Quatre and Trowa were sitting in the back seat of Wufei's car as they headed towards Khushrenada Inc. The three of them had created an unbelievable tension in the vehicle as none of them were sure of what to expect when they arrived at the building. There was only one thing Trowa was really thinking of though... and that was how he would get his revenge for Catherine.

There was no way that Zechs would get away with what he did, but Trowa couldn't predict how Quatre would react when he found out his intentions. The brunette knew Quatre would understand his anger, but the blonde had never been one to condone violence for any reason.

"This is the place." Wufei stopped the car outside in the back parking lot where they all noticed another car was parked as well, but they didn't really take much notice of it.

Immediately Quatre tried the door to see how strong the lock was, and when he deemed it hopeless to try that entrance the group proceeded to look for another entrance.

"Hey guys, I found a door that's already open!" Quatre called from around the side of the building in a narrow alley. The three of them went inside with caution, even if they didn't expect anyone to really be there, there was always the chance someone could pop out of nowhere.

As they were scanning every inch of the hallway, there was suddenly a man's voice yelling at them from the end of the hall. "Which of you is Wufei Chang?"

Trowa recognized the voice immediately, and Wufei and Quatre noticed when he suddenly had a furious look in his eye. The blonde teen grabbed his arm and whispered in his ear, "Wufei wants to go, so let him go Trowa."

Wufei stepped ahead of them, knowing that he would get the chance to have a rematch with Treize. Well, he didn't know, but he suspected it and would make sure to win if he had to. He walked toward the man he could now see was Zechs, but the odd thing was that he looked slightly beaten. He continued walking past the man and saw Treize by an elevator. The brunette gestured for the Chinese teenager to come over.

The teen didn't hesitate for a second as he made his way towards Treize, he watched the man get on the elevator and wait for him. As he got into it Treize immediately asked, "I suppose you want a rematch?"

Wufei didn't say anything as the elevator doors closed and they began their ascent to the tenth floor. He had been hoping for a rematch, but he hadn't been expecting to have to leave his friends behind with a man like Zechs. As the elevator dinged to tell them they'd arrived, Treize allowed Wufei to step out first.

"Before we start, I suppose you'd like more answers to all of your questions? I'm sure you haven't found any real answers by hacking into our database as you'd hoped, because our database has been cleaned of any evidence of what our workers really did every day." Treize sat down in a cozy chair and let Wufei sit directly across from him. "What's your first question?"

"It's the same as when we had our duel, I want to know why you and Zechs are so persistent to get Duo." Wufei was observing the room as he asked Treize, but the man didn't seem to mind.

"It's a long story, but I suppose I can tell you." Treize began, "This all started with my brother Takashi-"

"I thought Treize was your brother?"

"No, my biological brother's name is Takashi Khushrenada and he once worked for me. As you know my company makes medicine products, and that's what Katherine's job was when I met her and we began to date. But then she somehow met my brother one day, and he stole her away from me." Treize took a minute to let this sink in for Wufei, and then started up again. "My brother decided to change his name and take her name when they got married, I suppose it was because he hated being associated with our family. Nobody thought much of it, that was until I realized exactly why he had done this. It was in order to sever all ties with me, and to find a way to run from the deal."

"Duo's father is your brother?!" The teen honestly could not believe it, but as he compared the two there were slight resemblances. "Then that means Duo is your nephew..."

"True, true... Though Takashi didn't want to have a son so he swore to me that he would give up their child, for stealing Katherine away from me. She was reluctant to do it at first, but they both realized the kind of influence I had over the city." Treize's fists were clenched as he stood up, "And that's when they decided to rat me out to the police... because they knew with me in prison that they wouldn't have to uphold their end of the deal. Duo was supposed to be this company's heir."

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As they watched Wufei enter the elevator with Treize, Trowa and Quatre now found themselves alone with Zechs. His mere presence sent chills down the blonde's spine as he knew there was something wrong with the man. Quatre knew Trowa must be struggling to hold himself back from attacking the man, as he was sure the brunette wanted nothing more than to make Zechs suffer for attacking his sister.

"Now that he's out of the way and brother is satisfied, I suppose he wouldn't mind if I went ahead and killed you two. After all, the only one he said to leave alive was Wufei Chang, he didn't mention anything about his friends." Zechs smirked, and opened his mouth as if to rant some more but Trowa didn't give him the chance.

The brunette had already launched himself at Zechs, and the man almost didn't have enough time to dodge. Trowa delivered as swift kick to the blonde man's stomach and forced him to fall to the ground. "You talk too much."

Zechs smirked and Trowa watched him carefully, but he couldn't focus as he suddenly felt himself unable to breathe. As if someone was choking him, but there was no one there besides Quatre, Trowa, and Zechs. He struggled as Zechs stood up and laughed at the teenager.

