New Haven

Chapter Sixty-Four: Well How Do You Like It?

Alex, Quatre, Sakura

Quatre wheeled the seven year old boy down the hall as Sakura lead the way. The small asian girl babbled happily as she told Alex everything she liked about his room. From the glimpses Quatre got of Alex’s face he was to bemused to be listening to the younger child.
Sakura turned and grinned at her buddy as she flung open the doors of the room to find a huge german shepherd waiting on the other side for them. It was colored black and grey. She was a version of Jerry Lee except with gray. She ignored the girl and barreled past her knocking her off her feet as she surged to meet the wheel chair and child in it.
A vicious growl sounded close by and Quatre swore as tears began to form in the little girls eyes.

“Bad Tua!” Alex shouted as he saw the dog knock over his slightly younger and much smaller cousin. “Go apologize right now.” He ordered glaring the large female into submission.

Brussels stood over Sakura and bared his teeth at the dog that now had it’s tail between it’s legs and was approaching the girl slowly. Sakura looked up at the whimpers that she heard between her sobs. The munchkin saw the shepherd not far away that was belly to the ground ears flopped downward to the sides of her head trying to get closer without getting bit by her big buddy. Sakura pushed Brussels aside. “S’okay ‘russels. She ‘as jus’ ‘cited that Alex came home. She ‘prised me. It hurt by I’m ‘kay now.” She held out a hand to be licked by Tua in apology.
Brussels snorted and gave a growl of warning that clearly stated that the female not do what she did again. No one hurt his human and anyone who did would pay the price.
Quatre breathed a sigh of relief as the situation fixed it self.

“Good girl Tua.” Alex told his dog when Sakura stood up and moved back into the room she had been about to enter.

His attention focused on the room and his jaw dropped at the sight that met his eyes. Their was toys and books all over the place. An entertainment center and computer dominated one corner of the room. His bed was a huge thing that looked like it was made of clouds. The room looked like his idea of heaven. He never expected something like this when his daddies told him what they were doing. He thought it would be an average everyday room that an average everyday kid would get. He had thought that was amazing enough but this went beyond everything he had thought and imagined.

Quatre walked around the chair to see Alex’s reaction and nearly had a heart attack at the sight of the tears streaming down the child’s face. “Alex what’s wrong?” He asked fearfully.

“This can’t all be for me!” The exclamation came from the child’s body that had a mind of an adult. “It can’t!!! I don’t deserve it.”

Quatre immediately scooped up the boy and cradled him close to his body as he made soothing noises. Tua pressed to his side whimpering at her human’s distress.

Sakura grabbed the boy’s pants leg and tugged till the tearful eyes looked down at her. “Uncle Quat, Uncle Tro, and Uncle Heero tink so. They tink you ‘serve alla dis. You is special and they’s want you ta have da best.” Sakura said adamantly as she looked up at her cousin.

She had a solemn look on her face that reminded Quatre so much of Wufei that he was hard pressed not to chuckle. “She’s right Alex. We love you so much we think this isn’t enough. We are going to spoil you rotten and never let you forget that we absolutely adore you.” He told the boy that was quietening in his arms. He moved further into the room. “Now what would you like to try first?”

A grinning Sakura pointed out the many things in the room to be tried to the slowly smiling boy in her uncle’s arm.

Wufei, Trowa, Angel, Katey, Damian

Wufei and Trowa tried not to grin at the curious teenagers that occupied the elevator with them. They knew that they would appreciate the rooms that had been set up for these young adults.

The elevator’s doors parted on the fourth floor into a large common area connected to an L shaped hallway. Wufei motioned to his right as they left the elevator. Trowa looked at him questioningly. “You take Angel to see her room. I’ll take care of my two.”

Trowa nodded and motioned for Angel to follow him down the hall to the room at the far end of it.

Trowa gave a slight grin as he came to the room that was going to be where he found Angel from now on if she wasn’t in her room on the next floor down. He slowly turned and dangled a key in front of the girl’s eyes. “Well? Go ahead.” He murmured as the voluptuous girl stared up at him questioningly.

