"Duo, come out of your room right now! You're really pushing the limits now, and if you push me any farther you're gonna regret it!" Duo's father was practically breaking down Duo's door in his rage. "Open this fucking door now!"

Duo couldn't believe what his father was doing, but he had planned something in case he had to make a hasty escape. There was something that made him hesitate though, the teen suddenly felt an overwhelming sense of nostalgia as his memory began to dig up something he had suppressed. There was someone screaming, and it was making his head pound so he hit the woman he beat her until there was no longer any sound. He looked towards the once beige carpet now stained a sickening crimson.

It was his mother... no, this obviously wasn't his memory. Whoever's memory this was had cared for his mother in a much different way than he did, as more of a source for stress relief. That was when the reminiscing in the someone else's past ended, and unfortunately that was also the time that Duo's father had finally gotten through the door. Duo suddenly panicked and curled up into a ball trying to protect himself, but nothing happened. There was no more yelling, no more thundering footsteps... there was just nothing...

Amethyst eyes carefully peeked from behind his pale arms, to find that his father was not even there anymore. But there was a man in his stead, he had short tawny hair and stunning sapphire eyes that had a hypnotizing quality to them. He spoke in a soothing tone, as if not to scare Duo away like a frightened animal, but his voice seemed to set Duo off instead.

"Duo Maxwell, please don't move. You could seriously hurt yourself jumping from a window on the second story, and that's the last thing I want to happen." The man took a few steps toward Duo, but the teen swiftly jumped up and swung his leg outside the window. There was a small covering for the front porch directly below his window, but he wouldn't be able to slow his momentum towards the ground down at all.

"I don't know who the fuck you are... but tell me what you did with my father now." Duo was threatening to jump, and since he had a slight idea of how he could land without hurting himself too bad it wasn't a bluff. Yet the stranger did not make any motion to speak or explain, he seemed to be contemplating exactly what he would benefit for Duo getting injured but seemed unsuccessful. "Stop stalling and fucking tell me where he is!"

That was when something completely impossible happened... Heero was suddenly there to his rescue. But then something even more bizarre happened, and Duo had somehow ended up in his bed. There was no unwelcome visitor there, and there was also no Heero. Duo sat up and found himself in bed with a disturbing calm in his house. He swung his legs carelessly over the edge of his bed, and wandered down the hall to where his father's study was, and he was there just typing away on his computer while fending off some representative from another company. The teen was cautious not to distract him, and stealthily made his way back to his room.

The braided boy couldn't believe that it was all just a dream... It all seemed way too realistic to be nothing more than something his subconscious made while he took a nap, yet that was the only explanation for how nothing he remembered seems to have even occurred. But there was something now that he was also wondering about his dream. The part of the dream when he thought he was seeing someone else's memory, was it real?

"That had to have been real, but then who was I when it was happening?" Duo didn't get any more time to ponder over that when his dad knocked lightly on his open door.

"You feeling okay now? Earlier I could tell you were really furious with me, and for that I must apologize since it was my fault to begin with." His apology seemed sincere, but Duo also knew that he was still guarding himself. Apparently the teen had struck a nerve when he had told he man exactly what he was doing, and how being a workaholic had become number one in his life. "If you want, I'll call the school tomorrow and tell them you're really ill. I'll tell them you'll probably be out the rest of the week, but next week you are going to have to go back."

His father left him, and Duo wished he could just spit in the man's face. That was really the best he could do? Was try to be sympathetic to his own son, and then get away the first chance he got? Duo could honestly say that he was almost to the point of hating the man that was called his biological father.

The teen vehemently slammed the door and stalked over to his desk where his laptop laid with a lit screen warning Duo of a new e-mail. He checked the e-mail address and recognized it as Hilde's address. He wasn't the least bit interested in what the hell the girl had to say, so he just turned the whole computer off with one furious push of the power button. He couldn't really calm himself down at that moment, and because of his unmanageable rage he never was able to see the warning Hilde had been trying to so desperately give him.

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Heero himself was surprised when his cell phone began vibrating in his pocket to reveal Wufei was calling, and the solemn teen knew that the Chinese teen would only call him in an emergency. He flipped the thin phone open and softly answered to let Wufei know he was there.

"Heero, I don't know where the hell you or Duo went... but he's in deep shit now. I don't know what happened exactly, but there are at least three cops already heading for his place to arrest him-" Wufei never got to finish though as Heero swiftly flipped his phone shut and was out of his house in only five seconds flat. His chocolate bangs were irritating him as they kept getting in his eyes, but it didn't slow him down one bit as he called Duo to warn the new suspect.

