DISCLAIMER: I wish I owned the GW characters, but I don't. This is purely for entertainment.

Summary: Heero Yuy, P.I. spots someone when working on a case and finds himself obsessed. AU, former 1xR, currently none may change in the future.

Authors Note: I haven't given up on Brothers if your worried about that. Just that I came up with this in a dream and those kinds of stories are often more detailed for me lol. I actually know more about this story then Brothers at the moment. It's a funny thing how it works out lol. Anyway, R&R and enjoy!

Chapter 11

With a bag slung over his should and his daughter balanced on his hip, Wufei followed Heero down the gravel path. They were at a one story, bungalow that was surrounded by so many trees that the yard was almost completely shaded. He hurried up the steps just as a man with greying hair and blue eyes opened the front door. The man looked over the two P.I.s and the toddler before stepping back. Once Heero and Wufei were inside, the man scanned the yard before shutting the door and locking it.

"So what's so important I had to drop everything and agree to let you bring some stranger to my house?" the man asked.

Heero didn't flinch under the mans intense stare. "This is Wufei Chang, and his daughter Lien." he said, "We need a place to work from for a while. Wufei this is my father, Odin Lowe."

Shifting his burdens, Wufei extended a hand. "Lowe?" He asked, raising an eyebrow at Heero.

"It's better to have too many names than two few." Odin stated, taking Wufei's hand. That cleared up very little for the Chinese man, but he decided to drop it for now.

Heero moved further into the small house. "Dad I need to borrow your car." He said suddenly. Odin examined his son for a moment.

"Are you going to tell me what for or do I get to use my imagination?" he asked. Heero let out one of his usual grunts. After a moment he answered.

"I need to go back to my apartment and I don't have my car, nor can I safely drive it," he said.

Odin nodded at that and stuck a hand in his pocket for his keys. With the keys in hand Heero left the house, shutting the door behind him. Wufei and Odin stood in the entry way in an uncomfortable silence for a few moments.

"Do you... have somewhere I can put her down? She's in need of a nap." Wufei finally asked. His daughter had put her head down on his shoulder, she was even to tired to argue the nap. Odin nodded and moved to the hall the connected to the other side of the living room. Wufei followed down the narrow, dimly lit hallway to what appeared to be a guest room. There was a plain, queen sized bed against one wall and an equally plain dresser against the wall opposite.

"You may want to rest yourself, you look terrible." Odin told him. Wufei knew it would have to be true. He and Heero had spent last night at Sally's, but Wufei hadn't gotten much sleep. If he wasn't kept awake by his worry for Meilan, then he was trying to comfort Lien who missed her mother more then Wufei did.

Wufei dropped his bag on the floor just inside the door and moved to place his daughter on the bed. He settled himself beside her, singing softly until she drifted off to sleep before closing his own eyes.

Heero drove the old, grumbling station wagon into the half empty parking lot, taking a spot near the wall, as far from the street as he could. When he drove past his building, the white car had been there. He momentarily wondered if the driver had stayed there all night before dismissing it as unimportant. Whether they had or not, wasn't the point. The point was that Heero had to get into his place without being spotted or recognized by the driver or anyone willing to help the driver.

He turned off the car and shifted in his seat to lean over the back to the back seat. He pulled a ratty old knapsack forward. Inside was a worn, hooded jacket, baseball cap and sunglasses. All of that would be a bit over the top. Heero just removed his own jacket and replaced it with the hooded one and pulled the baseball cap over his messy, brown hair.

Getting out of the car, he kept his head down as he made his way to his building's back door keeping and eye out for any one suspicious. Entering the building he took the stairs two at a time.

Opening his front door, Heero looked around the apartment. He expected it to still be a mess from the police search, but what he saw was even more of a mess then the police had left it. Checking the front door, he noticed scratch marks around the key holes. Whoever had broken in clearly wasn't much of a professional to leave such tell tale signs.

He moved quickly, gathering up his laptop and other equipment. He also searched through the papers strewn about his office for the files surrounding the Winner case. He came up empty handed. That secured in his mind who was behind his apartment being searched.

Heading to the bedroom, Heero packed some clothes followed by necessities from the bathroom. Finally everything in hand, Heero left his apartment, locking up behind him.

He took the back stairs back down to ground level and left the same way he came in. Climbing into the station wagon, Heero made the choice to make one last stop before heading back to his fathers house.

Relena was supposed to be washing dishes. She couldn't seem to bring herself to do it though. Right now there was only one thing she actually wanted, and the dishes didn't need to be clean for her to get it.

Earlier that day, the police had stopped by. They had a suspect in her daughters disappearance, but lacked solid enough evidence to arrest him for it. She had spent two hours having to answer questions about Heero Yuy.

What scared her most though, wasn't that Heero knew she was back in town or that she had a daughter. It was that Heero was sure that Aliana was his daughter. It was something she didn't want to think about. To Aliana, her father was Jason. No one had told her otherwise and Jason had filled the roll since before Aliana could remember. Relena wasn't quite ready for that information to get out, but she knew that if she got her daughter back the truth would have to come out.

Taking a deep breath, she finally reached for the dish cloth. Before she could start, the doorbell sounded. Tossing the cloth aside she went to answer the door. She froze up when she pulled open the door and saw who was on the other side.

"Relena?" he asked.

"Heero..." was all she could manage in reply.

TBC

Author's Note: Sorry this took so long.