Disclaimer- I do not own Gundam Wing or any of the characters from the series and will never claim to own them. However, the plot, Anita (Cassarah), Blaine, and the little children all belong to me.

A/N- Please don't flame me if you don't like the story. If the characters are OOC, that's something that's almost unavoidable as none of the Gundam Wing characters belong to me, and they never will. Basically, if you don't like what you're reading, stop reading it and hit the back button on your browser. I don't want to hear your fussing just because something isn't to your liking. Fuss to yourself, not me.

Just trying to clear something up. Duo has not lied once since I started writing this fanfiction. 'Nough said. Thanks and enjoy~

"Come here." Cassarah said suddenly.

"What?"

Though, in all honesty, he was more confused by the fact that she'd suddenly held her arms out and was now wiggling her fingers like she wanted him to come over and grab her hands. Not that there was anything wrong that or anything. It was just an extremely weird motion for her to make based on everything she's said and done on previous occasions. If she was going to trick him or something, this certainly wasn't the way to do it.

"Just come here for a minute." She said, frowning at him. "Please?"

That expression she was making was one he was sure he hadn't seen before and he wasn't sure what to make of it. It was kind of cute and just a little bit hard to ignore. After a moment of hesitation, he slowly walked across the room to stand in front of her. If this some kind of prank she was trying to pull on him, he wasn't going to be happy.

"What?" He asked again as she grabbed at his hands and stared at them. "What do y-? What?"

"Look," she began, looking up at the mirror. "Face the mirror."

"Why?" He questioned, raising an eyebrow.

"Just do it!" She pressed, yanking her hands back and turning to completely face the mirror.

Still considerably confused by the redhead's strange request, Duo turned to face the mirror as well. Standing next to her like he was made her seem so small and the clothing Quatre had lent her only made her seem just a little bit smaller. A white sweater with light blue vertical stripes, a blue under shirt, and a pair of jeans. He vaguely recalled the blonde man wearing it some odd number of years ago and it wouldn't be much of a surprise if he could still wear it considering he'd only grown an inch, maybe two. But, even if they were very close in height, Cassarah was still shorter and had a smaller frame.

The sweater was just a bit too large for her, the cuffs on the ends of the sleeves brushing against the middle knuckles on her hands. He couldn't say it looked bad on her because it really didn't. Especially with her hair pulled back the way it was. She looked quite nice with her hair out of her face.

"Why are you staring at?" Cassarah asked as another frown spread across her lips.

"Sorry." He said, laughing a bit. "I was just thinking, don't we look good together?"

Though he only meant it as a joke, and Cassarah was very aware of that fact, she still proceeded to elbow him really hard in the ribs. Of course, her reason for doing so was rather stupid, but she needed him to be distracted long enough so that she could regain her composure and stop looking like so teenager going through puppy love. Duo was a friend and nothing more. No matter how much her mind wanted to start wandering off on thoughts that stated otherwise, she was going to stick to them just being friends. No sense in falling in love again when you still have gotten over your late husband yet.

"Why'd you go an do that?" He asked, grabbing his side. "I was just joking around with you."

"You shouldn't say stupid things like that before thinking about them." She replied. "I didn't ask you to stand there so you could spout nonsense. I was just trying to see if it was realty true."

"See if what was really true?" He asked, though he felt slightly nervous of her response.

"You…." She paused and started playing with the hem of her sweater again. "And Quatre, too. You guys are both men, so it's okay if you look good. But then it's just weird if you're standing next to a woman and you're…. Mn."

"You're…?" He questioned.

"You're too pretty!" She snapped shoved him in the arm. "Guys shouldn't be as pretty as you two and yet you are and I know I sound like I'm being really vain, but it's really eats away at your confidence when you realize that you're not prettier than a couple of guys."

There was a long pause in which Cassarah went back to fiddling with the hem on her sweater and Duo just stood there. Suddenly a goofy grin made it's way on his face and he cracked up. Sure, it might have been better to try and hold it in till later when she wasn't around, but it was just so funny hearing her say that and he honestly couldn't help himself.

"Don't laugh at me!" She barked. "It's not funny!"

"Sorry!" He laughed, bringing his hand up to his mouth to try and stop. "Really! I just didn't think you were the type of person to be bothered by something like that. It's funny."

"You're so mean!"

But the conversation was cut short when a knock came at the door and Quatre poked his head into the room. Duo tried very hard to regain his composure long enough for the blonde haired man to speak, but it was hard to stop thinking about what Cassarah had said. And this only upset the red head even more, but at least there was some kind of reaction other than some gloomy frown.

