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Chapter Four: Results and Take-Off

Lelouch threw an arm over his eyes as he flopped over on he and Suzaku's bed. "So what did you brother want?" Suzaku asked from his spot at his desk. He was sitting in the chair with Vanessa in his arms, suckling on her formula eagerly. After the phone call, which he'd taken while making a salad, Lelouch had looked rather perturbed and immediately rushed off. Suzaku had left the salad where it was and followed him to their room, carrying the groggy Nessa and her bottle. "Was it something really bad?" He pressed further.

"Summer vacation is starting soon for Nunnally and Schneizel invited me to come down for a week to visit with her. She has a lot of choir things and she wants me to attend, should I decide to go out there," He said flatly, moving his arm and looking over at his boyfriend. He then fell back over, pressing his face into the pillow and letting out a low groan into it. Suzaku remembered Nunnally pretty well; especially the words they spared with one another. She had agreed to go to Britain with her father because, as she told Suzaku and not Lelouch, because she wanted to give her brother a chance to live his own life as thanks for all the years he dedicated to her care. At first Suzaku had found it rude of her but once Lelouch revealed that he needed a new place to live and Rin said it was fine for him to stay in the Kururugi house, he had to admit he was grateful for the girl's decision.

"Well that sounds nice. And I know that you've been missing Nunnally a lot," Suzaku pointed out with a small smile. If Lelouch went to Britain, Suzaku had decided he and Nessa would be tagging along as well, and he was interested in meeting Lelouch's large family. Not only that, but Lelouch really had missed Nunnally; they exchanged emails but after reading the messages the ebony haired male would always seem a little somber for a few hours. "Besides, you've definitely earned a little vacation time."

"Yeah, but if I go out to visit I'll have to stay in that house," He said coldly, poking his head from the pillow with a hardened look on his face. Suzaku knew that Lelouch was referring to the house he'd lived in until he brought Nunnally to Tokyo. Lelouch and his father had a rather strained relationship due to the older man's reaction when Nunnally was first diagnosed with her ailment. The two hadn't spoken since the day Lelouch took Nunnally and left.

"How about this, then? Vanessa and I will go with you and we can lie and say we need to stay in a hotel near a hospital because of a medical condition she has," He suggested with a grin. Lelouch blinked a few times, the gears in his head turning as he began to figure out if the plan would work or not. "That or tell that I had been planning on getting us a fancy hotel since you've never stayed in one before. That seems a little more plausible."

"Have I told you I love you recently?" Lelouch asked with a small smirk. Suzaku grinned back, getting up and walking over calmly with Vanessa. He sat down while Lelouch got up and crawled over so that he could rest his chin on the other's shoulder, looking down at the little girl. "We're going to have to wait until we get her test results first though. We can take a plane that night to Britain unless she needs to be hospitalized. If she ends up being too sick to travel, though, I am not going. We're both going to stay here until she's doing better." He said sternly, causing those emerald orbs he loved to gleam happily as the other chuckled.

"Of course. And I'll go talk to my mother real fast so that she knows we might be going on a trip in a few days," He said while offering Nessa, who was almost done sipping her formula, over to the other. Lelouch carefully took her, making sure to use one hand to hold the bottle in place and take her in a secure embrace.

"Just make sure to knock before you enter her office. She may be… entertaining company," Lelouch said while clearing his throat. He remembered a few weeks ago, he'd been going to ask Rin if there were any things she wanted in specific from the store. He forgot to knock and was given the sight of his boyfriend's parents in a rather compromising position. He had shut the door, ran to the kitchen, and downed an entire bottle of wine to try to block out the horrific visuals. He had also never told Suzaku, who got stuck dealing with the plastered butler, why he'd felt the need to drink more than he could handle.

"What do you mean?" Suzaku asked with a raised eyebrow. Lelouch merely shook his head, not wanting to drag back up the visuals from so long ago, and kept his gaze elsewhere. Knowing he wasn't going to pry any more information out of him, the other headed out and up the nearby staircase to his mother's office. He was in luck that just as he approached his mother was heading out. She glanced over and grinned at him.

"Well hello there, Suzaku. How are things going with Vanessa?" She asked cheerfully, letting her hand slip of the doorknob and rest on one of her hips. He grinned lightly at her.

"She's doing great. We took her to the doctor to see if she has anything serious wrong with her and she just has to get two tests done. We'll know the results in three days and," He began, easing in to the real subject smoothly, "if she turns out to be fine we were wondering if we could take her to Britain. Lelouch's sister and brother invited him down and I just can't let him go alone. It's not safe for such a cutie like him to roam around a country he hasn't been to in years all by himself; especially since he doesn't have very much physical strength."

