The Child.

Discalmer: Gundam Wing is property of Bandai

It was shortly after the end of the wars with OZ and
Duo was sitting in a train waiting for a train. On the
same bench of the wide echoing station was a small
boy, about four or five with bright brown eyes and
blonde hair, the was staring intently out the window
at the train platform.
Duo watched the boy jumped slightly every time a train
came in, watching the people get out. Then the boy
would sigh, and look down at his shoes.

The boy did this for five hours, hour after hour. Duo
was puzzled finally he asked: ?Who ya waitn? for kid??

The little boy looked up a bit a startled. ?My Dad.?
He said.

?You?re dad go to work on the trains.?

?Yep.?

Duo chuckled. ?So you wait every day.?

?Yes.? The boy nodded. ?But Mommy says not to.?

?Why? You bug you?re dad to much.? Duo Chuckled.

?No,? The boy looked down at his shoes again. ?She
says he isn?t coming back.?

?Wha? Why does she say that kid?? Duo asked.

?Well, because he hasn?t come back in months, but
Daddy wouldn?t go off like that, he promised he said
he?d come back.? The kid says.

?What does you?re dad do for living?? Duo asked he had
a sinking feeling.

?Well my dad he worked in a mobile suit repairin? the
colony.? The boy grinned. ?He can fix anything... well
he did until....?

?Until what??

?Well, he got fired... and he didn?t have a job for a
while but he got a new one, Mommy said not take it but
Daddy took it anyways, Daddy said: ?at least its a
paycheck.?? The boy said. ?He went into the military,
he?s fightin the the war now.? The boy paused. ?he
used write us every week. He?d say that the food
wasn?t as good as Mommy?s and how much he missed us.
He told me to work on my swing for baseball. Then a
few months ago, he was going to go into a battle and
then he was going to get to go home, for a little
while. But that was a while ago. He hasn?t come back
but he said he would, and he wouldn?t break a promise,
he just wouldn?t... he?s gonna come back...?

Duo got up, poor kid?s father just some guy, who was
forced into fighting for something he didn?t believe
in. In all those battles, all those enemy mobile suits
could it have been him? Or one of the others that had
done in this kid?s father. He shuddered looking at the
determination on the the boy?s face. Someday, that kid
would know the truth that his father was killed in
battle, by a Gundam. Some day that kid would, be
filled with such bitterness and sorrow, over this. Duo
understood, what it was like when the people you cared
about most where taken away by a senseless brutal war,
and how as kid all you know is pain, and loneliness,
and the foolishly blind faith of a child
waiting....for a man, to walk off the train, waiting
to run up to that man, and have him grip you in his
arms again. Duo sighed. He looked up, his train had
arrived it would be bordering. He turned to the boy.

?I?m sorry.? He said.

?For what?? the boy asked.

?You?ll-- understand later kiddo.? Duo said, he turned
around and went to catch his train.

~FIN~


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