AN: This chapter isn't very funny, I'm afraid. It takes on a rather light-
hearted tone to the seriousness of the situation at hand. : P I apologise
if you are waiting for funnies from this chapter.
I like to thank all my reviewers for writing in: yami blue eyes white dragon, TariOfNargothrond, Death's little side kick, Sachie Jaganashi, Magical Wiseskill, DeathsDragon and Kuria! I really appreciate your reviews. :D Also thanks to Alex who emailed in to review. :D
And two newcomers! Greetings to: AlyRain and Skeren Dreamera. I am happy you like my writing so far. Thank you for your sweet reviews! :] A word of warning though . . . I tend to update a chapter every two or three weeks. So this fic is a bit slow moving.
Now with the fic!
Chapter 36
Ten minutes later, Jess could feel her right eye twitch with irritation. Ten whole minutes of sweet-talking, calling his name and bribing him didn't even get a muscle to twitch on any part of his body.
"Maybe you forgot to add something he normally hears out of his wife mouth," Quatre suggested, scratching his head thoughtfully.
"It's not forgot," Jess slowly spoke, correcting the boy, "It's DON'T know."
"Well, how about adding "Darling"? Or "Sweetheart"? Or "Love of my life"? Or . . ." Duo quipped, his eyes sparkling with life, ideas just waiting to be said.
"OR how mushy THIS is getting," Jess quickly shot back. "Get real. How many people would like to hear this out of their wife's mouth?"
Four hands shot straight up in the air almost immediately.
"I definitely want to hear it everyday of my life!" Duo proclaimed, the tone of his voice sounding a little defensive. "It's an expression of love which I am definitely lacking right now."
"I don't mind either," Quatre agreed, nodding his head.
"Hn.' Came Heero's reply.
". . ."
"Ok, ok, I get the idea," Jess threw up her hands in surrender. "I will do "Darling" or "Sweetheart" but no way am I doing "love of my life!" or whatever."
Turning to the bed, she looked at the pale, still form of Wufei and sulked. Sure, she didn't mind saying those things, but in all her dreams, she had always visualized the man to be a little more . . . handsome and alive. Preferably rich and older than her too.
'This is ridiculous!' she thought as she bended over the bed to talk to Wufei. 'I haven't even gotten my first boyfriend yet.'
A soft cough from Quatre indicated that she had better get things on the move if she wanted to earn her promises.
"Darling . . .," she spoke, gritting her teeth and trying to make her voice sound more pleasant. It came out a little harsh and strained instead. Jess cleared her throat and tried again.
"Darling . . . Why don't you get up? It's seven o'clock in the morning."
Almost ironically, the clock on the wall started to chime the tenth hour of the night.
* Bang! * Heero shot the clock before it could chime its eighth hour.
Jess closed her eyes and tried hard to visualize Wufei as the rich, handsome older man she dreamed about.
" The sun is shining, the birds are twiddling and school's about to START." She finished the sentence in a threatening voice. Somehow, she couldn't get over the HUGE difference between Wufei and the man of her dreams.
Meanwhile, Quatre issued a warning note by clearing his throat while Trowa fixed on her an evil eye.
"So SWEETHEART, please, PLEASE, open those little slit eyes of yours!"
But Wufei continued to lie on the bed, sleeping peacefully, unconscious of the peril the girl was facing because of him.
Jess felt a vein pop somewhere in her head. She had just embarrassed herself, said things meant only for her future boyfriend to hear and to top it off, he was not responding.
"Maybe you should say in his native language, like Chinese?" Duo suggested, his eyes looking at her hopefully. "He is, after all, a Chinese . . ."
"Isn't it obvious he is not responding to . . . to these . . . sugar words?" Jess asked, her hands upturned and stretched out to Wufei, her eyes pleading with the boys not to make her say the words anymore. But all of them shook their heads in answer.
"They're both Chinese, him and his wife. It's only normal they communicate in Chinese," Quatre explained, his eyes concentrating on Wufei's form while he held his chin thoughtfully. "So you should at least try to talk to him in Chinese, like his wife did."
"And even if they did talk in Chinese, how do you know she will say those words to him?"
"How do you know she won't?" he returned softly, his eyes coolly challenging hers. "Besides, no work, no . . . necessities."
"Fine, I do it," Jess relented after a moment's hesitation. "But I will pull out if this gets too much."
Quatre gave her a slight smile and a small bow of his head. "Your cooperation is much appreciated."
Turning her attention back to the bed, Jess took a deep breath and let it out in a slow manner to calm herself. It was now or never and it had better be now, because she was in no position to do more.
"Cool! I always wanted to hear endearments in another language," she heard Duo whisper to Heero as she bended her head over Wufei's face oncemore to talk.
