'Night' had set in, when Howard had sent his crew off to, quote,
'beddy-bye'. It was only after Duo discovered the stash of whiskey and
cheap beer that they realized just where Howard was coming from in that.
Much to Quatre's dismay Duo had passed around what was left after Howard
passed out. Despite meek protests from Noin and Sally they each were delighted
to find a dusty bottle of champagne in the back. It was sometime later
when half of it in total was gone and Quatre was the only one sober that
Duo came up with his marvelous idea.
" Hey! " Duo exclaimed, " I got an idea! "
" Whuzzat? " slurred Hiiro. Remarkably the alcohol in his system was only now just starting to take effect.
" Let's play truth-or-dare! "
" That sounds like fun! " Quatre piped up, looking very much relieved. I said this was Duo's marvelous idea, I didn't say this was his only.
Duo shot the blonde haired boy a sly grin, " STRIP Truth-or-dare! "
Quatre looked appalled as his hopes were dashed. " N-Nani?! "
" You already agreed Q-man! Who else izzz in? " Duo asked, regarding everyone else blearily.
Hiiro, Wufei, and Trowa all agreed, though it was obvious that it was the alcohol talking and not the pilots. Noin and Sally looked at each other and shrugged. They too were in. Not as drunk as the boys, having only had a quarter bottle of champagne each (Noin had recently left the champagne to Sally in favor of sharing some whiskey with Hiiro) but they were in.
" Um... " meekly said Quatre with a small raising of his hand, " what exactly do you mean; Strip truth or dare? "
" Eeeezeeeeeee! " Duo giggled, " If you refuse you lose an article of clothing. " He got shakily to his feet. " I'll go first! " He indicated violently with the bottle in his hand. " Trowa! Truth or dare? "
Trowa was in the process of giggling girlishly and toying with his hair. He blinked, said, " Dare. " then giggled again.
" Ooooookaaaayyyy.... " Duo looked around the assembly. " I dare you to... kiss... Quatre! "
" N-Nani?! " Quatre flushed a brilliant shade of red.
To which Wufei giggled and fell over exclaiming, " Lookit 'im! "
Trowa grinned foolishly and crawled over to Quatre. Quatre began to acquire that trapped-wild-animal look, edging impotently away. Trowa was coming closer... closer... Quatre let out a shout and moved back but Trowa pounced on him, throwing Quatre to the floor. The two boys wrestled for a bit while Duo cheered and whistled and the other four giggled. Quatre was, sadly, not as strong as Trowa and had to endure that kiss....
... right smack dab in the middle of his forehead.
Trowa got up and crawled back to where he had previously been sitting, with much more bravado than was really needed.
Quatre felt like crying he was so relieved.
" Trowa! Your Turn! " proclaimed Duo, sitting down heavily and splashing his beer all over him.
Trowa very seriously stood up and looked around. " Wufei, truth or dare? "
Quatre turned pale. Please not dare. please not dare...
" Dare! "
Trowa hemmed and hawed... taking his time while the rest began to fidgit. Quatre was sweating bullets.
" I dare you to... take out your ponytail! "
Trowa sat down.
Wufei made a face. " I duwanna. "
Sally let loose with a loud whistle. " Take it off! " She followed this with a quick downing of a good majority of the rest of the champagne.
Wufei pouted, but HAD to follow the rules and removed his overcoat... to reveal the purple muscle shirt.
" Dammit, " muttered Sally and Noin.
" Wufei's turn! "
" I know that! Shut up! " Wufei stated, cross that he'd had to lose. (and over something so dumb) " Hiiro. Truth or dare? "
Hiiro, whom had maintained most of his sobriety (despite the occasional giggling fit) steadfastly glared right back at Wufei and responded, " Truth. "
" Damn you! " blazed Wufei.
" Hn. "
Wufei thought really hard. Finally settling for, " Aw hell, do you ever really mean it when you threaten to kill ANYone? "
" Yes, " answered Hiiro, which was followed almost immediately by a long string of Mandarin, Japanese, and English curses from Wufei's general vicinity.
Hiiro glared at Duo and then growled, " Duo. "
" Dare! " exclaimed Duo with an evil grin.
Quatre felt somewhat relieved. Hiiro couldn't possibly come up with anything too bad. Come to think of it, after that kiss dare, things in general weren't all that bad.
Hiiro thought about this very seriously. " I dare you to... " he was taking this almost too seriously. Quatre figured it was a revenge thing. " to... " Quatre began to sweat again. " to.... take this, " he withdrew his gun and Quatre's sweat became waterfalls down his back, " and run the edge all the way down Deathscythe's right leg. "
Duo looked positively horrified. " Do you have any idea what that'll do to the paintjob?! " he squeaked.
Hiiro grinned evilly. " Yes. "
Duo looked away, thoroughly affronted. " I refuse. " He then pulled his shirt over his head. Sitting there in all his shirtless-Duo-wonder, he grinned foolishly around and picked his next victem in a singsong tone... " Noinsan! "
Noin eyed the shirtless grinning boy warily. " Hai? "
" Truth or dare? "
Noin poured herself another shot of whiskey. " Truth, " she decided finally.
