Disclaimer: the show, the boys and all other characters aren't mine... *blinks as she's being told to be more specific* but they know who I'm talking... *gets threatened with THE foam bat* ack..! Gundam Wing! Gundam Wing and the characters aren't mine!!!

Warnings: hmmmmmm... still no idea... evil Relena is all I can offer... sorry *shrugs* oh yeah, shounen-ai, too... I'd say yaoi... but, uhhh... Quatre says I'm not allowed *grins and shrugs*

Oh yeah, thanks to Lilly for giving me this idea *bows in thanks* thank you for sharing your idea ^_^

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Quatre glanced at the clock again. Nearly 1 am. And not one of the other pilots wanted to sleep.

"Relena's threat really put us all on edge..." Quatre thought. But he couldn't help but smile. As edgy as Duo was, he still leaned peacefully on Heero, trying to fight off his obvious need for sleep.

"Go to sleep, Duo..." Heero said, gently.

"Nn-nn... you can't fight her off alone..." Duo said, with a yawn.

Quatre yawned himself, and leaned back. Relena was halfway around the world. Yet there they all were, sitting in their spacious living room, waiting for the worst.

Then there was a small sound, like something hitting the floor.

All five of the pilots jumped up. Heero, Duo and Trowa had their guns drawn, aiming at the point of sound, the sofa. Wufei stood, in his fighting stance, his katana at the ready. Quatre sighed and crept over to the sofa, and knelt on it, glancing over the back.

"It's just your hat, Duo..." he informed them, as he held up the black cap for emphasis.

All four of them released a collective sigh of relief, and then they all sat back down.

Quatre started to laugh.

"What's so funny?" Trowa asked.

"You guys..." the Arabian responded, covering his mouth with his hand to soften his laughter.

"And how're we amusing?" Wufei asked, frowning slightly.

"We were the most feared enemy OZ had ever had to deal with, and now you're all on edge because of one, as Wufei would put it... 'onna'?"

"Hey, you're nervous too, Cat... admit it..." Duo pointed out.

Quatre smiled, "true... but I'm not the one ready to blow a hole into something..."

"That's a sick joke, Quatre..." Heero said, dryly.

Quatre blinked, confused, then he turned red.

The others started to laugh hysterically.

"Alright, I'll admit we are being a bit paranoid... but why shouldn't we be..?" Duo asked, once their laughter died down. Then he sat down, and out his feet up on the coffee table.

"I agree with Maxwell..." Wufei said, calmly.

"You guys must be forgetting, Relena's pretty far off... and if she were to arrive, her first priority would probably be to sleep..."

"Why is that?" Heero asked, frowning slightly.

"Simply put, Relena wouldn't want to present herself to the One and Only with saddlebags under her eyes..." Trowa said, with a shrug. He smirked wryly, as Heero glared at him.

Duo grinned, "now there's a sight I wouldn't mind seeing..."

"I'd rather not see that onna at all..." Wufei grumbled.

"Hey, think about it, Wu-chan... the little princess, with saddlebags under her eyes... if you never had to see her again, isn't that how you'd want to remember her by..?" Duo asked, with a grin.

"No..."

"Wufei has my support on that one..." Heero said, shortly.

"You guys are missing the entire point..." Quatre said, impatiently.

"Okay, what was the point?" Trowa asked.

"My point is, Relena's not gonna show up, tonight... she doesn't even know where we are now..."

"What would you all say if I left her a note, with our new address and phone number..?" Duo said, smiling meekly.

Heero, Trowa and Wufei's eyes widened. "DUO..!!!"

Quatre shook his head, violently, "please be joking, Duo..!"

Duo rolled his eyes, "yes, I'm joking..."

"How does Relena keep finding us anyways...?" Heero wondered, aloud.

"Who knows..?" Duo said, with a shrug.

"Personally, if I ever found the baka who keeps relaying Heero, and our, whereabouts, I would strangle him, slice him in half, then quarters, then eighths, you all get the gist... then I'd feed him to the sharks..." Wufei said, darkly.

"Ugh, thanks for the lovely image, Wu-chan..."

"You're very welcome, Maxwell..." the Chinese pilot replied, with a small smirk.

***

"What kind of proposition is that..? Hilde asked, impatiently.

"A very good one... Admit it, Hilde, you wanted Duo to yourself ever since you met him, correct?" Relena said, with a knowing smile.

Hilde pursed her lips. Sure, she liked Duo. She liked him a lot, actually. But did she really want to go through with this whole plan?

"Well?"

Hilde scowled, "first of all, I don't like barging into other people's houses, and forcing them to accept me as a guest... and secondly, I don't appear to be getting anything out of this whole thing..."

