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"Baby Series 1"Written By: Karina
Pairing: Zechs + Stephen + Pagan Notes: Challenge 7 . #16 in the Baby Series. Takes place the day after I Remember. Spoilers: None Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing or the Characters from the series but the baby is mine. Thanks to Dulin for her work as beta.
Secret Garden "Relena presides over the opening ceremonies for the memorial today. They honour all of those who died in the invasion. I still remember as clearly today as I did then how it happened. I never want you to know what I have known. There has to be a better world for you." He could hear the screaming and shouting, the guns and the awful, hideous laughter of the one who had murdered his father. The huge marble monolith they had raised was fitting tribute for a murdered King, he supposed, and for those who had fallen with him but he knew that the king would have hated it. "Your grandfather liked the simpler things in life and loathed formality." The infant snuffled against his good shoulder and he sighed, nodded briefly to a security guard and continued his walk in the garden. The manor was deep in the country of Sanc and to be honest he presumed most people had forgotten it existed. Which suited Preventers very well. "They have no idea how delighted I am to have been brought here of all places. There are secrets here and when you are older I will make certain that you know them all." //Relena means well but I see a tribute to the victims murdered. There were good men and women who died here, soldiers who gave their lives that people might live free. Where is the memorial to them?// He rested against the trunk of an ancient oak, watching and marking the placement of the guards, the overgrown wall close at his side. Waiting for just the perfect moment. "She will take you to the monument they erected to your grandparents but it's just cold stone. There is nothing of them there. You need to know the real people not the mythology. The Alliance threw all the bodies into a hole and covered them up. They were never in the mass grave, you know." He slipped quickly into deeper shadow, reaching to touch the key stone and the hidden door ground aside. With the infant clutched tightly to his chest he slipped inside and leaned on the stone, sealing them within the hidden garden. "I remember how it was." He rested, short of breath, the wound aching but he would do this now. At any time they could send him from Sanc and just this once while the opportunity presented itself he had to bring his son. "This is a safe place and it was here that we brought them." "Sir. I thought you might come." "He should meet them, Pagan." "Yes, Sir. I have kept them well tended." "Thank you." Zechs carried his son to the two mounds of earth covered with a carpet of white flowers. There were no headstones, no marks of distinction to mark who lay in the secret garden. Pagan steadied him as he knelt before the graves. "This is Stephen." End |
