Chapter 8 Trust Or Betrayal
A/N Ok, I know the chapter title sounds like the one from "Rurouni Kenshin" but do not be mistakened, it's not the same. Thank you to those who reviewed in the last chapter, really appreciative! Also, many of you might be wondering how Lacus,Yzak and Dearka had been accepted into Orb so easily, well, pardon me for not explaining. The reason is because in this chapter, I was thinking of writing out the part where Lacus and Kira gave a full explanation to the Orb management about their motives for being at Orb, and although they had a hard time accepting them, especiallyYzak, they still let him in. However, the security would be keeping a close eye on them, especially Yzak. Sorry for making this factor so unclear, I'll strive harder to be abetter author, rest assured! Happy reading!
"I don't believe this, I don't want to believe it. I don't understand. Why?" Cagalli muttered, staring blankly and stoned into space, as her words of confusion spouted from in-between her rosette lips. Her blonde hair, was in a complete mess, as she had been pulling her hair continuously out of frustration earlier on.
"Cagalli, you heard and saw Athrun's reaction earlier when those imposters confronted us. He stood up to defend you, to protect you. I don't doubt Mr. Dearka's explanation about Athrun coming here on a mission actually to kill you, but the fact is, he's never done so much as break your nail so far. I don't know why, but something tells me that Athrun does truly love you." said Miriallia, putting a comforting and encouraging arm around Cagalli.
"I don't know what to do, maybe Kira was right to be suspicious of him at first. I don't know," mumbled Cagalli, still looking stoned and blur.
"No, Cagalli! Athrun does..." however, before the auburn-haired girl could carry on with what she had wanted to say, Kira turned up at Cagalli's bedroom door, the girl, known as Lacus Clyne, standing behind him.
"Yes, Athrun does love you, Miss Cagalli. Nevermind that I'm his fiancee, our engagement was all arranged. Truthfully, the both of us are just nothing more than good friends. What matters is that it is you, Miss Cagalli, that he loves." explained the pink-haired girl, whose face was filled with worry. "So stop doubting him already, that's all I have to say. Mr. Kira here, has more important news to tell you."
"Yes, thank you, Miss Lacus. Mirre, Cagalli! Kyo's wounded, she got shot earlier when she lunged at that asshole, Yzak Jule. He was targetting Cagalli, but Kyo got in the way!" exclaimed Kira frantically, looking at Miriallia and Cagalli. "The doctor says she's lost a lot of blood, and he's not sure if she will make it!"
Miriallia catapulted to her feet, and Cagalli seemed to have been busted out of the trance she was in earlier. Both girls were on their feet looking intimidated and horrified.
"Where's she now?" asked Miriallia, looking frantically and perturbed at Kira, who gestured to Mirre and Cagalli to follow him as he led the way to the medical unit. Miriallia grabbed Cagalli's arm and dragged her along.
Cagalli's attention was drawn to Kira's left hand, in which he was holding another person's hand, and to the blonde's utter surprise, the hand belonged to Miss Lacus! Goodness, was Kira aware of his actions at all?
Within seconds, they reached the entrance of the medical unit, however, the door was locked as doctors had begun operating on Kyo to remove the bullet. Outside the medical unit in thw waiting area, sat a depressed looking Athrun and his two friends from PLANTs, Dearka and Yzak.
Dearka and Yzak seemed to be bickering loudly over some unknown matter, which Kira, Miriallia and Cagalli didn't seem eager to find out about.
"I dare you to apologise to her when she comes round!" barked Dearka, grinning at Yzak who looked utterly pissed and unmoved by what had just happened.
"Fat hope, pal! Who asked her to get in the way? I didn't!" Yzak yelled back, folding his arms across his lean chest and glaring into space.
"You know, Yzak, it's only right you apologise. You shouldn't do so because Dearka dared you to, after all it was you who fired the bullet that hit Miss Kyo." said Lacus knowingly, looking worried and anxious.
"If he doesn't want to apologise, so be it! We're not even sure if she might make it!" said Miriallia, her voice shaking uncontrollably, as her eyes welled up with tears.
Dearka Elthman seemed to find seeing this certain auburn-haired girl cry, really painful and hard to bear. Oh, but why the hell did he care anyway? It was her problem. But then again, he still found it hard to stand, watching her cry.
