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Warnings: don't own, so don't sue. gay reference, and a poor trick on quatre's fogged up mind. but nothing bad i think.
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As much as the gang had prided themselves on being generally more sensible than most people their age, there were still rules in the hospital about teenage girls and boys sharing the same ward. So when the girls decided to see the boys early in the morning they were quite shocked to see the little girl from before curled up like a little kitten against Heero's chest. But more shockingly was the small smile that had graced his lips at some point during the night, with his arm clutching protectively around her.
Relena having not lost her touch of making it completely obvious that she was in love with Heero, started to fiddle with something in her bag. By this point most of the occupants in the room had already woken up and were blandly looking around the room, waiting for the tiredness to leave their eyes. Trowa however seemed as sound as ever, looked at what Relena was pulling out of her bag and decided that it would be in everyone's best interests to stop her before she even tried.
"Erm Relena… you don't really want to do that" his voice quiet and soft to avoid disturbing Heero at this point.
Click. Flash… well at least I tried Trowa thought to himself with a small sigh. Needless to say the pilots already knew how well Heero would react to having his picture taken. Preferably NOT-AT-ALL.
No sooner had the flash gone off did Heero reach out and smash Relena's camera into tiny pieces, flinging them against the wall. His face contorting with anger (it seems he wasn't as asleep as they thought him to be). Before Relena could even start reprimanding him about destroying other people's property, he untangled himself from the child, sat up on the bed slowly as he 'popped' his back and cricked his neck, all whilst having his finger against her lips in the general shush position. Relena was no less than struck dumb anyway, since she was always the one to bring in some form of contact to him, relishing that he had taken the initiative for once. Unbeknownst to her the Doctors were watching the pair trying not to laugh out loud at her expression. J trying hardest of all, since he knew Heero the best and thought if only she knew what he really thought of her. J certainly did, since Heero complained about her in every report, saying things like stalker and crazy-pink lady. It certainly made him wander what the future held with this woman ruling.
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Zechs and Treize were grinning to themselves for a different matter it seemed. Whilst Heero's hair was never really what one would call tame, it was now all pushed up straight on one side, making the great pilot 01 look like he had head-butted a Gundam side-on. Despite the fact that these two men were amongst the middle-age section of the group, had singularly controlled two sides of the greatest battle of all time, and were also decreed the top eligible bachelors as well; they were very silly, very flirtatious and completely gay. A slight shock I must admit, but you like what you like. Boy did they like what they saw. Hence the giggling, devilish smiles and overall silliness these two tried to (poorly) hide at seeing Heero's back as his tank top had fallen off his shoulder.
Noin having known Zech's preference for a little while now just looked at him owlishly, wandering just how on earth no one had noticed this before. Then just shrugged it off, why bother wasting time trying to find and answer to an impossible question.
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"Relena, don't do that ever again" Heero ordered with his trademark glare.
"But Heero you looked so cute together" Relena whined, not paying attention to the dark scowl spreading across Heero's face.
"Do you not understand what I just said Relena? Hasn't it occurred to you that I might not like to be photographed? I may in fact point out, that if I ever see you and a camera anywhere within the same vicinity as me; I will hate you forever and my actions will not be at fault. Now…Is that understood?" he ended with a small growl.
Relena, although blinded by love, isn't completely stupid. After hearing the longest speech Heero had ever willingly given her, her mind had processed it into something she could understand. Basically,
Heero + camera angry Heero
Angry Heero Relena (minus) Heero
No camera Relena + Heero
Needless to say she decided to leave him to cool off. Her excuse for arranging something interesting for breakfast, sadly wasn't believed, but everyone allowed her to slip out the room, the quick, sharp-tongue Dorothy not far behind her (although she was more likely trying to embarrass Relena about what just happened, rather than help her with anything – not that the boys minded all that much).
A small grumble came from the bed that Heero was still sitting in, as the little girl tiredly rubbed at her eyes. Despite all the burns along her arms and face, with most of her mousey hair missing in chunks, she still looked adorable like this. Reminding Heero of his own niece; whom he had to wake up for her school. Heero unaware that he was doing it, he picked her up and started to carry her back to her ward, singing a quiet little song he sung to his niece every morning (1)
Haaheo e ka ua i na pali
Ke nihi ae la i kanahele
E uhai ana paha i ka liko
Pua a hihi lehua o u
Aloha oe, aloha oe,
E ke onaona noho i ka lipo
One fond embrace, a hoi ae au
Until we meet again, until we meet again.
O ka halia aloha kai hihi mai
Ke hone ae nei i kuu manawa.
O oe no ka'u ipo aloha
A loko e hana nei.
