AN: I'm terribly sorry for not updating in months… still my reason is school and exams for college entrance … I hope you will enjoy this chapter … Hehe anyway… I really appreciated that you guys still stayed tuned in this fic! Hope you will drop some good reviews to help me and also to inspire and motivate me to write this fic good until the end… now! ENJOY!!
A Summer Romance?
Chapter 6: Mao, another vague conflict
Being greeted by the whistling bullet, Lelouch dived out of Mao's sight, missing the bullet by a second, well he didn't really miss the bullet but he was shot in a less vital part of the human body system.
"LELOUCH!" the girl sodden in her own blood cried.
"What the FCK" hissed Lelouch.
"Having fun?" the fanatical man asked.
"No" he acerbically replies to him.
"Let play a game shall we?" Mao said as he spun the gun on his finger.
"I don't like to play another of your dim-witted games…" Lelouch muttered. Mao's eyes grew due to rage,
"You don't want to play?! Then I'll play with you as my toy!" Mao pointed the gun at Lelouch.
"No! Don't!!" C.C. cried out trying to give Lelouch another chance to riposte a 'yes or sure'. Lelouch eyed C.C.
"Why do I have to play with him? If he has the advantage?" he said to his 'girlfriend'.
"You still have a promise to keep and I won't lose that chance for it to be fulfilled…" she replied with a hint of concern.
"Is that all? You can't even think of another reason for me to live?" there was a short pause. "I know my role as your 'geass-user' but I won't obey you… I'll do my own thing…" he look fiercely at her.
"You're not going to … are you?" she asked sarcastically, somehow she was trying to control her tears, she was very concerned about him, well it's another type of concern, its something to do with love. She tried to laugh at herself. The lilac-eyed man looked at her with a baffled expression.
"What are you laughing at witch?" Mao glared at the woman.
"Nothing…" she stopped her giggles and placed an emotionless countenance towards their captor and pursuer. The captor looked at the lilac-eyed man; he breathed and then pointed the gun.
"Now… I'll ask you this stupid question again… Do you want to play with me for your pitiful lives? Or Can I kill you right here and right now?" Mao hissed.
"Kill me if you wish… I don't want to bet if I'm not sure if I'll win…" Lamperouge spat. Mao's brows started to move closely to each other, making them looking connected. Mao started to leisurely pull the trigger.
"YOU IDIOT!!" C.C. shouted at him, Lelouch on the other hand paid no attention. BANG.
"Lelouch!" Suzaku suddenly had a pang of concern, so did everyone else.
"Did you feel that?" asked Mily.
"Yeah…" Shirley and Kallen said.
"C.C… san…. Onii… san" Nunnally quietly whimpered, tears sled down silently on her pale white cheeks. "Suzaku-san… save Onii-san… S-Suzaku…san… SUZAKU-SAN PLEASE SAVE ONII-SAN!!" Nunnally screamed, as the pang of pain hadn't gone down, she was so afraid to lose someone dear to her again, and she didn't want to lose any of her friends, not now and not ever.
"N-nunnally…" Suzaku stood in front of Nunnally and bowed and then he faced Euphemia and asked permission to go in search of Lelouch and C.C. Euphemia had no choice but to let her white knight into battle and search. Suzaku looked everyone eye-to-eye, he heaved and left.
"Lelouch… don't die on us…" Shirley muttered. She felt gentle hands grasp her shoulders. She collapsed to her knees and cried. You really do love her… Lelouch… you'll do anything just to be with her… you idiot…
"You can't die yet idiot…" C.C. the witch coughed.
"What are you doing?!" he replied to her. His clothes sodden with her blood, his eyes gazing crazily shocked at her golden ones.
"I just can't let you die yet…" she coughed again.
"You're the idiot! What if they found out that you've been dead once? Or rather that you have already died many times, that's worst case scenario that I could imagine to us…" he tried to laugh, hiding his frightened and worried heart. Or what if you really die this time… and never return back to me…
"Don't worry, they won't find out…" C.C. just closed her eyes and died quietly in his arms.
"You idiot…" he hugged her, a few tears were shed by this boy, waiting for her to be revived once more, even if it takes him to wait forever for her to rejuvenate but that's too long, in just a few minutes he knew that he's going to follow her and will never come back.
"Now that she's gone, I could kill you now… or rather, play with you…" he hissed at Lelouch's ear.
He glared at the maniac.
Lelouch stood up, carrying the 'fallen-witch'-C.C- bridal style, hovering over the stained-bed he placed her gently above it, her hair sprawled over the bed, her pale face gleaming with the sunsets elegant yet lonely light.
"Goodnight… --" he whispered her precious name.
"What are you doing?! Let her be!!" Mao shouted. Lelouch just looked at him, his eyes glaring at him, his eyes uncontrollably mad. No he was about to think of something brilliant.
"Why are you looking like that? Wanna cry like a little girl…? Mommy? You don't have one!" Mao teased.
"No… and I know that you'll be the one crying your sissy ass back to you mother…"
"Yes… of course… I can cry to my deceased mother lying on that bed… right now…"
"Mother? Her?" he glanced at C.C.'s pale body.
