Ok, before you read any further be warned that you will most likley NOT like the ending. I know that a million or so people out there will want kill me once they do. Ah! What I say, I have a thing for controversy, besides, I like this fic.

Anyways...Disclaimer:If I owned Gundam SEED/Destiny, they wouldn't have overdosed on pot while comming up with the plot line for Destiny (come on, we all know that's what happened...)

LAST WARNING TO ALL DIE-HARD ASUCAGA FLUFF FANS: STAY AWAY!

"Mom, it's time to go."

Cagalli looked up at the speaker, her son, Lionel, a boy of 17.

"What time is it?" she asked blandly.

Lionel rolled his golden eyes and looked at his watch.

"Twenty-two hundred hours and a half!" he exclaimed with a mock salute.

Cagalli laughed. Her big blonde boy would always come and pick her up after a long (emphasis on long) day of work as Orb's head representative. She would always stall him before finally letting him drive her home. This was there one moment together during the day (or night) after all. Their only quality time together.

"That early private?" she questioned, following his lead, "well then, I say we hang around here a little longer. No objections I presume?"

"None at all, Captain!"

Cagalli shook her head and sighed, "if you want to be formal, it's Mother, not Captain. Murrue's the only captain I know." Lionel shrugged. "Sit down already!" ordered his mother.

He did so without a second thought.

They talked pleasantly for a while, covering every subject they could. From Lionel's newest crush to the current state of Orb politics, and everything else in between.

The girl Lionel liked was a certain Mayu Asuka-Hawke and there was no way Cagalli was going to let her son live it down. She had even threatened to call Shinn and tell him all about it. The blonde boy quickly and tactfully changed the subject to politics. It seemed that Cagalli had gotten into a fight with one of the PLANT politicians over the phone, or she was just mad at him. Either way the December City representative received a good yell at from his mother. And, as always, she was exceedingly proud.

She was also very conversational that night.

Lionel had asked her the same question he asked every night. The one he called the unanswerable question.

And she answered it.

"Mom, when did you first meet Father?" he had asked.

"It happened a long time ago," she'd begun nostalgically, much to her son's astonishment, " during the first war. My skygrasper had been shot down…"

Cagalli lost herself in telling the story. She was no longer in her office, but on an uninhabited island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. It was as if she was sixteen and hormonal all over again.

Lionel hung on her every word like a child being told a bedtime story. The passion she used to explain it all drew him in. He could almost smell the island's scent and feel the scorch of the fire. It was as if he was right there with her.

"…he went back to ZAFT and I thought I'd never see him again," finished Cagalli with an ending that sounded much too much like a beginning.

It took Lionel a moment to process the information.

But then…

It hit him.

"What the fuck was Father doing in ZAFT?" he demanded, confused and panicked. It was a well-known fact that the Orb representative's husband had a thing against coordinators and there was no way he'd collaborate with them –let alone fight for them. What if his mother was becoming delusional? As much as he hated to admit it, Cagalli always did seem to be bordering insanity. And if his father ever found out…

Cagalli stared at her son in shock.

"Oh shit," she cursed, "you were talking about Yuuna, weren't you?"

P.S: if I get enough feedback and no writers block, i just might continue this fic, but that all depened on you guys, doesn't it?