A/N: I do not own Gundam SEED, SEED Destiny, or any factors of the Gundam franchise.
The Twin Gundams
Ch 3 The Consequences of Revealing the Truth
Kira and Freya got out of the car as they arrived at their house. It was about 7 in the evening now, and after going inside, her father simply said that he needed to think for a bit, and not to bother him. Then he went off to his study, closing the door behind him.
Freya had to relate a bit.
Just about an hour ago, she had come face to face with the woman who had given birth to her, the one who had left her and her father when she was just a baby.
What was more shocking was that she learned that she had a twin sister all these years.
She was still angry with that woman she had to call her mother for leaving them behind all those years, but now she was also a bit angry at her father for never telling her that she had a twin sister.
She went up to her room, closed the door and fell on top of her bed, giving a big sigh.
No one else is gonna know how crummy I feel right now, she thought.
Little did she know that a girl who's face she shared with was also feeling the same way while lying on her bed in a hotel back in the city.
My fathers alive, and I have a twin sister, thought Kyla, why would mom keep this from me?
She figured the only way she could get an answer right now was to ask her mother directly.
She got off her bed, and went over to the door that connected her room with the other hotel room her mother was occupying.
She found her mother sitting in a chair near the window, with something in her hand.
"Mom?" asked Kyla coming up behind her.
"Huh, oh Kyla, I didn't hear you come up dear," said Flay who came out of her state of silence.
After the sudden meeting back at the school gate, where they all saw each other face to face for a few seconds, both their respective parents simply took their hands and led them away, not even making an effort to talk to one another.
Kyla and her mother arrived back at the hotel they were staying at. Since her mother was too busy with running her private company, she has simply rented out two rooms in one of the comfortable hotels in the city, till she had time to look for a suitable residence to purchase for them to live at.
Her mother had retired to her room, saying she needed some time to think, told Kyla to call room service if she was hungry.
Kyla had spent the last hour processing the info about her father and sister before finally wanting to talk to her mother about it.
""Mom, can we please talk about it?" she asked the redhead.
"Sweetie, I know that you have questions, but I can answer them for you, not right now," said Flay.
"Then when?" asked Kyla.
"Look, talking about your father hasn't been an easy topic since the day we separated. I know that I shouldn't have said that he died in battle in the war, but I didn't want the people we met over the years or the rest of society giving you the label of being that girl who had the divorced parents or such," said Flay.
'I can understand that mom, but what exactly happened between you two, why did you two decide to get divorced?" asked Kyla.
"He didn't, I made the decision," said Flay.
"What? How come?" asked Kyla.
"Please Kyla, stop it. I never even told him, and for that I feel the most guilt over the last decade," said Flay.
"Then why don't you tell him now?" asked Kyla.
"I cant, even if I wanted to, I doubt that he would want to talk to me now after all these years," said Flay.
Kyla then took notice of what her mother was holding in her hand.
It was an old photograph, looking very old.
Taking a closer look, she was that it was of her mother and father, as well as her and his new discovered sister. Her parents seemed to be around 16 and both her and her sister were in their parents arms, asleep in their baby clothes.
"When was this taken?" asked Kyla.
"Just a few days after your father and I brought you and your sister home after I gave birth. We took you two to a small café restaurant in the park to start seeing the outside world. It was actually there that your father proposed to me after the war ended," said Flay with a small smile.
Kyla smiled at the emotional warmth that she could feel from the family scene in the photo.
"Then what if I help you so you can get a chance to talk to him, and then explain to all of us what really happened," said Kyla.
"How would you do that?" asked her mother.
"Trust me, I have an idea. I need to go make a phone call, be back in a minute," said Kyla, as she left the room and headed for the lobby of the hotel.
Arriving there, she asked to use the front desk phone.
She had already given her cell phone number to Freya, and with the major confusion they were both no doubt experiencing, she probably wouldn't answer, so she need to call from a phone that she would recognize.
Yamato Residence
"Yamato Residence, Freya speaking," said Freya answering the phone.
"Um….hi sis," said Kyla from the other end.
