Do They All 'Fit'? (Part 2)

The Circus

Trowa moved toward his computer area in his tent again. He'd just finished his last act for the night, but he got the message, vibrating, that Duo tried to contact him. He only texted him one thing. Visual prompter.

"Trowa, are you going to bed soon?" Catherine asked from the side. "Did you want to catch a late supper?"

"Not right now, Cathy." He set up the visual prompter and turned it on. He saw Duo on the screen. "Duo."

"Hey, Trowa. So, I gave Quatre the news too. He took it about as well as I expected." Duo stared right at him. "I'm sending you a scan of a letter that I got. It's about you. It's about all us former Gundam pilots."

"Oh, I don't like the way he is acting," Catherine said, admittedly a little worried.

"Send the scan, Duo," Trowa insisted.

"Fine, but before I do? Go back to how you used to steel yourself against real bad news," Duo warned him.

What did Duo have? Trowa nodded. He watched as an image started to show up little by little. The sender was someone named Jewel. She was responsible for what happened to Hilde. She also knew about . . .

Catherine literally yelled as she started to read the scan. She turned away, unable to see the rest. Trowa didn't want to either. He looked back at the visual prompter. "So I'm going to be a father?"

"It seems so, yeah," Duo answered. "You know the woman in question?"

Trowa hadn't looked at the woman in question yet. "Why?"

"Your guess is as good as mine," Duo answered. "That Jewel said her goals were different. That her group had been taken over and she doesn't know their intentions." He sighed. "So look and tell me how you know her. Were all supposed to know them somehow."

"Fit." Yes, Trowa saw that word.

"Trowa?" Catherine looked at him, full of compassion and worry. "Are you okay?"

Trowa nodded, although he didn't really know. He didn't know what the next step would even be, except to see who he'd been assigned. Who this rebel group thought fit him.

"Whatever you do, don't warn the doctors," Duo said to him. "There's only one person who had that much on me, and it sounds like on Quatre."

The doctors? Did they survive, were they involved? Was everything stolen by this group? Trowa looked at the scan.

"So you know her?" Duo asked.

"Trowa?" Catherine asked too. "Trowa, do you know her?"

"That." That is who they picked? Trowa looked back at the visual prompter. This wouldn't be taken well by Catherine at all. "She was a spy who got my allies killed when I was younger." As predicted, he heard his sister losing it. She even ran out of the dressing room.

"Aw, Man, a spy?" Duo asked. "That's the worse so far. A spy is carrying your child, Trowa. Sorry."

"What do I do?" Trowa asked Duo.

"Come to terms with it. Go see her. Hope she turned a new leaf?" Duo recommended. "Good luck, Trowa."

That was it. That was all Duo could offer. "Nothing else?"

"Nothing else," Duo shook his head. "Time for you to deal in your way. I've still got to talk to Heero and Wufei. Over and out."

Middie Une. The spy. The spy that had been his age, that he had let go.

He typed into the computer. That name. He never thought he'd have to type it out. With his skill, it didn't take long. She was days away from the circus location. That was probably a good thing. He himself didn't know how to handle everything yet. Speaking of which, he looked back at the list. Quatre and Dorothy Catalonia. That wasn't good on his friend either. Alone time was called for. To contemplate. To understand what it all meant.

"If she's evil, take it."

Trowa looked outside his tent. His sister had come back to say it. "Catherine."

"If she was a spy and she was evil, then she'd be a terrible mother anyhow!" Catherine begged him. "Trowa."

Catherine hated war so much. It had taken her whole family away. This wouldn't be easy on her.

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A0206- The Long Clan's Colony

Wufei was pulling on some of the slack Heero had extended his way. They had been trying to pull in on this rebel group on Earth and Hero just got the codename of the leader. They were getting closer. As he made headway though, he heard his phone go off. He looked at who it had been. Duo? He didn't have anything to contribute to his cause. He heard it ring a second time though so he picked it up. "Wufei."

"Visual prompter. Face to face. Not saying anything else."

Vague. He moved over slightly to dial Duo over the visual prompter. He could see Duo's face in front of him. "What is it?"

"I'm sending you a scan," Duo said. "I did this for Quatre and Trowa. I think it's fair we all learn the same way. The fairest thing I can do. It's about you, so pay attention."

Wufei moved his gaze toward the scanning computer. He started to watch it come in. A rebel known as Jewel? "This has to do with the rebel group I am chasing down." Interesting. No, not interesting. "Is this letter real?"

"Everything matched up for Hilde," Duo answered. "You know the woman? Were all supposed to 'fit'. That's the wording."

Wufei stared at the name. He tried to think about it, but clearly. "I don't know this woman, or she made a low enough impression I never kept her name in my memory."

"Oh? Weird," Duo answered back. "Anyhow? Good to see you taking it well. A little unexpected."

Wufei didn't say much. He would naturally have had a child in his life with Nataku at some point. If she had lived. Wait. "Mei-Lin." Familiar in sound to the name his wife had been born with. It was not the name she preferred though, and it was not the name he had called her after that day. She had been Nataku. Wufei moved to his free computer and started to type in her name.

"Ooh, that was a hell of a grunt," Duo said from the visual prompter. "You suddenly remember her? You okay, Wufei?"

"I don't know the woman, I've never even met her!" Wufei declared as he stared at what his computer displayed. "They just made it her because . . ." Because of her situation. The Zhang colony was similar to the Long colony, yet they never crossed paths. "She was jailed not long ago for finding a dead man in her home, and announcing she was pregnant at her marriage ceremony." Marriage. The name. That was it. They connected him to this strange woman for nothing but this?

"Wufei? You okay?"

"It's not Nataku," Wufei said. "It would have been better if I had known her."

"Um?" Duo sounded confused. "Right. You work it out on your own. I got one last call to make."