I do not own Gundam SEED...because if I do own it, then Kira would never have found Fllay's escape pod... and Kira would have crush on Lacus the first time he saw her...

Chapter 2: Missed Chance

Two weeks passed and still no sign of waking up from Lacus. Months passed, season changes and soon, it was a year since the accident.

Many things had changed. For starters, Kira still visited Lacus everyday, however, he didn't stay with her as long as he used to be. Kira also underwent several changes. For one, he had moved on and forgotten about his crush towards Fllay. He took care of Lacus' work while she's in the hospital and he stopped blaming himself for her accident. Mainly because he knew that Lacus wouldn't want him to blame himself for her accident although he knows that it was his fault.

Today was another day for Kira. He walked into the room where Lacus is taken care in with a bouquet of white-purple amaryllis. As soon as he entered the room, he walked towards the flower vase and replaced the old flower with his newly bought ones. He then took a seat on the chair beside the bed. He held one of her hand and began to tell her about what he was doing that day. This had become like a second habit to him since a week after the accident; everyday after work, he would visit her and told her about his day.

"You know, Lacus, things have changed a lot eversince you're here. Yet, for some reason you're still looks the same as a year ago. Sleeping here peacefully like a sleeping beauty. Of course, if you're sleeping beauty, then 99 years from now there'll be a prince charming marching his way here with his horse and kiss you to wake you up." Joked Kira as he parted her bangs, which had grown over the year. He smiled sadly when he noticed that he really misses the colour and the twinkling glow of her light blue eyes.

"You know, that may not be such a bad idea." Said an amused voice suddenly, breaking his train of thoughts abruptly and nearly sent him to the floor due to the shock.

Kira abruptly turned around towards the door to see that his best friend was standing there looking rather amused with his sister, Cagalli, standing beside him in his embrace.

"Yes and I bet you wouldn't mind kissing her huh, Athrun?" teased Kira.

"Well, yeah" Cagalli then gave him her deathliest glare after she heard his response. "Er... I mean no, thanks. I got your sis right here beside me." Athrun grinned at Kira, while slightly sweating. After all those times he had spent with her, he knew more than well enough that angering Cagalli is definitely not a good thing at all... because it will lead to the destruction of the world... or just his death in short.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever. I believe you." Said Kira halfheartedly as he returned his attention towards the pink haired girl, completely missing the glare that Athrun had directed to him.

"You like her don't you?" asked Cagalli all of the sudden, breaking the silence in the room. Kira shook his head slowly in reply.

"No..." replied Kira, trailing off before continuing. "Not just like. I love her, I realized it too late though. I was so stupid." Said Kira. He turned around towards Cagalli. "You know what? I'd do anything for her to wake up right now, Cagalli. I can't stand watching her lying here she looked so helpless. You should've seen her expression after I burst out on her back then." Kira gritted his teeth and clenched his fists as he tried his best to fight back the tears.

Cagalli looked down on the ground sadly as she looked at her twins' distressed expression. She looked up to her left when she felt a hand wrapped itself around her shoulder and squeezed her shoulder gently. She leaned back on Athrun as he gave her the comfort she needed at the moment.

She could never forget the time when Kira had told her about what had happened between him and Lacus earlier before the accident happened while they were waiting outside the operating room. She remembered how Athrun was trying his hardest to control and held her down so that she would not pounced and attacked the already distressed Kira severely. Of course, that incident had rewarded Athrun several scratches and painful bruises on his stomach from her.

The room fell into an uncomfortable silence, only the soft beeping sound of the machines attached to Lacus was heard, until Athrun came up with an idea.

"Kiss her." Said Athrun, voicing out his thought, breaking the silence.

"What!" asked Kira in surprise. "Could you repeat what you just said, Athrun Zala?"

"He said kiss her." Repeated Cagalli, catching up on what Athrun is, or was thinking.

"You know, it's worth a try. Besides, you did say that you'll do anything for her to wake up, right?" asked Athrun in a-matter-of-fact tone.

Kira nodded stupidly. "Yeah."

"So kiss her then," urged Athrun.

"Me? Kiss her? Are you joking? Because if you are, it's not funny at all, besides, she's not sleeping beauty and I can't do that." Said Kira, while blushing slightly he turned around to face Lacus to hide his blush from the couple. His little sister surely will not stop teasing him for a whole month if she ever see him blushing. Unfortunately for Kira, Cagalli saw him blushing.

"Hey, she might be sleeping beauty you know. Besides, why not? You're going to propose her when she wakes up right? So why can't you kiss her?" asked Cagalli.

