Slowly her eyes opened. Her vision was blurry for a few moments and she blinked hard trying to focus her eyes. Finally her vision cleared and she looked around. She was in her room and as far as she could tell she was laying on the bed. Suddenly the ceiling seemed to sway, and in panic, she sat up hastily. Immediately the room spun and sharp pain pierced her brain, she was forced to lean back on her elbows. Her vision came back to normal once again and she saw five worried faces looking at her, watching her every move.

"Trin? Are you okay?"

Who did that voice belong to? It was so familiar. She was certain she heard it before. Ah, yes. Acire.

"I think so..." she replied uncertainly.

A shadow moved to her left and Heero moved forward and stopped next to the bed. She looked at him, but it seemed to the others as if she was looking right through him. Her gaze slipped down and she froze. There were deep, bloody, scratches all over his arms, starting from his shoulders and running down to his hands.

Ignoring the pain in her head she shot up and grabbed his hands. She looked at the scratches in shock, the blood wasn't even dry yet, then her head shot up to look at his face.

"What the hell happened to you?" she breathed. Then her gaze fell on her own hands. They were as scratched up and bloody as Heero's.

"What the hell happened to *me*?" she cried.

He looked at her as if to see if she was lying. She wasn't.

"You don't remember?" he asked then.

"No, remember what?" she asked looking at him as if searching for answers that he somehow had.

He kneeled down so that their faces were on the same level now. She still didn't let go of his arms, and he made no attempt to make her.

He slowly explained what happened. In reality, he didn't try to choke her. Acire and the rest of the boys rushed to the room after they heard her scream. Seeing that Heero was obviously trying to restrain her and was failing miserably, Duo hit her on the head in an attempt to knock her out. As it turns out, it worked. And the scratches, he said she was desperately trying to get away from him. As for her own hands, he said she was repeating something about the blood, and how she had to get rid of it.

She looked at him incredulously as he spoke, occasionally darting glances at the others who nodded affirmatively.

As he finished, she seemed to be in a state of shock again.

"Trin?" Heero asked and she looked up at him. "What happened?" he asked softly.

She shook her head.

"I don't know"

She looked around the room and it seemed the walls were closing in on her. They must have seen the panic in her eyes.

"Okay, you need to get out of the house for a while" Quatre said "it's not good for you to stay in here now"

She raised her head to look at him slowly.

"But I don't have any classes today"

Acire grinned.

"Let's go to the mall" she beamed.

Trin seemed to think about it for a moment, then nodded.

"Okay"

She then looked down at herself and realized she was still dressed in sweatpants and t-shirt. She shook her head.

"I can't go like this. Everybody out, I'm changing"

The room burst into laughter, even Heero cracked a grin. Trin's mind was still too cloudy to pick up on the nervousness and obvious tension between them.

* * *

"We have to be very careful" Quatre said as everyone, except Trin sat around the living room. "We don't know what happened, but whatever we do, we have to be careful not to spook her again"

"The mall was a good idea, Acire" Trowa added.

Acire grinned, still looking somewhat confused and frightened.

"Two of us will come with you" Duo said smiling at her reassuringly.

"Trowa, Wufei, you go" Heero said and by his voice it was obvious this was an order.

Trowa nodded, but Wufei paled.

"I refuse to go to a *Mall*!" he cried jumping to his feet furiously.

"You don't have a choice" Heero's voice was icy cold.

"What's the matter Wufei, you're embarrassed to be seen with two *onnas*" came Trin's voice. Along with her usual sarcastic tone, it had a hint of darkness in it. Everyone turned to see her standing in the doorway dressed in jeans, a black tank-top and sneakers.

Wufei glared at her and everyone excluding Heero and Trin laughed. Acire skipped merrily up to Trin and hooked her arm around hers.

"Come on, we're gonna have so much fun" she grinned pulling her out the door.

"Hn" was Trin's response, so typical to Heero's, the room erupted with laughter

again. But this time it was honest laughter.

* * *

Trin, Acire, Trowa and Wufei walked into the garage and stopped in front of a black Honda. Trin wrinkled her nose in distaste and Wufei glared at her.

"Not good enough for you onna?" he growled.

