A/N: This isn't as good as the first poem, but I think it's a decent attempt at showing how Lelouch taking on the role of Zero affected them as siblings.

s e p e r a t e : 0

Lelouch had never known it could break

How would he?

His life was so bound up with hers

That when he tried to find the ends of the strings and

~u~n~t~a~n~g~l~e~

He didn't even know where to start

Because they were connected

e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e

But with four words:

1. I

2. Accept

3. Your

4. Contract.

It all started to

f

a

l

l

apart.

All he needed was eye contact, and he could make anyone do anything.

(How strange, then, that the only eyes he couldn't look into were hers)

He used his power the same way he used everything else he had.

For her.

(A gentler world, that was her wish, and he promised himself that he would make it come true)

But in doing everything for her, he forgot

to do everything with her.

He left home early

Came home late,

Spent most of his time at home in his room.

~She sat at the kitchen table and folded her wishes for his happiness into cranes~

He murdered

Manipulated

Sacrificed his own innocence at the altar of his sister's.

~She started to forget the sound of her brother's voice~

The threads

stretched thin

and came u n d o n e

LelouchandNunnally

Became

Lelouch-and-Nunnally

And then

Lelouch and Nunnally

Until the gaps were just too wide to bridge.

But even after everything that had bound them had been s e p a r a t e d

Lelouch clung to broken pieces of thread

Slippery in blood-soaked fingers

And tried to re-weave her broken dream.

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