Haruka briskly walked down the halls mindlessly waving at those calling out to him. He had one thing on his mind and that was to find 'Maxwell'. His hand tightened around a sheet of paper, brightly colored and flashes of words all over it.

He slowed down when he found his prey. Maxwell was standing off to the side and behind Relena while she talked with the other pilots. It had been almost three months since the incident at the racetrack. In that time Duo made little if no appearances. During those few months Maxwell had been in a bit of a depression. Coming up with nothing that would help get the attention of the other pilots. Quatre had basically quit talking to him. Still upset over the racetrack.

Haruka cleared his throat and waited politely paper hidden behind his back. Relena stopped talking and smiled at the tall sandy haired boy.

"Haruka! How have you been? I haven't talked to you lately."

Haruka gave her a slight bow and smile. "I afraid Miss. Relena it will have to be a little longer wait. I have some business with Maxwell." There was a defiant stress on the business part. Maxwell swallowed hard.

Relena blinked and raised an eyebrow. "Uh, why of course." Before Maxwell could even bid good-bye Haruka had grabbed the back of his uniform put him in a headlock and drug him down the hall. Once he rounded the corner the first door he came to he opened and threw the unsuspecting boy in. max caught the edge of a desk to steadying himself. He whirled around to face Haruka eyes wide open.

"What is your PROBLEM?" he nearly shouted. Haruka threw the paper at him.

"I found this in your room and found you have signed up for the title role. What the hell are you doing?! They have suffered enough with out playing a street rat that rises to power in some play."

Max looked down at the paper before looking up at Haruka fire blazing in his eyes for the last comment. He voice came out calm and quite disturbing to hear by others.

"They have suffered? I see. So then it is all right for the others to disappear for a while but not me. I mean even Quatre can just up and leave and no one would know where. But do they erect a moment saying he is dead. No they don't. But the minuet ole' crazy Duo goes missing the whole world is put on an alert. Do you know before I left I had taken Quatre out on the streets, at his request mind you and I was almost arrested when they found us? "

"You don't know how it felt to find after a year of supposed 'looking' they put that THING on the hill. They didn't look hard enough or they would have found me. That is right, Haruka! I left clues that would have led them to the moon palace and to the earth that we fought on. If they were looking they would have found them. They found one or two but stopped there. I don't know why though."

"Not only do I have to deal with that but I have all these rules to follow as well as a mission I can't let the boys on. Why is that oh well just because they had a normal life after the war and disappointed the Doctors by it some how? I also have to deal with a fact some time soon the other senshi will arrive and I will have to face them while they try and drag me back to something I don't want."

He was almost nose-to-nose with Haruka and began shoving him back. "So don't give me any of that bull shit that they have suffered until you look at all the facts. I am doing this play in hopes their puny little minds will get the damn hint. Few days later the ghost of Duo will show up with Christmas greetings. I know what I am doing. I am not that brainless twit you seem to think of. That was an act, Tsukino Usagi is dead and I am not bringing her back. Got that. She was a worthless, klutzy, twit…"

Smack.

Maxwell found himself on the ground clutching his cheek where Haruka had slapped him. Looking up he found tears close to breaking on Haruka's enraged face.

"You seem to keep forgetting there are others around you that have feelings. Even though you are the same person, Tsukino Usagi had something you will never have and more. Wake up! Did you really think after this long you could pop up and everything would go back to the way it was. After a year everyone changes, things change, Duo. No matter if they believed you dead or alive they will be upset. They will want to know where you disappeared off to, why you didn't keep in some contact. You can't keep using your mission as an excuse. You told me your self even during the war when everyone was to lay low you all still kept in contact. "

Haruka knelt down till he was eye level. He grabbed Max's chin and made him look up at him.

"Listen to me, weather you are Dou, Usagi, or Queen Victory of the Goonies, I don't care! YOU are my princess. I will follow you always; protect you from yourself and others. My life is in your hands as your life is in mine. But you have to listen to me. You can't just pop up and say hi there boys been a while. You have to let them know another way. So far you have about killed all chances of you coming back with out being shot on the spot. Now do you really think this play is the best thing?"

"They really don't trust Maxwell Smart. They will also distrust the other two people you have created. What was their names…. oh yeah…James Bond and Austin Powers. Come on really. Like they wont notice your names come from classic TV spies."

Both laughed. Max shook his head.

