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PG-13

Chapter 3: Never Make a German Girl Mad

By Relena Maxwell

Disclaimer: I would like to say that all you people who make us write disclaimers should go @#$% yourselves, and that you really make us authors go insane!!!!!! I HATE YOU!!!!! *collects composure* Oh dear, did that sound a bit too harsh? Well anyway, I don't own GW.... Just... everything else in the world!!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! *collects composure again* Oi... I think I had too much coffee today.... ^_^;

AN: This is an AU fic, a 2xR, and it is written by an insane teenager that is so insane that she knows it, and writes warnings about it before she writes a story, she's just a hopeless time waster that can get really annoying by writing on going sentences like the one you're reading, and I seriously pity you from the bottom of my heart because now you know the wrath of my insane coffee tainted mind!!!!!!!! You have been warned!!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU: Schwessi Lenna for telling me how to write Hilde's last name properly, you're so kind! Also, thanx to the ever loyal Lita, Lady Saffir, and JadeSnake, without you editing my messed up stories... Well... it wouldn't be pretty. Thank you Terri, K-K, and yellow boy for the support! And of course all you reviewers! You guys make me SO happy! *^^*

NOTE: I just added Sylvia Noventa in this story because.... I wanted to. And guess what? SHE'S 32!!!! Ironic ne? Even older that Treize... God my mind works in strange ways...

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"................." = speaking
//.................// = thinking
*.................* = sound effects

*Ding* *Ding*

The chime of the desk bell rang as a family of three awaited the secretary to return to her desk.

"Oh, coming, coming!" came a musical voice from a back room.

The three waited patiently, and soon enough, a woman looking middle age with light brown hair and big turquoise eyes appeared with a stack of folders.

"Oh hello! I'm sorry for the wait, I just had to get some new medical folders, we had four newborns today! It's such a joy, such a joy! Three girls and one boy. My, my, babies are just poppin' up everywhere these days! And they're such treasures! One of the girls was named Lilly, she weighed 7.5 pounds and the others..."

//This woman could talk for hours on end... maybe even rival Duo!// thought Hilde with a sweatdrop.

Stuart tried to kindly interrupt the woman, but she just kept on going. After the Schibecker family knew all about little Lilly, Theresa, Eun-Jung, and Jerome, the woman took a breather, and that was when Ginny took her chance to ask.

"Excuse me Miss, but could you let us see Duo Maxwell? We're his Aunt Ginny and Uncle Stuart Schibecker. Along with his cousin Hilde."

"Ah, of course! You mean the jolly fellow with the braid?" asked the sing song voiced secretary.

"Yes, that's our boy." affirmed Stuart with a smile.

"Well then, you can go speak to him, and after you talk to Duo, I need you to sign some legal mumbo jumbo, but I find it rude to do that first. Even though it is the standard process, but I say who-ha to all that. Anyhoo, I'll call up Sally to lead the way, and did I mention my name's Sylvia, Sylvia Noventa. Nice to meet 'yall!" Sylvia managed to say this with an amazingly fast pace, but still keep her musical tune, and to top it off, she was organizing papers at the same time.

The family was in quite a stupor over the woman's fast tongue, but they held out their hands all the same for a nice shake.

"It's nice to meet you Ms. Noventa, I always thought hospitals were boring, but you sure make 'em more interesting and cheerier." mentioned Stuart with a smile. Neither Ginny nor Hilde knew if he was complimenting the secretary or not, but they just nodded their heads in agreement.

"Thank you! Nice to meet ya! Did I tell you my favorite book was Stuart Little, my neighbor's name is Ginny, and I used to have a Barbie doll I named Hilde. Speaking of which, do you play with Barbie dolls little Hilde? You look as cute as one I can tell you that! Speaking of cute, we just had a handsome young officer..."

//I. Hate. Dolls. AND I WANNA GET TO DUO!!! I need something to let loose on... My batting arm needs some exercise....// thought Hilde with a smirk as ideas to kill the braided baka came to her mind.

"That's enough Sylvia, I'll take it from here." came a voice from behind the whole bunch.

"That's perfecto with me Sally!" said Sylvia as she sat at her desk writing the hospital's new visitors in the guest book.

"You must be Hilde, Ginny, and Stuart Schibecker- am I right?" asked the woman with a smile.

"Yeah... But how do you know our names, if you don't mind us asking." questioned Stuart.

Sally said with a laugh, "Duo, he's been talking non-stop ever since he woke up, he's a talker, ne?"

"Yep, now could we get to Duo, I have some things I need to chat over with him." said the impatient voice of Hilde as she cracked her knuckles and gave a menacing look.

