"You're up." Tweedledee heard the voice of her partner whisper softly.

"You too." The girl answered, deciding against faking being still asleep. "Mhm…Tweedledee"

"Mh?"

"Why didn't you leave as I told you to?" Tweedledee open her eyes before the pushed herself up in a sitting position and looked down at the male.

"Because I care for you."

"Tweedledee I…arigatō" The male smiled and sat up too, "we should get ready for E-shift."

"I still have a question Tweedledum and please answer it truthfully"

"What question?"

"The same Éclair had yesterday. How did you know what happen four years ago on Queís?" Tweedledums body tensed up. Why did Tweedledee have to ask this one question out of all questions she could had asked? He didn't want to talk about it but on the same time he knew he would have to do it soon anyway.

"I…." started Tweedledum and started down on his hands that were clenched together.

He'd preferred later.

"Not now, please…I don't want to…I can't talk about it, not now."

"Tweedledum…why not? Why can't you talk about it?"

"Because I can't."

"Can't or don't want to?"

"Stop asking."

"I'll stop when you answer me."

"Tweedledee, I can't. Understand that, please" Tweedledum stood up and walked to the bathroom door.

"Why? Why do you think you can't? Isn't it more like you don't want to? Please, just tell me what you know. We are partners, aren't we? And as such we need to know what's trouble the other, don't we? As partners, do you not trust me?" Tweedledum turned is head slightly so he could look at his partner still sitting on his bed, while his hand rested on the door handle.

"Do me the favor and stop asking, it does not concern you."

Tweedledee sat frozen on the bed. She felt as if she'd just got hit by a truck. The words her partner said to her, before he disappeared into the bathroom, repeating themselves in her head.

At last now she could be without a doubt sure of it, that Tweedledum knew a lot more than he said. He knew exactly what had happened on Queís, but how he did was a mysterious for her. Maybe he'd been involved?

Tweedledee shock her head. There was absolutely no use making wild guesses. Tweedledum could have gained knowledge of what happened one way or another, he didn't had to be directly involved with what happened. Sighing Tweedledee stood up and left her partners bedroom. No use trying to speculate any further without Tweedledum telling her the truth or she got more information. And it probably would be later since he was being stubborn.

-Line Break-

Leaning backwards against the wooden bathroom door he heard how Tweedledee left his room, as his bedroom door closed he let out a breath he'd been holding. Trying to run away wasn't any use, not anymore. Not even Éclair, the fastest under the ES, managed this run for longer than a few years.

-Line Break-

"Good- Ah, Tweedledee, Tweedledum." Éclair, in her cover job as receptionist, greeted the two teens that just came to a stop in front of the reception desk.

"Good morning Éclair, Lumiere." Tweedledee greeted with a soft smile.

"Are you feeling better Tweedledum?" Lumiere asked the only male of the group.

"Of course I do."

"Tweedledum, please." Tweedledee sighed at what her partner said while he just blushed.

"Sorry." The boy mumbled quietly. Éclair chuckled slightly while Lumiere just smiled happily about the normal conversation of the two black haired teens.

"It seems like you feel better again." Lumiere smiled at the boy who just frowned slightly at that.

"Like said, of course I feel better."

"And you're acting like always, again." Éclair chuckled, "Tweedledum, Eclipse wants to speak with you."

"Just Tweedledum?" The two black haired teens looked at their two G-classed friends with a raised eyebrow, before shortly gazing at each other. Tweedledum nodded shortly at his partner, before he went into the direction of Eclipse office.

"Do you know why the Chief wants to speak with him alone?"

"Not really, we'd just been told that we should send him to her when you two came."

"Maybe it's to make sure he's okay after what happen yesterday, and to find out what happened to him while we'd been separated." Lumiere suggested as she saw worry written all over Tweedledees face.

"Probably…Say you two, Eclipse didn't tell you more about what happened on Queís?" Tweedledee asked after a moment of thinking.

"Nope, not the smallest bit of information was given to any of the ES. But I think the creep, and it seems that Alv and Dvergr too, knows 'bout it as much as Eclipse."

"And Mercredi too, after all she is the Chiefs personal assistant." Tweedledee and Éclair nodded, Lumiere was quite right that Mercredi surely knew all about the Queís incident, just like Éclair was surely right about Armbrust, Dvergr and Alv knowing what happen.

"I feel quite left out"

"You are not the only one Éclair, you are not the only one." The three girls let go of a sigh and felt into silence.

"Ah, I nearly forgot I," started Tweedledee as she remembered why she asked the two what they knew about the Queís incident in the first place, but got interrupted by Armbrust.

"Morning you three." He smiled at the three, "How wonderful that I found you three this fast."

"Tch, whaddaya want?"

"Already so grumpy even though it's such a beautiful morning?"

