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Part 7
White streaked across the sky before Duo got hit directly on the back with a snowball.
"Gotcha!" Quatre exclaimed already making another ball.
"Aw, your dead!" Duo exclaimed ducking from another ball as he quickly made one himself and fired.
Everyone had decided to go outside for a while. Mariemaia was sledding with Noin, Une, Hilde, Dorothy, Zechs, and Treize; while the others were doing anything possible to busy themselves. Relena was reading a book she had gotten from her brother and Noin, while sitting on a wooden swing with Heero outstretched beside her, with his head on her lap, reading his own book.
He looked over to watch Quatre and Duo for a while, seeing Trowa and Wufei join in on the fight and saw another white streak hurtling towards where he and Relena were.
"Duck," he said.
Knowing how Heero was always right about things like that, Relena didn't even hesitate and bent her head down. Heero sneaked in a tiny kiss just as the snowball whizzed above them.
"Watch where you throw those things!!" He called.
"Sorry Heero!" Quatre called back. Relena just shook her head and laughed, then looked up again to see yet another one. She closed her book and a split second later Heero's hand shot up and caught the frozen ball.
"That's it," he said getting up. He aimed right for Duo's back and sent the ball whizzing through the air. It hit Duo directly and sent him tumbling to the ground with a thud.
"Itai...." he whined as his hand went to rub the spot where the frozen ball hit him. "That hurt!"
"Exactly," Heero stated as he started packing snow for some more ammo. Relena went and set the books just inside the door, then leaned back against it to watch the show, ducking a few times from incoming natural missiles.
As she watched, she slowly began to notice that Heero always had the upper hand. It was four against one, but he always seemed to duck, fire, and hit directly.
Suddenly Heero felt something cold slam against the back of his head. The others froze immediately and he turned around to see Relena standing there tossing up a snowball like you would a regular baseball. "How about a little more competition?" she asked slyly.
Heero smiled wickedly and fired a snowball directly at her, although a little softer than he was to the others. She easily ducked and fired another herself. This had a direct hit to the chest even though he had tried to dodge it. "Come on, Heero!" she exclaimed. "I know that you can do better than that!" At that Heero fired another, while the others decided to sit down and enjoy the show. But he had fired it at the same rate he was to his other friends and it hit Relena directly in the shoulder. She fell, clutching it like she was injured.
"I can't believe he hit her!" Trowa exclaimed as Heero realized what he had done and ran over to Relena.
"Nice shot..." she gasped.
"Oh, god, I'm so sorry!"
"Don't be..." Relena said. "...at me that is. You should be saying sorry to yourself." She had said that like nothing had happened as her hand that was clutching her shoulder went back to its side and down on the ground. "You're getting soft." She said as she stuffed snow in Heero's face to catch him off guard and then stuck snow down the back of his coat and shirt.
"Ahh! Not funny!!!" He screamed while falling to his back.
"Yes it is!!!" Duo exclaimed as Relena started throwing snow on him like it was water. He started to do the same since she wasn't giving him enough time to pack some more.
"No fair!!" He exclaimed.
"Fair? You want fair? Fine! I'll give you fair!" She looked over at the others and winked. "FIRE!!!!!!" At that everyone started to pound Heero with snowballs, not giving him enough time to react.
Now, those who were sledding had stopped to watch the little event.
"They've ganged up on Heero!!" Mariemaia exclaimed laughing.
"Yes, it looks like your sister is quite the actress, Zechs," Treize commented.
"It seems so!" He laughed.
"But wait, something is happening!" Dorothy exclaimed as Heero took a running start at Relena and tackled her into a nearby snow drift, sending tons of snow flying up into the air and landing on top of them, covering them completely with a few inches. But Heero had stopped most of it and had packed it above them with his free hand while his other was tickling Relena.
