RoboticCity, Poetic Love
Chapter 9: "Please return to me, my Quatre"

The gang arrives at the back stage. There are millions of toys, flowers, candies and other more creative fan gifts lying all over the hallway. There are enoughgifts to open a couple of department stores. The gang make their way through the gifts and enter the changing room. Quatre is sitting there, with a Chinese boy standing next to him.

"Quatre-chan!!!" Omi runs into the room and hugs Quatre tight.

"Omi-chan! Oh, I miss you so much." Quatre says as he hugs back.

"Your music is getting more and more amazing every time I hear it! I mean, you were great before, but today really rails me up! I can't believe you can make me laugh and cry and like that! There are so much more to your music now! You're amazing!!! I was screaming at the finale!!! my heart was pounding so fast!!! How did you come up with all those songs???" Omi says excited. Aya can't help but wonder how canthe small boy talks so fast without breathing.

"I'm happy that you like my music, Omi-chan." Quatre says.

"Are you kidding? I LOVE IT!!!" Omi exclaims.

Quatre smiles and looks at Kiba. "Is that Kiba?" Quatre asks Omi.

"Yeah, he is the one I have been telling you about. Toboe has been really opening up to him..." Omi says as he introduces Kiba to Quatre. Aya looks at Omi and grunts. Everyone is talking about Kiba.

"Hello, it's nice to finally meet you. Omi told me so much about you. Thank you for taking care of Toboe. I was very worried about him." Quatre smiles as he holds out his hand to Kiba. The hand looks so perfect, Kiba is a little hesitating in shaking it.

"The music is amazing. I never hear anything like that." Kiba says. Toboe walks up from behind Kiba.

"Toboe-chan, it's so nice to see you. I missed you so much." Quatre smiles to Toboe.

Aya stands there, feeling like all left out again, then he sees the Chinese boy looking at him. Omi smiles to Aya and says, "That's Wufei-kun, he is Quatre's friend and bodyguard."

Wufei says to Aya, "Hi. Have we met somewhere before? You look very familiar."

"I don't think so." Aya says. The Chiese body guard doesn't ask Aya anymore question.

"There are so many gifts, Quatre. What are you going to do with all of them?" Hige asks.

"I will send them to the Winner charity foundation. A lot of kids in the orphanage can use them." Quatre says. Omi walks up to Quatre's desk and sees a pot of flowers on the table.

"Can't leave your work, can't you? Sorry to disappoint you, but it's only silk flowers." Quatre smiles to Omi.

"I'm just wondering if this is from your boyfriend. There is no name tag on it, but you pick it out from all the gifts from the hallway and put it in your changing room. So you obviously know who is it from and that person must mean a lot to you." Omi says.

"Not really. It was just my ex. He left me." Omi says.

"Are you sure? I think he is still waiting for you." Kiba says.

Quate looks at Kiba and asks, "what do you mean?"

"You don't know what this flower is?" Kiba asks.

"No. What is this?" Quatre says.

"This is Tulips, right?" Omi asks.

"This is a special kind of Tulips, it's call the Weeping Tulips." Kiba says.

"Weeping Tulips?" Quatre asks.

"Yeah, see the little dots on top of the Tulips? Those are the tears of the princess. The story goes that a long time ago, there is a princess who is in love with the bravest, strongest, and the most amazing warrior the world had to offer. To show his love for the priness, the warrior planted 100 tulips outside the palace for her. The two of them meet everyday at the tulips garden." Kiba says.

Everyone listen attentively. Even Toboe looks upon Kiba, wondering what happened to the princess and why will she shed tears.

Kiba continues the story, "One day, a war started between the heaven and hell. The earth becomes their battleground and lots of people are suffering. The warrior decides to go stop the war. There is no chance for an earthling to go against heaven and earth, but the warrior rather dies than seeing everyone suffer. Everyday, the princess will go to the tulips garden and wait for the warrior to return. She cries and cries, staining the tulips with her tears."

