Chapter 3
Heero walked slowly up the stairs of the apartment building. He was in no hurry to get back to the apartment. He walked past the bags of groceries he had dropped and shuddered.
"Christ. I don't know if I'll ever be able to live here again."
He continued up the stairs to the top floor.
God.
The police hadn't completely cleaned up the mess. There was crime scene tape around the area. He ducked under it and went into the apartment. From the doorway he couldn't tell that anything was actually missing. The apartment had been trashed.
"Well, whatever it was he came for it wasn't money."
"No. It wasn't Heero."
Heero spun around; reaching for the gun he had stopped carrying.
The figure walked out of the shadows of his bedroom. It was Trowa.
"What the hell are you doing here?
Trowa walked closer to Heero.
"Well we got here earlier this afternoon. It was supposed to be a surprise for your birthday. Duo had it all planned out for us all to get together again. Wufei has been here and left. He and Quatre are headed to the hospital, I told them I would be there later."
Heero moved to the table and sat down with Trowa following suit.
"Do you know what happened then?"
Trowa nodded.
"Quatre has a friend on the force. He told him what had happened. I told them I would be the one to wait for you."
Heero nodded.
"I came back to figure out why the guy was here in the first place. I'm glad you are all here though. I was going to call you all."
Trowa stood up.
"Heero, I want to show you something. This might be out of the ordinary."
Trowa walked into the bedroom. Heero got up and followed him into the dimly lit room. He waited for his eyes to adjust and saw Trowa reaching into the closet. His eyes widened when he saw what he had.
"What the…" was all that Heero could mutter.
Trowa was holding a small wooden box with "L2" carved into the lid.
"I've never see this Trowa. Never."
Trowa looked at him with an odd expression.
"Never?"
"Never."
Heero reached out to hold the box.
"Well if he has never shown it to you then there must have been something important in it." Trowa mused quietly.
"It isn't that big. There might be enough room to hold a disk or two. Some bullets maybe…" He had a sudden sinking feeling. "If there were disks in it, what the hell could have been on them? What would be worth trying to kill Duo for?" He thought out loud.
"One this is certain, we must use everything at our disposal to find this person."
"I couldn't agree more Trowa.
Heero sat the box down and walked out of the apartment with Trowa close behind.