Title: TieriaXMileina Drabbles: Love Heals All

Summary: Tieria is injured in battle and stays in critical condition. What will Mileina do when her chance to confess her feelings could be taken away from her forever?

Characters: Tieria and Mileina

Format/genre: fanfiction

Fandom: Gundam 00

Full Story: .net/s/5621449/1/Tieria_Mileina_Drabbles

Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam 00. If I did , a lot of things would be different and I would steal Gundam blueprints for myself and I wouldn't have shared it with the world because I would have kept all the characters to myself! LOL!

Words: 2 753

Notes: This was inspired by the end of the Birthday chapter when Tieria was injured and Mileina waits at his side. I figured out that it could be another chance for some TXM fluff. Also, sorry for the bad title-I really couldn't think of anything else…the working title was 'Don't Die' but I really didn't like that title. I guess this one was meant to convey that Mileina's love was enough to save Tieria from Death's clutches. If I choose to write it that way…this could very well be a death chapter XD!

Chapter Ten (Double digets! XD): Don't Die

"The GN fields are down!"

"Damn! What's the status of the Gundams?"

"The 0 is in combat with a Flag inside the 1st fleet, Cherudim is shooting at the 3rd and 4th fleet, Arios and the GN Archer are trying to take down the 5th, 6th, and 7th fleets, and the Seraphim has been exposed and is battling the rest of the 8th and 9th fleets." Feldt reports.

"What about the 10th fleet?"

BAM!

"AHH!"

The ship is hit hard from the left side as soon as the question leaves her lips.

"The 10th is attacking us!"

"DAMN! The shields are down!" Sumeragi whines.

They watch helplessly as a blaster is charged in front of them. They cannot hope to evade it and they are right in the line of fire. The crew close their eyes, waiting for the inevitable incineration.

It never comes.

"Seraphim took the blast with the remaining particles of his GN field!" Feldt reports, being the first to open her eyes.

"Erde-san!" Mileina cries.

She looks to her monitors and pulls up a screen of the Seraphim. She gasps. It isn't even recognizable anymore. The thin armour has been melted and half of the Gundam has been obliterated.

"Erde-san! Erde-san!" Mileina cries, desperately praying for a reply.

"The Seraphim has been hit. Major damage to the suit and the pilot's status is currently unknown."

"Bring him in!" Sumeragi yells.

"We can't. The other suits are all engaged in battle and the 0 Raiser hasn't been repaired yet!" Feldt cries.

"DAMN IT ALL!" Sumeragi screams at the sky.

She now faces a decision and neither choice is favourable. She can order one of the other Gundams to retrieve the Seraphim, but that would leave the other fleets free to attack. If she doesn't do that, then the only other option is to leave Tieria out there defenseless and probably in need of medical attention. She knows the right choice but it still hurts. Saving them all is more important than saving one pilot. They will have to abandon Tieria.

Mileina is already out. She won't stand for this. She knows the situation and knows the two scenarios Sumeragi had to choose between. She doesn't like the second option. She won't let it happen.

"Where are you going, Mileina?"

Mileina ignores them. She knows what she is doing is suicide for them all, but she can't leave Tieria.

"Mileina, what are you doing here?" Ian yells when he sees his daughter enter the hangers.

She ignores her father and leaps into the 0 Raiser.

"Hey! Mileina, the 0 Raiser hasn't been repaired yet! You're not supposed to pilot that thing anyway! Hey, Mileina!"

Mileina ignores her father once more and straps herself into the cockpit. She pushes the starting buttons and then pushes the two levers forward, sending the plane shooting out into space.

Once out there, she sees the Seraphim and pushes nearer to it. She latches onto it with the things for the docking system.

I've got you, Erde-san. She calls in her mind.

She prepares to go back into the Ptolemaios but her plans are ruined when a brain-jarring impact sends her reeling. She screams.

A Flag has attacked her from the side. This is bad. She doesn't know how to pilot these things. She looks down at the thing in her hands. It is a wheel with a button at the top. She knows what this part does. It fires the blasters. If only she knew how to pull up the cursor!

Either way, she's not going to let them get Tieria here. She pushes the button and watches as two blasts shoot from either side of her screen. They don't hit anything but it succeeds in summoning the cursors.

She can't turn. She doesn't know how to manoeuvre the ship but she knows how to fire. If she turns then she will lose the path to go back into the Ptolemaios.

The Flags are coming.

It's either move and shoot or stay here like a sitting duck…or go back into the Ptolemaios and bring them to the ship. She can't do that either.

Tears gather at the corner of her eyes. She screwed it up. She failed them all! She ran out with one of their suits and is now going to get it destroyed along with Tieria and then the Ptolemaios will be destroyed too! They're all going to die and it's all her fault! She buries her face in her hands as she cries.

