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A Man Scorned

Part 8

Taking a catious step foreward, Quatre hesitated to see if Duo had any objections to him getting any closer to him. Seeing no change in her stance, Quatre droped all that he was holding and ran over to Duo to put her in a bear hug.

Moments passed in silence.

"Duo," Quatre commented, " you feel a little different."

Wufei sweatdroped.


"Your WHAT!?!?!?!"

"A girl, Quatre, a girl." Duo slowly rotated the drink in his hands.


Wufei looked over the two sitting on the park bench. He knew everything that Duo was going to tell Quatre, so there wasn't any need for him to be in the immediate vicinity of the two. Sighing he leaned against the tree behind him. This was going to be difficult for the group, and he didn't believe that Heero would be getting out of this without at least a scratch.


"Why, Duo?"

"I'm not for sure exactly why. Their was lots of reasons. I had convinced myself that I loved him, that he had loved me. I feed myself so many lies, trying to make them the truth. But nothing I could do would make it the truth. No matter what."

"So what is the truth?" Quatre moved over right next to her, "Is sneaking around behind your friends, not letting them help, part of your truth? Is changing what you are the truth?"

"NO!!" She almost screamed, "You tell me? Is thinking sex is supposed to hurt, the truth? Is thinking being beaten almost every day, the truth?? What is the truth, Quatre? Maybe the truth is that there was a lot of stuff happening to me behind the scene's and I just decided to finally become a lil selfish and care about my own wellbeing."

Something clicked. Quatre's eyes went wide and in a shushed whisper he said,"Wufei..... he was talking about you..." His eyes misting, he started to repremand Duo. "How could you. How could you go through that and not tell us."

Duo folded her hands in her lap and sighed. "It's not really something you talk about, expecially when you think that he did it because he loves you."

A hand rested softly on her shoulder, "Duo, I'm here for you. Just talk to me, I'll listen. I want to help you.... hell we all want to help you. Just....... " He took a deep breathe and let it out, " you have to let us help you."

Duo smiled softly. She hadn't known what to expect from the blonde, but she was glad that he was extending a hand out to her, to help her in her time of need. "I want you to help me, Quatre."

Pulling her into a gentle embrace, a soft tone glazed over his voice. "Trust me then. Let me be a truth for you, to be here for you whenever you need me. I can promise that to you, Duo. For now and forever."

Shivering a little, her voice cracked. "Th... thank you. I was so scared..." Sadness welled up in the corner's of her eyes, threatening to let salty streams flow over the too perfect skin of her cheeks. "I was scared that you'd be mad and wouldn't even want to talk to me. I was scared that you'd hate me for my desicions."

Soft skin abrutly pulled her face up to stare into aqua eyes, "No. Don't you ever think I'd hate you for anything. If you want to put any word to use what I feel, it would be "love" (1)."

All barriers broke at this moment and Duo buried her head into Quatre's shoulder softly sobbing. Her tears wetting the soft fabric covering the young man's torso.

With one arm wraped protectivly around her back, Quatre brought his free hand up and stroked the chestnut locks while whispering comforting words in her ear.


Wufei watched as Quatre took care of the emotionally stressed female in his arms. Deciding there was no more he could do here tonight, he headed back to the dorms for a good nights sleep.






(1) I'm using this in the english language sense. For a lot of other languages they have specific terms meaning different kinds of love, but this is ment to be a generalized term. Consequintly, giving Duo a big bad headache of "what did he mean" ^_^ I'm extreamly mean.

Part 9

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