"The Gundam pilot 001 was taken from the battle ground after self destruction."

    "We do still have that video feed from Zech's encounter with pilot 001 sir."

    Trieze swivled around in his chair and smiled, "And is it as I thought, Lady Une?"

    "From the origional survalence shots from J's lab we've concluded this boy is not Yuy. It's hard to tell but the lab reports will explain each difference."

    The royal looking commander stood and nodded, "I trust you will make this information usefull to our cause Lady."

    "Of course sir."

    "Inform Zechs. If Yuy is really who I think he is. . . We're going to need him with us."

    "Sir?"

    "Go."

    "Hai."

    Trieze stood looking out his window and smiled, "Ah, Heero. You think we've forgotten you? Human obsession or not, you aren't for that child. Leave the fold, and our protection is no longer available. First vampire. Father."

    "Heero!" Duo ran to the injurred pilot and looked up at Trowa in gratitude, "You saved him!"

    ". . ."

    "Why does he look so pale? I thought you said he was healling!"

    "He was. But he stopped."

    "Stopped. . . shit!" The braided pilot fell to the bed beside Heero and ripped his sleeve open.

    "Duo!" Quatre ran inside and shut the door, "What are you doing?"

    "He can't eat, no one to feed him."

    "What are you babbling about now?"

    Duo glarred at the Chinese boy and pulled Heero back against his chest then cut a long gash in his forearm.

    "Duo!"

    "Quatre! Trust me ok?! Heero. Heero man come on, drink. look, it's fresh." Duo pressed the wound to the vampire's mouth and bit his lip, "Come on Heero please." He closed his eyes and burried his face in his partner's shoulder, "Don't leave me."

    The first tentative lick took him quite by surprise. Duo's head shot up and his eyes flew open as he gasped, "Wha. . . oh. . . ohhhhh!"

    The other pilots looked on in horrified shock. "Duo what are you doing?!"

    The little Arab closed his eyes and carefully linked all of the pilot's minds together in his space heart. Something was going on. They needed to know what it was. When the first wave of memories hit, it sen tall three of them to the floor in shock and anguish. So much pain was laced through each one.

    "Duo. . . Dos!" Quatre sobbed, "My little boy. My baby, I'm so sorry."

    Trowa tensed and sneared, "Vampire! Snake! Trouble betrayed us for you! Trouble how could you. Trouble. You were my friend!"

    "My protoge! How dare you take up with the demon himself! I moulded you to be the greatest artist there was and you dishonored me when you dishonored yourself!" Wufei choaked, unable to keep to words inside.

    All of them. All of their past and memories clicked and they were drawn into the past and back. Five souls who even now were together in some way. Tangled in destiny to stay close to each other until the cycle was broken.

    "Heeeeeeerooooooo!" Duo moaned and bucked up against the feeding vampire. His world and past bare before him. He could remember each life and each death and still over them all he was Duo Maxwell, and he knew. This was what he had waited for. His soul was complete now. He was ready.  Multicolored flashes sparkled before his eyes and he gasp and sobbed and pumped out his warm seed into his pamts unable to help himself as Heero's strong tongue pressed into his pink tissue and muscle that the cut lay bare. "Ohhhhhh!"

    "Duo. My Duo." Heero whispered and pulled the slack and dazed pilot to him. "Please. Let me turn you. I can't lose you again."

    Duo smiled and lifted his mouth for a kiss before baring his neck.

    "Duo! No!" Trowa and Wufei jumped forward only to be stopped by Quatre.

    "Let them be."

    Duo cried out in pleasure and pain when Heero's sharp fangs pierced the marks time had yet to steal from his beloved's neck. Duo was HIS. Now he could keep him forever near him. He wouldn't loose him again. Never again. "Heero!"

    "Love you. Love you Heero. God! Ugnnnn! please!"

    Heero drew out the pleasure until Duo's blood was all but gone, and then pressed his bleeding wrist to the violet eyed boy's pale lips. "Drink Duo."

