Silver Tears of the Dragon, Part 2 By: Sylverfall Pairing: 5x2 Disclaimers: I don't own the gundam boys, I don't own Paradise by Vanessa Carlton, and I don't own Desert Rose by Sting, I own nothing, so please don't sue. Rating: R Warnings: Drugs, Violence

//once upon a year gone by she saw herself give in//

The ambulance rushes WuFei to the hospital. He has lacerations down he left leg, some internal bleeding, a broken wrist, and 3rd degree burns, along with a gunshot wound in his left shoulder. He's already unconscious duo to blood loss when they get to the scene.

//every time she closed her eyes she saw what could have been//

Duo woke up to the sound of his cell phone ringing, and no WuFei in bed next to him. He didn't recognize the number, but picked up the phone anyways. "Hello?" "Is this a Mr. Duo Maxwell?" "Yes, it is." "Are we to understand that you know a certain WuFei Chang?" "Yes. Why?" "We are to inform you that he has been in a car accident and that you are to come to the hospital to answer some questions. Is that okay?"

//Well nothing hurts and nothing bleeds with covers tucked in tight//

Duo just stood there frozen for a second. "Mr. Maxwell? Are you there? Hello?" "Um. which hospital?" "St. Stephan's. Do you know where that is?" "Yes. I'll be there." He hung up the phone, and got dressed. He called Trowa, to see if they had gotten off their mission yet. "Hello?" "Trowa?" "Duo! Have you seen Quatre?" "No, I haven't. I just got up. WuFei's in the hospital. They say he had a car accident." "Really? But he's always been a safe driver. When did this happen?"

//Finally when the bottom drops out she forgets to fight///

"I don't know. I take it Quatre's mission?" "Yes, the mission went badly, then his sister showed up in the Wing Gundam. He went missing afterwards." "Oh. No, I haven't seen him. I'll let you know if I do." "Thanks. I'll let Heero know." "Could you? Thanks." "Talk to you later." "Yeah. I'll be at St. Stephan's." Duo hang up, and drove WuFei's motorcycle to the hospital.

//to fight//

Heero was just getting out of questioning when his cell phone rang. He picked it up after seeing that it was Trowa. "Yuy?" "Hn." "Quatre went missing after the last mission. It was going pretty bad, and then his sister, Adrianne, showed up in your gundam.

//and it's one more day in paradise//

He lost it, and Duo hasn't seen him. I haven't been able to contact WuFei, and I just found out he's in the hospital." "Well, doesn't that complete a bad day." "Huh?" "Relena got killed at the AID's function." "What?! How did that happen? Does anybody know who it was yet?" "No, but they have their suspicions." "They were right, you know?"

//one more day in paradise//

"About what?" "I'm just better off alone." Heero hung up then. And walked out of the station.

//As darkness quickly steals the light that shines beneath her eyes//

When Duo checked in at the desk, he found out he would not be able to see WuFei yet. He was still in critical condition, and they didn't want anyone that wasn't family around him. *But I'm the closest thing he had to family! Don't they get it? I need to see him! * Duo sat in the waiting room to hear more on how he was doing.

//She swallows all her fear and soothes her mind with lies//

Trowa finally finds the Sandrock, but there is no sign of Quatre anywhere. He's already tried to call Quatre on the cell at least six times, but he's not picking up. He's hoping that he's okay, but he has no clue where to begin looking for him since no one else has seen him anywhere. He calls up Rasid to see if he's heard from him at all. "Hello?" "Rasid?" "Trowa, hello." "Have you seen Quatre? No one's seen him since the last mission that he and I had together." "Master Quatre's missing?"

//Well all she wants and all she needs are reasons to survive//

"We believe so. WuFei might have seen him, but he's been in the hospital in a coma for a day or so now. So if he has, he can't say it." "I'll tell the rest of the boy's then. We'll keep an eye out." "Let us know if you find him, please." "Will do." He hung up, and then headed for the preventer's headquarters.

//a day in which the sun will steal her artificial light//

Heero's phone went off again. He was hacking into the preventer's files to see what exactly the objective was of Quatre's and Trowa's last mission, and to see if maybe Quatre's sister, Adrianne, had any reason at all to be near the gundams at all.

//her light//

So far he'd found out that their objective had been to destroy a base where it seemed that someone was trying to start up White Fang again, but outside of that there was nothing. He went to what was left of the base that they had destroyed, but there was no sign of any recordings of what happened. He gave up and went to the safe house for the night.

