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"Baby Series 1"Written By: Karina
Pairing: Pagan + Relena Notes: Challenge 17. #57 in the Baby Series. Takes place approximately two hours after Teasing. 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.
Dirty Pool "We need to talk." He had watched people respond to that tone and voice countless times over the last years but he had developed an immunity. An immunity begun when he had entered the service of the Peacecrafts sixty years earlier. "Miss Relena." Pagan bowed. "Don’t you Miss Relena me. I’ve seen the file. The translated version." "Of course." "You deliberately withheld information from me. You ensured Quatre would act before I saw the file so I could not stop him." Well, what could he say to that? "Yes." "Pagan." a low growl. "What did you think you were doing?" "As Mr Chang would say, I was ensuring Justice would be served, Miss." "Justice?! This could spark a revolution. It could rip apart the ESUN when we finally have peace. Why chance that peace? It’s long over." He knew her well enough to know that she was not angry, merely seeking an explanation. She had a great heart but sometimes she had little understanding that others in this world were not so forgiving. She had forgiven Une the assassination of her foster father but she had no concept she was the exception to the rule. "Some people in the world like you have the capacity to forgive seemingly unforgivable sins. Unfortunately you are the rare few. The majority of us need something more before there can be forgiveness. We need closure. The general population need the truth to be revealed though in this situation that is not feasible. Sanc is not at peace. Yes, there is peace but that which binds the people to the land and makes us a nation, our spirit, is not at peace. There has not been closure." "There never will be if we can’t let it go." "Years ago great injustice was done to this land and to the people. Many were slain, many more survived. Most are still alive today, older, wiser but still living the nightmare. For them closure will not come until there is a national identity they recognize. Sanc has been a monarchy for centuries and that is an integral part of our identity. The younger generations grew up with tales of the old Sanc and the promises of their elders that there would be a return to the world they knew. Unfortunately that Sanc can only exist with a Peacecraft on the throne." "Is this closure unattainable because I dissolved the nation? Is that why I’m not seen by the people as more than an ambassador of the ESUN? We must give up past preconceptions to secure peace." "Very true. There are many kinds of peace … many ways in which to achieve it. Sanc is not the first to re-establish a national border nor will it be the last. You dissolved the nation, you can not re-establish it." "Milliardo can as King Peacecraft." softly. "A position he would not accept unless …" "He saw the modern day links to the massacre. Dirty pool, Pagan." "But necessary." End |
