A/N: Normal Disclaimer…and on a short note…adrenaline at night sux.

Tissue Warning: If you are emotionally distressed or unstable…it would be wise not to read this chapter till you are feeling better….oh and get tissues…it might help.

It's all in the Past

Part One: Duo's past

Chapter Five: Breaking Hearts

It had been unanimous, since Duo was from the colony, he would take the lead, that and he was the only one not hurt from the last fight. WuFei and Heero were holding each other up, but Duo normally would have been helping Heero if at the time he hadn't been cradling Kit in his arms.

As they were walking to the church, Duo would occasionally look down to see if Kit was still breathing, seeing as Heero had hit her on the head hard enough to kill a normal person. Duo felt something move in his arms and looked down at Kit, a smile came to his face when he saw that she had just moved closer to him, well, at least she'll make it. When he looked back up, a tiny memory flitted through his vision…

A skinny little girl was walking around, dodging people, and finally she hid behind a fallen piece of construction. "Max!" She looked around and smiled when she saw a young boy, around her age, waving from around a corner. She got up and started to run to him, but tripped on a small piece of iron. When she hit the ground, the young Duo ran to her and helped her up, noticing that she cad cut her leg on the metal.

"You need to get back to the church, Sky."

The young Kit sniffled as tears started down her face, "It hurts too much." She yelped as the young Duo picked her up and cradled her in his arms.

"Fine, then I'll carry you." He grinned at her, "I wouldn't have left you any ways, even to get Father Maxwell."

"You mean it?"

"Always."

Duo shook his head and looked back at the fallen debris, but no happy memory came to him.

A few more minutes and they were walking up to the church doors, when Quatre looked out the window at them. "What happened to you guys?"

Duo laughed, "Well, you and Trowa missed the fight of the century."

Quatre frowned slightly, "Is everyone ok?"

WuFei looked up at Quatre, "Let us in, all of us are hurt…well, except for Maxwell."

Quatre nodded, and ran to let them in. When he opened the door, Duo stopped walking, "Quatre? Take care of Heero for a moment, would you?"

He just blinked, "But I thought you would look after him."

Duo just shook his head, "I'm taking Kit up to her room and putting her in bed."

"But-"

"Q-man, she has a fractured skull and, more than likely, a concussion." And with that he started up the stairs to her room.

***

"My dear Kit," a voice said, copper eyes identical to her own smiling down at her, "You were meant for great things." Warm arms encircled her and she snuggled closer, basking in the warmth and love she could feel.

Mom… everything about the word suggested protection, comfort, love. Cool silver hair brushed her cheek and she giggled softly.

Gradually she was settled into a snug nest of blankets and pillows, and the baby fox demon blinked sleepily up at her parents.

"Good night, my Kitsune." Her mother said. "We'll be back. Sleep well, my child." Comforted with those words, Kit drifted to sleep, certain that her parents' presence was close by.

That was the last time she saw them.

Eight years later she had found someone she thought she could trust. Duo Maxwell was her protector, her confidant, and her best friend.

Plus, she was just noticing, he was cute as hell, too.

"Max!" she called, bounding into the church that was his namesake and bouncing on her toes. "Max, I've got a surprise for you!"

"Hey, Kit." The ten-year-old American swung down from his perch on the rafters to land in front of her. "What's the surprise?"

Kit placed a perky kiss just on the tip of his nose. "Surprise!" she exclaimed, and Duo blinked in surprise.

"Aw, you little fox!" Duo laughed and pulled her into a hug. Kit nearly melted into the comfort of his arms.

"I love you, Duo," she whispered, but her confession was cut off by a sudden rumble that broke through the skies and shattered on the roof of the Maxwell Church.

"What's that?" Duo asked in alarm. He pulled Kit away from the doors of the church and began to shepherd her into the basement. "You stay here," he told the frightened young girl. "I'll come back for you."

With that he spun around and pounded out of the church, searching for a way to help ward off an attack that would leave the colony desolate and deserted but for a nine-year-old fox demon that waited.

***

Kit tossed and turned in her bed, all the memories rushing in her head like flashes.

Duo slept lightly in a chair tucked into a corner, his knees bent up to his head. He lifted his head when he heard a whimper come from Kit's direction. Stretching as he stood up, he grabbed the chair and moved it closer to the bed.

"Duo…"

He stopped and looked at her, her back was towards him, shivering. "Yeah Kit?"

"Do you hate me?"

Duo blinked in slight confusion, "For what you did to Heero and Wu-"

"Do you hate me."

He opened his mouth to say something, but just shook his head. "No. I could never hate you."

