I'm sorry it's late!

I've received a constructive critic for my story, so thank you!

For the grammar, I use what I know, and the editing is from MS Word. I write fanfiction so I won't forget my English I've learned for I rarely use it now, nor learning it.

As for the writing style, I used to imagine my story as an anime playing; I saw it so I only wrote the dialogues. I know anime and written story is different, so I'm trying to improve.

So I'm sorry if this is bad, I'm trying…

And now, here is chapter 19. Happy reading!

Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam SEED/Destiny

Chapter 19

September 26th 2010

Athrun was tightening the last bind to the board. After he was sure it was tight enough, he stood up and looked at his work.

"Not bad…," he mumbled, weeping the sweat from his forehead.

"YAY! It's done!" A little girl with blonde hair with a red bow tied on her head ran from the house and stood beside the hand-made swing, just like her mother's swing at her father house.

"Try it baby girl." He picked up the girl and sat her on the seat. She demanded that it had to be the exact copy of Cagalli's swing.

"Push me, Daddy. Make me fly."

"Hold on tight, princess." Athrun began to sway the swing; the higher Athrun swayed her, the louder the blonde girl squealed.

"Mommy, look!" The girl waved to her mother, who was standing on the porch. She was smiling at her husband and daughter.

Cagalli took a few steps, "Lunch is ready!" She announced.

"Come on, baby girl." Athrun picked the girl from the swing and put her on his shoulder. He winced when she gripped his hair a bit tight. "You'll hurt daddy if you grip me that hard," he said as he tried to loosen her grasps.

"Sorry, daddy. Let's go to mommy!"

"Okay!" Athrun walked to the porch and kissed his wife on the cheek, "My two favorite girls are here."He kissed the other cheek, "and the little guy," he caressed Cagalli's lightly swollen belly.

"I'm hungry," little blondie whined.

"Okay princess," Athrun chuckled and they went to the kitchen when Athrun could smell the delicious food.

Athrun blinked.

"Good morning, sleepy head," he heard. He turned, and saw Cagalli beside him, wearing his shirt and shorts—again—smiling. A sweet aroma was filling his bedroom.

"I made pancake," Cagalli said as Athrun sat on his bed, still shocked. Cagalli sat in Indian style beside Athrun and looked at him, "Bad dream again?" she asked, stroking his cheek. Worry was clear on her face.

"I dreamed…" Athrun whispered; his eyes were still unfocused.

"You dream every night," Cagalli said, bewildered. She took a plate of pancake from the tray she had put on the nightstand and sliced it. There was two cups of coffee too.

"That was a dream… A real dream, my dream. Not the nightmare… And that was a first…" A first for the last ten years.

"Really?" Cagalli tilted her head to the left.

"The best dream ever…," Athrun said smiling, recalling the dream. Not only he dreamed a real dream, but this was a good dream—best dream ever—he had ever seen, the blonde girl and Cagalli's swollen tummy.

Their children.

"What was that about?" Cagalli said, as she took a slice of the pancake, and held it to Athrun. He opened his mouth as Cagalli shoved it to him and chewed it. "Delicious…"he said.

"Your dream?" Cagalli asked, still curious. She took a bite for herself.

"You… and me…," Athrun said after he swallowed the pancake. He paused, "and children…"

Cagalli stopped chewing, and swallowed it. "Children?" her eyes were wide. She, of course had thought about it for a while, before she went to doctor and ask for pill. But she didn't expect Athrun would consider of having a baby this time, when it was their first time.

"A little girl with blonde hair and green eyes," Athrun said with dreamy eyes.

Cagalli blushed, and remembered their activity last night. She didn't say anything and continued to share their pancake. Athrun was deep in thought.

"Are you still thinking about your dream?" Cagalli asked. Athrun seemed so captivated by his dream. Did he really want a child?

"Sort off…" Athrun was also thinking about last night, and how amazing it was, and how things would turn out if Cagalli wasn't on a pill.

"Do you want to have kids?" Cagalli asked as she took the cups and sipped her coffee, offering the other cup to Athrun.

"I don't know…" he said. When he recalled his dream last night it felt so real and… kind of great, being a father and spending some time with your daughter. Now he felt like he wanted a baby. But of course, there was a thing to be considered first, and it made him frown.

"What do you mean?" Cagalli asked. He looked like he was happy just thinking about his dream, about having children, but the change of his expression confused her.

Athrun sighed. He leaned on the headboard. "You know I inherited this curse from my father, right? And he got it from my grandfather…" His eyes were closed.

"Oh…" Cagalli said, as she remembered that night when Athrun first revealed his secret. Someday, when or if, they had kid, would he or she inherit the curse from Athrun? What would happen if he or she couldn't bear it and have a difficult life? The lonely look Cagalli saw on Athrun's face the first time she met him, or how Athrun had described his father, was not something she would want to see on her child.

