THIS CHAPTER IS WRITTEN FOR BANSHEE!!

My Dear Ban, you are an absolute gem of a friend and you have read so many of my stories, I don't know how I can ever repay you, so please accept this chapter out of humble adoration and sheer gratitude, I LOVE you girl!!!!

A/N - My dear and faithful reviewers, I Lora-Helen, and my amazing Co- author Digital Jessie, are proud and yet saddened to welcome you to the tenth and final instalment of "The Loneliest Number is 01." It has taken us many months and many sore fingers, in my case, and sore sides (through overuse of my large pointy stick) in DigitalJessie's to get this far and we hope you have enjoyed the ride as much as we have.

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We do apologise for our severely slow postings of the chapters, but we do hope that they were worth the wait. Well, now without further ado, we give you, chapter ten.

Oh Yes, a warning, Relena bashing, not to bad, but you know, necessity and all, also a lil bit o smooching, no more, but I hope you guys like!!!

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"But you know what I think? We should put together some little way of thanking them a little get together of some kind perhaps?" Trowa smiled slyly at the blonde in his arms who gave him a knowing look.

"I think you might be right Trowa, and I think I know the very way."

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The next day dawned bright and sunny, a light wind caused the summer leaves to rustle pleasantly against each other and the flowers and grass that were the gardens of the Winner estate to dance. All in all it was a glorious day, the weather belying the horrors that Heero was to encounter, yes, it was the day, of Quatres great plan.

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Yawning enormously, Duo wandered into the kitchen, it was 07:30, it was a nice day already, and all Duo had planned was getting some food and then going back to bed, but what did it matter, its not like anything important had to be done today, Trowa was staying with Quatre, that had been resolved, and there was nothing else that needed dealing with, except Heero, but that was a lost cause, Heero didn't want him, he was sure of that, and right now, he was tired of trying, he wasn't going to spend his free time dwelling on the ex-wing pilot. But not dwelling on him was so hard. He had given his heart to him, and never been given anything back.

After toasting himself two slices of bread and buttering them he sat down at the table, no sign of the others, they were always up earlier but.. Oh well, they probably had things to do.

Trowa and Quatre were happy, and he was glad that they were, but that didn't stop him envying them, he wished that someone loved him as unconditionally as those two loved each other. But, what reason had he ever given people a reason to love him like that.

Sighing again, Duo let his gaze fall on the view from out the large kitchen window.

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Duo scowled at himself, I thought I wasn't going to dwell on it any more. Oh well, once more cant hurt. Duo let his thought slip back to the midnight blue eyed, chocolate haired, and still stoic ex-pilot that still had control of his heart. Got up from the table and slouched his way back to his bedroom. He needed mire sleep.

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Heero sighed and pushed the book he had been trying to read away from him. He couldn't concentrate, he had read the same line over and over, at least thirty-two times.

"You're a Wizard Harry."

Heero snorted, where had Quatre found this book anyway, it looked ancient and the plot, well, it was.. Strange. Closing the book, Heero turned it over in his hands and gave the old and faded cover a disapproving look. A black haired boy standing next to a train, the book had absolutely nothing to do with trains, and people tried to light fires with umbrellas. To Heeros logical mind this was simply incomprehensible.

Heero looked around the library, there was something.. Something missing, it was quiet in the library, and that was what he had wanted, some peace and quiet in which to think.

Wait!!!!

Quiet!!!

That was it, it was quiet, too quiet, there was no background noise, no Duo. He had gotten so used to the braided American bouncing around him, and to be honest he had enjoyed the attention, that it was strange and ultimately unpleasant not to have him around. He always wanted Duo with him, and he, despite how it may seem, wanted Duo's attention. That was why he had gotten angry when Duo had tried to introduce his friends to him a while back.

Heero sighed and let the book fall to the table top. He knew how he felt about Duo, he knew he loved the braided American, it just seemed that fate was against him.

