OK, so I finally got around to chapter 10, haha but now it seems like im in a race with my friend and fellow fanfic writer, who is up and coming with a bigtime rush story...

Anyway, so back to this story :) hope you like it.

Chapter 10: New Found Fear.

Mwu's POV:

"I'm worried Murrue, we haven't heard anything in over a week and their ship has just sat there the whole time..." I said, we had been sitting idle since the battle and our hopes of waiting for Kira to get to us were dwindling; we were low on food and water, the civilians that Kira picked up were getting angry and our ship needed maintenance that we couldn't do without the proper equipment.

"I know Mwu, but what can we do? If we don't hear from Kira within the next day or two we will... We will have to move on..." Murrue replied with obvious sadness. She looked tired; both psychically and mentally. I suppose we all do I thought absently.

Although we had discussed the idea of forcefully trying to get Kira back we had been forced to discard the idea on the terms that, if I were to face the enemy ship alone I would most certainly be defeated, and that would leave the Archangel in major trouble.

"Arghhhh! I hate this!" I yelled suddenly, running my hands through my hair in frustration. "I hate not being able to do anything. I hate it that those... those things have Kira, and are doing god knows what to him, and I can't do a damned thing about it!"

"I know Mwu, I feel the same way... But, maybe we will have to wait till we can get that extra advantage. If we can get to Earth and then Alaska, we might get that advantage." Murrue said in an attempt to allay my fears.

But it just raised more problems.

"And then we will run the risk that they wont help Kira because he is a coordinator, or just because they wouldn't see it important enough to save a single boy." I said quite coldly. This time Murrue said nothing, and we both knew that if we didn't get to Kira soon and we were forced to leave, we would lose any definite chance of being there for him when he needed.

We sat in silence for a while, both lost in our own thoughts.

"What will we tell his friends?" Murrue asked suddenly, breaking the silence. A gave vent to a sigh, of course, another problem. I thought warily, then thought better, no not a problem, its not their fault that the kid was caught, and it wasn't their fault that they cared for their friend.

"I'm not sure... But I doubt it will hurt to wait until we can't wait any longer..." I replied, knowing that none of us wanted to see the heart ache on the young faces...

Tolle's POV:

"No!" I muttered. I couldn't believe what I was hearing, it was just to hard to hear. "We-We are leaving? But we can't!"

I looked around at my friends, each of them mirrored the shock and pain that I felt. It had been nearly 9 days since we made contact with Kira, and that in my opinion was to short a time to consider leaving.

"Listen, I know its hard, but we don't have a choice. We are running low on, well, everything. The civilians that Kira brought in are beyond restless, and we need maintenance." Captain Ramius said calmly. I glared at her, and in that moment I realized that I really hated her for suggesting that we leave while Kira was still out there.

"I don't care, if it weren't for Kira those people would still be in space! If it weren't for Kira we would all be long dead or captured! The people of this ship owe Kira everything they have, and you expect us to up and leave!" I yelled. I felt a reassuring hand on my shoulder, presumably from Sai, but I shrugged it off.

"Tolle..." Said said softly.

"What?" I said turning on him.

"Nothing..." He said quickly, looking away. I turned back to Captain Ramius, she looked conflicted and a part of me knew that this was a hard decision for her to, but that part was quickly overruled by the rest of me.

"Tolle, I know this is hard and I know that everyone on this ship owes Kira more than they can ever replay, but we need to be strong for the moment that Kira does need us, and if we keep this up we will be weaker than ever." She said.

Her words slowly sank in, and I began to see the truth in her words. I felt a warm hand slide into mine and looked over at Mir, I saw the sadness in her eyes, but I also saw a fierce resolve in there as well. This proved to break through my defenses.

When I looked back at Captain Ramius I found that my voice had failed me so I nodded my understanding as silent tears flowed down my face. Looking around I saw tears on each of my friends faces as well...

Despite the fact that this was probably for the best way to help Kira in the long run, I couldn't help feeling that I was letting him down as well.

I'm sorry Kira...

Athrun's POV:

Something was wrong.

Kira hadn't been exactly happy since he had been brought on board our ship, but after he came back from his talk with Le Creuset he has been down right depressed. When I attempted to get him to talk he would always say that he didn't feel like talking about it.

I had also noticed that there always seemed to be a soldier close by when ever Kira left the room. Kira's behavior brought back painful memories from when he was first being bullied; then he was always closed mouthed as well, but then it was also plainly obvious what was happening. Now was a different story; Kira had gone from seeming to be almost happy to this closed up person.

"What do you think is happening to him?" I asked Nicol, hoping that he would have the answer. Those hopes were soon dashed.

"I have no idea Athrun, but its not good. My best bet would be that the commander had something to do with it." Nicol said with a shrug of his shoulders. We both knew that commander Le Creuset had something to do with it, but if we tried to confront Kira about it we could never get anything out.

"Yeah, well that's dead obvious." I replied.

We were just walking back from helping with the maintenance of our machines, and was just approaching my door. I noticed that once again there was a soldier a couple of meters past the door. I also noticed with some surprise that Yzak was leaning next to my door.

"Hmm, this could get interesting." I remarked under my breath. Nicol gave a silent nod of assent to the fact.

