Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Sex, Substances, Sin, Salvation ❯ IV - E - Drug Dealers Aren't Reliable ( Chapter 31 )

Sex, Substances, Sin, Salvation

How these 4 `s' words are intertwined

By Masamune Reforged

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Warnings: Yaoi (tons of pairings, but mostly 1x2, 3x4 and implied former 13x6. Lemons amuck.), cursing, drug use, violence, angst, insanity, cameos, AU, lunacy, racism. All the bad shit you'd expect in real life.

 

Page IV: A Crow Left of the Murder

Part E of Page IV in the s4 arc

“Drug Dealers aren't reliable”

3rd person narration

 

Chang Wufei did not like techno music. It wasn't only the mental association between the genre and his 2C-I trip, where he had followed blaring techno music into a hellish ordeal that had seen him held at gunpoint, robbed, put in debt to a thief, forced at gunpoint down into a basement, chased by the police, and interrogated for the next full day.

 

Chang Wufei didn't like techno music because it was too loud and unrefined for his tastes. He was a snob for the classics; Beethoven's compositions for the piano, Bach, Handel. He also enjoyed smooth jazz, but equally loathed rap and hip-hop. The most recent kind of music that he would listen to was Pink Floyd and some selections from Radiohead. Those two artists provided some funky auditory input for a person tripping their face off on any kind of drug.

 

But Metro City's drug dealers did not hang out in the “Classical” section of the music store. Few were at the blues and jazz clubs. Tragically, most of the hippies in the psychedelic scene couldn't tell a good hit of acid from their finger nail. The best and most reliable, if that word could ever be used to describe a dealer, were all to be found at the upscale club scenes. Consequently, Wufei had to subject himself to the cacophonous racket of modern dance garbage to meet the best contacts, especially on a weekend night.

 

So, to add to the frustration of his long first week of labs with Professor Tsubarov, who had watched Wufei like a hawk and stymied any chance for swiping the precious chemicals of his choice, Meiran's constant bashing, his parents calling from China, and another meeting with Sergeant Noin of the 109th Police Precinct, Wufei figured some crappy techno music was the least of the hazards he could subject himself to.

 

After a good half hour of searching, he finally ran into Chapman. “Gentle” Chapman, gentle only in outward appearance, was a Briton who had made a fortune selling drugs. His network extended to Europe and New York and back, and he boasted one of the finest illegal laboratories in Metro City. Chapman's #1 product was Ecstasy.

 

Immediately upon finding him, Wufei began to regret his decision on venturing to “The Crow” at all.

 

“What do you mean you're all out?” Wufei had to yell over the bass line.

 

“I have nothing! Nothing! Robbery!” Chapman barked in response.

 

“You promised you'd save me at least a little bit that I could do an analysis on,” Wufei reminded the man.

 

“Didn't you hear me? I was robbed, you dumb Chinaman” Chapman turned red. “Someone took me for a fool! Oh, I'll catch that scoundrel, just they wait. It was probably that long-haired wretch...” He began to murmur into his glass of Guinness.

 

“Do you know where else I can score some high quality?” Wufei persisted. He wasn't about to return home to Meiran's righteous reprimands empty handed.

 

“Inept zipperheads want you to do it all for them...” Chapman grumbled. Wufei bit his tongue to stop from lashing out. Chapman took a long pull on his glass and continued, “There's always someone with good product around the Crow, especially on a Friday night. Try looking for `the Z man', he's a good for nothing French shit with blue hair and eyes.”

 

“Do you know where I should look for him?” Wufei asked.

 

“How should I know?” Chapman spat. “I told you all I know. Now, if you don't mind, I'm trying to enjoy my scotch.”

 

-end “Drug Dealers aren't reliable” Part E of Page IV in

Sex, Substances, Sin and Salvation. How these four `s' words are intertwined.

MasamuneEHS@hotmail.com

 

Next: “Xctasy”

 

ID Notes:

Gentle Chapman is a minor character in G Gundam. He appears as a chivalrous, older man, but it quickly becomes revealed that he is addicted to performance enhancing drugs so as to maintain his prowess as a Gundam pilot. He is the first instance of outrightly racist characters in the story, particularly when angry or drunk.

 

Notes: Wufei always seems to get the short stick of my chapters... I'll have to do something about that...