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"Baby Series 1"Written By: Karina
Pairing: Wu Fei + Relena + Sally Notes: Challenge 13 . #41 in the Baby Series. Takes place at the same time as Dangerous Games. 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
Legends and Love The machines were never silent filling the room with sounds that raised his hackles. He would not have them silent for while they beeped, buzzed and hummed he knew there was life. "The weight’s just falling off him Wu Fei. I don’t understand." Relena curled in the armchair they had placed at his bedside and she looked as though she had not slept for a week, not just for the night of her brother’s admittance to the high security ward. It had been a long night in which both had watched Zechs slowly deteriorate. "Legend says the fortunes of Sanc are tied to the King." He scowled but Relena never took her eyes from her brother. "They say that Sanc will flourish while the King prospers and decay when the King ails. Maybe it’s true. Sanc suffered when the King died and despite everything I have tried I can’t manage to bring about the prosperity enjoyed before the occupation. I don’t see smiling faces in the streets. Something is sucking the life out of Sanc as the sun sucks the water out of the Earth. A drought amid plenty, decay and waste hidden below a thin veneer of modernization." Relena leaned back in the chair and closed her eyes, the first time in hours he had seen her move. "I was not raised to be a Princess let alone a Queen. I was never meant to be the heir. Milliardo decided I should take that place." "He had his reasons." "He thought himself unworthy. Bloodstained hands. I’ve heard him say it, but I think what Sanc needs is Milliardo at the helm. He’s seen so much in his life and learned so much. I think the legends may be true. Sanc needs a King to prosper." "A Queen would do the same thing. He would be a puppet. Would you wish that for him?" "In the long history of Sanc others have sought to Play the King. They never survive for long. There are always those who love the King enough to safeguard him." He tensed. Did she know? How could she? "What are you saying?" "It was the Letter. People are thinking about the past and the future. There’s a very public debate on the war and the places people held in it. Sanc intelligence has monitored developments and if someone pushed just a little in the right place it would snowball. Hmm, avalanches in a drought …" "He would not thank you for pushing him into that position." "We have all grown up since the war. We have grown wiser … and I think he might accept it. For the greater good." Sally entered the room, grim faced with shadows under her eyes. She and her team had been working for hours trying to stabilize Zechs and now she inserted a needle in the IV line. "Any progress?" Relena leaned forward. "His blood work’s back. He’s been poisoned."
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