"Sorry to interrupt." Quatre said, not seeming so sure of himself. "Cassarah, there's a young man here who says he knows you."

"M-Me?" Cassarah asked, pointing to herself in confusion.

Her only response was a nod and she followed him out of the room and down the hall to the office she'd been to when she first arrived. To say she was nervous was an understatement. The only people who knew who she was and that she was here were Quatre, Trowa, and Duo. If someone else knew where she was, that would mean that one of the three of them had said something. Quatre had promised he wouldn't say anything and he really didn't seem the type to go back on his words.

If she really thought about it, the only person who had any reason to go off and make mention of her would be Duo because she'd betrayed his trust and then didn't explain anything to him. If he had been mad enough at her, he could have said something. But that didn't make any sense because he didn't really know much of anything about what was going on anyway.

"Miss Anita!" Two children rang in unison the moment she entered the room.

Cassarah froze up as they ran up to her and hugged her tightly. The two started in on a whole bunch of different things at the same time, but their words were a jumble in her head as she laid eyes on a familiar dark haired young man seated on a couch there. He looked up at her and she felt tears beginning to well up in her eyes.

"Blaine!" She cried, but she quickly looked down at the children clinging to her waist. "And Meghan and Nathan, too. Where are the other kids?"

"They have homes now, you know." Blaine replied, standing up to face her. "After the fire, you left us and I couldn't take care of everyone on my own. The people of that town took some of them in."

"Then why are they…?" She gestured toward Nathan and Meghan.

"They kept putting up a fuss every time someone tried to take them in." He replied, smiling a bit. "Always screaming about not wanting to be taken somewhere where you couldn't find them. We thought you were dead, you know."

She didn't respond immediately because she'd begun to thought about what had happened that night again. She was relieved they were alive and all, but something was making her feel very uneasy. She needed to talk to Blaine alone. She looked over at Quatre and was surprised to see Duo standing there, as well. She hadn't really been paying enough attention and didn't notice he'd entered the room.

"Nathan, Meghan." She said suddenly, never taking her eyes off of Blaine. "I want you to go with Quatre and Duo for a minute, alright? I need to talk with Blaine alone for a minute and I don't want you to hear."

"But why?" Nathan asked.

"It's adult talk." She replied. "You guys don't mind looking after these two, do you?"

The last comment was directed at Duo and Quatre, but they didn't object. It was very clear they didn't feel all that comfortable with the situation, either. Duo more so than Quatre because he'd actually met the guy before and just didn't like him. But, putting all that aside, they took Nathan and Meghan and left the room. And, with that, it was just Cassarah and Blaine in the room.

"Who the hell are you?" Cassarah snapped, advancing toward the young man.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Blaine asked, trying to give himself his personal space back. "You're acting like I'm some kind of bad guy. What did I do?"

"The fire!" She hissed. "I'm not stupid! I know you were the one who started it and I-!"

"You should have reacted faster." He said before turning and sitting back down on the couch. "But that place burning down was one of the best things that could have happened. It wasn't that hard to see that it was killing you to live like that. We all knew it and something had to be do-!"

Cassarah slapped him very hard in the face before he got a chance to finish. The sound of her hand making contact with his cheek was the only sound that came from the room for quite some time. Blaine was too shocked that she'd hit him to say anything and she couldn't actually believe she'd even done it, herself. But the proof was there in a red vaguely hand shaped mark on his face and the tingling feeling in her fingers from how hard she'd hit him.

"That's beside the point, you idiot!" She snapped. "We're all lucky we even made it out of there alive. You realize that, don't you? What the hell were you even thinking doing something so stupid? I know you've got a brain in that head of yours and you should have used it!"

But she didn't give him a chance to finish before storming out of the room. She barely even made it a few feet out of the room before running into Duo, Quatre, and the kids. Of course, they weren't exactly the people she wanted to bump into that soon after exploding like she just had, but there they were and suddenly she couldn't hold in her tears anymore. She was upset and pissed off and there was just so many things going on inside her head that she just needed to break. The first person with enough sense to try and say something was Quatre, but the children drowned him out.

"Miss Anita!" They cried, running up to her as she slipped to her knees,

"Don't cry!" Meghan said. "You always told us not to cry all the time. You said big kids don't cry."

"That's not what I said, silly." Cassarah said as she pulled them against her in a tight hug. "Sometimes it's okay. Just don't cry over stupid things, is all."