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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 165. Baby Series 3 #269. Takes place at the same time as Inescapable. Many thanks to ShenLong for her work betaing
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God Given Rights "Struggle as one might to achieve the seemingly unreachable, once it is achieved, there yawns a void into which one must never permit oneself to fall. There must always be a goal to strive for; the will to advance, to keep walking forward, to find higher hills to climb and wider oceans to cross. Peace should not go undefended. It should not be taken for granted. To endure Peace must be worked at, improved upon, maintained with dedication and perseverance. There will be times when Peace appears to falter… it will not, if patience and fortitude are exercised." Not once during his address had he bowed his head and offered himself to them, giving himself over to their rule. She sighed softly as her maid laid out the gown for her approval. The day had been quite unlike the expectation that had had her wishing it would never come in one moment, and desperation for it to be over the next. Milliardo's address to the Assembly had not borne the results she had feared. She had feared, expected, he would be arrested for war crimes as he stepped up to the podium; at the very least as he left the stage. He was the villain of the world after all, the Terror of Earth… and he had walked away from the podium, out of the Assembly Hall and back into the world. Free. He might have been arrested, tried for crimes too horrible to mention, instead he had held them with the power of his voice and the undeniable Peacecraft charisma she had never actually witnessed him turn on in all of its blazing glory... before today. Had she ever been able to affect people as he did? "To fully appreciate what one has, no matter if it is material wealth or the simple freedom to walk on a beach and watch the sunset, to enjoy the beauty of a child's first breath; the moment an old man who has lived a full life breathes his last… Peace and the freedom to live it. These are the God given rights of every man, woman and child who is a part of the ESUN. It is the right of every animal that walks the Earth and every creature that lives in Her oceans, as much as it is the right of humankind. Why must it be that the only time we realise this right is when it is forcibly wrenched from us? If War has a purpose it is to remind us of the blessings we have. The cost of the lessons of War is measured in the loss of lives, in the loss of freedom to choose what we and our children might wish to be, and in the loss of liberty." Some parts of the twenty minute address would stay with her for her life. She honestly had not thought he had it in him to brave the enmity she knew too many of her peers held for him. But he had more than braved their hate… he had thumbed his nose at them, reminded them of what was important and shamed them for their personal greed as a true Hero should. ~ * ~ |
