Duo is standing in the kitchen, quietly, by himself. Tears are pouring down his face. He makes no attempt to wipe the tears away, no attempt to hide his tears.
From outside Lorethia yells through the door "Hey Maxwell, are you finished slicing those onions, I'm not getting any younger out here!"
Wufei
walks down the stairs, sauntering past Duo, he thumps him on the back "You're
such a WUSS!" he says with obvious disdain in his voice.
From outside Quatre looks at Lorethia, "He might be awhile, he's having a 'MOMENT'
with the onions."
Selene puts down the piping bag she has been using to make rosettes on one of the double chocolate fudge cakes she has made. Walking over to wipe Duo's eyes, Heero comes around the corner "Hey, maybe I should have offered to slice those onions."
Sending Duo outside with the onions he has already sliced "We'll finish these Duo, take these outside." says Selene, volunteering the service of Heero in Duo's place as onion chopper.
With a whole bag of onions still left to chop, Heero soon has tears streaming down his face, but to everyone's surprise Selene remains dry eyed.
Lita stands at the end of the bench, looking on in shocked amazement "I have never seen anyone not cry whilst slicing onions…How are you doing that?"
"Yeah…How?" Heero sobs.
"Well…Actually I'm cheating. I've used dark magic that my brothers taught me to enchant the chopping board to attract all of the vapours to its surface, I have it when my mascara runs this early in the day!"
"Handy," says Mina "How do you know dark magic?" trying not to look too interested.
"Well, my family is very balanced, like the yin and the yang. I am the yin and they are the yang, together we create balance. They would destroy the world, but only to save me. They're interesting boys – one of their powers is to see what evil is coming my way." Selene pauses to hand the chopped onions to Duo.
"So family dinners at your place are interesting then?" Mina says with an interesting smile.
Lita is now standing by the chocolate cake eying off the rosettes "So what magic did you use to form these?" she asks with an edge of sarcasm.
"None." Selene says perkily "Would you like me to show you?"
Lita now looks very interested "Please." is her timid response.
Selene picks up the piping bag. Heero silently wanders outside thinking "Women in the kitchen, just as it should be."
Selene having heard this arrogant thought squirts a stream of red icing at Heero's back, much to the amusement of the girls in the kitchen, the white lights and the gundam pilots at the barbeque.
From the edge of the yard where Hotaru and Kellion are sitting in the shade of a big old oak Hotaru observes "It's good to see that Selene is getting better." leaning in to peck Kellion on the cheek.
Wrapping his arm around Hotaru "And just think what a big role you had in her recovery" Kellion squeezes Hotaru closer to him.
Amara and Michelle wander in through the kitchen just as Selene, Lita and Mina are huddled over the cake, still chuckling about the icing on Heero's back.
"They seem to be getting on well" says Michelle "And Lita is a pretty good judge of character, maybe we shouldn't be so hard on Selene."
"I'm not so sure, I'd still like to get to know her a bit better for myself." Amara says sceptically.
"Really?" says Michelle playfully "How much better? Should I be worried?" Michelle pokes Amara in the ribs making her squeal.
Michelle drags Amara over to where the girls are in the kitchen, just in time to see Mina pipe a very wonky looking rosette.
"I did it!" Mina says proudly, blushing, "I made a flower!"
Amara, Michelle, Mina and Lita continue covering one of the cakes with slightly wonky rosettes until Lorethia yells from outside "Everyone, foods ready!"
The girls proudly parade outside with their cake covered with wonky rosettes, Selene trails behind with her immaculate cake. The gundam pilots and white lights look impressed at the presence of two cakes, they don't appear to notice any imperfection or difference between them.
Serena sits herself down in front of the two cakes a cheeky look on her face "Well I've got my lunch" pulling the cakes closer towards herself "What are you guys having?"
Everyone gets a few laughs out of Serena's remark, sitting down to begin their lunches.
They have been eating and joking around for a few minutes when suddenly Raye begins to look very serious and says "I sense a dark presence." Before she finishes speaking, three black portals open up in the yard.
The sailor scouts get into fighting mode as the gundam pilots pull their guns out, as three dark figures emerge from the dark portals.
Selene and the white lights step in front of the group, Selene holding out her arm to stop any oncoming attack at the dark men.
Selene yells in a puzzled tone "Stop, Don't attack!" she turns to the portals as the figures take on image. "What are you doing here?" Selene turns to the group "These are my Brothers."