"Um.... May I remind you he's been through a crash... No use making his wounds worse Hilde." said Sally with a chuckle.

//Oh gosh... What did Duo do to himself? I hope he's alright. I know his mother is probably worried sick about him up there in heaven... And I know I can't do as good as a job as being his mother as my sister could, but I'll try. He's like the son I never had. And I love him.// thought Mrs. Schibecker as her eyes started to get glassy with tears.

Sally looked at the other woman and gave a knowing look and reassured her by saying, "Don't worry Ginny. It really is nothing serious... On Duo anyway."

At that Ginny's face went pale. //Q-Quatre?! He's like another son.... Oh, Duo! What did you two get into?//

//I do believe I made it worse.// thought Sally as she looked sadly at Mrs. Schibecker.

"Well anyway, we need to go see Duo. He's in room 29, come along." Dr. Po waved her hand so the others would follow, while Hilde was already zooming down the hallway at top speed.

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//What the heck is that sound?// thought Duo as he looked towards the door where the sound was coming from, it was running feet. And before another second could go by, his dear cousin had him by the throat.

"WHY'D YOU RUIN MY CAR?!?!?!?!?"

"Because-"

But Hilde cut him off, "PREPARE TO FEEL PAIN BRAID BOY!!!!"

"Guys! I was trying to sleep!" both of the two relative's head's turned to see Quatre holding his curtains in one hand looking at them angrily from his bed.

"Q-man! You're alive yah! WAHOO!" Duo started bouncing on his little cot causing Hilde to fall off the bed.

Hilde felt pain right away and rubbed her back as it started hurting like heck.

The German girl thought of all of Duo's known weaknesses... And she knew the best one.

"You'll. Pay. For. That." Hilde ran to the wall to the left of Duo's bed and picked up a pot filled with a small yellow flower trying it's best to survive in a pot full of un-watered earth.

Duo as his eyes became wide with fear. He could not get his amazing hair dirty. He just couldn't.

"Crap." murmured Duo with fear.

"I SHOW NO MERCY!!!!"

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When they three adults finally reached Duo and Quatre's room they had quite a sight to feast their eyes upon. Duo looked more like a dirt covered blob than anything, with a dying flower on his head to top it off. Hilde was preparing to hit him with a picture of fish, and Quatre was in limbo between laughing his head off, and trying to warn Duo of his cousin's upcoming attack.

"Stop this right now!" said a voice of justice coming from the room's tiny doorway.

Duo, Hilde, and Quatre looked over to see a laughing doctor, angered, but smiling Mr. Schibecker, and a relieved looking Mrs. Schibecker.

//At least he's not dead. Who knows what Hilde would have done to him if we hadn't come any sooner...// though Ginny.

"Hilde Elizabeth Schibecker, what in the world are you doing?!" asked Mr. Schibecker with a fury.

"A... Hehe... Nothing." Hilde's statement was more a question, then anything, and she meekly took the picture back to the wall it came from and hung it up.

Sally wiped the tears of mirth from her eyes and looked at Duo and mentioned with a wink, "Like the new look, but I gotta admit, you look dirty."

"O-oh sh-shut u-up....." as Duo said this with an angry whimper, two small rivers of mud gracefully fell down his mud covered face. He was crying.

And then without warning, "WAHHHHHHHHHhhhhhh! My beautiful hair is dirty! Hilde's SOOOOoooo mean!" Duo pointed at Hilde, and then stuck his right thumb in his mouth.

This was way too much for the "sophisticated" Dr. Po, she went right into insane trails of laughter at the boy's..... Unhappiness.... (AN: Poor Duo.... *sweatdrops*)

"Um... I think I'll take Ms. Sally into the hallway for a moment..." mentioned Mr. Schibecker with a weird and scared look at Sally.

"I think that would be wise..." affirmed Ginny as she walked over to Duo's cot, took out her handkerchief, and started wiping away the earth on his face.

During this, Quatre was looking at Hilde with eyes filled with horror. He could literally see her eyes turning hot enough to roast marshmallows, her face turn the color of the planet Mars, and steam escape from her ears like a teakettle.

"Why. Did. You. Let. Him. Do. This. Quat?!" she asked with a deadly but quiet voice.

"He kinda has a mind of his own if you know what I mean, and it's not like he PURPOSLEY rammed your car into a ditch... he was challenged." Quatre said with a meek voice, the last part coming out as a whisper, but Hilde's keen ears heard it.

