Notes: I finished all my exams and now here is my treat for you guys. c: Summer time = more updates? We'll see. ;) Cagalli doesn't have memories of the past five years—it's all lost in her head somewhere, but she can remember just fine now. (...or can she? CUE: EVIL LAUGHTER)

That and just let me be with my fantasticality and my illiteracy in technology. Let's just say whatever Allie's doing is entirely possible because it's the gundam universe and the impossible is totally possible.

Disclaimer: Nope, I still own nothing.

Flowers For A Ghost
by Starrify

Says he's had a change of heart,
he thinks he's made a grave mistake;
but I, I'll never forget you.

— Present Time

Lacus looks up from bubbly eyes which are the shade of the morning sky and finds her dear friend smiling at her from the doorway of her rather large hospital room. The walls are a shade of pink and around her are flowers and greeting cards—and it seems that her friend brought another bouquet to add to her collection.

"I didn't think you would come," she tells him, her voice not hiding her exhaustion. "Not when your wedding is only a few days away."

"My flight can be rescheduled, but seeing my godchild for the first time cannot."

He takes long strides until he reaches the couch on one side of the room; takes a seat and wakes the other occupant on the piece of furniture.

"Athrun?" Kira yawns groggily as he sits up properly. "Shouldn't you be in the Oceana Union by now?"

The blue-haired councilman ignores his best friend's question and instead turns his eyes on the small figure in his ex-fiancée's arms.

"What's her name?"

"Allie Yamato," Lacus answers with a very maternal countenance. "We would have named her Yula, but Cagalli had told me once that she wasn't too fond of her middle name."

"And also because two Y's in a name felt too much," Kira jokes, stretching out his legs on the white tiled floor. "Myrna said that the Princess couldn't say her full name when she was younger and just went by Allie."

"I know," Athrun replies wistfully. "Cagalli told me that herself."

Kira and Lacus share a knowing look—they both can feel that there is something else on their friend's mind, that there is some other reason he is staying in space instead of helping his soon-to-be wife down on earth. But they will not act on whatever assumptions they have because they know it will not help anyone.

"Do you want to carry her?" Lacus offers, her soft gaze alternating between Allie and Athrun. "I'm sure she's just as excited to meet her godfather."

Athrun turns to his left and after Kira gives an encouraging nod, he stands and walks to Lacus' bedside. He takes over carrying the little child wrapped in yellow cotton and is greeted by high-pitched gurgles. The blue-haired man stares at the babe in wonder as he sees both Lacus and Kira in the child, as he sees the physical manifestation of the bright future they all pledged to strive for together.

He sees Lacus' sky-blue eyes and a lighter shade of Kira's brown hair—and knows that it is Cagalli's high-profile nose the child will grow to have.

"Hi there," he coos as he begins to believe that he can finally live for the future. "Hello, Allie."

Allie is in the cockpit of the mobile suit, staring at the cluster of complex buttons and screens—so technologically advanced and nothing she has ever seen in Teon's house of ancient things. In the pit of her stomach is a bundle of nerves she cannot quell and she feels a mixture of excitement and terror at the prospect of finding her past.

"I'm scared," she admits, looking to Teon who is crouching in front of her. "Teon, I'm really scared."

He laughs it off—like how he laughs off everything she says lately—and says, "You don't even have to do anything but sit down there."

"What if the auto-pilot thing fails? Or what if it runs out of fuel or something?" Her mind begins to create so many different scenarios in which the end outcome is the same: she dies. "What if I crash in the middle of the ocean or what if I accidentally press something and this whole thing explodes? I'm an invalid already!"

"Relax, Allie." Teon is suddenly touching her face and brushing away the stray strands of golden hair behind her ear. "I promise you that it's not going to fail."

"But you know nothing of this new technology!"

"Well, I read the manual and I know nothing's going to happen to you until you reach the coordinates we input," Teon reassures her with a soft smile. "And by then you'll be in the zone of air traffic control and you press...?"

"The blue button," she answers confidently, having gone through her protocol at least a hundred times. "And then they'll ask me to land and then I will tell them that I don't know how. Then they'll escort me and I will find my past."

Allie stares into Teon's brown eyes, curious at the meaning behind the look he is giving her. But then he shakes his head and laughs again and whatever moment they had is broken.

"I'm scared," she repeats. Once he jumps off, it will be the last time she hears from Teon—and quite possibly the last time she will ever see him. "I want you to come with me."

"And I want you to stay."

"But I don't know what I have to live for when I know nothing about myself."

"You can live for the future," Teon sighs and holds her trembling hand. "You can live for me."

Allie almost says yes to staying, to living out the rest of her life on this island with Teon—because her fear almost drives her to agree. Almost. Teon knows that he cannot truly sway her decision, so instead he laughs—and laughs and laughs to pretend that what he's feeling isn't breaking him from the inside.

"How can you let me go?" she asks, her voice childlike, laced with innocence, laced with something that mocks Teon because how can she not know?

"Because I love you, Allie."

Her eyes stay open as he places his lips over hers. She doesn't know if she has kissed anyone before in her life, but from the gesture alone she knows that what Teon feels for her cannot be reciprocated—not when the ring around her neck grounds her, reminds her that there is someone out there who loves her, who is waiting—who she must have loved in return. When Teon leans back, the apology is already forming in her throat.

"And I suppose," he continues with a sad smile. "That sometimes loving someone means having to let go."

"Teon—"

"I don't even want to hear it, Allie," he shakes his head; his hand still over hers. "Just promise me that you won't forget me."

"I'm not sure if you're playing with me or not," she groans, tears welling at the corner of her eyes. "I'll never forget you."

"You better not," he finally says and wipes all of her tears away, squeezes her hand in reassurance for the last time. "Goodbye, Allie."

BREAKING NEWS: DEATH OF QUEEN CAGALLI YULA ATHHA, MYSTERY NO MORE

Olofat, Orb Union — While the deep sea expedition ship Umi-Yula will not resurface until the end of September this year, the first coded message has been publicly leaked, saying that the escape pod supposedly used by Queen Cagalli Yula Athha has been found empty at the bottom of the North Pacific Ocean—except for a note left-behind with the message 'For the Preservation of our Blue and Pure World'. There is no longer any doubt that the passing of the beloved former Chief Representative of Orb was at the hands of surviving members of the radical group Blue Cosmos from the First Bloody Valentine War.

Currently there are demonstrations being held outside of the Parliament Building in which the citizens of Orb are demanding justice for their late Queen. There have been no official statements released by either governments of Orb or Earth Alliance, but Orb Prime Minister Eito Teitoki has called for a press conference later at 8 P.M., Orb Union Time.