Pairings: Duo/Heero, Quatre/Trowa

Warnings: violence, supernatural stuff, kinky moments, guns...um...gundams, implied sex, men in drag, etc...

Author's comment: It has been a good long minute since I last updated. Sorry! DX Been alot of things going on such as come chronic back problems I'm still working on, anime conventions I'm hoping to make, and other fics I'm currently working on. DX Sorry for the long wait! Here's an update for you! Also extra warning, sex in this chapter but it's more implied and not in full detail. XD I think of it as what you'd see on TV.

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Operation Blank Conspiracy 47

Things weren't going as planned. They hadn't gotten a word out of Noin to so much as prove that she was the traitor. Could his assumptions have been wrong? Was he reading into it wrong? If she wasn't the traitor, then who was? He needed to start back at the basics, to start over with the clues they did have.

Quatre frowned staring down at the blank paper on his lap. The basic information. The person that kidnapped Queen Relena might not have done it for her protection but to maybe get her taken out of the picture. Why? Because her methods of advocating peace were too much of a threat to be ignored by her enemies. The only enemy he knew of that was present at the time was Treize. But even he didn't know about Duo's disguise. The culprit would have to be someone who knew about Duo's cover and would benefit from having Relena out of the way.

The only ones that knew Duo was there in disguise were the other Gundam pilots, the colonels, Relena herself, her servant Pagan, and her two personal maids. Trowa was at the palace now and had interrogated the three there before reporting via text to Quatre that they were innocent. In fact, they'd been sworn to secrecy and never said a word about it. Relena of course would gain nothing by being kidnapped. Everything fell back to the gundam pilots and the colonels.

He believed in his fellow pilots that they wouldn't betray Duo, especially Wufei and Heero. And Trowa was definitely a no in his eyes. So then the colonels again…but which one?

The knock on the door startled him. He glanced down at the information pyramid he'd made for himself before pushing it under his pillow and standing heading over to the door opening it.

"This is taking too long," Wufei said frowning from the other side. He took Wufei stepping aside as an invitation as he came inside. Quatre waited until he passed before closing the door and turning around seeing the frustrated look on Wufei's face. "Why haven't we found the culprit yet?"

"Because we don't have enough evidence to indict anyone." Quatre frowned walking back over to his bed and pulling out the small chart he'd been working. Wufei watched him but he didn't make any move to come closer keeping to his own personal space. He wasn't the type to like being close to others and yet people like Duo and Treize had managed to break past that little bubble surrounding him. Quatre could tell. He knew because he could sometimes feel emotions coursing from other people. It was part of the problem of why he hadn't found anything on Noin yet. She didn't give away the vibe of someone trying to hide something from him.

He could mention seeing Milliardo alive on the White Fang ship and see what kind of reaction she had but for now he wanted to keep that a secret for as long as they could. That was the one trump card they still had under their sleeves. The culprit would know that Milliardo was alive and hiding out under the guise of Zechs Marquise. They had to time it all, play their cards right. Then maybe they'd have a chance on finding their man or woman.

"Then how the hell are we going to take them down if we can't even find out who it is?"

"…We need to talk to the other colonels," Quatre said looking up from the paper at Wufei. "Not just Colonel Noin but Po and Une. If you'll work on Po then I'll work on Une. Do what you have to do get the information out of her, even if you have to provoke her."

"Colonel Po is the last person I would think would want to hurt Duo or Relena."

"Don't let your attachments to her make the judgment," Quatre said standing slowly. "Right now, any one of them could be the person behind this."

"I know," Wufei said giving out a sigh as he cursed under his breath brushing his fingers through his tight ponytail. It didn't take long for him to go back to the usual, though occasionally Quatre found him trying to push up glasses he didn't have on his face anymore. "Fine…" He looked at Quatre. "I'll work on talking any information that Po has out of her. You work on Colonel Une. With the two of us, we'll figure something out."

"In the meantime, I'll see about disguising Relena." When Wufei lifted a brow at that, Quatre just shrugged his shoulders looking amused. "Out of sight doesn't necessarily mean out of mind. If we make it look like she disappeared or was kidnapped, we might be able to cause some panic. Panic makes the mind forget the important things." At that, Wufei grinned giving a nod of his head as he started for the door.

