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Gift From the Sea


Chapter Eleven

'I can't believe I have to wear this crap!' Wufei thought bitterly as he was ushered into his cell, which he would be sharing with three other men. He was wearing the normal orange prison clothing.

When the cell door opened and he saw his cellmates, he groaned inwardly. 'Great! They're muscle-bound men with hideous tattoos and bad hygiene...' he thought.

Wufei's cuffs were taken off and he was pushed inside and the door closed and locked behind him.

The guys stared at him with nasty grins on their faces. "Look at what we have here!" one with long black hair said. "He's as cute as a girl!"

The other two snickered. "What's your name?" one asked, coming over to Wufei. He tried to touch him, but the smaller man sidestepped him and smacked his hand away.

"Try to touch me again and I will not hesitate to shove my foot down your throat," Wufei said softly, but in a tone that showed that he wasn't bluffing. He gave them all a brilliant death-glare and the guys sulked back to their own bunks.

Wufei's bunk was on the top, so he climbed up and lay down.


The next morning as Wufei walked down to the shower room, he discovered something. His prison clothes itched horribly. "Dammit!" he said aloud when he was attacked yet again by a horrid persistent itch on his lower leg.

"What's wrong with you, girly?" a guy taunted.

Wufei ignored him and continued walking. He did not like the idea of taking a public shower with at least twenty sex-deprived men. He remembered Duo joking about something like this a few years back while they were watching a movie about prison. What was it that he said again?

Oh yes! He remembered now!

"Never drop the soap!" His braided friend warned.

Wufei shook his head to get rid of the thoughts associated with that. He did not want to go there!

He wondered if any of his friends had heard about his situation yet.

He faltered in his walking and was shoved unceremoniously forward by the guy behind him. Wufei cursed the man under his breath and continued walking.


"Chang, you have a visitor," the prison-guard said later that day.

Wufei, who had been trying to doze off on his bunk, sat up and looked at him. "Who is it?" he asked.

"How would I know?" he shrugged.

He hopped down from his bunk and exited the cell after being handcuffed again.

He was led down a hall into a lounge room or something. Sitting on one of the couches was Sally, some woman he had never seen before, and Quatre.

Wufei was uncuffed and the officer exited the room, closing and locking the door behind him.

Instantly Quatre jumped up and hugged his friend tightly. "I came as soon as I heard!" he said. "Are you alright? Nothing horrible has happened to you here has it?"

"I'm fine, I promise you," he said patting him on the shoulder once he was released. "I'm just worried about Lian..."

Sally spoke up. "She's doing fine," she answered. "I checked on her this morning. She's extremely upset, but other than that she's alright."

"Good..." he said and sat in the couch opposite her. "Who's this?" he asked, meaning the woman.

"Forgive me!" Quatre said. "This is Lia Magny. She's your lawyer; the best in this part of the world."

Lia stood up and shook Wufei's hand and sat back down. She opened her briefcase on the coffee table and started taking out papers. "This is your criminal record and other financial documents. On this page," she held up a sheet. "is my rate. If you accept, I'll get to work on your defense."

Wufei started to read over the papers he was handed, but Quatre took them from him. "Don't worry about it," he told him. "I'm taking care of it."

"Good," Lia said. She pulled out another sheet of paper. "Then would you please sign on this line?" she asked Wufei, holding out the paper and a pen. He signed it and she took it back and closed her briefcase. "Thank you," she said. "I'll schedule an appointment to meet with you to discuss your case. That will probably be in two days."

Lia Magny then stood up and left the room after shaking everyone's hands again and saying her goodbye.

Wufei noticed Quatre staring at him with an odd look on his face. "What?" he asked leaning away from him unconsciously.

"Nothing," Quatre said then made a face. "I just can't get over how awful your clothes look!"

"It's not like I have a choice!"

"I know, I know," he sighed.

Wufei turned to Sally. "Do you think it's possible for Lian to come see me?" he asked.

"No," she said. "You're charged with kidnapping her, remember? I don't think that the county will let the "kidnapper" see the "kidnapee"."

"Good point, but I don't think I can go for two weeks without seeing her," he said slumping down on the couch.

"Why two weeks?" Quatre asked.

"It's the court date," Wufei and Sally said in unison.

"Oh. I'll definitely be there, then. Just give me the exact date."

The three talked for another fifteen minutes before the prison guard came to take Wufei back to his cell.

Before being handcuffed again, Quatre ran up and hugged him tightly. He seemed to be trying hard not to tear up. "I'll come by again soon," he said and let him go.

Suddenly Sally hugged him. "We'll get you out soon," she said softly.

Wufei was then handcuffed and led away.


"So," Lia said two days later. The two were sitting in the lounge area. "If you want me to help you, you have to be completely honest with me. I want to hear your whole story about this situation."

"But what if I'm actually guilty?" he asked softly.

Her eyebrow rose. "If you are, it's not my job to care about that. It's my job to make you innocent."

He then told her the whole story about how he came to have Lian. He left nothing out and changed no details. The whole time Lian was audiotaping and writing things down.

"Is that it?" she asked when he was finished. He nodded. "Well, it does seem that you are indeed guilty, however good your intentions were."

He hung his head.

"Can I ask you a question?" she asked. He looked up at her. "Why didn't you just give her to the orphanage? Or why didn't you get a legal adoption?"

He sighed and shook his head. "I don't know..." he said miserably. "I guess I didn't think it over..."

"I don't disagree with you there," she said earning a sharp look from him. She cleared her throat. "Fortunately, I think I can come up with a valid case for you."

"You can?" he asked hopefully.

"Yes. I'll discuss it with you during our next appointment, which will be in two days," she said. "Our time today is up, so I'll see you then."

She stood and packed up her briefcase and left after shaking his hand again.


The next day after lunch Wufei and about twenty other prisoners got to go outside to excercise or just enjoy the outdoors.

Wufei, like some other guys, contented themselves with sitting at a wooden picnic table near the super tall fence containing them all. Some guys at the table was playing poker and some were just doing nothing.

A guy who looked to be around his mid-twenties came over to Wufei and sat next to him at the table.

"I heard you're in here for kidnapping a kid," he said. "So did you do it?"

"I didn't steal her from her parents if that's what you mean," Wufei said darkly. "But, yes, that's what I'm in here for."

"So you're innocent!"

"Leave me alone," he said softly. He wanted to think about Lian, but couldn't if the man wouldn't go away.

"What's your problem?" he asked. "I'm just trying to talk to you."

He looked at him. "I don't want to talk," he said.

The man glared at him. "Fine!" he said in an almost angry voice. He got up and walked away. Wufei heard him mutter "Bastard!" as he was walking away.

Wufei sighed. He wondered what Lian was doing right then. Was she scared? He wouldn't admit it, but he was terrified. He was so afraid that he would lose his case and would never see Lian again. He couldn't imagine it.

How he longed to hold her in his arms again...

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