Prank War
Mannd
Still don't own HP nor GW (sigh, darn it!)
Harry sat with Hermione on the way from Hogwarts to King's Cross. Ron was a bit put out with him for not staying at Hogwarts over Christmas, but Harry had been invited to Winner Manor for the 2-week break and with Petunia's permission he decided he was not going to miss being with his friends and brothers.
Ever since the Gryffindor/Slytherin Quidditch match, Hermione had been acting strange. She would open her mouth to start asking a question, then stop and either close her mouth and turn away or bite her bottom lip and look worried. She did that several times on the trip home, "What Hermione?" Harry finally asked a bit exasperated.
"Well…" Hermione began and took a deep breath when Harry raised an eyebrow at her, "okay, how did you meet the Gundam Pilots?" She asked in a rush and Harry had to repeat the words in his head at a slightly slower pace before he understood them, "I mean you don't have to tell me, I think they were really brave for all they did and I think they are wonderful, scary but wonderful," Harry raised his other eyebrow waiting for his best friend to wind down, "and I think what they did was…" she looked helplessly at him, "I…"
Harry grinned at her and she stopped talking, "I met them when Duo broke into my Aunt and Uncle's house while they were still fighting OZ."
She listened with huge eyes as Harry told a heavily edited version of the story, "you were very brave," Hermione said, Harry gave an uncomfortable shrug and grinned with amusement as Hermione pulled out a large book, "what?" she said catching his grin and smiling sheepishly herself, "I'm looking for Nicolas Flamel."
"Duo!" Harry grinned as he came through the barrier and spotted the long-haired Preventer.
Duo grinned back and ruffled Harry's hair following him as he tried to duck out from under the pilot's hand, "Hey Squirt," he said.
Harry just shook his head and grinned then noticed Hermione watching them, "Duo, you remember Hermione, right?" he asked, "you met her after the Quidditch game?"
"Hello," Hermione said sounding breathless; "it's an honor…" she broke off at Duo's shocked look, "Oh!" she said then hugged him quickly before running over to where her parents were standing. Hermione's father nodded to the two and took the flushing girl off of the platform. Harry snickered as Duo tried to hide his flushed embarrassment.
"Snicker at me, will you?" Duo said and picking up Harry's duffle bag, chased the laughing 11 year old off of the platform and out of the station, laughing himself.
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Harry smiled as he got ready for bed, Zechs and Severus (Harry could only call him that when he was at Winner Manor) had been there, and his Aunt Petunia had stopped by for a few minutes on her way to a PTA function at Harry's old school. He pulled on his pajamas and pulled back the covers slipping in-between the sheets, "Duo!" Harry yelled as his feet were stopped from a full out spread.
"What's wrong?" Trowa stuck his head in the door.
"Duo short-sheeted my bed," Harry said as he got off the bed and pulled the covers off. Trowa shook his head and helped his little 'brother.'
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Harry stretched himself awake Christmas morning and froze when he felt something heavy near his feet. He sat up and saw a large wrapped gift at his feet. Harry opened the gift on his bed puzzled, the handwriting on it was unfamiliar and he pulled out the slinky cloth. "MAXWELL!" WuFei yelled and Harry shook his head as he listened two teens run passed his room. 'I wonder who gave this to me? 'Use it well.'' Harry rubbed the cloth between his fingers and wondered if he was supposed to have something made out of the rich cloth, but it had been his father's and well, he was rather hesitant to do anything with the cloth until he found out more about it. He slipped his hand under the cloth to feel the softness of it when it disappeared!
Harry gasped and quickly pulled his hand out then put his hand under again. Standing up he shook the whole cloth, put it around his shoulders and looked in the mirror he was body-less! He quickly pulled the cloth over his head recognizing that it was a cloak and he completely disappeared, just as a knock sounded on his door, "Harry! Breakfast!" Quatre opened the door and Harry waved, but Quatre's eyes drifted passed him, "he must be down stairs already." Duo ran by laughing as WuFei growled behind him and Quatre shook his head, "Breakfast guys." He said and left Harry's room.
WuFei walked by Harry's room muttering, "WuFei," Harry called and WuFei stopped to look in and shook his head at the empty room, "no wait," Harry pulled down the hood of the cloak and WuFei blinked in surprise.
"Where did you get that?" he said as Harry pulled the rest of the cloak off.
Harry handed him the cloak and pulled the note off the bed and handed it to him, "it was my father's!"
WuFei handed him the cloak smiling at him, "I am glad you got it," he turned to go.
