Title: Truth, Lies and Everything In-between (Part 9)

read part 1 for the disclaimer and other notes

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=== - flashback

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"But what a fool believes.
He sees,
No wise man has the power
To reason away.
What seems to be,
Is always better than nothing.
And nothing at all..."
--What a Fool Believes, Doobie Brothers

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Heero drove down the street as fast as he could. He knew exactly where Trowa was headed. He needed to talk to him before he did something stupid. Though he wasn't exactly sure what Trowa *would* do, or what "stupid" covered in possible outcomes.

Heero didn't know what *he* was gonna do.

He knew about Trowa's job and it never bothered him, but now it was starting to.

Suddenly memories of the night he found out what Trowa did flooded his mind.

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"Trowa?" Trowa glanced up at Heero and slowly nodded. "Can I ask you something?" Trowa leaned back and nodded again. "I was wondering...what do you do? I mean, what do you do for a living?" Trowa blinked, was this really something to be asking now?

"Um...wanna know the truth?" Heero blinked, and nodded. Of course he wanted to know the truth. "Well, I am an assassin."

"A what?" Trowa sat up, staring at Heero.

"An assassin. I kill people for money."

"Oh...I see...how long have you been doing that?"

"Since I was nineteen."

"Oh..."

"Um...yeah..."

Heero leaned up and wrapped his arms around Trowa's waist. "The pay good?"

Trowa blinked, "Um...yeah."

"Good."

"You're okay with that?"

"Sure, I'm sure these people deserve it, ne?" Trowa blinked once more and nodded. "Then that's all that matters."

"Aren't you a police officer?"

"Detective. One of the youngest ever."

"And you are okay with what I just said?" Heero sighed, hugging Trowa to him.

"I could care less what you do..."

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And that was the truth. He didn't really care what Trowa did, just as long as they were together.

But being the lover of an assassin wasn't easy. Trowa was always leaving early in the morning and coming home late at night. It was hard to arrange dates and keep them. There were lots of secrets Trowa kept from Heero, but that really didn't bother him. (He had secrets of his own.) The only thing that had worried Heero, in the three years of their relationship, was if Trowa would be calling him the next day.

Heero turned left onto Baranca, only a block more to Trowa's house.

"Trowa! Now I get it!" Heero jerked his head to the left; Duo's eyes were wide as he stared out of the window.

"What!?" Heero turned his head back towards the road; he was now turning left onto Algrove.

"Trowa. Now I know where I heard his name before. When I met him yesterday his name sounded so familiar. I didn't know why though...but now I do. And I also know why he was asked to kill me!" Duo was smiling as if he had just found gold.

"Well, why!?" Heero was losing his patient. He quickly turned right into the parking structure for Trowa's apartment.

"I have been doing some investigating into a local mob group, the Murks. I had uncovered hundreds of names for their members, and also a few names of their assassins. Trowa's name was on that list! I knew it sounded familiar!" Duo turned to look at Heero, just as the car pulled into a parking space.

"Hn." Heero threw the car into park and jumped out of the driver's seat. He didn't have time to worry about what Duo had said, now. Right now he had to get to Trowa.

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"Hello Trowa." Trowa froze. He knew it; he was in deep shit.

"Trieze." Trowa stood up straight, looking over his bosses figure. Trieze was only an inch or two taller then Trowa, and he had much broader shoulders. His hair was short, deep blonde and short. He was dressed in his normal deep blue suit. He had a smile on his lips, but his eyes were fierce with rage.

"What happened today, Trowa?"

"What do you mean?" Trowa slowly turned and closed the door. As he turned back around Trieze was right in front of him.

to be continued...

CCT: Okay, another lemon scene cut there. ^^ (can you tell I like Heero and Trowa lemons? Teehee) The scene was at the beginning of the flashback.