Returning with Guests
"Well that's one way of putting it." Heero said dryly, not quite sure what to make of the multi haired whirlwind. She helped people who killed people but she didn't kill people herself because she was a Buddhist. Wasn't helping people who did kill people for money make her just as bad? Then again who was he to judge and there were more important things to think about. "We should likely be heading out of here in case a nurse comes by to ask questions or check on Cat. We did sneak in after all without permission."
"Sounds like a good idea to me. Do we have to leave me hugging that stupid bear though?" Cat wanted to know from Suki's lap, sending the bear a narrow eyed look of pure dislike. "I mean it's embarrassing. Who in their right mind would want to be seen holding that ugly thing? I have a rep to protect you know?"
"It is not. It's sweet and it would hurt that poor boy's feelings if we moved it. Think of the poor boy, he's been through enough without being further traumatized." Suki said sternly, waving a finger in Cat's face as she laid on the guilt trip. "Beside if you aren't holding it someone might steal it and stick some other poor invalid with him. A bear like that could finish him off quick and it would be all your fault."
"Well that's certainly true. It's right up there with the hideous pink carrier and that psycho stuffed rabbit." Cat had to agree, uncomfortable with the idea of some old lady or kid dying cause they got stuck with the bear from pink hell. "So anyway lets blow this joint already and forget about the stupid bear. Oh and I vote we get Chinese for supper."
"We're in Spain and you want Chinese?" Trowa repeated with a raised eyebrow.
"Well it's not like I'm gonna be able to stuff a taco in my mouth now is it?" Cat pointed out with more then a little sarcasm to make up for backing down about the bear. "And besides I'm not all that big on peppers, especially melt the lining of your stomach hot."
"Well we'll figure something out once we get back to the hotel. Would you ladies care to join us for supper of some sort?" Quatre asked politely, wanting to learn more about Cat and to get to know these two friends of hers. After all you could tell a lot about a person by the company that they kept. Then again look at who his best friends were, Quatre thought with a faint smirk.
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"Well it's not everyday a senator invited us into his hotel room." Anna said with a small smile that only grew when Quatre went about as red as a tomato. Oh ya, definitely a good little golden boy. You could find dirt on just about every senator this world had ever known but she'd bet even Suki would have problems finding dirt on this one. "Sounds good to me anyway. I could definitely eat. Suki?"
"Yay, a party with Cat's old friends and her new friends. Sounds like a great idea to me." Suki said with a beaming smile on her face as she clapped her hands in delight, making Cat's sensitive little ears ring slightly.
"Here, hide her in my jacket." Quatre said as he held it out to Suki who quickly had Cat good and concealed.
"Would this count as carry a concealed weapon?" Suki said with a chuckle as she cradled a squirming Cat in her arms. "I don't want to go to jail any time soon. They'd make me eat meat probably."
"Ha ha ha, very funny." Came Cat's sarcastic reply.
"Well then lets go." Wufei said and everyone heading out they scanned the hallways thoroughly before heading out and walking towards the elevator.
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"Uhm, guys. I think I dropped my wallet in there." Duo lied, having waited till now so that he could follow through on his idea without an audience. As it was he figured Cat would flip if she ever found out. "You guys go ahead, I'll catch ya in the lobby."
"Whatever." Heero said as he started herding the rest towards the elevator, knowing Duo well enough to know the idiot was lying through his teeth. Apparently the guy wanted to do something without an audience and that was what he was going to get.
"Be right back." Duo said with a salute before heading back into the room. closing the door behind him. Walking over to stand beside her bed Duo looked down at Cat and had to grin. The teddy bear looked so out of place and ridiculous laying there beside her. Even in a coma with her eyes closed she gave off a bad ass vibe. Taking a deep breath Duo said what he'd wanted to say. "Hey there, Cat. I'd say this to you in person but you'd likely claw my eyes out so this is the safer route obviously. And maybe somehow, someday you'll know. You're a mean, foul tempered hellion...and you're one of the best things to ever happen to us. Even though you didn't ever mean to you've done a lot of good and I'm at least grateful if a tad clawed here and there. And I'll miss you when you're gone. Even your burns and sarcastic remarks, including the ones that go over my head. You became one of us and there'll be a hole there when you go. It's hard knowing that we can't do anything, all of us wish we could. There aren't any bad guys we can fight or any cure that we can find that's going to save you. So I'm gonna do what I can." Reaching behind his neck Duo slipped a silver chain off his neck, a small silver cross hanging from the bottom. Carefully sliding it over her head Duo adjusted it slightly then nodded in satisfaction. "This belonged to the closest thing I ever had to a real mother. Her name was Sister Helen and she meant the world to me. She got this cross from her father when she became a nun and apparently it had been in the family for years. She gave it to me a couple months before she died on the birthday she'd picked out for me since I didn't have one. She wasn't going to have any children after all and she said I was her son in heart and soul, even if not in body. So anyway I'm gonna give it to you now. So that when you go my family up there will know you're with me and put in a good word for you. I've worn that every day since the day I got it and it's kept me alive this long, maybe it'll bring you some luck too." Stuffing his hands in his pockets when he was done Duo turned and headed out of the room, not looking back as he headed for the stairs so that he didn't have to wait for the elevator. He wasn't ready to say good bye to his friend just yet.
