Deep in his sleep, Quatre felt a faint cry for him and he too felt his heart ache. Although the pain didn't hurt much, he uttered a soft cry in his sleep. Trowa, while easing the pain of his own heart, heard the sound coming from the young Arabian prince. He hesitated for a moment for he didn't know what to do. His mind was confused. //He's crying for me...Why?// The unibanged pilot thought. He then made his way back towards the bed in which the blonde teenager slept. Trowa sat beside Quatre once again and held the smaller boy in his arms.
"Don't cry my sweet angel," he whispered into Quatre's ear.
Holding Quatre in his arms seemed so familiar. It seemed like he did that before..when they are both in pain. Soon he too began sobbing. He didn't know why, he just did. He craddled his angel softly and slowly thoughts found their way to his mind.
"Tro...Trowa...For...Forgive me..,"
"Please...Trowa...Don't...c..cry,"
"I..love...you Trowa."
Although the voices were very soft and hard to make out, Trowa knew it can only belong to the voice of one person. The one he loved. Suddenly, he remembered back to something Duo said earlier that night.
"Look, Trowa. I've been thinking. I know you are doing this to protect him, but I don't think I should get involve in this anymore that I have," the braided teen said.
"Duo...." Trowa said in confusion.
"I know what you're going to say, but it makes me feel bad about myself when I try to break those two up. Just this afternoon, I had to..."
"I...I don't think I understand what you are talking about."
"What? You know, your whole mission in coming back here. Remember?"
//Mission? Coming back?//Trowa asked himself what these meant.//Duo. He knows what is going on.//
With that thought. The unibanged boy carefully removed his arms against Quatre and began his way to find Duo, to find the answers to his questions.
It had been a while since Duo thought about what he should do about the situation and now he was resting peacefully. He too had to struggle to sleep earlier that night. Every so often he would wake up from his rest and think about if he was wrong to do what he's been doing. Now, all was quiet and he finally found his will to rest. But soon, a knock emerged from the other side of the door.
The braided boy didn't bother getting up so he ignored the knock. Soon came the second knock and he was beginning to get annoyed but still didn't want to get up. Then he heard something opening the door and the next thing he knew, he was being slammed up against the wall by someone.
"Ouch! Who the...," Duo said in pain.
"Duo, you knew didn't you?" the person said.
"Trowa? What's gotten into ya?" Duo asked while still half asleep and apparently very clueless as to what Trowa just asked.
"You knew!"
Suddenly it came across Duo's mind that somehow Trowa found out about the whole situation.
"I don't know what you're talking about." The American boy pretended that he didn't know what was going on.
"Don't play games with me! You were trying to come between us for a reason, didn't you?" Trowa asked.
Trowa was crying. Even though the room was pitch black, Duo knew. He can hear it in the tone of his voice.
"Trowa...I......"
"Answer me!"
"YES! Ok? I had no choice! I didn't want my best friend to die! I had to do what I did to protect him. He told me what will happen."
"He?" Trowa asked as he stopped crying and let go of Duo.
"You. The future you. You came back."
"Came back?"
"Yeah, from the future." Duo said as he switched the light on. "He didn't tell me much. He just asked me for help. He said something is going to happen to Quatre if you two are together. I know it sounded odd when he told me, but I believed him. That's why I tried to make sure that you two don't get together."
"Gomen Duo..."
"That's ok. I knew you didn't mean to slam me like that. I should be the one to say sorry to you. I didn't even know what it has anything to do with two people being together and I just did what I thought was right."
"I.....I know why," Trowa suddenly said. "I saw it all happen in my dream.
"What?"
"Someone...someone envied our relationship. She loved Quatre, but I took him away from her. And she wanted me to feel the pain I put her through, so she..she..killed him. It's all my fault..."
"No Trowa, you just wanted to be with the one you love. It's never wrong to do that."
"..."
"So...what should we do now?"
"I don't know...maybe what I planned was right all along."
"You mean...you're going to leave Quatre?" Duo asked sounding very concerned. "But he is going to be crushed."
"I have no choice, the pain is only temporary. In time, he will forget me."
"But he won't...he loves you."
"What am I supposed to do then? Kill the person who loved him? I can't sacrifice the life of someone just so that I can be happy. Don't you understand Duo?"
"Yeah, I do. I just hope that you won't regret your choice."
Trowa remained silent and headed towards the door. Duo didn't make any attempts to talk him out of this. He knew that he couldn't change Trowa's mind once it's made up. He just sat on his bed and sighed.