Odin

by RaistlinofMetallica

Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing nor do I make money from this.

AN: Post-series, fluff, Relena is insightful.

“I think they like you,” Relena said, teasingly.

Heero snorted, rolling his eyes. “Don’t be silly, they’re just birds.”

One of the two ravens squawked at them from its perch on the fence, seemingly indignant, and flapped its wings.

“Well, it doesn’t look like they’re going anywhere soon,” she observed, smiling slightly. “Maybe we should name them?”

He gave her a pointed look as he sipped his coffee. “They’re not pets.”

“Oh, I know,” Relena said, looking up at the pair of crows again. She sighed, tapping her pen against the table absently. “...They do seem remarkably intelligent, though. Maybe they used to belong to someone.”

Heero gave the birds a critical look and could spot nothing that indicated the birds had been tampered with on the surface. He made a mental note to come back with a tranquilizer and get a closer look at them.

“Heero,” Relena said. She had a very thoughtful expression on her face, the sort she always seemed to get when she was on the verge of some sort of realization. “Your name, before you met me... It was Odin, right?”

He blinked in surprise and then schooled his face, nodding.

“Hunin and Munin!” she stated suddenly, smiling. “That’s what we’ll call them!”

Curiously, he leaned forward in his chair and gave her one of his patented ‘do-explain-this-to-me’ glares.

“In legends, it’s said that the Norse god Odin had two ravens,” Relena explained patiently. “And that each day, they would bring him news of the world. Their names were Hunin, meaning thought, and Munin, meaning memory.”

There was a squawk and a fluttering of wings as the two ravens took flight, disappearing into one of the nearby trees.

“Hn,” Heero said, smiling just a little bit.

Relena smiled back, toying with her pen a little, and shyly blushed as she resumed working on her paperwork.