Sorry for the delay. Here's the awaiting chapter. Pardon me for my grammar/vocabulary mistakes.

Chapter Name: Surprises and First Night

*Note: I do not own Code Geass.

Warning: Sexual contents are in it. I am not liable for any damages and since this is rated as 'M', only reader aged over 18 should read it. You have been warned

Guilford hung his tailcoat to the coat rack and seated himself on the sofa. He loosened his tie and draped it over his coat. He is pondering what the small chat is going to be about, because it just feels so mysterious.

Minutes later, he saw Cornelia walking over to him. She placed down 2 wine cups and a bottle of wine onto the coffee table in front of the sofa. She sat down besides him, pulled off the shawl and placed it on the table. So far, Cornelia has yet to cast a glance at him. This has made Guilford feel uneasy, it was as though he is invisible. He begins to shift himself uncomfortably and keep looking down on the floor.

She passed the bottle of wine to him gesturing him to open it. Guilford is perplexed by her actions. 'First she gave me the cold shoulder, then for a chat or whatsoever, and now, to open up a bottle of wine? What is she thinking?' He thought as he handed back the opened wine to her and went back to stare on the floor again.

She poured the wine into the cups, turning to face him, she sighed heavily.

"Is my floor so interesting that you have to stare at it as soon as you came in?" Guilford shook his head in response and raised his head up, facing her.

"I guessed that is a good punishment, for now." She passes him one of the wine cups to him. Taken aback by her words, especially the word 'Punishment', his mind is whirling in circles. He has totally lost her, in her way of thinking so to speak.

"Wait… Do you mean to say that the cold and silent treatment I have been getting earlier is a form of punishment?"

"Yes it is. I supposed that is of a better choice than the other kinds I have in mind." Cornelia said it coldly, looking at her wine and taking a sip of it without casting a glance to him.

Guilford sit there dumbfounded. A part of him is really interested to know what other kinds of punishment she has in mind, but on second thought, it may be a good idea not to know.

"S-so does that means you have forgiven me?" He asked, his face displaying seriousness about his question. It is important for him to know.

"Not at all, I have only half-forgiven you." She answered back.

Upon hearing her answer, Guilford heart sank a little. Well, it's not like he is a three-year old kid where he deserves a little punishment and after that it turned into a complete forgiveness, it is naïve, way too naive to be thinking in this way. However, attaining fifty-percent of her forgiveness, it is better than getting none.

A small, weak smile is formed on his face after he got his question answered. He hunched forward, setting his elbows on his lap, twirling the liquid in his wine in the cup with his left hand, staring hard at the motion. Cornelia saw the change in his posture and expression. In her point of view, he acted like a kid who has lost badly in some kind of competition, hitting him hard. She thought that such stuff usually happens to kids, adult too, but never did she imagine it would happen onto him as well. And forming a small smile in such cases, it just scares her.

Afraid that he takes it too hard, she moved herself closer to him. Then, she went on to move her left hand onto his right hand, intertwining her fingers in between of his, giving a small squeeze into his hand.

"Actually… I have forgiven you, completely." She gave a small kiss onto his cheek, seeing that his shoulder has relaxed, she leaned against him.

"If you are busy helping people, you should at the very least give me a call or message to notify me."

"I feel like an idiot waiting there silently, as if I am enjoying the companion of the four walls around me..." Trying to shrug off the memories she was in the room earlier.

Guilford gave a small chuckle at her understatement,
"I'm sorr-" Cornelia placed a finger on his lips, cutting off his sentence. Guilford leaned back onto the couch, snuggling up against her to feel her warmth.

"Stop apologizing, it makes me feel like I'm the bad person here. Besides, you have said more than enough of 'sorry' for the night." She pulled herself away from him and lies down on the couch, resting her head on his lap. Guilford takes her wine glass from her and places both his and hers onto the table. He brushed off the strands of hair to the sides from her face, allowing him a full view of her face. She closed her eyes while he caressed her cheek, both of them are enjoying the little intimacy or embrace between them, before Cornelia speaks up to break the silence.

"Hey... There is no work tomorrow, then you can sleep in late... a-and..." Cornelia is stammering at her sentence, still resting on his lap, she turned herself facing the table trying not to look into his eyes.

"A-and what?"

"S-stay with me, would you? Erm… I wanted to spend more time with you..." Cornelia felt her cheeks burning up as she is saying.

'Stay? More time?' Guilford is taken in surprise by her words.

