-1Apollo! Apollo! I think I've found it! Apollo!!" Ema called. Apollo forced himself up, sliding across the grass to reach her.

"Where are you!?" He called, stuck for where she was.

"I'm here!" She emerged from a crypt. "we're not looking for a grave! See!" She pulled him in, forgetting there were stairs and the pair collapsed amongst the cobwebs and dust.

"S-sorry…" Apollo blushed as he climbed off of her.

"Sorry, I forgot there were stairs…" She took his offered hand and stood. "Come here." He followed her through a labyrinth of graves and out of a second door. "Look at that."

Apollo looked straight ahead. There was a large stone monument of two angels holding a cross in the middle. The stone had been covered in fine black marble with gold writing. On the side facing Apollo and Ema there was the saying - 'Child's play' - Apollo looked to the headstone beneath it.

"Here lies Theodore 'Theo' Justice. A loving husband, son and father." Apollo felt tears rise to his eyes. "Brutally taken away, fearing his son would suffer the same fate…" He closed his eyes for a moment to regain his feelings.

"No matter what…he lived for his child and wife at the young age of nineteen…it's tragic." Ema continued to read, kneeling down beside Apollo and wrapping her arm around his shoulder.

"This monument is in honour of the son who gave Theo a meaning…to Apollo Justice." Apollo felt as the tears ran down his cheeks. He noticed that inside the monument, just beneath the saying was a photo. There was a sheet of shatter proof glass in front of it with a small lock in the bottom left corner.

'Only Apollo can unlock this vault' Apollo felt round his neck for the key which had hung around his neck for years. He carefully undid the lock.

"That's Lamiroir!" Apollo shouted.

"That's Thalassa Graymarye!" Ema yelled, equally as loud in unison.

"Could it be…they're the same woman?" Apollo notice the baby boy in her arms, beside her a young man with his arm around her shoulder. Beside him stood a middle aged man, he looked a lot like the other man. Apollo turned the sepia photo.

"Theo, Apollo and Thalassa Justice with Leo Justice. December. Apollo aged 6 months. Leo's business, Generation Unlimited Music, Chicago, Illinois."

"Is this Theo related to you?"

"I assume so…" Apollo tied the lace back through the key after sealing the door. "If he's still alive, I'm gonna find him. I'm gonna find my birthplace, find myself and then my mother."

They'd found a link to the music company's site. Relieved it was still open and that Leo Justice was still working there. Apollo had contacted the man before hand before packing a case and telling Ema he was going to Chicago.

"You're not going without me!" She growled.

"Why do you want to come? You have work anyway."

"Like I care for a second about Klavier. It'll be nice to see some more of the great U.S. of A anyway. Can I come? Please."

"Sure, it'll be nice to have the company." Apollo watched as Ema argued over the phone with Klavier as to why she was going on the trip instead of working. Apollo had simply told Phoenix he was going on a journey of self discovery. Trucy had cried, she wanted to go too.

They'd gotten the last two tickets for the next flight from California to Chicago. It was an evening flight and Apollo had to wake Ema to get her on the plane in the first place. It was an almost four hour flight, most of which Apollo knew he would spend awake. All he had to prove his identity was his passport, all he had to prove the link to Theo and Leo was the photo and the key that hung around his neck. He was afraid.

Ema had fallen asleep on his shoulder, she was comfortable finally. Apollo, when he had finally fallen asleep was resting his head on hers. To the flight attendants they looked like a couple. Apollo awoke again, two hours into the flight as they were selling drinks and giving away in-flight food.

"Sir…would you like some food?" She asked politely.

"Hm?" He rubbed his eyes. "Oh, please." He watched as she placed the food on the table in front of him.

"Would your girlfriend like some?" She asked, she didn't mean it in a sarcastic way either.

"Girlfriend?" He glanced down at Ema. "Oh, she isn't my girlfriend." He shook her. "Want food?" She smiled sleepily and nodded.

-x-x-

The cab driver in the morning was also more than happy to take Apollo to the offices of the global company. Apollo was stood in the reception, getting nowhere with the stubborn receptionist and Ema was getting riled at her. What Apollo wasn't expecting was his cellphone to go off with a mysterious number.

"Hello?"

"Hi! My name is Roxanne, I'm a personal assistant to Leonardo Justice. He has asked me to contact you on behalf of the e-mail you have sent him. He seems to be intrigued by the e-mail. Where are you from?"

