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Disclaimer: If you've read the other five chapters, you'd get the idea.

A Tale Re-Told

Chapter Six: A Plan is Born

Mina lay awake in her hotel room. She could here Quatre's light snores from the bed next to hers. Duo was sprawled out on the floor on the other side of her bed talking in his sleep. She stared at the ceiling. She just couldn't get him off her mind. The way he had kissed her hand had send shivers down her spine. His black eyes full of passion staring down at her. 'I'm in love with the man that I'm supposed to hate.' Mina closed her eyes, trying to keep the tears from coming. 'They want to protect me from him, but all I want to do it be with him.' Mina finally gave up on trying to keep the tears from coming. She quietly cried herself to sleep.

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Heero un-clenched and re-clenched his fists to keep from lashing out. She just didn't get it, did she? Heero knew that it was Rei's idea to go out that night. He knew that she was getting restless since she hadn't been allowed to leave the hotel. 'Why is she doing this to me?' Heero thought, 'I'm not supposed to fall in love… It's my job to protect them, especially Mina… but all I can think about is her.'

"Hello!? Are you even listening to me!?" Rei walked over to Heero and waved her hand in front of his face.

Heero caught her hand and held it in his. "I heard you," he whispered.

"What did you say?" She hadn't expected him to grab her hand like that. He had looked like he was in his own little world while she had been yelling at him.

"I heard you. I understand that you only wanted to go out and have fun. God knows that I can understand that. But did you even think of what could have happened? You're friend almost DIED tonight. If he had bitten her we would have been forced to kill her." He held her hand to his heart. "That's not our job. Our job is to protect her." Rei tried to speak but Heero continued. "And did you even think about what could have happened to you or Usagi? He knows that you two are very important to her. He wouldn't hesitate to take one of you to get to her, or us. Trowa would never forgive himself of us if anything happened to Usagi. He loves her." Heero let go of Rei's hand. "When he found out that you, Mina, and her were gone tonight, he went ballistic. He loves her that much."

Rei sat down on the floor, staring at the carpet in front of her. "And what did you do?" she whispered.

Heero knelt down beside her, stroking her hair softly. "I was afraid."

Rei looked up at him, half-startled. "You were afraid?"

Heero's hand slid down to her shoulders. "I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to tell you something that I have been wanting to for a while now."

Rei looked into his cobalt eyes and saw pure emotion there. In the time that she had known Heero, she knew that he was someone who rarely showed his emotions. This outward display of such pure emotion startled her. "What… What did you want to tell me?"

Heero caressed her cheek softly. "That I love you, and that if anything happened to you… I, I wouldn't know what to do." Heero bent down and captured her lips in a kiss full of the emotion he couldn't describe. He was surprised when he felt her return the kiss with the same kind of passion.

He pulled away and stared into her eyes, shining with tears. "I love you," he whispered.

"I love you too." Rei pulled him forward and kissed him again with all the feelings that she held in her heart.

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Wufei remained outside the hotel. 'I will return my love. These mere walls will not keep me from you.' It was almost sunrise when he finally returned to a small abandoned building to rest. When he walked in, Angel greeted him.

She bowed deeply before him. Her long black hair fell over her shoulders; the red highlights glinted in the soft candlelight that surrounded the room. "My master. How was your hunt?"

Wufei scowled down at the girl in front of him. "Not well at all Angel. She escaped me, but she will not escape me again." Wufei walked over to a chair and slumped down into it.

Angle scampered over to him. "My Master is hungry, would Master care for anything to eat?"

Wufei looked up at the young vampiress. "You know very well that I do not need food."

"Oh, but your Angel knows what her master needs." Angel left the room and returned shortly, her tight, floor-length, black and crimson dress whispered softly as she approached him. She held a bottle full of a dark red liquid and two wineglasses. She handed one of the glasses to Wufei.

Wufei looked at the bottle, and then to Angel's dark smiling face. "What is this that you bring me?"

Angel uncorked the bottle and poured a dark red liquid into the wineglass Wufei held. "Something that will keep Master healthy so he can get what he most desires. Angel brings her Master fresh blood."

Wufei took the glass and held it to his lips, looking at Angel the entire time. He tipped the glass back and sipped the rich, dark red liquid. He felt it slide down his throat. "You have pleased me Angel." Wufei finished the glass, feeling the powers that were held in a human's blood flow through his veins. He put the empty glass stained with blood on a small table that was next to the chair he sat in. He licked the blood from his lips, and stared at the ceiling. "What to do… I can do nothing until the sun has sunk below the horizon and darkness rules once again." Wufei stood up and began pacing the room, Angel scampered out of the way and stood next to the empty chair he had occupied a few moments before. "That damned Heero Yuy and his friends will be guarding her, so I can't get her from where she is… I need to get them outside the safety of that building they are staying in."