    For the first time Heero was swept up into the extacy of being feed upon. He gasped and sobbed at the beauty of it. Love in it's most pure form. True and blinding and perfect and so very right. "Duo!"

    When he began to feel dizzy Heero pulled back and Duo was still. A cold mockery of slumber lay over him as his human body died, and Heero held him close, Unwilling to let go of his beloved childe."

    "Heero." Quatre blinked back tears and met the inhuman eyes, "We saw it all. All of the lives you were with eachother. We were there too. I. . . I was Dos' mother. I remember the pain he went through, remember him looking for spells against death. Duo . . . He. . . I suppose he's found his spell now."

    "Wufei? Trowa?" Quatre nudged them and they both scowled, though Wufei's was, as always, much more convincing.

    "I was Michelangelo. You took my son from me." He frowned, "But I took him from you as well didn't I Yuy." A long silence followed, "You made him happy. That made me angry. I will not appologise, but I will support him now."

    "Wufei. . . arigato."

    "Hm."

    "I never liked you. But I recognise that you are a strong man." Trowa scowled. "Trouble turned on us because of you. But you never left him. You have my aid if you need it. But do not imagine that this changes anything. It does not."

    "I understand." Heero nodded and held Duo closer.

    "Bastard."

    The vampire just met the hostle gaze head on. Love for Duo would keep them part of the team. But that didn't mean that he had to like them. Each of them had hurt his lover in one way or another. No. He didn't have to like them.

    "Trieze."

    "Come in, Zechs."

    "Is what Une said true?"

    "Yes my friend. the vampire is awake once more. I thought that you would want to know, even if you betrayed us."

    "Trieze. . . It was the hardest thing I've ever done. But you aren't right in this war."

    "I disagree, but I also propose a truce."

    "Until the past is cleansed?"

    "That very thing."

    "I agree." Zechs nodded and pulled his mask on again. "Now how do we go about luring our dear old dad out for a little, reunion."

<Part 8>

    Quatre brought a mug of coffee in to Heero who was sitting by Duo's bedside, waiting for him to wake and smile again. His childe. Quatre's child. And Quatre could remember Dos so well. "Heero."

    The dark haired pilot glanced up at the blond, "You look like her you know."

    The  arab smiled, "You should drink that. It'll warm you up a little."

    "Aren't you surprized? Wufei and Trowa haven't left their rooms since. . ."

    "I always felt protective of Duo. He was always in my heart somehow and that confused me. Because I know who I love. And it is not Duo. No like that. So this explains a lot. My Dos. I am glad you found him again."

    Heero looked at his team mate warily. "Aa?"

    "He was so much happier after he came to the hospital the day after his father chased him out. He said he'd met an angel. I thought he'd been to the church down the street. That he was speaking figuratively."

    "He never speaks any way but boldly."

    Quatre smiled a tiny smile and nodded his head, "I know." He sat on the side of the bed and kissed Duo's pale forehead. "After the third time since that night I realized he meant a boy."

    "And you weren't disgusted?"

    "No." The arab shook his head, "I was happy for him. He was glowing with love even if he didn't know it yet. I knew he would be ok when I left then."

    "He was heartbroken."

    "But you were there for him."

    "He got the cancer you know."

    A flash of pain slid over the boyish face beneath blond bangs.

    Heero closed his eyes and ran a hand through his childe's hair. "He was very brave. I was a coward. I couldn't turn him. . ."

    "It wasn't time."

    "I watched him dying. It was worst than just watching him grow older. Because he was still so young."

    Quatre hugged the vampire tightly and smiled a tearful smile. He was shocked to feel Heero hug him back. "It's ok now. He's yours."

    Heero nodded and looked at the bed again. "Hai. Mine."

    "I'll try to talk to Wufei and Trowa ok? They're just caught up in the past lives."

    "I don't want to talk to those bastards." Heero hissed.

    "But they. . ."

    "Michelangelo had his son burned and disinherited, then he changed his son's signitures to his on Duex's paintings. He claimed them for himself. He would have taken the music if he'd known. He was a power mad bastard."

