"They went in there?" Heero asked Duo.

"I saw them. They brought her in there and shut the gate." Duo said.

"It's abandoned, Duo." Heero said, looking at the castle.

"They did! I don't lie! They brought her in there!" Duo insisted. "Heero, have you ever heard a kidnapping story where the kidnappers bring the kid in a public place where everyone can see them? No, they go for the abandoned places." Duo reasoned.

"Fine. Let's go get her." Heero looked at his watch. "No! Wait, we have to go get her later."

"What?" Duo asked, appalled.

"We have to go pick up Relena. She didn't want to land in the Preventer place, she wanted to land in the civilian port for some reason." Heero said.

"But we're here! This could mean my sister's life!" Duo yelled.

"Well, Relena's life could be at stake too." Heero said. Duo sighed dramatically and followed Heero as they backtracked their way to the car.

Duo pouted the whole way in the car, in his mind horrible scenes with masked men hurting his sister were playing out. He changed it every time and something different happened.

"Duo stop fidgeting!" Heero snapped. Duo looked up at Heero. "I can't stand it when you do that." Duo just looked out the window again. Heero pulled up at the airport and looked around. He stopped when she saw a crowd gathered around in one place. 'Relena' he thought. He strode over there and pushed the crowd aside.

"Heero!" Relena cried. She ran to him and enveloped him in a hug. He hugged her back and they walked, arm in arm, back to the car with Duo following sadly behind. Relena leaned over to Heero in the car. "What's wrong with Duo?"

"You know how I told you he has a sister? Well, she got kidnapped and we had to leave her in order to go get you." Heero said.

"Heero! You should have gotten her! She might get killed." Relena protested.

"We had to get you first. I figured you could help. Not that I want to put you in danger, but you could help." Heero said.

"Oh, okay." Relena said. She sat back in her chair. They rode the rest of the way in silence.

"Okay, here's the plan." Heero said as he stopped the car about a half a mile away from the castle.

"You guys ran all the way out here? That's ridiculous!" Relena said. She had noticed that it was about five miles from the city.

"We didn't run all the way. I saw them from about two miles back since this place is bare." Duo said.

"As I was saying," Heero said. "Relena, you follow me until I tell you to go. Duo you find a way in, my guess is she's in the tower. You go up there. I'm going to try to find the assassin."

Duo looked surprised. "Heero, you sure do know your fairy tales!"

Heero glared at Duo and got out of the car. He gave Relena a gun and she just nodded and shoved it in her pocket. Then, he and Relena took off running in one direction, and Duo took off in the other. He ran over to the tower and stood at the bottom looking up.

"Hmm, to tall and narrow to climb. No doors. Aha!" Duo pulled out his little helicopter thing. "Let's see if this thing works going up." He flipped in on and it lifted him off the ground and he rose up and up. He was about fifteen feet above ground when it ran out of batteries. It stopped. "Uh oh!" Duo said. He fell down and lay in heap for a few minutes, then jumped up. "I'M ALIVE!"

"Not for long." Someone said. Duo turned around and saw someone standing in a doorway. 'Doorway? Oh, this sucks! Why didn't I see that?' Duo thought.

"Who are you?" Duo asked.

"A personal assistant to BO also known as KJ." The man said.

"BO? That's all? No name or anything? That's the assassin's name?" Duo asked.

"The A and O are his initials, you stupid." The man said. Then, he punched Duo in the stomach and Duo slumped unconscious. The man took him to the dungeon and chained him up.

"Humph. You talk to much." The man said to the unconscious Duo.

A few minutes later, Duo woke up. "Ugh." He groaned as he sat up. He groped for his radio and brought it up to his mouth. "Heero. Help. Dungeon." He said.

"Stupid." Came Heero's voice. Duo struggled to stand up and when he did, he groaned loudly. The door swung open and Heero stood in the doorway. "Hurry."

Duo followed Heero at a jog and somehow got out of the dungeon without running into any guards.

"Where's-" Duo started to ask, but Heero cut him off.

"Helping." Heero said. They ran on and straight into a group of guards. They stopped and Heero pulled his gun out of nowhere as he always did. Duo pulled out his gun and trained it on one of the guards.

"We have to hurry if we want to get Mac." Duo said. Heero shook his head.

"Already taken care of." And shot a guard. They both shot or punched all the guards and made their way to the tower. When they got there, they had to climb several flights of stairs till they got to the top.

As they got to the top, they saw a man in the corner and Mac had a gun trained on him. Relena was sitting on the bed watching the scene play out.

"Heero Yuy and Duo Maxwell. How nice to meet you both finally." The man said.

"Shut up Brian. I don't want you conferring with my brother and my friends." Mac said in a harsh voice.

"Kedzie, what happened to the woman I was with a few minutes ago? She was-" Brian said.

"I said shut up. That woman wasn't me. She was a weakling. She was a pacifist. I thought you could be trusted, but then, when we were in bed, you still talked about killing the gundam pilots. I'm a gundam pilot." Mac said. Duo and Heero were still standing there, not knowing what was happening.

"I would never kill you, my Kedzie." Brian said. "I would never hurt you. You're my queen."

"Stop calling me that. I'm not your queen. I thought I would be your wife, but never your queen. I know better now. You may love me, but you'd use me to get to my friends and my colleagues." Mac snapped very harshly. Brian recoiled as if she had slapped him.

"Kedzie, I thought you said you loved me too." Brian tried.

"I do. No! I don't." Mac fought with herself. Brian had been inching his hand towards his pocket and he reached in a pulled out a gun and trained in on Duo.

"Kedzie, two can play at that game. I'm sorry I have to kill your brother in front of you. I was planning on letting you miss that, but now, it's too late." Brian's finger started to push back on the trigger and time seemed to switch into slow motion.

Mac watched in horror as Brian started to pull the trigger on his gun and Duo stood, frozen. Duo couldn't move and neither could Heero. They were wedged in the doorway and couldn't reach for their guns or even move out of the way. Mac looked back and forth for something to stop this horrific event. She realized she was still holding her gun and, before she knew what she was doing, she had lifted it and shot at Brian. Brian's finger never quite pulled the trigger, so Duo was safe.

Mac watched Brian slowly fall to the floor and the realization hit Mac, full force. She cried out and ran to him. Duo said later that she had screamed as she ran to him. When Brian hit the floor, time seemed to move back into regular mode. Mac threw herself on the floor next to him and held him.

"I didn't hit him, did I?" Mac asked, not wanting to face the fact that she had hit him square in the chest.

"Kedzie." Brian gasped. "I know you just wanted to protect your brother."

"Shh, you'll be fine. Just, don't talk." Mac shushed, tears streaming down her face.

"I.Love.You." And with the last cliché words, Brian died in Mac's arms.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Mac screamed. She put her head down on his and cried. Everyone else stood around in uncomfortable silence, listening to Mac's racking, heartbreaking sobs.

Duo finally made his way over to her, but Relena met his eyes above Mac's head and shook her head. Duo nodded and walked out the door, pulling Heero with him. Relena sat down next to Mac and touched her shoulder.

"Come on. We need to go." Relena whispered. Mac nodded and stood up with Relena and walked out the door, holding on to Relena for support. Mac paused at the doorway and looked back. She saw Brian lying in a small pool of his own blood. Relena gently pushed Mac out the door and helped her down the stairs. The group got in the car and the two talkative pilots were, for once, silent.