Disclaimer: Same...........g-wing not mine.........Karen is.

Chapter seven:

Karen was pulled straight into the room while Duo slammed the door.  "Hey!" He ignored her while he went to close the blinds.  "Duo..." He walked to his desk table and turned on the light.  He was about to walk over to the cot and fix it when Karen grabbed his arm and turned him towards her.  "What is wrong with you?!"

"Why didn't you tell me?!" he yelled back. 

"I did." She broke her hold on him.  "I did tell you."

"Yeah," he pointed to the door. "along with the others."

"What exactly are you trying to accuse me of?"

"That you don't trust me."

"Please," Karen mumbled. "save the drama." She moved to the bed.  Duo's eyes followed her.  "Why should it matter what happens to me?"

He frowned, "What do you mean 'why should it matter?' Are you nuts? You could have died?!" 

"So what?!" Karen whirled around.  Duo was silent, he hadn't expected that.  Karen was close to tears.  All her life was ruined.  She was a soldier and warrior by blood.  Her blood craved a fight even an argument would suffice.  And that was what she was going to feed it.  "Why does my life matter so much to anyone?" She advanced a step towards him.  "All my life I was a damn soldier, a machine used to kill and destroy. Why? Because I could handle the damn training more than those damn bastards!" She yelled.  "Do you have any idea what it feels like to witness your own family die in front of your eyes then get dumped on a family that you don't want to be with.  When all you want to do is go search for any remaining relatives." Her voice cracked.  "To grow up finally having fun and thinking you belong only to get moved to a path of hell! To know that every waking moment you had to kill anyone that was ordered to fight you, even your best friend!!!" She curled her fists, eyes closed, and screamed it. She sank to her knees emotionally exhausted.  "I killed him..."

Duo was quiet.  He understood the feeling of seeing someone die.  Someone you cared for.  Then to be trained to kill for a cause.  He could understand that.  The girl in front of him was holding so much it had been too much for her.  That was why she had cried.  Why she hurt.  Frowning he walked up to her.  Making sure to be eye level he raised his hand and slapped her across the face.  "Stop it!" he hissed.  "You didn't ask to be put in that situation.  Now you have a chance to get out."  Karen looked at him, touching her cheek.  "You can start living again." He continued.  "Think about it.  By now they will have gotten word that your partner is dead and therefore think you are too.  Since no one knows of you being a girl you can live in peace now.  Start over and build what you want in life."

She averted his gaze.  "You wouldn't understand."

"Wouldn't understand?" he stood up.  "There is a girl no more than three doors down from this room down the hall that claims she is your sister and wants to build the relationship lost and you think you can't because of what has happened in the past? You are so wrong.  If you lose this chance now, you will regret it." 

Karen growled, "Keep her out of this."

"Why it's true. Why does it bother you?"

She stood up and tried to walk out of the room.  Duo blocked her way.  "Why don't you want to talk about it?" She was mad now, "It doesn't concern you."  "That's not an answer."  She took a step to the side and he followed.  "Move or you are going to get hurt." Getting madder by the second, she tried to walk around him.  He refused instead grabbing her arm.  That did it. 

She turned around and punched him dead in the face.  He released her out of surprise but retaliated and struck back.  Both of them had pushed the wrong buttons on each other's systems.  Duo tackled her landing her against the chairs taking them down with them.  She growled and flipped him over.  Duo landed on another chair breaking it in the process.  She ran from the room Duo after her.

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Wufei was walking up the stairs when he heard Duo and Karen yelling.  Surprised he waited.  All of a sudden he heard crashing and a body landing very hard.  'Good grief, he killed her!' He ran to the door just as it burst open, Karen streaking past him with Duo hot on her heels.  Wufei noticed the red mark on her cheek and the sore mark on Duo's face.  He quickly went after them.  Soon joined by Heero and Relena who had heard the commotion.

All of them ran to catch up to them but for some reason they couldn't.  Both Duo and Karen were running on anger so they ran faster than the others.  Heero saw Duo lash out at Karen and Relena screamed when Karen jumped the banister down to the bottom floor, Duo following.  The others ran to catch up, Relena having to go down the stairs because she was not going to jump over.

Sally was almost trampled by the two fighting in the hall.  Then by the same brigade that was after them, she soon joined the chase to figure out what was wrong. 

Trowa and Quatre were not in Quatre's room.  They had gone down the hall into the room across from the gym.  They heard the noise and witness Karen getting thrown in sliding across the floor with Duo ready to lash out at her again.

"Karen!"

"Duo!" Sally yelled.  "Stop it!"