That day, about two weeks after Duo had started living with him again he had decided to tell him how he felt, but with Heero, actions definitely spoke louder than words, and Heero had decided that he would cook them both dinner, An unusual event being as they practically lived off microwaveable meals. But his plan had been ruined when Duo had brought two of his friends home, and Heero had stormed out.

Duo it appeared had never even realised what Heero had planned [1]. Heero sighed again, the chance for him to tell Duo just hadn't been right since that day, maybe it just wasn't meant to be. But would that stop the ex-Wing pilot..? At the moment.. Yes.

A knock on the library door, and the sound of it creaking open caught Heeros attention, standing in the doorway was one of Quatres servants.

"Umm, Mr Yuy, please forgive this interruption, but, master Quatre would like your presence in the Blue Room please."

Heero nodded, gave 'Harry Potter' a final unfriendly glare before setting it back on the book shelf and followed the servant out, and down the hall to the blue room.

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The servant opened the door and bowed Heero in. Quatre immediately rose and greeted him warmly, Trowa offered his customary nod, and for once, a small smile.

It was then that Heero noticed it, and a few seconds later it was wrapped around his waist, and Heeros eyes were practically bulging. Yes. It was the fluffy pink limpet, the most fearsome creature in the world, the hard to like, and even harder to lose, Relena Peacecraft.

"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOO!"

Heero paled. Her voice, it was so shrill.

Quatre stepped carefully back across the room into the protective arms of his lover, being followed by the wide, and yet, still glaring eyes of Heero. It was a big risk to both of their health's to have let Relena to know that Heero was here, but, well, it had seemed like a good idea at the time, and Quatre had been convinced that it would work and Trowa simply refused to have any doubts in the blonde. But by the look on Heero's face things may not be pretty.

Prising her arms from around him, Heero managed to dump the once Queen of the World onto a sofa and legged it out the room, it took about twenty seconds for Relena to realise that she was hugging a pillow instead of Heero, and with an annoyed flounce she practically skipped out of the room after him.

"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOO!"

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Up in his room Duo sat up, yawned and rubbed his eyes. What had woken him up? It was only, 09:45 he was never up before 12, so, what could be different. And then her heard it.

"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOO!"

In three seconds flat Duo was out of bed and running down the hallway, round to the left, round to the right and down the stairs, down more stairs, and more, and more and more... And more and more and more and more and..

"WHOA!!!!"

Duo Ran straight into the fast moving form of...

"Oh shit.."

It was Heero. And now they were both in a tangled heap on the floor. This would not look good to anyone who happened to walk town the hall, especially as he, Duo, was only wearing a pair o boxers.

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Heero blinked, and tried to think through how this had happened, he had been running down the hall around from Relena, and now he was lying on the floor with Duo on his chest. And Duo.. Well, lets just say that to Heero he looked damn good.

Heero continued to sit and stare at Duo, expecting every second that Duo would move, but he didn't, he just continued to lay, half across Heeros chest.

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Duo couldn't believe it, he was laying half across Heero's chest, and, he was NOT being pushed off. He couldn't believe it, and he wasn't planning on moving until he had to, and by his calculation, they had about twenty seconds until the pink pest arrived. Duos breath caught in his throat as Heeros eyes found his.

he thought ruefully, not letting his eyes leave Heero's

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Heero found his eyes were fixed on Duo's, it was almost as if he had never seen those eyes before, he was noticing so many little details about them that he had never seen before, like, how they were about two shades darker around the pupil, and got lighter and bluer towards the edges, how they were ringed with a dark colour, and shot with very fine lines of a periwinkle blue. They were the most beautiful eyes he had ever seen.

Carefully Heero lifted his hand from the floor and rested it on Duo's cheek, smiling slightly as those beautiful eyes widened.

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Duo couldn't believe it, Heero was touching him, actually touching him, as in, voluntarily initiating contact. Duo smiled, lowering his eyes as a faint blush crept across his face, slowly he raised his hand and placed it over the one Heero had laid on his cheek.

Heero smiled. Properly and Duo felt a genuine smile creep across his own face.

Things were certainly looking up.

