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Chapter 2: Doughnuts, Bright Lights, and Trashed Cars

By Relena Maxwell

Disclaimer: You know what? I currently don't own GW, but you never know, dreams can come true! But one thing I DO know and have without the help of a shooting star, is that I DO OWN the plot line, the new characters, and.... Some more stuff...

AN: This is an AU fic, a 2xR, and it is written by an insane teenager. You have been warned! Oh yeah..... Um.... PLEASE review after reading. I love it when people do that! ^_^

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"................." = speaking
//.................// = thinking
*.................* = sound effects


Two young police officers were just exiting the local "Dunkin' Doughnuts". They were holding boxes upon boxes of pastries. The boys at HQ were working on an operation involving gangs. And everyone knew that when police officers were working hard the needed energy boosts. So the two were sent off on "retrieval duty".

One of the two was a tall male with hair the color of dark wheat, and eyes that were the mirror image of sapphires. Next to him stood an attractive woman his age with long brown hair kept tight into two tight buns on either sides of her head with golden brown eyes.

"Whoa... It looks like somebody had a little accident." mentioned Anne (commonly known as Lady Une) sarcastically as she looked over what used to be two cars and a truck.

"No time for jokes!" commanded Treize Kushrenada (nicknamed Kush) sternly, he might be young for a professional police officer, but when someone's lives are in danger, he means business.

"Right." Une nodded her head with determination. They put their boxes of doughnuts down on the pavement. And with that, the two dashed to where the three cars had landed - in a side road ditch.

Treize was the first to get to the vehicles, the closest one to him was what looked like a black truck. "Oh my god! They're just kids!" yelled Treize as he looked through the passenger seat window.

Une wasn't having much fun getting down the sides of the ditch with her high heels and skirt, but when she heard Treize's urgent call, she just jumped off from where she was. She rubbed her backside and then wobbled over to him, her brown hair coming loose from it's too buns.

Treize was busy trying to pry the door open with all his strength, but Une just rolled her eyes. "Men."

"Huh?" Treize said as he looked to her, she had her long black police baton in her hand and motioned him to the side. Treize gave a nervous laugh at his own foolishness, but Une was already in "police mode". Meaning seriousness was her only emotion at the time being.

"Ok Kush, go to the police car and get HQ on radio. I want some ambulances and stretchers." Treize looked at her with astonishment- she could be the next J.I. Jane!

Anne stopped what she was working at and turned to her comrade. "Pronto!"

"Gah!" he spat out of pure horror. The beauty's attitude had done a complete 180 into a powerful monster. Yes, the mighty Treize was scared. So with that, he was already sprinting to find a way out of the ditch.

After 2 minutes of pushing, pulling, and screaming at the stubborn door to open, Une finally put the door hinges to shame. She wiped her brow of sweat and looked at the boys before her.

"Oh hell... What happened here?" she felt for pulses. Thank god. The two lads were still breathing- faintly.

Inside, Une was terrified. She had begun her career as a police officer only to follow her only love Treize. She had just started two years ago, and was still considered a trainee. Thus, she was really never close enough to a crime scene to smell blood. But now she could.

She just hoped Treize was hurrying.

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"Yes! I'm serious! This is a 873i (AN: I made this police code up, I dunno if it's real or not)!" Treize hated these stupid informers. Always asking so many damn questions.

"The accident is in a ditch on the left side of Danielle St., right by the Dunkin' Doughnuts!!" he paused as he listened to more idiotic questions.

"Yeah... We'll take care of that. Just get some medics!" he disconnected the radio and sighed. As soon as this was taken care of, he was hiring some better informers.

He exited the car and went to the trunk to get his own baton and a First Aid Kit. He then ran to the edge of the ditch and slid down it, every once in a while hitting small rocks and such, but he could handle it.

Une had already accomplished the task of opening all the doors apart from the truck. Once she heard Treize walking to the red Ferrari she said, "Kush, go to the truck, the blond had a serious rib problem."

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//Oh god, what's that bright light?..... No! it can't be! I'm too young to die!//

"NO!" screamed the braided youth as he waved his arms to and fro.

Duo felt two hands come down on his shoulders, so he opened his eyes to see what was going on.

He heard a *click* and the white light vanished. He looked up to see lavender eyes and two braids of light brown hair.

