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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 163. Baby Series 3 #264. Takes
place at the same time as The Shining Strand. Many thanks to ShenLong for her work betaing
this fic.
Royal Watching At least there had been no gold watch presentation. The thought caused a small twitch of her lips, a smile that was, unfortunately, caught on camera and would, in the light of day, find the social pages reporting on the affair. But it was an innocent smile and she would not care, there were many photographs being taken to mark the occasion of her retirement from office. Just one memento amongst many of the days that had seemed endless over the last few years. Days and years where she seemed to make little if any progress toward her goals. All gone now, marked only by pretty photographs in social magazines for the masses to view, and newspapers harassing her failures and touting her successes. In some ways it would be worse. She had accepted her role as Princess of Sanc. She was certain to be more in the public eye as the Princess Royal than she was as Vice Foreign Minister. The world, for some odd reason, loved to watch royalty. She had retired from office, laid down the mantle of a political world leader and taken a stride forward. At least she hoped it was forward. That had been the intention of the exercise, but time alone would reveal if it was a mistake or not. But he was there, in her sight, with his proud blue eyes and unruly hair. He was there, trying to look unobtrusive and failing miserably. Heero could never fade from sight whilst standing in the centre of a room. There was a presence about him that made him noticeable and she had found no one who was immune to it. If she could get him to propose to her they would have beautiful children together. //Oh God! Where did that thought come from?// She was not a vapid, air headed ninny and she really should mind where her thoughts took her. Idiocy was not something one could get away with in political circles and though she was no longer a government minister she was still standing, and would continue to stand, in political circles. Her life would be documented, photographed, talked about, criticised, praised, pulled apart and put back together again on a daily basis. There would be mementos of her life, as there had been in the past for others who had shared the mantle of Princess. Her wedding would be commercialised, likely her funeral would be as well with little knick knacks the public masses would snatch up for reasons she really did not understand… but it was simply the way things were and had been for a very long time. The public loved `royal watching' and they had their favourites to watch. The public of the ESUN were too afraid to watch Milliardo, but they would watch her. She simply had to live with it. ~ * ~ |