//and it's one more day in paradise

WuFei is still in a coma, and had been for two weeks now. Duo refuses to leave his side. They now know that there is no way for the car accident to have been an accident. It had been shot at several times, and then it had flipped after loosing one of the tires, meaning he would have had to have been driving at least 80. They still have no idea whose gun it was, but they're pretty sure they could figure that out pretty soon.

//one more day in paradise//

They already figured out who it was that killed Relena Peacecraft, and Heero has not been seen since the news reached him. Trowa's pretty sure he's out to kill the bastard, and Heero would be the one person who could find someone without needing to get an address first.

//it's one more day in paradise//

Just a name and he was on his way. Trowa could understand that he needs to kill the person who killed Relena; he and Quatre had almost faced the exact thing a few years earlier. Quatre was at a meeting, supposedly. He had not gone when he found out from Heero that someone was targeting that conference.

//one last chance to feel all right//

Trowa hadn't known that for a while though, and he had searched the people out that had been responsible for it. Although he didn't kill them, they would never see the outside of a cell again. It was later that he had found out that Quatre didn't die there, that he had purposefully not gone to that one.

//all right//

Trowa was out by the base that WuFei had been by when he lost control of the car. He noticed that it wasn't too far from where he had found the Sandrock gundam, and figured that maybe Quatre had stayed nearby after all. He went to the nearby hotels to see if Quatre had ever checked into one of them.

//don't pretend to hold it in, just let it out//

As it turned out he had, and then had taken off a few days later. He thought for a bit, and then went back to Catherine's circus. If he wanted to find Quatre, it was best to let Quatre come to him than for him to search him out at this point.

//don't pretend to hold it in, just push it out//

Catherine was exuberant at seeing Trowa again. "You're back! I was worried that you weren't ever going to some back, even to say hi." "I had to. The lions would miss me if I didn't, now wouldn't they?"

//don't you try to hold it in, just let it out//

He was by one of the cages, petting one of the lions, which was purring loudly, with a look of sheer bliss on its face. Catherine got a big smile on her face. "So your back then?" "For a while, anyways. I don't have anything better to do, anyways." She just nodded then headed for the dressing trailer.

//don't you try to hold it in, just push it out//

Heero has still found no trace of Quatre anywhere. Trowa hasn't seen any sign of Quatre either, and he's starting to get really worried. Quatre and he had both been exposed to the zero system, so he knew his sister had seen them both only as enemies, but he knew it had to have hurt him so much for that to happen.

//one more day in paradise//

Even more though, he knew that it must have totally broken him to watch as Trowa shot at the Wing Zero gundam despite the fact that it was his sister in there. Trowa hadn't wanted to do it, but he hadn't had any other choice. It was them or Adrianne, and the instinct to survive was stronger than the instinct to protect her.

//one more day in paradise//

IF there had been any other way, he would have taken it, but there had been no other option given to him, and he had to protect himself and Quatre. He had made the only decision there was for him to make.

//it's one more day in paradise//

WuFei had finally woken up for the coma, but he doesn't remember at all what happened. He knows that he got shot. He knows he was driving at that the wheels had gotten shot out. He knows he had been at the dance with Duo earlier. But that's all he knows.

// One last chance to feel all right//

He can't remember why he was driving at that time in morning, and he didn't know who it was who had shot him, or why. He knew now that Relena was also dead, and that there were suspects in that, and he knew that Quatre had been missing since the night of the mission. The same night that Relena had died. The same night that some had tried to kill him too.

//once upon a year gone by she saw herself give in//

He knew it all had something to do with Quatre's disappearance, but he didn't have any idea why he felt that. All he wanted was to able to remember, and to get out of the hospital. It smelled too much like depression and death and pain and the chlorine and other chemicals used to attempt covering all these smells. Not to mention the fact that the food was horrendous. It taste awful. Duo, who couldn't cook to save his life, made better tasting food than this.

//every time she closed her eyes she saw what could have been//

WuFei was trying to piece together how what had happened to him and what had happened to Relena together with Quatre's disappearance when Duo walked in. "Hey WuFei!" He said cheerily, bouncing over to give him a hug, and setting some tulips on the table next to WuFei's bed. "Nice to see you too, Maxwell. I'd say I missed you, but there's no way for us to tell, huh?" "WHAT?!"

//I dream of rain I dream of goddess in the desert sand //

"Just kidding! I did miss you." Duo got a relieved look, then sat down on the bed next to WuFei. "So. what would you do if I were to break you out of here?" Duo had a mischievous gleam in his eyes, and that big, idiotic smile that he got whenever he was planning something that was excruciatingly painful in its stupidity.

