So big thank you to all yall reading and all yall taking the time out of your day to write a review.
And alright, alright I know a name change! But the reason is really simply I couldn't find a chapter name so I started to write my way through the chapter. In a writers journal of course. I went through the chapter pretty much, step by step going through what the characters were saying and what the characters were meaning. At first I thought Lies, would be perfect but everyone is lying throughout the whole fan fic. No one is here with face value. It's all lies and deceit and then it hit me, all but one. Lelouch is the only one. He's the only one and yet he's a pawn in this chapter. He's there for everyone else's gain but his own. And then it hit me again that of course he's a pawn but in the story he's a king. Amethyst is the stone of mind clarity. He's the King of Clarity. He's the only one who knows exactly what he wants throughout the whole story and the only one that isn't lying! Simply he's the Amethyst kings, and so you see name change.
As far as the perfect pawn. He is the perfect pawn as well. Or to reword it he's the most coveted pawn. Everyone wants something from him in this, or at least wants him for something. Of course not a soul is saying it out loud, but hey it's me! when do I ever write something that has pure face value, beside characters are so much more fun to play with when their all lying to each other. Anyway I never really know what to say in these things so let's just get to what you came for! Onward story, onward!
The Amethyst King
Chapter Two
The Perfect Pawn
10/10/2010 10:21 PM
Lelouch hadn't really slept. It was hard with the restraints contracting his every movement. There was a thick strap over his shoulders holding his shoulders down another over his thighs holding them down there was possibly built into the bed a third strap to go over his stomach but with his current condition they hadn't used it. There were also straps holding each arm, at his wrists, on their respective sides with little leeway. That went for the straps around his ankles as well. The hospital covers over and around him wasn't giving him much room to move either. He was sure he had drifted though. He had remembered closing his eyes for a moment around four in the morning and opening them to look at the small digital clock on one of the numerous monitors in the room telling him it was now seven. He sighed deeply.
A nurse had dropped by some time around three to check his stats. She had quickly left but had only served to wake Lelouch form what little slumber he had achieved at the time. Suzaku on the other hand hadn't stirred through out the entire time the nurse had been there.
Suzaku had conceded to sleep a few moments after falling into the chair next to Lelouch's bed. Lelouch let his head rest off to the side to see the slumbering figure. It had been quite a site to watch the boy. He had tried so hard throughout the night not to lean forward onto the bed. He would slowly start to drift forward, before he'd startle himself awake, and quickly resume his previous position his arms crossed, his head leaning forward to his chest. Of course around one or so the soldier had finally given in and let his head come forward to the bed. An hour or so later one arm had found its way on to the bed. Lelouch noted that now the other one had found its way also. Suzaku had them crossed, his head resting on them. His body leaned against the side of the bed. Lelouch shook his head slightly. That idiot. He was exhausted and yet he'd still stayed here to sleep in an uncomfortable chair, in an uncomfortable room, with a companion who had proclaimed that he wasn't speaking to him. Lelouch snorted, why stay where you weren't welcome?
He stopped at that. He was staying where he wasn't welcome. He should have been dead right now. He should have had his body tossed off some cliff and forgotten about. He sighed and looked down at the soldier who had broken his promise.
Lelouch lifted his hand from the mattress reaching out deliberately until it was hovering over the sleeping boys head. If Suzaku had been an inch farther from him he wouldn't have been able to reach him. But then again that was how it had always been with the two once upon a time friends. Suzaku had always been just within reach. Even when they hated each other they were always there for each other. Lelouch let his hand hover a moment longer before he slowly and calmly let it down to rest on soft brunette curls.
Suzaku sucked in a long breath coming awake at the same moment. Lelouch shot his eyes to look at his hand tangled among Suzaku's hair. Anything to avoid those emerald eyes. Suzaku didn't pull away as Lelouch let his hand slowly run through the curls. Lelouch's hand tangled in the hair as he ran his fingers lightly through the thick locks. He curled one strand around his finger before letting it go and tracing the curve of Suzaku's head down to his ear and pulling his hand away. Lelouch replaced it to lie unceremoniously on the covers. He spied a quick glance at Suzaku. The soldier's eyes were locked on to Lelouch's hand. It was a moment before Suzaku unfolded his arms and tentively he reached forward covering Lelouch's hand with his own. He ran his thumb over the soft skin of his paler companion.