"So you are ticklish!" He exclaimed as he finished making a mini fort just large enough for their bodies. He could hear the others calling them, but the snow was so tightly packed that there was no way they would be able to get through without some help from the inside. Once the snow wall was finished his other hand went down and joined in on the tickling as Relena was yelling at him to stop.
"No way! You hit me, now I'm getting you back!"
"Fine!!" she exclaimed as she forced Heero onto his back, since the hole was big enough, and her hands went through the front opening to his jacket and started tickling him. "Looks like you're ticklish too!"
They laughed and spent a long time tickling each other before Heero leaned up suddenly and kissed Relena fully. The tickling stopped as the kiss deepened. Relena pushed back Heero's coat and ran her fingers just slightly below the belt line. They could feel water dripping onto their bodies as the snow fort began to melt and Heero broke the kiss. "We have to get out of here before we run out of air and the others realize what's going on."
"What do you suggest?"
"We can't go out the way we came, because then we'd get asked too many questions."
"So? What should we do?"
A smile spread on Heero's lips as he realized that a tiny window to the basement was right by them. "Trick them, what else?"
"How do we do that?"
"By going through this window here," he answered, rubbing the snow away from a certain spot revealing the window.
"Gotcha."
In about a few minutes they had successfully opened and climbed through the window and had repacked the snow making it look like the window wasn't even there. After that was complete they went upstairs and dried off, then made some hot cocoa for everyone else, as an apology for whatever might happen. They looked out the window to see that almost everyone was crowded around the snow bank. Almost... some were headed in with smiles on their faces because they knew that Heero wouldn't bring any danger upon Relena, and that they were probably fine; it was mostly the ones that were sledding. They went through the back doors to see that Heero and Relena were already setting out the cocoa for everyone.
"Took ya long enough!" Relena exclaimed smiling.
"Just don't tell the others," Heero said sitting back down on the love seat with his book.
"Okay!" Mariemaia said, "But you do realize that every time only one of you gets up from that seat, and then you sit back down, you have to kiss again."
"Okay," Relena shrugged as she, too, sat back down and she and Heero kissed lightly.
"What, no fireworks?" Hilde asked.
"Not this time," Heero answered opening his book.
Just then Quatre ran in exclaiming, "Zechs! They're not there! We broke through the snow, but they were gone!" He didn't say anymore when he saw Heero's hand wave from the other side of the love seat. Quatre walked over and looked at them shocked.
"We climbed in through a basement window," Relena explained. "If you were to look, the puddles of water are probably still down there."
"Oh!" Quatre chuckled.
"Just don't tell the others yet," she added.
"Fine!" Quatre walked back to the back door and yelled down, since it was on a high porch, "I'm staying in here! You guys keep looking!" Then he shut the door, took his coat off, and took one of the cups set aside for him. "Thanks for the warm up."
"No problem," Heero said, turning a page.
Mariemaia yawned. "Well, I'm going to bed. See you all tomorrow. Tell the others Merry Christmas for me."
"Have a good sleep, dear. Merry Christmas," Une said as Mariemaia went upstairs to her room.
"You really have taken on a motherly figure to her," Zechs said smiling.
"Of course," she answered smiling while looking at Treize who was smiling back.
Then they all sat in their chairs or on the couches, taking Heero and Relena's example and starting to read the books they had brought.
A while later the others had given up, come in, and felt totally stupid when they saw that they had frozen for nothing.
"Got 'cha," Heero and Relena said again.
"Injustice!" Wufei yelled while grabbing the cocoa set aside for him and stomped off towards his room. "Let me guess, I've missed the kiss again, right?" Duo asked.
"Yep," Heero answered and then looked at Relena who winked.
"But if you want to see one," she said, "I guess that wouldn't be a problem."
"Really!?"
"I don't see why not," Relena answered as she pulled a shocked Heero closer to her and kissed him longingly. Then she broke off leaving a dazed Heero sitting there, shaking his head to try and get his sense back.
"I've seen better," Duo commented dryly as he grabbed his cocoa and sat down.
