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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: Pagan Notes: Challenge 94. Baby Series 3 #45. Takes
place a few minutes after Intense Blue and Observations. Many thanks to ShenLong for her work betaing
this fic.
A Certain Decorum Surely the manner in which they had dealt with the murder would have been ample warning of how Milliardo would deal with incursions into his domain? If the representatives of the ESUN had not understood the matter had been dealt with discretely, but definitively, what more must they do to ensure international political games did not overflow into their territory? Pagan checked his pulse, careful no one noticed his action. He felt unaffected by any drug or poison, but sometimes these things could not be easily judged. It was not his health that concerned him, but surely he would feel the effects more quickly than the King? He was an old man and though he was fit he was not in the same league physically as the man he served. Any poison must take him down before it would affect Milliardo and he must use himself as a test subject to determine how long the King might have. There were other things he would have enjoyed doing far more than watching the tail end of the evenings dancing, but he could not afford, as yet, to depart. He had people to watch, to determine if they were waiting for an alert to be issued. Waiting for the announcement the King was taken suddenly ill. Ample warning he had assumed. He had been more than satisfied with how Milliardo had dealt with the murder. Sanc had gained from the incident happening within her borders, and while he did not condone the killing, Pagan was not one to pass up an opportunity. Milliardo had comported himself well and in the process had delivered a clear demonstration of his ability to make use of circumstances to strengthen his own footing. Sanc had appealed every year for the past three years for an increase in the allocated power from the world grid and been refused. Applying to the individual sector grids had likewise produced no much needed increase and in the end side stepping the formal applications process had produced results. It was a strange world they lived in. The recovery of Sanc would progress a little easier and the governments of the world had one more reason to be wary of the King. The next attempt to remove Milliardo from the throne would be subtle and more difficult to trace. He had not expected there would be another incident so soon. Logically it would make more sense for people to take a step back and review their intentions. He had not expected anyone to attempt to poison or drug the King so soon after the murder. There was a certain decorum to these things after all. Had this been an attempt to drug the man and have him make a fool of himself in public, or was it a poison for a more speedy and permanent result? Neither of these options he had expected to face so soon. ~ * ~ |
