Chapter 12 A Shattered Heart
A/N Dear me, this chapter's going to have plenty of chaos and a whole lot of confusions! But don't worry, everything will come out clear in the end. Right now, I'm just worried I might not be able to finish this fanfic by the end of December. So maybe I'll update every 3 or 4 days. Oh yes, mind you the Yzak&Kyo part later on isn't just a kiss like I said so in my last chappie, and it gets a lot hornier than that, so those who don't like the extra fluff, pls don't read it. Happy reading!
"Cagalli, you sure you don't want to go back and catch some sleep?" asked Kira, placing a warm hand on his sister's shaking shoulder. The blonde girl had been sitting by Athrun's bed in the exact same position for the past several hours, and she seemed to ignoring the others' advice and questions as well.
"Kira, that question's a stupid one. You know very well how much Cagalli loves Athrun, she feels incomplete without him. So obviously she'd rather stay here." said Kyo knowingly, looking at Kira and raising an eyebrow questioningly.
"At least I bothered to ask," spat Kira, snaking an arm around Lacus's waist and kissing her passionately on the head. Clearly the pink-headed girl was close to exhaustion, her eyelids were heavy and her brain just felt like shutting down. However, there was a tint of worry in her eyes, and she snuggled up to Kira, as he put his arms around her.
"Good night, Lacus and I will go off first, I'm sure she's tired and so am I, but we'll keep Athrun in our prayers, rest assured." said Kira, turning around and strolling with Lacus out of the medical unit.
Yzak's gaze followed them as they went, and when the unit door swung shut he shook his head. "He doesn't sound too convincing to me. For all you know they could just bloody go to sleep without worrying at all."
"Yzak! Don't be so negative about them will you? I'm sure you don't want others to think that way of you! Besides, Lacus was definitely worried, and she was tired as well. As for Kira, I won't say anything about him, but he does care for Cagalli." Miriallia ticked Yzak off, as she knelt down beside Cagalli and began whispering little words.
"He must wake up! I don't want to lose him! He's my everything, he's my life!" said Cagalli, her voice cracking up as Miriallia helped her into a nearby chair, her gaze still not lifting away from Athrun. The bout of nausea was still lingering with Cagalli, and no matter how much she had actually tried to vomit a few times before, nothing came of it.
"Cagalli, I'm sure he'll wake up. Athrun's in the eyes of God, and I'm sure God won't let him die." (A/N: Sorry, I'm a strong catholic, haha.) said Kyo knowingly, looking sadly at Cagalli who was crying uncontrollably once more as she looked down at her prince charming, who was now as limp as wet paper. "If it makes you feel better, rest your head on his chest and listen to his heartbeat. I did that when I was 5, while my mother was hospitalised for Cholera. However, she... she passed away the next day."
Kyo's voice trembled slightly at her last few words, but she got a hold on herself and braced up. She was engulfed in the warm embrace of Yzak, as he propped her up on his lap, while he was sitting on the side of her bed.
"Ok my dears, it's nearly midnight, bedtime! And do draw the curtains around your bed for privacy, it doesn't matter if you're all friends, it's a rule in the unit." said the nurse, drawing the curtains around Athrun's bed, and around Kyo's bed.
Even though the curtains were drawn, Cagalli and Miriallia stayed by Athrun's side, and it was the same with Yzak, who had been accompanying Kyo every single night.
The lights were out within seconds, and the entire unit was engulfed in pitch black darkness. Yzak settled into the armchair by Kyo's bed and dozed off within minutes. The redheaded girl watched as her platinum blonde boyfriend snoozed contentedly in the armchair, not even the slightest noise disturbed him.
Kyo pulled the covers up onto her stomach, before resting her head on her pillow and closing her eyes. However, he couldn't seem to sleep, she had a distinct feeling that something wasn't right.
The attractive redhead remained like this for the next hour or to, tossing and turning over again and again, trying to ignore the twitching feeling in her stomach. Something was either not right now, or something bad was going to happen, she was sure of it.
