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FIC: When Spies meet Their Ever After [Gundam Wing, Middie x Catherine & Ringmaster]
Title: When Spies meet Their Ever After
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Masashi Ikeda & co’s Gundam Wing, including side stories; in particular Episode Zero.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of the above.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Middie x Catherine and the Ringmaster
Summary: Middie Une meets no-one new. She won’t have to fear for goodbyes anymore, though. Catherine’s POV!
Author’s Note: The last part. This series is now finally complete. Whoo! Party at my place, guys!
When Spies meet Their Ever After
The ringmaster pressed a finger to his lips and pointed. Catherine let out an “aww” despite herself at the sight.
“What is she doing there?” she whispered.
“From what the others have told me, she was hovering around your trailer the entire night, looking nervous and awkward and muttering to herself like she was rehearsing some kind of speech. Maiser even came up and asked me if she had done the proper thing and asked for my blessing first.”
Catherine’s eyes went wide. “What?”
“They don’t know what happened,” the ringmaster reminded her.
“Oh, right.”
The cloud of butterflies that had exploded in Catherine’s stomach took a moment to settle down. She couldn’t decide whether they were happy butterflies or vicious, flesh-eating, evil ones.
“What am I gonna do, uncle?” she wondered aloud. “Look at her lying there with that innocent sleeping face. She’s like an adorable little kitten. I just want to pet her.”
“A little stray kitten looking for a loving home,” the ringmaster said. “Just your type, isn’t it, big sister Catherine?”
“That has nothing to do with this,” Catherine said calmly. “Middie is a big sister with a loving home of her own. If anything, finally knowing that should make me like her more.”
“But it doesn’t, does it?” the ringmaster asked, not unkindly.
“Yes it does,” Catherine countered. The thought of comparing anecdotes and not having to hold back on fussing over her adult, two-feet-taller, capable-of-killing-everything-within-sight-with-his-pinky-without-showing-a-single-facial-expression baby brother while her lover was around was fantastic. “Just... not enough. She hurt Trowa, uncle.”
“A lot of people have hurt Trowa. In her case he just didn’t hurt her first and he hasn’t hurt her back.”
“Having her around makes him uncomfortable.”
“That seems to have lessened considerably lately. Catching a bullet for him seems to have had strange, unforseen positive effects.”
“Do you like her?”
The ringmaster looked at her like she’d grown a second head. “What? Me?”
“Yes, you. You’d be the father-in-law, you know.”
“I was not aware I had any say in what my own little stray kitten brings home to this nest I supposedly run.”
“Just because I’m the big sister doesn’t mean you aren’t still the father-in-law.”
The ringmaster smiled and cupped Catherine’s cheeks. “Your eyes sparkle when you look at her, Catherine. Anyone you love so much, I have no choice but to like too. Stop being the big sister for a moment. Trowa wants you to have the opportunity to be the girlfriend too.”
“You think so?” she asked.
“He already told you so. Five times.”
Well. That was true, she supposed.
With a kiss to her adoptive parent’s cheek, Catherine slipped around the cage they’d been hiding behind and jogged up to the trampoline, in the centre of which lay the sleeping Middie, curled up with her pale blonde hair tucked beneath her chin like a tail. She was about to get the most frighteningly bouncy wake-up call in her life, but Catherine thought she deserved that, at least, before they went back to her trailer and spent the foreseeable future snuggling and kissing.
PSAN: I loved writing this series, and I feel very accomplished to have finished it. Hope you liked it even half as much as I did!
Spies Of Our Lives
When Spies meet Howard’s Hawaiian, and Its Namesake
When Spies have Job Interviews
When Spies meet their Karmic Twins
When Spies have Boring Assignments
When Spies meet Wise Old Masters
When Spies have Interesting Assignments
When Spies meet No-One. In Fact, This Never Happened
When Spies have Days Off
When Spies meet the No-Nonsense, Unimpressed Truth
When Spies have Family Outings
When Spies meet Relatives for Rent
When Spies have Utterly Bizarre Assignments
When Spies meet the Undead Doctor
When Spies have No Good, Very Bad Days
When Spies meet the Ghost of Love Disasters Past
When Spies have Reconciliation, Finally!
When Spies meet Their Ever After
Middie Une shows up out of nowhere and enlists with the Preventers. Paranoia ensues. Or it would, if Trowa had any say in it.
