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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 153. Baby Series 3 #233. Takes place a few hours following In The Middle of the Night. Many thanks to ShenLong for her work betaing
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Bright and Shiny You could see your reflection almost as clearly as in a mirror, Relena mused. The silverware reflected the weak sunlight, bright and shiny, as one would expect to find on a table set for royalty. Just once it would have been nice to not be able to see her face in her spoon. Ah, now what was wrong with her? She had been out of sorts for much of the day and could not put her finger on any particular thing that upset her. Her mother had departed earlier in the day but that was not a bother, she would return the next day. Milliardo had been busy and they had nodded briefly to each other in passing having no time for anything more. And he was not at lunch though Pagan assured her he would eat. Helen was keeping Stephen in his nursery for lunch so there was no distraction to be found with the delightful bundle of laughter. He was a happy child, so different to his father's sombre moods. He was, Pagan had confided in her, much as Milliardo had been at similar age. A happy child full of the mysteries of life and loving parents. And look how the world had changed him. Changed them. The world was not so bright and shiny a place as their young minds had thought it to be. Not for her brother and not for her, though she had not realised it until much later in life. For as long as possible she would keep that innocence and shine for Stephen… and for any children she might have in the future. Heero was absent from the palace, on assignment for Hunter she knew, but gone was gone and she was being a sulky idiot. Hardly mature but at least she was not leaning out a window bellowing for all the world to hear `Heero come and kill me!' just to get his attention. She had done some stupid things when she was younger and no doubt she would do stupid things in the future… but less if she had Heero at her side than if she did not. He was a steadying influence on her though few would agree. She could not explain it herself, but the world felt right when he was close and so much safer. Love? Now there was a bright and shiny thing, when things went according to plan. No tarnish on true love, but one had to find it, recognise it and not fight it. //And have it returned.// He loved her. It was not so long ago he had admitted he wanted to ask her to marry him… but it was not the time yet. She would say yes, she was sure she loved him. There had been hours of seriously considering what her attraction to him was and at the end of it… she had put that simple but very complex four letter word to it. Love. Such a bright and shiny thing. ~ * ~ |
