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"Baby Series 2"Written By: Karina
Spoilers: None Disclaimer: I don’t own Gundam Wing or the
Characters from the series but the baby is mine. Pairing: Relena + Milliardo Notes: Challenge 46. Baby Series 2 #114. Takes
place immediately after Changes.
The Swing Of The Pendulum “We learn a little more as each day comes and I am wise enough to know we will never know it all. There was a time not so long ago I could not make that admission. I was convinced of my own infallibility.” Relena sighed and shook her head. “Foolishness.” “Someone told me once that life is a pendulum. It sways continually between what we perceive to be the good and the bad. How we perceive action and reaction is not necessarily how others would view the result. Time and patience are needed to see one event through the eyes of everyone. If we delayed to evaluate an action to its conclusion from everyone’s perspective we would be in our dotage and the opportunity to act and make a difference would be long gone.” “Treize Kushrenada?” Milliardo shook his head, a negative gesture and his eyes were shuttered, hiding his emotions from her. “Not Treize. It was his mother and it was Christmas. My first Christmas with them after everything changed. I was supposed to be in bed but I did not want to sleep. I dared not in case the world changed again and I lost even that haven. To me everything happened at Christmas, the good and the bad. I just had to wait and it would happen and I would know if I could relax or if I must find the dark places I had learned were safe.” “I don’t remember those times. I only remember the Darlians. They were good to me.” “For which I am thankful.” “What was she like, the Duchess?” “Formidable.” He smiled a slight curve of his lips and there was something there, an innocence that astounded Relena. He smoothed a hand over the arch of her foot, pressing a thumb into her heel and sighed, turning his head to watch the lights of the approaching palace. “She told me all things come to those who wait. Patience was to be admired and practised. There was a time to act and a time to wait and I would need to learn the difference between the two. If I was going to restore what had been lost and give to everyone who had survived hope I would need to learn how to read the swing of the pendulum. I must read it and wait for it to reach just the right point. When that time came patience would be a liability, not a virtue.” “She must have been quite a woman to have reared someone like Treize Kushreanda and you. I’m sure she would have been proud of you.” “She would have been proud of Treize. He was more like his mother than his father. She knew our mother, you know? She told me once I was more like my mother than my father and because of that I would survive whatever the future would bring. She knew how to read the swing of the pendulum.” End
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