Never alone

Freyris

A/n: Another year has gone by and it's already 2013! Wow! Happy New Year everyone! This is going to be a surprise but this is the second to the last chapter of this fic. SOBS Another closure. Almost! I never thought I'd be writing fics and finishing another story in 2013 lol I'm really glad everyone feels the same and understands Aiden. He is just too precious. Today, everyone finds out what happens to Aiden, Meyrin and Cagalli.

I want to give a shout out to my lovely readers: falconrukichi, greatness41, Million Voices, Nina, yula206, , EternalXHaruka, mrs. zala, , ,ladycagalli1804,nitameicya, FTS-Peace and the rest my lovely readers anonymous or not. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU SOO MUCH FOR THE REVIEWS /heartspams

Million Voices: I'm very sad to say I might discontinue My Love though. ;( I've lost all my drafts about it since my old desktop died on me a couple of years back.

I hope you guys like this. Still more of the drama. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own GUNDAM SEED/DESTINY, Sunrise, Bandai.

Various machine stood beside her bed, the constant beeping sound of the machine and the shallow irregular breathing of the patient echoed in the four corners of the silent white room. She looked as pale as a sheet of paper and looked as fragile as a new born child with the outcome of the accident

A fractured arm and leg, bruises all over her body and a severe head injury.

"-But she will be alright, right doctor?"

The middle aged doctor sighed and shoved his hands in the pockets his white coat. "I...can't really say right now. The patient had entered a comatose state right after the surgery. It depends on how fast she recovers from it. It may be hours, days, months" He paused momentarily and looked at the blue haired man standing in front of him "Or in worst cases it could years. It all depends on her body responds. Also I might have to inform you that upon regaining consciousness she may experience a Post Traumatic Amnesia"

"Pardon?"

"Post Traumatic Amnesia. "The doctor repeated. "Due to the injury she sustained from the accident she developed a traumatic head injury which caused her to under go coma and most likely would experience PTA the moment she wakes up."The doctor peeked at the red head lying motionless on the bed. She had a bandage wrap around her head, a cast on her right arm and left arm, a neck brace and a bruises all over her face.

"So you mean Meyrin won't be able to recognize me or even my daughter or even anyone of us?"Athrun asked.

The doctor pursed his lips and nodded his head. "There are a variety of amnesia's We will have to run several tests and thorough examination to confirm everything first" He replied "I'll have my nurses follow up the procedures as soon as she shows signs of recovery. Now, if you will excuse me I still have to check on the other patient" He said before turning a heel and walking towards the other side of the hallway.

Athrun messed his hair and leaned on the wall. He really wanted to cry right now but he had to pull himself together he still had to see Aiden who as well almost sustained the same injuries as Meyrin had.

"Athrun!Oh my goodness!"

He looked up and saw his mother running towards him. Her face literally showed signs of horror and worry. "What happened?! Where's Meyrin!?" She asked holding her son up. He looked very messed up and had a few stains of red on his shirt. "Tell me what happened? How is she?"

"It was a car accident. She...jumped on a car that was speeding towards...Aiden"He looked down and shook his head unable to finish his sentence.

"Oh Haumea!"Lenore gasped as she got a grip of what happened and hugged her son. "How is she holding right now?"

"She's stable right now but she's in coma"

The older Zala put a hand over her mouth and felt a few tears sting her eyes. "W-what about Aiden? Where's Cagalli?"She suddenly remembered her grandson and his mother "Where are they?"

Athrun made no motion to speak and remained his gaze on the floor

"Athrun don't tell me.."

Kira stepped on the gas and sped up the highway with his wife sobbing right beside him. He tightly gripped on the wheel as he turned on a curve road and headed up the hospital straight ahead.

THe moment Cagalli called him up sounding barely understandable made him jump off his seat immediately.

"Cagalli! Calm down!" Kira said signaling his wife to come closer to him. "Why are you crying? WHere are you right now? What's wrong?"

"I'montheway"Cagalli sobbed "tothehospital"

"What?"

"Aiden's getting rushed to the hospital right now" She bawled

"WHAT?!"Kira's eyes widened and looked at Lacus. "Where are you guys headed we'll be there as soon as possible!"

Kira listened to Cagalli as she relayed to him the information on to where they were headed and told her to calm down and stay strong.

"Kira go find Cagalli! I need to go to the bathroom first" Lacus winced a little holding her bulging stomach and looked for the comfort room.

