Chapter 5

Duo sat in the kitchen of the apartment while he watched Disarray run about the kitchen cooking dinner for 6. Sage laid at Duo's feet under the table that he was sitting at. Here in the kitchen he felt safe with his family. He wasn't too sure about the other just yet, but he noticed that the other two didn't seem to be hostile against them. So he would just wait here for now.

In the living room, Wufei sat with Trowa, Quatre and Heero, talking about Disarray and what Wufei of her and Duo in the park. "Really?" Quatre asked? "I've never really seen Duo be that friendly with anyone before, and he's a very friendly guy."

Trowa looked towards the kitchen. "Do you know how their tied?"

Wufei just shook his head, "No, but I think it has something to do with his past, before his training." He took looked towards the kitchen and then back to them. "She even knows the meaning behind his last name." That got everyone's attention.

"What's with the animal?" Heero finally spoke.

"I don't know, but it doesn't like it when you get too close to either of them." Wufei stated.

"It's a wolf." Trowa said.

"I thought they were all killed off?" Quatre asked.

Trowa just shook his head. "No, just endangered. But how she came across one is a mystery to me."

They all sat there sat there, lost in there own thoughts when Wufei finally spoke again. "Duo invited her to stay here with us for the night." he noticed that every raised their heads to look at him. "She told him that she would be fine on her own."

"She doesn't have a place to stay?" Quatre asked, his space heart opening up.

"She said that she does, but that she doesn't feel safe there." That got everyone, they hardly ever knew anyone who wouldn't feel safe some where. Then Wufei smiled. "She also said that she didn't feel safe staying at the school, that there could be a high class assassin there and no one would ever know it." Quatre got a laugh out of that one, Trowa just smiled and chuckled a little and Heero actually smiled. He has yet to really meet this Disarray, but she was starting to gain his respect real quick.

"They seem different than what I'm use to seeing you hang around Duo." Disarray said as she stirred the chicken rice and checked the oven on her scallops and chicken. "They seem more to themselves than you."

"Yeah, well, it has been three years. I've been in some really weird places since….." Duo stopped and just looked at her back. "How did you get out?" He asked.

She stopped for a minute, but then went back working on the dinner. "Remember how I wasn't feeling well that day?" She asked and turned to see him nodded. "Well, me and Sage went out back to the cellar to get some cool water and I guess I must have passed out in the cellar. All I really remember when I went down there was that I was really dizzy." she sighed as she pulled the chicken out of the oven and placed 8 pieces of chicken on the cutting bored to cool off before she started to cut them. "You would have to understand Sage to know what really happened, but I remember waking up a high generals home. I was all wrapped up but I wasn't feeling sick anymore, Sage was resting on my legs." she turned to face Duo. "I….I guess he must have been the one to get me out of the cellar. I asked him what happened and he told me that the church had been burned and that no one had survived." She looked at the floor for a minute, then she took a deep breath and turned back around to finish making dinner. "I've been staying with him for the last three years now. Me and Sage." Sage lifted his head up at the sound of his name and looked at Disarray, noticing that she wasn't needing anything he laid his head back down.

"I left to go find some help for you and to help Father Maxwell out too, but when I got back with the mobile suite that would help get the people to stop threatening Father Maxwell, the place was in flames. I ran in and found Sister Helen still barely alive and Father Maxwell was already dead." he looked away from her. "Sister Helen told me that they had killed everyone and that she didn't want me to get revenge for their deaths, but to keep on going living my life."

Disarray walked over to him and placed a hand on his shoulder. "I told you." She said with a small sad smile when he looked up at her.

He gave her a small smile of his own. "I guess she got it from you." he chuckled lightly. He then cleared his throat. "So, is dinner ready? I'm starved."

She popped Duo in the back of head with her hand as she turned around and went back to finish up her cooking. "You really haven't changed." She said with a heart filled smiled. After seeing Duo again today and being around him, it was now that she noticed that even after all these years, it was with him that she felt safe. And feeling that safety of being around him, she started to notice just how tired she was.

After dinner, Quatre made Disarray sit down in the living room with the other while he cleaned up the rest of the dinner mess. He insisted on doing it and she felt as though she didn't have a chose. Heero sat at his desk with his laptop, but his laptop was closed for once as he kept an eye on Disarray; who was sitting in a chair that was closet to the door with Sage at her feet, keeping an eye on everyone in the room.

As everyone just sat in silence, Quatre clean the kitchen up. Once He cam back into the living room, he took a seat next to Trowa on the couch. Once Quatre was seated, it was Wufei who spoke first. "Okay, we are all wondering; How is it that you know Maxwell?"

Duo and Disarray looked at one another for a few moments in silence communication. Duo nodded before they broke eye contact. "Well, I was found my a boy named Solo when I was wondering the streets of L2 when I was five. He took me into his gang and the gang became my family." She smiled saddly. "Duo was one of the boys in that gang," She then giggled a little. "He was also the only boy with hair that was almost touching his butt." Duo just shook his head.

