Characters: Kira Yamato
Pairings: Implied KiraxLacus
Time frame: GSD ep 13
Shadows of kindness
Kira isn't always absolute forgiving and kind. He tries to be, but sometimes it escapes him, seeping through his fingers like sand in the desert.
One war has broken him into pieces and he built himself back together around three anchors. His best friend, his sister and the girl who is his world.
He finds that picking up the sword she has given him comes easier to him than he has expected, and he is not surprised that he cannot bring himself to feel much empathy or regret when he pulls the trigger.
It is a cruelty that mostly existed only in his mind.
Quickly and merciless, without taking a single life, he wipes all but one out. He proves a point. It is a warning. It is not kind.
One unit, no different from the others standing surrounded by wreckage of its fellows.
He takes the arms first. Left, right. Then the weapons. Right, left. Then the legs. One after another. One at a time with no hurry until it lies motionlessly, unable to move even the faintest bit.
He leaves an entire squad in shambles and lets them know the hopelessness of their situation, of their lives.
For making Lacus-
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For wishing harm on her.
But Kira had no intention of killing them.
