Tomorrow's a New Day
The Happy Ending
Important Announcement!
You are all VERY lucky! I will be, at the full generosity of my heart, be doing BOTH Endings. Starting with the… Happy Ending! Though warning, while I'm going to make the next chapter the sad ending, I don't mean sad "Aww… He's dead but still the world will continue in peace!" Oh no… HELL NO! The SAD ending is what it's supposed to be… VERY SAD, Your choice to still make me do it. I'll warn all of you… if you cried in the anime/manga… well think again! MY ending will make ALL of you HATE me VERY, VERY MUCH! It's your choice people, I continue or not?
There was one word that kept ringing true in Suzaku's mind. "No."
Suzaku then suddenly got out of his shock violently and made a semi-pose of the sprinting position and ran towards Lelouch. In no time at all, from his position on the floor on the doorway to the Study Room he was at Lelouch's bed side, on his knees crying violently. His face, full of agony, pain, sadness, desperation and hopelessness stared at Lelouch's serene visage. His tears wouldn't stop and he didn't want them to. He held Lelouch's hand near to him, his face looming over the sleeping Emperor's own, his own tears dripping down to his beloved's own. He cupped Lelouch' cheek and whispered.
"You c-can't do this Lulu. Please d-don't do this to me. Please I beg of you. This was our original plan, I know. I'm being stupid but p-please don't leave me. I l-love you s-so much, you're the only reason I had left t-to live. I only agreed to your plan i-if the others didn't cooperate but t-they're here, your, no, OUR family's here. Please, Lelouch. Don't leave me." Anguish, pure unadultered anguish radiated through Suzaku's voice. His body shook but his voice remained semi-steady. His mind had already accepted it but his heart could not keep up with the current events.
"Nii-sama…" Nunnally had softly said as her eyes still had twin falls of tears falling from them. She was carried next to Lelouch by Cornelia and was sat down beside him. Between her brother and Suzaku, she was an outsider now. She might have been the center of his universe once but all that changed since the two had been together.
"Please, nii-sama, don't do this to us. We need you. You're all I've only ever needed. You didn't had to cause yourself this much pain for me. P-please… N-nii-s-sama…" Nunnally's voice was breaking up.
"C.C., aren't you trying to find rest in death? Then why don't you just, I don't know… MAKE HIM REPLACE YOU AS THE IMMORTAL?!" Kallen shouted to C.C. who was standing amongst them still in shock.
"I-I can't, Kallen. The disease itself was a foul up of the immortality that the Geass Bearers have. The disease was to specifically kill a Geass user so that they can never be a Bearer. Even when he was alive and we tried to give him my immortality, it wouldn't work and trust me we tried." C.C. was over her shock and though had gone back to her mask of indifference she had a sad face on her, tears running down her face as well.
Everything became quiet. They'd done everything they could have done; now it was all over. He was gone. He wouldn't return anymore.
But the silence was broken by a wet violent cough that came from Lelouch's direction.
Suzaku and Nunnally immediately raised their head that they unknowingly bowed down, to see that Lelouch coughing up some type of liquid.
Everyone stood astonished as his monitors came back to life with a livelier jump than ever.
But the violent coughs got worse and worse and more liquid came out of his mouth, a blackish-green liquid that had chunks on it. As Lelouch was coughing away from Suzaku and Nunnally they could see clearly how disgusting the foul liquid looked and smelled like.
But all of this, Suzaku didn't notice.
He was alive. Lelouch was alive. Tears once more fell from his eyes unbidden.
It was at this time that Lelouch stopped coughing and the doctors bustled around him. Suzaku was forced away by Toudou and Kallen. Nunnally was also taken by Cornelia back to her wheelchair. They all watched as the doctors methodically check on Lelouch and change his clothes and bed sheets that were stained with the foul liquid.
One of the doctors was the French Scientist that helped make the antidote.
"C'est incroyable! Zis iz ze vlood of ze Emperor! A mix of ze toxinz et ze antidote" she said as she examined the sample they got.
"This foul liquid from his most honorable one is the waste product of the cleansing of his Majesty's body." The Chinese Scientist said as he too bustled about the mini lab in Lelouch's room that has been long set up.
"He's cured. He's completely cured and cleansed of the disease, everyone. The antidote we found erased whatever it was that served as a catalyst." Cecil said rejoicing along the others. Though they all still had tears running down their eyes, this time they were tears of joy instead of sorrow.
Happy as they all were, Nunnally noticed the intense look that Suzaku had on Lelouch, a look that Lelouch ignored in favor of smiling at everybody else. Nunnally had a small smile painted on her as she nudged Cornelia pointing to Suzaku and Lelouch with a nod of her head. With that Cornelia too noticed the intense stare that Suzaku sent her little brother's way. So carefully she signaled to everyone to leave the room.
As the others vacated the room for the two to catch up, they all had small smiles on their faces. They were happy that the two could finally be together again.
