~ ^_^ No I haven't quit on this story! Just been....out doing others and trying to plot out what to do with this one!! ^_~ Hope no one is mad about the delay ^^** Sorry! Duo and Heero are together finally so now to move on into Operation Garden!!! ^O^ On your marks.....get set.....GROW! jk ^^***
Flowers From The Heart
Part 6
By Maria
~~~~~Midnight~~~~~
"Remind me never to be up this late...or what ever you want to call it. I'm tired. What are you going to plan out right now anyways Trowa??" Duo yawned and sat down the couch in the den.
Trowa leaned against the wall by the door. "Well Operation Garden..."
"Guess you're clueless like me. Oh yeah the list...I've brought it with me. You have quite a bit of flower hunting to do. Of course I shall be helping you with it as well. Why don't we start that tomorrow...if I live that is. We could split the list in half and find the shops that sell them. Then order and have them put in storage till we can get Quatre put of the house and all the flowers bought! What do you think?" Duo sat up momentarily.
"Sounds fine...but that's pretty much what we had already." Trowa said watching the door.
"We did?" Duo grinned and flopped back down on the couch. "Then what's next for the plan."
"I think the morning that I'm going to be working on the garden you and I should get up and make breakfast and then clean up after breakfast. Leaving Quatre with none of it to do. Then after that is when you ask him to go with you to where ever you want to take him. Don't tire him out though Duo! Keep him out of the house at least until dinner. I'll see if I can make dinner that night as well. The only thing...Heero and Wu Fei will be around." Trowa stared down at the floor.
"Don't worry about Heero. I can drag him along with us as well!" Duo beamed. "Heck I'll take them all with me! Make them go into clothing stores and trying out new styles..." Duo laughed. "I won't hear the end of Wu Fei's complaints but that's just fine with me!"
Trowa laughed softly. "Fine then tomorrow we start to look for the flowers and placing orders for them. I suppose we should head to bed then so we can get up early and leave without any trouble."
"What trouble? Ha, well how early...I want to know how much sleep I'm being allowed." Duo stands up. "I have to let Heero know that I'm going shopping with you then. He was a bit jealous of our closeness."
Trowa raises and eyebrow. "Heero was jealous?"
"Yeah he thought there was something between the two of us. Ha ha...that guy is something else." Duo smiles.
"I'm happy that you both are together Duo. You've been most helpful and supportive. So I'm glad you got something in return." Trowa smiles at Duo.
"*blushes* Thanks Trowa! Come on lets get to bed...I was sleeping so peacefully when you woke me up." Duo yawns and stretches.
"Goodnight then Duo." Trowa says to Duo who makes his way upstairs.
"Night Trowa." Duo disappears upstairs.
'Hmm...I really hope we manage to pull this off without any trouble. I owe it to Quatre after what happened to his garden. I should of respected his feelings on how he felt about the garden as well. The past is the past...it's time to look to the future. I must fix what I've done wrong.' Trowa returned upstairs to his room.
~~~~~Next Morning~~~~~~
Duo wakes up at five and groans. 'He didn't tell me what time to get up and now I've woken up at five. I need more sleep.' He rolls out of bed. 'I'll sleep...when I get back.'
Duo goes into the bathroom and takes his shower, brushes his hair and teeth and puts on some nice black jeans and red t-shirt. 'Ah ready to face the day...with five hours lack of sleep. Time to go see Heero.'
Duo walks to the door to the next bedroom and knocks. There was no answer. 'Poor guy must still be asleep. Luck fool! *sweatdrop*' Duo opens the door to Heero's room and looks around. "Heero you in here? Can I come in?" Duo walks in and shuts the door. "Hey Heero wake up I need to teelll..."Duo is grabbed from behind and kissed.
Heero pulls away from Duo and smirks. "Morning. Up earlier than what's normal Duo."
Duo stood foolishly staring at the wall. Heero waved his hand in front of Duo's face a few times to get his attention back to normal.
"I came in here to wake you up and you jump me!! What do I look like a trampoline!" Duo huffed playfully.
"Maybe you do." Heero kissed his cheek lightly. "What was it you needed to tell me Duo?"
"Oh right! Me and Trowa are going to go shopping this morning. I just thought I'd come and tell you about it before I take off and you worry!" Duo smiled up at Heero.
Heero's eyes narrow. "Why are only you two going? Can I come a long with you both?"
