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"Baby Series 1"Written By: Karina
Pairing: Pagan Notes: Challenge 16. #53 in the Baby Series. Takes place approximately two hours after Change Is In The Wind and Imagery. Spoilers: None Disclaimer: I don’t own Gundam Wing or the Characters from the series but the baby is mine. Many thanks to Dulin for her work as beta
Spring Follows Winter Soon he would set right the injustice of the past. Not that the rightful sovereign would thank him. He knew the boy who had become a man in the shadow and protection of strangers, who had learned the arts of war and who had killed would not appreciate the role thrust upon him. //Inevitable. He will understand in time.// Understand but never thank him. Not while he lived but that was of no consequence. He had promised Stephan to protect his children and he had kept only part of that promise. On that fateful day he had taken the Peacecraft daughter and fled to safety. There had been two children. He had left behind the son to witness the inhumanity of man. He had mourned him. It was like the first welcome blush of Spring to see that boy grown to a young man. A stranger, Zechs Merquise, had rescued Relena that day but even from a distance he would have known him. There had been something in the youth’s carriage, the tilt of that pale head … the way he walked. It was not so much confidence though he had that in spades … it was the presence. //Stephan, you would have been proud of your daughter. You would have understood your son. They have weathered the storms of winter and after this final storm Spring will come to Sanc.// It would not be easy but he was confident the older generations, those who had survived would welcome back the monarchy. It saddened him that while Relena ruled there would be division within her own country. She had not been reared to Sanc and she had no understanding of the traditions of its people. Raised by the Darlians she had been indoctrinated from infancy with the Perfect Peace Principle and the very modern world she worked toward clashed with facets of the traditional Sanc outlook. Relena rebuilt in the modern way and could not understand why Sanc was not prospering. //I thought she would have succeeded but such was not the case.// The Peacecraft son, steeped in war, hands stained with blood and heart filled with mourning was the better choice. //Forgive me. You are the son of Kings and you will never escape your role.// Sometimes new was not better. Sometimes you needed to take a step back to find the clearest path. The Kushrenadas had ensured the Prince had had a formal education that incorporated the best of the old ways of European nobility. There lay appreciation for the traditions of their people, not merely tolerance and an amused smile. The future of Sanc lay in the ability to merge the old with the new. If he could convince the child of War and the Child of Peace to work in unison he knew that Sanc would thrive. The plane banked, descending. He would face the siblings and before then he must speak with his co-conspirators. The restoration would go ahead. Spring must follow Winter. End |