"May I suggest something, my Master?" Angel stood away from the chair, and walked over to him, placing her hand on his chest, her deep emerald green eyes full of cruelty and lust. "What if you went after her friends first?" Her dark red nails traced circles on his chest before continuing, "If Master took them, wouldn't she come out after them?"

Wufei caught Angel's hand and held it in between his, "Why my dear. I believe that you have something there. With her friends gone, she will become more vulnerable."

Angel's eyes glittered with cruelty, "And then Master can kill her, just like he wishes to?"

Wufei's eyes hardened on the girl in front of him. He let go of her hand and backhanded her across the face, forcing her to fall to the ground in pain. "How dare you even suggest such a thing! I would NEVER do such a thing to my beloved. If you ever think of such a thing again I will not hesitate to kill you and send you directly to the fiery pits of hell!"

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Usagi pulled her thick wool robe around her and curled up on one of the massive beds in the room she shared with Trowa. The sun was coming up now. Trowa was sound asleep on the other bed. He looked so adorable when he slept. Nothing seemed to bother him then. Trowa hadn't spoken to her since they had returned to their room. She had seen the hurt in his eyes when they had been walking back to the hotel, even though he had been trying to comfort her the entire way. 'Why does he care about me so much?' she thought, 'I can understand why he would be upset with me after he had told me not to leave the hotel without him or one of the other guys, but why would he try to comfort me when I was afraid?'

When she had seen whom Mina was with at the bar, she had panicked. She couldn't help but think that it was her fault that Wufei had found Mina. She felt so guilty that she had helped put her friend's life in danger because she and Rei had wanted to get out of the hotel, without the guys, and have some fun. And then Trowa was there. He had held her and comforted her all the way back to the hotel. He had made her feel safe. But once they had reached their room, he had become distant and wouldn't talk to her. She thought that he was only comforting her as part of his job. He was only doing it because he felt obligated to. If only he had known what it had felt like to her to be in his arms. If only her knew what it had done to her, in her heart.

Usagi stood up and walked over to where Trowa lay asleep. In the light from the rising sun, she could see his well-defined features. A peaceful look resided on his face. Usagi reached out and traced his jaw line with her hand. Her hand stopped at his lips. She raised her hand from his face and kissed her fingertips and lightly brushed them against his mouth. "I think I love you, Trowa Barton," she whispered. Usagi stood up and turned to go back to her bed when she felt someone's hands catch her waist and pull her down next to them. She turned around to see Trowa's emerald eye's staring into her light blue ones.

Trowa had woken up when he felt Usagi's light touch caress his face. He had felt the light pressure of her fingertips against his lips and had heard the words she had spoken to him. His heart leaped when he had heard those words, because he felt the same way. Trowa sat up in his bed and tilted Usagi's chin up towards him. "I think that I'm in love with you too." He then bent forward and kissed her soundly on the lips. He felt her shock at first, but then she submitted to the kiss and returned it. When they finally separated, breathless, they looked at each other silently for a moment.

"Are you mad with me, Trowa?" Usagi asked, looking away from him.

Trowa pulled Usagi towards him so she rested her head on his chest, "I could never me mad with you for long. I love you."

"I know that now, but you looked so disappointed when you came to the club tonight." Usagi bit her lip in an attempt to not cry.

Trowa stroked her back softly, "I was worried about you, Mina, and Rei. Especially you. When I got the call from Duo saying that you three were missing, I thought the worst. I thought that Wufei had taken you. You, you scared me."

"You were?"

"Yes, I was."

Usagi snuggled up against him, letting the warmth from his body fill her. Soon she was fast asleep in his arms, feeling truly safe and free of worry. Trowa looked down at her sleeping form and smiled. She looked so peaceful in his arms. Soon after he fell asleep also, still holding Usagi close to him.

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Duo woke up that morning with the sun shining on his face. He groaned as he sat up to see what time it was. The clock read 9:57 am. He looked at the two beds that were in the room. Both Mina and Quatre were still fast asleep. He looked closer at Mina's sleeping form and saw tears stains across her face. 'She must have cried herself to sleep last night,' he thought. Suddenly his stomach let out a loud growl. 'Time to go get some food,' thought Duo as he grabbed a shirt and a pair of jeans. He walked to the door and went next door to Trowa's room to see about getting some breakfast, his disheveled braid swinging behind him. All of the guys had agreed to have copies of each other's keys just in case something happened. Without thinking, Duo opened the door and walked into the room. Duo stopped just inside the door when he saw the site before him.

