B5 Double Drabble: Change Of Heart

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Title: Change Of Heart
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: G’Kar.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 400: Amnesty 40 at drabble_zone, using Challenge 73: Laying The Blame.
Spoilers/Setting: The Coming Of Shadows.
Summary: The Centauri Emperor’s message to G’Kar gives the Narn ambassador unexpected hope.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 
Shame was not something G’Kar was used to feeling, and yet today he did. He’d been wrong about the Centauri Emperor, too busy laying the blame for his father’s, grandfather’s, and great grandfather’s atrocities at his feet to be willing to listen to him. He’d wanted to kill the man as revenge for what the Emperor’s forbears had done to G’Kar’s people, and that would have been a grave mistake.

 
Fortuitously, perhaps, the Emperor had taken it upon himself to die before G’Kar had the chance to murder him. He’d also had the foresight to pass on a message for G’Kar, not through one of his own people but through a third party, a human, someone who was not personally involved.

 
The message was simple, and completely unexpected: an apology for all that the Centauri had done to the Narn, and an admission that they had been in the wrong.
 

Those words turned everything G’kar had believed upside down. Perhaps it was time to leave blame in the past, where it belonged. The Centauri Emperor had sacrificed his life to extend the hand of friendship to one who had been his enemy, and to take the first step towards peace.
 

 
The End