/You've seen better?!/ Heero thought. /You weren't on my end of it!/
"Well, it's late. I should really be getting to bed as well," Relena said as she got up and stretched. "Good night."
"Good night, Relena," Quatre and Zechs said at the same time.
As soon as Relena had gotten upstairs, Heero was already beginning to miss her warmth. Quatre went over and kneeled next to him.
"Heero..." he whispered. "I know you are planning to spend the night. But do you want a separate room, or do you want to share the one with Relena?"
Heero stared at his friend. He hadn't given the subject much thought; he'd just assumed–
"– one bedroom is fine," he whispered. "And I'll be sure to lock it just in case."
"Alright," Quatre smiled. "Are you going to bed now, or are you going to stay up for a while?"
He thought about that for a few seconds. That 'sweet reward' of his still needed to be given. Shutting the book, he stood and said, "I'm turning in for the night right now. Good night. And Merry Christmas, thanks for letting me stay."
"It's no problem. Merry Christmas, and good night, Heero."
Heero quietly shut the door behind him and locked it as he entered the room. So what if Zechs didn't approve, he didn't care. And besides, after a kiss like that, anyone would face any danger to get another one. Heero slipped out of his clothes and into the ones that Quatre had given him for the night before sliding under the covers. Placing an arm around Relena, he kissed from her shoulder blade up to her neck.
"You're driving me insane," he whispered, drawing her closer to his body, her back practically touching his chest.
"Glad you liked it," Relena chuckled, she wasn't sleeping anyway.
As she turned, Heero shifted his weight to lie on top of her.
"What ever happened to that 'sweet reward' I was supposed to get?" she asked, mocking innocence.
"You're getting it... right now," he answered, taking her lips fully, savoring every moment of it.
"And my brother?" Relena asked as Heero placed kisses along her neck.
"I could care less about what your brother thinks," he answered as he slid his tongue along her neck.
"Mmm... and what are we doing tomorrow?"
"Going home," he answered as he kissed her lips gently.
"Home?"
"Home."
White streaked across the sky before Duo got hit directly on the back with a snowball.
"Gotcha!" Quatre exclaimed already making another ball.
"Aw, your dead!" Duo exclaimed ducking from another ball as he quickly made one himself and fired.
Everyone had decided to go outside for a while. Mariemaia was sledding with Noin, Une, Hilde, Dorothy, Zechs, and Treize; while the others were doing anything possible to busy themselves. Relena was reading a book she had gotten from her brother and Noin, while sitting on a wooden swing with Heero outstretched beside her, with his head on her lap, reading his own book.
He looked over to watch Quatre and Duo for a while, seeing Trowa and Wufei join in on the fight and saw another white streak hurtling towards where he and Relena were.
"Duck," he said.
Knowing how Heero was always right about things like that, Relena didn't even hesitate and bent her head down. Heero sneaked in a tiny kiss just as the snowball whizzed above them.
"Watch where you throw those things!!" He called.
"Sorry Heero!" Quatre called back. Relena just shook her head and laughed, then looked up again to see yet another one. She closed her book and a split second later Heero's hand shot up and caught the frozen ball.
"That's it," he said getting up. He aimed right for Duo's back and sent the ball whizzing through the air. It hit Duo directly and sent him tumbling to the ground with a thud.
"Itai...." he whined as his hand went to rub the spot where the frozen ball hit him. "That hurt!"
"Exactly," Heero stated as he started packing snow for some more ammo. Relena went and set the books just inside the door, then leaned back against it to watch the show, ducking a few times from incoming natural missiles.
As she watched, she slowly began to notice that Heero always had the upper hand. It was four against one, but he always seemed to duck, fire, and hit directly.
Suddenly Heero felt something cold slam against the back of his head. The others froze immediately and he turned around to see Relena standing there tossing up a snowball like you would a regular baseball. "How about a little more competition?" she asked slyly.
