Chapter 12 - Escape

I didn't fall asleep...but I must've hit my neck on something cause the entire right hand side of my body is kinda...ow...you know? Anyways, here we are. Chapter 12...last chapter...

xxravenwingxx - Thanks! You reviewed my DxM story too, right? I know I don't have the best grammar. Actually, I have a pretty big vocabulary...I just use small words so that everyone can understand me. -slightly nervous smile- Anyways! You're one of few people that critique my work! Most people just tell me how great it is, though I know I have a lot of flawed writing...my WHR story is proof of that. I'm getting better though. I'm moving away from the urge to write only about the main character(s) in my story plot. Thanks for the review!

Chibisuke - -mumbling something about eyes-

Ikken : Hi! I am the previously named Rachel! I changed my name, and my bitchy attitude, when I found out everyone hated me, and after taking a long look at a picture of me, or what I chose to look like. Oh, for view of it, check out ChibiFoxDemon on Anyways, since Jess is having a battle of the mind...I'll do the rest of the reviews! Chibisuke! Yes he does! -laughs- anyways, this is the last chapter...so no more updates after this. But Jess is working on her next fic, I'll explain...at the end of the reviewer thank you's at the end.



DING DONG!

"Hello sir. Is Ms Clyne expecting you?" the butler asked.

"She'd better be expecting me, or she's in a major load of trouble." Dearka answered.

"My goodness, is that a threat?" he asked, backing up.

"No." Dearka said bluntly. "Hey! Kira! Athrun! Get out here!" he yelled into the house.

"Sir, please...I must ask you to-"

"It's alright...let them in." Lacus said calmly, suddenly standing beside the bulter.

"Oh, of course ma'am." he complied, disappearing upstairs.

"What's wrong?" Lacus asked as Kira and Athrun came up behind her.

"Yzak followed us here. If I know anything about him, he's already headed to tell the police. We have to get Kira out of her, now!" Dearka said hastily.

"Oh my." Lacus hurried away.

"Are you sure?" Athrun asked Dearka. He nodded

"Where's your room Kira?" Nicol asked, taking Kira aside from the other two.

"At most it'll take him an hour to get the cops. Kira needs to be on the next flight out, in 10 minutes. Then you'll have enough time to make it seem he was never here." Deakra instructed.

"Down the hall." Kira pointed and then led Nicol to his room.

Once in Kira's room, they began to pack his few belongings.

"I'm sorry you have to go so soon." Nicol announced suddenly. Kira paused in his packing, speaking when he started packing again.

"Don't worry. I'm sure I'll see you again." Nicol gave him an 'of course' look. Kira added. "Off the battlefield. When the war's over. So, try not to get killed, ok?"

"I'll do my best. You have to stay alive too. Right?" Nicol smiled as they zipped up the case. "Well, we're done. Let's go see what's going on out there." Kira nodded and they walked out of the room.

"The car is outside right now. We need to hurry." Lacus was saying as they entered. "Oh, Kira..." she ran over to him and gave him a big hug.

"Uh..." Kira didn't know what to say. Dearka was giving him a look that said 'you go Kira!' and Athrun was looking surprised beyond all he knew. Nicol was in the same state as Kira, didn't know what to say or do.

"Here." Lacus placed a little bag in Kira's hands as she pulled back. "You can keep them to yourself or share them with your friends. I made them myself."

Kira opened the bag to find little cookies and a few rice balls. He looked from them, looking so good he might eat them now, to Lacus. She looked like she was pleading for his approval. He smiled and her face brightened.

"Thanks." he said, his smile widening. He put them in his suitcase and was ready to go.

"Come on! We gotta move! The shuttle leaves in 4 minutes!" Dearka urged. "Into the car, into the car!"

Everyone piled in and Lacus ordered all speed to the station. They got there with 1 minute left. Everyone disembarked and Kira rushed towards the shuttle. Nicol waved, soon joined by Lacus and Dearka. Athrun was running up the ramp of the shuttle. Kira stared blankly at him as he made it up and the doors shut. Athrun just smiled at his confused expression.

"Let's find seats." he motioned for Kira to go first and they headed for the back of the shuttle. Kira stared out of the back window until the PLANT was small in his view, then he turned to looked at Athrun, who was staring at Kira with a slightly amused expression on.

"What?" he asked. Athrun shrugged.

"It's just...you make it seem like you'll never see them again." he said with a half hearted laugh and soon his smile turned to a frown. "I just can't believe they'll fight you after all of this..." Kira put a comforting hand on Athrun's shoulder.

"Don't worry Athrun. Everyone's gonna be alright. We'll all live through the war, if we're lucky, and when it's over we can all have lunch together." Kira assured him, though he wasn't sure himself.

"Of course." Athrun said softly, then smiled. "Who knows, we might be on the same side some day." Kira shrugged.