"I was thinking that this might be a good way to get Duo back," Harry said looking down at the cloak and WuFei paused at the door and looked back. Harry looked up and met his gaze as a smile spread across the ShenLong pilot's face. If Duo saw it he would have probably decided that security duty for Relena during this season might be safer.
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The two conspirators decided to wait until the next morning to begin their prank war on Duo and they trooped down to breakfast, both thinking of Pranks to pull on their unsuspecting victim. Duo was almost hoping from one foot to the other when they finally showed up in the small dining room and Duo gave a small cry of exasperation and dragged Harry into the room. "I've never seen someone so reluctant to open gifts before," he said as he pulled Harry towards the Christmas tree and presents.
Harry blinked at the tree smiling then looked down and blinked again, "I've got presents?" he said his voice almost a reverent whisper, "I've got presents under the tree?"
The room behind Harry stilled and Duo's exuberance faded as he realized that this was probably the first Christmas that Harry had actually ever had anything under the tree. He looked back at Quatre almost as if asking for help and was glad that the blond came forward and put an arm around the shaking boy's shoulder, "yes, little one," Quatre said, "you have presents under the tree."
Harry was busy trying to blink back tears as his eyes skittered over the brightly wrapped boxes and he counted, from what he could see he had at least one gift from each of the pilots, his friends and he tilted his head, one from Aunt Petunia. He looked at Quatre his eyes almost lost and filled with wonder and mild panic, "I… I don't know what to do?" he whispered.
Quatre hugged the boy to him, "you open them Harry," Quatre softly helped the boy sit on the floor and pulled a brightly wrapped package onto his lap.
Harry looked at Quatre then took a deep breath and carefully opened the package. Duo shook his head, it would never do, where was the flying paper? He took a gift that Quatre handed him and sat next to where Harry was and ripped into the paper sending it flying. Harry sputtered as he was hit with small bits of paper but seeing the grin on Duo's face soon followed. He opened the box and pulled out several shirts and sweaters that would keep him warm in the cold castle corridors. "Thank you Quatre," he said giving the blond a hug, then handing Quatre a gift with his name on it. Duo pouted a bit as he wanted to open all his gifts at once but recognized that as Harry first official Christmas, the boy wanted to savor it. He pulled down a large tray of finger breakfast foods and set them up behind Harry nudging the boy and handing him a plate of fruits and quiche.
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Harry had to have help carrying his gifts back up to his room. Quatre it seemed was determined to get him all new clothes even, Harry blushed, new underwear and socks. Trowa had found several books on magical and non-magical animals, while WuFei it seemed had raided Flourish and Blotts and had gotten him books on just about every subject including non-magical subjects. Heero had gotten him a bokken, his very own practice sword, to practice with so he didn't have to borrow WuFei's spare when they did katas in the morning. Severus and Zechs had gone together to upgrade his potions set and got him a book called Moste Potente Potions and a stern warning about sharing the book and brewing the potions. Duo had gone to Zonko's. The gift that Harry had gotten them had Harry's ribs hurting from the hug given to him by Duo. He along with Severus and Zechs had gotten enough money together to buy three brooms. They weren't top of the line like his Nimbus, but good quality. He felt bad that they had to share, but he was reassured that they didn't mind.
Harry had been a bit worried about whether or not they would be able to use the brooms, but Severus had told him that he thought they had a bit of magic in them. Unlike Aunt Petunia who could not see the castle at all without the charm on her necklace, the pilots had had no problem. After the Quidditch match Duo had wanted to try flying right then and there, but the shock on Aunt Petunia's face and Severus' grim expression at the near miss with the jinx had him biting his tongue.
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Duo yawned the next morning as he moved into the bathroom, reached into the shower stall and turned on the hot water. He blinked as the water turned on in the sink. Frowning he turned off the water in the shower and watched as the water turned off. He leaned over and turned on the cold water and blinked again as the toilet flushed. "Okay," he said absently and went to the sink and turned on the faucet. The water in the shower came on and shaking his head he pulled off his robe and slipped into the shower stall and closed the door. As soon as the door closed, the water in the shower stopped and the water began pouring out of the sink faucet. He opened the shower door and the water in the shower turned on again, but this time the temperature was freezing and he yipped from the cold. He quickly got out then went to go into another bathroom, not saying anything as Trowa nodded at him bleary eyed and went into the one he had just vacated. He grinned thinking of the great prank, but heard the water to the shower turn on and Trowa getting in with no problems.