Suzaku's eyes still locked on to Lelouch's hand he spoke quietly. "Have you forgiven me yet?"
Lelouch shifted his own gaze slightly from their hands to those deep green eyes. He pondered his options for an answer before he turned his head all together away. "No." he said aloud and looked to the wall.
"Would you at least consider it?" Suzaku asked after his own thoughtful moment. His thumb still moved, stroking the porcelain skin of the former emperor.
Lelouch let his eyes slip closed. "You never forgave me."
"Le—" Suzaku sat up but as abruptly was interrupted.
The door slid open with a small sound of entrance as Lloyd let himself in. The two startled a bit looked to the door.
"Good Morning! You two co-conspirators having a nice reunion?" his ever-present smile had no reserves now as he giggle to himself stepping farther into the room.
"Lloyd." Suzaku let out a little awkwardly. It was clear he wasn't expecting this kind of an interruption and he didn't seem to have wanted it much either.
"Well that's not much of a greeting for the man who vouched for your integrity not that long ago!" Lloyd giggled and smiled. Immense amusement to the situation was the only words to use to describe him.
"Uh, " Suzaku stood separating the two's hands in the act. Lelouch wasn't sure when his eyes had wandered to their hands but nonetheless that had been their location. He watched as Suzaku took his hand up and away from his holding it at his side, in a very soldierly fashion.
"Look Lloyd right now really—" Suzaku stumbled on with his sentence. He stood there stiff, uncomfortable looking.
"Yes, yes, I know!" Lloyd said stopping the brunette." Unfortunately, Her Highness had other thoughts on the matter." He gestured out to the next room and just as he did a tall foreboding figure of a woman let herself in. Her slightly pursed lips downturned as her violent eyes scanned the room before coming to rest on Lelouch.
"Hello, brother." Cornelia spat out the acidic words.
Lelouch looked up at her for a moment before, refusing to answer, he turned his head to the wall.
"Chih!" Cornelia let out the sound through her gritted teeth her brow furrowing. "Kururugi! I need to have a word with you." She barked like it was an order.
Suzaku stiffened, like a wolf being addressed as a mongrel. "I'm here, Say what you want." He said rather coldly. Lelouch couldn't help a flicker of a smile. He had given Suzaku the ability to use that powerful voice.
"I meant alone, Kururugi." Cornelia snarled her brow furrowing.
Suzaku was quiet before he slowly sat back down. "I'm not leaving his side."
"Kururugi!" Cornelia started before stopping herself, "We have promised you that he will be well taken care of. He'll be fine on his own for a few minutes."
Suzaku looked up at her for a moment before he turned to Lelouch. "I already told you I'm not leaving."
"Suzaku, he's—" Cornelia started to yell now.
Suzaku didn't give her a chance though, standing faster than most humans could imagine cutting her short with shock. Within the same second he placed himself between the two royals. His eyes burned as he snarled at Cornelia. "He is my emperor."
Cornella's face twisted at this. "Don't overstep your boundaries—"
"I am Zero!" Suzaku cut the princess off yet again, with a snarl of his own. "But first and always foremost I am the Knight of Zero, Knight to Lelouch vi Brittania, First Emperor of the entire world!"
"He is no longer emperor!" Cornella screamed at the soldier.
"No." Suzaku said back, calmer now. "He is no longer your emperor, he never stopped being mine." He turned now to Lelouch. The former emperor was looking away to the wall his eyes mere slits focused on nothing in particular. Suzaku seemed to think n what to do next before looking at the monitor directly over Lelouch's head. His eyes scanned the stats before he looked back down at the patient.
"Suzaku," Cornelia said after a moment. "I know it hurt when Euphy died but it was that monster you're protecting that did it."
Suzaku didn't answer. He turned his head before he looked back down and spoke. "Lelouch forced me to live and now he's given me a reason to live. I am Zero. I am his Knight of Zero. I was Euphy's Knight, but now I am Lelouch's. I will do everything in my power as a Knight to hold up my responsibilities to Lelouch."
"Your responsibility?" Cornelia asked. "Your responsibility to Lelouch as has already been pointed out was to kill him!"
Suzaku stood looking down at Lelouch. He seemed to ponder his answer before he finally spoke. "No, my responsibility to Lelouch is to protect him…even if that means protecting him from himself."
