Author: Sami-pi
Pairing: established 1x2x1 and 3x4x3
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Timeline: post EW, Quatre's CEO of WEI, Heero, Duo, Trowa, and Wufei are all Preventers, and they're all around 30ish.
Disclaimer: Gundam Wing, its characters and its trappings, belong to Bandai, Sotsu, and... I was sure there was someone else in there... sorry! ^^;;; Anyway, this fic is not for profit, just for fun.
12:21
As Christmas rolled around, cards and presents begin to float into the offices. Some were from friends, family, fellow agents, assistants, bosses, and the like, but others were from the "clients". Being a Preventer was a sucky job sometimes, but at Christmas, one really got to see the fruits of their labour.
Gift baskets came in by the truckload, cards by the bushel. The receptionists could hardly keep up with it all. Poor Lorena at the front desk was almost completely buried one day and they'd had to dig her out at 4pm so that she could go to the bathroom.
But no one really minded because these were the 'thank you' presents, the material representation of a job well done and showing you that you'd made an impact on the world.
Now, it may have had something to do with the nature of the agents who became Elites, but up on the fifth floor there was a sort of Christmas Competition. Who would get the most cards this year? The most presents? The most elaborate basket? The basket competition was pretty intense.
Duo almost always won the Christmas Competition, and this year was no exception. He was definitely the front runner with his fifty cards and two fruit baskets. Fruit was expensive this time of year and he contended that each basket ought to count as two.
Wufei agreed to count each basket as two if Duo agreed to count thirty of his cards as one seeing as the thirty were from kids at the same orphanage where Duo volunteered.
Trowa pointed out that he had a card from the President of the ESUN which ought to trump most cards, or at least count for three, but Duo raised the stakes with his five from each head of state of the colonies, including the nascent government of the still rebuilding L5.
Wufei argued that the cards were easy to come by and that he suspected one of Duo's, from a currently popular singer, was forged by an analyst in the lab downstairs. He said that he was still the holder of the biggest gift basket, which included wine, crackers, antipasto, a knickknack, and a pomegranate, and he therefore ought to win, period.
At that moment, Heero trotted through the conversation holding a basket half the size of his desk. It held a ham, crackers, cookies, a jam assortment, various cheeses, two bottles of wine, and a large teddy bear.
He said it was a thank you gift from Commander Une for his brilliant plan to shut them all the hell up.
OWARI
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