Author's notes: All the standard stuff applies. I don't Athrun Zala or Meyrin Hawke, I don't own Gundam SEED DESTINY or Gundam saga. SUNRISE is the corporation lucky enough to own them and the series they come from.

(PLANT: Aprilius 1: Apartment complex 05-D, Apartment 3560)

The sun started to peek through the blinds in the moderately sized bedroom of the two bedroom apartment. Even though it was artificial it still had the same brightness as the real thing. The two occupants of the room did not stir.

One was a beautiful woman of plain complexion, simple and fair. Her scarlet locks were disheveled over her face and were of shoulder length. Her night gown shown by the straps on her shoulders, rode up just slightly but not enough to be indecent.

The latter was a young man with sapphire hair of nearly the same length. He held the woman in his arms, his content shown with a smile on his face. The woman was smiling too, apparently very happy to be there as well. The sun crept ever closer to them, as if it was determined to disrupt their frozen moment.

But it would not last; the beams of light whould not reach the man for some time yet. But they had already met the woman's face. Meyrin Hawke was being pulled from her pleasant slumber by the very light she enjoyed on most days. She opened her eyes slowly; the room came into focus slowly as she awakened more by the second.

"Mmm" was the sound that was emitted from her throat as she turned her head to get it out of the sunlight. But it was already too late and she was fully awake. She dug her head into her companion's chest to get one last smell of him before she got up. A moment later, she started to pull herself from Athrun Zala's grasp. She allways felt bad that she would be disturbing him. He moved his arms and flopped over on his side and Meyrin continued on her way out of the bed.

Reaching the edge, she slipped her feet into a pair of bunny slippers. Standing up; she straightened her light green gown to cover her exposed emerald silk underwear. She allways felt like someone other then Athrun might be watching her. And he had been very understanding with how she felt about intimacy. Even though they had been going together for about six months, Athrun didn't pressure her for it. He seemed to understand that she wanted to be sure about him before she went giving that much of herself to him. She only began to let him sleep in the same bed with her about two months ago. She felt that she was moving fast enough and was very happy with herself on that front

She walked into the bathroom and looked into the full height mirror. She could see the scale off in the corner. Cursed thing! She thought. It allways told her what she did not want to hear. Even though that her friends including Athrun, had told her she worried too much about her weight. She thought they were just being friendly. Though one time, Athrun actually tried to convince her that she wasn't 'husky'. Oh, she hated that word! It was the same word she heard when she was issued her uniform in ZAFT. It was obvious to her that she was fat. Just not to anyone else, or they were just lying to make her feel better. Admittedly, she did eat all the stuff she knew she shouldn't. She was weak and couldn't avoid the candy section or the frozen goodies at the super market.

And it was Athrun's fault too! With all the candy and flowers he brought her on a regular basis. She had no choice but to eat the little bits of boxed sweetness. After all, it's rude not to eat the candy that your boyfriend brings you! And it would hurt Athrun's feelings too! She thought as she pulled her nightgown together with her fist so she could see her waist. Disgusted with its appearance, she let it go and glared at the girl in the mirror.

"Look at you! You heifer! " She said to the girl in the mirror, who apparently repeated it back at her. She saw Athrun come up behind her and watched him wrap his arms around her waist. She watched her cheeks turn red.

"Arguing with the girl in the mirror again?" He asked moving his hand around on her stomach. His touch was making her head swim, or maybe it was the silk too.

"Yeah, at least she's honest, unlike the rest of you.' She stated turning her head up and smirked at him. She tried to pull away but he spun her and kissed her. She broke the kiss and looked at Athrun with a semi serious glare.

"That's the answer you give me when you want me to button my trap! Kind of hard to do that when you WAHHH!" Meyrin squealed as Athrun picked her up by placing his hands on her bottom. The sensation made her mind blank out for a moment, but came back into focus when he sat her on the counter. The cold marble woke her up rather quickly. Athrun had started kissing her neck and she allowed him. Putting her head back but then she had her fill and was starting to feel uncomfortable.

