Miss-Cagalli's Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Seed nor any of the characters pretaining to Gundam Seed's creator. I also do not own the rights to "Hurt" by Christina Aguileria. Please don't persecute me :'(

Miss-Cagalli: This is the end chapter! Listen to some sad music, and I promise, it WILL make you cry. Made me cry to write it I hope you liked it! Please R&R the end!

Takahashi whirled around, trying to swing Athrun off of his back. Athrun made several grabs for the gun in his coat, and almost managed to get it. Swinging blindly, Takahashi managed to punch Athrun in the cheek, knocking him off.

Quickly, Takahashi's men took a hold of Athrun's arms again. He wasn't thinking straight, he just wanted to save her life.

"ENOUGH!" Takahashi yelled, his eyes wide with anger.

Silence for a moment swept over the area, until all anyone could hear were the waves below. Takahashi whiped out the gun from inside his coat. He aimed it straight at Cagalli's heart.

"This is it," he said, laughing hysterically, "I'm going to finally do it and gain what I deserve!"

"Leave her alone!" Athrun yelled.

"All I've wanted for my entire life is power, and I'm finally going to gain control over one of the most powerful countries in the world!" Takahashi said, ignoring Athrun, "I was so alone as a child, now you are all going to know what I went through! As soon as I became leader of the EA, there were so many who were at my feet in an instant. After the war ended two years ago though, all everyone wants is "peace and prosperity between nations"! Well let me tell all of you: IT'S BULLSHIT! We need war! We need control! The only way those damned Coordinators will listen is if we force it into them, and destroy every single one of them. It won't even matter if it's a man, woman or child, I'll kill them all with my own two hands! They are unnatural, and out of place. They belong somewhere else. I want to keep our world blue and pure, like my brother Azrael did!"

"That madman was your brother?!" Athrun yelled.

"Yes, my boy," Takahashi continued, "My real name is Jaylin Takahashi Azrael! Takahashi was our mother's maiden name. That woman was actually okay with Coordiantors being her friends. She got hers when Junia Seven blew up!"

Athrun's eyes widened. That madman was actually supporting the fact that his own mother died in an attack that was as big as the Bloody Valentine! Athrun remembered his mother, and how shocked he was when she had died. He had watched the tapes of the explosion over and over again until he cried himself to sleep that night. He missed his mother a lot and the idiot standing before him was proud of what the EA had done that night.

Azrael was just as crazy as his younger brother, maybe worse. He was the leader of Blue Cosmos, a group of predjudiced Naturals that wanted the Coordinators dead. He had died in the last battle of the war, since he had tried taking over an Archangel class ship, the Dominion, which was captained by Natarle Badgiruel, who was a friend of Kira's. He had tried for command, so he could blow up all of the ZAFT forces in the vicinity. Natarle had stopped him, and the two died in an explosion, only minutes after the crew had abandoned ship. The two of them died in the blast.

"How could you say something like that about your own mother?" Athrun asked, shock in his voice.

"She was weak, and so was my brother!" Takahashi yelled, "My brother died in the war because he was too stupid and weak to use the cannons like he should have! He had it in his grasp, and Azrael lost it! I'm going to finish his work, I'm going to be the one to save the world from its own bluders with the creation of those damned things. The only thing in my way, is this little girl for some reason. How can I be stopped by a child?"

Takahashi walked over to where Cagalli was being held. He touched her face. She tried turning away, but the man still had his hand over her mouth. Takahashi looked at Cagalli with those huge eyes. He had this insane look on his face that frightened Cagalli. She was scared of him, scared of the circumstance they were in, and scared of what was going to happen.

"Let her speak," he said to the man holding on to her, "I want to hear her cries for help."

The man removed his hand from Cagalli's mouth. She was beginning to cry, realising that this was going to be her fate. Takahashi held out the gun towards her heart again. He was at least 10 feet away from her, but she knew he had a clear shot, straight through her heart.

"So cry, little girl," Takahashi said coldly, "Tell me how much you want to live. After all, your little boyfriend here tried to save you, but he almost sold you out."

"What are you talking about?" she asked through tears.

"Well, that day," he continued, "that day when you and I had our conference, I had one afterwards with Mr Zala here. I asked him to help me and he had agreed. With his help, I could have taken over your country without any problems. He was going to marry you, then I was going to kill you! Isn't that funny?"

"Is this true Athrun?" Cagalli said to Athrun.

"Kind of," he said quietly, "But I didn't want you to die! I swear it! I came here to save you."

"How could you?" she cried, "If this is all true, why wouldn't you tell me before when I asked what was wrong?"

"They would have shot Kira if I did," Athrun replied, "I wanted to, but I just couldn't."

"Boo hoo hoo," Takahashi said mocking them, "Such a sad couple. He did try to save you though. Tried to push you away so I couldn't get at you."

"Cagalli," Athrun told her, "I didn't mean for any of this to happen! I wanted to be with you, but I just... I don't want you to die and I never will!"

"I hate you..." she whispered.

"Please listen!" he shouted, "I lo-"

"Don't say it!" she yelled, "Don't make this worse."

