Never Alone
Freyris
A/n: Loving all the theories everyone is speculating. XD Maan, I feel like an evil authoress or something suddenly. But I can't spill the beans in one go that would totally kill the story ...even if I wanted to just to answer all your questions. I hope you guys don't mind tho ;u; Everyone is awesome. The reviews made me really happy so I ended up updating quickly. XD YEY!
Shiloah18: Well, Aiden calling Kira and Lacus , Papa and Mama respectively is just like calling them Uncle and Aunty. I just thought it would make Aiden cuter.
Disclaimer: I do not own GUNDAM SEED/DESTINY, Sunrise, Bandai.
"Aiden! Come play with us!" The young boy yelled waving at him while he carried a ball on the other hand.
Young Aiden grinned nodded his head. He ran towards the field passing by a girl attempting to climb a tree. He stopped midway and observed the girl before making a detour and approached the girl climbing up the tree first.
"Hey! You shouldn't climb trees! It's dangerous!" He yelled.
Cathleen looked down to find his classmate, Aiden looking up at her with a frown. "It's okay I'm used to climbing trees!" She replied waving her hands at him.
"Then I'm coming up too!" Aiden suddenly decided and hugged the tree as he attempted to climb up.
The young girl giggled at his miserable attempts to climb and stretched her arms towards him to help him climb up. When he was able to, he sat beside her on the branch.
"Woah! You can see everyone from here!" He said in awe. He could see the field clearly and his classmates playing kick ball across the field. "It's like you're flying!" He laughed.
"It's my favorite place." Cathleen grinned and pulled out a small bag of biscuits from her mini sling bag "Want some?"
"Sure!" Aiden said.
Three weeks had passed since their class started. Aiden and Cathleen became best of friends instantly. Surprisingly, they had a lot in common. From liking comics and shows to the weirdest food, Meat stuffed cabbage. A lot of their classmates have been saying they look like siblings. But they weren't. Aiden was a Hibiki and Cathleen was a Zala.
"I told you he is not my brother!" Cathleen said in defense.
"Yeah, it just we have the same hair color you know." Aiden agreed. "A lot of people can have blue hair you know! Just like your orange hair!" He said knowingly.
"If you say so…" one of their classmates shrugged her shoulders and looked around. "Tag you're it!" She suddenly screamed and tapped Aiden on the shoulder before running away, giggling.
"Hey!" the young boy groaned and turned to face Cathleen. But she started running away as well joining in the game.
"at the count of three alright?"
"one"
"two"
"three"
A few seconds of silence pass through the phone line and a laughter emerged on the other end of Athrun's phone.
"I thought we're hanging up on three?"
Athrun chuckled and a smile crept on his face. "Yeah. but I just wanted to hear you one last time "
"Sweet talker. I'm hanging up on you"
"I love you!"
"I love you too!"
Athrun's eyes snapped open when he heard a shrilling sound of a child screaming daddy from the door and footsteps trudging down their small hallway towards his study.
"Daddyyyy!"
The miniature him launched herself on the couch he was lying on and hugged him tightly. "You're back! You're back!" she said excitedly repeatedly.
Athrun chuckled and sat up while he hugged his daughter. He kissed her on the forehead and sat up with her. "Yes, I am sorry I'm late princess."
Cathleen pouted and stared at his father "You said you'd come home after two weeks" She crossed her arms on her chest. Her father laughed at her behavior and patted her head.
"I know, I'm sorry" He said and remembered something." Ah! I got you something!"
Suddenly, her frown turned upside down into a smile. "Really, really?"
"Calm down child" Meyrin emerge from the hallway and smiled at Athrun. "Welcome home." Athrun nodded at her with a smile and reached out for the paper bag behind the couch.
"Tadaa!" Athrun showed Cathleen a huge paper bag and his daughter squealed in delight. She grabbed the paper bag and sat on the floor opening the package her father had brought home with him. Athrun stood up and approached Meyrin, giving her a kiss on the forehead and apologized. "Sorry, I wasn't able to get you anything other than chocolates"
Meyrin laughed and watched Cathleen smile grow wide. "It's okay, as long Cathleen is happy I am too." She said wrapping an arm on his waist as Athrun to her shoulder.