Suddenly, the dashboard makes a noise and she looks up. The screens are lighting up by themselves and doing things by themselves. She doesn't know what is going on. She hasn't pushed anymore buttons!

She then sees the activation of some system and then the ship moves on its own. Someone or something has taken control of the ship for her.

"Activate the docking system!"

Mileina looks through the monitors. The 0 Gundam is coming for her. It is Setsuna. What did he just say?

"R-Right!" She calls, her fingers dancing over the keys.

She remembers now, the 00 has a docking system. She helped her father create it a year ago.

She sets up the docking and the letters flash on her screen. 00Raiser. It is done.

"Seiei-san, please protect Erde-san!" Mileina pleads.

"Mileina? What are you doing out here?" Setsuna is a little shocked when he sees the girl in the cockpit of the 0Raiser.

"Please, save Erde-san!" She cries.

Setsuna sees the tears dripping from her face. He curses. Another child was dragged into battle and now she is crying. He turns the 00 Raiser towards the oncoming fleet. He has to get them all out of this alive. He activates Trans-Am and gets ready for battle.

Xxx00xxx

"What were you-" Ian storms into the infirmary to yell at his daughter but is stopped by Sumeragi.

He looks to her questioningly.

"Leave her be." She whispers.

The two look inside the room and see Mileina standing at the foot of a bed. Tieria lies, motionless, on the cot. Mileina has an empty look in her eyes.

Sumeragi closes her eyes and walks out of the room, dragging Ian with her.

"What's going on?" Ian snaps.

Sumeragi shakes her head, trying to hold back her own tears.

"I-It's Tieria. H-He…He was injured in the blast. We don't know why he won't wake up…we've bandaged his injuries and stopped the bleeding, but he still won't wake up…L-Linda says there might have been brain damage from the blast. I-It destroyed the cockpit of the Seraphim…"

Ian goes silent. He knows what it means. Seraphim's armour is very thin. He knows because he built it himself. That suit wasn't meant for combat, it was meant for agility and fleeing battle. It took a direct hit to protect the Ptolemaios. He knows it's a miracle the pilot wasn't incinerated or worse.

"Linda says she has done all she can." Sumeragi mutters after supressing another sob.

Ian nods. They are losing Tieria. If he won't wake up then his brain was probably turned to mush. Their chances of getting him back are next to nothing. He curses. They're losing another one.

Xxx00xxx

The lights turn off on their own. The lights are set to power down at intervals to save energy. It acts as their 'night'.

Mileina sits with her knees drawn to her chest. She sits on the floor next to Tieria's bed, her back to the cot. She sits there and stares at her knees without really seeing them. Images from the battle keep coming back to her.

She sees Seraphim fly in front of them to shield them from the blast. She imagines Tieria's scream of pain when the blast ripped open the cockpit.

She didn't hear a word the adults said, but she knows what his chances are. She knows how thin the armour on the Seraphim was. That suit wasn't made to withstand a blast of that size.

Please…Erde-san…don't leave me. Don't leave me alone…please…Please wake up… She pleads in her head.

Please, God…anyone…please don't take him away from us-from me…I-I still haven't told him yet…I-I never told him that I…That I…Please don't take that from me. She prays constantly, wishing she believed in God so she would have something to pray to.

If there really is a God then she is praying to Him.

The only sound comes from the heart monitor connected to Tieria. The slow beeping of it is the only sign he is still alive. When that noise stops it will finalize it. Even with the heartbeat he is as good as dead. If, by some miracle, he survives this he will be damaged. They won't allow him to pilot anymore.

These thoughts fly in Mileina's head. She hates this. Those images flash through her mind whether she opens or closes them. She decides to leave them open. With them open she can tell herself that it is a memory…with her eyes open she can look at Tieria to prove he is still there.

H-He's just sleeping…like papa does! Papa snores a lot when he sleeps! He sleeps a lot! Guys sleep a lot! Erde-san's just sleeping…H-He's just sleeping! She reasons in her head.

She turns to the figure on the bed and stands up to look at him.

Tieria isn't sleeping.

Sleeping people aren't as pale as death. Sleeping people look peaceful…he doesn't have any expression on his face. Sleeping boys snore…papa sores so Tieria must snore. Tieria doesn't snore-he barely breaths.

Mileina leans in and plants a kiss to his cheek.

"Please wake up, Erde-san." She whispers. "Don't leave me…please…please don't leave me alone…wake up…please…" She succumbs to more crying. "I love you...Erde-san…" Her voice is barely a whisper as she chokes on her last words.