"She was my mother" Mao blurted out "and was my Lover"
Lelouch where the damn hell are you?! Suzaku mentally screamed, searching every room he passed by. Upon reaching the second floor, the hallway was quiet, he stopped at his tracks when he heard whispers, not it wasn't whispers but muffled voices from the far corner of the corridor.
"Lelouch? Who is he talking to?" Suzaku walked slowly in curiosity, gradually he picked up a fast phase, now he was running towards the room, and he burst in open the room only to see a strange man pointing his gun at Lelouch.
What happened why haven't I heard this man's thoughts? Was I too preoccupied conversing with the one who stole my lover from me? What the hell is going on here!! Mao thought, there was silence, soon he heard all the thoughts within 500 meters.
Who is this man?!
Why is Suzaku here? Why isn't this maniac doing anything?
I hope Lelouch is safe…
Lulu… where are you… come back here….
Onii-san….C.C.-san… doko?
What the hell is taking Suzaku too long?! Lelouch, Suzaku be quick…
What's that witch trying to do?! Maybe she's behind all this mysterious happenings… It's only been two weeks and were having a crisis?!
I have to inform this to zero…
Thoughts started to plague Mao's being. "SHUT UP ALL OF YOU!!" Mao screamed. He picked up the volume of his headset. Voices of C.C. started to grow louder than the thoughts.
"Yes C.C. Thank you…"
"You really think so…?" he replied to C.C.'s praises.
"Who' are you talking to!?" Suzaku shouted as he found an opportunity to seize the man's gun. When Mao turned his head, he found that he was down on the floor, struggling from the teenagers grip.
"You're done Mao… you can't even struggle below him…" Lelouch stated and walked back to the bed where the 'fallen-witch' lay. He placed his hands on her face, brushing a strand of hair.
"Suzaku… take him to the police… I'll clean this up myself…"
Suzaku stood up and saw what he was doing or who he was talking to. C.C. –san is dead? He thought.
"Lelouch… she's…"
"NO! She's not!! She's just…tired…" he looked mournfully at C.C. wake up… "We'll be down in a moment…" he muttered.
By the looks of it Suzaku knew that she wasn't breathing, her features were pale, and judging by that she's already dead by the past 30 minutes in conflict. It was a mistake not to bring her early to the hospital.
"Sure… Lelouch… I'm sorry…" he grabbed Mao as he tied him up, the white haired man still continued to struggle out of the young military officer's grip. The door closed with a click.
Down stairs Suzaku was greeted by the others and some specially trained officers,
"where's Lulu?" Sirley said as she came to a stop, her face showed extreme worriness.
"And C.C." added Milly.
"They're up stairs..." he replied, Shirley's eyes brightened up as she tried to ran to where Lelouch was. She was just about to take off when she was stopped by Suzaku.
"I don't think you should go there Shirley..."
"Why? I want to confirm that he was safe..." she replied with a baffled expression.
"He needs time to compose himself..."
"what do you mean Suzaku? What happened...?" Euphy asked her knight.
"I can't tell you... Lelouch requested it..." he replied and looked away from the crowd.
"Suzaku..." Euphy breathed.
Lelouch looked at the door waiting for any sign that it would open, there was none.
He looked back at the sleeping -lifeless- girl.
"When are you going to wake up witch?" he raised a brow but there was still concern. His face slowly approached her face, his lips only inches apart from her, those warm lips… linked to those pale ones.
Now… Again… and forever… I experience this kind of life… when can I live peacefully, no more reviving after death, no more powers to rely on and just wanting to live my dream… Why is it so painful to see that dream?
Her heart beat slowly started, her chest started to rise and fall, her wounds started closing up and her face was returning to its natural color but she was still pale.
Her brain cells started to give signals to the muscles to move. Her eyed leisurely opened, the sight she first saw was the man whom she had a contract with, why is he this close? Her face felt hot, her lips were linked with his, is he kissing me?! She mentally screamed.
It's not like that she didn't like it but it felt so awkward at the moment, is it his compassion for her? His true feelings? Or is he toying with her feelings again.
She mentally noted in the past, the she should not be too attach to someone because she knew that one by one those whom she loved and loved her will be gone in a blink of an eye, and those she hate and hated her will continue to hunt her in her dreams though she could forget them easily, this was her curse.
She wanted to push Lelouch out of her life but she can't she felt the gravity of his passion on her, pulling her closer until they collide. Why?
Lelouch was the one who pulled away from the kiss, an hour passed, her life was flowing back.
"What was that for?" started the witch. Lelouch blushed; she woke up when he was kissing her!
"N-nothing of your business…" he muttered, he looked away hiding his blush.
"I didn't expect that you would attack someone who is sleeping or likely dead?" she raised a brow.
"Shut up witch!!" he argued. C.C. giggled, she was laughing, and she was happy; she totally had fallen-in-love with the boy in front of her.
Lelouch Lamperouge… the boy that melted this icy heart of mine or maybe it was vice versa… I melted his heart so that he could melt mine… What a crazy thought…
TO BE CONTINUED--