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"Rei-chan! I'm home!" Hunny yelled as he bounded into his home.

Immediately a glaring Reiko stuck her head out of one of the doorways. "Hunny, if you wake up Genji or Fusao I will curse you!" she hissed.

"Does that mean they're asleep? Can we have cake then?" he whispered.

Reiko's eyes narrowed as she stared at Hunny and Haruhi began to wonder if she would get to witness a cursing when Reiko caught sight of her.

"Who are you? And why do I recognize you?"

Hunny bounded up to Reiko, pulling Haruhi behind him, with Mori quietly following them. "Rei-chan! This is Haru-chan! Don't you remember? We met her two years ago in Antique Bakery. She was that girl who slept all afternoon."

Reiko's eyes moved up and down Haruhi for several moments before she nodded, "Ah, yes, I remember you. You look much different now."

Haruhi shrugged, "Well, things change in two years."

Reiko glanced down at her left hand before looking back up at Haruhi and giving her a small smile, "Indeed they do."

Hunny turned to look at Mori, who'd been silently watching them, "Mori, will you eat cake with his."

Mori shook his head, "I need to see Satoshi."

"Okay! Have fun and see you tomorrow!"

Mori gave them a small bow, "Goodbye, it was nice meeting you Ms. Fujioka."

Haruhi smiled at this quiet, seemingly gentle giant, "It was nice meeting you, too. And please call me Haruhi."

Mori smiled at that before turning and leaving the house. She watched him go before turning back to Reiko and Hunny, who were staring at her in shock for some reason.

She frowned, "Is something wrong?"

"He smiled at you," Reiko whispered, "and he almost never smiles."

Hunny shook the shock off his face and grinned again, "I was right! We're going to be great friends!"

An hour later Haruhi found herself ensconced at a small table filled with cake and tea. Hunny was quickly devouring cake and in-between bites he was informing her of all the different types of cakes it was possible to make.

Haruhi and Reiko had long ago given up trying to keep up with him, though Reiko obediently leaned forward to take a bite of cake whenever Hunny offered her one.

Haruhi couldn't help but smile as she watched the two of them interact, they obviously loved each other very much. It reminded Haruhi of how her parents used to look at each other.

This pleasant afternoon tea was abruptly interrupted by the door to the parlor banging open and a loud wailing voice calling out, "HUNNY! Help me!"

All three of them jerked, Haruhi barely avoiding spilling hot tea on her lap, and looked at the doorway.

Tamaki Suoh stood there with tears streaming down his face as he panted for breath. He opened his mouth to speak again when a loud wail broke through the air, quickly followed by another one.

Reiko scowled and stood up quickly, "Tamaki Suoh! I curse you with all the powers instilled in me by the spirits of motherhood! How DARE you wake them!" A small piece of paper flew across the room and hit Tamaki square in the middle of his forehead. His eyes immediately rolled back in his head and he fell to the floor. Haruhi could've sworn that little birds started flying around his head, but that could've been a trick of the light.

"Hmph!" Reiko snorted as she stepped over Tamaki and swept out of the room, heading towards the crying babies.

Haruhi sat frozen in her chair, unsure of if she should stay with Hunny or follow Reiko to help with the babies. It only took a minute for her to decide to stay put. She knew absolutely nothing about babies.

Hunny sighed and shook his head before hopping off of his seat and going to Tamaki. He whispered something and then pulled the small piece of paper off of Tamaki's forehead. Immediately Tamaki sat up, rubbing his forehead.

"Well, Tamaki, what is it this time? Did Kyoya call you an idiot again?" Hunny asked in a very calm and serious manner. Haruhi couldn't quite equate this Hunny with the one that had been happily going on about angel food cakes as he feed Reiko bites.

Tamaki shook his head to clear it and then looked up at Hunny from his space on the floor, tears were once again pouring from his eyes. "It's so much worse than that Hunny! I-I-I need your help!"

Hunny sighed and sat down on the floor next to Tamaki. "What do you need my help with?"

"How…How did you get Reiko to stop hating you?" he said between sobs.

Hunny smiled softly, "Silly Tamaki, she never hated me. She just didn't know what love was. She thought I'd stolen her heart, she didn't realize that she'd given it to me, or that I would happily give her mine once I got to know her."

Somehow, Tamaki started sobbing harder, "Then I'm doomed!"

