A:N: I Finally typed it!!!!!! Yeah! Sorry it took so long. School has been getting the better of me. I hope you like it. Please no bashings. I realize this is a little out of character for Duo, but trust me it will all make scene in the end. So please hang in there. I hope you enjoy it. YOU BETTER R/R OR YOU WILL FEEL MY WRATH!!!!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!.......::meekly:: please review?

Duo: I can't believe you made me evil.

Demon Duo: I'M EVIL! FEAR ME!

Duo: God save us all.

Disclaimer: They're not mine...yada yada yada...

Chapter 12


Duo sat bolt upright when he heard the door slam. He rubbed his eyes, which soon focused on his irate lover.

"Honey, what's wrong?"

"Don't honey me, Mr. You know down well what's wrong." Duo paused then looked at the cloak.

"I missed your performance! Oh Honey, I'm so sorry." He stood and moved to her. She drew back.

"That's not all you did."

"I broke a promise to you, and I'm sorry, Kody."

"And?"

"And...I'll try to make it up to you."

"And?"

"And..." He paused. "...Did I do something else?" Kody threw a bottle, which was conveniently sitting on the table, at him. Duo ducked and it shattered when it impacted with the wall.

"You tried to drug me and then you come in with some other girl! I would say you did something else!"

"No I didn't. I've been here sleeping. I took a shower and laid down. I didn't mean to fall asleep."

"How do I know you're not lying?"

"You'll have to trust me."

"Well I don't." Duo staggered back as if he had been punched in the gut, those three words ringing in his ears.

*She doesn't trust me? *

"Honey, if you don't trust me at least listen to reason." Kody folded her arms. "Why, after we've been married only a few days, would I be cheating on you?" Kody paused then said the first thing that came to her mind.

"Because you didn't like how I was in bed." Duo smirked and took her face into his hands so she wouldn't miss a word.

"Honey, we slept together- made love- before we got married. If I hadn't liked you then, I wouldn't have married you."

"I want to go home." Duo sighed and released her face.

"Alright. I will give you your space." He hugged her, then took her hand in his and placed a soft kiss upon her knuckles.

Turning upon his heels, Duo picked up his things and moved out of the door, and out of Kody's life.

*~*~*

(A/N: Just pointing out, Duo and Kody DID NOT get a divorce, they are just staying apart for a while.)

"I'm glad you're fairing well here, Kody." Quatre said as he and Kody made their way down the street towards Kody's apartment, which had been her home for the past three months. "Have you heard from Duo?"

"No. I haven't heard from him since I came back from Hawaii."

"I heard he was staying at the Hyatt in town," Quatre replied as Kody paused outside of her door and fumbled with the keys. After a moment she and Quatre stepped inside and she shut the door and locked it.

It was a small apartment with only four rooms. There was a living room/kitchen just inside the door and a bathroom and who bedrooms just down the narrow hallway.

"Would you like something to eat?"

"That would be great." Quatre looked about as Kody put their coats on the rack and moved into the kitchen to fix something to eat. Quatre's eyes ran over the counter on which lay random things: a report for work, a few clean glasses that had yet to be put away, a cake inside it's pan, a remote....a TV....a VCR? "I see you finally broke down and bought a TV?"

"Huh?" Kody turned, her eyes falling on the small TV and VCR. "That's not mine..."

"So someone broke into your apartment to give you a TV and VCR?"

"Looks that way." Kody walked over to the counter and examined the TV.

"We'll they'd have to in order for you to watch this."

Quatre held up a table. The label read, "Watch me! June 21, AC 205."

"What is it?"

Quatre slipped the tape into the VCR and pressed place.

"Oh Allah..."

Duo was telling the truth..." Kody sank back into a chair and watched the security video of the honeymoon sweet. She watched as Duo exited the bathroom drying his hair and lay down upon the bed. She watched him slowly fall asleep, then a little while later she saw herself storm into the room.

*~*~*

Duo slipped into the darkness his small shadow moving from Kody's window. With slow evens steps he made his way up the stairs and into the Hyatt Hotel.

Stepping through his door he flopped down on the bed and drifted to sleep with one last thought running through his mind.

*At last she knows the truth...*

*~*~*

"I have to go to him, Quatre."

"And then what? What will you say?"

"I don't know, but I know the truth. I have to go."

Kody grabbed her coat and ran for the door, threw it open and hustled down the stairs.

The doors to the hotel flew open as Kody made hast to the desk.

"Where is Duo Maxwell?"

"pardon?"

"Duo Maxwell! What room is he in?" Kody waiting impatiently, the clicking of the computer keys eating away at her patience.

"Room 666."

"Give me a key."

"Are you related?" Kody showed her ID.

"I'm his wife."

Kody snatched the key from the clerk and darted towards the elevator and waited, while tapping her foot, until the door opened on floor 6. She ran down the hall, as if fleeing from the plague, then skidded to a half outside of his room.

She slipped the key into the door, turned, then paused and opened the door.

Her breath caught. There he was: Duo Maxwell, handsome as ever, asleep on the bed, his braid over his shoulder.

She put her purse aside, locked the door and slid out of her coat and moved to the bedside. She slid under the covers, wrapped her arm around Duo and laid her head on his chest.

"I'm sorry I ever doubted you, Duo. But that man looked like you, sounded like you. But he didn't act like you. That should have been my first clue. But I was so angry that it blinded me."

*~*~*

Duo lay half asleep in bed when he heard his door open. His hand tightened on the knife behind his back, until he heard her sharp intake of breath. He released his grip on the knife and lay still as he heard the door close and her steps as she grew nearer.

Duo felt the mattress sink slightly under Kody's weight, her arm moved around his, her head lay to rest on his chest. He barely heard her speak.

"I'm sorry I ever doubted you, Duo. But that man looked like you, sounded like you. But he didn't act like you. That should have been my first clue. But I was so angry that it blinded me."

Duo sighed then parted his lips to speak.

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." Kody lifted her head and smirked.

"Thank you, Master Yoda. I thought you were asleep."

"Stay away from the Dark Side, my young Padawan." Kody smirked and kissed his nose. "Then again..." he continued, "I'm already on the Dark Side."

"Then you'll have to give me a good reason to follow."

"I'm here."

"Good enough." Kody stopped. Her face was serious. "Duo, I'm sorry I-"

"I heard. I forgive you."

"Will you come-"

"Sure I'll cum!"

"Duo! That's NOT what I meant! I said come! C-O-M-E! Not C-U-M! Honestly!" Duo snickered.

"Yes I will C-O-M-E with you." Duo placed a kiss on her lips. "Sleep now."

"But I'm not tired."

"But I am. You have no idea how hard it was to get that tape..." Kody nodded, kissed his cheek and laid her head down.

"Duo?"

"Yes?"

"Who was it that came to the club? If it wasn't you."

"We'll find out tomorrow. You should sleep." Kody nodded and curled up against him, closing her eyes. Duo wrapped his arm around her protectively and kissed her forehead. "I love you Kody."

*~*~*

WAM! The door to the science lab flew open, slammed into the wall and fell of its hinges and shattered as it made contact with the floor. The doctors looked up with an evil grin as the expression on Duo's face went from pissed to startle. He was looking into a pair of violet eyes that matched his own.

"What the hell is going on-" Duo was cut off as the figure before him, who looked exactly like Duo, picked him up by the throat and slammed him into the wall. Doctor J looked up and smirked evilly.

"Duo...what an unexpected surprise."