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" It's Christmas "Written By: Maaya Disclaimer: I don’t own ‘Gundam Wing’
or any of its characters. Even the plot in this fiction feels old
somehow.. *sigh*
Genre: General/Humour/fluff Pairings: 1+2, 3+4 Warnings: Attempt at being sappy and humorous..
be very afraid! Also, religious themes.
It's Christmas
“Do you know today’s date?” Heero looked up from his laptop (which didn’t showed anything interesting anyway since Internet seemed filled with pictures of trees with lights in merry colours. Someone had even sent him an email with a picture of a fat man in red clothes!) as he heard the question. Quatre’s head did also shot up, from where he had snuggled deep into Towa’s arms in what seemed to be a very comfortable position for both of them. He looked confusedly at his braided friend who had asked the question. “It’s..Hmm..” he paused and thought for a while, “..December the 24:th or the 25:th” Duo’s eyes lit up at the answer “Yeah, and..” he stopped and seemed to wait for a continuation. When he heard no such thing, he let out a suffering sigh “It’s CHRISTMAS guys!” Three pair of eyes blinked confusedly at him. “Christmas..?” Duo stared at his clueless friends in wonder, his violet eyes wide. “Don’t tell me you never heard about Christmas!” His voice came out louder than he had planned and it was filled with disbelief. Quatre shrugged as he sat up straight in the brown leather-sofa. “I’ve heard about it, of course, but I don’t really know what it is about. I do know that it is a Christian tradition, though, and I’m not Christian.” Trowa pulled his smaller boyfriend back into his arms again before he spoke, “I’ve never cared much for Christmas, but I think it is about being happy” Duo just stared for a while before he turned to Heero. “Heero, my buddy, please tell me you know what Christmas is!” His big eyes pleaded him to say ‘yes’, and Heero thought about hating himself, as he couldn’t please those eyes. He shook his head to say the ‘no’ he didn’t dare to say out loud. Before the braided boy could comment, the door opened and Wufei stepped inside. With him, a cold wind followed before he managed to close the door behind him. “It’s getting colder” he said, “And it has started snowing.” Duo visibly lit up and smiled again. “Really? Then we’ll have a white Christmas! That’s cool, man!” Suddenly, he paused and looked suspiciously at his black-haired friend. “You *do* know what Christmas is, I hope!” Wufei looked at him blankly. “Christmas?” Then he shrugged, “I’ve read about it, but I never cared to understand what I found about it. It’s some kind of holiday, isn’t it?” Duo resisted his sudden urge to bang his head against something very hard in pure frustration. He sighed, but merely sigh wasn’t what he really wanted to do right now. It had to be enough for now, at least. “Yeah, it *is* a holiday, kind of.” Heero shut his computer off and he turned away from if, towards his friend as he asked, “Kind of?” Duo hung with his head, the chestnut bangs covered his eyes as he answered, “Well, it is a holiday, but it’s so much more too!” “Care to tell us?” Duo groaned. He was *not* in mood to explain why Christians celebrated Christmas. He sat down on the couch, “I guess the main-thing about Christmas is to be happy” he said slowly. “Happy?” Quatre asked, curiosity showing in his eyes. “It seems like a very good thing to celebrate!” Duo scratched his head uncomfortably, not sure how to explain. Finally he spoke “It started when a child was born, who would be named Jesus Christ..” He told his friends the whole story about how the Christ was born, and who he became. It took a while, and when he finally was finished, it had stopped snowing and stars began to appear in the dark sky. Wufei seemed surprised “So Christmas is actually a way to celebrate that a child was born over two thousand years ago?” he asked in disbelief. Duo shrugged “Yeah, basically so” “Basically?” The braided boy leaned back in the couch in an attempt to sit in a more comfortable position before he answered “Christmas has become a time on the year when people should be happy and forgiving. We usually give things to each other. It’s called Christmas gifts.” Quatre smiled. “That’s a good thing” he looked at Trowa mischievously and asked “What can you give me as a Christmas gift?” he kissed his lover gently on his lips. Trowa grinned uncharacteristically “Nothing we should talk about in public, koibito.” Duo, Heero and Trowa groaned at the cheesy lines as they started to kiss each other again. Suddenly, Heero came to think about something and he looked at Duo as he spoke “Duo, is there anything about trees with lights, or fat men in red clothes in the Christmas-tradition?” Duo looked surprised as he stopped smirking at the scene Trowa and Quatre was making “Yeah, a Christmas tree?” then he snickered at Heero’s description of Santa Claus, “And the man would be Santa Claus, or Father Christmas, why do ya ask” Heero shrugged and decided not to explain. “Hey! You could answer, ya know!” ^^^^^^^^ Duo sat on his bed in his and Heero’s shared bedroom and watched the stars that glimmered in the dark sky. It had been a harsh job to explain what Santa Claus did on Christmas and why he was dressed in red clothes. He sighed. “How can anyone *not* know about Christmas?” he asked the empty room. He didn’t expect an answer, so when he got one, he fell off the bed in surprise. “Maybe because everyone is not Christians.” Duo looked up from the floor in time to see Heero close the door behind him as he entered the room. “Hey, give a guy a warning or something next time, will ya?” Heero shrugged as an answer and helped Duo to sit up on the bed again. The Japanese boy sat down beside him. “I think I like Christmas” he said in a vulnerable voice that Duo rarely heard from his friend, “Is there anything more to tell?” Duo nodded out in the darkness “Christmas is a time when you should spend time with your loved ones.” he said sadly, remembering the ones he had lost. They sat in silence for a while, before Heero surprisingly broke it “Are we friends, Duo?” Shocked, Duo nodded before he realized that Heero couldn’t see him in the darkness. “Of course, Heero!” he assured his friend who sat beside him. Once more, they sat in silence and thought for a while. Again, Heero broke it. “I’ve never celebrated Christmas before..” Duo snorted, “I’ve already realized that, thank you very much! I’ve..” he stopped as he heard Heero speak again. “But I’m happy to do that with you this year.” Duo felt an arm around his shoulder, and he rested his head on Heero’s shoulder with a slight smile. “So am I Heero, so am I.” They sat like that for a while, and watched the stars out in the clear black sky. ^^^^^^^^ Owari! ^^^^^^^^ *Author falls over laughing* God, I can’t write sappy, it turns out so cheesy! As for the pilots not knowing what Christmas is, they probably do, but it’s my story, so I’ll do what I want. Heero: sure.. Maaya: Shut up or I’ll kill you! Heero:..
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