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"Baby Series 3"Written By: Karina Rating: PG Spoilers: None Disclaimer: I don’t own Gundam Wing or the Characters from the series but the baby is mine. Pairing: Relena Notes: Challenge 119. Baby Series 3 #125. Takes
place the day after Broken Men. Many thanks to ShenLong for her work betaing
this fic.
Two Weeks Some days it seemed she struggled to climb the slopes of a treacherous mountain; days where she would give anything to go back to the time before she had learned her heritage. She had no particular wish to be Princess Relena of Sanc, then or now. Truth be told, she did not want to be, had never wanted to be, Vice Foreign Minister… or sit on the Council of Representatives. Then she would remember. She would remember that someone had to do it, and that whoever stepped into her shoes might not have the best interests of the people at heart. She had determined to progress her political career so that she might make a difference; deciding to stand up and be counted amongst the doers in the world. And here it was; the official notification of her resignation as Vice Foreign Minister. The key to closing the door on her career in the government of the ESUN. It was just an ordinary piece of paper lying on her desk, but it held monumental significance in her life. She had not wanted to forever be the government's pin up girl; their `feel good' solution to keeping the masses believing their politics. Two weeks. Just two weeks to a new beginning. She would no longer be tied to government policies. She would be able to go beyond the strictures of her official position in the government, entering areas formerly barred to her. She would have a measure of freedom because she would no longer answer to those in higher government authority. To be honest it frightened her. All she had to do was put her signature and official Royal Signet to the piece of paper and it would transform. It would no longer be just a piece of high quality paper; it would become a formal document. It would become her release, and it would symbolize her life sentence to servitude as Sanc's Princess Royal. She had expected the yoke of royalty to weigh more heavily on her shoulders than her governmental duties, so why did it feel like a weight was lifting from her back? She had fought being acknowledged a Princess and taking up the mantle of Queen. Never again did she want to be the centrepiece, but here she was, consigning herself to all the trappings of an ancient position… and looking forward to it. That was the real shocker. She was looking forward to it. All she had to do was sign and seal it and wait fourteen days. They would be interminably long days, but finally, blessedly, she could step down from the mountain peak and do what she needed to do. Genuinely, she could help others. Ah, look, she was so wrapped up in the idea of laying aside the post that she had signed it and not realized. There was a message there and she smiled, dripping hot wax to the paper, pressing her seal to the wax… Just two weeks. ~ * ~ |
