Daisclaimers; I don't own Gundam Wing or any of the characters in it.
This is part one of a short trilogy... There's lemon at the end, so be warned. And yes' it's a Sally/WuFei romance.
Sally's 21, so that would make WuFei... 19... right?
Anyway....
The year is AC 199.....
SINS OF SILENCE
Chapter 1
Whisper in the Heart
*I know, that when you look at me. There's so much, that you just don't see.*
Sally frowned.
Or rather Sally frowned at the dark young man seated across the room, dressed in a preventer uniform very much like her own. Not that he noticed....
Just like he was not noticing the appraising stares the women in the office were giving him.
WuFei's computer terminal had shorted out that morning and all the other computers in the main division were in use. Sally's included. The Chinese's report was due in tomorrow and the young Preventer had no choice but to go down to the office and request the use of one of their computers. Much to Sally's private amusement.
When he had not returned after an hour Sally grew suspicious.... Perhaps WuFei had decided to simply leave rather than suffering the injustice of using a secretary's terminal....
After two hours... Sally grew worried. Not to mention, intensely curious. If he was down there, what could he still be doing?
So, she had ventured down after her missing partner. Only to discover that he was being ogled by every female in the office. Some were blatantly flirting with him. Sally did not know which to be more surprised at.... The fact that he was still there.... Or the fact that WuFei seemed to be totally oblivious to the come-on's the women were making on him.
She took a step forward, then stopped as a dazzling young lady waltzed up to the desk WuFei was seated at.... Or maybe swayed would be a better word.
Sally could not make out the words they exchanged. WuFei didn't even look up, but the girl suddenly gave a brilliant smile. She leaned down to his level. Still the former pilot didn't turn his eyes. He said something else and the girl blinked. She straightened and seemed to get angry, snapping in a lower voice to Sally's partner. This time WuFei looked at her for a long time.
*But if, you would only take the time. I know in my heart you'd find...*
Sally wished she could have heard what he said to the girl, because she faltered a little and stumbled back in surprise. Then, trying to regain some composure, she bit out some choice insults at the Chinese. Sally could just make out her words.
"So... what they say about you is true. I'm glad I'm not you partner, Preventer Chang. I don't think I could stomach you for that long." With a final sneer, she wheeled about and stalked off.
WuFei watched her for a moment longer, then returned his gaze to the screen in front of him, unmoved. Unsure why, Sally watched him a moment longer. He did not speak to anyone around him, but then he never did that anyway. Even when Sally managed to coax an argument out of him, they never lasted long.
WuFei was so... formal.
He would never openly insult her, not rudely anyway, but the looks and cryptic words he had a habit of using could flatten her confidence with a single blow. Leaving her reasoning severely deflated.
The thing was... WuFei never argued unless he had all the facts. Which meant that he was usually right.
Which took all the fun out of arguing with him.
Not that Sally didn't try anyway. But he was difficult to needle. When she did manage to get him angry, there were always plenty of fireworks. She had worked with him for over two years now, and Sally knew more about his fellow pilots than she did him. He was extremely private. She had never even been inside his home. She had seen it to be sure, but had never set foot inside it.
*Oh, a man gets scared sometimes..*
It turned out, that Chang WuFei was quite wealthy. From what she had been able to gather, WuFei had inherited everything after his colony had self-destructed. The colony had a large amount of wealth hoarded away. He had gotten it all. Which was quite a lot.
In fact, he did not even need to work there. But he did anyway.
Sally though she knew why, but she couldn't be sure. She had a feeling that WuFei needed to keep busy. The distraction of work providing an escape. From what Sally did not know. He certainly did not work for the company. He rarely spoke to her. In fact, they had grown more distant over time. But this wasn't Sally's doing. It was all WuFei. The more she seemed to want him to open up, even a little.... The more the youth would close up on her.
It was infuriating!
It was as if he was afraid to get close. Even the friendly distance that Sally was offering him. He simply would not respond. Telling her to mind her own business, or simply ignoring her.. Sally was tired of that. Two years was a long time.
