It was a small blessing that Relena had the sense to call Sally directly rather than emergency dispatch. There was no way an ambulance heading to the Peacecraft estate would go unnoticed. While Cole was sent to the clinic at preventer headquarters, Heero and Wufei retrieved the unconscious man from the apartment the abductors were working from. The two augments were nowhere in sight.

Wufei left their still unconscious prisoner with Heero, and went to the infirmary where Sally and Cole were. Despite the fact that he was practically standing on Cole, he turned to Sally "How is she?" he asked.

Sally took quick note of the abnormal physical proximity of the pair and Wufei's uncharacteristic interest in the woman's condition. It was painfully obvious they were involved. She inwardly smiled. They were both so proud and hard headed, but they both had soft hearts inside. If they didn't kill each other, they'd be in love forever.

"I'm fine. So quit doing that talk-over-the-sick-person thing cause it pisses me off." Snapped Cole

"She's got a broken wrist, a sprained ankle, cracked ribs, and a few abrasions. I've taken care of them and given her something for the pain."

"There see? I'm fine. Now quit hovering over me like I'm a child."

 "Would you excuse us for a moment?" he asked tightly. He waited until Sally left and he went to close the door. When he spun around to face her he was furious and didn't try to hide it. His body was shaking with pent up emotion. It made him feel a little better when he saw she was worried.

"You may be fine, but I'm not." He said quietly. "To quote one of Duo's foolish sayings: I'm way off the map of fine. Do you have any idea what you did today? How it made me feel? Do you even care?" his throat was so constricted with emotion even he didn't recognize it as his. "I saw you hit that wall and for a moment I was sure you were dead. And for that moment everything that was special to me was gone. I've already lost one love; I'll not suffer that again. When you care about your life as much as I do call me. I'll be waiting." He turned and left her sitting there speechless.

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The empty ache in his chest made him feel like he'd been shot. It was almost impossible for him to squelch the pain inside of him and do his job, but he managed it. Barely. When Wufei entered the interrogation room Heero was attempting to get any information out of the man they brought in.

"That building has been abandoned for months now so would you care to explain what you were doing there Mr. James?"

The man smiled at Heero. "What? Not going to get your little friends to ask me that? No I don't think you are; are you? Because you haven't told anyone about what they are yet have you?" the man gave a snort at Heero's impassiveness.

"Who are you trying to kid? You can't keep me here for anything other than trespassing. Not unless you want to let the whole world know what you've been hiding."

Wufei still had yet to calm down from his talk with Cole. It was all he could do not to redecorate the walls with this creep. The only thing saving his life was that all activities in this room were recorded. However the man's suggestion gave him an idea.

"Would you like for us to call them? They don't need to come in person they could do it from home. I'm sure they would be happy to help us." Wufei answered quietly. It gave him a little pleasure to see the man James' face go pale.

"You wouldn't!" he said, but his tone indicated he wasn't so sure.

"Why don't you just tell us what we want to know? It'll save us from having to go looking for It." laying heavy emphasis on the bluff that he'd send a couple of augments to poke around in his head.

A look of fear flickered across the man's face but was quickly replaced by his former smile. "Sure why don't you call them and while you're at it why don't you call that little blonde of yours and see how she's doing. See if she'd like to go for another walk in the moonlight."

Wufei's mind exploded "YOU DARE!" mindless of the room's recorders or that the man had deliberately baited him he launched himself at the man only to be stopped by Heero a hairs breadth from his target. Try as hard as he could, Wufei couldn't get Heero to release his iron hard grasp.

"WUFEI get a hold of yourself! He's trying to throw you off!" Heero dragged him into the far corner and whispered harshly into his ear. "Will you knock it off?! You have enough trouble already without assaulting…" Heero's voice trailed off as they both turned to a sound coming from the other end of the room.

They both looked over in time to see the James' eyes roll back into his head then fall over dead.

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Wufei Heero and Cole were sitting in the office of a very unhappy Director Une. She was busy stressing the gravity of the predicament they or rather Wufei was in while they waited for Sally to arrive.

"Do you realize something like this could end your career? You allowed a person who was in your custody to bait you into attacking him and he died while he was still in your custody! To make matters worse the room's recordings make it look like you've been up to something illegal, and your already being monitored!" she yelled "I was an idiot to show you any favoritism. Now I want to know what is going on right now!" there was a small knock on the door. "COME IN!"

Sally Po entered looking an odd shade of grey green. After she closed the door she spoke quietly "I completed the scan of the body and determined the cause of death to be massive damage to the left and right frontal lobes of the cerebrum." She took a deep breath "in layman's terms it looks like someone took and egg beater to his brain." No wonder she looked like she was going to throw up.

"Were you able to determine if Preventer Chang was the cause of it?" asked Une

"No there wasn't even so much as a paper cut on him. Wufei was telling the truth, he didn't touch him." Sally was clearly relived to relay this information even though the recordings from the room supported it.

Une leveled her gaze at the others "Alright what happened to him?" her tone gave no room for discussion.

Heero took charge "If I had to guess, I'd say a telekinetic crushed his brain to keep him from talking."

Sally and Une had twin looks of horror and shock on their faces. Neither one seemed capable of responding to the statement. Une opened her mouth as if to say something but nothing came out.

"Shelby and Annabella are brain augments." Said Wufei. He quickly re-explained the same story he'd told Cole earlier that day. He then told them about the day's earlier events and how Cole was injured.

"Our problem now is these two new augments. As much as I'm certain the Anna and Shelby are not a danger the other two clearly are."

"What makes you so certain they are not a danger? They could have been the ones to turn that man's brain into pudding." Retorted Une. As much as she wanted to believe them she had to be cautious.

"There is one way to be certain, but you may not be so open to it. You could let them tell you telepathically. When they do you can feel their feelings as they are feeling them. You can feel their honesty or dishonesty."

Neither Sally nor Une looked eager to try such a connection.

Cole finally spoke up. She'd been quiet ever since their argument in the infirmary. "It's true you can feel their feelings when they do it. I mean I only had a moment of exposure to Shelby's mind telepathically, but I could feel how terrified she was, how in love she was with Duo, and her determination to save Anna. It was quite an experience."

"Maybe we should go back to the estate and you can speak with them. We can then decide what to do about the other more serious problem." Suggested Heero.