AN: Hello everyone! Sorry for the long delay! My mom came to visit me and just left, so I finally have time to write. So without any further ado, here is chapter 6!

This chapter is dedicated to a new fan- Oli- You gave me the best review I have gotten so far and I just want to say thank you so much for your very kind words. I couldn't stop smiling after I read it. I hope you are enjoying this story just as much as you did 'The Broken Soldier'. I look forward to your future reviews.

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Warnings: abuse, bad language, and shocking discoveries! That's about it I think….

Same disclaimer as always applies. I own nothing but the story line!

Chapter 6

Love, lies, and Alibi's

Duo stared hard across the table at the man in front of him. The Asian looked truly worn out, dark hair dull and broken falling across his face from a loose ponytail. Anyone that was even remotely acquainted with the man knew that he always wore his hair pulled back in a tight ponytail. That fact alone would have alarmed Duo if he hadn't already seen the bags under the black now listless eyes.

Part of Duo felt a bit smug at Wufei's appearance, after all it did serve him right for the way he had treated Duo, the things that he had done. He needed to feel bad about it, to really think on what he was capable of, and how to fix it.

After a deep breath and a quick drink of water that was set before him, he steeled himself for what he knew he must bring up; his marriage.

The topic of his marriage was not one that he had any real desire to tackle. He had blindly believed everything Wufei had ever told him and never questioned it. Thanks to that, he had lost several friends and missed out on a great many things in life.

He was fidgeting in his seat and jumped slightly when Wufei's questioning voice called out, "Duo?" His eyes snapped up and met dark black irises filled with concern. "Are you going to come home now? This is where you belong after all."

Duo's eyes darkened as all of the anger returned. This was it, it was time for Wufei to come clean. Without taking his eyes from the Asian mans he said in a dark voice, "Why don't you tell me about Sally first? And Wufei, I do mean everything about Sally, and you."

Wufei's eyes widened slightly in alarm before quickly hardening then turning away completely, "I'm afraid if you want any more kids she will be unable to help you" he stated coldly before standing up and turning away from the table to gaze out the window above the sink.

Duo's snort and answer of "and why don't you tell me exactly why that is? Hm?" caused Wufei to turn back around, but still their eyes did not meet. Wufei was doing his best to avoid actually looking at him.

"Sally's dead." Was the overly simplified statement cold in its release chilling the whole room quickly and squeezing out any joy that might have lingered. At Duo's lack of reaction Wufei became instantly aware that Duo knew more than he was letting on.

Cold black eyes finally met with sad hopeful violets. "Why didn't you tell me?" Duo's voice was soft, barely a whisper floating on the breeze and wouldn't have been heard if Wufei didn't have such acute hearing.

Still they held each other's gazes, "I didn't want you to question anything else, or blame yourself for her death."

At the thought of blaming himself Duo's expression quickly changed to one of confusion. "Why would I have blamed myself?"

Wufei turned away then shoulders stiff, "Because it was you that wanted a second child and she died due to complications from giving birth the second time".

The thought of blaming himself for something like that would have never occurred to him, but apparently it was obvious to Wufei. "I would blame myself? Are you sure? 'Cause from here it sounds like you are the one blaming me."

Wufei's whole posture went rigid at Duo's words but he made no move to turn back around or even deny Duo's claim, his silence said everything.

Duo gasped as realization hit him, "You blame me! That's the real reason for the drinking and the beating! You son of a bitch!" Duo yelled jumping to his feet, finally allowing some of his rage to show.

The Asian man did turn back around then, stone cold eyes full of rage, hurt, and despair met Duos and before anyone could blink he was on Duo pushing him roughly into the wall behind him. It was sheer force of will that kept his head from slamming into the wall behind him. His eyes narrowed and held Wufei's as the other man spoke once again.

"I couldn't help but blame you! I felt the need to blame something and I certainly couldn't blame the baby!" His expression cracked then freely showing Duo all of the rage, despair, and desperation that he was feeling. He eased up on Duo then, hands still clasping his shoulders and head hanging between them as the tears finally started to flow.

"I'm sorry! I felt terrible for blaming you but I couldn't help it all the same. I would blame you then berate myself for blaming you, then justify it in my mind, then berate myself again, and it became this vicious cycle that I couldn't get out of!" he paused just long enough to take an unsteady gulp of air and Duo could tell that the man was starting to break completely and would soon start to hyperventilate if he didn't calm himself down.

"I meant to tell you she died! I really did! But for some stupid reason I started drinking and then with each passing day I would put off telling you. Finally it got to the point where I just couldn't tell you!" another gulp of air as madness slowly started to creep its way into his eyes.

Duo decided then that he had to calm the other man down and quickly or it would get out of hand and nothing would be solved. He quickly reversed their position so that he was the one grasping Wufei's shoulders and he forced Wufei's now fully crazed eyes to meet his. He held the other man steady as he spoke, never losing eye contact. "Wufei, you need to calm down. I understand now what happened but unless you calm down we cannot fix anything."

