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Gundam Wing -- wolfbrothers diverging timeline
500 words.
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In a world where Heero Yuy never messes up placing his bomb Mary's mother and littermates never die burned and crushed underneath a fallen building, and neither do her mother's bond-brother or his girlchild. Mary grows up, faster than her human sibling. It is fun, playing with her, but the little girl is a littermate to protect, Mother said, she is not... Mary isn't sure what she is not.
Mother's brother (she likes him because his name is car exhaust, and her name is car exhaust too, at least partly, even if it's not the same car) brings Mary and Peter and Tom to work and there are people, all day, every day, and it's fascinating, so many wolves and their people and their scents.
Tom leaves their little pack for a human of his own and then Peter does and then it's only Mother and Mother's human and his child. Mother's human thinks wondering thoughts at her, but she ignores them. She's fine here, for now. When she's big and strong she might go on alone, if she finds no human she likes the scent of. She's still mostly a cub, anyway.
There are important humans coming and going one day and they don't smell like wider-pack or like they know any wolves at all, they smell nervous and unhappy but they touch hands and the pack leaders take them around the base and show them their territory and don't growl even a little, not out loud. Then the outsider pack leader stands and makes noises for a while. His mind is clear and nice, and she goes to nose at his pants. Her mother says, car-exhaust-and-diesel-fumes says to stop go away bad puppy, but neither of them understands why and he smells nice enough.
He's got a human cub with him and she smells a little better, though, so Mary goes her way.
She's standing so still she barely breathes, and though she looks at Mary, she doesn't twitch away like the other people in their wolfless pack, like she's scared. Mary looks at where the human girl is looking but she only sees her own pack in neat rows, nothing interesting.
What are you doing, she asks, this is boring, and the girl says all quiet and fuzzy standing guard, quiet and fuzzy but fierce, too.
Someone might bite her pack leader, bite him and pull him down, because he's fierce and fearsome but his pack is tiny, and she will keep watch and... Mary doesn't get the details, really, but the intent is there. Intense. Clear.
Unwavering.
She sits beside the girl, paws together and back straight like they taught her, and she watches out, too. The girl is higher up, but Mary has a better nose, after all.
She is upright and fearless and clean like the first white flower after snow, so Mary decides that this is the name she will be smelled by.
And this is how at fourteen Relena Darlian acquires a queen wolf.
In the world where Heero failed, Mary is harsher and warier and they can't stand each other, because Relena could almost take Mary away from Heero and that can not be borne.
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In a world where Heero Yuy never messes up placing his bomb Mary's mother and littermates never die burned and crushed underneath a fallen building, and neither do her mother's bond-brother or his girlchild. Mary grows up, faster than her human sibling. It is fun, playing with her, but the little girl is a littermate to protect, Mother said, she is not... Mary isn't sure what she is not.
Mother's brother (she likes him because his name is car exhaust, and her name is car exhaust too, at least partly, even if it's not the same car) brings Mary and Peter and Tom to work and there are people, all day, every day, and it's fascinating, so many wolves and their people and their scents.
Tom leaves their little pack for a human of his own and then Peter does and then it's only Mother and Mother's human and his child. Mother's human thinks wondering thoughts at her, but she ignores them. She's fine here, for now. When she's big and strong she might go on alone, if she finds no human she likes the scent of. She's still mostly a cub, anyway.
There are important humans coming and going one day and they don't smell like wider-pack or like they know any wolves at all, they smell nervous and unhappy but they touch hands and the pack leaders take them around the base and show them their territory and don't growl even a little, not out loud. Then the outsider pack leader stands and makes noises for a while. His mind is clear and nice, and she goes to nose at his pants. Her mother says, car-exhaust-and-diesel-fumes says to stop go away bad puppy, but neither of them understands why and he smells nice enough.
He's got a human cub with him and she smells a little better, though, so Mary goes her way.
She's standing so still she barely breathes, and though she looks at Mary, she doesn't twitch away like the other people in their wolfless pack, like she's scared. Mary looks at where the human girl is looking but she only sees her own pack in neat rows, nothing interesting.
What are you doing, she asks, this is boring, and the girl says all quiet and fuzzy standing guard, quiet and fuzzy but fierce, too.
Someone might bite her pack leader, bite him and pull him down, because he's fierce and fearsome but his pack is tiny, and she will keep watch and... Mary doesn't get the details, really, but the intent is there. Intense. Clear.
Unwavering.
She sits beside the girl, paws together and back straight like they taught her, and she watches out, too. The girl is higher up, but Mary has a better nose, after all.
She is upright and fearless and clean like the first white flower after snow, so Mary decides that this is the name she will be smelled by.
And this is how at fourteen Relena Darlian acquires a queen wolf.
In the world where Heero failed, Mary is harsher and warier and they can't stand each other, because Relena could almost take Mary away from Heero and that can not be borne.