SUMMARY

-Overall-
From the anime and manga we know the following :
1. Kaname has feelings for Sousuke
2. Tessa has feelings for Sousuke
3. Sousuke also has feelings for Kaname
4. Sousuke also has/had affection for Tessa (how much is debatable though)
What if the three of them are either :
1. Felt that they are not worthy of the other's affection (Tessa,Sousuke)
And/Or
2. Too afraid to loose each other company (Kaname)
Interested? Read along then or skip to chapter 2 to get to the story.
-First Part (chapter 1 to 6)-
Sousuke and Kaname loved each other, right ? Where does Tessa stand in this love relationship ? Took place among the years of Jindai High. A different look on the motive of their action.
-Second Part (chapter 7 to TBD)-
How will the relationship between Tessa, Sousuke and Kaname change after Jindai High Graduation ? Will they kept their true motive hidden and can they endure the hardsip as they walk the path they choose.

AUTHOR NOTES

As you can read this story is titled For Love. I created this since I can't find any in depth story about Tessa - Sousuke - Kaname. I have not watch The Second Raid so I built this based on the novels translated by boku-tachi. Over the course of this story there are parts that are taken from various fan fictions such as Crush Depth, Code of Conduct and Ending and Beginnings. I have tried to gain permission from their respective author regarding the use of their materials.

I intended to divide this time wise into three stages. The first stage timeline would be in Chidori Kaname's second year. The second stage would be after graduation. It would cover about two or three years. The third stage is so far undefined. So far only the first stage is completed so I cannot give overview about what the next stage will cover. For the first stage I will release a chapter every two weeks. Expect slow updates for the second and third stage since I write this on my PDA. I can only write at most 1 page per day, so a chapter will take 1 month for me to complete from scratch assuming no writer block coming my way.

Currently I have no beta reader so there will be quite a number of mistakes in spelling, grammar and consistency. Please tell me if you find one and hopefully I can correct them. If you are interested to be my beta reader please left me a contact mail address.

PAIRINGS

Tessa - Sousuke - Kaname. Sousuke will be switching from Tessa to Kaname back and forth at least until the last stages. I am considering a Tessa - Sousuke, none or all for the ending since there are lots of Sosuke - Kaname fics already. If you wish to have other pairings (i.e. Mao - Weber) please let me know.

UPDATES

24 July 2006 : Add glossary and additional characters, Second Part is ready

05 May 2006 : Revised part of first chapter and third chapter to better explain things.

11 April 2006 : Decided to revise the first chapter to add more descriptive room information.

STANDARD DISCLAIMER

Full Metal Panic animated series and its characters are the property of Gonzo Animation (I think). While the novels are the property of Shouji Gatou. I gained no profit from this project so trying to sue me is worthless. "Background information" about Mithril is taken from fan fiction The Hollow Men. Other information is taken from Wikipedia . Additional disclaimer will be added on respective chapters author notes when necessary.

KEYS

"blah" : spoken words
(blah) : thought
'blah' : words from past conversation.
(flashback) : flashback
(place; time) : place and time of scene

CHARACTERS

Teletha Testarossa, Captain
Age : 16 (Birthday Dec 24)
Captain of Tuatha de Danaan submarine. Have a long braided silver hair. Have whispered capability.

Chidori Kaname
Age : 16 (Birthday Dec 24)
Second year student at Jindai High. Have long blue hair and always carry a halizen (paper fan). Recently found out that she is a whispered.

Sousuke Sagara, Sergeant
Age : 16 (Birthday unknown)
Mithril SRT AS specialist. Short black hair, black eyes with scar on his right cheek.

Kurz Weber, Sergeant
Mithril SRT sniper. A close friend of Sousuke. Blond Casanova

Melissa Mao, Second Lieutenant
2nd in command for Mithril SRT. A heavy smoker & drinker. Have a short black hair and matching temper.

Belfangan Clouzot, Lieutenant
Commander of Mithril SRT. A tall black man around 30 years of age.

Shunya
Kaname's father. He worked as the UN ecology representative.

Ayame
Kaname's sister. Approximately three years younger.

Jerome Borda, Admiral
(Deputy) Director of Operation. A sixty years old man with salt-and-pepper colored hair. His physical condition was dignified for his age, and his face and arms were sunburned and firm. His mild demeanor made people consider him as a good-natured uncle.

Sir Mallory
Director of Mithril. He was an elderly gentleman who wore an eyeglass and three-piece suit. He was considerably advanced in age, but still carried himself well.

Amitt, General
(Deputy) Director of Intelligence. An avid Sousuke's hater.

Richard Brent
(Deputy) Director of Research. A tall slim man with tousled blond hair and naughty boy expression that defies his inteligence.

Sean Adler
Principal of La Salle Academy. A short middle aged man with slightly bald white hair and a kind look. Have a pair of very intense blue eyes.

Cecilia Burnes
Student Counselor of La Salle Academy. A thirty years old woman with slightly shoulder length brown hair usually tied in a bun and a friendly look. Like to wear formal dress similar to those wore by executive woman.

Beth Thomson
Kaname's neighbor, a fellow student of La Salle Academy. Tall, have short red hair and slightly freckled face. Quite talented at sport.

Nora Lemmings, Second Lieutenant
Tessa's assistant for Lambda Driver research, a fresh graduate of MIT. Slightly taller than Tessa, have shoulder length black hair and rounded face.

