a/n I'm so sorry to all who love Allenby I just wanted to write how she might think. IM SORRY!

O yea I dun own G Gundam…Although I still can think Domon ish meh shmexy BISH!

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A Moment Too Late: part 1

Rated: PG-13

Allenby sighed and turned away from the Swedish harbor. It had been almost four years since the end of the 13th gundam fight and three years since the defeat of the Dark gundam. Allenby smiled thinking about the call she received that afternoon two years ago, Rain finally had her baby, it was a girl, raven black hair like her father and sky blue eyes like her mom. Her name was Hikari.

Allenby smiled at the thought of the little one, Domon and Rain had asked her to be the baby's god mother and she gladly accepted. Pulling the teal locks from her forehead, tucking them behind her ear, Allenby started walking home to her small apartment.

After shoving the keys in the lock and getting the door open, the teal haired girl stepped. A warmth at her feet greeted her, Oscar, her only friend. He was just a cat, but he listened to her, never fought with her, and greeted her the same friendly purr every day. She smiled and fed him and walked to her answering machine and pressed play.

"HEY ALLENBY!" A loud, obnoxious voice greeted her, "It's Chibodee! We are having a reunion party at my house in New York, it's kinda short term but it's in two weeks, call me if you can come!" The machine beeped and Allenby picked up the phone, she didn't dial she just looked at the phone.

'They don't really need me there, I'm pretty worthless anyway. I would just take up space.' She thought. Suddenly the phone rang in her hands stealing her from her thoughts.

Allenby picked up the Phone.

"Hello?"

"Allenby!" It was Sai on the other end.

"Oh hey Sai, how are ya?"

"Great! Yourself?"

"SAI GET OFF THE PHONE!" Allenby could hear the monks in the background.

"BUT IM TALKING TO ALLENBYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" Allenby laughed.

"Ugh they are impossible!" Sai whined. "But are you going to the reunion?" There was a silence on Allenby's side "Allenby?" Allenby once again was jerked from her thoughts.

"Oh, I'm not sure I mean I would be the only one that's not part of the Shuffle Alliance, and I don't want to ruin it."

"ALLENBY! Of course you are part of the Shuffle Alliance, You were the one that told Domon to get his head out of his ass, and tell Rain he loved her. If you didn't do that, there would be no Shuffle Alliance, come to think of it there would be no world either." Allenby smiled to herself.

"Ok, ok I'll go. You happy now?"

"Yep, we I have to go the Monks are giving me the get- off- the- phone- and- train glare and Cecil is giving me the do- the- freaking- dishes glare. Pray for me…Bye!"

"K, bye" Allenby dialed Chibodee's number, but he wasn't home so she left a message. She set down the phone and turned on the TV, and flipped through the channels. Nothing interesting was on. The phone rang again, it was the Neo-Swedish government.

"Allenby will you be the representative for Neo-Sweden in the Next gundam fight?"

"NO Why do you keep asking? That berserker system has screwed up my life! Forget it." Allenby slammed the phone down and stomped to her room. She laid on her bed and cried into her pillow. Why was she the only one they wanted? Why did they have to ruin her life? Was that all she was just a pawn in the Gundam fights? Yes, that was it she only was a pawn. That's all she meant to anyone.

Allenby fell asleep not long after, it was restless and she kept waking up then falling back asleep. Her dreams didn't help much either, they were flashbacks of when she was little. Taken away from her home to be experimented on. When she was told her parents had died.

"MOMMY!" Allenby bolted awake. She wiped the layer of sweat from her forehead. "Good…..it's….just a…..dream" she said to herself between gasps.

The phone rang. Allenby rolled over to pick it up.

"Hello?"

"Hey Babe" There was the sound of palm on skin and a long cuss word. Allenby rolled her eyes.

"Hello Chibodee…"

"Hiya" Chibodee's voice was cheerful and bouncy. There was some ruffling noises and sounds of struggle and another slapping noise.

"CHIBODEE HOW DARE YOU BE SO DEROGATORY TO WOMEN!" Shirley's voice was heard in the background. Allenby laughed. Another slap…Chibodee must have some twitchy fingers today.

"So…." Chibodee began. "Are you coming to The Reunion?"

"Yea….only to get Sai to stop whining in that annoying voice" Chibodee chuckled lightly, then his tone turned serious.

"So you feeling ok?" Allenby stared at the receiver for a second.

"Yea…"She lied "I gotta go…"

"Alright …Call me anytime"

"Mmk" She set the receiver down and sighed heavily. 'I can't believe I just lied to him…' She shook her head and dropped her head back on the bed, putting a pillow on her face, and screamed into it. 'What am I gonna do there…Everyone's got someone….everyone cept' me…' she sighed heavily and rolled over falling asleep again.

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Two weeks later, Allenby's taxi rolled up to the mansion Chibodee lived in. The driver raised a brow at her as she paid him.

"You do know that they have a big Russian guy there right now that kicks all the fan girls off the property…There's no way your gonna get a glimpse of Chibodee, kid." Allenby looked up, Argo and Chibodee were walking down to greet her.

"What Argo? Nah He's a nice guy" She smirked at the taxi drivers horrified expression as Argo smiled and hugged Allenby then waved at the driver. Chibodee leaned in the Taxi window and spoke to the driver.

"…And as for getting a glimpse of me…She's staying here the whole week…hopefully she wont be sick of me by the end of if." Chibodee looked over at Allenby and winked then grabbed her last bag and followed the other two up.

Once inside, Allenby looked around, amazed. All things considered Chibodee, amazingly enough had good taste, however she was quickly distracted.

