Title: Intelligence
Day/Theme: October 5 / Over-educated
Series: Code Geass
Character/Pairing: C.C., Lelouch
A/N: Set somewhere in the series. Anywhere, really. A bit monoglogue-y for my tastes, but that is probably because it felt short as I wrote it and I had to add some stuff. It still is short. D:
Summary: He's smart and cocky and C.C. already knows where that will lead.
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He's smart, that much C.C. knows. He shows-it off, with each sweep of his hands, the arrogance of his smirk, the cool confidence of his stride. Smart and clever and too proud of it.
Lelouch has every reason to be so, of course. He's already toppled leaders and has entire armies chasing him around. Even before she met him and gave him his powers, he could outwit his seniors. In chess he walked circles around them, in class he aced every test. It's only natural that with time and a steady stride of victories Lelouch started to think of himself as unstoppable. Infallible.
God-like.
This is something else C.C. knows: that cockiness of his is his downfall. He's too sure of himself, of every move he makes. He doesn't bother to think through it twice, to consider the after-effects beyond how it pushes him forward.
Worse, he's only smart in a book sense. He knows things down by heart, but he doesn't understand real life. People don't always react the way you want.
When they should break, they sometimes push through. When they should be thankful, they instead are bitter.
That, she knows, will be his downfall.
"Hurry up," Lelouch grouches impatiently, his head sticking in the door, his mask already on.
"So impatient," she teases, flipping her hair deftly over her shoulder as she strolls after him.
(and perhaps, she thinks, that is where her role came in, not as a partner, but as that missing intelligence: She's seen the world long enough to know it inside out.)