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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: Unnamed Sisterhood Members Notes: Challenge 59. Baby Series 2 #174. Takes place at approximately the same time as Her Hope, Our Hope.
History And Hope “Do you think it merely superstition?” Age-thinned fingers stroked pale petals, savouring the velvet softness of the flower. It was not age that trembled her fingers but hope. Hope that after so long healing would come to the land. “Has my successor not learned there is more in this world than the rule of science and superstition?” “Science has its place, as does superstition. One makes life easier, the other makes life safer. People stay away from what they fear and superstition generally incites fear.” “Those of enlightenment and faith should be above superstition. Have you not attained enlightenment?” The younger woman was not in the least offended by the reaction to her question. Sanc’s fall had shaken the Sisterhood to the core, decimating their numbers. Always a secret sect they had lost half their followers in the massacre of the royal family. “We are in enlightened times, not the Dark Ages. Where once questions would earn punishment, even expulsion, we should encourage curiosity and the search for wisdom.” “Curiosity has a place, as does a modern education. However science refutes what it can not explain. It is rather a hopeless religion, science. It demands proof, giving no exercise to faith, and faith is an integral component in hope. If one fails to exercise faith one cannot entertain hope. If one does not have hope, what is there in life to strive for?” “One must always have hope.” The blue cowl dipped in acknowledgement. “You were there, you saw him. He does not fear science and technology, nor does he openly scoff at the old ways. Shall he be the Hope for Sanc?” “He already is. From the hour of his birth I have known it. You have little time for soothsaying, but Milliardo is the child of prophecy. Everything spoken of at his birthing has come to pass.” “King Stephan would have scoffed had he known the prophecy. His faith lay in the modern world.” “Much good it did him. He ignored our warnings, and dismissed the Sisterhood as fools, even went so far as attempting to revoke our charter. Poor, misguided fool. He was not the one fated to bring about peace to the world.” “He believed he was. Did he hope to relieve the burden from his son’s shoulders?” “We shall never know.” “Not everything foretold has come to pass. This King has more to do if we give credence to prophecy.” “We do and there is time. He can no more escape his fate than I can refuse my coming death. You have much to learn before you replace me and I have faith in you and much hope for the future. Do not put all your faith in science and the modern world. There is still much that can be learned from the past.” “I am well aware of the value of history.” “Throughout history you will find the threads of superstition, faith, and science woven together in one word. Hope.”
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