Title: Where to Now?
Written For: BeatofDestiny; community
Author/ Artist: mellonemrys
Theme: #35: "Where to…"
Genres: Introspective
Warnings/ Notes: Sorry if it doesn't make any sense…I tend to write in circles…
Characters/ Pairings: Quatre Raberba Winner, Relena Dorlain-Peacecraft (mention)
Words: 369
Rating: G
Summery: An introspective blurb…mostly just Quatre's thoughts…

Over the years many people have asked me, 'Why did you fight?' It may seem trivial to most but I always answer with the same words, "Because it was what was right." Some of them just turn their heads and others want an explanation I will never give, but I still answer the same way. After so many years have past not many people even remember the war that the Gundams ended in AC 195. I have had quite a bit of time to think about the reasons why things happened the way they did, and how everything ended up the way it did. Relena's message was heard by the people and a treaty put in place between the colonies and earth creating the Earth Sphere Unified Nation.

But even I sometimes ask myself i 'Where to now? What will we do next?' /i Soldiers are not needed anymore, although I prefer my current job, working with politicians to keep the peace. I feel empty sometimes without the metal under my fingertips, the feeling of control over something, the feeling that I am one of the few who can help stop this. I feel lost and the question of i 'Where to?' /i pulls me further into the darkness of my heart and mind. If I ever wanted a clear path to what comes next it is now, years after peace is achieved.

The voice inside my head wants to yell and ask the answer to the question. But it can't, that would mean I was crazy and nobody wants to talk to a crazy person. So the voice settles with asking me over and over what the answer is. When everyone that lived through the war is dead only a few with be remembered by school children for history tests. The war will be written and re-written in history books until only a few names and events remain. Only that doesn't matter, what matters is that the war ended and peace was reached between the earth and the colonies.

Finally the voice stops asking and the answer comes to me. i 'Where do we go now? We go forward, and enjoy our lives while making things better for those that come after us.' /i