I have receieved may requests for an epilog to this story, and I always felt it needed a little more to completely finish it so i have decided to give it a try. I hope i give this story justice with this epilog even though its over 2 years later.

Warnings: none

Disclaimer: story mine, characters not mine

Duo ran out of the bedroom as fast as he could. He collected all the drugs he had, which were hidden in a few different locations and the gun and raced out fo the appartment. He couldn't believe what he had just done. The gun was to scare robbers, it was never suppsod to be used to kill anyone after the war ended. This was a peaceful time, yet somehow he could not conform to the peace. The violence he had shown to warrent his termination had been the begining of the end for him. Without being able to release his anger and rage with his gundam he had kept it pent up until finally the stress from his job and the dim-witted interns he was assigned just got to be to much and he took his anger out on one of his bosses as well as the interns. Unfortunatly he had managed to kill one of the interns. After that it became impossible for him to controll his anger and Heero was teh only source for him to relieve the pent up rage.

Heero never fought back. Perhaps the reason the beatigns on him grew more intense was because he allowed Duo to use him as an outlet for his anger. He never questioned and never blamed. He just quietly accepted.

"Stupid Heero! Why did you never stop me! Its your fault your dead now!" Duo shouted to no one in perticular as he ran down the stairwell to his car in the underground parkign deck of the appartmetn complex Heero and him had shared. No doubt teh neighbors had heard the gun shot and phoned the cops. Everyone would be out searchign for him. When the cops came not only would the neighbors report on hearing a gun shot but they would tell of all the shoutings they had herd coming from the appartment and the sounds of breaking glass and fighting. And in the investigation the cops woudl surly uncover that Dup had killed one of his interns when they investigated his last place of work. Though because the Preventers were so covert, Duo wasn't sure if they would actually share anythign with the cops or not. But needless to say, he was still thier prime suspect for this murder whether they new about the intern or not.

"I have got to get out of here!" Duo said finally comeing to the door to the parking deck.

His car was a few spaces from the door. He hadn't moved it on a while, onm account of not needing to go anywhere since he had no job, and because the parkign spot was so great he had decided to walk to the few places he had needed to go. He couldn't hear sirens yet, but he was still underground. He unlocked the door to his black Lamborghini Diablo Roadster. There weren't to many of these cars in this area, but it was fast and he thought he might be able to get farther faster with it.

He started the enger, the purr of the motor music to his ears. He loved his car, and had hooked it up with a booming sound system, red carbon fiberrally racing pedals, boomerang steering wheel, and even hooked up the blue neon lights on the bottom of the car. He backed out of the spot and then floored the car to the entrance where he made a quick right onto the road withouth paying much mind to the traffic. At 2 in the mornign there wasn't bound to be much anyway.

On the street Duo still didn't hear any sirens. "Maybe no one heard the gun shot. Its been about 20 minutes."The lack of sirens did nothing to slow Duo down however, he wasn't going to take any chances. He was racing against time and he was determined to win. The only obstical in his way was going to be the freight train tracksabout 5 miles away that were the separator between teh town and teh country. The freight train usually came late at night, but not every night and not on a normal schedule. But it could take 20 minutes or longer for the entire train to go by.

Sure enough the train had just startedto cross teh road when Duo got to it. There was no point turning around. If the cops came looking for him going back into the city was a bad idea because they would spot him instantly. At least if he stayed here he had a slight chance they would not get here in time to arrest him. He could only sit and pray now.

Back at the appartment the cops and ambulancehad finally arrived. They raced to room 523, the room reported to have been the one the gun shot was heard to have come from. They banged down the door and raced in. A prliminary search on the first room prooved to be empty. Police officers slow made their way into the appartment, gun pointed straight in front of them with a flashlgiht in the other hand held next to the gun. The only sound was the sound of thier foot steps on the carpeting. They made their way into the bedroom. What they found shocked them.

A man was on the flood in a pool of blood, but miraculously he was still alive. What had seemed like an hour and a half to Heero, had in actuallity been less than an hour. The cops radioed for the paramedics to come to the bedroom, and fast. A minute later, two men rushed into teh room and to the body on the floor.

"He's still alive!" the first one said checking Heero's pulse, "But his pulse is very weak. hes lost a lot of blood. Theres a good chance he's not going to make it. We need a stretcher here immediatly"

"The gun shot entered through the back of his skull, left side. I don't know how hes still alive at all. If he survives this he'll most likely suffer from brain damage." The second man said.

A stretcher was brought in and Heero was carefully lifted onto it. The second man had wrapped Heero's head while waiting for the stretcher in hopes of slowing the blood flow leaving his body. They wheeled Heero out of the room and to teh elevator to get him to the ambulance.

The train had been passing by for 10 minutes with no end in sight when Duo heard the first siren.

"This is the end" he thought bitterly.

Not to long later the lights of the cop cars came in to view to accompany the sound of the sirens. Three cop cars came into view. One parked directly behind him, one stopped on the left and the other was inbetween the other two. One of the cops went over the loud speaker while the others opened their doors to duck behind and use as sheilds if Duo planned on shooting his way to freedom.

"You are under arrest. Come out of your car with your hands in the air." the voice over the lound speaker was saying.

Duo followed the order. Opening the car door and getting out. he put his hands over his head and turned around as teh cop was telling him to do so. he could hear foot steps racing towards him before his rightwrist was roughly grabbed and handcuffed before the same was done to the left.

The cop walked him back to the cop car that was directly behind his car. The cop was saying the usual "You have a right to remain silent" before placing his hand over Duo's head and helping him into the back of the cop car. Duo was sure he would never be a free man again.

On the way to the hospital teh paramedics were doing all they could to keep heero alive. However, Heero had lost too much blood to survive the 25 minute drive to the hospital and he finally died, only 5 minuted from the Hospital doors. Later the paramedics would talk about the strange smile on the dead mans face.

"Finally in peace after suffering for so long." one of them was recorded saying when asked about it by themedia.

And thats it. this story is finally over. tell me how this end worked out...its definetly not the end i ever imagined would go along with this story but i feel it may have been a good choice.