"WOW A BIG KITTY!" Cathleen hugged the stuffed toy and ran to Athrun to give him a hug and a peck on the cheek. "Thank you daddy!"
Athrun smiled and nodded his head "Anything for my little girl"
"and then Cathleen launched herself towards her dad" Meyrin laughed as Cagalli nodded her head.
Cagalli and Meyrin met again at the school waiting shed while waiting for their children to be dismissed from class. Coincidentally, they both had the same break from work and had the time to pick their children up.
"Looks like you got yourself a happy family" Cagalli half smiled. "It's cute…"
Meyrin nodded lightly and observed Cagalli as the blonde looked at her feet. "In a way yes I suppose. How about you?"
The blonde shook her head and smiled at Meyrin. "Just your regular working single mother"
"Oh I-I'm sorry?" Meyrin felt stupid for asking Cagalli and she felt sorry suddenly.
"It's fine. Don't let it bother you." Cagalli smiled. "Even if Aiden doesn't have a father. He still has a man to look up to. So I'm not worried."
"A man? You mean like a boyfriend?"
Again Cagalli laughed and crossed her arms on her chest as she leaned on her seat "No, no. I don't have a boyfriend. Aiden looks up to my brother." She explained. " He sort of stood up as Aiden's second father...and I'm very thankful for that."
"I see." Meyrin looked up at the sky and sighed as the sky rumbled "Uh-oh..."
"This is bad…" Cagalli searched for an umbrella in her bag and sighed. She forgot her umbrella at home. She and Aiden would have to wait for the rain to stop before they could go home. "Damn, I should have taken Lacus' advice this morning"
Meyrin noticed the blonde starting to panic when they noticed the sky turning to a darker shade of gray and rumble. "Is there anything wrong?" She asked.
"I forgot my umbrella" The blonde groaned and sighed. "Guess we'll take shelter at the school or here at the shed and wait for the rain to stop."
"Here.." Meyrin offered hers and smiled "Take mine."
"Are you sure? But what about you and Cathleen?"Cagalli tried to refuse the kindness Meyrin was giving her. I mean they've only met three times. She was kind, really sweet but she didn't know how to repay this kindness.
"We have a ride home. Trust me" Meyrin held Cagalli's hand and placed her umbrella on her hand. "Take it. I won't take no for an answer and besides it's better than getting soaked in the rain with a child, Cagalli."
"Thank you." Cagalli smiled gratefully.
Athrun drummed his hands on the stirring wheel while waiting for the green signal to light up. Meyrin had called earlier saying that she and Cathleen were going to wait for him in the cafe near Cathleen's school since she let her friend borrow her umbrella.
He watched as the pedestrians crossed the lane hurriedly and caught a glimpse of a blonde female and a blue haired child crossing in front of his car holding up a pink umbrella. The rain was falling hard against his windshield making it hard to recognize their faces but he was sure of what he saw.
Without thinking, he stepped out of his car and searched for the two people he saw crossing just a minute earlier. The rain continued to pour as he turned and looked around for them. Unfortunately, there were too many umbrellas that he couldn't see their face.
"Dude! Get out of the way!" The taxi driver screamed as he popped his head out of his window and honk his car.
Athrun now drenched top to bottom snapped back to reality and stepped back in his black convertible car as the light was still on green.
"What happened to you?" Meyrin gasped as she pulled out a handkerchief and wiped Athrun's face. Cathleen snickered from behind the drivers seat.
"Daddy did you leave the roof open again?" She asked as she leaned on her seat behind her father
Athrun chuckled "No, princess." Without any further reply he silently focused himself on driving as Meyrin glanced at him on her peripheral as if sensing something was wrong but she didn't press on that matter. She knew that whatever was bothering him, he would talk about it sooner or later to her.
So we finally have our little father-daughter moment and an itsy bitsy AthMey /hides from pitchforks. Like I said I'm trying to build everyone's character relationship per chapter so do expect.. unexpected scenes. ummm, once in a while. I won't say what kind of. I bet you guys know who Athrun saw now right?~ fufufu~ I hope you guys liked this chapter too!
Now, here's a piece of good news. Next chapter is the most awaited meeting!
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Edited: March 30, 2020- Freyris