<b>Warning: Heed the [WAFF] rating, this is another pointless and viciously cute fic.</b>
<b>Disclaimer: </b>I do not own Gundam Wing nor its characters however, the four daughters [Ayame, Hana, Chloe and Sasha] of Heero and Relena are my own. The mention of the book 'Where the Wild Things are' is a reference to a real life children's classic by Maurice Sendak and as such is also not my own.
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<center>Five Pieces of Heaven:
<b>Wild Thing</b></center>
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The year was AC 210.
And Hana Yuy was on the loose in the house.
It was that age they all called the ?terrible twos? which made parents want to run for the hills or jump off the nearest cliff available as soon as possible. Relena could definitely empathise with those feelings as she tried to catch the little dark brown-haired girl in a pink dress with a white tee and a pair of white socks with no shoes?Hana was refusing to wear shoes today.
?Hana, come here please??
?No!? Hana giggled and darted into a room. Relena sighed and followed, straightening out her lavender blue skirt suit, which was starting to get rumpled from all the activity. She had an important meeting to attend and it didn?t help to look messy. Relena broke out into a smile as she saw a white sock poking out from underneath a table. She put her hands on her hips and smiled.
?Oh dear, I seem to have lost her,? She said in exaggerated tones. ?Where could she have disappeared to??
There was a muffled giggling. ?Doesn?t she want the cup of yummy milk waiting for her in the kitchen?? Relena suggested.
?No!?
That was Hana?s favourite word at the moment. Relena crouched and tickled the little sock in her sight. It shifted and a stream of giggles erupted from the body attached to it. ?Come on you terror, Mummy has to go or she?ll get late.?
?No!?
Hana scrabbled out and latched on to Relena?s arm with a ferocious look. Ah yes, here it was: the infamous death glare she was so capable of producing. Her dark brown eyebrows knitted tightly together, her cerulean eyes flashed and her cheeks puffed out as she pouted. ?You stay!? She demanded. Relena smiled, unfazed by the look (she was quite used to it by now), and scooped the girl into her arms.
?I?ll come back soon, I promise.?
Hana puffed her cheeks out more, unimpressed by the answer given. Relena walked into the kitchen and sat her on the counter, placing a plastic tumbler full of milk into her hands. ?Behave while I?m gone, okay?? She said sternly. Hana held the tumbler carefully with two hands and drank, staring up at Relena innocently while swinging her legs. Pagan appeared at the doorway.
?There?s no need to worry Miss Relena...? He began, but Relena cut him off. ?Don?t start, I feel terrible having to spring this on you but the babysitter cancelled at the last minute, Hilde is away this week and Heero isn?t here?? She bit her lip.
?I?ll be fine,? The old man assured.
?You know, it?s perfectly okay to admit it if she?s a handful to look after,? Relena remarked, brushing her fingers through Hana?s silky strands. Pagan just smiled and shook his head. Hana, aware that the conversation concerned her but not exactly understanding what was being said, plonked the unfinished tumbler on the counter and held out her hands. ?Down!?
?Finish your milk first.?
?No more,? Hana whined, ?Want Down!?
Relena sighed and lowered her to the floor, glancing at the clock on the way. ?Oh, I?d better get going!? She raced out of the kitchen. Pagan and Hana followed and met her running down the stairs with her heeled shoes in her hand. She glanced at Hana, who was too busy occupied with picking at the pink flowers on her socks, before dropping her shoes on the floor and grabbing the banister as she slipped her foot in one.
?I?ll try to come back as soon as possible,? She explained to Pagan. ?Henry will pick up Ayame from school so there?s no need to worry about her.? Henry had been hired to replace Pagan in driving duties where Relena or Heero couldn?t be available.
She slipped her other foot into the other shoe only to find it met the softness of carpet instead. Confused, she looked down to see her shoe was actually with Hana and she was trying to walk around in it unsuccessfully.
?Sweetie, give mummy back her shoe please??
?My shoe!? She picked it up and clutched it to her possessively. When Relena reached down for it she scurried away on her little legs before Relena could grab her.
Now, Hana didn?t mean to be a troublesome little thing. She didn?t quite understand that she was going to make Relena late. All she could see was that she had procured a shoe, which mummy apparently needed and this situation could result in a game of chase. Hana liked being chased; it was extremely thrilling.
Relena groaned and hobbled after her, ?Hand over that shoe right now young lady,? She threatened but Hana giggled and shook her head. She ran into the entrance hall where she paused hesitantly as she heard the door being unlocked and opened.
The shoe was promptly dropped and forgotten. ?Daddy!?
Heero Yuy froze and looked down at the little figure that flung itself at his leg and clutched him tightly. He looked up to see Relena appear and head towards a lavender blue shoe lying on the floor completely oblivious to his presence by the door. She picked it up, ?Thank goodness, I?? She noticed him, ??Heero!? The shoe was forgotten once again as Relena hopped over and flung her arms around his neck.
Heero had been away on assignment for six days. Six, long days. Relena pulled back with a smile which vanished as soon as she noticed just how tired and weary he looked.
?You look terrible.?
Heero stared at her, ?I?m tired. I haven?t slept properly for six days.?
