Chapter 2
From nothing to something
First an experiment, but now Kahtelliya
"What's happening" Lelouch questioned looking at the glowing crystal in his hand.
Suddenly the bathroom door opened and he pushed the stone in his pocket.
"What do you want" he questioned C2 who just finished having a bath; she flopped back into the bed and curled up hugging her teddy bear.
"That was a nice act you did out there" C2 said smiling at Lelouch
"Where are you getting at?" he questioned her resting his jaw in his hand that was on the elbow of the chair.
"Why?"
"I needed them to believe it was the goal of getting new launches of nightmares" he said boldly
"But instead" she said temptingly
"Yes, exactly as you presume" he finished the sentence
"The fun of destroying your brother's experiments" she said instead completing her sentence on her own.
"I will destroy what they hold, until their left empty handed" he cursed, filled with rage. There was a pause.
She giggled
"Is that all you wanted" he questions her, not much of question, but enough to persuade her he wanted to be alone.
"Yes"
She stood up and began walking to the door
"Actually no" she turned around
"What about the stone in your pocket?"
Lelouch smiled, of course, he couldn't hide anything from her, and she was C2. He pulled the stone out his pocket, it was still glowing.
"It spoke to me…" he said looking down on the rock
"What do you mean?" she asked in her usual nonchalant seductive tone
"This is the device I took from them and…..it's the device that saved my life"
"You were saved by a glowing rock?"
He smiled "not just any rock, there's a person inside it"
C2's eyes widened and she stepped back
"Someone's inside of it?" she questioned
"Exactly" he said calmly
Silence.
"And somehow this person knows who I am and my power can't affect them" he continued
The silence dragged on.
"So do you know why the stone is shining so brightly" she asked.
"No…I don't know-"
Suddenly the rock that he had in his hand began levitating; it grew larger and larger until it returned back to its normal size as it was before.
"Is-is that even possible" Lelouch stammered as he looked at the rock taking form
The crystal began to glow and the female silhouette could be seen.
"Someone's inside it" C2 mumbled.
Then there was the sound of a shaky female voice, it sounded weary and struggling, "brake...", immediately the crystal broke and the pieces and fathed away leaving pink particles floating in the air.
Leluoch and C2 were now staring at a naked girl. Average lustful shaped body and smooth scar less skin. Her hands tightly hugging over her chest. She had a dark blonde straight hair and half lidded glassy green eyes. She was slowly falling down, dizzy, weary, as if she was drugged and weakened.
Her body landed on the floor and she mumbled something, Lelouch took off his jacket and kneeled and covered her body.
C2 walked over towards the unconscious girl looking at Lelouch who knelt in shock.
"Whats-whats the meaning of this!" he was upset, angry, the girl had been trapped in that stone, how did this happen, who did this?
The next day In Lelouch's room back at the Academy
The girl opened her eyes; she was having a awful headache as if someone had slammed a iron in the back of her head. She looked around, she was inside a different room than the one she recalled being in before losing consciousness. She looked down, she was covered in sheets and beside her was a table with a glass of water. At first she tried sitting up, but then she realized she was too weak and couldn't manage her own weight. She released an inward sigh.
"You're awake" a voice said
She turned around, Lelouch was leaning again against the wall and now looking at her as she tried to get up again and this time made it as far as sitting up in the bed.
"Where am I?" she questioned him
"In my room" he answered her, walking up towards her
"Firstly do you-"
"Leluoch Vi Britannia, otherwise known as Lelouch lamperouge disguised as the number one wanted criminal, Zero. Leader of the black nights and brother of Nunally Vi Britannia. Contract holder with Geass holder C2 giving the ability to-"
"How do you know all of that" Lelouch question the girl his voice rising louder and louder.
He stood wide-eyed with clenched fist and a vein almost ready to burst that sat on his forehead. C2 now stood beside him, gripping on her teddy-bear.
"I-I don't know" she replied to him, her voice trembling under her breath
Lelouch posture loosened and now he stood shocked with sympathy over his face
"What do you mean you don't remember" his voice calm and inquisitive.