Well he had certainly responded to the woman.... Sally wondered what she had said to him. Maybe she could get some kind of response.....
*Who isn't always strong*
Not noticing that she had squared her shoulders, Sally strode forward to the desk WuFei was sitting at. When he did not look up, Sally sighed and said, "Are you nearly finished?"
Still not raising his eyes, he nodded.
Feeling strangely playful she added, "What can be so interesting that you can't even give your favorite partner your full attention?"
His eyes flickered, "If I remember correctly.... You are the reason I am down here."
Sally blinked and pulled back, "What makes you say that?"
WuFei gave her a derogatory glance, "You would not let me use your terminal." He said certainly.
Sally refused to rise to the bait. He always managed to get a reaction from her. Well not this time. Her cerulean eyes narrowed dangerously.
"It was my terminal. I was using it."
"Yes, but your report is not due for a week."
She frowned, "So?"
Now WuFei did look at Sally, "You could have let me use it for the afternoon. It would only have been common courtesy."
Her eyes darkened, he was doing it again! He was covertly implying that Sally was discourteous, that she was rude.
"I was using it!" she snapped, frustrated now. How could he expect her to simply drop what she was doing and run to his aid? He ignored her ninety percent of the time, yet when she attempted to the same... She was being rude!
WuFei switched off the screen and got out of his chair. Turning around he replied, "So you have said, onna."
That did it!
The disdain and scorn in his voice made Sally furious.
Two years! Two years of this!
The shunning, the ignoring, the snobbery she had endured at the hands of her partner.
Sally did not know exactly what had made her say the next words.
Maybe it was the way he always brushed her off. Sometimes she seriously thought it was because he considered her beneath him.... Maybe it was the constant coldness he showed her, even after two years. Maybe it was a combination of both of these, fused with the hurt she felt as well.
Whatever it was, she regretted her next words as soon as she had uttered them.
"You know what, that lady was right... And I'm sick of it, I don't know how I stomach you Chang! God, I regret the day I asked you to be my partner!"
She stopped in shock, her hands almost flying to her mouth.
*Can't you see the hurt in me? I feel so all alone...*
WuFei didn't turn around, he didn't even stop. She saw his back stiffen, the only sign that her words had effected him. More than the normal reactions he showed her.
But WuFei didn't stop. He didn't say a word to her. He simply left.
Sally stood there for a while after that, still unable to believe what she had said to him.
She might insult him, and he her, but she had never gone so far as to say she regretted their partnership.
WuFei would never say something like that.
They were an excellent team. They had a reputation that was unsurpassed. WuFei and Sally were the most commonly requested for 'fires'.
Chang and Po. Sky and Water.
She had never once regretted their alliance. In fact, she cherished it.
Damn!
Now she would have to go and apologize. She hated saying sorry to WuFei. He always acted ignorant as to why she was apologizing. Which made Sally go over the exact reason why she was doing it.
She privately thought that WuFei loved to make her squirm.
Damn!
Pacing to the door WuFei had exited through, she headed back up the main office.
*I want to run to you.... I want to run to you...*
"He's gone already?"
Preventer Une looked tired as she shut her desk lightly. She nodded. "Yes, he requested to leave early." She frowned. "Unusual for WuFei..."
Sally had searched the building for her partner but to no avail, as a last resort she had gone to Une. She nodded her thanks and turned to leave but she was stopped by Une's next words.
"Sally.... Why did WuFei hand me a request for a transfer and another partner....?"
The Chinese woman halted, stock still. Her heart stopped, skipped a beat, sped up and she gasped, her mouth working silently.
She swallowed. He wouldn't leave simply because of her words... would he?
They were just words, and she had not meant them...
But Sally knew that words, and their message, could cut a person deep. Wounds that one couldn't see, but were there nevertheless. But he had not said anything. He had left. Not voicing his idea for a transfer..... And a new partner. He had not asked her if it was what she truly felt. If it was what she truly wanted.
Why?
He couldn't bury things forever. Try as he might to.
Sooner or later, WuFei would shatter under the pressure and Sally did not know if there would be anything there left to put back together.
