Disclaimer: I can wish but it just doesn't make it true, GW is not mine.

Story: Building a Better Mousetrap 101

Warnings: Implied Yaoi, smut talk, worried fathers and a plotting Peacecraft.

Being a Mouse doesn't mean you're helpless or weak.

Current Pairings: 1xR, 2xOC, 3x4, 5xS, H+OC, 6xN and OCxOC (past 1x2)

Chapter 9 - Surprise it's a Date

Mouse left for home shortly after their Lit class, unfortunately she had some family thing she had to attend this weekend. Which left Duo, with only his fellow Gundam pilots, Sally and Relena to spend the weekend with. (Anybody else here getting the feeling like something's keeping them apart? Oh, yeah it's me. Bwahahaha) Hilde had been MIA on the weekend stuff lately, Duo suspected she had 'found' somebody. He was glad, Hilde deserved love as much as anyone, and he just hadn't been 'equipped' the right way.

Friday night the gang had all bar hopped, ending up once again at the Cat's Meow. Saturday night he'd gone with Q and Trowa to a college party in one of the other Dorms. He'd been seriously hit on both nights, but he declined all 'invitations' and ended up going back to his dorm room alone. Friday he'd been practically passed out when Heero had poured him into his bed, so he managed to actually NOT call Mouse that night. But he was feeling a tad poorly Saturday morning and had kept his drinking to a minimum. He was just pleasantly buzzed by the time he rolled in. Sure he'd called her that afternoon, but that had never stopped him before.

"I'm going to kill you when I get back. Do you have any idea what time it is? The walls in this place are paper thin."

"So go hang out in the closet. Works for me."

"Moron. Fine I'm going, but there is no way in hell I'm talking dirty to you."

"Aw, Plleeaassee."

"Bah, you probably couldn't get up anyway."

"Oh, now that's just plain insulting. I'll have....."

And so the conversation went. Mouse sat huddled on the floor of her old closet, surround by out of date clothes and a life time of 'crap'. Duo laid in his bed and tried to get her to talk dirty to him again. Not that he needed smut talk to get off. This time they both fell asleep on the phone. Mouse's family party had included plenty of beer and wine. She was probably more buzzed then he was this time. Otherwise she would never have gotten up and hid in her closet, which is where her mother found her the next morning.

Serena Johnson mentioned in passing to her husband Douglas that she had found their only child Mouse, asleep in her closet clutching her cell phone. Douglas a rather astute and still handsome man of approximately 40 years of age immediately went to find his currently least favorite nephew. The one that was 'supposed' to be keeping an eye out for his beautiful and innocent child while she was away from him and in college. He found Rick trying to seduce the young man he'd brought with him. A sweet child by the name of Mike Phillips.

"Rick, I hate to interrupt your flirting. But I want to talk to you."

"We, we weren't F-flirting sir. Rick was J-Just ah, telling me I had um, food on my face." Mike still relatively clueless stammered before he bolted from the room. The older man closed one eye and glanced at his nephew.

"Food?"

"Chocolate."

"Ah, I see. You under control now?" And he did, Rick had had a serious chocolate problem all his life, he absolutely LOVED the stuff. Even more than any of the females in the family and in a family of confirmed chocoholics that was saying a lot. Watching Rick eat chocolate was 'disturbing' to say the least.

(sigh)

"Basically, what did you want Uncs."

"Why was my only child found sleeping in her closet?"

"Excuse me?"

"Your Aunt found Mouse asleep in her closet this morning."

"Ah, I see. Was she by any chance holding her cell?"

"Yes." The humorless answer.

"It was probably that Gundam Pilot she's been hanging out with." Now Douglas was confused, A Gundam pilot?

"A Gundam Pilot? But I thought I heard they were all like you, Josh and Nick?"

"Rumors Uncs, only two of them are, and they're with each other. Winner and the Barton kid. The Chinese boy is dating one of Une's Preventers and the Japanese kid as everyone knows is doing the Peacecraft."

"That's four Rick."

"The American, Duo Maxwell. He's loud, cocky and has a smart mouth. You're gonna love him."

"Are they dating then? She hasn't said anything."

"Not yet, but we all figure it's just a matter of time. He's almost as stupid as I heard you were."

"Watch it punk, I maybe older than you but I can still take you out. Damn their so young." The older man was kidding of course, well at least Rick hoped so, Doug Johnson was still a man to be reckoned with. In his youth he'd been a hot shot Mobile suit pilot himself. Until he'd meet a certain dark haired filly with soft gray eyes. That woman, was now his wife and had turned his world upside down and settled the restlessness that had driven him to fight and test the then experimental mobile suits.

"Uncs, thanks to the war, ain't none of as young as we should be, especially those Gundam Pilots." The older man ran his hands thru his only slightly graying light brown hair as he walked off muttering about how he wasn't old enough yet to have a grown child.

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Mouse returned to school late Sunday night, the following week went much the same as the last. Classes, homework, pulling a certain Idiot pilots braid whenever he was being an ass. The following Saturday afternoon around 2pm found her sneaking off of the campus once again to go shopping with Relena. This time though Heero saw them as they made their way to the gate. He had to smile it was a unique tactic. Relena, dressed up in some of Mouse's clothing was walking out the gate just as pretty as you please. Duo was sitting on his bed folding some laundry. Heero'd been REALLY pissed about Duo's using his favorite shirt the week before. The braided menace had had to promise to do all the laundry for a month before Heero'd stopped pounding on him.

"Hey, Baka look at this." Stepping over to the window, Duo looked out to where Heero was pointing and whistled.

"Well, I'll be damned, so that's how they get Relena out without anyone the wiser. Bold move, not my style of course. I prefer to sneak, but it seems to work for them."

