The SUBJECT – Prologue: Between the Stars and a little bit added in

A/N: I don't own Gundam Seed or Gundam Seed Destiny. There are spoilers for Gundam Seed and Seed Destiny (1-16) in this story. Anyway, you should be able to work out what is going on pretty quickly, so anyway, I hope you enjoy this and please review it and tell me what you guys think. So read and review it Please!

Kira sat on a rocking chair, facing the ocean on the balcony of the orphanage, reflecting on the events of the past year. The war which had taken him from being a child on Heliopolis, to being an adult, running an orphanage with the girl of his dreams, Lacus.

Meanwhile, Lacus was working in the kitchen, cooking while some of the orphans helped her and played in the kitchen. She heard two of them fighting over cutting up the food. "My, my, if you fight you can't make anything good to eat," she chided gently, because she knew that the children meant well, it was only a petty squabble.

The news was playing on the TV as it relayed news of the peace talks between PLANT and Earth. They seemed to be progressing along quite well. Athrun and Cagalli were flying in a jet towards the orphanage, after a hard day's work at the negotiating table, as the news continued to broadcast over the jet's communications system.

Later that night at dinner, Cagalli said, "Still it is a really hard thing to do, The whole country or ORB was ravaged by the war. That is why they truly understand the foolishness of war and how precious peace is," she looked at Lacus, sitting across the table from her before she continued, "However there are countries that don't."

Lacus replied with a common saying, "if you don't trust the other person then don't lower your gun," then she paused for a second, "It's like that isn't it? I wonder if PLANT's situation is similar."

On PLANT headquarters, Yzak, Dearka and Shiho walked through the doors of the Capitol building, Yzak's scar from the previous war had been surgically removed, Dearka had been pardoned for fighting for ORB and the Clyne faction.

Back in the orphanage on Earth, Lacus continued the conversation, "First we must both lower our guns or else,"

"Even though we should already understand this, all of us, "Cagalli replied, both of them fully understanding what the war had cost them, both of their fathers had died, working to achieve peace. It was a sacrifice that would be well-remebered by them for the rest of their lives.

After dinner, the some of the children went outside to play, and the others stayed behind to help Lacus and Cagalli to clear the tables. Athrun found himself a bit out of place, in a oddly reflective mood. He walked outside and found Kira looking at the stars in the sky, Athrun walked up to Kira on the beach and stood next to him.

Kira spoke, "It's strange isn't it? Why am I still alive? Why am I able to eat? Why am I able to sleep? Is it because I'm still alive?" As he reflected on the battle against the insane Crueset, who had tried to wipe out all of humanity.

Athrun replied voice sort of distant, "Everyone's thinking the same thing, Kira, so am I," He remebred what had happened when he had tried to commit suicide in destroying the Genesis weapon but how Cagalli had saved him. Don't run to fight is to live. He continued, coming out of his reverie "But this may be our way to make up for things. It never ends because we shouldn't let it end. The world."

Murrue sat in her new cottage on ORB, a cup of tea in her hand, for a moment she imagined Mwu sitting opposite her, a mug of coffee in his hand, he was smiling, happy, she remembered their brief relationship, he had promised me to come back for me but he didn't. She closed her eyes, as his image drifted away.

Sai sat in his office, programming, pictures of his friends, Kira, Millaria, Kuzzey, Tolle and Fllay, the latter two now dead, pinned up on a corkboard next to him. He had enjoyed his new work, he knew that Fllay had just been using Kira all along, he thought that she shouldn't have done that to her own friend, but he understood her point of view, she had no one left after her father had died.

Andy, Kisaka and Erica stood in the Morgenraete lab, working on the repair of Freedom and the Archangel, as well as the development of new mobile suits. Even though peace was being hammered out, there would always be the threat of future wars and Orb was not the most stable of all nations, partly because it welcomed both Naturals and Coordinators, it was a target for Blue Cosmos and Zala faction terrorists. So they worked on shoring up Orb's defences against such attacks, secretly, while Princess Cagalli worked for peace.

Milliaria sat at the foot of her bed, remembering Tolle, tears came to her eyes, as she lowered her head to her knees, she didn't know what she would do next. She thought she had had some feelings for Dearka, the pilot of the Buster, but he had gone back to PLANT and she didn't know when she would see him again, and anyway, she needed some time to heal before she entered into another relationship.

With dinner cleared up, Cagalli and Lacus stood on the veranda, with two of the orphans. "You know what, it's amazing you even went on the battlefield." Cagalli commented as she looked at the sky.

"Huh?" Lacus replied, surprised that Cagalli would say such a thing.

"Doing that suits you well," Cagalli responded.

"Is that right? But even when Kira was crying he still said he would return. We may still not understand what we should be doing. The world, it isn't something one creates. It's…" Lacus said to Cagalli

One of the children interrupted her then, "There are a lot of shooting stars again today" her voice showing wonder and amazement.

Meanwhile, back on the beach cliff, Athrun turned around and said, "Kira" he walked over to him and put his hand on Kira's shoulder, as they walked back towards the orphanage.

In a secret lab, somewhere, a man lay on a bed inside a chamber, tubes coming out of his grievously injured body, the artificial respirator pumping in and out. A man observing from outside, through a glass window, stood at a computer terminal monitoring his patient's vitals. The door behind him opened and closed, as he turned around he saw Lord Jibril who asked, "How is the subject? I trust that there would be no permanent damage."

"Uhh…yes, sir, there should be no permanent damage, but the trauma of the accident would may have some unforseen effects. Monitoring seems to show that the subject suffers from amnesia," the scientist replied.

Even better, that should save time, I can feed him whatever information I want and the subject will believe it to be true. "Good, see that there is no other damage but for the amnesia. I have a use for the subject. I will be back in a month, see that he is fully recovered by then," Jibril ordered, and then he turned around and walked out.

"Yes, Lord Jibril," the scientist replied.

On PLANT, Shinn Asuka graduated as a pilots for ZAFT, none of his family or friends were there, having perished when the Earth Alliance had attacked Orb in the war, if only Orb had done something else, instead of sugar-coating their words, Mayu would still live. I hate the principles that Orb stands for and I hate those Attha's. He received his assignment the next day, he was to go to Armoury One and serve as a test pilot on the Minerva.

Jibril exited that lab as he went on towards the next wing, there he saw the next batch of human-CPU subjects, but the progress on that experiment was slow. The first three had proven unsuccessful, destroyed, and half-insane. Progress will need to be made before we can move once again for a clean and blue world. This next batch seemed to only understand a few things and reports indicated that they would need someone to control them, someone experienced in command, that was why he had saved the Subject to use him as a commander.