"Trowa!" Catherine was already dressed and ready for the show, even though it was only five thirty. "Why aren't you dressed?" She demanded to know very demandingly. Trowa merely answered her with a stare. She exhaled in exasperation and glared at him.

"Cathy. Calm your self. We have over an hour before we need to be ready. Besides we aren't even on until the middle of the show." Trowa said simply as he stepped into his dressing room shutting the door behind him.

Catherine sighed and leaned against the closed door "I'm sorry. Just nervous, you know, first Vegas Show and all."

"You shouldn't be nervous." He said to her from the other side of the door.

"Easy for you to say!" She growled kicking the door "You never get nervous!"

"Trust me, Catherine. If you are nervous while throwing knives at me, I'll have cause to be."

"Thats not funny!"

"It wasn't meant to be. I am honestly worried that your going to kill me."

"Liar!" She said bitterly only to kick the door once again when he started to laugh at her. "I hate you."

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"Mr. Winner, please take the rooms for free! I'll have the bags taken up so that you can enjoy the casino.."

"No!" Quatre shouted "I want to pay for the rooms." he said wondering why on Earth this man who was in the business of getting money from people was willing to give him his room for free. It seemed rather suspicious to him.

"If you insist." The portly man grumbled motioning to the desk woman to ring him up for four rooms. A rather sly disturbing grin crossed his features "How long will you be staying?"

The blonde shrugged "A few days maybe, I'm not sure." he said offhandedly before thanking the woman at the desk who handed him the four keys.

"Ah! Well then! I should show you around the casino. Come I'll take you to the high rollers table!" He said steering Quatre around in the direction of the casino floor while ordering an employee to take the blondes bags to his room.

"Sir, I don't gamble.." Quatre started.

"Of course you do!"

"No... I don't."

"Have you ever gambled before?"

"No..." Quatre said sounding slightly hesitant. The man, who was the owner of the casino grinned like a cat.

"Well! You'll enjoy it. Trust me." He said in a way that made Quatre know that he should not trust this man. He glanced at his watch briefly, it was 5:42.

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Meanwhile Heero walked away from a card table with quite a bit more money than he started with. Moving on to the next table he started the process of cheating again. He knew it was wrong. It was practically stealing, yes. But how did casino's stay in business? Just because people hand over there money willingly doesn't mean that it isn't stealing. These people are thinking that they are going to get back big money. And so this cheating didn't bother him.

He found his own train of thought rather amusing. It seemed that he had picked up some rationalization skills from Duo. Duo could rationalize almost anything. Sometimes he wondered if Duo even believed what he told himself.

He placed a high bet and schooled himself into concentrating on the game.

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5:45. Duo was walking through the rows of slot machines talking animatedly to Wufei who was following only a few paces behind. They were headed for ice cream on the other end of the casino floor. "...an then Kelley started complaining about how She was useless and just sat about on her lazy butt all day. And you know, Johnson, she isn't about to let anyone talk about her that way, and..."

"Duo!" Wufei shouted as he watched his braided friend deftly pick the pocket of a man whom they had walked by. Duo turned around looking questioningly at Wufei. "You are a preventer! That was petty Thievery! I can't believe you just did that." He hissed angrily. The other man rolled his eyes and started to say something but Wufei just continued speaking. "Honestly! You are worse than these machines! These people are already being robbed and you just... I can't believe this. I mean if you must steal you could at least steal from someone who deserves it... like the casino or.."

"Brilliant!" Duo shouted happily.

"What.." Wufei was slightly confused at this. It was the last reply he expected.

"I shall rob the one armed bandits! And you can help me."

"What?" He asked again still not understanding.

"Oh, and by the way, I didn't steal this." Duo said waving the wallet about and giving Wufei a dirty look.

"What?" It was not Wufei's day "I just saw you..."

"Yes I took it from that guy without him noticing, but he stole it. I just took it from him to return to him." he said pointing at an elderly man seated at one of the slot machines "Don't you notice anything?" Duo asked as he walked over to the old man to return the wallet. Wufei could do noting but stare and feel stupid.

When Duo returned from giving the old guy his wallet Wufei apologized only to be waved off by his friend saying that it was okay. "So... What were you saying about one armed bandits?" Wufei asked still confused.

"I'm gonna rob a slot machine. You said I could."

"Duo! There are cameras everywhere and people and..."

"I'll manage. Besides your helping me."

"But.."

"Please Wufei.."

"What are you going to do with the money?"

"Charity."

"Why is it you always get me to do things that I normally wouldn't?"

"Because you love me?"

Wufei snorted "I wouldn't count on it. Do we even have enough time to do this?"

Duo checked his watch "5:55.. We've got time. Okay Fei, here's the plan."

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