Authors Note: Umm....I don't really have anything significant about the story...but I do have one things to say...I RULE!!!

~~ Deathscythe Chick

AN: See it didn't take us forever to get this chapter out ^^ Promise chapter 3 will be out soon too. Oh yeah, before I forget, I have a question, do you guys think we made Heero a bit OCC? Cuz if we did then we need to know so we can fix it ^^;; thanks! But anyway, hope you like this chapter and please review!!!

Luv,

~Misty~







Acire picked up speed and ran past Duo.

"What are you doing? It's dangerous! Go back!" Duo shouted behind her.

"No. She's my friend. I can't."

Acire saw a black van in which four guys were struggling to get Trinity into. She then saw Heero reach somewhere into his jacket and pull out a gun. She stopped dead in her tracks as he pointed the gun at Trinity's kidnappers. She went ballistic and ran to Heero's side and yelled at him.

"What are you doing?! You...you might hurt Trin by accident!"

"I never miss." Heero said in a low voice.

"Heero, man, she's right. You might cause the people in the carnival to panic." Duo agreed running up to him as well.

"Duo, you only agree with her because you like her."

Duo stood dumbfounded. Heero looked at him and sighed a bit annoyed. He put his gun away.

"Fine."

He walked towards the black van as if nothing drastic was happening, the kidnappers saw him and hurried in to put Trinity in the back of the van. Acire shook her head.

"He's not thinking of taking on all four of them at the same time is he?!"

"Nope. I'm gonna help!" Duo said.

He ran to the van, where Heero was already beating up on the guys. Duo decided to take on two of them, while Heero took on the last two. Acire could do nothing but cheer them on and watch.

'No other guy that I know would go play "hero" for a girl like this', Acire though 'Then again, maybe Heero's always like this…'

She snapped out of her thoughts when she heard Duo's voice.

"He-Heero! Help man!" Duo choked out. One of the guys he was fighting had him in a head lock. The other guy he had fought was lying on the floor unconscious.

"I can't get these guys off my back. Hold on!"

"No...I can't" Duo said in a small voice.

"Stop! you'll kill him!" Acire cried out.

She ran over to Duo and his opponent, but even while seeing Acire, the guy didn't loosen his grip on Duo's neck.

"You want some of this, baby?" he said laughing.

"No. But you can have some of THIS!" she cried and kicked the guy between his legs.

The guy instantly let go of Duo which gave him the opportunity to turn around and pummel him with punches. When all the guys were down, Acire went to the back of the van and saw Trinity laying on the back seat.

* * *

"Wake up." a familiar voice said.

Trinity opened her eyes slowly and saw Acire's worried face looking down at her.

"What happened?" Trin said softly.

Acire grinned.

"Loverboy saved you." she whispered.

"Huh?"

"Yeah, you know, Heero?"

"Oh..."

Trinity sat up.

"Where are we?"

"Girl, what did those guys do to you? You don't even remember what my room looks like?"

Trinity's eyes wandered around.

"Oh that's right..."

"Duh"

"What time is it?" Trinity said looking at her watch. "Ugh...it's 10:00 p.m."

"Come on let's go to the kitchen and get you somethin'."

"Yeah, whatever." Trinity said weakly.

Acire helped her up and lead her to the kitchen.

"Oh yeah, I forgot to mention..." Acire said as they were near the kitchen.

"What?" Trin asked.

"Hi Trinity! Are you feeling better?" Duo said grinning as he sat at Acire's kitchen table.

"We have visitors!" Acire beamed.

Heero was across from Duo and he was just staring at the surface of the table. He stood like that for a while and finally looked up.

"I see that you're okay" he said.

"Yeah..."

Acire sat next to Duo and put one arm around him.

"Come on Trin! We all saved ya! Don't you think we deserve a thanks?" Acire said and grinned.

Duo looked at Acire and raised an eyebrow.

"What? I did help..." she said to Duo.

"Thanks..." Trin muttered.

She sat in a chair between Heero and Acire and leaned onto the table with her elbows. Acire stared at her.

"What's wrong?" she asked.

"Remember how I told you about those e-mails and prank phone calls I got?"

"Uh-huh."

"They were all from this guy at school."

"What guy?"

"Shane."

"Shane?"

"Yeah. I don't know his last name, but you remember him, don't you? He would always stare at me during lunch."

"Him?!"

"Yes, him. It was him and his friends who tried to kidnap me."

Acire gasped.

"So you know the guy who tried to kidnap you, huh?" Duo said.

"I don't know him very well...we just had like, two classes together." Trin explained, twirling a ring on her finger.

Acire looked worried.

"Acire..." Trinity said.

"What?"

"The kidnappers put me to sleep by covering my mouth with a cloth with some chemical. But for a few seconds… I could still hear them talking…"

"Huh? What did they say?"

"One of the guys said something like 'Guess who's next, babe? That's right, your other friend.'"

"No!" Acire cried.

