alright! So i'm finally updating, sorry it's kinda short, but next chapter is much longer. Anyway enjoy this chapter and i promise to update much sooner!! :) i don't own Gundam!
Dearka watched Shiho with confusion as she stormed into the Council hall. It wasn't sure what she was doing, but he was worried. She was acting very determined and she was also extremely emotional. He had to keep a close eye on her, because he really had no idea what she was planning on doing.
"Oh, Ms. Joule…wait you can't just…" but Shiho had already pushed the door open, completely ignoring the receptionist.
"What are you doing?" Dearka asked quickly chasing after her. He ignored her and stood before the Council.
"Where is Chairwoman Clyne?"
"Shiho…Hahenfuss…sorry, Joule," a member said quickly standing up.
"Shiho!" Shiho's father stood up. "What is the meaning of this?"
"I'm hear to speak only to Chairwoman Clyne, in regards to taking my husbands spot on the Council…while he's away," she said firmly and folded her arms. Her father grabbed her arm and pulled her outside. "What are you doing?" she snapped, once outside the room.
"What are YOU doing? Are you fucking insane?" her father spat.
"How is this insane? Is this anymore insane than giving a man a death sentence by forcing him to the fight terrorists!" she spat back. Her father winced.
"Lacus will never allow this! It goes against every policy, every procedure!" her father yelled again, ignoring her last statement.
"So you won't deny it. Besides if he is…dead, someone needs to replace him and why not me?!" she yelled.
"The public has to vote…"
"Bullshit! You're still not denying," she repeated.
"Look, you're very hormonal right now, being pregnant and hearing this recent news…its unsettling. You don't have to speak to Lacus today. You should think about this," he father said quietly. He looked down. "And I…I didn't vote to send…" he whispered placing his hands on his shoulders and she wiggled free.
"How could you? He was my husband! I loved him…I fucking love him! He was your son-in-law. He fathered your grandchildren! What would mother say?" she yelled.
"Shiho…please calm down," he said.
"CALM DOWN? Don't you even dare…" she raised her hand, but was stopped by Dearka.
"Shiho! Please…your father's right about one thing. You need to calm down." She whipped around to face Dearka.
"Do you know what my father did?" Dearka nodded.
"Of course but…" Shiho faced her father once more.
"Tell me…are they dead? Yzak…and that girl Annie Douglas?"
"I don't know…we didn't plan for any of this to happen. We just didn't want him here…"
"Damn it all!" she yelled.
"Shiho? What's going on here?" Lacus said, entering the room with Kira.
"Lacus," Dearka said happily.
"Lacus…I want to take Yzak's seat on the Council…you need a straight head on this crooked Council," she said shooting a glare at her father.
"Shiho…I understand why you ask this…but I can't give Yzak's seat away unless he's confirmed dead or MIA for over 6 months, and it's only been about a month now," she said sadly.
"I understand that. I don't want to take it…I want to hold it," she said firmly.
"Hold it? Well…" she paused glancing towards Kira and Dearka. She walked towards Shiho and grabbed her hand. "I think…I think I could allow that. At least until the 6 months or confirmation or Yzak's return…hopefully the latter," she said.
"But Chairwoman!" Shiho's father yelled. Lacus raised her hand to stop him.
"Shiho…" Lacus said casually. "How are you? We've been meaning to visit," Lacus pulled her into a hug.
"I'm doing alright…" she said quietly. "As well as possible. Right now though…I want to see my doctor. I'm in a lot of pain…" she said quietly.
"Shiho everything is perfectly fine," Doctor Alexis Ameliay said. Shiho sighed. That was the understatement of the year. She was relieved that the baby was alright. "But you are…stressing yourself, which is not ok. Understandable though," she said. "Please try to be calm," she smiled. "I hope Yzak comes home soon." Shiho nodded.
"You have no idea how much I want that," she replied. Shiho exited the room and was greeted by Miriallia, Dearka and her father. "What the hell are you doing here?" she snapped.
"Can't I come make sure my daughter is alright? I care about your health," he said.
"If you cared about me at all, you wouldn't have sent my husband away," she snapped and walked away before he could even respond.
"Get in there Coordinator scum!" A guard tossed Annie back into the cell and threw her clothes in after her. They landed on her back. She wrapped her arms around herself and rocked back and forth whimpering slightly. She kept shaking her head and whispering, "No…please don't touch me." It had been the 3rd time they had taken her that week. But Yzak felt himself slowly losing track of time. They had to have been gone for about 3 months by now. 3 months was a long time to be MIA. Everyone probably assumed he was dead. Shiho was all he could think about. She was alone, pregnant and all he wanted was return to her side.
Kitteridge hadn't called for him lately, but she had given her guards full permission to do whatever they pleased with them. This, of course had left Annie defenseless. They had never taken Yzak, but Annie had been taken countless times. Each time she had returned worse and worse and now it seemed as though she wasn't going to come back. Yzak rose and knelt in front of her.
"Annie…it's done…no more," he said placing a hand on her shoulder.
"NO!" she screamed and punched Yzak's chest. "No, no, no more please…" she punched him repeatedly until she glanced up and looked at him in shock. "C…commander?" she whispered.
"Sorry, but I needed to snap you out of it," he said making his way to the other side of the room as she began to put her clothes back on.
"I want…to die before they come back."
"What?" he snapped. "Don't talk like that," he said.
"I…" she glanced at him. "You don't know what it's like…to be touched when you don't want to and the pain…oh it burns…" she buried her face in her hands. Yzak began to reach out but stopped himself. It was obvious that the last thing she wanted was to be touched.
"Hey!" A guard opened the cell.
"Don't you think you've used her enough!" Yzak yelled, standing in front of her.
"Well the captain wants you," he said. Yzak smirked. It was finally time to get out of here.
Weeks passed and the commotion about the missing soldiers slowly dwindled. Shiho was sitting in on the Council meetings, but she was finding it harder and harder to attend. She was tired more often, but mostly she hated the stares she got. The sympathetic stares that were almost fake. Keeley kept pestering her about when Yzak would call and the pressure was making her crack. She had broken down with Miriallia the other day and she found herself crying herself to sleep at night.
"There's got to be something…" Miriallia said to Dearka as they left Shiho's house one night.
"I'm starting to believe…that he isn't coming back," he said sadly.
"Poor Shiho…Keeley," Miriallia whispered.
"She won't even look at her father."
"That's understandable," Miriallia replied.
"I guess, but God if only Yzak could see this mess he's created. Dumb bastard."
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