"I know, I know. They are my friends, Haruka-san. Even if they don't know my whole past they are the only ones who know the most about me. They understand me more than the girls do. I am doing this play to get them thinking. Besides I have had one contact this whole time. She some how knows where the five us are at all times. It would have created real problems if I had really disappeared. So I kept in contact with her." Looking up at Haruka he looked for anything with in his blue eyes. " She knows everything. Who I really am not only here but…. With the Senshi as well."

Haruka nodded and sighed. "Her name?"

"Hotaru is there now talking with her. Or should I say Saturn is. I was afraid to tell you at all. Feared you would kill her to protect… not unlike you did with the starlights. …Catalonia, Dorothy Catalonia…"

Saturn clutched her stomach in pain, as she laughed harder than she ever had. A few feet from her was a girl she had been sent to talk to. She to was laughing. They had been telling stories back and forth of things. Saturn couldn't believe such a girl could hold her self with such poise, grace, beauty and cruelty, but at the same time be kind and caring out of the eyes of others. This made Saturn want to know her story as well. She was finding this world to be filled with sorrow, each person having a story to tell.

"So it is agreed then?"

Saturn sat up when the girl spoke and smiled.

"Hai, Dorothy-san. You will talk to the pilots, the play will be soon after and then Duo comes to life." The smile left her face. "You have been kind to my princess and I am thankful. I hope you understand you will be need in the future. You and maybe a few others are the only key we have to finally put the puzzle piece together and show this little light who they really are."

Dorothy smiled. "I have known for quite a while. I know things most wouldn't even dream of knowing. Some have a slight clue but nothing that would do me harm."

Saturn smiled and de-transformed. "Ano…Dorothy-san got any games to play. It is a while before I have to be back to the school to be picked up."

Dorothy laughed and held out her hand to the small girl. "Come I think I have a few of my games left from childhood."

Quatre chewed on his lower lip as he and his three companions walked towards the main office.

"Wufei, did Une say why this was important?"

Wufei shook his head. "No, she said a visitor requested our presence. I don't even think she knows why."

Maxwell opened the door and let out a big sigh when it was closed. Quatre greeted him warmly startling him.

"I warn you now before you go in there." He thumbed towards the door before brushing past the small group.

"Warn us of what?"

"Just be warned." He threw over his shoulder. He darted around a corner and out of sight before anything else could be said. They quickly opened the door and filed in. they knew there was no danger or Maxwell would have told them to go in shooting. Then again what greeted them was dangerous. For mental reasons more that physical.

Relena turned to the boys after hugging Dorothy. The smile she had grew larger.

"Come in. look at who has decide to join the school."

Heero raised an eyebrow. "I was lead to believe this was beneath you. "

Dorothy looked up at Haruka and smirked. "I just have a filling things may get more- interesting."

Haruka sat up off the desk and shook his head. "Come now Miss. Relena. You have a meeting to attend. You can gossip later with Miss Dorothy." Relena nodded gave Dorothy one last hug before exiting out of the room. Haruka leaned down to give Dorothy a hug as well before following behind Relena. He had come to like this girl.

"Hope you can pull this off with out getting shot." He whispered in her ear. She snorted.

"You forget to whom you are talking to. Go now and leave me to my weaving."

Haruka shook his head and chuckled to his self as he made his exit.

Dorothy turned to the large windows that over looked the whole city and the bay. In fact she stood in the same spot that Relena had when she was last here. In that spot Relena had agreed to surrender and become Queen Relena of Earth.  

"War dose odd things to people. It changes them for one. Sometimes that change is bad and sometimes it is good.  Once change I have notice you four since the wars stopped. Is how stupid you have become." She rounded to them glaring. "I don't know weather I should smack the hell out of you or shoot you to put you out of others misery."

She pointed to certain monument. " I want to know why in all of the Earths Sphere did you decided to place that horrendous thing there. I want to know what possessed you to believe that he was dead. What proof? If I remember right all of you came to me at different times to know if I heard anything and what did I tell you. Give him time did I not say?" she got her desired reaction. They were to stun as of now to respond. With that she continued.

"I don't understand why it is you believe Duo Maxwell is dead. I know for a fact he is not I have been in contact with him many times. Unfortunately black male swore me to secrecy lets say for now."

Quatre glared and opened his mouth but Dorothy cut him off rudely as she chucked something at him. He was quick to grab…a remote?

"Save it Winner. Watch and learn." With that she stomped out of the room and turned out the lights as she went.

