A/N: CHAPTER THREE!!! HOORAY!!! Thank you SOOO much to my lovely reviewers; you kept me going on this. Anyway, the freakiness and profanity in this one might up the rating to pg-10 (GASP!), so beware... AND enjoy! (It's the oddness that counts!) There's also a little sexual innuendo. But that's just plain funny.

Disclaimer: I own my story. It is not yours. I do not own Gundam Wing. It's (probably) not yours either.

Dawn to Dusk

Chapter 3
Darkness & Dates

The sun disappeared past the horizon while 'Dea' sat alone in the bathroom, panting with the effort of hiding from Wufei. He was sick and tired of hiding from his friends; he'd be fine telling them all as long as Heero didn't find out. But, Heero WOULD find out, and-

An indescribably painful shiver ran down his body, and Duo screamed.

"Wasn't that a beautiful sunset, Wufei," Quatre asked outside the girl's bathroom, staring out the window. Wufei had been held against his will for almost three minutes to watch the stupid sun go down.

"Baka..." Wufei muttered, and Quatre chuckled.

"You need to stop and smell the roses once in a while," Quatre said. And then, they heard the scream. Quatre turned even paler than he normally was. "Duo!"

Without another thought to his ethics, Quatre ran into the girl's bathroom. Wufei being Wufei, he stood in the same place and watched his friend run off. As soon as Quatre got into the bathroom, he wished he hadn't instead of seeing 'Dea' on the couch (which he was surprised to see; the boy's bathroom didn't have one), an unconscious Duo in drag lay in a heap, unconscious and clearly exhausted from the transformation.

Back in the hall, Trowa strolled out of the math room to see an (astonishingly) concerned Wufei staring straight at the bathroom door.

"What happened," Trowa asked quickly, fearing the worst for his little Quatre, and in about five words, Wufei explained the incident. Trowa ran in too, ready to pull out his gun.

"Trowa, help me out," Quatre yelled as soon as the other boy ran in. The blonde sat checking Duo's pulse. Trowa had to stop for a moment, a little shocked to see Duo in full drag and in a sweaty unconscious heap. And then, the sweaty unconscious heap began to move.

Duo clutched at his head.

"Oh, what a nightmare," he groaned, and noticed Trowa and Quatre standing over him. "What are you guys doing he-HOLY SHIT, I'M A GUY AGAIN!" Duo yelled, his hands immediately crunching his bra. With a gleeful yell, Duo stood up, only to fall back down onto the couch.

"You shouldn't move yet," Trowa stated, still wondering what the hell was going on. Duo nodded, and immediately looked over at Quatre.

"Wanna go steal me some clothes," he asked a little weakly, and with a smile Quatre walked out the door. Trowa stood next to the sofa.

"So, why are you cross dressing," he asked. Duo chuckled.

"I'm not. I was a girl," he replied, and then remembered math class. "And I am NOT an idiot, thank you very much! We both use trig in our suits; it makes blowing things up much easier." Trowa nodded with a hint of a smile.

Duo proceeded to explain everything to his green-eyed friend, who took it all in with a nod of his head, although he seemed a little surprised at why Duo had actually been turned into a girl (even though he'd kind of guessed...). "I guess it only lasted for a day." Quatre walked in with Duo's regular clothing, and a smile.

After changing in one of the stalls, Duo walked outside to come face to face with Wufei, who looked both confused and angry.

"What was all that about, Maxwell," he asked, and Duo just shrugged, his normal grin on his face. "It's not right for you to be in the girl's bathroom." With a chuckle, Duo started to walk away, his girl clothes stuffed safely in his backpack for returning to the laundry room. "Baka..."

"HIYA HEERO!!!" Duo yelled as soon as he entered the dorm room, and Heero glared at him. Duo loved that glare. "So, what ya been up to all day? Like class? Like the school? Get hit on yet?" Heero tensed up a little on the last one, and Duo wished death on whoever...never mind, it had been him. Duo hopped up onto his own bed, ecstatic to be male again.

