No Competition

[Adaon]

While Trowa went about preparing his gear for the current "mission" he found himself wondering how in the world he had gotten in to this. Normally something like this would be the result of Duo playing a prank, or Heero playing the jealous husband and torturing him for looking at Relena the wrong way (or mentioning something in a dream... stupid sleep talking). But for once, no one else seemed to be a factor, he seemingly got himself in to it, which of course just meant that Yuy had done a good job covering his tracks.

"Trowa." Speaking of Mr. Touch-my-wife-and-die.

"Yuy, I don't know how, but I am SURE you somehow are responsible for this."

"I had nothing whatever to do with it, blame Une."

"And where would she get the idea of entering a team of preventers in to a triathlon?"

"Page 32 of a magazine."

"Which one?"

"Men's fitness. I think you are familiar with that issue."

"..."

"You remember, it was the one about unusual athletic feats, they did a story on you with the lion act."

Trowa sighed, he hadn't been happy about it, but somehow Catharine had talked him in to it for the good of the circus or some such thing. "Yes, I remember it, but what does page 32 have to do with anything." He had made the mistake of posing shirtless, and that picture had ended up on the cover. He received three marriage proposals, and 6 less-decent ones in 3 days.

"Page 32 was an article about a private security firm that boasts achievements in athletics of their employees; they compete in triathlons, marathons, anything that helps show off the company. Une liked the idea and wanted the preventers to start entering teams to help recruitment."

"That's reason enough, but why am I in this? I wouldn't mind knowing how you got out of it for that matter."

"You are the one who volunteered to represent the preventers."

"AT a triathlon, not IN one."

"It's your own fault for not being clear on your prepositions. Besides, I'm helping by passing out fliers."

"How did you get fliers while I got a speedo?"

"I didn't make the mistake of posing shirtless for a magazine."

"Shut up Yuy."

“In any event, I came to warn you that you have ten minutes, time do finish warming up.”

“What happens if I DON’T go out there?”

“Knowing Une, probably something involving supervising diplomat’s kids.”

“She wouldn’t… Never mind, yes she should. Any other bad news I should know about?”

“Duo is videotaping the event, per Une’s instructions so a recruitment video can be made.”

“… I hate all of you.”

[Fate Lowe]

Poor Trowa. That was great. Good job.

[blackrose]

What Heero didn't say was that Mr.Touch-his-wife-and-die maybe made a suggestion after seeing the Wife-who-should-not-ogle-shirtless-Preventers...ogling the shirtless Preventer.

Relena: Oh. Well you sure can't tell he looks like that underneath those, well, shirts and jackets you wear.

Heero: *growls* He doesn't. *rips magazine away from Relena*

And props to the preposition issue. Kinda like conjunctive errors...

[lilac310]

lol...The possibility of Relena ogling that magazine to see Trowa shirtless just cracks me up! Anyways, I love the insinuations in the story (especially, the part where Trowa's wary of Heero's "jealous husband" facade and the sleep-talking about Relena part too!) Cheerios!

[Adaon]

Sleep talking is a refrence to another story I wrote, "The High Price of Dreams"

I sometimes like to throw in cross-refrences like that if I think they will be amusing.