"Maybe. The rebel side. You wont join the Earth Aliance because you have something against naturals. And I wont join ZAFT because I need to protect my friends on the Archangel." he looked down. Athrun 'hmm'ed.

"Rebel. Sounds interesting." he laughed. "Maybe someday, Kira, maybe." Kira smiled at this, feeling that Athrun and him being on the same side wasn't as hopeless as he thought. Athrun thought that the room just got a little bit brighter with that possibility.


"Ma'am. Cupriferous has started warning us of our last free days." Tonomura informed Captain Murrue.

"I know." she confirmed, staring straight ahead.

"Ma'am, we should leave." another officer suggested.

"No." she gave him a slight glare. "Ensign Yamato is not back yet. We will stay until they force us out."

"Yes ma'am." they all said half-dead like.

"Is the crew still out and about?" she asked. Tonomaru shook his head.

"No ma'am. They've all come in. It is almost curfew afterall." he pointed out.

"Of course..." she said amidst a sigh. A few minutes passed, then there was a beep.

"That was curfew ma'am..." someone pointed out.

"Thank you...lock down th-" a siren resounded on the bridge and only the bridge. "What is that?"

"Someone is trying to get in the ship!" Tonomaru shouted.

"What?" she turned from him to look forward. "Show me a view of the area they're breaking into."

A screen popped up, showing the main hatch. They all gasped and Murrue ordered them to open the door.

"It's Ensign Yamato!" she barked out when they questioned her.


The door began to open and Kira backed up. Athrun watched it open then looked at the ground.

"I guess, we gotta say good-bye." he said sadly. Kira turned around, zipping his bag back up at the same time. He walked up to Athrun, then pulled him into a hug. Athrun had wide eyes.

"I don't want to have to fight you." Kira managed. He was crying. Athrun patted his back to comfort him.

"Come on Kira, get over it." he said. Athrun felt like crying now too, but wouldn't. "You yourself said we might be on the same side someday..." Kira inhaled and then stood up straight, wiping his eyes.

"Y-you're right...I gotta pull myself together..." he reached in the small bag he'd pulled from his bigger bag and handed the small object to Athrun.

"This is one of Lacus's cookies..." Athrun said softly. "You were supposed to share these with your-"

"Friends." Kira finished. "You are one of my friends. So, I'll share with you too." he picked up his suitcase and headed towards the door. Kira paused and looked back, Athrun was walking off. "I'll..." he tired, but his voice was too soft. "I'll see you again sometime!" he called.

Athrun turned and waved, a small smile on his face. "Of course!" he then turned and walked off, with an arm near his head.

Kira knew that Athrun had started to cry, but acted as though he hadn't seen. The door started to close so he ran inside. Kira tripped and then rolled inside as the door shut completely. Athrun, who had turned around when he heard the door start to close, laughed. He then turned and ran off to get on the shuttle.


The shuttle had just left. Lacus, Nicol, and Dearka got back in the car and went back to her house. They cleaned it, with the help of her house help. They cleaned the room Kira had been in more than the rest of the house. Sometimes the police could 'smell' when someone from EA had been there.

"Okay..." Dearka huffed almost an hour later. "House is clean...now what?"

"You two should get out of here." Lacus pointed towards the door. "You being here would almost certainly confirm Yzak's claims."

"Sure." Nicol nodded, he and Dearka got their jackets and left. They got across the street and were sitting on a bench up the hill before the cops showed.

Lacus greeted them as if they were welcomed guests and let them in. Dearka and Nicol heard, and saw them through windows, as they ransacked the house looking for Kira. 20 minutes later, they left the house and got in their cars. Once they had driven off, Dearka headed back down. Even from this distance, you could here Yzak. Nicol rolled down the hill when he heard it. Yzak kicking and screaming.

"No! He's there! I know he is! I do NOT need off time! Leave me alone! Let go of me!"

"Um...So...When do you suppose we'll be seeing Yzak again?" Nicol asked, getting up and brushing himself off. Dearka shrugged.

"4 weeks?" he guessed. Nicol and him began walking down the sidewalk towards town and their respective homes.


1 week later

Ding...Dong...

"Why hello there Athrun! Welcome! Come on in! I was wondering why you never came to visit." Lacus greeted, leading him out back to their tea table.

"I was waiting for things to die down. Sorry I couldn't come earlier today. I had work. It's a nice night though." Athrun answered. They sat down. Athrun saw the glass room in the middle of the yard, the water below, and the few birds still in the air. Lacus smiled.

"The stars are bright tonight." she commented, looking up. Athrun did the same. A star blinked and her eyes widened a bit before becoming normal and she smiled again. "Did you see that star Athrun? It winked at us!"

"Winked? Hmm...yea, I guess it did." he agreed.

"Wouldn't it be wonderful if Kira had seen it too?" she asked suddenly.

"What?" Athrun hadn't been ready for that. "Uh..yea...yea it would be..." he remembered what he and Kira and talked about. "Do you think...that we'll ever fight on the same side?"

