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Terrible Lie
Kira straightened his tie one last time and walked out to the kitchen to his breakfast. He walked out and saw his eggs in the skillet with the bacon now cooled.
Walking over he picked at the scrambled eggs and cut into them, and found them cold to the taste. Curious as to what had happened, he looked around for his better half. "Milly, Milly where are you?" Kira asked. He walked around until he saw her on the couch, curled up and sleeping deeply.
Walking over Kira knelt down beside her and let his hand rest on her cheek, rubbing it slowly. It had been Five months total since Milly had found out she was pregnant with the twins and she was beginning to show more and more. Kira moved his hand down to her belly and softly rubbed it, hoping that it would get through to their unborn children. He continued rubbing it and was prepared to let his lips rest on her belly when Milly spoke up.
"What are you doing?" Milly spoke up, rather harshly. Kira pulled away and looked up at his wife, to see an angry glare on her face. "Milly, you're awake, I just..." Kira said in an attempt to apologize and explain to his wife. She would have none of it unfortunatley. "I'm trying to get a little shut eye after having my heart kicked around all night and you try and wake me up!" Milly shouted. "I wasn't trying..." Kira said. "Well you did it anyways!" Milly fired back.
Kira was suddenly taken back. Milly had never yelled at him this badly, she and he had occasionally yelled but they had made up within a few minutes. "I didn't know you went to sleep, I came out here and..." Kira began. "And you wanted me to wake up and heat up your precious breakfast right?" Milly yelled back.
"No, it's nothing like that, I'm not asking anything from you, I just wanted to greet you when you woke up" Kira explained. "I don't need to see anyone right now, I need some rest" Milly shouted. "Okay I'm sorry" Kira said. "You're sorry, you're sorry, you're so goddamned sorry it's pathetic" Milly snapped. "What has gotten into you?" Kira asked, starting to lose his patience."Well that's a stupid question, since part of it came from you!" she yelled back again. Kira stepped back and put his hand against the wall and began to slowly breathe in and out, trying to remain calm.
"Oh what are you going to do now, are you going to go into your room and cry like you did back on the Archangel, just go ahead and cry, just go ahead and..." It was Milly's turn to be quiet as she looked into Kira's eyes, and saw anger burning in them the likes of which she had never seen. "I realize that right now you're only acting this way because you're pregnant, and that right now you need some space to breathe, so I'm going to give you all the space you NEED!" Kira yelled.
Grabbing his briefcase and walking out the door but not before slamming it on his way out. Milly took a few steps back, slowly taking in everything that had happened. she had just yelled at and mocked her husband, Kira, the very person that had given her a new lease on life, and she had chased him out. Milly collapsed on the floor and held her face in her palms, and slowly began to cry.
Kira stormed out of the apartment and walked down to the bus stop as he always did, but this time things were different. the spring in his step was out of frustration and anger from Milly and her apparent need to talk down to him just because she was having mood swings. Kira boarded the bus and took his seat. He began to seathe slowly over what had just happened, but as he came down he began to think of what had just happened. He had blown up at Milly, and yelled at her for something she couldn't control. 'What have I done?' Kira asked himself. He was prepared to get up from where he was when he felt the bus leave and take off. Kira looked back at his apartment as it dissapeared over the horizon, and along with his chances to make things right. "Milly, I'm so sorry" Kira muttered as the tears threatened to fall from his eyes.
Milly walked into her editor's office with the necessary paperwork and newest photos. "Ahh Miriallia, glad to see you today, how are the little ones doing?" Joseph, her editor asked. "Doing just fne sir" 'along with driving me crazy' Milly added mentally still thinking back to the fight she just had this morning. "That's good, that's good, so will you be staying on with us for awhile or will you decide to take a maternity leave?" Joseph asked. "I'd like to stay on for a few more weeks sir, if that's alright?" Milly asked."That's okay with me but don't push yourself, we don't need you taking ill because you wouldn't leave when you could" Joseph spoke. "Yes sir" Milly said,gathering up some of the files and prints. She walked behind Joseph intent on delivering her packages when someone stopped her. Noticing a hand on her shoulder.
She turned around to see John Peters, a fellow photographer, but hardly a friend. His appearance was of a neatly kept and cheezy suits and a pencil thin mustche. The guy was sleaze defined and went out of his way to photograph anyone in compromising positions, he would also have the photos graced with that of stupid headlines. He always managed to make Milly's skin crawl. "Hey Miriallia, nice day today isn't it?" John said in his usual over excited way.
"Yes John it is" Milly said, fighting not to roll her eyes. "So I noticed you're starting to show a little more there aren't you?" John pointed out to Miriallia's growing stomach. "Yes John I've only been like this for about five months now" Milly said trying to walk away and end this conversation.
