Title: A Mother's Love
Author: Karina
Rating: PG
Pairing: Milliardo
Notes: Challenge 189. Baby Series 4 #24 Takes place a few minutes following Strong Women.
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: A Mother's Love
He wondered, watching the powder blue ball gown sweep past, if the woman who called Relena her daughter and who, in long past days, had abandoned him to die a fiery death, would defend his sister as she had not defended him? His mother, their mother, had died that cursed night and she had died so that he might have a chance of escaping those who hunted them to reach the safety of that very woman.
The familiar shiver traced down the length of his spine at the memory.
So many screams filling the halls, the sounds of running feet, of booted feet marching, determined in their cold course of murder. It had been a night filled with terror and despair, a night when the world was wrong and from which the world would emerge irrevocably changed. He had know it then, even at the tender age of six, and he was determined it would never again rip Sanc and his family apart.
She had died, sacrificing herself, that he might escape, as later those two women who had found him after Her friend had abandoned him in the fire, had saved him. He could still remember the sounds of her ragged breathing as she tried to stay calm and lead him away from danger. He could remember the sound of her stifled sobs with each sharp crack of a gun exploding in the night. He remembered the curse she had whispered when they had paused to peer cautiously out of a window and they had watched the city burning.
He had heard that there was no more powerful force that that of a mother's love for her child. That a mother would defend her child to the death. Did it have to be the mother who birthed you, or simply the woman who called herself 'mother'?
He had forgiven Alice Darlian the past.
Forgiven, but never forgotten.
He had come to terms with it, that she had been young and afraid, but she was a factor in the life of his sister he was concerned over. She had influence over Relena, was accounted as her mother by his sister, and he wondered how deep her motherly instincts ran when it came down to it.
The sense of duty for those women who had saved him had been greater than the deep friendship between his mother and the court lady who professed to be her best friend. It had not been deep enough to save her friend's child, though it had proven deep enough to raise her daughter.
/I suppose I am being unfair and this is hardly the occasion for me to be considering this./
But watching her sweeping around the room, mingling and socialising, he wondered what it would have been like if it had been his mother in her place. If the Queen had survived…
End
Karina Robertson 2012