Ta dah! Chapter three for your enjoyment, I hope. Remember I need to feedback! I also don't own anyone in here except for the Summers family, aren't they wonderful… Cheers!

Bloodfire87

Yuy's Letter

"Ryan, I just know it's him. My instincts are just screaming at me that I'm right. I'm so glad that he and you agreed to the blood test," Nora stated as she ladled the soup out into smaller bowels.

"I really don't want you to get your hopes up, dear. It could very well not be him; he could be dead for all we know,"

"Who is, Dad?" Ami asked as she came into the kitchen.

"No one, Sweetheart," Ryan answered.

"Dad, I was just standing here and listening to you and mom talk about some guy and a blood test. Who are you talking about and why?" Ami shoved her small fists onto her hips as she stared up at her parents.

"Sweetie, well, it's difficult to explain,"

"What could possibly be that difficult to explain, Mom?"

"Well…Dear, you had an older brother,"

"Nora…" Ryan muttered urgently.

"Oh, hush, she deserves to know. Ami, honey, listen to me very carefully. Before you were born we had a son,"

"Where is he then?"

"Listen to me, no interruptions. Well, when he was five years old he was kidnapped like you were two days ago. Unfortunately, there wasn't any one to find him and bring back to us. We searched for years trying to find him, but no one contacted us telling where he was or how to get him back. The little boy looked almost exactly like Mr. Heero, Sweetheart,"

"You mean Heero could be my older brother, but then why doesn't he call you mom or dad? Where has he been all this time? Why hasn't he been here all along protecting us?" Ami questioned.

"We don't know where he's been or whether he is in fact our son, little one. That's why we are going to have a blood test to see if it's true," Ryan added softly.

"Excuse me; is there anything that I can do to help?" Heero asked stepping into the kitchen suddenly. He looked from the two adults to Ami looking up at him questionably. She came over to him, he looked down to watch her look from her parents to him and back several times.

"You look kinda like them; you have Daddy's eyes like me and Sarah. You've even got a chin like Daddy. Are you my brother?"

"I don't know, Ami. I honestly don't know," he stated as he knelt down slowly to look her in the eyes better.

"I wouldn't mind having you for a big brother," she added wrapping her arms around his neck and burying her face into his shoulder. Heero uncertainly brought his arms around her small body. He lifted his head up to look from Ryan to Nora keeping his face blank. Nora cleared her throat attempting to keep her sobs at bay.

"Ami why don't you go get your sister and wash up for supper? Heero, you can help me set the table,"

"Yes ma'am," Heero returned letting Ami go to meander through the house after her sister. Heero picked a stack of plates, napkins, and silverware and followed Nora from the kitchen to the side room where the table was. He began to methodically set the plates at each chair while Ryan brought out an extra one for Heero.

"Heero, what do you remember of your childhood? Was it happy?" Nora asked softly watching him freeze in mid action of putting the last plate down. She watched him put his right hand over his left forearm where she remembered seeing a peculiar mark.

"It had its moments, ma'am," he answered as he went back to his task. He kept his head down as he knew that they were staring at him.

"Where did you get the tags and the scars? What is the tattoo on your arm?" Ryan questioned. He placed the bowls that he had brought in on the plates. Heero ignored them as he went back to the kitchen to retrieve the final two bowls.

"Heero?"

"It doesn't matter now, sir. I'm not that doll anymore,"

"So you were a soldier. Were you for Oz, the Alliance, who?" Ryan continued, he could tell that the young man's silence was beginning to get under his skin. He felt his frustration and anger start to build inside him. He suddenly turned to lift Heero up by the shirt collar; he looked deep into the same color eyes as his own. He watched him harden into cold steel and just seconds before he knew it he was on the ground with Heero's boot pressing against his throat. Heero instantly stepped back from him, his eyes wide and revulsion evident on his face. Ryan chocked in air as he slowly sat up, rubbing his neck as Nora knelt next to him. She stared up at Heero as he turned away from them.

"I'm sorry, I believe I should leave you now," Heero muttered before heading towards the door.

"What about the test?" Nora asked, feeling her heart breaking.

"I believe it best that we not even risk fate with that heartache, Mrs. Summers,"

"Heero, stay; it was my fault I shouldn't have attempted to force an answer out of you. Forgive me," Ryan spoke up as he stood as Heero turned to face them.

"I've been an assassin since I was close to six maybe younger; once my mentor was killed I became a…rebel soldier. I fought for no one but the doctor," he slowly answered after a few uncomfortable moments of silence.

"Is he why you didn't want to see a doctor?"

"I can't stand doctors to this day, even the thought of them sends memories to return that I'm desperately trying to erase," Nora glanced over to her husband with an uncertain look that she was thankful that Heero had not noticed as he was still looking down at his hands.

"What is the tattoo?" Nora asked. Heero unbuttoned the end of his sleeve to roll it up to reveal the slightly faded mark of a J and the numbers 03201 beneath it. He stared at it as he answered.

"Dr. J put it on me when I was nine once I became his special project. That was when I was a number and not a just 'boy' or 'runt'. I've never really had a name that I can remember,"

"I'm beginning to not like this Dr. J; where is he now?" Nora added quietly.

"He's dead, killed at the end of the war as far as I know," Heero answered as Ami and Sarah ran up to the table.

"Daddy, how come you're in the floor?" Sarah asked innocently. Ryan looked over to her remembering that he was still was where Heero had thrown him.

"I slipped, nothing major," he grinned at her as he got up slowly.

"Okie doke, I'm hungry can we eat now?" she smiled instantly changing the atmosphere of the room. Heero smirked as the two clambered up into their chairs and grinned around at everyone.