Shaine: Thank you so much Frankie! I'll try to get at least one or maybe even two chaps up whenever I update.

Notes and Disclaimers: I don't own GW…what a pity whereas I own the Saisos.


Chapter 5

This time she went back to her apartment, she had glanced at her watch and found that it was about six. She figured she should call Duo now and worry about Heero for later that night. She knew that if she needed more sedatives she could just rummage through her mother's herbs until she found a sleep inducer.

She dialed the same number she had been using and was not too surprised when Duo answered the phone.

"Hello?" he said.

"Duo! You're home!" she exclaimed, hoping that the others had not told him where they were going. She didn't want him suspicious or to know until it was time.

"Yup! I've been home for only a couple of hours though. We ran kinda late." He replied cheerfully.

"Hmm…Well, are you in the mood for a moonlight walk tonight?" Rose asked.

"What are you kidding? I've been away for how long?" he retorted sarcastically. "OF COURSE I want to walk tonight! I wanna see you!" he said. "Besides, I'm sure we'll also get some candy…"

"Okay," she laughed weakly. "I'll change into a costume and meet you…where?" she asked.

"How about the end of your street?" he suggested.

"Sure. I'll be down there waiting for you in twenty minutes." She replied.

They hung up and she went to her room. She decided she wouldn't wear the policewoman costume so instead she put on her karate gi, black belt and all. She slipped into a pair of thin hemp sandals and grabbed a brush from her bathroom. She ran it through her long black hair and then braided it. She wrapped it around her head and then pinned it in place. Once ready, she slipped Trowa's, Quatre's, and Wufei's keys into a deep pocket and arranged them to where she couldn't hear them jingle when she walked. She quickly left her apartment and then remembered that she had forgotten to check her prisoners for weapons. Though she knew she bound them well, they were elite soldiers; they would find a way to free themselves.

She hurried to her car, jumped in and drove a little over the speed limit to the warehouse. (Luckily, she didn't pass any cops) She ran into the building and screeched to a halt when she found that all three of them were awake and very aware of their surroundings. They turned to look at her the best they could with their bindings and then gave her dangerously blank looks.

"Look you guys," she started, all the while biting back tears that had instantly sprang to her eyes, "I'm eternally sorry that I had to do this, but it was to save my family." She stopped, swallowed and then walked slowly toward Quatre and Trowa. "And right now I need to take any weapons off of you." She said very hesitantly.

They only looked at her.

"Please. I need to know if you have any. I just want to save my family." She pleaded with them. She watched as they all looked at each other and then reluctantly nod. Letting tears of relief flow down her face she moved to Trowa, who was closest to her and reached out to untie his gag. "I'm going to leave this off if you give me your word you won't call for help." At his nod and the other two as well she swiftly worked her fingers through the knot and let the piece of cloth fall to the cement floor. Before she asked for their weapons she untied Quatre's and Wufei's gags.

"Now, may I please know if and where you have weapons?" she asked quietly. Though she still had a few tears running down her face, she ignored them, as did the three captives.

Wufei spoke up promptly, "Spine sheath and small dagger at hip." But that was all he would say.

Rose was mentally awed that she had never even found them when she had to drag him earlier that day, but remained silent as she retrieved them from his bound form.

She set them on the floor where she had originally been standing and turned to Quatre, who said only, "Shoulder holster." Rose silently collected that weapon and with it still in hand, checked that the safety was on and then turned to Trowa.

"Gun at lower back and dagger in boot." Trowa said in a monotone. Rose collected his weapons and then gathered them all up.

As she made her way to leave, without bothering with the gags again, she said, "Please don't try to escape. I am grateful for your cooperation so far, but I don't want to lose my family. I'll be back later." She added as she left and locked the warehouse doors behind her.

She drove back to her apartment as fast as she could get away with and not get caught. Then she started running down the street as she shoved her keys into the pocket with the other sets. She had stowed the weapons from her captives in the trunk of her car and locked it. She didn't want anything to happen to them. She unconsciously planned on returning them to their rightful owners.

She screeched to a halt when she found Duo and almost ran into him. He caught her and put an arm around her waist to steady her. While she caught her breath back Duo said, "What took you? I've been here for like thirty minutes."