"I forgot how much of a genius you could be," Wufei said. "Well let's see how well this little plan goes. Not like we have much else to go on." He left out the room closing the door behind him. Quatre looked back down at his paper before he folded it up tucking it away.

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Heero knew Duo wasn't feeling this whole being tested on thing. He could tell that just from looking at him. With fist shaking and the hard glare in place, it was a completely dead giveaway. It explained why the scientists were staying far enough away from him. They didn't need Heero's warning to not touch the man. In fact, the only two that Duo allowed near him were Heero and, surprisingly, Treize. Part of it was the reason why Heero was being tested on first, to show Duo that nothing was wrong, that everything was ok.

"Do you hear anything yet?" the scientist working with him asked sitting in front of the large machine with a bunch of dials and buttons on it. Even though he'd been asking the question, his focus was completely on the screen in front of him searching for any weird anomalies.

"Not much," Heero responded from his seat beside the machine. The large headphones on his head were feeding frequencies into his ear which were currently at a level only animals could hear. And yet strangely enough he could hear it without a problem. If they could find out the source of that sound then they could find a solution on how to fight back against it. But he wasn't going to let Duo be the one to go through with this, not when the other had suffered enough pain already.

He winced slightly holding his hands up cupping them over the cups covering his ears. "Wait, I hear something weird," he said cutting his thoughts off as he looked at the scientist. It wasn't comfortable at all feeling completely different from the sounds he'd heard earlier. It felt like there was pressure not just on his ears but on his brain as well, like the feeds were going right into his head physically. "Try the next one." He was sure he was getting close to the source of the sounds that tortured Duo and it probably wasn't a good idea to go to the next level. But he had to do it, for Duo if for nothing else. He had to do it if he expected them to fight back.

He didn't have to look at the scientist to know when the levels had been changed. His body trembled in reaction to the sound as an irritable feeling poked at his brain. The problem wasn't just that he could feel it affect him. The problem was that it also was affecting Duo even though he didn't have the headphones on, the braided man's jaws tight with what could only be pain as he clenched his eyes shut. Seeing it and surprised by the fact that Duo could hear it, he lost his chance to stop the scientist from going to the next level as the two of them doubled over clutching at their heads surprising the others in the room. Was this what Duo had been tortured with? This sound felt like he had nails raking across his brain an excruciatingly slow trail.

He looked over before being frozen in shock as he started at the dark look in Duo's eyes. Heero let his own eyes travel down to the scientist that'd been working on the machine being held in Duo's strong grip around his neck. He looked calmer than he should have as he started to squeeze the scientist's neck choking the man in his hold. The others were on the floor behind him as if they'd been taken out during that short moment of the sound starting up. Panicking, Heero reached out pressing buttons on the panel before he slammed his fists down on the buttons making the machine cave in to his strength before it wobbled into silence.

"Duo!"

Duo looked at him before the look in his eyes changed like he was reverting back to himself as his grip loosened on the scientist's neck. He let the man fall staring down in surprise at the gagging mess on the floor in front of him.

"What…what did I…?" He backed away slowly looking down at his hands before his eyes cut up to Heero's sharply. It startled Heero to see the raw emotion shining in those indigo eyes that normally hid what he felt so well. As soon as he turned and fled from the room, Heero was on his tail. He was glad for the Fly-Z flowing through his blood pushing him to keep up with his companion. It made it easy for him to reach out and grab Duo's wrist snapping the other to a sudden halt.

"Let go!" Duo yelled out, eyes turning to glare at Heero even though he still had fear shining in his gazed. Heero didn't say anything as he pulled Duo into a hug glaring at anyone watching in the hallway until they left. He could feel Duo trembling in his arms and rubbed his hands up and down his back trying to comfort the other.

"What the hell is happening to me?" Duo asked his body still trembling as he gripped Heero's shirt tightly. "I keep blacking out." He backed up looking down at his shaky hands that not long ago had been around the scientist's neck. "My body is doing things during that time. It's like…like that time…."

"That time?" Heero frowned. "Did something like this happen before?"

Duo tensed looking up at him frowning as well. "It…It did."

"When?" Heero asked starting to reach out before the other flinched. This again. Why was it that Duo would react like this sometimes? Like he was afraid of Heero touching him. What had they done to Duo on White Fang to make that happen? He must have had a look on his face because Duo started to take another step back before Heero reached out quickly grabbing his wrist again to keep him from running away.

