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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: Heero + Relena Notes: Challenge 135. Baby Series 3 #176. Takes
place a few minutes following A Cold Draught. Many thanks to ShenLong for her work betaing
this fic.
Just Not Done "Where are they now?" Relena settled into her seat and acknowledged the agents respectful nods at her return. Heero, still seated at the bank of monitors dedicated to tracking the participants of the Run was, she noted, scowling at the monitors. "Something amiss?" "No, not really. Just a… curiosity, I suppose." "A curiosity?" "It's nothing. An unexpected fluctuation in the air temperature the sensors picked up." "Ah. A warm spot, huh? It's freezing out there, nice and cosy in here though. So, where are they?" A warm spot? A subzero fluctuation inside the palace and no sensor indicated that a window had been opened. The temperature had plunged dramatically with uncommon speed and he would have to corner Duo and Wu Fei and talk to them. Heero knew they had been in the room where the anomaly had occurred and they might be able to explain the discrepancy to his satisfaction. "Duo and Wu Fei are descending the central staircase between levels three and four. Milliardo is on the second floor, entering the east wing." Relena arched an eyebrow. "He just walked into the east wing through the second floor entrance? I know it's a big palace but I thought he might have taken a more… obscure… route." "He is entering from the servant's stairs midway along the main hall, coming up from the first floor. Moving at a reasonable speed too." "Ah. That seems more along the lines of what I expected him to do, take a quick but convoluted path. I am surprised he used a servant's staircase though." Heero glanced at her. "Why? A staircase is a staircase." "Well obviously, but not quite. Not really, Heero. It might seem like an odd notion, but I expected him not to use the servant's stairs. The public and private staircases, and the public hallways, yes, maybe a secret passage but never the servant's stairs." "Why not?" Relena chuckled. "Heero, it just is not done. If one is a noble, and worse yet a royal, one is to have honour and pride in one's birthright and station. Using the servant's staircase is just not the done thing." Heero shook his head. "That's stupid." Relena's laughter was like a bell in the small room. "Agreed, but it really is not normally done. In times of emergency, yes, but for common everyday transit, one must remember one's station and use the appropriate thoroughfare. " "It's a matter of honour? To get from one floor to another?" "One might disrupt the servant's in the performance of their duties. It's an upstairs, downstairs thing." Heero blinked. "Well, you don't hold a grand procession on the servant's stairs, do you? When one speaks of the King one immediately thinks of the finer things in life. King's use grand staircases." "Hnnn," Heero grunted. "At least Milliardo has more sense. It's well after midnight and in this icebox of a building the shortest way is the expedient way." Relena chuckled softly. "Indeed."
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