Disclaimer: I don't own gundam seed or any of its characters...enough said.

Battle For Love- Favor

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Due to the extreme pain from the pepper spray Dearka closed his eyes again, so Mir took his hand and guided him inside the house.

"Hey, Cagalli I can't wait to tell Athrun that you're here." Dearka said excitedly.

"Yea...about that...um..." Cagalli was saying, but got interrupted by Dearka.

"Hey, Milly, where's the washroom?" Dearka asked while walking into the wall.

"Ow..." Dearka groaned.

"It's this way." Mir pushed Dearka to the opposite direction.

When they reached the washroom Mir stopped and led him in it.

"Here's the tap." Mir placed Dearka's hands on the tap.

"I think you know how to wash your own eyes." Mir said and walked out, gently closing the door.

"Darn, I was going to ask her to wash my eyes for me." Dearka thought angrily.

While Dearka was painfully washing his eyes from the pepper spray, Cagalli was worried that he'd tell Athrun.

"Isn't this great Cagalli? You and Athrun can meet each other again!" Mir said overjoyed.

Cagalli was about to argue, but just then Dearka finished washing his eyes and came out of the washroom.

"Ah...much better." Dearka opened his eyes.

"Time to call Athrun. He's going to be really happy to know that you're here." He got out his cell phone and started punching in numbers.

"Stop...don't call him." Cagalli said calmly.

"What?" Dearka asked confused.

"I don't want him to know that I'm here. I don't want to see him anymore." Cagalli forced out.

"Do you know what you are saying? If you're mad at him for leaving, it's not his fault!" Dearka started to lose his cool.

"It's not that...I just think it's better if I stay out of his life." Cagalli blurted out.

"He wants you in his life though!" Dearka raised his voice.

"Please Dearka, think of this as a favor for me. Remember when we were younger? I never asked you for a favor before. Please...don't tell Athrun about me." Cagalli begged.

Mir didn't really agree with Cagalli's decision, but as a friend she supported it, so she had to help Cagalli.

"Yea, please Dearka don't tell Athrun about Cagalli." Mir begged and gave Dearka the cutest puppy eyes he'd ever seen.

"O man...Cagalli was begging me now Milly...When I was younger I always asked Cagalli for favors, but she never would ask anything in return... I can't turn them down especially when Milly looks so extremely beautiful and cute." Dearka thought and started feeling guilty, but at the same time started having dirty thoughts about Milly.

He realized the position he was in and finally snapped out of his dirty minded daydreaming back to reality.

"Well...okay fine...I won't tell Athrun about this." Dearka finally gave in.

"Thanks a lot Dearka." Cagalli smiled.

"I didn't know you could be this considerate." Mir complemented.

"Heh...well...as a man I never make women beg." Dearka grinned while doing a cocky pose.

Mir and Cagalli both chuckled at the posing Dearka.

"You are free for the rest of the day right?" Dearka asked changing the subject.

"Yep." Mir and Cagalli both replied in unison.

"Why don't I Dearka Elthman, treat you two pretty ladies for dinner?" Dearka bowed like a waiter and held out his two hands waiting for Cagalli and Mir to accept his offer.

"Elthman...hm...sounds familiar." Mir thought searching her brain for reference.

Cagalli interrupted Mir's daydreaming by pulling her to the other room.

"Should we go?" Cagalli asked.

"What...o...um...sure...he seems very gentleman-like." Mir snapped out of her daydreaming forgetting about where she had seen the name Dearka Elthman before.

"But didn't we have plans already though?" Cagalli asked.

"We still have plenty of time." Mir answered walking back to Dearka who was still waiting for their answer.

"We'd love to." Mir took Dearka's hand.

Dearka looked at Cagalli for an answer.

"I'm going, but I'll pass on the hands." Cagalli walked pass Dearka.

"Fine, but you just missed out on the chance of your life to hold hands with Dearka Elthman. This beautiful lady here has good taste in men." Dearka joked as he looked slyly at Mir.

Mir blushed a bright shade of red.

"What are we waiting for? Let's go!" Dearka pulled Mir out of the house as she locked it.

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"It's been such a crazy day today, but it had to admit it was fun." said Cagalli.

"As a gentleman I shall escort you two pretty ladies back. You don't know how many people might attack you because of your beauty." Dearka tried flattering Cagalli and Mir, but earned a hard punch from Cagalli.

"Now that we are back, shouldn't there be a goodnight kiss?" Dearka held Mir's hand.

"Ya right." Mir avoided Dearka's kiss, opened her door and they both entered it slamming the door on Dearka.

"She must be to shy for my handsome looks." Dearka complemented himself as he made his way back to his house.

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"Hey Cagalli, what are you going to do about the shell?" Mir asked.

"I don't know...what about it?" Cagalli asked back.

"If the shell isn't in the alleyway it just might be anywhere." Mir exclaimed.

"Even if the chances are as slim as finding a needle in a haystack, I will not give up. Even though I don't plan to be with Athrun anymore, the shell is still very important to me." said Cagalli.

"Then I'll help you look for it until we find it." Mir supported.

"Well goodnight Cagalli." Mir said as she walked back to her room.

Just then the saw the newspaper lying on her desk.

The article wrote, "The Zala Corporation is skyrocketing! It just started out to seem a small company started by Athrun Zala and his partner Dearka Elthman, but continuously grew! When they joined companies-" Mir stopped reading.

"Dearka Elthman! I remember now! The partner of Athrun Zala!" She stood frozen solid when she looked at the picture under the article.

The picture showed Dearka and Athrun signing the contract to merge the companies of Kira's and Yzak's together.

"The guy earlier...he was the same Dearka Elthman." Mir said to herself in shock.

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"Yea! Finally back home, I never realized that walking can be this tiring. I should really stop using the car and get some exercise." Dearka thought.

He went to his front door onlyto be annoyed by his bodyguards.

"Mr. Elthman! Where have you been? We've been looking everywhere for you! We even called Mr. Zala here because we were scared that you might have been kidnapped!" The bodyguard almost screamed, but didn't have enough courage since he was talking to his boss.

"Athrun is here? Not good." Dearka panicked.

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A/N: Yep chapter 11 done. Took me a while, I was really busy lately.

Super thanks to Angel of Dreams, mariad, SliveR-DeMoN, ritachi, kiss kiss, xoxoanimeluber, GaIa12GSD, asga, Susan, MelanieStar, Karen41, gseedlover, jenniferseedlover, and Lie74 for reviewing! Thanks for the support!

And if you're confused with the fact that Cagalli doesn't want to be with Athrun anymore just reread chapter 9. I did mention that I rewrote chapter 9, but I took off that note after a while. My bad I guess.