Quatre touches the dots of the silk flowers, "I can almost hears the sound of the princess crying."

"So what happen at the end? Did the warrior win?" Omi asks anxiously.

"No, he didn't." Kiba says.

"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Omi screams.

"But…." Kiba adds, "The crying of the princess touched the heaven and hell. They feel the pain and the sadness of the princess so they stopped fighting and return the wounded warrior to the princess."

Aya grunts. That's the cheesiest story to sell flower that he ever heard off.

"Aww….." Everyone says.

"……." Aya sighs. Why oh why does he end up with this group?

"So, Quatre, the meaning of a weeping Tulip is 'I'm waiting for your return'.That personis still in love with you, and he is waiting for you to go back to him." Kiba says.

Quartre looks at the Weeping Tulips and sighs. Omi takes Quatre's hand and says, "Quatre-chan, are you okay?"

"Yeah…Hey! Everyone is here! Let's all go and have dinner! Anyone want Chinese?" Quatre smiles.

Toboe looks up and stare at Omi, Omi looks at Toboe, and then the two of them stares at Quatre together. Quatre pulls Omi's hand and says, "I'm fine, come on, let's go! Come on, Toboe-chan, you love tofu, right?"

"Eww!!! Tofu!" Hige says.

"Who wants dumplings???" Duo shouts.

"As long as they don't have any green onions in it…" Ken says.

"How can you have dumplings without onions?" Omi protests.

"All I want is fried rice, lots and lots of it…I have a craving for it all of a sudden. I think I can eat 2 plates by myself…" Youji mutters.

"Have you ever heard of that ghost story about fried rice?" Duo asks.

"There is a ghost story about fried rice?" Aya mutters.

"Don't scare me!!! You know how much I hate ghost!!!" Omi shouts. Everyone gets out of the door butAya just stands there.

"Aya-kun, what are you doing standing there?" Omi turns around and asks.

"Who said I'm going?" Aya says. He really doesn't need another story of crying flowers and haunted Chinese food.

"You're not?" Omi looks at Aya disappointed.

Aya sighs, "fine, I will go." Omi is too good at it. Just give out that puppy face and he gets everything that he wants. Aya follows the gang and they all head toward the elevator.

The door opens and everyone gets in. The elevator asks, "which floor?"

"Hmm…wherever the Chinese restaurant is, I guess." Kiba says to the computer uneasily.

"That will be the 125th floor." The elevator says. Kiba mutters a 'thank you' and scratches his head.

"You are just like him." Omi smiles to Kiba.

"Who, your ex-boyfriend?" Kiba asks.

Quatre nods and says, "he hates robots. He can't stand them at all."

"He hates robots?" Omi asks.

Quatre nods.

Toboe looks up to Quatre. Quatre smiles to Toboe and says, "I'm fine, really. I forget about him already."

The elevator doors open and everyone get out. They get to the Chinese restaurant and sits down at a big round table that rotates in the middle. "Why don't you order, Omi?" Quatre asks.

"Why me?" Omi says.

"Because you talk to computer all the time?" Youji says.

Omi makes a face and starts ordering food. The rotating table opens and food comes out of it. The middle part of the table rotates to move the food around for everybody, since in Chinese restaurant everyone shares the dishes and tries everything on the table.

Everyone starts getting food. Quatre watches the other side of the table where Toboe is sitting. Kiba is getting food for Toboe and talks to Toboe gently. "You eat more, okay. I will get you some more when you are done." says Kiba as hesmiles to Toboe.

Toboe nods. Quatre is happy to see Toboe finally opens up to someone. Heroo asks, "are you okay, Quatre? How come you're not eating?"

Quatre nods and says, "I'm fine. I'm just looking at Toboe. He is doing better and that makes me happy. Kiba loves Toboe so much."

"Someone loves you just as much, Quatre." Duo says.

"Yeah, and he is over there, looking at you." Wufei adds.

