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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 + Pagan Notes: Challenge 90. Baby Series 3 #34. Takes
place during No Immediate Danger. Many thanks to ShenLong for her work betaing
this fic.
Ch 34: Something was Wrong Something was wrong. As her partner swung her around in the dance she watched Pagan motion to the security guards placed around the dais. She had noted Milliardo pass a glass to Pagan and he had sipped the contents. She knew that look. Something was wrong. While Milliardo hated the necessities of socializing she knew he had been looking forward to this occasion. It was the end of the season arranged by Parliament to gather candidates for the brother and sister whom they considered to be keeping questionable company. Parliament was not happy about her association with Heero and they would be even less enamoured of the idea Milliardo might form some intimate association with Wu Fei or Duo. They had to know the rumours of Milliardo’s past association with Treize Khushrenada. Whether they believed the rumours or not would not matter. It was the possibility that was a threat to their dynastic dreams they would react to, hence this panicked arrangement of a courting season. Until Milliardo was safely married it would be like an endless waltz, the women being brought and paraded before him in hopes of him choosing a Queen. Mariemaia once had commented that the cycle of their civilization was much like an endless waltz. She was not wrong in her belief, though now in the cycle it was the time of peace and Relena intended for the peace to last long enough that the cycle of war was forgotten. Something, eventually, had to break the old cycle and begin a new cycle; a new waltz which would seem to be endless. Her teachers had stressed to her over the years that everything had a beginning and an ending. It was very important that for this stage of Sanc’s existence her brother sit the throne; and, watching as he was hustled out the door, she felt her heart clench. Something was wrong. Would this waltz never end so she could make her excuses and find Pagan and learn what was happening? Why would they be taking her brother away? What was wrong with the wine…? He did not drink at these affairs; nothing more potent than lightly flavoured mineral water. Such a drink would refresh him and keep him alert to the dangers inherently found in a court affair. It would do nothing to disguise the taste of anything which might be added and could harm him. //Poison? Would someone have tried to poison him, not knowing he does not drink? How much did he have?// She watched Heero mount the dais and the old man and the young put their heads together. She felt like running from her partner to learn what was happening, but such was not done. She must keep the people occupied, distracted, turn their attention to the mundane and allow others to deal with the unpalatable. She was Princess of Sanc and it was her lot in life to be the centrepiece, the distraction. But she would have her answers. ~ * ~ |
