Two Peas in a Pod Part 4

"Man, building a snowman is a lot harder than it seems."

Heero watched him scrape at the snow with his gloved hands. They had worked together at first, gathering enough snow for a small, rough sphere. After that, Duo had attempted to roll it larger, which had prompted a lament on the utter impracticality of anything ever 'snowballing' into something huge and out of control, as well as a resolution to never use that phrase again. Ever. "Maybe we just don't have the right kind of snow."

"Maybe this is why people just stop and have snowball fights."

"We promised Quatre we wouldn't."

"I know. And I agreed because I thought we could have fun building a snowman instead." He stood up with a disgusted sigh and pushed at the snow with his boot. "Well, it's not like we have a spare scarf and a carrot or anything."

"Carrot?"

"For the nose."

"Does it have to be a carrot?"

Duo rubbed his own nose, seeking out a reasonably warm spot of skin on his wrist between his damp gloves and his cold sleeve. "Well, I was going for a totally traditional scene, but now that you mention it, what a waste of perfectly good food."

"A rock would probably do just as well. Or a stick, if you wanted the same profile."

"Sticks are for his arms."

"No one said he can't use sticks for more than one thing."

"He would have an arm sticking out of his nose."

Heero sniffled tolerantly. "It could be a short stick."

"It would be a short arm sticking out of his nose!"

"He wouldn't even have a nose in that case."

Duo sighed. "Maybe I'm just not cut out for the whole snowman thing."

Heero thought for a moment before coming up with an alternative. "Snow angels?"

"Who in their right mind wants to lie down in the snow and roll around in it? Even I'm not feeling that bonkers today." He sighed again, a bit more disconsolately this time. "Maybe I'm just not cut out for any of this snow stuff."

Heero put an arm around him and pulled him close. "People cuddle up in front of a fire indoors and watch the snow. We could do that."

Duo put his head on his shoulder. "Nothing to even watch. Stupid snow's not even falling right now. We can't even do that properly."

"We... could go ahead and do a snowball fight." Surely they would be good at that.

"Quatre said he'd do something mean if we did. And I believe him."

Heero studied the mound of snow Duo had managed to shape. "How about a snow corgi?"

There were a few seconds of silence before Duo lifted his head to look at him. "Snow corgi? Like a Miles corgi?"

"How many other words sound like 'corgi'? Look, you've already more or less got a body. It was kind of oblong anyway. Add four small snowballs for the legs, a medium sized one for the head. Make it misshapen enough to mistake the thing for ears and a snout."

"Rock for a nose," Duo mused, getting into the spirit of things. "And eyes. And I'm pretty sure we can do misshapen. The sphere thing was a total no-go. And Relena's dropping by later, isn't she? Too bad she's probably leaving the dog at home. We can totally pretend we did this on purpose, anyway."

"Sounds like a plan to me."

Duo gave Heero a thorough smooch before setting to work.

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