Author's notes: All the standard stuff applies. I don't Athrun Zala or Meyrin Hawke, I don't own Gundam SEED DESTINY or Gundam saga. SUNRISE is the corporation lucky enough to own them and the series they come from.

Sorry it has taken so long but I have had a bad case of writer's block and have been catching up with other things. Trust me this will be well worth the wait.

(PLANT: Aprilius 1: Recreation Block 04-A: The Lion's Den Tavern)

A small coupe tore into the parking ramp and came to screeching halt in parking space. Two women got out and closed the doors. One of them pulled out a key ring and pushed a button which caused the car to chirp happily.

"Luna, the war is over. I don't know why you have to be in a hurry to get everywhere. I think this underwear is riding even more up my ass." Meyrin blurted out as she stopped to dig at her butt. Luna slapped her hand away and helped her over a speed block.

"Will you stop whining already? This is about you tonight. You want Athrun to be jealous? Then leave everything how it is." Luna said leading Meyrin up a pair of stairs and into a dark room that had a booth and a bouncer standing by the door. Meyrin was scared to look at him. The elder sister walked up to the counter and pulled out her currency card. She was greeted by the operator.

"Hey! What's up Luna?" He asked.

"Just getting out for a while. You got a hair cut and it makes you look cute." Luna said leaning forward just enough so that the young man could see into her shirt. She winked at him and smirked. Meyrin sighed and turned her back to them no realizing that the guy's eyes went straight to her ass.

"Whoa! Who's the hot redhead you have with you? A girlfriend perhaps?" no sooner after her finished did Meyrin spin around and glared at him. Luna laughed a little and then spoke.

"Real funny, she's my prude sister. Her boyfriend is giving her trouble so I made her come out with me to have some fun. Besides, Shinn is more then enough for me to handle." She finished taking the card back from the man and sticking it in her purse. Surprisingly enough,

Meyrin had done an about face and was no flirting with him. Luna felt a bit of jealousy even though she knew that caffeine high had finally caught up with Meyrin and she was starting to loosen up. She grabbed Meyrin's wrist and pulled her along.

"What gives Luna? I think he likes me." Meyrin said with a giggle. Perhaps the caffeine was working too well Luna thought.

"It's hard for a guy not to like you with an outfit like that." Luna said walking past the bouncer and pushing the door open. She got through and pulled Meyrin behind her and as she did so heard her sister yelp. They both got in and let the door close behind them.

"What happened?" Luna asked seeing that Meyrin was thoroughly blushed.

"That big bouncer man grabbed my butt." The latter said looking a bit scared but a bit amused.

"Get used to it. You'll enjoy it as the night goes on." Luna said smirking. The room was loud and dark. There was a dance floor on a lower level complete with strobes and a DJ. On the level they were on, there were several tables lit by neon light under them. There was a bar with the same lighting arrangement and a small group of billiard tables off to the side. It was legal to drink at 16 on PLANT because coordinators could metabolize alcohol four times faster then naturals. Meaning a drink took about a half hour to leave their system and it took four times as much to make them drunk.

It took Meyrin a whole two seconds to see Athrun. He was playing pool with Shinn. Then suddenly jerked away from Luna and started walking towards them. She made certain to look as horny as she could as she sashayed closer. Meyrin heard the wolf whistles and catcalls as she got closer to the bar.

Though she wouldn't directly admit it. All of this extra attention was making her at least a little hot and bothered. The music wasn't helping much as the bass caused the floor to vibrate and the vibration was making her just a little lightheaded. She had never been to a club or a bar in her entire life. Those were things Luna did. But she was starting to wonder if Luna had the wrong idea after all.

She was getting the kind of attention she had hated all of her life. But for some reason, something allowed her to enjoy it. She didn't even notice Luna was behind her. No, she was far too busy looking and giving the impression she was having a good time.

