AN: Hooray! I have begun to write again and my goal is to catch up on all the fictions I have been letting slide since I have a lull in school and work. I do realize I owe more of an explanation and maybe a revamp to my last completed fiction, Heero Knows and Duo's….. Some of you may know what I am talking about. Well, enough with my blathering and onto the shower! Oh, and special thanks to Jjinks, GundamPilot03, PATTY 40, Lady-Frisselle, and renanimeangel for the reviews and character suggestions and encouragement. I hope you all read this next chapter.
Disclaimer: I do NOT, I repeat, NOT own Gundam Wing. smiles
Baby Shower! – Month 7!
Duo was kept seated in the living room as the other four pilots ran about the room setting things up. Every so often Duo would try to get up to help and was pushed back into her seat by one of her friends.
"Duo! You know you should be resting!" Quatre would say.
"Honey, you know you don't have to worry about anything. We have it all handled." Heero would tell her.
"Sit down Maxwell-Yuy; you'll have enough to deal with when the others get here." Wufei would put a hand on her shoulder.
Trowa was the worst. He would just look at her out of his visible eye, smirk, and the walk away. He would walk away!
Needless to say, Duo was exasperated. She was just about to try for her tenth time to get up when a hand stopped her.
"You know, if you needed someone to talk to you that bad, I would have been here sooner."
Duo looked back to find her good friend Jerica. Jerica was fairly tall, taller than the average female at least. She has brown hair half way down her back with blonde running throughout it, golden brown eyes, and was dressed in her brown painter's pants and white under shirt. She had come straight from work. Duo swore she was Trowa's real sister because she hardly ever talked.
"Jerica! I am so glad you could make it, I was about to go crazy just sitting here." Duo practically gushed.
Jerica just took a seat across from her friend and smiled. She knew Duo was about to go off on one of her babbling sprees.
"You would not believe how bad it is when you get this far along! I mean, I might look like I am due any minute but I really have like another two months. Can you believe it! I almost feel suffocated, but I am too big to sneak out any more! I am so..."
"Complaining I hear." The first voice said.
"Doesn't she do it well?" The second said.
"Be nice you two." The third commented, the sound of bags on the table fallowing the male voice.
"Tino! Tawny! Chris! I was hoping you'd get here soon!" Duo gushed as she received a hug from the twins and Tawny's boyfriend.
Tawny brushed her golden red highlighted brown hair over her shoulder to her back and winked a blue violet eye at Duo. "We knew we should try to be a bit early, before you were rushed with people and left to lie down or something."
"Tawny practically shoved me out the door." Tino whined. Poor Tawny's twin brother, his blond and golden red highlighted rusty colored hair was tussled and his blue gray eyes gave him a bit of a shocked look.
"She was really not much better with me." Chris gave Duo a brief hug and a nod to the ever moving Heero before sitting with his girlfriend on the couch adjacent to Duo and Jerica. His greenish hazel eyes softening at Tawny as she ruffled his spiked and frosted brown hair. "How have you been Jerica?" he smiled at her.
"Yes, how have you been? Tawny and I have not herd form you in a while now." Tino put in.
"Fine." Jerica simply stated.
"Hey Trow! You sure Jerica ain't your biological sister?" Duo called over, jokingly.
Trowa just shook his head no and went back to putting up streamers with Quatre.
"So, how is the kid or kids Duo?" Tawny asked with excitement.
"Feisty like me, and I am sure it is kids. I know I would not be this big with only one little tumbler in there." Duo smiled at her tummy with affection.
"So, two maybe?" Tino asked wide eyed.
"Higher!" Quatre called form the hall.
"Q-ball!"
"Winner!"
"He cannot help it if he knows and it is true. Calm down you two." Wufei told Duo and Heero both.
"But we told you all time and time again..." Heero began.
"Not to tell us or tease us about it." Duo finished.
"That's fine." Jerica and Trowa said.
"If you don't want to know about…" Tawny and Tino were about to spill when Chris shut them both up.
"Tawny! Tino! You know you are not supposed to tell." Chris chastised.
"How did all of you find out?" Duo asked.
"Quatre." Jerica pointed out.
"Leave it to Winner." Heero grumbled.
