Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Sleeping Prince ❯ A Day at Camp ( Chapter 10 )

Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing or Sleeping Beauty.

Pairings: 3x4, implied 1x2 and 5+C.

Category: AU; fantasy; romance; OOC; Angst; yaoi; apparently humor but I'm not sure

Warnings: I don't really know myself. Like talk of goddesses and reincarnation. Trowa gets an ow-ie. Catherine and WuFei have a water fight and Duo and Heero play tag.

Spoilers: None

Rating: R

Author's Note: Please do not read if any of this will offend you. Sorry if it's written poorly it made since at the time I wrote it and every one knows what a mistake that can be. Back to school, yuck. I know it was evil of me to end it like that last time but I had to go to work. So don't blame me I'm a poor college student with a crapy job, like almost everyone else on campus. I'm so sorry that it took me forever and a day to complete this chapter. Here is my list of excuses not one of them are any good but lets see I had to work, I had to go to school and do homework, I don't mind school but I've always hated homework, then I got writers block and so now the last couple of weeks I've just been lazy. And yet I'm taking summer courses at least there easy History and an easy Math course, you know 1+2=4 and you get a B for effort.

Author: Benji Coyle

Trowa stood by the edge of the stream in his boxers, silently cursing himself for not bringing clothes or anything else that would have been useful. He finally resigned himself to his fate and decided to go dunk himself in the stream; the deepest part was about 3 feet deep, so that would be plenty deep for a quick dip. He made his way over to the deepest part using rocks that jutted out of the water like stepping stones. True it would have been wiser to just walk through the stream, at least just to get a feel for how cold the water would be. But in Trowa's defense it was early in the morning and he wasn't really thinking with the rational part of his brain. So it would also come to no great surprise that the rest of the camp was awoken by a loud scream.

Minutes later found WuFei, Heero, Duo, Catherine, and a rumpled Quatre standing by the edge of the stream looking at a shriving Trowa sitting in the ice cold stream.

Not much was said because of all the laughter, well except for Catherine's comment. Which was "Trowa I didn't know guys could scream like that?" This of course has been translated into English because the way she said it was through a gale of wild laughter.

After the group had calmed down, Heero and Duo made their way over to help Trowa up and out of the stream. "The waters freezing no wonder you screamed like a girl. What happened did ya fall in?" Duo said wading over towards Trowa. "No shit Sherlock. Now help me out." Trowa said through chattering teeth.

After Trowa was dragged to the shore, it was noted that he had sprained his right ankle and banged up his elbow pretty bad. He was taken to his tent and had to have help changing out of his drenched boxers. Of course it was Duo that was helping him change and teasing him all the while. "Come now wouldn't want your husband to catch a sight of that, I'd be embarrassed to if mine was that small." Duo said cheekily. "First off Duo you're my brother so it disturbers me to no end that your checking me out and secondly it was cold in there haven't you ever heard of shrinkage." Trowa responded indignantly. "I'm just teasing gee; don't need to get so defensive. And for the record I was not checking you out." Duo retorted "Plus now that you're all dressed, Nurse Cathy can come in and fix you up."

"Dear god not Nurse Cathy. She's insane and gets on a total ego trip. Can't you put the bandage on?" Trowa begged, now you may think this would be embarrassing for a nineteen year old to be afraid of his sister but those are the people that did not grow up with Catherine as a sister. "Dude, get in her way are you crazy? I'd rather get in-between a female grizzly and her cubs than do that." Duo said he paled a little at the thought.

"Is the patient ready?" Catherine's voice could be heard from outside the tent. "Yes sis your victim awaits, please come in." Duo said unzipping the tent opening and receiving a slap from his sister. "Ow, what was that for? I ain't done nothin'" Duo whined escaping from the tent before his sister could slap him again. "Duo the correct term is `I did not do anything?' and yes you did. I can't believe how much I'll have to re-teach you once we get back. Oh well, at least I'll have other students, hopefully they will be more eager to learn." Catherine admonished Duo from the tent door. "Other students?" Duo questioned from a safe distance. "Of course, I'll be teaching our guest as well." Catherine said while rolling her eyes.

