Love's Test
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Seed/Destiny.
Chapter 1
"Lacus, hear me out!!"
"No!! There is no reason for me to hear you out anymore. I've caught you cheating me behind my back for the 100th time and there will be no room for me to believe in your made up tales anymore!" Lacus screamed. Lacus just caught her boyfriend, Desmond cheating on her yet again. It's the fourth time this month and she just couldn't take it anymore.
In the midst of all the screaming and shouting, she felt the nausea and urge to vomit. Placing her hand to cover her mouth, she tried to hold everything back, but her complexion is slowly losing it's radiant color yet again.
Lacus have not been in best states of health. Waves of giddiness and headache striking her every now and then, the loss of appetite was obvious from her loss of weight too. It's been affecting her for the past 3 months, but despite her friends and family around her telling her to visit the doctor; she just wouldn't listen, always claiming to be fine.
Lacus's been hearing rumors of Desmond for two months now, but she'd always ignore them. It's either about him going out with another girl or kissing on the streets. She'd always try to convince herself thinking that they were all false.
Desmond was her childhood friend and they grew up together, ever since Kira left. Kira Yamato, her best friend from the time when she was having her kindergarden education. They had always been together, going out to the playground to play on weekends where they were both free from schooling. The innocent laughter of both children would always fill the quiet atmosphere with happiness.
Happy times usually don't last, that's what people said, as the two kids were separated one day. Kira was going to be sent to America to receive his education there. His father was a surgeon and had to complete his courses there, understanding the latest technology. Lacus cried till her eyes went swollen for approximately three consecutive days. Goodbyes are always painful.
Months after Kira left, Lacus met Desmond. Before that, she'd always spend her weekends sitting on the swing at the playground they always went; quietly humming a melody. Desmond was her next best friend; she knew she could never forget Kira but she found strength to try and move on.
After celebrating her eighteenth birthday, Lacus went out with Desmond, hoping to find a whole new happiness in relationships as well. How wrong she was when she presently found him cheating on her yet again. How many chances did she have to give him before he'd repent from his mistakes?
Lacus turned around attempting to run away with tears threatening to fall from her eyes; not turning around despite Desmond's attempts to call out to her. Running to the middle of the road, not bothering to look at where she was running.
"Lacus!! LOOK OUT!!" Desmond shouted reaching out, but it was all too late.
Her time was stopped when she suddenly heard a sharp screech, and the next thing she knew, she was knocked out cold.
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With Kira
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"Kira!! Wait for me" Fllay shouted as she rushed to try to catch up with Kira.
Kira pretended to have heard nothing as he started pacing up, widening his steps with his palms sweating. He's tired from work and the last thing he knows that he needs is Fllay getting on his back. Kira was transferred to Orb Central Hospital four months ago as a surgeon and a doctor, professional in the circulatory pathway of the human, in short, the blood.
Kira was recognized for his talents, genius and knowledge he possessed within him by Orb as he was quickly invited to the central hospital of the country as a professional surgeon. He passed with a distinction with almost everything and excelled outstandingly shining out from the other graduates.
Any normal graduates would've required years to become an experienced doctor and no beginners start off as a surgeon, but his achievements were clearly enough to qualify him as one within four months. He just walked out of the operating theatre with yet another successful operation.
Sitting on the arm chair using his thumb and index finger pinching the temple of his nose, he let out yet another sigh for the long day. He needed this rest for the past seven hours.
Kira decided to be a surgeon because of his father. Respected by all for saving lives; one after another. That was the thing that gave real meaning to what he was doing now.
It was probably also because, his mother died from Leukemia while he was still a young child and he could do nothing about it. His father tried his best, but he was a beginner's doctor then and could do nothing but watch helplessly as his wife suffered in agony before dying off. Kira cried for being too helpless, if only he had the power to do anything then.
That stuck his determination to become a surgeon, to save lives, and to save the tears of people. Yet it was because of pursuing such an education that he had to leave his childhood friend. At that point, Orb could provide no suitable or high tech facilities to assist him and his father in working towards such a career.
