Chapter 18 Anger & Suspense
A/N: Ok, sorry I took kind of long to update, as I'm sure most of you know that I just migrated to New Zealand. Well, you can all be at ease now as this is yet another chappie! Anyway, I've been estimating a little and I think this fanfic is going to be around 20 chapters or more, I don't think it'll cross the 30 chapter mark, hehe. But do not despair though, I have plans for another Athrun&Cagalli fanfic, I'll let you know the details in due time. Anyway, happy reading!
"I'm sorry, Mr. Jule, but Dr. Ishida is very busy with another patient at the moment. This young lady will have to wait." Said a nurse, taking off her mask and facing Yzak boldly, knowing that many of the nurses including her would've simply backed off from the platinum blonde, if not given the current situation.
Yzak laid Kyo onto a nearby bed, and slammed his fist into the bedpost, making the bed rattle violently, and also making the nurse before him jump and wince slightly. The platinum blonde knew very well that Kyo would've told him told him to cool down and control himself, but at that point of time, Yzak Jule simply couldn't do that.
There was his girlfriend, Kyo Yamajika, lying unconscious on the bed beside him, and there was a nurse refusing Kyo a doctor. Of course, it wasn't exactly that the nurse was refusing him a doctor, but because the one and only doctor was busy with Athrun Zala.
"Damn you freakin' people! Why can't you leave that bloody asshole of a Zala alone for a moment and come and help someone else who's also desperately in need of medical attention!" hollered Yzak, lunging at the young nurse before him and grabbing her by the collar, before pinning her against the wall on his right.
The nurse gave a glass-shattering scream of terror, flailing her arms and legs in every direction. Dearka sprang into action and pried the young Jule's hands and fingers away from the young woman's collar and neck.
Kyo stirred slightly, her aqua eyes fluttered open slightly. The pain in Kyo's abdomen had worsened, and all that the redheaded girl could hear and see, was a series of muffled sounds and voice, and a blur of shapes and colours.
With a lot of effort and restraint Dearka managed to keep the platinum blonde under control, before releasing him once the copper-tone skinned young man was sure that the young Jule had enough self-control to keep his temper underway.
"This place is run by a bunch of freakin' assholes and airheads! What kind of service is this? What if Kyo's life is at stake, they're just going let her lie there and die!" bellowed Yzak, his voice cracking slightly at the thought of Kyo's frail and limp body lying lifeless in his arms.
"Yzak, get a hold of yourself! Kyo is not going to die, she'll pull through just like last time round!" said Dearka, shifting his gaze to Kyo on the bed, who had fallen unconscious again. However, the words that Dearka was about to say were drowned in his throat at the sight.
The back of Kyo's white pants were stained with blood, and the crimson liquid was leaking and soaking into the bedsheet. Kyo was bleeding internally, and badly too.
Yzak dashed to Kyo's side and took her hand in his own and squeezed it tightly. The attractive girl's hands were icy cold, and her body seemed to be trembling violently as well. All this just sent pang after pang of worry through Yzak.
"Kyo, can you hear me? Please hang in there, I'm begging you! Don't you dare die on me," said Yzak, burying his face into her hand.
Dearka just watched his platinum blonde comrade sit by his beloved, his heart probably aching painfully and filled with despair. The copper-tone skinned young man couldn't help but wonder if Yzak was actually crying or not, as the young Jule was making no sound at all, not even a sniffle or a cough.
Suddenly, Yzak's head shot back up, his breathing become heavy and deep, teeth gritted and eyebrows furrowed furiously. Dearka took a step backward, wondering if Yzak would suddenly spin out of his crouching position and storm off somewhere else, and knocking into him accidentally.
Sure enough, the young Jule catapulted to his feet and turned on heel to face Dearka. The blonde young man, backed away slightly, thinking that the platinum blonde would just take his anger out on him.
