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"Baby Series 1"Written By: Karina
Pairing: Wu Fei + Duo Notes: Challenge 19. #65 in the Baby Series. Takes place approximately 14 hours after The Right Hands. 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.
The Courage To Go Forward “You … resigned from Preventers?” “Yes.” “But … Why?” “I was not always a soldier. My life has not suited me. This opportunity for a new beginning, to make a home for myself and to make a difference in the shaping of the world is what I have been seeking.” The manor was quiet, the lights extinguished. Duo had come to the garden expecting to begin again the training Chang had offered him. He had found the man seated with his face turned up to the diminishing moon. “I will be twenty one in a few months, Duo. What have I done in my life that I can be proud of? I am not particularly proud of what I became during the war. I became unstable. I compounded my mistakes when I joined Barton’s lunacy. Heero brought me to my senses then and Relena has awoken me this time.” “Relena? I don’t understand.” “In life we must constantly challenge ourselves. We may never leave a mark of distinction that the world will recognize but we can at least content ourselves with the effort to make some kind of difference before we pass on. If I am to return in a later life I do not wish to see my name in the history books and be ashamed that this person named Chang was a fool or a tyrant.” “Well … you have made a difference. We have peace. You helped craft that peace. We all did.” “We were the play things and tools of other men. We were young and foolish and believed what we were told without asking Why. You escaped the slums of L2 and bettered yourself but I … I did not fight for the reasons that drove you. You had more pure intent than I.” “I was a smart mouthed street kid who hopped a Sweeper ship and lucked out when they didn’t space me. What’s so pure about that?” “What did you do when you learned the full details of Operation Meteor? I did not determine to destroy the very weapon they would use to make the Earth vulnerable nor did I steal that weapon and make it my own. I was a scholar. I took my wife’s place in the conflict on her death. I was intent on revenge though I called it justice. Now I am older and I can look back on that time of confusion with calm deliberation I am ashamed.” “Yeah, well, we don’t all think we were the bees knees you know. We all made mistakes. Bet you that man in there thinks he did too but I think he’d do the same thing again if he needed to.” Chang smiled. “He is. Becoming King is his personal purgatory. His struggle to make something of himself after the horrors of his past has taught me that I can no longer hide amid Preventers. I need to have the courage to go forward. To make a new life.”
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