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"Baby Series 2"Written By: Karina
Pairing: Relena + Pagan Notes: Challenge 27. Baby Series 2 #35. Takes place roughly at the same time as Before The Lull. 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.
Lantern Of Hope “Your Highness.” Relena turned from the window and if not for the situation she might have laughed. Pagan reminded her of a particularly shapeless bear bundled as he was in heavy furs. The search team was ready to go out again and she could only wish them luck. Hope as she might common sense was beginning to scream it was too late. //Heero. I want to believe you are going to come back to me. I’d stand at this window and scream ‘come and kill me’ if I thought it would do any good. Why did I grow up? It might have made me feel better.// “The ponies are prepared and being brought around.” “Pagan, much as I want them back safely please have everybody back before the weather deteriorates. I don’t want anyone suffering needlessly.” “We shall not be placing lives at risk and I shall have them out of the storm before it rises. Within the next twenty minutes the wind shall drop appreciably and we will be able to move. I believe I shall find them in the vicinity of the old palace, perhaps at the caretaker’s cottage or even the gamekeeper’s cottage though I doubt they would have gone so far.” Relena pressed her hands to her face trying to squash a sudden surge of temper. “Oooh I am so going to rip Milliardo a good one for going off like that!” Pagan’s quiet chuckle drew a brilliant blush. Princesses were not suppose to say such things. “I won’t say anything if you don’t.” she whispered. “My lips are sealed. I shall wait in line for my turn to inform His Majesty what I think of his little jaunt. I have little doubt after this that he will see reason and have the security chip implanted. Had he consented when approached we would not now have this problem.” Relena touched a delicate finger to a point behind her left ear. The security chip was tiny and she could not feel a lump but she knew it was there. Most days she considered it a waste of time to tag her but should Milliardo have been implanted they would know where he was now. “He considers them a leash. Another restraint to bind him.” “Regardless he shall be implanted if I have to do so in a most clandestine manner.” The old man sighed. “I shall be off. The wind is dropping.” Relena turned to see the snow was no longer being driven horizontally by the wind. “Good luck. I will … Pagan! What is that?” The old retainer shuffled to the window and followed her pointing finger. A flare of hope surged within him as the flicker of flame rose into the night. It was barely visible in the snowfall but it was there and he knew what it must be. “A Lantern of Hope to light the night, Miss Relena. A Lantern of Hope.” End |