"Watch Kyo for me, as much as I don't want to leave her side, I've got to avenge her, I've got someone to deal with." Hissed Yzak, cracking his knuckles menacingly and swerving tightly out of the medical unit.
Before Dearka could question his comrade, the young Jule had already disappeared out of sight, leaving him standing by the bed of his internally bleeding girlfriend. The copper-tone skinned young man whacked himself on the head for not trying to stop Yzak.
The young Jule had sounded vengeful indeed, and Dearka's eyebrow was twitching madly, which gave him a notion that Yzak was after Mia Campbell for revenge, and that was not at all a pleasant thought.
Dearka panicked and began pacing frantically around the room. The nurse whom Yzak had assaulted had just returned to the unit and her face and cheeks were blotchy, indicating that she had been in tears moment before.
The blonde young man couldn't blame the nurse, as Yzak's auscultation had been rather rough, sudden and terrifying. It would've taken a girl with guts like Kyo to actually be able to stand up to Yzak, get attacked and still keep her eyes dry after that.
Dearka came back down to earth, remembering the scenario he was in. Yzak had just stormed out of the ward, leaving Kyo in his care, and that he himself still had no clue what to do next.
Yzak was going after Mia Campbell for revenge, and it was likely that he would do something rash and reckless. Knowing he couldn't leave Kyo alone, Dearka dialed Kira's handphone number and explained everything to the brunette in a jiffy.
"Ok, I'm on my way. Although I really have no clue if I can stop him since Kyo won't be there." Said Kira quickly, hanging up and preparing to move off in search of the young Jule.
"What's up? Who was that and what happened? Has anything untoward happened to Kyo?" asked Lacus curiously, leaving Cagalli's side and walking over to her brunette boyfriend.
Miriallia and Cagalli looked up, both of them displaying anxious and apprehensive expressions on their usually calm and serene facial features, and for some reason, Miriallia seemed to be on the verge of tears.
"Apparently, according to Dearka, Yzak's gone off in search of Mia, probably to avenge Kyo." Said Kira, sighing deeply and tucking his compact handphone back into the pocket of his Bermudas, "Dearka said he's not sure if he's really looking Mia up, but I myself think that the situation is pointing in that direction."
"Even if Yzak did look Mia up, she deserves whatever brutal assaults Yzak might instill upon her. It' because of her and come other parties that we're all in this tangled and sticky mess." Hissed Cagalli, cradling a sleeping Aaron in her arms.
"Cagalli, it's not right to think that way. We must always forgive and forget, even if one's actions seem to be unforgivable." Said Lacus wisely, returning her gaze to Kira once she had finished her statement.
"But if Yzak is going after Mia, you can't stop him by yourself can you, Kira?" said Cagalli, shifting herself into a more comfortable position in her rosewood armchair.
"I'll try," said Kira, trying to hide his uneasiness. Yzak had always been renowned for doing rash and reckless things. In a fit of anger, the platinum blonde could just draw out a dagger and kill someone, then regret his actions in time to come.
"I've got an idea, though it'll take some time. I could head down to the medical unit and replaced Dearka's role in watching after Kyo. Then you and Dearka can go after Yzak. Wouldn't that be better?" suggested Miriallia brightly, looking at Kira and awaiting a reply.
"That's brilliant, let's get a move on then. Lacus stay here with Cagalli," said Kira, accompanying Miriallia out of the bedroom doorway, and displaying his role as an over-protective brother when he told Lacus to stay behind.
Cagalli had been so exhausted after the birth, that she could hardly even walk straight, and therefore, Lacus had offered for Cagalli to remain in her room until after the blonde Orb Princess was ready to move back.
After all, it was good for Cagalli to stay with Lacus, as Lacus seemed to be an expert at baby information, and she could help around with Aaron whenever Cagalli was busy anyway.