Athrun who was still sitting on the far end on the row of chairs in the waiting area, seemed to be taking quick glances at Cagalli out of the corner of his eye. She looked equally worried as Miriallia, wringing her hands anxiously, waiting for the operation to end and hear some news from the doctor, and not just any news, but good news.
"What're you looking at? After what's been revealed about yourself, you still have to cheek to look at Cagalli!" exclaimed Kira, looking fiercely at Athrun, who quickly turned away reproachfully.
"Don't be so harsh on him. Like I said earlier, he does love Miss Cagalli. Or I think he would've killed her by now. His love for her is true, so don't doubt him any longer. There's already enough melancholy going around, I don't think any one of us wants this situation to worsen." said Lacus knowingly, looking from Kira to Athrun.
As much as Cagalli was unsure of what to do at the moment, she wanted to clear things up, fast.
"Athrun, can we talk? In my room?" asked Cagalli, still not facing the blue-haired young man, and although he looked rather reproachful, he still looked broodingly handsome.
"I hope Miss Cagalli will understand him through and through, and patch it up with him. They were such a cute couple," stated Miriallia, dabbing her eyes slightly, as she watched the Orb Princess walk off.
Cagalli walked swiflty back to her bedroom, Athrun trailing along a few metres behind. When Athruns tepped into her room, Cagalli closed the door gently, and walking up to him, she suddenly unleashed her anger and hatred like a provoked tigress.
The blonde Orb Princess delievered a tight, stinging slap across Athrun's face, making him stagger backwards slightly, his hand touching his cheek. Man, her slaps hurt, and a great deal too.
"You shithole! Why did you lie to me! And lie about something so severe at that! Little did I know that I was in fact housing a murderer, whose victim was me! You claim you love me, and Miss Lacus is backing you up with all her sweet words! But how will I know that you're not just feigning it all!" screamed Cagalli, tears rolling uncontrollably from her honey-brown eyes.
Watching her scream and holler at him in such a devastated state sent a pang of guilt and hurt across Athrun's chest. His own eyes were swimming with tears as the pain and sensation of her slap still lingered on his left cheek. Cagalli was crying so bitterly, letting her emotions get the better of her as she wept tears of anguish and hurt.
"Cagalli, listen to me!" said Athrun desperately, as he watched Cagalli scream and cry out as she cried and cried uncontrollably.
"NO! I will NOT listen to you! Why don't YOU listen to ME for once! I trusted you fully, and yet, you let me down! I HATE men! They're all let downs, who will lie so low down just to get what they want!" hollered Cagalli, her breathing hard and deep.
Athrun fell to his knees, tears leaking silently from his eyes as he listened to her shout and scream at him, venting out all her anger and frustrations on him. He felt like such a fool, but of course, he was a fool. He was such a useless bum, who couldn't even prove his love to the girl he loved most, to be true.
"I HATE guys! I HATE you! I HATE what you did to and for me! I DETEST everything about you, your guts, your actions, your feelings! And last of all, I HATE MYSELF FOR SCREAMING AT YOU NOW!" screamed Cagalli, her voice going hoarse before she herself fell to sit on the floor, and crashing her head into Athrun's shoulder.
"Why is my love life so messed up! I start having feelings for some stupid guy named, Kira Yamato, and in the end he turns out to be my twin brother! Now, I've fallen in love with some jerk who was actually out to assassinate me!" wept Cagalli, snivelling loudly, and burying her head deeper into Athrun's shoulder, as she snuggled deeper into his embrace.
"Cagalli... I really do love you. I'm sorry for causing you so much pain! Slap me all you like, but I'll say this only once and mean it, I'll never betray you. I love you, I really do... I don't think I could survive a night without you." said Athrun, his tears falling from his eyes onto Cagalli's blonde hair. "I'd be so cold at night without your touch. I'd die on the inside without your love,"
The duo remained on the floor, canoodling and crying their eyes out, as each other tried to comfort and ease each other's pain. There was nothing to hide now, the truth was out, and Cagalli and Athrun knew that nothing would seperate them now.
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"Doctor, how is she?" asked Miriallia, jumping to her feet the moment Dr. Ishida exitted the medical unit and removed his surgical mask. His face held a worried and tired expression as he faced the bunch of teenagers eagerly waiting for news in the waiting area.
