The Guilt of the Forgetful

Mannd

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"The projected reports are finished Mr. Winner," the COF said as he handed a folder to Quatre. Quatre opened the folder and quickly skimmed through the pages, taking in a summary of the information. He would read it more in depth later tonight. The door opened and Quatre glanced up to see Heero and Duo come in. They were taking him out to lunch at Trowa's insistence. He had been cooped up too long in the office and he was looking forward to catching up with his friends again over the weekend.

"My lunch meeting is here," Quatre said standing up as he began to pack up his laptop. "I will see you gentlemen and ladies at the conference next week."

"But sir," the COI began sputtering, "we need to discuss..."

"We have discussed and discussed and there is nothing more to discuss." Quatre said looking sternly at the man. "Unless you aren't able to handle it, in which case, you can be replaced by someone who can." With that he picked up his laptop and the folders that they had been discussing ad nauseam for the past week and left the conference room, Duo and Heero flanking him.

"I must say," Duo said as he leaned back in his chair, "as Mr. Winner the CEO, you are pretty scary."

Quatre looked torn between blushing and glaring but settled for just shaking his head, a smile playing around his lips. "Please Duo, I'm just an ordinary guy."

Duo snorted and rolled his eyes.

"How are you doing?" Heero asked, "You look tired."

"I am a bit," Quatre said, "I can't wait for Trowa to come home though..." he sighed.

"Heard anything from Fei?" Duo asked.

"Just that he is happily working for Preventers," Quatre said then sat up, "Oh and that he is moving to a new office in London."

"I know," Duo said, then flushed guiltily, "I wasn't able to meet Harry for our amusement park day."

Heero winced as well, "I missed my day as well," he glanced over at Quatre who looked away biting his lip, "don't tell me..." he said.

Quatre nodded guiltily, "when was the last time we saw Harry?"

"Six months for me," Heero said. "Relena's speech tour has finally died out and she has a full time security detail from Preventers now, so I have been relieved, thankfully."

"Seven for me," Duo said, playing with his braid self-consciously, "I joined Preventers and just finished going through basic. I am going to be working with WuFei in London, so I will make up for it when I move there."

"I haven't seen him since we found Trowa together on L1," Quatre said looking extremely uncomfortable and guilty. "We are bad friends."

"We'll do better," Heero vowed. He looked over at his braided friend and said casually, "So, you joined Preventers too?"

"TOO!" Duo blinked at Heero. "When? Where?"

"I trained on the L1 base rather than on earth," Heero said smirking. "I am moving to London next weekend."

"NO WAY!" Duo yelled then grinned. "I'll help you move if you help me, deal?"

"Hmm," Heero said nodding.

"I was thinking about moving my headquarters to London…" Quatre said thoughtfully, "I have a realtor looking into some property not too far from where Harry lives, so we will be able to see him more often, you two are welcome to come and stay with Trowa and I."

"Thanks Quatre," Duo said, "I hate apartment hunting…" he gave a mock shudder and Heero looked thoughtful about the invitation.

"So when should we go see Harry and apologize for deserting him?" Quatre said.

"Well, we move in two weeks. WuFei is setting up the new operation the week after..." Duo trailed off.

"Trowa is coming at the end of August, so how about the five of us make a date and see Harry..." Quatre pulled out his daily planner, "the first weekend in September."

Heero pulled out a mini-lap top that Duo immediately wanted and put the date on the calendar program. "Agreed, September 2."

Quatre smiled his agreement, still feeling guilty, but knowing that they would see Harry in less than a month.

Thanks to my wonderful Beta!

AN: The next chapter is Where's Harry? And as you can tell the pilots have discovered their friend gone.