Title: As Long As I Have You
Author: Karina
Rating: PG
Pairing: None
Notes: Challenge 8 . #21 in the Baby Series. Takes place a few minutes after Polite Resistance.
Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing or the Characters from the series but the baby is mine.
Thanks to Dulin for her work as Beta.
As Long As I Have You
Helen looked up from the squirming bundle that was the infant and offered a smile to the man who leaned against the door frame. He looked tired and she could clearly see the signs of a fever, but the nurse in her remained silent for now, and she gently picked up the baby and settled him in his father's arms.
"I need to warm his bottle."
Zechs lightly ran a finger over the chubby cheek and touched his lips to the cherubs up tilted nose. He was a Peacecraft. It was unmistakable in the bone structure despite his tender age and his hair was that somewhat startling shade somewhere between gold, silver and white that marked most of the Peacecraft males. When he looked at his son he saw very little of Lucrezia. If she had survived their second child might have had her dark hair and her blue eyes that could flash oddly violet when the intensity of her mood fired her Italian blood.
"Perhaps you will have her temper? Your mother had such fire. Such fire. She would be turning in her grave if she knew what they were trying to do."
He made his way to the oversized rocking chair placed before the window overlooking the rear gardens of the manor. It was a favourite place of his, to sit here in the warm pool of sunshine with the child warm in his arms. At some time in the past he supposed his mother might have sat here. They had favoured this estate, his parents, and he could recall laughter had lived within these old walls.
"They want to take you away from me. I won't let them. You're all that I have left. All that is good in this bitch of a world I helped to create. I hate it, Stephen. I hate the cage. I hate not being able to walk down a street or walk along a beach and feel the wind on my face. I should not have returned. I should have remained on Mars. At least there was freedom there. I should have died with Him."
Baby smiles turned into sucking against the side of his thumb.
He smiled softly. "If I had stayed on Mars, there would be no you, would there? Lu would still be alive but there would be no you. As long as I have you ... They think to bribe me with a spoon full of sugar and take away the very soul of me. You are my spoon full of sugar, Sweetling. All the sweetener I need to continue living in this boring bitch of a reality. They have too much time on their hands, that's the trouble. No one is used to peace, not even after seven years of it. It's a funny sort of peace too. Maybe that is the problem. What I do know is that no one is going to take you away from me."
End
Karina Robertson 2005