And now...

Quatre and Duo were worried. She was far to quiet. Not just the simple, brooding quiet that had plagued her since they had left her apartment, this was the seething, quiet rage of someone dangerous yet usually benign having been pushed far beyond pissed. This bordered on……Hell, they couldn't even think of the word for it. Duo and Quatre couldn't wait to get out of the car and away from her, but they made themselves be polite and walk with her to the door. Heero, Trowa and Wufei all looked up when they walked in, instantly going on alert from the negative vibes that they were getting.

"Your room's first door on the right." Trowa said, hoping to calm some of the emotions.

"Give me an hour before you ask me anything." Sarah said and disappeared into the room, trying very hard though no succeeding in not slamming the door. They all turned to Duo and Quatre.

"I have never seen her that mad. Come to think of it, I've never seen her mad at all. What happened?" Wufei asked. Duo and Quatre shifted uncomfortably and looked at each other.

"Well, we're not really sure. It all happened kind of fast and, well, it was weird." Duo said. Quatre quickly gave them a run down of what they had witnessed on the way over here. When he was done, the others just looked at him with surprised blank expressions. To anyone else they would have simply been blank, but Quatre knew them well enough to read the surprise. Heero was the first one to speak.

"How is any of that possible? Agent Andrews herself attested to the fact that her partners had died while on leave." He said.

"She also told us that in high school Derek and his friends were into Satanism, could that have anything to do with this?" Trowa asked.

"I don't see how. As far as I know not even Satanists claim to be able to raise the dead." Quatre said.

"There are far more ancient things in this world than what Satanists claim to know. Some of them are rumored to have the power to raise the dead." Wufei said.

"Joy, this is just what we need when dealing with a terrorist group. We are definitely not equipped to deal with anything like what we saw today." Duo said sarcastically.

"That's why we never told anyone." Sarah said from behind them. They all turned to see her leaning against the wall, looking much calmer.

"Can you explain what happened now?" Quatre asked.

"No, not fully."

"But why?"

"Because then you'll be in. And once you're in you're in and there's no going back. I won't do that to anyone." Trowa looked up in surprise.

"You sound like…"

"Don't say it. Don't ever say what you were about to say out loud. Just listen to me while I try to explain what I can without pulling you in to deep." They all looked at her and nodded. She took a deep breath before answering. "The reason that we seemed to be so perfect for the Preventers right out of high school was that we had been fighting someone very similar to Kyoto during high school. It was how we met actually. That war and others that we fought were silent and hidden, otherwise people wouldn't be able to sleep at night. We fought in the shadow so that you could live in the light."

"So what does this have to do with what happened today?" Heero asked.

"Everything. Kyoto somehow knows who I am, and is out to kill me. I'm not very popular with his kind." She said with a wry smile.

"You mean demons." Trowa said.

"Yes, demons. They don't care much for humans, seeing us as to weak and simple minded to be of any bother. Most are content to stay hidden and live their lives in the manner that they do. But every once in a while you'll find one that gets it into their head that they can easily take over and attempts to do so. That's when myself and others like me step in. Rarely does anyone ever hear about it, and most don't believe it when they do. And beyond that, I can't tell you any more."

"One question." Wufei said. She nodded. "Since I know of no human religion that could bring people back from the dead, I'm guessing that these…demons have their own way of doing so."

"That is correct. Though what Kyoto brought back was merely their bodies, their souls are still free and will always remain so."

"So then why bring them back at all? Unless, since you're supposedly the only one that can fight him at the moment, he was trying to get into your head." Duo said. Sarah tweaked him on the nose and nodded.

"Exactly. He thought that by using my sisters he would have an advantage. He's betting that I won't be able to fight them. Won't he be surprised. If you'll excuse me now, I have a battle to prepare for. And before you can ask, no, you can't help. You can't get involved."

"Why?"

"Because you're already set on the path of your life, this is the path that I chose to walk." She turned and walked back into her room, leaving the boys standing there, still a little confused.

There's a ship out, on the ocean,

At the Mercy of the sea

It's been tossed about, lost and broken,

Wandering aimlessly.

And God somehow you know that ship, is me.

Dinner that night was quiet. Quatre and Duo had tried to make food that would cheer everyone up, even going so far as to buy rainbow sherbert ice cream to bring some color into what had quickly become a very gray world. All of them had worked with Sarah, Megan, and Anna at one point or another and had found them competent, if not a little annoying, but generally pleasant to be around. The guys mostly knew them from seeing them around the office, and they'd always had a smile on their faces. They were know for pulling practical jokes, especially on the newbie's. When they had gone on leave it had been eerily quiet around the office but they had gotten used to it. But when Sarah had returned with the news that her friends were dead it was like everyone had died.

Cause there's a lighthouse, in a harbor

Shinning faithfully.

For me it's a lighthouse, across the water

For this sinking soul to see

That someone out there still believes, in me

After they finished desert Sarah surprised them by helping to clean up, and even sat down to watch TV with them. Taking this as a good sign, Duo began some of his normal antics; i.e. trying to engage the silent ones in conversation. Sarah even laughed quietly at this, which Quatre hoped meant that she was calming down.

On a prayer, in a song

I hear your voice, and it keeps me hanging on, on,

Raining down, against the wind

I'm reaching out, till we reach the circles and

When you come back to me again

The new that night was all about what had happened to them that afternoon, and Sarah watched with rapt attention, almost oblivious to what the others were doing. She paused it(they have Tivo), and just stared at her two partners, eyes tracing every curve, every dimple, in the hopes of finding……The boys couldn't figure out what. The storm that had been threatening to break all night finally did, and the rain came pouring down in sheets.

There's a moment, that we all come to

In our own time, and our own space.

Where all that we've done, we can undo

If our heart's, in the right place

The lights flickered, and the boys began to gather flashlights and candles in case the power went out. Sarah continued to stare at her sisters, and Wufei put a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"They probably won't come after you in this weather, you should get some rest." He said.

"It was raining then to."

"When?"

"The last fight of our first war. Then the sun came out. It was all very cliché."

On a prayer, in a song, I hear your voice, And it keeps me hanging on, on, raining down

Against the wind. I'm reaching out, till we reach the circles and,

When you come back to me again.

"Come to think of it," She mused. "Most of that war was one cliché after another. And we noticed all the damn cliché's there were. Had plenty of laughs over them." Sarah reached over and clicked off the TV.

And again I see, my yesterday's coming back to me.

Unfolding like a mystery, you're changing all that isn't used to be.

"But you're right Wufei, They won't come to me. I'll have to go to them." Thunder and lightning struck, and for a brief second their house lit up before killing the lights all together. They flicked on their flashlights, and they stared at each other. Trowa was the first to speak.

"Where's Sarah?" They all turned when they heard the screen door banging open, and then back to where she had been sitting where they saw an old picture of the three girls as teenagers, with their signatures over themselves. Heero picked it up and turned it over where they found 'Faithful friends forever be!', 'To the death I say!', and 'Through rain, sleet, snow, wind, and hail, we deliver!' The boys all looked at each other, baffled looks on their faces.

On a prayer, in a song, I hear your voice,

And it keeps me hanging on, on, raining down,

Against the wind, I'm reaching out

Till we reach the circles and,

When you come back to me again

Sarah stood in the abandoned lot and faced off with her sisters in full battle-rattle(1), She looked deep in to their eyes and hoped that she would be able to save them. Desperately hoped that she could.

"All right then. Let's do this."

When you come back to me, again.