Rin raised an eyebrow and laughed lightly. "That's the best bullshit you've pulled out of your ass in a while but I get what you're hinting at. Okay, I'll let you go. But on one condition," Rin said with a happy little smile. Suzaku grinned, knowing that no matter what the condition was he could handle it. She'd probably just want him to pick her up a souvenir or something like that.

"Anything. Just say it and I can do it," He said happily. A sinister smirk turned up on Rin's lips at her son's words, causing a little bit of fear to stir in his stomach. Whenever his mother grinned like that it was normally not a good sign.

"You are not allowed to have any kind of sexual contact with Lelouch starting tonight until you get back from Britain. And if I find out you didn't follow my one condition I'll have Lelouch canned and kicked out so fast it'll make your head spin. So that's all you have to do in order to go on this trip," She hummed lightly. Now, Rin knew it was evil of her to make an empty threat like that to Suzaku. But that boy had been giving her quite a tough time all his life and she still hadn't gotten all of the payback she wanted for it. And she also knew that, regardless of Suzaku would be able to show a little self control or not, she simply couldn't fire Lelouch; he was an amazing chef and was great at handling both her children.

"Sure! I can do that, no problem!" Suzaku declared proudly with a big old grin. Rin smirked, ruffled his auburn curls and waved, heading off. Suzaku smirked devilishly once his mother disappeared. He hadn't even thought about having sex at all while in Britain! Not only that, but as long as they didn't have sex before the plane ride home his mother would never know they'd broken her little rule. This was going to be quite a fun little trip.

Cecile gave Suzaku and Lelouch each a gentle smile as they sat in the lobby. She pulled out the test results and offered them to them. "As you can see, she doesn't have any serious illness. I found out through the blood sample that the needle marks were from two shots she recently had. A chicken pox shot, which might scar, and a tetanus shot," She explained, watching the relief that filled both male's faces.

"So did you locate who her parents were?" Suzaku asked calmly, looking at her curiously. She nodded, picking up her clipboard and looking through the papers there for a second.

"I called around to a few hospitals, asking if any children were born recently matching her description and found her," She said calmly, setting the clipboard down and taking on a more serious expression. She folded her hands together on top of the clipboard. "The name on her birth certificate is Ayumu Ishida. There is no father's signature on the birth certificate but her mother's name was Yuina Ishida." She stated calmly, not noticing the way Suzaku flinched back at the mother's name. Lelouch glanced at him, noticing the twitch, then looked back at the woman before them.

"Have you found the mother or tried to contact her?" He asked calmly, gently bouncing Nessa. She was wearing a little pink top with long sleeves and white khaki short and little white tennis shoes. She also had a little pink bow in her hair, an idea Lelouch had had at the last minute before they left for the meeting. He didn't want to let her go but if Nessa's, or rather Ayumu's, mother hadn't been the one to give her away and wanted her back he would give her back. Though it would be extremely painful to do, even though he'd only been tending to her for a few days.

"Well, I tried to contact family but found she had none. The closest I got was a friend she was staying with named Kaoru Kimiya. She told me that Yuina recently passed away in a car accident," She said gently, causing both male's to take in a sharp breath each. She nodded her head before continuing. "She told me that, in Yuina's will, she had requested that Ayumu be given to her biological father. According to Kaoru, there was only one man that could have impregnated Yuina and she said she'd already dropped her off at the house." She said, sending Suzaku a meaningful look. Lelouch's eyes widened and he stared at his boyfriend as well. But what Cecile made sense; Nessa did have the Kururugi's curly brown locks and may have inherited her eye color from her mother.

"That… That can't be possible! She used to work as a maid in the house but she got fired over a year ago! And we always used protection when we… well, you know!" Suzaku said frantically. Was it really a possibility that she was his? But he'd been so careful, so smart! He'd made sure that none of the girls would get pregnant by him by using condoms and such!

"We can do a paternity test, if you'd like," Cecile offered, looking between Nessa and Suzaku. The young Japanese boy remained silent, just gaping at her. "It's a very easy test, actually. I don't need blood or anything; just a saliva sample from each of you. And, also, condoms aren't always successful. How long ago is it that Yuina-San was fired from the Kururugi house?" She asked calmly.

Suzaku shook his head, closing his eyes and trying to remember. "About… uh… fifteen months ago, I think?" He suggested, looking up. Cecile nodded and sighed lightly.

"That fits with what Kaoru told me, then," She said calmly, looking through her documents again. She could feel the tension that was beginning to develop between the two male's with the newfound information. "Ayumu is six months old. Add that to the nine months of pregnancy and this means she must have just been pregnant when she was fired." Suzaku's eyes widened even more at this information.

