Chapter 7
'Avenge me'
Troy said, "How is she?"
Murrue felt Celina's forehead, "Not so good, I'm afraid."
Mwu said, "That kid must have eaten something really awful to cause the sky-rocketing fever."
Troy said, "I highly doubt food had anything to do with it."
Murrue soaked a wet towel and put it on her forehead. Celina moaned, "Mom," and started to toss and turn. Murrue tried to wipe her head, but Celina was moving from one side to another. She said, "Julia, stop it. Please." Celina kept on turning. Fllay walked into the room and said, "Admiral Halberton wishes to see, Murrue."
Murrue got up from her seat and handed Fllay the cloth, "Can you wipe her head, to cool down the fever." She said, "Sure."
Murrue said, "Mwu, come along."
He saluted, "Right, boss," he got up, and patted Kira's shoulder. Murrue and Mwu left the room. "So," Fllay said, "What's wrong with her?"
Kira kept quiet, he thought, 'Fllay wouldn't understand what's going on. She'll twist everything up.' Troy shrugged, "I don't know. She just fainted, that's all."
"That's all," she repeated, "That's all? The girl is twisting up. Something's clearly wrong."
Kira asked, "Fllay, why won't you just do what Murrue said?"
Fllay gaped. She, quickly wiped the look of her face and said, in a sweet, but yet coldly voice, "Let's just hope she doesn't die."
She was about to approach her, when Celina screamed, a shrill scream, "MAAAMAAA!" and rose up. She clutched her head and started shaking her head violently.
Fllay backed away. Kira approached Celina and grabbed her shoulders. He said, "Calm down."
She kept on screaming, "No!" 'Her eyes are sealed shut,' Kira thought, 'She must be recalling a memory or something.'
Kira repeated, "Calm down."
Fllay just grabbed a pillow and put over Celina's face. She was trying to smother her! Troy ran and jumped on top of Fllay and yelled, "She's ill."
Fllay screeched, "Get off me!" She spun on her heels and tried to shake Troy off her. Kira said, quietly, "Celina, calm down. Please, calm down."
She said, in a low voice, "Troy, keep calling. I need to find you."
"Celina, this will only get worse."
Finally, she opened her eyes. Her eyes were different, empty, no emotion. Celina started shaking in Kira's arms. She started to twitch and gasp for air. "Celina?" he said. His widened with fear and noticed what was happening to her. He yelled, "Fllay, go get a doctor! Tell him Julia's having a seizure!"
Troy seemed to be the one that had gotten Kira's orders into his head. He got off Fllay and ran out of the room. They heard him yelling, "Somebody find a doctor! We need help in Sector G room 14! She's having a seizure!"
Kira hugged Celina and stroked her hair. 'Comforting her might help,' he thought. Fllay stood there, just staring at the twitching girl and ran out of the room. Kira said, calmly to Celina, "Everything will be all right. Just try to relax."
The door opened and the doctor came in with Troy, Mirillia, Toelle and Sai, close behind him. The doctor said, while opening a case, "What's wrong?"
Troy said, "Didn't I tell you? She's having a seizure."
Kira said, "She's been at it for awhile. 5 minutes tops."
"I see," said the doctor. He took out a long needle and put some medication into it. "Hold her down."
Kira laid her down and put his hands on her arms, to make sure she wouldn't move as much. The doctor wiped her left arm with alcohol, stuck the needle into her skin and she wailed, like a mad woman. Mirillia turned away from the awful sight, but Troy looked at Celina with pain as if he was feeling the same pain she was going through.
The doctor said, "There we go." Celina started to twitch less by each passing second. He packed everything up and said, "The sedation will come to effect in a few minutes."
Kira let go of her and said, "You sedated her?"
"Yes, I did."
"B-but, she was doing fine. She didn't need to be sedated."
"She really did need it. If she kept on having that seizure, she might have continued to having them on regular bases."
He walked out of the room. First spoke Sai, "What happened to her? She was fine at lunch."
