Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam wing. Or any of its character….. (I want Quatre!!!)

Ah hm where was I? oh yes please enjoy the show.

Chapter One

Dorothy Catalonia Granddaughter to one of the founding members of the Romafellor Foundation who had ruled over most of Europe for as long as one can remember was seated in a chair that was barely cobbled together in a room so shabby the hotel owner had been ashamed to give it to this obvious lady, but Dorothy had be tired and depressed and hadn't cared. If Dorothy was really honest with her self she still didn't care.

"Quatre Raberba Winner, this is a surprise. Come to finish me off?" Dorothy leaned back in the chair and dramatically flared her arms wide open.

"Miss Dorothy are you hurt?" Quatre asked concern in his voice.

Dorothy couldn't help herself, she laugh. That calm gentle voice that hadn't changed at all. A voice that still haunted her dreams and made her question her own emotions far more then was health for one so precariously perched on sanity.

"I am not wounded Mr. Winner. Go ahead take aim. I would rather die at your hand then theirs."

"I'm not going to kill you." Quatre said sounding slightly scandalized. He step farther into the room and another man joined him. His long brown braid whip around as the man swung his gaze around the room.

"Man, this is no place for anyone. No wonder the guy at the front desk was so pissed." The man walked right up to Dorothy and held out a hand.

"Duo Maxwell, here to bring you back to civilization." Duo smiled as charming as he could. The girl in front of him looked tired and defeated. She looked ready to give up.

"Civilization…… I don't think I want to go there. No in fact I am fine here. They are coming to kill me, soon I think. I am tired of living so I have decided to let them kill me." Dorothy smiled tiredly at Duo.

"Me and Q, we won't let them. We already took care of the ones that have been following you." Duo drop down to a knee in front of the slightly broken girl.

"Really?" her voice was like that of a young girl. The naked hope in her eyes remind Duo once more why he stay a Preventer. If was for girls like this.

"Come on Princess, Q and I are going to take you home. Relena is waiting for you, she is worried bout you." Duo swept Dorothy up in his arms and carried the broken girl down the stairs. Quatre sighed and quickly picked up Dorothy's bag. He quickly checked the room to see if he had left anything but it looked like she had never unpacked.

"Q- come on man lets go." Duo called down the hall way. Quatre sighed again and asked himself for the hundredth time why he was with Duo. Normally Duo's energy didn't bother him but today Duo was driving him straight around the bend.

Duo carried Dorothy out to the cab that had been waiting for them. The driver raised an eyebrow, but looked from Duo, to Dorothy, to Quatre and seems to decide that they were not kidnapping the girl so it must be alright.

Dorothy had closed her eyes the second Quatre had joined then. Duo leaned over the apparently sleeping Dorothy when they were almost to the air port.

"Umm Q, where are going to do with her once we get plant side?"

"We are going to take her to see Miss Sally. Relena will be waiting for us at Preventers Headquarters." Quatre leaned back and sighed.

"Then what happens?"

"We will protect her. It is all we can do now." Quatre said quietly.

"Was she always like this?" Duo asked referring to the brokenness that seemed to pelage the sleeping girl.

"No Dorothy is very strong when she is more rested she will be back to normal. She was on Libra, we fought. That is the true Dorothy." Quatre said quietly.

"She the one that stabbed you?" Duo asked in his face showing his shock.

"Yes." Quatre said softly he ran his fingers through Dorothy's hair. It was matted and looked dirty but it was still beautiful.

"And you're the one who volunteered to find her? Why?" Duo asked confused.

"She said she didn't have a home to go to. I should have believed her." Quatre said with a sigh. He was annoyed at him self. so much time had past, he could have done so much to help her if she had let him.

"Why Dorothy…. why didn't you ask us for help? You know we would have given you our protection if you had shown that you were in danger." Quatre sighed again. Duo looked from one blond to the other in slight confusion.

"Umm…….. Q?" Duo finally said unable to stop his curiosity, and after all he is known for speaking with out thinking so why stop a good thing?

"Yes?" Quatre responded not really liking the look Duo had on his face.

"You've got a thing for her don't you?" Duo asked grinning.

"What?!" Quatre almost jerked away from them both but it would have knocked Dorothy over and he froze just in time.

"You've got a thing for her. It all makes sense now. Trowa kept saying that you were trying to find her so that you guys could settle something. Well it's cause you like her, that you wanted to find her." Duo rubbed his hands together.

"AH man, wait till Hilde hears about this one." Duo snickered to himself.

"Duo, I forbid you to say any such thing to anyone. Dorothy is hurt, and scared. She dose not need to integrate too." Quatre spoke in the most authority's voice that he could.

"Awwww Q come on." Duo whined.

"Duo." Quatre said with a warning tone. The drive who was pretending to not pay attention before this point looked back startled at the blond young man who was reaching across the sleeping girl in the middle to pull on the other man's braid.

"Oww.. oww… okay, okay I got it sheesh. No need to pull out my hair." Duo extracted himself and frowned looking at his braid.

"Man I am going to have to redo it." Duo muttered the driver shook his head at the antics of the young people in his car.

