This probably is not my best work. I've been juggling my college courses and trying to make time for things, such as sleep. I'm sure I contridicted myself somewhere in this chapter... but that's alright. I'm working on editing chapter five of Meet Me Halfway and the next chapter of Love Game is in the works. I might be spewing out drabbles to get the writing juices flowing again.
Oh, and I know Sally is out of character, but honestly, if you were in her situation, wouldn't you be too? I figure, they are slightly older and have changed with time too...
I should mention, learning two languages at once is hard! I'm taking Spanish (level 201) and Japanese (level 101), and it's difficult, very time consuming.
Disclaimer, I, nor Ryu, own Gundam Wing. If we did, I'd be paying some one to write my fifteen page paper on the Bubonic Plague... and Ryu... not sure what he'd do...
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"Why not cherish what we have?" Wufei breathed. He threw a glare at the coffee table as he thought a moment. He was at a loss of what he should do. If he blew up, like he wanted to, he'd lose her and his daughter. The child that he had just met and yet knew he loved. If he remained calm, he'd have her much longer than that night. "Sally, we don't have anything. Except for Anmei, and for me that's a completely new development. A happy one, yes, but the price at which I became privileged to the information is much too high."
Sally sat there a moment and looking down at her hands. She knew it had not been the best decision to keep the baby a secret but she had been so mad at Wufei and she figured that nothing would have changed had he known. He hadn't wanted her, why would he have wanted his daughter. Then she found out about the cancer, the illness she would not survive. She had been told she'd be lucky to make it two years.
It had been Noin who had prodded her enough to at least tell the man that he was a father. Noin had told her that Wufei had matured, but was still stubborn as all hell. She thought that having a child around would help soften him or at least give him some responsibility. Noin also pointed out that it was better he knew he was a father before Anmei turned up on his door step with Child Protective Services.
"I'm sorry." Was all she could answer him with and she knew it was not what he wanted to hear. "I never meant to keep her from you. I did write to you but I never felt they were adequate enough to send, they just made me seem so… weak."
She picked up her purse from beside the chair and reached inside. She pulled out two large manila envelopes, one that was nearly flat and the other crammed full of papers. She handed the nearly flat one over to Wufei and pulled in a deep breath to compose herself.
"That contains all the medical records, birth record, her first picture, picture of myself for her and a disc that I recorded for her."
"Sally, why are…" Wufei said taking the envelope from her. She then stood abruptly and clutched the large envelope to her chest.
"These are the letters I wrote to you. There are a total of one thousand three hundred seventy six letters in that envelope plus photos and a external drive with video of Anmei's first's and her delivery." She handed him the envelope and sprinted out the door, leaving him staring after her.
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Present day
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"What?" his onyx eyes flew to stare at his daughter who sat there, giggling. She'd been practicing that one for over two weeks. It had been Eiri's idea and it was Loki who had convinced her to go through with the insane idea. She was against deceiving the man who had raised her, but her mischievous side, one which she knew did not come from her father's side of the family, compelled her.
She honestly wished she knew more about the mysterious woman that had given birth to her, the one in all the pictures that littered the house and her fathers office. She knew the woman was her mother and that the woman had died when she was just about six years old, but she barely remembered her. Not to mention that her father was tight lipped about the woman that he had been in love with. Every time she would ask a question pertaining to her mother, he would change the subject.
The only things she knew pertained to how her parents met, what her mother had done for a living after the war, what she died of and her parents wedding anniversary. She even knew that they did a double ceremony, one traditional Chinese and one where her mother wore the most beautiful wedding gown she had ever laid eyes on and she knew without a doubt in her mind that she would wear that dress.
Wufei smiled with relief and leaned back where he had been sitting. His plot to slowly torture Yuy's son was put on the back burner and his curiosity as to what his daughter was bringing home was piqued.
"Kitten or a puppy?" He asked as he listened to her laugh.
"Puppy." She choked out. "A Siberian Husky. We are hoping for a boy." She was finally starting to calm down from her fit of giggles.
She sounds just like her mother.
"So long as you're not pregnant with that boys child, I'm happy." Wufei sighed. Wufei didn't like Eiri Yuy, he never did. He felt that the boy was weak and would never be enough for his daughter. Then again, that feeling stemmed from the boys blindness. A blindness that was no fault of his own, but due to a kidnapping at the tender age of two.
