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A/N – A line is a change in scene. OMG no flashbacks!!!
Short Moments
Cagalli watched the man's dark figure approach her menacingly. Her eyes were drooping and her head throbbed painfully as she lay on the floor, unable to move. The black shape of a cell phone dropped down from the man's hand. Cagalli looked up at the man who glared at her wickedly, half his face covered in shadow. She began to feel more faint again as the man raised the gun to point it at her. Finally she succumbed to the weight of her eyelids. The last things Cagalli heard when her eyes closed were the sounds of slamming and a gunshot ringing throughout the room.
The sunlight was shining right at her closed eyes through the window. Grumbling she stuffed her head under the pillow. She mumbled from under her pillow, "Close the curtains..." She rolled over on the bed and continued on sleeping. After a few seconds she pulled her head out from under the pillow, many strands of her blonde hair stuck up in every direction. She noticed that she wasn't wearing her own clothing, but was instead dressed in a sort of plain gown at which she frowned at. Her mind was still not quite working yet.
"Where am I?" she asked out loud to no one.
Cagalli looked around at the well kept room. There was a needle stuck in her arm which was attached to the bag of dripping liquid. Cagalli stifled a yawn as she continued to look around the room. She looked out the window where the sun shone proudly.
"Hospital?" she asked to no one again.
She tried to keep back another yawn, but failed. She stretched her arm up and bent her neck back as she yawned.
"Ow!" Cagalli reached up to touch the back of her neck. She pressed at it and flinched in pain again. It appeared to be bruised up.
Before she could get her mind working properly, in walked a young man with chestnut hair. With a surprised look on his face, which soon turned into a smile, he sat down on a chair by her bed that she didn't notice before.
"Finally awake, Cagalli?" Kira looked at the ORB princess closely, "Actually, judging by the way you look right now, you don't seem to be awake yet."
Cagalli nodded her head once still feeling very groggy. She felt like there was something wrong with the current situation but just couldn't put a finger on it. Finally it hit her. Grabbing Kira by the collar violently she pulled him so that they were face to face. She whispered dangerously, "What happened yesterday night? Why the hell am I in the hospital?"
Kira looked straight into her brown eyes full of anger. He stuttered back, "W-well... uhh... we saved you?"
Laughing nervously he tried to pry Cagalli's hand off his collar. Instead Cagalli just grabbed it harder pulling him even closer. This time she screamed, "What the hell happened?!"
Before Kira could reply, the door opened to reveal Ssigh, Miriallia, and Lacus who held two bouquets of flowers. "Ara?" Lacus looked at Cagalli and Kira confused. Kira's face lit up as he saw the pink haired songstress.
"Lacus!" he croaked through Cagalli's rough hold on him. "Help..."
Cagalli glared at him, and then threw him down onto the chair roughly. In a calm, polite manner that Kira did not know was possible for Cagalli, she asked, "Will you please tell me what happened last night."
Kira's mouth hung open in shock as he stared at the blonde princess. Ssigh and Milly could also only stare in complete and utter shock while Lacus tilted her head with a look of mild surprise on her face, dropping the two bouquets of flowers on the ground. After a few awkward seconds of silence, Cagalli held up her fist threateningly at Kira who finally managed to squeak, "Ok."
Sitting back on the hospital bed in a comfortable position, Cagalli glared at Kira waiting for an explanation for last night's event. Calming himself down Kira began his story.
"Well, where should I start? First, I called Ath... I mean, I called a friend of mine, but he wasn't home so I left him a message instead."
Cagalli snapped back angrily, "How the heck does calling a friend of yours and leaving him a message have anything to do with what happened to me last night? I want to know who the hell those two guys were and why I'm sitting in this hospital alive and not in some dumb ass morgue!"
Kira flinched but continued on, "Well... it does have some significance... you see... uhh, how should I put this? The message I left for my friend... uhh... had a problem with it apparently, so... we had to have a change in plans." Milly and Ssigh nodded their heads in agreement at this.
"Change in plans?" Cagalli asked suspiciously.
"Well... yeah, change in plans," Kira laughed nervously as he tried to avoid Cagalli's question, "So, we had a change in plans!"
"Explain what the 'change in plans' were."
"Well, that doesn't really mat-"
"Yes it does!" Cagalli screamed back, everybody in the room flinched, "If this explanation of yours has anything to do with what happened last night, the only thing I could think that's possible for your 'change in plans' is maybe you all changed your plans on how to kill me!" Breathing heavily, Cagalli continued on, "So now you're all trying to kill me. That's just great! Amazing! Fantastic!" She whipped her pillow at Kira hitting him squarely on the face.
"N-no! Of course not!" Kira retaliated as he recovered from the hit. "Why would we want to kill you for?"
"Then why the heck do you keep talking about this 'change in plans' thing, and you don't even tell me what it is. You make it sound like some kind of grand scheme which involves assassinating me."
This time Ssigh replied, "Our change in plans was to kidnap you."
Cagalli shot a look of death at Ssigh. "Kidnap..."
Ssigh continued on with his explanation, "You see, Kira wanted to get you and his friend together so he asked Lacus, Milly and I to help. The plan was to invite the two of you out so that you could go on a sort of blind date... without knowing that you're going on a date."
"Who were you guys planning to make me go out with?"
Ignoring her question, Ssigh went on, "But Kira messed... uh... I mean, he said something incorrect to his friend. So now his friend knew that we were planning to invite him to go meet you. So now that Kira's friend knew what we were planning we had to change the plans."
"Who-"
"The easiest way to get you two together was to do it by force. But since we can't force Kira's friend who would be too difficult to subdue by force, we decided to kidnap you and hide you in Milly's house."