"It's been raining cats and dogs since one o'clock paired together with a thunderstorm and you call it a beautiful morning?"

"Just seeing your pretty face lights up my whole day."

"I'll make you eat those words." growled Éclair as she attempted to punch Armbrust, who luckily was fast enough to dodge. Lucky for him that Éclair didn't try to hit him with her whole power and speed.

"As much as I like to be served by you, Éclair, my presence is required in Eclipse office too so I have to go." Armbrust smiled as he started to walk away, "See you three later."

"I hate that guy."

"Give it up, Éclair. We all know that you don't hate him and that you actually like him."

"I do not like him, Lumiere!"

"Sure, you don't like him."

"Ah, stop it Lumiere or…or I go and tell someone that you like that someone."

"You wouldn't dare, Éclair. That's not lady-like."

"I'm not a Lady, I'm a fighter." Tweedledee smiled shortly before she excused herself from her two friends, because she still had to go and write her report of yesterday's mission.

-Line Break-

"You do not look all too happy." Armbrust started looking over to the younger male, who leaned backwards against the metal wall of the elevator.

"Ah."

"You are not happy with having to go down there, are you?" The younger male grunted shortly, causing Armbrust to give a sigh of defeat.

"I really had forgotten how hard it could be to make a conversation with you, Sho."

"Seems as you're getting old."

"Of course you decide to answer to something like that."

"Nh"

"You know, you could go and write your own dictionary that explains what all these 'nh's' and 'mh's' and 'ah's' means and how to differ them from the multiple meanings, that just one of them has."

"Ah."

"Great, when you finish writing the dictionary of the different meanings of nh, ah, mh und god knows what and how to differ them from each other, tell me what's going on in that mind of yours." Silence filled the elevator for some time before the boy, Sho as Armbrust called him, started to speak.

"Did you guys finally find a way?"

"Found a way to fix the damaged they did to his brain?"

"Yeah…"

Armbrust looked at the younger boy with pity, knowing that his answer would not be the one the boy hoped for.

"No, we still haven't found a way. That's quite difficult to do. Normally when someone's under mind control they get false memories that suppress their real ones or they just got their real memories deleted, but here it's different. They went directly for his real memories, manipulating and changing them so he now is thinking that everything he did was for that organization. That everything he once held dear, his love for his family, his trust in the good within people, was nothing but a mere act he pulled out to gain our trust, for his seeming ultimate motive to destroy the galaxy as we know it. To reverse such a kind of mind control is more than difficult, because we too have to go and remold his real memories without causing him any brain damaged. How they managed it in the first place is still a mystery for us up until now."

"Then I don't get how I can help you to get information out of him, to him I am just a mere tool."

"It can be that this is currently his way of thinking, but we hope that, maybe seeing you and what we tried up until now is enough to trigger something within him that makes him tell us what we need to know."

"So you guys go and put everything on one card? Quite risky, what's if it doesn't work?"

"Then we need to take another way to get the information we need out of him."

"Tell me, Armbrust, why do I have the feeling I'd prefer the other way?"

"Because you have been waiting for your chance to beat him up for three years by now?"

"Ah, yeah that was the reason" Armbrust chuckled slightly as he stepped out of the elevator, followed by Sho.

"You ready to face him?" Armbrust asked as he and Sho stood in front of the door to the interrogation room of the highest security prison of Aineias.

"I was been born ready." Armbrust nodded shortly before he pushed the door open.

"To what do I owe this honor?" The man sitting at the desk of the interrogation room asked. Sho's expression slipped shortly in shock or was it surprise, before it returned to its former impassive expression.

"Kan."

"Otō-san."

"What a pleasure, after years you finally decided to visit me, tool-kun."

"Kan his name is-" Armbrust looked slightly surprised at Sho as he stopped him from talking any further.

"I'm sorry I wasn't able to visit sooner, Otō-san, my apologies." started Sho as he went and sat on the chair opposite from his father, "but I'm here now and I want to talk with you."

The light brown-haired man snorted, "What do you really want, tool-kun?"

"Answers."

"Ah? And what makes you think you deserve answers, tool-kun?"

"How about we start with something easy? What about…mh…as example how was your day?"

"You are kidding, aren't you?"

"How was your day?" Sho repeated the question which made also Armbrust raise an eyebrow in surprise. It wasn't like the Sho he knew to ask such an unimportant question like that, at least not when Sho exactly knew what he wanted or when he wasn't in the mood for small talk, which was by the way as good as never. So what was the boy planning?

"Have you gone nuts?" The light-brown haired Kan asked as he himself raised an eyebrow at his son.

"Sheesh…okay than something easier, what about…what did you eat for breakfast?"

"You really have gone nuts." commented Kan with a sigh, not noticing how his son started to speak faster, unlike Armbrust who started to understand Sho's plan.

