Fourth part of the story! Not sure how much is left until the ending, but I'm guessing about 2 chapters. Ok, so enjoy!

Duo was baffled. Noone had ever asked him out on a date before. He didn't know how to respond so he just sat on the bed and gaped like a fish while Zechs looked amused from his position on the floor. It took at least five minutes before Duo composed himself enough to answer.

"It would be my honor, dear sir, not yours." He said it with an impish smile that was reflected in his violet eyes.

"I will have to disagree, but I fear that this discussion would never end." The tall man rose from the floor and sat beside Duo. "So… why were you so surprised by my question?"

Duo blushed wildly. "Well, actually, it's like this; I've never been on a date before."

Zechs mouth dropped open in surprise. "Never? Not even with Heero?"

Duo shook his head demurely, "Especially not with him. Heero was never one to look for attention or wanting to please other people, though I guess that changed."

"Well then," said Zechs, "let's make this a date you won't forget in a long time." Zechs stood and streched his hand out to Duo.

Duo smiled happily and grabbed his hand. "Yes, let's."

At the same time, the four other former Gundam pilots had heard the whole story from Wufei while being comfortable in Heeros and Duos apartment.

"What should we do? Duo knows, and everyone knows that his mouth goes of at four miles an hour. If we babbles to Zechs, we're all dead men!" That was from Quatre. The blond was frantic. He couldn't afford to lose his company or his reputation as a sweet boy, which made him able to manipulate his way through life.

"That baka. It wasn't any of his buisness what we were doing." Heero was just being Heero about it. He was free to do whatever he pleased, and Duo was not allowed to ruin that for him. That Duo apparently had had an affair with the former Lightning Count however, was a whole other issue. 'How dare he do that to me! Noone is more satisfying than the Perfect Soldier. Duo's wrong! He can not be allowed to continue this think with Merquise!'

"…" Trowa was having second thought. He had joined in that night because he was tired and didn't have the strenght left to resist the pull of the others hands and arms. At the time he had thought that Duo was ok with it. It was first afterwards that he realized how stupid it was for him to think that. Afterall, he wouldn't approve of a lover to have an affair with two other men while still having a relationship with him.

"I think it's time for us to serve justice to the longhaired fools." Wufei didn't think he had done anything wrong. He had no reason to feel guilty, he lived his life to the fullest and if Mawell and Merquise couldn't respct that, he would make them.

It went unsaid between the four young men that it was time to find the missing two.

Since Duo and Zechs didn't have any other articles of clothing at the hotel, they went in what they were wearing, namely a Preventers uniform and baseball hat on Duo and dark slacks with a lightblue t-shirt and a cream-brown jacket on Zechs.

Since Zechs was related to the Vice Minister, he could get them in anywhere and before Duo had time to open his mouth, they were seated in one of the most respectable (and might I add expensive) restaurants in town. Duo didn't know what to order from the menu, 'cause he was a simple guy and he had never heard of these kinds of dishes, plus he didn't want to seem or feel like a leech but the prices at this restaurant was ridiculously high for someone with his income.

Duo was in luck. He was just through eyeing the menu, and the prices, when the waiter came to take their orders. Zechs himself barely eyed the cover before he was ordering for both himself and his companion. When he looked back at the braided young man across the table, he saw Duo smiling gratefully at him.

"What?" Zechs was perplexed.

"I have never been to a restaurant like this before. It's all high class and expensive. I'm just a street rat from L2. For dinner it was either stuff from a dumster or grilled rat. It didn't taste too good, but we survived."

"Well, now you're here Duo, so you must have a guerdian angel or something that made sure you got here." Zechs was very gentle to Duo, and it surprised him. Heero had never known first thing about being gentle or not hitting someone to make them stop nagging you.

"Just so you know, Zechs, I appreciate everything you've been doing for me. You're going to make someone a really happy person someday." He couldn't belive it, but there was actually a small tear at the corner of his big eyes as he said that. He quickly composed himself.

"Who says that that person isn't the one sitting opposite me right at this moment?" Zechs did feel something for the young man across the table, but he didn't know what exactly, only that it was a very warm and strong feeling that didn't disappear even after hearing about Duo eating garbage and rats to survive.

Duo looked at him surprised, but before he had time to answer he saw something behind Zechs that made him pale quickly. Zechs turned around as much as he could in his chair. What he saw didn't make a big impression on him. There, right inside the reataurant stood the four Gundam pilots that Duo once called friends. Three of them looked very angry while the fourth looked sad and guilty. When Zechs looked back at Duo he saw him looking at the guilty-looking one with a confused expression. Zechs called for the waiter and asken him to place their dinners in separate doggy-bags and that they would pick them up later.

The couple stood from their chairs and went slowly towards the others while Zechs put his hand around Duo's shoulders. In an unspoken request they all went outside and into a dark alley.

Heero glared at them. "Duo, what the hell do you think you're doing? How can you have an affair with him while you belong to me!"

"I'm sooo sorry, Heero, but shouldn't it be me who ask you that? What the hell did you think you were doing with three of our friends? I thought you loved me, or at least respected me, but I guess I was wrong." He turned to the other three. "And you. All of you! I thought I knew you, but apparently I'm not the only one with a good mask on my face. I would actually say that I have the best mask. Not one of noticed any different moods in me other then happiness while we were fighting in the war, did you? That's because I'm not stupid enough to show any emotions to people who I feel can hurt me like you did. As the saying goes; With friends like you, who needs enemies?"

