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"So this is the girl I've heard so much about." We were standing in Une's office, and the woman in question was giving me a very through look-over from behind her desk, lounging back in her leather wheelie chair, her arms crossed and glasses glinting. It made me nervous enough to want to go and hide behind Duo, who was standing with everyone else a few steps behind me. I was holding my right arm nervously with my weight shifted onto one leg, and was trying my hardest not to look at the floor.

A couple days ago, Wufei had waltzed into the house we all lived in at the moment- my constant urge to fly around and never stay in one place for more than a night having vanished upon finding Duo- saying that Une- the head of the Preventers- wanted to meet me. Duo had frowned, but that was the only negative reaction I had seen at the time. So I had changed Bullet back into a car, and Duo and I had worked on putting some temporary extra seats inside her. Hell knows she had the room to do so. Heero had been the back-seat driver and told me how to get to where we needed to go.

"Sound Bullet, pilot of the self-constructed gundam built for speed right? Otherwise known as Trio…?" Crap. I was looking at the floor now. Damn. It had been that one thing that had kept me from looking like I was shrinking away from the desk. I closed my eyes in embarrassment and tried to speak, only to open and close my mouth silently. It was just like when I had first met Noin, only this time… it was more detrimental. There was a stretch of silence during which I noticed that the brown carpet had blonde flecks in it.

"Trio Bullet, Lady Une." I nearly sagged in relief when Quatre stepped up beside me, speaking for me, and Duo stepped up behind me and put his hand on my shoulder, leaning forward slightly to whisper: 'It's ok Trio. She won't hurt you.' I smiled, wryly apologetic, moving my head slightly his way. It wasn't that I was afraid of her hurting me. It was just…this felt too much like a courtroom. "Sound was more of a nickname she made for herself awhile back."

"So why isn't she telling me this herself?" Shit, this really was like an interrogation, and I swallowed nervously before I could stop myself, and Duo pulled me into a one-armed hug. I re-oriented myself right away to fit snugly into his side, his arm over my shoulders a reassuring and comforting weight. I still couldn't look up again. Duo was really warm.

"She gets nervous to the point of not being able to speak in situations like this." Quatre answered, and I felt Duo look behind my head at him. I gave Quatre a subtle mind tap and learned he was going from what he could read off of my current emotions. Well, he was right. My voice seemed to seal itself when I was in these kinds of situations. Lady Une 'hmmm'ed, still evaluating me with her eyes.

"Well, I guess that could be useful if she ever got captured…" She murmured, thinking aloud, and I stiffened like a rock under Duo's arm, causing him to automatically hold me closer, and I glanced up at him. He was half glaring at Une, frowning at her with narrowed eyes. "-but that would be detrimental overall…"

"What are you talking about Une?" He practically snapped, and I unconsciously put my arm around the small of his back. He simmered down. She looked up in surprise.

"Well she's joining the Preventers, isn't she? She can fight right?" My eyes widened in surprise and then I looked at the floor again when she mentioned fighting. I hadn't even thought about joining the Preventers team. I'd just assumed that was the boys' thing. Me, fighting…?

"That was an assumption, Un." Duo said quietly, and I could tell from the sound of his voice that he was looking at me. I could feel Une frown at us. There was a moment of soft silence in which Heero walked forward, looking at Une politely.

"She is the sole survivor of the KOS. She escaped after the rebels caused a commotion near the training facility several years ago." I snapped my head up to look sharply at Heero, my eyes wide. Sole survivor? What? There were rebels in the KOS? That was why my chain had fallen? It must've been shot. I hadn't known any of this. I stared at Heero. Was there anything else he- no -no one else had thought to tell me?

"Looks like this is news to her." I turned my shocked eyes to look at Une, who was looking at me with a softer gaze now, yet still evaluating. "Did you know about this?" I shook my head slowly, too stunned to look away.

"No." I saw a small smile lift her lips, and seeing the kind, human emotion on her face, I started to relax, less intimidated. "They trained me to kill without feeling anything." Duo shifted, and I glanced around the room quickly to see that everyone else had shifted somewhat as well, their eyes on me. This was the first time I had spoken of what had gone on in the KOS, since it appeared that everyone had assumed that everyone else already knew everything. "They used cuffs and shackles rigged with electricity that hung from the ceiling in the training room, with which they used 'correct' rebellious behavior or mistakes; such as dropping your gun or refusing to shoot- which happened quite often with the new kids they had brought in to replace the ones that had died." Duo's arm tightened around my shoulders, most likely frightened at what I was saying, rattling off my experiences with such a straight face. I carried on, emotionlessly. "Suicide wasn't that uncommon, and I had no idea there was an uprising going on in the KOS. All that I was aware of was a scuffle going on outside the training room one day, and my chain fell, dis-connecting the electrical currents, so I shot the man with the keys and got out of there before passing on the key I unlocked my cuffs with to the kid next to me." Heero turned to face me fully, interested in my story.