Suzaku never seemed to notice anything else apart from the fact that Lelouch was awake, that he was alive.
Lelouch though noticed everyone leaving, knowing full well that his family was giving him space with Suzaku. And he couldn't be anymore thankful.
Slowly he looked straight into Suzaku's eyes. For the first time in half a year, beautiful amethysts and once more sparkling emeralds met. Everything else didn't seem to matter to the two, colors blended and the room seemingly fading away.
Slowly, Suzaku walked forward, afraid that everything was just an illusion and that it would shatter. Sitting on the bedside facing Lelouch, Suzaku reached out a tentative hand to cup Lelouch's face but stopped, afraid that Lelouch really was dead and he was just seeing things.
Lelouch's eyes took a gentle look to it as he leaned forward, nuzzling his face in Suzaku's hands.
And with trembling hands Suzaku cupped Lelouch's face in both hands staring at Lelouch with a desperate look in his eyes.
"This is real right? You're awake, right? It's not just another dream, right?!" Suzaku said in a low voice, desperation seeping into it.
"Yes, Suzaku, my most beloved, I'm awake and I didn't die." Lelouch said as a beautiful smile spread on his face. More and more tears came from Suzaku as his mind caught up with reality.
Lelouch then reached up and wiped away Suzaku's tears that he knew caused once more. Kissing Suzaku's eyelids as he wiped away the tear stains on Suzaku's face.
Suzaku searched Lelouch's eyes and saw the love and guilt that swam in Lelouch's eyes.
"To have caused you to go through so much pain once more, I'm such a fool. If it weren't for me you wouldn't have to go through so much pain time and again. I'm so sorry Suzaku." Lelouch said as finally tears fell from his own eyes glossing over his beautiful amethyst eyes.
"No, you don't need to be sorry. It's practically my own fault anyways. For loving you so much and trying so hard to kill you back then and for now for not believing in our love enough that it could pull you through." Suzaku said in a husky voice. A voice filled with love and passion for the other man.
"Suzaku." Lelouch whispered out his name as he lets the last of his tears slip past his eyelids and leaned upward kissing Suzaku gently.
They stayed that way for a while, showering gentle affection to each other knowing full well that they both still needed rest before their love could be expressed like how their bodies wished it to.
Slowly, the two fell asleep on Lelouch's bed with Suzaku spooning Lelouch. Content and happy smiles were on their face after such a long while.
This was how the others found them and let the two get their rest.
After a few months…
Lelouch sitting on a wheelchair being pushed by Suzaku went into a crowded hallway. People of different nations and ethnicity bowed to him in show of respect for the currently disabled man.
Lelouch was wearing an elegant white garb that was fit for an emperor. (A/N: Think of his clothes in the Ep. 25) And Suzaku wore his Zero costume without the mask as the world was already told that it was him who was the Zero of the past year. It came as almost no surprise, except for the fact that Suzaku showed up with Zero on quite a few occasions was easily dismissed that somebody else wore the Zero outfit at those times.
In front of the hall was an assembly of the currently most powerful people in the world, the UFN Representatives along the Britannian Royal Family, the Black Knights, the Round Knights and other allies. It was the first time that Lelouch was allowed outside the Palace or to be even seen by anyone outside those who lived in the Palace. When Lelouch and Suzaku reached the front he they were facing the hall and everyone was quiet.
"Today for the first time in quite a long while, 99th Emperor of the Holy Empire of Britannia, Lelouch vi Britannia is finally fit enough to come out and see the world he helped create. His Majesty is the reason why most of the Nations are now allied to the UFN. Without continued efforts of his family, friends and allies this world would have crumbled down into an even bigger war. So today, the same day he re-ascends to take the Britannian Empire's throne, we, the UFN, are here to honor him as well. For if not for his well planned tactics we would not be seeing the peace we are witnessing today. For we've lived in fear for too long a time already and because of his pre-planned propositions our world lives with it's own conscience that nothing greater than our own decisions governs us. It might be true that evil will never fade as history becomes our testimony but it can be stopped by the careful system Emperor proposed even if he was asleep." A UFN Representative said in grand manner but still got a few chuckles at the end.
"Now for a more important matter, it seems my dearest brother isn't married and it really isn't right to leave everything hanging, right?" Nunnally said with a mischievious voice.
Lelouch smiled bright and looked to Suzaku who just bent his head and kissed his beloved tenderly for the whole world to see how much they loved each other.
Too true was what the UFN Representative said, that the peace would last for a whole millennia until a new threat arises. But who's to say there won't be another Lelouch in the future waiting to show the world peace once more? Who's to say that Lelouch's experience wouldn't repeat itself? Afterall, isn't it said that "History tends to repeat itself."?
And that my beautiful and handsome (if there are) readers is the 1st conclusion that I have posted. Now please read the announcement on top for a refresher.
To Continue making the sad ending or Not To Continue that is the question for all of you.
