"Stop pushing me," C.C. says, her heart racing.
"Calm down, everything will be alright."
"I know," says C.C., panting.
C.C. feels Lelouch's breath on her neck. She gulps. She couldn't believe she is doing it. With Lelouch.
The guy presses more against her back, pushing her to the front.

"Can I…." starts C.C..
"Can I draw a certain sum of money?" she says to the bank employee waiting curiously behind the desk, pushing Lelouch's bank card toward the man.
The man eyes the green-haired girl standing before him, and the young man standing behind her.
After clicking through the bank's inside information on the computer, he soon finds out that the bank account has been deactivated since months ago, but the money on it is still there, waiting to be taken. So far no one has been claiming the money despite 3 letters sent to the related address, up till today. And what a luck too, that these mysterious people come right before the bank closes the account for real and takes all the money.
However…. the account is under the names of two people, two very important people, whose names aren't even revealed in the account information – which is why he can't ask these people to show their IDs. The man weighs his options. He can pass the load of money to the two youngsters here, after all they have the bank card and key to the personal safe. But what if they are thieves? The bank will lose some profit. As a good employee, it is his obligation to be extra suspicious and not giving money to some random people. Or even better, if he manages to kick these 2 people out, he can keep the money for himself. The bank doesn't have to know about it?
He smiles a victorious smile in his mind.
"I am so sorry, the bank account has been closed permanently. 3 letters had been sent to the address asking the owners to pick up the money, but no one came. Too bad, it is too late. The money is gone."
Much to his amazement, the young man steps forward and pushes his hat back. Then their eyes meet. Red, shining signs in the young man's eyes lock his eyes.
"I am sure you have made some mistakes, you might want to recheck the account and give us the money."
His mind goes blank, only filled by the man's echoing words.
Lelouch leans forward.
"And you never saw us coming in here."

"You could have used Geass earlier," says C.C., clearly discontented. "Why did you ask me to face him if you were going to use it anyway?"
"I didn't plan to, but he's planning to keep the money from us." Lelouch answers, pulling his hat covering his eyes. "This world might become better, but human greed never changes,"
Being used as a prince, even during his exile from Britannian Empire, he never had to worry about money, let alone taking his own money from bank. Sayoko had been taking charge of it representing him and Nunnally. In fact, Lelouch never really knew what commoners do to get their money from the bank.
"Besides, I don't want him to recognize my face and make a big fuss about it."
"Makes me wonder," Lelouch turns to face C.C., frowning. "How do you survive when you aren't freeloading at someone's place?"
C.C. stares at him coldly, and Lelouch knows that's all he gets as an answer.

"So, now that we have the money and temporary provisions for a couple of days… where are we going to go?" asks Lelouch, panting. Again, he is the one carrying all luggages and baskets with food, excluding the last cheese-ham pizza slice C.C. is munching while walking casually in front of Lelouch. She managed to eat up the whole box pizza single-handedly. Lelouch claimed to be too sick of pizzas. C.C. didn't bother to persuade him to eat.
Pondering about Lelouch's question, C.C. just walks ahead, not sure herself what to do or where to go.
"Well, out of this village I guess," says Lelouch, scowling at a bunch of kids who are imitating his dead self on the side of the street. He throws all the stuffs on the hay stack behind the cart and climbs to the driver seat. C.C. climbs on the stacks of hay and lies there, staring at the sky.
"Lelouch," C.C. calls softly when they finally got out of the village.
"Hmm? What is it?"
"I think of leaving Japan."
"Fine," answers Lelouch, surprised about his light tone when talking about leaving Japan. This will mean… cutting all connections to the past. To Zero. To Britannian. To Japan. To Nunnally. To Suzaku. To every person who ever means anything to him. Kallen.
C.C. stares at the sky as it turns velvet slowly. As she was a kid, she thought it would rain blood whenever she saw such velvet colored sky. Now she knows that it rains blood without the sky turning red… or velvet…

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They quickly find a place to stay within 2 hours after leaving the village. It is especially easier and less suspicious because Lelouch already gives up on complaining and agrees to be C.C.'s husband whenever needed.
"Decide already," starts Lelouch, as he drags a luggage to the other side of the room. "Where do you plan to go?"
C.C. seems to be drowning in her own thoughts. Then she just stands up and takes out some money out of Lelouch's coat.
"I am going to buy ship tickets for our trip out of this country," she tells Lelouch before shutting the door in front of his face. Lelouch gives the door an unbelieving stare. C.C. has been acting weirder with the time, ever since they leave Jeremiah and Anya. No….
Lelouch clenches his fists. It seems that she has something in mind way before they depart. The question is, what can it be?
C.C. comes back hours later. She looks as uncaring as usual, telling Lelouch that the ship taking them to France will arrive in 2 days.
Lelouch tries asking her about many questions. But C.C. remains silent. She develops the habit of staring out of the window, and when she does that, it looks like she leaves her body to travel in C's world. Unable to find out what C.C. is really up to, Lelouch gets really curious. But there is nothing he can do to get the information out of C.C.. He wishes his Geass would work on the green haired girl.
Time passes by quickly, and suddenly the two days are over. Lelouch finds himself preparing for their travel out of Japan. He is glad that C.C. seems to regain her old self again. She starts the day by commanding Lelouch around, asking him to do stuffs before they depart. Lelouch isn't really surprised by the orders. He no longer complains when asked to bring all the luggages by himself to the front door. Lelouch leaves a message to Jeremiah and Anya to pick up the cart in the lodging house they are leaving. Another cart is going to take them to the bay. Lelouch puts the stuffs on their place on the cart and waits for C.C. to show up in front of the lodging house.
C.C. finishes the payment and walks out to the sunshine, smiling at Lelouch. The latter smirks instead of smiling, but C.C. doesn't mind at all.

"This trip is going to take 4, 5 days," explains the Captain. "I hope everyone will enjoy the trip and we will bring you safely to Paris."
Lelouch follows C.C. to their cabin. There is a double bed in there.
"You bought the ship ticket as couple again." stated Lelouch.
"Yeah." answered C.C. as-a-matter-of-factly.
Lelouch strolls toward the window and opens it to let the fresh sea air comes in. "4, 5 days," he mutters. "Enough time to plan what we will do in Paris, don't you think?"
Lelouch waits for C.C.'s response.
None.
Since the girl says nothing at all, Lelouch turns around to face her. But she isn't there. Lelouch is alone in the cabin.

C.C. stands alone on the deck, feeling the cold wind brushing over her skin. One of the ship crews told her to go back to her cabin as the night approaches. She thanked him for his attention but she didn't intend to go back to her cabin, not yet. C.C. doesn't feel like she has any reason to do anything or go anywhere. Nothing big will happen to her so nothing is worth it. But she also knows that whatever she does, no matter how insignificant it is, it may result in bigger things for other people around her. And this displeases C.C. very much.
She wraps her arms around her body, wincing as she remembers horrible things in her past.
"Cold?"
Someone throws his coat around her shoulder. C.C. doesn't need to turn around to know who he is. She wraps the coat tightlier around her body.
"What are you doing here? A spoiled brat like you should be sleeping around this time," she says to Lelouch.
"Well, what can I say? My "wife" is suddenly gone, I can't sleep without her." answers Lelouch smoothly, grinning at the green-haired girl. The latter just marches back to their cabin, leaving her "husband" behind.
Five minutes later though, lying on bed in Lelouch's arms, C.C. falls asleep peacefully, as if nothing ever bothered her.

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Author's note : Sorry I have been busy with college x.x