Heero smiled wickedly and fired a snowball directly at her, although a little softer than he was to the others. She easily ducked and fired another herself. This had a direct hit to the chest even though he had tried to dodge it. "Come on, Heero!" she exclaimed. "I know that you can do better than that!" At that Heero fired another, while the others decided to sit down and enjoy the show. But he had fired it at the same rate he was to his other friends and it hit Relena directly in the shoulder. She fell, clutching it like she was injured.
"I can't believe he hit her!" Trowa exclaimed as Heero realized what he had done and ran over to Relena.
"Nice shot..." she gasped.
"Oh, god, I'm so sorry!"
"Don't be..." Relena said. "...at me that is. You should be saying sorry to yourself." She had said that like nothing had happened as her hand that was clutching her shoulder went back to its side and down on the ground. "You're getting soft." She said as she stuffed snow in Heero's face to catch him off guard and then stuck snow down the back of his coat and shirt.
"Ahh! Not funny!!!" He screamed while falling to his back.
"Yes it is!!!" Duo exclaimed as Relena started throwing snow on him like it was water. He started to do the same since she wasn't giving him enough time to pack some more.
"No fair!!" He exclaimed.
"Fair? You want fair? Fine! I'll give you fair!" She looked over at the others and winked. "FIRE!!!!!!" At that everyone started to pound Heero with snowballs, not giving him enough time to react.
Now, those who were sledding had stopped to watch the little event.
"They've ganged up on Heero!!" Mariemaia exclaimed laughing.
"Yes, it looks like your sister is quite the actress, Zechs," Treize commented.
"It seems so!" He laughed.
"But wait, something is happening!" Dorothy exclaimed as Heero took a running start at Relena and tackled her into a nearby snow drift, sending tons of snow flying up into the air and landing on top of them, covering them completely with a few inches. But Heero had stopped most of it and had packed it above them with his free hand while his other was tickling Relena.
"So you are ticklish!" He exclaimed as he finished making a mini fort just large enough for their bodies. He could hear the others calling them, but the snow was so tightly packed that there was no way they would be able to get through without some help from the inside. Once the snow wall was finished his other hand went down and joined in on the tickling as Relena was yelling at him to stop.
"No way! You hit me, now I'm getting you back!"
"Fine!!" she exclaimed as she forced Heero onto his back, since the hole was big enough, and her hands went through the front opening to his jacket and started tickling him. "Looks like you're ticklish too!"
They laughed and spent a long time tickling each other before Heero leaned up suddenly and kissed Relena fully. The tickling stopped as the kiss deepened. Relena pushed back Heero's coat and ran her fingers just slightly below the belt line. They could feel water dripping onto their bodies as the snow fort began to melt and Heero broke the kiss. "We have to get out of here before we run out of air and the others realize what's going on."
"What do you suggest?"
"We can't go out the way we came, because then we'd get asked too many questions."
"So? What should we do?"
A smile spread on Heero's lips as he realized that a tiny window to the basement was right by them. "Trick them, what else?"
"How do we do that?"
"By going through this window here," he answered, rubbing the snow away from a certain spot revealing the window.
"Gotcha."
In about a few minutes they had successfully opened and climbed through the window and had repacked the snow making it look like the window wasn't even there. After that was complete they went upstairs and dried off, then made some hot cocoa for everyone else, as an apology for whatever might happen. They looked out the window to see that almost everyone was crowded around the snow bank. Almost... some were headed in with smiles on their faces because they knew that Heero wouldn't bring any danger upon Relena, and that they were probably fine; it was mostly the ones that were sledding. They went through the back doors to see that Heero and Relena were already setting out the cocoa for everyone.
"Took ya long enough!" Relena exclaimed smiling.
"Just don't tell the others," Heero said sitting back down on the love seat with his book.
"Okay!" Mariemaia said, "But you do realize that every time only one of you gets up from that seat, and then you sit back down, you have to kiss again."
"Okay," Relena shrugged as she, too, sat back down and she and Heero kissed lightly.