By the time they had gotten to their destination. Athrun had already noticed his girlfriend and the outfit she was wearing. He would have never expected Meyrin to come to a club let alone dress like that. She appeared to be enjoying it, which made it all the more unacceptable. Meyrin Hawke was no floozy. She was the wholesome girl next door. Or so he thought. He struggled to gather his thoughts as he gawked at Meyrin's figure. He was the only one who got to see her like that. Now all these barflies got to see his girl served up as a daily special? This was turning out to be a bad night.

"Meyrin, what the hell –" Athrun stopped as Meyrin had walked past him without even giving him mind and walked right up to Shinn. She hugged him making sure to put extra pressure on her torso. After the embrace she rand her fingers though his hair and kissed him on the cheek. She looked over at Luna who was glaring and giggled. Athrun's jaw dropped and Luna began to wonder if she encouraged Meyrin too much.

"Shinny Shinny, how are you doing tonight? You're pretty cute." Meyrin said with a giggle. She was putting on too thick now. But Athrun beat Luna to the punch.

"Meyrin, what are you doing?" Athrun managed to stutter out in disbelief.

"I don't know why you are speaking to me Athrun. I am not speaking to you." Meyrin put on in a firm yet still fun-loving tone.

"Just because you're mad at me doesn't mean you have to do this." Athrun rebuked. Wrong thing to say.

"This? What do you mean 'this'?" Meyrin asked walking over to Athrun and standing three inches from Athrun's face. She was daring him to speak his mind. She didn't realize he was still stupid enough not to shut his mouth.

"You're acting like a flirt." Athrun said. Meyrin's eyes widened and the two cold steel orbs lasered fear into Athrun Zala. But apparently it wasn't enough to hold his anger.

"That's right; I'm calling you a lady of the night! A whore!" he said which was awarded with a gasp from Luna. Athrun knew he was going to regret that statement.

"A whore? Just because I want to have a good time without you makes me a whore? You are a selfish, resentful, narcissistic, possessive, ego-centrical, insecure, bastard Athrun Zala! Now that you can't have me, no one can? You know what?" Meyrin dug her hands into her shirt and pulled out a silver pendant and cupped it into her hand and stuffed it into Athrun's shirt pocket. "If all you can do is think about how things affect Athrun and not how they affect everyone else. Then … maybe we should separate." Meyrin said in between tears and sobs. Athrun just glared at her, probably to angry to realize that he had such a sinister look on his face.

"You have a fight with me and your answer is to go dress dirty and act like your sleeping around. You're such a little girl Meyrin. You can't sleep with me but you can taunt other guys?" He said. He heard more then saw the back of Meyrin's hand knock the side of his face. He felt the burn and the sudden jerking of his neck as it turned with her hand.

"You fucking bastard! You only think about yourself. Stay away from me." She said as she grabbed the nearest glass and threw its contents at Athrun. She walked past Luna in tears.

"I need to go home, NOW!" Meyrin said running out of the club trying to stay away from the hands that seemed to be out to grab part of her anatomy. Luna walked up to Athrun and whispered in his ear.

"That was pretty shitty Taichou. She was only trying to see if you really cared about her. It was my idea for her to dress like that and to come here. But you handled it like a child. Now we'll all be lucky if she wears short sleeves again since she's a whore. You picked the absolute worst thing to say to her. You know how self conscious she is." Luna said tossing Shinn a key to the parking garage.

"You know I love her Luna." Athrun said wiping the liquid from his face with a paper towel.

"You have a pretty bad way of showing it. This is partly my fault but stay away for a while ok? No flowers, no calls, no gifts and no visits. Don't come around again until she or I call you." Luna said walking out of the club. Silently cursing under her breath about how stupid she had been and how much of a jackass Athrun was.

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(PLANT: Aprilius 1: Official District: Walkway section 784)

Meyrin had gone home and shed the detesting clothing that Luna made her wear. The former knew better then to try to talk to her. She found a baggy sweat suit after she put her underwear back on.

