Lacus hummed softly to herself as she braided her long pink hair into one huge plaint in the back. It was one of her normal nightly rituals as was trying to distract her husband from whatever book he was reading.
Why she kept distracting him from his books she had no idea. At least she had no idea why she did it now. She knew why she had done it when she was younger. At that time in her life she had decided that far to many things kept her Kira's mind from where it rightfully belong. Focused solely on her.
While that sounded rather selfish, which was exactly how she had behaved in their first years of marriage, Lacus had been unable to stop herself from behaving so.
She had the feeling that it was because she had had to share him with so many people for the first four years that they had know each other, after all she didn't have any special claim on him at that point in time.
It was because of all this sharing before they had gotten married that after they had married she was extremely annoyed when ever he focused his attention on a book instead of her at night the one part of the day when they could be completely alone.
So she had begun making up ways to get Kira to focus on her and only her.
When they were newly married she had used the obvious means to get her husband's attention.But now that they had been married for several years that was not always the type of attention she wanted from him. Thus she had begun using other methods. Her favorite one had been when she told him that Yzak had called and asked her to run away with him.
Which had been a complete lie of course. Yzak was happily married to Shiho and anyways he was far to honorable to ask a woman to leave her husband.
It had immediately grabbed Kira's attention though. And while she had been very happy with the results Kira had just days later pulled a trick on her that had made it a ploy she could never use again.
Kira had cheerfully told her one day right before they were going to meet Yzak and Shiho for lunch that he had told Yzak about the way she had used him to get his attention one night.
Before she had had the chance to ask him what Yzak's reaction had been to it, Yzak and Shiho had walked up to them and started pleasantly chatting. It wasn't until weeks later when Shiho asked her why she had only blushed and stammered through the whole meal that Lacus had discovered that Kira hadn't told Yzak a thing.
She hadn't tried to distract him from his book for an entire week after that little joke.
But while her mind was buzzing with ideas of how she could get his attention, Lacus knew that she didn't have to use any of those ideas tonight.
Kira was already distracted from his book by worries of how Athrun's date went.
Turning around to look at him, Lacus slipped in between the covers and scooting over to Kira's side and laying her head on his chest said, " So are you going to tell me why you set Athrun up with Meyrin? Or am I going to have to kick you out of this nice warm bed?"
Kira immediately pulled his attention away from his book, after all he had just read the same sentence about twenty times, even he knew when it was best to just give up, and focused it on his wife.
The look in her deep blue eyes told him that this was not one of her teasing questions, the ones she used when she was just trying to keep him from reading, but was in fact a serious question one that had consequences if he didn't answer it properly.
Sighing softly to himself, he replied to her question the same way he had the last ten times she had asked it, " Lacus, I already told you. The reason I set Athrun up with Meyrin is private and I am not talking about my privacy either. Now will you please just drop it?"
Seeing the frustration in Kira's eyes Lacus felt a sharp pang of regret in her heart. She hadn't realized until now just how much her pestering him for an answer was truly bothering him.
Thus with a contrite look in her eyes Lacus scooted herself further up Kira's chest until they were eye to eye.
" I'm sorry Kira, I shouldn't have pestered you so much about this. I was just curious if you had set them up because you had also realized that they had liked each other so long ago."
The stunned look in his eyes made Lacus's lips twitch upwards into a smile. Cocking her head to the side she said, " What did you think I didn't notice that Athrun had a small crush on Meyrin way back when they had first met?"
Kira's eyebrow arched above his left eye and he replied, " No I didn't realize that you had know that." Suddenly a slightly worried look appeared in his eyes." Did Cagalli also realize that Athrun had a crush on Meyrin?"
Lacus's smile became very kind at this question, and she shook her head softly before she said, " No, Cagalli was able to tell that Meyrin cared for Athrun but she was blind to the fact that Athrun had any feelings for her in return. Beside Athrun's love for Cagalli was steadfast and true, any knowledge of Athrun's attraction to Meyrin would have just caused her needless pain. Which is why I never mentioned it to her.And since I know that you agree with me on that point thus ending this line of questions, might I ask you another question?"
Looking up into Lacus's deep blue eyes Kira knew what her question would be but this time he felt no reservation in answering it, so he said, " Go ahead and ask."
Smiling happily at this Lacus said, " Did you set Meyrin up with Athrun because of their old feelings for each other?"
Kira placed his forehead on her's and said, " Yes, I set Meyrin up with Athrun because of their old attraction to each other. Any other questions?"
Lacus still smiling shook her head from side to side while still keeping her forehead pressed to Kira's. " No, I have no other questions."
" That's good." Kira said a small smirk starting to creep across his face.
Tilting her head to the side Lacus asked a little crossly, " Oh, and why is that?"
" Because now I can do this!" And having said that, Kira pulled his wife closer to him and caught his wife's lips with his own.
Lacus's last lucid thought before she was lost in the bliss of her husband's kiss was, 'oh'!
Meanwhile on a Plant far away from Orb a young woman was being rudely awakened by a loud rapping on her front door.
