Interesting Additions
"Quatre! Heero! Wufei! Duo!" Suki called out as she dropped the ice pack she'd been holding and rushed over to give them hugs, saving Quatre for last as she hugged him extra hard. "Oh you poor thing. Cat told me all about how that mean lady ran you through with a sword and now I wish I'd done more then give her a black eye. If I'd known I'd have sent her flying through the conveyer belt. Just see if I wouldn't."
"That happened years ago. It's in the past." Quatre said as he patted her back comfortingly, smirking slightly at the look on Heero's face. The guy just wasn't used to being hugged, much less by someone so..exuberant as Suki.
"Still. The next time I see her I'm gonna give her more then a few bumps and bruises." Suki said as she let him go with a determined look in her green eyes. Quatre was her friend now after all. She didn't tolerate people messing with her friends. "She outta be tarred and feathered for hurting a nice guy like you."
"That's some shiner you have going on." Duo said as he took her face in his hand and titled it towards the light. "Bet it hurts." He added with sympathy, well aware of just how painful a blow a thoroughly pissed off woman could deliver. He would imagine one from Dorothy would be particularly painful.
"Ha, I've seen five year olds that hit better then that silicone based barbie." Suki sniffed, her now purple and yellow hair whirling as she shook her head at the idea. "Spiffy fitness club fit isn't street fit. I guarantee you she's in a lot more pain then I am."
"I can believe that." Trowa said as he handed her the ice pack she'd dropped. "And keep this on your eye so it slows down the swelling."
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"Well I'm definitely sorry that I missed it." Duo said with a grin as he stuck his hands into his pockets.
"Well it was certainly one hell of an entrance. It did my heart good to see Suki pull the hockey move." Cat said with a cat like grin. Oh yeah, that had definitely been a moment. "It almost topped my skirt ripping."
"Hockey move?" Heero asked wearily, pretty sure he was gonna regret asking.
"Ya, you know..in hockey when one guy grabs the other guy's shirt and pulls it up and over the guys head while he punches the hell outta the guy's stomach. Like that rocker guy did in fights in those Mighty Duck movies." Cat said with a grin, enjoying the looks on the guys' faces when her words sunk in and were processed. "It's a pretty good move all and all cause they can't see you since their shirt's in the way and their so busy trying to get their shirt down they aren't thinking about blocking your attacks. Plus anyone can do it."
"I think that's called jerseying, Suk." Anna added.
"Alright...correction. I wish I'd been there with a video camera." Duo said in between laughs as he sat down hard on an armrest, his whole body heaving with laughter while Quatre just blushed and the rest shook their heads and tried their best not to appear overly amused by the whole thing.
"And she said I was dressed like white trash." Suki muttered as she held the ice over her eyes wearing a bright yellow tube top and baggy black overalls. "At least there's enough material making up my bra to actually hold them up. I've seen more material for a hair ribbon."
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"Oh dear God." Quatre groaned. I am not gonna think about it. I am not gonna think about it, he chanted over and over in his head. "Oh dear God but she's gonna find a way to kill us all for this." Quatre groaned, dropping his face into his hands.
"Don't worry, if she causes you any more trouble I'll freeze all her bank accounts and max out all her credit cards." Suki said as she patted Quatre on the shoulder, trying to make the poor guy feel better. "I can even alter her records to show that she's an escaped mental patient and have her picked up if you want. I mean after meeting her there's no way they'd doubt it anyway!"
"I think we can handle her but thanks for the thought." Wufei said dryly, knowing that if Suki kept at it she was accidentally going to send Quatre into cardiac arrest.
"Suki, you should go check on dinner." Anna suggested, thinking that someone had to distract her or she'd never let this go.
"Oh right! Supper!" Suki said and soon she was a bright flash of purple, yellow and black as she zoomed out of the room and towards the kitchen. "Sorry about all this. How was your day?" Anna said with a smirk, trying not to laugh at the looks on the guys faces. They'd get use to Suki soon enough. Hopefully.
"Is she always like this?" Heero wanted to know wearily, keeping the hallway in his line of vision in case she came zooming back out again.
"Pretty much." Anna said with a careless shrug. "Unless she's had too much sugar..then she's worse."
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"Dear God. How do you keep your sanity?" Wufei wanted to know, unable to imagine the girl any more hyper then she appeared to be normally.
"Oh I knock her out when she gets to be too much. One solid whack on the head and she's out and quiet for a few hours. She knows it's nothing personal and it's better then risking me doing worse later." Anna said with a careless shrug. "If she really starts to be too much of a handful just tell her so, she won't take offense. She'll leave you alone."
