sweetestsurrender | { The AU meme }

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{ The AU meme }

Ever played out something and then later wondered "What if?" Ever wondered what it'd be like to play your character a different way, but didn't feel like making a full thing dedicated to it? Now's your chance to play it out!

Using RNG you'll roll 1-3 for the level of the change, and 1-6 for the change itself, or if you want, pick your own based on what you wanted to do.

1)  Small Change: The flap of a butterfly's wings can cause tsunami's on the other side of the world.

-1: "A minute too late"- What if you missed something by a minute, or more? You missed the big meeting, the girl, helping that person, all because you were too late, what happens next?
-2: "The nick of time"- Just like the first, only that instead of missing something you got, that if you got something you missed because you were either too late, or just messed up? Congratulations! Let's just hope it's what you really wanted.
-3: "A little too early"- One more, what if you showed up early? It's suppose to be a good thing, is it this time?
-4: "The other choice"- You had two choices, left or right, heads or tails, Coke or Pepsi, now you get to see what would have happened with the other choice.
-5: "Oops!"- You slipped up, and made a mistake. Is it bad, or a blessing in disguise?
-6: Wild card/Pick your own- Thought of a slight change that'd make all the difference, or had one you wanted to play? Here's your chance.

2)  Medium Change: Didn't really see that coming, did you?

-1: Turning point change- That one thing that would have turned things in your favor went against you, and vice versa. How will you handle this critical change?
-2: "A Razor's edge"- That one moment that could have went either way has gone the opposite way of before. Is this a good thing, or a bad thing?
-3: Crossroads- You reached a point in your life where you had several choices before you, now's the time to go down another road and see where it leads.
-4: The Road less traveled- "Two roads diverged in the woods, and I took the one less traveled" Will it make all the difference?
-5: Interference- Something blocked you from getting something you were going for. What do you do once the moment is gone?
-6: Wild Card/Pick your own-Thought of a medium change that'd make all the difference, or had one you wanted to play? Here's your chance.

3)  Large Change: Why do all the people here have goatee's?

-1: Good/Evil- Use to be a good guy? Welcome to the dark side, here's your cookie. Former bad guy? Hand over the cookie tray and join the side of good. How will the change of moral compass change you?
-2: A different person- You're now a completely different person, literally. Are you taller? Shorter? A robot? A pony? Powers? No powers? Your call.
-3: The other sex- Rule!63 is in effect. Now how does this effect your relationships with the other?
-4: A change in history- Something that happened in the past now has completely change or is now gone. One domino toppling the rest. Now that you've changed your past, how will it effect your future?
-5: Giving up- You walked away from something important to you? Do you regret it? Are you happy?
-6: Wild Card/Pick your own- Thought of a large change that'd make all the difference, or had one you wanted to play? Here's your chance.

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Trowa, catching sight of Heero as if he had summoned him with his thoughts, had to hold back a laugh. He lightly tapped Quatre's shoulder and pointed in that direction. Whether Heero was treating the vacation like a mission or not, he looked relaxed, and that was good enough for him.

"Way ahead of you." Duo laughed. He'd already made it from his thighs to his knees when Wufei reached for his ear. A shiver ran through him and he bit down hard on the inside of his cheek, but said nothing. Just took a deep breath and concentrated on getting the rest himself lotioned up so he go have fun with everyone and not have to worry about peeling skin later.

Quatre beamed when he saw Trowa, waiving at their friend and laughing warmly as Heero waved back. "Looks like we're all taking a break for real," for the first time, and together to boot. "We should do this every year, it's positively delightful."

While she'd had no idea what she was doing, Wufei certainly noticed Duo's reaction and filed that information away for later, instead adding a bit more lotion to her own face. "Good, then we can go see if these slides can live up to the hype."

"I think that's a good idea." Trowa eased his arms around Quatre from behind and dropped his chin onto his loves shoulder. "Maybe a different place every year, but all together." Because they all damn well needed it. And one week out of the year didn't seem much to him.

"I'm game." Duo called over after clearing his throat and straightening up. "One big vacation every year with all of us? Sounds great!" He was grinning when he pushed himself up to his feet and let his braid drop back behind him. Then he reached out a hand to Wufei. "Ready?"

"Each year a different one of us should pick the spot," Quatre decided lightly. "I can rent out a villa or something else with sufficient security, and we can just enjoy whatever's in the area, even if it's just each other." It sounded perfect to him.

"I'll come," Heero called, as he started rounding a bend in the river.

"Me, too," Wufei said as she accepted Duo's hand and got to her feet. "Ready."

"Sounds like we have a deal." Trowa said warmly. He was happy they had decided to do this. Happy Heero had agreed. Having everyone together this way was really nice. Knowing they were all having a good time felt even better.

Once Duo had her on her feet, he grinned and brought her in for a kiss. "Alright, guys. We'll see you later." With a laugh he turned, keeping his hand within Wufei's he started walking away from the cabana. It was time to find the biggest and baddest waterslide and make it their bitch.

