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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: Wu Fei + Duo Notes: Challenge 178. Baby Series 3 #309. Takes
place immediately following Weak. Many thanks to ShenLong for her work betaing
this fic.
Anticipation "Are you weak? I know of few people I would consider to be stronger, and shit loads of assholes I would call weaker. You are afraid of them? Of the Elder?" Was that it? Oh yes, he was indeed afraid. Duo had no concept of how vicious matters could get in his Clan. He had lost his family because of faction fighting and lost his colony because of feudal concepts taken to the extreme. In his view the Elders had revealed themselves to be cowards for choosing the path they had taken and for forcing their unknowing brethren to walk into hell with them. He anticipated trouble, if not immediately upon their arrival then within hours of it. They would be taken to their temporary home and when settled he would host a meeting to elect representatives who would meet Milliardo in the evening, but all of those plans had been made before he had learned of the surviving Elder. "He is an unknown element. All of the carefully made plans might come to naught because of this one man." "Only if you allow it. Fei, he's one man. If they do not accept you, then the clan falls, yes?" "I… Technically, yes, that is so. At the moment there is no formal Clan structure." "So he has a choice, accept you or go off elsewhere and make a life for himself." "Not as simple as you make it sound, Duo." "He has not attempted to re form the clan survivors into anything cohesive, and it has been years since the Colony was destroyed. If he thought himself capable don't you think he would have done something before now?" "To be honest I do not know what to think." "Well, what I know is that you'll make a good leader and you're not on your own. Technically Sanc is not the back of beyond, and it does have ties to your Clan, distant though they are. I found the portrait, Fei. I found the portrait of the princess last night, but I hadn't had the chance to tell you before now." Duo grinned fiercely at him, his face almost glowing with his pleasure. "QiuYue? You found her?" "Yeah. Got the little lady safely tucked away in my room. Soon as you get the chance you can find out what she looked like. It's not a big portrait and as Zechsy said, it was painted centuries after she died, but it's a tie… and didn't he say something about there being a tapestry somewhere with her name on the family tree? Somewhere there has to be some sort of proof in the records that she was from China." "There is no proof she was from my clan, but she is, regardless, a symbol, to me if to no one else. I will very much enjoy looking at this portrait. Thank you, Duo." ~ * ~ |
