A/N: Written for the Diversity Writing Challenge, g2 - write a drabble collection consisting of drabbles 50-500 words. This drabble is also written for the OTP and OT3 Boot-Camp Challenge, #033 - fake.


in the cell-binds of war
2. her crown

She's not in the high-ranking chains of ZAFT or a Faith member, but she's an Intelligence officer and it doesn't take her long to thumb out a solution when presented with a puzzle.

Of course, most of her puzzles are of the war variety. It can't be helped, when both she and her sister are in the military – and, after a while, it's even more mainstream when they're assigned to the Minerva for its maiden voyage…and swept into the chaos that follows it.

Granted, she's pretty much on the ship the whole time. It's Luna and the other pilots who have to sortie out into unpredictable battles when she offers smatterings of guidance from the ship.

Probably her greatest contribution is helping Athrun escape.

And that's a pity, because it shows how corrupt the world is, higher up. It shows that they can fight their best on the battlefield but there don't know everything and there's another battle behind the scenes that makes them puppets on a string.

She's not sure why it's Athrun, trapped in her hotel room, that makes her move. Why it's not when Luna gets hurt, for example, or when Heines dies, or during the whole heartbreaking fiasco with Shinn and Stella. But she is. And it winds up being her crowning achievement in ZAFT – because after that, she's shot down – then brought back from the brink of death and unofficially drafted into the Archangel instead.