A/N: Fate of the characters may change :D May seem a bit out of character for some parts, but meh I tried xD
"It's checkmate, Lelouch." The brown haired boy stood behind him, wearing the same bored look on his face as he always did. As far as Lelouch was concerned, the boy had the upper hand now. He found out that Lelouch was truly Zero, that he regained all his lost memories and on top of that, he knew about his Geass.
What the... how? Lelouch gritted his teeth. Only a moment ago he'd been holding the gun which was now in the assassin's hands. It's... Geass!?Dammit! He can stop time!? He narrowed his eyes, still facing away from Rolo. His mind whirred. He needed to stall, to buy time, but there wasn't really much he could do with a gun point blank at his head. Would he be able to talk his way out of this? It was a long shot, since Rolo had been trained all his life to kill in cold blood. But he could probably use that to his to his advantage...
"Rolo, you can't stop time." Lelouch grew more certain of his new theory as he replayed the CCTV recordings on a miniature screen on his phone, revealing the sequence of events. "No one can. All you did was paralyze my sense of time."
"Understanding that doesn't help you at all. You still can't beat me." The 16 year old replied in a matter of fact tone.
"It doesn't help you, either. You want to shoot at me but you can't." Lelouch flinched inwardly at how stupid that sounded. Sure enough, Rolo dismissed it without much thought.
"Oh, sure I would. I mean, the whole point of the mission was to kill Lelouch Lamperouge if he regained all his memories." The younger boy tightened his finger around the trigger.
"Think about it, I die, you'll never achieve either of your two goals." Lelouch let a slight smile creep up on his lips as he finally found the correct logic to pull Rolo down. "And you and I will end up caught inside the same net."
"Two things...?" For a moment, the boy was baffled.
"Yes. For one, you, who have been using me as a bait to lure in C.C, will never fulfill your mission. Secondly, you'll have no future yourself after the mission is completed. You'll merely be a pawn used again and again by the Order, is that what you want?" Lelouch knew he was pulling a serious bet, but there weren't many other options. "How about this, you let me go, and I'll lure out C.C for you and your future will be opened."
"So you mean you'd sell out C.C just like that?" Surprise tainted the younger boy's tone.
"Of course." Lelouch narrowed his eyes. He'll work out that bit later. "Self preservation comes first, doesn't it?"
Rolo narrowed his eyes. "Fine then. But the moment you don't hold up your side of the deal, I can easily eliminate you."
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It was command session in District 13, and Katniss Everdeen sat the desk, her mind wandered from place to place every 2 minutes. It was hard to stay focused at the task at hand. Coming up with the conditions of being the Mockingjay... but she'd been wondering about things too, trying to sort her thoughts out. For one, there was the matter of getting used to District 13, the piles of routines and endless orders. On top of that, there was Peeta's call for a ceasefire. Katniss cringed at the thought of him probably being tortured, held captive somewhere where she couldn't reach.
A perfect bait for a prey like me...
She quickly dismissed that thought in disgust. Then there was also the matter of defeating President Snow, who oh god, has joined up with Charles Zi Britannia. And Zero...
Who was Zero?
Was he just another terrorist group leader, or what? Katniss found herself wondering about the mysterious masked guy.
What's his aim? What was his motive-
"Katniss." Her train of thoughts were cut short as President Coin addressed her. "Is this all you want on your side of the deal?"
She bolted straight up and realized the other thing she wanted.
"One more thing- I want to meet with Zero."
Downtime. Katniss walked beside Gale, pretty satisfied with the Mockingjay Deal conditions so far.
"So, I heard that there was a Mockingjay Team now?" Katniss flinched, realizing how awkward that sounded.
"Well, yeah." Gale said in a matter of fact tone, kicking across a twig. Neither of them felt like hunting, even though the time was granted as part of the Mockingjay Deal. "A vast majority of people would be appalled if you decided to march straight onto Zero on your own. He might not bring all the Black Knights or what's it called, but you can be sure he's not gonna be unguarded either." He flashed a quick grin.
"Yeah... Continue?"
"Well apparently, Coin knew from certain intelligence that Zero has people held by Emperor Charles which he wants out, so she's working on that information well... yeah-"
"Who's on the Mockingjay team?" Katniss had pretty much figured out what President Coin was working at. It was a long shot, but not that bad an idea if it worked out.
"Well, Beetee, you, myself, Boggs, Finnick, the prep team, Haymitch and I think that's all for now. Maybe a few more." He shrugged.
Katniss blinked. So Finnick was well enough? Oh, that probably didn't matter. The more people, the easier things would be. Probably.
Lelouch Lamperouge sat in the hotel room, scrolling through his emails. He had used Geass on the guy following him, and had manipulated him to keep quiet about his meeting with C.C.
"Well, what's the matter, Lelouch? Oh, you're worried about Rolo, aren't you?" C.C lay on the bed, happily chewing on a slice of pizza which she'd bought using Lelouch's credit card.
"No. Who I'm worried about is Nunnally, and Rolo is just an obstacle who makes things pretty hard to do." Lelouch narrowed his eyes, spotting a particular email.
"An untraceable email with no user ID?" C.C read over his shoulder. "Well looks like you're busted, pretty boy." She chuckled to herself, knowing that Dietard's email system was pretty un-hack-able in such way that it would always display the sender's information.
"Not quite. I hope not, at least." He clicked into the email.
Meet at Babel tower tomorrow at noon.
More details will be provided then.
- Mockingjay team
"Well?" C.C blinked. "Are you going?" She seemed thoroughly interested in Lelouch's verdict.
"It might be a trap, but it's not like we'd go without backup. But from what I've heard, those guys are pretty legendary around Panem."
"Tch. If they're the real Mockingjay guys." C.C pointed out, knowing how the raven haired boy hated times when the other people seemed to have the upper hand. Times like now.
"We're going, okay?" Lelouch sighed, tired of C.C pointing stuff out. Well, it was a bet but the witch was just making things even more stressful.
***WHOOP*** Lets call that a chapter, neh?
Any suggestions for plot advancement just drop them in the reviews ^^ NO, there's definitely not gonna be Katniss x Lelouch but there MIGHT be some Arthur x Buttercup later... oh wait they're both tom cats... xD