"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOO! WHY ARE YOU LAYING ON THE FLOOR WITH DUO!!!! ITS SOOOOO DISGUSTING, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING!!?!!!??!??!?!"

Some how she managed to soften her voice.

"Come Daaaarling, come lay with me instead."

Heero's face took on a disgusted look and Duo gagged.

Relena stood and tried to look seductive, and Heero could hear Duo muttering.

"Come on Heero, do something.. Run..yeah run..hit her!! Kick her..she's in range! Kiss me!! Anything!!"

Heero focussed his eyes on the American who was still laying across his chest.

Without another thought Heero leant forward and pressed his lips against Duo's.

Duo's eyes widened in shock and then softened in a smile as he began to kiss Heero back.

Heero broke the kiss, sat up, re-positioning Duo as he did so, and placed one hand on each of Duo's cheeks. "I.. I'm not much good with words, Duo, so.. So I'll keep it simple, I love you, I've love you for.. Well, for long enough for me to have been a fool not to tell you, but, yeah, I love you Duo, and I had to tell you."

There were tears in Duos eyes as Heero spoke, and when the midnight eyed boy fell quiet Duo wrapped his arms around Heeros stomach and started to cry into his shoulder. Heero, blinking somewhat, wrapped his arms tightly round Duo. Raising his eyes from the weeping braided man he scowled at Relena.

Relena was in quite a state, the only noises that she seemed to be able to be able to articulate where out raged gasps.

"Go Away, Relena."

"NO!!" Relena shrieked, How DARE YOU!! Tell ME!! What to DO!!!!! YOU LED ME ON!!!! YOU MADE ME THINK YOU LOVED ME!"

Heero growled, slowly unhooked Duo's arms from around his stomach, set him down on the floor and got to his feet.

Relena took a deep breath and straightened her dress. "Now, Heero." She said, making her voice rational once again. "Lets calm down, you come away with me and we can sort this all out, you don't LOVE HIM, you are just confusing your feelings, its ME you love, cant you see that?"

Heero let out an exasperated gasp, "Listen Relena, I have never loved you.. I love Duo, I will always loved Duo, and I Have always loved Duo. Understand and be happy. Be happy for me."

Relena, crying, fled from the room, proof that Heero didn't love her was too much to bear, but Heero, as he returned and sat beside Duo, knew that one day she would get over it.

Duo lifted his head and wrapped his arms round Heeros neck. "You were brilliant Heero, you were absolutely brilliant, and I Love you too. I Love you SO much!"

There was a small around of applause from the doorway that led into the living room, and Heero and Duo looked up to see Trowa and Quatre standing, clapping and beaming at them, well, beaming and crying in Quatre case, and smiling mildly in Trowas case.

Quatre, still crying, ran across the room and threw his arms round both of their necks.

"You two... are the biggest...biggest pair of idiots, I have EVER known!!!" He laughed, tears still coursing down his cheeks.

"We know!" Replied Heero with a grin as he placed a kiss on Duo's forehead. "But you still love us? Right Quatre?"

Laughter filled the hall, even that of the two normally silent men. And that concludes this tale of confusion and sadness, with a happy ending that will warm the heart.

But is there tale truly at an end? Only time will tell!

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[1] - Well, do any of you guys remember (aside from my dear dear Banshee, who is one of the most amazing writers in the world!! And who was the only one who actually noticed this parts significance!!) that part in chapter 8 when Duo went out and then came home with Will and Tom, and Heero went all weird and left and Duo found the food in the bin and the corked bottle of wine, well, this is what was MEANT to have happened that day!!!!

W00T, that is the Fanfic, known as the loneliest number is 01 at its conclusion, and I hope the ending wasn't too disappointing.

Do you guys want a sequel? Jessie and I were thinking of doing one! If you are interested!!

Well, maybe, who knows, a review would be greatly appreciated, and we would like to thank all of you WONDERFULL people that reviewed, we love you all SO much!!

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Good bye for now reviewer dears, maybe I will see you again!!