He would like to think of himself as being as implacable as the Gundanium bulwark ahead of him, but Wufei knows better; he cannot stop himself from turning to look at Heero. From recognizing him, and from taking real joy in that recognition.

It oughtn't to be shameful. It is, just the same.

"You would be here," He says, acknowledging the inevitability of it. Something like this would not be offered only to Wufei, or if it were, not to him first, "What are you going to do."

And not about Nataku, of course. Wufei does not lie to himself with the idea that he could truly stop Heero, were he determined. But Heero, for all his many peculiarities, is not stupid. They have not often in the past had difficulty with understanding one another.