Duo was lying on his stomach on the bed in a lot of pain, as Heero examined his arm thoroughly. It was amazing that his best friend's father just happened to be a doctor, and that Heero was actually weird enough to have read all of his father's medical books and other things about human anatomy. It was an odd coincidence, but still a lucky one as Duo wasn't going to be able to get it properly looked at without arising suspicion from Sharpe.

"Are you going to fix the fucking thing or not?!" Duo screamed into the pillow as he felt Heero's rough calloused fingers feel all along his arm sending more waves of pain all through Duo's body. He turned his head sideways to look at the wall opposite Heero because he knew he must look pathetic in that condition, and he didn't feel like having any sympathy at the moment. The teenager calmed himself down as much as possible before asking, "So can you do anything?"

"It's going to hurt a lot more than you can probably handle, and you'll end up passing out most likely. But it seems that I can probably set the bone back into its proper condition... You're just lucky as hell this didn't end up being a compound fracture from the height you fell from." Heero grabbed a bottle of morphine pills, he grabbed three of the tablets and tapped Duo on the shoulder to get his attention. "Look over here so you can take some of these, they might ease the pain a bit."

Duo refused to move his head to look over at the other teenager, "Forget the pills, I've been in pain this long I can handle a bit more."

"It isn't a bit-"

"Just fucking do it!" Duo yelled at the wall, and then suddenly a loud crack seemed to echo throughout the room. Then everything just went black.

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Heero sighed as he watched Duo's body go completely limp, he took this chance to carefully flip his friend's body over so he was lying on his back. He then went to work on bandaging his arm up so he wouldn't be in as much pain when he woke up, but it would be a few weeks before Duo would fully recover from this broken arm.

There was a moment of hesitation though when Heero had finished his work on the arm, as he noticed the peacefulness Duo suddenly had on his face. It was almost as if he couldn't feel a thing in his sleep even as Heero continued to fix the arm. Even as he tried hard to concentrate on making everything as painless as possible for his friend, the teenager continued to find his eyes drawn to Duo's face in its tranquil state.

Then, almost as if it was an involuntary movement Heero moved as if to kiss Duo on the lips, but wavered at the last second on whether he should do it or not. It wasn't like him to be uncertain about anything, but right then he couldn't tell whether he was overstepping a boundary or not. Duo wouldn't give him a chance to decide as he woke with a start, the teenager was attempting to sit up but with Heero so close all the ended up doing was bumping heads.

Heero fell back off the bed and onto the floor, while Duo fell back onto his pillows, both of them were rubbing their heads as the sat up. Duo cringed hastily when he moved his left arm, he looked at the bandages and then at Heero realizing that it was his handiwork.

"Thanks for fixing me up and all, but I want to know why you were on top of me?" Duo's voice went from sincere to suspicious in a matter of seconds, yet Heero knew he had every right to be wondering what exactly had been going on after he had passed out.

"You passed out right after I set the bone, and I had to bandage your arm to make sure everything stays in its rightful place. Though you seemed to be experiencing other pains while asleep so I was trying to figure out where they were."

"So you had to be practically straddling me to do that?"

"Yes, I could only tell by what your face would show me whenever I touched the tender areas." Heero tried to play his excuse off as being the truth, though he had a feeling Duo was able to see straight through it all.

Duo swung his legs over the side of the bed, and extended his hand to Heero. The teen took it but was surprised when Duo used that chance to pull Heero onto the bed, and right back onto him. "Admit it... you weren't doing anything medical, were you? What is it you were looking for?"

Heero couldn't figure out why Duo's behavior had changed so drastically, the only thing that could have triggered this sort of schizophrenia episode was when he had set the bone. But this sort of thing had never happened before when he watched other people's bones be set in place...

There was no time to think as Duo kissed Heero fiercely, and used his right arm to pull Heero down on the bed. His amethyst eyes had a glint of lust in them, something Duo had never had before. It was like looking at a whole different person just from the way his eyes had changed.

"Duo you're not yourself, you should just rest and I'll try to figure out why you're suddenly acting this way." Heero was pinned though as Duo used his whole body to hold the other teen down. "Duo... get off."

"Is that a warning?" Duo grinned as he trailed his hand along Heero's cheek and continued along his neck. He stopped at Heero's shirt as he seemed to contemplate what to do with it.

Heero hated it as he felt his face become flushed, and it was beginning to piss him off how Duo had that smirk as if he was in complete control. He noticed an opening for escape as Duo began to trail his hand down lower, the teen became distracted giving Heero an opportunity to shove Duo off.

"Okay Duo, what the fuck is wrong with you?"

