AN: Yay! Chapter 15 is now up… I hope you all enjoy it. Heh… I wrote most of this chapter at work. We had like absolutely no customers… And like the mall's AC was down… talk about hot. I WORK WITH HEAT AS IT IS. Sigh. And we're getting our oven soon too… I hope they fix that AC….

Special Thanks to:

Marauder Heir: MWAHAHAHAHA! I like cliff hangers. It leaves you wanting to read the next chapter… Except last night when I wanted to go to bed because I had to work early…. I read that whole fic… Evilness I tell ya…. Sigh.

Modified Tam: LOL, I did think of that, hehe, but I knew some people would be mad at my little cliffie there. Good thing I update quickly lol… At least for this story. Sweatdrop.

Cherry Fantasy: Aww, thanks. I like that someone worries about Lily. It makes me happy, hehe. And while yes Duo now knows who's the boy from his past things aren't really going to go too smoothly yet. Sigh.

Enjoy and Luv to ALL!

Chapter 15

Duo stumbled into the house, eyes void of any emotion. He walked past the kitchen and into the living room. There he saw Heero sitting with Lily and Wufei, all watching a movie that Lily most likely picked out.

Duo walked over to the three and stood in front of the TV. Lily looked up at him angrily for a moment until she saw the look in the young boy's eyes.

"Duo?" Heero stood and reached out to the boy but Duo just smacked his hand away. Heero stepped back surprised that Duo would lash out at him like that. "Duo, what's wrong?"

"You!" Duo shouted. "Why the hell can't you just remember your past?" Tears formed in Duo's eyes. "I hate you! How could you forget?"

"Forget what? Duo, what are you talking about?" Heero tried to take another step towards the boy but was stopped as he felt someone grab his hand. He turned back to his sister who flew up from her seat and embraced Duo.

"Duo, please… It's not his fault." Lily led the boy towards her room. Heero fell back onto the couch unsure of what had just happened.

Lily sat Duo on her bed and just held the boy, whispering soothing words into his ear. Never in the years that she had known Duo had she ever seen him cry. She rubbed the boy's back trying to calm him. She hadn't expected such a reaction from the boy. Lily had thought that it would be a good thing if Duo had found out the boy was Heero.

"I'm sorry Duo. I should have told you sooner."

Duo suddenly pulled away from the girl, staring at her wide eyed. His eyes narrowed as he said, "You knew? You knew and you didn't tell me?"

"Duo," Lily started. "I wanted the two of you to remember on your own. A memory is a precious thing."

"It's not precious when he doesn't even remember," Duo shouted at her and Lily sighed.

"It's not his fault."

"The hell it isn't."

"Duo, you should be happy. The love of your life is the boy from your past."

"Happy?" More tears spilled from the boy's eyes. "More like confused and… and hurt."

"Duo…" Lily took her friend's hand. "I'm sorry. It only makes sense." Lily fought back her own tears. "I didn't mean to hurt either of you. I thought that it would be god for both you. I was wrong… I'm sorry." She took a deep breath to calm herself. "I was just envious. You both had each other… You were with who you wanted to be with."

Duo blinked at his friend suddenly realizing his mistake.

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"Heero? What's wrong?" Kurama asked as he walked into the room.

Wufei looked up at the red and stated, "Maxwell hates him. Hino brought the boy downstairs to your room."

Kurama blinked and nodded, heading down to his room. He paused when he heard the pair talking.

"Do you love Kurama?" Duo had asked the girl and Lily let out a long sigh.

"Of course I do," she answered with a fake smile.

"Then say it," Duo ordered her and Lily only stared at the braided boy. Duo shook his head and took Lily's hand.

"Lily, you have to leave him."

Lily shook her head. "I can't do that. Kurama takes such good care of me and I really do care for him."

"But not like that, ne?" The braided boy asked and Kurama could hear Lily sigh yet again.

"I think over time maybe I can learn to love him."

"Lily, you can't learn to love someone," Duo lectured. "Either you do or you don't."

"And what about you?" Lily shouted back. "My brother loves you so much and yet you treated him awfully upstairs. It's not his fault he doesn't remember you. He's trying so hard to remember his past right now and he's so good to you. How could you just yell at him like that?"

Duo sighed. "I think I just need time from him right now."

Nodding her head, Lily stood. "I understand. But Duo, remember this… Heero does love you. And if you hurt him I will hurt you twice as much."

Duo blinked, but a small smile graced his lips. "Thank you Lily."

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After hearing everything, Kurama returned upstairs to where Hiei had been waiting for him. The short boy stared up at his friend and sighed.

"Save the both of you from the pain Kurama." The red head sighed and nodded. He knew what he had to do.

That day some rooms were moved around. Hiei moved downstairs with Kurama, and Duo took over Hiei's room, which allowed Wufei to move back in and escape Yusuke. Lily decided to just share the attic with her brother. There were two beds up there already so it was okay.

Lily laid out on her bed and looked over at Heero. "Hee-chan, I'm sorry, but maybe you shouldn't speak to Duo for awhile."

"Hn," was the only response she received. Sighing, she closed her eyes and fell asleep.

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The next day was a long one. Lily had just heard from Quatre and Trowa that they were moving out into their own apartment somewhere nearby. They said something about the house being too crowded and not enough peace. Lily waved it off and decided that Wufei could have that room since he liked being alone anyway.

Heero had left for the orphanage again hoping to find out more about his past. Heero sighed as he ran his hand over the carving again.

"DM… Was that you Duo? I wish I could remember."

"Oh, I'm sorry." Heero looked up to the doorway to see a girl with short dark tomboyish hair. "I was just coming to straighten up the boy's room."

"Oh, I'm sorry. Do you need me to leave?" Heero asked as he started to stand.

"Oh no." The girl smiled. "You're fine where you are." She watched as Heero sat back down. "I'm Hilde by the way." She started switching the sheets on all the beds. She stopped to look at the boy. "You're Heero, ne?"

Heero nodded. "How did you know?"

The girl laughed and returned to the beds. "I arrived here a few days before you left orphanage. A lot of the children had left at that time. Very few of us remained." She sighed. "And you… You left someone very important behind. He still thinks about you even after all those years have passed."

"That important someone," Heero started, "was that Duo?"

The girl smiled at him. "Now that you know that all you have to do is actually remember it, ne?"

Heero looked back at the carving. He nodded his head. "I want to remember now." Before it didn't matter to Heero if he remembered his past or not, but now he wanted to do it for Duo. He wanted to be able to remember the days when he first knew the boy. Then he thought back to something that Lily had said before.

"Hee-chan, I have a theory. I won't tell you that theory, but one day with I think you're ready I want to tell you."

"Heero, in my opinion… I think you two were destined to be together."

Lily had known. Since that day that she first asked him to move here she had known. How had she known before both Heero and Duo knew themselves? And it hit him… Lily really had been working hard to help them. He shook his head and decided he would get his memories of Duo back and that he would once again win the boy's heart.

AN: Heh… Sorry. I know… Kind of a depressing chappie. But things can't be happy just yet… It just isn't right. But anyway, please review. Luv to all!