Freya didn't register who it was that was talking to her at first, but upon being called "sis" she was confused as to why someone would call her that, till she remembered about earlier that day.
"Who is this?" she asked hoping she was wrong?
"Kyla, your sister," replied the other end of the line.
"Oh…hi I guess," said Freya.
"Listen, I know that you have to be having the same feeling I am of a dam of questions going through your head, so I think we both need to put aside that confusion to get some answers about our parents. I was thinking…." Began Kyla.
"Look," said Freya trying to change the conversation, "we may be sisters, but I cant deal with this all right now. I don't know what you've been told, but I cant see that woman as my mother right now."
"Wait a second, don't you think you should wait and learned what really happened before you start judging her," said Kyla.
"Learn what, she…," began Freya till her father came into the room.
"Freya, who is it," asked Kira.
"Uh…no one," said Freya.
"Let me see the phone," said Kira.
Freya slowly handed the receiver over to her father.
"Kira Yamato speaking, who is this," he asked.
"Um...Hi dad," replied Kyla nervously.
"Ky…Kyla?" Kira asked into the phone.
"Um, yes," said his daughter.
Kira was shocked. He hadn't seen his other daughter in 15 years till a few hours ago, and now he was talking to her on the phone.
"Um, how have you been these last few years," he asked her.
"Fine, how about you?" asked Kyla.
"Ive been good, you really sound grown-up," said Kira.
"Thanks, um dad can I ask you something," asked Kyla.
"Um, sure," said Kira.
"I want to know what happen between you and mom, she's too scared to tell me anything for some reason. Do you think we could meet someplace," asked Kyla.
Kira was silent. Here his other daughter was asking to meet with him to discuss why their parents were divorced.
"I guess, where do you want to meet?" asked Kira.
"Where you proposed to mom, I think that should be good enough," said Kyla.
"How do you know where that is?" asked Kira.
"That's the only think I could get out of mom, please dad can you meet me there," asked Kyla.
"Um, I guess," said Kira, "I'll be there within the hour, I'll see you there," said Kira.
"Ok, see you soon dad," said Kyla.
"See you soon," said Kira hanging up the phone.
He slowly turned around to see Freya having a upset look on her face.
"Your really going to go see her," asked Freya.
"Shes my daughter too Freya, I have to," said Kira.
He went to grab his keys and his jacket, then went out to his car and drove off.
"Theres no way Im being left out of this," said Freya.
She quickly went into the side garage and over to a large object that was covered in a canvas.
Taking it off, there was a motorcycle underneath it. Grabbing her own jacket, she speed off in the direction her father went. Since she didn't know anything really important about her mother, she never asked where her father proposed to her, so she had no idea where to go. However her father's car was equipped with a GPS system in case of theft, so she used her phone to track where he was going.
Meanwhile in a cab back at the hotel, Kyla and her mother were leaving to head to the park.
"You told your father that he suppose to be meeting you?" asked Flay.
"Yeah, but it'll be really you he's meeting," said Kyla.
"I wish you hadn't don't that," said Flay, "Lying to him was what started this whole thing."
"What did you lie to him about?" asked Kyla.
Flay sighed and replied, "A lot of things."
"I have a feeling that Im not gonna learn about any of that either anytime soon," said Kyla.
"In time dear, in time. First I have to tell your father the truth," said Flay.
ORB Central Park
Kira arrived at the café, and looked around. It hadn't changed since the last time he was here fifteen years ago.
It was a simple outdoor restaurant/café in the center of the park. After the war he had brought flay here for their first real date, which was their last one as a normal couple seeing as he proposed to her during said data. After the twins were born, they had brought them there as well. The owners of the café had a bulletin board where they liked to put photos of their customers when they came to eat. He walked over to it to see a familiar photo.
The last photo they ever took as a family, he and flay sitting at a table outside of the café, flay holding Kyla and him holding Freya. Both of the girls were asleep in the photo, only being about a week old.
He smiled that the photo, wondering how much Kyla must have grown since that day. Freya herself had grown up well, with him as her only parent. He had to admit it wasn't easy. If he had a son, it might have been more relatable, but Freya was a girl, which meant there were some times in a growing daughter's life when it was better to have a mother helping you. Luckly he had his mother Caridad and lacus to help him with freya when it came to needing a woman's advice for the young girl.