"W-well, even though we s-sleep together here, you always leave in the middle of the night… Then you leave in the middle of the night…" A tinge of bitterness can be heard in her tone.

It is a rare sight for him to see Cornelia operating into a little girl mode, it really makes him wonder which is the real her. Though her face is turned away from his gaze, he could clearly see redness appearing on her ear and neck. Today, it seems like a weird day to Guilford because her action tonight surprises him totally.

He thought that he should be the one initiating such stuff (in his mind, he considers men should be the one to make the first move most of the time) but then again, he never expected her to say such stuff. Most probably he feels that given her character, such matter does not suit her at all.

Though it is true that their level of intimacy has reached to the point of sleeping together after a few months in relationship, and he always disappeared in the middle of the night because he had to. Should he stay any later or leave in the morning dusk, there is a chance of people seeing him coming out of the Princess's room or coming down from her storey, tongues could wage. On the other hand, he also could not possibly ask her to go to his room in which on the storey he is staying, there are other people staying there and soldiers are also coming in and out of the level.

And so, things can really get out of hand and more complex. He doesn't mind if his reputation is affected but her reputation, be it as a princess or as a woman must be protected, at all costs. Surely, he does not really care what will happen to him but of course, he could not allow these kinds of stuff to happen, especially on the ones he loved.

"I will stay for the night. I promised that you will get to see me tomorrow by your side and I will not wander off."

Cornelia turned around to face him, her expression is filled with happiness and she smiled affectionately at him. Guilford bent down and kissed her on the forehead.

"I'm really glad. Today you have surprises me quite a lot. In addition I seem to have understood another hidden part of you."

"What hidden part do you mean? I am always like this…" She sat up and gave him an elbow to the left side of his body.

"What was that for?" His face is wincing in pain, while his right hand went to rub lightly on the spot she elbowed.

Cornelia did not answer him back. Her back is facing him, rather than getting an answer from her, Guilford hugged her from behind, resting his head onto her shoulder blade.

"Don't be angry, will you?"

"Who says I am angry?"

"Well, are you not?"

"No, I am not." It is obvious that Cornelia is getting a little irritated as her tone is getting louder than before, as Guilford continues to say that she is angry.

"Yes, you are."

"No, I say I'm -" Just as Cornelia tuned around to tell Guilford for good that she is not angry, her words are cut off as Guilford leaned forward at that instant, placing a kiss on her lips.

The kiss was slow yet fiery. It was only meant to be a small, short kiss but neither wants to break apart from each other. It was getting more intense and fiery as seconds passes.
Cornelia wraps her arms around his neck, deepening and intensifying the kiss even more. Their tongues are waging a small war inside their mouth, exploring and tasting each other, like a fight for dominance. His hands started to caress across her back, at times tracing small patterns with his fingers. Her body tenses up at his touch, it tenses even more especially when his fingers happen to trace down her spinal cord, sending chills down her body. On the other hand, Guilford loved the small reactions she has been letting out. It seems to give him a sense of satisfaction that he is pleasing her well.

Finally, Cornelia broke apart from him, mainly due to the lack of air. Both of them are panting hard, trying their very best to inhale as much of air to fill in their lungs for the lack of oxygen. They stared at each other, looking at the state of how breathless they are. After a few moments of staring, Cornelia then has realized what just happened between them and her cheeks started to illuminate redness. Guilford feel himself blushing too as soon as he caught sight of the Cornelia's blushing, but he does not know why.

An awkward silence went in between them.

"I-I…" Guilford found himself stammering in his words. It is more like he is unable to form any words. Until now, today is the first time that the both of them are exchanging such a heated kiss.

"It's okay", said Cornelia.

"Oh…" is the only reply from Guilford. He thought all has come to an end when he was caught off guard. Cornelia leaned in to him, closing the distance between them, initiating another kiss onto his lips. She expects him to pull off from the kiss but instead, Guilford returned the kiss back to her without any hesitation. Cornelia closes her eyes, enjoying the pleasure flowing through her as Guilford trailed his kisses down on her jaw-line, then to her neck and collarbone area. As he is doing it, he pushed her down slowly, lowering them to lie down onto the couch.

He could no longer think well, no longer knowing if what he is doing is correct or wrong, no longer caring about what will be the aftermath consequences. All he knows is that he can no longer control his temptations anymore. Though there are times he wanted her so badly but still able to keep himself in control, but today is different. He wanted her, everything of her, so much even more than usual.

