Summary: Duo would do anything for his friends. Even if it meant living a lie and losing all the ties that he held on dearly to during the war. What happens when a few years later the Preventers show up at his job requiring help? Can he keep the jester's mask up when he starts to feel hate for those he love? Eventual 1x2, background 3xOCx4, 5xS, RxOC, HxOC

Disclaimer: Don't own Gundam Wing or Evanescence.

Chapter 1: My Last Breath

Heero didn't give Duo an answer about where he was going. The braided male closed his eyes and sighed. It didn't matter, hadn't he seen it himself? Heero Yuy was in love with Relena-freaking-Peacecraft, future President of the UES. What was a street rat like him supposed to do about that? The Perfect Soldier wouldn't fall for him and at the moment Duo convinced himself he didn't need the cold hearted bastard.

"Hey Duo!" Violet eyes opened and looked at the woman with short blue hair. Hilde smiled back at him. "You alright?"

Raising an eyebrow he swung an arm around her shoulder. "Babe, what kind of question is that?"

"A reasonable one. Alas, we have a shuttle to L2 waiting for us." The blue haired woman was far from stupid and knew that the bi-sexual Duo Maxwell was completely smitten with Heero Yuy. She also knew he'd sooner play martyr then interrupt Heero's happiness. Hilde also knew that her relationship with Duo would always appear like they were happy together even if it killed the self-proclaimed God of Death. He would make her happy, because even if he couldn't have the one he wanted, he didn't mind settling for her.

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Getting settled on L2 hadn't been hard. Hilde had acquired a scrapyard from somewhere during the war. Howard was a huge help in setting up connections and soon the small scrap yard had more than enough orders to survive. After a few months, Duo's pet project was complete and the scrapyard was able to take orders and deliver them to other colonies and Earth. Something which increased profit and Duo took full advantage of by finding more scrap before heading back to L2.

Hilde knew Duo enjoyed playing a simple delivery man and randomly visiting Quatre. The blond CEO was the only one with a fixed location that Duo could consistently visit. Heero was playing bodyguard to Relena, with tabloids saying that they might be an item. Trowa's circus trope had a fixed schedule, but if shuttle delays were to occur it would be thrown off. Duo didn't visit Trowa often though, because he was pretty sure the uni-bang male disliked him. Wufei and Sally were partnered up, they were usually away for missions at the Preventers. Those missions were 'classified', therefore Duo naturally found them without trying. Personally Hilde thought Duo had too large of network to not find any of his friends, no matter how good at hiding/blending in they thought they were.

As far as the blue haired woman knew, all of Duo's networking started back when he had taken over as leader for his old L2 gang. The ones that had been adopted weren't on L2 anymore (most of them anyway), but when Duo spoke to them last year they had all taken his contact info. They felt that he was due their loyalty for saving them and then helping them actually get homes. Nothing Duo said would convince them otherwise. That was just the L2 gang, there were members of Howard's Sweeper group that had retired and were more than happy to keep the braided man that their old boss considered a grandson up to date with information. The current Sweeper groups also like to inform Howard of anything they thought Duo might find useful.

Hilde shook her head, that wasn't counting the Sweepers (old and new) having their own contacts. "Duo this needs to go to a colony in the L1 cluster." She called out pointing to a huge boxed up package. The woman wondered if her voice would be heard over the singing woman's voice playing loudly from the space craft.

Safe inside myself, are all my thoughts of you...sweet raptured light it ends tonight.

A braid appeared from the bottom of a black delivery ship. The blue haired woman smiled to herself as Duo's face appeared with oil smudges. "Hilde babe, gotcha. Lemme finish oiling my baby up and I'll let you load it up. Anything else for L1?"

"Nah, this one's got gundanium though."

A serious look crossed his face as he eyed the box. "About 45 kilograms?"

"Yeah, it cost a pretty penny for the buyer. This isn't all the gundanium we have and its under the allowed limit from the law."

Duo nodded, but couldn't shake the bad feeling he got. "Course babe." Then the violet eyed teen slid back under the ship. Hilde shook her head as she pulled out her clip board and double checked the address on the box matched the delivery location. Ten minutes later, Duo slid from under the ship and smirked as he leaned against the wall in the private area of the spaceport reserved for business ships. "Everything clear captain?"

"Yes sir! Make sure you're safe and have enough fuel for the trip." Duo nodded and wasn't surprised when Hilde kissed him on the lips. Part of the pilot of Deathscythe felt like he was just using her as a replacement for a certain bastard...okay maybe he wasn't a bastard. Duo shook his head to ignore that train of thought. Heero probably never thought of him, he never tried to contact him or return the few emails he had sent months ago before stopping.

Who needed to like a guy like him anyway? Life moved on and Duo would too.