Outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq
May 19, 202 AC
20:54
"Well I haven't seen you in a while, wanna go for a drink?"
"Whatever."
"I see you haven't improved your manners," Relena shook her head, "That way you're never going to get a wife."
Wufei snapped, "Why would I want wife, woman?"
"Why? Certainly, I heard that you were trying to rebuild your clan, I think you need I wife for that, don't you? Unless you are trying to use test-tube babies."
"How do you know that?" Wufei's asked in a defensive tone.
"In my line of work, you find out about a great deal of secrets, specially those who concern ancient families with dark pasts," was her answer.
"Your line of work?"
"Yeah, you know, contacts, spies, that kind of thing."
"You're a spy?"
"Shhhh, not so loud, we are in a place full of Preventers, would you be more sensitive, please?"
"Sorry," he mumbled.
"Come, you now look like you need a drink," Relena made her way toward a black Mercedes, "I know a place near, you'll like it, there we can talk," Wufei still wasn't sure, "Come on, I don't bite."
After the statement, Wufei hoped in, and responded with a smirk, "I'm not afraid of you woman."
"Really? Oh, poor little me, I'm in a car with the great, almighty, chauvinistic pig, someone save me," Relena said in mock fear.
"Well, you don't bite, but you really bark, woman," Wufei now wore his triumph smirk.
"Well, you win, but stop your macho attitude, it doesn't really suit you."
Relena returned her attention to the road, and accelerated, she was going so fast that the landscape turned into a blur. Wufei's knuckles were so tight in the arms of his seat that they were turning white.
"Woman, would you slow down?"
"My name is not woman," by now Relena was laughing.
"I can call you what I like!"
Relena ignored him.
"Relena, slow down."
"That's not the way."
"Relena, would you please slow down?"
"Now, that's more like it," Relena slowed down, until they reached Baghdad. Relena drove to a small district that looked dark and dangerous, then she parked her car in front of a decaying building.
In the door, the gate showed carvings of Ishtar, the Babylonian goddess of love.
"Before, we enter, I warn you, be respectful," Relena then turned to the door, paying no attention to Wufei's answer.
Relena knocked three times on the huge door, and a small door opened, Relena passed, followed by Wufei. When Wufei entered, veil-covered people pointed long spears and rifles and force pikes and spears at him. Until Relena said something in a strange language, and the spears and rifles and force pikes and spears returned to their places. Wufei was surprised to hear a woman responding Relena, then she signaled the others and they took they veils; they were women.
"Relena what's this," Wufei managed to stutter.
"This is women resistance group, there are four in Baghdad, twenty throughout Iraq, they have had enough the chauvinistic society, and they want to change it, but they need the support of the women they can, so I help them in what I can…"
A voice interrupted Relena, it was soft and melodious, and it had a tinge of melancholy and sadness, and wisdom above all.
"Relena, my dear, do you think it is wise to bring him here?" an old woman appeared in the stairs that leaded to the second floor, she had her eyes closed, and she was dressed in the common attire for Muslim women.
"Don't worry, Great Mother, he is no problem. He will not say a word about this place," after a few seconds she added, her voice cold and calculating, "even if he wants to, I won't let him."
Wufei felt a chill go down his spine, and took heed of her words. But just to be sure, he said, "Don't worry, no word will leave my mouth. What you do here isn't my concern, woman."
That was a mistake, just as those words left his mouth, rifles and spears were pointed at him.
"You will treat the Great Mother with respect, man," the leader spat at him.
Relena glared at him with look that plainly said 'I told you so'. Then shook her head.
"Wufei, didn't I told you to be respectful?" she asked with a tone a mother would use with her child," Now what do you have to say to these ladies?"
Wufei caught the implied message that Relena sent him through her words. And bowing to the Great Mother, he asked for forgiveness.
"I like the man you got, my dear Relena," the Great Mother stated. At the comment, Wufei's face turned bright red.
"No, Great Mother, this is not my man, he is just a friend," Relena tried to amend.
The Great Mother huffed, and muttered, "Your friend indeed," but Relena made no comment.
"Could you take us to a private room?" Relena turned to the leader.
"Yes, please follow Karin," she said indicating a woman guarding the entrance of a hallway.
They were left in a room lit only by an oil lamp. Wufei also noted that there was a strange smell; it was sweet but at the same time acid. It made him feel slightly dizzy and confused.
"So…" Wufei started, "what did you mean by spy?"
"Oh," Relena said, then the question dawned her, "Ooooooh, sorry about that, I'm not a spy."
Wufei breathed a sigh of relief. Then a thought occurred him.
"Then what do you do?"
"Well, I'm an archaeologist."
"An archaeologist? Sorry, but you don't strike me as the archaeologist type."
"Well I am not exactly an archaeologist."
"Then what are you?"
"Let's just say I do the dirty work of the archaeologists."
"Such as?"
"Entering tombs, takings the treasures from the tombs, I keep almost everything I take, for my personal collection, but I sell some things to universities, museums, and such."
"So, you are a tomb raider."
"In not so many words, yes."
"Then how do you know I want to restore my clan?"
"Well, do you remember your clan to be quite old, do you?"
"One of the tombs I've been searching for long, is the one from Chang Min (A/N: It doesn't really exist, I made it up, but if it exists then, good for me) the one from the legend of the Dragon and the Phoenix (A/N: this is also made up)."
"Yes I remember it."
"Then Mr. Chang, I've got a deal for you," by now Relena was leaning towards Wufei.
"Which is?" surprisingly Wufei was leaning towards Relena too.
"Would you marry me Mr. Chang?" after those words, they leaned more, and finally kissed. At first the kiss was clumsy and shy, then it turned to passionate.
"So can I take that as a yes?" Relena asked when they took a breath; Wufei only nodded and kissed her again.
TBC
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