A/N: Blah, another filler. I got bored and had a mass writer's block, so I'm doing this to fill up space...haha...I hope you find it interesting...sweatdrop Here's the usual round of gigantic thank yous...

Skydancer: BWAHAHAHAHA! I love the part when Hiead faints! Here's a tiny hint: he's gonna do it again. grins like a Cheshire cat Let's just say it's a tiny de ja vu with his past...lalalala starts whistling Thanks for reviewing!

Dennisud: No, don't worry about the VICTIM. It shall come. cry Yes, for once I have this entire fic planned out (IT'S THE END OF ZION! OMG!)...anyway, yeah. It'll come along later...I'm not too sure where I'm going to put Simon in...I'm thinking about it. Send me some ideas if you have any to Don't worry, you will be credited for it. I'm not evil like that to steal people's ideas. And about the word processor thingy...this is my uncle's compy (mine's...well, in computer heaven) so I'm not allowed to upload stuff, but I'll suggest it to him. Thank you though! (Need beta reader COUGH)

Shadow09: Hmm...that would be interesting, wouldn't it? I'm not too familiar with the characters, but if you would like to write that part, send it to me and I'll stick it in there with your name on it, or you can write a separate fic about it. It'd be really neat if people wanted to write about all the other pilots' kids and we can all combine it into one huge fic under one pen name (a new one, just for us). Wouldn't that be neat! Kay..that was my random moment of the day, but I think it'd be a good idea because a lot of people like different pairings and some authors (like me) aren't too familiar with the characters enough to write about them. That was a very interesting suggestion though... Thanks for your review!

Lalita: blushes thank you! I know, the whole thing with Sirius. EESH! starts ranting Good Lord! I mean, really, SHE KILLED THE BEST CHARACTER! cough Anyway, bah. I kept throwing the book against the wall because of Umbridge and how incredibly IMPOSSIBLE she was (goes on huge tangent on how Umbridge should be cooked...) grins sheepishly I sound like Su from Love Hina, don't I? Oh well...here's the next chapter for ya!

Kappy Locks: Haha! I love Mellie! She's the best! I'm trying to decide the best way to stick Simon in, so don't worry. Lalala...must not spill beans, must not spill beans...

Rosemary&Thyme: Thank you!

Ice Princess: Hehehe...you'll just hafta keep reading! And Melanie can be quite the evil little kid...don't worry.

Erica: Haha. Thanks! There will be a lot more Hiead/Ikhny fluff! It's still in the planning stage, but it will EVENTUALLY come! grins sheepishly

Hiead: Thanks!

Maxine: Believe it or not, it was a dream. My friend slept over and we watched the first three DVD's of Pilot Candidate (that's what it's called on the DVD thingy...it took me forever to find out that it was "Megami Kouhosei" on and then I sorta went off on this tangent. Long story. Lol! A lot of my fics are based on my dreams or fairy tails (I love parodies!). That's where all my basic plot lines come from...sweatdrop

Kiki: THANK YOU FOR THE COOKIE! Bwahahaha...do you think I should stick Izzy in there? I'm not too sure, because I don't really want too many characters in there...hmm...

TaioraCrazedGirl: Thank you! By the way, I LOVED your "Partner or Lover?" fic. I absolutely LOVED IT! I'm not joking! Hey, whoever's reading all these author notes...GO READ TAIORACRAZEDGIRL'S FIC! IT IS SO INCREDIBLY GOOD!

Sheryl: grins Here ya go! Next chapter on the double!

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The oh-so-dreaded-disclaimer: Would this exist if I owned this wonderful anime. pulls out pant pockets HOOVER FLAGS! LOOK AT MY HOOVER FLAGS! If anyone's familiar with EVIL US History, you will know that Hoover Flags mean that the person is POOR as dirt and therefore could not pay to own anime. SIGH

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Chapter Three: Spin the Bottle and "I Never" (haha! You guys know what's gonna happen!)

"Kizna, I'm bored," said Saki as she rolled onto her stomach, "There's nothing to do!"

"I know."

