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"Without Virtue"Written By: Clara Barton Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing. The following
is an intellectual exercise with no intention of profit. That said,
these characterizations, words, and situations are mine. Please ask
before reprinting. Rating: NC 17 Warnings: Drama, angst, Character Death, violence,
gore, language, drug use, language, yaoi sex, het sex, language, AU Pairings: 2xSolo, 6x3, 1x2x3, 5xM, 5x H, 4x S,
4x R, 13x 6, 13x?, probably a few more as well. Summary: "When virtue has slept it arises invigorated." - Nietzsche. A darktale of violence, lust, and vengeance in a city without justice.
" Without Virtue" I've decided to do a difficult thing, and that is to let some of my unfinished WIPs go. Unfortunately, this is one of them. This isn't about a "why didn't people review this more?" This is about my unfortunate tendency to start ideas, to plot them out in my head, and then find myself drawn to a new idea. I still have this problem but I'm working on it, and I'm trying to only work on fics that I can commit to finishing. So, I've gone back and updated every fic that I am officially abandoning and calling it complete as well as adding in a final chapter - this chapter. Let me share a few of my thoughts for where Without Virtue was headed, but it should really be obvious - I let this plot get very formulaic. Treize sets things in motion to have Trowa and Zechs scapegoated for a series of murders of Treize's opponents before Treize himself is "murdered" - the actual murders were committed by Duo, at Treize's instigation, and Treize takes himself offstage to watch Acts 3 and 4 unfold. Zechs and Trowa are forced to go into hiding - Zechs actually, bizarrely, taking shelter in L2 through Hilde's intervention and Trowa finds himself back in L3, back in Barton's harem, and things are not pretty. Wufei goes the lone wolf approach, trying to investigate all of this, but Treize also has a plan in motion to take care of HIM and Wufei finds himself stumbling onto the trails of all sorts of covered up crimes and he eventually asks Quatre - and by extension Duo - for help. Eventually Quatre and crew manage to take down the bad guys and Wufei and Treize have a final confrontation, as do Heero and Zechs (Zechs, while in L2 basically helped to instigate and refine the L2 terrorist activities and was planning to lead a revolution from that sector). In the end, Trowa and Duo were going to die - so it's probably best for anyone still following this that I didn't actually end up writing it. Zechs and Heero ended up together; Hilde and Wufei ended up together; Relena was elected mayor. Quatre lived alone, without Sylvia, horrified by the things he had done to win peace for the city. Again, I am sorry that I began this project and didn't finish it and I know it's a drop in the bucket, to offer this small consolation, but I hope that it IS a consolation all the same.
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