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Dream Keeper: Well folks, standard yada. I do not own Gundam Wing. *Sniffs* I wish I did but I don't. The G-boys and girls belong to their respectable owners. I am just using them for this twisted fic. I promise to return them, only slightly worse for the wear when we're through with them. Um.. Anything else?
Christa: Well, basically the plot is different so it's ours!!!!!!!!! Ha ha ha! We finally own a plot!!!!!!!!!! Yeah!!!!!!! *Dances around the room*
Dream Keeper: Okay, crazy muse. Anyway, we own the original character(s). Like Christa said, the plot is ours and um. other than that I think we've covered everything.
Christa: Its about time we got a plot of our own too! Its OURS! NOBODY MESS WITH IT OR YOU'LL MESS WITH THIS MUSE!
Dream Keeper: You said that last disclaimer.
Christa: I did? Oh. Well, its still ours! And the point we're trying to get across is that even if people are disabled, they're still people. We know some people that have down syndrome at our school and they're treated like freaks and they shouldn't be.
Christa: Yeah. Oh, and Mayumi had her baby!! Yeah! Her name is Makayla! Can't wait until I get to see her! Innocent things are where muses get THEIR inspiration! *clears throat* Okay, on with the fic.
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TEN YEARS LATER
"So what did you find?" Sally asked Dr. Meyagi. Her son had been having some trouble walking for the past few days.
"I'm afraid I don't have any good news for you Sally. You're son has been diagnosed with muscular dystrophy; the Duchenne type. You're a doctor. You know what that means."
Sally nodded mutely. Of course she knew what it was. Her great grandmother had had it. Her mother hadn't had it, neither had her father, so she'd thought she was safe. "I'm a carrier then?"
Meyagi nodded. "The only comfort I might give you is that its not entirely disabling. He'll still need a wheel chair, but he'll be able to walk short distances and such."
"Yes, that's good to hear." Sally walked out of the hospital in a daze with her son at her side. He didn't understand why he had to be wheeled out to their car in a wheel chair and he was even more confused when it was folded up and put in the car.
"Mom, why are we taking the wheel chair with us?" he questioned, his voice filled with puzzlement.
"We'll talk when we get home." Sally stated. Shen knew his mother didn't like what she'd heard at the hospital so he didn't bother her. Instead, he sat thinking about all the possible things that she could be upset about.
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"Duchenne type muscular dystrophy?" Wufei said as he leaned back in his chair to let the news sink in.
"What is that mom?" Shen asked quietly from the wheel chair. His wheel chair, he realized.
"Its when the muscles in your legs don't work right. They're too weak to be of much use to you. That's why you need to have a wheel chair Shen. It won't be long before your legs won't support you. The muscles in your legs are just going to keep getting weaker." Sally started to sob softly then and she wiped a hand impatiently over her teary eyes.
"It doesn't matter if I can walk mom. I'm fine with being in a wheel chair. I just don't want you to be unhappy. I'm sorry I won't be able to play any normal sports for you to watch anymore, but that's the hand life dealt me." Sally noticed, not for the first time, how very precocious her ten year old son was. When she'd been his age she'd been out playing with her friends and acting much too childish for her own age. Her son was just the opposite. Shen had always helped with his sister, doing anything and everything he could for her and his parents, and he'd always given so much without asking anything in return.
{Why? Why did you do this to him?!} Sally mentally demanded of whatever deity was listening but she received no answer or divine advice. "You'll still have to move on your own Shen, you won't be in a wheel chair all the time, just some. You're muscles won't deteriorate as fast if you're active."
"Okay." He got up and went to his mother to give her a hug. "Don't cry mom. Everything will be fine. You'll see." He said before he let go and walked towards his room.
"Wufei? Why don't you say anything?"
"Two? We have two disabled children?"
"Can't you think of it any other way? You know that Lan Caihe is a bright girl, and that Shen's good at a lot of things besides active sports? Better in fact, if you want to know the truth."
"Sally, Lan Caihe hasn't spoken a word since she was born. She's mute and she doesn't want to be anywhere near us, and Shen's a cripple! How am I suppose to view them now?" He demanded of her.
"View them like any loving father would Wufei. Just like I have to. Yes, its hard to cope with, but they're still our children! You have to support them! You don't know how hard it is for them around other children!" She shouted at him. "Lan Caihe has been jeered at and pushed around since she started going to school because she can't talk, so she can't tell what they did. And think about what Shen's going to have to deal with!" Tears flowed freely, unchecked down her face. She lowered her voice to a whisper and said, "We're probably going to outlive our son Wufei."
He just stared at her, uncomprehending for a minute, before reality sank in and shattered his world. "I don't know if I can deal wit that Sally." He said as he grabbed his coat and headed for the door.
"Where are you going Wufei?!" She demanded.
"I don't know. I just can't be here right now. I can't deal with this. I need time to think."
"You're leaving?" She asked quietly.
"If that's the way you view it. I'll be back in a few days for my things."
"Know this Wufei, if you walk out that door now you will never come back as my husband." Sally said in a cold voice.
"So be it." He replied as he walked out of the house, and out of their lives. True to his promise, he returned for his things two days later, and then disappeared. None of his friends knew where he'd gone. All they knew is that when the divorce papers came through, Sally signed them without a second thought.
Sally spent the next four years raising her children on her own. She politely refused the aid her friends would have given her if she'd let them. Eventually, she opened a daycare for disabled children and started running it out of her house.
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Dream Keeper: Sorry to end it so soon. Go onto the next chapter after you review!
Christa: Please review! Sorry its so rushed but school started and its almost bed time. *sweatdrop* There just aren't enough hours in the day anymore.