Times seemed to have changed a lot though, when Kira returned 15 years later, he was shocked to see that the quiet, behind date Orb become a posh, established, well-developed city with rich global connections and technology now.
His first aim when he alighted from the ten hours flight; was to look for his childhood friend. God, how much he missed her throughout these years and he still wondered if she still remembered him after all these time. However, the hospital needed him desperately and he had to abandon his mission to start work the day, as soon as he alighted from his long flight.
Still regretting not being able to set out on his mission, he took out his wallet to flip it open looking at the picture of a certain pink haired girl. She was young then and he wondered if he would still be able to identify her after so long. Her childish features would've probably changed into matured ones which will make it harder for him to recognize her.
He looked at the present time, pleased to see that it's only 3pm in the afternoon. He grabbed his schedule list browsing through to see if he still had work scheduled for him for the day. His lips curved with the sides pointing upwards when he saw that his time slot was empty for the rest of the day.
He placed his stethoscope down on his work desk as he proceeded to his locker to grab a change before he set out to search for a certain pink haired someone. Changing into a comfortable fitting set of clothing, he carried his cell phone as he proceeded towards the glass door to his office. Before he could place his hand on the handle itself, the door swung open with a huge force behind it.
Kira ducked in the nick of time before it hit him as a certain red head he dreaded seeing appeared at the entrance of the door. "Kira!!! Coffee for you!!" The opposition screamed.
Kira predicted much less that it'd be her, but being a gentleman, he raised his hand in a friendly gesture to turn down her offer. "Sorry Fllay, but I'm just in a hurry to do something. Got to go, see ya!!" Kira avoided Fllay's gaze as he walked pass her in large steps heading towards the car park.
Walking down the corridors of the wards, he could hear the same voice screaming behind him.
"KIRAAA!!! WAIT UP!!!" Fllay screamed trying to keep in pace. She could hear sounds of people hushing at her and also feel the daggers send towards her from the eyes of the passer bys but she didn't care. She ran down the halls not caring about how people looked at her.
Fllay's probably the first nurse to have laid eyes on him the moment he stepped into the hospital. Making things worse, his achievements in the past years seemed to have brought more attraction of himself to Fllay. That led to his steep downward spiral of friendship with the other male colleagues. The only ones he was closest to is Shinn Asuka; a male nurse in the hospital, and Athrun Zala; a specialist in the affairs of heart problems.
Fllay was however, known to be the noisiest nurse in the hospital. But despite such a reputation, there would be male workers in the hospital that'd go heads over heels for her.
There are some occasions where she was about to get fired, but she never failed to pester Kira to plead for mercy for her. It is probably because of such times where Kira had helped her when she started to build up wrong ideas about his feelings towards her.
'Why is he running to fast to? He doesn't usually leave the hospital so early.' Fllay looked at her watch as she thought of the possibilities of where Kira was hurried to. 'Don't tell me he's going on a date??!!' Fllay thought as she unknowing clenched her fist and slowed down her steps staring at Kira's disappearing figure from afar.
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Entrance of the Hospital building
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"The patient's losing blood quickly!!" one of the medics shouted. "We need to stop the bleeding soon!" He shouted.
"Damn!! Why is it so difficult to stop her bleeding??!! It's been flowing throughout the whole journey when we are on the way here." Another shouted. "Get me the gauze. I need to clean the wound quickly before it gets infected." He shouted.
"She's losing oxygen! Get me the oxygen mask. NOW!!" he shouted. The ambulance reached the entrance of the hospital as the stretches was quickly placed on a trolley as the medics stealthily pulled and ran along with it. "The patient's losing pulse. We need to get her to the operating theatre quickly!!", Shouted one of them as they tried to make contact with the hospital counter to whether there is a surgeon available right then.
"Sorry, but there is no available surgeon right now, I'll try to get one as soon as possible." The counter lady spoke through the walkie-talkie. Fllay happened to walk past as she eavesdropped on the conversation. "We need a blood surgeon right now, the patient's losing a lot of blood and many of her main blood vessels are damaged."
