Characters: Lunamria Hawke, Athrun Zala, Kira Yamato
Pairings: None
Time frame: GSD post ep 28
Simple conflict
Luna is trying her best to obey the Captain's orders, but it isn't that easy and the conversation she has overheard has not been of a nature that is easily forgotten. Thanks to the intensity, the possible state secrets, the highly unexpected emotional level…
So occasionally thoughts ambush her.
It is quite a bother. She can't even look at Athrun without flashing back. Or having guilt flood her cheeks.
In this particular moment, in the pilot's lounge, with first rate view of the demolished mobile suits from the last battle and no one but Athrun, who is completely out of it, for company she can't help but be reminded.
"I don't want to shoot. Please don't make me."
The words have made an impression on her. She won't deny that. Muttered softly, pleading almost. From the person she has deduced later to be the pilot of Freedom of all people. It has blindsided her. It should have sounded like hypocrisy, but strangely, at the time it hadn't.
It is only now that Luna sees it as such; all mobile suits except Impulse down and the Savior most of all. By someone who has said he doesn't want to shoot.
It is hypocrisy. By all accounts it should be. Luna only still hesitates to think of it as such, because quite obviously Athrun, who took the bunt of it and has the most right to judge, doesn't.
Luna doesn't know what Athrun thinks of the matter, though. He has been more closed off than ever lately, but he does not seem to harbor any ill feelings. Luna doesn't know what message has been implied in Savior's destruction and it makes her wonder about a lot of things. Has the clash between the two war veterans been military or an expression of things far more personal? Or something. But again, Athrun would know best how to interpret his defeat.
Luna can only make assumptions.
"I don't want to shoot. Please don't make me."
Maybe, Luna thinks rationally, there are too many things she doesn't know. Maybe without knowing the personal history so very clearly involved, what she has heard has had a very different context.
"What is that Lacus Clyne in the PLANTs? And why was the real one almost killed by Coordinators?"
It would make somehow sense, she supposes, if that isn't what Luna is starting to think it means.
She tugs at her bandages, and glances over at Athrun only to be met by the startling green of his eyes. Quickly she looks away, frustrated.
Whatever it is, the meeting with his old comrades and the subsequent battle has hit him hard in a different sense from the damage she took.
Without knowing more about Athrun, without being a closer friend, she can't help him though. It has been a struggle to get his attention even before. Still, she hopes it will turn out alright, that Athrun will recover, and that Shinn will be put down a bit.
He is sadly a bit impossible to be around at the moment…