Disclaimers: I don't own anything except for any OC's… such as Cassandra, so there. Don't sue me, you'll only get a very messy picture of Duo that I ABSOLUTELY adore so, don't bother. Thank you all you good people for letting me work with you're Characters, even though you may not know, and it's not like I'm selling em…o.k, on with this…ah…Part 1…^.^

Author's Note: MY FIRST FIC so be nice…
~*~*~*~*Denotes flashbacks
'Blah blah' are thoughts.



Lost, Found, and Lost Once More
Part 1: Is it…?


It was just after Duo had landed his Gundam in a forest a few miles from London England, and Duo was studying a picture that he had kept in his Gundam ever since the first time he had piloted. It was a picture of him, a nun, and priest, and a smaller girl that the priest was holding. He touched each of the faces on the picture.

"Father Maxwell, Sister Helen…Duet. I'll avenge you, all of you. Every Maxwell there is." He whispered. "That fire shouldn't have killed you." He looked closer at the girl, and then closed his eyes. Duet, he had taken off the street before they became Maxwells, and he felt close to her. She was only two years younger than he was, and he knew he had to protect her. But because he had taken his advantage of being older to ground her for running out and hitting another orphan, for protecting herself, the reason which he found out later, she had died in the church fire, after Sister Helen, also in his arms. He would never forgive himself. With a sigh, he tucked the picture into his priest outfit and shut down his Gundam, setting about to camouflage it in the forest with the net. After some time, satisfied, he left toward the place he was staying at for the mission.



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The Gundam Pilots 01 and 02 were sent to a private school in London England, to find out about a possible nearby OZ base. As usual, Quatre supplied them with a mansion to live in. But they had been searching the area for a suspicious place, even a specific single person, but not yet finding it, for the past week.

"Man, if we don't get some action soon, I'll die of inactivity." Duo complained as he and Heero walked the usual 20 minutes to school on Wednesday morning. He yawned.

"Hn."

"It's so boring here, especially because I'm stuck with a certain moss-haired guy who can't get any words out unless he necessarily has to. I mean, come on, there's a lot more to say apart from single syllables you know."

"Hn."

"Forget it!" Duo exclaimed. "It'll probably kill you to say anything apart from that!"

"Hn."

"You're mocking me."

"Hn."

"Stop it."

"Hn."

"AH!" Duo groaned and shut up. The school was coming into view. Named Willowbrook Crescent School, it was one of the best schools in England, and was a total of 20 acres large, not including the stables nearby it. Duo thought back to the past week when he first got the mission with Heero, and how Quatre had registered both of them in WCS.



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"Quatre, just because we have a mission there, doesn't mean we have to take a place at a private school!" Duo argued.

"Why ever not Duo? You need an identity at the place, and your mission data says student! If you are going to be a student, why not go to a good school?"

"We don't have the money for it!"

"I'm a Winner!" Quatre reminded Duo. He didn't have to. Duo didn't like having Quatre spend so much money on them, on him. He, as someone from L2, didn't like it. There were so many people on L2 that needed this money; especially kids on the streets…Duo shook his head at the incoming thoughts. But Quatre understood, as he always did.

"Don't worry about it Duo."



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Duo snapped back into reality as another thought crossed his mind. He groaned inwardly as many thoughts linked together, pulling him back to Duet and the church fire. He didn't know why, but lately, the thoughts were especially strong. He was surprised his mind didn't run off insane already.

"Hey Heero? I wonder who that person was."

"Person?" Heero stopped, turning to Duo.

"That girl, I'm sure it was a girl, who passed me in the alley yesterday. I'm Aidan right?" Duo lowered his voice. "When she passed by me, she whispered Duo Maxwell."

Heero's eyes flashed for a moment, then he shook his head. "You didn't see her. She had a hood on."

"No, it was raining."

"Then we can't do anything really unless she does it again. I'll run a search later."



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"Today students of Form 3A, we have a new student to welcome. Her name is Cassandra Kavanagh. Please enter Miss. Kavanagh."

A girl with dark hair that was tied up entered. Eyes in the class widened as they took her in. She was small in height, and her hair bangs covered her eyes. She smiled.

"Hello. I'm Cassandra Kavanagh. Nice to meet you."

"Please take a seat next to Linra at the second row, by the window."

"Yes, Miss. Weber." The new girl did as followed.

"Class, please put your notebooks away for your religion test on Christianity. Cassandra, do you know anything about Christianity?"

"Yes Miss. Weber."

"Good. Take a go at this."

"All right."

