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"Everyone might as well get comfortable before I start," suggested Heero. "I have a lot to tell you all, so this is going to take awhile." The others nodded and seated themselves at various places around the room. Wufei perched himself on an uncomfortable looking chair, Trowa and Quatre occupied the couch, and Duo plopped himself on the bed next to Heero. Heero took a deep breath before starting. "The reason I have wings is because I'm an angel."

"WHAAAT?" four voices exclaimed in unison.

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"And so are all of you," continued Heero. This time the volume of the others' reactions was so loud, other guests of the hotel were demanding they quiet down.

"WHAAAAT!!!!!!? WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE'RE ANGELS?" shouted the other pilots.

"Yeah, none of us have wings like you," pointed out Duo.

"Yes, you do," Heero informed him. "But like my wings were, they are hidden. You might want to take off your shirts, unless you want to lose them." The others complied hesitantly before Heero waved a hand through the air that glowed deep blue, and suddenly wings appeared on their backs. Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei had white wings; but like Heero's, Duo's were not. He had black wings, while Heero's were deep blue, the same colour as his hand had glowed.

"See, wings," stated Heero calmly.

"How long have you known about this?" asked Trowa quietly.

"Since I was five," replied Heero. "And before you ask; no, I couldn't have told you about this before. I wasn't allowed to. I didn't want to anyways though. I had hoped that all of us would get to lead normal lives before I had to tell you about this, but when my wings appeared this morning, I knew it was time.

"When I was five years old, I had an angel appear to me and tell me what I'm about to tell you. We were chosen at birth to become angels. They needed people to protect humans, and because we were already fated to become Gundam pilots, they chose us. They being the Powers that Be. I don't know why they chose to tell me about it first, but since I had been training with Odin to become an assassin since I could walk, my initial reaction was to draw my gun on the angel."

"Only you would draw your gun when you saw an angel," laughed Duo.

"The angel said the exact same thing. Then he told me that I had been chosen, along with four others, to become an angel and protect the world. I didn't believe him at first, then he made my wings appear. Then he told me about the four of you, but said that even once I met you, I wasn't allowed to tell you any of this until after the second war we fought. I accepted what he said as truth, but didn't want it to be true, so I tried to forget about it. That's why I tried to kill myself all those times. If I could die, it wouldn't be true. It's also why I was so cold to you all when we first met. Meeting you was further proof that the angel I met had been telling the truth.

"Anyways, since we're angels, we're immortal. At about 20 or so, our bodies will stop aging and we'll stay like that until the end of the world. We all have special powers that will develop further the older we get. Quatre's empathic ability is one of these powers."

"Oh, so that's why you're so strong Heero," Quatre said.

"Actually, no, it's not. I'm naturally this strong. I could bend metal before I met the angel, and I've gotten stronger since. I have some telepathic and telekinetic skill as my abilities; although I've made an effort not to use them, which is why they aren't very developed. I believe that Wufei is able to create fire, Trowa can communicate with animals, and Duo can make himself unnoticeable, practically invisible. And the five of us have to protect Earth and the colonies from whatever threats happen to appear.

"I would suggest that we not get rid of our Gundams, but keep them hidden until we absolutely have to use them. Most threats that come up for awhile will be small anyways, so we should be able to eliminate them without the use of mobile suits. Other than that, we have to figure out what we're going to do with the rest of forever."

"How are we going to explain our wings?" asked Trowa.

"We can make them appear and disappear whenever we want now. You just have to concentrate on it," replied Heero, demonstrating by making his go away and come back.

"How are we going to explain this to everyone else? There are some people we can trust, but the majority of people are going to be suspicious when we don't age," pointed out Quatre.

"We can tell the people we trust, but eventually we're going to just have to disappear. I thought we could work with the Preventers for awhile, then go off on our own," was Heero's response.

"That makes sense, Yuy," agreed Wufei.

"I'm glad you're all taking this so well. I was expecting you to hate me for telling you that you can never live normal lives."

"How could you have expected us to hate you for this?" exclaimed Duo. It's not your fault that the Powers that Be chose us. I feel bad that you had to find this out so young. I'm sure it couldn't have been easy, keeping it a secret so long." Heero stared at Duo, shocked. He hadn't been expecting anyone to feel sorry for him. It never occurred to him that anyone would feel that way. He decided to do something that was very uncharacteristic of the way he'd acted to the other pilot up to that point. He hugged him.

"Thank you, Duo," he said softly. After Duo got over his surprise, he hugged Heero back. The others just watched, stunned, as the previously icy Wing pilot actually HUGGED someone.

"What are you thanking me for?" asked Duo, curious.

"For actually caring about how I feel. It's the first time I can think of that anyone has." To the others, that explained a lot about Heero. Noone cared about him, so he didn't care about anyone else.

Quatre was the first to interrupt the quiet moment. "I don't know about you guys, but I'm tired. We all met pretty late, and this is a lot of information to digest. I suggest that we all go to bed, and meet up first thing tomorrow to talk about what we're going to do." The others agreed and got up to leave. All except Duo and Heero. When the others left, Heero turned to look at Duo.

"Was there something you wanted to talk to me about?" he asked.

"Umm, not really. I was just wondering....canIstayheretonight?" he asked in a rush. "I - uh - I get nightmares sometimes, but they don't come if I'm sleeping in the same room as someone else. I won't be any trouble, I'll sleep on the couch...."

"It's alright, Duo," Heero interrupted. "You can stay here tonight if you want. And you don't have to sleep on the couch. This is a huge bed, there's enough room for two."

"Thank you Heero," cried Duo, hugging him again.

"This is a nice feeling," thought Heero. "I'll have to hug people more often if it feels like this. I'm so glad that none of them hate me, that would be awful. I thought it wouldn't hurt as much if I didn't let anyone get close to me, but I don't have to keep that distance anymore now that they know." He smiled inwardly that Duo had asked to stay with him of all people. "Maybe I can stop hiding how much I like him now too." With that final thought, he climbed into bed and was quickly asleep.