Maopopo kuu iki i ka nani,
Na pua rose o Maunawili,
Ilaila hiaai ai na manu,
Mikiala i ka nani o ka liko.
"Don't worry sweetheart, everything is going to be fine, lets get you back to your room" Heero whispered to the child softly, a solitary tear falling down his cheek.
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"That's it! I forbid anyone to allow that Onna back in the room! What the hell was she thinking?!" surprisingly it wasn't Wufei who harshly demanded this, but Zechs. Although he does love his sister terribly, even he can admit that she is exceptionally ignorant at times. Who on earth would give Duo Maxwell 'sugared substances' for breakfast when he was already so hyperactive? Now he had to listen to hours of distorted nursery rhymes such as "this is the house that Jack built" (which is long enough as it is) to be turned into "this it the Gundam that smashed the fortress, that held the damsel, that was a man, who owned the castle, that sent the Gundams to save him" only adding a few hundred corpses, lots of blood and gore, and a little bit of nudity, had left him and many of the others a little pale in the face.
Sally and the other Ladies had gone running after Heero, who had left the minute he saw his breakfast. Relena it seems had wanted to impress Mr Yuy by showing him how "culturally aware" she was, and had brought him sushi for breakfast. Let's just say that Zechs knew that Treize was big on fishy food, but that sight of the chopped, buttered, spiced tentacle that looked like it was trying to crawl out of the plate, was enough to turn even him. Mind you, the boys' Doctors or Instructors as it were, had mentioned the small fact that despite Heero being of Asian decent doesn't necessarily mean he likes fish, and that he in fact is allergic to it. Quite funny actually, they had spent hours of beatings and torture to get information out of him, and they could of just ate fish and chips next to him. As soon as that smell had hit the room Heero was out, hands covering his mouth and nose, in a quick attempt to protect him from the sickening smell. But what n nice ass he had Zechs thought dreamily, unconsciously knowing that Quatre was thinking the same about him, Treize and Trowa.
"Sigh" what is it that attracts me to all these tall men? Pondered the injured little blonde.
"Quatre? Quatre? Hey Cat!!" Duo yelled insistently.
"Hmmm?" came a dreamy reply.
"Oh man, I thought they weren't giving him the IV treatment." Duo's face quickly changed from confused to a devilish smirk when he saw what, or whom I should say were holding his attention. Oh, this is gonna be good. Hehehe.
"Quatre, did you like your breakfast today?" duo casually asked, getting another hmmm in reply. "So Relena's gift of rice pudding and chips, satisfied you did it?" another hmmm. Naturally whenever Duo talked people would hear, but this conversation was getting the interest of the three objects of affection. They had noticed Quatre looking at them, although he was far more sophisticated and less noticeable than Relena at it. Duo turned to wink at them all sitting on the beds, turned back to Quatre saying
"Well, now that the ladies were gone, me and the guys were thinking about giving the Doctors here a nice goodbye surprise, now that we won't need to fight for them anymore. We all wanted to do a sexy little dance for them, but these guys don't know how to do it, and I don't wanna do it by myself. (Duo started Pouting then for effect) So I was hoping that you'd do a little show first, and I'll join in…" Quatre hadn't really heard any of what Duo had said, just the words "sexy" "dance" "for" "these" "guys" "for" "a" "nice" "surprise". Never mind the fact that that wasn't even the order in which he heard it, Quatre blushed and nodded, only to shake his head when his ears buzzed; he was too excited (but embarrassed) about dancing to pay attention to Duo trying to get his interest again. Feeling very embarrassed at the thought of dancing for these guys, he started blushing harder when he thought of where it might lead. Sadly he didn't realise how embarrassed he was, because a soon as he was trying to get off the bed he had a nasty dizzy spell, falling back into it. Now having a bad headache and a bleeding nose, a little too much blood got to his face I guess.
A bit shocked to see Quatre stumble, Trowa moved over to his bed and checked his temperature on the back of his hand. Nothing out of the ordinary, "don't worry guys, I think he's just a bit tired still" Trowa told the other worried faces in the ward. Duo, relieved that Quatre was OK thought that the air needed a bit of clearing now that the mood was uncomfortable.
"Well I guess you guys aren't gonna get any tonight!"
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"Whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" "whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
They knew how to make bombs using a few random items off the ground. They knew how to make themselves invisible from the world. They knew how to make their location safer than any other, and they knew how to build complex machinery, take apart guns and put them back together again in their sleep. What the Gundam pilots didn't know what to do with, was a crying tot; which the nurse had asked them to quickly look after, while she went to the detrimental care ward.
