Title: Finding What Was Lost

Author: Something Like Human

Rating: 13+ (for now )

Genre: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter – Gundam Wing x-over. Basically folks, right after the Eve's War (A.C. 196 in the gundam-verse), the vampires came out of the coffin. So in the Anita-verse, it's post-Incubus Dreams.

Warnings: Yaoi/Slash, 3somes, vampires, were-everythings, zombies, blood, sex, language. (the usual for the two genres)

Pairings: 2x5, and Anita/anything male….

Disclaimer: I don't own anything but the plot.

(Anita's POV)

Nathaniel and I walked into the Preventer's office. I had never been there before but from the looks of it, it was rather standard for a police station at first glance. The man at the front desk was looking at Nathaniel curiously when he took our names. We had an appointment with an interviewer today about Nathaniel's stepfather. He was going to be asked to give a statement to continue the investigation of abuse and human trafficking.

"Preventer Silver will see you in a few minutes," the man a the desk said. He kept staring at us though which was making me rather grumpy. I was pretty sure it was only because of how closely Nathaniel resembled his brother who worked at the office as well. Beside me, Nathaniel just smiled brightly at the man at the desk.

I watched as a few uniformed Preventers walked by behind the desk. Several had walked past repeatedly. I noted that they were quite a wide variety of ages and nationalities. I had been used to being in police stations but usually I was working in them not on the other side.

"I thought you were working today, Preventer Night?" a middle aged preventer said walking over to Nathaniel and I.

"You obviously have us mistaken for someone else," I replied coldly.

"Nah, I don't think I do. I think the little brat is trying to make more work for us," the man said leaning over closer to Nathaniel. He continued speaking to me though. "He's been complaining to the boss lady about us down here and stirring up trouble. He seems to think he's better than the rest of us even though I have kids older than him. I don't know what he and Preventer Day did to get the say in the organization that they have, but it's really starting to piss us off."

Ah, so it was a pissing contest in the office due to the boys' young age. It seemed that some of the older Preventers were jealous of their higher status in the organization. I could see why having the same impression when I first met the boys. "I'm sorry that you think this is just some prank or something but you are very much mistaken. We're just here to give a statement."

"Collins, get your ass back to the records room," a woman around my age said walking through the room. "Leave Mr. Graison and Ms. Blake alone. They are here for an active investigation that has nothing to do with you."

"Yes, Preventer Water," the man said almost looking like he was tucking his tail and running away.

"I'm sorry about that, Nathaniel," the woman said. She had light colored hair but her facial features denoted a more mixed family tree. I think she was Asian of some sort. "Preventer Silver will be off the phone shortly and will be able to see you. I'll just hang out here until then."

"Thanks, Dr. Po," he replied to the woman revealing that it was the doctor that he had met with Chang and his brother. "I didn't realize how disliked my brother is around here."

"Well, it's more complicated than that," the doctor replied sitting down next to us in the waiting area. "The field agents who work with them or are trained by them respect them greatly. They see what the boys can do and don't question their age or their looks. It's some of the others who work in the office who just don't understand and are conciderably jealous of their rank."

"I'm used to that feeling of always having to prove yourself to others on the job," I replied to the woman.

"I've thankfully haven't had too much problems with it here," Dr. Po replied to me. "My jobs during the war were much less covert. I am also a doctor and not usually a field agent, despite my title here which usually denotes field agent status."

"The titles are only used for field agents?" Nathaniel asked her.

"Yeah, but I had mine for years because I was one of Commander Une's first agents," she explained. "We use them to somewhat protect the identies of the agents since many of them work undercover."

"That makes sense," the wereleopard replied. "I was just wondering how you got the names since that other guy thought that I was 'Preventer Night' which I assume was my brother."

"The night designation is due to his stealth abilities. Yeah, after knowing Duo and seeing him in daily life, it's hard to see him as being stealthy but he's the best. You'll never know he's been somewhere until it explodes."

"Can I ask what Chang's designation?" I asked out of curiosity.

"He is Preventer Day," the doctor replied with a laugh. "I actually named him back in the day. He's about as subtle as a brick. Don't get me wrong, he can do stealth operations better than most but he's more of a brute force kind of guy. Also, at times, he such a ray of sunshine."

"He's nice though and fun to be around," Nathaniel argued with a frown on his face.

"Yeah, around his friends, in the office, he's a right stick in the mud," she replied. "Hell, right after the Wars, he was a grouch to everyone. It wasn't until Duo told him that he was going to pull the stick out of his ass and beat him with it that Wu Fei started to relax some."

"Duo said that?" his brother asked with a laugh.

"Right in front of the entire office staff in the Sanq office," she explained. "When Wu Fei didn't beat the living daylights out of Duo, I started to suspect there were something more to those two. I don't know how they wound up together, or when exactly it happened, but I'm happy for them. They are good for each other. Wu Fei is like a little brother to me, especially after he lost his entire family during the war when his colony self-destructed. He seemed so lost for a long time but when he found Duo, well, he's much happier than I've ever seen him."

"So Chang had a pretty rotten childhood as well?" I asked thinking back to what Duo had told us of his.

"Yeah, but it's his story to tell, not mine," she replied looking over her shoulder as a grey haired older man walked up behind her. "Ah, here's Preventer Silver. He's going to conduct your interview Nathaniel. He's our victims expert and does all of our interviews. He's nice and easy to talk to. Let me know if you need anything, okay?"

I squeezed Nathaniel's hand before he walked off with the silver-haired Preventer. The man had introduced himself as a psychologist. Dr. Po remained sitting next to me in the waiting room. We talked easily about our jobs. It was actually rather nice to talk to another woman involved in law enforcement for once.

A/N: the preventer names for Duo & Wu Fei are recycled from another fic of mine. I like them, and think they fit very well so I'm using them again.