Kira nodded and searched for Aiden's designated room. When he located the room, the first thing he noticed inside the room was the small young girl lying on the couch. She was curled up on the sofa and had a blanket over her small thin frame and was fast asleep. "Cathleen?"he blinked several times and walked over the bed curtains.

He pushed the bed curtains a little and his heart sunk the moment he saw his nephew lying on the bed with a bandage wrapped around his head with a few bruises on his once cheerful face.

"Stay strong baby. Don't give up. Don't leave me. Don't leave mommy alright" Cagalli's voice croaked "Just wake up. We can go back to the beach or the amusement park like you wanted" Her shaking hands reached for his bruised cheek and another batch of tears escaped her eyes.

"Cagalli?"

The blonde looked back and found her twin standing behind her. "K-kira/" She reached for her twin and hugged him tightly as she cried. "Oh Kira"

Kira sighed and patted her head, comforting his twin. It must have been traumatic on her part for her to cry like this. "How did this happen? " he asked.

"we were in a cafe having lunch together with Cathleen and Athrun" She pursed her lips and clasped her hand together. She saw Lacus enter the room silently and walked beside Kira. She decided to leave out a few details and continued to narrate"Aiden stormed out of the cafe and that's when the accident happened"

Aiden sobbed and wiped his tears with the back of his hand as he continued to walk farther from the cafe. He was happy he still had a father but he hated the fact that all along his father was there yet he couldn't stay with him and his mother. He didn't understand why Athrun was living with Meyrin and that he sees his mother cry over him his father who he had believed had never existed.

He continued to walk and kept crying like a lost child not aware of his surroundings or where he actually was headed to. The next thing he knew he was in the air for a few seconds and everything went blank.

Cagalli arrived at the scene a few minutes later. She felt her heart sink down to her stomach the moment she noticed an ambulance speeding towards the end of the pedestrian lane. People gathered around the area and she found herself squeezing herself among the crowd. Her knees began to tremble as she ease herself closer to the scene and when she finally got a good look her knees gave up and she fell on the ground screaming her sons name.

On the ground laid two motionless bodies. One was her son the other was none other than Meyrin. "M-meyrin?"

"Excuse me, Let us through"Athrun yelled. He had ran after Cagalli when she tried catching up with Aiden and arrived a few moments after Cagalli had collapsed on the ground.

Athrun stepped forward and gasped the moment he saw Meyrin and Aiden still on the hard ground "Aiden! Meyrin!" He rushed towards them but was stopped by the medics

"Sir please refrain from getting close to the victims."the man said.

"Let me pass that's my child and my girlfriend!"he screamed at him.

Meyrin had rushed into Aiden side just in time and pushed him out of harms way instead she was the one ran over by the car. Her body slamming hard against the speeding car, up on the hood and rolling on the side while Aiden was thrown aside towards the gutter. Whoever the driver was, got away with a hit and run case thus stirring a big commotion on the busy streets of Orb.

"That bastard" Kira gritted his teeth and seethed angrily.

"What did the doctor say? How is Meyrin and Aiden?" Lacus asked wiping her tears and holding Aiden's hand. "Our poor baby"

"He had a few stitches on the head and mild concussion due to the impact when he hit the gutter. He hasn't woken up yet since then" Cagalli sobbed. "What if Aiden-"

"Cagalli" Kira cut his twin in mid-sentence and shook his head "Don't be so negative. Aiden's one tough kid. He takes after you"He reassured her giving her hand a comforting squeeze "He's going to be alright."

A sudden knock on the door disturbed them and revealed their doctor holding up a chart. "Aiden Hibiki?"

"Yes Doctor" Cagalli nodded her head and wiped her tears. The doctor gave a curt nod and walked towards Aiden's bed examining him as he glanced at Aidens chart tiime to time."How is he? Why isn't my son waking up yet?"

"Calm down Miss Hibiki, Mild concussions aren't that serious but shouldn't be taken lightly. Your son looks a lot better compared to how he was earlier and he will regain consciousness within 24 hours and when he wakes up I would like to conduct a few test on him before I let him go." The middle aged doctor smiled at the worrying blonde. "I want to make sure there aren't any possible secondary effects."

"Please Doctor" Kira said "Please do everything to make sure my nephew will be okay."

"We will sir."

Their doctor instructed them a few more things to remember and left. Cagalli was now sitting on the couch with Cathleen's head rested on her lap while Kira and Lacus sat on Aiden's bedside.

