Episode7-Nunnally 'dies'
My dorm room was locked. I wasn't replaced because it was almost the end of the year. Lelouch used his geass on a school security guard and ordered him that he let no one enter but Lelouch. I couldn't escape just yet and Lelouch said he's arrange my escort back to HQ soon after he finds the location of the Order.
Milly is the one who calls me to tell me that Shirley died. She sounds like she couldn't believe it.
"Shirley's dead?!"
"Yeah…"
"Wha-did-wha-what happened?" Kallen found out through the media when they displayed casualies.
"They say it was suicide."
"Suicide…but Shirley would never-"
"That's what we all think but…there's no proof that says otherwise."
"H-how's everyone doing?" Kallen and I shared the same pain that we couldn't comfort our friends.
"I think we're all still in shock. Can you come to the funeral this weekend?" Or go to the funeral.
"I'm sorry I can't I…"
"Right you're still dealing with a family emergency, how's that going?"
"Not good at all. I'm really sorry I won't make it in time for the funeral. Take care okay? And of everyone, for Shirley."
"I know."
Lelouch avoided the media so he has no idea what they were saying about Shirley's death and I was going to make sure he never found out. He did find the location of the order. He had be stand by while he video chatted with C2.
"C2. I have finally located where the Order is. Jeremiah and Rolo aquired vital information and I'm sending the Zero squad to wipe it out."
"Wipe it out? Were'nt you going to use them? They're nothing but a research facility-"
"I'll crush them!"
"…Tell me what happened."
"Shirley's dead because of the power of Geass they unleashed. You said Geass was the power of the King, and there can only be one King so I alone shall have it! I will erase Rolo, I will erase all that have it! It's ability to make people sinful will be obliterated from this world. I at least owe that to Shirley."
Lelouch says he'll be tesing C2's loyalty. He asks her what she wants from all this and she refuses to answer but I know. Death.
I was moved to the suite he and C2 spent all their time in. It's the first time and I feel out of place.
"You're the one watching Lelouch."
"Y-yes...ma'am."C2 is polite to me but I can't help but feel I should stay out of their way. It's fascinating that it's her natural hair color.
Lelouch has gone to wipe out the Order and has told me of the plan he concocted to kill Rolo. I smile, not because I'm happy someone will die but because he's closer and it will all be over. And he succeeds once more but not entirely himself. He comes into the uite with C2 behind him and I know that she wasn't exactly C2. Lelouch explains to me what happened and that now he will make sure C2 dies the way she wanted to. With a smile on her face. Lelouch couldn't bear to let the Emperor take any more from him and so he himself will kill C2 and grant her her wish. And in this way does he pay for making Suzaku rebuild the world he destroys?
Lelouch has now planned the over taking of Britannia and I know things are going to get ugly. Lelouch is going to ally all the territories who have agreed to aid him and he will call this new nation The United Federation of Nations.
It's hard to take care of C2 when she's like this. We weren't best buds, not exactly. I followed orders from her in the beginning when I was positioned as Lelouch's watcher. That was all the communication we ever had, but I new her past and her wish. To be loved and to die. It was sad and it didn't take long for me to realize I wanted the same thing on top of saving the Lelouch had people to take care of, Kallen, Shirley, and now a helpless C2.
I knew someone had to bathe C2 and give her clothes, feed her, and reteach her about everything in this world, at least, this room. Before Lelouch asked I offered myself and his relief was laughable.
"You're helpless!"
"Yes I am…" But he didn't take it the wrong way. He was smiling too. He's helpless when it comes to girls and it's…endearing. Cute.
One day C2 presses one of the buttons on the TV, turning it on. Running in from a bathe I see why she screamed and it wasn't because someone who wasn't Lelouch entered.
"It's TV, you just turned it on; it is a bit loud-" Lelouch comes in with C2's favorite. Pizza. It was in the odd style of Japan; I never told Lelouch I liked pepperoni. It doesn't matter, it's all for C2 as it should be. She deserved it. Lelouch takes two bites, half the slize, and gives the rest to me. C2 freaks out when he turns off the TV using the remote.
"It seems like you have a lot of power but I can turn it off to and I don't need a remote." I joke. Lelouch never did get up to change the channel manually.
I've also been teaching C2 to talk like a normal girl but when she says 'Later' to Lelouch it sounds like a question.
"I meant 'see you later'" She corrects.
