I do not own Gundam Wing, Escaflowne, Pizza Hut, Wal-Mart, or whatever else you think I might own. I don't make any profit from this, it's just for fun!

This story is dedicated to Dark Angel for getting me interested in writing again, and to my sister who really helped me with my writer's block when I needed her. Thanks!!

 

 

The Trouble With the Truth Part Two: Time Marches On.

By: Msmelanie

Chapter Fifteen: The Key's Revealed!

"Well, that was fun!" Catherine shouted as they stepped into the tent. "I miss being in the spotlight!"

"Catherine, where are the children?" Dorothy asked as she looked around the room.

Suddenly Rouge came through the door. "Here are your girls!"

"Okay, where are our boys?" Dorothy replied.

"Well, they have to be here somewhere. I'll go look." Rouge said as she exited the tent.

Fifteen minutes later...

"Daddy!" Mingh Loh shouted as she ran through the door.

"Mingh Loh? What are you doing here?" Wufei asked.

Mae Linh stepped through the door with Rei.

"Is the show over?" Quatre asked.

Mae Linh bit her lip. "We can't find the kids."

"W-what do you mean you can't find the kids? There are two right there." Duo said pointing at Mingh Loh and Rei.

"The boys are missing." Mae Linh replied. "The girls and the boys were seperated. The girls are looking everywhere over there right now."

The guys looked at each other and ran over to the circus...

"Is it them? Is it the scientists?" Quatre asked as he ran toward Dorothy.

For once, no sarcasm came out of her mouth.

The next morning...

The guys came down to breakfast and saw the females of the house. Just the females.

Heero sighed. It was weird sitting down on the couch without Neo staring at him.

Quatre just drank his coffee quietly.

They all just sat...quietly.

"I can't stand this!" Duo shouted. "How can we not do anything!"

"Like what?!" Quatre shouted back. "We don't know where or when the scientists are now!"

Duo sat back down and put his head into his hands. "We have to do something...anything..."

"What should we do then!" Quatre shouted. "Do you know! Does anyone know!" he asked as he turned around to face the pilots.

"We have one clue." Heero said as he looked at Rei.

"You have a clue!" the girls shouted.

Heero looked at Rei. "I have made a promise not to tell. Rei must tell you."

Everyone looked at Rei who was holding her teddy bear..

"Rei? Sweety? What is it you need to tell us." Relena asked.

Rei bit her bottom lip.

"Honey, mommy won't be mad. Promise." Relena said.

"Dr. J. told me Heero knows the key that I hold." Rei finally answered.

"Dr. J? when did you-" Relena began.

"Heero knows the key that you hold!" Hilde shouted. "Well, what is it?"

"I don't know." Heero replied.

"Well, it has to be something of your daughter's, Relena." Dorothy said. "It has to be in the kids' room."

Relena looked at her daughter. "We need to look at your things, Rei. May we?"

Rei looked up at her mother. "To save Neo, yes."

Relena looked at Heero. "Come, Heero. We need to see if anything jogs your memory.

Relena picked up Rei and went upstairs to Rei's room. Heero slowly staggered.

Dr. J. couldn't you stop the mysterious clues and just tell me? Heero thought as he entered Rei's room. He loooked around the room. "I don't see anything that's a key, Relena."

Relena looked at Rei as she sat her down. "Rei, why don't you bring out some of your things from the closet?

Rei shook her head yes and opened the closet door. She put a pile of her things on the floor.

Heero just thumbed through the pile. "I still don't see anything, Relena."

"Is there anything else you have, Rei?" Relena answered. Rei sadly shook her head no.

Heero started thumbing through other things in the room.

"Heero, Dr. J. said Rei had it, not the other kids." Relena tried to reason.

"Maybe he got confused which kid had it." Duo said as he peered through the door.

Relena looked at them. "I doubt it, but it's the only thing we can do."

Three of the guys came into the room while Relena and Rei left.

"Don't rip or break anything either!" Hilde shouted looking at Duo. "You do, and you'll see a side of Michael that you've never seen before!"

After the guys get done rummaging through the now complete mess that used to be the kids' room they sat down on the bed.

Quatre put his hands on his chin. "There's nothing here but tons of toys and DBZ merchandise."

Duo just threw an old poetry book against the wall.

"Hey, be careful!" Quatre shouted at Duo. "Dominic loves that book!"

"Does it even matter?" Duo said as he plopped himself down on the bed. "You think he'll ever even read it again?"

Quatre just threw a mean look at Duo. "Don't say things like that. We'll find them again, Duo."

Wufei just  stood beside the door watching the fomer pilots. "You have to be serious, Quatre. We have no clue where they are,  when they are, we don't have any worthy time machines, and we don't know where any of the scientists are."

All the pilots looked viciously at Wufei.

"You only believe that because your daughter's safe and sound!" Duo shouted at Wufei.

"Perhaps, but you know it's true." Wufei said as he went out of the room.

Heero just got up and went downstairs. He flung himself on the big couch. The girls looked at him. By Heero's expression they didn't need to ask if he found anything. Hilde just walked off into the kitchen and Dorothy and Catherine went upstairs. Relena just sat silent and looked at Rei sitting in the corner. Rei went over to her mother and sat on her lap.

Rei looked up at her mother. "Will we ever find Neo?"

Relena couldn't meet her daughters sad gaze with her own eyes. Rei just started quietly crying on Relena shoulder.

Heero looked at Rei. If only I knew what I was looking for. Heero thought as he watched Relena rock Rei back and forth. I didn't recognize anything in that entire room...

Rei kept crying, but she dropped her teddy bear.

Relena looked at the ground. "Oh, honey you dropped your teddy bear."

Heero looked at the ground and suddenly sat up. Rei's teddy bear was in such horrible condition it was hard to tell it was a teddy bear. Yet, Heero looked hard at the bear...

"Relena, is that your bear?" Heero asked.

Relena picked up Rei's bear and handed it to her. "It used to be. You gave it to me for my birthday, remember?"

Heero looked wide-eyed at Relena.

"Where are you going, Heero?" Dr. J. said as he watched Heero walk away.

"Tomorrow's Relena's birthday and I want to get something for her." Heero said.

Dr. J. handed Heero a teddy bear. "Here, give her this." Dr. J. said as he grinned.

Heero looked at the bear. "Are you serious?"

"Girls like little things like that." Dr. J. said. "What else did you want to give her?"

Heero thought about it...I have no clue.

Dr. J. looked at the expression on Heero's face. "Heero, just give it to her. She'll appreciate the gesture.

Heero looked at the bear. "As soon as I run some tests on it."

Dr. J. just looked at Heero. "Heero, don't you trust me?"

Heero just glared at Dr. J. as he left the room.

 "Relena, let me see that." Heero said as he got off the couch.

Relena looked at Heero. "It's Rei's now, Heero. You must ask her."

Heero looked at Rei. "May I see your bear?"

Rei looked at him and shook her head yes. Heero took the teddy bear from Rei and went upstairs to his room. He took a pocketknife and cut the bear open at the seam. He stuck one of his hands inside the bear.

He came back down the stairs and saw that everyone was in the living room now.

"Hey, Heero. Where'd you go?" Duo asked.

Heero looked at Duo. "Found it." he said as he held up a small silver key in his fingers.