"Athrun …" she said and he stopped, remembering how fragile she was. He backed away and Meyrin hopped off of the sink.

"I'm sorry, I got carried away." Athrun said looking away, embarrassed.

"It's ok; I'm just not ready for that yet." Meyrin said grabbing her robe and slipping it over her shoulders. "You can take your shower and I'll go make you something. Ok?" She said smiling at him and backing out of the room closing the door behind her. The walked over and opened her bedroom door to find a little green ball. The ball rolled around getting out of its standby mode and flapped its wings.

"Good Morning!" She said to the orb to which is bounced off of the floor and into her hands.

"Haro! Haro! Good Morning! Haro! Mey-rin!" the HARO blurted out flapping its wings. Meyrin giggled and rolled the toy in her hands noticing the hole in the side of the shell.

"Damn plastic toy! Damn plastic toy! Get out!" HARO regurgitated. Now Meyrin knew the reason for the hole in the side of her gift and went out into the kitchen. When she got there and found it a mess with pots and other various cookery. It only added to her frustration. She turned her head around the serving bar and saw a red and black back. She didn't even have to look at the head to know who it was.

"Why did it burn? Man! I followed the directions on the box!" said an agitated Lunamaria Hawke. Of the two sisters, Meyrin was younger. But Luna had not a clue in the kitchen, which was Meyrin's domain. Luna could make a boxed meal taste bad.

"Onii-chan, what are you trying to cook?" Meyrin asked.

"This stupid thing!" the elder said and slid its box across to the younger. Meyrin picked it up and noted it was a family size breakfast. Luna knows she can't cook. Why is she trying to cook something like this? And it's far too much food for her. Meyrin thought. She shook the thought from her mind and turned the corner to face Luna. Her sister spun to face her.

"What's up Meyrin?" she asked and then noticed the HARO in her hand and frowned.

"What did you do to my HARO Luna?" Meyrin said pointing to the hole in the shell.

"You need to put a leash on him! He goes wherever he wants in this apartment and it's a nuisance!" Luna said flatly dumping the burned breakfast in the garbage. Meyrin just now realized that Luna was disbanded from ZAFT at the time just like she was. Why is she wearing her uniform? And a long jacket? Wait… and no sooner after she finished that thought she saw the jacket's owner enter the kitchen.

Shinn Asuka entered the room with the usual air of arrogance that followed him. He buckled his uniform pants and finished pulling one of Luna's shirts over his head and as expected it stuck to his frame. Meyrin caught herself gawking about five seconds before Luna noticed. She tied her robe off and took on an annoyed look.

"I thought you were still sleeping, so I was going to try to make you some breakfast" Luna said with a smile looking up at Shinn.

"I told you, we can go out for breakfast." Shinn said snapping the button open that was holding the coat closed revealing a tank top and panties of the same color. He slid his hand around Luna's exposed waist kissing her deeply.

"AH-HEM!" Meyrin coughed staring daggers at Luna who just smirked back at her and leaned in for another kiss.

"Ever hear of a room Asuka?" Athrun said walking in wearing a shirt and pants with a towel over his shoulders. Meyrin quickly scuttled over to him and latched onto him glaring at Luna. Her enforcer was here.

"What are you doing here?" Shinn asked after being pushed away. Luna quickly buttoned up the jacket including the belt. She still regarded Athrun as her superior even though none of them were in an active ZAFT commission except Shinn.

"Don't you see this beautiful young woman attached to me? What's your excuse?" Athrun asked watching Shinn rage boil.

"You think you're the only one who has one? I have just as much reason as you to be here." Shinn tried up grab Luna's butt but got a biff across the back of the head. Luna walked past him and went back down into her room and Shinn followed. Meyrin set the HARO on the counter and pulled out some tea.

"So how long have they been here?" Athrun asked.

"I don't know, why don't you go ask them?" Meyrin said still upset about her kitchen and her exobitionist sister.

"I'm sorry; I didn't mean to get on your nerves." Athrun said accepting the cup of tea greatfully.

