Title: Fantastic Adventures
Author: Karina
Rating: PG
Pairing: Duo + Milliardo
Notes: Challenge 191. Baby Series 4 #30. Takes place following Worth Watching.
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: Fantastic Adventures
Looking at the shadowed shapes, much of the larger pieces covered protectively with dust sheets, Milliardo found himself considering the treasures he had taken for granted as a child. He had not thought of the palace furnishings, merely of the horror of that night, but now, looking at these treasures, older, more pleasant memories were fighting to the surface. Moments spent with his father and mother, moments spent in laughter and games, in more serious lessons a Crown Prince was never too young to be taught.
"I wonder if, perchance, the Mariner's Desk is in here?"
"Mariner's desk?" Duo hitched an eyebrow up as he half turned.
"That was what my father called it, though for the life of me I have no idea if it ever actually saw the deck of a ship. Sometimes I was allowed to play in my father's study whilst he worked. It was his desk and I used to love watching him work there. Nurse told me sea stories; I would spend hours imagining fantastical voyages and magical adventures with my father as the ship's captain."
"Sounds great." Duo was watching him with a more guarded expression, but the smile had never wavered.
"It helps having a very fertile imagination, and a horde and a half of people at hand who had fantastic adventures they could feed said child's imagination with. I had High Admirals to cut my teeth on, Duo."
"And yet Sanc was a peaceful nation."
"Not always. Not by a long means were we a nation of pacifists. The past holds much in the way of blood, believe me. And we were as much originally a sea nation as we were a nation of farmers. A hodge podge of cultural backgrounds makes up the traditions of these people, and navigating the northern seas was just a part of it. From times long before the invention of the compass we sailed the waters around here, and further afield."
"I really think I want to know more about the past. It sounds colourful."
"Sancian history I never found to be boring, but then I was young and had lively tutors who delighted in stimulating my imagination.
"So what was it like, your father's desk?"
"It was carved with wonderful sea creatures, both real and mythological. He called it the Mariner's Desk. There was a compass engraved on each of the legs, and mermaids held the globes of the world carved onto each leg. There were rope carvings around the desktop and whales and seals. I thought so much of our heritage went up in smoke when they set fire to the palace... But looking at this... We may not have lost as much as I had thought."
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Karina Robertson 2012