Envy paced the room wondering what could possibly be taking Lust so long to get back from her job of finding where Gluttony had wandered off to earlier. He kicked the dead owner's body closer to the counter so no one could see his body if they were near the counter.

He had been ready to close shop hours ago for the man, but left it open till it said on the sign hanging from the door. As Envy was about to shut the curtains around the window, he heard a group of women coming up the sidewalk, and more than likely they were going to enter the shop.

He turned into the shop owner just as the women glanced in the window. They entered and one of the girls smiled and greeted him, "Hey there! Sorry to burst in at the last second, but we realized we needed something for tomorrow morning. Are you out of that meat you had on sale earlier?"

"Yes, but I have another meat you may find just as delicious." Envy smirked as he schemed up a horrible plan for the girls and their families.

He let the girls distract themselves and then quickly dragged the real shop owner to the back room. Duo had dozed slightly against the wall, but awoke when he found a man carrying his own body, except it was lifeless.

"Am I drunk or something?" Duo asked as he hoped that it was just a dream, but knew better than to waste too much energy on an empty hope.

Envy set the man on the table, but apparently he was too tall and his bulky legs hung over the edge. "No, unfortunately you aren't and now you're going to witness a couple of families convert to cannibalism."

Duo felt sick at the thought of them unknowingly eating another human being and tried to stop Envy before he began carving up the man. "Why would you do something like that to someone who's innocent?"

Envy put down the knife and walked up to Duo with an angry look. He grabbed his hair and pulled down hard making Duo make a small noise from the pain. Then with another sharp jerk he made Duo come back up abruptly and then let him go.

"You can't say anything that will change my mind about humans, because I hate them! With as pure hate as it gets, and it does sound quite ironic doesn't it. Pure hate, when you think of purity, you think of innocence; and when you think of hate you think of evil."

Duo faked a laugh and wished desperately he could rub his scalp in hopes to soothe some of the pain. "You really are a monster…"

"Abomination is a better nickname, but don't call me that. Maybe when you get to know me better, you might call me something different." Envy took a large swing right into the man's chest cavity and the sound of cracking bones echoed in the room.

That was the final thing to make Duo throw up on the floor, even when killing someone he had never done it in such a brutal manner. Or with such a gleeful expression on his face.

> > >

Roy was getting current updates every hour or sooner if someone saw something suspicious. But no one had yet to see anything other than a few people wearing long robes and hoods which they had checked out immediately.

Now Roy was drumming his fingers on the desk again, but this time no one protested it. When the phone rang again, Roy almost jumped out of his chair and over the desk to grab the receiver.

"What is it?"

"We've spotted a man and woman of your descriptions Colonel. The man is fat, bald, and portly; and the woman's tall, thin, and wearing the long black dress you described. We saw them hanging around the department store on the southern side of Central, sir." The soldier sounded slightly nervous over the phone, but Roy ignored it.

"You had better have seen the right people since I'm going to travel all to way over there." Roy warned before hanging up and then got up which made everyone else follow suit. "We may have found our kidnappers."

> > >

Heero had puzzled over why Wufei had said Duo's name in the kitchen. He noticed that Wufei had seemed at peace for a brief moment before he had realized that he and Quatre had been watching.

He clutched onto one of Duo's many hair ties, and then tried his hardest to drop it, but found himself unable to do so. Even though Heero basically knew there wasn't any easy way for Duo to get back, he felt as if waiting until the time machine was finished would help.

"Why did something like this have to happen to you…? Why does fate always play such a cruel hand to us…?" Heero asked the empty room and stood up to get dressed for sleep.

Lately he had dreamed some strange dreams of Duo and a smaller blonde who had strange powers. He could see dreams of the two of them getting along so well, but last night's dream had been terrible.

Duo had been kidnapped by some even stranger beings and Heero had no idea why they would kidnap Duo… That was when Heero had to snap back to reality and try and convince himself it was all just a dream.

Though the vivid images of what was happening, and how the dreams seemed to happen in a sort of chronological order didn't help Heero's anxiety relax any.

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