Trin smirked and pulled open the door, "accidentally" hitting Wufei in the stomach and lower. He grunted and she faked a look of surprise.

"Oops. How did that happen?" she said and jumped into the car.

Acire was almost rolling on the ground laughing and Trowa grinned. Still glaring Wufei got into the drivers seat.

* * *

"Let's see, I need some new skirts, shirts, pants, shoes, stage clothes.." Trinity made a list and the more she said the more Trowa's eyes widened and the more Wufei shook his head and muttered `onnas..' or something else along those lines. They were ordered to pay for whatever the girls bought and frankly, Trowa was nearing a heart failure.

Trin and Acire dived into the nearly every store they saw and Trowa and Wufei had trouble following them. They bought everything from clothes to CDs and from jewelry to magazines.

In the middle of the mall was a beautiful fountain, surrounded by plants and flowers. Around it were stationed benches for the shoppers to sit and rest. After about two hours of non-stop shopping, the four stopped at one of the benches. Wufei and Trowa were more than glad to dump all the bags that were overweighing them to the ground and Acire giggled. Trowa suggested that they should put all the bags into the car and Wufei volunteered.

* * *

Muttering curses in Japanese, Wufei slammed the Honda's trunk shut and with a sigh headed back toward the mall. It was getting dark, but he still saw a suspicious-looking black van parked in front of one of the emergency exits.

*Flash*

Acire ran up to him and Trowa and held up two outfits asking which one they thought would look better on her. Wufei's eyes trailed over her shoulder and he saw a man dressed mostly in black and wearing dark sunglasses. He was casually leaning against a wall and rapidly talking into his cell phone.

*Flash*

They walked through the mall as a man roughly brushed between Trin and Acire. He muttered a "Sorry" and walked in the opposite direction from them.

*Flash*

Trin and Acire sat on the bench near the fountain and he and Trowa stood in front of them. His eyes wondered and he saw light glint over something. As he looked closer he saw a man fussing with something near the decorative rocks on the opposite side of the fountain.

*Flash*

His head snapped back to where the black van was parked and he saw three shadows run out of the emergency exit and jump inside. Wufei cursed sharply and ran into the mall. Pushing people aside he ran toward the fountain. He saw Trin, Acire and Trowa where he had left them.

He ran up to them and roughly grabbed Acire's arm yanking her to her feet. Trowa looked at him as if he was out of his mind.

"No time to explain. We have to get out of here *now*" Wufei barked and Trowa nodded. He didn't need an explanation, he trusted his fellow gundam pilot.

Trin also jumped to her feet. She might've not liked Wufei, and she knew he wasn't especially fond of her, but when it came down to her life, she trusted him. They ran through the mass of people, Wufei in the front pushing people out of the way, Trin and Acire behind him and Trowa behind them.

To Trin, it seemed as if the mall was a lot bigger than it was when they got there and she thought that any minute they would drown in the sea of people. But just as she thought that she saw the exit and in seconds they were out.

The second they stepped out of the door, there was a deafening blast, the ground shook and the next thing she knew they hit the sidewalk. As she rolled over onto her back, she saw a series of explosions erupt through the walls and roof of the mall. Her ears rung from the explosion and debris showered down on them. Flames engulfed the collapsing building. She saw the walls cave in and block the exit.

Suddenly Wufei appeared out of nowhere and hauled her to her feet, pulling her away.

"It's dangerous, let's go!" he shouted.

Trin's senses suddenly rushed back to her. Screams for help flooded her ears.

"No" she cried.

"Onna, lets go!" Wufei growled.

"No, we have to help those people!" she yelled back and yanking her arm out of his grasp ran into the flames.

A/N: Sorry for taking so long with this chapter but I worked really hard on it and hope you liked it. Also thank you SO MUCH for reviewing! This is the closest I've ever been to 100 reviews! I can't tell you how much this means to me! Arigatou!

Aight, do you think I'm overdoing it with the *Flash*s? Because if I am, tell me. I don't want to ruin the fic lol ^^ And also, by a popular demand, I'll remember to put translations in here for all the Japanese words I use.

Okay, I think that's all. Ja!!

Luv,

~Misty~

TRANSLATIONS:

Omae o korosu - I will hurt/kill you

Onna - woman