It's been two days since the "Kizna/Zero incident" as the pilots and repairers dubbed it. VICTIM was being unusually inactive lately and there haven't been any attacks. The Pro-Ings were made unavailable because they needed to be updated with faster speed and more efficient weapons that had just come out, so the pilots and repairers had absolutely nothing to do. The Pro-Ings were due to be finished by tomorrow, but then again, since when did those stupid installers stay on schedule?

"Hey, I've got an idea!" said Wrecka, all of a sudden. She was always the boy-crazy one of the lot and was expected to be the first to get a boyfriend on GOA. Obviously, however, Kizna beat her to it. She ran her fingers through her blue hair and grinned evilly. "Anyone up for spin the bottle?"

"YEAH!" cried Kizna, grinning.

"Okay, get the guys. I'm gonna change it to make it more interesting though. Let's go find them!"

Kizna, Saki, and Wrecka took off in different directions to round everyone up. An hour later, Yamagi, Clay, Roose, Zero (who was blushing as Kizna dragged him to their destination), Hiead, Ikhny, Mellie, and Tsukasa all met up in the rec room. Wrecka was already there with two bottles.

"Why do we need two bottles? I thought it was only one," said Zero, scratching his head.

"I'm changing the game to make it more interesting," responded Wrecka with a smirk, "It'll knock you off your feet. Now, here's the basic idea. Everyone knows the basic rules to spin the bottle right? Whoever spins the bottle has to kiss the person the bottle points to unless it is the person of the same gender. Well, here's where the second bottle comes in. You have to kiss that person on the MOUTH for as long as it says on the paper. I've made a chart for the second bottle to spin on. The times are one second, three seconds, thirty seconds, one minute, two minutes, three minutes, four minutes, and five minutes. You have to kiss the person that the first bottle points to for as long as the second bottle point to. Understand?"

The others nodded and sat down in a circle around the two bottles and the mini-game board.

"Who wants to start?" asked Clay.

"Mommy...can I play?"

Ikhny glanced at Melanie, who was currently giving her the puppy dog face.

"ARG! Fine, you can. But we have to change the rules for her. Only a peck on the cheek for one second."

"Okay!" chorused everyone else (except Hiead, of course). Melanie put her little hand on the bottle, and spun it. It landed on Zero. She grinned, toddled over, and gave him a peck on the cheek. "Give one to Erts for me too, Uncle Zero!"

Zero and Kizna both blushed, then looked at each other, grinning evilly. Oh yes, they would get back at the little girl-it'd be their turn to play matchmaker years from now.

Zero spun the first bottle and then spun the second. It landed on Wrecka and three seconds. He went over and kissed her without warning smack on the mouth. Afterwards, he winked at her and went back to Kizna, who was currently glaring at Wrecka, who just smiled back.

Wrecka spun it and it landed on Roose for one minute. Then Roose spun it and it landed on Yamagi for five minutes. He spun again. No chance in hell would he kiss Yamagi. The bottle landed on Tsukasa for one minute. Shame he missed the look on Yamagi's face as he kissed her-he looked like a cross between a fish and a raging bull.

Tsukasa's spin landed on Clay for one second. Clay's spin landed on Saki for three minutes. Clay seemed to have taken very good mental notes as he watched Zero and Kizna kiss because he seemed to be copying everything from that situation.

After a minute (which was a rather long minute), Saki spun, and it landed on Hiead for thirty seconds. Hiead wore this look that said "kiss me and I'll kill you," but Saki bounded over, sat herself in his lap and started kissing him. It was a shame he didn't kiss her back. Melanie made faces as they did so, gagging every so often and sticking her finger down her throat.

"Mommy!" she whispered into Ikhny's ear, "Daddy's committing adult-ree!"

Ikhny laughed and Saki got off Hiead after the thirty seconds were over. As if she would want to make out with that cold bastard. After wiping his lips on his sleeve, Hiead spun the bottle.

Ikhny Allecto.

Five minutes.

Shit.

