DISCLAIMER: I do not own Gundam Seed or anything :). This is just a fanwork.
It's been awhile since I wrote a fanfiction, but since it was just the twin's birthday I thought I'd give it a try again!
This is an AU, and characters may be slightly out of character. I hope you like it!
Rouge
[Prologue]
Rain poured down on the sand, lashing in heavy thuds and drops against the beach and pounding on the hard stone exterior of the cave as if angry it couldn't reach the occupants that were huddled inside away. The only sounds that could be heard in the cave were the loud snap and crackle of the fire, burning brightly and vibrantly in the middle of the shelter expelling the light in shadows against the walls like ink stains on paper. It could have been cozy, should have been friendly but instead it was deathly silent as the two occupants faced each other staring at each other with hard, calculating eyes. As far away from him as the cold stone wall would allow she held the gun at ready the normal warm liquid brown of her eyes turned to hard gold in the flames, her heart pounded in her chest. Her eyes roamed from his outstretched hands, starting at the point of his dagger that glinted icily in the flames and traveling up his battle ready form to at last meet his eyes that were harder then she had ever seen them before and she shivered. Those eyes had seen and brought death, and now they were turned upon her.
"Who are you?" His voice broke the impasse and long silence that had engulfed them for what felt like hours, but she knew to be only moments. It was hard and cold, but even. He looked at her as if he was seeing a stranger and she felt the guilt she had been suppressing rising like a wave again, choking her voice. She felt tears rising in her eyes as she heard the pleading in his voice a small thin undercurrent that she could only hear because she had grown so intimately familiar with it. Kira's voice fluttered through her mind, scolding her—how could she ever think she'd be successful as an undercover agent when she so easily wore her emotions on her face. She blinked the thought away and bit her lip, fighting through the tightness in her throat, "I am Cagalli Yula Athha, Kira's twin sister, and the woman who has been living with you all these months."
He faltered for the slightest of moments, the sound of Kira's name on her lips and the reminder of their time together hurting him but he steeled himself. He could not fall for a trap, he had people who depended on him and a country that looked at him to lead it. She would not trick him anymore, "Tell me truth."
He refused to use her name, Cagalli—Cagalli was not this cold woman staring at him. Cagalli would never steal his gun from him as he slept, Cagalli would never point a gun at him with hard eyes, she would never lie to him, she would never hurt him; and yet, it crept on him. All the small things he had closed his eyes to, everything that he had wondered about and he was helpless because he knew that what was before him was the truth and he could no longer choose to be willfully blind, "You owe me this at least, Princess."
His last word came out as a sneer and it wounded her, but she knew his pain, understood it. How long had she lied to him? How long had she hid things from him, and the truth—he deserved the truth even if in learning it he would no longer look at her in the same way again. She would tell him the truth and if she lost him, it was a sacrifice she had been prepared for since the beginning, since long before she had met him. She remembered again Kira and her father telling her that she was not cut out for the job. She was too honest, she valued the truth too much, and it would be too much for her to bear. She hadn't listened, willfully and stubbornly as always but-but even now she would not go back and change a thing. "Athrun."
She saw him wince at the sound of his name on her lips and she paused for a second before continuing—determined to get it out. "You know the truth already, the truth of who I am when you met me until now is the truth but…before that. Things before that were different, the war made things different."
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