"Oh well I just wanted to come and see how you and your little soon to be bundles of joy are doing, bet they're kicking in there like a couple of soccer players, must be a hassle carrying around a pair of coordinator twins isn't it?" John said, slowly leaning up against a cubicle. "I don't think that's any of your business John" Milly said stepping aside and proceeded to hand a file over to one of the other employees.
"Well no, but it could make for a helluva story, whattya say, do an article on 'Natural mother carries genetic freak babies, newer race threatens to overrun both Coordinators and Naturals' Ohh that's great it'll be my one ticket to stardom, I'll have editors from miles around just begging to hire me to work for them" John said with starsin his eyes. At this Miriallia, felt her face tighten into a glare and stormed off, desperate to get away from this idiot. 'Sometimes the anti-natural sentiments that some of the coordinators spouted out wasn't so false afterall, especially with idiots like John around.
Milly handed one of the last files over when suddenly something happened. A sharp pain shot through her entire body and she fell to her knees. "Ahh, what is this...what's happening?" Milly asked to no one as she felt her entire insides sting and cramp up. Milly looked up and saw Joseph run towards her. He shook her a few times but got no response. "Call the hospital, now!" Joseph ordered as he looked down at the fallen girl. He watched as one of her hands rested on her belly, while her mouth whispered a few syllables. "Kira...I'm sorry" Milly whispered to herself.
Kira watched as the pencil he was writing with snapped suddenly. "Ahh, dammit" Kira muttered bringing the broken writing tool up to his eye level. Sighing in frustration, kira blew off the broken tip and then shoved it into his pencil sharpener. It was slow today and not much had happened but the fight he and Milly had earlier this morning still hung in his ears, and the slow pace of the clock on the wall wasn't helping matters much. Kira returned his newly sharpened pencil to the form he was filling out when the phone began ringing. Reaching over, Kira picked up the noisy object and began talking. "Hello, Initech Services this is Kira speaking how may I help you?"Kira said in the usual response to anyone who called in.
"Mr. Yamato, this is Joseph Cansello, the editor and chief of the the magazine that your wife works for, I'm calling about a recent incident she had" Joseph spoke "What happened, is she alright?" Kira asked suddenly. "She collapsed and was rushed to the hospital, I'm calling to inform you that..." his call was interrupted when the person on the other line hung up and ran out the door.
"Okay Mr. Elthman it looks like you've sustained a busted lip and another set of bruised ribs. Honestly this is the fifth time this month you've been brought in to this hospital for getting into another street fight, what has gotten into you?" the doctor asked. Dearka said nothing, merely seething and thinking back to the fight he was just in. It had only been his chance to blow off some steam and forget about how the one woman he loved had abandoned him for that idiot.
"You take two of these for the next four days and you should be okay" Dearka took the pills from the physician and was oreoared to grab his coat when something caught his eye. He looked on as he saw a pregnant woman being wheeled in, and felt his jaw drop as he saw, that it was Miriallia. She was pregnant, she was carrying HIS child, she was... Dearka felt himself slowly squeezing the bottle of pills to the point of crushing the bottle.
Dearka rose from his seat and slowly followed behind the girl being wheeled in. This had gone too far, she was carrying his child, she was supposed to be his. She was rushed into the elevator by all of the doctors surrounding her. The doors closed and Dearka glued his eyes to the numbers above, to see where it was headed. The number stopped at floor seven. Dearka headed to the stairs and began to ascend to the girl who was rightfully his, and his alone.
Milly was hoisted up onto a bed by the paramedics and had a series of tubes being inserted into her, with a heartrate monitor set up right beside her bed. "Dr. Gilstein will be here shortly so just relax" one of the paramedics said to Milly. Milly leaned back on the bed and tried to relax. The pain had subsided but she still felt worn out from all of the excitement. Looking around she saw that at least an hour had passed, the hospital room looked exactly the same as the others she had seen looking over, in the bed across from her, she spied a familiar face, it was June the girl from her wedding and from that time in the hospital. "June, is that you?" Milly asked of the girl laying in the bed across from her.
Hearing her name called out, June Jule leaned over and saw the same girl from a few months ago. "Hey, what're you doing here?" June asked. "I don't know myself, just that I was at work on minute, the next I collapsed after being in terrible pain" Milly explained. "I see, I'm here for a routine checkup to see if the baby's going to be okay, I've been feeling kind of rundown latesly and I wanted to see if that's good for it" June explained. "I hope everything goes okay for you" Milly said, setting her hand rest on her stomach. "Yeah, same to you to" June said. both women felt the effects of exhaustion come to them, and their eyes soon drifted downward giving into sleep.
