Not Quite Ready To Kick The Bucket (formerly "untitled Fanfic")

-----part 1-----

"That should do." Quatre smiled at Trowa. "This is going to be fun."

"You checked the rope?"

"I checked everything." Quatre replied. "It's all set and it's all perfectly safe. But let's do a test run."

They tested the old bucket trick, and both simply got a bit of confetti on their heads. 

"Excellent." Quatre laughed. "Now all we have to do is wait for Heero and Duo to get home and we'll be all set for that little surprise party."

There was a knock on the door. Quatre checked and saw it was Relena.

"She's going to have a fit." Trowa shook his head.

"I'll get rid of her." Quatre said, taking down the bucket for the moment and opening the door.

"Where's Heero?" Relena asked. "I have to stop him. I hear he's off making a terrible mistake."

"You mean his marriage to Duo?" Quatre beamed. "Yeah. It's a mistake all right. He should've done it a lot sooner."

"I can't believe you condone that stuff." Relena shook her head. At the same time, with her foot, she loosened the rope that lead from the floor to the bucket. She shook her head, sadly, then trudged off, looking back as if to beg them to plead for her return.

No one did.

And no one noticed what she'd done to the rope, either.

Quatre set the bucket up again, and he and Trowa waited for Duo and Heero to return.

A few minutes later, Duo and Heero strolled into the hallway.

The minute the door opened, the bucket, instead of just tipping and spilling graffiti onto them, fell toward them.

Duo heard the noise and saw the bucket falling toward Heero. The others heard it, too and saw it fall.

Before it could touch Heero, however, it changed course and hurled across the room, clattering to the floor against the far corner following a path traced rapidly by Duo's eyes.

"Duo?!" Quatre blinked. He could sense immense psychic power in Duo now. Power he'd not sensed before. Perhaps, he reasoned, nearly losing Heero had turned on a previously dormant ability? Whatever the case was, Quatre didn't like it when someone tried to kill him friends.

-----part 2-----

"Are you okay, Hee-chan?" Duo asked.

"Fine." Heero looked up at Quatre who was on his way toward the door. "Where are you going?"

"To tell that woman off once and for all." Quatre replied. "Relena tried to kill you."

"I doubt that." Heero replied. "I don't think she was thinking about killing me. Chances are she wasn't even thinking."

"She was probably just trying to hurt or scare me," Duo explained, "in retaliation for taking Heero away from her."

"So much for total pacifism." Heero rolled his eyes.

"Obsession is an overriding emotion." Duo shrugged. "Quatre, just let it be. No one got hurt."

"But she could've killed you. If you'd gotten hit with the edge of that bucket... Not the top edge, but the lower edge, the narrow un-rounded edge... It could've split your skull!"

Duo started to laugh.

"Not funny!" Quatre sulked. "I was so worried about you."

"You shouldn't have been." Duo said, gently.

"Yeah, it'd take a lot more than a bucket to kill Shinigami." Heero replied. "By the way, where's Wufei?"

"In the kitchen, making lunch." Quatre replied.

"I'm doomed!" Duo emoted.

-----Owari-----