"Shhh!"
Swallowing thickly, Jess could feel a blush stealing into her cheeks. All her dreams of whispering those words to the man of her dreams were about to be shattered by this. Jess allowed herself a small sigh of regret and braced herself to say those words to Wufei.
"Qin ai de, quai dian qi chuang. Tai yang chu lai le!" (My beloved, quickly wake up. The sun has risen!)
"Qin Ai de? Are you sure that's an endearment?" Duo asked while lifting one eyebrow as well.
"Yes. It is."
"Hmm . . . go on," He said, waving his hand as if he was dismissing her answer.
Jess gritted her teeth and carried on.
"Ni kan! Tai yang hao mei. Niao e ye chu lai le! Zhen hao ting." (You look! How pretty the sun. Even the birds are out. Very lovely to listen to.)
"So which one of the words is an endearment?" Duo cut in again, look at her innocently.
"None!" she bit out the word.
"Oh. But you promise you would put it in."
Jess clasped a hand to her forehead and prayed for patience. In response to Duo's request, she raised her hand in the universal sign of "wait." Meanwhile, her brain searched furiously for a sweet word.
"Wo de ai ren," (My love,) Then she paused. She didn't know what else to say. Finally, she decided to be frank. "ru guo ni bu quai dian qi chuang, Wo hui bian chen yi ge si ya." (If you don't wake up soon, I'll be a dead duck.)
"So which one is the endearment?"
Jess clutched her fists and spat out: "Wo de ai ren."
"What's that?"
"My love."
"And my Qing ai de?"
"My beloved."
"Then how come there is still no reaction? Are you really saying endearments to him?" Duo questioned, as he fixed her a look of disbelieve.
More veins popped in Jess's head. And she saw red.
'To hell with endearments! I'll give you Jess SPECIAL treatment of Love!' she decided as she took in a deep breath.
Ni zhe ge da ben beep! Beep Beep! zhu, gei wo xian zhai qi chuang! Fou ze wo hui beep, beep, beep! @ei#(u389#$)! Ru guo ni hai yao huo zhe, ni zui hao xian zhai gei wo kuai kuai de qi chuang! (You this big, stupid beep! Beep! Beep! Pig, get out of bed now! Or else I will beep, beep beep! @ei39(u389#$)! If you still want to LIVE, the BEST thing for you to do now is to be good and show me you can get out of bed!")
For emphasis, she banged the bed to punctuate her anger at the appropriate words.
Then Jess found herself suddenly staring into two black, onyx eyes.
"Yep!" Jess yelped as she leaped into the air, away from the bed. She had not expected response to be this fast! Meanwhile, the boy slowly sat up in the bed, his eyes never leaving her face, staring hard all the while.
No one else could say another word for a few more moments. Wufei's awakening had been so abrupt that everyone was taken by surprise. Then Duo found his voice.
"I may not understand Chinese," he commented, eyes still wide with surprise, "But I'm certain those were no love words. Welcome back to the world, Wu."
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Meanwhile, Doctor G was assessing the new prototype he created when he spied out of the corner of his right eye, a figure near Wufei's Shenlong.
'Wufei? He's awake?' he thought, swinging his head around to get a good look.
'No, a black-haired girl . . .'
"Jess child, is that you?" he called, crossing the large hanger to approach the girl.
Instead, when the girl faced him, he could see it was not Jess. In fact, she did not look like anyone in the base. On seeing him approaching her, she flashed him a sweet smile. Then she walked away, around the giant robot's legs, out of his sight.
"Hey you! You're transpassing!" Doctor G shouted, quickening his pace to catch up with the girl. "Stop I command you! I demand to know how you got . . . in. . ." Doctor G had finally reached the robot and was looking behind its legs when his command died on his lips.
There was nothing behind the two sets of legs. In fact, there wasn't even a space between the legs and tail for a skinny child to squeeze pass. Much less a space between the wall and tail . . . Everything was perfectly aligned and in order as it was before.
'Hmm . . .' Doctor G frowned as he contemplated the robot for a moment longer. 'Did I just . . .?'
Then he took off his spectacles, inspecting them for scratches and dirt.
'Ok, that does it! This is the last time I'm going to buy Sunproof products!' he thought, throwing the spectacles into a nearby bin as he returned to his assessment. 'Ghosts indeed! I'm almost one myself!'
A girl watched his action from the shoulder of a white and green robot. Then allowing herself a tiny giggle, she slid past the metal barriers to enter the robot.
Author's Proclamation: Sorry about the long chapters to get Wufei to revive from his sleep. Difficult since a lot of details got stuck in my head before I could get the story to progress. :] Be putting up a subdiversion of this fic on another new link. Don't want to write it here and disturb the flow I thought out for this one!
