Title: No Escape Author: Sphynx Pairings: Gahh. Warnings: Angst, yaoi, the usual stuff Notes: Sequel! To "Falling From You", I thought it a bit mean to leave ya'll like that when I didn't actually kill Quat.

The beeping. The rhythmic sound of machines keeping me alive. That is what I woke up to. I was supposed to be dead. But Trowa came just in time, they tell me. I was hoping that I had lost too much blood. But there was the beeping.

Day and night the beeping continued. It told me that I am alive. That and the bustle of doctors and nurses coming in and out of my private room. It was really routine at first, before my friends found out that I was here. The doctor would come in and check every few hours and then the nurses every half hour or so. A comforting cycle that left me little time to think. But then my friends started coming. At first they would come, say little and then leave awkwardly. All except Wufei. He would come in, ask me why, and then leave. Even Duo came. He twisted his hands and chattered away about nothing.

It wasn't until I woke up a few days after I found out I was still alive to find Trowa sitting in the visitors chair by my bedside that I became truly bitter about living. It was seeing him there for the first time that killed something inside me. How dare he come and see me. But he did. And he gave me an envelope and left, never saying a word.

The envelope sat by my bed until Wufei came again. He made me read it. He knew what it would contain; he was the one to force Trowa to come.

Quatre, I guess that you need to know why I left. You were clutching a note in your hand, but it wasn't something meant for your eyes. Nor mine. Duo gave me that not with the simple instructions to get it to someone else. He couldn't find them, so he asked me to. I didn't leave you for someone else. I left because you are too perfect for me. I have no name, and no past. You have a name, a past, and everything you could ever want. I thought that you didn't need me. Forgive me? Trowa

I'm glad Wufei did make me read. Now I can face Trowa again, now that the piece of me that was killed is alive again. There is no escape from the love I still hold for him, and now I can live with his leaving me.