"Want to follow?" Duo grinned at his friend, he knew Heero was just 'Dying' to find out where the girls were going. Besides it was sure a Hell of a lot better than laundry.

"Sure why not."

Heero drove ,seeing as Duo was as insane a driver as he had been a mobile suit pilot. The two ex-Gundam pilots followed the bus to the nearby by mall. Parked and tailed a pair of pretty, ordinary looking girls throughout the mall. When they went into Victoria's Secret, Heero realized this is where Relena must have got that hot little number she'd been wearing. He almost rubbed his hands together in anticipation. But being Heero, he just smirked. Duo looked at the 'somewhat' more sedate items on display in the window and gave a low whistle.

"Looks like your gettin laid tonight Heero buddy."

"I always get laid, you're the Baka."

"Whaa do ya mean by that?"

Heero almost broke their cover by laughing out loud, the utterly clueless look on the ex-Deathscythe pilots face was just.. just. Oh God, he couldn't look, what a Moron. By the way Relena wasn't the only who came out of that store with a bag, Heero almost snickered, when Duo remarked out loud that he wondered what she could have possible gotten in there. A couple of hours later found the girls with several bags each and sitting at an ice cream shop indulging in a couple of treats. The boys decided to play it cool and walk by the shop and pretend they had run into the girls on accident. Hey, it was a Mall, they we're teenagers, maybe they'd buy it. Both Moron's forgot that neither of them had gone into a single store and had no purchases to show for the supposed 'shopping trip'. Who says the 'Perfect Soldier' thought of everything. Mouse looked up from the shake she was sipping to grin at Relena and wink.

"They've given up on just following us, I think their pretending to stroll by." And sure enough moments later a stoic Heero Yuy and that grinning idiot Duo Maxwell strolled on by the food court and pretended 'shock' at finding the two girls there.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here? A pair of really pretty girls, and who are we, but a pair of hot guys looking for a pair a pretty girls like you." Heero sighed heavily as the braided menace slid into the booth next to the grinning Mouse, Heero sat next to Relena. Duo reached over grabbed Mouse's milk shake and took a sip.

"Hey! That's mine you ass, get your own." And she yanked his braid.

"Hmm, Butterscotch. Sweet, like you."

"Flattery where get you almost anything.. ..except my shake. Give it back." Duo grinned around the straw his violet eyes twinkling as he teased the dark haired ponytailed girl he'd been following all day, and drank her shake.

"Whatcha say Heero and I make it up to you gals. Name it." Oh this was too good to be true, he was literally walking into Relena's trap. The one she'd devised as soon as Mouse had told her the boys were following them. As far back when they'd been in Victoria's Secret earlier that afternoon.

"There's a movie theater here in the mall, take us to a movie and we 'might' forgive you for tailing us all afternoon." Relena grinned at the sullen Heero who had figured they were busted before they even sat down.

"Hn."

"Good that's settled. Did you drive? We could put our bags in the car."

Heero actually wasn't all that put out by it, but he acted like he was a little annoyed, if he hadn't, the braided menace might have figured out that Relena had just 'tricked' him into his first real date with Mouse. They put the girls purchases in the truck of the car and walked to the movie theater. It was about 6:30 pm, prime movie going time and the place was a little more crowded than Heero would have liked, especially as he had Relena with him. But there were still a couple of seats in the back and several farther down below. Playing on Relena's set up, he stage whispered to Duo that he and Relena would sorta like to, ah, sit in the back... if you (wink wink) know what I mean. Duo took it exactly as Heero wanted him too, thinking his buddy wanted to use the movie as an excuse to make out with Relena, so he dragged Mouse to a pair of seats a few rows below them. Relena smiled warmly at Heero as they made their way to the top back row.

"Have I mentioned lately how much I love you Heero?"

"Same here."

The established couple managed to watch the movie, as well as the still budding romance below them. Duo, being Duo, had bought the biggest tub of popcorn they made, had an enormous drink and several snacks. As the movie progressed Duo placed to place a casual arm about the shoulders of the dark haired girl, the popcorn tub in her lap, they shared the treats and drink. Utterly oblivious as usual, to the sight they made. Seeing as it was an action flick, Mouse jumped and squeaked several times throughout the movie, each time Duo would squeeze her and laugh. During a rather intense scene the two burrowed into to each other as they watched the screen with wide eyes, mindlessly eating popcorn.

After the Movie the couples met outside. Duo had grabbed Mouse's hand as they had made their way out of the crowded theater. He still had yet to let go when they caught up to Heero and Relena. Relena decided it was time to spring part two of her 'trap'.

"So, Duo, my bothers Halloween party is coming up in two weeks, Mouse of course already has an invitation. But I was thinking you two could sort of go together, then she'd be your date." The clueless twosome stared at her.

"Like you are nooww. On a date." Relena pointed out their clasped hands.

"A date?" They said in unison, two pairs of confused eye's looked at Relena first, then at each other, then down at their clasped hands and then back up at each other. Duo grinned at Mouse.

"Huh, whadoya know we're on a date. I had no idea they were so nice." This time three pairs of eye's just stared at him.

"Duo, please tell me you have been on a 'date' before." Relena asked

"Nope, never. I was sorta busy, ya know. Kicking ass, saving the world, trying to stay alive. You know the little things that take up a young guys time."

"Baka. I found time."

"Yeah, but you're the 'Perfect Soldier', besides Relena stalked you. So, what do I get on a first date anyway. Huh?" The grinning Baka asked.

"A single, goodnight kiss you Moron." Mouse stated firmly.

"Woohoo, I can't wait. Hey, it's still pretty early, so what's next?"

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AN: Woohoohoo, One Kiss coming right up. Been waiting for it haven't ya?