Conversely, Cornelia is fascinated at the way of how she and Guilford are kissing as the kiss is so passionate and intense. What surprised her is that she never knows that he is such a great kisser. She loves the tingling feeling when the warmth of his fingers is touching over her 'cold' exposed back. All such movements are heating up her body, it has become so heated to the fact that she had also wanted more of him, more than just kissing and touching.

Her hands moved to his waist-line, unbuckling his belt, followed by pulling out his shirt out of his pants. After that, she begins unbuttoning one button by another on his shirt from the top to the end. She pulled off his shirt from him and threw it onto across the table. An image of well-toned body is revealed right in front of her, Cornelia is astounded by his body. Even though they slept together, she realized that she has hardly see his body as he always sleep in later than her, and so there is simply no opportunities to see how fit he really is until now. Now comparing the real stuff right in front of her and the image of his toned body she conjured up in her mind, it is way better than what she has imagined.

Noticing that Cornelia is hardly doing anything other than staring at his body, he crashed his lips onto hers without giving any notice. Hating the fact that he 'attacked' her while she is off-guard, she scratched nonchalantly across his chest with her fingernails, breaking Guilford's kissing attention on her. Guilford leaned down and whispered in her ears, "What do you think you are doing, naughty girl?" Guilford said in painful note. Obviously Cornelia knows that he is faking out the pain and she could feel that he is smirking.

"What do you think then, little boy?" Cornelia replied back to him.

"But I must say you have a good body here…" She said, looking at him from head to his waist and up again.

"I'll take that as a compliment then. So do you want continue staring or to continue our little 'playing'?"

"How about a little bit of both options?" She gave a small laugh along her words and wrapped her hands around his neck.

Guilford pulled out of her embrace, much to Cornelia dismay. He stood up and stands besides her, scooping her up in bridal style. He carried her and they proceed to her bedroom. Cornelia blushed at the sight of her being carried, like a baby cradled in his arms. As Guilford laid her down onto the bed, she kicked out the heels she is wearing onto the floor, while he hovered over her, placing his hands at the open space besides her shoulders, propping himself up. Approaching her like a wild beast, he bent forward and kissed her roughly on the lips, biting at her ear lobe and nibbling the flesh on her neck. He is trying to take in every essence of her into his mind, everything of her.

Then, his left hand moved downwards towards her chest, fondling her right breast through the silk fabric of her dress as he continues his ministrations. Unconsciously, Cornelia let out a lustful moan in which turning Guilford more sexually aroused. His mind found it to be exceptionally alluring and perhaps, sexy too. As the number of her moaning increases, he can feel that his pants are constricting his groin even more, making him slightly uncomfortable. Even so, his hands started roaming about her body, trying to find any signs of zips or buttons that will strip her out of the dress.

"Hey…" said Guilford.

"How do I get you out of this dress? I can't find any zippers of some on you." Frustration is displayed over his face, probably at the fact that he cannot get the clothing off her body.

"Oh…" She pushed him away, and stand next to the bed.

"The zipper is here." She faced her back to him, her eyes gesturing to him that the zipper is at her butt there.

"No wonder… It is so concealed."

He sat up on the bed in daze, pondering why he did not notice the place of the zipper in the first place. As he is deep in thoughts, Cornelia unzipped the dress herself, after some attempts of ridding off the dress, soon she is almost naked but her underwear is still on her. She walked up in front of Guilford, breaking his attention right away when she gave a small cough.

Guilford instantly looked up to the source of the cough. There he saw Cornelia, one of her hands is trying to cover over her important area where her dominant hand is trying to cover up her breasts and the other hand of hers is desperately trying to block his view on her underwear. In his point of view, it is but a futile attempt of hers in trying her best to protect her body and he can also see that she is blushing even harder than earlier.

'Wow… She has a great body. It's simply too hot to resist.' He thought. His eyes looked up and down her body, it took him a moment to actually realize that he is staring at her body too long before he turned his gaze away to break up the awkward atmosphere. Cornelia stood there in silent for what seems like hours, she expects some movements, actions, or whatever thing from him but none is coming up. She took the first initiative and pushed him down on the bed, assaulting him from the front.

