Sometimes We Love (Over Coffee)
By Kawaii Dragoness
Author's Notes/Dedications

Notes: This random idea's been floating about my head as a revival of an old saga/inside joke known as Combination Unite that flopped soon after September 11th. The saga was long, intense, and yet it just didn't work with my style nor my characters. This time, I'm taking liberal means with the original idea Combination Unite promised and throwing them into a big bucket, exaggerating, and using my new style and some ideas taken from the structure of Mary Shelly's Frakenstein (great book!). Oh, and I'm using a screwed timeline, so that the war is still going on even in AC 198, and Treize is still alive. The girls are all 17 at the beginning of the fic, and therefore meet the pilots at 16. The pilots are all 18 at the beginning of the fic, and therefore meet the girls at 17. Dates are in international format (eg: 23 May 197--May 23, AC 197.)

Warnings: Deathfic (Chaper 1), Mary Sues (as if you didn't know), cursing (Chapters 3 and 5 mostly), citrus (Chapter 6, one scene), sap (Chapters 3 and 4 mostly)...the rest seems tame.

As usual, my muses deserve some thanking....

First of off, a HUGE thanks to Diyosa (whose character is embodied in Keita in this fic.) Thanks for being interesting and liberal when I was being boring and conservative. Also thanks for constantly pounding me with questions--they help to flesh things out. And let's not forget the sit-ups and the clubbing scene! ^_^ Plus the power of Moopies and the X-Ray thingee on Kid-Pix. And I know I partially stole from your flashback theory yet not. Who cares? Do enjoy.

Thanks also to Ankou, known as Ally-chan in this fic. Because of your birthday, this existed. And let's not forget the constant pounding to get CU back into place. And my failed attempts to write a halfway-decent 1xN1. And the time when Caroline looked into my artbook and thought that Treize-sama was well-endowed--and called Fei's kawaii ponytail a "rat-tail". snickers Anyhoo, I hope you enjoy this more than anybody else.

More thanks to daimonfire9--for enduring my rants when you didn't understand them, for writing such a friggin' good Harry Potter fanfic on your first try, for writing such a delicious R-rated H/D shower scene at the very beginning, and for attempting to understand. ^_^ Yes, I'm still asking Catseye for that one GW tape to show you that'll get you hooked. I know you won't get this, but enjoy it anyway.

Thanks also to Faith Harris--for being an otaku and a Preppie at the same time, for getting lots of good 1x5x2 (did I get that right?) ideas, for finding 13x6x13 just as delicious as I do, and for just plain being insane. Oh, and let's not forget the Ramna 1/2 CD that I still have yet to thank you enough for! This barely holds a candle to the good stuff you write, but enjoy anyway, because I say so.

Finally, thanks to every single person involved with the making, translating, and publicising of Shin Kidou Senki Gundam Wing. If it wasn't for you (and for Ankou, and for Diyosa), this just wouldn't exist. And that wouldn't be a good thing. Oh, and by the way, to Shuko Murase--thanks for making Wufei's character. I couldn't be more grateful. purrs

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Dedication: A chibi Heero pops up holding the fic in his left hand and a cake in his right. Happy Birthday Oni-san! (Saya, Ankou, whatever you call yourself nowadays) He leaves in a poof of smoke, leaving the fic and cake behind. The pages of the story ruffle, and the first page falls before your face....