Duo couldn't believe what was happening when Heero began hustling him out the door and into the rain. The news stations didn't usually put up phony stories like that in order to get ratings, but they have sometimes been known to fudge the truth a bit... So all he hoped is that this was a case where everyone was still too confused to figure out everything.

"Duo snap out of it, and get in the car!" Heero ushered the teen into somebody's car as he intended to steal it. He knew it wasn't a good thing to do, but at the moment he knew the owner wouldn't be driving anywhere with this horrible rain which just refused to let up. The rain had began to flood some streets that were lower, but Duo's home was slightly placed on a tiny hill so most of the water just drained off into the grass.

Quatre's call had been the thing that had made Heero go and turn on the news, and that's where he first saw the story about the building that somebody had detonated a bomb in. They had begun to call of names of people either dead or missing, when Heero had heard Duo's father called amongst them. The teen hadn't heard Duo finish up his conversation with Quatre until he noticed Duo watching the television too.

What the blonde had called to tell him had been a tragic thing and Duo felt terrible that something had happened to Trowa's sister Catherine because of him. But when he watched what had happened to his father's building, he just felt this sick feeling as he knew his father could be dead... and it was probably because of him.

There were so many thoughts whirling through Duo's head all at once, but the only memory that he could focus on was the morning he had woken up to find his mother dead on the floor... The feeling he was feeling now was the same as back then, and he could almost feel himself about to throw up just like back then as well.

"Duo are you alright?!" Heero saw Duo fall to his knees and the teenager just began to sob as he muttered a bunch of incoherent nonsense. Duo had never looked so helpless that Heero could remember him, as his amethyst eyes were wide and lost as tears trailed down his pale face.

Just looking at Duo the way he was now and comparing him to the embarrassing moment they had had just a few minutes before... it made Heero feel the need to protect Duo from the world. Heero knelt down and embraced his friend, "Duo please don't do this... We have to go now to see if your father is alright, this time we can't be too late. I know this is a bad time to say this, but... I love you Duo Maxwell. So for my sake please go back to your normal self."

Duo appeared to listen for a moment as his sobs slowly began to die away, but the teenager still had a distant look in his eyes. He didn't appear capable of dealing with being alone, even with Heero it would be a long time before he got over the death of his father. No matter how much they argued and fought, he knew there would never be another Timothy Maxwell in his life that he could call Father, and that's what was destroying him the most.

He looked at Heero and nodded to signal he was ready to leave. Heero had helped him up and then went outside into the rain to ready the car for their departure, and that's how they had ended up where they were now. Duo was sitting in the passenger seat just gazing out the window, watching the rain drops splatter against the glass. Suddenly he had a horrible vision of his father being splattered against the window of his office, and looked away.

"Heero... do you think he's dead? Is it going to be all my fault again?" Duo looked at Heero expecting an answer, but with that vulnerability being shown to him Heero couldn't answer. "Perhaps if I had died from falling off of that roof... maybe Dad would still be alive..."

"Don't say things like that Duo, your death would've only made your father miserable as well. Not to mention Quatre, Wufei, Trowa, and I..." Heero had never heard Duo call his father, Dad, ever before and it had made him even more hesitant to answer. "Besides Duo, if he's your father... he must have some sort of knack for surviving."

The two of them sat in an uncomfortable silence as Heero struggled to get them through high flood water in such a tiny car. It was probably impossible to make it much farther in this little vehicle which just wasn't made to drive through floods, but Heero promised Duo that this time they wouldn't be too late.

And he intended to make sure that promise was fulfilled.

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Wufei had somehow made it to the hospital safely, and didn't bother asking the receptionist for the room or floor because Quatre had already told him beforehand. As he waited impatiently for the elevator to reach his floor he began to feel angry at how him being in a rush made the elevator seem to go even slower than usual. As the light flashed the number three and there was a light ding sound, to tell him he had reached his destination.

He walked down the hall with big strides, and then softly knocked on the door knowing better than to disturb Catherine or any other patients. After doing so, only for the sake of being polite, Wufei opened the door and was greeted by two pairs of expectant eyes.

"Well, I think I've found out who's behind this whole mess. Does the name Treize Khushrenada ring a bell?"

"Didn't he run some illegal underground operation years ago?" Quatre pondered as he tried to remember if that was the right man. "I thought he disappeared a couple years back after police discovered everything."