He watched as the madness slowly crept out of Wufei's eyes to be replaced with sadness and weariness. His shoulders slumped and his eyes left Duo's as he took a few conditioning breaths to calm himself.

Duo grabbed his hand and held it for a minute, the familiar weight both comforting and terrifying, before steering them both into the living room to sit on the couch. Once seated and calmed he gently started to coax Wufei into telling him more.

"So, I understand what happened and while it was dishonorable of you, I forgive you for not telling me. You have obviously agonized over this enough on your own."

Wufei gave a just barely discernible nod in reply, more of a show that he was listening than anything else. "I am truly sorry Duo. In many ways I have done you more wrong than good…" he trailed off obviously not wanting to tell Duo of all the ways he had done him wrong.

Duo mentally shrugged not worried about it as he would get a full confession out of him one way or another.

Wufei sat stone still on the couch, hands clenched tightly together, head hanging, barely even blinking. He was the pure picture of misery. Duo almost felt bad for him, almost.

"Wufei," he started out as gently as possible. Wufeis response to what he had to say next would make or break even their friendship, for as shattered as it was at the moment, it could be pieced back together, but only if Wufei came completely clean, "I want a divorce".

At the sound of those words Wufei visibly flinched, the action alone told Duo everything he already knew but was afraid to hear anyway. He sent up a silent prayer that Wufei would come clean now and tell him everything.

Movement from Wufei drew Duo's attention back to the present. He was looking at Duo with tears in his eyes and regret painted across every line on his face. "I'm so sorry Duo! I cannot apologize enough. I'm sorry…."

Duo couldn't respond he didn't know what he should say. He was still waiting for a full confession after all. Then Wufei was speaking again in soft dejected tones of someone fully defeated and giving in to that defeat. It pained him to see Wufei looking like this but he had to know the truth.

"I'm sorry Duo, we were never officially married. I never turned in the marriage certificate so it was never legalized…."

Violet eyes filled with insult, indignation, and fury as he silently urged Wufei to explain. Dark eyes widened as he saw all of emotions playing out in the violet orbs and he started to get very anxious. "It's not what you think! I did-do! Love you!" He grabbed Duo's hands then holding them tightly in between his own.

"I honestly just kept forgetting at first and then I went on assignment and when I came back Sally confronted me with a proposition."

The word 'proposition' made Duo's eyes narrow. This was the part where he hears all about how Sally was the real love of Wufei's life. He readied himself for the hurt that would hit at the sound of those words.

"Here's where it gets weird. Now you have to listen to the whole thing before you make a judgement ok?"

At Duo's nod he quickly continued, sounding oddly relieved at the telling of his story.
"Ok first off you know that I came back from assignment and asked you if you wanted kids then, correct?" Duo nodded, he did remember. He was extremely excited to hear that Sally had offered to be their surrogate. He had always wanted children so for him it was a dream come true.

Wufei took a deep breath obviously readying himself for the rest. "Alright, well here's what happened. Sally came to me and we started up a conversation on families. She then said that she somehow just knew you wanted kids and thought you would make an amazing parent, which you do by the way."

Duo's quick nod of thanks encouraged him to continue on but still in the same dulcet tones as he had been.

"She then offered to be our surrogate. There was only one problem, Preventers had a strict policy that all female employees must be married before getting pregnant. Only once they are wed according to Preventers standards, will they allow birth control to be stopped. Also, you have to apply to have the regulation birth control implants removed in order to get pregnant. It's a ridiculous process but it prevents any accidents which would result in loss of personnel.

"So, then she asked me if I had turned in our marriage certificate yet and I told her, no, not yet. She smiled then and came up with the whole thing. We ended up getting "married" but I swear to you Duo it was in name only! And it was for us! I never did it to hurt you!"

Duo sighed heavily. This was certainly not what he had expected. "Why didn't you just explain it to me? I would have understood. I also want to know why you invited the guys to your wedding with Sally but not only was I not informed, but I was not invited either. You didn't even invite them to our wedding and I wanted them there!"

Wufei looked confused for a minute, "I take it Quatre told you that I invited him?" Duo nodded feeling dismayed and confused by the onslaught of emotions he was currently feeling.

"Ok, let me explain a little better. Preventers wants to be sure you are wed so they take care of everything: ceremony, invitations, legalities, payment, everything. Sally wanted it to just be us and one witness but Une got a mite bit carried away. It was still relatively small and casual as far as weddings go, but she did invite all the guys." It was Wufei's turn to let out a big sigh before continuing.

"Here's where I'm confused though. You told me once, when we first met up after the war that you didn't want to bother everyone else in their lives. Maybe I misunderstood you or took it the wrong way but I assumed that meant you really didn't want to see them. I thought it brought up too many bad memories for you so I politely declined any and all invitations from them. I really was just trying to protect you…." he trailed off biting his bottom lip worriedly, "I screwed up didn't I? Everything I did was just the opposite of what you wanted wasn't it?"

Duo let out a growl of frustration. He came here thinking and assuming the absolute worse of Wufei and it turns out it was nothing but a case of bad judgments and misunderstandings. He ran his fingers through his hair before standing up. He couldn't believe any of this. It was all so ridiculous that he didn't know whether to be mad or sad or happy or what to be.

