Je suis vraiment fatiguee. This chappie might not be the best because I'm writing it on the most randomly bizarre but of insomnia ever. So I apologize beforehand. I'm also kind of sick. So that is maddening unhelpful. I am trying my very best to finish this up by the twenty second of February but between school and junk…I'm remaining optimistic though. I just don't want it to end on a crappy note. The ending I've planned may be slightly sappy to some of you but I'll try. There are only a few more chapters to go!!

Disclaimer: I do not, and I repeat for those that didn't catch it the first fourteen times, DO NOT own Harry Potter or Gundam Wing. It's sad but true.

Chapter TwentyTo Catch A Falling Star

Kinau poked his head out of the balcony door with the curiosity of a kitten. He wanted to find Rai and Tom! They had been gone too long for his liking. He stepped out when he assured himself that no one was in the long curving hallway. He didn't understand his lovers' need for him to remain unseen but he didn't question it. They obviously had a good reason or they wouldn't ask it. He just wanted to find his mates. Kinau hummed as he walked down the halls, perking his ears up for any sound that would indicate their location. They had said that they weren't going far. Kinau ended up walking the upper level's full circle, never seeing anyone. He stopped in a huff. They weren't up here! The sound of a cart alerted him to another's presence and he turned to see them just as the waiter turned the corner. Tom and Rai's warnings to remain unseen shot through his mind and his body chose the flight response without contacting his conscious mind first. His legs took off, leading him in a stupid circle. He could hear the waiter's shout and the feet running after him and it just spurred him to run faster. He knew that he had been an assassin before he had come to Rai and Tom. It explained his stamina and maybe why this person was chasing him. Had he tried to kill him once or something?

The man slammed into his back hard, taking them both to the floor in a flurry of leather and tasteful emerald robes. Kinau groaned as he hit the floor. He knew that Tom could feel his alarm through the bond and was on his way with Rai. The man above him gasped out when he looked up at him. He was handsome, with chestnut colored hair and blue eyes. Something about him tugged at Kinau's consciousness but he shoved it aside. Now was not the time for a trip down memory lane if he was an enemy.

"Kinau?"

The teen blinked at him owlishly. He knew his name and he didn't sound angry. More shocked and…upset? He certainly didn't sound like he was angry. Kinau dared to venture an unguarded questioning look.

"Excuse me…Do you know me?" He asked uncertainly.

The look of agony, hurt and confusion made Kinau instantly regret his words. Had he said the wrong thing? The man flinched back from him, pulling himself up off of him. The distressed waiter crouched down on his haunches, watching him as if he were a big puzzle that would destroy him unless he solved it. How strange.

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"Excuse me…Do you know me?"

Heero jerked away from his ex in shock. He knew his pain was written clearly on his face. Kinau didn't know him? Do you know me? The statement in itself made it clear that Kinau certainly didn't know him. What happened? Had the leech done this? He knew that the Dark Lord could. He would just have to flip out his wand and poof. Instant amnesia. He had only seen Kinau's wand himself a few rare times but he knew that he still kept it. Heero rocked back on his heels, an unseemly, unusual gesture for him. He had never before shown his alarm or distress. Only Kinau could bring it out in him.

"Kinau, it's me. It's Heero. Don't you remember us? Me and Duo? What did they do to you…?" He whispered desperately.

"I'm sorry…I don't-"

"You must remember us! We were the reason…We never deserved you. We were so horrible-"

The leech and the child-stealing bastard themselves turned around the corner on Kinau's side right at that moment, interrupting what he had been trying to tell him. He needed to tell him! They couldn't interfere! It had haunted and destroyed him ever since Kinau had tried to kill himself. He needed to tell him.

Tom's arms scooped the disturbed teenager into his arms immediately.

"Kinau, don't listen to a word this man has to say. He is a liar and a deceiver of the worst sort." Rai hissed, stepping between his lover and Heero in a protective manner.

Heero's distress dissolved into fury at the two men. How could they do this?! How could they make him forget like this?!

"You bastard! You did this didn't you?! You made him forget all about us! Like we were never there!" He yelled.

Duo must have been coming up to the upper level because he came running around the corner, but on Heero's side. The line had been clearly drawn. When Duo saw who exactly the vampire was protecting so viciously, he went pale. Duo had not taken Kinau's incident or his disappearance from their life very well.

"We did what was best. We did only what Kinau asked us to do. He chose to forget, rather than go on with THAT memory. It is no longer your place to criticize what Kinau chooses." Rai growled.

Kinau looked up at Tom. His eyes were wide and confused. He was beginning to piece things together, Heero could see. Those green eyes that had once smiled at him so fondly looked him straight in the eye. They were now filled with hurt. Again.

"It was you…?"

Duo had not said a single word since his appearance. It was as if he had lost all capabilities of speech. Kinau's breathing was hard and his eyes were getting wider by the second. His fists were clenched so tight in Tom's robes that his knuckles were white. He was terrified. Of them…or of remembering?

"I want to go home. I want to go home now!" He cried, burying his face into the Dark Lord's neck.

Tom rubbed small circles on the teen's back, nodding to Rai.

"We're going, Kinau. It's alright…" Tom whispered calmly.

Heero watched the three walk down the steps, in the opposite direction from them and leave immediately. He never even got to tell Kinau…He never got to say that he was sorry…

Finished! Mwhahaha!!! Love!