Chapter 2: Odin Lowe's Boy

Wufei sat at the kitchen table reading the paper and drinking tea ,when Duo came running in through the front door, blasting past the kitchen.

"HOLY SHIT 'FEI! What are you doing?" Duo back tracked, looking shocked to see Wufei.

"Reading. I thought that would be pretty clear."

"Hi Wufei." Quatre wandered into the kitchen as well.

"How can you just sit here and read, when TRIEZE KUSHRENADA is out front challenging you to a duel and insulting your family?"

"WHAT?" Wufei jumped with his katana already drawn, "No. I'm not falling for that one again. Maxwell. you look guilty. What did you do? Quatre, what did he do?"

"You know that Trieze is out front calling you a coward, right?" Quatre observed.

"WHAT IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE?" Wufei stuck his head out the front door, "Where? I don't- MAXWELL!" Wufei jiggled the door knob furiously. He was locked out.

Quatre and Duo had the whole house to themselves. They rushed into the bathroom and began emptying their pockets. Duo unzipped his jacket and reached into the inside pocket very carefully. before suddenly withdrawing his hand, "FUCKER"

"here". Quatre reached into Duo's pocket..but also pulled his hand back suddenly, "Son of a.."

"Here." Duo removed his jacket and laid it down in the bathtub. After a minute a pink nose, and two white paws appeared. Next a pair of bright eyes and flattened ears appeared, as a very pissed off little black hamster crawled out of Duo's jacket and began running laps in the bathtub.

"He's kind of feisty, eh?" Quatre observed.

"He's perfect." Duo concluded.

"Do you really think the other fairies will think it's a fairy?"

"No. But it's a pretty good trade."

"Remind me again why we're doing all this?"

"Because!" Duo took a deep breath, "Obviously the other fairies sent the green one here. So, if they come looking for her... we'll give them this hamster as a PEACE offering. THEN they'll be happy and leave us alone. THEN you'll be doing a better job protecting the safe-house from mythic creatures...by not only bringing closure to Heero's little incident last night, but also appeasing them in order to prevent future attacks. Heero's solution was the band aid. This solution is the cure for cancer."

"Right... but why is it a big secret?"

"Oh- cause if Trowa finds out I was helping you then that's cheating and all bets are off."

"oh... wait! this all about that bet? You dont actually care about the well being of your fellow pilots?"

"we went double or nothing last night."

"oh."

MEANWHILE

"I found a shadow 2 days ago."

"a shadow?"

Heero took a sip of his coffee,"I thought it was Duo's but he said he wasn't missing it."

"hn. what are you going to do now?"

"Wait for someone to try and come back for it."

"How did you notice a 4-inch shadow?"

"It's not 4-inches. It's bigger."

"Oh, really?" Trowa cocked his head with interest.

"What's it to you?"

"That bet with Duo."

"Hn."

"We went double or nothing last night."

"So now you want to help me?"

"Hn."

"I've got it covered."

"It occurred to me that folklore might not be your strongest area of study."

"true."

"I just want you and Quatre to be on equal footing."

"Hn."

"There's a children's story about a boy who is youth incarnate. They called him Peter Pan, and he frequently lost his shadow and fraternized with fairies."

"that was the most useless thing you have ever shared with me Barton."

"Look, I didn't make it up."

"Next are you gonna tell me he fights with pirates and gets the girl in pink."

"Hn."

"I do not like this story."

"..."

"Hn."

"..."

"Shut up!"

"I swear."

"Hn. Anything else I should know?"

"..."

"oh.."

"hn."

"..."

"hn."

"What an amazing coincidence."

"indeed."

THAT NIGHT!

IT hadn't been easy, but Trowa had finally worn Quatre out. It's always easier to win a bet if you have the capacity to render the competition unconscious. The small blond boy lay sleeping peacefully in his arms, and Trowa gave him a soft kiss on the head. Trowa hoped Quatre would forgive him, and understand that $200 was $200, as he quietly pulled himself out of bed.

Trowa nonchalantly approached the window and reached for the lock. There was a soft click, and Trowa felt the barrel of a gun at his temple.

"uh, Heero.."

"uh, 'sup Trow?"

"Just opening this window," Trowa observed out of the corner of his eye a glaring Heero Yuy beside him, "Didn't you go to bed? Where's Duo?"

