category: Gundam SEED
disclaimer: I don't own it.
FIVE.
Murrue moved back into the mansion in Orb that she and Andrew Waltfeld had shared prior to the second war, this time with Mu in tow and no job commitment to Morgenroete. The place was still in disarray from the failed assault of Lacus so very long ago, but it gave the two some work to do the first week there.
"Andy, won't you please come live with us?" Murrue had pleaded with him numerous times. "You and I, we've seen each other every day for the last three and a half years. It'll be so strange without you."
"You know I've already bought a cabana two islands over." Andy answered the same way each time. "I'll be fishing. Always wanted to as a kid, but of course we don't have oceans in space."
"Don't think you can get away from us!" Mu had laughed and thrown his arm across Andy's shoulders. "You'll be coming over more often than you'd like, I'm sure."
He did. Three times a week, Andy dropped by with the day's best catch and he brewed fresh coffee and they all sat out by the sea, waves lapping at bare feet. They ate, and reminisced, and usually lapsed into a familiar silence just as the stars appeared. Trying to escape the remembrances of the war was futile, so they talked and told the same stories one hundred times and were happy.
notes: I don't think a lot of people realize just how bad Andy's life is. Aisha is dead; he doesn't have a left arm; his left eye is useless. I feel bad for him, because he really is a great character (GS 19, anyone?).
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