Epilogue:
Christmas Morning...
"Wake up, Duo! Wake up! Wake
up! Wake up!" Michael shouted as he started jumping on Duo's bed.
"Wake up, already!"
Duo moaned. "It's 6:30
Michael! Go to sleep!"
"It's Christmas though, so you
have to wake up!" Michael shouted.
"Will you please make your kid
be quiet, Duo?" Quatre asked sleepily. Suddenly he felt something hit his
stomach.
"It's Christmas! Get up,
Quatre!" shouted Dominic.
Neo and Rei waited by the door.
they were playing paper, rock, scissors to see who got to wake up Heero. Rei
won.
Rei went over to Heero.
"Dad?"
Heero grumbled from underneath the
covers. "We're not getting up."
"Okay." Rei replied. Rei
grabbed a corner of Heero's blanket and crawled in with him.
"What are you doing?!"
Heero said as Rei snuggled up to him.
"I want to stay in bed with
you until you and the others get up." Rei replied.
Heero immediately got up. He hit
Duo and got him up. "Everyone get up." Heero said as he grabbed his
robe.
"It's too early." Wufei
replied.
"No, get up! If not, I'll drag
you out of bed myself." Heero replied as he looked at his daaughter who
crawled out of his bed.
"Not fair." moaned Duo.
Heero looked at Duo. "I'll
tell Hilde about you cussing in front of Michael."
"Huh?!" Duo shouted
"I'm up!"
Eventually, Heero found an excuse
to get everyone up.
The kids and the dads came down the
stairs...
"Where are your mothers?"
Duo asked.
"Are you kidding?!"
Michael replied. "If we got them up this early, they would be mad!"
"What?!" Duo shouted.
"Then why did you-"
"Can you fix us some hot
chocolate?" Michael asked Duo.
Duo groaned.
"Can you plug the lights in
too?" Dominic asked Quatre.
"Did you only get us up to do
stuff for you?!" Wufei shouted.
Mingh Loh shook her head yes.
"Could you start a fire?"
A couple of hours later...
"Hey, kids!" Relena said
as she came downstairs. "You ready to unwrap presents?"
All the kids shouted yes. Dorothy
passed out the presents.
"Who wants to go first?"
"I want to?!" Michael
shouted. Michael began unwrapping his gifts. "Ooh, the complete collection
of the first season DBZ!"
Hilde laughed. "Do you like
it?"
"Hell, yeah!" Michael
said.
Hilde looked at her son
"Michael, where did you learn-"
"Who's next!" Duo
interrupted.
"I am!" Dominic said as
he unwrapped his gift. "Sweet, a violin!" shouted Dominic.
"Quatre picked it out."
Dorothy replied.
"My turn." Jimmy said as
he unwrapped his gift. "A microphone?"
"Yes!" Catherine said.
"Whenever you need to make your point across and the others aren't
listening, you can make yourself heard!"
"Thank you mother." Jimmy
replied.
"Don't thank me, thank Trowa!
He thought of it!" Catherine said.
Jimmy just gave Trowa a look that
said 'thank you'.
Trowa gave a look back that said
'your welcome'.
"Your turn, you two."
Relena smiled sweetly at her children.
Rei unwrapped her present. "A
new teddy bear?"
"The other one's getting kind
of ragged honey." Relena replied. "Heero insisted."
Rei looked at her new teddy bear
and her old teddy bear. She threw the new one behind her.
"I told you." Relena
replied. Heero just looked at her. He handed Rei a different present.
"New crayons." she smiled
as she opened up her present.
Neo opened his present. Drawing pad, alright! "Thank you, mommy!"
"Don't thank me, Heero picked
it out." Relena replied.
Neo looked at Heero.
"Well, what do you say
honey?" Relena said.
"It's Mingh Loh's turn."
Neo replied.
"Okay, my turn! My turn!"
Mingh Loh shouted. She opened up her present. "A red and blue
sweater!"
"Well, since it's
Christmas." her mother replied.
The kids went upstairs to play with
their new toys. The guys were about to leave when...
"Wait! You have presents
too!" Hilde shouted.
"I have a present!" Duo
shouted. "Where?!"
"Here, silly!" Hilde said
as she brought out a present form way behind the tree. "Open it!"
Duo rushed down the stairs and
grabbed his gift. "Oh, yeah! I missed this thing!" he said as he put
his new black cap on.