Stomping over to the door to her house Cynthia Niles yanked it open and, glared up at the handsome face of Saul Kent. Pushing back the long strands of black hair that were currently dangling into her eyes she shot him a dirty look then practically growled out, " What are you doing here, Saul?"
Paying no heed to the obvious anger in her voice or the voices in the back of his head that told him Cynthia's temper was nothing to mess with, Saul pushed past her into the small but luxurious two story house.As he began walking towards her living room he called over his shoulder, " I'm sorry to bother you this late at night, Cynthia, but I really need to talk to you."
While this statement did give her an answer to her question of what he was doing here, it did nothing to calm her raising temper so still glaring at him, she quietly shut the door and stalked past him into the kitchen.
As she walked past him she called over her shoulder, " If you so desperately need to talk to me you better get your hinder in here before I just kick you back outside."
This caused the young blonde man to stop just staring blankly at her living room, and instead start staring at her back while automatically following her into her kitchen.
Sitting down at the padded metal chair in the kitchen decorate in old farm house memorabilia, Saul immediately began to talk as Cynthia sat down in the chair in front of him.
" Cynthia, what do you know about the guy Meyrin went out with tonight?"
Giving him a look she said, " I don't know anything about the guy Meyrin went out with tonight Saul. Neither did she for that matter it was a blind date her sister set her up on, why do you ask?"
Saul gave Cynthia a dirty look and then said, " I am not in the mood to play games Cynthia, you know I care about Meyrin. And that is the reason I am asking if you know anything about the guy she went out with tonight.'
" Yes, Saul I know you care about Meyrin and I also know she turned you down." Before Saul could say anything to try and make the fact that Meyrin had turned him down flat seem like nothing, Cynthia put up her hand to stop the words that were about to flow out of his mouth and said, " I am not saying she made the right decision when she turned you down I am just saying that she did which means you have no right to even know if she is dating much less who she is dating."
Saul's slate gray eyes narrowed at this comment but instead of remarking on it he decided to get straight to what was bothering him, " Regardless of me not having the right to know who Meyrin is dating, as a friend I do have the right to be worried when I know that the guy she is dating is just trying to use her."
This comment made Cynthia sit up a little straighter in her chair and actually focus on what Saul was saying with all of her attention instead of just half of it like she had been doing,it also caused her to ask," What do you mean he is using her?"
Saul's lips thinned as he replied, " I mean that the guy Meyrin went out on a date with is married! I was at the same restaurant they went to in Orb speaking with a photographer about the spread I am suppose to do for a big department store chain that has it's main office in Orb. And imagine my surprise when I saw Meyrin sitting at a table directly across from me.The only thing that stopped me from speaking to her is the fact that her date showed up before I could, the creep."
"So you saw Meyrin and her date, how do you know he is married? Have you met him before or something?"
"No I have not met that jerk before!" Scorn literally dripped from Saul's voice as he said this. After this little display of pure loathing for Meyrin's blind date, he continued with his story.
" I know he is married because I saw his wedding ring. The guy didn't even have enough class to remove it before his date."
At this little bit of information Cynthia's dark brown eyes grew diamond hard and her voice took on a far more dangerous edge than the one she had greeted Saul with at the door.
" Are you sure that you saw a wedding ring?"
Saul placed his chin in the palm of his right hand and said his voice full of both weariness and anger, " Yes, I am sure. Now my question is what are we going to do about this?"
Cynthia let out a deep sigh and said, " I don't know, but what I do know is that she has another date with this guy next Saturday."
" Cynthia, we have to keep her from going on that date." Saul's voice had a hint of panic in it as he said this.
Cynthia said nothing in reply to this comment, she just stared at the red and white checkered marble top of her table. Saul knew that Cynthia often spaced out when she was planning something so he held his tongue even though he wanted to get out of his seat and shake her until she told him how to stop Meyrin from dating the slime ball.
After a good five minutes Cynthia finally spoke. But what she said was not what Saul expected to hear.
" We are not going to stop her from seeing this guy."
This statement did get Saul out of his chair, lunging to his feet he loomed over the slender young woman sitting in front of him. He then proceed to practically roar at her," What do you mean we are not going to stop her from seeing this guy!"
Not even blinking an eye Cynthia looked up and said very calmly, " I mean we are not going to stop her from seeing this guy, what we are going to do is make her fall in love with you first."
Plopping into his chair like a balloon with all the air let out of it, Saul said, " What do you mean we are going to make her fall in love with me first?"
" I mean while this guy is trying to win Meyrin over you are going to be her knight in shining armor. When he is to busy with his wife to even talk to Meyrin you will be there with a sympathetic ear. When he has to cancel a date you will be there with tickets to her favorite movie. Do you see where I am going with this?" The cunning smirk on Cynthia's face scared Saul a little but the plan was very pleasing to him. After all he had loved Meyrin for over a year now, and if a little dirty pool was the only way he would be able to show her how devoted he was to her than so be it.
Leaning forward he smiled slowly and said, " Tell me more."
Author's notes: I hope you enjoy this chapter. Thank you so much for reading it. Please review.
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EzrathenNehemiah
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Ephesians 2:1-2