This is something I wrote a long time ago. It's one of the few fanfics I've written, but I thought I'd post it and see what you guys think. It's really short, only about 500 words.




It was Christmas Eve and everything was quiet. All the Gundam boys were sleeping.

Well almost all of them.

Duo Maxwell tiptoed down the hall. He wanted to find out what his Christmas presents were.

He heard snoring as he tiptoed past Heero and Relena’s room. Curious to see who it was Duo peeked in the door. It was Heero, Relena was reading or at least she had been. The book was in her hand but she was gazing down at the sleeping Heero with a soft look on her face. Duo smirked remembering Hilde asleep in his own bed. The lure of presents was too strong, however, so Duo moved on.

Trowa and Quatre’s door was open slightly and he saw them exchanging gifts with murmurs of “I love you”. As the scene became R rated a very red Duo hurried down the hall.

Wufei seemed to be having a nightmare.

“No. Maron!” shouted Wufei.

Duo knew how hard it had been for Wufei to lose his wife. Duo himself had had nightmares for a long time after he had lost father Maxwell and sister Helen.

Sad, but undeterred Duo continued towards his goal. He tiptoed down the hall a little disappointed when he reached the stairs without peeking into another room; but all the other doors had been locked.

He made it down the stairs and into the living room without event, but as he crept towards the tree he realized that someone had beaten him to it. Crouching behind the couch Duo peered carefully over the top. The person next to the tree was silhouetted by the lights from the tree and had a sack in his hand.

Duo jumped over the couch and tackled the intruder.

“I’ve got you now thief!” he shouted.

Suddenly someone grabbed him from behind and clamped a hand over his mouth.

“Be quiet!” a familiar voice whispered, “We don’t want anyone else to wake up. This was supposed to be a surprise!”

The man with the sack stood up and spoke; “Now, Duo if she lets you go will you co-operate?”

Duo nodded and the person released him.

“Zekes! Noin! What’re you guys doing here?” he asked, “and sneaking around too!”

Zekes went back to his sack and began pulling things from it. “We wanted to bring these gifts and surprise Relena.”

“So we’re here in secret.” continued Noin, “We’ll be here in the morning under the tree with all this stuff, and supposedly Relena will be pleasantly surprised.” She glanced meaningfully at Zekes, who shrugged, and then turned her gaze on Duo.

Duo backed away. “Okay I won’t tell…Goodnight!” he turned around and ran out of the room.

Noin turned to Zekes with a grin. “So…do you think he was trying to sneak a peek at his presents?”

“Definitely I’m glad Relena asked us to watch the tree.”