Meiran looked up as the door shut quietly. Wufei had just come in,
but he looked extremely mad over something.
"What's the matter? Did Tsun-san start playing her 'harmless pranks' again?" she asked, trying to figure out the cause of his anger, it was so bad that it almost flowed off him in visible waves. He looked up at her, and the pain and anger in his eyes was so visible that she was taken by surprize. What could have cause such a reaction in him?
She walked towards him and was about to lay a comforting hand on his arm when he jerked away as though she would burn him. She looked up slightly hurt and confused.
"What is wrong!?!" She demanded. As she looked at him the saddness in his eyes gave way to the anger.
"You know perfectly well what is wrong, you just didn't expect me to find out!" He said, his voice comming out in a raspy strangled growl. Meiran was shocked, he was being so venomous, and yet he seemed to be hurt more than he could express. She wondered what secret she could have that would cause such a raw and volitile reaction.
"I can't think of what you could be refering to, what is it?!" she asked, it was hurting her that he felt so strongly about something she seemingly did, said, or knew about.
He laughed bitterly, his shoulders shaking slightly, but not from the laughter. "I thought we were getting along, that you even loved me as I did you, and then I find out about this!" He cried, throwing his arms into the air in an anger filled explosive gesture.
Meiran started to feel anger building below her saddness and confusion. He was mad, and now accusing her of things that he wouldn't even explain. "I do love you! I didn't give up hope that you would come back, that you weren't really dead even after I was told that you were, I couldn't give up my hope for you, because I never got to tell you that I did love you, that I didn't think you were weak! I don't know what has you so mad, but if you would explain, then maybe I would be able to figure out what it is and tell you about whatever it is that has you so upset!" She yelled back.
"I can't believe that you can say that to my face! Do you have no shame Onna!?! Your mother seems to think that I had something to do with it, but that I didn't know. She was right that I didn't know, and now that I do, I want an explination!!!"
"If I knew what to explain I would gladly do so!!!"
"Explain how you got pregnant!!!"
Both froze. Wufei had actually said it, he hadn't wanted to give substance to Tsun-san's claims by admiting it with his own words, but now that he had, he believed it even less. Meiran couldn't believe her ears. Get pregnant? Indeed, she wondered how someone could even believe she had, let alone how her own husband could believe it.
"There is nothing to explain, because I certainly am not pregnant." Meiran finally managed to say once she was able to form words again. "I don't know how you could even utter those words. We were to remain chaste until we consumated our marriage, and we never did so, I don't know about you, but I kept that vow, I have never, so I don't know how you can stand there and accuse me of such a thing as being pregnant!"
Although her words were deathly quiet, Wufei felt as though he had been hit in the face with them. He had been so stupid, he had let that senile old woman trick him again.
"Meiran I..." He tried to explain, but any words he uttered drew a glare and a look of utter hatred from his wife, who he knew he should have trusted enough to realize what a fool he was being before he uttered a word about it to begin with.
Furious, Meiran stalked to the bed and lay down. Facing the wall, she pulled up the covers and proceeded to ignore Wufei. How dare he accuse her of such a thing. What could have brought him to such a rediculous conclusion.
Wufei collapsed in upon himself. He had just effectively alienated his wife from him for the remainder of their lifetimes. He dragged himself to the couch and sagged into it. Leaning forward, he set his head in his hands and stared at the floor, mentally thrashing himself for doing such a thing. Looking up at Meiran's stiff form in the bed, he knew she wasn't sleeping, and knew that even if it wouldn't redeem him, if anything ever could, she should know the truth. He knew what harm misconceptions could do, more poignently now that ever.
"Meiran...gods I'm so sorry. I didn't know what to believe when Tsun- san came up and told me that she knew you were pregnant. She seemed to be so certain, and even had a list of symptoms of you being pregnant. I'm such an idiot, I never should have distrusted you, but just the thought of something like that, I didn't think anything could hurt so much." He watched her as he spoke, she didn't move at all.
Meiran listen silently as tears trickled down her face. She felt an equal pain, to know that the one she loved could think of her doing such a thing, it hurt as much as it hurt him thinking she could have done it. She felt the bed move, and his hand on her shoulder.
"Meiran, please, I am sorry, at least believe that even if you can't forgive my stupidity." She heard him say. Staring at the wall, she tried to controle the torent threatening to overflow, but his voice, so full of the same pain that she felt triggered it, and she was racked with sobs.