It took Miriallia about five minutes to switch places with Dearka down at the medical unit, and by the time Kira and Dearka found Yzak, it was already a tad too late. Although Mia wasn't hurt her room was in an absolute mess, the glass window had shattered, pillows and clothes strewn all over the floor, plus, Mia's dresser-table had shattered.
"You bitch! Always acting like a damsel in distress in front of Athrun, but you show your true colours only when he is not around!" hollered Yzak, aiming a hairbrush at Mia, which Mia dodged and ran to the other end of her bedroom screaming loudly.
"And because of your freakin' bloody actions, we've all had to suffer! Kyo had to suffer, Cagalli too!" snarled Yzak, closing in on Mia as the pink-haired impersonator screamed her lungs out.
"Yzak! Don't do anything rash! If you do, there's a price you'll have to pay!" yelled Dearka, grabbing the young Jule by the shoulders and restraining him as he struggled wildly like an untamed tiger.
Watching Dearka struggled with Yzak, Kira couldn't help but realise how mediocre Cagalli's temperamental tantrums were. If Cagalli were to behave as viciously as Yzak, Kira would've had a black-eye every single day.
Dearka was certainly having a rough time with Yzak, and the duo was now wrestling violently on the floor. Dearka's forehead was bleeding, and Yzak had acquired a cut across his cheek.
"Yzak! Think about it, you may want to avenge Kyo, but d'you think she'd be happy if you did?" said Kira loudly. The platinum blonde froze in his tracks, what Kira said had a point. He wanted to avenge Kyo by hurting Mia, but it was only to soothe his own anger, Kyo wouldn't be pleased to discover that he had hurt someone yet again.
"You'd be letting Kyo down, Yzak, stop it all." Said Kira knowingly, looking sternly at Yzak, whose breathing had returned to normal, and the sides of his face were bathed in his sweat.
Realising it was a perfect opurtunity to flee the scene; Mia darted swiftly out of her bedroom and swerved tightly down the spiral staircase.
Given the route she had taken, Kira assumed that the pink-haired impersonator was making her way to the medical unit.
The platinum blonde young Jule was lying sprawled on his back, beside a panting Dearka, who was still bleeding from the forehead, even as if he had grabbed a clump of tissues and held it over is wound.
"Yzak, your actions were very rash and reckless. What were you thinking? You could've got yourself into deep shit if we hadn't come along to stop you." Said Kira sternly, helping Dearka to his feet before extending a hand out to Yzak, who hesitantly took it.
"I hate Mia Campbell, I hate her!" snarled Yzak, slamming his fist into one of the armchairs beside him, and causing one of the chair's wooden arms to crack and fall apart from the chair itself.
"We all do, mate! But you don't have to go to such an extent to get your revenge! Why don't you leave it to the one above! That bimbo will get her retribution one day." Said Dearka, pressing the wound on his forehead in an attempt to stump the blood flow.
"I'm going back to the medical unit," said Yzak heatedly, though the platinum blonde was looking kind of stoned. The young Jule brushed a fleck of dust from his shoulder before heading off and out of the room.
"Gosh! That punk is uncontrollably nuts!" exclaimed Dearka, jumping up and down wildly, hand still pressed against his wound, which was still bleeding profusely.
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"Where's Kyo?" asked Yzak, coming into the medical unit, to find Miriallia standing anxiously by an empty blood-stained bed. Certainly, things had gotten the platinum blonde young Jule flustered enough, and the sudden disappearance of his girlfriend only made matter worse.
"Relax Yzak; she's undergoing surgery right now with Dr. Ishida and his team." Explained Miriallia coolly, stepping toward the young Jule and patting him lightly on the back.
"Finally, does it mean she'll be ok?" asked Yzak, a tinge of worry very obvious in his voice. It came as a shock to the auburn-haired girl to see the platinum blonde young man looking so flustered and worried.
Yzak had always occurred to Miriallia as a perfectly heartless and ungentlemanly guy. Never had Miriallia seen Yzak looking so worried over a person, the young Jule usually couldn't care less about anything else but himself.