"Who are you?" he asked curiously as he regained his composure.

"My name's Sally, AKA Dr. Po. I'll be your doctor for the time being." she said with a warm smile as she put her doctor's flashlight on her waistband.

Sally noticed that Duo's eyes were following her as she did so, so she said, "I was checking to see if you got any shards of glass in your eyes after the crash. Though, I didn't expect that you'd go crazy." she said with a smirk.

//Crash? What crash? N' why is a doctor here? Speaking of which, where am I?//

Duo searched the room with his eyes. The walls were white, with pictures of fish here and there, to the left of him was a window, and to his right a door leading to a hallway. In front of the door was supposedly another bed with curtains circling it, and he was lying on a white hospital bed. Hospital. That was it.

//How in the... The car race! That's it! I remember now! .... But what about Quatre?!//

Dr. Po was at the edge of his bed looking over some papers on a clip board when Duo asked, "Sally, how did I get here?"

"We got a call from the police department, they had two officers getting lunch when they noticed the wreck. So, the ambulance came, and here you are, right at Madison Hospital." she said with a friendly smile as he looked at her in shock.

Then Duo remembered quite a vital thing, "Were there any others you guys found in the crash?"

She looked up at him and said, "Uh-huh, there was a Chinese man, one with funky hair, the truck driver..."

//They all have funky hair... Especially Heero... HERRO. Grrrrrrrr... But I gotta forget him and worry 'bout Q-man right now.//

"Yeah, yeah, but was there a boy with blond hair? He was in the black car with me." he questioned further, starting to get worried over his friend's heath condition at the moment.

"Of course. I was just getting to him," Sally stated as Duo let out a sigh of relief, "He's in the bed over there." she stated as she pointed to the bed next to him with blue curtains surrounding it.

"Really? Is he alright? Did he get hurt?" Duo asked frantically, he really did want to know what was going on. And as soon as he talked to Quatre, he was going to say he was sorry for getting into this big mess.

"Yes, he's doing well. He got a couple of ribs broken slightly, but nothing that won't heal. He just needs to rest for now." Sally said in an off-hand manner as she resumed reading the papers.

//Broken ribs?! She acts as if it was nothing! Oh god... I need to calm down. It's not like it's her fault.//

"Now that that's settled, I need to get some info on you." she said as her voice got serious.

"Eh? Ok..." he answered with a doubtful face.

//Am I going to jail or something for racing?//

"What's your name, age, and I need to know the phone number of some of your kin so they can come down here and know what you got yourself into." she said motioning to him laying in the bed with the various scars, scratches, and bruises.

"Well, my name's Duo Maxwell! Nice ta meet ya "officially" Sally!" he said with a big 100-wat grin.

//Well that's an attitude change.// thought Sally as she smirked to herself.

Duo reached out his hand for a shake, and she complied.

"My age is 18, and I don't have any parents, brothers, or sisters. I just live with my Aunt Ginny and Uncle Stuart Schbeiker. But I have a cousin named Hilde who's the same age as me- kinda like a sister. Their house number is (536)-337-0702 (AN: I made this phone number up. Please don't call it though, you might bother someone ^_^)." Duo let out a big breath. He said it all in one breath of air.

"Um... Could you repeat that again? And afterwards I'm gonna need to know some other stuff- just say it slowly." asked Sally as she sweat dropped.

"Hehe, sure."

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The sun was setting on the horizon, it was a beautiful sight. Especially on warm summer days in New Jersey. The remaining light had blessed a simple white barn with it's rays of sunshine, playing in-between leaves and twigs of the trees. An old tire swing was rocking softly as the sweet wind played amongst the air. But the people living inside of the house didn't have the time to enjoy it.

A girl with short dark blue hair and ocean blue eyes was sitting on the front porch of her family's house. She had been sitting here since six o'clock this morning, and now it was 7 o'clock in the evening (AN: Remember, this is summertime, the sun sets late). Her cousin had been gone for about a day now. He was never late, and if he was, he'd call. This was odd. Her mother and father were inside calling everyone they new if they'd seen Duo... Noone had.

//Oh Duo, you dolt, where are you? I can't have you gone. You're like my best bud.// thought the blue haired girl as she looked up at the orange and pink sky.