She launched a fiery kiss on his lips, while her hands roamed down unzipping his pants and tugging on his pants roughly. A low growl is heard from him as the tugging rubs against his growing erection forcibly, making him more uncomfortable prior to the constriction he felt earlier. Cornelia broke the kiss momentarily, she took away his spectacles, placing it on her dressing table and she dragged the pants off him, discarding the unneeded article of clothing onto the floor, leaving him in boxers.

"We are even now, both of us only has a piece of clothing on us."

Guilford grabbed her wrist and pulled her onto him. Then he flipped her over, with him at the top again. His hands travelled to her breasts, which he gave a quick squeeze and he lowered his mouth onto one and drew a nipple into his mouth. He gently sucked, and licked the progressively hardening nub as it procured sighs of pleasure from her lips. His other hand was busy squeezing and kneading her other breast—intermittently pinching and rolling its nipple between his fingers.

Cornelia is gasping hard, her body arching towards him, she wanted to moan out loud but make mental note not to. She did not want to let him know that she is enjoying this blissful pleasure he is giving to her, but the true reason is that she did not want to let her 'soldier-princess' image to be taken away so easily by him. In the society or in military, she is regarded as a tough, merciless and cold-hearted princess. Some have also given her a title called 'Ice Princess'. This very truth also applies even when she is off-duty. Depending on whom she is associating with or the situation, she can be gentle, kind and friendly too, which this is a rare display that is hidden from the surface.

Guilford is a special case to him. There are times even when she is off-duty, or even when they are alone, she is still in that 'soldier-princess' mode, it was purely out of habit as the times they usually spent together is as a knight and princess relationship. So it is difficult for either of them to adjust their personality modes. And especially in this peculiar situation she is in, she does not want to give in so easily to him, simply said she hates defeat.

Unable to contain her pleasures any longer, Cornelia finally moaned out loud as Guilford began to grind his hardened member against her entrance. His grinding is affecting her a lot, it is as if he is teasing her. Just when Cornelia is about to lose herself in her world of bliss, Guilford abruptly stopped which annoyed her.

"Cornelia, I cannot hold myself back anymore. I need to get inside you." His eyes is filled with lust, and without any hesitation, Cornelia nodded.

Immediately, he slipped himself out of his boxers and at the same time, he pulled off her underwear too, throwing the two articles onto the floor.

"I am going to put it in." He positioned himself at her center and began to push himself into her, slowly. He saw her eyes tightly shut, her eyebrows furrowed together, indicating to him that she is in pain.

"Are you alright?"

Upon hearing no response from her, and her face still displays that she is wincing in pain, Guilford spoke up. "I-I will pull it out now."

Cornelia's placed one hand onto his shoulder, her eyes are opening up slowly and her facial expression is starting to relax.

"No, I am fine. Give me a few moments to adjust." After some waiting, Cornelia formed a small smile to him. It was then Guilford thrust in and out of her slowly at first, then he started to pick up the pace as her walls begin to tighten down around him and her legs have also begin to wrapped around his waist, enticing him to go faster. Both of them are about to reach their climax, in a matter of few more thrusting.

"Guilford… I—", she is short on her breath, incapable of finishing her sentence.

"Say… my first name, Cornelia…" Guilford gasped in between his words.

"Gil-bert…"

"One more time", Guilford nested his head into her neck.

"Gilbert." Cornelia screamed out his name as she reached her climax. At the same time, Guilford reached his too, his body arched at the release of his orgasm before he collapse down onto her.

They are panting hard and are covered in a thin sheen of sweat, their bodies seem like they are glittering under the reflection lights from the military lights from the outside.

"Are you fine?" Guilford asked but he received no reply.

He moved up close to see her as his spectacles is taken away from him and he found her to be drifting into a peaceful slumber. He smiled at the peaceful expression on her face and sat up. He unfolded the quilt that is lying on the edge of the bed, draping across them and lie down besides her, embracing her in his arms before falling asleep.

A/N: First I apologized that it took me so, so long to update. Ever since my exams are over 3 weeks ago, I am having post-exams celebrations and so, I keep myself away from anything that will remind me of school. In addition, for this chapter, I actually rewrite most of the parts again from my initial draft and hence the delay.

So if as you are reading the story and you found that some scenes that I wrote does not tally with the scene I wrote earlier or later, pardon my mistakes then. So far this is the first time that I wrote so long. And I'm trying my very best to make sure that the story (plus the character's action) flows smoothly. Another thing to note is that I noticed that my writing tends to write it in as detailed as possible. Again, if you may find words/actions/whatever there is to occur over and over again.

Anyway hope you all will like it!