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"Baby Series 1"Written By: Karina
Pairing: Heero + Duo + Trowa + Helen + Pagan Notes: Challenge 13 . #40 in the Baby Series. Takes place approximately ten hours after Play The Game. 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.
Dangerous Games "Trowa." Heero nodded. "Quatre requested I brief you. Zechs is in hospital and there is a worldwide manhunt underway for the kidnapped heir to Sanc." "Kidnapped … Hey, are we being blamed for snatching the kid?" Duo scowled. "It was peddled to the media as a kidnap until Une made a statement detailing an anonymous tip off and in light of the illness of Crown Prince Milliardo Peacecraft Preventers took steps to ensure the safety of his heir, Prince Stephan." From the rear seat Pagan stiffened. "Master Trowa, is that the exact wording used for the press release? Was Stephan specifically named as Crown Prince Milliardo Peacecraft’s heir?" Helen took her seat and offered Pagan a bottle of formula and the infant ceased fussing when the teat was pressed to his lips. "Yes." Trowa took the drivers seat. Heero leaned into the car and his eyes locked with Duo’s. "Keep security tight. Something’s going on in Sanc and I need to get back to Relena." Pagan considered the baking heat of the remote airstrip watching the Preventer carrier on the tarmac and the fuel tanker returning to the hanger. The grass around the airstrip was dead, scorched brown by the drought that had gripped the region now for eight years. There was little that was green and even those trees that had somehow survived looked half dead, bark peeling and sparse dull foliage softening skeletal outlines. "When Master Stephan is settled I will return to Sanc. If he has been named Crown Prince in an official press release and Stephan named his heir then there is a push to change the political balance within Sanc. I gathered the information sent to Master Winner and I believe it now to be in use and dangerous games are being played. Miss Relena will require your protection and you need to return with all haste but I too must return." "I’ll arrange transport." Trowa interjected. "We need to go." Heero nodded. "What can I expect, Pagan?" The old man considered the young man and sighed. It had finally come and unwillingly on the part of the Prince but he had known it must eventuate. So many years spent enduring a condition he best described as a cultural drought, the old ways beaten and battered by a glaring harsh sun that was the Occupation. It was all well and good to modernize Sanc but not at the cost of burning away the richness of a heritage that had survived for centuries. "With luck a Restoration." The air conditioner began to reduce the furnace heat and he knew he must explain to the Preventers the activity underway within Sanc. He would answer questions and assure himself he could trust Duo with the future of Sanc but if Milliardo trusted Maxwell with Stephan then Pagan had little doubt he could share that trust.
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