This is third person p.o.v.


Tactic moves

She can see he is surprised to see her at his door, but she keeps her triumph inside. He is alone now, without Maxwell to seduce him and without Wufei to advice him.

"Milady Une."

"Milliardo." He steps aside. She enters, takes off her coat and continues to the living room with the coat in her hand.

"Have a seat." He says. "Tea?"

"Yes, please."

She watches him as he walks to the back. His body is almost as perfect as that of Treize was.

"Why are you here?" He asks when he returns to the living room with two hot cups of tea.

"Before the accident you worked for preventers."

"I don't remember that."

"But I do. And you were one of the best. And I want you back."

"Direct as always, I see."

"I see little use for small-talk."

"You have not changed much then."

She coughs. He is deliberately stalling the answer. That does not bode well. "We fought a war to gain peace. Now we fight to keep that peace, for it is still fragile. Join us and it will be as Treize would have wanted it."

"Treize wanted war so people would understand the value of peace."

"And he gave his life to achieve that peace."

Milliardo shook his head. He had been told about that day where Treize died. "One man may be able to start a war, but then it takes more men to end it."

Lady Une sighs. He refuses to bite. Perhaps if she changes tactics. "I trust you." That tactic failed before, but Milliardo does not know that. She removes her glasses and her hard face seems to soften, as does her voice. "I don't trust many people anymore. War does that to a person. But I never stopped trusting you. I would feel much more secure if you were by my side." In perhaps more ways than one.

"Why me? Why not another of the pilots? They must have been just as good if not better than myself."

She shakes her head. "They are good, but they are just not you. You and I, we share a history. That creates a bond, Milliardo."

He is silent. He is thinking. Good. She decides to continue.

"Together we can do this, Milliardo. Together we can secure the peace the people want. What we fight so hard to achieve, all the killing, all the wounded. Would that not have been in vain if we can not keep the peace?"

"But why me?"

"Did I not just explain that?"

"I shall think about it."


-princess