She had to apologize to him..... Now.
*Won't you hold me in you arms. And keep me safe from harm.*
She would make him see, tonight, that Chang WuFei could not hide forever.
Not from his only partner. The isolation would stop.
Sally would make it stop.
Sally would go to his house. The house she had never been inside, and she would apologize and demand that he tell her exactly what was wrong. And Sally would not leave until he told her..... He would confront his feelings.
She would make him. What ever it took. It was affecting them, she would explain. It was affecting their ability to work as a team....
She would look into those dark eyes and she would explain to him that he was not alone. Chang WuFei was not fighting a war anymore.
It was over.
It was time to let go.
Time to let someone in. It did not have to be her...
*I want to run to you. But if I come to you.*
But she wished that it would be .... She wanted to know her partner.
She wanted to know 'him.'
Sally wanted to know Chang WuFei.
The woman wanted to know that fire she occasionally saw banked in those dark, obsidian eyes.... A flickering light she had recognized in their very first encounter.
A fire that she rarely saw anymore.
A flame that was only him. Sally had wanted to know him ever since she had laid eyes on him looking like a lost boy that first day....
A boy that was a man, even then...
She remembered the way the women had been gazing at him. How often had she idly looked at her partner the same way?
Speculating.
Eyes moving down the slant of the bronze neck, wondering at the feel of the black silk tied in a harsh tail. The play of underlying muscles in his arms, the grace with which he moved. So unconscious....that it only served to enhance the elegance he held.
It was normal she knew. To admire, contemplate... To dream.
They were only human..... She had told herself.....
She had kept telling herself that since then.
It would end tonight... one way or the other.
Sally headed out of Preventer base at a run, got into her car and headed for WuFei's address.
*Tell me, will you stay. Or will you run away........?*
End of Part 1.....
Sally's words have affected WuFei more than she ever imagined..... The final blow to a faltering dragon.....
The song is 'Run to You', it's by Whitney Houston. It's a slow somber song. The lyrics just seemed to fit. I might change them later though....
I'll have part 2 up tomorrow!
Ja ne!
Orin.
This is part one of a short trilogy... There's lemon at the end, so be warned. And yes' it's a Sally/WuFei romance.
Sally's 21, so that would make WuFei... 19... right?
Anyway....
The year is AC 199.....
SINS OF SILENCE
Chapter 1
Whisper in the Heart
*I know, that when you look at me. There's so much, that you just don't see.*
Sally frowned.
Or rather Sally frowned at the dark young man seated across the room, dressed in a preventer uniform very much like her own. Not that he noticed....
Just like he was not noticing the appraising stares the women in the office were giving him.
WuFei's computer terminal had shorted out that morning and all the other computers in the main division were in use. Sally's included. The Chinese's report was due in tomorrow and the young Preventer had no choice but to go down to the office and request the use of one of their computers. Much to Sally's private amusement.
When he had not returned after an hour Sally grew suspicious.... Perhaps WuFei had decided to simply leave rather than suffering the injustice of using a secretary's terminal....
After two hours... Sally grew worried. Not to mention, intensely curious. If he was down there, what could he still be doing?
So, she had ventured down after her missing partner. Only to discover that he was being ogled by every female in the office. Some were blatantly flirting with him. Sally did not know which to be more surprised at.... The fact that he was still there.... Or the fact that WuFei seemed to be totally oblivious to the come-on's the women were making on him.
She took a step forward, then stopped as a dazzling young lady waltzed up to the desk WuFei was seated at.... Or maybe swayed would be a better word.
Sally could not make out the words they exchanged. WuFei didn't even look up, but the girl suddenly gave a brilliant smile. She leaned down to his level. Still the former pilot didn't turn his eyes. He said something else and the girl blinked. She straightened and seemed to get angry, snapping in a lower voice to Sally's partner. This time WuFei looked at her for a long time.
*But if, you would only take the time. I know in my heart you'd find...*
Sally wished she could have heard what he said to the girl, because she faltered a little and stumbled back in surprise. Then, trying to regain some composure, she bit out some choice insults at the Chinese. Sally could just make out her words.