"This is not something I want to give to my child. I know you don't want it too for your child, nobody want their child to have horrible nightmare every night, to see many deaths. Even though maybe they wouldn't have it before I die…"

"Please, stop…" Cagalli couldn't bear it when he said about death, and referring it to himself. "It's okay… We don't have to have child."

Athrun sat straight. "What?" He looked straight to her eyes. "You want to waste the opportunity of having child, to be a mother? For me?" he asked her while staring at her in disbelief.

"If it means I get to be with you. Off course that's… not something I want for my child. So, instead of taking the risk, it's better if we don't have child…"

"Cagalli…" Athrun sighed, put both his hands on his face and rubbing it. "There are other men out there… who could give you normal life… I don't want to take…"

"No! You said you love me!" Cagalli sat up and pried Athrun's hands from his face.

"I do, but… I don't want to be the reason of you not knowing how it feels to be a parent," Athrun answered, facing away from Cagalli.

"We can adopt!" She insisted.

"You'll want your own child, to be a real parent," he persisted.

"I don't want anything, anyone but you!" Cagalli held his face firmly on her hands, forced him to look straight at her. "Stop arguing about it!"

"Cagalli, if only I can give you everything in this world, I would do that. But this… the simplest thing…"

"I said stop," Cagalli leaned and kissed him, a short but determined kiss. She pulled away stared at his face and said, "Listen to me. The day I came to you after you told me your secret, I was ready to face every consequences of being with you. Dealing with your nightmares every night, dealing with your depression when you see many people die, or maybe when you see my death…"

"No, don't say that!" Athrun shivered at the mention of him seeing her death… He saw images, many ways of how she would be… He shook his head to erase those disturbing visions.

"I didn't remember of the inheriting until you told me again, though," Cagalli continued, "But… When I decided to meet you that day, when I realized that I love you, I…" How should she tell him? "I will do anything to be with you, accept every destiny that waits for me, with you. Not with someone else… With you."

And her confession made Athrun speechless. He only sat there, staring at Cagalli's golden eyes, and he saw the sincerity on them. And then, not knowing what to say, he hugged her tight, his face buried on the crook of her neck.

"You are the most amazing, caring, kind person I've ever met, Athrun. Maybe I'm not the best person to be together with; I think you're too good for me, but I don't ask for many things. Just let me be with you, and you be with me. Please…"

Athrun knew he couldn't deny her anything, and she was everything for him, the best person he wanted to be together with.

"Whatever you want, Princess…"

Athrun sat there, hugging Cagalli close to him. What did he do to deserve this amazing woman, who was willing to go through this craziness with him, take care of him and scarify everything just to be with him?

"You know? We haven't even talk about marriage yet. You haven't proposed to me yet." Cagalli reminded Athrun after a while of silence.

"Oh, you want me to propose soon?"

"Are you sure about that? I mean… We have been together only for… a month… And you already had a dream about having kids? And talk about it…"

"Who was the one who seduce me last night? You give me the ideas for that dream, I believe," Athrun teased, and rewarded with a blush. He chuckled lightly.

"You're the only woman I trust with my secret, Cagalli. Only you and Kira who know this. And I don't intend to tell any other people, while Lacus is not so determine to know. And I can't imagine my future without you.

"As for kid," he pulled away a bit, to see her face, "If we decide to have one, whether it's my own or adopted, you're the only woman I want to be their mother… And of course, my wife."

Cagalli imagined it in her head, if only her father was still here, to walk her down the aisle, Wagner's wedding march on the background, and give her to Athrun, to be trusted to his hand. She imagined them exchange vows, and their first kiss as husband and wife. She would be on her prettiest form, wearing all white with flowers, and Athrun wouldn't be able to take his eyes from her.

God; those were the most womanly things she ever thought. Your marriage, your biggest day in your life, complete with all the girly details. She wanted to slap herself for thinking Athrun couldn't take his eyes off her; it was nothing like her, who didn't give a damn about beauty. But the thought of it wasn't that bad, at all. She liked Athrun only seeing her. She smiled at him and put her head on his chest.

"One day, I'll be on my knee," Athrun said, caressing her blond hair gently, "Holding a beautiful ring that suits for you only, and ask you for marriage, if that's what you want, if you're sure to spend the rest of your life with me."

Cagalli smiled, feeling content by just hearing that promise. It would be wonderful, she was sure. Cagalli could felt Athrun's strong grip on hers, like he wouldn't want to let go. And neither would she.

Together forever…

"I'm waiting for that day."

That's chapter 19. Review… please…