She jumped out of the way, taking off her heels and double backed then kneed Duo in the ribs.  He dropped giving her time to strike him in the back of his head with her hands curled together.  She was about to kick him when he grabbed her by the ankle and tripped her.  She cried out and landed right where he wanted her.  He grabbed her by her dress top pulling her to her feet.  Karen's eyes clouded; suddenly she backed up out of his hands with more determination and strength, the material ripping. Punching him in the gut, he dropped from in front of her.  She then spied what she wanted in the next room and ran for it. 

Duo struggled for a second then stood up.  He ran after her, something was wrong.  Karen had run into the gym where Duo had been working out earlier.  Her goal was right in front of her.  Her blood was craving it.  Swiftly she picked up the sword, savoring its weight and size before turning to Duo with a look of triumph.  The sword made her feel complete.  Her dress was torn the top clung to her only because it was tight on her.  If it had not been for that the whole top would have been around her waist.  She ripped the sleeves off giving her a tube top look and took on a stance the sword in front of her. 

Duo didn't know how she was with a sword but he didn't like the look she was giving him.  Especially now that he was calming down.  He wasn't all that sure he could take her on.  There was something about her eyes that made him believe she was not all there.  The others had rushed in after them to witness Karen deadly standing waiting for Duo while he stood watching her.  They could tell that he was already calming down but as for Karen she looked possessed.

"Karen, stop it!" yelled Quatre.

Karen didn't even glance his way.  Relena called to her shouting for her to stop.  That caught her attention.  She turned her unfocused gaze to the blond girl.  She tensed when she made eye contact and grinned.

"Relena get out of the way!"  Heero ran to her.

Too late, Karen had dashed at her with a battle cry the sword drawn to slice right through her.  Relena was so shocked she never even moved.  She watched her former sister run towards her, Heero a few feet behind.  She heard the others screaming and yelling but she found herself unable to move. 

--Clash! -

Relena dropped to the ground Heero's body on top of hers.  She opened her eyes to see Wufei holding Karen back.  Karen's sword was locked with Wufei's.  Heero quickly pulled her away and towards the others.  He was about to go back and show Karen just who he was when Trowa held him back along with Duo.  "Don't. Let him handle it.  You don't know how good she is and even you know that he's the best when it comes to swords."  Heero held back but made sure Relena was at his side.  Duo kept wondering why she was acting like this.  When they had been fighting a few seconds ago she hadn't really hurt him but that last hit, it seemed almost as if she really had wanted to kill him.  He understood a simple beating since he had one with Heero earlier but he knew that somewhere during the fight between him and the girl, she had changed.

Wufei and Karen hadn't moved just summed each other up.  He stared into her eyes frowning at how unfocused she looked almost as if she were being controlled.  He had enough.  He swiftly pushed against her sword and put his foot behind her knee to bend her down so she was almost kneeling on the floor.  Karen pushed back but with her leg she curled it around Wufei's so that he came down also.  Then she moved to attack. -Clash- Wufei blocked and jumped out of the way. 

He rushed at her and attacked also.  She blocked and waited for an opening.  Both were pretty much matched up, good defense and attacks but neither could get a hit...yet.  Where he attacked she blocked and vise versa.  As bad as it looked Wufei was actually having fun.  He had finally found someone who could keep up and give him a good fight.  But it was time to end it.  Before she could blink an eye, he lunged knowing she'd block but he kicked the sword out of her hand when she did.  Then he hit her with the hilt of his sword on the back of her head while shoving his knee into her gut.  She gasped color draining from her face losing the mad look she had and dropped.

All of them ran to grab her when Wufei picked her up.  "Sally, tend to her wounds and check her."

"Are you nuts?!  She almost tried to kill Duo, Relena, and you!"

"Do as I say.  I will explain later." 

She nodded.  Heero took her and followed Sally out with Relena trailing after him to make sure he didn't do anything to her.  He was so close to just breaking every bone in her body but he knew it would hurt Relena and he also knew that Wufei had a reason.  He would find out.

"Wufei, what happened?" Quatre asked.

"She said thank you." He looked at the door then at the sword in his hand.

"What do you mean 'thank you'?"

"When I hit her before she passed out, she said thank you."

Duo walked up to him. "That wasn't her huh?" 

"No."

Trowa broke in, "Wait a minute are you telling me that she was being controlled?"

Wufei picked up the sword Karen had used, "In a way yes."

"How can you tell?"

"She wasn't focused and when she was fighting me she was a lot more quicker than when she moved to kill Heero's onna."

Quatre gasped.  He remembered.  Karen had rushed Relena with Heero a few feet behind when she suddenly hesitated giving Heero time to jump in front of Relena and Wufei to counter her attack.  "It was almost as if she didn't want to do it."