Duo giggled like a madman and exclaimed. " Oh goody! "
Noin paled.
So did Quatre. He'd paled several times now, in fact, and was the colour that roughly matched the paint on Noin's Taurus.
Duo was practically bouncing. Apparantly he'd been waiting for this. " Tell us about the first time you and Zechs-- "
Quatre fell over.
Sally protested loudly, cutting Duo off.
Noin's face went rapidly from white to red. She began to contemplate her situation. On the one hand she could refuse, on the other hand, she'd just been on her way to get her laundry when she'd come across the boys and the alcohol. As she'd only had one set of clothes other than her uniform when she'd come to space, that meant one bra... which was in the aforementioned laundry. Deciding audibly that it was better to answer than lose her shirt, Noin answered,
" It was in school. We got drunk celebrating the end of final exams and I asked him to take of his mask. " She cut it off there.
Quatre sat up in relief. That wasn't so bad...
" Ah ah ah, " Duo said slyly, " I said tell us ABOUT not tell us WHEN! "
Sally looked at Noin shrewdly. " Boy has a point. "
" Thanks for your support, " muttered Noin.
" Details! Details! " Duo crowed. Obviously this was something he'd wanted to know about for awhile.
Quatre covered his ears, to no avail.
Noin very slowly and hesitantly launched the story. " Okay, so... he initially refused. So I tried to take it off myself and we ended up wresting on the floor. Then I pinned him... but I think he let me... because then his hands started to wander... "
By the time Noin finished, Quatre's eyes were wide as saucers. So were the other boys. Sally was grinning, with her eyes kinda glassy as she finished off the champange.
Duo was grinning as well. " I wanna find a girl so I can try that! "
Noin looked positively mortified.
" You mean like Hilde? " Hiiro pointed out.
Duo snapped attention to Hiiro. " What was that? "
" You're the one who won't shut up about her, " pointed out Wufei as he finished off his beer.
" I think it's sweet! " Quatre proclaimed.
" Shut up! " Duo wailed. " Noin! It's your turn. "
" Sally! Truth or dare! "
" Dare! " Sally said almost immediately.
Noin grinned wickedly. " I dare you to kiss each and every one of these boys. " Every last one of the boys looked mortified. " Just to get revenge, of course. "
" One revenge coming right up, Noin! " Sally saluted. She crawled towards Hiiro first.
Hiiro withdrew his gun and aimed it at her forehead.
Sally pushed the gun aside and threw him to the ground. Leaning down she kissed him right on the tip of his nose.
Next came Duo. Duo puckered up and leaned forward. Sally kissed him between the eyes. Duo pouted.
Trowa tried to run away as well. But Sally caught him and got him with a wet one on the cheek.
[Just to break the pattern] Sally went for Wufei next. Ignoring his sputters and outcries of " Woman! Get away from me! " She kissed him on the cheek. However, he jerked violently at her touch and turned his head the wrong way, so that the cheek-kiss became a lips-kiss.
Sally giggled and headed for Quatre.
Wufei turned green and began chugging what was left of the whiskey straight in an effort to burn the kiss out of existence. It wasn't too long before he passed out.
Quatre, being not only sober, but the last, beamed and turned his head so that Sally had no trouble getting to his cheek.
However, Sally grabbed him by the sides of the head and kissed him full on the lips. Releasing him with a noisy smack, she winked and headed back towards Noin.
Quatre was speechless, and did not partisipate in the rest of the game.
**The Next Morning**
Howard stumbled out of his quarters with what he thought was the mother of all hangovers. That was until he came across what had been the rest of his alcohol stash.
Hiiro was lying face down on the floor -- completely nude as he'd had the least to take off. Duo had retained his boxers and one sock. Trowa was also nude, and drapped over Quatre's lap. Quatre was fully dressed and looking like he'd just come off the Zero System. He also looked in desperate need of sleep... or coffee... a memory repressant. Wufei had passed out, and was still dressed. Sally had only lost her shirt and one sock. Noin, having shown a remakable display of common sense despite a quarter bottle of champagne and half a bottle of whiskey, had discovered her socks and shoes and had only lost those.
Only Quatre was awake, by the way.
Howard, completely nonplussed by the fact that two women and five teenage boys were lying around half-naked (or naked in Hiiro and Trowa's cases) on the floor, continued on towards the galley for some much needed coffee.
Quatre whimpered, as he was once again left alone with entirely too many memories of the past night.
Maybe he should have drank...
**
[It's definately not the best thing I've written, but I wanted to write something to go with the reference made in the GW interview. While I won't contribute to the Yaoi population, I have no problem contributing to the large number of alcohol related GW fics out there. Thank you for reading my paltry little story. Good night]
[Written by Inseiko, 2000]