I like to thank all my reviewers for writing in: yami blue eyes white dragon, TariOfNargothrond, Death's little side kick, Sachie Jaganashi, Magical Wiseskill, DeathsDragon and Kuria! I really appreciate your reviews. :D Also thanks to Alex who emailed in to review. :D
And two newcomers! Greetings to: AlyRain and Skeren Dreamera. I am happy you like my writing so far. Thank you for your sweet reviews! :] A word of warning though . . . I tend to update a chapter every two or three weeks. So this fic is a bit slow moving.
Now with the fic!
Chapter 36
Ten minutes later, Jess could feel her right eye twitch with irritation. Ten whole minutes of sweet-talking, calling his name and bribing him didn't even get a muscle to twitch on any part of his body.
"Maybe you forgot to add something he normally hears out of his wife mouth," Quatre suggested, scratching his head thoughtfully.
"It's not forgot," Jess slowly spoke, correcting the boy, "It's DON'T know."
"Well, how about adding "Darling"? Or "Sweetheart"? Or "Love of my life"? Or . . ." Duo quipped, his eyes sparkling with life, ideas just waiting to be said.
"OR how mushy THIS is getting," Jess quickly shot back. "Get real. How many people would like to hear this out of their wife's mouth?"
Four hands shot straight up in the air almost immediately.
"I definitely want to hear it everyday of my life!" Duo proclaimed, the tone of his voice sounding a little defensive. "It's an expression of love which I am definitely lacking right now."
"I don't mind either," Quatre agreed, nodding his head.
"Hn.' Came Heero's reply.
". . ."
"Ok, ok, I get the idea," Jess threw up her hands in surrender. "I will do "Darling" or "Sweetheart" but no way am I doing "love of my life!" or whatever."
Turning to the bed, she looked at the pale, still form of Wufei and sulked. Sure, she didn't mind saying those things, but in all her dreams, she had always visualized the man to be a little more . . . handsome and alive. Preferably rich and older than her too.
'This is ridiculous!' she thought as she bended over the bed to talk to Wufei. 'I haven't even gotten my first boyfriend yet.'
A soft cough from Quatre indicated that she had better get things on the move if she wanted to earn her promises.
"Darling . . .," she spoke, gritting her teeth and trying to make her voice sound more pleasant. It came out a little harsh and strained instead. Jess cleared her throat and tried again.
"Darling . . . Why don't you get up? It's seven o'clock in the morning."
Almost ironically, the clock on the wall started to chime the tenth hour of the night.
* Bang! * Heero shot the clock before it could chime its eighth hour.
Jess closed her eyes and tried hard to visualize Wufei as the rich, handsome older man she dreamed about.
" The sun is shining, the birds are twiddling and school's about to START." She finished the sentence in a threatening voice. Somehow, she couldn't get over the HUGE difference between Wufei and the man of her dreams.
Meanwhile, Quatre issued a warning note by clearing his throat while Trowa fixed on her an evil eye.
"So SWEETHEART, please, PLEASE, open those little slit eyes of yours!"
But Wufei continued to lie on the bed, sleeping peacefully, unconscious of the peril the girl was facing because of him.
Jess felt a vein pop somewhere in her head. She had just embarrassed herself, said things meant only for her future boyfriend to hear and to top it off, he was not responding.
"Maybe you should say in his native language, like Chinese?" Duo suggested, his eyes looking at her hopefully. "He is, after all, a Chinese . . ."
"Isn't it obvious he is not responding to . . . to these . . . sugar words?" Jess asked, her hands upturned and stretched out to Wufei, her eyes pleading with the boys not to make her say the words anymore. But all of them shook their heads in answer.
"They're both Chinese, him and his wife. It's only normal they communicate in Chinese," Quatre explained, his eyes concentrating on Wufei's form while he held his chin thoughtfully. "So you should at least try to talk to him in Chinese, like his wife did."
"And even if they did talk in Chinese, how do you know she will say those words to him?"
"How do you know she won't?" he returned softly, his eyes coolly challenging hers. "Besides, no work, no . . . necessities."
"Fine, I do it," Jess relented after a moment's hesitation. "But I will pull out if this gets too much."
Quatre gave her a slight smile and a small bow of his head. "Your cooperation is much appreciated."
Turning her attention back to the bed, Jess took a deep breath and let it out in a slow manner to calm herself. It was now or never and it had better be now, because she was in no position to do more.
"Cool! I always wanted to hear endearments in another language," she heard Duo whisper to Heero as she bended her head over Wufei's face oncemore to talk.
"Shhh!"
