I own nothing, abskedutally nothing.
"You okay?" She asked quietly as she sat lightly next to him. He grunted in response. He had been like this ever since the incident in the Mendel Colony. Constantly sulking, and generally… serious. She was worried about him. She didn't know what exactly had gone on, but she intended to find out. The duo sat together in silence together for a while, until he spoke up.
"I don't know what I'm doing." He said. "I feel like I'm violating all the laws of friendship by doing this. Yzak's my friend, and I'm- I'm fighting against him." Miriallia thought for a moment before she replied.
"You know, a long time ago, before the cosmic era, in the 1700's A.D. there was a huge outbreak of a disease, smallpox. There was a doctor who had the disease when he was smaller, and he survived. He later discovered that he was immune to the disease. He did some research, and found that everybody else who had survived the disease was immune as well. He found a way to give the disease through a needle to others, giving them a less severe case of the disease that they were more likely to survive. He tested it on two volunteers as well as his own son."
"I'm not quite sure how this relates to my situation." Dearka interrupted.
"I'm getting to that." Miriallia insisted, "Anyways, both of the volunteers as well as the doctor's son survived. After that, he tested the inoculation on two hundred and some more people. They all got mild cases, and only six died. Using the data he had collected, he learned that almost six times less people died from the inoculation then from getting the disease naturally. Anyways, since six people had died, there was this huge uproar about him violating his Hippocratic oath, that is, an oath doctors and such take that –back then- said that they would not, under any circumstances give their patients any advice that could potentially harm them, or harm their patients."
"I don't get it." Dearka interrupted once again.
"Shut up and listen. So he was put on trial or something like that for violating his oath. But the thing is, if he had done nothing he would have still been violating his Hippocratic oath, and if he had advised his patients against getting the inoculation he would have definitely violated his oath." She paused to inspect his reaction. "So you see, he threw all his previous commitments to the wind, and just did what he felt was right. That's what you have to do. Ignore your friendship with everybody on both this ship and that one, and just do what you feel is right." She smiled softly at him. After sitting in silence for a while longer, Miriallia stood to leave.
"Wait" Dearka called behind her. She looked over her shoulder, signaling that she was listening. "What happened? To the doctor, I mean."
"After the facts about how many people he may have saved were presented, the charges were dropped." She told him before exiting the room. Dearka smiled slightly. "Thanks, Mir." He whispered. "I think I know what to do now."
A/N: I know, I know, I took a break, but I'm back (for now)
I should be working on my english stuff right now, since that's the class I'm in, but who cares?
I didn't want to refer to is as A.D., as it is a Christian term, and I am 100 per cent atheist, but refering to is as CE for Common Era wouldn't have worked since Commo Era and Cosmic Era have the same abbreviations. Meh. I got the idea in my science class when we were talking about risks and limits. I have another idea that I might use about defining natural. That could be an interesting conversation, maybe between Athrun and Miriallia? Or Kira and Miriallia? I've been writing so many D/M fics lately, I want to try something different. What do you think?
Also, to Mew Tatsu, I like your idea about the alternat ending on the Snowfic, and I may use it in another story later on. Thanks for the idea!