Quatre looks up and sees a tall andmuscular guy with brown hairs that cover one of his eyes. He nods to Quatre. The smiles on Quatre's face is gone. It's replaced by sadness.

At yet the other side of the table, Omi is fighting with Ken, "this is MY pot stickers!!!" Omi screams.

"I saw it first!!!" Ken shouts.

"……." Aya just sits there and drinks his green tea.

"Fine, you can have the pot stickers. I will take the egg roll." Ken says to Omi. Omi smiles.

"Thank you, Ken-kun, you're the best!" Omi takes the pot sticker and tries to eat it when he notices the table is suddenly all quiet. No one is talking, not even Duo, who is as loud as himself.

Omi looks toward Quatre's end of the table and sees Quatre looking very sad. Omi gives Ken the pot sticker and says, "here, you can have it. I'm going to talk to Quatre."

Omi walks up to Quatre and tries to asks the blonde 'what's the matter' when he sees Quatre looking at a brown hair guy not too far away. Heroo, Duo and Wufei are looking at him too.

Omi taps on Quatre's shoulder and asks, "Mr. Weeping Turnips?" Quatre nods.

"He had been following Quatre for 3 months now." Wufei says.

"You told him off, did you?" Omi asks. Quatre nods.

"Well, do you love him?" Omi asks.

"I…."

"You do. I can tell from your music. I finally know why your music changed so much. You were in love! I feel your love from the warmth of the songs you play. I can feel how much you miss him from the sadness of the songs…and I can certainly feel the heat of you two's passions from your grand finale." says Omi as he rubs his nose.

"Omi-chan!!!" Quatre shouts. Heroo and Duo chuckle while Wufei shakes his head.

"Hey, I think it's good that you slept with him. Really, he is hot. You're insane to let him go." Omi says. Quatre blushes as red as a tomato.

"Just go and talk to him, will you?" Omi says.

"I can't talk to him." Quatre says.

"Quatre, look at yourself! You think anyone who slept with you will let you go? He gave you the weeping turnips. He is waiting for you! He is weeping! He will not stop following you even if yourun all theway tothe end of the world! Hell, even if you jump off the end of the world he will jump after you! Go talk to him!" Omi says.

"You can't keep avoiding him forever." Heroo says.

Quatre sighs as he looks at the brown hair boy. Suddenly, someone takes his hand. Quatre looks up and sees Toboe's hand on top of his. Toboe is looking at Quatre. The quiet boysees Quatre looking at the guy, too. He walks over to Quatre and trys to give Quatre courage.

"Toboe." Quatre says. Toboe nods.

Quatre smiles to Toboe. The silver blonde then stands up and walks to the brown hair guy. "Hello, Trowa." Quatre says.

"Hi." Trowa says.

"What are you doing in Future city? I though you hate it here. You can't strand all the robots." Quatre says.

"I miss you, I have to come see you." Trowa says.

Quatre sighs. He misses Trowa too. Ever since Quatre left Trowa, he had been the most miserable person in the whole world. There is not one single moment that Quatre not think about Trowa. Quatres wants to see Trowa's handsome face so much, he wants to hear Trowa's voice and he wants to feel Trowa's touch. Quatre dreams that he is in Trowa's arms everynight, only to wake up in an empty bed, all alone, depressed and sad.

"I…" Quatre wants so much to say 'I miss you too' out loud and runs into Trowa's warm and loving arms. There is nothing more he wants to do than to be with Trowa. The silverp-blonde opens his mouth when a robot walks up to them.

"Good evening, sir. Would you like something to drink?" the robot asks them,

"No, thank you." Quatre says.

"I don't want anything. Just go." Trowa says, trying to hide his disgusted feeling toward the robots. But no one can hides feelings from Quatre. The blonde musician is actually a telepath. He can sense other people's feelings in his heart; and right now, Quatre is feeling all the hatred Trowa has toward the robot.

"Trowa, please leave me alone." Quatre says.

TBC…