"Run for your lives. Quickly now go save yourselves." Duo said to the three bewildered looking bystanders. "Duo I really don't have time for this right now. Our brother is injured I need to work." Catherine said while zipping up the tent.

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Inside the tent Trowa was sitting on his sleeping bag and Catherine was kneeling by his feet. "Now Trowa what happened?" Catherine said eyeing her brother speciously. "I went down to the stream to wash up and fell." Trowa grumbled. "Alright I want you to tell me when it hurts." Catherine continued while grabbing his right foot and began to rotate it. "Ah…ow" Trowa cried out in pain. "Okay, let me bandage this up and I'll check your elbow next." Catherine said as she took the necessary supplies out of the first aid kit.

"No, just the ankle" Trowa grimaced as she put pressure on the injury. "Trowa, I know what I'm doing so let me work." Catherine stated as she taped up his ankle. She then moved to his elbow and started to poke and prod around the area. "You'll be the death of me yet." Trowa groused while she was working. "Maybe so, but not quite yet." Catherine said as she continued to work.

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Twenty minutes later Catherine wormed her way out of the tent, and began to addresses the group "He will not allowed to be out of the tent for the rest of the day and he'll need to keep his ankle up. But of course I do need a volunteer to watch him, any takers." "I can't Cathy, I have plans." Duo said a bit guiltily. "What plans?" Heero asked incredulously. "I plan to be far away from here." Duo said while taking off in an unknown direction. Catherine just rolled her eyes "anyone else?" "I can do it." Quatre said a bit shyly. "Great, now that things are settled I'm off." Cathy said while walking over towards the car.

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Quatre stood inside the tent, still wearing his nightshirt, and looking a wee bit wary at the sight of Trowa lying on the sleeping bag with his ankle propped up. "Are you alright?" came the timid question. "I'll live." Trowa said miserably from his position on the floor, "By the way. How did you get stuck with me?"

"I volunteered." Quatre piped up. "I'm sorry" Trowa apologized. "For what?" came Quatre's sincere query.

"For getting stuck with me. Wouldn't you rather be doing something else?" Trowa said a little surprised by his partner's sincerity. "Like what?" Quatre asked finally coming over to sit down by Trowa. "I don't know going for a walk. Playing in the stream, lots of things I guess." Trowa answered ruefully. "Well I would rather have company for those things." Quatre said frowning slightly. "What about Heero or WuFei?" Trowa asked trying sit up unsuccessfully. "Oh well they don't want to be stuck watching me all day I'm sure they would prefer the company of you sibling." Quatre said beginning to pick at the hem of his nightshirt.

"Yeah, probably. Umm…would you like to change into something else, I have several pairs of boxers in my bag that will most likely fit you and all of the t-shirts would." Trowa said while pointing towards his bag with his uninjured arm. "O…okay" Quatre stuttered and began to blush.

Trowa laid back and pretended to close his eyes as Quatre went over to change. Trowa was a little disappointed with the show, mainly because Quatre slipped the boxers on while still wearing his nightshirt but on the plus side he did get a nice view of Quatre's pale finely toned chest. Quatre was soon dressed in a loose fitting pair of red and navy plaid boxers and a navy oversized t-shirt; he mumbled a shy "thank you" to Trowa as he carefully made his way to the side of the sleeping bag, with every other step he would have to readjust the boxers as they would slip past his protruding hip bone.

As Quatre resettled himself beside Trowa on their sleeping bag the sound of a zipper could be heard, quickly realizing it was their tent and that someone was coming in Quatre sprang to his feet to welcome the unknown visitor. A tentative "hello?" escaped his lips.

"It's just Cathy." Catherine called while stepping inside the tent and dropping a couple of bags near the opening. "Oh Quatre you look cute. Well I thought you two would get board so I brought you the rainy day bag and some snacks. WuFei and I are going for a walk and I have no idea where Duo went off to, but Heero's out looking for him. So I'll be off, take care see you later."