"AWNTIE AWENBWY!" A two-year-old toddler came barreling down the hall her jet-black hair streaming behind her. Allenby leaned down and scooped up the little girl, who's sapphire eyes were bright with excitement. Domon came down the hall not a moment later, he grinned sheepishly.

"So How's My Hikari?" Allenby said looking at the girl.

"I'm good me and Daddy went around Uncle Chibby's house and guess what!"

"What?"

"He has a Doggy bigger then me! Daddy says it's a Gweat Dane! His Names Bert…short for Liberty, Cause that's what the girls named him and Chibby didn't like it so he called him Bert!" Allenby looked excited.

"Really? That's awesome!" Allenby looked to Domon "Hey you…Been a while." Domon nodded.

"Too long of a while. How ya been?"

"Good good….haven't been up to much…Student Teaching in an Elementry school, the kids there are so cute…Just like this one." Allenby poked Hikari in the nose lightly. The little girl scrunched up her nose and giggled.

"Domon? Is that the pizza guy?" Rains voice came from the other room. "You did remember to tip him right?"

"No Hun, but come see who it is!" Domon replied, a grin on his face. Rain walked from the other room, her face broke into a smile, and she walked over to Allenby, hugging her, careful not to squish Hikari.

"Allenby It's been so long! How are you?"

"Good you?"

"I can't complain" Rain looked to Domon then to Hikari, then back to Allenby. "I really can't."

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After Dinner, the group was in the back yard, swimming in Chibodee's pool, or laying out in the sun. Allenby sat on a chair and watched everyone, she was still in her clothes while everyone else was in a swimsuit, she felt out of place but she couldn't change, she'd expose an ugly secret. Argo, Sai and Chibodee were engrossed in their game of pool, Argo seemed to be winning. She smiled sadly at Rain and Domon were teaching Hikari how to swim, she was enjoying splashing her parents with her little water-winged arms. George was sitting next to Marie, reading her poetry, and she was absorbed in what he was saying. She sighed and got up, walking inside, they were happy, she didn't belong here. Chibodee was the only one who noticed she left.

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Later that night, Allenby sat on her bed, in her PJ's, everyone was getting ready for bed now. She was reading when a knock came on the door, she looked up and tugged her rolled up sleeves down over her arms.

"Come in." The door opened and Chibodee's head popped in, he looked at her and smiled.

"Hey you." He walked inside and closed the door behind him, sitting on the bed. "What'cha read'n?" Allenby held up the book for him to see. "Never heard of it." His eyes caught something, it seemed that Allenby hadn't pulled her sleeve down enough, part of her arm was exposed, there were deep scars and a few scabs breaking the skin's smooth surface, Chibodee reached out and grabbed her arm and tried to look at her arm more.

"Allenby, What's this?" Allenby jerked her arm away and pulled her sleeve down.

"It's nothing!"

"Nothing My ass, What happened?"

"It's just training…I just got hurt from training, Falling a lot, you know." Chibodee looked at her, he wouldn't get anymore from her. He had seen her train, she never fell, not to the point where she'd hurt herself like that.

"Allenby…"

"It's just training!"

"Allenby, you know you can talk to me about anything right? Anything…I wont tell a soul." Allenby was taken aback for a moment, she didn't know Chibodee like that. She shook her head.

"Nothing's wrong ok? Goodnight." Chibodee sighed and stood up.

"You can talk to me anytime, about anything Allenby."

"Goodnight Chibodee!" Allenby was getting pushy now. Chibodee leaned over and kissed her cheek.

"Goodnight Allenby…" With that he got up and left, leaving Allenby stunned. After a few moments she set her book down on the nightstand and went to bed.

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"Hmmm I wonder…Hey Chibodee is this band any good?" Domon asked, holding up a CD, in the music store he, Chibodee, Argo, George, and Allenby were in that day. "Oi! Chibs!"

"Hmmm? What?" Chibodee wasn't listening, he was looking over at Allenby, who was flipping through used CD's.

"Is this band any good?" Chibodee looked at The CD in Domon's hand.

"Yea…Sure."

"Chibodee…Something wrong with you?" Chibodee sighed and shook his head.

"Nah…but Does Allenby seem different to you?"

"Different Like how?"

"I dunno Sad I guess."

"Yea….But she just told me the Neo-Sweden government is pressuring her to fight in the next tournament."

"Oh…ok then."

"Hey, Don't worry about it. This is Allenby we're talking about…She'll pull through, she knows we're here for her." Domon said and walked away to buy his CD. Chibodee sighed heavily and looked back to Allenby then spoke quietly to himself.

"I'm not sure she does…"

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After dinner at one of Chibodee's favorite resteraunts, the Group of fighters were walking home. Chibodee had spent the entire time watching Allenby, who spent the entire time, cutting her food into tiny pieces and moving it about her plate, not actually eating it. While walking home, she was walking at the back of the group watching her feet intently. Chibodee kept looking over his shoulder at her.

" I think the newer model of vulcan is just too bulky, besides most of the gundams are heavy enough, Plus if they were to try and put that on Rose Gundam, it would just clutter up her beauty." George was talking with Argo and Domon about Gundam parts, Sai was ahead, walking on his feet backwards.

"Well they are heavier but they pierce armor better then the last model and are more precise in hitting their specific target." Domon replied. Chibodee looked over his shoulder, Allenby wasn't behind them anymore, He looked around, where was she?

"Well what if they accidently hit the cockpit? We wouldn't want to-" Chibodee had stopped listening by now, where was Allenby? His eyes caught the flash of teal hair, She was still staring at her feet, walking slowly across the intersection the rest of the group had just finished crossing, the light had changed and cars were coming through, none slowly either, one was just about to hit her.

"ALLENBY!" Chibodee dashed back into the intersection.

HONK HONK!

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