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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 157. Baby Series 3 #245. Takes place approximately at the same time as Tomorrow Never Comes. Many thanks to ShenLong for her work betaing
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The Peaceful Tomorrow //Tomorrow everything will change. Tomorrow I will be a private citizen. Not just a private citizen I suppose, given I will still be the appointed representative to the House of Representatives for our sector of Europe, and I am a princess. The Princess Royal of Sanc. Tomorrow it will be blatantly obvious I have accepted my bloodline and am no longer hiding from it.// The street beyond the high fence was deserted. From her place at the window on the second floor she could see the street and the guards at the gate. No cars drove past. No citizens walked the sidewalk. The world seemed to have paused, drawing a breath, waiting. //That's silly. The world does not pause and take a deep breath just because I decide to resign from the government as an active Minister. I will still attend Assembly meetings until the new elections are held and perhaps after, if I am chosen to represent our region. I honestly do not know if I want to continue as the representative. What I will be doing as the Princess will be quite time consuming and there will still be travelling involved.// But nowhere near as much travelling as her soon to be resigned position entailed. She had promised herself she would not second guess her decision, not this close to the actual resignation, but it was hard. She felt she might be letting down the people who relied on her and she could not do that. But... They had made use of her for years now and she wanted something that lifestyle could not give her. A stable family life. Her foster father had rarely been home. She had loved him and she had understood what he worked for, but she had resented him too. Resented coming second to his responsibilities. Had it been because he was not her blood father that he had found it so easy to leave home and travel around the colonies and the Earth? Had she been born his daughter would it have been so easy to leave all the time? //Not fair. He loved me. I know he loved me and he was determined the fate that met the Sanc kingdom would not be repeated elsewhere. He dedicated his life to that and in the end, it cost him his life. So unfair. I have no real memory of my father or mother. Sanc was not even a dream though it is certainly real enough now. He wanted a peaceful tomorrow.// She thought they had achieved it but today, in the car, it had been anything but peaceful. It had been frightening sitting in that car, having it rocked from side to side, people banging on the roof and the windows, pulling at the doors trying to get them open... "This is the peaceful tomorrow he sought? The peaceful tomorrow that people died for? Are people so easily led that they forget basic humanity and become animals so easily?" ~ * ~ |
