Cagalli whirled around, startled, as the doors to her office burst open.
"Cagalli, please, hide me quick!" Kira panted, panic-stricken.
Cagalli stared as her twin darted around the room, wild-eyed and his normally gravity defying hair mussed up royally.
"Oi, what's the matter?" She ventured as Kira tried to squeeze himself in the miniscule space between the wall and the back of the sofa. Kira looked utterly terrified.
"It's ... it's Athrun!" he squeaked, "he's gone nuts."
Cagalli raised a brow as she turned slowly, her floor-length gown swirling gently across the carpet. She looked at her twin pointedly. "What do you mean, Athrun gone nuts?" she demanded, "as far as I'm concerned he'd gone nuts the moment he couldn't quit obsessing about you."
Kira wrung his hands pathetically. "This is serious ... he's gone completely barking mad."
"All right, I'm listening,"
Kira's face reddened. "He ... he justwon'tquitwantingtohavesex,"
"Eh? You're not making sense," Cagalli tried to look serious. "I really can't help you if you don't tell me what's the problem ..."
Kira squirmed under her faux-innocent gaze. "Athrun just won't leave me alone. He keeps demanding sex, and we've been at it at least ten times since last night and he's still not sated and ... and ... I'm sore!"
Cagalli hastily turned her laughter into an exaggerated cough. Her skirt wobbled. "But Kira, I thought you're the seme in your relationship?"
"Of course I am!" Kira shot back indignantly, "even semes get sore, okay? And quit laughing! You're supposed to help me. Hide me from that ... that nymphomaniac!" He dove behind the curtains.
Outside, Athrun's plaintive wail of "Kiiiiiiiiiiraaaaaaaaaa~!" resounded off the corridors. It came closer by the minute. Ashen faced, Kira gazed at his twin. "Cagalli, please ..."
"I'm curious. What happened?" Cagalli enjoyed watching her twin sweat-dropping, "Athrun doesn't strike me as the aggressive type. Why so suddenly?"
Kira looked at his feet. "I ... I think Yzak must have spiked his drink. They had an argument after Athrun beat him at chess and I overheard Athrun calling him a pushy uke. They got into a nasty fist-fight after that. After Dearka and I broke them up, Yzak offered to buy everyone a round of drink. And ... and while driving home, Athrun suddenly jumped me ..." Kira trailed off.
"He jumped you in the car?"
Kira cringed. The only reason both of them were alive was thanks to his lightning quick ability to steer the coupe onto the grass verge and jam on the brakes as soon as Athrun made a grab at his pants. Kira didn't even know what hit him after that.
Cagalli folded her arms and cocked her head. "And he's still insatiable after you did him ten times? Kira, you're pathetic," she admonished. "and I heard that you're the Ultimate Coordinator. So, Ultimate Coordinators have limits too, hmmm?"
"Try doing it non-stop for ten times," Kira snarled, "But what do you know?" As far as he could tell, the closest thing Cagalli ever got to having a sexual relation was her failed tryst with Lacus.
Cagalli grinned like a shark. "Watch it, or I'll let him know you're in here,"
The door handle turned.
Kira dived under Cagalli's skirt.
"Not under there!" Cagalli yelped.
Too late.
"Have you seen Kira?" Athrun asked, as he paced agitatedly around her office.
Cagalli shook her head, red-faced, spine ramrod straight, perspiration beading on her forehead. Her skirt wobbled dangerously.
"You okay?" Athrun peered at her curiously. "You look unwell ... you have a fever or something?"
"I'm ... I'm fine," Cagalli squeaked.
Athrun didn't look convinced. He put a hand on her forehead. "You better take some aspirin. It won't look good for Orb if you turn up at the Heads of State function looking so red in the face." He scanned the room one more time. "You sure you haven't seen Kira?" Cagalli shook her head violently.
Athrun swore and exited the room. The door shut with a loud click.
Cagalli exhaled in relief. Half a second later something rolled from under her gown, all teeth and claws, hissing and spitting.
"You pervert! What the hell are you doing under Cagalli's gown?!" Kira screamed as he punched Shinn Asuka repeatedly in the face.
"None of your business, you idiot!" Shinn fought back valiantly.
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah!"
Cagalli mentally headdesked as she watched her twin and her volatile personal bodyguard-cum-secret boyfriend tried to beat the crap out of each other on the carpet.
Then she wandered to her desk and scribbled a memo to remind Shinn to lock the door next time he decided to surprise her with a spot of impromptu fun and games. After a moment she added another memo to request for some spacious cabinets to be installed in her office, a.s.a.p.
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