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Gift From the Sea


Chapter Two

The lid dropped to the floor and Wufei gaped at the contents of the basket in total shock and horror. Inside the basket was a little, tiny baby girl. He knew it was a girl because she had no clothes. She was just staring silently up at him. She had huge black Asian eyes and tuffs of black hair. She blinked.

He reached into the basket and carefully picked up the baby. She was cold and shivering. She seemed even more tiny in his arms than she did in the basket. He figured she had to be newborn since her skin was still slightly wrinkly and her umbilical cord was still there, looking freshly cut. It hasn't even began to think about starting to dry yet.

"Oh my god," he said in horror. "What do I do?!" he thought out loud. He did the first thing he could think of. He found some soft bath towels and wrapped the baby in it, then laid her down on his bed and quickly threw off his wet clothes and put on some new ones, picked up the baby again and left the apartment taking his car keys with him.

Once in the apartment's parking garage, he laid the baby in the passenger seat and started the car and rushed out of the garage and down the road. He could only think of one person who could help him with this.

Wufei kicked on the door of apartment 106 in the complex just a block away. He was holding the baby in his arms, calling for the person to open the door.

He finally couldn't take it anymore. "HEY!" he yelled at the top of his lungs, kicking the door hard. The baby, wrapped in a blue towel, didn't seem to mind the noise. He was sure he woke up more people than he intended, but he didn't care. "WAKE UP! HEY! I swear I'll break down the door!"

He heard someone walking inside so he stopped yelling, but kept kicking the door. "Hold on!" the angry sleepy voice fussed. The locks clicked and the door was flung open by a very angry, sleepy, and messy haired Sally Po. She glared daggers at him. "Wufei! What the hell are you doing?! Do you even know what time..." she trailed when she noticed the bundle he was holding to his chest, her anger diminishing. "...What the heck is that?" she asked.

"It's why I'm here," Wufei said uncovering the baby enough so Sally could see.

Her eyes widened. "Wufei where did you get that?!" she hissed leading him inside and shutting the door behind them. They sat down on the couch and looked at the quiet baby. "It's not your kid is it?" she asked.

"No!" he shook his head, appalled at the idea of such a thing. "There's no way I have any kids of my own!"

"Then where'd you get it?!"

"I found her in the ocean. Her mother put her in a basket and let her float to sea. When I swam and got the basket I had no idea it was a baby until I got it home and opened it."

"What kind of person would abandon a helpless baby?" Sally asked no one imparticular.

Wufei looked at her worriedly. "I think there's something wrong with her," he said. "I've never seen a real baby up close before, but she seems too thin to be normal and she hasn't cried once since I found her. She just stares."

She took the baby and unwrapped her. "She is too thin for normal," she said looking her over. "I want to take her to my office to fully examine her. You wanna go?" she looked at him, them smiled. "Never mind. You stay here and sleep while I take the baby."

He nodded and she was soon gone. He lay out fully on the couch and closed his eyes.

He was woken by the sound of a door shutting. He sat up and saw it was Sally with the baby. She sat next to him and handed him back the baby.

"She's perfectly healthy," she said. "Other than she's really, really hungry. I'm betting the mother tried starving herself while she was pregnant to kill the baby. I say that baby's no older than four hours old. She's Asian, that a given, but I can't tell from what country. I don't know why she won't cry; I guess she's just a quiet baby."

"What am I going to do with her?" he asked looking down at the little girl sleeping peacefully in his arms.

"There's plenty of hospitals around here that'll take her in, and there's that orphanage on the other side of town. All those places will gladly take her."

"Hm. Thanks Sally," he said and stood up with the baby. "I'll go now then," he said, then bowed to her and left.

As Wufei drove out of Sally's complex he found himself caught in morning rush hour.

"Aaa! I'm never going to get to the orphanage now!" he groaned and looked over at the baby lying in the passenger seat. She seemed to be asleep. He smiled warmly at her. He had to admit she was cute. '...No. More than cute,' he thought. 'She's precious.'

He blinked and shook his head at his sudden odd thought. The traffic moved several yards before stopping again. He glanced over at her again, chewing his bottom lip.

She opened her eyes and he swore she smiled at him, but surely it was his imagination. Wufei tapped on his steering wheel.

He glanced again at her. She stared back and he felt something stir in his heart. He remembered the advice Heero always gave. 'Follow your emotions,' He always said.

"Well Heero I'm following your advice," Wufei said outloud. "......Shit," he said and did a U turn out of the traffic and rode a turning lane the wrong way and got off on a backroad leading to neither his nor Sally's house.

Well? What do you think about this chapter? R&R, please!

Thanks to everyone who reviewed so far! And no I haven't heard the tale of the baby in the peach. I'll look it up though!