First Christmas

"Wufei, why don't you like Christmas?" Quatre asked as the five gundam pilots sat around on Christmas Eve one year.

Wufei had never liked Christmas. Not since his first and last one with her.

They had been married for a little over two months and some how she had managed to change him from a serious scholar into someone who could do his studies but have fun at the same time. He would actually smile a feat that even the elders couldn't figure out how Merian got him to.

They had stayed up late into the night wanting to be awake when Christmas came. Or at least Merian did. Wufei, on the other had was awake to indulge his wife. If he had known it would have been their last Christmas together, he thought back, he would have actually put some effort into trying to make Merian laugh and smile in that special way she did.

Of course at six the next morning Merian was a giddy as a child on their sixth Christmas when she woke up Wufei who lead her into the living room area of their quarters. Set up in the corner was a small Christmas tree that the elders had granted them.

They sat around most of the day opening presents and enjoying a scare day off. Merian had gotten Wufei a collection of Edger Allen Poe writings, one of the last few of its kind. Wufei in turn had gotten her a new training gi and a board sword for her to begin training on.

Wufei shook his head to get rid of the memories.

"It is not something I am accustom to." Wufei said not wanting to share the real reason.

His first Christmas with her would the be the first and last Christmas he enjoyed.