"Yzak?" I asked when we got closer. Yzak's head snapped up at the sound of his name. He must be pretty distracted to allow some one to sneak up on him like that I mused.

"Zala, about time. We need to talk." He said, then looking at Nicol added; "Alone."

Nicol looked to him and I gave him a small nod and a reassuring smile; Yzak had been known to get rather angry, especially at me. But we all knew that Yzak cared deep down and I knew from the look on his face that he had something serious on his mind.

I stopped in front of my door and waited for Nicol to walk further down the hall before turning to address Yzak.

"Not here, the observation deck." Yzak cut in before I could utter a word. I nodded then turned to follow him.

Yzak's POV:

At the observation deck I turned to face Zala.

"Listen Zala, something is up. And your friend is at the middle of it." I said, then continued "So I want to know the story about you two. I want to know why you would risk so much for him."

My words were blunt, but I needed to know. If what I heard was true then I needed to know the depth of what Athrun knew. I saw him hesitate but then he seemed to come to a decision.

"We meet at Lunar Prep School, and we became best friends..." He said, then launched into telling the whole story...

Half an hour later I stood in shock as Athrun finished his story. Even I realized that it must have been beyond hard to face his friend like that, and for a moment I entertained the idea of the same thing happening between Dearka and I but soon discarded the thought.

"So... Now you know..." Athrun said with a rye smile.

It wasn't often that Athrun and I spoke openly, usually we were yelling at each other, but I sensed that the topic of his friend -Kira- was a serious one for him.

"Well, your not going to like this news..." I said, then looked around to make sure that no one would hear before continuing, "But you might want to get your friend out. He could be in some serious trouble..."

Athrun's POV:

I couldn't believe what Yzak had told me, actually I couldn't believe that Yzak had told me at all. But all that aside I realized the predicament I was in. Kira was in trouble, no doubt about that, but now the only solution I could have used was gone.

"Yzak, are you sure?" I asked , hoping that he had been mistaken somehow.

"Yes." Yzak replied shortly. "Look Zala, I can't picture whats going on inside your head. And I most certainly don't care much for your friend... But, what I heard... Its not right, and... I couldn't even begin to guess what I'd do in your position."

If I wasn't so used to hiding emotions I swear my jaw would have touched the floor at Yzak's statement. Never. Never before has Yzak said something so... Well I couldn't find the right word but it was the same none-the-less.

Despite my efforts to hide my surprise, something must have showed to Yzak because he lost that strange open look and replaced it with his usual cynical one.

"Good bye Zala." He said shortly before leaving.

Once I was alone, my mind turned full force to the problem that faced me, and the implications involved. I began making my way to my room, I had to talk to Kira now, what Yzak had said explained a lot but not everything. And I will have to break some bad news... I thought sadly.

Arriving at my room I went in. Kira was laying on his bed facing the wall, suddenly I found it hard to concentrate on what I had to say. I didn't want to cause Kira pain in anyway, but I had to do this. I took a deep breath then moved over to sit on the edge of Kira's bed...

Kira's POV:

I hear the door open and I heard someone -most likely Athrun- walk in. I didn't move, I hoped that Athrun would think I was sleeping and go about his own things. It was silent after the door closed and I heard Athrun draw in a deep breath before moving over towards me. I felt the bed move and realized that he was now sitting on the edge of the bed behind me.

"Kira?" He asked tentatively.

"Yes?" I said quietly, but I didn't move. I hated ignoring Athrun, but I knew that if I didn't I wouldn't be able to stop myself talking. And if I told Athrun, he would be the one in danger and I could never bring myself to do that to him. So I was very surprised and worried when he spoke next.

"Kira, I know whats going on. Yzak told me." His voice was quiet. I turned to look at him, knowing that my fear would be obvious on my face.

"Kira... I know that the commander has threatened you, and in a way myself. But listen it gets worse, there is more that you don't know..." Athrun said softly, I was both glad and worried that he didn't go into detain about Le Creuset; that had been worrying me for the last few days, but I also knew that it meant that this new news was worse.

"Look, Kira. Yzak over heard the commander talking to someone. Someone from Blue Cosmos. We think he has some plan for you, but we don't know exactly what." He continued, I went to say something, I was shocked at the news and needed to know more, but Athrun continued before I could. "Kira, firstly, I'm so, so sorry. If I had know that bringing you here would be so dangerous I wouldn't have done it, but I couldn't bear the thought of you being killed out there. Now I want to get you out of here, and fast."

I couldn't think of anything to say after hearing that news. I would be free, I could go to my friends, I could make sure they were safe. Then another thought hit me.

"Athrun, what about you?" I asked worried.

"I'll be fine, I plan on making it look like you just escaped... But there is more, and it probably the worst part." Athrun said, now I was really worried; Athrun had a look in his eye that told me the news was not the sort of thing that would make my escape easy.

"But, Athrun, surely if I can just get to the Gundam and get out I could get to the Archangel..." I said, but Athrun was shacking his head before I had even finished.

"That's the thing Kira. The Archangel... its gone..."

"Gone?" I asked, feeling numb.

"It left a couple of hours ago. Kira I'm so sorry."

But I didn't hear anything other than it left...

I know it's not the best of chapters but I hoped you liked it.

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