"So, was she cute," Duo asked slyly, feeling ever so devious. Heero's brown hair swung around as his Prussian blue eyes stared into Duo's violet. Duo's heart stopped for a moment, and Heero turned back to typing.

"Hn," he said. Duo laughed. He'd never expected an answer, anyway. "I'm told so." Duo fell off the bed in shock.

"He speaks! Wow, you must really like her," Duo said. Now, he was determined. If he'd lost being a girl, he'd still get Heero to admit who he liked. "What do you mean 'I'm told so'? Is she a secret admirer?" Heero tilted his head down a little, and Duo, who'd been reading him for quite some time and was probably the only person in the world who COULD, was shocked. Absolutely, undeniably shocked. Heero would probably go out with Dea! "You should go out with her then."

There was a knock on the door, and Quatre entered. Perfect timing, as always.

"Heero, about tomorrow night," he began, but Duo cut him off.

"He's going," Duo said, and in the same motion threw his backpack into the back recesses of his closet. Heero's head shot up.

"What," he asked, and Duo chuckled. It looked like he really would be cross-dressing now. Damn, the things he did for his Hee-chan.

"You are going on a date with mystery girl," Duo stated very slowly, and Quatre blushed. He didn't want to go out with this Sarah girl...the things he did for Duo. "There's no way you can get out of it, now. I'm going to go call Sarah right now!" Heero frowned.

"Her name's Sarah?" Duo dropped the phone, and picked it back up. Oh shit. This would get really bad, now. "And how do you know about this, anyway?" Duo was dead.

"I told him at lunch," Quatre stepped in, and Duo could have kissed him if he wasn't madly in love with Heero, and Quatre wasn't in love with Trowa (he wasn't sure about 'madly' in Quatre). Heero nodded, and Duo could have fainted. He'd live through the night.

"I personally like their lunches better," Quatre replied, watching Duo consume his third helping of spaghetti. Duo was now back into his normal all-black outfit instead of the school uniform Quatre had brought him. Duo shook his head as he swallowed.

"I like it all," Duo said. Heero, who Duo had pulled along with the excuse 'maybe you'll see your mystery girl', sat next to the brunette, eating quietly as always. "What do you think, Heero?"

"Hn," he said.

"And how did I know you'd say that? Hey, Wu-man, what's your preference," Duo asked, and Wufei turned bright red, looking like he was about to either kill Duo or run. "Food, Wufei. FOOD."

"I know you're talking about food, baka," Wufei yelled. He was about to say something else, but Duo fell on the floor laughing.

And then, time froze. Duo stood up warily, looking around. Everyone else, from Quatre's smile to Wufei's angry raised fist and Heero's contemplation of his plate as Trowa sat down next to him, stood still.

"Interesting this way, aren't they," asked a familiar voice behind him, and Duo turned around to see the stranger from the bar, sitting in empty air. The man's face crinkled into a smile. "So, how did your first day as a girl go?" Duo glared at the man.

"Who are you," he demanded, and the stranger chuckled.

"We met in a bar last night," he said clearly, and Duo interrupted him.

"I know all that; I want to know who, or WHAT, you are," Duo said, glaring almost as well as Heero. The stranger smiled again, and adjusted his trench coat's collar.

"Duo Maxwell, I am your temporary guardian angel. But, to most others I'm known by a different name," he said, and with an absurdly elegant movement the man pulled off his trench coat to reveal two folded ebony wings on his back. "To the rest of the world, I'm called the devil." Duo hit the floor.

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A/N: OOO, scary! Well, please review, and if you could, suggest places for them to go on a rather interesting date...I have no idea where to send them; I need a restaurant and somewhere else... I'm so excited to write Ch. 4; it'll be extremely long, too (Like Ch. 3's length x 1.5). Thank you again to all who read, and especially those who review- I'd have stopped at Ch. 1 without you guys.