Trowa couldn't stand it anymore. He ignored the inridiculous and disbeliving looks his companions sent him and went over to Duo and Zechs. Closer up he could see Zechs hand tighten around Duo's shoulders. "Duo, I know what I did and how it must feel for you. I just wanted to tell you that I'm sorry. I never meant for it to happen. I know that this won't make you feel better, but it was the first and last time I joined those three in bed. If you could accept me, I would want to stay as a friend. I don't really like those three anymore, not after what they did to you. One doesn't treat friends and lovers that way. By the way Heero explained things to me, he made it sound like you knew about all of this and approved. I'm so very sorry Duo." By the end, Trowa's voice had sunk till it was only a whisper.

Duo was nearly in tears by that time. It felt so good to know that at least one of his former friends wanted to stay friends with him. At the same time, he was very suspicious of Trowa and his intentions. He found that he didn't trust his word as easily as he would in the past.

"I can promise you Trowa, that it will take time for me to trust you again, but I would really like it if you made an effort with me, so that I can get a friend back."

"I would do anything to get back your friendship Duo. During the war it was sometimes all that made me continue fighting. We all have our masks Duo, but I think I could sometimes see your eyes reflecting other emotions than happiness. I'm just sorry I didn't do anything to help you like helped me." The normally quiet Trowa bowed his and looked sadly to the ground. Suddenly Duos hands became visible and they neared his face slowly. Duo brought his head up to look into the stunningly green eyes before him. He stared for some time before finding what he was looking for and smiled brightly. He pulled a startled Trowa into a hasty embrace which was returned after the first hesitation. When they let eachother go there were tears in both their eyes.

At the side the tall blonde smiled broadly and extended his hand to the brownhaired yound man. Trowa shook it firmly and was surprised to be pulled into another hug, but he put his arms around the big man and patted him on the back a few times.

The other three on the other hand looked a little less frightening thanks to the unexpected loss in numbers. Trowa had always been one of them that made their enemies want to run away in tears. They stood glowering. Quatre looked accussingly up at Trowa with tears and betrayal shining in his eyes.

"How could you Trowa? After all that Duo's done to this team of friends you still choose his side? Why?"

"Because, Quatre, Duo hasn't done anything to us, except trying to keep us all together. Who was it that first contacted you all after the war? I know that it was Duo that called me unexpectantly one day and told me he was gathering the rest of us in a small reunion and the celeberation we never had. That made me happy, Quatre, to know that somebody still cared about me enough to invite me to take part of it. I think that Duo made a mistake though in letting the three of you spend so much time with eachother with nothing to fill the void. It was us who betrayed him, Quatre, and bigtime too."

"I love you Trowa! You know that! Otherwise I wouldn't have tried my best to make you join in on this wonderful experience. You liked it, I know you did! You came several times."

Trowa looked at the blond politictian with barely concealed hatred. "If you loved me, you would have known how much I loathe group sex, Quatre. You should have remembered all the times before that night that I refused to join you. I did it for a reason Quatre! I don't like having sex with people that I consider family. I have always seen everyone of you like a brother! But not anymore. No, you ruined that friendship the night you began your trysts. I have nothing further to say to any of you."

By this time, Quatre looked like he wanted to get down to his knees and beg for forgiveness and at the same time strangle the green eyed youth. Trowa didn't spare a glance for him, instead he stared at the two asain pilots. They looked like they had always done, lean and mean.

"Duo, how could you? I thought you loved me, and you told me that people who love eachother don't cheat and lie to them. That's exactly what you did, Duo."

Duo looked him straight in the eye. "And you Heero? What about you? You could at least respected me enough to let me know that you didn't want me there and that you had other people you wanted and who wanted you. I would not have liked it, but I woiuld've left you alone and not bothered you anymore."

"…" Heero couldn't express that he had secretly wanted Duo to join in the fun with him and the other pilots. He loved Duo, regardless of what he had done to him, and now he felt that his last chance to make it well between them had slipped out of his hands.

It was Zechs turn now. He turned towards the short Chinese young man. "Wufei, you might not have noticed, but I was always perfectly aware about how you twisted things you had done around so that it became my fault, and I'm sick and tired of it. I have realized, in the short time that I spent with Duo, that one dosen't treat their loved ones that way. That's why I broke up with you. Oh, and it might be time to tell you now; Duo and I never had an affair, we just wanted to make you see how you made us feel when we discovered your secret."

The four youths were shocked, could it really have been so? Had they lost all their touch to sense lies? What had happened to them, not being able to muster up the suspicious-ness that had always accompied them in the war?

Shamed, Quatre, Wufei and lastly Heero, let the alley and went back the same way they came from. Duo and Zechs relaxed.

"Finally! I thought we would have to stay here all night." Duo streched his tense muscles and let out a big yawn.

"It was fortunate that they left, I felt like punching them in the eye for the whole time." Zechs smiled down at the small pilot at his side.

"Duo, I can't thank you enough for giving me a second chance." Trowa looked both sad and hopeful at the same time.

"It's alright Tro-man. Well… maybe not alright, but we're working on it, aren't we?" He smiled a loopsided smile at the taller one. His eyes still held mistrust, but it was clear to both Trowa and Zechs that he was doing his best to make an effort. Trowa did something that surprised and and brought joy to Duo; he smiled a wide grin just for the braided young man in front of him.

So… finally the confrontation is over. It was very hard to write it and I don't really know if it went well, but I tried my best. Hope you like some part of it! See ya!

Ame