A/n: Last time we realized that KAA-SAN had arrived. Let us see how Murrue deals with her promiscuous daughter.

Untouchable Memories

0258 hrs. Andy's Office

"KAA-SAN?"

"Yes, Nina. I am here," Murrue said matter-of-factly as she sat back in her chair. Nina's eyes became wide.

She knows all about the Prayer incident… And with her here it will be harder on me and Andre. Not to mention the war!

"I know all about the Prayer incident, and it is good to hear that Andy thinks you are acting back to normal!"

"So you guys have been talking about that while you waiting for me?" Nina asked angrily.

"Yep," Murrue said teasingly. Andy laughed.

"Anyway, Murrue," Andy began. "I'll arrange a room for you immediately!"

"You're staying?" Nina yelled.

"Of course. I transferred myself here," Murrue smiled wickedly. As she stood up, she went over to her daughter and whispered in her ear, "And I can monitor your sex life from here as well!"

Murrue laughed. Nina was in shock.

Stupid mothers…

0321 hrs. The White Grave, Prayer's New Quarters

Prayer slammed the phone down with such force that it broke. His eyes were leaking perfectly round crystal-like objects. His tears…

"Why? Why did they have to call me? I know that they know, but they don't have to freaking call me and question me about it!"

With that, he slumped over and hugged his knees, rocking backwards and forth.

A moment or so later, Suki was in there trying to comfort Prayer, when she realized something.

He was asleep.

"That's right," the thought aloud, "He hasn't slept since he got here. He told me."

A second later she found another crucial fact.

He wasn't breathing.

"HOLY CRUD!" she screamed.

As Suki ran outside she yelled loud enough for everyone to hear, "GET THE MEDIC!"

0400 hrs. Nina's Quarters

"I like your room. So this is where you and Prayer "went at it"?" Murrue teased.

"No, we never did any such thing!" Nina defended.

"Ah, so it was his room!" Murrue announced loudly.

Mothers are such an embarrassment!

"We never "went at it"!" Nina yelled

"Yes, but you were asleep in his room in your underwear! That fact causes people to suspect things!" Murrue yelled in a mother-like tone.

Nina shut up. When her mother yelled like that it was best not to argue.

"I heard you lover-boy is now on Yzak's ship," Murrue got of the "touchy" subject.

"Yeah, so what?" Nina demanded.

"I just thought you'd be sad, is all. And then I could give you some motherly advice, like mother's do," Murrue explained her idea.

"I don't care about that player," Nina exploded.

Murrue was taken aback.

When I was here last she seemed to go red every time I mentioned that Prayer-kun was handsome, and now, she calls him a player. He was a perfect gentleman when I met him. Does he have two sides?

Murrue did not press the subject further and left the room.

0500 hrs. The Common Room

As Nina entered the Common Room she noticed that her teammates were there. All of them were crowded around someone.

"Oh no," Nina said as she raced over to the corner of the room.

"Kaa-san!"

"Oh, Nina! I was just telling them your baby stories," Murrue teased. Nina looked horrified.

"She wasn't really Nina," Ellis said. "She telling us about the military school you went to in Russia, and about how well you did!"

Nina blushed. At her old military school she was the top scoring person. By the time she was twelve she could fire a gun thirty times in a row and not miss the target, whether is was moving or not.

"You sounded like a real pro," Andre complimented. That, of course –due to recent events- caused Nina's blush to deepen.

Murrue noticed this.

What has she got going on with Andre-kun?

Then, who should walk in, but Andy. Murrue stood up and smiled. Andy smiled back and then turned to Nina.

"Nina, my office now!"

Nina was getting used to those words. They scared her so badly that she shook violently.

As Nina left the room, Andy said to Murrue,

"Go with her, you'll need to know too."

"Nothing about sexploits I hope!" Murrue laughed as she speed walked to catch up to her daughter.

0523 hrs. Andy's Office

"Nina, I am sure you know about the war," Andy stated.

Nina nodded, and Murrue began to look worried.

He wouldn't make her do that, would he?

"We are running low of pilots and we recently received a new prototype. Since you were the best pilot under Prayer-kun, I am entrusting it to you. You will have to go into battle with it, that is why I needed to talk to you, Murrue. I need to ask your permission for it," Andy stopped talking and Nina looked at Murrue in a pleading way.

"Andrew," Murrue started. "You know Mwu died as a mobile suit pilot and my boyfriend before that died as a mobile armor pilot. Why on earth do you think I would let Nina pilot that thing? I don't want her to die as well! She is all I have left!" Murrue exploded.

Nina gasped.

Mother lost everything? No wonder we left. She had nothing in Orb to tie her down, or even go back to…

"Please Kaa-san," Nina said over Murrue's sobbing.

"I want to help out to make sure that no one I love dies. I want to help to make sure that no one dies a meaningless death. Let me help."

Murrue looked at her daughter, holding back a new spread of tears.

"You, Nina, are just like your father," she concluded.

Nina blushed. People only told her she was like her father when they looked at her appearance or when they found out her last name. But now, her mother was saying she was like her father, because of her beliefs. What she wanted to do to protect people and things that were important to her.

Was Father really like that?

"I will let her pilot it, but if she can't or it strains her too much, I want her to stop immediately," Murrue declared.

Andy nodded and Nina hugged her mother.

"Arigatou, Kaa-san!"

"We'll meet in the hangar, okay? At 0700" Andy said and Murrue left with Nina, crying in her heart.

0700 hrs. The Hangar Bay

Nina arrived to see the mechanics (and Wilkins) "ooh"ing and "ah"ing over a huge machine.

"Ah, Nina!" Andy strolled over merrily. "See that machine over there?" Andy pointed at where the mechanics were looking. He then noticed that Nina was entranced by it also.

Andy chuckled.

"That is the Herald Gundam and it is all yours."

Nina gaped.

"Thank you Andy!" she hugged Andy. This earned a few odd looks from the mechanics.

"She's moving in on the Commander too? Gee, she really is a whore!" Wilkins joked.

Nina ran over to the Herald and just stared at it, enthralled by its appearance.

"I'll set a training session for you. You can get used to piloting it," Andy said as he walked off to arrange something.

Nina smiled. She was going to ace piloting a Gundam! Gundams were the things she heard of in her mother's old war stories and now she was going to pilot one! A legendary Gundam!

0935 hrs. The Pilot Training Area

Nina had been great at her piloting. Andy and many mechanics that were on standby commented on it.

"She's really is Mwu's daughter," Murrue sobbed.

"So from now on," Nina said to herself in the cockpit, "I will be piloting the Herald in combat! Oh yeah!"

A/n: I hope you like this installment of What If? If there is anything wrong with this, please feel free to send a review to tell me or even PM me!

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