"Challenged? What do you mean?" the girl rose an eyebrow and the temperature of Hilde's face lost a few degrees at the mention of that.

Out of the corner of Quatre's eyes he could see Duo waving at him and giving him puppy dog eyes for him not to tell the "detailed" reason of the crash. But Ginny just hushed him, she wanted to know too, and she had the right to.

"Well... Me and Duo were at Bertie's Diner,..." and so, the story was unfolded, and when Quatre was finally finished, Duo noticed that Hilde was avoiding his eyes and so was his aunt.

"Hello? You still in there Aunt Ginny?" questioned Duo with a fake smile as he waved a hand in front of Mrs. Schibecker's face.

Quiet. No response.

"Um... You still alive?" asked Duo as his features lost his brilliant smile.

"Duo. All my life I always thought you'd never do something like this. I NEVER thought. You could have just ignored those three bullies... Just walked away. But no, you had to fight it out didn't you?" As the harsh words exited Ginny's pink lips Duo felt his heart sink. She was right, he was a fool.

"And look what has happened because of so? The five of you boys are injured, Quatre, your best friend the worst, and even an innocent truck driver. Do you think this makes me PROUD?!"

"No." responded the boy weakly.

"Your uncle and I were worried sick! I don't know what could have happened, but God showed you mercy, he let you live. You should be thankful!" and with those last four words, she started crying with tears of pain and yet also happiness. The boy certainly had sinned, but yet lived.

She hugged Duo tight (causing her to get dirt on herself), then said between sobs, "Please fix the car for your cousin, and promise me you'll never do a stunt like this again." After seeing Duo nod in reply, she left the room to tell her husband the truth of the accident.

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Inside the room, several moments of pure silence passed. Quatre was looking at his hands in his own shame, Hilde looked at the door her mother just walked through in shock, and Duo... Duo had two small tears of self hate fall down his handsome face.

//I really worried her... I really, REALLY worried her. Almost to death, and all I do afterwards is joke around. No pain ever enters my "happy" body. I just live life moment to moment never worrying about the consequences. God, I am a jerk.//

With that, Duo clutched his hand into two fists. Promising on his parents' grave something like this would never in all his life will ever happen again. NEVER. His aunt, uncle, and Hilde were all the family he had. He wasn't going to loose them to something like this ... He loved them too much.

"Well... I guess you owe me some heavy car work. Don't you Duo? Just don't do it yourself, I know how bad you are with plane models, much less a car. Eh, Quat?" mentioned Hilde with a sad smile, trying to lighten the mood.

"Right. But why not just let me buy you a new car all together?" questioned Duo as he turned to his cousin and wiped away his tears.

"Duo, I'm not changing my mind. You know how much I adore my awesome ride." said Hilde matter-of-factly.

"Alright, alright." agreed Duo as he rose his hands in self defeat and gave her his 1 million dollar smile.

"Good." said Hilde as she crossed her arms and smirked at her pitiful cousin.

But then she frowned, she did notice how quickly Duo's attitude changed from self loathing to his jokester persona.

//He's such a dope. Doesn't he know hiding your feeling of shame and sorrow only make a person weaker. Gosh, he's been through so much yet never shows it. Just tries to make everyone else happy... Well, when he's not racing of course.// thought Hilde with a sweat drop.

//I just hope you find someone who can open you up bud, else you'll live an empty life with sorrow. I know I've tried it, but I'm just a friend. I think you need someone special... Someone you'll love.// thought Quatre with a smile. Since he was raised with four sisters, a house mom, and a working dad, he'd grown to be quite empathetic about people's troubles. Yes, he too like Hilde, sees the long lost sadness in his friend's eyes.

"Ok, I'll leave you two to rest. But don't you forget Duo." reminded Hilde with a harsh tone as she trotted towards the door.

"Yeah, yeah. I know, I know. But first, I wanna sleep." said Duo sleepily as he waved her away.

*Slam*

"Ahhhh.... Peace and quiet. Now we can sleep. Right Duo?" asked Quatre happily as he looked at his friend.

*ZZzzzzzzz, Zzzzzzzzz*

Quatre smiled at his now snoring friend, he was still the same.

//Sleep well my friend.// thought Quatre as he turned out the light with one of his bed switches.

And while the braided youth slept, he dreamt of an attractive looking blond. Whom he never met, but strangely felt drawn to... But why?



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AN: Oh yes, finally another chapter. Sorry for the delay, I've been quite busy traveling to and fro. But I still got this chapter out! I'm such a good girl! *pats self on back* Anyhoo, tell me what you think! PLEASE! Please. please?