Title: Finding What Was Lost

Author: Something Like Human

Rating: 13+ (for now )

Genre: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter – Gundam Wing x-over. Basically folks, right after the Eve's War (A.C. 196 in the gundam-verse), the vampires came out of the coffin. So in the Anita-verse, it's post-Incubus Dreams.

Warnings: Yaoi/Slash, 3somes, vampires, were-everythings, zombies, blood, sex, language. (the usual for the two genres)

Pairings: 2x5, and Anita/anything that moves...

Disclaimer: I don't own anything but the plot.

Anita's POV.

"Are you sure he is not Jason's brother? He sounds just like mon loup!"

"Nope," Jason said re-entering the room with some bottles of water and offered them to everyone in the room that had a pulse. "I don't think the world could handle more than one of me. I'm a little worried about handling two Nate's! Then again, if we could get Duo here up on stage with his brother, that would sell out the place! Maybe even do a doubles show with Gregory and Stephen."

"I don't think you'd want me to strip," Duo interjected. "I've got too many scars from the war to be considered attractive by your audience."

"You'd be surprised how attractive scars can be," Jean-Claude argued. I knew what he meant. Our Asher, Jean-Claude's male vampire lover and another one of my lovers as well, was scarred over half of his body by religious zealots wielding holy water. Sometimes just seeing him would make me weak in the knees.

The young men from the Preventers left not long after that. I can't say that I was pleased that we left them walk out of Guilty Pleasures without answering all of our questions. Nathaniel looked almost hurt that Duo, the one who he thought might be his beloved brother Nicky, just left. I was able to get them both to give me their cards with contact information. I realized that it was not their personal contact information but their professional ones. It really seemed to me that they were both hiding things and being overly protective of themselves.

Did I believe that Nathaniel's doppleganger was really his long lost brother? I'm not really sure. I was itching to see what my Federal Marshal and other not so legal contacts had to say about these two impossibly young Preventers. I had not had a lot of contact with Preventers despite being a Marshall myself. They had seemed to stay out of the preternatural community so far. From hearing talk from the local police and the FBI though, I figured that it was only a matter of time before they stuck their nose in with the liscenced vampire executioners.

I just really could not wrap my head around their ages being so young or the fact that Jean-Claude said that their records were cleaner than Edward's. They had mentioned the war several times which gave the impression they fought in it. That would have made them very young, maybe fifteen years old during the first war. That thought made me very angry. There is no circumstance where it was okay for a child to be in a war.

"Jason," I looked right at him. "I want you to carefully slip those water bottles those Preventers drank from into a plastic bag. I'm going to run them for prints. I'll be right back though. I'm going to make a phone call first."

I ducked out of the room to make a phone call.

"Anita," the voice on the other end of the phone greated.

"Edward," I replied smiling. "I have some people I'm trying to get some information on."

"I can't guarantee anything," he replied. "Is something going on?"

He implied something dangerous which was usually why I called him. We weren't much for social phone calls. "We had two Preventers at Guilty Pleasures tonight. I need you to tell me if you know anything about them. Jean-Claude said that they were really high ranking."

"I don't know many Preventers, Anita. I tend to steer clear of them. Why do you want to know about them?"

"Jean-Claude ran their records. They're cleaner than yours, he claimed. That has me worried," I explained. "Duo Maxwell and WuFei Chang. Those names mean anything to you?"

The phone line went quiet for a full minute. I was worried that I had lost connection with Edward until he sighed. "You always find the most interesting playmates, Anita. Why were they in the club? And what do you want to know about them?"

"So you do know them?" I asked.

"I haven't met them personally. They're names are known among certain circles though," he explained.

"What circles? They mentioned the war a few times and they appeared to be high ranking Preventers. Just what were these boys during the war?" I asked. I was getting tired of his avoidance of answering my questions.

"They were the war, Anita." He answered. I wouldn't call it an answer, really. I still did not know what he was talking about but it appeared that he was not going to give me any straight answer. "What were they doing in the club?"

"Celebrating Chang's birthday," I explained.

He laughed. "No really, why are you concerned about them if they were just there enjoying the show?"

"Were you aware Duo Maxwell looks just like Nathaniel?"

"I wasn't. I've never actually seen their pictures. They're identities have really been kept under wraps."

"Edward, you are making me really worried about those boys," I warned.

"I'll fly in tomorrow," Edward stated. "Keep them around. I've always wanted to meet one of those boys."

"You say that like there are more of them," I intoned. He was really starting to piss me off at his vagueness.

"There's a few. I'll catch up with you tomorrow."

I hung up. I was worried about those two boys before I called Edward. Afterwards, I was very concerned. They felt dangerous for humans. The look Chang had given me when we were first talking spoke volumes. His eyes were killer eyes. He had that same empty place I had. He had killed and killed a lot. I was scared to think if the other boy, the one who looked like Nathaniel, had eyes like that. I don't know if I could bear looking into lavender eyes that were cold and dead like that.