"M-mommy?" Cathleen mumbled and turned around and pull her blanket closer to her chest.

"I'm right here, sweetheart" Cagalli whispered back and brushed her blue fringes as she sleep. Cathleen cuddled closer to Cagalli and remained asleep. Cathleen was fortunate enough not to see what happened to her Mama Meyrin and her twin Aiden on the street. It would have been traumatic on her part if she saw the motionless on the ground. And it was something Cagalli didn't want her to experience.

"She seems very comfortable on your lap"

The blonde looked up to find Lacus smiling down at her and sat beside her. "For some odd reasons she's like Aiden" She giggled.

Cagalli smiled a little and nodded her head. "She does doesn't she?"

"Cagalli?"The very pregnant Lacus looked at her sister in law reluctantly "Is...there something you aren't telling us?" Leave it to Lacus who is keen in observation. She didn't study psychology and human behavior for nothing. "I've been meaning to ask you about this. Ever since we came back from Aunt Caridad. I've noticed that your actions had changed and your explanation to Kira and I about the accident was sort of vague."

"I.."Cagalli took a deep breath and closed her eyes. "I might have been lying to you guys"she said softly.

Lacus kept calm and looked at her. She wasn't the type of person who immediately jumps into conclusions unlike her husband and somehow she sensed Cagalli had some story behind it and she wanted to hear it first.

Cagalli reflected for a few seconds about what she was about to reveal to her sister in law before she opened her mouth to speak. "I know I haven't been vocal about how I ended up with Aiden years back or who Aiden's father was. " She said looking down at Cathleen again and brushing her light rose colored cheek. "Athrun and I " She inhaled a deep breath and glanced up at her sister in law "used to go out before and he is Aiden's father"

"Oh my!"Lacus gasped. Finally the pieces of the unsolved puzzle were all falling into place. Why Meyrin felt inferior of this girl Athrun used to date. Why the two of them weren't really married. It became crystal clear that the reason behind it was most probably because Athrun was still in love with this girl who turns out to be her sister in law. "Does Aiden know?"

The blonde nodded her head and smiled weakly "And Aiden has a sibling" She said looking at Cathleen "Aiden's twin. Cathleen"

"Dear Haumea" Lacus felt like fainting. She had a niece. A very adorable bubbly niece. "Does Kira know any of this?"

Cagalli shook her head "No...not yet"

Athrun cursed silently as he touched his stinging red cheek. Meyrin's older sister arrived a few moments ago and smacked him right on the cheek with an open palm. He deserved it actually. He hadn't taken care of Meyrin as he had promised her. If he did she wouldn't be lying on the hospital bed comatose isn't it not.

"D-Don't you dare come close to Meyrin ever again!" She screamed

"Luna ..I"

"Get out Athrun! Get out" Luna breathed fire, enraged at the situation her little sister had to go through.

He valued his life and opted to try and visit his son who was staying at the other end of the long hallway. Hopefully, Cagalli would let him see Aiden. He knew Cagalli is twice scarier than Luna but he had to face her no matter what.

He knocked twice but none to avail but on his third attempt the door suddenly swung open revealing a seething Kira Hibiki. "WHERE THE FUCK IS HE!" He yelled.

"Kira please!" Lacus begged and tried to pull him back inside.

Athrun blinked a few times and saw Cagalli's twin glare at him "You!" Kira hissed and his fist connected with Athrun's jaw causing him to stumble back on the floor. "So this was your plan all along!?" He asked hovering on top of Athrun and gripping his shirt, angrily "Get close to my sister again and hurt her and her son?! Not to mention you even involved your own girlfriend!"

"Kira stop it!" Lacus cried as she tried to pull her husband away from the silent blue head.

"You were the one who impregnated my sister and left her alone with Aiden! You've made her cry countless times and you still have the guts to show your face to her? To us!?" He gripped Athrun's shirt tighter while his amethyst orbs glowed furiously.

"Kira Stop it already! You're drawing too much attention!" Cagalli called supporting the sobbing Lacus. "WE'RE IN A FUCKING HOSPITAL DAMN IT" She screamed trying to pry her twin away from the curbed Athrun.

The brunette grumbled and punched Athrun one last time before standing up. "And that's for my niece...She could have grown up with a mother if you hadn't taken her away"he hissed at him.

