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Yami no Hikari

Quatre once again looked over at the Duo's, who were sitting in the living room side by side on one of the plush sofas. Now that he could see them both together he could see slight differences between the two; one was sitting rigidly nervously picking at the stitching on a cushion while the other was relaxed, his feet were on the coffee table and he was assessing one of his knifes, licking it clean of blood.

Shuddering slightly Quatre turned to the other three boys in the kitchen. Heero was sitting at the table tapping furiously at his laptop with a steaming cup of coffee next to him. Wufei was sitting quietly looking rather perplexed by the whole situation; Trowa just sat peeling an orange as if Duo becoming two people was the most normal thing to ever happen in his life.

Quatre cleared his throat and gained the attention of two boys; nothing less than the apocalypse could distract Heero - with the obvious exception of a mission.

"So…what are we going to do?" Trowa simply looked at his boyfriend as if to say 'why are you asking me?' So Wufei answered instead.

"We just have to figure out which one is our Duo, and then…kill the other?"

The sounds of key tapping stopped, and everyone turned to face Heero who was sipping from his coffee cup. He coughed slightly and glared up at Wufei.

"What if we kill the wrong one? How can we be sure that we choose Duo? We don't know how long the impostor has been researching us; he could know everything and more about Duo. Anyway let's face it; if we ask Duo any questions he'll probably get them wrong anyway."

Slightly startled by Heero's long speech Wufei turned to Quatre.

"Winner, couldn't you just, you know, do whatever it is that you do. Can't you sense which one is the real Duo just by like touching his hand or something?" The blonde bit his lip and glanced over at Trowa who was still peeling the orange.

"Yes…I suppose I could…but the angrier Duo might not like it."

"Can't you at least try, though?" The blonde looked again to Trowa who was still peeling off little white stringy bits and placing them into a neat pile on the tablemat.

"Okay, fine. But they're not going to like it."

Confused and somewhat interested Wufei followed the Sandrock pilot into the living room. Heero followed too for the sheer hell of it. Though he would never admit it one of his few interests included the self proclaimed god of death. And some whipped cream and mini marshmallows.

Trowa continued to calmly deal with the orange.

-

Quatre nervously walked up to the shyer Duo and smiled, earning a smile back. The other Duo made a disgusted sound and went back to shredding a cushion with his knife.

Quatre knelt down in front of Duo and stared into his eyes, leaning closer he placed one hand on the braided boy's forehead, the other in one of Duo's hands and closed his eyes in concentration. Duo looked up at Heero for answers and was surprised to see the Wing pilot…seething? No, Heero never showed emotions like that. And if he did it certainly wouldn't be of jealousy.

Duo felt a light blush grace his cheeks at the close contact of the blonde pilot, he could feel the body warmth and to make matters worse they were holding hands. Maybe that was why Heero was jealous?

Any thoughts of Heero were erased from Duo's mind as Quatre's sparkling blue eyes opened and he, somewhat embarrassedly, let go of his hand mumbling that he was finished.

"Finished doing what?"

Duo's question was unanswered as Quatre dared to approach the knife-wielding Duo. He was met with a cold glare that simply said 'touch my hand and you won't live to regret it.' Quatre nodded and hurried out of the room, followed closely by an amused Wufei and a seething Heero.

"What a twat. And he actually wanted to touch my hand!"

"Be nice; Quatre just wants to help you know."

"Whatever. How expensive do you think this vase is?"

"It's pre-colonial, gotta be worth about a small colony I suppose."

-Smash-

"Cool."

-

"So, what do you think? Was the one you touched…Duo-ish?" Quatre smiled at Wufei's choice of words while he sipped on his tea.

"Yes, that is definitely Duo."

"So who's our knife freak?" Heero asked over his extra-strong coffee.

"Duo."

"Quatre, we're going round in circles. You just said the one you touched up was Duo." Quatre glared at Heero, well a Quatre-glare.

"I didn't touch him up. But yes, that one is also Duo. Somehow during today's mission Duo was split into two, and the results are in the living room destroying my antiques."

"How can you be sure the other one is Duo? You didn't touch him."

"Wufei, I was with him all the time you weren't. I knew something was wrong with him but I could definitely tell it was Duo. There's no mistaking that boy."

Heero slammed down his cup and rubbed his eyes.

"So what do we do? Call Doctor G?"

"Heero, remember earlier Duo told us something about the doctors…I wasn't really paying attention to him though."

"Me neither. He said they were at the facility though."

"The one we blew up."

"I call J, see if he's answering. If he's still in one piece I'll rip him apart for what he's done." Wufei nodded and watched as Heero logged onto his email accont with inhuman speed. Quatre just watched, wondering what on earth was going on.

"What on earth is going on?"

"Duo mentioned the doctors when he was making up an excuse for being late, something about an experimental procedure. Next he'll probably be abducted by aliens or something." Wufei shook his head and drank some herbal tea. Quatre studied his reflection in his own steaming cup. Maybe Duo wasn't lying?

-

"I'm hungry. They can't keep us in here without food and drink."

"Quatre did offer you some food but you growled and tried to stab him."

"Oh yeah. What are you eating?"

"Toast. You want some?"

"Do I look like I want some?"

"Yes."

"…Shut up."

-

Heero glared at the webpage; the web page glared black. There was no mistaking it; they had screwed up. The facility they had blown up was definitely something to do with OZ, but there were other forces involved. Five names instantly leaped up at him; the mad doctors. Duo had been telling the truth.

"I think you need to take a look at this page." The three teen's moved from their positions of doing nothing and crowded round the laptop. Quatre gasped and glanced over to the closed living room door.

"How did you find this page?"

"I hacked into the OZ mainframe. They didn't want me to get in though; there must've been a hundred or so firewalls and passwords." Quatre nodded and stared back at the page.

"How do we fix this? Considering we broke all of the equipment?"

"We'll have to go back and salvage what we can. Maybe the maganacs can help?"

"I'll call them right away. I just hope we can help Duo…"

-

"Do you think if I yell loud enough they'll give me alcohol?"

"I didn't know twenty minutes ago, I didn't know ten minutes ago, and I don't know now."

"I want to burn something."

The other Duo shifted away in his seat, violet eyes widening considerably. His braid was very flammable…

To be Continued

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