Her mother came out from the house and let an exasperated sigh escape her lips, "Oh that boy... I never thought anything like this would happen. Especially with Quatre at his side reminding him of what's wrong, and what's right... I just hope they don't hurt themselves wherever they are."

"You mean Quatre's parents don't know where he is either?" Hilde asked as she turned to her mother. She had hair just like hers, only long and kept in a braid, and she had soft brown eyes. Hilde got the blue eyes from her father.

"Yes, they were the first people we called..." reasoned a gruff voice behind Mrs. Schbeiker.

"Daddy, you stopped calling too?" questioned Hilde with disappointed eyes.

The strongly built man had a beard and a mustache, with raven hair. He sat down beside his daughter and said, "Duo's a smart kid. He won't get into any trouble."

At that the girl started laughing like there was no tomorrow. Both of her parents looked at her and couldn't help but give her strange looks. When she finally composed herself she asked while wiping tears of mirth from her eyes, "Do ya really believe that dad? I mean... No offence, but DUO? Nah, I don't think so."

"Ok, maybe you're right. But a man can dream eh?" he joked as he ruffled Hilde's short hair.

"Stuart, Hilde, this isn't the time to joke around. We can only hope for the best..." Ginny gave a frown as she said that.

Hilde stood up and dusted herself off, she put her hands on her hips and said, "Well he better be alright. Let alone my car if he ruins it... I'll, I'll, I'll... I'LL KI-"

"You'll just make him pay for it." interjected Mr. Schbeiker. He knew what his daughter was going to say, but he REALLY didn't want that to happen.

*RING! RING! RING!*

"What in the world?" asked Ginny as she turned to pick up the phone, but in a flash of blue Hilde was already there.

//Maybe we should start thinking about track lessons after this whole mess is cleared up..// Mrs. Schbeiker thought as her daughter picked up the phone.

"Hello? This is the Schbeiker residence." stated Hilde as she listened as to who was on the other line.

"Hello Hilde! Just the girl I wanted to speak to.", Hilde gave a confused look as to how the other woman knew her, "My name is Doctor Sally Po of the Madison Hospital. Your cousin Duo is currently in my care." informed Sally on the other line.

"What do you mean?" asked Hilde with a worried tone.

//Is he hurt? Did he break something? Did he get mugged? Did he...// all these questions ran frantically through Hilde's head as she waited for Dr. Po's answer.

"Yesterday around eight or so, we don't know exact, he got in a car crash with a truck and another car."

//Dear God..//

"You have no need to worry about his heath, his friend Quatre Winner and he are both alright considering what could have happened..." her voice trailed off.

"O-oh ok, um... Could you tell me what happened to the cars?" Hilde asked in a sweet voice. She knew it might be selfish to care so much about that black thing she called a truck, but it had moral value.

"Uh... I'd say the best way to put it is... Crap. Yes, they look like crap." Sally chuckled at her own words (AN: I'm making her a chuckling chick ne? *^^*).

//I've had too many swearing patients. I believe it rubbed off on me.// the doctor thought with a sweat drop.

Sally didn't hear anything on the other line. "Hello, Hilde, you there?"

Hilde was seething. Truck = killed + Duo = @#$% him. Now that she knew he was alive, she had all the right to give up on pity and be mad at him... From the way she looked at it that is.

"Yeah. We'll be right down to the hospital." she said through clenched teeth.

"All right, sure you know the way?" the doctor asked questionably.

"Perfectly."

"Ok then, bye."

And the call ended.

"Sweet heart, who was it?" asked Ginny.

Hilde had her hands clenched so tightly that they were turning white and her nails were drawing blood. "Sally Po. She's a doctor at Madison Hospital, the one a few blocks from Danielle St. She said she has Duo and Quatre." Stuart and Ginny gave a sigh of relief, "And, and, and...."

"And what?" asked Stuart with a raised eyebrow.

"HE TRASHED MY CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


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AN: Oh, I'm gonna make Duo go through hell with Hilde... Just you see! MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! And don't worry, Relena-sama's part will be coming up per-tay soon. Just you wait! Oh, yeah, pretty, pretty, please, with a cherry on top review! Reviews make the fanfiction world go 'round!!! Well kinda anyway... ^_^;