"Aahh...I can't say you can or can't. And it's nothing like that! I told you yesterday I care about you Heero! Trowa's my buddy! We shouldn't be gone that long anyways." Duo smiled at Heero's frowning face.
"Hn...fine then." Heero turns to his laptop.
"Heero! Don't be mad! Really...it's not what you keep thinking!" Duo said to Heero's back. 'This is getting me no where. He's too stubborn to listen. I'll get Trowa to help me out.'
Duo leaves Heero's room and walks to Trowa's room and knocks. "Come in.." Duo walks into Trowa's room.
"Hey Trowa you have to come help me with Heero. I told him we were going shopping and he throws a jealous fit at me again. I don't know what to do..." Duo stares at Trowa, who stood in his boxers pulling out a pair of blue jeans and yellow t-shirt.
"Let me get dressed and I'll go help with Heero. Alright Duo?" Trowa turns to Duo.
"Yeah sure man. Trowa?" Duo says still staring.
"What is it, Duo?" Trowa pulls on his jeans.
"Have you always been that well built! Very nice bod I might add. No wonder Quatre's got the hots for you." Duo laughed at Trowa's blushing.
"Yeah..." Trowa pulls on his shirt. "Come on then."
They walk to Heero's room and walk in.
"Heero..." Trowa whispers.
Heero slowly turns around an glares at Trowa. They continue to stare each other down, until Duo gets impatient and stands in between both of them. "Stop it! No staring contests today guys!"
"Sorry." Trowa whispers. "Heero I have no interest in Duo. We are going shopping for the one I love....I need to make amends for what happened to Quatre's garden. And since you and Duo are together now and Duo has volunteered to help me fix my mistake I think you should know about our plans."
"Yeah!" Duo bounces around the room. "It's called Operation Garden! Cool name don't you think?!"
"Duo, keep it down." Trowa whispered.
"Oh yeah. Sorry about that." Duo sits next to Heero and lays his head on Heero's shoulder.
"We are planning on going shopping right now for flowers to replant in Quatre's garden. We already got the list of all the flowers that were in there before it was destroyed and now we have to go into town and try to find them all. After that it's up to Duo to distract Quatre long enough for me to plant all the flowers back in the garden." Trowa explained to Heero.
"Roger that." Duo sweatdrops. "Well I would like to help with this mission."
Duo hangs his head down. "It's not a mission Robo-Heero. Well nothing for you to be all formal about!"
"I would appreciate any help you can offer Heero. And thank you for listening." Trowa says quietly.
Heero nods. "Fine then while you two go shopping I shall remain here and wait to see if there is anything that I can help you both with."
"Why don't you hack into Quatre's computer again and get the list of flowers that he had with in them and start trying to locate those flowers in other cities. Just in case we are unable to find some of them anywhere with in this city! Then we'll have to get to that location and bring the flowers here!" Duo smiled.
"Good idea, Duo." Trowa says.
"Very well. I'll be working on that." Heero turns to his laptop and starts clicking away.
"Alright. Now lets go Trowa." Duo grabs Trowa's arm and drags him out of the room. "Thanks Trowa! You're a great friend!" Duo smiles and walks to the stairs.
Trowa smiles and follows Duo.
~~~~~~BreakFast Table: 7:30 AM~~~~~
"Where are Trowa and Duo?" Quatre asks look at Wu Fei and Heero who sat at the table eating their breakfast.
"I haven't seen or heard from either of the two." Wu Fei says glancing at Heero who was ignoring them. "What about you Heero?
Heero looks over at Wu Fei with his stone face. "I don't know." He said emotionless.
Quatre sat down and sighed. 'Trowa sure has been spending a lot of time with Duo...but Duo and Heero just got together. What could be going on then? It's probably my own fault for pushing Trowa away when he said he was sorry. I over reacted...he must be upset with me.' "Well I'll go check their rooms and see if they're in there."
"Duo's not in his room." Heero muttered. "I've checked already."
"Oh well...I'll see if Trowa is in his then." Quatre walked out of the kitchen.
"Heero? Do you really not know where those two are? I would of thought you would know seeing as Duo and you...are together now." Wu Fei said when Quatre was gone.
"Hn...they probably had something planned and just forgot to mention it to the rest of us. Maybe I mission." Heero said staring at Wu Fei blankly.