"I don't know if she'll be alright Yzak, but we're all praying and hoping for the best." Said Miriallia sighing deeply, and feeling a pang of worry hit her lower gut. Once again, she was overwhelmed with worry for a close friend. First Cagalli, now Kyo, how next?
However, Miriallia dismissed that thought from her mind as not to curse anyone, and although Miriallia never believed in luck or curses, it was just to play safe.
"So that's Mia with Athrun in there, eh?" asked Yzak, folding his arms across his brawny chest and willing himself not to think about Kyo any longer, before broke down into tears.
"Yep, and as usual, she's not letting anyone in to see him. Though I don't know what she has to hide now since we've already exposed her." Said Miriallia, looking at the light blue curtains that were drawn around one of the beds.
"Damn! She has to be ok! She has to live!" exclaimed Yzak, slamming his fists into the handle bar of the nearest bed on his left. The bed rattled violently, and its blanket fell off the bed onto the marble floor.
Yzak, get a grip on yourself! Now that Kyo is weak and needs you most, you are the one who has to be strong for her!" said Miriallia, shaking Yzak gently by the shoulders, as the platinum blonde co-ordinator's body started trembling madly.
"What's going on?" asked Kira, walking into the medical unit, with all of the others trailing along behind. Lacus had helped Dearka dress his wound, and he looked a lot better than before.
"Oh goodness, Dearka! What happened! Are you alright?" squeaked Miriallia, striding hurriedly up to her copper-tone skinned boyfriend and looking at his bandaged forehead.
"It's minor! No need to worry your pretty little head over it," said Dearka, wrapping his arms around Miriallia, and pressing tiny kisses onto her forehead.
The blonde Orb Princess had also come down along, and apparently, she was clutching a lively Aaron in her arms. The baby boy was wrapped in a baby blue blanket decorated with images of the moon and the stars.
The blanket had been stitched and sewn by Lacus, who had surprised Cagalli with it when Aaron was one hour old.
Currently, little Aaron was a little over a day old, and though only being a day old, he looked more like a one month old baby. Maybe, that was how co-ordinator babies were, they grew extremely fast. (A/N: Looks like Aaron's got more of Athrun's genes, hehe.)
"He's going to be so handsome when he grows up, just look at his eyes, they're gorgeous!" exclaimed Lacus childishly, cooing at Aaron, who giggled away before sneezing and making the others laugh.
Aaron sneezed one last time, before looking as though he was trying to figure out what had just happened in his body that had made his nose itch and blow out so abruptly.
"Yzak's just having a slight nervous breakdown," said Miriallia, walking up to Cagalli and playing with Aaron, just like what Lacus had been doing.
"Relax pal, we're all just as jumpy as you are, and I'm sure Kyo will be just fine." Said Dearka, approaching Yzak, and throwing an arm around the young Jule's shoulders.
"Sorry mate, about earlier," muttered Yzak softly, thinking back about how he had wounded Dearka during their violent wrestle just moments ago.
"It's alright, what are friends for, man? Right now, don't fuss over me, just worry about Kyo, she's got a bigger place in your heart than I do." Said Dearka cheerily, patting Yzak on the back.
"Wow, are you people having a party here or something? Be considerate won't you? Don't you know that there are patients here who are trying to get some rest?" asked Mia, poking her head from in-between the curtains and staring out at the bunch of teenagers before her.
"Is Athrun awake?" asked Kira sternly, staring at Mia intently, as though trying to read her mind.
The pink-haired impersonator stepped out from the curtains and walked up to Kira.
"No, but even if he was, I wouldn't tell you." Snapped Mia, sucking in her lower lip and glaring at Kira, before her gaze fell upon Cagalli, who was clutching a gurgling Aaron in her arms. "So you've given birth, eh? Hmph, your son looks just like Athrun."
