Disclaimer: I don't own gundam seed or any of the characters...um...yea

Battle For Love- Lies and the Truth

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Dearka nervously entered his house and went in his office to find Athrun sitting in his chair.

"Hey, Dearka, isn't it just great outside?" Athrun asked innocently.

"I hate when Athrun does this. He pretends to be innocent and talks to you as if it's just a normal conversation, but he's actually torturing you! Eventually he somehow forces you to say whatever you are hiding from him." Dearka thought.

"Yea, it's great outside." Dearka replied nervously.

"Did you have fun?" Athrun stared at Dearka with menacing eyes.

"Um...yea..." Dearka felt his knees growing weak.

"What did you do?" Athrun tapped the table with his pen.

"Um...No-th-ing..." Dearka began to stutter.

"Really? You were doing nothing for the whole day without your bodyguards?" Athrun kept his normal tone.

"Well...um...I was...um...shopping...yea I was shopping." Dearka regained his composure.

"Shopping? I thought you hated that." Athrun questioned.

"Well...um...you see...I was shopping with friends." Dearka blurted out, but mentally punched himself for saying that.

"Friends? Which ones? Yzak would rather die then shop, and I heard you say that you lost contact with other friends during these few years." Athrun questioned more forcefully.

"O...new friends...we haven't seen each other for a long time now." Dearka answered as he started to spill the beans.

"New friends? What if they were undercover working for the cops or maybe people that wants revenge after all these years, but then again are you trying to hide something from me?" Athrun inquired.

"Okay Athrun, I know it was my bad for ditching the bodyguards. They were too annoying." Dearka defended himself and at the same time tried to change the subject.

"I know it's annoying and not much privacy with bodyguards, but it's really dangerous nowadays. You have to understand that there could be people just around the corner that want our heads." Athrun reasoned falling for Dearka's trick to change the subject.

"Yea, yea." Dearka replied slightly irritated.

Dearka always got irritated when Athrun acts this way. It's as if he is like his mom or something, always nagging him until he learned just to ignore him.

"It's getting late, so I'm going back now. If you get kidnapped or anything don't blame me for not warning you." Athrun got out of the chair and exited Dearka's office and soon his house.

Soon after Athrun's leave Dearka looked out of his huge office window and saw a beautiful ferris wheel decorated with many bright and colorful lights. He was awed by it for a moment, but just then an idea popped into his head.

"I'll take Milly and Cagalli to the theme park tomorrow! Ha Ha! Maybe I can even make my move on Milly!" Dearka laughed evilly.

"O wait that means I have to ditch my bodyguards again! Dammit, if Athrun finds out again he'll defiantly get pissed off at me. What the? Why am I even considering what Athrun thinks? It's not like he's my parents or anything, he's just an over-concerned best friend." Dearka debated in his head.

Dearka then flipped open his cell phone and started to punch in Mir's number.

"Heh good thing I got her number while they weren't looking." Dearka thought.

"Hello?" Mir answered into her telephone.

"Hey, this is Dearka! I was just wondering if you and Cagalli want to go to the theme park with me tomorrow?" Dearka asked through the receiver.

"I don't know...let me ask Cagalli, so wait just a sec." Mir put down the telephone.

Mir knocked on Cagalli's door, but no one answered so Mir assumed that Cagalli was just asleep.

"I shouldn't wake her up. I don't think she'll mind if we go to the theme park with Dearka though." Mir thought and picked up the phone again.

"Yea, I guess we'll go with you." Mir said.

"I'll come over to pick you two up around 1:00pm." Dearka said in a happy tone.

"Okay, bye now." Mir hung up pretty quickly.

"I am on a roll!" Dearka complemented himself.

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Right after Mir hung up on the phone she thought that if Cagalli knew the plans for tomorrow it would be better.

"I should tell her that we're going to the theme park with Dearka tomorrow. It'll only take a few seconds." Mir thought.

Mir opened the door to see that Cagalli was in her bed, but the blankets were everywhere.

"Wake up." Mir gently shook Cagalli.

Cagalli didn't budge one bit.

"Come on wake up." Mir continued saying, but each time louder then the time before.

Mir started to get worried and shook Cagalli with a little bit more force.

Then Mir shook Cagalli with so much force that she tilted onto her side, and that's when Mir noticed that Cagalli had one of her hands clutched in a fist and the other hand clutched onto the bed sheet.

"Not good." Mir slowly checked her pulse.

Cagalli's pulse was very weak as if she was about to die.

"Hang on Cagalli!" Mir screamed as she tried to carry Cagalli onto her back.