"No... mother... don't leave me... mother." Yzak murmured, getting Kyo's full attention as she turned over to face him in the darkness. It was a mere few seocnds before the young Jule's face screwed up again, "Kyo! No... no... Kyo! Don't go! Kyo... I love you... don't go... KYO!"
The young Jule was close to screaming already, and his frame was shaking so violently it scared Kyo. In addition, the platinum blonde had gripped the armchair so hard, the wooden arm of the chair cracked.
Unsure of what to do, Kyo shook Yzak awake, her red hair falling over his face. "Yzak! Wake up... it's alright! I'm here, I'm not going anywhere." she said, her fair hands stroking his face.
The young Jule awoke with a start, seeing nothing else but the aqua blue eyes of Kyo, staring at him in the darkness. Kyo reached over in the dark and turned on the night lamp, casting a warm atmosphere around them.
"What's wrong? You were having such a violent nightmare, you were talking too, well actually, more like shouting." said Kyo, pulling the curtains aside slightly to see if they had disturbed, Cagalli, Miriallia or Athrun.
Yzak let his head loll backward on the armchair, his breathing deep and heavy the sides of his face bathed in his sweat. Kyo grabbed a few wetwipes from her bedside table and began wiping Yzak's face and neck, before throwing them into the bin.
"You heard everything I said didn't you?" asked Yzak, his voice not sounding as stern and firm as it had always been. For once it sounded more like a child's, not as high-pitched of course, but definitely more innocent and frightened.
"Yes, as a matter of fact, I did. But it's all over, it's alright. I'm here for you," whispered Kyo, sitting facing him on his lap so that her legs had to go through and under the arms of the armchair.
"I'm alive and well, and so is your mother." said Kyo, and immediately Yzak began trembling all over again, unable to speak properly. "Wow, wow, Yzak. Relax, it's ok. Hush now, you're behaving like a lost kitten. Looks like there is a softer side to you after all."
Yzak let Kyo's skilled hands run all over his face, carressing his cheeks and forehead, sometimes even travelling down the side of his head and caressing him behind the ears.
"You don't have to say you love me, because I know you do, and nothing will change the fact that I love you too." said Kyo, looking deep into his deep blue eyes, willing him to just do the same before they lost themselves within each other.
After what seemed like an eternity, their lips met with one another's, and although Yzak had always seemed to be the type to actually dislike romancing with girls, it looks like Kyo had just changed his mind about that.
After a good few minutes of kissing the pair broke off, however, continued with their little courtship frenzy. Yzak had moved on to Kyo's neck, and was kissing, biting and licking her the entire way.
Although the young Jule knew very well he was taking the situation a bit far, and that he should stop in case everything he and Kyo were doing would get him aroused, Kyo didn't seem to mind at all, and she was whimpering every now and then.
"Yzak... we shouldn't be... be doing this..." said Kyo, her head thrown backwards as Yzak was still engrossed with her neck and chin, his hands slowly moving up from her knees to her thighs, slipping under her nightgown.
"Can't help it, Kyo, I want to eat you alive, and I'm going to eat you tonight." snarled Yzak, giving her neck one last lick before picking her up and placing her a little roughly on the bed, before getting on top of her himself. Kyo's hand flicked the switch on the night lamp and it switched off.
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The next morning 7.15 a.m.
"Kyo, Yzak? Are you awake? the nurse says we can open the curtains now. Hello? Kyo?" called Miriallia from outside the curtains, Kira, Lacus and Dearka standing eagerly behind her.
Apparently, Miriallia had heard strange noises coming from behind Kyo's curtain the night before, and she swore she'd heard moans and whimpers as well. After having told the others, they were all eager to see if their assumptions were true about the pair, maybe Yzak had manged to bed his girlfriend.
Of course, Lacus beoing kindhearted and rather considerate, was telling the others not to poke their noses into other people's privacy, however, did the others listen? Obviously NOT.
"Oh, just open it!" said Dearja impatiently, pulling back the curtains roughly, before his jaw touched the floor at the sight. There on the bed, was Yzak, lying on top of Kyo, his shirt half open, and Dearka assumed Kyo was wearing just her undergarments, as her nightgown was thrown aside on the floor.