"To be truthful, I don't know. The bullet penetrated her right abdomen, and it punctured a bit of her intestines, and my medical team and I have stitched her up, but I'm afraid she's lost a considerable amount of blood. Someone will have to donate some blood to her, or she might not pull through the night. However, the blood donor has to be a co-ordinator, so as not to mix the different type of genes, which could cause further chaos." explained Dr. Ishida, his expression saddening slightly.
Just then, Athrun and Cagalli swerved round the corner, joining their friends. Cagalli's face was blotched, and it was prety obvious that she had been crying, while Athrun's tear-stains seemed to have cleared up.
"Very well then, all of us here who are co-ordinators will go for a bloodtest to see whose bloodtype matches Miss Kyo's." said Lacus firmly, turning to look from Yzak to Athrun.
The others agreed without further ado and followed Dr. Ishida off to get their blood samples collected and processed, leaving Cagalli and Miriallia standing outside the medical unit.
"D'you think we should go in?" asked Miriallia, turning to Cagalli before looking at the entrance of the medical unit. There was a sign on the entrance that said, "For visitors and medical staff only."
Cagalli nodded at Miriallia before slowly pushing the medical unit door open. The unit for surprisingly small, and it only contained five beds, one on which lay a limp and motionless Kyo. Her usually pink tinted cheeks were now pale and she seemed to have lost some weight.
The redheaded girl was unconscious and Cagalli had somewhere before that if she remained in this state for too long, she could become comatose and turn into a vegetable.
"Kyo, please wake up. Who's going to be my bodyguard now? I'm really grateful to you for saving my life earlier, though I regret not having been there for you when you were wounded." whispered Cagalli, tears welling up in her honey-brown orbs once more.
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Meanwhile in the medical laboratory, a problem had emerged, involving none other than Dearka. It turned out that the tanned skinned young man seemed to have a phobia of needles, and Athrun and Yzak were now trying to coax him to sitting still while his blood sample was taken.
Lacus and Kira had gone to the Orb management to apply for rooms for Lacus herself, Yzak and Dearka while they stayed at Orb, and were hoping that their request would be granted.
"Oh sit down, you wimp! It's just a needle!" exclaimed Yzak, trying to pin Dearka into the chair while the nurse tried to draw some blood from his arm.
"YEEEEAAARGH! What if my bloodtype matches? They'll stick this needle ito my arm connected to this long tube, right? And it'll suck out my blood, right? NOOOOOOO!" squealed Dearka, as he felt the needle pierce his skin and draw his blood out into the syringe.
In a matter of seconds, it was all over and Dearka had hopped out of his chair and was now running all the way back to the waiting area, Athrun and Yzak following after. Luckily, Athrun and Yzak had had their blood samples taken already, and so were free to chase after their blonde friend.
They found Dearka sitting patiently, however, still looking shaken, in the waiting area outside the medical unit. Athrun breathed in deeply before pushing open the door of the unit, and entering, Dearka and Yzak hurrying along behind him, especially Dearka, who seemed to think that if he was found alone, the doctor or nurse might give him more jabs.
"You! It's all your fault! Why'd you have to fire the gun! What if Kyo goes into a coma and doesn't come around! She was such a delightful and jovial girl! Even if she always put on a bold and brave front, she had a soft side of her, and she was really sweet at times!" bellowed Miriallia, attempting to lunge at Yzak, who took a step back in surprise at her outburst.
"Mirre, brace up, will you? Beating this asshole up or killing him won't reverse the way things are! All we can do now is hope for the best, and prepare for the worst." said Cagalli, restraining Miriallia as the auburn-haired girl struggled to be set free.
"Why you..." hissed Yzak, raising a fist at Cagalli but found himself being stopped by Dearka and Athrun, who had apparently moved in front of Cagalli to shield her from Yzak.
"Yzak, cool it! You've already injured one girl, and you still owe her an apology! Are you also going to hurt Cagalli, and not only owe her an apology, but owe me one too?" questioned Athrun, glaring sternly at his platinum blonde friend who just grunted and folded his arms, before looking away.