Milly's eyes fluttered open, looking over, she saw that June was still asleep, however as she was looking over another person was in the room. "Kira" Milly said tiredly. "You still call out for him, even after all we've been through" the owner of the voice said. Milly flinched at this, she knew exactly who the voice belonged to, it was Dearka Elthman. "I protected you, I saved you and everyone else on that damn battleship, and this is how you thank me. You go off and marry some asshole who would never even have given you the time of day four years ago, someone who would have only seen you as a friend and nothing more. This is how you repay me?" He snarled.
"What are you doing here?" Milly asked with sweat forming on her brow. "Oh me, oh I was just in the neighborhood and after seeing you clearly expecting, and I thought I'd pay you a little visit" Dearka said, still enough to make Milly cringe in her bed. "Dearka, I think it's best you leave, I'm not feeling very comfortable with you here right now" Milly said, her hand trying to find the switch for the nurse. "I wasn't feeling too comfortable when you were standing over me, with a knife in your hand" Dearka said as he slowly unsheathed a scalpel from the pocket of his jacket.
Milly flinched in terror at this, Dearka had come in to kill her, had he finally snapped? "You know the hospital's a scary place there's all sorts of bad things you can pick up in there" Dearka said as he stabbed the scalpel into the headboard of Milly's hospital bed. "Dearka please don't" Milly begged. "Don't what? Don't return the favor? Don't pay you back for all the hours and days and beatings I've endured without having you by my side? Don't make you suffer like you've made me ever since that time you spurned me? Don't do anything of the sort? Not a chance!" Dearka said with anger in his voice as he dragged the scalpel down closer to Milly herself.
Milly squeaked in terror as the knife neared down closer to her throat. "Only problem is I can't decide where I should cut, slice into your head like you did me, stab you in the heart or the back like you've also done to me, or maybe I'll get rid of the most obvious problem, and stab right here, and get his disease out of you" Dearka said dragging the scalpel down to her stomach. The sweat on Milly's brow soon combined with the tears flowing out of her eyes, silently paraying that he would leave or someone would stop him. Was this the punishment she was receiving for having that fight with Kira earlier today, was she or her babies really going to die because of this overly jealous maniac? Milly leaned forward letting her head and arms close over her belly to protect her children. He could stab her if he wanted, but she wouldn't let him just attack her defenseless children.
Dearka raised the scalpel to bring down on Milly when he felt something press into his forehead, it was a gun barrel. Looking over he saw Athrun Zala holding a pistol to his forehead. "Put the knife down Dearka, and slowly back away, no funny stuff either" Athrun threatened. Dearka slowly raised his hands, the scalpel still in his fingers. "You know if not for that gun Zala I wouldn't listen to a damn thing you're saying Dearka said with a confident smile on his face. Athrun said nothing and kept his eyes still trained on the knife in Dearka's hand. "What happened to you Zala, I remember a time when you wanted nothing more than to kill the pilot of the Strike gundam, now here you are defending his wife, what happened to you?" Dearka asked again, and again he received no response. Dearka prepared to move in on Athrun when, another gun barrel pressed against his head. Dearka turned around slowly and saw none other than Yzak holding a gun to his head. "No, not you too Yzak, not you" Dearka said in surprise Yzak again said nothing but kept his hand tight on the handle of his firearm.
"Is everyone out to betray ME!" Dearka shouted stabbing the scalpel into the wall. Slowly backing out of the room, his eyes remained on the trio of those who betrayed him, in love, and in comraderie, the Le Creuset team truly was dead in his eyes. He was prepared to leave, when another idea spurned in his head, something to truly make Miriallia hurt.
"Take a good look at me Milly, take a good look at what I've done, what all coordinators are born to do, we're made to cause chaos and war, your children will be no different, they'll kill and raise havoc on all naturals, they'll be monsters, you could be giving birth to one of the next despots, when have you ever known a coordinator to not go fight in a war? When?" Dearka asked hoping to cause Milly to grow more afraid. "Alright get out of here Dearka move it now!" Athrun said grabbing Dearka by the arm and dragging him out of the room. Dearka was thrown out and began his trek down back to the elevator, on the way down he ran into the manhe also blamed for his grief, Kira Yamato.
Kira looked as he saw what he thought was Dearka Elthman. Kira wondered just what he was doing in the hospital but brushed it off and hurried to where the receptionist said Milly's room was. The traffic was horrible due to an accident on the freeway and he was kept there for a whole hour. Walking into Milly's room he saw Athrun, and Yzak putting away their guns and what appeared to be a medical scalpel was stabbed into the wall. "What just happened in here?" Kira asked.
