1 May 2006
Category: Drama, mild Angst
Rating: PG
Pairings: None
Warnings: None
Feedback: C&C
Notes: This comes from a livejournal ficlet challenge thing on my journal. It was suppose to be 100 words but this is way more than that... More like 372. Can be considered post Endless Waltz.
'--denotes thoughts--'
Disclaimer: Gundam Wing and its characters belongs to Bandai, Sunrise and Sotsu Agency and are only being used for non profit entertainment purposes.
Une returned to her apartment dead tired. She hung her keys on the hook by the door and barely looked up at the babysitter, who glared at her.
"You said you'd be home four hours ago," Duo said harshly. "You are just lucky I like the kid and she's pretty good. A normal sitter would have probably narc'd you out to the cops or something."
"I'm sorry," Une replied, not really noticing Duo's rudeness or maybe simply not caring. "There was a lead in a case and..."
"You couldn't get one of your capable agents to follow up? Isn't that why you are suppose to be fearless leader? So you can delegate that kind of crap?"
"Why are you trying to pick a fight with me Duo? I didn't ask you to play babysitter," Une responded warily.
"No sensible person who knows you would agree to look after your child Une. You may not have realized this fact but when you signed those papers over six months ago, you became that girl's mother. Don't you think she deserves to have one?" Duo asked, angered that she was missing the point as usual. 'Didn't she realize how wonderful it is that anyone would want an orphan? Why was she pissing away her chance at being something special to the kid?' Duo pondered as he kept his glare on Une at Heero Une Level One.
The glaring was having zero effect. "Go home, Duo. Thank you for your help."
"You realize that she's a great kid, right? Not just because of who her father was," Duo said before sighing and gathering his things. "Just try to be a mother, will you?" He left.
She pulled off her shoes and walked into the second bedroom. She was relieved that the child hadn't awakened during her 'discussion' with Maxwell. She pulled up a chair and quietly watched the sleeping child; an innocent child who had been caught up in a less than innocent world.
She sighed and said in a near whisper, "Doesn't he realize I am trying to be a Mother? I do what I do to protect her and keep her safe. So she won't have to go through anything like that again."
OWARI
(:./babaca/mother)
