Title: Word Games
Author: Karina
Rating: PG
Pairing: Duo + Milliardo
Notes: Challenge 195. Baby Series 4 #42. Takes place following The Game.
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: Word Games
Milliardo considered his companion for a lengthy moment before he began to thread his way through the cluttered attic toward the exit. Duo followed him, looking tired, dirty and decidedly delectable. He squashed those thoughts quickly, disturbed at himself. It had been barely more than a year since he had lost his wife and he should not be having those thoughts. He certainly should not be having them about this young man who had an eye on Chang who, in turn, had his eye favourably inclined toward Duo.
No, it simply would not do. He had never been one to poach on another's territory.
"It is not the word's fault, Duo. It is merely a word that we use."
"Yeah, I know that, but still... Answer me this... honestly. Do you want to fight again? Would you fight again?"
Milliardo paused, considering the rafters closest to him in quiet contemplation. Did he want to fight again? Did he want to take up arms against his fellow man and...Did he want to chance the horrors of the past rising again to fill his world and his mind, and deaden his heart yet again?
It was not a difficult question at all. Not for him. Not given what he had done in the past.
"I have no desire to fight again, my friend. That is why I am where I am now; to hopefully make a difference and to ensure events do not again come to war. If it came to the worst case scenario... To having to take that fatal step... Duo, if anyone threatened what I am trying to do so that another generation does not have to take up arms against his fellow man, then yes. Yes, I suppose I would take up arms again."
Silence hung heavy in the air between them, filled only by the creaking of the building and the howl of the wind beyond the roof shielding them.
"Yeah. Me too. Only if I had no other choice though."
"But the word Revolution has other uses. It means more than man rising against man over ideals all men share, yet see differently. It can be a cultural revolution, changes in philosophy, artistic impression and lifestyle."
Duo grunted softly. "Yeah. I guess it can. It's even used to describe a circuit of the planet on its axis."
Milliardo grinned. "And a revolution of the Earth about the sun."
"Yeah. Not so bloody a use for it, is it?"
"And in the grand scheme of things, it is a far more meaningful use for the word."
Duo flashed a brilliant smile. "Change. Modification."
Milliardo inclined his head slightly. "Alternation, a turning. It is, in its many aspects, quite a useful word. A dynamic word."
"It has its good points, I guess."
End
Karina Robertson 2012