I've had a long life.

I have lived for 76 years, longer than I expected. I've made many friends and many enemies.

I went from being a mercenary with no one to an old man with a huge extended family. I never expected my life to be like this.

I'm one of the last to still be living. Hilde went two years after Libra, giving birth to Duo's daughter. Duo and Wufei went 20 years ago in a mission. Quatre went ten years ago with Relena in a bombing. Catherine followed her beloved Quatre 5 years after. My love, Heero, left me 46 years ago, the first of the pilots to die.

Zechs, Noin, and I are still here, still robust and full of life.

However, my time is coming short. I know it, so do my grandnephews and grandnieces. I can tell that my life is beginning to end every day. I can feel it.

My family doesn't want to accept it. I don't want to die, but I have accepted it.

A cough racks my body. I'm going to die of pneumonia, I know it and so does my nephew, Dr. Raoul Winner.

I get up from the sofa and move over towards the window. In the window glass, I can see pictures of the other times.

I see myself as a young boy with Midii Une; still clinging to what little innocence I had left at that time. Then I see my Gundam, fighting White Fang then breaking up pieces of Libra as my love lifts his beam cannon to blast the last piece of Libra into nothing.

I see happier times, Heero and I when we first pledged our love to each other. Then Catherine and Quatre's wedding, then our spur of the moment wedding an hour later. Then 10 years of bliss cruelly cut short by one of the attempts on Relena's life. Heero had given up his life for Relena's dream of peace, a dream that has managed to survive through these years.

I'm not bitter over Heero's death. We all have a time to live and a time to go. I do know, we have a rendezvous on the other side.

I see Heero's handsome face, his Prussian-blue eyes smiling at me as he beckons to me. He says, "Come, Trowa," his hand stretched out to mine.

I smile and say, "Yes, love," as the life force drains out of my body. I'm returning to the man I love.

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