Title: Encounters of the Duo Kind3/? *Quatre's encounter* Author: Opal Pairings: None Warnings: Cuteness...Youngins causing trouble to their mentors, a Duo on the loose, and each pilots encounter with him. Disclaimers: Not mine, no money being made here, please do not sue! Notes: Ahh we have made it to Quatre, more fun on the way.

Encounters of the Duo Kind

H stared at his cooling cup of coffee, no quite ready to go back to his pupil. It was sometimes hard to deal with a child, who thought that space was beautiful, and sand, and rocks, and spiders, and buggers. Tossing back the rest of his coffee, H waddled out of the lounge and stood outside the door of where Quatre would be waiting, marker in hand, "Beautiful" scrawled all over the place, in large, red letters. He still wasn't entirely sure where he got that blasted marker. Turning away from the door he headed back to the lounge. The coffee he had was not enough to prepare him for the sight of that room. He needed something a little stronger to hold him over.
Quatre, armed with one red, permanent marker, stood on a chair, and reached as far as he could, and began to write "beautiful" again. The red from the marker was everywhere, on his shirt, his pants, and most of all it covered the walls. Luckily for H, the ceiling was just out of the young blonde's reach. Giggling, Quatre, hopped off the chair, and opened the door, only to come face to face with a boy wearing black, and dust. His long hair was draped over his shoulder, and smile plastered to his face. "Whoops, wrong room." He giggled.
"Who are you? Do you come here and play too? I'm Quatre Rabberba Winner, what's your name?" He smiled, holding his head high.
"I'm Duo Maxwell, I come here, because G n' Howard make me." Looking in the room Duo stared at the words on the wall. The words "sand", and "rock" were side by side. "What's Sandrock?" Duo asked walking in the room, and stopped in his tracks. Staring at the wall, Duo giggled. "Is beautiful your favorite word?" He snickered.
"Sandrock?" Quatre looked at the two words and giggled. "Oops, its supposed two separate words. I grew up on the desert and I love sand, its beautiful. Especially in the morning, but I like rocks, they are fun to climb. On Earth there are these rocks that looked like they are painted. I think they were found in Arizona. But they were beautiful too, very beautiful." Taking his marker out again, Quatre began to scribble "beautiful" on the floor. "If I ever get a puppy I'll name him Sandrock."
Duo began to dig in his pockets and found a large purple marker. "Here, I found this on G's desk, you can have it, besides, there is too much red, it needs more to it." Duo smiled and handed him the marker.
Quatre's eyes went wide, and cradled the marker in his hands as if it were a small animal that would try to escape his grasp. Popping the top off Quatre grabbed Duo's hand and wrote "Beautiful" on it. "Thank you. This color is stunning. Purple is so pretty. Thank you Duo."
Duo smiled and took up the red marker; on Quatre's small hands he wrote "sand" and "rocks". "There, now you are all set to go. I have to go though. G is probably flipping out by now." His grin increased in size. "Poor bastard. Bye Quatre. Have fun with the purple!" Duo said waving as he walked out of the room. As he zipped down the hallway he bumped into H, looking up Duo smiled. "There is a kid down there, he's got a marker and is writing "Beautiful" everywhere. Most of it was in permanent red marker. But now he has purple, and looky, he even wrote "beautiful" on me! Well see ya later mister. Have a Beautiful day!" Duo said scooting around him, and skipped down the hall.
"Great." The doctor said, heading back for the lounge. He knew he was going to need more caffeine.

TBC....

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