A screen fell from the ceiling a green light flashed signaling a video was ready to play. Quatre dumbly raised the remote and pushed the big button with an arrow on it and play labeling.

The video started showing a security camera's view of Dorothy's back yard. It quickly focused on two people coming from the house. They were recognized them quickly as Dorothy and their missing Dou.

Dou leaned on the railings and whistled. "You have out done yourself since the last time I was here Dorothy-chan. The garden it greener."

Dorothy chuckled. "Thanks to the advice your friend gave you. By the way did she ever understand why you asked those questions?"

They could hear Duo's smile than see it. "No but she shrugged it off like the others did. They never did really understand me, but I wouldn't trade them for the world."

Dorothy leaned against the railing next to him with her back against it. "Speaking of friend would you like to tell me your story of the little escapade at the race track?"

Dou growled. "Why so you can yell at me too? Everyone else has."

Dorothy shrugged. "I wasn't really planning on it. I have heard some wild stories but I figure yours would be the best I would get that could be the truth."

Dou struck the top of the railing with a cry. " I am so sick of all of this. I am I not allowed to have some peace in my life. I have been bounced form one battle to another, one war to the next. Now I have all these damn rules from those damn quacks that try to call themselves doctors."

Dorothy calmly nodded. "I know that my dear. Now how about the race track."

Dou sighed. "You are a rather big pain are you not? All right, all right. The racetrack right. Well for one it doesn't begin there." He found a lounge chair and layback pushing his hat further over his face to hide from the sun. "I had gotten a lead they were going to try a little scare for our dear little vice foreign minister. Through some contacts I found out whom, when and where. I followed him…to the Racetrack."

"I lost him for a moment as I ran around that place. To make it worse everyone just had to be there to make it harder for me. I don't know how the others got there but I have a little suspicion lets say. Back to the point, I finally found my target. One problem I needed to get by our favorite war hero's. Something happened on the inner track or something and they took off in the direction. Thought I thought Quatre had caught me for a moment."

He looked to her lifting his hat. "You probably know the rest."

Once again she shrugged. "Perhaps. I know they chased the gun man down only to run across your ghost."

He sat up and propped his head on his hands. "Yeah my ghost. I forgot I am dead. How does a dead man stop a war from happening? They want me to do it all my self. Single handily stop all wars and create peace like I am God. I need their help, Dorothy. That was why they had seen me. If I wanted they wouldn't have even with the surprise of seeing them. I wanted to walk up to them and say Hi." His hand dug into his shirt pocket and pulled out a destroyed device. "Unlucky for me I had some nags in my ear to remind me of my rules."

Dorothy sat down next to him. "What are these rules?"

He smirks and slid a sly glance to her. "You mean the great and wise Dorothy does not know?" she glared at him before sticking her nose in the air.

"I can have you tossed out."

He held his hands up in defense as he laughed. " Down Sheba down. Do you want the rules? I can give you a few. Rule number one: no one can see you alive. You must kill all those who see you." He looked at her and grinned.

"Consider yourself on my to do list for when I retire." He began to click things off his fingers. "No outside help, insure peace, ect, ect you know all the normal bull I ignore in that area."

Dorothy raised her eyebrows. "Those are you rules?"

He pulled his legs up to his chest. "Sorry but that is all I can tell you. You know very well I am being watched at all times. I can't even go to the bathroom with out them knowing."

"So why am I not dead?"

He flopped back onto the chair. "A lot of negotiating and painful punishment. I needed contacts and I had to convince them that you and a few others were safe and would not betray me. That doesn't mean though you are out of the fire. Those who know I am alive are targeted everyday to insure their secrecy."

"I have yet to see a good reason why you can not see the others."

Dou opened and closed his mouth unsure what to say. " I guess I want them to be happy. No more fighting just peace. They have had time to acclimate to real life. They haven't fought even after the wars. I did because I couldn't let others do it for me. So this is one last gift from me to them."

Dorothy rolled her eyes. "For a guy you sure are mushy." Duo glared at her.

"You try being stuck with almost nothing but females for a while and see if that doesn't some how rub off on you. I see nothing wrong with wanting peace for my friends and those who I consider family. Even if that means I must do it all my self."

The tape cut off leaving four very confused individuals.

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I have wrote this thing out three times and so far this is the best I have come out with that sounds close to what I want.

Tell me what you think. Does it take a little way from the story or what.

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