Time Piece

A Collection of Code Geass Drabbles

(Cross-posted to and completed on my LiveJournal)

Part the First

I.

In the beginning there was the princess and the prince, the sun and the sky, brother and sister, Nunnally and Lelouch. And she loved him as much as he loved her, and they'd both always had each other.

Even when her world had darkened and Nunnally couldn't see him, she could still feel him, fingers-eyes-nose-mouth-hair; she still felt the warmth in his touch and heard the smile in his voice. Lelouch was still there, there and beautiful.

Braille was a strange and interesting language to learn. Nunnally's delicate hands would skim across the tiny little bumps on a page, the tips of her fingers feeling them slowly bring words to her world once more. When she'd tried to teach it to Lelouch her brother had only laughed and protested and said it tickled too much for him to concentrate, and then deterred her from teaching him any further by whispering every word he'd actually managed to decipher playfully down her ear.

Lelouch used to brush her hair, in long, loving strokes as they wiled the afternoons at the academy away with teasing chatter and laughter and mirth.

When Marianne had died all Nunnally had seen was blood, all she had smelt was blood and all she had heard was Lelouch's horrified, high-pitched screaming from somewhere at the top of the stairs.
And by the time Lelouch had rushed over to pull her out from under their mother's corpse and all that blood and cradle her with wracking, frightened sobs, Nunnally's vision had already descended into nothingness.

When Nunnally was fourteen she'd asked her brother if she could be selfish. Because somehow, it'd felt as though Lelouch was slowly, slowly slipping away, like he was hiding something and she was losing something, and if there was one thing Nunnally did not want to lose, it was her brother. But Lelouch had clasped her hand and kissed her forehead and tucked her into bed, and promised her with gentle words that he would always be there. And Nunnally trusted him and believed in him, as she always did, because she loved him, so much, and she knew no other way.

Lelouch once told her he'd give the world for her.

Nunnally's heart can only bleed for him now.

-FIN-

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