Heero looked embarrassed but he said, reciting from memory, “‘I’m planting seeds inside of you, Heero, seeds that are going to sprout after a lot of work, and, one day, a life is going to bloom for you.’ Duo told me that Father Maxwell and Sister Helen, the people who had taken care of him briefly when he was young, had said the same thing to him. He told me that he wished they had lived to make his life bloom.” Heero frowned as if he were still trying to understand it himself. “We stayed together. There is just something about him… I can’t imagine him not being in my life.”