"Duo, I think you should sit down."
"Q-man, there's nothing you can show me that can scare me."
Quatre grabbed his arm and directed him to the sofa. "I REALLY think you should sit down."
Trowa placed a hand on the long haired boy's shoulders and pressed him into the sofa. "We aren't going to scare you but its important that you sit for this."
"Trowa used more than five words in a sentence this has to be a big deal." Duo joked but his nervousness showed as he sat.
"What's going on?" Wufei asked suspiciously moving quickly to Duo's side.
"I found these in my father's vault. They are video archives of members of my family...my father's youngest sister and her family." Quatre explained. He nodded to Trowa who pressed play on the remote in his hands.
'Quatra!' a little kid's voice screeched from beyond the picture. It was focused on a small blonde haired boy.
"AW Q-MAN! You're such a cutie. Right Tro?"
"Watch." Quatra blushed ignoring Trowa's smirk and nod.
'Douglas!' They watched little Quatre run towards another child with long sandy hair.
Wufei sucked in a breath.
Quatre and Trowa watched Duo.
The child had violet eyes and an elfish face.
"That's me, isn't it?"
"Keep watching." Was their ownly answer.
'Dougie, I'm gonna hit you!'
Another little person ran into view. Duo stopped breathing...
'Aw, Aedia, its not my fault your slow...don't hit!' Little Duo complained.
This child had sandy hair in pigtails and tear-filled violet eyes.
'What happened?' Little Quatre asked.
'Dougie's a bad bwother. I felt down and he ran aways!' The little child named Aedia answered pointing to her knee.
'Are you hurt? I'm sorry. I would have helped if I saw you fall. You're my baby sister I'm have ta.' Little Duo hugged her.
'I'm not a baby. Mama, tell Dougie I'm not a baby and he's not older.' Aedia stomped her sneakered foot.
The video image toggled for a moment and a gray curtain came over the picture fading away to reveal a long blonde haired woman. She wore a pink sweater and a long gray skirt. 'Aedia, honey, Douglas is older...but only by five minutes.' They watched as the woman examined her daughter's knee. 'You're okay. It doesn't look like we need to cut off your leg.' She joked.
'That not funny, Mama!'
'Ha! Ha! See you are the baby and you're little too.' Little Duo teased.
'Douglas, don't tease your sister. Its not her fault she's small.' Her profil came into view and exposed a great resemblance to Quater.
"YOu have your mother's lips, love." Wufei told Duo grabbing his lover's hand.
'Sorry.'
'Aedia, stop crying before you make Quatre cry.' Her mother chided. 'Besides your not that hurt, its only a little scrap.'
'Mama, why ain't I special like Aedia and Quatre?' Little Duo asked.
'Aint isn't a word, Douglas. And of course-'
'Mama, Solo said ain't is a word.' Aedia interrupted.
'I'll correct Christopher on that later and don't interrupt.' She scolded gathering her son into her lap, 'You're just as special as your cousin and your sister. All my children as special just in their own unique way.'
'How?' Little Quatre asked.
'You have the space heart like my mother - your grandmother.' She touched Little Quatre's face, 'That means my darling, that you can see inside people...see their souls.'
'Huh?'
'You see what no one else sees that real person. You'll lose your heart to emerald eyes.' She said knowingly.
"Boy, she called it." Wufei said, the Duo in him coming out.
The prophesed pair blushed, Duo's eyes didn't leave the screen as he examined himself and his mother, his sister's back was to the camera.
'And you my two, project - that means you make people feel a certain way around you. Douglas you make them happy and Aedia makes them feel contentment...a quiet happy.'
'What else, Mama?' Aedia asked enthuastically.
'You have a sixth sense and foresight. Douglas has foresight.' She explained.
'I don't have anything else?' Little Quatre asked saddly.
'You have compassion and that is a rare gift in and of itself...let it lead you, little man.' Duo watched his mother kiss Quatre then himself and his sister.
'Filling their mind with drivel again.'
'Shut up, Ayden!'
Two men came into view - one they knew as Ayden Remsey Winner.
"Father Maxwell." Duo said softly recognizing the other man.
'Cook has lunch ready.' The man identified as Father Maxwell picked him up from his mother's lap, 'Ready to go, my little prince.'
'Yep, Papa. What's for lunch?' Little Duo asked.
'I don't want brocolli.' Aedia said as Ayden picked her up.
'Its good for you my little namesake.'
'Then you eat it.' She retorted.
'Aedia Mairana Steven, mind your tone with your uncle.' Their mother scolded as she bent down to pick up Quatre. 'Apologize.'
'No.'
Gray came before the camera again and the screen went black. Duo turned immediately to Quatre.
"Cassia Ayne Winner Steven died on October 2, AC185 on L2-59764 in an explosion investigators believed to be for your father. Her daughter and son were thought to be dead, their bodies MIA were said to have disintegrated in the explosion." Quatre read off a file on his palm pilot. "Your father was shot and believed to be dead at a board meeting after his last board meeting."
"Last board meeting?" Wufei asked placing an arm around the distraught Duo.
"Your father intended to take you and your sister to EArth according to his father's files...after the last assassination attempt on your lives on L2." Trowa explained handing a paper to Wufei to read...the paper was at least 12 years old.
"Assassination attempt?" Wufei asked concerned.
"The Stevens family owns more than half of Winner Enterprises." Trowa explained nodded to the paper in Wufei's hand.
"WSE will be run solely by the Ayden Remsey Winner until one of the Stevens heirs come to age - Douglas Maxwell Stevens II, 18 and Aedia Mairana Stevens, 21 - to claim their respective stocks within the company. If one of the twins are deceased their stock goes to the other. In the event that my heirs are both deceased, half of their stock is to become public interest the other half to be controlled by Quatre Rabera Winner." Wufei read.
"Douglas is considered dead. Aedia controls his stock." Trowa explained.
"He's 21. If Aedia is his twin so is she."
"You're not 21 yet, your birth day is July 21, that's a four days away." A voice said from behind them. "YOur sister has to get here and take a DNA test to prove she's Aedia Mairana Stevens."
"Iria?" Quatre questioned.
"Aedia isn't dead. She's been living with your father's family since before the war began. Eden Kushranada was very much alive last I heard." Iria told them as she entered the room.
They all paled. "Kushranada?"
"The Kushranada's had a daughter." Trowa said softly, "I heard about it when I joined Mariamaia's forces. They said she was in a coma in some underground facility that no one could find. The Bartons' searched but Trieze hid his little sister well."
"Eden Kushranda - the opera singer?" Wufei asked dazzled.
"There's a picture of her on father's computer...she was his favorite performer. Use the image modifier to give it Duo's features." Iria told Trowa. "Take Duo with you, Trowa."
Trowa helped Duo up and led him from the room.
Iria waited until the door was closed behind them. "I just got a phone call from Heero Yuy, he and his wife are in danger, Quatre. Someone send someone from the spaceport to attack their ship...They are trapped in the old stadium." She pulled a weapon from beneath her jacket. "I have Rashid and 10 of his men waiting in a van out front. I have med tech ready."
"Heero has a wife?" Wufei asked Quatre following him as he stormed out of the room.
"Yeah...Duo's sister."