Found Part 2

When she had arrived everyone one else was already there, and Heero was nowhere to be seen.
"I guess he didn't want to come," Duo commented sympathetically, giving her an understanding hug.
"Did Quatre send him an invitation?"
"Yes, and I was there when he did it."
"But how did he know where to send it to?"
"He didn't. He said the Heero had always had a way of finding things. So on a windy day, he sent the invitation flying on the wind. He filled it with love and the thought of Heero, so the wind would know where to send it. I thought he had flipped, but he said that if I had faith Heero would come. And you can't argue with that."
"But isn't he afraid of it getting in the wrong hands?"
"No, we have all the security we need," he winked. "Besides," he said while putting on one of his trademark grins, "we have the best ex- pilots you could possibly find! Nothing will happen to any of us."
Just then the doorbell rang and Quatre went to open it.
"Who is it?" Trowa called.
"No one," Quatre answered rather confused. "But there is a package here. Actually it is a gift," h said as he shut the door and carried it upstairs. "And it is addressed to Relena."
"It could be a bomb," Noin suggested.
"Well, we'll just have to find out. Luckily I always carry a miniature bomb detector with me for just the emergency. You actually have no idea how many times it had come in handy," Sally said as she ran the little devise over the package and it came back negative. "It's alright."
"Should she open it now?" Mariemaia asked.
"It's not exactly Christmas yet, dear," Une answered.
"But if whoever left it for her wanted her to open it on Christmas Day, then they would have either given it to her on it, or have written so on the package itself. They probably wanted her to open it now. And it's obviously very special since it is decorated so extravagantly."
"She has a point," Treize commented.
At that everyone spun around. "Treize?!?!?!"
"chuckle I told you they would get a kick out of seeing you alive," Zechs said as he took their coats and put them into the closet.
"Hello there, everyone... Hello, Little Dragon."
"Treize," Wufei whispered in disbelief. "I-I thought I had killed you."
"Me too, but then when I awoke, I had found out that my soldiers were too loyal to me to see me die. They had rigged the suit so that the cockpit would stay in tact and fly off riding the shockwave of the explosion. They had stationed themselves in a full circle around the battlefield at a distance where no one would detect them, ready to catch me. I had to go through intense surgery, but as you can see, aside from the scars, I am as well as I was before."
"Well it is good to see you alive again," Relena exclaimed with a genuine smile on her face.
"Yes I agree," Wufei said, much to everyone's surprise. "It is good to see you again."
"So that is what you wanted to do when we were leaving the house!" Noin exclaimed giving her husband a hug.
"It's about time you two had gotten together." Treize smiled as he lifted his daughter into his arms, giving her her very first paternal hug. "Now, if I recall correctly, Relena, you had just received a present that I think you should open as soon as possible."
"Yes you are right," she agreed as she took the package from Quatre and sat down on a nearby couch. Everyone sat around her ready to see who the present was from.
"~To the most wonderful girl in the world~," she read. "~You are always in my heart, Relena. Love Royhee.~"
"Royhee? Who's Royhee?" Hilde asked.
"Maybe it is a friend of Relena's? Or, perhaps he is an admirer?" Dorothy suggested.
"I don't recall any Royhee, and I really don't get any gifts from any admirers," Relena stated as she carefully, and slowly, undid the corners of the glittering gold wrapping paper.
The slowness was enough to drive Duo mad. "I swear Relena! If you don't go any faster, I'll open it for you!"
"Fine!" Relena giggled as she tore open the wrapping almost in the style that Duo would, minus all the mess. As soon as she had gotten the box opened, her eyes grew wide. Her trembling hands reached in and pulled out a small brown stuffed bear that had on a cobalt blue bow with a pink stripe on it.
"Wow, Relena!" Mariemaia exclaimed leaning forward in her father's arms, "That looks just like the one the Heero gave you!"
Relena hugged the bear close to her heart and nuzzled it with her nose. The mild scent of the bear brought back the memory of when Heero had saved her when the Peace Million collided into Libra; he had covered her with his body and had gotten hurt in the process. The bear she was now holding smelled exactly like he did. Her eyes snapped open and she uncharacteristically ran outside; hearing the concerned calls of her friends and ignoring them. She didn't mind the cold, in fact, she really didn't notice it; she knew precisely what to be looking for. For a time she just stood there, holding the bear close and looking around with fresh tears brimming her eyes. She looked everywhere for him, and then realized that she was being foolish because it had been a while since the bear had been dropped off. The "Delivery Boy" would be long gone by now. She turned to go back inside and saw Dorothy and Quatre standing in the doorway. They were holding her coat and were asking, "What is it Relena? What's wrong?"
