Clovers

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Duo stared in wonder at the clover in his hand. It had four leaves. Duo considered himself to be the most unlucky person, hell, compared to Duo, Murphy was an optimist. [1] But still, Duo had found a clover. With four leaves. He had to show somebody.

All five of them were hiding it out in a safe house, and Duo was supposed to stay in that shack too, but there is only so much of those guys that Duo could take. They were all so...depressed. Duo wasn’t much better, but at least he grinned to cover it up. The others just radiated gloominess and that was the sort of thing that made Duo’s cheery mask crumble.

“Heero won’t care. He’ll chew me out for leaving, but he wont say anything about the clover. Trowa will probably say it’s nice and walk away, Quatre... he’ll think it’s neat but go to find Trowa anyway. And Wufei...? Naw, he‘s nothing like me. He‘d never care about a silly clover. Wufei an me are just such opposites. Wufei--”

“Yes?” Wufei’s low, smooth voice cut into Duo’s monologue. The braided American nearly had a heart attack.

“Geeze Wu! Make some noise when you move will ya?!” Duo grasped a hand over his chest. He was too distracted to stop the Chinese Gundam pilot from plucking the four leaf clover from Duo’s hand. “Hey!” He said irritably. Wufei just looked at the clover in wonder.

“You take time to look for clovers?” He said softly. Duo smiled a bit.

“Yeah. Every chance I get. Never found one before though.”

“They are very rare.” Wufei agreed a look of wonder on his face.

“Why do you ask?” Duo asked.

“I...I used to. When I still had time... I remember going and searching for hours.”

“And staying out until it was dark, and you couldn’t see the ground through the darkness anymore, so--”

“You collapse into the clovers and drift to sleep.”

“And wake up to see Solo scowling at you for disappearing all night.”

“My Father.”

Wufei and Duo smiled at each other. Maybe they weren’t so different?... Yeah, They weren’t such opposites after all.

Then their smiles turned to grins and they were both on their knees, searching the ground for four leaf clovers. In the rush, the clover fell from Wufei’s hand and floated away in the breeze.

~Owari~

Happy St. Patrick’s day minna-san!

[1] Murphy’s Law. If something can go wrong, it will.