"Well, apparently he's the one who's been causing all of us trouble searching for Duo. I'm not entirely sure of everything yet, but I am certain that it is Treize. He actually had the nerve to disturb me in my house to ask Duo's whereabouts, but I didn't give him any specific information." Wufei grabbed a nearby chair and sat in it, "Please tell me one of you has a laptop or something."

Neither of them had been anticipating using a laptop or anything like that, and so they of course didn't have one on them. Quatre had an idea though as they might be able to find an 'available' computer somewhere in the hospital, "Why do we need a laptop exactly?"

"I want to get more information on Treize and find out whoever his brother is. That's the only way we'll be able to put a stop to all of this crazy shit." Wufei and Quatre stood up together and were about to leave when Trowa stopped them.

"But wait, the man who was harassing Catherine and I was a blonde man. And from what I recall from the pictures of Treize Khushrenada he's not blonde at all." Trowa silently bid a farewell to his sister as he stood up with the other two. "Could that man have possible been the brother Treize mentioned?"

Quatre opened the door and began to walk out as he pondered Trowa's idea about the man who had attacked Trowa being Treize's brother. "So obviously they're working together, all to find Duo, but what we need to find out is why. What in the world is making those two so determined to find Duo and perhaps even Heero..."

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Sharpe had been watching the procedure as the coroner tested his body for all types of chemicals and such, but after a few hours there was still no trace of the man's death. Eventually the coroner cut open Bennit's chest to examine his heart when the woman noticed one of the arteries around the heart was completely severed, but even though it was cleanly sliced there was no evidence of it being physically possible by a normal human being. That, and looking at the area where it was cut, both pieces of the artery were perfectly healed almost making the artery look perfectly normal.

"I have to tell you officer, there is no possible way that this could've been done by any person or disease known to man... But apparently it is possible by something, yet it's impossible for me to be able to figure out what it is." The coroner was showing Sharpe up close exactly what she meant, and the man couldn't help but agree.

"So tell me, do you believe his death was instant?" Sharpe couldn't believe it had happened to Randall of all people, but there was no denying it now.

The coroner stopped for a minute to ponder the question, "I don't suppose it was instant, but he couldn't have been alive for very long to suffer from it."

Sharpe tried hard not to imagine Randall's pregnant wife, and the child who would be born without ever knowing what a great man their father had been. The only thing Sharpe did know at that moment was that, this was not some freak thing of nature or disease, it had to have been done by a human somehow.

How was a good question, but he preferred not to worry about that. The only thing his mind could focus on now was finding out who did it, and making sure they got what they deserved for it, even if he did break the law by doing so.

"Now please officer, if you're done I need to do some further testing just in case I overlooked the real cause of death..." The coroner didn't even believe her own words, because both of them knew that was just complete bullshit to force Sharpe to leave.

"If you do find anything, please contact me with the results."

Sharpe left that room feeling an unusual amount of anger, and what was most likely hatred as well for the person who murdered Bennit. He didn't have long to himself though as his cell phone began to ring in his pocket, and when he read the caller ID he found that it was Tim Maxwell calling him.

"Hello? Mr. Maxwell are you there?" Sharpe answered somewhat rudely, but was surprised when a voice he didn't recognize answered.

"Actually my name is Maxwell, but I don't really feel the need to let you know my name yet. I suppose you've found your dead partner by now, right?"

He stopped in the middle of the hallway as he couldn't believe his ears, "Who are you? And how do you know about him?"

"Well I was the one who killed him after all, so I suppose I should know he's dead. And as I already told you, I don't feel it the right time to reveal my name." The voice answered back in a somewhat mocking way. "I just wanted you to know the reason I killed your partner, I suppose, but if you're not interested in hearing the reason I'll just hang up now."

The man didn't say anything as he felt his rage begin to explode, "Who the fuck are you to go around killing people?! You didn't have the right to decide to end his life for no fucking reason!"

"Oh, but I did have a reason. Bennit did a very naughty thing by attempting to take justice into his own naive hands, and push Duo off that roof to kill the boy. The man was probably sick of your little bluff of having no evidence, and finally took it upon himself to kill Duo Maxwell in an effort to give him punishment that your court would never be able to."

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Another twist! But hopefully these chapters are beginning to wrap up some of the mysteries and questions in the series, so that ya'll won't be left wondering about certain little things throughout the story. Well, I must say now that the story will be ending fairly soon. Most likely there will be only about four or five more chapters to this series, and perhaps a sequel if the ending isn't quite satisfying enough.

Hope everyone enjoyed!

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Shari Maxwell