Chapter 6: Truth Revealed

Quatre had already caught up with Duo. "Hey, Duo. . . listen. I think you should know this." He hesitated.

Duo turned around slowly. "Well, what is it?" he asked, his face grim.

"Relena. . . thought you were cheating on her."

"She what??"

"She only told us about it last night, and, well, it did seem kind of fishy, with you having all these secret plans, and we were going to talk to you about it today, but. . ." he said all this in one breath, then trailed off suddenly. He was almost fearful of the look of anger and pain on Duo's face. They all knew about how Duo masked his true emotions, but in a situation like this, there was no way he could hide his feelings.

"She. . . thought I. . ." Duo just shook his head.

"Duo?" Quatre asked cautiously. "What. . . what were you doing all those times?"

Still frowning, Duo pulled out a small black velvet box and handed it to Quatre. Inside the box was a gold ring with a beautiful amethyst gemstone in the center.

"Wow! Duo, is this. . . were you going to propose?"

He nodded. "I had the whole day planned out. I came today to tell her about the plans, and apologize for not being around lately."

Tears welled up in Quatre's eyes as he handed the box back. "Oh, Duo. . . I'm so sorry. We should have—"

"Who knew?" Duo asked coldly, cutting him off.

"Huh?"

"Who knew that she thought I was cheating on her?"

"Oh. . ." Quatre dropped his gaze to the floor.

"Everybody?" He nodded, wincing. "And you didn't try to convince her otherwise?!"

"Well, like I said, you didn't exactly give us proof, didn't tell us what you were up to. . ."

"You needed proof? It's me! You really think I would do that to her?!"

"Well, Heero did have faith in you. . ."

"He- he what?" Duo, who had been practically yelling, was stunned into silence by this comment. Heero? He hadn't even thought Heero cared.

"He always told us off about it, and said that you wouldn't possibly do something like that. . ."

"But. . . why? Why him?"

Quatre opened his mouth to say something, but suddenly changed his mind. "I don't know."

"I don't believe this. I thought we were friends. But I guess not. Hey, we only fought a war together, right? Nothing to bond over or anything." And with that, he headed out the front door of the mansion. Quatre ran after him, but Trowa stopped him at the doorway.

"Trowa, let me go!"

"We have no right."

"What do you mean, we have no right?"

"Would you want them coming after you, if I died and you knew they'd done nothing to stop it?"

That stopped Quatre in his tracks.

"The only person who Duo would listen to right now is possibly Heero."

"But Heero ran off!" Quatre cried, frustrated.

"Yeah. We need to go get him." Trowa said, standing.