1567 Moments

.:Heaven on their Minds:.

Herro lay on his back in the middle of Duo's apartment listening to their plan. The cool wood felt good against his bare back and he closed his eyes, "Duo… we're going to catch her?"

"Basically, yeah."

"How? Seduction isn't a crime."

"Thank god its not or I'd never have gotten you in bed but sexual harassment that is punishable by law"

"Duo this is more hair brained then Operation Butterfly."

"That's what Wufei and Trowa said and Quatre just looked confused."

"I have a better plan."

"Really?"

Herro nodded and pulled Duo close to him and kissed him gently, "yes I have a great plan."

Releena sat across the table in a tea house from Herro and Wufei her finger tapping out the rhythm of song a dancer played for another girl whom danced on the stage, "So Herro darling you're telling me that this Carmen Woman is a threat to the peace in the colonies?"

Wufei nodded succinctly and Herro made a small noise of accent.

"How so?" Releena asked watching only half interested in the elaborate dance now being performed.

"She's undermining a major corporation in the peace effort."

"Again Herro how so?"

"Sexual activity with employees, money skimming, and corruption in the system, allowing employees to get promotions threw sexual acts."

Releena sniffed angrily, "why are you telling me?"

"So you can help bring her down, you and I fought for many years to get the colonies to be at peace I won't see it jeopardized by a slut."

Releena nodded curtly and stood "I'll do what I can." She smiled faintly and then walked away her head high with all manor of thoughts in her head.

As Wufei and Herro walked down the street Wufei's cell phone rang and to is surprise it was Trowa calling, "hello?"

"Wufei hi, this is Trowa… but I guess you already new that… I… appreciate you talking to Quatre… I… thanks."

Wufei walked for a moment silently, "no problem…" he hung up the phone with out saying goodbye and slid it back into his pocket.

"What was that about?"

"Trowa wanted to thank me…"

"For talking to Quatre?"

"Yes…"

Herro shrugged and walked up to the corner and turned on to a side street to find Duo waiting patently, "So Herro how'd it go?"

"She's in. All we have to do is let her destroy Carmen and no trace is on us or Quatre."

"Right." Wufei was gone from the group after this word and didn't seem to be in the mood to be sitting around and waiting.

"Where's Quatre?"

"The oncologist they have to see if the Treatments have worked Trowa's with him…" Duo looked a little pale and strained when the sentence came from his mouth. Herro nodded knowing why Duo was concerned, he took Duo's hand and they walked silently to work.

"Mr. Winner it gives me no pleasure to tell you this… none at all… but the treatments haven't been working as we had hoped, we're very sorry, you look like you have only a few weeks left…"

Trowa's face drained of blood as he sat in the cold office Quatre's hand in his. Quatre's hands shook as if they were leaves and the autumn wind had come to rip them off the tree.

"A few weeks of what?" Quatre asked the awful truth not sinking in.

"Only a few weeks to live… Mr. Winner I'm very sorry."

They walked out of the office a dreadful silents all around them, the hustle and bustle of the oncology center did not break threw their silent grief, as they walked slowly down to the garage. What should have been a romantic ride home was marred by the news and as they road on the bike back to the apartment Trowa could feel Quatre sobbing as he clung to Trowa's back.

"Quatre is going to die." Duo murmured laying on the bed his hand still holding a phone as if he had only just finished the conversation with Trowa a minuet ago although it had been hours. Herro couldn't speak he stood in the door frame in silents then nodded.

"That's all? A nod! I just told you our little buddy Quatre- Quatre Raberba Winner is going to die and all you do is nod?" Duo rolled over slamming his fist into the bed and standing up.

"What do you expect me to do? Start to cry? Tell you you're wrong? Duo Quatre was my friend too but he had cancer what did we expect?"

Duo turned on Herro his braid swinging in an ark and his eyes aflame, "Maybe for him to live?!"

Herro shook his head and hung up his jacket, "Duo you and I both know it was already very advanced when they caught it, chemo was a long shot."

Duo's eyes filled with tears as he slumped on the hard wood floor and sat his head in his hands tears leaking out of the cracks and misery throwing punch after punch.