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Dream Keeper: Well folks, standard yada. I do not own Gundam Wing. *Sniffs* I wish I did but I don't. The G-boys and girls belong to their respectable owners. I am just using them for this twisted fic. I promise to return them, only slightly worse for the wear when we're through with them. Um.. Anything else?
Christa: Well, basically the plot is different so it's ours!!!!!!!!! Ha ha ha! We finally own a plot!!!!!!!!!! Yeah!!!!!!! *Dances around the room*
Dream Keeper: Okay, crazy muse. Anyway, we own the original character(s). Like Christa said, the plot is ours and um. other than that I think we've covered everything.
Christa: Its about time we got a plot of our own too! Its OURS! NOBODY MESS WITH IT OR YOU'LL MESS WITH THIS MUSE!
Dream Keeper: You said that last disclaimer.
Christa: I did? Oh. Well, its still ours! And the point we're trying to get across is that even if people are disabled, they're still people. We know some people that have down syndrome at our school and they're treated like freaks and they shouldn't be.
Christa: Yeah. Oh, and Mayumi had her baby!! Yeah! Her name is Makayla! Can't wait until I get to see her! Innocent things are where muses get THEIR inspiration! *clears throat* Okay, on with the fic.
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TEN YEARS LATER
"So what did you find?" Sally asked Dr. Meyagi. Her son had been having some trouble walking for the past few days.
"I'm afraid I don't have any good news for you Sally. You're son has been diagnosed with muscular dystrophy; the Duchenne type. You're a doctor. You know what that means."
Sally nodded mutely. Of course she knew what it was. Her great grandmother had had it. Her mother hadn't had it, neither had her father, so she'd thought she was safe. "I'm a carrier then?"
Meyagi nodded. "The only comfort I might give you is that its not entirely disabling. He'll still need a wheel chair, but he'll be able to walk short distances and such."
"Yes, that's good to hear." Sally walked out of the hospital in a daze with her son at her side. He didn't understand why he had to be wheeled out to their car in a wheel chair and he was even more confused when it was folded up and put in the car.
"Mom, why are we taking the wheel chair with us?" he questioned, his voice filled with puzzlement.
"We'll talk when we get home." Sally stated. Shen knew his mother didn't like what she'd heard at the hospital so he didn't bother her. Instead, he sat thinking about all the possible things that she could be upset about.
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"Duchenne type muscular dystrophy?" Wufei said as he leaned back in his chair to let the news sink in.
"What is that mom?" Shen asked quietly from the wheel chair. His wheel chair, he realized.
"Its when the muscles in your legs don't work right. They're too weak to be of much use to you. That's why you need to have a wheel chair Shen. It won't be long before your legs won't support you. The muscles in your legs are just going to keep getting weaker." Sally started to sob softly then and she wiped a hand impatiently over her teary eyes.
"It doesn't matter if I can walk mom. I'm fine with being in a wheel chair. I just don't want you to be unhappy. I'm sorry I won't be able to play any normal sports for you to watch anymore, but that's the hand life dealt me." Sally noticed, not for the first time, how very precocious her ten year old son was. When she'd been his age she'd been out playing with her friends and acting much too childish for her own age. Her son was just the opposite. Shen had always helped with his sister, doing anything and everything he could for her and his parents, and he'd always given so much without asking anything in return.
{Why? Why did you do this to him?!} Sally mentally demanded of whatever deity was listening but she received no answer or divine advice. "You'll still have to move on your own Shen, you won't be in a wheel chair all the time, just some. You're muscles won't deteriorate as fast if you're active."
"Okay." He got up and went to his mother to give her a hug. "Don't cry mom. Everything will be fine. You'll see." He said before he let go and walked towards his room.
"Wufei? Why don't you say anything?"
"Two? We have two disabled children?"
"Can't you think of it any other way? You know that Lan Caihe is a bright girl, and that Shen's good at a lot of things besides active sports? Better in fact, if you want to know the truth."
"Sally, Lan Caihe hasn't spoken a word since she was born. She's mute and she doesn't want to be anywhere near us, and Shen's a cripple! How am I suppose to view them now?" He demanded of her.
"View them like any loving father would Wufei. Just like I have to. Yes, its hard to cope with, but they're still our children! You have to support them! You don't know how hard it is for them around other children!" She shouted at him. "Lan Caihe has been jeered at and pushed around since she started going to school because she can't talk, so she can't tell what they did. And think about what Shen's going to have to deal with!" Tears flowed freely, unchecked down her face. She lowered her voice to a whisper and said, "We're probably going to outlive our son Wufei."
He just stared at her, uncomprehending for a minute, before reality sank in and shattered his world. "I don't know if I can deal wit that Sally." He said as he grabbed his coat and headed for the door.
"Where are you going Wufei?!" She demanded.
"I don't know. I just can't be here right now. I can't deal with this. I need time to think."
"You're leaving?" She asked quietly.
"If that's the way you view it. I'll be back in a few days for my things."
"Know this Wufei, if you walk out that door now you will never come back as my husband." Sally said in a cold voice.
"So be it." He replied as he walked out of the house, and out of their lives. True to his promise, he returned for his things two days later, and then disappeared. None of his friends knew where he'd gone. All they knew is that when the divorce papers came through, Sally signed them without a second thought.
Sally spent the next four years raising her children on her own. She politely refused the aid her friends would have given her if she'd let them. Eventually, she opened a daycare for disabled children and started running it out of her house.
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Dream Keeper: Sorry to end it so soon. Go onto the next chapter after you review!
Christa: Please review! Sorry its so rushed but school started and its almost bed time. *sweatdrop* There just aren't enough hours in the day anymore.
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