Hee! Actually Princess is to blame for Wire. She was all excited about gw_rewrite, and you and she were posting fics about the childhood or past of some of the characters, so I felt I had to come up with a possible childhood for Trowa. Only I really couldn't think what mercenaries would logically be doing with children in the first place. So I came up with a scenario where they were essentially tricked into taking care of kids. My version of the mercs is more or less based on contemporary Serb terrorists insofar as what I know of contemporary Serb terrorists, so it wasn't hard to convert it to an ofic just by changing all the names to Serbian names. So the story behind the fic is quite boring, actually. Doh! You ought to do that Ask Me Anything About One Of My Fics meme. It would be way interesting to see what people asked you!