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"Hey, Quatre." Suki began as she looked over the room service menu. "Would it be okay if we came and visited Cat at your house? I mean we could watch her and stuff while you guys were at work and I think we know people in that area that would put us up. If not we could always find a hotel or something. We wouldn't be in the way or anything, we'd always call before we came over and stuff."
"Of course you can." Quatre said as he tried to ignore Duo's argument with Cat about which movie they were going to watch that night. Those two would argue about what color the sky was if they could come up with reasonable arguments, Quatre thought with a shake of his head.
"They could take the spare room if they didn't mind sharing a bed." Wufei pointed out from one of the beds, sitting cross legged as he read the news paper. Feeling five pairs of eyes gapping at him Wufei looked over the edge of that paper to see his friends and Cat staring at him like he'd just said that he'd decided to marry Duo. "What?"
"You're inviting girls to live with us?" Trowa said in shock, perilously close to keeling over with shock.
"But you don't like girls." Duo said in confusion, not sure what to make of all this. Had he missed something? Had Wufei been abducted by aliens and this was his clone replacement? Had hell frozen over when he wasn't looking?
"I like girls fine." Wufei said with a dark scold that was in line with his character. "And I simply thought it was the polite thing to do."
"But when it comes to girls you don't care about being polite one way or another. You call most every girl we know woman and you're constantly telling them that they're weak." Cat pointed out, her mouth open as she completely forgot about what she and Duo were arguing about. This was too weird.
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"Uhm..we don't have to stay with you guys, we understand that you wouldn't want two girls under foot and all." Suki said weakly, not having been around Wufei long enough to get the big deal.
"Oh no, that's not it." Quatre said quickly, not wanting them to think it was the idea of having them stay at the house that had them all gapping in shock. "Actually I think it's a great idea. Then we won't have to worry about Cat being home alone and you two can spend time with her and possibly be a positive influence on her."
"A positive influence? Oh please if you can't guilt trip me into going straight then what the hell makes you think these two can?" Cat demanded to know, silly a little shocky from the bomb Wufei had dropped. And for that matter since when did Wufei come up with ideas concerning women that she agreed with? "And I say let them stay at our house. Suki and Anna can both cook ten times better then any of you idiots."
"Gee thanks." Duo said sarcastically as he stuck his tongue out at the feline. "And I say the more the merrier. If you two don't mind being stuck in a house with these guys and this foul mouthed cat of ours."
"Oh you are cruising for some clawing." Cat said as she got ready to pounce only to be thwarted when Trowa grabbed her in mid leap. "Damn it, Trowa. You're always ruining my fun."
"You mean stopping you before you do something stupid." Trowa countered as he continued to hold her until she calmed down and wasn't looking to shed blood. She was tired and cranky, plus seeing her body couldn't have been easy for her. She was only awake because her friends were here as it was. "And it's okay with me if you two want to come."
"YAY!" Suki said as she bounced on the bed, beaming at them all as tears welled up in her eyes. "You guys are so great to let us stay with you. You five really are like Cat's guardian angels. Here we are complete strangers and your opening up your home to us. You're all so wonderful." Suki claimed as she wiped away her tears with the back of her hands. "We'd be honored to come stay with you guys while we're visiting."
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A week later Quatre and Heero walked out of a particularly boring meeting, both ready to find a quiet place to stretch out and sleep. "Next time you have a meeting with that guy as a speaker...find yourself another bodyguard, Relena." Heero said as he held in a yawn. He'd been wide awake before he'd entered that room and now he felt like he'd pulled an all nighter. He just wanted to go to bed.
"It wasn't that bad." Relena argued then ruined the statement by yawning, making both guys smirk at her. "Okay it was bad but it could have been worse. Besides I asked Trowa to come to the meeting in your place. Why did you end up coming anyway? This isn't exactly your idea of a fun way to spend a few hours. Especially willingly."
"He had a choice between doing this or going to the airport to pick up Anna and Suki in Heero's place." Quatre said with a smile as he tried not to do any yawning of his own. The man had just gone on and on when he could have made it an hour long speech instead of two.
"And here I thought I got the better of the two. Now I know why Trowa agreed to trade jobs." Heero muttered, jamming his hands into his pockets. He should have known something was up when he hadn't even had to bribe Trowa.