"Uh…thanks." Trowa said as his sister disappeared as she re-zipped the tent. Quatre stood looking at the opening mouth agape "What?" Trowa shook his head at Quatre and chuckled "Quatre bring the bags over here and help me up."

"But your sister said…" Quatre said looking at Trowa. "I meant help me sit up." Trowa re-explained. "Okay" Quatre said grabbing the bags and going back over towards Trowa. Minutes later found Trowa sitting up, being propped up by his clothing bad and pillow, and going through the bag that Catherine had brought.

"What is in there?" Quatre asked with his curiosity rising to new levels of wonderment and fear. "Oh… in here there are some games we might want to play later, but for right now I'm looking for the CD player. I think you'll like it" Trowa answered while picking up the second bag and rummaging though it.

"Ha ha I've found it and now I'm not sure what to listen to defiantly not Duo's music, and Cathy's musicals might be best introduced to you by her. And they wouldn't let me bring my classical music so the only thing left would be oldies. I'm thinking the Beatles and maybe Herman's Hermits or Bread will wait for CCR." Trowa continued while flipping through the CD's after grabbing one of them and placing it in the CD player he looked up at Quatre.

Quatre was staring at him as if he'd grown a second head. "Is something wrong Quatre?" Trowa asked growing concerned.

"You were talking." Quatre stated bluntly and then noted Trowa's confusion and added "a lot."

"I'm sorry I just start thinking out loud sometimes. Didn't I use to do that?" Trowa asked a little curious to learn about his past self.

"Yes Triton did, its just I always knew what he was talking about." Quatre said "You've been going on and on and I have not understood one thing you were saying. It's just very confusing."

Trowa blushed slightly and sheepishly scratched the back of his head. "I'm sorry I guess I just got carried away there's just so much that's changed since you were last awake. I just want to show you everything and yet protect you from it at the same time. You see this is a CD player and it plays music from these discs." Trowa said holding up the boom box and pointing to the CD holder.

Quatre started to not but then pursed his lips together and asked "like an instrument."

"Mmmm…kind of, but not really. It has the sound of the instruments on it and most of the time it also has singers. Well, I think it would be easier to show you rather than explain it." Trowa pushed play and the CD player came alive and began to play Love Me Do by the Beatles.

Quatre jumped a bit when the music started and he had to remind himself to breath every once in a while, but other than that he was set.

"Do you like it?" Trowa tentatively asked but Quatre was so entranced in the music he did not hear the question. Trowa grew tired of asking so he gently shook Quatre to get a response. "Do you like it, Quatre?" Trowa asked once more. "Oh yes its wonderful." Quatre sighed dreamily and quickly returned to watching the CD player.

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Catherine and WuFei had walked quite a ways from the camp site and had decided to rest by the stream. Catherine was sitting on a rock and dangling her feet in the stream while WuFei sat next to her in lotus position.

"So Miss Barton what do you do?" WuFei asked trying to get to know his new companion. "Well I have a teaching degree in history oddly enough. I was going to start teaching high school this year, but dad got the job offer to come teach at the university and well I think you can guess what happened." Catherine said looking at WuFei with her head down at an angle looking at WuFei, "But enough about me what about you."

"I don't know what you want to know I was married to a girl named Meiran in my old country. We had been married for several months before I was sent away to come study in this new country. I had stayed here for about five years and I was going to head back home the day after the wedding but the curse happened instead." WuFei said wistfully looking at a tree across the way.

"That's so sad. I mean you were just about to head home and all." Catherine said with tears beginning to form in her eyes. "Hm… foolish woman why cry now it's over and done with." WuFei said closing his eyes and trying to relax.

If WuFei would have been paying attention he would have noticed the glare he was receiving from Catherine, and also noted her leaning down to cup water in her hands. But he had not and so he was caught off guard when ice cold water was splashed against his face. Shocked and sputtering he tried to get up only to fall half way in the stream and only succeed in getting his pants wet.

Catherine was standing in ankle deep water watching the whole procession and laughing hysterically at it all. But she had not learned her lesson from WuFei's mistake so was completely taken off guard when WuFei reached up and grabbed one of her wrist pulling her down into the water. WuFei's plans went a rye and instead of falling directly into the water she landed on WuFei, both of them squawked indignantly.