For a while she sat and watched TV and found a really sad movie about a bunny that nobody loved. She felt unloved. Her sister wanted her to become more liberal and she couldn't so she felt that Luna didn't love her and only put up with her. Nobody at her job loved her. And Athrun, the man that she had risked her life and nearly died for only wanted her body. She knew that wasn't true but she couldn't swallow what little pride she did have to admit it.

Now she walked the streets with a white trench coat thrown over her shoulders and an MP3 player in her hand. She didn't even walk she just like the walkway to the walking for her. She was going to be fat son anyway so she figured she might as well start being lazy now.

Every so often she would sniff and rub her eyes and had to switch walkways until she got to a point where she had to actually walk. She shuffled her feet and kept her head down. She wasn't interested in looking at anyone. She was a 'whore' after all. Though she could never bring herself to be that forward with someone she didn't know.

Luna had a really bad idea. But she was trying to help her out and for that much she was grateful. And she did point something out that Meyrin remembered. Her body wasn't as ugly as she thought. Maybe she should be grateful that Athrun wanted her. But he didn't have to be so direct about it.

Meyrin turned the corner and as she did so the song switched to something that she had put n because Athrun had told her about it. She loved the song when she first listened to it but now it only made her cry. She loved Athrun, she really did. Then how come she couldn't get over herself?

He would never hurt her. They could have a family and settle down. Meyrin didn't like the idea of being too intimate. But she could get used to it. She wanted to have children someday and thought she could be a good mother. She wanted to have Athrun's children. She wanted to be his wife. She wanted to be with him for the rest of her days. She wanted to be a mother to his children.

But she couldn't get over her own fears. And perhaps she was thinking too far ahead. But she could see that far. At least until tonight. She didn't know if she could forgive herself for her performance let alone if Athrun could. Maybe he was right. Maybe she still was a little girl. Maybe she wasn't ready for anything. Maybe she was too afraid of herself to be a wife or mother to anyone. It was almost too much to bear.

She didn't even notice the two men walking in front of her. She didn't notice their dark suits or that they were wearing sunglasses. So she kept walking with her head down sobbing silently. Then she ran into one of them and flew back landing roughly o her backside. She heard herself yelp and then somebody bark at the men. The voice sounded oddly familiar.

"You guys should watch where you're going. I don't know why I have to have you two guarding me. I can take care of my damn self!" said the fiery voice. Meyrin began to look up and noticed that there was someone behind the men.

She started to look up and saw that the person was wearing boots and BDU's as she looked up she saw a red shirt and by the time she got to the woman's face she already knew who she was.

"Cagalli-sama?"

"Meyrin-san?"

Both girls just stared at each other before one of the guard broke the silence.

"My apologies Cagalli-sama" The guard said.

"Don't tell me your sorry you oaf! Tell her you're sorry!' Cagalli demanded.

"My apologies Ojou-san" the guard said helping Meyrin up. Again they stared at each other. Finally Cagalli spoke.

"What are you doing out here by yourself?" She asked. Her amber orbs cutting into Meyrin's soul.

"I could ask you the same thing." Meyrin said with a smirk on her face.

"I'm here at an official capacity. I would invite you in for tea but we are not anywhere near where they are keeping me penned. Ah well, I'm bored and I have time to kill. You want to come have some tea and talk. You look like you need it." Cagalli said.

"Y-yeah sure." Meyrin said. Cagalli wrapped her arm around Meyrin and proceeded to berate her guards again.

"You heard her! Get a car over here now!" Cagalli said. Meyrin turned in and hugged Cagalli tightly while sobbing much to the blonde's surprise. She began to wonder why she was so upset. But then realized the probable cause and sighed to herself.

Author's notes: Again sorry it took so long. But as I said it would be worth it. I duuno, might have Lacus join in and have an Athrun hater club meeting. It's possibility. I had planned on Meyrin being a complete flirt but it just doesn't fit her! Thanks to Mey-chan for bugging me as soon as I got out of my block to write the chapter. Plus there might be a KiraxFrey fic on the horizon. I dunno yet though.