AN: Hi! This is a bit shorter than usual... but there are no major jumps in scene/time. So... on with the show! Oh... and this is LOVINGLY dedicated to VED! Here you go, girl! At last!

Waking Up In Vegas

Chapter Twenty Eight

"Duo... Wufei? What's wrong? What happened?"

Wufei couldn't speak, shaking his head, biting his lips. Trowa looked at the expression on his face. It didn't seem to be pain. The so un-Wufei-like tears seemed to be from... happiness? The onyx eyes were bright, watery, but oh-so-very happy. Joyful, thankful.

"Duo?" Quatre questioned as he and his husband bounded down the porch steps.

"M... Megan just called," Duo said, voice trembling. "She said... she said the papers went through. Tro... it's really real... Meilan... she's ours. We're parents... we've got a daughter..."

Trowa blinked. What...?

"But... Mr. Boothe said... it was impossible... what...?"

A bright smile broke through Duo's face. "Counselor Lakes got him to reconsider. Meg sure knows how to pick lawyers, Tro. I owe that girl so much! Both of them!"

Trowa smiled, throwing his arms around Wufei in a very surprising show of emotion. "Congratulations! When are you..."

"We're going now!" Duo interrupted. "We just *had* to stop and tell you first. You will let Sylvia and Em and everyone else in town know, right? I've already called Mama, so the girl's know. Oh... and Delana! Oh, they're already in Nashville! We *have* to call them, Wufei. Bye, Trowa! Have fun!"

Trowa laughed... Duo hadn't taken a single breath the whole time, just babbling on. "No, I won't! I'm going with you!"

Quatre looked between the three, lost and confused. Trowa turned to his husband and caught him up by his waist, twirling him around in the air. Quatre looked throughly befuddled at his husband's unusual behavior. Exactly what all was happening here?

"Remember I mentioned Wufei and Duo were trying to adopt? Well, the adoption papers went through," he explained, green eyes bright and happy as he sat Quatre back on the ground. "Duo and Wufei are now Daddies!"

Quatre blinked, then smiled. "That's great news!"

Trowa was pushing Wufei into the back seat. "Duo, get in the back with 'Fei. I'm driving! You're too emotional to drive all the way to Nashville." he sent a look over his shoulder at Quatre, standing by the porch steps. The setting sun behind him was casting the world in a warm glow that perfectly fit his ecstatic mood.

"Quatre? Would you like to come? I don't know how late we'll be gone."

Quatre smiled and walked towards the Explorer. "Of course, I'll come. I'll call Cathy on the way and explain to her. She might get worried!" He looked at Trowa, who stood with his hand on the driver's door as Duo stared at them in confusion. Quatre laughed.

"Well? What are we waiting for? There's a girl out there that's waiting for her parents!"

A young woman, somewhere in her late twenties, waited on the sidewalk as Trowa pulled the Explorer into an empty space alongside the road. The sunlight was long gone, leaving nothing but a dark orange and purple horizon.

Duo and Wufei were out before the engine was turned off, Duo's arms going around the woman. Her eyes were wide and friendly, her hair cut short in an easily manageble style, predominately blond, but with a warm brown underneath, just to give it dimension. She wore clean khaki slacks and a dark blue shirt- a dark blue shirt with a multi-tude of paint splatters on it.

"Megan!" The woman laughed at Duo's exclamation.

"Duo! I'm so happy for you both!"

"Where... does she know?" Wufei asked. He'd composed himself over the long drive, but there was still that happy glint in his onyx eyes, and a little nervousness along with it.

The woman shook her head, her vividly Emerald eyes glimmering with happiness. "Not yet. We thought we'd let you break it to her." She pulled herself from Duo's arms. "Now, anda, padre! Let's go find your daughter!"

Quatre followed with Trowa; he was a little apprehensive. He'd never been to an orphanage before. Hell... his exposure to children was rather limited.

"It's alright, love," Trowa whispered into his ear. "Just keep watching Duo and Wufei. We're about to see one of the best scenes ever, I'll bet."

Megan led them into the building, down a hallway and into a large common room. Small tables were everywhere, with a few children here and there.

"Meilan, you have visitors," Megan said. Quatre watched as a dark little head turned their way. Raven black hair pulled into two little pigtails, held fast by pink ribbons. Obsidian eyes landed on the small party that had just entered, lighting up with joy.

"Wufei! Duo!"

The little girl leaped from the chair she was in, barrelling across the room and straight into bear-hugging Wufei's legs.

"Hey, Meilan," Wufei smiled, kneeling in front of her.

"Hey, Mei," Duo kneeled down next to his lover and the little girl. "So how did that paint set work out?"

"Oh, I love it! Timmy tried to steal my water colors, but I hit him with the notebook!" She looked pleased with herself, and Duo chuckled.

"Wufei?" The girl questioned, seeing that Wufei was quiet. Tears were silently falling down his cheeks. "What's wrong?"

He shook his head. "Nothing."

"Then why are you crying?" She reached up and wiped away a tear.

"Sometimes people cry when they're really, really happy," Duo answered her.

The girl was confused. "I don't understand."

"Do you remember Miss Victoria?" he asked the girl. She nodded her head.

"She gave me a lollipop and made the bad man get embarrassed. I liked her," she stated with the surety of her young age.

"We do too, Mei. Do you want to know a secret?" At her nod, he smiled. "Miss Victoria won against the bad guy. She beat him and made him even more embarrased."

The girl looked even more perplexed, Quatre could almost laugh at the scene. But he saw the realization slowly dawn on the girl.

"Does..." she whispered slowly, "Does that mean..."

Wufei nodded. "You're ours, Meilan. You get to come home with us... For ever."

For a moment, there was the most adorable expression written on the girl's face. One of confusion. And then, her face broke into a smile.

"I have parents now?" she asked excitedly. "You're my daddies now?"

Duo nodded to her. "Yup, angel. You're coming home with us. For keeps. We can get your things now. You'll be in a *home* tonight."

Meilan struggled to break free, laughing as she darted away. "Timmy! Lance! Molly! I've got parents! I don't have just one daddy! I've got TWO!"

Megan laughed as she watched her young charge run off. Scratch that. Meilan was not her charge anymore. Meilan would be able to go home with her family. Finally. A small tear slipped out, but she brushed it away.

"Oh, dios mio! Duo! You have to come over for dinner! We have to celebrate!"

Wufei chuckled. "Food never goes wrong with him."

"Isn't Justin in town?" Duo questioned, eyes never leaving the girl dancing around, giggling madly and gushing her good news to all her friends.

"He certainly is!" Megan laughed at the mention of her brother. "Oh, and of course I'll have to call Vicky! She'll have to be there with us! Oh..." she blinked. "Who's this?" she asked, staring at Quatre.

"My husband," Trowa replied, his arm snaking around Quatre's waist.

Meg's emerald eyes widened. "Dios mio, Trowa! You move fast! Last I heard you weren't even dating!"

Trowa dropped a kiss to Quatre's head.

"Yeah, things have moved pretty fast... but I wouldn't have it any other way."