"You kept things from me, lied to me, beat me, and never once attempted to communicate with me properly. You kept my friends from me out of a stupid misunderstanding, and wouldn't even let them come to our wedding. I'm pissed as hell at you for all of that, but I do understand your reasoning and I see that you were in reality thinking of me with every move you made. You made some very poor calls though 'Fei." He stood up and started pacing as he talked, hands waving animatedly, and braid swinging out wildly.

Wufei's eyes filled with tears as he moved from the couch to kneel in front of Duo. He grabbed at Duo and stared up at him with pleading eyes. "Please don't leave me Duo! I love you! You're all I have!"

Duo stared down at him with shock in his eyes. He couldn't believe this was the same Wufei he had 'thought' he married. "Get up Wufei, you're making an ass of yourself." He stated coldly watching with disdain as he pulled himself back onto the couch, tears now flowing freely down his cheeks.

"I want you to listen and listen well Wufei 'cause I'm only going to tell you this once. I may run and hide, but I never lie! I trusted you and you lied to me! I cannot be with you if I cannot trust you. You need to get yourself together and decide what you really want in life. This whole time I've been here you've not once asked about the kids, your kids. You're not ready for a family Wufei. I am leaving you, but if you quit drinking and work on becoming an honest individual, then there is a good possibility that we could be friends again one day. But that is all you can ask for, and that is all I am willing to give."

Wufei was crying fully now breaths coming out short and shaky as he nodded. "I did love you Wufei, you were all I had as well, but now I'm ready to live my life. I will always be grateful for the good times we had and for my two beautiful children. Call me when you have figured things out and we'll work on the legalities for the children. I wish to change their names to Maxwell since I am going back to just that as well."

Wufei let out one more shaky nod before going completely still and silent. Duo sighed in resignation and knelt down in front of the other man wrapping his arms around him in an awkward embrace. "I'm sorry Wufei, but it really cannot be any other way. I do love you, but I no longer trust you. Promise me you'll do as I ask?"

Wufei slowly wrapped his arms around Duo and returned the embrace, albeit with a lot more need then Duo. He gently tugged Duo up and onto his lap, and the braided man actually allowed this. Duo ended up straddling Wufei as they continued to embrace one another. Wufei was shaking with silent sobs now. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry…." He kept mumbling out.

"Shhh… Wufei, it's going to be alright." He started to rub gentle circles on the others back in slow soothing motions. When Wufei still continued to mumble out apologies he made the decision to quiet him in another way and gently leaned down to capture the full pink lips with his own.

One thing that Duo would never complain about was Wufei's prowess in bed. The man was very good at making Duo melt.

The kiss was meant to be comforting, calming, and soft but quickly changed. Wufei began to pour all of his desperation and regret into the kiss alarming Duo at first. When he felt the first flick of Wufei's tongue across his lower lip he almost pulled away, then decided to give Wufei this on last gift. It would be the last time he would ever kiss the man after all. So he softly parted his lips and allowed the Asian to explore and tease every crevice of his mouth before those delicious lips left his and started a trail down his neck.

He got lost in the passion for a moment and almost went with it until he felt Wufei start to push up his shirt. At the feel of a rough hand on his very sensitive sides he was slammed back to reality and very gently pushed Wufei back while pulling his shirt back into place. He gave Wufei a beaming smile and a quick peck on the cheek before standing up.

"I should go. We are both adult enough to know that sleeping together, as wonderful as it would feel, would just complicate things more."

Wufei just stared at the ground, a frown creasing his brows as the realization of rejection finally hit him. He hastily ran a hand through his hair before also standing up. "I'll walk you to the door."

Duo nodded and followed him grabbing his jacket on his way through the kitchen. Once at the door he looked Wufei in the eyes once more. "Take care of yourself ok? I wasn't kidding, I really will be your friend, but you have to fix yourself first."

Wufei just nodded and gave Duo a small smile, "I promise. Can I call you sometimes? Just to talk? I-I think it would help me to recover faster if I had at least one friend…."

Duo finally gave Wufei a true smile, one filled with hope, "Of course! As soon as I get settled I will send you my contact information." He then leaned over and gave Wufei a small kiss on the cheek before opening the door and stepping outside. "Goodbye Wufei." He stated and walked down the steps and out of his old home for the last time, finally ready to start a new life.

Yay! All done with chapter 6! I hope you all enjoyed it and it actually made sense! If I made any mistakes please please let me know and I will fix them right away! Also, I realize that I could just end the story here, but really this is just the beginning. ;) There's still a long way to go, he's got a whole new life to start and so does Wufei.

So, do you still hate Wufei? What are your thoughts on what he did? Reviews please! Any and all would be great!

Btw, I got the idea about the Preventers policy from the Navy. Now it happens all the time that people get pregnant unexpectedly, but we practically get birth control shoved down our throats. They are always preaching on safe sex and what not and my command is REALLY big on the whole marriage before kids thing, which makes sense. So there it is!

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