Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Adventures of the Little Green Bear ❯ Bear Napped ( Chapter 3 )

Heero trudged back from the hangar where he'd spent most of the day working on Wing. He'd be glad to relax. And maybe even...if Duo wasn't around...cuddle his bear a bit. He had pondered the bear as a weakness, but decided that even the Perfect Soldier couldn't resist something too damn cute for its own good. Stepping into the room he was sharing with Duo, he stopped dead in his tracks.

The bear was gone.

Heero's eyes instantly raked the room, and came to rest on Duo, flopped out on his bed reading a manga.

"Duo!"

"Hmm?" Duo didn't even look up from the manga.

"Duo, where's my bear?"

"Mm- Deadhead?" Duo surfaced from his reading and blinked at the table where the bear usually sat. "I dunno. I figured you'd taken it with you."

Heero's hands clenched at his side. Looking the room over again, he suddenly saw a sheet of paper partially hidden by his laptop. Snatching it up, he blinked at the cut-out letters from a newspaper.

Directly behind him, Duo started laughing. "A ransom demand for a BEAR? Oh, come on."

"Who...no, what kind of monster abducts a bear?" Heero's voice shook with silent fury.

Duo grinned, with a wicked glint in his eye. "Maybe Deadhead abducted himself." His grin only widened under Heero's glare. "For drug money."

"My bear is NOT a DRUGGIE!" Heero started across the room, intent on bodily harming Duo, but his prey danced out of the room laughing. His voice floated back into the room, "Don't worry Heero, I'm sure Deadhead will turn up okay."

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It was around 2 AM, and Heero had kept all of the pilots up to help search for the small green bear.

Wufei was muttering, "Injustice...losing sleep to hunt for a plush toy. Just ask Maxwell where it is."

"I've told ya before Wufie, and I'll tell ya again," Duo leaned closer to Wufei, "I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE FRIGGIN' BEAR IS!!!!!"

Wufei keeled over, and Quatre and Trowa giggled, then exchanged a secretive look. Quatre spoke up, "Heero, we need to rest. I'm sure the bear will turn up in the morning. Why don't you just go to sleep?"

Heero shooked his head, muttering about failed missions, but Quatre managed to
steer him to his room.

The other pilots shuffled into the hall just in time to hear Heero's shriek.

They rushed into the room, and lo and behold, there was the bear, sitting on Heero's bed as if he'd never been missing.

"Don't tell me the bear's been here the entire time." Wufei's voice was flat.

"But the note..." Heero sounded confused as he realized the note was gone. "Duo, you saw the note."

Even as Duo nodded, Wufei snorted. Quatre sighed, paternally. "Heero, there was no need to play a trick on us like this."

"But I-"

"Don't try to explain, just go to bed." Quatre herded Trowa and Wufei out of the room. "Good night."

In the hall, Quatre and Trowa exchanged looks of unholy mirth.

~Owari~

If folks aren't tired already of this, there's probably more where that came from. :)