Title: Not Impossible
Author: Karina
Rating: PG
Pairing: Pagan + Heero+ Relena
Notes: Challenge 9 . #25 in the Baby Series. Takes place approximately an hour after Shadows of Sorrow.
Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing or the Characters from the series but the baby is mine.
Title: Not Impossible
These young men and women who served as security not only for those he loved as family, but for the ESUN itself, were competent and had good instincts. They reminded him of himself and those who had served in times past in like capacity. Only once had he failed in all of the years of his service to the Peacecrafts, and that failure was as bitter to him as a service spoon full of artificial sweetener would be. Too bitterly sweet to be palatable.
Long ago he had seen the Princess safely clear of massacre. A small success against the greater failure that had destroyed dreams of a utopia. His failure, the failure of the security services he had been a part of, had seen the destruction of all the Peacecrafts had built for the last two hundred years. Sanc had not always had so peaceful a population, or such worthy ideals, and that stormy past would be of use to preserve the peace of a soul that too long had been in torment, and the future of a revered bloodline. He had failed the boy once before, when he had left him in the ruins of a dream turned nightmare. He would not fail the man that boy had become.
"… we need to get them out of the estate, but we can not afford to create an incident. Milliardo cannot be associated with any type of quasi military operation. He would suffer in the courts fighting this claim. I'll have my solicitors work on a counter to block their bid for custody but … are you sure?"
Relena's voice held nothing of the fear or anger he saw in her eyes as he entered the room. Master Yuy was staring at maps of the estate.
Yuy scowled. "They have taken out a court order declaring him an unfit parent and giving the parliament the right to oversee the raising of Stephen. It will take them an hour to finalize the draft, and another hour to get their people with the court order out to the estate. We have to see that we get them out of there before that writ is served on Zechs."
//Two hours? Tight, not impossible.//
"Pagan? I thought you were with Milliardo."
"I believe time is in short supply, Your Highness. Do you have a means of departure from Sanc arranged?"
Yuy eyed the old man for a long moment, blue eyes thoughtful. "Yes."
"Good. I have the means to get Master Milliardo off the estate. Shall we go?"
He liked the somewhat feral grin as Yuy nodded and swept past him. When Relena moved to follow he stepped into her path and pressed a file into her hands.
"I believe that you must speak to your solicitors. I request that you hand these papers over to Master Winner. He will know best how to use them."
Alone Relena stared at the file in her hand. "Why Quatre?"
End
Karina Robertson 2005