Author: Merula
Pairings: 1+2
Rating: PG
Warnings: Yaoi, drabble
Disclaimer: Gundam Wing is not mine.
For sunhawk16 - the boys doing some yardwork. I need them at my house!
Yardwork
When I had leaned over my partner this morning, the first morning of our vacation, and whispered in his ear, asking him what he wanted to do first with all this free time we now had on our hands- he had blinked those gorgeous eyes of his up at me and said:
"We need to do some yard work."
It wasn't what I had been expecting, and I told him so. Besides, it was barely 6 am!
"But if we go out early we can get a lot of it done before it gets too hot."
Before I could protest further, Heero had rolled out of bed and grabbed a pair of shorts. The man is nothing if not single minded- and usually I loved that about him, but damnit, it was our first day off in a very long time, our first vacation in years- and he wanted to do yard work?
"If we do it early this week we can goof off later," he said, as if he could read my mind, and left the bedroom. "And have you looked out there lately?"
When the hell would I have had a chance to look in our backyard? Most of the time I forgot it was there! Grumbling under my breath, I rolled out of bed and grabbed my shorts. The damn yard would go faster with two- it couldn't take that long after all.
I revised my opinion when I stepped out the back door, tying off my hastily braided hair. When had it turned into a jungle? Had Trowa borrowed it to house his lions? Some of the weeds were taller than I was!
"Heero?" I called out, wondering where he'd vanished off to- hopefully one of the plants hadn't eaten him.
"Over here! By the shed!"
We had a shed? Squinting, I peered through the dense foliage, trying to remember where the shed was. Over to the left maybe?
I took a deep breath and plunged into the rainforest that had once been our backyard.
Pushing aside scratchy weeds and sneezing from all the pollen in the air, I finally located Heero standing by a small plastic weed covered shed.
Looking around the yard at this angle wasn't much better. Clearing the backyard was going to take all day- maybe all week. So much for fun vacation plans.
"I think we should cut them down, buy the weed poison to spray the roots with and then rake up the rest," he said. I really had no idea what he was talking about, so I just grunted.
Heero turned to face me. "We only have one weed whacker," he said showing me something that looked like an obscene fishing pole. "The only other thing in here is something the former owners left."
Ah... now that looked familiar! I grinned.
This might not be so bad after all...
"I'll take that," I said and Heero handed it to me wide-eyed. I touched the blade. "A bit dull, but we'll see what she can do. Stand back."
Heero prudently went to stand behind the shed as I swung the scythe in an arc and watched the weeds fall. They didn't explode like mobile dolls, but it was still satisfying...
"Heero, why don't you go buy that weed root stuff and I'll deal with this?" I called out.
"You sure?" He peeked around the corner of the shed and looked at the swath I had already cut. "Never mind. I'll be back in a little bit."
I rolled my shoulders as he went back into the house and swung the scythe again. And again. And again.
This wasn't such a bad way to start the vacation after all...
OWARI
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