Swallowing thickly, Jess could feel a blush stealing into her cheeks. All her dreams of whispering those words to the man of her dreams were about to be shattered by this. Jess allowed herself a small sigh of regret and braced herself to say those words to Wufei.
"Qin ai de, quai dian qi chuang. Tai yang chu lai le!" (My beloved, quickly wake up. The sun has risen!)
"Qin Ai de? Are you sure that's an endearment?" Duo asked while lifting one eyebrow as well.
"Yes. It is."
"Hmm . . . go on," He said, waving his hand as if he was dismissing her answer.
Jess gritted her teeth and carried on.
"Ni kan! Tai yang hao mei. Niao e ye chu lai le! Zhen hao ting." (You look! How pretty the sun. Even the birds are out. Very lovely to listen to.)
"So which one of the words is an endearment?" Duo cut in again, look at her innocently.
"None!" she bit out the word.
"Oh. But you promise you would put it in."
Jess clasped a hand to her forehead and prayed for patience. In response to Duo's request, she raised her hand in the universal sign of "wait." Meanwhile, her brain searched furiously for a sweet word.
"Wo de ai ren," (My love,) Then she paused. She didn't know what else to say. Finally, she decided to be frank. "ru guo ni bu quai dian qi chuang, Wo hui bian chen yi ge si ya." (If you don't wake up soon, I'll be a dead duck.)
"So which one is the endearment?"
Jess clutched her fists and spat out: "Wo de ai ren."
"What's that?"
"My love."
"And my Qing ai de?"
"My beloved."
"Then how come there is still no reaction? Are you really saying endearments to him?" Duo questioned, as he fixed her a look of disbelieve.
More veins popped in Jess's head. And she saw red.
'To hell with endearments! I'll give you Jess SPECIAL treatment of Love!' she decided as she took in a deep breath.
Ni zhe ge da ben beep! Beep Beep! zhu, gei wo xian zhai qi chuang! Fou ze wo hui beep, beep, beep! @ei#(u389#$)! Ru guo ni hai yao huo zhe, ni zui hao xian zhai gei wo kuai kuai de qi chuang! (You this big, stupid beep! Beep! Beep! Pig, get out of bed now! Or else I will beep, beep beep! @ei39(u389#$)! If you still want to LIVE, the BEST thing for you to do now is to be good and show me you can get out of bed!")
For emphasis, she banged the bed to punctuate her anger at the appropriate words.
Then Jess found herself suddenly staring into two black, onyx eyes.
"Yep!" Jess yelped as she leaped into the air, away from the bed. She had not expected response to be this fast! Meanwhile, the boy slowly sat up in the bed, his eyes never leaving her face, staring hard all the while.
No one else could say another word for a few more moments. Wufei's awakening had been so abrupt that everyone was taken by surprise. Then Duo found his voice.
"I may not understand Chinese," he commented, eyes still wide with surprise, "But I'm certain those were no love words. Welcome back to the world, Wu."
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Meanwhile, Doctor G was assessing the new prototype he created when he spied out of the corner of his right eye, a figure near Wufei's Shenlong.
'Wufei? He's awake?' he thought, swinging his head around to get a good look.
'No, a black-haired girl . . .'
"Jess child, is that you?" he called, crossing the large hanger to approach the girl.
Instead, when the girl faced him, he could see it was not Jess. In fact, she did not look like anyone in the base. On seeing him approaching her, she flashed him a sweet smile. Then she walked away, around the giant robot's legs, out of his sight.
"Hey you! You're transpassing!" Doctor G shouted, quickening his pace to catch up with the girl. "Stop I command you! I demand to know how you got . . . in. . ." Doctor G had finally reached the robot and was looking behind its legs when his command died on his lips.
There was nothing behind the two sets of legs. In fact, there wasn't even a space between the legs and tail for a skinny child to squeeze pass. Much less a space between the wall and tail . . . Everything was perfectly aligned and in order as it was before.
'Hmm . . .' Doctor G frowned as he contemplated the robot for a moment longer. 'Did I just . . .?'
Then he took off his spectacles, inspecting them for scratches and dirt.
'Ok, that does it! This is the last time I'm going to buy Sunproof products!' he thought, throwing the spectacles into a nearby bin as he returned to his assessment. 'Ghosts indeed! I'm almost one myself!'
A girl watched his action from the shoulder of a white and green robot. Then allowing herself a tiny giggle, she slid past the metal barriers to enter the robot.
Author's Proclamation: Sorry about the long chapters to get Wufei to revive from his sleep. Difficult since a lot of details got stuck in my head before I could get the story to progress. :] Be putting up a subdiversion of this fic on another new link. Don't want to write it here and disturb the flow I thought out for this one!