Haruhi vaguely noted that the babies had stopped crying. Most of her attention was focused on the two blonde men sitting on the floor. This sobbing Tamaki was nothing like the boy Alianore had told them about. Was it possible she'd misjudged him? Was something else going on?

"Tamaki, why are you doomed?" Hunny asked calmly.

"It's…It's Alianore! She hates me! She won't even listen to me when I try to explain!"

Haruhi sat there for a moment, watching Tamaki sob as Hunny patted him on the back. She quickly ran through every conversation she'd had with Alianore about Tamaki. What Alianore had told her did not match up with this sobbing man on the floor. This piece of evidence, combined with Haruhi's innate desire to discover the truth and see justice done, made her get up from her chair. She walked over to the two men and sat down herself.

Tamaki jerked in shock when she reached out and touched his shoulder. Haruhi didn't think he'd even realized she was in the room.

"Who…who are you?" he asked, his shock momentarily stopping his sobs, though he was still breathing hard.

"I'm Haruhi Fujioka." She smiled comfortingly at him, "What did you mean by explain?"

Tamaki studied her face for a moment, searching for something. After a moment he relaxed and began to speak.

"I need her to know that I never meant to leave her. One day a man showed up. He took my mother and me. He told me that if I wanted her to get better I had to come with him to Japan and give up everything in France. I tried to refuse, I didn't think she was that sick, but then he showed me her health records." He began to cry again, albeit softly, "She only had months to live if she didn't get special, expensive treatment. So, I agreed. I signed a paper that made me swear off all contact with anyone in France until I came of age. If I was found breaking this agreement than all treatment for my mother would immediately cease, even if it meant her death." He shrugged sadly, "There was nothing I could do. I was just a kid and my mom was sick. So, I came to Japan and made the best of things. I promised myself that I'd go back to France when I came of age and tell Alianore the truth," he hung his head and continued to cry softly.

All sorts of things were beginning to make sense in Haruhi's head, but she needed one more piece of evidence before she presented the evidence to the only jury that mattered – Alianore.

"Tamaki, were you of age when she threw that drink at you in Paris?"

Tamaki's head jerked up and he stared at her in shock, "How-how do you know about that?!"

Haruhi opened her mouth to reply, but was cut off by Hunny.

"You were one of the girls with Alianore weren't you? That's why you wouldn't tell me your name in the Antique Bakery two years ago!" He frowned in thought, searching his memories. "You were the one that made Kyoya so angry!"

"Kyoya? You mean Glasses Boy?"

Tamaki started to chuckle, wiping away some of his tears absently, "You call him Glasses Boy? I like it!"

"His real name is Kyoya Ootori," Hunny said, handing Tamaki a handkerchief.

"Ah, well, yes, that was me." She looked Tamaki firmly in the eyes, "I'm good friends with Alianore – have been since we went to Oxford together. If everything you said today is true I'll talk to her and see if she'll meet with you, to let her explain in person."

Tamaki's eyes began to sparkle and he smiled, looking much more like the boy she'd meet in Paris years ago. "Really? You'll do that for me beautiful lady? Oh! I shall be forever in your debt. Alianore is the only one for me, if only she'll let me prove that I never stopped loving her."

"Really? You can help Tama-chan?" Hunny asked, immediately reverting back to his cute self.

Haruhi smiled, "All I can do is tell Alianore what Tamaki told me today. We'll see if that's enough to get her to listen."

"Thank you," Tamaki exclaimed, jumping to his feet, all traces of crying now gone from his face. "And no need to be modest. You succeeded in making Kyoya angry, and on a first meeting, too! I know you'll succeed in getting Alianore to at least give me a chance to explain!"

Haruhi hoped his faith in her was not misplaced. She had the feeling that convincing Alianore might just involve copious amounts of alcohol and possibly a rope – so as to hold her down long enough to hear Haruhi out. Since the last time Tamaki's name had been mentioned near her, she'd become so angry that Haruhi was fairly sure there were still feelings there. So, it was her goal to help her friends be happy, if she was able to.

And, to achieve this goal she'd probably need the help of Masaye and Chiye.

They were the most devious people she knew.

Author's Note: More Hunny and Reiko goodness followed by a nice dose of Tamaki. She's just getting drawn deeper, and deeper into the Host Club.

Enjoy! :)