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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 + Marquise Weyridge Notes: Challenge 172. Baby Series 3 #289. Takes place following Graceful Dignity. Many thanks to ShenLong for her work betaing
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Foreknowledge Sun Tzu's Art of War was required reading for the Oz Specials. Treize had been a firm believer in his subordinates having a thorough grounding in the history, execution, of successes and failures alike, of conflict through the ages. The man had been a firm advocate of the ancient Chinese general's insights. 'Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievement surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.' The passage sprang to mind as silence settled over the study. It was not exactly a comfortable silence, but neither was it truly uncomfortable. Expectant applied, perhaps even more appropriate would be `the calm before the storm'. He had an uncomfortable feeling the Marquis was about to make an offer it would be unwise of him to turn down, but an offer he would not wish to accept. Weyridge had fingers in many pies and he made the best use of people. If you were introduced into his circle of acquaintances then you could be sure you were of use to his plans. Foreknowledge. The wily general from the past was wise indeed. Everyone was a user at some point in their life, and successful people were the best users. Successful politicians stood at the pinnacle, well versed in getting the best possible results from those chosen to be the agents of their design. Treize had chosen him as such an agent and he knew, despite the love he held for the man, that Treize had made every use he could of him. Treize researched, plotted, planned, adjusted when required, and never faltered. He had planned to use the Peacecraft name at the appropriate time but the emergence of Relena had necessitated an adjustment. Treize had required a Peacecraft and suddenly he had had two. A minor inconvenience. Foreknowledge. Milliardo had no doubt the man had used the Epyon system; Heero had made mention of the conversation with Treize that revealed he had seen his own death. Heero had told him he did not understand how Treize thought, and admittedly it was not easy to follow the man's thinking; he thought so far ahead of everyone else. Having used Epyon, knowing what it was capable of making you see, feel and do, he did not doubt Treize had known exactly what he was doing when he quietly removed Relena and took over. The world thought him insane to threaten to destroy the planet. Thinking the Libra could have destroyed the Earth was insanity. It would certainly have put a spectacular series of craters on the surface, destroyed civilisation as they knew it, and killed millions of people had it been used effectively. One day someone might wonder why, with his training, he would target an out of the place wilderness away from active tectonic plates and volcano's with a population in the low thousands rather than millions. Foresight had many uses. ~ * ~ |