She took the keys slowly and turned to the door beside her. She didn’t know what she would find but she knew it would be something that would be beyond her wildest dreams.
The door swung open before her and she stared around a room that was a veterinarians most wonderful dream come true. It was very much like the room prepared for Katey but instead of the human anatomy that was placed in it it was animal anatomy that was displayed. She ran into the room to start flinging doors open and look through drawers.
Trowa tried not to grin to big at the sight of the young woman turn into a little girl in a candy shop for the first time. “The zoo helped provide much of the equipment. They want to encourage you to work for them eventually. It seems you have made quite the impression on the staff there.”

Angel paused to throw a huge beauteous smile in her big brothers direction before turning back to her close inspection.

She didn’t even notice when the tall man left her alone with the room.


Wufei watched the two move off for a moment before he looked at the teens standing beside him. “Who’s first?”

Katey and Damian looked at each other in silent discussion. Damian pointed to Katey who shrugged not caring who went first.

Wufei gave a slight smile before leading them to a door on the right hand side of the hall in the center. He handed her the key to the room and waited for her to open it and see the sight that awaited her there.

Katey took the key hesitantly and looked at the door wondering what new delights the five men had come up for them this time. She inserted the key into the lock and slowly turned the doorknob. What met her sight nearly made her faint as it was her knees let go and she would have landed with a thump on the floor if Wufei hadn’t caught her.
Damian peered in and whistled at the sight. It was a nurse’s/doctor’s/ paramedic’s dream room. It was full of books, CPR dummies, charts, diagrams, a skeleton, posters of the bodies muscles and organs, and other things that would aid a person set on a medical career.

There was different areas set up to do different tasks. A TV and player were set up to play several important medical documentaries. Plus it had the sanitary feel that you got in a hospital. There was even the fake half of a bus(1) set up for her to learn where everything was placed and how to use things appropriately.

Wufei pointed to it around the still stunned girl in his arms and murmured quietly to her, “That was provided by the paramedics community as an enticement for you to join their world.” He pulled a document from the table inside the door and held it up in front of the soon to be paramedic. “This is a full scholarship to attend the paramedic course as well as the nursing course. They also informed that if you really wanted to get a medical degree they would pay for that as well if you promised to still become a paramedic for at least five years as well.”

Katey turned hazel eyes up to the man looking down at her with a slight smile. All of her new family had told her how proud they had been with her when she had gone on her ride-a-long. In fact they had insisted that she go on more of them when they had been offered. None of them had been had gory as the first ride but she had made an impression on the many people she had met while doing so. “You’re not joking, are you?” She finally managed to whisper to the man who was the best brother she could ever imagine.

Her big brother shook his head solemnly. “Cross my heart and hope to die if I lie.” He uttered Duo’s favorite oath.

Katey squealed and hugged the man tightly as she suddenly gained energy and started to scoot around the room checking cupboards and drawers for their contents. She ran a finger over the spines of the many medical journals happily. She ignored the laughing eyes of the men watching her. She was the happiest girl anyone could imagine. It seemed that every time she thought it couldn’t get better the men in her life topped what they had already done.

She happily immersed herself in discovering all the secrets of the room that was now her greatest study room.


Wufei smirked as he watched her slowly enter into her own world of happiness. He had thought that Duo and Quatre had gone overboard at first but when he had talked to Violet she had said that this was the best thing they could have done for the highly intelligent girl. She was advancing in leaps and bounds in her tutoring and was now at a junior high level in education. The past few months had shown the bright intelligent girl she really was.

Duo had told him that it was because she was being given a chance at a dream that she had never thought she would have. Or rather they never thought they had. Angel and Damian were already doing an amazing job as well.

He looked over at Damian to see the dawning light of understanding as he turned to Wufei.

Wufei laughed as a hand was held out to beg for a key to his own room of delights and happiness. He handed over the key and followed the young man to the room closest to the elevator.

Damian nearly ran to the door of the room that was now his superb hobby of all hobby rooms. What he found in the room sent him into spasms of joy. On one side of the room were racks of every different type of wood you could imagine. One side of the room was walled off to allow a sitting and studying area that wouldn’t get to full of sawdust. A TV with a protective cover was set up for his own type of documentaries just like the one for Katey as well.

The rest of the room was full of machinery.

There was every type of machinery imaginable. From old style hand tools to the best new style tools that sent men into overdrive to work with. He ran his hands over the pieces lovingly as he wandered the room looking at everything that was there. He opened drawers to find more tools and things needed to work with the wood he loved so much. From varnishes to glues, screws and nails to clamps. You name it it was there.


Foot Note:

(1) Bus is another word for ambulance for those who don’t know.