Author's Note- You already know the SM timeline, the GW time line for this chapter is a few moths after the wars. Bu tall the others will be in the year A.C. 199. Also, this chapter comes before the prolodgue in timeline order. But it's like a flash-back-thing. And I know this one is short two but I've been kinda busy doing summer reading for school.

Chapter One

A few months after the wars, Trowa had decided he didn't want to be in the circus anymore. He was no longer trying to hide himself and a mobile suit. He only stayed because he had nowhere else to go. He probably would have stayed at the circus forever if it weren't for a certain little girl.

Apparently she was living with an aunt of hers in the circus. She would often come over to his and Cathy's trailer and just be. She would have conversations with Cathy, or just sit silently with him. One day she came over when Cathy wasn't there and started an unusual conversation with him. (Or half a conversation, remember who she's talking to.) When she talked to him that day she sounded different than she normally did, more mature and adult-like.

"Why do you stay at the circus?" He looked over at her, and decided there would be no harm done talking to her. He had a feeling she wasn't expecting him to remain mute right now anyway.

"I have nowhere else I need to be." Which was true, he didn't have to fight OZ anymore, and the Preventers had everything else under control.

"How do you know if you're not there?" He was thinking of the other gundam pilots. And they would contact him if anything came up.

"They would ask for help."

"What if they couldn't ask for help?" He looked over at her, and could tell from her expression that she was dead serious and not just playing a game of 'what if'. She was expecting to have an adult to adult conversation with him, which he thought was a little funny, because he was about 19 and she was 10.

"I suppose someone would have to find them. And help them."

"How would they find them?" He thought about this for a moment and only one answer came to mind. She was asking strange questions.

"Someone could tell you where they were." He expected her to ask 'What if no one knew where they were. Instead she changed subject, while still keeping it an adult conversation.

"Cathy's in love. Did you know? He drives in has car where the circus goes just to see her." Trowa was surprised, even thought he didn't let it show. He did know that, and he was wondering what would come of it. "I saw him buy a ring at a store in town yesterday."

"Then I'm happy for her." And he was, he loved Cathy like a sister. And he wanted her to be happy with this man who loved her.

"She won't accept though, she'll stay here with you. She could never bring herself to leave you behind." He was taken off guard with that statement. He thought about it for a minute and decided she was right. He hadn't given it much thought before, but he remembered how she had acted hen he got temporary amnesia during the wars.

Cathy came back then, with her arms full of groceries, and Trowa got up to help her with them. The little girl got up and said she had to get back and start packing her things because she was leaving to go live with her mom in a few hours. That night, after he had thought over their conversation carefully, he had a talk with Cathy and they both decided to move on and go their separate ways. Of course they would still keep in touch and visit every now and then. The man mentioned earlier (the guy that loved Cathy) proposed to her the next day. She left the circus to live with him, and Trowa just left. He moved to Tokyo and got an apartment and a job.