She pulled her feet up to her chest and hugged them tightly, she was wearing one of C2's nightwear and she was now shaking in cold sweat
"I can't remember anything, nothing at all, I don't remember my name, and I don't know what nationality I am or what I can do" she said with tears rolling down her cheeks.
"I only remember everything about you" more tears soaked her cheeks
"You're the only person I know, so please don't leave my side" she wiped her tears with the edge of the sheet
She doesn't remember anything, which means she doesn't know how she ended up in Schneizel research lab…
"Well I have to leave you can stay here"
"No no no no" she refused tightening her grip on the sheet. She was scared.
"Let me go with you, where ever you're going" she insisted
His voice went in a deep upset tone, "I'm going to school. You can't-"
"Then I'm going with you, I'm going to school with you, anou…although I don't know what it is...Umm" her voice strengthened again, "…I'm coming with you!"
The girl was toying with the edge of her skirt while she walked next to Lelouch who was in deep thought.
I can't believe I'm doing this. Bringing her along with me to school am I even sure she won't blow my cover?
"Don't worry, I won't let out your secret" she said turning towards him with a smile.
She was then bumped into by a boy who was running pass her. They both went tumbling to the floor. He landed on top of her and started rubbing his head.
"Ouch, this is that I get for running down the cat that always bites me" he whined but then he looked down and quickly got up
"Are you alright" the boy said turning to the girl who was holding her head after she fell.
It was Suzaku; he was running down his cat.
"Are you alright?"He asked her again, this time holding her up and she slowly opened her eyes, she began mumbling, "Le-Lel-Lelouch". She sat up quickly unaware of Suzaku who was still holding her.
"Lelouch" she screamed, trembling and shaking, "did I- did I lose him", her eyes became watery.
"I'm right here" he said calmly, kneeling down towards her and took a hold of her hand helping her to stand, "there's no need for you to cry" he said with a smile. She shook her head then hugged him tears running down her cheeks and wailing with her face planted in his chest.
"I thought I lost you!" she continued, now sobbing softly, releasing him and wiping her eyes
"You're the one hurt and you're crying for me" he said with a smile
Suzaku interrupted, "I'm sorry I didn't mean to bounce into you ahh, aumm" he didn't know her name.
Oh no he doesn't know what she is, he doesn't know tha-t
"That's okay she said"
Luckily he didn't have to come up with a lie at the moment. She turned to Lelouch and giggled and she started walking again making twirls, and oblivious to everyone around her.
"Who is she Lelouch?" Suzaku asked with a puzzled face scratching his head
"Come on Lelouch" she shouted as she continued walking.
"Sorry, gotta go" he said turning around and walking away to her as she stood waiting for him.
Both turned down the hall.
"Wait don't tell me-" a concerned look swept over Suzaku's face.
"Don't tell me….THAT LELOUCH IS DATING THAT GIRL!" he shouted in shock as the students now passing kept good range away from him.
"What about Shirley's feelings?" he said sadly and pouting.
"Wait I can't just jump to conclusions' he paused
"Well they were walking together and then when I bumped into her and they got separated, she began crying for him" he thought to himself
He shook his head side to side reluctantly
"I know Lelouch, he wouldn't hurt Shirley's feelings" he said reassuringly "but what about when Shirley sees them together, oh no!"
It was first period and Lelouch was at class earlier than normal so he reached in before the teacher could mark the register, good, he thought, this way she won't have to introduce her,
He turned to the nameless girl, she was looking at the book strangely, and she lifted it up with her index finger then slowly let it go. The book fell back onto the desk, she gasped.
Well maybe she wasn't all that helpless, but, something about her seemed interesting that grabbed Lelouch's attention.
What did Schneizel want with her, why can't she remember anything other than everything about me, what if she was a spy instead-no of course not. What was she?
