AN: The final one! I'm so happy I kept with this. Now I can battle my writers' block on Reverie. As a side-note, has anyone noticed that the song "My Grown-up Christmas List" sounds like it was written by the Meisters? Also, a thanks to Stormy for sticking through this :D

Partrige in a Pear Tree - Setsuna

The earth rotated slowly in Setsuna's view as he sat in Double-Oh's cockpit. It was beautiful. Snow covered most of the Northern hemisphere, and in dark areas he could see the luminescent light of the holidays. A world free from war. It was like the newly planted pear-tree in Ptolemy's lab… new, young, waiting to see what it would become.

The A-Laws were gone. The innovators were gone.

He'd changed, just as Lockon had told him to. Understand, not fight.

He watched the new world. If it was a sapling, he would be the ever-watchful bird perched among its growing branches.