Title: Alea Iacta Est
Characters: Une
Rating/Word Count: G, 443 words
Summary: Une, while she races back to save the captive Gundam pilots and Gundam scientists, reflects on why she is doing exactly that.
Disclaimer/A/N: I could never create such a complex and fascinating character as Une. I can only play with her.
Is this what they call the point of no return?
Colonel Lady Une, aide, executive officer and right-hand-woman of His Excellency Treize Khushrenada, ruthlessly quashes the hint of fear that has begun to rise in her chest. She does not have the time to be afraid. The situation has spiralled out of her control. The Space Fortress Barge is no longer responding to her hails.
Damn that Tubarov, she thinks, her upper lip curling in disgust at the thought of the engineer. Damn Nichol, for engineering this situation.
And damn me, too, for allowing it to happen.
Nichol hurts the worst, because she knows that he only acted as he did because he believed she was too soft to do it herself. Get her out in battle, make her wake up to the severity of the situation they are in, wake up her ruthless self. And if she dies out there, it is a loss, sure, but not a large enough loss to keep anyone sleepless at night.
Une quashes another emotion rising in her, this time disgust at having to be saved, and by Zechs Merquise of all people.
This ends now. I will be dependent on no other person.
However, if her instincts are correct, there are some people who are dependent on her right now...
Une wonders why it has become so important to her that the Gundam pilots and the scientists live. Somehow, it is now more important than her own life. Partly, it could be because they are symbols of how her authority has been taken away from her by underhanded actions and outright ignoring of her orders. However, she suspects that it is more, and also, that this is not the right mind to find the reason.
Nichol believes that she has a strong and a weak personality. She wonders when she stopped thinking the same, and found that both her personalities are equally strong, albeit in different ways.
And, if she is completely honest with herself, she must admit that her gentler personality is the one that has brought home the results. For all her hard-lining, the Colonel never got her desired results. Try to blow up a base with the Gundams in it, and they stop the missiles. Take the Colonies hostage, the pilot blows himself up to break the stalemate.
Perhaps that is why she is now racing towards Barge in order to free the remaining Gundam pilots. So far, they have been able to stop her before she did anything truly monstrous. She must repay them...
...and then, after this, perhaps she can harness both her personalities and become truly accomplished in herself.