So the class sat down and took the short test, handing them in as they finished. It was free time after that until the class finished, so, being the first to hand in the test, Cassandra pulled out a notebook, starting to sketch as she looked out the window. Heero, second to hand in the test, glanced down at her sketchbook as she passed. It was a picture of a church, and he glanced out the window. He saw no church there.

"Class, I have some of your results from this test, so as I call you up, you may come and see your mark. Cassandra?"

The girl put down her book, and made her way to the front, glancing for a moment at the surprised teacher.

"Perfect Cassandra. Have you studied this before?"

"Not really Miss."

"Well, good job." Miss Weber praised her. "Satoshi?"

Heero, as Satoshi was his code name, made his way up. He picked up his test with a slight nod, and saw he had made a careless error.

"Yo Satoshi, how'd you do man?" Alex, another student who sat next to Heero asked. He took the paper without waiting for an answer and whistled.

"Mr. A-Plus huh."

"Hn."

"Wow Cassandra!" Alex turned to Linra's voice to try and catch a glimpse at the new girl's face, but couldn't see because she was so small, and her head was down. "Perfect and it's your first day!" The new girl simply nodded.



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"That new girl in class, she's like, totally smart. She took that test with us for religion on Christianity, and it's her first day, and she totally aced it under time too! I mean she even beat Mr. A-plus there!" Alex, a student from the next grade 10 class said to Duo, pointing to Heero who sat across from them at the lunch table.

"Hn." Heero said.

"What's she like?" Duo asked. 'Smart girl…could she be someone we need?'

"Wow, you've gotta see for yourself. She's got dark brown hair tied up in a ponytail, with a smaller braid wrapped around it, and her bangs covered her eyes. Those bangs give her a shy look, a cute one too! I couldn't see her eyes because her bangs were covering them and because I was sitting behind her. According to another girl, I heard her say that she's got cobalt eyes. She's dressed in uniform, and she's short, 4 feet 8 at the most, and seems too young to be in our Form 3 class." Alex said, his own green eyes searching the lunchroom at the moment. "There she is!" Alex tilted his head towards the back of the lunchroom, and Duo turned to look. His eyes widened when he took in the hair and small form, but before he got a better look, the girl disappeared through the door.

"What's her name?" He asked Alex as he looked again. A group of Form 4 students were snickering, and followed the girl out of the door, and he tensed. If the girl was the image in his mind…

"Cassandra Kavanagh."

Duo shrugged. "I'll be back in a moment. Satoshi, come' ere."

Heero stood with Duo, both making their way to the door. Apparently, Heero too, had been watching this girl, and saw the older students. But as they turned the corner outside of the school, they saw the 5 older students sprawled on the pavement, not seriously hurt, but hurt bad enough not to be able to get up and run after whoever got them.

"Yo Billy. Who got you this bad?" Duo gave the senior a hand up. He hated the bully, but had to act the part. Billy kept up with everything around the school and neighborhood, and Duo needed him to keep track of things.

"That cute girl. One helluva good fighter, and she got a good left hook." Billy moaned, rubbing his face where he had been hit. "She was short but moved fast." Billy indicated to another boy, clutching his head. "She was waiting for us here, and told me to stop following her. I asked her what she'd do if I didn't, and she jumped on the trashcan, then vaulted over Andrew there and jumped on me before anyone could grab her. Next thing I knew, we were all down and she was gone."

But Duo wasn't listening anymore. Images crossed his mind, the image of a little girl with cobalt blue eyes and dark hair that covered her eyes. The girl who, when he taught her to fight and told her to hit him as hard as she could, gave him a bruised arm. Hitting him with her left hook. The girl named… Duet.



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"So Heero," Duo started as he and Heero sat down for dinner. "Did you run any searches?"

"Nothing yet. I had to finish my homework first."

"Yea yea. I'll do mine after dinner." They started to eat in silence, Duo to his own thoughts, and Heero silent, as usual.

The doorbell of Duo and Heero's current mansion rang.

"Coming!" Duo shouted, sprinting the long way from the kitchen to the door. He panted slightly before straightening and opening the door. Heero wasn't far behind him. At the door stood a small figure in a black coat in the cold November air. Her hood was up again, and her bangs partially showed from under the hood.

"Duo Maxwell. I've found you."

"Who are you?" Duo asked quietly, eyes narrowed. Behind him, Heero drew his gun. Slowly, the figure's hand moved up, rising to indicate she meant no harm, then to remove the hood. Cobalt eyes gazed up at him from under bangs that gave her a shy, innocent look.

"Cassandra." Heero said in monotone. But Duo shook his head, taking a step back.

"DUET?!"