A/N: Written for the Diversity Writing Challenge, g2 - write a drabble collection consisting of drabbles 50-500 words. This drabble is also written for the OTP and OT3 Boot-Camp Challenge, #014 - defective.
in the cell-binds of war
14. following what you believe
It feels like an age since she'd seen Lunamaria and there she was, on the battlefield. And yet they were on different sides now. The Minerva and the Eternal. Chairman Durandel and Orb.
It shouldn't have been that way. It shouldn't ever have been that way. ZAFT wasn't wrong. Orb wasn't wrong. Meyrin wasn't wrong. Lunamaria wasn't wrong. Even Shinn when he'd struck them down over the ocean wasn't wrong. It was just the Destiny Plan, snatching their freedom away. The ones who wanted peace weren't wrong. The ones who wanted freedom also weren't wrong.
But they were on opposite sides and now Luna was aiming at them. And she had to stop him because the pilots were all engaged elsewhere – Athrun against Shinn and Kira against Rey and they were the best.
She had to stop Lunamaria herself. With the only way she could. Her voice.
So she called out to her from the Eternal. Watched as the Impulse stopped short. Listened as Luna breathlessly repeats her name.
But then it twists. Of course it twists. Athrun is still branded a traitor and it's only because they're sisters and know each other so well that Luna doesn't believe she's one as well. But she believes he's tricked her and that's almost as bad. Almost, but not quite because now Luna knows there's someone on the Eternal she can't destroy, no matter now clouded she thinks their eyes are.
But Meyrin knows her eyes aren't clouded. Athrun didn't trick her. She chose to help him and follow him because she thought he was right, and now she's doing the same with the Eternal.