Kira said, "I don't really know." It wasn't a lie or anything.
Toelle said, "Was Fllay here when it happened?"
He nodded. "Oh," Toelle said, "That explains why she was running from this direction."
Marillia looked at Celina, "Fllay really looked disturbed."
Celina started to breath normally, she looked she had just fallen asleep after a long wonderful journey. Troy kept quiet, just kept on staring at her. Kira said, "Is it all right, if I talk to Troy alone?"
Sai said, "Yeah, sure," and they walked out. Troy said, in a tiny voice, "I'm sorry."
"Don't be." Kira got up from Celina's bed. He said, "There's nothing to apologize for."
Troy shook his dark head, "No, I was the one, who made her uncomfortable about talking about her parents."
"What did you say?"
"I said that she was trying to forget her mother, not her father and that she was supposed to be the tougher one."
"Why would you say that?"
"Because, I read some stuff and I thought she might be a person I read about, so I was testing if she was the person. But everything just got out of hand."
"Who did you think she was?"
Troy turned away. Kira said, "You don't have to tell me. You suspect that she's Sirally's younger sister."
Celina opened her eyes and found herself in an open plain filled variety of flowers. She quickly sat up.
"Where am I?"
She heard someone walking behind her. Celina turned and saw a woman wearing a long white robe. Her long rich dark black hair was covering her eyes and nose. All that was visible was her thin lips.
Celina said, "Excuse me? Do you know where this is?"
The woman started to smile. She reached out her hand to Celina. Celina stared at it. She said, "Do you want to help me?"
She nodded. So, she reached for the woman's hand. It felt so warm, the feeling made Celina's inside feel something she never felt before. It was very hard to explain. Celina got up and noticed that she was shorter than the woman, by a lot. Her hand looked so small in the woman's grip.
'Why am I a child again?'
The woman started to walk. Celina ran after and cried out, "Wait up, miss!"
All of a sudden, they were in a new place. It was a street corner filled with people. Cars, buses and motorbikes were passing by. No one seemed to care about the day. It was perfectly understandable. The sky was clear blue, not a cloud in the sky. Everyone was cheerful; it was like they stepped into another world.
The woman pointed at a young woman and two little children emerge from what looked like the entrance of a zoo. The woman had the exact same hair color as the children, but instead of the same pale skin as the children, she had rosy texture. Celina thought, 'She's beautiful."
She focused her sights on the two children. They looked awfully like how Athrun and she looked when they were young.
'I see now why people think we're twins.'
Athrun left the woman and the little Celina behind. The woman and the little Celina walked towards a parking lot, but the woman stopped. Celina saw a man across from them staring very oddly at them. The woman narrowed her eyes. She grabbed the little Celina's hand and quickly walked away.
Then, the man took out a gun at them. Celina yelled, "Watch out!"
But, it was too late. The woman got shot, her shirt starting to soak with blood, some ended up on little Celina. The woman fell to her knees and held little Celina close to her chest. More bullets were shot.
Celina turned away from the sight and started to hear the woman scream in pain. Little Celina didn't even know what was going on. Celina said, "Please, take me out of here."
The woman shook her head. She kept on pointing at the dying woman. Celina stared closely at what she was pointing at. It was the woman's belly. She said, "What is there something in her?"
The woman pointed at herself.
"You?"
Celina looked sadly at the woman. "You are in the woman's womb." Then, she realized something. She said, "You never got the chance to be born."
Celina saw something that looked like a tear go down the woman's face. She walked towards Celina and pushed her.
Before the woman pushed her, she was sure she heard a woman's voice saying 'Avenge me.'
Celina awoke with a start. She gasped for air and touched her head. Sweat was all over her hand. She stared at her hands they looked thinner than usual. She heard some people yelling outside of her room. She said, herself, "Lousy Naturals."
The word Natural reminded her of "Kira." She jumped out of the bed. She ran out of the room, but didn't find the person she wanted to see. Fllay stared at Celina in disbelief. She said, "How can you?"