Quatre couldn't figure what Trowa was doing, but he knew something was wrong. He began to run towards Trowa, but the look Trowa gave him made him stop. It was obvious he didn't want any help even in his current condition. Quatre wasn't sure of what he was supposed to do, he didn't want to stand there useless, and that's when he noticed there were already signs of a fight. There was only one door nearby, and he began to head towards it when Zechs called out to him.

"I wouldn't go in there, if you do I'll have to kill you."

It appeared that Trowa had managed to escape whatever force he had been fighting against and attacked the man once more, "Your fight is with me, you don't have time to worry about him."

Quatre took that as a sign to find whatever was being hidden in there, and he did just that. He threw open the door and stepped inside and looked down to find a massive staircase leading down into a dark abyss. It was impossible to see how far down the stairs went or what was down there, but he had come prepared for searching and pulled out a flashlight.

He felt guilty leaving Trowa up there alone with that man, but he knew Trowa wanted his own revenge. As the blonde teen descended down the staircase, he heard someone moan in the darkness, and immediately increased his pace to the point he nearly fell down the rest of the stairs. Once he reached the landing at the bottom he found that there were still no lights on anywhere, and used his flashlight to search the vicinity.

As soon as his flashlight landed on the person, he couldn't believe who he saw. "Mr. Maxwell?! Are you alright?"

Quatre rushed over to the man's aid, and found he had a huge gash in his side that had been bleeding for a while now. There was a huge pool of blood surrounding his body, he only seemed semi-conscious and not coherent enough to figure out who was beside him. Most likely he could only see the blonde hair, and assumed it to be Zechs automatically.

"You fucking bastard..."

"No, Mr. Maxwell it's Quatre. Quatre Winner, your son's friend." He tried to console the man as he took off his shirt to try and use it to apply pressure to the wound. "Did Zechs do this to you?"

"Where's Duo...? Don't let him come here... this is a horrible place, a place nobody should ever see. I regret telling Katherine already... that's why we have to move away." It was obvious to Quatre then that the man was reliving some part of his past, and couldn't get a grasp on reality.

"Duo's safe, you don't have to worry about him anymore."

"Did Katherine hide him somewhere from Treize...?" He looked at the blonde teen with glazed eyes.

Quatre couldn't bring himself to reply as he tried to figure out what he could do to save this man's life.

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Heero had tried hard to convince Duo that going there would be a bad idea, and that Duo should just let him go. But no matter what he had said or warned his friend of, it didn't seem to matter to Duo in any way. Heero knew he was only being irrational because his father was in danger, and being the only family Duo had left... it would be too much for Duo if he lost his other parent.

"We're here Duo... are you sure you want to confront them?" Heero watched Duo's cold expression, and saw a flicker of hesitation but then it disappeared.

"I can't lose him Heero... He may be an asshole, but he's my father and all I have left." Duo looked over at the other teen, "God I'm such a fucking wimp..."

Heero could see Duo struggling internally as there was this immense fear of meeting these tormenters of his, and of maybe finding his own father dead. That's why Heero grabbed Duo and kissed him softly, hoping to convey his support through the gesture. He didn't really know of any other way to show Duo that he would be there for him, no matter what happened or will happen.

As they parted lips, the two stepped out of the car and walked up to the front of the building where they saw a car parked. Duo walked over to it and looked inside, "It's my father's car."

Together they walked up to the front doors, and pushed them open without any effort. As the doors opened up, they came upon the scene of Zechs and Trowa both of them fighting, and neither of them knew why he was there.

"What the fuck is going on?" Duo asked nobody as he saw Trowa become aware of their presence.

"Wufei went upstairs alone with Treize, and Quatre's down there!" Trowa yelled at them as he tried to focus on his battle.

"I'll go help Wufei, you go help Quatre. I'll come back down here." Heero ran towards the elevators and found them not working. He saw a staircase hidden down the hall, and ran towards it and disappeared.

Duo ran towards the open door and started down the stairs. He could hear who he thought was probably Quatre talking to somebody, and once he got to the bottom he could see the blonde kneeling on the ground. He ran over to him and then he finally caught a glimpse of his father lying on the floor, bleeding horribly out of his side.

"No... there's no fucking way he's dead!"

"He's not dead Duo, but he's bleeding really bad... I don't know if I can do much for him at this rate." Quatre looked up at Duo with guilty eyes, "I'm so sorry Duo, but without any real medical supplies I can't help him any more than this."

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Well, I do believe there are only going to be two more chapters after this one, and that will be the end of Living With Sin. I do hope this isn't too much of a letdown for anyone, and I do promise that this will be a good ending unlike some of my other fics have ended.

Did this catch anyone off guard, or was it too predictable? (Predictable, right?) In any case, I hope this was a good chapter, and hope everyone enjoyed it.

Please R & R!

Shari Maxwell