Characters: Meyrin Hawke
Parings: None
Time frame: post Destiny
Meyrin, of Terminal
Despite popular belief on the Minerva, Meyrin actually doesn't wish she hadn't covered for Athrun when he had come to her room.
She has never regretted it and over time she has grown proud of what she has done. She doesn't regret deserting ZAFT, fighting against it.
She has done what she has believed to be right.
From the small wish of wanting to help Athrun, she has seen more of the world, has seen the wrongness hiding behind the Chairman, has been given and taken the chance to decide what she wants to fight for on her own. Meyrin has courage to stand up now. And confidence.
She has changed; matured and grown up some, without having been broken like Shinn.
Deserting would always be answered with court-martial and even if all charges are dropped, which has been unlikely at the time, a black note is be added to her record and stay with her for life.
Still, Meyrin only regrets fighting against her sister.
She is proud of belonging to the other side, of understanding what it is that should drive people, what people who desire peace, don't want to fight, but still have the courage and sense of duty to are like.
Her friends on the Minerva, who are all happy that she is alive and back and cleared of all charges, do not understand that. What it means to her. Not even Luna does completely. She doubts even Athrun does.
But that is all right.
It is what Meyrin thinks that matters.
And so she is now able to tell her friends off when they are bothering her a bit too much and are a bit too persistent. Her experience and time on the Archangel and the Eternal have happened and they weren't a TV drama with perfection and plot. She doesn't know Lacus-sama's favorite food and while she knows her favorite flowers doesn't mean Meyrin is going to tell. Just because she is friends with Lacus-sama does not mean she will get a signature for anyone.
Will everyone please stop asking?