"Poor Athrun Zala," Takahashi interrupted, "Even if he tells his girlfriend what was happening, she still won't believe the man she used to love so much."

Takahashi took a step towards Cagalli, gun outstretched in his hand. She closed her eyes and prepared for the shot.

"For our blue and pure world," said Takahashi coldly.

She was so prepared for it the night before. Cagalli could feel where it was supposed to penatrate her already broken heart. She took the ring out of its box and slipped it onto her finger. He had told her all those nights before that he was going to marry her.

The two had stayed up all night and talked, and finally, just as they were falling asleep, Athrun asked Cagalli to marry him. She said yes over and over in her head. Cagalli had felt his body against hers, lying in the grass outside her house that night, and wanted to feel it now.

She looked up into the sky, rain and tears in her eyes. The rain began to slow. The clouds began to clear from the sky, and she saw the stars in the midnight blue sky. Cagalli got up again and wiped the tears from her cheeks. She walked over to the edge and looked down. It was a long way to the rocks below, but she knew the journey she had taken that night lead her to what she was about to do next.

A shot rang out. Cagalli's eyes widened. There was blood on the ground. A body crumpled and fell.

"ATHRUN!" she screamed.

Athrun had broken away from the men and sheilded her from the shot. It went into his back. Athrun stared up at Cagalli for a breif moment before he fell to the ground, dying.

Crying, Cagalli struggled away from her captor, and knelt down beside his body. She lifted his head into her lap. She touched his face with shaking hands. Athrun's eyes opened slightly.

"Please don't die," she begged him.

"Sorry Cagalli," he whispered back to her, "I'm sorry for what I've said. Everything was so stupid. I really do love you."

Cagalli shuddered. As he closed his eyes one last time, after one more glimpse of her beautiful face, Athrun smiled at his one true love.

Cagalli let out a loud cry. He was dead and she never told him one last time how much she loved him. It was so hard for her. Emotions were rushing through her head and her heart.

Takahashi was still there though. Even though Athrun had gotten in the way of his first bullet, that didn't mean that he could never kill her too.

She would be more than happy for me to kill her right now, he thought.

"DIE LITTLE GIRL!" he yelled lifting the gun again. Cagalli hugged Athrun's body hard.

Another shot rang out, but Cagalli was not dead. This time, Takahashi was the one falling onto the ground. Behind him were at least seven ORB soldiers, and Cagalli's bodyguard, Kisaka.

Smoke coming from the barrel of his gun, Kisaka glanced over to the two teens.

"Miss Cagalli," he said to her.

Her eyes were still full of tears, but she struggled to righten herself.

"How did you know we were here?" she asked him.

"Mr Zala," he replied, "called us not long ago. He told us you were in danger and needed back up."

Another thing this stupid idiot did for me, she thought, why did he do all of these things?

"I'm sorry for your loss Miss Cagalli," Kisaka said quietly, "I will send for an ambulance. Would you like me to contact your brother?"

Cagalli couldn't find words, but she shook her head. Kisaka walked towards the soldiers, belting out orders to help the troubled teen.

Cagalli looked back at Athrun's body. He looked so peaceful, so at rest. Athrun had died with a small smile on his face. He was glad the pain was over, and was headed to a better place. Cagalli slowly lowered back down, his head still on her lap. Her lips touched his. With a small quiver, she gave him a kiss. His lips were already cold. A few of her tears dropped onto his cheek.

Bending back up, Cagalli carefully moved his head off of her lap and on to the ground. She picked up on of his hands and put it up to her heart. Then, she placed his right hand over his heart, and held hers there for a second. She knew his heart was still there, although he was gone from that world.

"I love you," she whispered quietly to his lifeless body.

Cagalli got up and began walking towards the road. No one noticed her. She glanced back and saw him on the ground one more time, and turned around the winding corner.

Kira and Lacus arrived quickly at the scene, but couldn't find Cagalli anywhere. Upon seeing their friend's dead body, Lacus let out a shrill cry, almost matching Cagalli's. She grabbed on to Kira.

Kira's own eyes began to well with tears. He had lost his best friend, but needed to make sure that he did not lose his sister.

"Go with the ambulance to the hospital Lacus," Kira told her, "Although I don't think it will do any good."

He hopped into his car and began to go out and look for his distraught twin sister. Kira was worried about how she was taking the loss.

It took Kira an entire day to try and find Cagalli, but he finally found her again, right in the place where his own best friend had died.

Kira pulled off of the street. Cagalli turned and looked into the car. He was trying to stop her, and she had to go through with it.

"Please don't do this Cagalli!" he shouted, getting out of his car.

"Go away Kira," she answered.

"Athrun wouldn't want you to do this!" Kira told her.

Her eyes widened with memories flooding back into her mind. She saw the scene again, saw the blood all over the ground. It was right there in front of her, as clear as the cliffs below. She began to cry again. Looking into Kira's eyes, she saw the worry he had.

With one last smile, and a small apology, Cagalli took the gun from inside her thin jacket.

One shot through the heart was all she needed to get away from pain and suffering.

Cagalli pulled the trigger, and let herself fall over the cliff, into the waiting water, and into Athrun's arms.

THE END (sniff sniff )