    "And Trowa?"

    "Would rather Double die than stay with me."

    "They payed Heero. Both of them have payed for that. Look at their lives. How much worst have they been before? Before you can be happy with Duo, you need to close this chapter."

    "How can I forgive them for ripping his heart out and stomping on it?!"

    "You have to find that out. I am just Dos' mother, not a genius by any stetch hm?"

    Heero smiled a grim smile but his eyes sparkled. "Duo will be glad to know you again."

    "I'm as anxious as you for him to wake up."

    The vampire shook his head, "Impossible."

    As the blond left Heero slid down beside Duo and held him tight, "Come back soon to me Duo. We have so much to talk about."

    Zechs pointed to the huge home looming in he desert sands. "That's where they're staying. At Quatre's winter estate." He looked at Trieze carefully, "Are we going to kill him sire?"

    "Don't call me sire. I cut you of that bond long ago."

    "Are you going to kill him?"

    "He left us brightling. For a human."
 
    "But he's his mate."

    "And I was his Fledgling. And you were his grand fledge and what of all of those who died at the hands of his beloved Trouble and his companions? For all we've been able to tell we are the only ones left. Us, and him. And he could care less. Yes I want to kill him. But I think we should kill Duo first."

    Zech's eyes widened, "Killing the master's mate?! You'll get us staked!"

    "It will be worth it to see his pain."

    "But fledges don't have souls! We won't come back!"

    "Small price."

    Zech looked at his sire and held his breath at the gleam in his eyes. It seamed he was very mad indeed. And Zech had just led him to the one creature who could distroy them both. //I am such a fool!//

    "Are you coming?" Trieze called from ahead, already slipping through the night toward the daunting home.

    He hand no choice. Had never had any choice, but to follow. He loved his sire, sane or not he still loved him until dust. //Like the master loves Duo.//

    When Duo woke up the first word from his mouth and thought in his mind was, "Heero!" Adn once he was enveloped in the warm embrace of his sire his second thought came to him, "I'm hungry."

    Heero tilted his neck in offering and Duo latched on greedily, suckling the rich red liquid surging with power and life, from the pale flesh. He next thought came as he was feeding and he tore away and stared at Heero, eyes wide. "I have fangs!"

    The cobalt eyed boy nodded, "Yes Duo. You have fangs."

    "I just drank. . ."

    "My blood."

    "That means I'm. . ."

    "Dead, and risen. Undead."

    "Cool!" He hugged Heero tight then paused and pushed back, "Wait. . . I shouldn't be celbrating my own death should I?"

    "We'll say you're celebrating you're rebirth."

    Those delicious lips quirked up. "That works." He pounced upon his sire and rubbed up against him like a large, chestnut haired cat. "You know what?"

    The vampire was nearly beyond thought. "W. . . huh?"

    "You made me come twice this life without even letting me get nice and naked before hand."

    "T. . . twice?"

    "Once when you drank from me."

    "Tha. . . I remember that one."

    "And before that, when I rescued you after I shot you."

    "I was unconscious!"

    "After that."

    "I didn't touch you."

    "Didn't have to. I watched you working on your gundam and it just happened."

    "I. . . " He groaned and bucked into the squirming vampire above him. "I must have powers I didn't know about."

    "It's called you ass. Very powerfull. Blows fully erect cocks away."

    "Quite a mouth you have."

    "The better to suck you with."

    Heero screamed as Duo went down on him. "Shit! Duo! What are you. . ."

    "I remember all of our lives together Heero. And how empty and lonely each one was without you there. I need you. We won't ever be apart again. I need to feel you. To know that."

    Heero gasped and tugged Duo up to lay beside him, bathing the panting boy in kisses and licks as he shed their clothing for both of them. "Duex, Twin, Double, Dos, Duo, oh Duo. Love you so much. Love you."
 
    Duo tensed and jumped and wailed out his agreement, his mind too far gone for words. All he could think was Heero and all he could feel was Heero. And he had never felt so alive!