"Can I go and see Athrun? Or are you going to use your big bum to block the way?" questioned Cagalli hotly, insulting Mia for the first time in ages.
Mia looked thoroughly insulted by the blonde girl's remark and pouted slightly. "I'm not going to use my bum to block the way, but bloody right you are in saying that I won't let you see Athrun."
"Why? Do you have something else to hide or accomplish? As far as we all know, we know all your plans and wrong doings? So what else do you have to do exactly?" asked Lacus sarcastically, and for once Mia looked truly frightened.
"I've got much more to accomplish for your information," hissed Mia heatedly, straightening out a fold in her long skirt.
"Well then, whatever it is you're going to do, I'm just letting you know, we'll find out sooner or later." Snapped Kira smartly, snaking an arm around Lacus's waist.
"Now let us in, don't hog Athrun to yourself, you're not the only friend he has." Said Dearka cockily, folding his arms and glaring penetratingly at Mia, who backed away slightly before standing her ground.
"Fat hope, I've got orders to restrict you people from getting within even a metre of him." Snarled Mia, standing directly in front of the curtains.
"Move it!" hollered Kira, and of course Mia was no match for Kira, and she ended up being pushed aside roughly.
The brunette young man wrenched open the curtains to find Athrun Zala lying sleeping on the bed, however, the racket Mia was making had caused the blue-haired co-ordinator to stir.
Kira froze solid in his tracks, looking down at Athrun, whose emerald orbs had fluttered open and were no trying to focus on the people around him.
"Ugh, what happened?" asked Athrun, looking from Kira to Yzak, before his gaze settled on Mia and Lacus.
The blue-haired co-ordinator's eyebrows furrowed and twitched for a number of seconds, "Two Lacus's?"
Realising that Athrun had changed again, and that he had seemed to have forgotten Mia and remembered everything else, Kira interrupted. "This is Mia Campbell; she's the one who landed you in this state."
"Mia… Campbell? What's going on? Cagalli?" said Athrun, his emerald orbs focusing on the pretty blonde Orb Princess before him.
For a moment, Cagalli looked shocked and stunned, but before anything else could happen, Cagalli's frame began shaking madly before she burst into tears thrusting Aaron in Lacus's arms before darting out of the unit in tears.
"Cagalli? Cagalli!" called Kira, taking one last glance at Athrun before dashing out after Cagalli.
Apparently, Lacus wasn't sure if she should tell Athrun the truth about Aaron, and so the pink-haired girl headed back up to her bedroom, and placed the baby boy in his cot before moving back down to the medical unit.
For some reason, Lacus wasn't worried that Aaron would cry and no one would attend to him, as Aaron was such a smiley baby that he smiled at almost everything and never cried unless something was hurting him.
Meanwhile, Kira had a problem finding Cagalli as the blonde girl was a fast sprinter, and by the time Kira followed her in pursuit, she was nowhere to be seen.
"Looking for me?" Came the sound of Cagalli's familiar voice from a nearby corner in-between two corridors.
"Yes, I am, Cagalli. Why'd you run?" asked Kira curiously, settling down on the floor beside his sister.
"Shocked, I guess. I mean, he's suddenly remembered everything. I don't know whether to believe it or not. I mean, how'd he get his memory back? What the hell happened?" whispered Cagalli, her voice still shaky.
"We all don't know, Cagalli, but don't you want to go and see him and refresh him a little?" asked Kira, reaching out and brushing some of her blonde hair from her face.
"I'll see him, but I'm going to make him suffer for a while first." Said Cagalli firmly.
A/N: Ok, I managed to update by chance, but I don't know when's the next time, so I'm not promising anything, but I will update though. Pls review!
In the next chapter: Cagalli goes to see Athrun but refuses to answer him or speak to him as a punishment. The bunch also receives an explanation from Dr. Ishida on Athrun's condition. Also, Mia has fled back to PLANTs but what's in store for the bunch now? And will Kyo be alright?