Forbidden In Life

Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Seed.

Author's Notes: Nobody gives Shani the love he really deserves. So this fanfiction is all about him, starting from how he miraculously survived the supposedly fatal attack Yzak landed on him. Story begins around episode 49.

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Chapter 2 – WHAT?

"Who do you think he is?" a girl's soft voice murmurs. I am awake, but I can't seem to move…at all! A hand settles on my cheek causing me to try all I can do to through it off of me, but I can't even open my eyes let alone my hand.

A second voice, a boy's, answers her. "I'm not exactly sure, Lacus. But he is obviously from the Earth Forces judging his uniform." I recognize that voice it's the…the red machine's pilot!

I force my eyes open, ignoring the searing pain. "Y-you!" I gasp out weakly. I glare coldly at him. "All because of…you!" I snap to the blue-haired, green eyed boy, before glancing at the other person in the room. She, Lacus as the pilot called her, had grotesque pink hair, blue eyes and a sympathetic/surprised expression on her face. I turn back to face the pilot.

"Wait a minute! You're the pilot of the Forbidden! I can recognize that voice!" the boy splutters. He moves in-between me and Lacus. "So it's you? You're the guy who's tried to kill me and Kira all the time?" Kira? Must be the pilot of the first machine we were told to capture.

"No shit, Sherlock!" I drawl. I glance down at my arms. "The thing I wonder about is why I'm not in pain. The drug has wore off so I should be going through withdrawal or be dead," I comment. I glare back up at him.

Lacus steps out from behind the pilot. "Well…about that…" she murmurs gently. That doesn't sound good! "My doctor managed to cure you from it…but…you're a coordinator now…" she informs me sadly. "I'm sorry!"

"A…coordinator?" I blink and lay down on the soft bed again. That's it? I'm free from the drug and am now what I hate? What the hell do I do now? "W-what?" My gaze surveys the room before my eyes catch something. I lunge for it. "No!" My hand grips the sharp doctor scalpel tightly. "No!" I press it up against my neck, shuddering pitifully. "I can't be! No!" I press it harder against my soft skin of my neck, drawing blood.

The pilot moves toward me, but I fix my grip more firmly. Lacus puts her arm in front of the boy's chest. "No…stay here, Athrun. I'll handle it." Lacus walks toward me, ignoring my threat to kill myself. "Don't…" she coos.

"Don't come near me, filth!" I scream. My hand goes to jam it into my throat, but the girl grabs my hand before I could graze my neck any further. I smack her hand away and drop the knife. "Get away from me…" I warn. I rise shakily to my feet and back away from the two fiends. My back presses firmly against the wall as Lacus walks closer to me. "Leave me alone! Get away from me!"

"Calm down!" Lacus coos softly. She takes another long step toward me.

"G-go…a-a-away!" I whimper. She stops and stares sadly at me. "L-leave me a-alone!" My hands move in front of my shivering form in an insufficient attempt to protect myself. "Go away…" I simper. I fall to my knees in fear of the reality of the situation.

"What?" Athrun looks from my scared face to Lacus's sad one. "Why is he so scared?"

Lacus looks away from me and turns to him. "He's scared. He's been against all coordinators for so long and now he's been taken in by me and you, who use to be his enemy, and now found out he's a coordinator now," she explains. She walks over to my shivering form and sets her hand on my shoulder. I jolt and stare terrified up at her. "I'm not going to hurt you. I promise."

I glare up at her. "Ya right!" I spit out. I move away from her and find myself trapped between the wall and the pink-haired girl. "Leave me alone, bitch!" I snap. Lacus looks surprised and Athrun looks like he's going to attack me. "Leave me alone!" I shout. I cower against the wall, shuddering with uneven, fearful breaths. "Go away…" I burry my head into my knees, trying to get rid of them mentally. "Go away…"

"Shh…calm down…" She takes another step closer. Behind her, the pilot takes a step toward me.

My eyes widen in fear. "No! Stay away!" My voice is panicky sounding. I hurry over to Lacus, ignoring my fear of her, and hide behind her so that she's in-between me and the pilot. "N-no…" I'm able to hide fully behind her since I'm so thin and her dress was one of those puffy ones. "No!"

Lacus bends down and wraps her thin arms around my frail form. "Athrun…don't come over here. He's terrified of you…" she says softly, hugging me close. "I have to feel sorry for this boy…he's terrified." I close my eyes and rest slightly into her embrace. "What's your name?"

I look up with wide different colored eyes, though she could only see one of them, the purple one, since my long green hair covers the amber one. I have heterochromia (Simply means you have one eye one color and the other a different color) you see. "Sh-Shani Andres, ma'am." I stutter quietly.

"Just call me Lacus, Shani!" Her smile is blindingly bright and real, something I haven't seen before. Nobody would smile at me like that and nobody would smile like that anywhere near me. I…I don't know what to make of this pink-haired girl. Bu I definitely know what to make out of that pilot! He's my enemy still… "Are you ok now?" she asks, a sad tinge in her voice…pity?

I look up at her with confused eyes. "Why are you being nice to me? I tried to kill you and that jerk over their. And all your comrades. All on my own choice…I was only supposed to capture those two damned machines!" My head ducks down and I fear she's going to get mad at me.

To my surprise, she simply hugs me tighter. "Because…you need someone to be nice to you. You can't go living in this world being hated and harmed by everybody," she says quietly. She helps me up gently. "And I'm sorry if you don't like that you're a coordinator like I am, but we needed to do that or else that drug would kill you."

"Gamma Glipheptin…" I murmur. She gives me a confused look as she helps me over to the bed I was on just a little while ago. "The drug is called Gamma Glipheptin…" I mutter, keeping my head downcast. Why am I telling her this? She's a coordinator…the enemy! You're a coordinator now, too, dumbass! a part of me seems to say. I fall heavily on the bed when she lets go of me. What am I going to do now? I'm a criminal who ran from my sentence. Either I am to be with Azrael-Bastard or I'm supposed to be dead! What's going to happen to me?

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Ok! Done! And this isn't going to be a ShaniXLacus story unless you want it to be. Those who want Shani to stay single say so in a review and those who want Shani and Lacus to be together tell me in a review!