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Important note: I'm terribly sorry for taking so long to uptake, but I had my exams, and I just came from my vacations and now I'll probably have to do my exams again, so... I'm really, really sorry. Thanks to everyone who review and that sent me e-mails, asking for me to uptake quickly. I hope you like this chapter and that it was worth to wait. Thanks and I'm sorry.

Now, the chapter...

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Chapter 11: Everytime

"Where's Ikhny?" Wrecka asked as she saw Kizna walking towards them, confusion all over her face.

"Kizna?" Zero called, as he noticed not only the confusion on his partner's face, but Kizna's pale cheeks "What's wrong? Did something happen to Hiead?"

"Do...do you think it's possible for two different people fall for each other?" Kizna asked, as she looked at her friends.

"That's a rhetorical question, right?" Clay asked, and Kizna looked at him before shaking her head:

"I really want an answer." she said

"I think you already have it." Tsukasa replied, and Kizna looked at her even more confused than before "I mean, c'mon, look at you and Zero."

"Yeah, who would have thought you two would end up like this?" Yamagi asked.

"I did." almost everyone said except Clay, who was lost in his own thoughts.

"About whom are we talking about?" he asked suddenly, and Kizna looked at him before licking her lips:

"Ikhny and Hiead." she replied.

"Nani?"

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Though her body was frozen on the spot, her brown eyes looked down and opened wide, at the same time Ikhny managed to open her mouth in a silence scream. Soft and warm skin was meting her cold one, in a soft motion; so soft, that made Ikhny shiver.

Slowly, and almost as if she was scared something bad would happen, Ikhny enlaced her fingers with Hiead's, his thump still caressing her hand.

"Hiead?" the brunette called, in a tremble and hoarse voice "Hiead, can you hear me?"

The silver haired boy kept silent, but Ikhny knew he was trying to talk to her.

"C'mon Hiead, wake up." Ikhny whispered "Please."

Suddenly Hiead's thump stopped moving, and Ikhny started shaking, her eyes still on the boy's pale face:

"Please Hiead, answer me." the brunette pleaded "Move a finger...anything you want, just send me a signal so I can know you're listening to me."

But the signal didn't come.

With fresh tears falling down her still bloodshot eyes, Ikhny grabbed Hiead's hand and kissed it. Then, without taking her eyes off the boy, Ikhny started walking towards the door.

"Dr Rill." the brown-eyed girl called, as the door was opened "Dr Rill!"

"What is it, #87?" Dr Rill asked, as she walked through other door.

When she saw the doctor in front of her, Ikhny started to shake harder, tears now frozen in time, as if they were waiting for something to happen:

"H...Hiead..." Ikhny muttered, "He moved."

"What?" Dr Rill asked, shocked "How's that possible? He's not supposed to move, not in his condition."

"But he did." Ikhny muttered, and Dr Rill sighed sadly: she knew that was going to happen; she knew it was a bad decision to let Ikhny Allecto stay with Hiead Gner, without knowing half of the things that could happen.

"Ikhny," Dr Rill started "Hiead can't move, because he's in coma."

"What!" Ikhny asked her eyes opened wide. Tears were still frozen, but the brunette's body, on the inside was starting to break "What do you mean? Sensei Azuma never told me Hiead w..."

"He didn't tell you, because he believed you shouldn't know." Dr Rill interrupted softly "Ikhny, Hiead is in a very critical condition and he can't move. You probably just imagined it."

"Iie!" Ikhny exclaimed "I didn't imagine it, how could I? I felt his hand touch mine! I felt him respond to me! I did not imagine it!"

"Ikhny, calm down." Dr Rill said, as she raised her hands "If you want I'll give a look, but I am almost positive it's impossible for Hiead to move in the condition he is in."

As Dr Rill passed next to her, Ikhny closed her eyes, and took a deep breath: she couldn't cry, tears wouldn't help in anything and the brunette knew she had to stay strong if she wanted to help Hiead, but it hurt so much.

Every time she looked at him, she would remember them.

Slowly, Ikhny turned around and walked silently to Dr Rill's side, watching the doctor looking at Hiead.

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"You what!" Yamagi asked, "How can you say that?"

Kizna sighed and looked down:

"Look, I'm not sure about anything yet, but it seems to me that's true." she said

"What makes you think that way?" Roose asked, as he raised an eyebrow "I mean, she's his repairer, it's normal for her to be worried."

"But the way she was singing to him..." Kizna trailed off, and Zero wrapped an arm around her shoulders:

"Look, why is everyone so shocked with all this?" he asked suddenly, and everyone looked at him as if he was crazy.

"Zero, do you know about whom we're talking about?" Wrecka asked, and Zero chuckled:

"Well, yeah, but seriously, Hiead isn't such a bad guy as you think."

Suddenly everything went silence, as everyone looked at Zero, as if he was completely insane.

"Are you crazy?" Yamagi asked, breaking the silence "This is Hiead we're talking about, everyone here knows what that guy has been doing around here."

"Yeah, and we can't forget the way he treats Ikhny all the time." Saki said "He's always pushing her around, treating her as a slave. How's possible for a guy like him, to actually have feelings?"

Zero chuckled:

"C'mon guys, Hiead may have that tough personality all of us 'adore', but he has a heart."

"Yeah right." Kizna muttered, before looking at the boy next to her "If he had a heart, he would have a conscience. And to have conscience, you need a brain and I don't think Hiead has one."

"Kizna." Zero muttered.

"You know, I think Zero's right." Clay said suddenly "For a change."

"What?" Tsukasa asked, shocked "Not you too."

"Yes, me too." Clay said, "Think about it, Ikhny is the only one who made Hiead act like a human when we were fighting the Victims."