"Heero?" It wasn't normal for Duo to look startled like this, like a deer caught in the eyes of his predator. Heero tightened his grip starting to tug Duo down the hall before the other had a chance to pull away and run. He remembered how fast Duo could run, how easily he could hide himself. He wasn't about to let that happen again.

Within the privacy of their room he pushed Duo back against the closed door pinning him there with his body as he kissed him. He felt the other tense up, hands reaching up to grip Heero's shoulders. But he didn't push away like Heero expected, eyes looking glazed before he closed them responding to the kiss. He was tense until he shivered delightfully at the feel of Heero's fingers slid up his sides under his shirt. He barely seemed to notice Heero breaking the kiss and pulling the shirt off before kissing him again grinding their hips together.

Duo was literally turning into a puddle against the door, his breath coming out in pants each time he took a breath. Heero slid his hands down his bare back all the way until he reached the jean clad buttocks where he gripped him and lifted him up. His braided lover gasped out wrapping his legs around him as he was carried to the bed.

After lying his lover on the bed Heero sat up staring down at him, his eyes taking in the glassy look in the other's eyes as he laid there panting. His cheeks looked flushed like a person drunk with liquor. He acted as expected when Heero reached down sliding his hands along the soft skin earning a gasp as Duo arched his back moaning out. He was glad to see him reacting positively to his touch. This was far better than Duo flinching and running from him. It felt like the whole thing of Duo avoiding him, of Duo changing was all just a dream.

Heero reached down pulling his shirt over his head before his whole body froze up in shock. Within that brief blinding moment of his shirt coming off, Duo's demeanor changed with startling quickness. The darkened indigo eyes lacking in their usual sparkling effect as Duo stared up at him blankly lacking in the emotions he'd had only moments ago.

He saw the change when Duo closed his eyes, the quick pants of arousal back as if it had never happened.

"H-Heero…" The sensual arch of his body followed by the pleading, wanton sound of his voice calling his name made him briefly forget the moment. Heero leaned down lightly biting on Duo's neck earning another gasp and a moan as fingers slide along his sides. Maybe it'd been too long since he'd done it but the desire rushing through Heero's blood was too much for him to ignore.

It was easy for Heero to reach a hand down and unbutton Duo's jeans. It was even better to sit back and pop his own button free gaining added satisfaction of Duo's sparkling eyes sliding down to watch. He was as hungry for this as Heero was, if not hungrier. So why had he been running away from him then?

"Heero…" The call of his name returned his focus to the braided man lying beneath him. He leaned down kissing him reigniting the passion he hadn't fully forgotten as the other moaned against his lips.

It wasn't hard to undress the both of them before he made love to him, feeling the other's hot breath on his chest as he pumped into him. Still, he couldn't fully shake away the feelings bothering him as he stared down at Duo moving his hips faster. It wasn't the nails scratching down his back. It wasn't the increasing pants and moans escaping his dampened lips. It was how the look on Duo's face kept changing from normal to his mystery person. There'd either be an expression of ecstasy staring up at him through barely opened lids or an emotionless, void filled stare. The expression would show up so startling sudden that a blink of the eye would send it away.

One thing that did stay the same was the pure look of bliss on Duo's face when he finally reached his release, looking even better when Heero joined him. Heero's body relaxed resting on top of him as he breathed hard in his ear. The scratches down his back burned in a good way from Duo's reactions to Heero plundering him. The other didn't speak. Neither of them could really as they panted out of breath stuck in the aftermath of their loving making. He couldn't move even if he wanted to, body feeling boneless.

Duo's arms wrapped around him in a comforting embrace that made his lax body relax even more as he panted in Duo's ear. Seriously, if they had an attack right now, this would be the one time that they could take him completely defenseless. He probably wouldn't have cared. Not while lying on top of Duo like this.

The exhaustion must have had him completely gone because he didn't even notice his eyes closing or the fact that he'd fallen asleep. He didn't see the dark look staring down at him lacking in empathy before changing to something more somber. He didn't even feel it when Duo slipped from underneath him slipping into his clothes and leaving nothing behind but a slip of paper with the word, "Sorry."

TBC…