"……Then why did you leave?" And for the first time in his life, Duo Maxwell couldn't think of anything to say, either jokingly or comforting. "You said you would come back, so I waited…but you never came."

Duo sat in the chair and leaned his head on his hand. "I went to protect the church, and when I saw that it had caught fire, I tried to run in and get you, but these men just picked me up and took me to the escape shuttle." He closed his eyes in sudden memory.

'Who ever was left in there is probably dead by now, son. I can't let you in.'

'NO! KIT!'

He sat up when crying sounds started coming from her. "I waited in the dark for you…I waited when the fire came so close to where I was…I waited in the cold of a dead colony." She wrapped her arms around her and curled up into a ball, her ears down like she was scared and her tail wrapping around her shaking body. "It was so cold, Duo…so very cold."

Duo slipped out of the chair and knelt on the floor. He knee-walked to the edge of the bed and hugged her from behind, laying his head on her back. "I'm sorry I couldn't come back. I tried, but there was always someone stopping me."

"Max?"

"Yeah Sky."

"Did you forget about me?"

"…" He hugged her a little harder "No."

Kit smiled slightly and relaxed into his arms, "What I said all those years ago…I still mean it," and as she closed her eyes again, she slipped back into that comforting blackness.

I love you, Duo…

Duo walked out of the room wiping his eyes, I don't think I've ever cried this much. He started walking down the stairs, but half way down, he met a pair of cobalt blue eyes. Duo took a quick look at Heero, noticing that his torso was bandaged up and his arm was in a sling.

"Is she dead?"

Duo was shocked at how emotionless Heero's voice became. "No…she's just sleeping."

"If she was just sleeping, then why were you crying?" Heero sat down on a step, leaving enough room for Duo to settle down next to him.

"She's so broken inside." Duo said, troubled violet eyes staring down at his hands. "Her parents left her when she was very young, and she grew up totally alone until I found her in the Maxwell Church. I became so much more to her than I ever realized, and then I left her here on the colony, thinking she was dead, and she waited for me. For years! She stayed here with her perfectly functioning Gundam – heaven knows how that got here – and waited for me." Duo stuck his hands in his hair and sighed. "I feel so responsible. Sometimes she's a maniac – she's out to get you, Heero, and she nearly strangled WuFei – but then she's just that same little nine-year-old that waited for me to come back." He lowered his head to where it looked like he was staring at his knees.

Heero was about to say something when he saw a wet spot appear on Duo's knees. He put his uninjured hand gently on Duo's shoulder.

Duo started shaking his head, "I'm so confused Heero."

"Why?"

He stopped shaking and looked up at Heero, tear tracks visible on his face, "Why wouldn't I be, Heero? My best friend is up in her room unconscious, and here you are asking if she's dead or not."

"I asked if she was dead so if you said no, I could be a little more cautious around her."

A look of disbelief passed over Duo's features. "And that's another reason I'm breaking down, Heero. I'm worried that if she gets better, she'll go after you again. But if she stays like this, and you get better before her, I'm worried that you'll finish this quarrel between the two of you, and I'll lose her again, this time for real."

"Duo-" Heero said, uncertain as to where to begin. "The question you have to ask yourself is which one of use you want more." The Japanese teenager stood up, and just before he strode away, he added, "This isn't just going to go away."

*******

She was dreaming again, this time she was sure of it. While lucid dreaming was never a forte, she knew she was capable of it and she forced her unconscious mind to start working correctly – to recognize it was dreaming. Soon she had her surroundings under control and she was playing with the scenery and turning the grass purple and the buildings multi-hued.

"Always so easily amused, Kit." Duo's voice said, and Kit turned with a startled gasp. She hadn't created him in this setting! Focusing on him, she concentrated and imagined the space he occupied to be empty.

Sure enough, he disappeared.

She returned to changing the scenery and soon had created a perfect garden for herself, complete with lush grass and waving willow trees. Sighing contentedly, she reclined beneath one tree and let the long, feathery branches play across her face.

"I don't go away that easy, Kit." Duo's voice said again. Kit frowned. She didn't want him here to spoil her dream – she juts wanted peace for a little while.

"Go away!" she said, intent upon deleting him again.

"Not quite yet," he grinned, walking across her perfect green grass to kneel in front of her. His violet eyes shone a brilliant purple that began to spread out from his pupils to contaminate the grass, the trees, the sky… soon everything except she and him was a shade of magnificent purple, shining royally in every shade imaginable.

"Why don't you go and leave me alone like you did before!" Kit yelled, furious that her perfect garden was being tampered with.

"He might have left you, but I never did." Duo said, making no sense. Kit frowned. Before her eyes, the pilot shifted fuzzily, blurring for a moment and re-emerging as a fox demon with bright copper eyes and long silver hair.

