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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: Duo + Wu Fei Notes: Challenge 105. Baby Series 3 #84. Takes
place approximately 9 hours following Links In The Chain. Many thanks to ShenLong for her work betaing
this fic.
Treasure Hunters "What were you doing in here in the first place?" Wu Fei brushed cobwebs aside with a disgusted look and peered into the poorly lighted space. It seemed to go on forever in the gloom; no hint of a far wall gave him an idea as to how large the attic was. "I just wanted to be alone for a bit to think. I got to exploring this rabbit warren we live in and ended up here. You should see half of the shit 'that's in this place, Fei. It's fantastic. There is gold and jewels on heaps of stuff, just like a treasure vault in books." Duo wove his way through the clutter, seemingly unfazed by the dust, dirt and copious evidence of spiders. Wu Fei was a little more fastidious than his companion and moved with care as he followed Duo. "That Alliance Governor was a compulsive hoarder," Duo continued. "I bet the guy had sticky fingers and just couldn't keep his hands off anything that looked old or worth a bit." "There appears to be a great deal of furniture stored here." "Heaps," Duo affirmed. "I think there's a four poster over there, it's in bits of course, but I bet it's centuries old. Mind your head." Wu Fei sighed as he scrambled over what appeared to be a haphazard pile of furnishings only to find Duo delving deeper into the cavernous room. "How big is this place?" "I think it runs just about the length of the wing. It's sort of divided into rooms, every now and then you see a heap of supports. I think they mark various building stages. I'll tell you this much, parts of this place are older than we were led to believe. It's like the designers built it around an existing building, that's way over that way a bit more, I'll show you some other time. The guy was nuts about secret passages, you can see clues to a good half dozen when you go out onto the roof." Wu Fei eyed Duo in the gloom as his companion reached above his head and pulled a cord. A little further ahead another bare bulb lit up to shed dull illumination over more stored items. "It is huge." "Yeah." Duo absently brushed webs from his face and hair. "It's a great place to treasure hunt. I could spend hours exploring what's stored up here." "I would like to bring Milliardo here. He might enjoy the hunt." Duo considered the seemingly endless expanse of attic and grinned at his companion. "Why not? It would be a nice change from the kitchen after midnight. Treasure hunts in the dead of night… all we would need are a few things going bump in the night." "Ghosts?!" Wu Fei snorted. "Honestly, Duo." Somewhere in the darkness something shifted and a low, eerie moan sent shivers up his back. ~ * ~ |
