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"Baby Series 3"Written By: Karina Rating: PG Spoilers: None Disclaimer: I don’t own Gundam Wing or the Characters from the series but the baby is mine. Pairing: Wu Fei Notes: Challenge 124. Baby Series 3 #142. Takes
place at approximately the same time as Did You Hear That?. Many thanks to ShenLong for her work betaing
this fic.
Duck For Cover It was disturbing how many people wandered the palace at this hour. Wu Fei slipped into deep shadow to avoid being noticed by two maids, heads bent close as they hurried along, giggling over some triviality he did not wish to contemplate. Given the temperatures in the palace were not far above freezing to conserve energy resources, no one exactly strolled along, a fact which pleased him given his need to duck out of sight and freeze his backside off whilst waiting. And just why, he asked himself, was he bothering to duck for cover? He had every right to walk around the palace, certainly as much right as the night staff. He was known to liaise with security and no one should so much as arch an eyebrow should they observe him moving around. He and Duo were as notorious as Milliardo for wandering at night. But he usually was not observed running through the hallways. Ah, yes. That was why he was hiding. How silly really. All he had to do was drop to a walk, nod casually, wait for anyone he met to move out of sight and take off again to make up for lost time. Right then. He needed to move on and the maids had vanished. Bonus. Wu Fei shot out of his alcove, tripped on the edge of the faded hall runner, knocked into the large vase of flowers on the nearby sideboard, cursed, and flailed for balance. The vase landed with a disturbingly loud crash as he managed to steady himself and he was left staring at the sodden mess of flowers and carpet runner. "What was that?!" Why he panicked, Wu Fei could not say, but he spun on his heel and shot down the hallway with a turn of speed that would surely earn a medal in the Olympics. Just a few more steps and he would be out of sight when they came back around the far corner… just a few more steps! He would personally pay for them to either nail down the decrepit old (antique) carpets in this wing, or replace them with new ones. Throwing himself around the corner he caught the toe of his light, house slipper in a frayed edge and sent himself plummeting to the ground. "Kisama!" A twist, a roll into a somersault, and he was spared the ignominy of sprawling face first on the floor, but nothing could cover the thump and bump echoing in the empty hallway. His face flaming, Wu Fei practically threw himself through the first door that came to hand. It would not do for the Chang of Chang to be caught
sprawled on his face in a hallway. Anyone would think him some drunken
buffoon the way he was falling over his own feet. His face feeling
like it was on fire with the intensity of his blush, Wu Fei pressed
his back to the door and looked up… into glowing yellow eyes.
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