Surprises

A/N: Hey guys! this is my first fic on aff, so I'm pretty excited to be putting it up. I update as much as my crazy schedule allows! please R&R!! happy reading!

“You’re just so innocent!” Duo laughed.

Quatre blushed. “I am not,” he sputtered.

Heero and Trowa both grinned as an exuberant Duo kept pestering the blonde. “Yes, you are Q-bean, and that’s okay! Proof that it still exists,” he said as he slung his arm over the blonde’s shoulders.

Quatre was flustered. Why did he always lose his cool around Duo?  “I am not!” he exclaimed again.  He looked around at his fellow pilots to see smiles and averted eyes. His mouth tightened into a frown as it seemed that no one believed him.

Wufei chuckled from his seat on the couch. “I’m going to agree with Duo on this one. You still believe in the good of everyone, an eternal optimist.”

“There’s nothing wrong with that,” Quatre defended.

“No, there’s not,” Heero said quietly. “But it is true. You haven’t let the depravity of this world blacken your heart and soul.”

Well, that’s depressing. Trowa was a little bit more consoling. “You are fine the way you are, Quatre. You are a gundam pilot, steady as a rock under fire, but yes, innocent and pure in the evils of the world. This is nothing to be ashamed of.”

Quatre sighed in defeat. They just didn’t know!

“You’ve probably never even kissed a girl!” Duo teased

Heero rolled his eyes at the childishness, but heard the defiant response. “Probably cuz I don’t like them,” Quatre stated.

That brought Duo up short. “You battin’ for the other team, Q?”

Quatre could not believe he had said that! All his work at avoiding this particular subject gone out the window because of one braided idiot and his teasing.  Too late to take it back now, no use lying about it. He nodded, all of a sudden finding the floor very interesting.

Duo started cackling. “And here I thought at least one of us would make it out of this straight!”

As the words sank in, Quatre reacted. “Wait! You mean to tell me all of you are gay?”

He surveyed the room as both Trowa and Heero gave an affirmative nod, and Wufei flushed before replying with a quiet “yes”.

Duo just clapped Quatre on the back. “Welcome to the club! Innocent, virgin, and pure, isn’t that quite the angelic appearance!”

Quatre just glared. Time for another shock. “Not a virgin.”

Another round of staring. Quatre grew more and more self conscious.

“Seriously?” Duo asked.

“It’s none of your business,” Quatre stated, once again defensive.

“You never cease to amaze me,” Duo said, still happily invading Quatre’s personal space.  Quatre stalked across the room and sat down on a stool and glared around the room.

“I’m not as innocent as you think I am.”  He made it a statement.

“Whatever, Quatre, whatever.” Duo just waved him off.

The room elapsed into silence, and eventually the other pilots headed up to their own room of the current safe house. Quatre was left alone with his thoughts.  He was sick and tired of being treated like a baby. Only Trowa had even acknowledged that he was strong and quick and smart. And then there was also the revelation of everyone in the house being gay.           Quatre had grown up as the only male in a family with 7 sisters.  It hadn’t taken him long to figure out he preferred men.  He had often caught himself checking out his sister’s dates.  And when his sisters had found out, they had set him up on enough dates of his own to make his head spin. While he had admired their embracing his choice of partner, the only people he really, truly cared about were in this house.  Quatre smirked to himself.  He had…other abilities, other interests. A side of him that was known to few, though now he sadly wished more people knew him better.  Another smirk as his thoughts spun into an intriguing idea.  He was going to prove them wrong.  Trowa, Wufei, Heero, Duo.  All of them.