"Duo looks guilty. What did he do?"

"You think I know?"

"You look guilty too."

"Yuy.. how long have you been in here?"

CRACK

Both soldiers turned to see a stone the size of a golf ball lodged into the window pane of bullet proof glass. Instinctively Trowa and Heero flattened themselves against the floor.

"What the f..."

Quatre sat bolt upright in bed, "Trowa?"

"Hi Honey."

"What are you doing on the floor?"

Heero growled, "We're under attack."

"Hi Heero. What? We're under attack? Why are we fighting? There's nothing to fight about!"

"Hn." Heero addressed Trowa but glared in the direction of the doorway (he appeared to calculating how long it might take him to sprint from his current position to the hallway), "What part of "Heightened Security", made you think you were authorized to unlock things in the middle of the night?"

"Is wanting fresh air a crime?"

"How do we know you weren't signaling to the insurgents?"

"First of all there are no insurgents. In order for there to be an insurgency there has to be a government for them to be rebelling against."

"It's true," Quatre chimed in, "Don't let the Bush administration tell you anything different."

Heero arched an eyebrow, "So really we're the terrorists because we're trying to quell rebellion in a country we have no business occupying, by cultivating fear our military presence?"

Duo wandered into the bedroom, "Heero?"

"Duo."

"But..." Duo arched an eyebrow and frowned, "If you're here, then who's that boy in our room?"

Heero glared furiously at Duo, "What?"

A boy wearing green tights and some sort of leafy tunic appeared in the doorway. Wufei was keeping his katana at the intruder's throat while guiding him into the room.

"Look what I found," Wufei hissed, tossing a slingshot into Quatre's lap.

"Ha! Trowa!" Duo laughed, "All bets are off! Wufei stopped the insurgency!"

"What kind of insurgency only has ONE insurgent?" Trowa snapped as he and Heero stood.

The accused insurgent glared around the room revealing a flash of green eyes through flaming red hair that stuck up in all directions.

"What kind of insurgent doesn't wear shoes?" Quatre tilted his head with a concerned look.

Wufei forced him to his knees and bound the intruder's hands. The fairy boy defiantly kept his head up, refusing to take his eyes off Heero. The perfect soldier approached him, "Who sent you?"

"..."

"Who are you working for?" Heero tried asking in Japanese.

"You're Odin Lowe's boy, aren't you?" The fairy had an endearing british accent.

"Who?" Heero breathed, as he held the fairy at gunpoint at an arm's length with one hand.

"Odin Lowe!" The fairy boy repeated insolently.

Heero glared.

"..." Duo said.

"..." Wufei said.

"..." Trowa said.

"..." Quatre said.

Heero frowned and lowered his gun at last, "Look, do I know you?

"The name's Pan."

Heero arched a suspicious eyebrow and instantly resumed pointing his gun in the boy's face.

Quatre piped up, "uh,... Peter Pan?"

"yeah!" Pan jerked his head up and grinned at Quatre.

"Shut up." Heero hissed, pressing the barrel of his gun into the boy's forehead.

"Oi, what gives man!" Pan whined, "Okay, you win!"

Wufei leaned over to Duo and commented, "Yuy's touchy tonight."

Duo rolled his eyes, "tell me about it!"

"Cut me loose!" Pan begged, pretending his voice hadn't cracked.

"Why would I do that?"

"I surrender! UNCLE!"

"So?"

"Let ME go!"

"What the f... How did you get in here?"

"This isn't funny! C'mon! Untie me!"

"No. That's not going to happen. How did you find this place?"

Then the fairy boy burst into tears. All of the pilots were completely caught off guard when the boy collapsed at Heero's feet, wailing now.

Heero lowered his weapon, "Oh come-on.."

"Heero!" Quatre looked close to tears himself, "Stop it! You're scaring him!"

"Uh, " Wufei began, "I think that was the idea.."

"Cut him loose!" Quatre continued as if he hadn't heard Wufei, "He's just a lil boy!"

"Yeah," Heero scoffed, "a lil boy who snuck in and out of our safe-house ALMOST undetected three times."

"NANI?" Four of the gundam pilots all shot Pan looks of betrayal and one continued to glare.

END CHAPTER 2

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