"Goodness, they've got to be dead tired to not be able to hear us calling them." said Kira, looking half appalled at the sight.
"Duh, I mean after what they were doing last night, they're probably weared out of all their energy reserves as well. I wonder if any of her bones are broken, I mean with Yzak lying on her, she's probably flattened like a pancake!" laughed Dearka, clamping his hand over his mouth only when he realised that Yzak and Kyo were beginning to stir.
Yzak's eyes fluttered open and when he saw his entire bunch of friends staring wide-eyed at him, his body started trembling once more, he opened his mouth and was about to holler when Kyo clamped her hand over his mouth, and used her free hand to stroke him under the blanket to relax him.
Suddenly Dr. Ishida swerved into view, and dropped the stack of files he was holding when his gaze fell upon his female patient and her boyfriend. "Why... never in my life have I seen something like this!"
Dearka was laughing about the incident the entire morning, and Kira couldn't help but join in, to Lacus's dismay, and Miriallia was just shaking her head about it and accompanying Cagalli in talking to Athrun.
As for Kyo and Yzak, Dr. Ishida had told Kyo that she was well enough to be allowed outside the unit during the day, since she was able to pull off such an audaciously vigorous act with Yzak, however, she would have to come back and stay in the unit at night for further monitoring before she could be fully discharged. In addition, Kyo and Yzak were told to follow Dr. Ishida o his office where he would give the duo a lesson on the pros and cons of pre-marital sex.
Meanwhile, Lord Uzumi entered the medical unit, walking briskly towards Cagalli. "Cagalli, could I have a word with you in my office?"
"I don't want to leave Athrun..." replied Cagalli, shaking her head slowly, and still not taking her gaze off her blue-haired boyfriend. Cagalli's pale and trembling hands were clutching tightly onto Athrun's wrist, refusing to loosen their grip.
"Cagalli, go on. Athrun's in good hands, we'll be watching over him." said Miriallia encouragingly and reassuringly, patting Cagalli lightly on the shoulder, in an attempt to persuade the blodne Orb Princess to spend some quality time with her father.
"I don't want to lose him. My life would be nothing without Athrun," said Cagalli stonedly, still looking longingly down at the blue-haired co-ordinator, who still looked ever so handsome despite his motionless state.
"You mind losing Mr. Athrun, but you wouldn't mind losing your father if he was in such a state, eh?" said Lord Uzumi, sounding kind of hurt that Cagalli would rather accompany her unconscious boyfriend, than just sacrifice a mere ten minutes to talk to him.
"Cagalli, Lord Uzumi's right. Nothing's going to happen to Athrun while you're gone, we assure you that everything will be fine. I'm sure Lord Uzumi has may important things to tell you, so run along now, Cagalli." said Lacus knowingly, looking kindly down at the blonde, who looked on the verge of tears.
"You sure everything will be ok?" questioned Cagalli, looking from Miriallia to Kira, her eyes shining with pearly tears.
"Come on, don't be silly! Athrun's our friend too, d'you think we'd let anything untoward happen to him?" asked Kira bluntly, trying to convince his sister to go along with the Lion of Orb for a while.
"I'll go... but only for a while..." said Cagalli, walking slowly up to her adoptive father and following him out of the ward.
"Oh right, I nearly forgot. I've got to mend my bedroom cabinet, but I would need a hand though." said Kira, scratching his head and thinking hard.
"I'll help. I've always had a knack for fixing stuff, but of course, my skill at that can never surpass Athrun's. That guy can build anything, he made a robotic bird once, but I think he discarded it." said Dearka, smiling warmly at Kira, who trailed out of the ward, leading them both to his room, leaving Miriallia and Lacus standing by Athrun's bed.
"Ladies, would you mind clearing the unit for a while? We need to tend to this patient," said a kind nurse, gesturing toward Athrun and hurrying the two girls out of the medical unit.
"Since we're here and we've got nothing to do, how about we go for breakfast? My stomach could use with some work." suggested Miriallia, looking eagerly at Lacus, who gave the auburn-haired girl's question some thought before nodding in reply.
