Thank you, Becky Yuy and Kami-Crimson for your reviews on the last chapter. Cookies for you both. (Hands a plate of cookies to you two.) This chapter is just Heero adjusting, sort of, to being a normal kid. He's kinda adjusting really fast but. hey, he's Heero, right?

And if you read it, would you please review? It helps SO much if I know what you think. Even if you think it's stupid and that I should get a life.

Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing

Arashi, Quatre and Wufei had brought sleds fit for two and they paired off. Arashi and Hilde used Arashi's, Quatre and Trowa on Quatre's, and Heero and Wufei on Wufei's. Dead Man's Drop was the biggest, steepest hill for miles and was where everyone went sledding. It took the small group of teenagers nearly five minutes to reach the top.

"They need an escalator." Hilde was the last over the hill, breathing heavily. "Or a ski lift."

The others laughed and huddled in a group to catch their breath. After a minute Arashi spoke up, "Ok, you know the drill. We'll do this four or five times, give up and go to Heero's house for cocoa, right?"

They all nodded and Heero followed the others to the crest of the hill. At his feet the hill fell for hundreds of feet as he stood on the very edge. "Not scared, are you, Yuy?"

Heero was hard pressed not to laugh at Wufei's mocking comment. He'd grown up killing people and setting off explosions, how could a simple hill scare him? Yet somehow…

"C'mon, c'mon! We all go together." Arashi stood next to the sled as Hilde sat carefully down on it and Arashi began explaining something.

"I'll push this time." Wufei got in back of the sled and Heero climbed onto the front.

(Yes!) Heero's voice spoke for the first time in a long time. (Sledding is the best part of winter.) Heero could feel the other him mentally getting a good hold and copied him. (And you're in the front. Oh-) He swore loudly. (-that means you're steering. Good luck.) Before he could show Heero how to steer, Wufei had pushed the sled over the edge and jumped on. (Steer you idiot! Steer!)

Heero kicked one of the pieces of wood on the front of the sled and it swung to the side. He put his foot quickly on the other piece and straightened the sled smirking as he heard Wufei shout something in Chinese. They sped down the hill, weaving slightly to avoid each other and other people sledding. Snow sprayed as they reached the bottom and spun the sleds sideways to stop.

"Yuy! What is your problem? I know you can sled, you've been doing it since you were five years old." Wufei leapt off and faced Heero, visibly shaken. Inside his head, Heero could almost see the voice flat on his back, gasping for air.

(We're alive? We're alive!)

Shut up. To Wufei he said, "You didn't give me time to get ready, I was watching Arashi."

"Awww! How cu-ute." Trowa said in a fake, girly voice and made a kissing face as the others laughed.

"Hey, Trowa!" Trowa turned and was knocked off his feet by the force of a snowball connecting with his face. "Duck."

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Half and hour later they had split into two teams and Heero was sitting with his back to the makeshift fort they had made. Beside him, Hilde, and Quatre were throwing snowballs at the other three. He was slowing shaping one himself, his hands carefully forming the snow into a ball. It crossed his mind that he had work in his room that he was supposed to be doing.

"Heero, come on! We need your help." Quatre laughed and ducked, narrowly avoiding a flying snowball.

Heero knew he had work he had to do and, suddenly, he didn't care. He stood and threw the snowball, watching it leave his hand in a fluid motion. It flew fast and accurate, hitting Wufei in the chest and knocking him back. There was silence for a minute and then the voice in his head whistled. (Wow! That was a nice shot.)

At the same time Arashi began giggling. The giggles soon erupted into laughter and she doubled up, clutching her stomach and laughing.

(Great, she lost it.)

"Arashi? Are you alright?" Quatre walked carefully over to Arashi and bent down. "Arashi, don't explode."

"I-I'm ok. Whew. That was weird." Arashi pushed herself to her feet, still giggling slightly. "Hot cocoa sounds good right now."

"Same here." Hilde grabbed the sled handle as she followed the others back towards Heero's house.

How cute. I tried not to use the voice as much in this one, but you mind letting me know how that went? I'm going to do, I think one more just normal thing before I tell you what Heero has to do here.