God! I hate this stupid formatting business!!!!!

Duo: Arashi just got to check the last chapter and found it cut all her break lines.

Quatre: Is that what happened?

Duo: Yeah.

James: Hence the throwing of things. Duo, duck. She's got a knife.

Duo - Ducks - Thanks, James.

SCREW THE FUCKING THING!!!!!

Boys: ………Yikes.

Here's the new chapter. Let's see if it will let my lines in this time.

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Kia's P.O.V.

That night, us girls led the boys to the center of the maze where the tent was pitched. Duo was teasing me about the arm wrapped around my waist the entire walk. Yeah. Milliardo has officially asked me out. After asking Mother's permission first. I had laughed at him when he came back and told me that my mother was a very scary woman. The others had just shaken their heads.

We were lying in the tent, laughing and teasing each other, when I remembered I had meant to ask Duo where he had been. Unfortunately, I wasn't the one to ask. Merian was. And the silence that followed her question was deafening.

"Where were you, Duo?" I shifted in the sleeping bag I was lying in so I could see my brother's face. I was surprised to find him looking almost….amused. Sad, but amused at the same time.

"I was expecting Kia to ask that." He sighed before continuing. "I take it she's already told you guys most of the story of the church?" When he got a round of nods from us, he continued. "That night, while she was out, a group of rebels tried to use the church as a base of operations. They were planning an attack on the Alliance, and the priest of the church tried to stop them." He gave a funny little half grin. "Father Maxwell was a card carrying pacifist. He kept preaching peace. Until one of the rebels hit him with a rifle." I reached a hand out to touch his arm when he said that. Even I didn't know this part. He sent me a soft smile, which I returned. "I was so mad when they did that. It wasn't because of his age or status, either. I was mad because he was like a father to everyone. He was just trying to keep the peace in the church." Duo had to pause to wipe away the tears that had gathered in his eyes.

"You don't have to continue, Du." I offered. He smiled again and just grasped my hand in his.

"You have the right to know," he whispered. I nodded, and he continued. "Sister Helen tried to get them to stop after Father Maxwell was down. One of the other rebels hit her. They were saying something about them being Alliance spies, and were saying something about making them confess. By that time, I was done. I went out and told them I would steal them one mobile suit if they left the church. I left to steal the suit, and when I came back, it was gone. The Alliance had attacked the church and killed everyone in it." He looked at me with suck pain in his eyes that I abandoned my position where I was and sat up to wrap my arms around him. He buried his face in my shoulder and continued from there. "I held Sister Helen in my arms as she died. I took the cross from her neck, and the cross from Father Maxwell, and left. Not long after that, I was picked up by the colony police for trying to sneak into the Alliance base. It was there where I picked up the name God of Death. I snuck out of the cell they had me in, and slipped aboard a nearby ship. There I was caught by a couple of guys while I was trying to steal something to eat. That's when I met Professor G. From there, I began training to become a Gundam pilot, which is where I've been during the war." Silence filled the tent after my brother finished speaking. I held him in my arms, feeling the hot tears running down his face and my arm.

"Now I feel really guilty. You had to suffer all that by yourself, and I've lived here, safe from harm and those kinds of things." I felt Duo shake his head against me.

"Don't. Things happen for a reason."

"Like the magic thing," Merian put in. I swear to God that girl didn't have a clue when to shut up, because suddenly all eyes were on me. I glared at her for a moment before Duo pulled out of my arms, wiping his tears away.

"What magic thing?" Quatre asked. No one answered him, because I was busy glaring at Merian, and the other girls were wondering if they should be ready to hold me back if I decided I wanted to attack my best friend. Instead of attacking, which was what I wanted to do, I rose and left the tent. I could hear them getting up to follow, so I started to run. Not like it would help. The girls already knew all of my hiding places. But I desperately needed to be away from them for a moment. So I ran. I could hear my own footsteps on the pavement paths of the maze, and I could hear my heart racing in my chest. I could also hear my friends calling my name as they gave chase. I closed my eyes and opened them to find myself running towards the forest that covered the western side of the property. Suddenly, I felt a slight dizziness and glanced up to find the moon a tiny sliver in the sky.

"Fuck." I breathed. This just wasn't my night.

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Hehehehehe…..I have started it!

Duo: Yeah! I knew she wouldn't leave it just normal!

Yeppies! I'm officially adding the magic!

Quatre: Somebody save us!!!