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Title: Pumpkins with Faces

FF.net Penname: Rally Collins

Guild Profile: Ladycrystalite

Genre: Drama

Status: Complete

Rating: T

Disclaimer: Bandai, Sotsu Agency and Sunrise own Mobile Suit Gundam Wing. I do not. This is just for your entertainment and my need to brush up on my writing skills.

Summary: Relena listens to Duo for once and ends up following him in one of his schemes. She finds out that pumpkins can smile and shadows can look back. [slight R+2] Entry for the October Monthly Contest.

TEASER:

The blindfold wasn't tight enough to be painful, but it was uncomfortable, smelled faintly of ship metal and dark enough to block out any form of light. Seriously, why did I decide to go along with this crazy scheme? Okay, it got me out of the Palace for what was promised to be at least a few hours and it got me away from everything (and everyone) that reminded me of work. Now, don't get me wrong, I love my job and enjoy doing what I can for my people, but sometimes it just gets to be too much, you know. Sometimes I just need to get away. I need to get out and go somewhere. It doesn't really matter where. Just not here.

So, of course, when one temporary bodyguard by the name of Duo Maxwell asks me if I'd like to "go out" I might have mumbled something along the lines of, "The sooner the better," before my senses returned to scream at me that it was Duo Maxwell who had just asked me that question and did I really want to shoulder the responsibility of accepting his proposal.

He had already gotten me to agree to "trust him" and had whisked me safely out of the Palace without my usual full score of bodyguards before those senses released their full two-cent's worth on me, so when he pulled out the blindfold I really couldn't protest past the expected, "Do you really think that's necessary?"

He just gave me a hard stare with those blue, blue eyes that most would label as cobalt, but I always called sapphire and then threw his arms up in an overdramatic display all the while moaning, "Fi~ine! If you want to ruin the surprise, be my guest!"

That sounded perfectly reasonable to me. "Alright, then. I think I will."