"I don't care about that anymore, I just want to know who-"
"So in the end, instead of letting the two of you meet in a nice romantic setting such as an isolated park with all accommodations necessary, we settled on locking the two of you in a room together."
Cagalli smiled sweetly at Kira, "May I have my pillow back please?"
Kira held it up for her carefully. Grabbing it, she motioned for Sigh to come over. He did not budge from his spot. "Oh don't worry," said Cagalli, "I'm not going to hit you with the pillow." She set the pillow onto the back of the bed and lay on it comfortably.
Ssigh walked over to her bed and Cagalli signalled for him to come closer. He bent his head lower and lower until she finally stopped signalling to him. Cagalli took a deep and screamed at the top of her lungs, "WHO THE HELL IS THIS GUY YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!!!!!!"
Ssigh jumped back, rubbing his ear in pain. Cagalli shot a glance at Kira who looked away. She turned towards Milly who stared at her feet. Finally she looked at Lacus who simply smiled back at her. "Well?" she asked aloud, "Isn't anyone going to tell me?"
"Well anyways..." Milly began, "About an hour or two after Kira called his... uh... friend, we went to your house."
"Hello!!! How about my question?" Cagalli grinded her teeth dangerously. "And look at the person when you talk."
"No. It's ok. I'm fine with looking at the floor," Milly squeaked.
"I said-"
"So!" Kira cut in abruptly, "When we went to your house, we noticed that the whole street had no power. Then we saw a black car drive by and stop right by your house. We all hid in the bushes to see what was going on. Someone got out of the car and he was holding a gun."
"Then Kira got scared and attacked the man," said Lacus with a sweet smile.
"I wasn't scared! It was just reflex," Kira retaliated. "Well, after that we threatened the man to tell us what he was planning to do, especially since he was right outside your house, Cagalli.
"The man never did tell us what he was planning. When we realized that he wouldn't talk, we got scared that there may have been others as well. So, we climbed up to the deck that connects to your room. We had to break door down so we could get in... sorry..." Kira trailed off.
"Then what happened?" Cagalli asked.
"Whatever happened in there we don't know either. By the time we got there, everything was already finished up."
Cagalli looked at Kira confused, "What do you mean 'already finished up'."
"Well when we finally got into the room, one man was dead on the floor, and the three of you were unconscious."
"Would you stop doing that?" Cagalli glared at Kira once again.
"Stop doing what?"
"Leaving me in suspense. Making me ask questions because you never explain everything."
"What did I do this time?"
Cagalli smacked her pillow against the side of Kira's head. "Three."
Rubbing his head Kira walked to the far wall to get as far away from Cagalli as possible. When he reached the wall he muttered, "Three what?"
"The three people unconscious. I was out cold. But who were the other two?"
"Oh," said Kira, "that would be the other guy who tried to attack you, and... uhh..."
"Uhh? Why do you keep irritating me? Is there something stuck in your brain Kira? Would you like me to help you get it out? Just pass me something blunt and hard and I'll crack open your head for you to get whatever it is that's stuck in your brain out."
"N-no thanks..." Kira started to back towards the door, he looked over to his side and his eyes widened in surprise. "You were awake?"
"Huh?" Cagalli now believed that Kira had lost his mind. But then she noticed that he wasn't talking to her, but to the person who was also in the room on the other bed. Cagalli never realized or thought about anybody else being there since the curtain was blocking the view. "Who's there?" she asked.
Kira pushed the curtains to the side to reveal a certain blue haired, green eyed Coordinator. Cagalli's mouth hung wide open in shock at the sight of Athrun sitting up on the bed. "A-Athrun! Wh- but, but then... what?"
"The other unconscious person was Athrun," said Lacus. Athrun flinched at the words. He looked down angrily at his tightly clenched hands. Lacus turned to Athrun and asked, "How are you feeling?"
"..." Athrun continued to look down angrily. Cagalli saw that his teeth were clenched tightly as well.
Kira walked over to Athrun and placed his hand on his forehead. "Did you even get any sleep? The fever won't just disappear if you don't get any decent sleep. Were you awake all night?" Athrun nodded slightly.
Cagalli watched Athrun worriedly. She was still confused about everything that had happened. She admitted that the events last night was scary, but seeing Athrun so angry like he was at the moment scared her more than anything else.
Very slowly, Athrun took a deep breath in and out. Everybody watched in silence as Athrun continued the calming routine. Finally when his anger disappeared, he asked in a quiet voice, "Would you like to know the rest about what happened last night?"
Kira, Milly, Lacus and Ssigh all looked at Athrun. Smiling, Lacus picked up the two bouquets of flowers from the floor and placed one by Cagalli's table and then the other on Athrun's table. After this action she left the room. In an unspoken understanding, Kira, Milly and Ssigh followed after her. The door was shut quietly as Athrun and Cagalli were left in the room together, alone.
The two sat alone in silence. Cagalli continued to stare at Athrun. Athrun, however, did not turn to face her. He looked at the wall as he asked again, "Would you like to know, Cagalli?"
Another awkward silence filled the air as Cagalli thought on how to answer. After what seemed like hours she finally replied, "Yes."
A/N – Woah, that took forever for me to write. School's been keeping me busy, so much homework!!! Somebody shoot me right now! So sorry that it took me about a month to update (and this chapter wasn't even that interesting). Anywayz, I should be resting right now since I have a cold, yet here I am. I'mfeeling too tired to rant now so I'll just stop thinking.
The only thing I want to write is how disappointed I am that I've never seen a trace of Amethyst Stars after she left that one review. I really am starting to believe that she only registered with Fanfiction .net for the purpose of flaming me. So, special thanks to the reviewers (im too tired to write any replies, sorry).
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