It's not so much him being weak as it is him being blind, how would he protect her if he can't see the enemy?
"He's not as weak as you think he is." Anmei stated standing up and walking over to the stairs. "I love him, and there isn't much that you can do to change that. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll be in my room."
He watched as she slipped up the stairs. He knew she was right, though. The boy could do things that most would think impossible given his condition. The boy was nearly unbeatable in Chess, with only two known defeats, Trowa and then once against Trowa's eight year old. Not to mention the many other things he excelled. It was rumored that the boy could hear a pin drop at least two floors up and on the complete other side of the manor.
Again, that was a rumor.
He knew she was hiding something and something told him it had everything to do with Eiri Yuy and that pregnancy she just faked.
I respect Yuy too much to physically kill his son.
He stood from the chair and made his way to the kitchen where he filled the tea kettle and placed it on the stove. He sighed as he turned on the burner. He took out his cell phone and placed it on the kitchen table before taking a seat. He pressed a button on the phone and then he waited a few moments.
"Winner speaking." Noin's voice filled the room. Wufei picked up the phone to have a better look at the woman he had just called.
"I need you to speak to my daughter." Wufei spoke calmly.
"Hello to you too. I'm fine, thank you. And yourself?" Noin chuckled.
"Look, woman, I don't have all day for your attempts at making jokes. I think my daughter is in some type of trouble and I want you to get it out of her. She won't tell me… although, I have a feeling that she just did, but just covered it up by telling me we are getting a puppy." He was more than speculative.
"A puppy?" Noin laughed. "You could be reading a little too much into the situation, Wufei. She could honestly just be getting a puppy."
"No, this goes beyond the puppy, Noin, I really do think there is something she is not telling me." He thought a moment. "Maybe she'll be saying something when we all have dinner together at Yuy's."
"Good bye Wufei." Noin chuckled and hung up on him.
The man sat back once again in the kitchen chair and grimaced. He was hoping that the woman that had been a main player in his daughters life since Sally had been hospitalized would have been of some assistance. Unfortunately, such had not been the case.
Why couldn't you have fought harder, Woman? We could have found a cure, I know we could have. She needs you more than you can possibly know.
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The girl wasn't stupid. No, no one could actually call her stupid. She graduated high school four years early, and graduated two years early from the local university. She was already set to pursue her career in medicine. Wufei had let most of the girls decisions on her. She had skipped three grades coming out of kindergarten so at the age of six she was starting fourth grade, after fourth grad she had skipped up to sixth. She started high school at ten and then graduated at fourteen. Not to mention the accelerated college courses she was taking while in high school, which prompted her to excel two years ahead of her classmates.
If the school had had their way, she would have started high school at eight years old and most likely would have graduated at twelve. Not to mention the accelerated college courses she was taking while in high school, which prompted her to excel two years ahead of her classmates.
Wufei was proud, however, since she maintained her friendships with those that were around her own age, and yet was able to associate with those much older than herself. Something which he had lacked when he was her age. Sure, he had been able to competently fight in a war, but it took a stubborn woman with golden twists in her hair to show him that there was much more to life than hate and angst.
Anmei lied on her bed and stared at the ceiling as she waited for Eiri to call her. She hadn't told him the news that their plan was actually a reality. Her father didn't know that, but he would know come Saturday night when they would have dinner with his friends. She knew it was in poor taste to tell her father while they were in the hospitality of someone else's home, but it was the only way to assure that he would not kill her or Eiri.
He's going to have a heart attack. Just like he almost did today.
The phone rang and her hand instantly went to pick up the phone.
"Hello, Eiri." She answered as she brought the phone to her ear. He was the only one who had the home number. She didn't need the other three knowing the number, since their favorite thing to call her for was mediation. Mediating an argument between Luka and Quatrine usually proved useless and trivial. "How was your school day?"
"As any other school day, filled with incompetent students and even more incompetent teachers."
"It's your last year, Eiri, life is not so terrible." She laughed.
"Besides the point." He stated bluntly. "Something isn't right, your voice is betraying your laugh."
"Life as we know it will be over."
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AN: The whole thing with her and school can, in fact, happen. I know people who went through that.
Anyways, I'll try and update soon.