A Christmas Carol

By: Gypsy Tollamer

Part Two

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Wufei came up to his home. It was a drafty old place but Wufei sw no need to repair it. I mean he only slept and ate there...

So he began to look for his key.. He finally got the door open and walked in.. He could hear teh wind blwoing outside and he almost thought he heard it calling his name..

He then sat down in his chair by the fire to warm his hands before going to sleep...

"Wufei.." a voice said.. He heard the clattering of chains... He turned around and gasped...

It was a ghost. It looked like treize standing in the doorway. His impecable sense of fashion gave him away... But the chains. There were chains covering his body and the ghost dragged himself across the floor.

"Wufei." he said.

"treize?" he asked sitting back in the chair. "you can't be here. You're dead."

"yes i am." treize said. "Hell is murky Wufei. It is a hell beyond your imagination. I came to warn you. It's too late for my salvation but I can save you from hell. Tonight you shall be visited by 3 ghosts. one of past, present and future... I carry the heaviness of the hatred I purged through life. These chains keep me from rising to heaven... Listen to them... You msut save your soul..............."

Wufei then blink and treize was gone. he shut teh window with a bang which had been miraculously opened. he then shook his head again.

"Bah humbug!" he said going into his bedroom and slipping on his night clothes. "Stupid foolishness.. Ghosts.. No such thing."

There were mutterings of justice and humbugs and Wufei drifted off to sleep.

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It was midnight. And the twelve chimes caused wufei to wake up slightly.. He heard the wind blow more feircely. the window swung open and a tiny ball of gold and blue light entered... It grew larger and brighter and suddenly there was a person in his bedroom. Wufei layed down and pulled the covers over his head.

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'Hello Wufei.." the voice said. It was like bells and sounded softer then feathers. he heard the window close with a click. "How you British do it I'll never know. It's too damn cold here for me anyhow."

Wufei lifted the colors and saw a small,lithe blonde sitting at his vanity...

"Decide to wake up?" he said playing with the crystals hanging from teh oil lamp.

"Who are you? Why are you in my room?" Wufei asked.

"Didn't You listen to Treize. I'm the first of the three ghosts that shall visit you tongith." he said.

"There's no such thing as ghosts." Wufei said. "it's a lot of rubbish and--"

"Bah Humbug, I know..." he said. "I'm the ghost of christmas past Wufei. I know all that has happened to you. It's made you hate christmas and I'm sorry but you mustn't let it change you."

"What did you say you were? You look like a fairy." Wufei said.. He reached out to touch the blonde's sparkling cheek.

"I am, sort of. I'm teh ghost of Christmas past.. You however can call me Quatre." he said. "Now let's go! I don't have long before Trowa gets here!"

"Who?" Wufei asked...

"Never mind Wufei!" Quatre said opening teh window. "Let's fly towards your past!"

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end of part two