"Me? Um…I live in L.A." He paused for a moment. "Why?"

"He has requested a meeting with you."

"Well then he can just come down the stairs. We're here in Chicago."

"We?"

"I'm travelling with a friend."

The cries of 'Mr Justice!' to the aged man as he came from the elevator made Ema and Apollo think of the precinct.

"You are…Apollo?" He glanced the nervous lawyer over. "Please come with me."

-x-x-

It took a lot of convincing, showing his mother's diary, the letters from her to her husband Theo and the photo with his key proved to Leonardo Apollo was the real one.

"Do you know who I am?" Leo asked with curiosity.

""No sir…" Apollo admitted honestly.

"No need to be shy boy!" He had a warm voice. "I may own this business and destroy competition but I am quite caring." He paused, sliding his glasses back up his nose. "I am Theo's father. Your grandfather." Apollo wasn't sure how to react, he was just silent, his eyes were like glass as he fought with his feelings.

It was a long while before he spoke.

"I have family?" Apollo couldn't stop the tears.

"Of course. How old are you know?"

"22." He replied. "I was still too young to remember you and dad…"

"Your mother left you, did she not?" His question caught Apollo off guard.

"Yeah…I don't remember her either…"

"Thalassa always was a good girl." He sighed.

"Good girl?" Ema couldn't believe it. "What kind of 'good girl' abandons her son when he's eighteen months old."

"You must not hate her young Apollo. She didn't abandon you." He looked grave. "The person who killed your father was out to kill you as well."

"What?" Apollo glared at him.

"She was ordered to give you up, by the court. Nobody ever caught my son's killer."

-x-x-

"Roxanne. Ready a jet." The man ordered as he stuck his head out the office door. "Do you know where you are from?"

"No."

"Guess."

"Um…L.A.? Here in Chicago?"

"Somewhere in America?" Ema took a guess too.

"Both of you are wrong." Ema and Apollo turned to each other. "You were born in New Zealand."

"New…"

"I have a proposition, I will show you to other members of your family and investigate where your mother is…" He waited. "As long as you promise to accept and acknowledge her mistakes."

-x-x-

Apollo had a bigger family than he thought. New Zealand, Australia, England, Barcelona in Spain, Germany and the U.S.A. Although all were on his deceased father's side. They'd managed to get a copy of his birth certificate and records of his birth.

"We've found her, she's currently in Paris."

"We get to go to Paris!?" Ema's eyes lit up.

"Uh-huh." The old man nodded, he'd been travelling for almost two weeks with the pair. No matter how much they denied it he was still sure they dated.

Paris was cold. At least Leo had managed to get transport for them instantly. 'Lamiroir' still had that gorgeous voice, she was unaware that in the crowd sat Apollo, Leo and Ema. The show was still on when Apollo snuck past the guards backstage and into her dressing room. He waited and cheekily nibbled on some of the chocolates there. She came in, blissfully unaware of the fact Apollo was there.

She screeched and fell back when she saw him. He offered his hand to help her up.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you."

"You…I've met you before." She couldn't look away from him, she was sure she'd seen him before, decades ago. "You are…Machi's lawyer. Apollo Justice?"
"Yes ma'am." He noticed her gaze never leaving his face.

"Why are you here? Are you on vacation?"
"No, I have something to show you."

He put all of the sheets and records he had gathered in front of him.

"So…Thalassa…mum…" He stood, offering himself for a hug.

"My baby!" She ran at him, clinging to him so tight he could feel the air sucked from his lungs. "My beautiful baby! I'm so sorry for what I did…" She was sobbing, although Apollo was too.

"You mean leaving me? Leo…he explained. I understand." It still didn't make up for what had happened but at least she did have a reason.

"Leo?" She paused. "Theo's father? You've seen him."
"Thalassa, you haven't changed a bit." He chuckled. He felt the force of her hugging him before returning to her son.

She had explained everything as she cancelled the remainder of her tour and joined the others for the flight home to America. She dropped the bombshell about Trucy too.

"She's my?…oh god…" Apollo groaned. "Although she has been the closest I had to a sister anyway."
"Aw, Apollo. It could be worst." Ema had a malicious smile. "I could be your sister…" she had a suggestive purr.
"Why's that?" She leaned over him and kissed him quickly.

"I wouldn't be allowed to do that." She winked. "Thalassa, please do continue your story…"