Ah, I've been gone away from fanfiction for so long that I didn't notice how much things have changed.
1) I can't write anymore, but I will try my best to please you all. So, with that said, I'll still keep writing, even though I can't.
2) Um… the preview thingy is gone. I guess I just have to rely on fanfiction to get my pages right? Ha, as if THAT will happen. Normally I have to go through them on the site and bold words and center stuff…but now… I'm lost. I hate FF and its confusing-ness.
3)THIS IS SO SHORT. Sorry. When I write more, I'll post it as the next chapter. Usually, my chapters are 6 pages on paper, 3 typed. This one… isn't even 2 typed… And its just going downhill. I'll try to make the next chapter VERY long, okay?
And with all of that said, please enjoy the chapter.

"How long have I been here?"
"A week." Lacus' voice showed her concern, but I still liked to turn and see it in her eyes. "I've told you that ten times in the past hour Athy." She was the only one that ever used that pet-name for me besides Kira.
"Oh." I sighed a little. I kept forgetting, it felt like and eternity. "But I thought they said that they were only keeping me for a few days…"
"yes Athrun." I didn't look to see the eye-roll this time. No point, I figured it was inevitable. To be honest I was simply talking to fill the silence…and we both knew it.

Kira (by some power he felt the need to avoid discussing) was getting better faster than anyone had foreseen, and that made me happy. Still, he was getting out of here later than which made sense since his injuries were a lot more serious.
"Miss Takato dropped all charges yesterday." Lacus flattened out the pleats in her skirt and smiled to herself. I knew something was going to happen when Lacus Clyne herself decided to…ur…'help' with the various charges and other related things I knew would be facing me once I got out of the hospital, but she was very quick about it…maybe too quick.

"Lacus…" My groan made her shift and straighten herself up a bit more in the chair at my side. I told you not to do anything rash. And I said that I would pay whatever fine or anything…"
"Hush now. All I did was mention your nam-"
I couldn't stop myself from slightly hissing at her. She knew I hated to use my name to get my way, but she also knew how easy it was. A lot of people here were still Patrick Zala fan-zombies (to my dismay) and would love to treat me like I was him. I guess they were too focused on my father to realize that I had been doing the exact opposite of what he so strongly believed in?

I almost shrugged in response to my thoughts, but caught myself just in time. It wasn't unlike me to do something so stupid and absentminded, but I still liked to think it was just the medication that I had just been given (Or was that an hour ago?). Still, nothing could prepare me for the rest of her statement, or what I caught of it at least...
"-and I think that she might really like me."
"Who?"
"Cagalli" I actually choked on the air I was inhaling to answer her with, and began a coughing fit. The really dark glare that I received in return would have shut me up, had I not been choking for real. "Fine then." Her face suddenly reminded me of that Pokémon…a Jigglypuff I think… and I started to laugh on top of my coughing – unable to defend myself from her vicious glares. "Be and ass about it. But don't expect any sympathy from me when-…oh never mind." She suddenly got up from the chair and stormed to the door of the room. Trying to stop her, I sat up and weakly called her name through my fit, but she continued to ignore me and reached for the knob.

She didn't have to open it herself, however, as a nurse did the honors for her and walked in with a smile. And then it closed, the 'pink princess' leaving with what I could only assume was a total misunderstanding.
"And how are we now?" The nurse sounded sickly sweet like she usually did, but it really got to me today. At least it took my mind from Lacus – that, and the pain killers she supplied were the only things that kept me from hating her and that tone. I groaned in response and shrugged and she smiled at me a bit more. "Well, your time here is almost up! Once that medication wears off, I'll be back and we can get a taxi to take you home, okay? Your friend won't be out for another two days, but he's recovering amazingly – you two should consider yourselves lucky!" Despite myself, I nodded and smiled, sitting myself up more on the pillows that lacus had placed behind me….before she hated me I guess. I just didn't get it, why was she so upset?
….Girls…Impossible to figure out…

I decided that once I got home I would call her over for tea or something (She liked having tea, right?) and talk it over with her, try to apologize for…whatever I did wrong. Signing once again, I let the nurse take her measurements of blood pressure and the like as I closed my eyes. Kira... I wouldn't have long before I saw him again. Every minute that he was away from me, even if it was just in the next room, felt heavy and dragged out, like someone in charge of the time was just doing it out of spite towards me. After all, it was my fault that he was in here. I was stupid…I wasn't thinking, or rather I was thinking too much. The days that had gone by were simply constructed of agony, and it was nothing that the painkillers could fix, unlike my head.

"Everyone makes mistakes, Athrun." His voice had been too soft, too shaky for my liking. He was still scared and still very much in pain. Seeing the bandages up close had made me want to die, although it was a relief to see how much better he was getting even in the week we had been there. "Its not like you meant for us to get hurt right? And the lady in the other car was fine." Always worried about other people first. At least the crash didn't affect his personality. He told me that there would be a lot of scarring, but unlike Yzak, he would get it removed...for me, he had said. For me, so that I wouldn't have to feel guilty whenever I looked at him. He knows me so well that I don't even have to speak anymore, and I suppose that's a good thing because although that would be true, I would never in a million years admit to that.

For right now, as I feel the nurse pull the needles out of my skin and prod the bandages around my head, I know that both of us will live, and that thought calms me down some. After all the years of trying to kill each other in Gundams or with various guns, there was no way I was going to kill him by running a red light.


And that's all from me for today~ Please review or just send me your lovely comments as usual. Heaven forbid my readers know that I reply to every. single. one. :D Next chapter to come hopefully soon~