"Of course. You two are the best of friends. How could you possibly remain enemies?" she laughed a bit and looked back at the sky. "What if there was a third side?" Athrun looked at her. "A side for both Naturals and Coordinators. For all the neutral colonies and nations. One where you don't have to fight your friends, only the true enemy."

"That's what Kira imagined..." Athrun said softly. Lacus looked at him in confusion. "He thought maybe we'd be on the same side one day. But he wasn't going to join ZAFT and I wasn't going to join the Earth Forces. So he thought, maybe we'd end up as rebels together." he explained. Lacus smiled again.

"What a marvelous thought." and they both looked up at the sky again.


Kira was floating near the window that showed space. He had a small bag in his hands and was feeling around in it.

"Hmm...only one left..." Kira concluded, pulling out the last cookie. All the rice balls were gone too. "I gave everything out, except one. I wonder how it tastes..." He bit into it and smiled. "Wonderful!"

Kira looked outside at the stars. One of the stars blinked and he blinked in turn.

"That star just...winked at me..." he muttered. Kira smiled again. "I wonder if Athrun saw it? Maybe Lacus did...or Dearka...maybe Nicol saw it...I wonder if that silver haired guy, Yzak might have seen it..."

Kira stood there for a long time before a soft bell rang through the ship, signaling position changes. He decided he'd go to bed now. Kira kicked off of the hand rail connected to the window and shot off through the ship, pushing off the walls as he went.


Dearka paused on his walk and sneezed. He looked around him to see if anyone was following, then looked up at the sky. It was really nice...he shook his head. Did that star just wink at him? Dearka shook himself again and walked off, ignoring it.

Nicol paused in playing piano and looked out his window at the stars. He had been playing the piano to put his mother to sleep. Now she was asleep and he was just playing to enjoy himself. He saw a star blink, or 'wink,' at him and smiled. He had great friends...maybe he'd play them a special song at his next performance...yea. Nicol wrote that down so he wouldn't forget.


They all will battle again soon enough, but for now they were friends and nothing could ever change that; not battle, not death, not even law. Kira, Athrun, Dearka, Nicol, and even Yzak, would meet again someday...but that's, another story.


Yea, I know, I stole that from Land Before Time...don't hurt me... I don't own that either btw. This, sadly, is the end of my story. It's 4 chapters shorter than my other one...13, 14, 15, 16. I was going to put that last bit in a 13th chapter, but there wasn't enough to actually call it a chapter, so I stuck it in the end of this one. I hope you all enjoyed it. Bye!

Inuc : Aren't you forgetting something?

Jess : Oh right! The thank yous for each chapter!

Ikken: I'll explain when you're done...-sharpening her spear...thing-

Inuc : You're stuck up.

both fight-

Jess : I'll thank now.

Chapter 1 -

Anime/Manga Fanatic

I Love Athrun - me too! -cracks up- No, seriously.

Northern Ookami Youkai

Zer0 Touma

Momo - yes even you momo.

Best Friend

Chapter 2 -

Anime/Manga Fanatic

Zer0 Touma

Northern Ookami Youkai

Chapter 3 -

Unmei

Northern Ookami Youkai

Anime/Manga Fanatic

Chapter 4 -

Unknown

Zer0 Touma

Chapter 5

Chapter 6 -

Unknown

Northern Ookami Youkai

Chapter 7 -

Himena

Anonymous

Northern Ookami Youkai

Ragnarok-Angel-123

Best Friend13

Chapter 8 -

Northern Ookami Youkai

Chapter 9 -

ThousandBirds

Anime/Manga Fanatic

Chapter 10 -

Chibisuke

mikaii-chama

Yun Fei

Chapter 11 -

Chibisuke

XxRavenWingxX

Chapter 12 -

Whoever reviews to this chapter, thanks!

Ikken: Ok! She's done! I'll explain her next story then!

Inuc: Hey. It's her story let her explain!

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Jess: It's an AxOCxYzak story. I can't complete it until I get the dvds. Though I'll be skipping scenes. Basically there's a girl Athrun met in the PLANTs and then she joined ZAFT with him and Yzak met her. Stupidness on Yzak and Athrun's parts. Normality...or, as normal as Gundam is, on everyone else's parts.

Ikken: -breaks away from Inuc- She's got brown hair and emerald green eyes. Though...since that's why Athrun and her become friends...-talking to self- she may change it to purple...

Inuc: -covers Ikken's mouth- Shut up! You'll tell them the entire story you blabbermouth! -drags her off, kicking and screaming-

Jess: I hope you enjoyed my story. I wont be posting that story, the one I just mentioned, until I have a few more chapters written. School'll push it back and so will the inability to obtain the dvds, so I'll do my best. One shots or stories I can finish with more ease may be posted before it. Keep an eye out for Of Blue and Silver Hair. -smile- I like the title.