The two girls headed down to Orb's basement cafeteria, enjoying the aroma of cooking food, pastries and coffee. They came to a halt before the pastries stall, admiring all the cute and delicious looking pastries, puffs and cakes.
"Ooh, you should really try their Strawberry Shortcake, it's simply scrumptous!" said Lacus, ordering one for herself, and a simple smoothie that was the day's special.
It wasn't long before Miriallia dittoed Lacus's order for herself, and joined the sweet pink-headed girl at a nearby table. Lacus had already begun tucking in to her slice of Strawberry Shortcake, and was savouring the taste in her mouth.
"Things have begun really complicated lately. I've never really understood how everything actually began. First Athrun popped up, claiming his name was Alex Dino, then you, Dearka and Lacus come along, and Kyo gets shot. Now Athrun's unconscious, and we're all back to square one, like when we were worrying for Kyo." sighed Miriallia, taking a sip of her smoothie.
"Well, it's really not that complicated if you understood just the beginning." replied Lacus, swallowing ehr first mouthful of the savoury cake and looking up at Miriallia, who seemed eager to listen. "Athrun's father is the Chairman of PLANTs, Patrick Zala. So Chairman Zala summoned Athrun one day and sent him here to Orb, on a mission involving the assassination of the Orb Princess, who is of course, Cagalli. However, while Athrun was here, it seems that it only took a week to make him and Cagalli fall head over heels in love with one another."
Lacus took a quick sip of her own smoothie before continuing with her long, though not as complicated as it sounds, explanation. "Then, I found out from one of the PLANTs officials about Athrun's little mission, in fact I had sent him off that very day he left PLANTs. Knowing the naked truth, I set out to stop Athrun along with Dearka and Yzak, who actually only followed me to protect me. And then, I met the bunch of you, and then it continues from here."
"So you, Dearka and Yzak have been good all along!" said Miriallia, taking a large bite out of her cake, which would have shocked anyone who had seen her, as I don't think anyone would've expected a dainty girl to take such a large and unladylike bite out of her food.
"Of course? Have we done anything bad that was unworthy of your trust?" said Lacus smartly, winking playfully at Miriallia and smiling toothily, before continuing with her speech. "Besides, if we hadn't come along, would you have met Mr. Dearka Elthman? Who is now the hearthrob of your life?"
"Quit with the teasing, I haven't even had a chance to go out with him yet. Besides, you yourself seems to get along well with Kira. I've noticed a change in his behaviour ever since you came along. He's not so annoying and immature anymore," retaliated Miriallia, her cheeks still red from Lacus's teasing.
"Oh yes, I've been meaning to ask you this, I hope you're ok with it though." said Miriallia uneasily, clearing her throat and beginning on a question to clear her doubts. "Isn't Athrun your fiance? I mean don't you mind being him being with Cagalli?"
"I've been asked that Kira as well." smiled Lacus, finishing off the last bit of her cake and drinking her smoothie. "My relationship with Athrun is in the path now. It was all arranged anyway, we were engaged when we were 14, two years ago. Just then, I didn't really care much, all I knew was that my father was attaching me to some son of the Chairman of PLANTs. Besides, Athrun never really came to see me much, he was always busy at ZAFT or with assignments given to him by his father. However, I was always delighted whenever he came. To be truthful, the both of us were merely just very good friends, nothing more than that. We'd never done anything more than kissing each other on the cheek."
"So the both of you are clean through with each other? I mean now that Athrun is with Cagalli, and you seem to be getting along quite well with Kira." said Miriallia, drinking up her smoothie as though she had never had any fluid for the past several days.
"Yeah, I guess so." replied Lacus, finishing off ehr smoothie as well. "Since we're both done, how about heading back to the medical unit? What say you?"
"Sounds like a brilliant idea," answered Miriallia, getting up and tucking the cafeteria chair back udner the table and strolling off alongside Lacus.
Meanwhile, up outside the medical unit, a little din was going on.