    It was hours later when the two pilots finally showered for the third time, this time without jumping eachother and having to begin again, and walked out to find the others.

    Quatre's eyes jerked up from where he sat and Heero saw the chains holding him, "It's a trap!"

    Both vampires jumped aside just before they were impaled by a shower of stakes. Heero snatched Quatre up and tore his bonds apart, "The others?"

    "They were still in their rooms. I don't. . ."

    "Maxwell what are you d. . . shit!" Wufei dove to hide behind the couch with the others and bullets riddled the walls where he'd been standing.

    Trowa slid across the floor out of site of their attackers and joined them soon after. He eyed the wall covered in holly wood stakes, "Friends of yours Heero?"

    Duo was even paler than a vampire should be. "They can't. . . I can't lose you Heero they can't. . ."

    "They wont." Heero promised.

    "Quatre hugged Duo close and looked up at Heero, it's Trieze."

    "Trieze." He blinked. Trieze. Tres. Three. It couldn't be! Trouble's band had killed. . . hadn't. . . "Drei!"

    The vampire walked calmly through the door and looked at his sire was a mad smile. "Greetings papa. I have not seen you in a very long time."

    "Drei. I thought they killed you." Heero growled.

    "I'm a fledge of the master. It takes more than a few human hunters to kill me. In fact I ended that one's previous life." He pointed at a trembling Torwa, "Oh how nice. He remembers me."

    "Keep away from my protected Drei. You have no power compared to mine. The sun even burns you a little still. You're smoking fledge."

    "Just shut up! How dare you mock me! You made me this weak! I could have been a childe! I would have been a good childe! Instead you choose to maek me cannon fodder. a Fledgling! A now you mock your work!? Bravo father."

    "Where is your childe, fledge." Heero mocked. "I seem to recall you two were quite a pair."

    Zech walked into site. "Master, I'm sorry. He told me. . . I thought. . . to cleanse the past. . . he was only supposed to bring you home."

    "Shut up childe!" Trieze/Drei ordered.

    "Watch your mate! He's mad! He said he would k-EERK!" Zech's eyes widened and he exploded to dust, a wooden stake bouncing slightly as it hit the floor.

    Heero's eyes narrowed. "You killed your own childe. You are damdged. Broken members of the pack are to be culd from it.

    "Try it papa. I'm not a child any more."

    "You were never a childe!" Heero leapt at the taller man and growled, knashing his fangs. No one would ever hurt Duo again! Not even his own fledge! "You shound have died in Germany stake fodder!"
 
    "I really missed your insulting presence master."

    Duo herded the other pilots to their gundams, "GoGoGo!"

    "Duo!" Quatre called out in pain, "What about you?!"

    "I am NOT leaving him again." He raced back inside."

    "Duo!"

    "Look out! He isn't alone!" Wufei closed his Gundam and pulled his sword free as Oz troop sswarmed around them.

    The other two followed suite and Quatre placed a hastey call to the maguanaks corps on his comp screen. "Protect the house! Duo and Heero are still in there!"

    "Hai!"

    "Of course!"

    Quatre smiled tightly and sliced a suit in half as it came too close. "They had better hurry!"

    "Heero!" Duo slammed into the living room and knocked the stake off it's corse before it slamed into his lover's heart.

    "Duo." Heero gasped and fought to stand. "You came back."

    "What you thought I'd leave you here?" He grinned, "There's a war on outside so we should probably. . ." They both ducked another stake, "Finish him off quick."

    "He's warded himself somehow. Magic won't work."

    The volet eyed boy grinned bright, "Well I didn't have magic growing up, and I still kicked ass."

    "Duo!" Heero couldn't catch him before the braided boy and Drei became a whirwind of blows and dodges. He couldn't use a stake for fear of hitting his beloved, and he couldn't attack for the same reason. He could only watch in terror, he eyes wide and crysaline. "Please Don't let me lose you again."
 

~tbc~