Wufei pulled her to him and rocked her as she cried out her sorrows, some of his own tears joining the flow. He found himself murmuring to her as he wiped away her tears. He felt the urge to kiss her, and with such ragged emotions being released, he didn't stop himself. Cupping her chin in his hand, he turned her face up to him and kissed each tear that fell.
Meiran had about as much controle of her emotions, and opened her eyes as he tilted her face towards him. With an instict more natural that anything she knew, she wrapped her arms around his neck and gave herself up to his soft kisses. Slowly her tears stopped flowing, and when she had no more for him to kiss away, she pulled him close to her and pressed her lips to his.
Wufei responded with a firey need that he didn't know he'd had. No thought penetrated the emotion coursing through him as he leaned back and lay Meiran down beside him. Finally acknowledging the desire he'd held for her for so long, he couldn't hold it back and suddenly wanted to know every part of her at once. He parted his lips and explored with his tongue as she parted her lips to allow him to.
His fingertips tingled as he ran them down her side, feeling the fabric of one of the silk nightdresses like the one she'd worn on the first night. He broke their kiss and place his kisses elsewhere. He lined her jaw and her neck with them, then moved down to her shoulders and collar bone, the thin straps of the dress getting pushed aside as he went. As the kisses lined her left shoulder, Meiran felt for the tie that held his hair back and gently removed it. Wufei raised his head to look at her as his hair fell loose around his face, then kissed her lips again as she moved her hands to undo the buttons of his nightshirt. Seconds later it was disguarded on the floor beside the bed.
Sliding his hand down farther her ran it along her leg and she bent her knee up and wraped her leg around his. As he started to move his hand up her side again, moving up under the edge of the dress, he moved away from her for a moment and looked into her eyes.
"Are you sure?" He asked in a voice ragged with desire, using his moment of clarity to make sure she wouldn't regret what they were doing when the sun rose. She gave no verbal answer, but placed her hand on his and guided it upward, her eyes making clear to him her reply, and her soft smile assuring him she felt it was right. He slid the dress all the way up and off over her head. It landed on the floor beside his shirt.
A gasp excaped Meiran's lips as Wufei cupped her firm round breasts and gently massaged them with hands she hadn't known could be so gentle. Shivers of excitement and pleasure coursed over her as he took one then the other and gently stroked them as he placed kisses all over her neck, shoulders and exposed chest. She brought her hands to his waist and started to slide the shorts down. Leaving her soft skin for a moment, Wufei sat up and removed the restricting peice of cloth himself. Leaning back over above her, he worked his way back up, leaving a row of kisses from her stomach to her neck.
Feeling expectation and desire welling up from a place deep inside, Meiran reveled in his kisses and felt his erection press against her side as he lay back down against her. Turning the tables, she reached down and gently stroked the his hardness, taking it in her hands and softly caressing it up and down. Wufei caught his breath as he felt her hands touching him just right, sending waves of excitement through him. He stoped moving, her hands immobilizing him momentarily. Sliding her hands away, she slid them up his sides and around his neck to pull him into a passion filled kiss.
Slowly, he ran one hand down her side, then back up along the inside of her thigh. Spreding her legs apart he found her opening and gently worked the sensitive skin. Meiran arched her back and pushed against him, her breath came in ragged gasps, but his actions induced such blissful arousal that she thought she would cry out in pain if he stopped. He moved himself over her and she looked up as he prepared to enter her. Taking him in her hands, she gently guided him to her opening.
She gasped as he entered, and at first Wufei was concerned that he might hurt her, but as he slid in she arched up to meet him. He felt a barrier break within her, and knew that their virginity was lost, but also that it had been done the right way, through love, not the requierments of an arranged clan marriage.
Carefully he moved against her, sliding all the way in, then began moving out. Gasping with pleasure, the two slid together again. Moving faster, they developed a rhythm, rocking in and out, building the waves of feeling higher and higher from their mutual center, until finally they crested, and cried out in release.
The two lay on the bed not moving, sweat covered their forms as they panted from the exertion although the mere experience would have left them gasping on it's own. Meiran looked down and smiled as Wufei lay on top of her, and still inside of her, starting to breath normally again. Slowly he raised himself and slid out. She almost felt regret, he filled her, and seemed to be made to fit her perfectly, and it was a bit sad for them to have to move apart.
He lay down against her side, and she cuddled close and felt his arm wrap around her. Pulling the blanket up over them, Meiran smiled and fell asleep in her husband's embrace.