It seems one of the patients had gotten pregnant at some point of her permanent stay here. However, due to her deteriorating mental health she was deemed unfit to look after her newborn baby. It had been in the children's ward for a few days, but the mother had managed to leave her ward and tried to get the baby boy back. Hence the crying, screaming bundle of unhappiness laying on the bed with four teenage boys (Heero was still out), two ex-generals, and five smart-ass doctors, who didn't understand anything about kids under seven, all staring at it in a hopeless and increasingly annoyed way.
Despite the nurse's promise to answer the two way baby monitors they had, the hospital was severely understaffed now that all the war victims were coming in, so a baby crying wasn't at the top of her list. No need to say, this did not make Wufei Chang a happy man.
If this baby doesn't stop crying soon, I may have to break my code of honour and strangle that sneaky b#£h of a nurse -that's right even in his head Wufei does Not swear! Isn't there anything we can do to shut it up?
"Maybe, it's uncomfortable?" Quatre suggested meekly as he poked the baby's arm, in attempt to make it move itself.
"Don't be ridiculous boy! It doesn't know what it wants, it's probably crying for the sake of crying" came the harsh scold from Professor H. "although if you want to try and pick up that wriggly thing, be my guest, I am not going to put myself in the same position J did. Hell, he only held it and it started blubbering"
"Well excuse me, but I haven't seen you earning any certificates in child care!" J retorted sourly, trying to wipe the sick and dribble off his shoulder, with one of the spare bathroom towels.
"How about a lullaby or a nursery rhyme?" opted Treize, who seemed to be mildly interested in watching everyone else panic.
"Not a bad idea Trey-babes, I'll do it. Erm…. What nursery rhyme should I do?" Duo looked around at the others, hoping they could think of one, since he couldn't concentrate, with the baby now screeching in his ear.
"How about Oranges and lemons?" this was Wufei's suggestion
""Oranges and lemons",
say the bells of St. Clements
"You owe me five farthings",
say the bells of St. Martin's
"When will you pay me?",
ask the bells of Old Bailey "
When I grow rich",
say the bells of Shoreditch
"When will that be?",
ask the bells of Stepney
"I do not know",
says the great bell of Bow
Here comes a candle
to light you to bed
And here comes a chopper
to chop off your head!"
A brief moment of stunned silence, then…
"Wwwwwwwwhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
It had been a whole hour since they got the baby; they had sung "Jack and Jill", "the ants go marching one by one", "Hush little baby", "Baa Baa Black sheep" and a whole bunch of others. Duo could have sworn his throat was bleeding due to overuse. But to no avail, the baby kept crying.
"How about that Quack, Quack, Quack song?" Trowa said, wiping the sweat off his brow on his sleeve, the small twitch under his eye clearly visible now that the baby had gone up a decibel. "I'm sure babies were supposed to get tired quickly from crying" he muttered nervously.
"OK I'll try that one Tro'" Zechs spoke
"Five little ducks
went out one day
over the hill and far away
Mother duck said
"Quack, quack, quack, quack."
But only four little ducks came back.
Four little ducks
went out one day
over the hill and far away
Mother duck said
"Quack, quack, quack, quack."
But only three little ducks came back.
"Hey keep going Zechs, he likes this one" Duo whispered, his voice rather raspy.
"Three little ducks
went out one day
over the hill and far away
Mother duck said
"Quack, quack, quack, quack."
But only two little ducks came back.
Two little ducks
went out one day
over the hill and far away
Mother duck said
"Quack, quack, quack, quack."
But only one little duck came back."
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well that's the end of that chapter.
(1)i don't own the song, it's Aloha 'Oe from Lilo and Stitch 2, translation below:
Haaheo e ka ua i na pali
Proudly sweeps the rain cloud by the cliffs
Ke nihi ae la i kanahele
As onward it glides thru the trees
E uhai ana paha i ka liko
It seems to be following the liko
Pua a hihi lehua o u
The a hihi lehua of the vale
Aloha oe, aloha oe,
Aloha oe, farewell to thee,
E ke onaona noho i ka lipo
Thou charming one who dwells among the bowers
One fond embrace, a hoi ae au
One fond embrace, before I now depart
Until we meet again, until we meet again.
Until we meet again, until we meet again
O ka halia aloha kai hihi mai
Thus sweet memories come back to me
Ke hone ae nei i kuu manawa.
Bringing fresh remembrance of the past
O oe no ka'u ipo aloha
Dearest one, yes, thou art mine own
A loko e hana nei.
From the true love shall ne'er depart
Maopopo kuu iki i ka nani,
I have seen and watched the loveliness
Na pua rose o Maunawili,
Thou sweet rose of Maunawili
Ilaila hiaai ai na manu,
And 'tis there the birds oft love to dwell
Mikiala i ka nani o ka liko.
And sip the honey from thy lips