True, he was planning to propose to her when she woke up however, kissing her when she's unconscious like now is definitely such an intolerable act. What if she doesn't want him to kiss her? "Because that'll be such an immoral act, what if she doesn't want me to kiss her? That'll be as bad as forcing a kiss on her." Explained Kira. "Besides, about the proposal, it's not that she's going to say yes 100 percent right? There's a chance that she might not accept my proposal." Pointed Kira.

"I DON'T CARE! Just kiss her!" yelled Cagalli, getting pissed at Kira. Athrun slowly backed up from his lover as her eyebrow twitched in annoyance. Kira gulped and slightly shook in fear from the murdering look that his sister directed towards him. From the past few years that they had spent time together, he learnt that making her mad was definitely not the best thing. Making Cagalli Yula Attha mad is like signing you death wish. So, he did the only thing that could get him out of Cagalli's wrath... obey her command and kiss Lacus.

He took a good look on Lacus' pale face before he bent down to taste the softness of her lips. Cagalli and Athrun unconsciously held their breath as Kira kissed the unconscious songsters. It was like watching a live drama performance.

Kira's kiss was longer than what he had planed in his coordinator mind because he found that as soon as his lips made contact with Lacus', he was unable or rather, unwilling to part from her lips. He blinked away the tear that was planning to fall as he noticed how cold her lips were... and it was because of him.

Kira reluctantly ended the kiss he gave Lacus as he straightened up. "See? Nothing happen." Said Kira in sad tone. "She's not waking up at all," whispered Kira to himself, but Athrun heard him nonetheless.

However, Kira's words were immediately contradicted when they all heard a small groan and the source of that groan was coming from behind Kira. Kira immediately turned around and took a hold of Lacus' hand as he knelt on the floor beside her and Athrun and Cagalli made their way to the other side of the bed.

He felt his heartbeats increased tremendously in excitement as he waited for her lover's eyes to open. He felt a slight twitch in his arm as Lacus' eyelids slowly opened, revealing its light blue orbs to the world.

"See? I told you so. A kiss from prince charming is enough to wake the sleeping beauty," said Athrun to Kira teasingly. Unfortunately, his words were heard through deaf ears because Kira was just too happy that Lacus finally regained her consciousness and now in his world there's only Lacus.

"Lacus, I'm so glad that you're okay," said Kira as he held her palm on his cheek. He looked at Lacus in anticipation as she twisted her neck to her left and right to look at her surrounding. He saw her mouth starting to move after she stared at him for a while with blank look.

"Kira?" asked Lacus.

"Yes, Lacus. It's me, I'm so glad that you're finally awake." Said Kira; his lips now have broken into a full smile. However, his happiness suddenly turned into a nightmare by Lacus' next question.

"Kira? Why is it so dark here? Is it night already?" asked Lacus innocently.

"Lacus?"

"Yes, Cagalli?" replied Lacus, immediately recognizing Cagalli's voice.

"Are you telling us that you cannot see us?" asked Athrun.

"What? What are you talking about?" asked Lacus with hint of fear which couldn't be missed. "Isn't it night right now?" asked Lacus, whose voice has a slight hint of panic in it.

"Lacus, it's afternoon right now." Replied Cagalli solemnly as she gritted her teeth. No matter how much they don't want to believe it, their suspicion finally was proven when Lacus was starting to wave her hands around to try to see.

"No... no... no... this can't be happening... NO, LACUS!" yelled a panicking voice.

A pair of violet eyes suddenly snapped open as their owner sat up and panted heavily. Violet orbs darted around the darkness wildly as he realized that he was still in his room. Kira looked at his hands in front of his and covered his face with them in relief. 'It was just a dream...' thought Kira, although somewhere in the back of his mind, there was something that told him that his dream eventually will become reality.

He lifted up his face and looked to the table to his right. On the table, a digital clock flashed the current time in red; it read 5:00. He flopped back on his bed as he recalled his dreams from the past few days again. Yesterday it was about Lacus forgetting about him when she woke up and now, it was about her being blind. For the past three days, all he has been dreaming about was on how Lacus woke up with some sort of problem. He closed his eyes painfully as he thought about the other possibilities of Lacus' condition when she woke up. He clenched the shirt above his heart. It hurt him when he thinks about how Lacus will suffer even longer after she regained her consciousness.

He let out a big sigh as he got out of the tangling mass of his bed sheets. It was no use going back to sleep again; he couldn't stop thinking about Lacus' condition. He walked over to the bathroom and decided to take a shower to clean his head off Lacus for the time being. He will have to visit Lacus afterwards, he knew more than well enough that he will not be able to put his mind to rest until he see Lacus again. His work will have to wait. He's sure Athrun will understand.

Ookami Fuu: This is the second version of chapter 2. I just cropped out the last couple of paragraphs... sorry okay? R&R!