"So... what they say about you is true. I'm glad I'm not you partner, Preventer Chang. I don't think I could stomach you for that long." With a final sneer, she wheeled about and stalked off.
WuFei watched her for a moment longer, then returned his gaze to the screen in front of him, unmoved. Unsure why, Sally watched him a moment longer. He did not speak to anyone around him, but then he never did that anyway. Even when Sally managed to coax an argument out of him, they never lasted long.
WuFei was so... formal.
He would never openly insult her, not rudely anyway, but the looks and cryptic words he had a habit of using could flatten her confidence with a single blow. Leaving her reasoning severely deflated.
The thing was... WuFei never argued unless he had all the facts. Which meant that he was usually right.
Which took all the fun out of arguing with him.
Not that Sally didn't try anyway. But he was difficult to needle. When she did manage to get him angry, there were always plenty of fireworks. She had worked with him for over two years now, and Sally knew more about his fellow pilots than she did him. He was extremely private. She had never even been inside his home. She had seen it to be sure, but had never set foot inside it.
*Oh, a man gets scared sometimes..*
It turned out, that Chang WuFei was quite wealthy. From what she had been able to gather, WuFei had inherited everything after his colony had self-destructed. The colony had a large amount of wealth hoarded away. He had gotten it all. Which was quite a lot.
In fact, he did not even need to work there. But he did anyway.
Sally though she knew why, but she couldn't be sure. She had a feeling that WuFei needed to keep busy. The distraction of work providing an escape. From what Sally did not know. He certainly did not work for the company. He rarely spoke to her. In fact, they had grown more distant over time. But this wasn't Sally's doing. It was all WuFei. The more she seemed to want him to open up, even a little.... The more the youth would close up on her.
It was infuriating!
It was as if he was afraid to get close. Even the friendly distance that Sally was offering him. He simply would not respond. Telling her to mind her own business, or simply ignoring her.. Sally was tired of that. Two years was a long time.
Well he had certainly responded to the woman.... Sally wondered what she had said to him. Maybe she could get some kind of response.....
*Who isn't always strong*
Not noticing that she had squared her shoulders, Sally strode forward to the desk WuFei was sitting at. When he did not look up, Sally sighed and said, "Are you nearly finished?"
Still not raising his eyes, he nodded.
Feeling strangely playful she added, "What can be so interesting that you can't even give your favorite partner your full attention?"
His eyes flickered, "If I remember correctly.... You are the reason I am down here."
Sally blinked and pulled back, "What makes you say that?"
WuFei gave her a derogatory glance, "You would not let me use your terminal." He said certainly.
Sally refused to rise to the bait. He always managed to get a reaction from her. Well not this time. Her cerulean eyes narrowed dangerously.
"It was my terminal. I was using it."
"Yes, but your report is not due for a week."
She frowned, "So?"
Now WuFei did look at Sally, "You could have let me use it for the afternoon. It would only have been common courtesy."
Her eyes darkened, he was doing it again! He was covertly implying that Sally was discourteous, that she was rude.
"I was using it!" she snapped, frustrated now. How could he expect her to simply drop what she was doing and run to his aid? He ignored her ninety percent of the time, yet when she attempted to the same... She was being rude!
WuFei switched off the screen and got out of his chair. Turning around he replied, "So you have said, onna."
That did it!
The disdain and scorn in his voice made Sally furious.
Two years! Two years of this!
The shunning, the ignoring, the snobbery she had endured at the hands of her partner.
Sally did not know exactly what had made her say the next words.
Maybe it was the way he always brushed her off. Sometimes she seriously thought it was because he considered her beneath him.... Maybe it was the constant coldness he showed her, even after two years. Maybe it was a combination of both of these, fused with the hurt she felt as well.
Whatever it was, she regretted her next words as soon as she had uttered them.
"You know what, that lady was right... And I'm sick of it, I don't know how I stomach you Chang! God, I regret the day I asked you to be my partner!"
She stopped in shock, her hands almost flying to her mouth.