First and Second period swept by, both classes were wasted. First period role-played on the news on the TV that was played over on a large screen inside the class about Zero attacking Schneizel research Centre and stealing equipment and other belongings. of course, Lelouch thought,they wouldn't say what it was, they were covering it up so that everyone else wouldn't be terrified that wat Zero had taken something that was very important and might make a huge difference in what would have or could have happened next, those filthy liars it continued as it was highlighted over what reporters think about Zero and what his next move would be.
So hence forth, why cover it up, why tell lies, why not mention that they were keeping a secret experiment underground, unless, unless... She really is important, she really is, your next plan
Lelouch glanced a look at her, she was gazing deeply at the screen, her mouth half open and everything else became nothing but what she was seeing. She didn't even know that she was the 'equipment' that was stolen
Second period the teacher didn't show up so there was no class.
Lelouch looked across the classroom, Kollan wasn't at school today, and she must have skipped the day and stayed back to test out her nightmare since it was being upgraded.
The lunch bell rang
Lelouch started putting his books inside his bag. All he had now was to meet with the Student Council. He glanced at the watch, in the next 15 minutes. He turned to her, WHAT, she wasn't in her chair.
Immediately he got up with his bag in his hands and ran out the class. He was now searching through the hall, he tried the lunch area, and maybe she was back in the room? He darted out the building and into the other ran upstairs and opened the door but she was nowhere to be found.
"If I were a girl…where would I be" he was now looking through the window looking down into the group of walking students to see if he could spot her.
"She's not there"
He looked across the lawn and up to the adjacent building. There was a girl standing on the porch, her back facing his direction.
That body, that hair…yes, it was her, it was definitely her, but wait what is she doing?
She suddenly went falling back ways plummeting down three stories bellow.
"No!"
He ran out the room and down the stairs until he was out the building.
With such a high fall she would surly die, she must have fell in the garden. Yet, somehow, it seems that no one had seen her jump.
He was now at the garden looking for her body.
"Aren't they beautiful?" a voice said.
He turned around, she was kneeling one the ground smelling some flowers she had plucked out from the garden. He stared at her, not a cut or a scratch. He tirelessly fell down on his knees. He was breathing heavily.
"What do you think you were doing?" he asked her his breathing almost covering his words
"I wanted to see the flowers" she said with a beautiful smile
"So you carelessly jumped' he replied loosening the top half of his jacket
"Mmhmm"
"What if you had hurt yourself?" he asked looking at her once again in case she did get a cut or a scratch.
"It's okay I won't die so-"
She paused
"What's wrong?" He asked
"Lelouch… I remember now, you found me"
Lelouch paused…she's beginning to remember things now
"Yes and I kept my promise?" he asked
"Because you kept holding me, I finally realized, that I had something to live for" she continued
Lelouch remembered, after she sent him back through time he was holding the shrunken rock in his hand
"You gave me enough strength to brake me free" she smiled and the tears ran down her eyes.
"Don't cry for me" he said
"You said that before "she added
Her tears were so beautiful, and when she cried, you could feel the pain, the pain carried in those tears
"Promise me, don't cry for me again" she said looking at the weeping girl
"I promise" she mumbled under her weeping voice
There was a moment of silence as she wiped her tears.
"These flowers do smell wonderful" she said sniffing the flowers with a broad smile
"Yes, their Kahtelliya de Flummeries" he replied" they only grow in Japan, one of our treasured flowers, we planted them everywhere since their rare so that they will last longer and forever"
"Well they'll forever be in my heart" she giggled, rubbing the flowers against her face.
That's when Lelouch realized. The flower petals where dark deep yellow, matching the color of the dark blonde hair. The center of the flower was green however they matched the color of her green glassy eyes that shined so beautifully.
"Kahtelliya..." he said softly
"Huh"
"Kahtelliya…that will be your name, your named of the beautiful flower itself, meaning beautiful and pure" he ended
"Wow! I like it" she replied
"Well how about we go and me my friends" he stood up
"Sure" she said standing up with a broad smile on her face still looking down at her feet nervously
"Come on. Kahtelliya, let's go" he said "they're nothing to be afraid of"