"When was the last time you were outside?"

"Are you just here to-"

"Do meat someone you like here?"

"What-"

"Are the beds comfortable?"

"Are you-"

"How's your back?"

"You-"

"I think I read somewhere that you guys don't even have a real window in your cell, that's true?" Armbrust nearly started to chuckle as he saw how Kan's face started to transform from calm, emotionless and collected to confused and even slightly panicked while Sho's face remained impassive and he continued to pick up his talking speed, barely leaving his father time to even stutter one syllable.

"Does the food here taste? Do you regret what you did? May I should visit you more often and bring you some food. What do you think? You don't look really healthy, you're paler than anyone else I know, a sickly pale by the way. Do you get enough fresh air here? Enough sunlight? Oh, no wait I forgot that the impressions don't get out here. Ya know that you sit together with the worse criminals in the galaxy here? Are they nice to you? Do they treat you good? Do you finally remember that they manipulated your memories? No? Ah, well pity, I'd really hope that maybe the twins would have a chance to meet you when you're back to normal. Ah, no wait they can't, after all I told them you were dead. They shouldn't get their hopes up that you may return to your former self. You understand that, don't you? Who was truly behind what happened on Queís? Did you make some friends? Maybe a pen pal? Did you know the Nouvlesse are also in jail, well at least most, not those who didn't do a thing…Nah, you get what I mean, neh? What-"

"Enough!" Shouted Kan as he shot out of his sit and slammed his hands onto the table plate, which separated him and his son.

"Stop asking senseless question! You act as if you know everything, but you don't. You are arrogant, just like every other ES-member. You think you just can go and bring the twins into this, who do you bring in next, huh? Sayu-chan? Sho, tell me what you want or leave, got that?" Sho looked into his father's eyes without any kind of reaction, sun colored eyes staring into blood colored ones, before he opened his mouth.

"So you can't answer any of my questions? I see…than at last try to answer this one for me: Did you ever, did you ever felt something for them?"

"What?" Kan looked at the boy in front of him, caught off guard

"You understood me quite well."

"I won't answer such a stupid question."

"I see." Sho sighed as he stood up and went to the door.

"This is useless, Armbrust let's get going."

"Albion."

"Hm?" Sho looked over his shoulder, stopping the metal sliding door from closing while he stood in the door frame.

"Albion van Rosenreich. He was the one who recruited me, if you want information, he has it." Sho held the gaze of his father a moment longer, before he left the room once and for all with the ghost of a smile playing around his mouth.

"That wasn't bad, you know." commented Armbrust while standing next to Sho in front of the elevator. Sho typed in the code for the elevator to open as he shortly let his eyes wander to the dark blue haired man, before he answered.

"You didn't tell me he was dying."

"How did you notice?"

"It's quite obviously. He's deadly pale and thin, his veins were clearly seen through his skin..."

"You are quite observant. Yes, he is dying, has been for some time now, nothing we can do there."

"That coming from someone who lost the ability to die." Armbrust chuckled at the younger ones comment and let him into the elevator first.

"And next time, let Tweedledum do it" The cold impassive look plastered on Sho's face was the last thing Armbrust saw, before the elevator doors closed and the metal cage, together with Sho and without Armbrust, lifted up to the exit.

"That brat." The Inspector growled shortly when he realized that his companion left him standing there, like an idiot, at a high security prison.

-Line Break-

The black haired girl looked up from the report she was writing as the door open and her partner stepped in.

"Ah, you're back. What did Eclipse want?"

"Just what happened on the mission from my point of view. Checking if I got mentally scarred. That I go and give her the most detailed report possible and to make sure that I did go and write it right there, by hand."

"You still were needed quite long."

"Well, Armbrust also had something to discuss with the Chief and was there before me." Tweedledee nodded shortly before going back to her report, to finish it.

"You know, I still want to know how you seem to know quite well what happened on Queís, Tweedledum."

"You really won't let it go, will you?" Tweedledum sighed while Tweedledee nodded shortly, before he continued, "If you stop asking me then. To tell the truth, there a lot of people who know what happened, well at last roughly."

"That doesn't really answer me, Tweedledum."

"'Cause…well Sho and I are originally from the same planet, it's a really small one. It's pretty much just a tenth the size of earth and has only one continent which most wouldn't even go as far and call it a continent, just a bigger island. And well, you know…word travels fast and so most back at home know at last a bit of what happened, even though the GOTT tried their best to stop information from getting through."

"So you know Sho?" Tweedledum nodded shortly with a frown.

"Then, can't you ask him if he would tell us what happened? I mean-" Tweedledum interrupted the black haired girl abruptly:

"He's dead"


And that was chapter seven

Hope you guys liked it.

And thanks to FunahoMisaki for correcting my mistakes

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