Title: The Fallen Hero
Day/Theme: December 3 // the world will know your name
Series: Code Geass
Character/Pairing: C.C., Kallen, Nunally, Lelouch. If you squint, there's C.C./Lelouch, Kallen/Lelouch
A/N: A bit short, and I think I could expand on it a bit. Other than that, I like it, even if it isn't what I intended originally.
Summary: They are the only ones who know the truth and for this their loss is heavier.
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There isn't too much doubt that they will all know who he is. C.C. knows this, just as Nunally and Kallen do. They all know what has become of their leader, brother, hero.
It is obvious he has fallen in the world's eyes. Rumours spread, whispers of a dark prince that span wildly out of control. He was terrifying, a girl whispers. He was frightening.
Another replies, He was like a knife, as though he was poised to destroy us all.
I knew he was evil.
Corrupt. Cunning. Wicked. The words change but the meaning doesn't. C.C. hears it when she travels from place to place, a kite in the breeze. Nothing ties her down anymore, not now that the time of chess and masked capes has ended.
Kallen listens to them from behind a bathroom stall, biting her lip to prevent any truthful words from escaping. (He was a hero, he was a man, he was a boy who did everything and I—) Instead, she clenches her fists and watches her peers bring down the god.
Nunally is protected from the bulk of them by Suzaku. He tries to protect her where her brother can't, pulling her past the gossip-mongers and the barbed condolences. He can't keep them all away, her maids forgetting at times that she used to be blind, not deaf. She cries herself to sleep those nights. In the morning she tries harder to keep the world peaceful.
(Actions speak louder than words but words seem like the only things that can reach the dead.)
They don't cross paths very often—C.C. is losing herself in some small city or hamlet, Kallen is living off paper and pen, and Nunally is drowning herself in paperwork and dreams. When they do, for the briefest of moments, they remember Lelouch.
They think of Lulu, of Zero, of the truth that only they know, and mourn the boy who died saving the world.
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