"It wasn't a mission I checked. There has been no missions sent. I suppose they both could of left without telling anyone of their plans but then...you should be more upset about it don't you think?" Wu Fei stared back suspiciously.
Heero narrowed his eyes and glared at Wu Fei. "Hn..." Heero got up and left the table.
~~~~~~Trowa's Room~~~~~
Quatre had knock and got no answer from Trowa so he walked in. 'Everything is in order and cleaned up in here. He must of gotten up early and left.' Quatre walks over to Trowa's bed and sits down on it. 'I miss you Trowa, but I don't know if...if I can really trust you to be honest with me anymore. Could it be I am wrong and you do care about me and the garden incident was an accident. Oh Trowa...I'm lost.' Quatre picks up Trowa's pillow and hugs it. He lays his head close to the pillow and picks up Trowa's scent. "Trowa..." Quatre softly cries into Trowa's pillow.
~~~~~In the City~~~~~
"Yes sir I was wondering if you carried any of those flowers on my list and if so if you could possibly hold them for me. Any that are out of stock could you place an order and hold them as well." Duo smiled at the florist.
The guy looks over Duo's list. "Well we have only four of the flowers on this list here and two of them we're out of stock of. I'll place the orders for those two and put the other four in the back frig. till you come by for them. When will they be picked up?" the guy hands Duo his list.
"Well how about the two you're ordering. When those come in I'll swing by and pick up all the flowers you have on hold for me!" Duo grins.
"Sounds fair to me." the guy writes down the order and other forms.
"Which ones were the ones you have here and the ones you're ordering so I can mark them off the list?" Duo asks pulling out a pen.
"Let's see the daffodils, lilacs, rockrose orchids, white orchids, and tulips. The two orchid blossoms are the ones that we have out of stock at the moment. Rockrose Orchids are hard to get, but don't worry we're have them." He looks over the computer dates. "In three days we should have the orchids blossoms in. Come by then."
"Thanks sir! I shall be back in three days for the flowers then Thanks again." Duo smiles and makes his way to the door.
"Sure kid." the florist goes back to filling out the ordering forms.
~~~~~Cafe~~~~~~
Trowa sat back in his chair and waited for Duo to show up. 'Seven flowers out the eleven I have on the list. This is going rather well I have to say. I hope Duo is doing as good as I am with the search for the flowers.'
"Hey waiting for me!?" Duo sat down. "Well I'm here now so let's eat!"
Trowa smiled. "How'd you do Duo?"
"Well so far it's six flowers located and waiting. Four more on my end. How about you?" Duo looked over the menu.
"Great! I have Four more to find as well! *smiles* I thought this would be a lot harder then it is." Trowa picked up his menu.
"I have to agree....things are going well. Waitress!!" Duo grinned and waved his arms around. The young waitress walks over to their table.
"What can I get you?" She smiles.
"I would like a super sub-sandwich!" Duo grin. "And some soup too. Maybe a few slices of that mushroom pizza special you're having! Desert I think a bowl strawberry ice cream with the works would do some wonders! For my drink I would like a diet cola. Need to keep my figure, right?" Duo beamed.
Trowa coughed and hid behind his menu. The waitress stared at Duo wide eyed. "Um...yes." She turns to Trowa expecting him to have a large order as well. "And you?"
"I'll take potato and rice soup please." Trowa handed her his menu. "And a glass of water would be fine."
"Hey! That's not much to eat..." Duo said. "Do you think I could order for him?" He asks the waitress.
"NO! That's alright Duo...I'm happy with what I'm getting." Trowa sat back.
"Yeah fine, but we're working hard here. You should eat more! After all we missed breakfast!" Duo sat back as well and watched the sky.
"Well after going around to any other florist shops and gardening centers we find, we can head back home and give any names of flowers we haven't found to Heero. And he can tell us where to get them. In the mean time let's relax and wait for our food..." Trowa said.
TO BE CONTINUED
~WOOO HOO!! ^_^ Yeah I wrote another part! ^_^ It came out pretty good, if I say so myself! ^_^ Operation Garden is in the works all that's left is getting those flowers and then planting them. Poor Quatre is suffering though...*sniffles*...;_; Heero's in on the plan...Wu Fei...is..suspicious....he's nosey isn't he?? JK. ^_~ Ah so much is going on....Thanks for reading and review people!! ^_^