Cornelia was silent. They all were silent for a long moment before Lloyd decided to come into the conversation. "It would seem, the only opinion we haven't heard about Lelouch's life would be well Lelouch's opinion."
All eyes turned to the former emperor. His violet half lidded eyes were still on the wall. He was trying to face completely away from all of the others in the room. Lelouch's hands had slipped from the mattress to hide under the covers.
"Well, Lelouch?" Cornelia said loudly.
Lelouch rolled his eyes over to the princess. His face was completely stoic.
"Lelouch, you don't have to answer her." Suzaku said at Lelouch's side.
"Yes, he does." Cornelia cut in now. "I want to hear it from your own filthy mouth. Do you really want to still be living?"
Lelouch closed his eyes for a long moment before opening them confronting Cornelia with violent violet orbs. "I would believe that my former action would be an answer for your questions."
Cornelia strode forward, startling Suzaku she pushed her way past him.
"Cornelia!" Suzaku started and went to move in front of her. He stopped abruptly as Lelouch grabbed his hand closest to the bed.
"If she wants proof let her have it." Lelouch said.
Cornelia caste the covers back to unearth Lelouch's thin form underneath. Suzaku angrily tried to step forward and stop the princess. Lelouch squeezed at his hand holding him back. Lelouch's body was increasingly thin. His ribs were starting to show and his shallow chest and stomach seemed almost hollow. His entire abdomen was bandaged from the middle of his chest down to his waist line. The bandages were already red along the long slit through Lelouch's skin under the white cloth.
The blood didn't stop Cornelia though as she ripped her gloves off before attacking the bandages. She pulled the small medical scissors from the table next to Lelouch's bed and started clipping away the wrappings.
"Cornelia, I thought I made it clear what would happen if you hurt him—" Suzaku growled at her.
"She's not Suzaku." Lelouch surprisingly said interrupting his proclaimed Knight. He looked confident for the first time in the last few days.
Cornelia finished quickly before throwing the bloody scissors back onto the metal side table at the side of the bed. Before her was the bloody mess of Lelouch's torso.
"You're still bleeding." Cornelia commented.
"We can't sew him up yet. We need to patch up the inside before we can work on sealing him up." Lloyd joined in. "Yesterday we were focusing on stopping the internal bleeding. The bleeding now is slow going, he's clotting rather fast now so we hope to have him all synched up by tonight."
"You're putting him back under surgery tonight?" Cornelia asked.
"Yes," Suzaku answered. "The sooner he's healed up the faster I can get him out of here."
Cornelia looked down at Lelouch. "Why don't you do it tonight?"
"What?" it was Lloyd.
"No." Suzaku said defiantly. "I already told you the second I could get him out of here I would. He's not a threat anymore Cornelia!" he snarled out the last of it.
"He'll always be a threat as long as those eyes are open!" Cornelia screamed back.
"Oh god, you don't really want us to do that do you?" Lloyd said in surprise.
"Why not?" Cornelia turned to him. She stepped away from Lelouch and closer to Lloyd. "Do it tonight! You and Roland said it was possible." Suzaku quickly stepped between the space she had left. He quickly took a wide stance before the hospital bed. His back to Lelouch. The former emperor watched him. After all he'd done, the soldier was still for some odd reason was leaving his back to him without a second thought it seemed or even a look over his shoulder. Lelouch sighed, why in the world would the soldier still trust him that much?
"Well in theory, yes!"Lloyd stumbled. "But it's never exactly been done before! We wouldn't even know what to do—if we didn't do it perfectly Lelouch could go completely blind!"
"So?" Cornelia stumbled. "He's a monster! Who cares if he's blind—"
"I care!" Suzaku snarled.
Cornelia stopped before turning back. "Suzaku, we—"
"Zero." Suzaku boldly interrupted her. "You are addressing Zero. If you recall you yourself helped re-elect me as leader of the Black Knights and therefore leader of the only existing military force left in the world that is not completely loyal to the man you are suggesting to possibly blind!"
Cornelia seemed to draw her complete height up puffing her chest up like a threatened bird. "Then you are addressing Princess Cornelia li Britannia and I order you to shut those eyes up." She ordered back at him.
Suzaku let out a laugh. "If you are Princess Cornelia than this is my Emperor, Lelouch vi Britannia—"
"My Royalty does not sanction his claim-" Cornelia cut him off her face contorting with anger.