He decided he would go to the table he and flay normally used when they use to come here, and wait for Kyla to show up.
He ended up seeing her sitting there, however he also ended up seeing someone else sitting next to her, someone with long red hair.
"Kyla…Flay?" said Kira.
"Hi dad," said Kyla, motioning for Kira to sit down.
After he did, Kyla spoke up, "We have a problem with nobody wanting to say what happened years ago. Dad, mom says that she can't tell me anything because she has never told you herself."
Kyla then stood up, and pushed her chair back in, "So I think its past due that you two finally talk about it. It's the only way to finally start going past this, so while you do I'm going for a walk, be back later," said Kyla leaving the table.
Kira and Flay were left alone at the table.
Despite that all around them there were other people at the outdoor café eating and talking, the world seemed to go silent for the two of them.
"You….you raised some daughter Flay," said Kira, trying to start a conversation.
"She gets her persuasive side from her father," said Flay.
"I can see that," said Kira with a chuckle, admitting how Kyla had tricked him into really having a meeting with flay again.
"Um…you look great flay," said Kira.
Oh..thank you," said Flay with a small blush, "You look great too kira."
They both remained scilent, till kira noticed something on her finger. It was his birth mother's wedding ring, that had been passed on to him from Caridad. He had given it to flay when they got married.
"You still kept it all these years?" asked Kira.
Flay rubbed her ring finger slowly, "Yeah, I couldn't bear to give it up."
Kira reached around his neck, and took out his own wedding ring, which was hanging on a chain.
"Why did you still keep it, if we've been divorced for a decade and a half now?" asked Kira.
"I didn't want to have the marriage annulled, but I had no choice," said Flay.
"What do you mean no choice?" asked Kira.
Flay sighed, "Im sure you remember how my father had connections in the EA, especially with him being anti-coordinator."
"Yeah, I remember," said Kira.
"And Im sure that you also learned about the group LOGOS during the second war," asked Flay.
"Yeah, but all the members where killed at Heavens base," said Kira.
"Only the ones that Chairman Durandal knew about," said Flay.
"Wait, there were more?" asked Kira.
"Just one that he missed and never knew about," said Flay, "They had me return to the EA to take over my fathers work, and if I didn't they threatened to kill those I cared about. To make a long story short, I had to leave you, it was the only way to keep him away from trying to hurt you," said Flay.
Kira was shocked, because of a unknown LOGOs member they missed he had lost flay and his other daughter.
"I managed to turn things around on him once I arrived back in the EA, and escaped. Luckily he never knew I had two daughters but I knew I couldn't return to you as long as it posed a threat," said Flay.
"So then what happened," asked Kira.
"I've been using my father's funds and resources to start a charity foundation over the last few years, but really it was just a front to start breaking down his own organization over the years. He had to go into hiding after all the other LOGOs members were killed, but he has been trying to revive many blue cosmos factions around the world. So far these years I have been able to use my company to set up secret underground military skilled teams to break down his group piece by piece."
Kira replied, "And what happened to him?"
"I managed to track his latest attempts to start back up BC operations in this area, but haven't been able to catch him yet," said Flay.
"Well who is he," asked Kira.
"Kira…." She began saying, then sadly said to him, "…..he's my uncle."
"WHAT," said Kira
Just as he said that, Flay took a notice of a red dot appearing on his chest.
"KIRA", she yelled, lunging forward onto him just as a gunshot was heard, and panic spread through the café.
Kira got back up to the ground, and saw blood on his shirt. But it wasn't his.
He then saw where the blood was coming from.
"Flay," yelled Kira as he saw blood dripping from her. He took hold of her in his arms as he yelled, "Someone call an ambulance."
Some meters away, a sniper hiding behind in the bushes cursed, as he disassembled his rifle back into his bag, and began to leave the area, while taking out a phone and making a call.
"The target was not terminated sir, the girl got in the way and took the bullet," he said.
