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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: Milliardo, Duo + Wu Fei Notes: Challenge 141. Baby Series 3 #194. Takes
place a few minutes after The Clock Is Ticking. Many thanks to ShenLong for her work betaing
this fic.
Crunch Time With hindsight there were a number of other options he could have chosen which would have avoided this situation. Certainly he should have resisted the temptation to take a peek at Stephen. Certainly making a direct dash for the kitchen would not have presented him with this problem. Still, what did it matter if he was caught or not? It was all for fun after all. If nothing else the exercise was good for them and, if fortune smiled, it might help him sleep for more than an hour or so. It was probably that brief delay in watching his son sleep so peacefully that left him with less than ten minutes to reach the kitchen and the sound of footsteps closing in on him. Running footsteps, and who else would be running in the palace at this abominable hour of the morning other than the two young men intent on hunting him down? The Run had been fun and he could only hope they would be willing to participate in future such activities. But just because it looked like they might have him cornered did not mean he actually was pinned between them. There were options available to him even at this stage of the Run. They were hunting him methodically, working in conjunction with each other to cover the most ground with the most speed possible, and they were using their brains with that cursed rose scented talc. Its placement across hallways where stairs were in use was a give away should he choose to use the staircases. The secret passages were of no use to him at the present time, none that he knew of that could be traversed at speed ran close enough to the kitchen to be of real use to him. Yes, he could get down to the ground floor if he went out of his way, but that would leave him with a rather lengthy straight run to the kitchen. The pair would have him in no time. He could not see them moving away from the area with the time limit running out; they would know he had to make a move soon. "Yes!" Damn. Chang. In a swirl of untidy blonde pony tail he spun and was off, chancing getting past the next staircase before Maxwell could cut him off and he was only just past when he heard a wild yell from the young man as he caught sight of him. With them both hot on his heels he was out of options. Crunch time. There was only one option left to gain some distance. Now it would be a straight run and whoever ran fastest would win.
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