Looking over, he saw Milly crying and shaking. He headed over to her immediately and embraced her letting her cry into his shoulder. "Athrun, what happened, tell me!" Kira demanded. Seeing no other way out but to tell him, Athrun gave in. "We came in here, and saw Dearka with that scalpel over Milly's head. "What!" Kira said shooting up and beginning to seeth with anger after hearing that. Kira burst out of the room and took off down the hall towards Dearka all the while, Milly's hand was still reaching out for him.
"Dearka! Elthman! Get back here right now, Get back here! ELTHMAN!" Kira furiously yelled as he ran towards the elevator. He arrived just as the door closed with Dearka waving bye mockingly with an arrogant smile on his face. "Open this door, get back here Elthman, get back here!" Kira shouted as he banged on the door furiously trying to get at the man who had the nerve to threaten his wife and unborn children. Athrun arrived to see Kira kick the elevator doors and head for the stairwell before grabbing him and forcing him up against a wall.
"Kira get ahold of yourself, just stop it!" Athrun said trying to get through to his angered friend. "Let go of me Athrun, he nearly killed her I'll make him pay I'll..." Kira yelled. "Listen to yourself, listen to what you're saying. You really want to go out there and make yourself just as low as he is?" Athrun asked his now unstable best friend. "You go out there and hurt him, or even worse, then when Milly does give birth you're going to be behind bars, Cagalli told me they only let you off with a warning the last time but they won't do it again. Don't worry about Dearka I promise you justice will be served, he won't get away with this" Athrun promised. "Now please go see Milly, she needs you" Athrun said to Kira. "All right, I'll go. Thanks Athrun" Kira said as he walked back to Milly's hospital room.
Kira trudged back to Milly's room, feeling guilty about leaving her just to give into his anger for Dearka.Walking over, he saw Milly crying, with her head in her hands, every tear felt like a knife to Kira's heart. Slowly making his way over, he nelt beside his wife and took one of her hands into his. "I'm sorry, I'll understand if you won't speak to me, but I'mjust happyyou and the babies are safe" Kira said. Milly leaned up, and saw the guilt in his eyes. she was upset that he had been late, she was upset that he had ran out like that, but she was more than relieved that he was back. "Oh Kira, I was so afraid" Milly said throwing her arms around his neck. "Shhh, it's okay, I'm here, I won't leave, I'm here i'll always be here" kira said hoping to calm Milly down. "I'm sorry I yelled at you this morning" Milly said in between her tears. "I'm sorry for yelling back" Kira said. he continued to hold her into the night calming her and hoping to alleviate her fear after her torture of today.
Kira watched as his wife drifted off to sleep, and remembered that the nurse telling him that the closing hours were approaching and that he'd have to leave. Kira let his lips travel to Milly's, and left two final kisses on her belly, one for each of the babies.Getting up and walking out the door, he was met by Dr. Gilstein. "Ah Mr. Yamato, I was hoping I'd run into you before you left, there's something I needed to talk to you about, about your wife." Gilstein said to Kira. "Look doctor it's late and we've both been through alot and I have to go home and get used to sleeping alone" Kira said, with fatigue in his voice. "I understand that Mr. Yamato but this really can't wait." Gilstein said. Seeing no other way out, Kira relented. "Alright what's so important that you just have to tell me?" Kira asked.
Gilstein lead Kira over to a bench and they both sat down. "Not too long ago, the idea of Coordinators and Naturals marrying into each other was a very far off thought, almost unheard of for both sides but it has been happening more and more, along with births from both sides." Gilstein said "Unfortunatley alot of those births were met with tragedy, not alot of the mothers were able to carry or give birth to the children, some of them were stillborn since the wombs of the naturals weren't strong enough to carry the children all the way to term, and some of the mothers died in childbirth due to the stress of giving birth to the coordinator children" Gilstein explained with grief in his voice.
"Is there a chance that this could happen to Milly?" Kira asked, worry beginning to set into his voice. "I didn't want to believe it since she managed to make it past three months without trouble, but after today I'm afraid it may be unavoidable." Gilstein said. "Oh God" Kira said running a hand through his hair, worry dripping off of each syllable. "Don't worry, we're going to do everything we can for her, we'll make sure she pulls through" Gilstein said patting Kira on the shoulder.
Kira remained where he was, taking in all that the doctor had said. Milly could die, giving birth or the babies themselves could die, all due to Milly's genetic makeup. Kira was prepared to walk out but a sudden voice stopped him. "Kira, Kira." he leaned over to see Milly calling for him. Walking in he walked over to her hospital bed "yeah sweetie is anything wrong?" Kira asked. Kira, what did Dr. Gilstein say to you, what did he tell you about what would happen to the babies?" Milly asked. He could tell, that she was demanding he tell her the information and seeing how he had no choice but to tell her the truth, he confided to his wife what he was told about the fates of Naturals and Coordinators reproducing.
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