"So that's why the revolt escalated." He said as if he was having a quiet epiphany, and I looked at him, along with everyone else. He blinked. "When we investigated them, the guy I got the info from didn't know exactly what had happened, just that the in-fighting suddenly got a lot worse, and the child soldiers started overwhelming their superiors. He said they'd been inspired by something. That something must've been you." I gave Heero a small smile.

"I doubt I'm that influential." Heero frowned at me just as a knock sounded on the door.

"Enter." I glanced at Une before the guys and I all turned as one to look as the office door swung open upon Une's call. I blinked. That couldn't be…? A young woman about five years older than me strode into the office, dark hair falling into her eyes as she looked over the paperwork in her hands. I automatically stepped aside as she drew up to us, getting a good look at the side of her face as she passed. I smiled ironically. That was just perfect. It seems that meeting one person from my past brought a deluge of others I hadn't seen for years either. I felt one side of my mouth lift up in a crooked smile as I watched Noin step up to the desk and place the papers on the desk, half-turning to speak to Une, and suddenly noticing that we were all there out of the corner of her eye. She turned to look at us, and I outright smirked.

"Hello Lu." The look on the woman's face was classic. First, complete and total confusion as to how I knew the first syllable of her first name. Then, a blank stare of reflection, followed by a shocked look of recognition, followed by a face that plain and simply said: 'Oh!-My!-God!' her eyes wide and mouth dropping open in the ultimate expression of shocked recognition.

"Trio?" she asked, as if not daring to believe it. I grinned and nodded. It played out exactly as I thought it would. Then she suddenly strode forward, making me start for a second in surprise before she practically tore me out from under Duo's arm and wrapped me in an all-encompassing bear hug. I looked up the ceiling in surprise, my chin propped upwards awkwardly against her chest since her tugging me forward had left me leaning backward automatically for balance, and her being taller than me had given me no where else to put my chin. My arms hung out to the sides awkwardly like chicken wings, and suddenly, Noin pushed me away, looking into my eyes excitedly, the hug over as soon as it had begun. "It's been nine years! I thought you were dead! My, you have grown!" She said, and I blinked in confusion as she accentuated the end of each of her sentences like a little girl who'd found a long-lost puppy. I blinked owlishly at her, at a loss for words. She frowned at me sadly, and I blinked again, confused, tilting my head to the side curiously and realizing that maybe I did act like a puppy around her. I pouted mentally at the thought. "I'm sorry that I was never able to…" she started to say, her hands on my shoulders as she looked up over my head, and I noted her facial expression changing to something positive before she spun me around by the shoulders and suddenly I was facing Duo. We looked at each other in utter confusion. "Here he is!" She exclaimed happily from behind me, and there was a few moments of silence as we all worked out what was going on. I looked up at Duo slowly; a small smile lifting the corners of my mouth. His eyes were shining in amusement. He'd worked it out too.

I burst out laughing.

"Whoever knew that Noin saw you as a little sister?" Duo said, grinning in the back seat as we headed back towards the house. I smiled into the rear-view mirror at him. Quatre was sitting next to him, squeezed in the middle between him and Trowa, who had the other window seat. Heero sat in the front with me.

"I sure as hell didn't know. I knew she liked me, but I never knew that she saw me as a little sister. Must've taken losing me for her to realize it. They say you never know what you've got until it's gone."

"Yeah…" I heard him murmur quietly in the backseat, but upon the conception of a funny idea, I plowed on.

"Like losing my memories. Thing was… I didn't miss them much." Heero snorted, and I grinned at him, glancing towards him from the corner of my eye. He was smiling at his lap and shaking his head slightly, and I glanced up into the rear-view mirror to see Trowa smirking through the window, Quatre giving a small smile and looking somewhat uncomfortable with his legs crossed so tightly with his shoulders hunched forward between his friends'. Duo looked confused, and I smiled at him. Probably went over his head.

"Of course in your case," I turned an ear towards Heero as he spoke after a moment had passed. "It was more like you didn't miss it until you got them back." I nodded solemnly, all the humor gone. I glanced up at the rear-view mirror. Duo had his chin on his fist, and was gazing out of the window at the scenery passing by.

"Yeah…" I murmured. "I'm just sorry that it took me so long to find them." Duo looked around and I looked down. I needed to concentrate on driving. Quatre frowned at the interaction between the two of us, but let it slide. For now, we needed to get home.