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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: Duo + Wu Fei + Milliardo Notes: Challenge 120. Baby Series 3 #129. Takes
place immediately following QiuYue. Many thanks to ShenLong for her work betaing
this fic.
A Princess's Tale "QiuYue," Wu Fei whispered. "It was a turbulent period in history and Sanc didn't actually exist during her lifetime, it was more a settlement village with Viking roots. The chieftain's son was said to be an adventurer, rather bawdy and lustful from the few accounts that remained. How accurate any of those records were is anyone's guess. They tended to wax poetic in those days, and I'm not really sure how fond they were of fact." Duo turned the heat off on the hotplate and after a final stir, poured the hot chocolate into one of the cups, careful the cinnamon stick did not transfer and passed the mug to Milliardo. "That's really a long time ago." "And not a lot is known about those times, " Milliardo agreed. "The version I heard when I was little read like a fairytale. An old fashioned tale full of what seemed like copious quantities of blood, guts and gore; and no small amount of magic and bravery." The nostalgia in blue eyes was evident, suggesting he was looking back to a more welcome place than the horror his childhood had become with the invasion. "My father loved a good old fashioned fairytale. He made stories come alive and he would tell me one at least once a week that would have me looking under the bed before I would settle down to sleep; just to make sure there were no evil trolls lurking under there." Duo was grinning, delighted to see something other than sorrow or fear reflected in eyes that looked into the past. "He told me the chieftain's son stole away a beautiful princess from a distant land and brought her across the desert and mountains to their village. On the journey they had many adventures and he won her love while fighting off brigands and monsters. I assumed it was a fairytale until one day that portrait came to light. Father told me it was the Autumn Moon, the Princess from far away." "Is there any way of finding out if it was just a fairytale?" Wu Fei broke his long silence, dark eyes thoughtful. "I doubt it would be possible. So many records were lost in the invasion and I had thought that portrait lost forever. It was painted centuries after her death from a watercolour which was reputedly painted by her handmaiden who, so the tale went, followed after the barbarian who stole away her mistress. Feisty girl apparently." "She was… a distant ancestor of yours?" Wu Fei murmured. "I am not even going to attempt to work out the number of greats that entails, but yes, she was said to be a distant grandmother. Somewhere there was a tapestry made in the fourteenth or maybe fifteenth century that was a family tree containing her name. She became known as Autumn Moon." Milliardo glanced at Wu Fei. "QiuYue is Chinese? Does it translate to Autumn Moon?" "Yes. Yes, it does."
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