Pair: Lelouch vi Britannia and Suzaku Kururugi
Summary: Emperor's last wish...
You've perished dozens of times, Suzaku… and lost yourself in the perpetual chase of death over and over again… so as to be reborn and become, in the end, my Knight in a shining blood-stained armor. But now that you are at my side, you've changed and you aren't the same… unlike the one who I used to know from the season of our semi-miserable, semi-innocent childhood… and, definitely, someone else vowed fidelity to ghostly ideals after the spoiled execution… and with her too… you were another person, inspired by awkward half-love and half-dream… and that gun, pointed at my face… it wasn't you who was clenching it in a shaky semi-confident hand… all those half-treasons, half-heroism and half-madness… all those half-laughs and half-cries… was it all just one singular man? All of them are dead… all of your former-selves. We buried them under the cover of memory. You don't regret the murders, do you? The sacrifice was essential for you don't have the other way to survive. And nothing came good out of our shared past… but today…we will play the requiem for the old versions of us and then… we will part. But you, my friend, will revive once more, won't you? That's the habit of your nature. And when the time comes I ask your new-self to take care of us… and I…I will deal with the rest of the world.