"No time to chat, Fllay."
While she searched for Kira, she noticed all the people she passed by were staring as if some miracle happened. 'What's there problem?' she thought.
Finally she went into the room where the Strike was being held. She saw Kira at the bottom talking to a blond girl. Celina yelled, in joy, "Kira!"
She ran towards them. Kira was staring her at is if she was gone for a long time. Celina said, sternly "Kira, we need to talk."
The girl said, "Who are you?"
Celina glared at her, "That's what I want to know."
Kira looked at one to the other. He said, "Cagalli, Celina. Celina, Cagalli."
Cagalli said, "Nice to meet you."
"Like wise."
Celina turned her attention to Kira. She said, "Kira, we have a problem."
"What kind of problem?"
"Well-," She stared at Cagalli and whispered to him, "It's a Coordinator problem."
"Celina."
She grabbed his arm pulled him to a corner. She called out, to Cagalli, "Do you mind if I borrow him for awhile?"
"Go right ahead."
Celina turned to Kira, "I saw this woman die and Athrun left and I stayed behind and there was some freaky woman saying she was never born and-,"
Kira interrupted her, "Celina, don't you remember what happened?"
"What? What happened to me?"
"You've been in some kind of coma, a reaction caused by the sedation."
"I WAS SEDATED!"
She knew people could hear that. She lowered her voice, "I was sedated?"
Kira nodded.
"But, I saw these stuff and- and-and-,"
She stopped and kept quiet for awhile. "Are you sure I was in a coma?"
"Celina, you were. The doctor even said so."
"Then, all those stuff I saw was-,"
"Wasn't real."
'Am I losing my mind?' she thought.
"Celina."
She looked at his eyes and knew he had sad news. "What?"
She stepped back from him. "Di-di-di-did you ki-,"
"No, I didn't kill Athrun."
"Then, what is it?"
"The Admiral died."
She covered her mouth and said, "No."
"Besides that, we've arrived to Earth."
"What?"
"Earth."
"How could you bring me here! You could've done what you to Lacus!"
Kira blushed. She narrowed and turned her back on him. She started to walk away, "Kira Yamoto, you've become nothing to me."
She left the room and said, to herself, "The nerve of him. He could've just thrown me into space for all I care."
She stopped in her tracks, "Then, again. He could get into a lot of trouble."
'Oh no.'
She said, "I can't be caring for him."
Celina shook her head and thought, 'Celina, you don't care for any traitor or Natural.'
"What did you say?"
She turned and saw Troy. She sighed, "Oh, it's only you."
"What not glad to see me? ' Because I'm sure glad to see you, Cell."
"Don't call me that."
"What? Cell?"
"Kid, I've got no time for this."
"The name's Troy."
"Look, Troy. I have to think of some stuff."
"Like what?"
"Troy, please. I'm really not in the mood of talking to an annoying little kid."
"Oh."
Celina didn't like that tone. She said, quickly, "I'm sorry about your grandfather."
He shrugged, "He got himself into the mess."
She gaped, "You aren't sad about him dead."
"Oh, I'm sad, all right, but I don't have a blood thirsty revenge plan in my mind."
"What are you talking about?"
He pointed his forefinger at her, "You are planning to kill all humanity as revenge for your family's death."
"Not that, again. Troy, listen to me. I know you think I'm Sirally's little sister, which I'm not."
"You are so."
"For an admiral for a grandfather, you sure are whiny."
He turned from her and said, "I'll pretend you never said that."
Celina smiled. 'He acts like I did when I was his age.'
"Troy, I'm sorry. I'm just frustrated."
"I understand."
"You do?"
"We're on earth and Coordinators aren't so happy about Naturals and all. This is there home."
"You read my mind."
Troy said, "Do you know the Desert Tiger?"
"You mean Andrew Wakefield?"
"Yeah."
He walked passed her and said, cheerfully, "Kira killed him."