She returned the kiss with a warm chuckle, tugging off her sarong with one expert twist and dropping it on Trowa's head, then stuck her hat on Quatre's as she followed Duo off to the slides with a bright grin.

"And we won't even have to meddle," Quatre said as he watched them go. "I was starting to think they were never going to get together," though he understood now why it had really taken so long.

Trowa laughed and pulled away from Quatre so that he could remove the sarong from his head and watched them both go with a fond smile. "Agreed. No meddling needed. Fate caught up with them." He was happiest most for Duo though. That boy had held a candle for Wufei for so long...

He moved over to sit on the lounger and dropped back to stretch out. "I think they look good together." His lips twitched into a small smirk. "They certainly sounded good together."

Quatre grinned up at Trowa. "Well, can you blame them? Being celibate for so long must've been torture," he decided, leaning back on his hands and watching them vanish into the crowd. "I've never seen Wufei so happy or relaxed, even though she's dealing with family politics nastier than my own. We're all so lucky."

He turned his gaze back to Trowa, leaned up to take a little kiss. "Now I seem to recall you saying something about shoving these chairs together."

"Never said I blamed them. Can't imagine going that long myself." Trowa was grinning at Quatre as he said that, he wasn't watching Duo and Wufei, all he saw was the man he loved.

"Duo's got a skip in his step too. Though he could do with relaxing some more." The guy was on edge about something, it was clear to see. But he hoped hanging out with Wufei and pitching themselves down rubber tubes and into water would make him feel better. He smiled when he was kissed and returned it softly.

"You've a good memory, my love." He chuckled and pulled away to do just that. He dragged the other lounge chair all the way over and wedged it right up next to the one Quatre sat upon. He had to move it's umbrella out of the way so it could share just the one. But when it was positioned right, he sat himself down on it with a sigh.

Quatre hummed in agreement, returning his attention to his husband-to-be with a grin. "Nor can I," he said lightly, getting up to help Trowa move things around -- and taking a sip from Wufei's drink while he did. "There's some sort of tension hanging around them, but it feels like something they're facing together, not something between them. It's probably something related to her family, they're very old fashioned."

After the war, he'd done his research on all of them, though Wufei was the easiest one to get information on. He'd never guessed that he was his own dead wife, but he'd recognized a lot of the politics in her family from others he'd dealt with from L5. "She's very lucky she's a war hero," he said as he joined Trowa on the chairs once more, stretching himself out and scooting down so his feet would poke out into the sun a little. "And even luckier to have him."

Which sparked a thought, and he looked over at Trowa. "I wonder... does this make him bisexual? I'd only even seen him flirt seriously with women before, but he didn't know she was a woman until very recently..."

"We're all very lucky." He repeated Quatres words back to him. Things had come together so well for all of them. Almost too well. Wufei would have a time of it when the media finally caught up to them but for now? For now they could relax and just enjoy that luck for a while.

"I think that makes him whatever he wants to be." Trowa chuckled. "But I think he was very confused about his attraction to Wufei when we were younger."

Quatre laughed warmly, offering Trowa some of the drink and started talking about when they'd first met, losing himself in the warmth of a fond memory and his lover's company.

While Duo and Wufei were busy testing the slides and determining that they were probably as much as a civilian could handle. Then it was time for the lazy river, and more drinks, with little umbrellas and chunks of fruit in the top and god wasn't this the life? "I've decided," she said as she settled into her inner tube. "We need to do this more often. This relaxing thing. I didn't know what I was missing out on. Also drinking." She had yet to get drunk, but she was sure she would enjoy it.

Duo was both having the time of his life and hating life. Relaxed as he was... his hair was soaking wet and heavy so he'd had it draped across his shoulder and chest as he lazily meandered along with Wufei in their inner tubes. And their drinks. His had a bendy straw. He liked a bendy straw. He refused to entertain the idea of a straight one after learning how fun a bendy one could be.

"Stick with me, babe. We can relax like this every day." Duo laughed, knowing it was a lie but... he'd damn well try. They could relax in this way as often as possible. Now they were together, who was going to stop them?

Wufei hummed happily as she clinked her glass lightly against his. "You're such a good liar I almost believed you for a second," she teased lightly, but the smile she gave him said she understood what he'd meant.

She took another sip of her drink and sighed happily. "But at the very least, I'll be able to relax when I'm at home with you, hmm? Though that does remind me, we forgot to have that conversation I promised you last night," she sighed.

"Relaxing at home can be just as good." Duo replied with a gentle smile. He turned his head to look over at her then, the sigh worrying.

"What's on your mind?" Duo had completely forgotten there was any talk that had been promised. So much had happened in such a short time that he knew there was probably a lot they did have to talk about... "I guess we can talk now. You've got me as a captive audience."

She hummed softly, offering him a sad smile. "About my nightmares," she clarified, but no one was eavesdropping, and likewise no one would suspect their topic of conversation. "They all start the same way. I'm being led down a hallway by a guard, wrists in handcuffs behind me. It melts from the dark gray of a prison to the fancy hallways of a European estate."