It was one of those moments in life where everything stills around you and you can only see one thing for Catherine it was WuFei and for WuFei it was Catherine. Just sitting there in a freezing cold stream staring at each other, after what seemed like an eternity they began to lean into each other and there lips touched in a soft lingering kiss.

Pulling away from the kiss Catherine said "Fei I'm cold." He began to get angry until he relized something. "I'm cold to." He said. "So let's go sit on the rocks and warm up, silly." Catherine said with a teasing smirk. "Sound good." Was all WuFei could say standing shakily and heading towards the shore.

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"Duo get back here right now." Heero said standing in the middle of the forest. "Aw but Heero I wanna play." Duo said popping up behind a tree next to Heero. "But fine have it your way." Duo continued while walking up to Heero's side. "But…" Duo started to say and Heero noted a strange look in his eyes, and then he felt two soft warm lips press up against his own in a quick hard kiss "I changed my mind, your it." Duo finished from half way across the tree line and into a meadow.

Heero waited a few more seconds trying to process what had just happened, shaking his head and giving up he took off after Duo. "Duo. Get back here."

"No way your it you have to catch me first." Duo said continuing to run away from Heero. "Alright you asked for it." Heero said targeting Duo and running after him. "Oh shit." Duo yelled as Heero began to close in on him. The game went on and on with the two boys chasing each other and having a great time.

After about an hour of this Duo sat down against a tree "Ok I give. You win, happy now you finally beat me." Heero collapsed beside him "Of course." He said smugly. "Oh hush you. I could have taken you if I would have gotten a full night sleep." Duo complained. "You always say that." Heero smirked shaking his head.

"Do you miss him, Solo, I mean." Duo asked quietly. "Yes, yes I do but I know he wouldn't want me to be sad. He died doing what he believed in, protecting his prince. I would have done the same thing if the situation would have been reversed. And I can feel in my heart that you share his soul. That puts my mind at peace." Heero said looking up at the sky through the branches.

"Thank you for saying that." Duo said closing his eyes and falling asleep.

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Three hours later in Trowa's tent "Play it again, play it again." Quatre said bouncing up and down. "Can't we listen to a different one? I never thought I'd say this but I'm getting sick of listing to the Beatles." Trowa said. "Will I like it?" Quatre asked.

"There's only one way to find out." Trowa said replacing the CD with Herman's Hermits and pushing play. Once again Quatre was mesmerized by the CD player.

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It was getting late as Catherine and WuFei made there way back to camp still slightly damp, clothing in disarray, and a few hickies around their necks. "Trowa's going to kill us." Catherine chuckled looking at WuFei's neck. "I still say this is your fault." WuFei said. "My fault I didn't hear you complaining." Catherine conjectured. "That's true." WuFei said smiling and taking Catherine's hand in his.

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"Ow, Heero it hurts." Duo whined. "I'm not the one who stepped on the flower to begin with. So stop complaining to me." Heero said after growing tired of Duo's complaining.

"How was I supposed to know there was a bee in there? And what if I was allergic to bees I bet you'd feel bad then. Especially after you laughed at me." Duo pouted at Heero.

"But you're not the big bad bee stung you and died, and we packed you're hand in mud like you said to make it feel better. So I don't see why you're complaining to me when you're fine." Heero said in his defiance.

"You don't get it I'm hurt you're supposed to try and make me feel better by babying me." Duo continued. "Have you're sister do that I give up." Heero said walking away.

TBC

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Notes:

Thank god I'm finished with this chapter it's way past my bed time, ha ha. Well I hope you enjoy reading this I think it makes since, but you never know it is late. I'm afraid if I don't post it now I'll forget to do so. Well thank you for reading and for all the nice reviews, they make me happy. Oh and thank you so much for waiting I know how hard that can be but I did get stuck for the longest time on what Quatre and Trowa should do while he was injured I know sex would have been the easiest, but I want to make them have a real relationship first and not just jump in the sack. Well thanks again, and I'm sorry.

-benji