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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 + Wu Fei, Nelson Notes: Challenge 144. Baby Series 3 #204. Takes
place after Curiosity And Cats. Many thanks to ShenLong for her work betaing
this fic.
A Zest For Life Milliardo considered Chang standing at the window for a long moment and the curious sense of comfort his presence provided. He was not a fool, nor was he blind to the machinations of the young men who kept him company. He was well aware of their intent and how, in an effort to include him, they held back from each other. It was only recently that Wu Fei had shown a growing interest in Duo other than as a student to train or a nuisance to be tolerated. He had been pleased by the change in their interaction and intended they turn to each other, well aware of how Duo had been drawn to Chang and held him in that certain regard. Chang needed Maxwell's zest for life, though perhaps he would not agree, but it was the simple truth. When Duo was around one could not help but be infected by his will to experience life. To Duo it did not matter if his constant challenges to himself and others produced less than sterling results; it was the challenge itself that proved to Duo he was alive. Maxwell had long held an attraction for the stoic young man who had, like he, like so many of them, endured the trials of war. They were fighters, capable of killing in cold blood and going on with the job… then wrestling with the nightmares of the dead when the day was done and one could think of more than surviving from one second to the next. There could be no greater impact on a human soul than the act of killing. They each dealt with it in their own unique way, this common weight that pressed relentlessly upon those who had killed. Duo sought to live not only for himself, but perhaps for those who had died as well. Chang turned to introspection, a method Milliardo understood as he immersed himself all too often in the blood and death and the failed dreams. Duo would bring life to a relationship, forcing a partner to live by his mere presence. Chang would bring stability to the relationship, a rock solid reliability, and Chang had the uncommon grace of being able to calm the soul when the pressure became too much. They could be wonderful together… They would be wonderful together. What need was there for them to have a third party in their relationship? What could he bring? The kitten in his hands purred, tiny paws laid out along his forearm, tiny puffs of warm breath against his wrist. //Trusting souls, children. Of any species.// There was nothing of note he could bring to a relationship, but he could provide stability in which they could forge their bond. As he reshaped Sanc to be passed on to Stephen's care in the future, so could he shape it to give the survivors of conflict, civilian and solder alike, a place in which to rest. ~ * ~ |
