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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 107. Baby Series 3 #89. Takes
place a few minutes after Fan The Flames. Many thanks to ShenLong for her work betaing
this fic.
Treasures Of Antiquity "Hey, Wu Fei, get a load of this. I found it the other night when I came exploring." Duo diverted from the direction he had been heading to stop beside what Wu Fei suspected was a large table beneath the dust sheets. From the irregularity of the covering he assumed the table held other items, one of which would have attracted his friend's attention. Duo put a hand over his lower face, covering his nose and whipped one corner of the sheet up, tossing it back in a cloud of dust which set Wu Fei to coughing and wafting the air before him. It was several minutes before he recovered from his hacking to see what Duo had revealed. A roulette table. "Sorry about that. What do you think?" A roulette table unlike any roulette table Wu Fei had ever seen. It was highly ornate, the legs and sides beautifully carved in leaves, vines and grapes and, in the dim light, he was almost certain it was mahogany. He breathed an appreciative sigh when, peering at the red and black squares, he determined the black squares to be fashioned from Onyx, the red from coral and the inlaid numbers were mother-of-pearl. The wheel was embellished in gold and there was gold leaf highlighting the ornate decorations. It was a masterwork of craftsmanship and Wu Fei ran a finger tentatively over a leaf, tracing the graceful curves. "It is beautiful." "Yeah. Old too. I wonder where it came from originally? The Governor who had this place constructed liked his fancy things, but why keep this up here? Surely a piece like this you would want to display?" "One would assume so. Such furniture as this has not been constructed for many hundreds of years. It is an antique and I would think it a museum piece. It is certainly museum quality." "Not exactly what you would expect to find in an attic." "Perhaps it is what is termed, a private collectors piece?" Wu Fei mused. "By 'private collector' you mean black market? Stolen? Maybe, but why put it up here? I mean, no one has been in these attics except me for years. The dust is testament to that. Oh, and this belongs in Sanc too. See here?" Wu Fei followed Duo around the table to see the Peacecraft crest embellished the table in gold and silver inlay. "I think one of the past Kings of Sanc was a bit of a gambler." Duo grinned. "Maybe that's where Zechsy gets his penchant for taking chances from." "Perhaps so, and it gives a possible explanation for how it came to be hidden here." Duo arched an eyebrow. "It does?" "I am inclined to believe the Alliance, or certain members of the Alliance, were aware of the treasures of antiquity to be found within Sanc. It is possible we might find other treasures believed to be lost in the fall of Sanc hidden here." ~ * ~ |