The guys came down the stairs.
"I had no clue what to get
you, so I got this." Dorothy said as she gave a gift to Quatre.
Quatre opened his gift.
"Umm...a tea set?"
"Duo said you wanted
one." Dorothy replied.
Quatre glared at Duo.
Wufei went over and opened his
gift. "A katana!" He swooped it through the air.
"Yes, well..." Mae Linh
said. "I remembered that day we went shopping you missed your old
one."
"Here." Catherine said as
she handed her present to Trowa.
"A microphone?" Trowa
said as he looked at his gift.
"I thought you could use one
too." Catherine replied.
Trowa looked at Heero and put the
microphone up to his mouth. HEY HEERO,
COME GET YOUR PRESENT. Trowa looked back at his gift. "That packs a
punch."
Heero strolled over to Relena.
Relena handed him the gift.
Heero started to open his gift. Oh please don't make it an embarrasing
sweater... Heero looked down at his gift.
"Heero, do you like it?"
Relena asked.
He held up a green sweater with a
cat playing with a ball of yarn on it. He moaned.
"Neo said you'd like it."
Relena replied.
"Yeah." Heero replied
looking at the grinning Neo.
"Now next year, we're
expecting gifts too you guys." Dorothy replied.
The girls just laughed while the
guys looked at each other.
Then the kids came running back
downstairs.
"Let's go play in the
snow!" Michael replied. "We're all bundled up!"
"Only if your fathers
go." Relena replied.
"Okay! Let's go, Duo!"
Michael shouted.
"Hilde, it's too cold! It's
too early! I want to go back to bed!" moaned Duo.
"Duo, take your son outside
for a little while." Hilde said as she sat down on the couch.
"Let's go dad!" Rei said
as she walked to Heero. Heero grumbled but followed her outside.
Neo looked at his dad only wearing
a robe. What an idiot...
"Quatre, let's go!"
Dominic shouted as he laughed and grabbed Quatre's hand.
"Can't I even get dressed
first?!" Quatre shouted while he was dragged out.
"Father, let's go!" Mingh
Loh shouted. Wufei grumbled but followed Mingh Loh.
Jimmy looked at Trowa. Trowa
grabbed Jimmy's hand and went outside.
"I need to get used to this
neighborhood." Relena replied as she got up and looked out the window.
"I know it's a little strange."
Catherine replied. "But we can be ourselves, and the guys don't have to
worry about changing their appearances. Besides, after how the guys treated
manager for not watching the children closer, and blackmailing us, we just
couldn't stay on Refuge Street.
"Still..." Dorothy
replied. "It's a strange neighborhood."
"Hey!" Duo asked Duo.
"What are you doing?"
Duo looked at Duo. "Playing
with my kid."
Heero came over to Duo. "I
want to play too, daddy!"
Duo looked at Heero. "Calm
down, Heero! We're going home!
Heero shouted at his dad.
"Hey, would you to tell Noin to quit poking me?!"
The real Duo looked at the real
Heero. "Did we really have to move to this bizarre neighborhood?"
Quatre laughed. "Actually,
this is a great place. No one would suspect the real Gundam pilots to live in a
worshipping neighborhood. Besides, it's nice to see not everyone thought we
were traitors."
"Still...everyone looks like
us, and everyone uses our names! Couldn't they show allegiance to us without
taking our identities?"
"Well, would you rather cut
that stupid braid of yours and dye your hair blonde?!" Wufei shouted at
Duo.
"No!!" Duo yelled.
"I-I think I can get used to this neighborhood."
The pilots just watched a father
named Duo taking his children, Heero and Noin, away into their house next door.
From a distance...
Dr. J watched the real Gundam
pilots playing in the snow with their kids. Ingenious
idea staying in this type of neighborhood pilots. Dr. J. watched as the
Gundam guys were throwing snowballs back and forth with their children
laughing. Could they have finally found
happiness? Dr. J. watched as he saw Duo get hit square in the nose by
Michael. The doctor laughed. Well, as
close as they are ever going to get. Dr. J. wrapped his coat tighter around
himself and quietly left the place the pilots could finally call home.
Author's note: Thank you so much
for reading this story, I hope you enjoyed it! If you have any comments, or
questions feel free to e-mail me, okay?
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