Ikhny looked nervously up as Hiead walked slowly over. It was like as if everything were a dream. She didn't know if it was a good dream or a nightmare though-you don't get kissed by Hiead every day. Kizna looked at Zero, who was watching Hiead intensely, as if daring him to hurt Ikhny. Tsukasa and Wrecka exchanged nervous looks. Everyone knew what their relationship was, and no one could quite understand how in the world Melanie could possibly be created. Perhaps this would give them some clue to this enigma that's been bothering them for days.

Ikhny nervously stood up as Hiead approached her, towering over her a good three inches. Nine pairs of eyes looked at them, waiting. Well, eight. Melanie already knew what was going to happen. They did it a lot from where she came from.

Everything happened in slow motion, matrix style. Hiead bent down as Ikhny's head tilted upwards, gently closing her eyes. Their lips met and something exploded inside both of them that they couldn't quite explain. All they knew was that it felt good. Really good. Good enough to make Ikhny completely forget whom she was kissing. Good enough for Hiead to forget about his past and let his hidden side through. Ikhny shyly let her arms circle Hiead's neck, as he pulled her closer to him, wrapping his strong arms around her body. Her fingers tangled themselves into Hiead's silver hair, and they let themselves go.

Kizna stared at them in shock. She never could believe that Hiead had that sweet side inside of him. He didn't attack Ikhny with a kiss like she thought he would. Instead, he did it gently as if Ikhny were some forbidden fruit that he was denied access to.

And that's exactly what she was.

The kiss lasted for about seven minutes. No one was really timing, considering the fact that they were too shocked at what was happening to really care. Hiead ended it and went back to his seat as if nothing happened. Ikhny was in a daze for the rest of the game. She spun the bottle and it landed on Zero for three seconds. They glanced at Hiead. He wore his usual poker face look, but if anyone peered closely at him (like Melanie), they would see his left eyebrow twitching dangerously.

Zero's spin landed on Kizna for five minutes. Kizna's spin landed on Roose. Roose's spin landed on Wrecka, whose spin landed on Yamagi, whose spin landed on Tsukasa, who finally declared that the game was getting old.

"How about we play 'I Never?' I read in an encyclopedia that they played it on Earth a long time ago before it was destroyed. Something about sake and stuff that you never did. If I remember correctly, someone says something that they've never done before or never had and all the people who have done it has to take a sip of sake. The first who has to go to the bathroom or gets drunk loses."

"I don't think that's a good idea, Saki. We're not allowed to get drunk on GOA and I don't really want to get expelled," said Ikhny, quietly.

"True...but, why not we change them! ORANGE JUICE! ZION WOULD END WITHOUT OJ! OJ RULES! First one to go to the bathroom loses!"

Everyone else stared at Saki like she had grown an extra head. She says the random-est things sometimes.

"Well, I suppose..." said Kizna, "I'LL GET THE ORANGE JUICE!"

The cat-eared girl bounced out of the room and returned a few minutes later with the orange juice. It was nearing eleven o'clock, but since VICTIM didn't seem to be appearing any time soon and the Pro-Ings were still being upgraded, there was no curfew. Quickly, she poured out eight glasses.

"Sorry, Mellie, I don't think you can play this game," said Wrecka as she eyed her orange juice. Who knew what Kizna did to it. She seemed awfully happy to be getting it.

"I'll take her to bed," said Ikhny as she stood up.

"How about we all go get changed and come back? That way we'd be ready for bed and Azuma won't kill us."

"Kay."

They all split. Melanie pouted all the way there but Ikhny simply refused to let her play the game. It wasn't for little kids. They all changed into their pyjamas and went back to the rec room with Melanie supposedly sleeping.

All the girls decided to be evil and threw on halter tops of different colors and plaid flannel pants. Kizna's was pink with blue plaid, Ikhny's was silver with red plaid (sound familiar, anyone?), Saki's was red with green plaid (yes, in this fic, she's a Chistmas-loving girl...which is very random), Wrecka's was white with green plaid, and Tsukasa's was purple with navy blue plaid. They marched down to the rec room in a line, smirking.

And they weren't disappointed.