"What?" Kit exclaimed, scrambling backwards in surprise. Her mirror image gazed unhappily back at her.

"Think, Kit!" Her twin urged. "Think about what you're doing! Use your brain, for heaven's sake! Fox demons move faster, talk faster, and think faster than any other creature, so start using your abilities! All of them!"

Kit jolted up, breathing hard. A quick pain came to her head and she brought up a hand and squinted her eyes. "owwwie," she whimpered softly.

Her ears twitched at an almost inaudible sound, she looked around her room franticly to see where it came from. She reached underneath her pillow and grabbed her gun, cocked it, and readied it. "Who's there? And come out slow or you'll be full of lead."

Kit snapped her head to where it looked like the shadows were moving in a corner of her room. Out stepped Trowa, hands raised in a sort of surrender stance.

"I just came up here to talk."

She tilted her head and motioned to the chair beside her with her gun. "Want to sit down?"

Trowa nodded and sat down, putting down his hands as well.

"Well?" Kit asked, "Did Duo send you up here?"

He smiled slightly, "No, Quatre wanted me to talk to you."

A confused look came to Kit's face, "Why didn't he come up here himself?"

"Quatre…he's a pacifist. He doesn't like getting into the middle of things." Trowa shrugged lightly, "He wanted to ask you some questions but he's busy taking care of WuFei and Heero right now."

"So I'm going to be interrogated?" Kit frowned.

Trowa's eyes widened slightly as he shook his head. "No no. Quatre just wanted to find out more about you. He wants to get enough info to try and straighten this all out."

"Why doesn't he just let this take it's course?"

"It's not in his nature," Trowa shrugged. "He has to help everyone, but he doesn't want to be in the middle of things."

Kit brought a hand to her temple and rubbed it slightly, "That is too confusing."

Trowa chuckled, "True, he's about the only one that really understands how to do that."

"And somehow he magically keeps sane through all that?" asked Kit, leaning on her legs.

He thought about that a little, "I wouldn't go that far…but I wasn't asked to come her to talk about him."

Kit rolled her eyes, "Right, I suppose you were sent up here to find out more about me and Duo, huh?"

He nodded, "But somehow, I have this feeling that Quatre's going to have to sit this one out."

She kicked her legs around and put her feet on the floor. "What are you talking about Trowa?"

"Heero's already put down the bottom line."

*******

Kit bolted out of her room and down the stairs, stopping only if she felt dizzy, which was often. And right now she was leaning on the handrail at the bottom of the stairs.

'What do you mean, 'bottom line'?!'

'He just told Duo that he had to choose which one he wanted more.'

'Where is he?'

She straightened up and started to walk to the front doors. When she peeked out the doors, she quickly dodged a rock. Kit stuck her head out and frowned, "Nice aim, Cowboy."

Duo threw another rock, this time at the church wall, "Just 'cause I'm American doesn't mean I'm a cowboy."

"I know, I just felt like calling you that. It's better than Due-" she stopped talking at the death glare Duo gave her.

"Don't you dare finish that thought." He then smiled and started laughing.

Kit smiled, glad that she got him to laugh again. "What?"

He stopped laughing but still kept his smile, "I just remembered one of the times when you called me that."

"Yeah, you chased me all over the church." Kit started laughing at that lil memory.

"Sister Sara wasn't too happy about us running through the 'flower' garden at all either."

They both started laughing, but when Duo stopped, Kit looked up and noticed that his smile was gone too.

"Heero's behind me, isn't he?" She saw Duo nod and sighed. "great," she whispered to herself.

Kit listened as Heero stepped closer towards her, and watched as Duo stepped back slowly. She mentally prepared for a fight, for a hit, but it never came.

"Well, Duo?" Heero asked, "Have you decided?"

"I-I need to think some more." Duo starting walking backwards more noticeably now. "I need to be alone for a little bit." He started walking faster till he almost tripped backwards, then he turned around and ran blindly, letting his feet take control.

All that time Kit watched as Duo ran out of sight, she kept in her comment, but when she couldn't hold it in any more she spun around to look Heero in the face.

A/N: HA! Another one done! And you all will have to wait until the next chapter to see what she says to Heero. Sorry Melody, if you want to put in an authors note (cause you did donate some more of your talent into this story) just e-mail it and I'll add it in for you. Well…I'm gone…I'm hungry. I'll start writing on the next chapter as soon as I get some food.

Next on: It's all in the Past:

-What will Kit say to Heero?

-Where the hell is Duo running off too?

-Why didn't anyone say, "Sure, I'll come with you."?

-Will another fight ensue between Heero and Kit?

All this and more in the next segment of…It's all in the Past!