"No it is only your insistence that you are royalty that sanctions his Imperialism!"Suzaku growled back at her. It was like a sprung trap now. Lelouch watched as his lapdog snarled and growled in front of him. He couldn't believe his eyes. After all of this Suzaku really and truly still was his knight. "By your own fathers standard he took hold of that throne! The strong will triumph over the weak. Lelouch made himself strong enough and has conquered the world! You just don't want to admit you are weaker than him."
"My father's theories—" Cornelia started.
"You reject your father, and you reject your own claim to royalty." Suzaku said defiantly. Lelouch couldn't help the flicker of the smile he let slip. He was impressed at his Knight. Suzaku hadn't drawn any sort of weapon and yet he had Cornelia cornered. Either way she turned Suzaku would out rank her. As the Knight of Zero he was second only to him and as Zero Suzaku was one of the key players in the making of the new world. Either way, he out ranked her and he outmatched her. He couldn't be just gotten rid of and he couldn't be disregarded. Lelouch had to admit within a matter of minutes Suzaku had managed to do something Lelouch hadn't managed to do in his entire life.
"I'm not it's just his theories—" Cornelia stammered for once in her life.
"Were in part his claim to the throne and to his rule. They were part of him and in becoming who you were in our former world you accepted his 'theories'" Suzaku was still snarling. His body was taunt and stiff. He was still ready to strike at any moment, but completely defensive of the emperor in the hospital bed.
Cornelia's lip curled as her face twisted. "If that is the case Lelouch has no claim either."
"Lelouch conquered over your father. He killed him and took his throne." Suzaku stared the princess down.
Cornelia looked back at him. It was a few long moments before her face smoothed and her eyes softened. She stood taking her gloves in her blood stained hands and stepped to the door. Before going through it she stopped. "What happened, Suzaku? What happened between the two of you that was so critical that you would turn against someone you once considered an ally?"
Suzaku stepped back. His hands went behind him to the bed. He rested them on the covers, making sure that Lelouch was still behind him. Lelouch let a second slip of flickered smile. Suzaku was doing an amazing job of proving himself today.
"I found someone I could trust Cornelia. I found someone who actually put his entire life to keeping if nothing else one promise."
"And the promises of Euphy?" Cornelia asked, more somber now.
Suzaku turned looking down to Lelouch. "Have come true. He kept his promises and has even that of others."
"That doesn't bring her back." Cornelia hissed.
"Neither will killing Lelouch." Suzaku said softly his eyes still on Lelouch.
Cornelia snorted before walking out. Suzaku ignored her looking down still at his emperor. It was a long moment as Lelouch let his eyes wonder up to the others face. Lelouch shook his head silently before turning away, looking again to the wall.
"Well that was interesting." Lloyd commented before stepping to the hospital bed.
Suzaku reacted stepping directly into Lloyds path his eyes now focused on the researcher.
"Down doggy down! I'm just checking his stats. If we really do end up putting him back under tonight Roland wants him ready for it." Lloyd said gesturing Suzaku to get out of his way.
"What do you mean if?" Suzaku asked letting the man pass and leaned back on the bed closer to the foot of it.
"Well we're not sure what we're doing exactly. But of course if Cornelia knew that she would have a hay day with it! She'd want more done if she knew we might be stringing the surgeries out a little longer than originally planned." Lloyd said as he retrieved the laptop from the counter and returning to the monitors recoding down what he saw, his eyes moving up to the monitors then down to the laptop repetitiously
Suzaku pondered that for another moment before speaking. "What do you mean? What is setting you back?"
Lloyd looked over his shoulder at the soldier. "That would be a question more appropriate for our former emperor here." He gestured down at Lelouch. Suzaku's eyes followed the gesture down to Lelouch. Lelouch on the other hand was looking to the wall still. He pulled in a long breath before closing his eyes. He didn't need to answer to anyone.
"Lelouch?" Suzaku asked tentively.
Lelouch's eyes flashed open and he directed them to his knight at the foot of the bed. He shook his head in a reply and then let his eyes slip back closed.
"Alright then, Lloyd?" Suzaku said with a sigh and turned back to the researcher for the answer he wanted.
