The Gundam Seed Quotes Challenge ["You won't find too many people who wish to fight for no reason at all. We fight because unless we fight, we cannot protect." - Mu La Flaga]

Why We Fight

From the day of the accident, there had only been one reason she fought.

To protect Lissa.

That had been all that mattered, because all they had left had been each other. Her mother had never really been there for her, and Lissa's family had all but taken her in ever since they had become friends in kindergarten.

They had always been together.

Rosemarie Hathaway and Vasilisa Dragomir.

Friends and sisters, from the day she had thrown the book at their teacher, cursed her, and promptly got into trouble. Again.

She knew that Lissa hated the thought of her being in danger and possibly giving her life to save her, but that was their way. She sometimes also wished that she didn't have to fight or jump in front of Lissa every single time a strigoi came their way, but she really didn't mind.

Because Lissa was worth the blood, sweat and tears of training she had gone through.

Lissa was one of the few people who had bothered to look past the title her mother held over her head, and the expectation for her to be as good as her mother.

Lissa had seen Rose, the girl who had never really had a mother, the girl who had the academy as her only parent, and she had liked her.

For all the trouble she always managed to get into, she knew Lissa would have her back, just as Lissa knew she had her back as well. She wasn't always the protector but she also got the chance to be the protected, something most Dhampirs never experienced.

She was Rose, just Rose, not Rosemarie Hathaway, daughter of the great Janine Hathaway, guardian extraordinaire.

And she knew she fought to protect Lissa, she fought to protect her best friend, and she fought with everything she had because of it.