"When was she born?" Lelouch asked softly, his voice shaking just a little bit. He and Suzaku had been dating for six months; the same amount of time that Vanessa had been alive. "What's her birthday?" He pressed after swallowing a small lump developing in his throat.

"She was born on April 9th at around six that evening," Cecile said, sensing the reason she'd asked. Lelouch and Suzaku both jerked at this. April 9th was the first night they had gone out on an actual date that night. That night, when they returned to the Kururugi house, there were no missed calls; in fact, no one had called at all that night. So had Yuina been planning to raise the child all by herself, if not for the accident that stole her life and left her daughter an orphan? "So, should we do the paternity test, just to be sure? I can call you with the results in about 24 hours." She asked, bringing the topic back up though she knew it wasn't something they may want to deal with at the moment.

"Please take the samples now and then call us tomorrow. We're supposed to be going on a trip and we are to be leaving tonight," Suzaku said quickly, gently taking Nessa and following Cecile to the back room. He glanced back over at Lelouch, who still seemed to be rather stunned. "I'll be right back and then we can get to packing, okay?"

He nodded silently, eyes locked on a wall. He swallowed hard, worrying now. Would this new found information put a rift in their relationship? Shouldn't this be a good thing, though? It could give Suzaku a chance to prove that he is more responsible than everyone accredited him for. "This'll all be okay; I promise." He said softly before disappearing into the back.

Lelouch stayed in his seat, wondering if this was a good or bad thing.

Suzaku watched as Lelouch situated Vanessa in her car seat in the airplane. She was situated in the seat between them and was, currently, napping. Nessa had been rather fussy at the airport. They assumed that the noise of the airplanes had startled her and did their best to calm her back down. "What will we do if she really is my daughter, Lelouch?" Suzaku asked softly.

"It'll only mean that we'll be allowed to keep her without having to deal with any legal turmoil," Lelouch said calmly after getting her all set in her seat. He then leaned back in his own, closing his eyes and trying to relax. He wasn't a fan of flying and, mixed with the anxiety of their location, he had a terrible headache brewing. "It won't really be any different than how it is now. Only then you've got the legal rights to her birth certificate, social security card, and we'll be able to take care of anything that may need to be tended to by legal guardians."

"I think I'm going to have her name changed to Vanessa since that's what we've been calling her," Suzaku mumbled. Lelouch opened his eyes and looked over and shook his head. Suzaku blinked a little bit. "But why not? It was the name you picked out for her."

"From now on let's call her Ayumu. That was the name her mother gave her; we shouldn't take that away from her," He said gently before closing his eyes again and trying to ward off his headache. He had changed he and Nunnally's last names when they moved to Japan, in hopes of keeping his family from finding them, but left their first names the same. Their names had been picked out by their mother and he didn't want to erase her presence from, their lives, even if she herself was dead and gone. He considered their names to be their finally connection to her despite the separation between them. "Besides, she's Japanese. A Japanese first name makes more sense for her."

"I guess you've got a point there," Suzaku said with a sigh before reaching over and lightly stroking Lelouch's hair. Violet orbs opened and looked at him with lazy curiosity. "And, by the way, how are you feeling about this? Are you okay with going to Britain?" He asked gently, changing the subject to Lelouch. He knew the other was feeling the stress over the whole thing.

"I'll be fine. I just really don't like planes," He mumbled lightly. The captain announced that they'd be taking off in just a moment and he groaned again. "Yeah, I really don't like planes." He sighed lightly. Lelouch had only been on a plane one other time in his life; the trip from Britain to Japan with Nunnally. The ride had been terrifying for him but he'd hidden his fear well and focused his attention on keeping his little sister calm.

Suzaku smiled and leaned over, gently kissing Lelouch's forehead. "We'll be okay," He said softly. Lelouch looked at him, still seeming a little panicked, but kept his mouth shut. Lelouch had gotten better and biting his tongue when he wanted to lash out at Suzaku for trying to soothe him. Suzaku didn't really mind when Lelouch barked at him, though. The other never said anything too insulting and he never saw a point in getting upset. Lelouch always made it up to him somehow. "I promise that everything will be okay." Suzaku hummed as the plane started to take off.

Lelouch realized that Suzaku was making him a lot of promises lately.

End

I was originally going to end this chapter with a fight, but… Well, I changed my mind! But there will be drama in the next chapter! Oh, and they'll be lots of Schneizel so that should keep you all interested, right? Well, I'll see you next chapter!