Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Seed Destiny's Captain Murrue Ramius of Orb's Archangel and Archangel's Colonel Lieutenant Neo Lornokke, also featuring Eternal's Captain Andrew Waltfeld.
Author notes: Let me thank those reviewers who commented on this drabble's 'prequel' :P
Short introduction: Drabble on Murrue Ramius's POV. NeoMurrue / Mwu/Murrue… Even a little element of Andrew/Murrue!
Second: Murrue
Kira Yamato called her to come down to pick up a pilot from Earth Alliance's Windam and her heart came to a standstill as she saw his face. The face of Mwu la Flaga. The man who said he could make the impossible possible but died when obliterated by Dominion's Lohengrin shot directly at him, face-on.
She had called out for his name then, her mind sure that he was dead. Killed before her very eyes. So how could he live?
Why is it so? She had no answer.
Moments later, Doctor Catherine Teo of Archangel's infirmary made sure that Mwu la Flaga was healed fully and only needed for him to wake up. In all the days he lay on the sickbay, she stayed by his side. She felt bad to agree to Kira's request to tie up his hands with handcuffs. But the Coordinator had persuaded her successfully to leave no chance for him to be indeed forgetting them and so could attack them.
Deep down her heart, she was relieved that he was alive but then again the fear of him having lost his memories came up to be one truth in her soul and mind. But she can hope, can't she? Hoping that he had not lost his recoveries. But then he would have reacted somewhat when he saw Archangel. But no, it just seemed that he treated them as an enemy of Earth Alliance.
Why is it so? She had no answer, even as the answer was somewhat going to enter her mind, she would try to suppress it.
As he opened his eyes, she called out his name. But his reaction plunged her heart down to the deepest of the trench in her heart and soul. He looks pissed as being addressed as Mwu. And admitting that his real identity to be Neo Lornokke, a name that she had never ever heard before even when she had been in the Earth Alliance for quite a long time. How did he have the name then?
Why is it so? She had no answer.
Anyway, this 'truth' that she had feared to see had come true. And she had no one to relay her feelings to. Well, she has Miriallia Haww in the ship to be her listener of her intense heart pain in this fearful realisation of hers because she is one of those who knew of the Archangel Captain's relationship with the prisoner's 'look-alike' – Mwu la Flaga.
Murrue Ramius can feel her eyes stung with tears threatening to fall unto her cheeks. No, she would not let the look-alike to see her cry. She flipped back and ran out of the infirmary, the tears finally falling down after she had turned her back on him. Also, she was turning back on the realisation that her beloved Mwu had indeed lost his memories. His memories of being Mwu. Of being with her, his beloved too.
Why is it so? She had really no answer as of yet…
In those two years of peace in Orb's Onogoro Island - the two years of her soul's real loneliness, she had Andrew Waltfeld by her side. The man who was ZAFT's soldier, ZAFT's commander, the man who lived with her in the same house but not in the same room. He had not forgotten Aisha, she not forgotten Mwu but they remembering someone of their own love… This fact to be of a similarity between them.
But in the short two years, they could have fallen in love with each other. After all, their beloved had died, they two seeking comfort in each other's arms and company. But no, they did not fall in love, their friendship only getting stronger and stronger with each living day.
Why is it so? She had no answer, but an answer might have already been in her heart for a long time.
During the time he stayed in the infirmary and she getting busied with her responsibilities as Archangel's Captain, she would go and visit him there, talking to him, as Neo Lornokke but not her Mwu. Not her beloved Mwu but a stranger named Neo Lornokke.
And when she felt her heart broken into more shreds as he denied most of the words she said, she would remember Andrew Waltfeld's words of comfort to her when she would break down also in the two years of peace time in Onogoro Island.
Why is it so? She had no answer. How could her friend have such a huge influence on her till now? Could their feelings for each other have been extended beyond love and to somewhat an even further relationship?
Finally, Archangel reaches Orb. And she knew Orb would not accept a former Earth Alliance soldier to their shores. His survival may be at risk. And she couldn't have this risk come true. She would need him to leave the ship. Even as it tore her heart. Because he had shown signs that he had regained part of/p>
Owari
Author notes: This is the sequel. How is this? Read and review. Arigatou. Ja ne!
She would not want what happened two years before to happen again. Not for her heart to be repeatedly torn for once more. Hence, she gave him Mwu la Flaga's Skyscraper. The mobile armour that Neo should be familiar with. Because she holds a small hope for him to be really him, but not for him to die once more.
Why is it so? She had somewhat an answer. An answer about to be answered soon.
He flew. Flying away from Archangel. From her. And she focused on her task at hand, fighting those who are fighting Orb. Archangel met with danger at last. Freedom away from the ship, away in its own battle. Archangel that is about to be shot by missiles. Instinctively, Murrue Ramius shut her eyes.
Next, she hears the missiles being shot down. Hears his voice. Mwu la Flaga's voice. But no, it's his voice to be truthful. That of Neo Lornokke. He had returned. To Archangel. To her.
Her heart jumped up a few notches in joy. He came back for her ship. For her. His love. They meet again. His one and only. His true love. Also, her one and only true love. The man to be… her beloved, Mwu la Flaga.
Owari
Author notes: This is the sequel. How is this? Read and review. Arigatou. Ja ne!