"It's not your fault Athy, Luna's just been getting on my nerves lately. She's usually out of town with her commercial shuttle license. It just whenever she's home now she either trying to kick my HARO in and trying to screw her boyfriend on my kitchen counter." Meyrin said slanting her eyes as she looked into her cup.

"Don't you think that's a little much? Don't the both of you split the rent?" Athrun asked.

"She pays the rent and I pay the bills. I can't afford half of the rent on my salary." Meyrin said going deeper into her dark little hole. She had a good job but it didn't pay nearly as much as Luna.

"Well if she pays the rent isn't it her counter?" Athrun asked stupidly.

"You know what? Maybe I should just let her do whatever she wants. She wants to press her naked ass on the windows, I should just let her!" Meyrin said clearly furious and nearly slamming her cup onto the table and stormed off to her room. By the time Athrun got there she was curled up with a large pillow crying.

"I'm sorry I said that Mey-chan, you can come live with me." Athrun said offering up a solution.

"That's very sweet of you Athrun, but I'm not ready for that just yet." Meyrin said as she sniffled. She got up and turned the shower on and began to pick out her outfit for a day at the office.

"Why don't you want to come live with me?" Athrun asked.

"I'd love to come live with you, but we've been through this before Athrun, I'm not ready for it." Meyrin said brushing her hair before she got in the shower. She turned to find Athrun with a serious look on his face.

"You don't trust me? Is that it? You think I would take advantage of you?" Athrun asked getting frustrated. Meyrin didn't need this, not now.

"Athrun, you know that's not true! I –" she was stuck. She didn't understand. She thought he supported her. It pained her to look into his eyes Where she normally found compassion she now only found contempt.

"What do I have to do to get you to come with me?" Athrun asked.

"Whatever happened to waiting for when I was ready? It seems you've gotten a little selfish Athrun." Meyrin said raising her voice.

"I'm not being selfish Meyrin, I just want you." Boom! He said it. He only wanted sex or rather 'her'. Meyrin could hardly believe her ears. He was just waiting her out.

"'Want' me? Is that it Athrun? Then after you 'have' me you'll just dump me won't you?" Meyrin said with tears in her eyes.

"I didn't mean that I –" He didn't get to finish.

"Why don't you go down the hall? The sex freaks are in the other bedroom." Meyrin stated opening her bedroom door.

"Meyrin –" Athrun said, but it was too late.

"Out! Shame on you Athrun Zala! I love you and this is how you repay me? You want my body? Get out!" Meyrin shrieked. Athrun took one look at Meyrin with tears streaming down her face. And then walked out the door to feel it slam behind him.

Meyrin had managed to get into the shower before she crashed to her knees crying her eyes out.

(PLANT: Aprilius One: ZAFT civilian office complex 05-01)

Meyrin had arrived at work about thirty minutes early. She didn't have breakfast that morning. She arrived at her desk and put her flats in her bottom drawer and unbuttoned her suit jacket and got to work at the three monitors and two keyboards. She was a data entry person and enjoyed her job. Or so she told herself to keep from crying.

"Hawke! Where is that data report that was supposed to be on my desk this morning!" Said a large much older man who peeked over her cubical.

"I sent it to you last night sir. I finished it early." Meyrin said. The man smiled and stepped over so he could see her completely.

"I read you personnel file. You were a CIC officer during wartime?" He asked. Every once and a while she got questioned about her involvement in ZAFT.

"Yes, sir" She said.

"You were stationed on the Minerva?" he queried.

"Yes, sir" She said wondering where this was going.

"Rumor has it you defected in the middle of the war and ended up on the Eternal, Lacus Clyne-sama's flagship." He said. This made Meyrin uneasy. She thought that her involvement with Terminal had been expunged from her record. Or so she had been told. Lacus-sama was on the supreme council now.

"I don't think I'm at liberty to discuss that." Meyrin said.

"It's all right, you denial says you were. Anyway, it's none of my business. Carry on." Her boss walked off .Meyrin lost her composure at that moment. Maybe she had been too hard on Athrun. But still he was wrong, and he had to apologize.

Note: This was only supposed to be a short one shot. Well it's neither in the end I guess.