"It does not matter, she deserved it for betraying us. Return to base, we'll figure out a new way to terminate Ulen's coordinator abomination," replied someone on the other end.
"Yes sir," said the assassin hanging up. However he did not get farther because someone came out of the bushes and kicked him in the chest.
"Bastard, you tried to kill my dad," said Freya.
However the assassin got out of the way and elbowed her to the ground.
He pulled out a handgun and was about to shoot Freya, when Kyla showed up and knocked him out with a thick tree branch she found nearby.
"And that's for shooting my mom," said Kyla.
As the assassin was knocked out unconscious, Kyla went over to Freya and offered her hand to help her get up.
"Thanks," said Freya.
As the two dragged the assassin back to the café, they just managed to get to see an ambulance leaving the area. They then both saw their father watching it leave as he was finishing talking with a police officer and another man with blue hair.
"Uncle Athrun?" said Freya realizing who it was.
Kira and Athrun both turned to see the girls having just arrived.
"Where's my mom," asked Kyla.
"She was just taken to the hospital. The bullet just gave her a flesh wound through her arm, but she lost a lot of blood, so she needs medical attention," said Kira, "She'll be ok Kyla."
"Kyla" said Athrun confused.
"Yeah, that's Freya's sister," said Kira.
"I see," said Athrun, then noticing the man they were both dragging, "Whos that?"
"The guy who tried to shoot dad," said Freya.
Kira suddenly got angry like he was about to grab the unconscious guy and strangle him, but he held himself back.
Athrun had some officers that were at the scene cuff the guy and then take him back to the containment sector back at the ORB military.
"Kira, you better come back to the parliament house. Cagalli is going to want you to tell her what happen," said Athrun.
"But I need to go see flay, she got knocked out by that bullet, and…." Began Kira.
"Kira don't worry, the ambulance is taking her to the military hospital. She'll be close by once you finish talking to cagalli," said Athrun.
"Ok," said Kira.
As the people at the scene began to clear out, Kira turned to his daughters.
"Look, this has been a really long and hard day. Right now I gotta go see your aunt, and then I'll check up on your mother at the hospital. Freya, I want you to go to Morganrate and stay at my office till I come get you. Kyla you will go with your sister and stay there as well," said Kira.
He then turned around and left towards his car and then for the Orb parliament house.
Both girls were left standing there as police finished securing the area.
"I guess we better get going," said Freya, who was majorly confused about everything that had happened today.
From coming face to face with her unknown mother and sister, to witnessing a hit man trying to kill her father and instead shooting her mother. Kyla was feeling probably the same as well.
They got to Freya's motorcycle and Freya opened the back compartment to take out a spare helmet, and handed it to Kyla, who got on the back seat and the two headed towards Morganrate.
"Hey, can I asked you something?" asked Kyla over the fast wind pressure while they were driving down the road.
"What?" replied Freya.
"Did dad say that he was going to talk with our "Aunt"?" asked Kyla.
Freya sighed, "You have a lot to learn about once we get there," said Freya.
The two then continued onward down the road towards Morganrate.
A/N: I was pondering about how I wanted to have them reunite in an instant with acceptance, but at the same time I wanted to add some drama to it, and this was the result.
For the record, the divorce in the first chapter took place right after the first war but the events of Gundam SEED Destiny still happened. So think of it like this as an alternative plot for Destiny so that the events of this story make sense.
Kira moved into the orphanage after he and flay divorced, and he raised Freya alongside the other orphans. He and lacus became a couple after Flay left for the EA, so that can still be consider the same way as in canon, but in this story they broke up some years after Destiny. Later when Freya was around 7 he and she moved back into the house that he and flay originally moved into when they got married. So basically lacus and caridad are the closest mother figures that Freya has had her whole life.
So this is more around 11-12 years after the events of Gundam SEED Destiny.
In the next chapter I am going to have the assassin interrogated, as well as Cagalli and Athrun talking over it with kira. There will also be some awkwardness when Lacus shows up as well to talk to kira.
Next chapter will also have all four family members will be in the same room together at the hospital.
Any suggestions or ideas are greatly appreciated.
Read & review please.