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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: Duo + Wu Fei Notes: Challenge 172. Baby Series 3 #290. Takes place at the same time as A Complex Code. Many thanks to ShenLong for her work betaing
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Quiet Words and Soft Touches "It was to be expected after the success of yesterday." Duo slid a quick glance across the width of the doorway. "You think?" "He has stepped onto the world stage once more. Being who he is, who he was, he can not be ignored. He has proven himself capable of standing up to his peers and not flinching. He has proven himself to them to be a viable threat should he chose to go against them." "He was a mess after it. They expected him to cringe and run in terror of them? They don't know him very well. Zechs won't run from anyone." "Except those who seek to make the dark hours a comfort and not a torture." He was not sure Chang intended him to hear that quiet comment, but he had and he could not help but agree with him. Milliardo wandered the halls at night to escape the solitude of his bedchamber. The man needed company, the kind of company that did not involve hot chocolate in the kitchens. "He's like that stallion I was watching them work with before we came here. Spooky as all hell, shying from any touch, on his toes all the time but ready to strike out. I watched the stable master gentle him with quiet words and soft touches and a shit load of patience. That's what we have to do at the moment, Fei. Just take it slow and gentle and he'll come around. He's not meant to be a solitary man and deep down he knows it." "I entertain… fond thoughts… for the future. I do not look forward to standing as the Chang, but seeing Milliardo stand as King… I can do this. I do not wish to, but I will. He had the foresight and the courage to accept the inevitable, and so must I. We do not need to enjoy the work to do it. I know that I will not be alone. I expected to spend my life on a colony with Meiran at my side heading my clan in the fullness of time. I had no foreknowledge the colony would become so much space rubble floating in space, that she would be long dead and that it would be on Earth, in Sanc of all places, that I would watch over the remnants of my clan." "It would be a scary world if we knew where we would be and what we would be doing in the future. I prefer to find out for myself, to actually live life and not roll over and play dead on order because someone says that is the way I should do it." "You are most fortunate, Duo. The most fortunate of men to have freedom." "Shit, Fei, I don't want that sort of freedom. I want to be a part of something with meaning. Mostly I want to be needed." ~ * ~ |
