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Karina
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Title: Done Is Done
Author: Karina
Rating: PG
Pairing: Duo + Wu Fei + Heero
Notes: Challenge 185. Baby Series 4 #11. Takes place after Kaleidoscope.
Spoilers: None
Warnings:
Many thanks to ShenLOng Deb for her work betaing this set of fics.
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing or the Characters from the series but the baby is mine.
Title: Done Is Done
"I will not make excuses to you as to why I have not sought out other survivors of the Clan before now. Like you I have struggled to accept the hand that was dealt to us in the war. Like you I have struggled to understand why it happened and, I believe it must be said, here and now and hopefully never again, that it was not Oz, or the Alliance forces, who detonated the colony. We must not make the mistake of using that excuse to excuse the inexcusable. The unforgivable."
Dark eyes seemed to burn with the force of his personality as he stared out into his audience. He looked at no one and yet everyone felt the fire of his gaze, the intensity of it.
"For whatever reasons seemed valid to them, our own Elders chose to destroy the place we all called home, taking our families, our friends, with them."
Watching from the sidelines Heero wondered if Chang noted every flinch, every flicker of an eyelash. He could see it, but Wu Fei had strong lights to contend with and might not notice, but whether he did or not he continued with his address.
"There is an expression used in Sanc… Done is done. It can not be undone. It is used for something as simple as overturning a cup of milk, to the tragic death of a family member. Done is done. It can not be undone. It applies to us. Understanding 'why' the colony was detonated may be discussed in private or at public meetings, but I, and I am sure 'you', will contemplate that question throughout my life. But the truth of the matter is that it is done. It can not be undone. It is time to move on, to go forward, to allow ourselves to grow new roots, to secure a new beginning."
He listened to a security update, satisfied that the grounds were secured and returned his attention to the stage where Chang had finally moved, to take a small step forward, toward the edge of the stage and noted Duo subtly shifting his position to mirror that step.
"I have likened Sanc to a kaleidoscope of coloured beads. History gifts these beads, one by one or a handful at a time, to the mechanism and the simple system of mirrors, reflections and angles shape it into a brilliantly shifting and always beautiful pattern. It is my belief that the Clan, that we who are of the blood of Chang, each and every one of us, are in ourselves very beautifully coloured beads. I believe that if we lend our beads, our selves and our children's future, to the existing kaleidoscope that is Sanc, that we can make a richer, and more wonderful patterning than already exists."
End
Karina Robertson 2012