Wufei nodded. "I believe that there is a bit more she is not telling us."

Duo sighed.  "I think there's a lot more that she's not telling us." 

            "Duo, why were you two fighting?"

"It was stupid I asked her why she refused to talk about Relena when she tried to leave so I held her back and well I had already pist her off so..."

Wufei snorted, "So in other words you started this."

"Not exactly but yeah."

Wufei left the room taking the swords with him.  He went after Sally so he could tell her what he thought.  'She said thank you.' He was still pondering on that when he reached the door.  'Did she know of it?'  He put the swords away and entered.

He found Sally working on Karen.  She had some wounds that would have shocked everyone.  Her body had scars telling everyone that her story was anything but made up.  Some were crudely fixed as if the person that fixed them had no materials or any such thing to stitch up the cuts or any ointment to relieve the injury.  Others were still tender to the touch and would have probably hurt if she were awake.  He growled making his presence known.

Sally looked up, "Men no respect.  What is it that can't wait until we at least get her into proper clothing?"

Wufei blinked finally taking in Karen's exterior.  She had a bandage wrapped around her head.  She wore a sport bra and underwear but her right thigh was wrapped also.  Along with her left arm.  Sally noticed his intent stare at her wraps.  "They are old wounds that reopened.  It seemed they were recently made.  Perhaps before she came here."

He nodded taking note that he was the only one there.  "Heero and Relena left.  They figured that they didn't want to be here in case she woke up.  You know with Relena and everything that happened."

"Woman, I want you to do a scan on her to see if she has any mechanism on her that could work as a controller."

"What?" 'Ok now he's definitely flipped his wig.' 

"You heard me.  She must have a chip of some sort to be controlled the way she was."

"Why would anyone want to control her?"

"Because I am the ultimate weapon..." Karen groaned.  She tried to sit up but Sally pushed her back down.  Karen didn't really care to move anyway.  "Sally, please leave...I need to talk to Wufei...alone."

Sally nodded looking once at Wufei to make sure it was what he wanted.  When he nodded she left the room.

Wufei walked up to the medical table.  "What is it you are holding back?"

"I...." Karen looked into his eyes. 'How can I tell him?'

He gazed back at her.  "You can trust me."  When she still didn't say anything he added, "look you need to tell someone everything that you know, about your past and about your work.  It may as well be me, right?"

He knelt down closer to her, "I know you want to."

Karen's eyes watered. "I...I am...you..."

Wufei held her hand, "Trust me..."

Karen suddenly threw her arms around him crying not just because the action made her pain increase but because she needed to hug him, to be held.

Wufei on the other hand was freaked.  He hadn't expected her to do that.  He put his arms on her shoulders to push her back when he froze.  It felt right to touch her, to hold her.  It was an urge to be with her, to protect her.  He was so intent on his thoughts he hadn't noticed she had started to talk.

"I'm sorry! ­Sob- I didn't mean to do any of this. I only wanted to find ­sob- my family!" the last part came out tortured.  He hadn't done anything to her and she was bawling her heart out.  "I don't want you to hate me!" she cried harder tightening her hold on him.  Wufei hugged her back then pushed her away from him gently, concern written in his eyes as well as confusion, "It's ok.  I don't hate you."  He watched her wipe her eyes with the back of her hand still crying.  'There is something she is still holding back.'  Wufei touched her cheek, "Hey." She looked up her eyes red and puffy, hiccupping from her tears.  "It'll be ok.  I promise...but you are going to have to tell me who you really are."  Karen froze in fear.  Wufei regretted it as soon as he said it.  'How could she be anyone else?'  "Karen, I'm sorry...I didn't mean to imply that you were lying..." his voice drifted off as he took in her new look.  She seemed to be thinking it over but hurt, fear, and confusion played on her face. 

"Who do you think I am?" 

"What?" he was taken aback.  How was he to answer that?  How could he say what had been running through his head since the night he discovered she was a girl.  Her eyes, it was her eyes that made him doubt anything even reason.  She looked like her so much not completely but the resemblance was uncanny.  Even now as her eyes wondered over his face studying every feature.  He could not believe it was not she, but everyone of his clan had been killed.  He was the last.  Wasn't he?

"Wufei, answer me," She tugged on his jacket sleeve.  "Who do you think I am?"

"I...I think..." her eyes urged him to finish.

AN: "Damnit Wufei!!! Say it!!!  You're leaving all my readers in suspense!"  Wufei doesn't answer.  Author gets mad, "FINE!!! Be that way!!"  Turns to her audience.  "I'm sorry but unless he continues I will have to stop here.  Thank you for reading this chapter and send me a review on what you think.  Man I almost cried when Karen did."  *Tear* "Ja ne!"