"What's the matter? Did Tsun-san start playing her 'harmless pranks' again?" she asked, trying to figure out the cause of his anger, it was so bad that it almost flowed off him in visible waves. He looked up at her, and the pain and anger in his eyes was so visible that she was taken by surprize. What could have cause such a reaction in him?
She walked towards him and was about to lay a comforting hand on his arm when he jerked away as though she would burn him. She looked up slightly hurt and confused.
"What is wrong!?!" She demanded. As she looked at him the saddness in his eyes gave way to the anger.
"You know perfectly well what is wrong, you just didn't expect me to find out!" He said, his voice comming out in a raspy strangled growl. Meiran was shocked, he was being so venomous, and yet he seemed to be hurt more than he could express. She wondered what secret she could have that would cause such a raw and volitile reaction.
"I can't think of what you could be refering to, what is it?!" she asked, it was hurting her that he felt so strongly about something she seemingly did, said, or knew about.
He laughed bitterly, his shoulders shaking slightly, but not from the laughter. "I thought we were getting along, that you even loved me as I did you, and then I find out about this!" He cried, throwing his arms into the air in an anger filled explosive gesture.
Meiran started to feel anger building below her saddness and confusion. He was mad, and now accusing her of things that he wouldn't even explain. "I do love you! I didn't give up hope that you would come back, that you weren't really dead even after I was told that you were, I couldn't give up my hope for you, because I never got to tell you that I did love you, that I didn't think you were weak! I don't know what has you so mad, but if you would explain, then maybe I would be able to figure out what it is and tell you about whatever it is that has you so upset!" She yelled back.
"I can't believe that you can say that to my face! Do you have no shame Onna!?! Your mother seems to think that I had something to do with it, but that I didn't know. She was right that I didn't know, and now that I do, I want an explination!!!"
"If I knew what to explain I would gladly do so!!!"
"Explain how you got pregnant!!!"
Both froze. Wufei had actually said it, he hadn't wanted to give substance to Tsun-san's claims by admiting it with his own words, but now that he had, he believed it even less. Meiran couldn't believe her ears. Get pregnant? Indeed, she wondered how someone could even believe she had, let alone how her own husband could believe it.
"There is nothing to explain, because I certainly am not pregnant." Meiran finally managed to say once she was able to form words again. "I don't know how you could even utter those words. We were to remain chaste until we consumated our marriage, and we never did so, I don't know about you, but I kept that vow, I have never, so I don't know how you can stand there and accuse me of such a thing as being pregnant!"
Although her words were deathly quiet, Wufei felt as though he had been hit in the face with them. He had been so stupid, he had let that senile old woman trick him again.
"Meiran I..." He tried to explain, but any words he uttered drew a glare and a look of utter hatred from his wife, who he knew he should have trusted enough to realize what a fool he was being before he uttered a word about it to begin with.
Furious, Meiran stalked to the bed and lay down. Facing the wall, she pulled up the covers and proceeded to ignore Wufei. How dare he accuse her of such a thing. What could have brought him to such a rediculous conclusion.
Wufei collapsed in upon himself. He had just effectively alienated his wife from him for the remainder of their lifetimes. He dragged himself to the couch and sagged into it. Leaning forward, he set his head in his hands and stared at the floor, mentally thrashing himself for doing such a thing. Looking up at Meiran's stiff form in the bed, he knew she wasn't sleeping, and knew that even if it wouldn't redeem him, if anything ever could, she should know the truth. He knew what harm misconceptions could do, more poignently now that ever.
"Meiran...gods I'm so sorry. I didn't know what to believe when Tsun- san came up and told me that she knew you were pregnant. She seemed to be so certain, and even had a list of symptoms of you being pregnant. I'm such an idiot, I never should have distrusted you, but just the thought of something like that, I didn't think anything could hurt so much." He watched her as he spoke, she didn't move at all.
Meiran listen silently as tears trickled down her face. She felt an equal pain, to know that the one she loved could think of her doing such a thing, it hurt as much as it hurt him thinking she could have done it. She felt the bed move, and his hand on her shoulder.
"Meiran, please, I am sorry, at least believe that even if you can't forgive my stupidity." She heard him say. Staring at the wall, she tried to controle the torent threatening to overflow, but his voice, so full of the same pain that she felt triggered it, and she was racked with sobs.