//I wake in vain I dream of lover's tireless run through my head//

"Duo, if you got caught, I'm gonna say that you're kidnapping attempts will persist if they keep letting you here." "WuFei. please?" He had a pleading puppy dog look, and WuFei just couldn't say no. He looked so adorable. "Oh. alright, but this is one thing that I won't ever recover my pride from."

//I dream of fire Dreams that are tied to a horse that will never tire//

"Pride? What pride? I thought you lost that when you started going out with me." "Ai shiteru, baka. Duo, sometimes I worry about you." "Ah, I can take care of myself. I'm Shingami!" "Baka."

//In the flames Shadows play in the shape of a man's desire//

Trowa spots Quatre in the crowd at one of his performances. They make eye contact, and he just nods at him. The next chance he gets to look, Quatre's gone without a trace. When the show is over, he goes to the lion cages, and sees Quatre there.

//Desert rose Shadows play the secrets from this//

"Quatre.?" He turns and looks at Trowa, then runs over and hugs him. "I'm so sorry, Trowa.." "For what?" "Never mind. I missed you." "I missed you too. Where did you go?" He gets an uncomfortable look, and backs off from Trowa. "Just. about. I had stuff to do."

//Desert flowers Secret few that have taught you more than this//

"Oh. Um. You know everyone's been worried about you? We even had Rasid looking for you." "Really?" "Yeah. We found your gundam a few weeks ago, but there was no sign of you, so we got worried.." "I'm okay, though." "You want to go to the safe house?" "Yes. That would be nice."

//And as she turns This place it falls in a logical way//

Duo had managed to sneak WuFei out of the hospital without getting caught. A real feat, when you take into consideration the fact that neither one of them was someone you would see every day. An American boi with long chestnut brown hair in a braid and violet eyes wearing black leather pants and an indigo silk shirt was not a normal sight, especially with an Asian boi dressed in a silk Chinese dragon shirt and baggy khaki pants.

//My dreams This fire burns//

When they got to the safe house they saw Trowa and Quatre. Duo threw himself at Quatre, who laughed, and then stopped when he set eyes on WuFei, and then he got a guilty look. Duo was chattering with the both of them, but WuFei stayed a bit back before heading off for his and Duo's room.

//I realize that nothings as it seems I dream of rain//

Quatre had had an almost guilty look on his face when their eyes met, and he just wanted some time to think without interruptions anyways. He hadn't had very much time at the hospital, what with the nurses checking in on him constantly, and the patient that was sharing the room with him, a thin curtain separating them, had had the T.V on constantly and was also a very load and boisterous talker in his sleep.

//I dream of goddess in the desert sand I wake in vain//

WuFei was glad to be out, but he still wanted to figure things out, especially with that guilty look Quatre had gotten upon seeing him. He was pretty set now on the idea that Quatre had something to do with it. But how? Quatre wouldn't have done something like that. unless he had no other choice but to. no Quatre wouldn't have been responsible for something like that, even in that case.

//I dream of lovers tireless run through my head I dream of rain//

Heero's out at the base that had mysteriously been blown up on the same day that WuFei had been hospitalized and Quatre and Trowa's mission had gone wrong somewhere, and Relena had been killed.

//I lift my gaze to empty skys above I close my eyes in rare perfume of the sweet intoxication of her love//

The same day that Quatre had gone missing for a while. It was all too coincidental for him. I t had to be linked, and maybe he could find that link here. He starts going through the debris, looking for security cameras and the such.

//I dream of rain I dream of goddess in the desert sand//

So far he's found one in tact, but he knows there was more than that, and he'd need to be looking at as many as he could to get the full picture. He found only five in tact, but he figures that should be enough. He takes them back to the safe house with him.

//I wake in vain I dream of lovers tireless run through my head//

Watching the tapes, Heero figures out that Quatre had been seen before his disappearance, and figures the reason no one knew that was because the last person to have seen him was unconscious just minutes later. But at least he knew how WuFei had some to be that way, and who it was who had blown up the base. Duo walked in when Heero was watching it.

//Desert rose Take shadows secret from this//

"What'cha watching, He-chan?" Heero nearly fell out of his chair. "Just some security tapes from that base that was blown up. You might want to have a look at them yourself." "Okay." Heero re-wound the tapes, and played them again for Duo.

//The desert flowers rare perfume is the sweet intoxication of her fall//

Duo just sat there, frozen. Heero glanced over at him. "So. that's how he got shot. too bad we can't hear what Quatre or WuFei is saying." Heero stopped the tape, and Duo walked out of the room, not sure what to say about what he just saw.

OWARI