Bonus chapter since I haven't updated in a while. We're back with Cagalli after the last angst chapter. Sorry I'll try to make this chappie longer -- I was brain dead when I wrote the last one . Thank you for the reviews !
With Cagalli
Her hands were bound and she was on a horse in front of The Wolf also known as Athrun and to make matters worse she was headed to the city of Zaft. The only thing that had slightly brightened her gloomy day was the meeting with Athrun's friends. Yzak, the one with an anger management problem, (A/N Cagalli's such a hypocrite!) Dearka the womanizer and comic relief, and Nicol the inhumanly nice one.
"Let me go home you jerk!" Cagalli yelled at Athrun.
"I'm starting to have doubts about not gagging you." He said starting to get a teensy-weensy bit irritated at her constant yelling.
At this Cagalli shut up so as to not abuse her privileges of talking. They stopped in a village to have a short break before they set off again. Athrun went off with Nicol, Yzak and Dearka but appointed a magenta haired girl Lunamaria and her younger sister Meyrin who had a slightly darker shade of magenta to accompany her.
"Bye Miss Cagalli!" Nicol waved to her, happily.
"You don't address a hostage with 'miss' Nicol…" He said sighing.
"But she is a lady isn't she?" Nicol said. "She should be treated nicely hostage or no."
"Hostages aren't supposed to be treated nicely." Yzak said to Nicol with a look on his face stating it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"But Cagalli's nice enough to Nicol and I," Dearka pouted. "Why can't we be nice to her…"
Cagalli smiled at this. Nicol and Dearka were nice enough but Yzak on the other hand… Well in short he darkened her mood.
"Damn why couldn't he be stupid enough to let me go on my own." She said sighing exasperatedly.
"It's impossible for me to make an idiotic mistake." Athrun's distant voice replied.
'Creepy…' She thought.
The two girls appointed to watch her stepped forward and the older one stuck out her hand. Cagalli shook it.
"I'm Lunamaria Hawke and this is my younger sister Meyrin Hawke we're happy to meet you!" Lunamaria said in a cheery voice. Meyrin avoided eye-contact with Cagalli completely and unless Cagalli was mistaken she saw Meyrin glower at her from the corner of her eye when she was looking at Lunamaria. Lunamaria she could get along with… Meyrin, not so sure.
"I SAID we're happy to meet you. AREN'T we Meyrin?" Lunamaria glared at her sister and stepped on her foot obviously telling her to greet Cagalli. Meyrin cringed in pain. Cagalli looked utterly confused.
"Yes 'Miss' Cagalli we're happy to meet you." Meyrin said sarcastically. Lunamaria sent another death-glare Meyrin's way. Meyrin just shook it off and began to walk in another direction.
"Meyrin! Don't go off on your own. Do you want to disobey Commander Athrun?" Lunamaria said, a smirk on her face.
"Miss Hawke I'd be happy to have your company too…" Cagalli said trailing off
At the mention of Athrun Meyrin blushed and looked at the ground. Cagalli understood quickly. Meyrin liked Athrun as more than a Commander and much more than just a friend. She loved him.
"Miss Hawke are you in love with the jerk?" Cagalli asked. She knew the answer already but wanted to hear it from Meyrin's mouth.
"You catch on fast Miss Cagalli…" Lunamaria smiled at Cagalli. Meyrin turned Cagalli's way and looked at her, tears forming in her eyes.
"I know it's wrong to… But ever since that day when I saw him…" Meyrin struggled for words.
Flashback- When Meyrin was 5 and Athrun was 7
Meyrin looked around for her sister, Lunamaria in the city of Zaft. The military was going to train her and Lunamaria so they could be a part of it the next day. But she had lost Lunamaria in the crowd.
"Luna!" She called her sisters name. "Luna! Where are you?"
She walked around the city lonely and cold 'till nightfall still searching for her sister, but she was tired. The stars were out shining brightly. Her clothes were worn and tattered from the journey that her and her sister went through to get here. She sat down hopelessly on a bench crying.
'I miss Luna…" She thought. 'She's probably looking for me but can't find me…'
It was near midnight and she had still not moved from that bench. People were scarce at this time of night. It wasn't the bustling town she had seen in the afternoon. She got slightly frightened. She then heard a voice humming a tune in the distance and at once all her fears melted away. She followed the voice and found it coming from a boy a little older than herself. He had his eyes closed while he was humming and he looked lost in his thoughts. He had beautiful emerald eyes and silky blue hair. He finished the tune and looked at her.
"Were you watching me?" He asked innocently.
"Yes…I got lost looking for my sister and I don't know where to go…The military's supposed to train me and…" Meyrin trailed off and yawned. She was tired and her brain wasn't working. She thought this was all a dream.
"Do you want me to take you there?" He asked, concerned. He looked at her haggard appearance and could only imagine what she'd been through.
"Mey!" Luna's voice said and her running figure approached them. Meyrin fell asleep in the hands of this stranger.
"Thank you for taking care of her…" Lunamaria's voice said.
"It's no problem…" The boy said.
The last words she heard before she finally drifted off was 'Sleep well' from the boy.
End of Flashback
"Wow so the jerk CAN be nice!" Cagalli said honesty surprised.
"Stop calling him that!" Meyrin pointed a finger at her angrily. "Although he isn't like that anymore…He hardly pays any attention to me. Like he doesn't know who I am anymore…"
"That's why she was glaring at you Miss Cagalli," Lunamaria smiled and explained to Cagalli. Cagalli looked confused. "Because he pays attention to you and he's warming up to you… He usually doesn't tease people with even a tinge of friendliness but he's done that to you…"
"Doesn't that just mean he hates me?" Cagalli asked.
"No he doesn't hate you, I can tell," Said Lunamaria, knowingly. "If circumstances were different and you weren't the hostage he might not have held back on being your friend…"
Cagalli smiled a bright, radiant smile.
"Would you two be my friends?" Cagalli asked.
"I'm your rival not your friend." Meyrin crossed her arms and turned her back to them. Cagalli frowned slightly.
"I'll be your friend, definitely Miss Cagalli!" Lunamaria said brightly.
"Let's get along then, shall we?" Cagalli said happily. "Oh yeah, and leave out the 'Miss'. Call me Cags."
Sorry this chapter might've been a bit boring but I wanted to introduce some new characters . Although I hate Meyrin's guts and think she is quite annoying I think it would be too simple to make her all evil. No person in real life is all evil, it's unrealistic. I tried to make her feelings a little more complex. She doesn't hate Cagalli and she doesn't befriend Cagalli although she says that she hates Cagalli if that made any sense. --
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