"Yes. Look, they probably know where we live and it's only a matter of time before they show up. We need to hide out somewhere."

Duo suddenly quipped.

"You're welcome to stay with us."

"Duo..." Heero said with an annoyed tone.

"What?! We have the extra space. Come on Heero..."

"No."

"They are in danger..."

"NO"

"It's ok, Duo" Trinity said. "We can take care of ourselves."

"No Trinity. Stop it with the 'I'm a tough girl' act. You might not be scared but I am."

Trinity looked at her worried friend strangely.

"Oh come on, I never thought of you to be the cry baby typ-" Trin started.

"Please Heero let us stay with you." Acire pleaded and Trin slapped her forehead in embarrassment.

Heero looked at the terror in Acire's green eyes. He then looked at Trinity who was still shaking her head at her friend's antics.

"Fine. But only for a few days!"

The fright in Acire's eyes disappeared all too fast and she got up and hugged Heero.

"Yay! Thanks!" she cheered like a small child.

Suddenly Acire thought of something and let go of Heero..

"Sorry for hugging him, Trin!" she laughed.

"What?!" Trin cried.

"Don't worry it was just a friendly hug, nothing more."

Trinity glared at Acire.

"So?! Why should I don't care! Hug him all you want!"

"Now if I didn't know any better, what Trinity just said meant, 'That's right Acire, get your hands off of him or else."

"Omae o korosu..." Heero grumbled and Trinity shot Acire a death glare.

Duo whistled.

"Well I'm gonna go pack." Acire said backing away.

"I'll go with you!" Duo said standing up.

"I bet you will.." Trinity said.

Duo smirked.

"Trin you and Heero should go to your house and pack too. Don't worry, Heero, her house is really close to mine. Just a hop, skip, and jump away."

"Yeah I should go." Trin said.

Heero stood up.

"Follow the leader, bodyguard." Duo said jokingly.

Heero muttered something under his breath and him and Trinity went out the front door.

"Come back when you're done packing!" Acire called out to them.

"Will do!" Trinity called from somewhere outside.

Acire turned to Duo and smiled.

"Come on...help me pack." she said.

"Sure." he answered.

* * *

"I can't leave without my laptop!" Trinity rambled.

Heero sat on Trin's bed as she ran around her room, packing things.

"Oh and I need money, too." she said to herself.

She opened one of her drawers and started throwing things out. Shirts, socks, and other things flew about her room. A shirt landed on Heero's head and he swiped it off. Trinity couldn't help laughing.

"Sorry." she said. "It's been a while since I cleaned in here."

"I see that. Are you done yet?"

"Yeah, almost."

Heero sighed and waited for ten more minutes as Trin kept stuffing more things into her oversized duffel bags.

"Okay, I'm done!" she finally said, looking around her room one last time to make sure she didn't forget anything.

Heero nodded.

"Come on let's go to Acire's house. We can't leave those two alone."

Trinity picked up her bags.

"Shouldn't have...packed...so much stuff." she sighed.

Heero only responded with a snicker.

* * *

Heero walked ahead of Trinity and looked down at the cement floor. He heard Trinity's heavy breathing behind him, he turned around and saw her struggling with her heavy bags. He shook his head and went towards her.

"Give them to me." he said.

"No I can handl-" she started to say, but Heero grabbed them from her hands and continued walking, as Trinity stood behind.

"Umm...thank you?" she said quietly.

When they reached Acire's house, Acire and Duo were sitting on the couch in her living room, watching TV. Acire's head was tilted against Duo's shoulder and there were a lot of bags at her and Duo's feet.

"HELLO?! We are staying there for only a few days! We're NOT moving in with them!" Trinity cried as she saw all the bags.

"Hmm...? Oh it's you." Acire said picking up her head.

"No, it's your fairy godmother! Wouldn't kill you to lock the door, you know" Trinity snapped.

"What for? Duo's here with me" Acire replied in her defense.

"No kidding" Trin growled picking up the remote and shutting off the TV.

"Hey! We were watching that!" Acire cried trying to get the remote back.

"Weren't you the one who couldn't wait to get out of here? So come on" Trin snapped once again.

"Okay, okay, no need to bite my head off" Acire said getting up and picking up some of her bags while Duo picked up the rest.

Trin muttered something under her breath and headed out the door. A black corvette convertible was parked in the driveway, which she hadn't seen before because when she and Heero went to her house they had used the back door.

Trinity whistled slowly. "Nice"

"Thanks" Heero muttered and put her bags in the trunk and Duo did the same with Acire's bags.

Heero then easily hopped into the driver's seat without opening the door and not much to Trin's surprise, Duo hopped into the back seat and Acire eagerly got in next to him. Trin shrugged and took the front seat, not like she had a choice anyway. When everyone was seated, Heero started the car and sped out of the driveway and down the street.  

Neither of them noticing a black van parked under a tree just a little down the street, and none of them noticing a window roll up in that same van as they drove off.