"What do you mean what's wrong with me? What the hell is wrong with you? Pushing a fucking injured person into a goddamn wall!" Duo cradled his arm with care as he stood up. "I thought you were supposed to be nice to people who are hurt."

Heero moved towards Duo ever wary of what he might do, but it seemed that he was truly back to normal. The teenager felt Duo's forehead for fever, but found nothing out of the ordinary. "So you don't remember any of what happened?"

"I remember waking up with you over me, and that's really it... I thought I said we were just friends, you were getting weird ideas weren't you?" Duo interrogated Heero seriously, but Heero was having a hard time keeping a straight face. "Are you laughing at me?!"

"This is the first time you've actually joked about anything since we met again... It just reminded me of the way you were in middle school, and how I really did miss the old you." It was now Heero's turn to act odd as Duo flopped back on the bed.

"Wow, we're really a pair, huh? We're just a couple of fucking losers..." Duo laughed loudly while Heero observed him. He was nothing like just a few minutes before, but Heero decided not to think about it too much at the time. It was the first time in so long that he'd been able to hear Duo laugh like that, and he wanted to enjoy every minute of it.

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Sharpe heard Duo from down the hall and wondered what it was that made that guy laugh. It was hard to explain, but Sharpe couldn't imagine his teenage murderer laughing, especially because of the way he had been acting this whole time.

The lights and electricity began to flicker throughout the house, "I guess the storm's here now."

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Trowa was soaked to the bone from the thunderstorm raging around him, but he didn't really mind it all that much. The only thing occupying his thoughts was how pissed off his sister would be once he got home since he was late again. He couldn't help it though, today he had actually gone to the library to look something up that was bothering him about Duo's situation.

He had found it odd that the police had yet to disclose whatever information they think has made him the murderer. It was always one of their things to usually at least taunt the suspect once during interrogation with whatever they had, but from what he understood no one had even hinted at their evidence.

The brunette suddenly stopped as he saw someone ahead of him just standing and waiting, he wondered whether they were waiting for him and continued walking. When he was able to see more than just a silhouette of the person, he saw a man in his early twenties with long blonde hair and piercing azure eyes.

Trowa said nothing as he walked around him, but as he passed he suddenly could feel the freezing rain as it continued to pound on him. He couldn't seem to think of anything other than Duo, and he found it odd that his friend had completely taken over his mind. As he walked a few feet more Trowa could now hear the man's footsteps following his own, and he just had a feeling this man wasn't someone Trowa wanted to be alone with.

His house was only a couple of blocks away, so he decided to take a shortcut through a few of the neighbors' yards and hopefully that man wouldn't be so eager to jump fences. Trowa hoisted himself up onto the fence but before dropping down to the other side the man finally spoke to him.

"Where is Heero Yuy?"

Trowa stopped as he heard Heero's name, but showed no recognition on his face. "I don't know anyone by that name."

The man smiled and took a few steps closer to Trowa who was preparing to jump off the fence and questioned the teenager one last time. "Then where is Duo Maxwell?"

"I don't know anyone by that name either, so stop harassing me." Trowa jumped down onto the other side where there was now a six foot fence between him and the blonde man.

He proceeded through the person's backyard and over the fence to another person's yard, for some reason he thought it would probably be better if he didn't use the front door this time. Catherine would most likely be pissed even more, but Trowa didn't really care all that much at the moment.

Once he had reached his own backyard, the brunette slid open the back door to be knocked over by Catherine's dog. "Please call him off."

Trowa was trying to block the dog from completely drooling all over his face, but the rottweiler was relentless in his friendly attack.

"It's what you deserve for coming home so late, and going through the back door. Most normal people use the front door, but as usual you never try to be like the rest of these ordinary people on this block do you?" Catherine had gone into one of her ranting sessions that Trowa knew wouldn't be over for a while, but she just gave up the talk for today and called the dog off. "So why did you go through the back door?"

"No reason really, I just felt like it." Trowa didn't want to worry Catherine about more than she needed to since she already had to deal with college and taking care of her younger brother. "I'll be in my room if you need me."

"Fine! We'll be having dinner at seven in case you finally decide to be on time for anything!" Catherine called as Trowa went down the hall to his room.

As soon as the door was shut, Trowa flipped open his cell phone and dialed Heero's number as he no longer knew Duo's. He listened to each ring intently hoping Heero would pick it up. Eventually after waiting eight times, Heero's voice answered with expectantly.

"It's Trowa, I met an interesting man today who wanted to know about you and Duo. I figured you would want to hear about this guy."

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Well this was an interesting chapter for me to write, and I hope it was a good one for you guys. I actually don't know what to say right this minute, but I hope you guys enjoy. And as always...

Please R & R!

Shari Maxwell