"And if she doesn't just threaten to yank her earrings out of her ears. That's what I always did." Cat added to be helpful for once. "She'll be a bit put off but she can't hold a grudge to save her life if she liked you originally."
"Well she was pretty quiet on the way home." Trowa added, mentally thinking thank you God for that.
"Well you had classical opera playing, idiot. She was so stunned at the idea that some people actually willingly listen to that crap that she was stunned speechless." Cat said nastily, just to be a pain. After all Trowa had put her in a head lock earlier when she'd been about to give Dorothy some more piercings curtesy of the bitch's body meeting her teeth. "The fact that people pay to hear other people scream into a microphone continues to astound me."
"Careful or you'll make me take you to operas just to teach you to appreciate them." Quatre warned though he himself wasn't overly fond of opera either. But culturally they were important after all.
"You can be murdered in your sleep too ya know." Cat shot back as she got to her feet, the idea of attending an opera terrifying to say the least. "Accidents can and do happen after all."
"Cat, quit threatening to kill poor Quatre. Anyway it's time to eat so everyone come and get it!" Suki called out happily from the doorway, a pleased look on her face as she nearly bounced. "I made the salad and the dessert. There's plenty!"
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Dinner as it turned out was excellent and since unlike Suki Anna wasn't a vegetarian the guys had more to eat then what Do called rabbit food. Suki didn't take offense though since she liked rabbits and they did eat a lot of what she did. That just went to prove that rabbits were as smart as they were cute. The doorbell ringing towards the end of the meal Suki bounced, yes bounced out of her chair and raced to the door to get it, opening it with a wide grin on her face. "Hello. Can I help... you? Uh oh." Suki said as she stared into the cold faced blonde and a man in a very pricey suit. "Uhmmm if I said we were in the middle of dinner would you come back later?"
"No, now if you would get the men of the house, I need to speak to them. Now." The blonde said with a look in her eyes similar to a queen looking down upon a peasant. "I would hope you could manage that at least." The woman added when Suki just stood there for a minute.
"You know you really need to work on your aura. And your manners." Suki said as she stuck her pert little nose in the air then telling them to wait on the porch she closed the door in their shocked faces and then headed for the kitchen. "There's a really mean looking blonde on the front porch with a guy that practically shots lawyer. They said they wanted to talk to you guys but I wouldn't let them in until you gave the okay. Want we should get rid of them? We can douse them with flour and water, that's what I do to annoying salesmen."
"Lets try seeing what they want first." Quatre said as he got up from the table. Everyone else following suit they all headed to the hallway and Quatre opened the door to find their next door neighbor and a man who was most likely a lawyer as Suki had guess. "Come on in." Quatre said as he moved out of their way, motioning them in.
"Well it's about time." The neighbor said coldly as she handed her coat to Heero who threw it over the stair post just to annoy her.
"We are in the middle of eating so if you could state your business?" Wufei said just as coldly, always hating to have meals interrupted, much less by as child abuser and an over dressed, blood sucking lawyer. Maybe they could sic Cat on him? Or better yet, both of them.
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"My client and I have come concerning the letters you all wrote for my client's ex husband concerning the boy's custody." The lawyer said smoothly, sending his client a keep your mouth shut look. It was obvious that the stupid woman was only making things worse and he wasn't going to get his bonus if the witch didn't keep custody of the boy. And all the money that went with said custody.
"What about them? Last time I checked they were all sent in English, easy enough to comprehend, even for a lawyer." Heero said with a hard look in his eyes, enjoying making the lawyer squirm just a little. He hated lawyers, they were such a moral less pack of rats that the few good ones were canceled out a million times over. The only good lawyer was a dead one.
"You misunderstand me. It wasn't the legibility of the letters that we're here about but the content, Sir. You see those letters could have quite an impact on the judge who will be overseeing this case and we were wondering if perhaps we could get you to..make a few changes to it?" The lawyer said carefully, a charming, good ole boy smile on his face. He wasn't deals with idiots and he had a sinking feeling these men weren't going to fall into line easily. "I understand of course that you men were only thinking to do what was right for the boy but given that you don't know my client or her son well..."
"We aren't going to change a word of it. Maybe we don't live in that house but in all the times we've encountered your client and her son she has shown a lack of plain common sense and morality, much less acted like a mother." Trowa said with his eyes narrowing, a thoughtful look in them even as they warned. "And I doubt she'd have hired such a fancy lawyer as you unless there was big money involved."
"I'm simply saying that yes you've seen my client make some mistakes, mistakes she bitterly regrets but still mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes right?" The lawyer said smoothly, looking at Suki since she seemed like the simple minded one of the group.