Cagalli was heavier than Mir thought, but then again Mir thought everything was heavy.

Moments later Mir finally reached her car forgetting to even lock her house door and then she reached into her pocket getting her car keys and quickly opened the car door placing Cagalli into the seat. Mir closed the car door and got into her own drivers seat and started the car.

With a swift movement Mir reversed the car from her driveway and stomped onto the pedal.

"Good thing the hospital isn't that far away." Mir concentrated on the road.

Just then it hit her hard...why didn't she just call an ambulance?

Mir mentally pinched herself really hard.

Who could blame her though? Her friend was unconscious and about to die. Mir was obviously not thinking straight.

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The next day Dearka already made a plan to ditch his bodyguards.

"Run into a big crowd, put on my disguise and run away." Dearka reviewed his plan.

To any other person this plan was garbage, but to Dearka Elthman it was ingenious.

He took out a baseball cap and an old jacket and stuffed it under the shirt he was currently wearing.

"It doesn't look detectable, just looks like I've gained a few pounds." Dearka patted his disguise down to not look so puffy.

Dearka then walked out of his room with two bodyguards patrolling the hall and his door.

They noticed Dearka walking out of the door and quickly went beside him.

"Stop that, remember what I told you? One meter away from me!" Dearka scolded.

"Well...sir. It's for your own safety." The bodyguard answered defensively.

"Shall we start the car?" The other muscular bodyguard inquired pleasently.

"I want to walk today." Dearka waited for the door to be opened.

On his way walking, there were bodyguards everywhere. After a few minutes of looking around the place Dearka finally found a huge crowd and decided to start his plan there.

Dearka started to walk a bit faster and entered the huge crowd making his bodyguards look everywhere for him.

"I'm in the crowd, now to put on the disguise." Dearka thought as he took out the baseball cap and jacket out of his shirt and quickly put it on.

"Now to make my exit." Dearka said under his breath as he ducked under the whole crowd and began making his way beneath everyone and taking a look at the women's foot while he was at it.

Slowly but steadily Dearka got out of the crowd in one piece and made his way in the clearing which was the alleyway.

"Mr. Zala, Mr. Elthman is missing again." The head bodyguard told Athrun through his cell phone.

"When you find Dearka, follow him. Once you find out where he's at, inform me about it." Athrun told Dearka's bodyguard.

"But why do we have to follow him? We are supposed to protect him not follow." The bodyguard inquired.

"I have my reasons." Athrun said a little annoyed and hung up his cell phone.

"Ugh...okay we need to find Mr. Elthman, when we find him inform me and follow him." The head bodyguard ordered.

The rest of the bodyguards were quite confused on their order, but didn't ask any questions and did their job.

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"Dearka...I will find out what you're up to." Athrun said evilly as he tapped his pen continuously on the table.

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Mir was fidgeting with her fingers while she was waiting for the doctor to tell her what happened to Cagalli.

Just then the doctor came out with a worried expression.

"How's my friend doing?" Mir asked nervously.

"It's already a surprise how she lasted this long with a heart condition this serious. It seems as though the medicine she was living on is not much use to her now. Her heart condition has been getting more and more severe by the day, and it's beyond anything we can do to help her now. She's going to eventually die. There isn't much time left for her now. I'm sorry." The doctor said as he patted Mir on the shoulder and walked away.

"You can visit her now, but she's very weak." The nurse opened the door for Mir to go in.

Mir slowly walked in with tears streaming down her face.

"We've just met and even became good friends and now she's already going to die." Mir thought sadly.

"Hi Milly." Cagalli coughed out.

"Hi Cagalli." Mir replied as she sat in the chair next to Cagalli's bed.

"Cagalli...You always said that you don't want to be with Athrun anymore was because you thought that you would just be a burden to him and that he was out of your league...but..." Mir looked at Cagalli and cried.

"Did you always know about this? That you're going to...die?" Mir asked as she continued crying.

"Yea, but I didn't know it would this soon. To tell you the truth, when we were looking for the shell and I said that I forgot my wallet, I was actually going to the doctor and that's when I found out. Good thing I rushed back before you came back with Dearka." Cagalli confessed using most of the energy she had left.

Mir just continued crying her eyes out.

"How much time do you have left?" Mir asked between breaths.

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A/N: there if you were confused about why Cagalli didn't want to be Athrun, I tried to explain it in this chapter. I actually wrote the part Cagalli thought that she was a burden and stuff in the edited chapter 9, but seeing that no one actually noticed that I changed the story line there, I did it here.

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