As soon as they stepped in, Clay had a nosebleed, Zero stared at Kizna, Yamagi gaped like a fish, Roose smiled cutely at Wrecka, and Hiead...well, he was normal and did nothing. Who knows what he was REALLY thinking though...

Everyone sat in front of a glass of orange juice.

"So, who wants to start?" asked Tsukasa.

"ME!" cried Saki, being the usual hyper person she was. She wasn't usually hyper, but when it neared midnight, no one could believe it was her. She always seemed to be on a sugar high around that time. Clay often wondered about what she ate after dinner...

"I never met someone with green hair and purple eyes!"

Everyone sweat-dropped. Zero took a sip.

"I never saw a girl naked."

Hiead, Clay, and Yamagi took a sip.

"Hiead saw a naked chick? Damn," said Zero, "no fair. It wasn't Ikhny, was it?"

Hiead glared. "Actually, Enna, it was my sister's dead body."

All was silent. Hiead had never mentioned anything about his family before. Ikhny put a hand on his shoulder but he shrugged it off. "I don't need your pity, Allecto." Ikhny shrank back and looked at the floor. Nevertheless, the game continued.

"I never ran away from home," said Clay as he pushed his glasses up his nose again.

Ikhny took a huge gulp as Hiead, Kizna, Zero, and Tsukasa took a sip.

"I never had a family that loved me," said Tsukasa quietly.

Kizna, Zero, Saki, Clay, Roose, Wrecka, and Yamagi all took a sip guiltily.

"I never believed Hiead had a good side to him."

Everyone but Ikhny drank to that. Even Hiead himself didn't believe he had a good side.

"I have never been kissed before tonight," said Ikhny, quietly.

Hiead looked at her in shocked. How could a seventeen-year-old not have been kissed with a body like hers! "Where did that thought come from?" he asked himself, slapping himself mentally for thinking such thoughts. "She's just my repairer. My goddamn repairer. There is nothing and never will be anything more between us. I'm not allowed to be loved. I can't love..."

"I never thought Enna and Kitsune could get together," said the silver-haired boy, smirking at them.

Everyone drank to that.

It went on and on until, finally, they all dropped off to sleep right there on the rec room floor. Yamagi was the first to lose, followed by Roose, Saki, and Zero. It seemed that they had a lot in common. Kizna curled up into Zero's embrace. Saki, Clay, and Wrecka laid down in random spots and dozed off. Tsukasa and Yamagi leaned against each other back-to-back, asleep. Hiead leaned against the wall next to Ikhny, whose head immediately leaned on his shoulder. He didn't have the heart to shrug it off. The weight of her head also felt strangely good there...

He just watched her, face illuminated by the light of one of Zion's moons (I dunno if they had a moon, but in this fic, it does!). Her glasses were digging into his shoulders, so he gently took them off.

What he saw just blew him away.

To believe that Allecto could possibly be pretty without those large spectacles.

She was breathing lightly, showing that she was in a deep sleep, not bothered by the light from the moon. Dark lashes stood out against her creamy complexion, showing a small sprinkle of freckles across her nose that Hiead had never quite noticed before. Then again, he had never been so close to his repairer before to actually notice these things. Her chocolate brown hair was falling out of its usual pony tail, framing her face with wispy tendrils. He took out the rubber band without stirring her and ran his finger through her silky tresses.

"I swear there's something wrong with me," he muttered as he leaned back against the wall, closing his eyes, still running his hand through her hair.

"Daddy?"

Crimson met crimson once again.

"Yeah?"

"Daddy, can I sleep with you? I had a nightmare."

She looked like she did. Her light lavender hair hung in disarray and there was evidence that she had been crying. Hiead, feeling a strange wave of pity overcome him, opened his arms as Melanie ran into them, burying her head into his other shoulder which was not occupied by Ikhny's head. Hiead wrapped his arms around her and leaned gently on Ikhny's head, promptly falling asleep.

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A/N: AWW! Mass fluff! You like? Leave me a review, please! Yes, I know this is another filler chapter, but I have to stick in fluff somewhere, right? It's actually a very simple plot line, just massively detailed. Sorry! But I do hope you liked this one! It was fun writing it!