"Aren't you paying attention? You'll be getting exactly what you want..." Relena said, with a wave of her hand. "You'll be getting Duo..."

Hilde tapped her chin. Okay, as long as no harm was being severely done. Then maybe it wouldn't be too bad.

***

Duo sighed, as he glanced at the clock again, 3 am. He looked around the living room; Quatre was already sleeping peacefully on the loveseat. Trowa was slowly nodding off as he leaned against the wall. Wufei, even though he sat cross-legged on the floor, unmoving, he was wide-awake and alert.

"Must be his meditating..." Duo mused, then he glanced at Heero. The Japanese pilot was relaxing in an easy chair, playing with his gun. Well, not playing, per se. But being the Perfect Soldier, you would consider it playing.

Heero would twirl the gun on his trigger finger, catch it then aim it at a random target, then twirl it again. He would occasionally stop his playing, to check his bullets, and then he'd play with the safety catch, turning it on, then off again. It was a pattern.

Twirl. Catch. Aim. Twirl. Check. On. Off. Twirl. Catch... an endless cycle.

And Duo found it fascinating to watch.

In the middle of On and Off, Heero glanced at him, them smiled, faintly. "Yes?"

"Heh, nothin..." Duo said, shortly, then went back to looking around the room. With a small chuckle, Heero went back to his game.

Wufei opened one eye, "maybe Winner's right..." he said, slowly.

Heero and Duo glanced at the Chinese pilot, "huh?"

"Maybe the onna isn't arriving tonight..."

THUD!

Heero and Duo jumped up, aiming their guns to where Trowa was once standing a few seconds ago. Wufei was on his feet, in his fighting stance again.

Then Trowa popped back up from behind the chair, smiling sheepishly.

"What happened?!" Heero demanded.

"I fell," Trowa said, slowly, unsure if he should've told them.

He shouldn't have.

They were all silent for a second, then Duo burst out laughing. He could just picture it!

Trowa finally falling asleep, then slowly, but surely he'd begin to slide to the side. Resulting in a pleasant fall to wake him back up. Even better, his arms were folded while he was leaning! The image sent Duo into a fit of hysterics.

Duo's laughter caused the blonde boy to open one eye, tiredly. "All of you... just go to sleep..." Quatre murmured, "she's not coming..." then he rolled over, and went back to sleep.

"Not tired, anymore... guys, wanna tell ghost stories..?" Duo said, with an enthusiastic grin.

Wufei rolled his eyes, "pssh..!" he started to scoff. Then it died in his throat as Heero glared at him, warningly.

The Chinese pilot fidgeted. Heero was less homocidal, but he was still very protective of the braided boy.

"I don't know any ghost stories..?" Wufei offered, with an innocent smile.

Duo shrugged, "s' okay... neither do I... oh yeah..! But I did hear this one story..."

Trowa yawned again, then he laid down on the plush carpet and curled up. In a few seconds he was sleeping.

"Alright, this isn't exactly a ghost story..." Duo paused for dramatic effect. It wasn't very effective, considering who his audience was. He sighed; he had to have the stoic pilots' attention. Then he shrugged, beggars couldn't be choosers.

"It's about Rice Krispies..."[1] he told them.

Wufei raised an eyebrow, perplexed. Even Heero had to give his object of affection a slightly odd look.

Duo grinned, then went on.

"Did you know that Rice Krispies are actually dehydrated aliens that whisper evil commands to you when you give them milk..?" the American paused then shrugged, "okay, so I have never heard them, before... but that's the thing..."[2]

Heero smiled in amusement, while Wufei watched Duo, with a raised eyebrow. Then he shook his head and stood up.

"I think I will go to sleep..." he said, shortly, then he started to head upstairs.

"Hey, I'm not done, Wu-chan..!" Duo called after him. Wufei sighed, and leaned on the banister to hear Duo out.

"As I was saying, their leaders had refined and classy names... Like Lilly, Mina, Mumsy, Petunia, Audrey, Nigel, Archibald, and such and such...."

Wufei shook his head, and glanced back at Duo, "Mumsy?" he asked, dryly.

Duo nodded, trying to look serious, "odd as it sounds, they had many followers, because they saw their names as classy and refined, which was exactly what they were aiming for..."

Wufei bit back his laughter, "good night Maxwell, Yuy..." then he headed upstairs.

"Hey, I still wasn't done... man, no respect for suspense and thrillers these days..." Duo said, with a shake of his head.

Heero smiled, "go to sleep, Duo..." he ordered. With a sigh of surrender, Duo lied down on the sofa. Heero sat on the floor, resting his head against the sofa. Within moments, they got to sleep.

