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Gift From the Sea
Chapter Seven
"How do you even set this up?" Wufei asked in total confusion as he sat in Lian's new bedroom, which used to be the library, with Sally, pieces of unassembled crib scattered everywhere. They had already moved all the books and the chair from the room into the living room.
"Read the instructions," she answered.
"They give no help," he said scanning over the instructions in his hand.
"God, just give them to me!" Sally said and grabbed the paper from him. "I'll read them and you do what I say. Ok, step one..."
3 hours and 5 cups of coffee (for Wufei's nerves) and thousands of insults from Sally about his ability to follow directions later, the crib was set up exactly as the instructions said.
"Hmm. Do you think it's safe to put Lian in it?" Wufei asked.
"Good point..." Sall agreed, then suddenly picked him up by the waist and placed him inside the crib. He was too surprised to do anything but sit there. The crib didn't do anything. "Yeah. It's safe," she concluded.
Wufei growled and climbed out of the crib. "Woman why the hell did you do that? That wasn't necesarry!" he fumed blushing slightly from embarrassment.
"Because I figured that if the crib held an adult, then it would hold Lian," she answered. "I would have done it myself, but it wouldn't hold my weight and you weigh less than me."
She went to the plastic bag in the corner of the room and pulled out the box holding the one item Wufei actually picked out by himself. It was kinda like a nightlite for inside the crib. It was like an aquarium thingy with little plastic fish in water inside a clear plastic frame. When the lights were out, the thing would make water reflections over the room.
Sally hung the aquarium thing on the far side of the crib. She turned around to congratulate Wufei on a job well done, but he wasn't in the room.
She was about to call out for him, but suddenly he appeared carrying several baby blankets, and a cover sheet for the matress. "Here," he said dropping them to the floor. "We should put these in now."
She nodded and they started getting to work putting the finishing touches to the crib, when suddenly Lian's wails echoed through the apartment. Instantly Wufei was leaving the room to feed her, since it was around time for it. Sally smiled and continued working.
That night Wufei lay on the couch in the dark living room watching television. It was around 8 pm and he had just put Lian in her crib. He hoped she would sleep the whole night, but he knew that wasn't going to happen. So he enjoyed the peace while it lasted.
To his amazement, Lian slept for seven hours. She woke him up around 3 am. As he crawled out of bed and staggered sleepily through the apartment, he hoped to himself that she would keep on sleeping most of the night.
Two days later, Saturday, around noon, Wufei was sitting on a bench in the park feeding Lian while eating the food he had bought earlier. She had been very good that day; she had woken up that morning around four and hadn't cried almost at all the whole day. She had only cried when she had woken up and then a few hours later, and then again right before they had left for the park.
Wufei watched all different people go past them as he fed her. Several looked at him warmly as they passed. One guy gave him a disgusted look as if he was disgusted that a man would be taking care of a baby in public. Wufei shot him the best deathglare he could muster.
A while later after Lian had finished her bottle, he was sitting there holding her in his lap and letting her sleep. She was wearing a white onepiece outfit with little green dragons over them. She had on white socks and a light green stocking hat. She had a pacifier in her mouth. Wufei was leaning back on the bench, half lost in his own world.
Not long after, he was jerked back to reality by something hitting his leg. He looked down and saw that it was a little girl no more than three. She had black pigtails and black Asian eyes. She was standing on tiptoe, leaning against his knees trying to look at Lian. "Baby!" she said happily.
A woman, apparently her mother, came running up behind the girl and scooped her up in her arms. "I'm so sorry!" she apologized, bowing continuously. "She got away from me before I could stop her!"
"It's fine," he said shaking his head. "She didn't do anything anything wrong."
"No. She's bothered you and your baby," she said. "I'm sorry. She can be so disrespectful."
Again he shook his head. "Forget about it, ok?" he said. "I don't hold anything against you or your daughter."
The woman smiled, bowed again, then left. Wufei smiled to himself and leaned back again in the bench. He looked down at Lian, still asleep, then back at the woman and her little girl. He shook his head in amusement and looked up at the sky.
A week later around 8 at night, Wufei got a call from Sally saying that Relena had called and invited them both to a get together she was having in two weeks. Sally had said that everyone was going to be there.
"Why didn't she invite me herself instead of relaying it through you?" he asked sitting crosslegged on the couch. He glanced over at the blanket on the floor where Lian was sleeping.
"Relena gave me two reasons when I asked her the same question," Sally said laughing a bit. "One of the reasons is that she was afraid to call you herself, saying that you'd probably chew her out for calling and interrupting you from something. And the second reason is that you never gave anyone but me and Quatre your number and location when you left Japan, making me and Quatre swear an oath to never tell anyone else where you were and how to reach you."
".....Oh," he said. "I did that?" he asked.
"Yeah, you did," she said, amusement in her voice. "I remember it clearly. And I quote, "I'll have your head on a platter if you dare tell anyone my phone number or location. Especially Duo."" she said imitating his voice then laughed.
"I remember that now. It's been so quiet without Duo," he said, looking at the ceiling. "That was a while back, right after the war ended. Four years, I think."
"Three," she corrected.
"That's right," he said.
"So, are you going to accept her invitation or what?"
"I'll go," he said. "I need a change in environment. And it's bound to be interesting since I'm sure Duo's going to be there."
"Yeah," she said smiling.
"But it'll be nice. I have to admit that it is a little dull without Duo around."
"You miss him don't you?" Sally teased. "Come on, admit it!"
"...I do admit that sometimes his company was.......pleasant and his idiotic antics were sometimes welcome."
"Ok! I'll call Relena and tell her we're both going!" she said.
"When is it, exactly?" Wufei asked.
"Friday, two weeks from now, at 6," she said. "She's having it in Kyoto, Japan."
"Why Japan?" he asked in confusion.
"Who knows," Sally said.
They talked for a few more minutes about nothing then said their goodbyes and hung up.
R&R please! Constructive Criticism is welcome as always!