Athrun remained quiet and silently received the blows Cagalli's twin gave him a few moments ago. He accepted it without holding any grudge against Kira. He deserved it anyway. He was a douchebag for leaving Cagalli for an invalid and worthless reason and even dragged their daughter with him. He sat back on the floor and wiped the blood trickling down his lips and shook his head lightly. For a gentle brother he sure can pack a punch.

And yes, the world sure hates him right now. He silently laughed morosely and tried to steady himself up on his two feet before he went to the infirmary to get his face all cleaned up.

"Athrun, I'm trying to talk to your father" Lenore sighed as he sat beside her son on the infirmary bed. "Sometimes he can really be stubborn."

"I'll handle this mom. You don't have to interfere"

"Athrun, darling. "Lenore took his sons hand and patted it. "If I was there back then I would have stopped your her father from looking for you and destroying the family you should have started. I am a mother and a wife Athrun, and I regret not being able to stand up for you as your mother and protected you from your father's selfish plans. If I had known something like this would happen ..." She shook her head and sighed. Her voice sounded so regretful and she smiled weakly. "I wouldn't have left for Februarius on that agricultural study"

"But mother that time you had to finish that study. It was so important to you"

Lenore shook her head again and looked at her son. "No, I had failed to be a wife to Patrick and let him decide on his own and even try to correct what he was planning. I should have been a better mother to you as well. My family is much more important than that study but I failed to see it that you guys were. I'm so sorry"

Athrun shooked his head "Mother, everything I did wasn't because you weren't a good mother in fact you are the greatest mother to me neither was it because you weren't the best wife to father. What I did is mainly my fault because I never really stood up for myself and tried to run away from everything when I know I'm in pinch. I ran away from home with Cagalli when Father said I had to meet with my fiancee, I left Cagalli alone because I thought he would hurt her and separate us even more."

"Oh Athrun" Lenore sighed and hugged her son.

When things settled down and Kira was asleep on the couch beside Lacus. Cagalli decided to get herself a can of coffee from the vending machine, outside and try to walk around the hospital garden. A walk was probably the best way for her try and calm down with all that was happening to her.

Among the benches lined up in parallel within the small garden, she found Athrun deep in thought and hesitated to sit beside him at first. Her mind argued whether or not she should talk to him or not but in the end her body betrayed her and she found herself walking towards him and sitting beside him.

"Hey" He smiled weakly and looked down. "Sorry about earlier"

Cagalli shook her head and remained silent. He stared at the gauze taped on his cheek and his swollen lips. Kira hit him right square on the face. Slowly, her hand reached for his cheeks and frowned. "Sorry my brother lost his temper a while ago. He isn't really like that. " She said. Athrun just had most likely been unlucky today. Cagalli had just finish explaining to Kira and Lacus her whole story and Kira was already going in berserk when Athrun stood infront of the Aiden's room then the rest was history

"Kira can sure throw a punch. It's like a 7 year worth of punches in his fist. I nearly broke my face" He quirked a remark attempting to lighten the mood a little. "Although it hurts and I deserve it" his voice slowly trailed off.

"Yeah" Cagalli nodded and fiddled with the can of coffee in her hands. "Aiden is..."

"hmm?"

"doing fine. He had a mild concussion but the doctor said it wasn't that serious and Cathleen's still asleep"she said as Athrun nodded. "What about Meyrin?"

"She's in coma right now but she's stable"He replied.

Cagalli gasped and pursed her lips. "Oh..."

The midnight blue haired young man sighed and stood up from his seat. "Cagalli, when Aiden regains consciousness please process the papers for Cathleen's custody." He said without looking at her.

"Huh?"

"I might leave Cathleen in your care now"

AND THERE YOU HAVE IT. Second the last chapter still filled with craziness! Lol I hope you guys don't mind. :O So what is Athrun planning and how will these two make up? Will Athrun still stay with Meyrin? WILL CAGALLI FEEL WHOLE AGAIN or at least have a complete family? HMMM. Find out in the last chapter! Dundunduuun!

I hope my knowledge with regards to medicine and health problems proved worthy in explaining Meyrin and Aiden's situations. I tried to explain it realistic as possible but do forgive me if it went a little overboard. I stopped working in the hospital for a year now so yeah there might be a few things that may sound wrong there. EEP! Sorry! T_T

So yeah, Patrick may have an influence in Athrun's character here so please do watch out next chapter when the main villain appears! LOL just kidding.

Lastly, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. :O

Tell me what do you think of today's chapter guys. So please do drop a comment just below this note. I'll be waiting.

Freyris