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Masashi Ikeda & co’s Gundam Wing, including side stories; in particular Episode Zero.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of the above.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Middie x Catherine and the Ringmaster
Summary: Middie Une meets no-one new. She won’t have to fear for goodbyes anymore, though. Catherine’s POV!
Author’s Note: The last part. This series is now finally complete. Whoo! Party at my place, guys!
When Spies meet Their Ever After
The ringmaster pressed a finger to his lips and pointed. Catherine let out an “aww” despite herself at the sight.
“What is she doing there?” she whispered.
“From what the others have told me, she was hovering around your trailer the entire night, looking nervous and awkward and muttering to herself like she was rehearsing some kind of speech. Maiser even came up and asked me if she had done the proper thing and asked for my blessing first.”
Catherine’s eyes went wide. “What?”
“They don’t know what happened,” the ringmaster reminded her.
“Oh, right.”
The cloud of butterflies that had exploded in Catherine’s stomach took a moment to settle down. She couldn’t decide whether they were happy butterflies or vicious, flesh-eating, evil ones.
“What am I gonna do, uncle?” she wondered aloud. “Look at her lying there with that innocent sleeping face. She’s like an adorable little kitten. I just want to pet her.”
“A little stray kitten looking for a loving home,” the ringmaster said. “Just your type, isn’t it, big sister Catherine?”
“That has nothing to do with this,” Catherine said calmly. “Middie is a big sister with a loving home of her own. If anything, finally knowing that should make me like her more.”
“But it doesn’t, does it?” the ringmaster asked, not unkindly.
“Yes it does,” Catherine countered. The thought of comparing anecdotes and not having to hold back on fussing over her adult, two-feet-taller, capable-of-killing-everything-within-sight-with-his-pinky-without-showing-a-single-facial-expression baby brother while her lover was around was fantastic. “Just... not enough. She hurt Trowa, uncle.”
“A lot of people have hurt Trowa. In her case he just didn’t hurt her first and he hasn’t hurt her back.”
“Having her around makes him uncomfortable.”
“That seems to have lessened considerably lately. Catching a bullet for him seems to have had strange, unforseen positive effects.”
“Do you like her?”
The ringmaster looked at her like she’d grown a second head. “What? Me?”
“Yes, you. You’d be the father-in-law, you know.”
“I was not aware I had any say in what my own little stray kitten brings home to this nest I supposedly run.”
“Just because I’m the big sister doesn’t mean you aren’t still the father-in-law.”
The ringmaster smiled and cupped Catherine’s cheeks. “Your eyes sparkle when you look at her, Catherine. Anyone you love so much, I have no choice but to like too. Stop being the big sister for a moment. Trowa wants you to have the opportunity to be the girlfriend too.”
“You think so?” she asked.
“He already told you so. Five times.”
Well. That was true, she supposed.
With a kiss to her adoptive parent’s cheek, Catherine slipped around the cage they’d been hiding behind and jogged up to the trampoline, in the centre of which lay the sleeping Middie, curled up with her pale blonde hair tucked beneath her chin like a tail. She was about to get the most frighteningly bouncy wake-up call in her life, but Catherine thought she deserved that, at least, before they went back to her trailer and spent the foreseeable future snuggling and kissing.
PSAN: I loved writing this series, and I feel very accomplished to have finished it. Hope you liked it even half as much as I did!
Spies Of Our Lives
When Spies meet Howard’s Hawaiian, and Its Namesake
When Spies have Job Interviews
When Spies meet their Karmic Twins
When Spies have Boring Assignments
When Spies meet Wise Old Masters
When Spies have Interesting Assignments
When Spies meet No-One. In Fact, This Never Happened
When Spies have Days Off
When Spies meet the No-Nonsense, Unimpressed Truth
When Spies have Family Outings
When Spies meet Relatives for Rent
When Spies have Utterly Bizarre Assignments
When Spies meet the Undead Doctor
When Spies have No Good, Very Bad Days
When Spies meet the Ghost of Love Disasters Past
When Spies have Reconciliation, Finally!
When Spies meet Their Ever After
Middie Une shows up out of nowhere and enlists with the Preventers. Paranoia ensues. Or it would, if Trowa had any say in it.