"Lacus! What're you doing? Let us in, my purse is in there! Besides, I'm due for a checkup!" yelled Kyo hotly, banging on the window of the medical unit. Not only was she angry that Lacus wasn't letting Yzak and Kyo into the unit, what's more, Athrun was awake!
"What the hell is wrong with her? Athrun may be her fiance, but I thought she had broken off with him! Besides, even if she hasn't broken off completely with him, there's no reason she should hog him to herself! We're his friends too, you know?" exclaimed Yzak heatedly, banging on the medical unit door as well, which was locked.
"Goodness! Have you lost your mind? Tell me you're not going to let anyone in there! When Cagalli returns and sees that Athrun is awake, she'll throw a fit if you don't let her in!" shouted Kyo loudly, banging even harder on the window of the unit, the window panes rattling.
"What on Earth and on PLANTs is going on here? Thw two of you are shouting like mad hooligans, we could hear you two corridors away!" exclaimed Kira, swerving around the corner into view with Dearka, who looked just as confused and eager to know what was going on.
"You won't believe it! That pink-haired girl, you call sweet, won't let anyone inside the medical unit! And look! Athrun's awake too! She's gone nuts I tell you, NUTS!" hollered Kyo, feeling as if she was going to throw a tantrum and burst into flames.
Kira peeped into the medical unit and sure enough, there was Lacus, standing by Athrun's bed and talking to him, not paying any attention to the racket that was going on outside.
"Lacus! Let us in, please? We want to see Athrun too, you know? You'd better cut this act before Cagalli comes or you'll be dead meat when she finds out!" said Kira loudly, hoping that his little girlfriend would respond.
To no avail, Lacus kept her back turned to the bunch of them yelling outside, focusing on talking to Athrun.
"My gosh! I'm going deaf? What in the world are you people doing?" asked Miriallia, coming around the corner, Lacus alongisde her, and behind them, was Cagalli, whose cheeks were tear-stained.
"Miriallia, Lacus, Cagalli! Good thing you're here, Lacus won't... hang on a sec. How did you get out here?" asked Kyo stunned, looking at Lacus Clyne standing before her with the auburn and blonde haired girls.
"Yeah, this is confusing. How can you be in there, and out here all at once?" asked Dearka, looking from inside the ward to the corridor outside, oevr and over again.
"What in the world?" said Miriallia, grabbing her two friends and walking up to the medical unit window and staring in for herself, sure enough a girl, looking just like a cloned version of Lacus, stood there talking to a conscious Athrun!
"Athrun! ATHRUN!" screamed Cagalli, pressing her face to the medical unit window, tears flowing down her cheeks continuously. The blodne girl with an overwhelming urge to get into the unit, and throw her arms around her blue-haired prince charming, however, to her horror, when she tried pushing open the unit door, she foudn that it was locked.
"No... NO! Athrun!" screamed Cagalli, banging on the unit door and crying uncontrollably, as her efforts to get into the medical unit failed hopelessly.
"Whoever you are in there! You're a BLOODY BIMBO! You are definitely NOT Lacus Clyne! Now let us all in or we'll break the door down!" bellowed Yzak through the window glass, his breath frosting the glass up.
"That's it, you asked for it! Move aside Cagalli, we'll help you in. Altogether on the count of 3!" yelled Dearka in unison with Yzak's plan, "1, 2, 3! YEEEAAARGH!"
With a mighty kick, Dearka, Yzak and Kira rammed through medical unit door, the door breaking off its hinges and falling with a crash into the medical unit.
Everyone rushed into the unit like a stampede, all eager to see Athrun and talk to him. However, the barbaric frenzy stopped when Lacus spoke.
"Mia Campbell, what are you doing here?" asked Lacus, facing what looked like a duplicate of her. Lacus's expression was stern, and she didn't look at all pleased with what was going on.
The girl turned around and smiled, "Visiting Athrun of course. I came earlier with Murrue Ramius and Andrew Wattfeld."
"You know her? Are the two of you twins or something?" asked Miriallia, looking from Lacus to mia Campbell, who was still smiling innocently.
"No, we're not. She's one of my fans, a big fan I should say." said Lacus, her expression only gorwing sterner by the second. "Mia's sort of a crazy fangirl, crazy till she even tries to impersonate me."