"Duo, not another word." Quatre snapped at the end of his patients.

"We are approaching the air terminal." The driver announced before Duo could get himself into more trouble.

"Please take us to the Preventer hanger. We don't want to wake her.' Quatre requested his good manners restored instantly.

"Sure thing." The driver said taking them around the regular traffic.

"Your going to need some identification to go past this point." The driver warned.

"We'll be alright." Duo said shrugging and sitting back. The closer they got to the Preventer gate the slower the driver drove. Lowering his window as he approached a closed gate. The Preventer on duty stood hand on his weapon.

"Can I help you?" he said coldly. Leaning forward Quatre passed him two badges, Duo pulled out a third.

"I am Preventer Sand and this is Preventer Sword. We have clearance for an emergency flight to the Preventer Head quarts. Preventer Water is waiting for us." Quatre explained as the Preventer looked at his and Dorothy's badges.

"Is Sword okay?" the young man asked hesitantly. He was not use to seeing a beautiful girl lay so still.

"Yeah, she is just tired. Pulling long hours you know how it is." Duo said with a shrug.

"And you are?" the man turned his attention to Duo.

"Preventer Death." Duo said with a serious face.

"Duo!" Quatre snapped.

"Sorry… sheesh I am Preventer Dark. There are you happy." Duo muttered sulking. Quatre sighed again and the driver was hard press not to laugh at the blond man sitting diganal from him.

"Go ahead." The guard said handing back the badges. Quatre nodded his thanks and took his and Dorothy's badge and hid them again.

"I didn't know she had a badge." Duo looked at Quatre inquring.

"I was hoping not to have to use it. We didn't want to flash any more information about her until she is safely back on earth." Quatre said heaving another sigh.

"Please take us to hanger number 4." Quatre requested.

"Think we should wake her?" Duo asked reaching for Dorothy's shoulder.

"No, leave her. I'll carry her please take the bags." Quatre requested.

"Sure, no problem Q." Duo said plastering a silly grin on his face.

"Duo." Quatre warned again.

"What? I didn't do anything." Duo whined.

"Hmm? Where am I?" Dorothy suddenly murmured confused.

"It's all right Miss Dorothy. You're safe now." Quatre smoothed softly as he touched her shoulder. He blinked in surprised when he felt her emotions surge to the surface. Fear, confusion and happiness he couldn't explain. Dorothy raised sleepy gray eyes to look at him.

"Quatre? I dreamed that you came to save me; but I know that you would only want to hurt me. I stabbed you didn't I." Dorothy whispered her eyes looking watery.

"It's all right. We are going to go to earth. You'll be safe on earth. You have a lot of happy memories of earth don't you?" Quatre said dogging the questions.

"Yes I would like to go back to earth." Dorothy whispered. She licked her lips trying to wet them.

"There will be water on the plane. Here let me help you walk. When is the last time you eat?" Quatre asked concerned Dorothy hardly weighted anything as he helped her clime out of the taxi.

"I don't know." Dorothy answered trying to concentrate on where she was stepping. Quatre quickly paid the driver and then slipped in an extra hundred dollar bill.

"Please do not tell any one that you say her. She is in danger. We will protect her and do not want to see any one come to harm." Quatre said softly well aware that Dorothy was standing next to him. The taxi driver nodded quickly.

"Thank you. Miss Dorothy, we are ready to board. Duo can you double check the plane? I am going to get her settled." Quatre said turning his attention to the situation. Wrapping an arm gentle around Dorothy's waist Quatre carefully guided his prize toward the plane. Sleepily Dorothy followed.

'I hope that we can bring back the old Dorothy soon.' Quatre thought as he settled Dorothy into a seat and stood next to her. She looked younger that she had a year before but in some ways she looked years old then she was. He hoped that all of this time on the run hadn't damaged her too badly.

"Rest now; it will take us six hours to reach earth's orbit." Quatre said softly as he daringly reached forward and pushed some of Dorothy's hair away from her face. Dorothy smiled sleepily and settled back into the chair; her eyes closing almost immediately.

"We are all set. And we just got clearing for the tower." The Preventer assigned to the plane said over the loud speaker.

"Roger that all set in the back." Quatre said as he and Duo buckled in.

"Night Cat lady." Duo said cheerful as he settled back in his seat. Quatre shook his head. He didn't need an empathic ability to tell him it was going to be a really long ride.

Authors note:

Okay so as you can probably tell I try to do this all alone again. My sherry twins computer is broken and we are in different states so it makes it a little harder to track her down and ask for assistance in correcting mistakes. So if there are any mistakes please point them out and I will try to fix them. I know that Dorothy and Quatre are a little OCC….. and I promise that will change as the story goes on and Dorothy gets more of her sanity back …… and Quatre loses a little of his….. (hint this is foreshadowing)

And on that note I would also like to apologies now… chapters are going to even slower because I hurt my arm and can't type fast or well right now. It will probably get better cause I am on meds but no promises on a time table for the next chapter in either of my story's. I also apologies if any one gets more than one e-mail bout the change of the story….. I missed an important error and didn't realize it until after I had posted.

Any ways hugs and lots of thanks to all

Angelfire1