No one picked up, and Heero figured there'd be no use to leave a voice mail if the guy wouldn't even think of returning the call. Not to mention this wasn't something Duo could just get back to him on, this was urgent and Heero now had no choice but to barge in uninvited. As he sprinted around the corner to Duo's street, he remembered that Duo's father wasn't exactly going to be ecstatic to see him on the front porch which made Heero head for the backyard. Hopefully nothing had changed from what Heero remembered it to be two years ago, since there was always a way to sneak onto the second floor by using the lattice to get onto the small roof above the back porch.

As the teen had hoped, nothing had changed in the least bit except for the garden that Duo's mother, Katherine, had always tended to was now only a rectangle of dirt. Heero began climbing without delay up the lattice, and pulled himself onto the roof so he could then proceed to break into the Maxwell house through their open window. He could hear Duo's father downstairs talking to someone on the phone, so he crept across the small upstairs study and made it all the way to Duo's door without any trouble.

It wasn't until he began to turn the doorknob, that the door was suddenly jerked open to show an enraged Duo. The braided teen's expression quickly changed though as he saw it was Heero and not his father at the door, but Heero didn't allow any words to be exchanged between them yet as he shoved Duo into his own room.

"Listen Duo, something has happened and they're coming to arrest you." Heero informed Duo with that simple sentence, and grabbed Duo's wrist to pull him back out into the hall so they could escape. But Duo wrenched his wrist out of Heero's iron grip shaking his head.

"The cops are coming to get me now? I don't care... they can arrest me if they like and interrogate me all they want, but I didn't do it and nobody can blame me for it." Duo heard car doors slam outside, and wondered how the hell Heero had managed to beat the men to his house. He didn't dwell on it though as he knew there would probably be someone coming into his room, and he couldn't let anyone know Heero was there. "I'll be fine, but you on the other hand... Just hide under the bed, and don't make a sound or they'll find you."

It didn't take long after that for his father and who Duo assumed was cops knocked on his door. As he expected, they were there waiting for him and it didn't take them long to make their way into the teen's room. Duo's father was clearly agitated by something they had said or done, but Duo said nothing as they began inspecting his room.

"I hate to tell you this Mr. Maxwell," one of the men said as he scanned all the items on Duo's dresser. "But we think we may have finally found the one who killed your wife."

"How is that bad news?" Duo's father asked as a sudden anxiety overtook his usually stoic features.

"The fact is, is that we have found more evidence against your son that is once again pointing to him as the murderer." The officer abruptly turned to face the teen and his parent seeming not to find anything incriminating in Duo's possession. "But, the other and much better news for you is that we have also found another suspect... though your son is still the main suspect in this murder."

Heero watched as Duo was handcuffed in his own room, while his father continued to loudly protest against it all. Yet the teen with chocolate hair could not go to his friend's aid as it would not only be considered helping to resist arrest, but also very suspicious on Duo's part. As he waited until he heard the front door bang shut, and then emerged from his hiding spot to start investigating the supposed murderer's room himself. He knew it was kind of rude to go through someone's belongings without them being there, but it was probably going to be the only chance he'd ever get to try and discover the missing element in this case.

There wasn't anything much different than any other adolescent boy would own, but Heero still had yet to look on the laptop that was now rebooting as one of the officers had turned it on. Most likely the man had intended to do the same as Heero, but forgot and ended up leaving without probing through the contents of the computer.

The password screen popped up, but Heero only needed three tries to figure out the right password. Duo had set it as his favorite brand of cigarettes which Heero had happened to stumble upon a couple of packs hidden between the wall and the bed. As he searched through every file on the whole computer, he came to one in particular that caught his eye. The folder didn't have an intriguing name of any sort, and that was the whole reason it had caught his eye.

It was one of those things that most people would've left unobserved, because of the fact the New Folder was not named as the rest of the folders were. The only thing that caught Heero off guard was the fact that this folder had its own password for someone to get into it. Heero figured it couldn't be that hard to crack Duo's logic, but as he continued to go through every possible keyword he was left clueless and defeated.

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Hey guys, another update I hope isn't too late! I love this series as one of my best honestly, so remember any feedback would be helpful! If this story is going in a direction that's just way too crazy, I'd love to hear any opinions.

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Shari Maxwell