"But I thought that Duo's gang had died because of the L2 virus?" Quatre asked. Sending both Duo and Disarray's thoughts back to that tortures week as they both tried to take care of the sick young ones and watched as one by one, they all just stopped breathing.

"We were the only two of our gang to survive." Disarray said lightly as she looked at the floor.

Quatre feeling the sorrow and pain from both of them rubbed at his chest over his heart.

"After that we were sent to the Maxwell Church and there we spent four years of somewhat peaceful happy lives." Duo said.

"So the two of you aren't related?" Trowa asked.

"Heaven's no." Disarray said as she looked over to him. "What would make you ask such a thing?"

"Well," Quatre started. "It's just that you both have violet eyes. Not many have them."

"Well, I don't know my parents, but I was told that my mother was moon base born. An from what I've studied up on, most all moon base born have violet eyes." Disarray said with a shrug of her shoulder. "I don't really know why, nor do the scientist, but they just do." She rubbed her fingers over her temple as she started to feel the lack of sleep from the these few days finally catch up with her. But she put up a good front.

"How is it that you can fight?" Wufei asked.

"How is it that you can?" Disarray asked him with a raised brow. "I trained. It was something that I wanted to learn. If I wanted to learn anything I did it."

Duo gave Wufei this duh look before he looked at Disarray just in time to see her eyes look weak. He then turned to Heero. "Hey Yuy, do you mind if Dis staid here tonight?"

"Duo…" Disarray started to tell him that she was fine and didn't need a place but Heero spoke.

"I don't care." he stood up to walked down the hall. "Just be careful walking the hall at night. Some of us are very light sleepers." he turned around to look at Disarray, seeing as she was about to decline. "It's late anyway, your not going to find a place this late." he turned back around went to his and Duo's room.

"Duo, really. I'm okay. I don't like putting people out or imposing. You know that." Disarray said as she stood up.

"You wont be putting anyone out, and beside, I know you." He looked her over. "When was the last time you've slept?"

Quatre and Trowa got up to walk to their room. "I'll bring you a pillow and blanket." Quatre said and was gone before anyone could say anything.

"Duo…." Disarray growled at him as she narrowed her eyes at him.

"You will not be putting anyone out." Wufei told her as he stood to make his leave. "You'll be on the couch."

" I would say so, I didn't plan on finding myself in a bed with anyone." She snapped at his back as she watched Wufei walk away.

"I'll be back." Duo said as he got up from his seat on the floor and walked down the hall, when he reached Wufei he lowered his voice. "You better watch what you say and how you say it Chang." Duo said to him in his dark Shinigami tone before he walked past him and turned to Quatre as he was just walking out of his room with a blanket and pillow for Disarray. Quatre stopped short and blinked at Duo's dark expression and with another blink, it was gone. Duo just took the pillow and blanket from Quatre with a smile. "Thanks Quat." was all he said as he made his way back to the living room where he noticed that Disarray was sitting on the couch with her bag in her hand, looking very tired and worn. As he made his way over to her, she looked up to see who it was and gave Duo a small smile.

"Thank you." She said. "Bathroom?" She asked. Duo jumped up and showed her where it was and told her that he would wait for her in the living room. She thanked him again before shutting and locking the door. She then heaved out a sigh as she took the dress off and folded it up neatly and place it on the lid of the toilet. Then she placed her gun on the dress and finished undressing. She pulled out black sleeping pants and a gray fitting tank top. After getting dress, she brushed her teeth and placed her used clothes and toothbrush back into her bag. She picked up her bag and boots and walked out of the bathroom and back to the living room where she saw Duo in his night close. She gave him a smile when she noticed that the too favored the color black. She walked over to the couch and sat her bag down at the side of the couch after pulling her hair brush out and sitting on the couch. Taking the tie out of her hair, she brushed her braid out and then brushed her hair before she pulled her hair back into a loose braid at the nap of her neck. All the while sitting in silence. When she was done she put her brush away and just sat there, looking at Duo. She chuckled lightly, "I keep thinking that I'm dreaming." She admitted with a small blush of her cheeks. "I keep thinking that I'm going to wake back up under that tree in the park." She spoke lightly.

"If this is a dream, I'm glad to be having it." Duo said with a small smile an a light tint of red to his cheeks. He went over to the couch and sat down next to Disarray an pulled her into a hug. "I'm really glad that your still alive." he whispered into her hair.

She rest her head on his should and felt her worries just drift away. "I've come up with a reason as to why I'm still alive. What to know?" She asked, straining to keep herself awake. "Everyone one around me has either been taken away from or has died." She yawned. "Death has never tried to take me but every where I walk, he follows. So…I guess…" She started to slip away to sleep as she laid on Duo's should. "I'm Death's Angel." her voice trailed off as she slipped into the dream world.

Duo smiled a little at her statement and kissed her on the head before he laid her down on the couch before covering her up. "You're my angel." He whispered to her as he made his way down the hall and to his and Heero's room, where he say Heero already laying down; asleep or not he didn't know nor did he care. He was happy again, he just hope that all this wasn't just a dream.