Duo looked from Hilde to her mother. "What?!"

Hilde smiled at him then glared at her mother. "Yeah, sadly.

Her mother glared. "Do not speak to me that way!!" Smoothing out her skirt, she looked at Hilde. "So I see you've taken up a job. How nice. However, your father and I need you back at home." Emphasizing the last word, she grabbed Hilde's wrist and pulled her towards the door.

Hilde struggled. "What are you doing?! You disowned me!!! You can't just grab me and force me back home, I'm not a little kid anymore!" She ripped her hand away and started to walk away, but her mother grabber her by the shoulder.

"Sweetie, if you don't come with me, your FATHER will come and get you." Hilde turned pale as her mother spoke. "Now, go get your things and lets leave." Letting her go and pushing her into the hallway, her mother walked outside and sat in her car.

Duo, confused as ever, walked into Hilde's room, where Hilde was quickly throwing a few things in a bag. "Babe, I don't get it, what's going on? Why are you leaving with her?? I've never seen you give up so easily."

Hilde sighed and looked at Duo. "Duo, my mom is making me, you saw. I have to go now, or she'll send my dad after me." Looking at Duo's puzzled face, she added, " My dad is a lot worse than my mom is, trust me." She sighed as Duo lowered his head, obviously hurt by her sudden leave. She closed the bag and hugged him. "Don't worry sweetie, I don't know what they want with me, but I'll be back, I promise." She smiled at him.

Duo lifted his hand up to her cheek, rubbing it with his thumb with a look of sadness and a slight fear that Hilde had never seen before in the gundam pilots eyes. "That's what I'm worried about babe. What do they want you for?"

Hilde smiled lightly, and leaned in to kiss him. Duo smiled and closed his eyes, when they were almost touching, they both smiled, and leaned in to close the gap.

BEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!!!!!!!

They both jumped, ruining the kiss. Looking out the window where Hilde's mom sat in her car angrily waiting, they both sighed. Hilde hugged Duo around the waist and smiled. "I'll call don't worry." She smiled, running out the door quickly.

Watching Hilde and her mother drive away, he sighed. Looking over at his bed, where she had slept for the past few months, he smiled sadly and laid down. Smelling the scent of her shampoo on the pillow, he slowly fell into a restless sleep.

~A few weeks later~

Duo closed the door behind him and shrugged off his coat. Looking at the answering machine, his smile faded. It had been three weeks now, it was a week before christmas, and he still hadn't gotten a call from Hilde. Worried, he looked in the phonebook for a number, but none could be found. Searching her room for any kind of a clue, he picked up an old picture of them, with her arms wrapped around his neck. Smiling sadly but not finding any clues, he dropped it sadly, but a small peice of paper fell from the back. Picking it up, he grinned broadly and headed for his car.

________________________________________________________________

Hilde's POV

Hilde curled up on the soft bed and sniffed. Yes, she knew going home would be bad, but not *this* bad.She had been put under her parents version of house arrest, locked in her room like some sort of animal, unable to call Duo under pain of death. Her fathers justification for her treatment was that 'she needed to be punished for what she had done to their families honor.' She had scoffed as he said this, her family was extremely wealthy, and no one knew about her anyway. She was the "closet child", hidden from everyone because of her childish tomboy antics. She looked out the window at the setting sun sadly and sighed, until she noticed a lone car driving quickly towards the house. Choking back a sob of suprise, she stood up quickly and looked closer. Duo's beat up Jeep was slowly coming into view. She was so happy, she hadn't noticed her father standing behind her, and he said softly,

"Your not leaving Hilde. I'll make sure of that."

With that, he grabbed her and grinned, holding up a large metal pole. "I said you would pay for what you have done to our honor, and I meant with your blood."

~To be continued~

w00t I'm not dead!! =D Ok, you guys have waited forever for this story with no death threats, so im putting both up. Happy early christmas everyone ^^