"Nothing..." she answered. "My dreams were just once more shattered, that's all...." She looked up into the clouds and the new falling snow, her tears going back to where they came from. Then she saw something on the roof of the mansion. The figure was shadowed, but Relena could make out tiny details: A long black trench coat and short hair flying in the wind. Then it leaned forward and she could see familiar cobalt blue eyes.
She wanted to scream out his name and fly straight to him, but she new that both were a futile attempted to make him stay. It was Heero, it truly was Heero. She clenched the bear tighter as a lone tear slid down her cheeks that were shaded pink due to the cold. Heero gave a slight smile and jumped off the back of the roof.
"No!!" She finally cried as she ran to the backyard, but he was already gone. She fell to her knees and let out all of the tears of frustration and sadness that she had kept back for so long.
"... I told you..." Quatre said as he draped Relena's coat over her shaking form; trembling because of not just the cold. "I told you he'd find out," he said as he held Relena's still sobbing body in his arms. "Get Zechs and Duo..." he told Dorothy. "Zechs can take car of Relena and Duo can tell everyone what happened."
"Right...."
Relena sobs seemed to calm down a bit and she looked up into the woods that were in the very back of the yard. There was Heero again. He stood there in the shadows a few moments before turning and walking away. She knew that if she ran to him, he wouldn't be there. And her sobs started all over again.
When Zechs came, he picked her up and carried her into the house and to one of the rooms that was set aside especially for her. He put her in the bed and pulled the covers around her body. She had cried herself to sleep. He kissed her forehead and turned out the light on the bed stand.
"Why do I get the feeling that the little princess had not slept for a long time?" Treize asked as Zechs closed the door.
"I think she's shaken because of not hearing from Heero and then seeing him like that. She had been whispering his name and saying 'no' over and over when Quatre was trying to calm her down."
"I guess that the walls and masks that she had built finally crashed around her when she saw him."
"I guess so. Do you think she should still go to the conference tomorrow afternoon?"
"Who knows? We'll see what she wants to do. It may be too much for her, and yet it might also be just what she needs."
"Father?" Mariemaia asked as Treize and Zechs came back to the living room. "Is Relena going to be alright?"
"She's just exhausted, Hime-chan, she'll be fine in a little while."
"Mariemaia?" Duo asked curiously. "How did you know that Heero had given her a teddy bear?"
"When I was trying to start another war to rule the world, some of my soldiers went to her room to look for secrets and things like that. They found a teddy bear with a note tapped up by it because it had once been ripped down the middle. Once they read it, so they told me, they had shredded the bear and left it there to tell her, that if she lived, her dreams would never come true and she and Heero would never be together. I scolded them and demoted them because they did something without my permission and that it was also something that I hated. I didn't understand of the love and trust that she had for him until he was actually hitting our door with his beam cannon. By asking me one small question, 'Are you scared Mariemaia?' the way she had, I finally understood. Heero must have found out about the incident and bought her a new bear."
"Come to think about it," Sally said as she picked up the note. "Royhee is Heero split in the middle and switched. And since we would have probably have figured out who it was, he added the first letter to his last name in front of the O to make it look like an actual name. That was very clever of him, to split his name like that, since I heard that they both split each other's notes down the middle. Very symbolic."
"Perhaps he is also showing that his soul is split without her," Dorothy commented with a finger on her chin in a pondering position.
"Now I understand why she asked me and Dorothy if Heero had ever given anyone a gift," Quatre added.
"I still can't believe that he was here and didn't even bother to say hello!" Duo pouted.
"You know how he is," Trowa reasoned. "He's still like a pilot, we all are, and if he sets a goal for himself, that's all he cares about."
"It's kinda sweet in a way," Hilde said leaning back into the loveseat/couch.
"What do you mean by that?" Duo asked as he whipped around and stared at his girlfriend. "He made her cry, he barely stayed, and he didn't even bother to talk to her then, or even anytime before!"
"Well, like Trowa said, 'once he sets his goal for himself, that's all he cares about.' I like to think of it as Relena is all he ever thinks about and all he cares about, she's his goal."
"You have a point..." Lady Une agreed. "It is sweet in a way."
"Right," Duo said still pouting as he sat beside Hilde.
"Uh, Duo," Quatre warned with a slight smirk both on his face and in his tone of voice. "That's a love seat."
"Yeah, so? It's just a piece of furniture."
"Yes, but look above you," he answered pointing up. Both Hilde and Duo looked up to see Mistletoe. The ceiling was so high that it wouldn't have been easily spotted. They looked at each other and blushed. And while Hilde looked down with her blush deepening, Duo smiled and leaned in for the kiss.
"You know," Quatre whispered as he leaned in to everybody else, "it's a very good thing that they are going out, otherwise that would be very awkward for them." They looked over to see the kiss deepening. "Very," they all agreed as Duo and Hilde broke off and smiled at each other, though getting out of the love seat so that they wouldn't have to do it again. In fact, no one went near it for the rest of the night.