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Enjoy Chapter 2!


Click. Clack. Click. Clack.

She hummed in tune with her fast walk, every morning the young girl was all smiles but today she beamed just a bit brighter.

Entering the lobby of the huge building she made her way to the elevator and pressed the twelfth floor. When the elevator reached her floor she was greeted with a clean, warm and comforting reception area. While most companies she knew tried to make their offices as cold and as intimidating as possible, she preferred bright, openness and banked on the view of the city to warm up clients and business prospective.

"Good morning Stellar!" she greeted walking over to the receptionist. Stellar Louisser was a good friend from high school, she had twinkly violet eyes and short blonde hair. Though she appeared to be childlike and airheaded, Stellar was actually quick witted and very smart.

Stellar grinned mischievously propping her elbows on the desk and leaned forward "Good morning Miss. CEO. The deal is signed and sealed."

Signed and sealed.

Those words were music to the young twenty seven year old.

Cocking her head in the direction of the office Stellar whispered dramatically "You'd better hurry boss, Lady Law is just brimming with victory and awaits your presence."

The CEO nodded and headed to her office. As she opened the door, her big office chair swung around and a smug blonde sat in it proudly, hands behind her head and feet propped up on the desk. Her amber eyes shone with excitement. Cagalli Yula Athha, or Lady Law as her friends called her was the head lawyer for Terminal Inc., she was the perfect personification of a lion. Heated amber eyes and wild short blonde mane, she radiated with power and stubbornness.

"We've done it Lacus! We've secured the PLANTS deal!" Reaching to the ground she picked up a package of papers and threw it into Lacus's arms.

Lacus Clyne was the CEO of Terminal Incorporate, after taking over the company from her father five years ago due to his health, the company boomed and soon was listed as a fortune 500 company. She had winter pink hair that stopped a little past her shoulders and sparkly blue eyes. She was epitome of innocence, something that competitors and opposition tried to use against her, but learned the devastating consequences that she was far more intelligent and ruthless then she looked.

"Oh this is amazing!" Lacus cheered rushing over and hugged Cagalli "It's all because of you, Shinn and Stellar's hard work!"

"Psh, nonsense Lacus" the blonde smiled "It was both of our hard work, you were the one who thought of the deal. I just took care of the legal stuff."

"This calls for a celebration wouldn't you say?" a happy voice came from the door. Spinning around Lacus saw her last star player enter the office.

"My fair ladies" he grinned bowing with mock regality. Shinn Asuka was a driven person, if he put his mind to it he could do anything. His crimson eyes which had the power to making even the toughest man flinch was filled with joy and passion. Lacus reached out and tried to smooth his unruly raven hair to no avail.

Clutching her heart Cagalli made her voice go a few octaves higher "My hero."

Shinn snorted at his cousin's antics "Damn straight, if it wasn't for my charm we would have never gotten the deal."

The blonde rolled her eyes "Charm? Please. The only productive thing you did was bring me coffee and food."

Lacus giggled "Now, now you two, both of you worked endlessly to seal this deal. How about we go out for dinner? My treat!"

Cagalli nodded happily, and Shinn was thoughtful for a moment, Lacus threw him a curious look before he spoke, "I'm tired with all this rich restaurant food or fast food. How about we have dinner at your place? We can all cook there."

The pink haired girl nodded eagerly "That's a great idea! How's Friday? Tonight we have to wine and dine with Ms. Canaver, in celebration for the deal."

Cagalli grinned looking at her cousin "You just want to eat Lacus' food, not that I can blame you though it's like a piece of heaven in every bite."

Lacus blushed lightly "Oh hush."

"Stop being so humble" Stellar exclaimed walking in, folders in hand "Now people, sorry to be the party crasher here but we still have work to do."


"You're shitting me" Athrun said in disbelief, the shock started to wear out "Terminal?"

Kira blanched and prayed that his twin and twat cousin didn't have anything to do with this.

'But how could they?' he mused, he hadn't told anybody about the deal 'There's only one way to find out' he sighed and made a mental note to personally visit his relatives, 'they'd better not be a part of this' he thought darkly or there'd be hell to pay.

"Terminal?" Athrun echoed again, this wasn't possible! He couldn't make sense of this "Siegel Clyne would never be this cunning or smart enough to pull something off like this."

Murrue fold her arms over her chest "If memory serves me right, Siegel Clyne stepped down due to medical reasons and gave his daughter to take over…oh five years ago I think it was."

"What? Five years ago? How come I've only just heard about it?"

Murrue shrugged "It was all hush hush, they even kept out of our radar during that time."

"Hm" Nicol did a quick search on his laptop and gasped in surprise "They rank number 20! Dealing with $104.5 billion dollars in revenue last year! And get this" he said scanning the screen "within the last five years they've jumped up almost a hundred spots up the list!"

Athrun stood up and rushed to gather his things into his bag, "Alright then, I'm going to visit President Canaver and see to it myself as to why she declined our deal. Dearka you're coming with me, Yzak dig deeper into Terminal and see what you can uncover. Kira do you have a free moment to come to PLANTS Corp., with me?"

Taking out his BlackBerry said boy scanned his schedule and sighed nosily "Sorry man, I'm meeting with the head of PharmaCorp in two hours. I can't reschedule this."

Nodding understandingly Athrun left the room barking at his secretary to cancel all of his meetings for the day.


Wow, bet you didn't expect that!

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~Lacus Yamato