"He just wanted to make sure we all knew how much of what we gave to bring really." Tawny shrugged.
"I know I would have been short," said a new voice from over by the gift table.
"Hay Serenity T." Quatre said, greeting the girl.
Serenity T has long black hair with natural blue highlights; she's medium height and a slim build. She had on her usual general attire of combats and a white nice shirt. She has a fetish for poking people's cheeks to find out who has the most soft and podgy, so she was currently poking Quatre. She's half Russian and the other half Japanese, that means, she really likes her vodka. Naturally she had to move around the room to say her hello's and poke people's cheeks. So upon sitting she announced, "Duo has the best cheeks here still. I think Quatre makes a good second and Tawny a good third. Last would probably be a tie between Wufei and Tino." She smiled and bounced a bit, happy with her ranking.
Wufei muttered something about onna's and the injustice of the poking of people's cheeks, but was completely ignored by the energetic Serenity.
"So how many babies were u planning to buy for?" Chris asked.
"I know we thought the three of us were good with only stuff for two babies." Tino and Tawny admitted.
"I was only thinking one." Serenity smiled taking her seat by Jerica.
"I was leaning to more like three." Jerica smiled at Duo who was sticking he tongue out.
"All done!" Quatre announced from the other side of the room.
"Finally we got the place decorated." Wufei huffed.
"Do you like it, Duo?" Heero went over and asked his seated wife.
"I love it." She gushed.
"It looks fantastic!" Jerica, Tawny, Tino, and Serenity T. blurted out.
Chris just laughed as he looked around at the baby festive room. Streamers, balloons, little plastic toys and set ups, as well as a few other baby related things were every where around the room. The gift table was already pilled high and there were still a few more people expected yet. Speaking of which……
"Hurry up!" A female voice yelled down the hall.
"We're trying Kaoru-dono." A male voice said.
"A bit harder then Sir Ken." Said a new female voice.
"Shut it you Fox." Said another male voice.
"Do you always argue like this when you are together?" a female asked.
"Misao." Yet another male chimed in.
"Let's just get inside." A younger male chimed in as well.
"Agreed." Said a young female voice.
"Would that be the rest of our guests now?" Heero asked, looking over to Duo.
"Well, it is not like I could just not invite them." She stuck her tongue out again, this time at Heero and Trowa.
"Hello everyone!" The woman who shouted first greeted all those already present for her whole group.
"Hello Kaoru, Kenshin, Megumi, Sanosuke, Misao, Aoshi, Yahiko, and Tsubame." Quatre returned the greeting.
"Come and find a seat everyone!" Duo called to them.
The large group, after sitting presents on the table and on the floor around, took seats in the seating area and began to speak of this or that, forming little conversations.
"So Kaoru, long time no see." Jerica said.
"I know." Kaoru responded.
"How is married life?" Tawny teased.
"Huh?" Kaoru had zoned out a bit.
Tsubame just giggled at the talk of the older woman.
"Yeah Kenshin, how is she in bed?" Sanosuke jabbed Kenshin.
"An honorable man, such as Kenshin would not tell." Wufei supported his red faced friend.
"Yeah Sano, it is not polite to talk about bed life." Quatre pointed out.
Trowa just smirked at his little Arabian.
"I like being with her." Kenshin smiled in Kaoru's direction.
"I know how you feel." Aoshi suddenly said, drawing stairs.
"Some one has it bad." Tino snickered.
"Be nice Tino." Chris hit Tino over the head while Tawny wasn't looking.
"Nice one!" Yahiko told Chris.
"Heero, you wana get me some water?" Duo asked him.
"Sure thing." Heero got up and went to the kitchen.
Serenity snickered behind her hand when Heero was out of ear shot.
"Wrapped around your finger there Duo?" Megumi smiled.
Misao laughed so hard she fell out of her seat.
"Attention everyone!" said a new voice. "I believe now is an opportune time for the lovely Duo to open her many beautiful presents for the new babies."
None other than Trieze stepped through the door with Lady Une right behind him.
TBC!
This was long so I decided to break it into two parts. Sorry all of you, the gift portion will come next and after that we will get to know how many kids she really is having. Lol!
Serenity Maxwell