Chapter 1 / 18
Written by Jessi Maxwell - send C&C to Megami_no_Remon@hotmail.com
It was cold. It was not comfortable in the least. It just wasn't cool.
"Damn, being in jail SUCKS!" Duo said to no one in particular. He propped himself against a wall, sulking. He hadn't even gotten a trial...but it didn't matter. He could never have afforded a lawyer, while Quatre could afford the best of the best easily. And all that shit about a lawyer being provided for him; hell, that was about stupid. Any lawyer he got wouldn't give a damn about his case, and even if they did, when they found out who was pressing the charges, well....a trial became pointless, because there was no way he could hope to win.
So here Duo was, in jail. He scowled. What made it even less fair was the fact that Hilde was also in jail. She had sworn to police that Duo had been with her, because, to both of their recollections, he *had* been at her place, not even near Quatre's. Yet, somehow, Duo had managed to rape Quatre.
"There's gotta be something wrong with this logic..." he said again, sure that the walls and the rock hard bed were quite interested in his grumbling.
All the tests that had been run to determine if it had indeed been Duo had affirmed it. They had run DNA tests on loose hair and skin cells, checked voice patterns, done everything, and everything had pointed to Duo, even the fingerprints. It made no sense...how could he have raped Quatre when he was with Hilde, hours away? Yet somehow...he had to have.
"This is so *not* cool..." Duo sighed, and he again attempted to get some sleep.
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Wufei hit the wall. Wufei hit the wall again. Wufei continued hitting the wall until the wall had a hole in it. Wufei was not happy.
Wufei was having some very serious problems coming to terms with this recent turn of events. He couldn't really believe in his heart that Duo Maxwell would rape someone who he was so close to. Quatre was his best friend. Wufei found it hard to believe that the violet-eyed bishounen could even think of raping *anybody*, let alone actually do it. It just...wasn't Duo.
The only thing that kept the doubt in his mind of Duo's guiltiness was Quatre. Even Quatre didn't quite believe it had been Duo, but he was so upset and hurt, that he couldn't give any sort of definite answer. He didn't want to believe it, but all the proof offered had let him go along with it and continue the charges. But he had confided in the other Gundam pilots that something had seemed a bit off with Duo; his uchuu no koroku had given him a different feeling than he usually got from Duo. But he passed that off as disbelief and stress. Wufei wasn't so sure, and he didn't think any of the others were.
But the fact remained that there was very solid proof that Duo Maxwell had indeed committed this crime, and nothing to prove him otherwise. Hilde had been arrested as well for aiding a criminal, for she had been adamant that Duo had been with her.
//Something isn't right here...something is wrong...and I have to find out what.// Wufei said to himself as he sat down to think.