Fllay's eyes sparkled as she realized that it is now a good time to get Kira back. 'This will prevent Kira from going for his date' she thought.
"I know a surgeon that's available now!" Fllay shouted. The counter lady looked at her shocked. "But according to the schedule, the working ones are having appointments and handling operations while the others are currently unavailable for today."
"Kira is available. He is free now. I will get to him for you." Fllay smiled. The counter girl nodded as she spoke through the walkie-talkie again. "Surgeon Kira will be available. Bring her to operating theatre #06-01. Nurse Fllay will be getting to him immediately."
Fllay smiled silently as she pulled out her cell phone dialing Kira's number.
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"Finally, I'd be having my own time to myself now." Kira said to himself while walking towards his car. Taking a glimpse at the time on his watch again, he saw the face of young Lacus appearing on it. He smiled to himself at the thought of his best friend.
"I wonder if she still lives at the same place now." He asked out loud. Kira was about to reach out to pull the handle of his car when his cell phone beeped.
He took it out, disappointed to see that it was Fllay calling. He could not reject the call as it could've been something important. Pressing on the answer button, he placed the phone at his ear as before he could say anything, he heard Fllay screaming. "KIRA!! THERES AN EMERGENCY NOW!! YOU'RE NEEDED BACK IN THE HOSPITAL!! THE PATIENT'S LOST A LOT OF BLOOD AND IS NOW PUSHED TOWARDS OPERATING THEATRE #06-01!! COME BACK QUICKLY!!" and before he could get the chance to give a reply, the other side immediately hung up.
"This must be another one of her set ups again. She's always setting up last minute emergencies for me whenever I found free time to go out to try looking for Lacus." Kira sighed to himself as he locked up his car, running back to the main building, changing into his protective sterilized surgical wear.
Kira was getting pissed off now, at his endless piles of work that kept going to him. He swung open the doors of the theatre with a clearly unhappy look in his eyes and making his mood worse was when he saw the look of celebration in Fllay's. He just had an operation done with an hour ago and here he is, back to work again. Probably another 5 to 6 hours on a brand new patient and this will take up the rest of his day.
Kira looked at the clock face of the theatre as he took a glimpse at the patient he was about to operate on, only to notice that she has pink hair. "Lacus?" He uttered to himself under the mask. Kira quickly shook the distraction out of his mind, there probably are plenty more girls out there with hair in the color pink.
Kira wore his gloves as he took the scalper. "What's her name?" He asked one of the helpers assisting him around.
"Lacus Clyne." They replied him looking at the board in their hands. Kira's hands froze suddenly. The word 'Lacus' rang in his head over and over again as he looked down at the features of the girl to find the striking resemblance between his best friend and the girl laying before his eyes.
He knew he had to act fast knowing that a life's at stake. He could see blood flowing out of the open wound non stop as he commenced his job skillfully and seriously. For some reason, he was taking this operation a lot more seriously then the previous ones he had, probably because this girl reminded him a lot about his best friend. He knew that the chances of this girl being her are high as pink hair is a rare feature, the name is exactly the same, and his heart felt like he knew her.
While operating, flashbacks started to drown his mind endlessly, the times where they were together.
Flashback (16 years ago)
Little Kira was running towards Lacus's house with a tiny box in his hands. He was getting a little excited to show Lacus what was inside.
He ran towards the porch of the house and knocked his fist against the door, silently waiting for Lacus outside. He got no reply from the inside of the house, however, that didn't stop him from waiting. He knocked at the door again to receive no response as he slowly headed for the steps to the porch, sweeping the dust away from the top of it, taking a seat.
He waited silently for 2 hours before Lacus returned together with her father. Lacus saw Kira asleep; sitting on the porch as she went up to him to give a light tap on his shoulder. "Kira…" She called silently as the pair of amethyst slowly opened to meet with her cerulean ones.