?Poor Heero,? she leaned up and kissed him on the lips gently causing him to close his eyes in rapture. Hana started tugging on the leg of his pants, ?Daddy, up!?
?Henry?s waiting outside,? Heero stared at her. Relena?s eyes widened, ?Oh I?m going to be late!? She slipped her remaining shoe on in a hurry. ?I have to go ??
?Daddy, up!? Hana tugged harder.
Relena flashed him a guilty look, ?I know you probably want to get some rest but??
?Dadddyyy??
?Just leave her with Pagan and I?m sure it?ll be okay.?
?Want <i>up</i>!?
Heero sighed heavily and picked Hana up before she pulled his pants down with her incessant tugging. She immediately clasped her arms around his neck and beamed happily. ?I?ll hurry home,? Relena promised, kissing Heero on the cheek. Hana leaned forward, ?Me!? Relena laughed and kissed her too, ?Don?t trouble daddy too much.?
Heero just snorted.
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?Hana?? Heero warned with a growl. She buried her face in his Preventer jacket and tightened her arms around his neck. Pagan stood there and tried to coax her to let go but she wouldn?t budge.
?Don?t want Grampa. Want daddy,? She puffed her cheeks out in frustration.
?Go to Pagan,? Heero said sternly and gave her a mild glare. She reluctantly let Heero bundle her into Pagan?s arms and watched as he trudged wearily upstairs. He had a shower, pulled on some clothes and flopped down on his bed, closing his eyes. He was glad to be home; it was better than spending sleepless nights thinking of how he could be in his comfy bed instead, with Relena?s soft body next to his. Damn her for spoiling him; it made his missions difficult to bear.
Just as he began to drift off into the throes of sleep, his eyes opened to the soft footfall coming from the stairs. He listened carefully. It was very slow and light, with a pause between each step as if someone were taking extra care. Heero smirked and went to investigate. As he thought, there was Hana holding on to the railing while gingerly making her way upstairs a step at a time. She looked up, saw him and held her hands out in joy. ?Daddy!?
Aw heck, who needed sleep anyway? ?Found you!? She said proudly.
?Well done,? He said with a hint of a smile. Pagan came down the corridor and stopped at the bottom of the stairs, relieved when he saw them.
?Oh dear,? He seemed apologetic, ?She said she wanted a cookie and I had my head in the cupboard for less than five seconds...?
?Don?t worry about it,? Heero replied.
Hana continued her ascent slowly and then rushed into the playroom, emerging with a book. She waved it at him, ?Book!?
?Book,? He agreed and lifted her up. They went into the bedroom where he sat down with his back against the headboard and Hana in his lap. She opened up the book happily and examined the pictures. Heero leaned over and had a look.
?Not that one again,? He sighed and proceeded to read ?Where the Wild Things Are?. Hana was a little young for the book but she could look at the colourful yet slightly scary illustrations and listen to Heero?s voice.
??And when he came to the place where the Wild Things are, they roared their terrible roars, and gnashed their terrible teeth, and rolled their terrible eyes, and showed their terrible claws?.?
Heero wasn?t the greatest narrator; he was rather monotonous and didn?t have Relena?s knack for putting on silly voices for the characters or expressing the emotion behind the words. Despite that, Hana still listened and when he finished, she turned with a satisfied smile, pointed at him and said, ?Wild thing.? Heero raised an eyebrow. ?I?m not,? He protested, wounded that Hana would refer to him as those horrible looking monsters in the book. She giggled and he kissed the top of her head.
Well if he was a wild thing?she was too. His little wild thing.
Oh if only Relena could hear him now; she would fall over laughing.
He moved to put the book to the side, ?Okay that?s it, I need to sleep.? Hana reached for the book, ?No no! More book.?
?I?m too tired,? He stated flatly and leaned his head back against the headboard, closing his eyes. Hana poked him but he didn?t budge, ?Daddy wake up.? She poked him again, ?Daddy??
?Shh,? He knitted his eyebrows together.
?Wake up,? She said obstinately and poked him again. He opened his eyes slightly and peered at her. She had her arms crossed and was glaring at him as if she could melt him with her stare. Heero gave in, she was too cute when she puffed her cheeks up in anger.
?Okay, get another book,? He relented. Hana jumped up and down excitedly and pointed at the book on the bed stand, ?That one!?
?Again?? Heero said incredulously. Didn?t she ever get tired of the story? Hana nodded, ?Again,? She copied.
Heero sighed and picked up the book. Hana settled herself down comfortably as he started reading ?Where the Wild Things Are? from the start yet again?
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A/N: Let me know if you are familiar with 'Where the Wild Things Are', I remember loving it as a little kid because it was scary yet fascinating and such an imaginative story. Just in case you didn't know, it's a story about a boy who gets sent to bed without any supper so he imagines that he sails away for a year to an island where the Wild Things are and becomes their king.
I really like Hana, she grows up to be very strong-willed and fiery
Ayame doesn't actually make an appearance in here but she's about six at this time and is currently attending primary school.
Hope you liked!
That is too cute... He-he-he... I love how Hana says her daddy is a "wild thing." XDXD
