Chapter 2: Gundam SEED Destiny AVERT Dream On the Minerva...

I do not own Gundam SEED Destiny or its characters. I only own a select few OCs

Athrun's POV

There was quite a mixed reaction to the arrival of Katherine Daille, the new FAITH Member who joined the ship I once commanded. That woman was not someone I wanted to cross twice. For some reason, stating the obvious, that war is no game for a childish person to try to play the hero, set her off. I would need to be more careful and guard my statements well.

For some reason, I got the feeling I knew her from before.

Yet, her current demeanor left no desire for me to get to know her, or to associate with the witch beyond that confrontation in the hallway. Shinn seemed to have no problem with her, something a little disturbing. Was he letting his grudge force him on to the side of Katherine Daille?

As I walked through the ship, I heard the two engineer boys chatting about the recent activities, mostly involving "Lacus Clyne", something about the Earth Forces, and then it took a turn in the direction of volatile Minerva Crew Politics.

"Did you hear Katherine punched Athrun?"

"No way...she did?"

"She even did it in front of everyone...that's a lot of guts."

No doubt she had talked about it to increase the amount of humiliation to be heaped on me. I cursed under my breath, "Manipulative bitch..."

Speak of the devil and he, in this case she, appears proved all too true. Katherine, the red haired devil, walked past me and chuckled, "I am quite shocked, blue boy...I never knew the paragon of justice knew the word bitch..." She said it all in a sickly sweet voice, obviously her sarcastic voice.

She whispered in my ear, "Either quiet down or terrible, terrible things will happen to Kira Yamato. Oh wait, they will anyway, so say whatever you like about me. Its no worse than the things I have been called in the past."

She walked off, and I contemplated what she meant by "Its no worse than the things I have been called in the past." However, I had to think of other, more important things to think of. Horrible things happening to Kira? Did she have a grudge with everyone I was affiliated with? Whatever she was up to, it could not be anything good.

However, I was certain Kira could more than defend himself against her. She was just the new FAITH member, and he was the greatest pilot I had ever seen.

As I walked away, up to the top of the Minerva to gaze out at the ocean, I saw Shinn up there as well. I had no desire to get into a verbal scuffle with him too. This day was too chaotic with that woman and her antics. I walked over and Shinn said, "I don't like her either."

"What?"

"I am talking about that new FAITH member, Katherine I think. Athrun...she is a maniac."

"I know, Shinn. I knew that from the instant she punched me. I thought you would be happy to see me in pain from a superior's wrath."

"No...all I felt was that she was being unduly violent. I find it hard to think that she would have any friends at all, with her behaving like that so casually."

That was true. She was likely very lonely because of her violent nature. Perhaps that was why she was so foul acting, because she never had anyone to really connect to. I walked off, and tried to find Heine for any more answers. He seemed to actually know her.

Shinn walked off, murmuring something about how he would never understand the politics of the ship. Something about the new situation told me I myself might never quite understand what made Katherine the malicious person she was now.

Katherine Daille sat in her room, by herself. As she preferred it. She had finished work on that project for the day, and so if a fight broke out, then the Bombardier Gundam would be sufficient. The young woman picked up a small picture of a red haired girl and a brown haired boy. Those were days she wished could return, but never would as long as Kira Yamato lived.

She could never live in the same universe as him. He and his perfection. She furiously threw the picture to the floor, she would ruin him. He could never be the Ultimate Coordinator again after she was through with him. Every day, she replayed the same fantasies in her head. Shooting him down in the devil mobile suit she now worked on.

She doubted the Bombardier was up to the task of destroying the Freedom, but she knew of one mobile suit that was capable of doing such. The Impulse and Shinn Asuka. If she could just get him angry enough at Kira, he could do half the job for her. Everyone that man knew...everyone he knew also had to die.

Lacus Clyne. Athrun Zala. And of course the Archangel Crew. Nobody in the universe should remember him by the end of her plans, if they did then she would have to sweep the planet Earth and the PLANTS all over again. She would find every memory of Kira and kill it.

She would find every single man, woman and child who had ever met Kira and end their lives for the thing they helped him do to her. Katherine remembered what he did to her well, she would never forget it as long as she lived.

Katherine eventually got back up and walked out to work on the monster. It would be her ultimate weapon of revenge against the man who dared call himself perfect. This time, his machine would explode and he would die. Very, very painfully.

Katherine sure is scary, isn't she?