"Yeah, he was the one who asked Ikhny to sing." Kizna whispered "But that doesn't change the fact he's a cold bastard."

Clay shook his head:

"C'mon guys, think rationally." he said "Look, why would Hiead ask for Ikhny to sing even when he knew he could get killed? Why did Hiead kill the leader of the Victims, even knowing he could die?"

"Because he's an idiot, who can only think about being a Pilot and better than Zero." Yamagi replied, and Clay rolled his eyes:

"What if he wanted to show something else?" he asked, "I mean, Hiead may have done all that without thinking about it, but what if all he did was because of Ikhny and all of us?"

"Sorry, I'm not following it." Roose said, as he scratched his head.

"That would be unlike Hiead." Kizna said "And I don't think a person could change that much, in such short time."

"But think about it, when Ikhny changed her personality," Clay started "Hiead tried to act as if he didn't care, but it was obvious he did. Hiead wanted to find out why that change happened, but he never found out."

"Indeed, I always wanted to know why Ikhny changed so much." Wrecka muttered.

"That's beside the point." Kizna said, suddenly "Do you think it's possible for those two to be together? Do you really think they have a future?"

"They're two sides of the coin." Zero said, suddenly "Two pieces of a puzzle; one has what the other doesn't."

"Nani?" Kizna asked, as she rose an eyebrow "What do you mean?"

Once again, Zero chuckled and took his arm off Kizna's shoulder:

"Look this way; Hiead has a though personality and a cold heart, Ikhny has a more weak personality and a good heart. Hiead needs Ikhny though he doesn't want to admit it, and Ikhny doesn't want to leave Hiead because she believes she can change him." Zero explained, as he moved his hands "Both need each other, even without saying so."

"Wow, from where did that come from?" Yamagi joked, and Zero gave a sarcastic laugh:

"Very funny." he said, and Kizna smiled:

"Maybe you're right." she said.

"But now the hard part comes." Saki said, and everyone looked at her "How do we put those two together, with Hiead in the condition he is?"

Everyone looked down, their minds lost in thoughts and ideas that could help Ikhny Allecto and Hiead Gner stay together.

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Days turned into weeks and weeks into months and, four months after the final attack of the Victims to G.O.A. all life had returned to it's normality. Or almost every life inside the spaceship, for some continued frozen in time, while others refused to keep living without being sure of many things.

Ikhny Allecto was one of the lives that refused to continue, without knowing what would happen to someone very important in her life.

Someone whose importance started to grow as days passed by; without news or messages.

With a tired sigh, Ikhny's eyes looked at Hiead's face and, slowly, a cold hand met Hiead's warm cheek: the truth was that Hiead had been in coma for almost four months, but since a week ago, he had managed to 'wake up' again, though he was still unconscious.

Dr Rill believed he was still oblivious of the fact someone was there with him, though Ikhny talked with him from time to time or even sang. Ikhny knew that now that Hiead had got out of the coma, he would wake up soon.

And she wanted to be there.

A small and tired smile appeared on Ikhny's face, when the brunette noticed the soft pink returning to Hiead's cheeks:

"Hiead?" Ikhny called, her voice low and soft "Yes, it's me again and I have more news. Well, I don't know if you care, but Zero finally managed to ask Kizna out." Ikhny giggled "Well, they're just going to the Observatory, it's not like we have many places to go, is it? Oh, and sensei said that the Pilots will be chosen in a month. You know, sensei said that, if you wake up in time, you'd probably be chosen. And he even said why: because of your stupidity of killing the leader of the Victims alone."

The small smile on Ikhny's face disappeared, as the brunette licked her lips, her courage to keep talking disappearing by the minute:

"Hiead...will you please stop being a pain and wake up?" she asked "I...I have something to tell you...something I never told anyone. Please, wake up. I really, really, want you to be the first one to know." suddenly Ikhny heard a sound from behind and she quickly turned around, to see one of the Nurses walking through the door with some pills. Life had returned to its normality, but it seemed like two people inside the spaceship had been forgotten.

Sighing, Ikhny turned to Hiead again and took a deep breath.

"Then again, I'll probably tell you now." she whispered "I mean, it's not like you're going to care, right?" slowly and with trembling hands, Ikhny grabbed Hiead's hands and bite her lip "Remember when I changed? I mean, when I started to act just like you? I know everyone tried to find the truth, but I did everything to keep that secret locked between sensei, Dr Rill and me. You see Hiead, the truth is that...well, I don't want you to die." Ikhny closed her eyes, as she felt them getting wet "You can't die Hiead. I know that if you were awaked you would probably sneer and ask why should you give a damn about that, but the truth is that..." Ikhny trailed off, her lips now sealed.

That, until the brunette opened her still wet eyes:

'Can I actually tell him?' Ikhny thought, before licking her lips:

"My..."

'C'mon, don't stop now, you're going fine.'

"My p... my parents d-died, Hiead." Ikhny confessed, tears now falling silently down her pale cheeks.

Ikhny felt as if something had been taken off her chest...she felt as if she could now breath normally again. She felt good, despite the fact her heart ached due to the confession.

"My parents died on a attack to their colony...the...the Victims killed everyone and that was why I didn't wanted you to go to the battle. So you better don't leave me, your heard me? Y-you better stay here with me!" Ikhny exclaimed, as she got up "Don't you dare to leave me Hiead Gner, or I'll go after you and kill you myself." with that, Ikhny run out of the room.

Seconds later, and very slowly, a pair of rubies opened up, to face the light they had been trying to find for so long.

To Be Continued...

A/N: So, what do you think? We're getting closer and closer to the end (just wanted to tell you that, but it won't be on the next chapter. Ha, thought you could get rid of me that easily, huh? hehe). Well, anyway, do you think you can send me a review? Please?