Right in front of him was the site of Trowa and Usagi, in each other's arms, in the same bed, fast asleep. Duo grinned when he saw this, 'Well it's about time!' he thought. He watched the two forms in front of him peacefully, he thought of something. He grinned evilly before deciding to put his plan into motion. He quietly went back to his room and retrieved a long piece of rope. He then crept back into Trowa's room and tied him and Usagi to the bed they were asleep in.

"Mission accomplished." Duo walked quietly out the door and back to his room. When he got back he found Mina and Quatre awake.

"Where'd you go Duo?" Mina asked, as he walked back into the room.

Duo walked over to her bed and lay down across it on his stomach. He looked over at Mina and grinned evilly. "Oh, nowhere in particular…"

Quatre looked over at him suspiciously, "What did you do Duo."

Duo looked over at Quatre innocently, "Now why would you think that I, of all people, did something?"

Quatre sighed and put down the paper he had been reading, "Because I-"

He was cut off abruptly when he heard an ear-piercing scream from next door. Duo fell off the bed laughing when he heard it. After a few moments of insane laughter he ran out of the room with Quatre and Mina close behind. They ran into Trowa and Usagi's room to find both of them tied together on the bed. When they saw Mina, Quatre, and Duo, they turned bright red.

Trowa clenched his teeth, trying not to yell, "When I find out who did this…"

"OH MY GOD!? WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO YOU TWO!?" Rei and Heero burst into the room, their clothing, well in each other's clothing.

Duo raised an eyebrow at them, while Quatre turned beet red and Mina dissolved into a fit of giggles. Rei blushed bright red, while Heero's cheeks turned the faintest color of pink. Mina started laughing even harder, earning a glare from Rei.

Duo walked over to Rei and put his arms around his shoulders. "Why Rei, did I ever tell you that you look great in that forest green tank top of Heero's?"

Heero glared at Duo, "Duo?"

Duo grinned slyly, "Yes Heero?"

"Shut up."

"Yes Heero" Duo walked back over to where Quatre and Mina were standing.

"Umm, excuse me?" Usagi blushed when everyone looked at her. "Could someone please untie us?" She turned an even brighter shade of red when everyone started laughing, even Heero managed to chuckle.

Mina and Rei walked over to the bed and untied the knots that held Trowa and Usagi to the bed. The moment they were free, Trowa sprang up and launched himself at Duo.

"You will pay for this, baka!"

Duo ran out the door and locked himself in his room, "But I didn't do anything wrong! You two looked so peaceful like that when I walked in the room, so I just decided to make you stay like that for a little while longer!"

Mina and Rei looked at Usagi slyly. "So what where you two doing in the same bed… hmm?" Mina asked.

"Yeah, what WERE you doing?" Rei grinned at her friend.

Usagi turned even redder, "We didn't do anything, I mean, well… We didn't do IT!" Usagi yelled.

Mina and Rei fell on the floor laughing at their friend's response. The noise brought Trowa back into the room. He saw two girls rolling on the floor laughing, a bright red Usagi, an equally red Quatre, and Heero, who was trying not to laugh.

He raised and eyebrow. "Do I even want to know?"

This just made Mina and Rei laugh even harder.

He looked from the laughing girls to Heero and Quatre. "Would you two please get them out of my room? I would like to do something."

Heero couldn't hold it in any longer. He burst out laughing. "Sure thing Trowa," he motioned to Quatre, telling him to pick up Mina while he picked up Rei and walked out the door, closing it behind him.

Trowa turned to face a still red Usagi, "What was that all about?"

Usagi walked over to Trowa and leaned against his chest. "Trust me, you really don't want to know."

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The last rays of the sun's bright light disappeared under the horizon. The city of Chicago was now bathed in total darkness. As soon as this happened, the city's nightlife began its nightly reign. Some more dangerous than others.

Wufei stepped outside of the old building with Angel at his side. He breathed in the scent of fresh blood around him. The streets were already filling with the intense energy of its nightlife. Angel fidgeted anxiously at his side, ready for the hunt. Wufei looked down at her, a cold, cruel smile playing across his handsome features. "Go. Let us set our plan in motion."

Angel looked up at her master. "But what of you, Master? Will you not be coming with me?"

Wufei looked out into the crowds of people and smirked evilly. "I will be waiting when you return with your prize. I must hunt, for the blood you gave me was not enough for the trial we shall be facing."

Angel bowed deeply before Wufei, "Of coarse my Master. I shall not fail you."

"Good, now go."

Angel hurried off towards the hotel Mina and everyone else was staying at. Her mission clear in her mind. She had to get al least one of Mina's friends for her Master. She could not fail him. For failure meant death. And death from Wufei would be the most painful thing imaginable. He could, and did, do the most horrible things imaginable to his victims. There would be no mercy.

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A/N: The end of chapter six is here! Review!!