"Who are Suki and Anna?" Noin wanted to know as she and Milliardo fell into steps with them. "Sisters?" Noin added with a wink. Since Quatre had twenty nine of them keeping their names straight was near to impossible, especially since she hadn't even met all of them yet.
"Oh no. They're friends of a friend who's bunking down with us for a couple of weeks while they're in town. Save them the cost of a hotel and all that." Quatre said with a smile, sticking to the truth as much as possible. he just wasn't going to mention that the friend was a girl trapped in the body of their house cat.
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"Well that's really nice of you guys." Relena said in surprise, slightly amazed that the big bad boys were going to actually let girls into their domain for over a week. "Have you met them before?"
"Yup, we met up with them on our trip to Spain." Quatre said with a smirk, not surprised that Relena seemed surprised. For that matter they might be wondering what kind of girls would want to stay with them, even if it meant saving money. "You'll like them, we do anyway."
"Suki's nuts." Was Heero's response to that.
"She is not. She's just a very emotional person." Quatre argued, defending the girl since she wasn't there to do it herself. "And she did apologize for jumping on you."
"She jumped on him?" Noin said with a delighted laugh. Oh but she would have paid to have been there to have seen that. "Why would she do that?"
"Long story." Heero muttered, not at all amused. The girl just bugged him, plain and simple. Her sister he could get but Suki was a completely different kettle of fish. He never knew what she was going to do and she was as emotional as Trowa was unemotional. And she always seemed to be touching him whether it was the spine breaking hug good bye she'd given him or a pat on his shoulder when he'd been about to bean Duo in the head for trying to steal some of his fries. He hated bouncy perky, touchy feelie people.
"And I bet an interesting one." Milliardo said dryly, always glad for an opportunity to annoy the perfect soldier.
"You could say that." Quatre agreed then jumped when his cell phone suddenly went off. "Figures, hold on a second." Quatre said as he pulled out his phone and put it up to his ear. "Quatre Winner, what can I do for you?"
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"It's Trowa...we have a slight situation." Trowa said as he leaned against the wall, actually glaring at Cat who just glared right back at him.
"What kind of situation? The girls are all right, right?" Quatre said anxiously, noting that Trowa actually sounded annoyed.
"They're fine, it's another girl who's out for blood and I do mean blood. Cat managed to convince me to take her with me to the airport since Suki changes hair color often and Anna blends in easily. That and she just wouldn't shut up till I took her. Anyway when we got here we found out someone we knew was also here waiting for someone to arrive." Trowa said with a sigh, wincing when he heard the sound of yelling through the door where that person was waiting to pounce on them.
"Who?"
"Dorothy..."
"Oh dear God. Please tell me Cat didn't attack her. Please tell me we aren't going to have a lawsuit on our hands because our cat someone managed to kill her. Please tell me that she's alive and well somewhere causing trouble for someone to her then us." Quatre weakly, wishing that he was sitting down.
"Well she spotted us and was trying to wrestle Cat away from me to throw her onto a conveyer belt when Anna and Suki entered the scene and got involved. Anna and Suki are explaining to the head of security right now why Suki attacked Dorothy and ended up in a cat fight to end all cat fights."
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"A cat fight...dear god." Quatre said as he shook his head wearily, more then able to picture it. 'Why me? Why do these things always happen to us?"
"Who won?" Heero wanted to know. Suki was the sister of an assassin after all so she couldn't be as helpless as she looked. At least he hoped not or Dorothy would have chewed the girl up and spit her out easily.
"To answer Heero's question it was more of a draw. I think both of them have plenty of scratches and one black eye a piece coming up later." Trowa said with a shake of his head, the female mind a continuing source of confusion to him. "Dorothy was more vicious but Suki fights dirty for such a little thing. It took me and Anna to get Suki under control when security arrived. Anna figures they'll both be let off with a warning and maybe a small fine. I think she's right. When I left the room Suki was twisting the chief of security around her little finger with amazing ease."
"And how much damage did Cat cause?" Quatre asked wearily, already braced for the worst. At least everyone was alive, that was the important thing.
"Actually she was content to stay on the side lines and cheer Suki on. Then again I had her in a headlock so it wasn't like she could go anywhere."
"We're back and we aren't in any trouble at all, Trowa!" Suki announced as she burst into the room with an amused Anna right behind her. "I explained to Roger, that's the chief, that I was just trying to help an animal in need and that that mean lady started it all. I mean who wouldn't punch a woman who said such terrible things about my clothes and hair when I tried to stop her from hurting poor Cat. And I gave her time to apologize too. Who are you talkin to?"
"Quatre."
"Oh. Hi, Quatre." Suki called out cheerfully before wandering over to pick up Cat since they were free to go.
"Well be home in an hour or so. Pray for me." Trowa muttered then hung up, wondering what the trip home was going to be like and if he'd survive it.