Characters: Shinn Asuka, Lunamaria Hawke
Pairings: Implied ShinnxLuna
Time frame: GSD post ep 50
Peace
The tri colored return flares of the battleships paint a beautiful lightshow through space. Lights fade and others take their place, intensity changing with distance. Fine streaks of mobile suits create delicate, ever-changing patterns.
Shinn, normally not a mind to appreciate beauty, is unable to tear his eyes away, though it is not so much for the beauty that captivates him, but what it symbolizes. The fighting, now, is over. The killing has come to an end. The war, looking at the cloud of dust and ash rising from Messiah, is close to its end as well.
He is crying, but why he doesn't know. If it is because he lost, if it is because Orb wasn't shot, if it is because the Destiny Plan failed. If he is relieved or crushed.
Luna is crying, too and he wonders what she feels.
Destiny and Impulse are lying behind them, immobile, powered down and broken into pieces. Shinn knows the Minerva is just as bad off.
"What did you really want?"
Shinn misses Mayu's cellphone in his hand as Athrun's voice is beating around in his head. He feels he needs the familiarity and cold comfort it gives him when Justice lands in front of them and offers a hand.
Even later Shinn will not be able to say what it was that made him accept.
It is the beginning of a choice. Maybe.