"Mister, I grew up on the streets of some of the most bad ass cities this world and colonies has to offer." Suki said as she put her hands on her hips, a don't think I'm some sort of pushover look in her eyes. "And when you live in places like that you learn how to size someone up and do it quick. Your client's got mean eyes and a bully's stride, pal. I wouldn't trust her to take care of a sewer rat."
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"She'd likely be pretty good, looking after a sewer rat. Especially since they've got so much in common." Cat commented as she swayed into the room, her gaze centered on the much hated enemy that was the lady next door. "They're both small, vicious, ugly and should never have been created."
"And there's that cat I was telling you about." The woman said as she pointed a finger in Cat's direction, her intense dislike plain in her voice. "It wouldn't surprise me if they're doing all this just so I don't take them to court for all the things that stupid feline has done."
"Who you calling stupid? The rabid raccoon was smarter then you. Likely had more maternal instincts too, ya hunk of silicone." Cat sneered, Suki and Duo biting back laughter at Cat's comments, especially since the witchy bitchy and her lawyer couldn't hear the insults.
"Mrs. Klien, please." The lawyer commanded as he placed a restraining hand on her shoulder. "Are you sure there isn't anything we can say to change your mind?"
"Seems to me that if our cat hadn't been around Michael could have died in that backyard for all you cared." Trowa said as he crossed his arms in front of his chest. "Now I don't know many mothers and I've never had one that I can remember but I do know the difference between right and wrong. The way you treat that little boy is wrong and no judge in their right mind is going to give you custody."
"And seems to me my sister and I are going to write our own letters talking about how we heard you two barge in and attempt to bribe these fine men into lying for you." Anna said with a cool, almost shark like look on her face. "And how it seemed to us that you were more interested in getting money out of your ex husband then you were in doing what was right for your son. And by the way, where is he?"
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"He's napping." His mother bit off with her eyes flashing.
"Alone and unsupervised too huh? Well that's most definitely going into my letter." Suki said as she sent the pair her most serious look that she could manage. "And I can tell you right now that your client obviously didn't tell you who you're dealing with here, buddy. These men have ALL dedicated their lives to the protection and well being of the world and colonies, something you certainly cat claim you rat bastard. Quatre here is a well respected SENATOR and Wufei is very influential among the Chinese clans. They're also close, personal friends of her royal highnesses the Peacecrafts as well as countless other well known and powerful people."
"It would be in your best interests to give the boy over to his father or proper guardian before they start calling in favors. They do send people to jail for child abuse you know. And in jail...anything can happen to you. Believe me." Anna added, her own eyes as lethal as Heero's as she cracked her fingers at her sides. "Now I believe you've both outstayed your welcome and should be returning to your house to watch over your son until you do the right thing."
"In other words there's the door, let it hit you on your fat asses on the way out." Cat said smugly as she turned around and mooned the two, shaking her butt for all it was worth with her tail in the air.
"That cat is mooning us." The lawyer said in shock, staring at the feline.
"Yes she is. She knows bastards when she sees them." Duo said as he grabbed the woman's coat and threw it at the woman. "Now I was raised a good Catholic so you've got the count of five to leave before I kick you out on your butts."
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Things settled into place soon enough and with Christmas fast approaching the boys found their home thoroughly and completely decorated as Suki dragged everyone into the Christmas spirit in a big way. There were lights on the house, a decorated tree in the living room and the smells of Christmas everywhere by the end of the first week of December.
"I still can't believe we let you talk us into that huge tree." Heero muttered as he sent Duo a dark look. "It took us nearly an hour to get into the house, do you have any idea how much harder it's going to be to get it out?"
"Quit dissing my tree, Yuy. Suki liked it." Duo said with a pout, this not being the first time Heero had stated his dislike for the innocent tree.
"Suki just dyed her hair red, white and green for the holiday season. I don't think she's exactly the type of person who's taste should count for much." Heero argued, still peeved off that he'd been roped into going grocery shopping with the little crazy later. Everyone else was busy or had come up with excuses.
"Well at least she has the Christmas spirit which is more then you can say, Heero." Quatre argued, very use to this by now. It seemed like there was nothing Heero liked more then to complain about Suki recently. Secretly Quatre thought Heero was just freaked out because it was obvious that Suki liked him and he had no clue what to do about it. Cat did and she thought it was down right hilarious and was egging Suki on. Quatre figured it was safest to just stay out of it.
"I have the Christmas spirit. I have plenty of Bah humbugs to spread around."
"No surprise there. Speaking of which Mickey's Christmas Carol is on tonight at nine for anyone who wants to watch it with Suki, Cat, Anna and me." Duo added in, just remembering. There really wasn't a chance in hell that any of them would want to watch but t didn't hurt to ask. "Popcorn and plenty of Bah Humbugs for you, Heero."
"Bah Humbug."