Chapter 2

"You're late Girls" said a male voice behind them.

The two girls turned around slowly knowing they were in trouble. They didn't know who it was for they didn't recognize the voice so they were surprised when they saw who it was.

"Patrick!" Melissa said with relief.

"Patrick? Melissa why did you call the Commander by his first name?" asked Nira giving a Salute to Patrick.

"I agree. My name is Commander Zala not Patrick, so why did you call me by that name?" asked Patrick.

"But Sir, you said that I could…" Melissa tried to defend herself.

"That was for when we were outside of any military facilities and when we are meeting on out own time."

Now, now, Patrick. Quite being such a hard nose, if you want to punish someone for being late, then how about the few people who just came in now. As for the formalities, how about you drop them just for today and tomorrow. You have already dropped one by brining me here to help with preparations and I'm just a civilian with no interest what so ever of joining the military. So what do you say? Drop them for only the next couple days?" A kind voice said defending the girls.

"Lenore?" asked Nira

"Yup!" said the blue haired women stepping out from behind her boyfriend, giving a wink to the girls.

A wide smile split on Melissa's face. Lenore was one of the kindest people she had ever met. Melissa doubted that she knew what a grudge was let alone knowing how to hold one. Lenore was able to forgive anyone for anything. She always wore a kind smile on her face.

"So what do you think of the preparations so for?" Lenore asked.

I think there's still a long way to go. We only have half the Academy ready and the Pilot division is still practicing their routine" Replied Melissa.

"Melissa! You're no fun! I think the preparations are doing fine." Nira said. She smiled and continued. "I don't know why but for some reason it feels just like I'm graduating from High School again!"

"Don't get your hopes up. As soon as you are given the certificate you will be an official soldier and will more then likely battles, you may even have to kill someone. This isn't a game anymore. You will have to kill or be killed" lectured Commander Zala.

"Commander, we know that. But we are just engineers, our job aboard a battleship, if we are assigned to one, is to keep the ship in good condition. Our duty if we are assigned to the base is to design and develop new weaponry." Melissa defended her friend.

"Believe me, your training with a gun will be coming in good use fairly soon, now more so than before because of what those Naturals are planning, both of you get your classes now!" Ordered Commander Zala.

"Yes Sir!" The girls said in unison, giving Commander Zala salute before running off.

"Patrick, don't you think that was a little harsh?" asked Lenore

Patrick looked at his girlfriend solemnly, "I know it is but it's the truth. They're still teenagers, so they will be more likely to do something reckless and end up getting themselves killed."

"You really do care for them, huh?"

"I barely know the one girl, it's Melissa I worry. She's got to be one the vest engineers we've ever had. Her ideas and designs are a little to advanced for today's technology but with a little research they're very real. Besides no matter how intelligent she is she's so clumsy that she's worse then Naturals"

"It almost seems as if you think of her as a daughter. How cute!" teased Lenore.

Okay so there's Chapter two. who would have thought Lacus's mom was an engineer in ZAFT lol. don't forget to read and reveiw