When Rose was able to talk she said, "I'm sorry. I got sidetracked. Tesuki called me and asked for me to drive him to a friend's Halloween party. But I hurried back as fast as I could." She lied. She surprised herself at how good the lie sounded, and that she didn't even think about it before saying it.

Duo kissed her forehead and smoothed back a few flyaway strands of hair. Rose leaned into him, slipping an arm around his waist.

"I missed you." Rose whispered, looking up into his violet eyes.

Duo tilted her head back and lowered his till they were kissing deeply. When they managed to pull away from lack of air, he whispered back, "I missed you too."

Rose straightened up, an arm still around him and said, "Well, let's go." Duo grinned and nodded, leading her away.

Two hours later, Rose knew that she would have to do it. They were sitting in the park on a bench, and Duo's arms were around her while he set his chin on her shoulder. She slipped her hand into a different pocket from the many sets of keys and drew out the handcuffs. She discreetly turned in his arms and snapped the cuffs onto his wrists a little more tightly than she had wanted. But they weren't tight enough to where it would hurt him and she didn't want him to escape.

"Rose!" Duo exclaimed when she got both of them on.

Rose giggled and kissed him deeply, tongue and all. When she broke it off she slipped from his arms and grabbed at the chain between his hands.

"Come with me, my scourge of the night." She said with a sly teasing tone. She gave him a coy look and swayed her hips as she led him back to her car, which was a few blocks away.

"Where are we going, my seductress of the dark?" he asked with the same tone.

"Oh, you'll see." Her voice fading to her normal tone. She bit her lip and was glad Duo could not see her face as her happiness to be with him fell from her expression.

When she finally reached her car she gently shoved Duo into the passenger seat and slid gracefully into the driver seat all the while pulling her keys from her pocket carefully running her fingers over them to make sure she didn't pull out one her captives' sets. Then she drove to the warehouse and cut her engine. She turned in her seat as Duo stared out the windshield.

"Where are we?" he asked. He leaned forward in his seat to try and get a better look, but it had been dark for at least an hour and a half if not two hours. And there were no streetlights close enough to make out the large building.

"Oh, you'll see." She replied coolly. She climbed out and then opened Duo's door.

But before she led him to the building, she slipped under his arms and said, "Whatever happens, know that I have and will always love you." With that she kissed and clung to him as if desperate.

When she released him, she knew he was puzzled over her words, but took the chain in her hands again and led him into the building. She pushed him ahead of her right after she unlocked the double doors and then followed behind him relocking the doors behind them. But he stopped dead still when he caught sight of what lay in the room.

Quatre, Trowa and Wufei looked up at Duo and then caught sight of Rose standing somewhat behind the American. Duo's mouth hung open as his mind realized this was a total blowout betrayal. But as he turned his head to look at his traitorous girlfriend, he heard as well as saw her burst into tears. He moved away from her as his anger built up and sat on the floor closer to his friends, who still did not said anything.

"I'm so sorry. And I'll always be." Rose said through her onslaught of tears. "I only wanted to save my family." She sank to the floor and slid herself into a shadow. But after a few minutes she rose and walked over to the far wall where she opened a concealed phone. She picked up the receiver and dialed a few numbers.

The men heard her say, "I have all that I could get. You can come." There was a short pause before she said, "Bring Tesuki. I want to see him! I want to see that he is unharmed."

Then she hung up and walked over to a corner near the doors. She slid down the wall and brought her knees up under her chin. She wrapped her arms around them and cried.

"I didn't want to do it. But they took my family and threatened they'd kill them if I didn't capture the Gundam Pilots. They somehow found out that I was dating Duo." Rose cried trying to justify herself to the people she had wronged. "And they told me that if I told any of you, that they would kill my family and they would kill me too. But I so wanted to tell you; I didn't want to do it."

She remained silent after that and stayed in her corner until there was a hard pounding at the double doors. Wiping the tears from her eyes and cheeks, she rose and went to the door to unlock it.

Soldiers of Oz stood in front of her and she moved back inside the building so they could file in. The last soldier led a little boy twelve years of age. It looked as if he had been crying, but trying to put on a brave face for his sister. His wrists were tied together but that was all the restraint on him apart from the metal choker around his neck.

"Tesuki!" Rose exclaimed as she tried to run to her little brother. But a soldier stopped Rose.

TBC