
"My mom says your dad used to have an actual fan club following him around because so many girls thought he was cute. Maybe genes don't skip a generation."
"Or maybe it was just a mix-up cause I only see girls staring dreamily at Jason," Melissa said. Jason's face hid deeper in his textbook.
"Not a chance. Check this out," Kristina overturned Jason's box, pouring out about a dozen cards.
"Do we even have that many girls in this class?" Toki asked.
"Toki, bite your tongue," Kristina ordered. Toki did as commanded and the ice cube once stuck to his tongue went flying across the floor. "Now what were you asking?"
"Do we even have that many girls in this class?" Toki asked again.
"There's thirteen cards and thirteen girls in our class."
"Thirteen? I only count eleven," Tsái-Shen said. Melissa coughed. "Oh yes sorry. Twelve."
"Excuse me Chang but you're missing the biggest one of all!"
"Oh really? You mean you Kristina? With your manners you aren't even fit to be called a human."
"Well same to you, you greasy-haired jerk!" Kristina stuck out her tongue and lowered her eyelid. "We'll see if you ever get a card from me again."
Chang's face froze in shock and began to pale. He overturned his box- one card- from Kristina.
"Read it," Kristina insisted. The boy opened the envelope and read.
"Dear Wufei's dorky son- I really don't like you much and I can see you feel the same about me. So I decided to send you this Valentine to tell you that you and this holiday both really stink- Kristina Winner who will hate your stinking guts forever," he read mentally. "Winner, I was raised not to hit girls but I've got a strong urge to forget that right now," he growled.
"Don't be mad. I wrote relatively the same thing to everyone other than Toki and Blair," Kristina replied.
"YOU WHAT!?!" Kristina's cousins her brother and Melissa all shouted as they reached into their piles of letters to find hers. She hated Chang more than anything- how could her letter to him have been so mild as to compare to what she had written them?
Kristina trudged into the house at three as usual. Behind her entered her angry friends and family, not to mention the 'greasy-haired jerk', who were still giving her the cold shoulder for the mean messages she had written them all. Toki and Blair, the only two who had gotten good messages, weren't really upset with her at all but for fear of getting beat up by the others, they gave Kristina the cold shoulder too.
"Oi Kristina, Jason, you're home," Alicia greeted her children. "I see you brought the whole troop over."
"Mom, Kristina wrote us all mean letters," Jason told her.
"Is that true Kristina?" Alicia's face hardened.
"Y-y-y-yes," Kristina gulped in fear of what her punishment would be. No TV for a week? Grounded for three days? What?
"Then apologize," Alicia told her.
"What?" Kristina asked in disbelief.
"Hey I wrote some pretty nasty letters in my day too. The thing is you should always apologize."
"Okay mom," Kristina turned to the others. "I'm sorry guys."
"I hope you are! You said my four-year-old brother who can't speak looks like Einstein compared to me!" Melissa yelled.
"Heh… I used that one myself except it was Treize I was writing and I said a newborn looked like Einstein compared to him. And I also wrote something in there about ripping out his guts-- which I never ever want to hear any of you say!" Alicia said.
"Hey kids," Quatre came down the stairs. "How'd school go today?"
"Valentine's day stinks," Heroki said flatly.
Alicia and Quatre looked at each other and laughed.
"Kristina, Jason, insane doesn't even begin to describe your parents," Dan said.
"You kids only hate Valentine's cause you're young. Trust me, you'll all love it when you get older," Alicia said once she managed to stop laughing.
"Excuse me Alicia but if I intend to become a Buddhist monk when I grow up does that statement still pertain to me?" Tsái-Shen asked.
"Maybe, maybe not," Quatre replied putting his one arm around Alicia.
"Valentine's Day makes me sick," Dan remarked.
"And it kills hundreds of trees," Jason said. All the kids blinked at him cluelessly. "Well it does. What did you think paper was made from, thin air?"
"While you're ecological concern is well based Jason, Valentine's Day is about love not paper," Alicia answered.
The children quickly resolved to make retching noises.
"I hope you all know that love is the only reason why you exist right now. If I hadn't fallen in love with my Q-chan, Jason and Kristina wouldn't exist and the same for the rest of you and your parents," Alicia said.
More retching noises.
"Hey Alicia, Hildie and Duo are usually home from work by now and Heero has today off- what do you say to calling in reinforcements?"
"I think that's a good idea," Alicia replied.
Alicia and Quatre proceeded to call Duo and Hildie and Heero asking them for help in trying to convince the kids that love was not disgusting. Duo and Heero agreed to come but Hildie had to stay home because one of her younger twins was ill and the other was having trouble understanding why the alphabet couldn't go ABC_E_GHIJ _ _N….
While Alicia and Quatre awaited the arrival of Duo and Heero, they sat the children down in the living room, handed out the typical after-school snacks, and then decided to tempt the fates.
The two sat down infront of the children. Quatre kissed Alicia on the forehead.
No reaction from the children.
Quatre kissed Alicia on the cheek and then the other.
Still no reaction.
Quatre shrugged and kissed Alicia on the lips.
Retching noises started up again.
"Now how is a kiss on the lips disgusting when a kiss on the cheek isn't?" Alicia asked.
"Because you can't get Mono from a kiss on the cheek," Jason replied.
"How does he know what Mono is?" Alicia and Quatre asked each other. "I certainly didn't tell him."
"Because a kiss on the cheek is a sign of affection and a kiss on the lips is a sign of love," Jason altered his answer.
"The Mono answer made much more sense," Alicia notified him.
"Alicia, I say we give this up. Just roll over. There's no point in trying to define red for a blind man."
"I suppose you're right Quatre-kun. I'm gonna go get changed," Alicia sighed and stood up. She walked up the stairs.
"Hey Dad, what did you get Mom for Valentine's day?" Jason asked.
"You'll see any second now," Quatre replied.
"Roses and a pendant! Oh wow! Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you Quatre-chan!" Alicia ran back down the stairs carrying the pendant and the roses in her hand and hugged Quatre.
"Maybe Valentine's Day isn't so bad," Dan said.
"WHAT!?" the other kids shrieked.
"NANI!?!" Melissa, who was slower to react, screeched.
"Play it cool guys. If we don't pretend that we think Valentine's is cool they'll keep us here all day and make us listen to stupid love stories from when they were in their teens," Dan mumbled to the others.
"Very, very good point," Kristina agreed.
THE END
