Rya Duo: Hi, Hi! Welcome to Precalculus, Algebra, Trig!

Mienaku: (shoves them aside) Bakas.

Trowa: That was harsh.

Mienaku: (turns into large scary monster) I NEED COFFEE!

Trowa, Rya, Duo: EEPP!

Wufei: (carefully and fearfully hands Mienaku a pot of coffee) Here.

Mienaku: (guzzle, guzzle, gulp, gulp) Aaahh! Tasty.

Rya: Are you better now Miku?

Mienaku: (back to her normal self) Don't call me that.

Rya: Um. . . .

Mienaku: If you must, then it's Naku.

Rya: . . . . .

Quatre: (popping in from out of nowhere) Thoughts will be in parentheses!

Heero: (coming in behind Quatre, a little disheveled) This is a 1x4 fanfiction. Don't like? Tough.

Trowa: There's also a lot of OC and OOC and-

Rya: (jumping in) Self Inserts!

Trowa: . . . !

Wufei: (suddenly dressed in an announcers outfit wearing glasses) It's after the war. The ex-gundam pilots are now working full-time for the Preventers and-(throws off the outfit and glasses) Who writes this crap!

Rya: (tapping her fingertips together) . . . .

Wufei: (glaring at the crazy authoress)That explains so much.

Mienaku: As darling was explaining . . .

Wufei: (all huffy) Onna!

Mienaku: . . .The guys are all at the legal drinking age, work as preventers-

Quatre: (interrupting) Except me.

Mienaku: (starting to get angry) QUIT INTERRUPTING! ahem, as I was saying . . .

Rya: She forgot so let's just get on with the fic!

Mienaku: GGAAAAHHHHH! (pulls out hair)

CHAPTER 1

Duo stood outside the house he shared with the other ex-gundam pilots. He stood there like a mannequin with his hand paused at the door handle, not exactly afraid to go in . . .just not anxious to. (how am i going to explain to the guys about this latest screw-up? they didn't handle my last surprise all that well ), he thought to himself, remembering how they had taken his news.

FLASHBACK

Duo stumbled through the front door of the house he shared with his fellow ex-pilots and tried to make his way to the living room. It was closer than his bedroom, which was upstairs and too far away. He almost made it too the couch but his body was too racked with pain and fever to carry him all the way there. Quatre and Heero had heard Duo come in, but became concerned when the usual shout of arrival didn't come. Coming from the kitchen, they were just in time to see Duo slump to the floor, curling in upon himself. "Oh, Allah, Duo!" Quatre cried, rushing to Duo's side. Heero rushed for the first-aid kit they kept for such emergencies as this. Old habits die hard, hence the ever-handy first-aid kit. "Damn, he's burning with fever! Duo, what happened to you," Quatre was becoming frantic. He had noticed the bruising on his friends face, but as he unfurled Duo from himself he found deep gouges and lacerations all over him. Heero came back in with the kit, flipping the living room light on in the process. As soon as the light flooded the room, Quatre could fully see the extent of Duo's wounds. Blood was everywhere, and considering where he had been on his last mission . . .
"Heero! Don't get near him! Don't touch him, and don't get his blood on you," Quatre grabbed at Heero's arm before he could get at Duo's shirt to remove it.
"What? Why," Heero questioned, removing his arm and backing away from Duo's shivering body. But Quatre ignored him as he began stripping Duo of what was left of his clothes.
"Don't touch me!" Duo cried, but despite his protests Quatre had already removed his shredded shirt and the ragged remains of his pants.
"Sweet, Allah! Oh Duo," Quatre sat back on his heels as Duo curled in on himself once more, presumably hiding his shame. "Duo? Who did this? Who raped you?" but Duo didn't answer.
"We have to bring down his fever, Quatre," Heero reminded him.
Quatre nodded, picked up the silent man, and carried him to his room. Once Duo was cleaned up, bandaged,a nd put to bed, Quatre turned to speak to Heero; who had only watched in confusion from the doorway. "Heero, none of you can come in this room until I say otherwise, okay? Not even if he screams." Heero only nodded. He knew Quatre would eventually tell him what was going on. Quatre gave the others the same warning. For several days Quatre ran in and out of the room that was a quarantine zone. Then, finally, Quatre called them all into the living room. "It is as I feared it would be," he began.
"Cut the crap and cryptic nonsense. What's wrong with Duo," this from Wufei.
"He's one of us, isn't he," Trowa questioned.
"Yes, he is, but not the same as you, Trowa," Quatre answered cryptically, much to the irritation of Wufei and Heero.
"Q, please. What are you talking about," Heero asked.
Quatre sighed," I'm afraid . . . how do I put this? Well, to be blunt, Duo was raped and badly battered, by a lycanthrope. In fighting back, Duo got a large gash, courtesy of that someone's claws, and he has in result contracted lycanthropy"
There were mixed emotions all around. Wufei's eyes were wide with shock, although the idea of lycanthropy was not a new concept to him. Heero said nothing. "Well, finally a fellow wolf," Trowa said, breaking the silence. "He may not be a wolf, Trowa. And we won't know until the next full moon, you know that," Quatre admonished his enthusiasm.

END FLASHBACK

For the first couple of weeks Wufei and even Heero steered clear of him. (sheesh, i might as well of had AIDS!), Duo thought. (good thing they got over it, though. poor Trowa wasn't too thrilled that i didn't turn out to be a wolf.) Duo laughed, but it was cut short when he was nearly run over by. . .
"Wufei!" Duo had to step back to regain his balance. Wufei shut the door quietly, as if there were a sleeping child behind it. He then walked past Duo and sat on the front stoop. Duo looked questioningly at his friend and was shocked to find Mr. Tidy and Uptight all disheveled. His hair was sticking out in all directions and falling in his face; his clothes were rumpled, like he had slept in them three days in a row; and he was flushed. "What happened to you? You been babysitting Sally's kid again," Duo asked amusedly.
Wufei sighed, catching his breath,"No. Heero just found out he has a sister I never knew he had"
"Keeping secrets from us again, was he? Um, he did know about this right, that he had a sister"
"Yeah, he knew"
"Why are you so out of breath? It's not like you"
"That's not all of it. His sister brought a friend; some girl she adopted as her sister. . . She's my reason for hiding out here"
"Oh, is that all? The mighty Dragon chased out of his own home by a woman," Duo laughed. "Come on, Fei. You can't hide out here forever," Duo said dragging Wufei inside, forgetting all about his problem.

AN: If you're wondering about the useless title of this fic . . . review and ask us! hee hee hee! (Rya)