Yes...I don't own Gundam Wing.

(yells back to the lawyors) ya happy?

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Quatre arrived at Preventer HQ to find Trowa already there. Apparently the uni-banged circus clown had also gotten a message from Heero Yuy. Why the Wing pilot had summoned both of them to Earth, neither of them knew. They got up to Wufei's office only to find it empty and still scattered with Duo's possesions like a tornado had picked up in L2 and travelled all the way to Earth dumping Duo's entire wardrobe in on Wufei's office. Quatre observed the mess, slightly curious about this scene.

"You'd think he'd have cleaned it up by now."

"Wufei hides a lot more then any of us will ever know. Come on."

Trowa turned around and walked out of the office, Quatre following close behind his friend as they wandered through the preventer halls. Anything beyond the fifth floor needed security clearence. Over a year ago all the pilots had been given a decent clearence level. Une's logic to this was that all five pilots had done enough preventer work to merit a fewclearence levels and all of them, expecially Heero, would probably have found a way through the added security if either really wanted to. The broken in laboratory was proof of that. They had no sooner reached the top floor when they were greeted by Sally Po, who seemed to have been waiting out in the hall for quite some time. When she saw the two former pilots she stood up from her seat and turned to face them.

"Trowa. Quatre."

Quatre nodded to Sally. "What's going on?"

"You're guess is as good as mine."

Trowa spoke. "Where are they?"

"Heero and Wufei? In there getting an earful from Une." She indicated the two double wooden doors leading to Lady Une's office.

Quatre was still confused. "Why?"

"Apparently they dug up a grave last night. Duo's grave."

Quatre nearly choked. "I'm sorry what?"


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"You desecrated a grave!!!"

Lady Une was furious. She continued to yell at both Heero and Wufei, only pausing to catch her breath. The two former pilots had gone to Une after contacting the others, they had planned all four of them to go in together and break the news. Unfortunatly Une had discovered their escapade just before Trowa and Quatre had been scedualed to arrive. Who knew she would visit Duo the next morning? Regardless Une had discovered the perpetrators and felt the need to voice her objections. "What's more you broke into the preventer lab. Do you make a habit out of stealing body parts?"

Wufei folded his arms, unphased. "It was Duo's grave."

"I don't care if it was Speedy the Hampter! You dug up a body! How am I going to explain this?"

Speedy the Hampster was Heero's first and last pet. Duo had bought it for him as a gag gift for christmas. He had even included a cage, bedding, a water bottle and a little wheel for exercise. Speedy had lasted a week in the company of Heero before the Wing pilot shot it for running on it's wheel in the middle of the night and disturbing his sleep. Heero had wanted to flush the hampster down the toilet. Wufei wanted to know why he hadn't thought of exterminating the hampster himself. Trowa confermed that Heero was not good with animals. Quatre wanted to bury the hampster with full funeral rights and a tiny little casket. Duo stuffed the deceased pet into a shoebox and buried Speedy in the backyard. The story remained legendary as a reminder to never get Heero anything living at all.

Heero interupted. "Duo wasn't in it."

"What are you talking about?"

They were interupted when the door opened and Trowa, Quatre and Sally entered the room. Quatre was hesitent as he looked from Wufei then to Heero, still in surprise of the news that had just been delivered to him. Trowa merely nodded, curious but still saying nothing, waiting for the recent events to explain themselves. Sally already having had time for the news to sink in, was perfectly calm and waited forthe first person to speak.

Une was the one to break the silence. "I assume Heero and Wufei called you here."

Both boys nodded and it was then that Wufei reached into his jacket and tossed the skeletal remains of a hand onto Une's desk, mush to the disaproval of Une herself. Une took one look at the hand before turning back to the boys. "Would either of you like to start explaining?"

Heero volunteered, probably because he seemed the one most aware of what might, or actually was going on. "Duo is not dead."

"And you can prove this."

"That is not Duo's hand, because the body that was buried was not Duo's"

If Trowa was surprised he didn't show it. Still, the subtle movements that the 03 pilot did make was indication that there was a change in the other boy's mood. "Who's then?"

Wufei was the one to speakthis time. "Probably some homeless man, someone who wouldn't be missed."

"He wasn't missed, but he wasn't homeless."

Wufei seemed irritated that Heero was now revealing information that the chinese boy figured he should have been told about before hand. The other boy seemed to be enjoying the fact that he was releasing all that he knew little by little. "What are you talking about Heero?"

"I did some checking on recorded genetic profiles." He tossed the disk containing lastnight's escapade onto Une's desk next to the severed hand. "Lucious Janeco was a prisoner at Red Cliff Penetentary for muder and arson. He disapeared 3 months ago and was assumed to have escaped. Someone wanted us to think he was dead."

Quatre was silent for a long time as all this new information began to sink in. "That means Duo is still alive!"

Trowa nodded. "It's possible. But we also don't know why anyone would want us to think he was dead."

Wufei spat. "If he's still alive."

Heero shook his head. "No one would go through that much trouble to make us think he died just to kill them."

Une looked at the hand in disgust before pcking up the disk. "What makes you think he wasn't dead in the first place?"

"It was too perfect. Someone set him up. And they used us to do it."

Quatre spoke. "We have to find him."

Trowa began to catch on. "Few people knew of our connection."

Wufei nodded. "So that leaves few suspects, if we count out those of us in this room."

Heero drew his gun, inspecting itas if he was preparing to use it very soon. "The scientists, Relena, Milliardo, Dorothy, and Noin."

Quatre nodded. "Relena would never. I don't think Dorothy would go to so much trouble "

Heero cocked his gun. "Neither would noin. Milliardo would never go that far."

Trowa nodded. "So that leaves the scientists."

Wufei scowled. "The fools."

"Not quite." Heero aimed his gun and pulled the trigger, causing a hollow click which was the sound of an unloaded gun. He reached into his pocket and began to load the bullets one by one. "There is no purpose in kidnapping just one of us since the wars have ended. No need to go through so much trouble to lure us either. So we have to rule out those we know."

Wufei scowled. "And that leaves us at square one."

Une and Sally had long since backed up from the conversation. Both women were getting a first hand glimpse at the pilots at work. They seemed off in their own world as they discussed Duo and motives amongst themselves, never seeming to need or want anyone else for input.

Quatre looked up, staring at the dead hand on the desk. "What about the prisoner? If that was his body then, maybe he didn't escape."

Wufei looked at the Winner boy. "We were following a lead on an escaped prisoner the day Duo was taken."

Heero looked at Lady Une. "There have been a lot of prison escapes havn't there?"

Une nodded. "Several this year."

"Show us the files. Now."