Continuity: Nonsensical Nuances
Length: Ficlet
Pairings: 1xR
Prompt: None
Teaser: "Still think this is better than gratuitous male nudity, Miss Relena?" sighed Dorothy. "Bachelorette parties are not meant to be spent with your husband-to-be and his obnoxious friends, you know."
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5141105/29/ ... al_Nuances
Disclaimer: GW = not mine.
Author's Note: After this, I'm not sure if I'll write the wedding or the morning after the honeymoon or maybe one final fast forward. Until I decide, chew on this.
Nonsensical Nuances
by mistress amethyst une
Meaningless Sacrifice
Heero collided with Relena, sending her tumbling to the ground as he used his body to shield her. When he gave a pained groan, she immediately knew he'd been shot. Why? Why did he have to take that bullet for her? There was no use in grieving him now. He was done for. No, the best course of action would be to take vengeance. Pushing Heero off herself, she picked up her own gun and shot her would-be assailant.
"You're a traitor, Maxwell!" she screamed, her bullet hitting its mark.
Duo fell to his knees, clutching at his chest where a splash of pink marked him as no longer among the living.
"Cut the dramatics, Duo," scolded Hilde, emerging from her hiding place just as he started flailing on the ground. "Game's over. Bride's team wins."
Duo pouted at her, picking himself up. "We wouldn't have lost if Heero hadn't decided to help the enemy. Yeesh....this is the one time he doesn't have to take a bullet for princess. The one time!"
Relena helped Heero up before they both went over to inspect her kill.
"Don't get smug, princess. We wouldn't have lost if Heero'd fired on you early on like I told him to."
"You're the one who fired on his own team mate," Relena pointed out. "Don't blame him."
"I was firing on you! Not my fault Heero suddenly decided it was a good idea to go and change sides."
"I was protecting her," shrugged Heero.
"Damned women," he growled. "Quatre couldn't take Dorothy down either. At least, Trowa and Wufei were wise enough to follow my example. Don't you know what take no prisoners means?"
"There's no stipulations about prisoners in the rule book. Besides, Sally took down Wufei and Dorothy hit Trowa right after Quatre so your proposed methods were hardly effective. We had the advantage at five versus four but-"
"But you threw it away!"
"You didn't hit anyone either."
"I was about to!"
"I'm the only one allowed to kill Relena."
"Then why didn't you?!"
"I already told you. I had to protect her first."
"Do you have any idea how stupid that sounds?"
Hilde and Relena watched the argument in amusement just as Dorothy and Sally came to join them.
"Still think this is better than gratuitous male nudity, Miss Relena?" sighed Dorothy. "Bachelorette parties are not meant to be spent with your husband-to-be and his obnoxious friends, you know."
"I know," she smiled, looking on while Quatre put himself in harm's way to mediate. Wufei and Trowa stayed on the sidelines, enjoying the show as much as everyone else.
"It's pretty good entertainment," chuckled Sally. "Nudity's fine but this is priceless."
Relena nodded. "Besides, I really don't see Heero being comfortable at a strip club."
"Don't see him being comfortable or don't see yourself being comfortable?" quipped Hilde.
"Perhaps both," she admitted. "Still, I thought this would be fun. I learned marksmanship on hunting trips with my father. Good to know that I haven't gotten rusty."
"The former pacifist princess shooting up a storm the night before her wedding," smirked Dorothy. "This'll be quite the story to tell..."
Elyn Yuy