Gundam Wing fic- GW500 Prompt 217 - See Through. "Requisitions"
It took Wufei nearly twenty minutes of stalking through unfamiliar corridors carrying the offending item to find the office for purchases and requisitions and the search had not improved his already short temper. Bursting through the door his mood jumped from frustration to shock “What are you two doing here? Where’s the clerk?” Wufei brandished his complaint under Duo’s nose “Maxwell, are you responsible for this monstrosity?”
“Whoa, ‘Fei one question at a time.” Duo sighed dramatically a sure sign of oncoming melodrama “We’re here because Une hates us, it is complete and blatant discrimination and I’m going to complain to my union. ‘Ro am I member of a union?”
“No.” Heero turned to Wufei and explained “We’re providing emergency cover until a new clerk is found.”
“What happened to the old one? Why are two field agents providing admin cover?”
“Une is mean, she blames us for the old one quitting. Good riddance I say, how can you expect to work for the Preventers if you’re going to let Heero scare you into leaving the country?”
“She was sexually harassing Duo.” Heero explained
“You threatened a civilian?”
“He was sexually harassing her back.”
“Flirting ‘Ro, I told you it’s called flirting.” Then he muttered under his breath “Of course if you ever tried it I wouldn’t need to bother the requisition clerks.”
“Stop the damn soap opera, you can get back to it after I leave.” Wufei thrust the ‘problem’ under their noses “What do you call this?”
“Um, a pen? Really Wufei, I would have thought you would know that with all the books you read.”
“I know it’s a pen Maxwell, why is it pink?”
“Oh that, we thought it’d brighten up the place.”
“I’m not using this pen. Find me another, now!”
“It is perfectly serviceable and operates within stated requirements, a replacement is not necessary.”
“Yuy! It’s pink, I can’t write in pink.”
“Why not, do you suffer from colour blindness?”
“If I say yes, will you get me a new pen?”
“OK ‘Fei-chan here’s your new pen, safely black and only slightly chewed.”
Wufei sighed, taking the mangled but otherwise inoffensive pen. He decided to beat a strategic retreat before getting further embroiled in the madness. His escape was thwarted by the arrival of a delivery man who artfully blocked the door with a series of boxes. Wufei found himself helping Duo and Heero shift boxes in his bid for freedom. “Shower curtains? Why are you ordering shower curtains?”
“People kept kicking in the cubicle doors in the gym showers so Une decided to replace them with curtains.” Duo grinned “Take a look I spent ages picking just right design.”
Not at all sure he wanted to know Wufei opened the box regardless. After a minute of incoherent spluttering Wufei managed to recover the power of speech “You ordered these shower curtains for the Preventers’ gym?”
“Yep, do you like them?”
“No I do not like them. Yuy did you approve this?”
“Of course, they fit the specifications given perfectly.”
“But… they’re see-through.”
"Why 'Fei what are you thinking about? you've turned bright red"
"Maxwell, this is obscene and indecent."
"Come now 'Fei think of the view."
"Yuy, you are supposed to control your partner."
“Why? I thought they would brighten up the place.” Heero deadpanned and then smirking he added “Besides, I predict that Une will find a new clerk and return us to normal duties by tomorrow.”
Wufei looked from Heero to Duo who grinned and flipped a peace sign “Now we just need to find space on the shelves for the cartridges of invisible ink, maybe next to the regulation boots with the black marking soles.”