Title: We Can Not Go Back
Author: Karina
Rating: PG
Pairing: Wu Fei + Huán Hu, Heero
Notes: Challenge 186. Baby Series 4 #14. Takes place immediately following An Elderly Dragon.
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: We Can Not Go Back
"Upstart!"
"And proud of it, I am, after all, Chang. It is what we do best. Much as I enjoy listening to you rant, we have limited time with which to speak. Others wish to speak with me and there will be ample opportunity for us to continue this discussion through coming weeks. Nothing is set in stone, Elder. Consultation must be taken on the path that lies ahead and I suggest you remember that and offer council, productive input, as we move to shape the future."
Heero watched the glaring contest, silently applauding Chang's control. He might have been tempted to punch out the elderly man if he had been spoken to in that condescending tone. He had to watch and learn. Anastasia was preparing him to deal with the same kind of 'important' personages as Wu Fei now faced on a daily basis, without embarrassing the Sanc Kingdom.
"Elder, nothing would please me more than to work with you in reviving what is left of our people and our culture. We will need to agree to disagree on many points, but I am sure the one thing we see eye to eye on is that we have to have a working relationship. We need to see that our people survive and do not vanish into the night that is obscurity. I do not know what it is you have been doing since the colony was detonated, but I have travelled extensively and I have learned I can not isolate myself to one method, one mode of thinking. I have learned unpalatable truths must be acknowledged, and that we must move on. Our home is gone. It is so much dust and debris floating out there in the hard vacuum of space. Everything is destroyed. The treasures of our Clan are a debris field. All we have of that time is memories and what ever small personal items we carried with us."
The old man almost snarled, Wu Fei saw it and he sighed, rubbing a hand against his forehead, allowing his weariness to be apparent.
"We can not go back. I have no time machine that will bring back what was destroyed. I have learned to be practical in the time I have existed, lost, looking for something I could not even put a name to until recently. It is a bitter pill to swallow but we can not magically resurrect what has been taken from us, nor should we seek to. Resurrection would do nothing but return the same stilted philosophy that led to the destruction of the colony and the decimation of our people. There is no country on this Earth, other than Sanc, who has offered us sanctuary. No colony in space has made room for us to be a people together. Did you find anyone who would take the clan and permit us to remain Chang, true to our old ways and aloof from the society peculiar to that country?"
End
Karina Robertson 2012