Wufei pulled her to him and rocked her as she cried out her sorrows, some of his own tears joining the flow. He found himself murmuring to her as he wiped away her tears. He felt the urge to kiss her, and with such ragged emotions being released, he didn't stop himself. Cupping her chin in his hand, he turned her face up to him and kissed each tear that fell.
Meiran had about as much controle of her emotions, and opened her eyes as he tilted her face towards him. With an instict more natural that anything she knew, she wrapped her arms around his neck and gave herself up to his soft kisses. Slowly her tears stopped flowing, and when she had no more for him to kiss away, she pulled him close to her and pressed her lips to his.
Wufei responded with a firey need that he didn't know he'd had. No thought penetrated the emotion coursing through him as he leaned back and lay Meiran down beside him. Finally acknowledging the desire he'd held for her for so long, he couldn't hold it back and suddenly wanted to know every part of her at once. He parted his lips and explored with his tongue as she parted her lips to allow him to.
His fingertips tingled as he ran them down her side, feeling the fabric of one of the silk nightdresses like the one she'd worn on the first night. He broke their kiss and place his kisses elsewhere. He lined her jaw and her neck with them, then moved down to her shoulders and collar bone, the thin straps of the dress getting pushed aside as he went. As the kisses lined her left shoulder, Meiran felt for the tie that held his hair back and gently removed it. Wufei raised his head to look at her as his hair fell loose around his face, then kissed her lips again as she moved her hands to undo the buttons of his nightshirt. Seconds later it was disguarded on the floor beside the bed.
Sliding his hand down farther her ran it along her leg and she bent her knee up and wraped her leg around his. As he started to move his hand up her side again, moving up under the edge of the dress, he moved away from her for a moment and looked into her eyes.
"Are you sure?" He asked in a voice ragged with desire, using his moment of clarity to make sure she wouldn't regret what they were doing when the sun rose. She gave no verbal answer, but placed her hand on his and guided it upward, her eyes making clear to him her reply, and her soft smile assuring him she felt it was right. He slid the dress all the way up and off over her head. It landed on the floor beside his shirt.
A gasp excaped Meiran's lips as Wufei cupped her firm round breasts and gently massaged them with hands she hadn't known could be so gentle. Shivers of excitement and pleasure coursed over her as he took one then the other and gently stroked them as he placed kisses all over her neck, shoulders and exposed chest. She brought her hands to his waist and started to slide the shorts down. Leaving her soft skin for a moment, Wufei sat up and removed the restricting peice of cloth himself. Leaning back over above her, he worked his way back up, leaving a row of kisses from her stomach to her neck.
Feeling expectation and desire welling up from a place deep inside, Meiran reveled in his kisses and felt his erection press against her side as he lay back down against her. Turning the tables, she reached down and gently stroked the his hardness, taking it in her hands and softly caressing it up and down. Wufei caught his breath as he felt her hands touching him just right, sending waves of excitement through him. He stoped moving, her hands immobilizing him momentarily. Sliding her hands away, she slid them up his sides and around his neck to pull him into a passion filled kiss.
Slowly, he ran one hand down her side, then back up along the inside of her thigh. Spreding her legs apart he found her opening and gently worked the sensitive skin. Meiran arched her back and pushed against him, her breath came in ragged gasps, but his actions induced such blissful arousal that she thought she would cry out in pain if he stopped. He moved himself over her and she looked up as he prepared to enter her. Taking him in her hands, she gently guided him to her opening.
She gasped as he entered, and at first Wufei was concerned that he might hurt her, but as he slid in she arched up to meet him. He felt a barrier break within her, and knew that their virginity was lost, but also that it had been done the right way, through love, not the requierments of an arranged clan marriage.
Carefully he moved against her, sliding all the way in, then began moving out. Gasping with pleasure, the two slid together again. Moving faster, they developed a rhythm, rocking in and out, building the waves of feeling higher and higher from their mutual center, until finally they crested, and cried out in release.
The two lay on the bed not moving, sweat covered their forms as they panted from the exertion although the mere experience would have left them gasping on it's own. Meiran looked down and smiled as Wufei lay on top of her, and still inside of her, starting to breath normally again. Slowly he raised himself and slid out. She almost felt regret, he filled her, and seemed to be made to fit her perfectly, and it was a bit sad for them to have to move apart.
He lay down against her side, and she cuddled close and felt his arm wrap around her. Pulling the blanket up over them, Meiran smiled and fell asleep in her husband's embrace.