Her tears fall onto his pale face. He doesn't move when they touch him. This sends even more tears onto him when Mileina realizes he won't move. If he were awake he'd keep her away from him, complain that she was too close.

She chokes on a sob as her knees give out. She puts her face in the covers and lets her tears fall into them. Tomorrow, they will come in and cover him with the blanket, finalizing that he is dead. They will disconnect him and send him away.

Xxx00xxx

It is morning. Tieria shuts his eyes tight when the fluorescent lights flash on in the infirmary. He isn't ready to open his eyes. Yet but the light goes through his eyelids.

He opens one eye and is met with a white ceiling. Is he in heaven? That shouldn't be possible…he's an Innovade so he should have no soul…there isn't a heaven anyway.

He looks down to his side and is met with pain when his neck protests. Still, he manages to see far enough. He felt a source of warmth at his side. A head of chestnut hair greets him, pulled into twin, curly tails on either side of her head.

Mileina? What's she doing here?

Tieria thinks back but he can't remember anything. All he remembers is…I love you…Erde-san…

Did Mileina…He looks at the girl dozing on the side of his bed. He raises an arm, wincing at the pain, and puts it on her head.

"mmm…no…E-Erde-san is…D-Don't take Erde-san away…" She mutters.

Tieria sits up and looks down at her. Is she dreaming of him?

"No…E-Erde-san is…H-He's not dead…D-Don't take him away!" She cries in her sleep.

Tieria finds a smile creeping onto his lips.

"Hello, Mileina." He calls.

She stirs and sits up, rubbing her eyes. When she pulls her hand away and sees him sitting up and smiling at her she thinks she is still dreaming.

"E-Erde…san?" She whispers.

Tieria smiles at her.

"I'm not dead." He informs her.

She claps her hands to her mouth as fresh tears stream from her eyes.

"Alright, Mileina, it's time to let go." Linda calls as she enters the infirmary.

She stops in her tracks when she sees the sight before her. Tieria is sitting up and her daughter is staring at him with wide eyes.

"Tieria!" Linda gasps.

She drops the clipboard she was carrying with his charts. Those things are meaningless now, he is awake and can move on his own.

"T-This…This defies all logic…all the charts and tests said you'd never make it-S-Sumeragi! SUMERAGI!" Linda goes from muttering to herself to calling frantically for the captain.

"E-Erde-san…y-you're okay…T-This isn't a dream…is it?" Mileina whispers.

Tieria, with the smile still on his face, brings a hand to her face. He brushes away her curls and places his hand on her cheek.

"This isn't a dream, Mileina. And I heard what you said." He mutters as he brings her closer.

She turns red, remembering what she said last night.

"T-That was-"

Before she can make up and excuse he has sealed her lips with a kiss. He pulls back after a while, letting her breathe. He is amused when he sees that she has forgotten how to breathe.

"Mileina, breathe." He gently commands.

She takes a shallow, shaky breath.

"I heard you, and I love you too. I wanted you to know that in case…in case something like this happens again. I don't want you to cry again and I don't want to leave you without telling you. No matter what, I love you. Please remember that." He speaks calmly; like he didn't just come back from death's doorstep.

Mileina is a little hurt that he seems indifferent to the situation. He almost died! When she looks at his face she realizes his intentions. He is doing this for her. If he were to start freaking out she would lose it too. He wants to save her from that. She smiles. Tieria really is kind.

"Thank you, Erde-san." She whispers.

He nods and lies back, groaning when his wounds protest.

"Erde-san?" Mileina asks hurriedly, leaning over him to make sure he is okay.

"I'm fine, Mileina…just let me sleep for a bit."

She nods, smiling through the tears dripping from her eyes.

"Alright, Erde-san." She gets up to leave and give him some peace but he pulls her back.

"Please…stay with me." He begs.

She is shocked. Did he just…

"You told me not to leave you. I expect the same of you."

He pulls her to his chest and she finds herself with a face-full of Tieria's chest.

"E-Erde-san!" She squeaks.

He holds her there, not allowing her to move. She has no choice but to bring her legs up and make herself comfortable.

"Please…call me Tieria. I call you by name so it's only fair that you call me too."

"E-Tieria-san?" She calls when he doesn't talk for a while.

"Sleep. You didn't sleep last night, did you?"

She blushes. He holds her closer and she falls asleep, comforted by his presence. When Linda and Sumeragi finally get to the infirmary they see the two curled up and decide to leave them alone. Tieria has found his cure and everything is well…so long as Ian doesn't hear of this.

Don't Die. End

I know it ended pretty badly…but I didn't want to get too fluffy here. Making Tieria confess under these circumstances would be odd so I didn't want a full confession here.