*Can't you see the hurt in me? I feel so all alone...*
WuFei didn't turn around, he didn't even stop. She saw his back stiffen, the only sign that her words had effected him. More than the normal reactions he showed her.
But WuFei didn't stop. He didn't say a word to her. He simply left.
Sally stood there for a while after that, still unable to believe what she had said to him.
She might insult him, and he her, but she had never gone so far as to say she regretted their partnership.
WuFei would never say something like that.
They were an excellent team. They had a reputation that was unsurpassed. WuFei and Sally were the most commonly requested for 'fires'.
Chang and Po. Sky and Water.
She had never once regretted their alliance. In fact, she cherished it.
Damn!
Now she would have to go and apologize. She hated saying sorry to WuFei. He always acted ignorant as to why she was apologizing. Which made Sally go over the exact reason why she was doing it.
She privately thought that WuFei loved to make her squirm.
Damn!
Pacing to the door WuFei had exited through, she headed back up the main office.
*I want to run to you.... I want to run to you...*
"He's gone already?"
Preventer Une looked tired as she shut her desk lightly. She nodded. "Yes, he requested to leave early." She frowned. "Unusual for WuFei..."
Sally had searched the building for her partner but to no avail, as a last resort she had gone to Une. She nodded her thanks and turned to leave but she was stopped by Une's next words.
"Sally.... Why did WuFei hand me a request for a transfer and another partner....?"
The Chinese woman halted, stock still. Her heart stopped, skipped a beat, sped up and she gasped, her mouth working silently.
She swallowed. He wouldn't leave simply because of her words... would he?
They were just words, and she had not meant them...
But Sally knew that words, and their message, could cut a person deep. Wounds that one couldn't see, but were there nevertheless. But he had not said anything. He had left. Not voicing his idea for a transfer..... And a new partner. He had not asked her if it was what she truly felt. If it was what she truly wanted.
Why?
He couldn't bury things forever. Try as he might to.
Sooner or later, WuFei would shatter under the pressure and Sally did not know if there would be anything there left to put back together.
She had to apologize to him..... Now.
*Won't you hold me in you arms. And keep me safe from harm.*
She would make him see, tonight, that Chang WuFei could not hide forever.
Not from his only partner. The isolation would stop.
Sally would make it stop.
Sally would go to his house. The house she had never been inside, and she would apologize and demand that he tell her exactly what was wrong. And Sally would not leave until he told her..... He would confront his feelings.
She would make him. What ever it took. It was affecting them, she would explain. It was affecting their ability to work as a team....
She would look into those dark eyes and she would explain to him that he was not alone. Chang WuFei was not fighting a war anymore.
It was over.
It was time to let go.
Time to let someone in. It did not have to be her...
*I want to run to you. But if I come to you.*
But she wished that it would be .... She wanted to know her partner.
She wanted to know 'him.'
Sally wanted to know Chang WuFei.
The woman wanted to know that fire she occasionally saw banked in those dark, obsidian eyes.... A flickering light she had recognized in their very first encounter.
A fire that she rarely saw anymore.
A flame that was only him. Sally had wanted to know him ever since she had laid eyes on him looking like a lost boy that first day....
A boy that was a man, even then...
She remembered the way the women had been gazing at him. How often had she idly looked at her partner the same way?
Speculating.
Eyes moving down the slant of the bronze neck, wondering at the feel of the black silk tied in a harsh tail. The play of underlying muscles in his arms, the grace with which he moved. So unconscious....that it only served to enhance the elegance he held.
It was normal she knew. To admire, contemplate... To dream.
They were only human..... She had told herself.....
She had kept telling herself that since then.
It would end tonight... one way or the other.
Sally headed out of Preventer base at a run, got into her car and headed for WuFei's address.
*Tell me, will you stay. Or will you run away........?*
End of Part 1.....
Sally's words have affected WuFei more than she ever imagined..... The final blow to a faltering dragon.....
The song is 'Run to You', it's by Whitney Houston. It's a slow somber song. The lyrics just seemed to fit. I might change them later though....
I'll have part 2 up tomorrow!
Ja ne!
Orin.