"What, no fireworks?" Hilde asked.
"Not this time," Heero answered opening his book.
Just then Quatre ran in exclaiming, "Zechs! They're not there! We broke through the snow, but they were gone!" He didn't say anymore when he saw Heero's hand wave from the other side of the love seat. Quatre walked over and looked at them shocked.
"We climbed in through a basement window," Relena explained. "If you were to look, the puddles of water are probably still down there."
"Oh!" Quatre chuckled.
"Just don't tell the others yet," she added.
"Fine!" Quatre walked back to the back door and yelled down, since it was on a high porch, "I'm staying in here! You guys keep looking!" Then he shut the door, took his coat off, and took one of the cups set aside for him. "Thanks for the warm up."
"No problem," Heero said, turning a page.
Mariemaia yawned. "Well, I'm going to bed. See you all tomorrow. Tell the others Merry Christmas for me."
"Have a good sleep, dear. Merry Christmas," Une said as Mariemaia went upstairs to her room.
"You really have taken on a motherly figure to her," Zechs said smiling.
"Of course," she answered smiling while looking at Treize who was smiling back.
Then they all sat in their chairs or on the couches, taking Heero and Relena's example and starting to read the books they had brought.
A while later the others had given up, come in, and felt totally stupid when they saw that they had frozen for nothing.
"Got 'cha," Heero and Relena said again.
"Injustice!" Wufei yelled while grabbing the cocoa set aside for him and stomped off towards his room. "Let me guess, I've missed the kiss again, right?" Duo asked.
"Yep," Heero answered and then looked at Relena who winked.
"But if you want to see one," she said, "I guess that wouldn't be a problem."
"Really!?"
"I don't see why not," Relena answered as she pulled a shocked Heero closer to her and kissed him longingly. Then she broke off leaving a dazed Heero sitting there, shaking his head to try and get his sense back.
"I've seen better," Duo commented dryly as he grabbed his cocoa and sat down.
/You've seen better?!/ Heero thought. /You weren't on my end of it!/
"Well, it's late. I should really be getting to bed as well," Relena said as she got up and stretched. "Good night."
"Good night, Relena," Quatre and Zechs said at the same time.
As soon as Relena had gotten upstairs, Heero was already beginning to miss her warmth. Quatre went over and kneeled next to him.
"Heero..." he whispered. "I know you are planning to spend the night. But do you want a separate room, or do you want to share the one with Relena?"
Heero stared at his friend. He hadn't given the subject much thought; he'd just assumed–
"– one bedroom is fine," he whispered. "And I'll be sure to lock it just in case."
"Alright," Quatre smiled. "Are you going to bed now, or are you going to stay up for a while?"
He thought about that for a few seconds. That 'sweet reward' of his still needed to be given. Shutting the book, he stood and said, "I'm turning in for the night right now. Good night. And Merry Christmas, thanks for letting me stay."
"It's no problem. Merry Christmas, and good night, Heero."
Heero quietly shut the door behind him and locked it as he entered the room. So what if Zechs didn't approve, he didn't care. And besides, after a kiss like that, anyone would face any danger to get another one. Heero slipped out of his clothes and into the ones that Quatre had given him for the night before sliding under the covers. Placing an arm around Relena, he kissed from her shoulder blade up to her neck.
"You're driving me insane," he whispered, drawing her closer to his body, her back practically touching his chest.
"Glad you liked it," Relena chuckled, she wasn't sleeping anyway.
As she turned, Heero shifted his weight to lie on top of her.
"What ever happened to that 'sweet reward' I was supposed to get?" she asked, mocking innocence.
"You're getting it... right now," he answered, taking her lips fully, savoring every moment of it.
"And my brother?" Relena asked as Heero placed kisses along her neck.
"I could care less about what your brother thinks," he answered as he slid his tongue along her neck.
"Mmm... and what are we doing tomorrow?"
"Going home," he answered as he kissed her lips gently.
"Home?"
"Home."