Title: My Kind of Life
Author: Karina
Rating: PG
Pairing: Duo
Notes: Challenge 213. Baby Series 4 #96. Takes place after Me
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: My Kind of Life
It ain't easy going your own way sometimes. It has plenty of ups and downs. Sometimes you seem to be standing on your head to onlookers who just see you as an idiot. S'okay. I don't particularly care what they think or do, so long as it doesn't impact on me and what I want.
My rules are pretty straight forward and there's not a lot of them. Kill if someone tries to kill what I hold dear. Have to be honest with myself, there ain't much I hold dear, so I don't exactly go around slaughtering people. The war was more than enough slaughter for me, but that doesn't mean I won't respond in a terminal manner to a threat made against me, or what I consider to be mine.
I might, or not, offer a warning. Just one, maybe.
Shinigami is sure as shit alive and well, just having a holiday at the moment.
I like creating things and an engineer creates all the time. It's about thinking up new ideas and building those ideas into reality. Life is like that and I like it. Being a creator, not a destroyer. Sometimes the world just seems upside down and spinning out of control and I want to design and build something that will slow it down and steady it. Grand designs, heh? Yeah, but wonders grow from grand designs.
Look at the pyramids. Fuck those things are old, really ancient, and they are still standing. A bit weathered, have some stones missing, robbed over the years by lazy asses unwilling to dig their own rock, but they are still there. Still huge and despite the best efforts of scholars and historians, mystics and assholes in general, they are still a mystery.
Now that's how one should model one's life. To be there, huge, undeniable and mysterious. Be able to stand the test of time, the thievery of others, and confuse the hell out of those who claim to know everything. Hell yeah.
That's my kind of life.
I might not be the size of the pyramids, but that doesn't mean my ego isn't up there with it. Life is a challenge and it doesn't matter if I face it standing on my head; fact is it's there. It's a challenge. It isn't a limit and it isn't meant to be. Not in my opinion anyway.
Live life to the full, that's my motto. Don't bury yourself in convention. Live life and let others live their lives, without limiting them. Each to their own I say, but if you wanna get rough, if you want to get nasty... If you hurt what is important to me...
Hell, I'll take you on. I'll smile while I disassemble your ass.
End
Karina Robertson 2013