GLOSARRY

MITHPAC : MITHRIL Pacific Command
Headquarters: Under Hyde Park, Sydney, Australia. Its entrance is in a back alley located between Sydney's old Jewish synagogue and a tobacconist.
Main base: Merida Island, South Pacific. It houses a large airfield, dry dock facilities, and training grounds. The airfield and dry dock are noteworthy since both are located within the extinct volcanic mountains in the center of the island. Landing or docking at either is a challenge for even the most seasoned pilots and captains.
Pacific Command, showcased in the series of Full Metal Panic, is responsible for the West Coast of the United States and all nations in the Pacific Rim. While not as highlighted as MITHCENT, as recognized as MITHSOUTH, or as active as MITHEUR, MITHPAC is never without operations, considering their territory: Russia and the Soviet republics, the Koreas, China, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand, etc. MITHPAC manages to work miracles with small teams of agents. They use the Runic alphabet to assign call signs (Urzu, Teiwaz, et. Al. are all from the Norse Runic).

MITHEUR: MITHRIL European Command
Headquarters: Beneath the Palazzo Farnese restaurant in Rome, Italy.
Responsible for all land and sea operations from Iceland in the west to the East German border in the east, MITHEUR is frequently more concerned with the tracking, interception, and interdiction of Soviet and Warsaw Pact espionage operations transiting to the NATO and unaligned countries. However, MITHEUR maintains massive stockpiles of weapons and hardened infrastructure throughout Western Europe to deploy in the case of a more serious attack. MITHEUR uses the phonetic alphabet (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, etc.) in assigning call signs.

MITHCENT: MITHRIL Central Command
Headquarters: 2-17 Yehuda Hayamit, Tel Aviv, Israel.
MITHCENT is, bar none, the most active command in all of MITHRIL during the timeframe of The Hollow Men. Responsible for the Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean, and the entire Middle East from Turkey in the northwest to Afghanistan in the east, MITHCENT is a highly diversified command geared almost entirely towards small, covert operations. MITHCENT does not have call signs per se; instead, their code names are assigned randomly from Arabic and Hebrew phrases, depending on the operative and his/her assignment.

MITHAF: MITHRIL Africa Command
Headquarters: beneath Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa.
Responsible for the Africa Continent except for Middle East region, MITHAF is the latest addition, coming in the late 90's when the region is rocked with tribal wars.

MARSUPIAL: Mechanized Automated Retrieval, Surveillance Utility, Protracted Intelligence Acquisition Liaison (Fictional, as far as I know)
The MARSUPIAL system was designed as an autonomous intelligence-gathering system to go where humans cannot and function longer unsupported. The MARSUPIAL system is configurable and programmable; it can be anything in sizes between a large lemur and a blue whale. All that is needed is enough space within the units to collect and transmit information. Here, we see it in a kangaroo form factor. The mama kangaroo functions as an eavesdropping device for radio signals, whereas the joey works for audiovisual surveillance as well as a communication device. Interfacing with most auditory, seismic, and radio transmission systems that MITHRIL operates, the MARSUPIAL system can be customized and built to any specification. It officially carries a different technical designation, but an enterprising technician coined the colloquial designation after seeing it in action during testing in the Australian desert.

Department of Operations
Responsibility : The striking force of Mithril.
Headquarters : "The Skyscraper" a rather short building owned by "Argyros Security Company" and located on a street corner in the heart of Sydney.
"Argyros" was the front that Mithril used, but in actuality, they were running security businesses in various places of the world, and making moderate profit from it. The outward appearance of many of Mithril's members was that of people working for this security firm. And because discharged personnel commonly told others that they had worked for the security company, this disguise had worked out to be very convenient. The "Argyros" building that Mithril used for their Operations Headquarters appeared somewhat old, but the security system itself was top-notch. Every point in the building was equipped with bug and wiretap counter-measures, countless surveillance devices and plain clothed security guards on the lookout for intruders.

Department of Intellegence
Responsibility : The information collector that is "supposed to be" providing information for Department of Operations.
Headquarters : "The Observer" a rather shabby building owned by "Mercury News Agency" and located on the center of Brisbane, Australia.
Another global front company that Mithril used. Its member are disguised as freelance journalist.

Department of Research
Responsibility : The science department that develop weapons and various equipment for Intelligence and Operation.
Headquarters : Near Ayer's Rock Australia. Recently have a second office and assembly facilities under Witwatersrand (White Water's Ridge: Afrikaans)

Department of Administration
Responsibility : The support department that provide help for other departments.
Headquarters : Perth, Australia.

Neo Logos Island (fictional)
Location : Mid Pacific Range at 34°15'S, 10°07'W
An atol formed by the combination of volcanic eruptions of three mountains Mount Olimpiad, Mount Hermes (both extinct) and Mount Ilead (active).
The atol was largely neglected until May 1991 when Emenhoft Inc came up with a daring plan to the UN. The topographical and geographical condition of the island made it possible to create miniature environments from desert dunes, steep rock cliffs, and dense forest to snowy mountains. The company proposed to recreate every possible ecosystem on the island in return for permanent lease of the island. This island became Mithril's property when the Emenhoft Inc was taken over on 1998

Privelucht Island (fictional)
Location : Den Halden, Netherlands at 53° N 5° E A reclamated island built by High Rise Inc, a company that builds many skyscrapers and prestigious homes around Europe, which later became bankrupt.
It was supposed to be a private complex of exquisite houses built on reclamated waters about one km from the harbor of Den Helder, Netherlands. The island size was around ten thousand square meters and had been fully reclamated. The basic infrastructures had been fully built while the foundation for the buildings was halfway finished when the company becomes bankrupt.