One bouncing ball of Duo Maxwell made his way through the living room. Trowa Barton and Chang Wufei were on a mission. Heero Yuy was glued to his laptop as he normally was. Duo was in search of his best friend, Quatre Raberba-Winner. Duo found his quarry in the kitchen overlooking the stove.
"Hey Quat." Duo greeted innocently.
Quatre turned around and saw his friend. "Hey Duo, did you come to help me with lunch?"
"Sorry Quat, but no. I'm more or less bored and we both know that I am not helpful in the kitchen." Duo chuckled as he remembered his first and last kitchen fiasco in their previous safe house. The end result of lunch was a pile of rubble.
"Yes I have to agree with you there. Why aren't you bothering Heero?" Quatre asked with a raised eyebrow. Quatre would always explore these feelings whenever the two were alone. And as always, Duo would retaliate. But what came next, nothing could have prepared Quatre for it.
"Hey Quat, do you know what they say about big feet?" Duo asked with a mischievous glint in his eyes.
Quatre's face went pale. He knew the phrase all too well. "Yes...I know that quote. But how do you know about that?" Quatre was stunned that Duo would even know about that.
"Well, you might as well know the whole story, cause I guess Tro didn't tell ya." Again there was the glint in Duo's eyes.
Quatre just shook his head, wondering how this particular conversation came up. He wondered how much Duo actually knew. And most of all, what was Trowa not telling him? It was unlike his lover to keep anything from him. Quatre frowned in thought.
"Hey Q-man, stop thinking so hard. I'll tell ya what I know. See, I knew how Tro felt about you. So I tried talking him into actually talking to you about it, but that didn't work. I tried every method I could think of, but nothing would work. So I'm sittin in front of the T.V. one day and it hits me. I waited until Trowa joined me and you were out of the room. I started off with small talk. Then I dropped the bomb." By now there was horror written all over Quat's face. He knew what was next, it was all because of a comment he made under his breath. "I said, 'Tro, Quat wants to know if the big feet rumor is true.' I told him deadpanned. He just looked at me in shock, you should have seen his face. And I was like 'Quat wants to test it out on you. Since he fancies you and all.' And that was all it took. Tro was out of there like a man on fire. I had never seen anything more hilarious." Duo cracked up laughing at the fond memory of the Heavyarms pilot in shock. Duo stopped for a moment to see the look on Quatre's face. Duo froze, he knew that look and now he was going to pay.
"HEERO!DUO NEEDS TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT BIG FEET!" Quatre yelled to the Wing pilot seated in the computer room. Quatre gave Duo a 'ha I got you now' look before taking off.
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Quatre had been waiting by the door when Trowa came back from his mission. Trowa gathered his little one in his arms and placed a kiss on Quatre's head. Suddenly a thump could be heard from upstairs. Trowa gave Quatre a questioning look.
"Duo's learning about big feet." Quatre said almost innocent-like. Trowa raised his eyebrow, then the memory of Duo entered his head. He knew now that Quatre knew and was getting back at Duo. Trowa let a small chuckle. Things would definitely be interesting in the morning.