Lacus could only smile at him as Kira rubbed his eyes with his hands, slowly gaining conscious before a smile was slowly made visible on his face. "Lacus!" he shouted. "So you were out?" He asked curiously despite knowing the obvious answer to that.
"Yes I did. With my dad to the hospital for a check up" Lacus smiled at Kira. Kira stared back blankly at her. "Check up? For what?" He asked curiously.
"I'm not sure, but I can only see my dad talking to the doctor after I was given an injection and my blood returned from a test" Lacus replied innocently. Lacus's expression dropped when she continued her conversation. "But my dad didn't seem too happy. It's as if he's frowning as he was talking to the doctor and holding documents that I can't comprehend at all."
Kira stared at her blankly. "They are probably doing adult talks, Lacus. I'm actually here to show you something." Kira smiled.
"Really? What is it?" Lacus asked with a hint of amusement and interest in her tone, dropping her previous topic.
Kira lifted the lid of the tiny box as it revealed a small hamster in it. "I found this while walking on the way home and I thought it was cute, so I just caught it." Kira explained. Lacus pulled her hand out of her pocket as she used her index finger to caress the little creature, only to find it struggling.
She found the hamster cute but something told her that letting it go will make it happier. "Kira, I think we should let it go home." Lacus suddenly said.
"Why? I thought you might like it, that's why I caught it." Kira said with a tone of sadness in his voice. Lacus saw his disappointment and how his initially happy look started to fade as she carefully used both palms to lift the hamster out of the box.
"I think it's cute, and I like it; Kira. But I'm sure he wants to go back to his family." She replied smiling. Kira was stunned for a moment before his expressions eased. "I believe you're right. He must be afraid when I caught him and shut him in the dark box for a long time." He replied.
Lacus smiled at his understanding. "So I guess we should now go to where I caught it and release it then." Kira suggested. Lacus nodded her head in agreement as she placed the hamster back into the box as she grabbed Kira's hand pulling him out of her house gates.
End of flashback
Kira could feel his palms sweating while he's holding onto the scalper. 'This is weird. Why is her blood flowing endlessly?' he thought. 'If this keeps up, she's going to be in danger of losing too much blood.' Kira thought as he began to work faster to end the operation quickly. He knew that delaying it longer will do more harm to the patient that good.
He slowly worked on the damaged blood vessels, especially on the main arteries to try to control the bleeding as he saw the clock ticking 8 o'clock now. It's been five hours since the operation started. He wondered if she had any family who are out there waiting for her.
Kira could tell that Lacus was hit pretty badly, but fortunately not at any areas which could lead to paralysis in future. He stitched up her last wound as he put down his tools heaving a sigh of relieve. Yet another successful operation, twice in a day is definitely too much for him as he could feel his eyelid gaining weight.
He looked at one of his assistant as he asked a question that's been bugging him for the past few hours since the whole operating process began. "Is her father Siegal Clyne? Boss of the Clyne Faction?" he asked, only to receive a nod from her. It now reassured him that the girl laying unconscious in front of him is who he was about to set out to look for.
He still couldn't believe it though. He was going to set out to search for Lacus and now she was before him, as a patient for him to treat.
Something hit him all of the sudden. Her blood flow seemed a little abnormal to him, a normal patient with such an impact in an accident shouldn't lose blood as quickly as she did. The fact of this started to worry him out as he stared at the pale face of his best friend's unconscious form.
"Fllay, get a blood sample from Lacus and send it to the lab for a test." He ordered sternly. It did shock Fllay for a moment, but she nodded after awhile, proceeding with her task she was assigned. Kira knew that it would take days before an actual blood report will come out but he was really worried, yet glad at the same time. "It's been 15 years Lacus." He smiled whispering to her seemingly dead form.
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A/N: This is chapter one. I hope you like it. It did took a lot out of me to get this chapter done up so please read and review to tell me how it is. Let me state once again, this is a KxL fiction even though Fllay is the nurse working along side Kira. Bye!