***

Trowa frowned slightly. When did his bed get so hard? Groggily, he opened his eyes, and sat up. Oh yeah, they fell asleep in the living room. He looked around. Duo was there, Heero and Quatre, too.

Hm, Wufei was smart enough to head to his room. The silent pilot got to his feet, and started for the kitchen, then he stopped. He could've sworn he saw something pink pull up in the driveway

"Don't look..." he commanded himself. "If you don't look, it's not real..."

But, that was like telling someone not to look down. Trowa whirled around, and looked out the enormous picture window. Seeing a pink limo.

Trowa knew this was very out of character for him. But he felt like doing it.

He screamed.

Heero jumped up, looking around wildly, Duo rolled off the sofa and started crawling around on the floor, in search of a firearm of any kind. Quatre yawned, and rubbed his eyes as he slowly sat up.

"What is it, Trowa...?"

Wufei came charging down the stairs, this time with two katana blades at the ready.

Trowa pointed out the window.

The other four pilots had no idea how to react. Then they decided Trowa's way was best.

They all screamed.

***

Hilde raised an eyebrow. She never heard boys' screaming before. Shrugging, she stepped up to the door and rang the doorbell.

"AUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!" five male voices screamed again.

Then she heard the sounds of running, crashing, thumping. And a few curses. Most in Japanese and Chinese, even a few in Arabian. The rest was in English.

Before Hilde decided to ring the doorbell again, the door swung open. Then Hilde was greeted with two 9mm's, 2 katanas, and even one Uzi. And they were all aimed and held at her head.

Hilde merely stared in shock. Then Duo grinned.

"Hey, Hilde..! What're you doing here?" he said, with a wide, friendly smile.

"Hi Duo... do you greet all of your guests like that?" Hilde asked, perplexed. Duo shrugged and lowered his gun, Wufei put down the katana, and Trowa put down his weapon as well. Heero frowned, not showing any signs of lowering his gun.

"Hey, Hee-chan, take it easy... it's just Hilde...." Duo said, cheerfully.

No response.

Hilde couldn't help but fidget. She just arrived and she already feared for her life.

"How can Relena see this as Heero showing her his feelings..?" Hilde wondered. Duo laughed, and rested his hand on Heero's arm, "alright, we get it... you're a tough soldier, no need to scare our old friends, right?"

Heero glanced at Duo. Hilde's jaw nearly hit the ground, seeing Heero give Duo the smallest yet cutest smile.

Heero lowered the gun, and walked back inside. Wufei and Trowa shrugged and followed. Hilde was lead inside by Duo. She raised an eyebrow once they reached the living room. A platinum-haired teenager peeked out from behind the couch, holding a wooden spoon in a threatening manner.

"Relax, Cat... it's just Hilde..." Duo said, assuringly.

Quatre straightened up, and smiled sheepishly, "sorry..."

Hilde smiled. Duo turned to her, "so Hilde, what brings you here?"

Hilde fidgeted, "ummm... Duo, I know this may seem rude, but I was wondering if it was possible for me to... uhhhh, stay here..?"

Duo blinked.

"For a little while..! A week, tops...!" she added hastily. Duo scratched the back of his head, uncertainly.

"I honestly... would let you, Hilde... but, uhhh... see, there's this small thing with Heero..." Duo started to explain.

***

"Why is she here?" Heero asked, his eyes narrowing as he stared hard at Hilde. Trowa and Wufei shrugged.

"Try not to threaten her, Heero... we just finished with our therapist..." Trowa said, dully.

Heero ignored him, his trigger finger beginning to twitch unhealthily again.

"Yuy, knock it off... Duo likes you, no one else..." Wufei snapped.

Heero glared at Wufei in the corner of his eye, "what did you call him?"

"Uhhh... Maxwell..?"

"Mm-mm..." Trowa said, with a smirk, "you called him Duo..."

"Shut. Up. Barton!" Wufei hissed.

Heero sighed, "never mind... Hilde is my main objective now..." he narrowed his Prussian blue eyes. "Omae o korosu..."

Wufei and Trowa glanced at each other. "Uh-oh..."

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[1] Not mine, I think it's Kellogg's O.o yeah, that's it, I think...

[2] ARIGATOU, LILLY!!! heh, she offered me the Rice Krispies story, thanks again, Lil' ^_^ you're the best..!

Damn this one was so boring! Way to make my reappearance! *shrugs* So sleepy v.v ZzzzzzzZzzzzzZzzzzzzz...

Oh yeah, PS, just so people know. I'm not really back fully, per se. I did this on my friend's computer. mine's still on the fritz. but if I can do this every so often, I should be able to update the others. I'm working on them. Just can't get them up that fast.