Mei-Lin was on a surgery table, unconscious. Nothing was happening. A doctor that looked like he was from the Zhang colony came in and set to work. Wufei fast-forwarded the download. Of course, for a tonsillectomy, it would look strange not to remove them. He didn't need to watch that.
"What are you watching?" Mei-Lin insisted. "From the conversation half I heard, it sounds like you are watching a video that you shouldn't be."
"Woman, I don't care right now about your personal or private needs," he said so lovingly. "None of us pilots have seen this footage yet."
"Li Zhang has," she said, "and if it was wrong, I would be dead right now."
Wufei ignored her.
"You are just like him," she said coldly. "Your respect is gone."
Wufei glanced at her lightly. Tricky. If it showed the procedure without any covering, or if anything else happened to her that revealed her body, then it should be viewed only by a future husband. He could simply let her watch it and tell him, but if she were somehow in on this herself? She could lie. He knew nothing her either. Plus, the other pilots would want to know for sure about the video.
What he would pick wouldn't sound the best, but technically it would have to work. "Your colony already thinks you are a bought woman right now, so this shouldn't be in the same matter of rank as physical contact." She would have to deal with that.
While annoyed, she couldn't say anything and went to sit further away from him. Discontent wouldn't bother him. Wufei watched as someone came into the room on the video. "What?" It looked like Dorothy Catalonia. No, not quite, but almost. They tried to get her brows but were a little off. She always had a strange kind of smirk this imposter didn't have too. Wufei could detect fake enemies.
She was holding some kind of square device. Was that supposed to be the invention that guaranteed pregnancy? Only research had been done on it. She bent down beneath the sheet a few minutes.
When she came back up, she left. What the hell? Was it real? It could be real. Then again, it might not be. What was that? He called Duo back up. "Someone did something, but it was a square apparatus. A covering maybe, I couldn't see anything. No needles and no switches."
"Hm. Can't say for sure? Then maybe that's what they want. I mean, they must have planned to have that footage come out to clear her."
"The acting doctor of it all looked like Dorothy Catalonia, but she was a clear fake," Wufei revealed. "Catalonia has a way about herself. The imposter didn't have it, nor would she be anywhere near that colony. She was an outsider, it wouldn't be easy to get in there."
"Besides which, Dorothy Catalonia is no medical professional," Duo agreed. "Yeah, that whole thing sounds setup."
If it was, then Wufei could get her back sooner. "I will have her take a test again, just in case. If it's negative, I'll give it a little time." An elaborate setup. That was good because he was a fighter, not a father. "Woman. We are getting you a pregnancy test to take from my colony."
"Say please," she teased. "I already had it confirmed."
"I don't trust anything from anyone. We are going to take a test from my colony, and no place else," he insisted. "Go."
Catherine was quiet on the way back home. Once Duo came and told her what happened, she didn't expect Trowa to be in any kind of a good mood. He had Middie Une so close again. "Sorry, Trowa." It's all she could say.
"It's not your fault, Cathy," Trowa said simply. "I will find a way to reach her."
"Yeah." She championed his thought. "At least we know she's okay, and she's going to the colonies. Somewhere." Okay, not the best. No. Trowa was an excellent tracker, and he had friends who could help him. "She's safe at least."
"Yes. She's safe." Trowa didn't say much else. She didn't expect him to.