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Duo looks at the young girl who was at the present crying into his chest with her arms wrapped his mid-drift. Duo waits a few minutes for her to calm down some. Once she has calmed down and is sitting beside him he finally says, "I'm Duo, Duo Maxwell. I May run and I may hide but I never tell a lie." He smiles one of his famous childish grins at the girl.

The girl can't help but smile slightly at the run and hide part of his speech, and thinks when she sees his smile 'wow I can't believe innocent and happy his smile is' and after she gazes at him for another couple seconds thinks 'geesh I just noticed that the guy who saved is so utterly adorable!'. After a few moments she murmurs "I'm Hilde, Hilde Schbeiker, and I want to thank you for last night, saving me and all that and then even giving me a place to stay.."

"It was nothing really" Duo blushes slightly as he hears her remark and says "Nice to meet you Hilde." He takes along look over Hilde's features and notice her once cut lip was starting to swell up into a decent fat lip. He blushes when he sees Hilde staring at his wondering eyes and says quickly, "I think I'll get you some ice for your lip."

Hilde stares entranced by Duo's (in her words) astounding bright violet eyes and watches them as they wonder over her face and injuries. After a few seconds she notices that he caught her stare and turns a soft delicate shade of pink and half jumps when she hears him speak. "Huh? Oh ok" she nods after she finally comprehends what he said. 'Weird' she thinks 'I never realized how much my lip and cheek hurt until now.' She lays back against the couch and sighs as Duo applies a soft blue cloth with ice in it to her cheek and lip. She gently takes the cloth in her hand and just lays there with her eyes closed thinking about the events that had taken place in the last 24 hours mostly about how she was saved and how kind Duo had been to her. She finally decides that she shouldn't burden him anymore than she already has, but soon after this she starts to drifts into a peaceful sleep which is interrupted by some murmuring.

As Duo quickly walks to the kitchen he grabs one of his softest cloths, dampens it, and places some ice cubes in it while thinking how sweet and gentle this young girl seemed. He quickly walks past an old picture of his own sister who was about one year younger than himself maybe even younger than Hilde too. Her name was Amber, she shared many similarities in looks with himself she had the same long beautiful hair as he did and the same stunning violet eyes too, except in hers she had, had tints of brown in them, but he realizes that Hilde had the same tone of voice and same gentle characteristics in her gaze and facial features. Duo sighs and thinks 'three years ago when I was 14 I swore I would get revenge on you Amber and God willing I will...' He walks back to Hilde and gently applies the cloth to her bruised cheek and lip. Duo watches as she slowly drifts asleep (or so he thinks) and quietly murmurs "Gawd Amber I miss you so much, I will keep my promise to you but, its so hard I wish you were here know. All those years after mom and dad were killed you were my strength and hope and then you left so suddenly because of those.... those...." Duo who had been leaning over his knees with his head in his hands chokes on the last words and starts to cry silently with only a few sobs that are actually audible.

Hilde sighs again and thinks 'For once I'm able to actually fall asleep and sleep peace..' she stops and starts to listen to Duo's murmuring and half jumps when she hears a sob. She slowly removes the cloth from her face and opens her eyes and thinks 'Duo, what's wrong I hope its not because of me or anything.' She watches him silently, think and wondering if she should try to comfort him. When she hears the next sob she gets up quietly and slowly walks to his side kneels in front of him. Hilde places a hesitant hand on Duo shoulder and says "Duo are you ok? what's wrong?"

Duo jumps as he hears her soft voice and quickly stands and says "Huh? Oh I'm sorry I thought you were asleep Hilde. I am sorry if I disturbed you...." he quickly looks away and wipes his face with his hand to rid it of all tears half embarrassed then looks back at Hilde and meets her gaze. He quickly looks away because it is hard for him to look at the same familiar gaze that is almost his sister's.

"Duo you don't need to apologize I wasn't asleep yet, are you ok? what's wrong?" she looks at him with the same gaze that reminded him of Amber. When she sees him look away she immediately thinks that he is upset or embarrassed with or by her. "Duo?" Hilde starts to worry about him.

Duo starts to lose feeling in his legs when he see Hilde's gaze and hears her soft voice that has already reminded him of Amber a little to much already. When he finally hears "Duo?" He snaps back to reality and says "ya I'm ... I'm fine. " He slumps slowly back into his deep sea blue chair to weak from his lack of sleep sense he hadn't had a decent rest in over a month for he had JUST gotten back from a Gundam training mission that lasted for a month and then he woke up to Hilde screaming out side which he can't and wont blame her for because of what was happening to her.

Hilde kneels in front of Duo and takes his hand while saying this, "No your not fine Duo, look at your self I mean please Duo your eyes are blood shot and you have dark circles underneath your eyes, and you were crying. Please Duo you can trust me. Please tell me who is Amber, and why you are so upset?" She looks into his eyes with a deep concern completely for getting about her own injuries and problems. When she sees a deep pained look in his eyes when she mentioned the name Amber she immediately regrets asking him and she quickly says," Duo I'm sorry I shouldn't of asked you about her.."

Duo looks up through his bangs when he sees Hilde kneel in front of him and is slightly startled when she takes his hand but doesn't move. "It's ok." he half sighs. "She was my younger sister. On only by a year she she was my only real family I know of after our mom and dad were killed. She, She was my strength and when OZ killed her I swore to get revenge for her.." he looks at her then quickly looks away. "And you remind me of her a great deal. Which is hard for me to deal with sometimes. I have never told anyone about her before, she is still a very tender subject for because of how close we were." He hands her a picture of Amber. And I look so tired because I haven't had a proper nights rest in over a month because I got back from a Gundam training mission yesterday which was a month long. " he sighs and looks down a doesn't even realize what he said until he hears a gasp and hears the word "Gundam? I was told all Gundam pilots are evil, cruel and unfeeling."

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