"Well it would seem our little friend here has been planning on dying for some time." Lloyd said his head again nodding between the monitors and the laptop. "Alright, we can go ahead and bandage him back up now. Good thing he would need re-bandaged soon anyway or Cornelia would have really started to get on my nerves. I mean really we've stitched the boy up twice now!" Lloyd retrieved the supplies he needed from the store closet and pulled out the metal side table placing the things on it before going to Lelouch. Lelouch looked over at the man glaring daggers at him.
"Here let me." Suzaku said as he pushed Lloyd out of the way and started to undo the straps holding Lelouch down. Lelouch turned away as both his wrists were freed then his upper torso. Suzaku then proceeded to lift the boy up, moving behind him he sat on the bed, holding Lelouch to semi-sit up. It was at least enough so that Lloyd could bandage the boy back up.
Lloyd started immediately pulling off the old wrappings.
"Nahhhhh!" Lelouch let out, hissing as Lloyd was forced to peel the gauze away from his skin. The dried blood had stuck the gauze to him like glue.
"Shhh, it's okay Lelouch." Suzaku whispered at his ear. Lelouch looked back to the knight.
"You know this all would have been so much easier if you hadn't of stuck the sword all the way through him." Lloyd commented like he was talking about a column in the Sunday paper.
Suzaku gave a brief smile. "I was focusing on not hitting vital organs."
"Suzaku, you stabbed him with a sword as long as you are tall, right through the middle of his torso. You should have known you were going to hit something vital." Lloyd commented as he finished up, tossing the used bandages in the trash. "Hold him he isn't going to like this part."
Lelouch didn't his eyes going wide and his breath catching as Lloyd started to wipe the wound as clean as he could get it. The burning seemed to sear his skin and he stifled a scream. He couldn't get why they wanted him fixed so bad anyway.
"It's alright." Suzaku said at his ear. He pulled an arm around Lelouch's shoulders holding him more securely than necessary. Lelouch sucked in another struggled breath his hands going to Suzaku's arm.
"Almost done." Lloyd said as he instructed for Suzaku to hold Lelouch on his side so he could properly see to the back.
Lelouch turned rather willingly as Suzaku adjusted himself on the bed to hold him there as comfortable as possible for a stabbing victim. The ebony haired sighed in to the embrace. The thought abruptly occurred to him that he was still quite bare. He brushed the thought away amused. What did it matter now? All he wanted was death and all Suzaku wanted was for him to live. As always the two of them couldn't possibly be on the same page at the same time. He closed his eyes as he felt Lloyd start to replace new gauze over the wound.
A moment later Suzaku pulled him back to lay flat. With a bit of a groan of pain Lelouch tried to help himself. Suzaku seemed not to notice the feeble attempt as he laid Lelouch out on his lap.
"If we can get him back hydrated we will more than likely operate tonight." Lloyd said as he finished wrapping off the wound.
Suzaku looked up. "What do you mean?"
"As in we'll put him back under this evening when Roland can get off his more official shift." Lloyd explained.
"No, what do you mean by getting him back hydrated?" Suzaku explained also.
"Like I said it seems someone was planning on dying more that even you must have seen." Lloyd elaborated.
Suzaku looked down to Lelouch who again only looked away. Suzaku knew that Lelouch had planned on ending his life from the start. He may not have wanted to admit it but he knew and just like always he had betrayed him in the end of it all, just like he knew he would.
"Do you think we can get him completely hydrated in a matter of hours?" Suzaku asked his hard emerald eyes pointed down to the patient.
"Oh, we've already started. He's had an IV supplying nutrients since he went under yesterday. He's amazingly malnourished." Lloyd finished it up before stepping back to the laptop on the side table. He typed for a split moment before a couple clicks and shut the thing.
"Alright then I'm all finished up here." Lloyd scooped the laptop in up in his arm and turned to Suzaku.
Suzaku gently moved out from under Lelouch replacing him to the pillows and stepped to Lloyd.
"What time do you think you'll be putting him back under?" Suzaku asked. Lelouch perked a bit at this looking to the two conversing near the door.
"No later than we have too. Mostly it depends on him. The better his stats are the sooner we'll do it." Lloyd said as he pressed the control pad and the door slid open.
Suzaku looked back at Lelouch. "How many more surgeries do you think it will take?"
Lloyd exhaled long and slow. "Well, we don't really know. Roland wants to get back in there as soon as he can. Last time we patched up what was needed and this time we're going back into more or less tidy up our work."
"You did a sloppy job last time or something?" Suzaku asked his emerald hard eyes now directed at Lloyd.
