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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: Milliardo + Mrs. Darlian Notes: Challenge 61. Baby Series 2 #183. Takes
place a few minutes after Less Ears To Hear.
Her Nightmare “Will you take Relena away from me?” The solar powered globes were low wattage to conserve the stored power through the long Sanc nights and while they gave sufficient light to move around safely they did little to illuminate a person’s face. She could not read his expression. She had stopped a good distance from him, her feet unwilling to move her closer. The voice in her mind urged her to seize the opportunity and run, saying he would greet her less than kindly. She had, after all, proven her cowardice long ago. She had never forgotten the sight of the child staring at her across a blazing room. “She views you as her mother. Sometimes it is best to leave matters as they stand.” //Something in his voice…// “You remember, don’t you?” “There is little about that night, and the days immediately following, I do not recall. It is etched indelibly on my memory.” She had to be as shadowed as he. The bull in the pen behind him moved and grunted softly, disturbed by their presence. “We… should talk about… what happened.” “What is there to talk about? You saw your opportunity to escape and you seized it. You ran and left me in a burning room.” Her hands pressed to her face, blotting out the sight of him. He was her nightmare reborn, the roaring flames, the screams and the gunfire surrounded her again. Across from her a small white-haired boy cried for his murdered mother. The ceiling had been buckling, engulfed in flame and she had panicked, running, leaving him there to burn alive. “I was… young… frightened… I panicked.” “I was young too. I might have died young.” “Do you not think I have not relived that night again and again? I looked at Relena and I saw the little boy I could not save…” But she could have saved him and she knew it. “I escaped, no thanks to you. The one who saved me died, but she did not hesitate. She did not run.” “I admit I am not the bravest of people and now you are here, alive and King. All no thanks to me.” “Indeed. No thanks to you. Relena knows nothing of the past. Leave it that way.” He sighed softly and she wished she could see his face, but between the shadows and those irritatingly long bangs, she could see nothing to give her a clue as to his temper. “It was a long time ago and as a soldier I saw courage in many forms. I have seen panic and rank cowardice, death and bravery, indifference and destruction. I have survived them all. I have learned one can not move on unless one takes the opportunity to let go. I forgive you, Lady Alice.” “You… forgive me?” “We are only human. We make mistakes and we learn from those mistakes. I can forgive what is in the past though I will never forget it.” End
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