She fell silent as they drifted past a group of people, and when they were more alone, she continued. "I'm pushed through an ornate door, and the guard slams it behind me so hard that I can't stifle the startle reflex, and I hear him chuckle at me."

Duo immediately realised his mistake in wording and cursed himself mentally. If he'd realised this was the conversation they were going to have...

He reached out to her then. Taking hold of her hand and listened as she spoke. And when she stopped he said nothing, just waiting for her to continue, knowing he was going to hate this. But he needed to know. He needed to know so that he was better prepared. And because clearly Wufei needed someone to talk to about it. So why not him?

She curled her fingers around his hand, glancing over and offering him a sad smile. She was sure that, right now, it would be worse for him than her. Right now she was relaxed, she'd gotten past the one thing she was worried that horrible day would prevent her from ever doing. And she was safe. This place was much too different from Treize's estate to trigger any sort of flashback.

"He came out of the shadows like a demon, sometimes in the dream his eyes even glow. He put his hand on my shoulder and pulled me into the room. He told me that he'd noticed some different things about me, that he'd worked out that I was a woman, somehow. Even knew my name. And then he injected me with something, never did find out what. It made me weak, slowed my reflexes."

"He drugged you..." Duo spoke softly, soft enough his anger didn't quite come through, though his hand in hers did tighten a little.

He didn't know what it was with those bastards and drugging their captives but Duo damned them to hell and back. Moreso Treize. Not that he needed to. If there was a hell he was positive that bastard was already there. After everything he had done... Gods but he hated that man. Duo didn't think he'd hated anyone more than he did that bastard.

Wufei hummed softly in agreement. "He knew I would fight. That I was strong enough to make it too difficult," she kept her voice soft, so no one even glanced their way. "His intention was to produce an heir. So once I was drugged, he dragged me to the bed, put me on my back, and pulled my clothes off. As if I was his lover, as if I had a choice, as if I wanted any of it," the bitterness and anger slipped into her voice, and she glared up at the sky. "And then he did what he wanted. For hours."

He felt sick. He actually wanted to throw up. But he forced it back. His eyes had closed but even those were forced open again because what he saw behind those closed lids was not something he wanted to see. Duo didn't want to imagine what had happened to Wufei. Didn't even want to think about it. There was nothing he could do... It had already happened.

And somehow, despite it having happened, despite what had been done to her, taken from her... She'd accepted him. Had welcomed him into her arms, into her heart, into her bed. She'd had a choice then. And he was her choice...

"Wufei..." There was pain in that single word, Duo wasn't going to hide it. He ached for her. For what was done to her. He wished he could kill Treize, over and over. Bring him back and then kill him again. There was only hatred in his heart for that dead man. But only love for Wufei. "... That bastard died too quickly."

She hummed softly, a quiet acceptance of what he felt, of his anger and pain, and squeezed his hand gently. "I know," she replied softly. "But at least it was at my hand."

Wufei sighed softly, rolling her head aside so she could look at him. "Une walked in on it. She gave him a reason to leave and cleaned me up, gave me what I needed to ensure I wouldn't become pregnant, and set me free. Made sure any time I was captured in the future, I wouldn't be where he could get at me. She did what she could to protect me, but the nightmares never get that far."

It was impossible for her not to feel loved, when he felt so angry and hurt on her behalf, and she crossed her legs over the edge of her innertube. "And for the record, I couldn't think of anyone but you last night. Or this morning."

Duo didn't much like Une, but he supposed he could grudgingly accept that she'd done good by Wufei in protecting her the way she had. And then a whole new wave of sickness washed over him. He hadn't even really considered that Wufei would think of anyone else last night. But he was glad she hadn't...

"I hope not..." Duo replied softly, slowly. "... You were the only one on my mind. The only one ever on my mind. And... I'm glad you could tell me this, Wu. I just, I don't know. Part of me wishes I'd known, but what the hell could I have done? He was yours to kill in the end." Though Duo knew he would have had fun razing that whole organisation to the ground. To hell with their missions.

She just wanted to be sure it wasn't something he would start thinking, now that he knew. Especially given what he'd done with her hands the night before.

Wufei hummed softly, smiling over at him. "I never will," she promised softly. "You're so... safe." Not for everyone, but for her? Always. "I'm grateful it's you I get to marry."

The problem was he probably was going to be more careful now. More mindful of his words and actions. How could he not be? She might think he was safe now, but what happened if he did something wrong? Something that reminded her of a time before him? He'd stop being safe in a heartbeat.

Though it was weird as hell having someone call him 'safe'. He'd never had anyone say that of him before... Duo wasn't entirely sure how he felt about it. On one hand he loved it. Loved she felt safe enough with him that she could be herself. One the other... maybe he wanted her to think of him in more ways than a safety net? Duo knew that was asking too much though. Right now he had more than he ever thought he could have. More than he deserved. He had Wufei. She was his dream come true. He would be any damn thing she wanted him to be, so long as she smiled at him like that...

"I love you." He replied with a smile of his own. "I'm glad you accepted my proposal."

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