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Duo blindly reached out an arm across the bed and landed on nothing.He frowned in his sleep when his hand felt the cold space next to him. With a muffled sigh, he pushed himself up from his warm bed and grimaced with the cold. ' Damn, I gotta remember to have a talk with Q-man about the temperature he puts on, I'm gonna freeze my balls off! And THAT would not be good!' Without a glance at the mirror, he wrapped his arms around himself and walked out his room, his old,worn buny slippers flipfloppiting across the floor. With the Magnacs still on their short, two day vacation, Duo wasnt concerned about anyone seeing him in his usual morning appearance. Shuffling away from the east end of Quatre's mansion, where the bedrooms are located to the west end, where the kitchen,library and musicroom's located. Arriving at the kitchen, he found Wufei and Trowa already seated and having breakfast.Plopping himself in front of them, he started to eat,shoving eight pancakes on his plate,a large plate of eggs,four pieces of toast and five slices of greasy bacon strips. Trowa and Wufei both sat mouth agape at the sight in front of them. They looked at each other with confused expressions on thier faces. It wasnt the abnormal amount of food Duo was about to eat, or the fact that the past great God of Death was sporting fluffy bunny slippers on his feet. In fact, it was Duo's pride and joy, his hair! " Duo, what the...." Trowa started slowly, unsure. "HELL did you do to your hair?!?!" Wufei finished for him. Duo was majorly confused. " I didnt do anything to my hair! Whats wrong with it?" Duo panicked. Trowa handed him a spoon.Duo used the spoon and looked at his reflection on the back and facefaulted! His hair on the top stood at an akward angle that made even Trowa's hair ordinary, large clumps of his hair in his braid hadunwoven itself and knotted in places.Quickly, Duo tried to press down his wild hair to no avail. " Eh, stupid bad hair day..." Duo grumbled. Wufei lifted the table cloth and looked under, resurfacing with a smile. " Whats with the slippers?" Duo took on the defensive. " Hey, man its freezing here and my feet are cold! Besides, The Great Shinigami does not have to explain himself!" Duo speculated, flinging his fork wildly in the air, flinging small pieces of food on Duo's two poor companions. " Well whatever you do, I dont care. Just make sure that you dont fling around half digested food on my clean cothing." Duo stuck his tongue out at him." Well SOORRYY Mr. Stick-In-My-Ass! Im gonna go find Serena, Later!"



Serena sat next to Quatre on the grand piano seat.The solemn sounds of the instrument reaching to her soul and gripping her heart tightly. Quatre paused, allowing Serena to slowly, but surely,imitate his example. He teached her different ways to help channel out her feelings and emotions, and granted her the use of his musical instruments. Quatre once more played the emotionally overwhelming song all the way through and moved aside so Serena could do the same. Her slim fingers nimbly and gracefully flew across the keys, bringing the song to and end with a small smile on her face. She turned to him and smiled her thanks. " Thank you, so very very much Quatre. I needed that." Quatre took her hands in his. " You are always welcome to anything.That includes your right to heal,just make sure that you include Duo in your healing as well.It always helps to have someone by your side." Serena struggled to smile through her unshed tears and nodded.It was the least she could do for him, especially for all the kindness he shown her. " Why dont you take a nap? It looks like you need it." She casted her eyes down. " Yeah, I guess I do," She paused. " Thanks Quatre." He nodded his welcome.Standing up,he held on to Serena's arm and smiled sympatheticaly. " Sleep well Serena. The police are doing all they can to find him,he wont get away with what he's done."



Checking up on Serena as she slept,Duo was summonded to Quatre's office to discuss a business proposition. Duo, as always was the last to come in after the others.Quatre, leaning against his desk, started to speak, aggravation clear in his voice. " I have an errand that I need accomplished.I have a very influential trade partner traveling over here for a meeting even with my claims to be going through a personal crisis which you all know is Serena." He paused as Duo's eyes grew cold and vengeful. " I need you to escort him from the airport to somewhere, hotel, motel, anywhere. I just need him out of my hair for a while.I'll stay with Serena since I'm already behind in my paperwork. His plane lands around 5:00 tomorrow evening." Wufei and Trowa nodded thier acknowledgement while Duo just walked away. Recieving a ' Mission Accepted' from Heero, he and Wufei walked out, giving Quatre privacy.Feeling Trowa's arms wrap around his waist and placing his chin in the crook of his neck, Quatre sighed. " Duo's really upset about this.I've never seen him so sober and calm, its unnerving." Trowa smiled against his lover's shoulder. " I would act the same way if anything like that happened to you,except I'm already sober and calm.Couldnt imagine myself any other way." Quatre chuckled and turned in Trowa's arms,leaning in for a kiss. " Mmmm, neither could I.Doesn't matter, I like you the way you are."



Serena was back with - HIM. She was back in that cursed house and in front of him.Darien had a sneer on his face and a bundle wrapped in blankets in his arms.She stared at it, until it started to cry.Her eyes widened, it was Rini! His presence no longer frieghtened her as she ran to him, intent on snatching the precious bundle from his keeping. She wasn't moving.No, NO!!! Why cant she move?!? Looking down she saw her feet planted firmly on the ground and not responding to her demands to move. Hearing his psychotic laughter brought her glance up to his face.He was holding Rini at arms length and in front of his feet a black hole opened and widened. " Say bye-bye to mommy dearest." He leered. " NNNNOOOOO!!! please!! Darien dont do this! Please!" Her begging was useless, for as soon as she stopped, Dariens hold on Rini relinquished.The invisible force holding her back let her go and she fell to her knees.Darien sulked over to her and pulled her head up by her hair until their eyes were level. " Lover boy is next,say good-bye!" Throwing her helpless body to the ground, Darien viciously kicked Serena over the edge of the black pit, her screams echoing through the void..........





*** Sorry this part took so long to get out, im pretty lazy and the deal with fanfiction.net didnt make the situation any easier.Until next time!