"Not sloppy so much as hurried. The boy was bleeding to death with twice the damage as the first time! Really, Suzaku, we're lucky he survived that little stunt of his. Hell! We're lucky he survived the first time around! " Lloyd explained.
Suzaku looked back again at Lelouch. "Thank you." He said softly and looked back to the researcher. "For saving him, twice now."
Lloyd smiled. "You got me out of prison."
"Yes, but he put you in there in the first place." Suzaku said.
"He also planned on killing himself for the betterment of the world." Lloyd pointed out.
Suzaku didn't answer now only took one last look back over his shoulder.
Lloyd nodded at Suzaku's silent dismissal and commented on his way out. "I'll send Roland in when he gets a free moment." And with that Lelouch heard as the door pressed closed behind him.
Suzaku turned facing Lelouch. "We need to talk."
"What would you like to hear?" Lelouch said flatly looking up at the hardened cold face of his former knight.
"Why have you been starving yourself for one?" Suzaku growled low lunging to the bed to pin his body over Lelouch's fragile frame.
"What does it matter?" Lelouch answered. "What's done is done." He looked away from his knight then in a very princely fashion.
"Oh no you don't!" Suzaku hissed and latched his hand on to Lelouch's chin pointing his face too him. "You are going to face me Lelouch!" he barked.
Lelouch smirked. "Face you? Is that why I'm alive? So you can duel me and win back some petty fantasy of your pride!"
"Lelouch!" Suzaku barked louder now baring his fangs.
"You can have it then!" Lelouch let out his own hiss. "I forfeit! Have whatever you want but do me a favor and keep your promise to me!"
"What?" Suzaku said in disbelief, his eyes gone wide.
"Have it! Whatever it is you want just have it but let me die in peace!" Lelouch said calmer as he noticed the change in Suzaku's face.
Suzaku's face changed again as Lelouch observed him. It softened then seemed crushed. Suzaku receded from over Lelouch and sat at the edge of the bed. Suzaku looked to the floor as he slumped into his sitting position. Lelouch pushed himself painfully up a moment to look at him. He leaned back on his elbows looking at the former officer and Knight. The comment had not been answered, but then again neither had answered each other in this quarrel.
"Just please for once answer the question Lelouch, honestly, why have you been starving yourself?" Suzaku asked his eyes closed
Lelouch was silent. He looked at the soldier at the end of the bed. There was something about him now. Something that had been there before but now it was just more pronounced for some reason. Something that had been hidden and now realized, but to what end? Lelouch went to reach out to Suzaku then. He carefully shifted is weight to one elbow before tentively outstretched his free hand. He hesitated for a moment holding his hand back in front of him but resumed soon after. He leaned forward with his hand. Suzaku's slouched and crumbled looking form at the side of bed was just ahead of his fingers before—his elbow slipped. Lelouch gave a curse before having to replace his other elbow for balance.
"Forget it!" Suzaku hissed, his eyes flashing open, and he leapt up from the bed, his back to Lelouch. Lelouch still winced at the pain. He didn't know how to stop Suzaku. Instead he simply leaned back on to the bed and watched as Suzaku pulled the blue and white jacket of his on and continued to the door.
"Get some sleep." Suzaku growled at him, he punched the key pad and the door slid open. Suzaku took one step out before stopping and turning back to Lelouch. "I'm not going to let you die Lelouch. You trusted my life in your hands and I'm not going to let it go to waste." And with that he turned and was out the door.
Lelouch watched him go sighing as he heard the door shut behind him. He watched the key pad a second longer. In seconds it flashed 'Locked' and the green light at the side turned to red. Oh course, Suzaku locks him in! Lelouch looked down though, The Knight had left in such a hurry he had forgotten one small detail. The restraints, well at least half of them were left off of Lelouch now. Lelouch couldn't say he was exactly sorry about the fact either. He leaned back farther into the pillows. As much as he hated when Suzaku was right this time well Suzaku was right. He did need sleep.
So now we are well on our way to a story don't you think haha! Anyway thank you guy's so much for all thee amazing amazing reviews they were more than fabulous! They make my day every time I see a new one! But anyway on to a question. Uhm… Loyalty, define it? Yeah actually that sounds pretty good. Give me your best definition of what loyalty is! And not I want what it is to you! Okay ready set go!