"Kyo, you have to wake up. We're going to miss your husky voice and those fierce stares you gave to any guy who tried to touch you." said Cagalli, looking down at her unconscious friend, before laughing slightly, recalling a memory. "It was so hilarious that day when you told Miriallia why you wouldn't wear dresses, and that she could have all of your dresses if she liked."
The remainder of the day passed slowly, each of them carrying heavy hearts and anxious expressions. It seemed like the only thing to be joyful about that day, was that Yzak, Dearka and Lacus had been granted permission to stay at Orb, otherwise, the situation was full of anxiety.
Yzak and Dearka shared a suite while Lacus got a room to herself, after all, she was a girl, and a girl wouldn't be very comfortable sharing a room with two guys, would she?
Lying down on his bed, Yzak was plagued with thoughts of Kyo, and no matter how annoying he found them, he simply couldn't obliterate them from his conscience. For example, he couldn't forget her voice and what she had said to him at the beach that morning,"Shut up, you asshole! Just carry on with what you want to say, and stop beating round the bush! Besides, you don't look that herculean yourself."
Shaking his head roughly he turned over onto his side, and closing his eyes tight. Her voice, it kept ringing in his head, clearly he had a guilty conscience, and it seemed that those images and thoughts of her wouldn't go away, unless he apologised to her.
However, the platinum blonde was plagued with yet another problem, a decision. It was a decision he had to make about whether he should apologise to her or not? Well, of course, he SHOULD apologise to her, but it was the fact that he didn't want to.
That was Yzak Jule's big problem, he never wanted to apologise to anyone or be wronged. He was this aggressive young man, who never seemed to be able to find a girlfriend, either because he scared all of the girls he met, or gave them a bad first impression of him.
Finally, looking at the little alarm clock on the bedside table, which read 2.30a.m, he slowly got out of bed, and put on a jacket since he was wearing track pants, as he never really liked the idea of going anywhere in a shirt.
It was early in the morning and Yzak doubted if anyone would be visiting her at this hour, although if anyone happened to be there, his choice would be simple. Turn around and go back to bed.
Slowly pushing open the medical unit door, he was relieved to find that there was not a soul in sight, however, he had to muster all the courage he had and swallow all his pride just to sit down on the chair next to her bed.
Kyo's back length long hair was tucked neatly beneath her back, and her layered fringe was also tucked neatly behind her ears. He remembered clearly the tint of pink in her cheeks when he first met her on the beach, but now her skin was just fair and pale.
She was still alive of course, but barely. The blood samples would be out in hours to come, and if there was a match with Kyo's bloodtype there would be a chance that she would survive. The doctor had already stated that she might not make it through the night, and although Yzak was usually rather heartless, something in his mind told him he didn't want that to happen.
Taking a deep breath, he looked up at her. "Look, I'm sorry. I hope you can hear me because I don't want to apologise to you again."
Yzak wasn't expecting any response from Kyo since she was unconscious, but somehow, somethign in his heart seemed to be missing, as though there was a hole in it.
"Hey, you've got to wake up, or your friends will stone me to death." hissed Yzak, his voice still sounding rather normal and unmoved. However, still feeling rather guilty, he flared his nostrils in annoyance.
"Please wake up, it's not usual for me to apologise to someone, and you'd better be grateful I'm apologising to you. You have to come around, please." said Yzak, his voice cracking up a little as he watched her lie there, motionless.
Something made him take her hand in his own, and it wasn't long before he realised how cold her hand was, and for some reason he just felt an instinct to want to warm her up.
A/N There you go, another chappie! I know many of you might've skipped the last part, unless you're really die hard Yzak fans, which there aren't many out there. And sorry if Yzak was a little OOC, I mean if you want to make him fall in love, he has to get mushy sometimes, you know what I mean?Anyway, sorry for typo errors, and pls review!
In the next chapter: Kira has a little talk with Lacus, and she tells him about her past, and Kira is relieved to hear that even though Athrun is her fiance, it is an arranged engagement. Meanwhile, Dearka finds Miriallia crying in the waiting area, worried sick for Kyo, and he can't help but comfort her. Also, Athrun gives something to Cagalli as a symbol of his love, what is it? And will Kyo open her eyes to see the pearly gates of heaven, or will she open her eyes to see Yzak sitting by her bed?