"Mia's not crazy," said a voice from behind the bunch of teenagers. Athrun had spoken, and all eyes were on him now. "She told me everything about you guys."
"Oh, Athrun! I thought I'd lost you!" screamed Cagalli, throwing her arms around Athrun, and kissing him on the cheek, tears flowing silently from her her honey-brown orbs.
"Get away from me, you bitch!" yelled Athrun, roughly pushing Cagalli away and delivering a stinging slap across her left cheek. "You're a bloody prostitute! And the rest of you are just crap! I can't belive you were actually my friends before! Since I can't remember anything, it's an oppurtunity to start afresh."
Cagalli had fallen backwards onto the floor, and was now looking horrorstruck clutching her stinging cheek. Some of her tender skin had peeled off, and her skin looked rather inflamed now.
"Athrun! What're you talking about? What prostitute what crap, and why did you slap your girlfriend!" exclaimed, Dearka staring shocked at his blue-haired co-ordinator friends.
"Good lord! She was my girlfriend?" asked Athrun, staring disgustedly at Cagalli, and making a face. "Good thing life gave me a chance. Now I can make new and better friends, can't believe I was actually good friends with a heap of crap."
Out of the blue, Cagalli gave a strangled cry of anguish, ebfore reaching for a nearby glass teapot and smashing it against the floor, before grabbing a shard of glass and attempting to slit her wrist.
Kira dived forward and stopped his sister, holding her hand firmly away from her body or her other arm.
"I DON'T WANT TO LIVE ANYMORE!" screamed Cagalli, writhing about in Kira's arms, and feeling jets of hurt and pain shoot through her chest. The bout of nausea within her was getting worse and she felt as if her intestines were tying themselves into doubled knots.
"You big fat liar! You vixen! What've you been telling Athrun since he woke up! Dr. Ishida said that whatever you tell him for the first few moments are crucial! Have you been telling him pure lies!" hollered Kyo, for the first time unleashing the monster within her and attempting to lunge out at Mia, if not for Miriallia and Yzak restraining her.
"Mia has never lied to me! She's incredibly sweet, and she was the only one around when I woke up!" shouted Athrun angrily, clutching on to Mia's forearm, the moment she was within his reach.
Cagalli's heart seemed to have shattered like thin and fragile glass, and the shards of her broken heart were like poking her from within. Athrun had slapped her and called her both a bitch and a prostitute.
Seeing him in a motionless and helpless state was already heartbreaking enough, but now that he was awake, and she wanted so much to hold him and cradle him in her arms, that love that they once shared so deep had now been vanquished.
"Cagalli! CAGALLI! GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF!" yelled Kira, hoisting his squirming and screaming sister into his arms bridal style and jogging with her out of the medical unit, the otehrs all trailing along behind.
Kira burst into his own room andclutched a protesting and screaming Cagalli close to him, so she wouldn't wriggle free and fall to the floor.
"SOMEONE GO INTO THE BATHROOM AND FILL THE BATHTUB WITH COLD WATER! NOW! HURRY! I DON'T THINK I CAN HOLD HER FOR MUCH LONGER!" yelled Kira, struggling to keep Cagalli in his arms, who was screaming her voice hoarse and crying loudly, and sheding her tears of pure heartbreak and anguish.
Lacus and Miriallia hurried into the bathroom and did as Kira had instructed, although they really didn't know what Kira had in mind with the bathtub of cold water, which was icy cold.
"The tub's ready! Now what exactly are you going to do?" asked Lacus darting out of the bathroom with Miriallia and making way from Kira, who squeezed his way in.
With a big splash, Kira dropped Cagalli inside the tub of ice-cold water. The blonde Orb Princess remained submerged in the temperate water for a number of seconds, struggling wildly, before she surfacerd spluttering, though not screaming anymore.
Cagalli sat up in the bathtub and threw her arms around Kira's waist, so as not to let herself slip underwater again.
"Looks like you still treasure your life, huh?" asked Kira, looking down at his sister, who was shaking madly from the temperature of the water. Cagalli's eyes grew wide for a moment before, she began screaming again.