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The next morning Duo warily tried the shower and sighed with relief when everything worked fine. No one else had had the problems he had. He was getting out of the shower when he heard it and froze. Someone was singing softly almost as if it were under their breath. He listened intently trying to figure out where the female voice was coming from and he moved closer to the new mirror that Quatre had had installed the day before,
You're bringin' sexy back
Them girls don't know how to act!
Boy let me make up for the things you lack
'Cause you're burnin' up I gotta get it fast!
(Take em' to the bridge!)
Dirty babe...(Uh Huh)
You see these shackles?
Baby I'm your slave (Uh Huh)
I'll let you whip me if I misbehave! (Uh Huh)
It's just that no one makes me feel this way (Uh Huh)
(Take em' to the chorus!)
Duo backed away from the mirror, it was singing and if he remembered right it was a song from 2006 AC, called Sexy Back by Justin Timberlake. In fact, he had just downloaded it onto his new PPEL (Personal Pocket Entertainment Link) that Heero had created for him for Christmas… Then the mirror stopped singing, "hello stud," it said in a breathless voice, "mmm love your long hair, so sexy."
"HEERO!" Duo clutched his slipping towel tighter and yelled opening the door and looking slightly panicked as the blue eyed pilot came in. "It talks…" he pointed to the mirror. Heero gave him 'the look', "no really it does! It was singing then it stopped and called me stud."
Heero raised and eyebrow and looked between him and the mirror, then shaking his head, turned and walked out of the bathroom closing the door behind him, the mirror gave a very feminine sigh, "ahh…" it giggled! Duo goggled at it, "alone at last!"
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Three mornings later, Duo had come to accept that the mirror would only talk to him when he was alone, in fact all the mirrors in the house talked to him in that breathy teenaged girl tone. The mirror flirted with him outrageously and after a while, Duo started to flirt back much, he could tell by it's tone of voice, to the delight of the mirror. Duo turned on the water, making sure that the plumbing was working correctly, and then winking at the mirror did a small striptease that had it giving him a wolf whistle he stepped in and sighed.
When he got out of the shower he toweled dry, giving the mirror another 'show' that had it giggling at him. He turned as he pulled on his boxers and it giggled at him again, "dear, I hate to tell you, but the red of your boxers clashes horrible with the purple of your skin."
He blinked, 'purple?' he turned in the mirror, "oh that's better, yellow works much better with the red," it said.
Duo gasped in horror as his skin rippled from yellow to black to silver. And then it clicked, "WUFEI!" he yelled and could have sworn he heard giggles coming from the closed door. He wretched it open and blinked in shock as everyone was standing outside of it, Harry giggling so hard he had to hold onto the wall. WuFei was leaning up against the opposite wall smirking, "you've been pranking me?" he said in shock, "both of you?" he looked over at Harry who was still giggling. The mirror behind him even started laughing, "and you can all hear the mirror?" his eyes narrowed on the other pilots, Quatre ducked his head to hide his grin, Trowa looked to the side hiding his smirk, and Heero's eyes sparkled with humor. "How long will the skin thing last," he said looking down and watching the silver change to blue and green.
"A few days," WuFei said, "it will wear off before you have to go back to work on Monday."
Duo nodded and grinned, "temporary truce?" he asked. Harry looked at WuFei who raised an eyebrow then nodded and the three pranksters shook hands.
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Harry sighed as he walked with Heero to the barrier to take the train back. The rest of the pilots had had meetings or missions to get to. "Did you remember everything?" Heero asked, his voice soft but clearly heard over the noise.
Harry grinned," yep," he said.
Heero nodded, "Trowa will come by and see you before month end and I will try as well."
Harry nodded, and turned to go, "bye Heero."
Heero waited until Harry was just about to move through the barrier, "oh and I was the one who short sheeted your bed," with that he turned and walked away.
Harry tripped as he went through the barrier and caught himself just as he went through. Heero had pranked him? Heero? He shook his head, grinning and waved as he saw the excited Hermione waving to him, a shy Neville by her side. "Did you have a good holiday?" he asked as Neville and he maneuvered his trunk into their compartment.
AN: Sorry this took so long. I had a hard time writing it. Don't know why, but it happens.
Mood ring colors
Purple – sensuality
Yellow – unsettled
Black – Nervous, Tense
Silver – Very Nervous
Blue – Calm/Lovable
Green – Normal
I don't own Sexyback, by J. Timberlake, I just like the song and thought it was perfect for Duo and a flirty mirror!