"Later then. I'm off." Lelouch is going to ratify the charter of the United Federation of Nations and it's going to be broadcasted world wide. It's a historical event, one that will be in the new history textbooks at schools. Lelouch is changing history and I can't help but feel pride in my heart. And a little somethng else if I was honest. I'm watching everything go down from the TV in the suite. C2 has gifted my a slice that I accept because I'm hungry.
The UFN will no longer have a military and the Black Knights are now a separate organization created to protect every nation of the world not just those in the UFN. Kaguya, the representative of the USJ, says she will now contract them to liberate Japan. Everyone in the charter stands up in agreement and the feeling of celebration is alive in here, though I'm not there cheering and clapping with the rest.
The celebrations are over when the Emperor appears on screen. He challenges Zero to a battle where the winner gain control over the world. Now cheers are cries of war.
"Long live Japan…" I say softly to myself. Lelouch has to fight him, it's been broadcasted that the Black Knights will liberate Japan, they have to do it.
"The Emperor is still alive?!" Lelouch walks in staggering, almost like he was drunk but he was so in his mind that he was forgetting to control his body.
"Welcome back…" C2 says. I stand quietly. Lelouch is still staggering into the control room here.
"I saved you the last piece of pizza-"
"SHUT UP!" he lashes out and the plate shatters.
"Lelouch!" We both go to C2 at the same time.
"Forgive me master, I'll clean it right away-"
"Leave it! Be careful…you're bleeding." I get up to fetch the first aid kit for him.
"It stings but it's even better when it's cold. It's warm on the inside and cold on the outside but if there's warmth on the inside there's a reason to keep going." C2 says.
"And…the hurt on the inside, how's it healed?"
"…Friends…not family, someone special that stands beside you."
"Yes you're right, a friend is always there."
Lelouch wraps a band aid around C2's finger and calls Suzaku. I hear him say "You're the only friend I can turn to now! My heart's begging, save Nunnally!"
There's nothing I can do now, I can't serve him on the battle field but I did promise Shirley that I would protect his happiness and that I would never leave him to fight alone. He's in emotional turmoil, I tell myself, that's why he's saying those words. This isn't about me and I don't want to leave him I just feel powerless. I can be his shoulder to cry on but I can't save Nunally for him, preventing his crying.
He tells me Suzaku asked him to go to the Kurorugi Shrine. I don't tell him Suzaku will try to kill him.
When he's gone C2 stares at the band aid wrapped around her third finger of the left hand with a smile on her face. A ring...
I smile at the innocence of her thinking that way. Sort of like when we believed in cooties.
When he comes back he tells me he's been betrayed by the one person he could count on to protect Nunnally. I tell him I'm sorry and that Suzaku doesn't understand. Lelouch is going to save Nunnally himself no matter how many lives it costs him. Now Lelouch is lost, crazed. My heart clenches but I know Lelouch is still there and that he needs this anger to do what he must do, so I don't stop him/
I watch the decisive battle, who ever got Nunnally was the winner and controller of the world. I'm in the main control room watching the battle with Detard and Ogi. I've left C2, asleep.
We all know what happenes. Nunnally is 'lost'. I don't know her so I'm not grief stricken. I am able to keep a level head, I will be Lelocuh's level head like I promised myself I would be for him. Something constant but then maybe he'd hate me one day and destroy me. I hear Jeremiah and Rolo save Lelouch; they're on thier way. I run to the suite to wait for Lelouch there.
C2 was dusting when I entered. She smiled and said:
"Welcome back mistress,"
"We're friends, call me Antonia." I said tiredly. She continues her job and I stare at the door, waiting. But Rolo enters with him. Rolo still didn't know I was working for Lelouch and he would kill me if he did. I jump into the small control room behind me. The lights in there are off and no one can see me in the darkness. I see his expression and wish I could be by his side now but…damn Rolo!
"Jeremiah…my big brother needs time so-It probably doesn't mean much of anything-" I see Lelouch gazing at the locket hanging from Rolo's phone.
"What are you doing with this?! I meant to give this to Nunnally not to you, to Nunnally! You think you can replace Nunnally in my heart?! You're an imposter! Can't you see that I loathe, I despise you! I keep planning on killing you and I keep missing the chance! "
"But big-"
"Get out! I SAID GET OUT!" Rolo runs out of here, full of fear. Lelouch collapses on the couch.
"Lelouch…"
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