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"Baby Series 1"Written By: Karina
Pairing: Zechs + All Notes: Challenge 19. #68 in the Baby Series. Takes place approximately 45 days after Seduction. 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.
Rebirth. For there to be rebirth something had to die. So much had died this year. He had buried his wife and with her his past. Nothing was left of that life now but the memory of the love that was doomed from the start and the innocence that represented the future. Lucrezia had not lived to hold their son who now was almost five months old. There was Relena to give him that feminine touch he would need as he grew and Helen saw to his every need, two strong women to influence him but neither of them Lucrezia. A Prince for Sanc. Stephan would not be a spoiled brat if he had his way but he feared he was fighting a losing battle. So many uncles to spoil him and what they would teach him as he grew … They were good people. Enemies once now they were the people he relied on. The people who stood between him and the demands of fate. Once there was an innocent little boy watching his father with shining eyes and wishing to be like him. To make him proud. That world was long gone. He was not the King his father would have wanted. The world was far from the ideal Stephan Peacecraft had envisioned. The wars were quieted and there was Peace yet it was not the brotherhood of mankind the King had preached. Perhaps in another generation or two there would be that national identity but it would not come in his lifetime. There was a central government and the nations of Earth cooperated. At least for now. Such was their peace. Relena looked beautiful and he wanted to do something for her. Perhaps he needed to have a word with Yuy and make the idiot look around him. He could not remain a part of the old world where everyone fingered the gun at their hip. While Yuy remained security for Relena he would never move to a more personal relationship. Having loved twice and lost both he could not sit back and watch them dance around the inevitable. He had learned to take love when it was offered lest it be gone when you turned around. He had his son but could he hope for more? Twice he had loved and lost but perhaps he might dare to love again before this mortal coil fell away? Perhaps. Chang, Maxwell, Winner and Barton. Standing together watching and while they were no longer security or soldiers they were attentive to every sight and sound and ready to spring into action at the slightest provocation. Much as the world still trembled. Rebirth. Not just for Sanc, not just for him. Rebirth for them all. Against his brow the metal was hard, cold and heavy. Symbolic of the changes affecting them all. This day Zechs Merquise had died a final death and he had gone quietly without a whimper. Milliardo Peacecraft had been reborn. Long live the King.
Karina Robertson 2005 ————— Hello This is the final in the first sequence of Challenges for the 5x6ml. A second sequence has begun in which I chose to continue with the Baby Series. |