Kira who didn't seem at all shocked by her reaction, forcefully pushed his sister back underwater again before hoisting back out of the tub and into his arms once more. Cagalli clung on to Kira's neck, shivering all over, tears rolling down her cheeks and mixing with the droplets of tubwater on her face.
"What did you do that to her for?" asked Lacus, who looked absolutely appalled by Kira's sudden, rough and cruel actions toward his sister, who was now sitting on the floor udner Miriallia's care.
The auburn-haired girl had grabbed a towel and was now drying Cagalli's hair, and whispering soothing words to her. The Orb Princess sneezed a couple of times, before bursting into tears once more, although she wasn't struggling or screaming anymore.
"Think of me as cruel, I know, bullying her like that. But don't forget I grew up with her, I know what her tantrums or extreme behaviours are like, and what you just witnessed was one of her extreme behaviours." explained kira sighing, and looking sadly at Cagalli, regretting what he had just done.
"When she was young, she used to throw massive tantrums, and she would never cool down. Kisaka would throw her into a tub of cold water, and she would surface spluttering and remaining silent, clutching on to anything that was nearest to her. Cagalli never knew how to swim, which meant she had a constant phobia of water. If I hadn't done what I had just done, she would have been screaming till she conked out." sighed Kira, walking toward his sister and crouching down in front of her, looking into those heartbroken and teary eyes of hers.
Cagalli's cheeks were flushed, and her eyes held an expression of extreme heartbreak. She had loved him so dearly, with all her heart and soul, but Athrun had rejected her so forcefully and clearly just minutes before.
The blonde Orb Princess had been overjoyed when she had seen him awake when she was outside the medical unit. However, that happiness was only to be shattered the moment she came in touch with him again.
"Cagalli, I hate to see you this way. What happened has been a big blow to you. You're probably scarred for life," said Kira, looking sorrily at his sister, who had constant streams of tears rolling down her cheeks, as she beared with the pain of heartbreak and hurt.
The patches of skin on Cagalli's left cheek where Athrun's hand hit her, were now looking rather raw and sore. Kira could imagine the pain she had felt not only on her cheek when he had shouted at her and slapped her, but in her heart as well.
A wet and cold Cagalli rammed herself into Kira, crying bitterly once more, as she snuggled up to her brother, enjoying the warmth his body was emitting. Kira kissed Cagalli's head tenderly, looking up at Lacus whose eyes were filled with tears.
Later in the day, Kyo had gone for her checkup, and Dr. Ishida had declared her healthy and fully recovered. The news didn't make Kyo ecstatic, as her heart was overcome with grief for Cagalli.
Dr. Ishida had let Yzak and Kyo off for what they did during the night with nothing else but a warning, as the duo had claimed they hadn't gone any further than heavy petting, and Dr. Ishida did a check on Kyo and found that they had indeed been telling the truth.
For the rest of the day, everyone avoided the corridor leading to the medical unit, as things had changed so drastically, that Athrun could barely even be called their friend.
Cagalli had been busy crying her eyes out and simply refused to eat anything. The others accompanied her in her room, trying desperately to console her. However, nothing they did, could ease the pain the blonde girl felt in her heart.
A/N Ok, I know this chapter was a little extreme, but nonetheless it's all in the plot! And sorry, I did say there would be three enw characters, right? Well there are, they're Murrue, Andrew and Mia, but sorry I couldn't put anything in about Murrue and Andrew, there will be some of them in the next chapter! Sorry for typo errors and pls review!
In the next chapter: Murrue and Andrew are saddened and horrified about what happened to Cagalli because of Mia Campbell, and regret allowing her to come along with them. Cagalli grieves continuously over Athrun, and indulges in self-mutiliation. Miriallia cries again over Cagalli, and is consoled by Dearka. Kyo, Yzak, Dearka, Kira and Miriallia head down to the medical unit to tick Mia off, only to find that Athrun is fiercely protective of her. Also, Cagalli refuses to give up loving Athrun because of one thing, what is it?