Alright this is the last update of the month and the next one is due on the 14th, so look forward to it. I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Chapter 8 – everything back where it belongs.
It is now the 23rd of January, Shirley was finally back at school, everyone is asking her all kinds of questions. "What was the prince like?", "What did you do?", "How did you get out?" She expected as much but she wasn't really able to give good answers, after all she was asleep since after Clovis injected her with something, and it seemed to make her go unconscious, then she saw wild and vivid dreams at first they didn't make much sense erratic and chaotic, Then she came along, C.C. She called herself, and then, her dream became far clearer, there was less noise, she was inside the G-1, it was dark and there were only two men there. She couldn't hear what they were saying but before long one of them took of their helmet, he threw it to the ground, it was Lelouch, he was holding a gun pointing it at the other man there, she looked towards him, it was Clovis, he was terrified, then Lelouch shot him, Shirley tried to call out for him to stop but no words came out her mouth then she woke up, in her own bed with Lelouch next to her. She then heard on the T.V. That Clovis was not killed but had seceded. A new viceroy was being selected for area 11 at the time but it would take a while. Shirley was off for the next 2 weeks whilst she recovered, and when she got back she found that the president had worked the rest of the council to the bone to get the all the paperwork that needed done for the rest of the month finished before she got back. She now finds herself leaving the changing room after finishing her swimming practice, when she bumps into Lelouch. "Oh sorry about that." She says.
"Oh it's fine, are you feeling better?" He asks, t he pair hadn't gotten a chance to talk all day.
"Quite a bit better thanks." She replied "But I'm still a bit confused by a few things."
"Like what?" Lelouch asked.
"Well first of all what even happened after I was put to sleep?" She said. Lelouch looked uncomfortable.
"I don't think this is the best place for us to talk about this." He said. "Come to my room at 7 o'clock, we'll talk then. And we'll tell you everything." He then walked off.
7 o'clock ticked around and Shirley made her way to Lelouch's dorm room, she had been there before, when he was Ill the president sent her to go and check on him, of course she could have sent anyone else but Shirley's face when she was asked to go was quite the picture and Milly would never pass up the chance to make Shirley squirm. When she got to the door she knocked, it was Nunally that answered, "Come on in." Shirley entered the room, there was no sign of Lelouch but there were snacks on the table between two sofas, "Please take a seat, Lelouch will be back any minute now." She gestured for Shirley to sit down,in the wrong direction. Shirley sat on one of the sofas.
The door opened, Lelouch walked in, "Ah, Shirley sorry to keep you waiting." He said sitting across from her, Suzaku then entered the room followed by princess Euphemia, the pair sat on the sofas, Suzaku next to Lelouch and Euphemia next to Shirley, the pair had never met but Shirley certainly felt her air of dignity, she was someone important. "Well here we all are, Lets start with what happened after you were kidnapped." Lelouch explained what happened, everything from Euphemia and the council meeting with her parents.
"Alright so that takes us up to me meeting and him knocking me out with that injection." Shirley said condensing everything, "After I was knocked out how did I get from his room, to my one?"
"Well first we got into his room." Suzaku started.
"How?" Shirley asked, so far it made sense but them getting to the Viceroy's accommodation without any resistance raised many questions for her.
"We'll get onto that shortly" Euphemia said. "After we got to his room you were already unconscious on the sofa. Me and Suzaku went to go and find the other's that were being held by my br- Clovis, and get them out, Lelouch then beat up Clovis."
"Wait, Lelouch did?" Shirley was shocked.
"Yep, then he carried you to the car." Suzaku said.
"Then the green haired woman did something to you and a few hours later you woke up." Suzaku said.
"Wait the green haired woman, Called C.C?" Shirley asked.
"Yes, that one, you know her?" Lelouch said.
"Well kind of, I think, it was in a dream." Shirley responded.
"did she say anything to you?" Lelouch asked
"She offered me a 'contract'." Shirley said,
"If that's the case then you now have a geass, a strange power, I'm not sure what it is but we will find out." Lelouch said.
"And that takes us up to when you woke up." Euphemia said. "Now do you have any other questions?"
"Who are you?, you were at the cafe in the mall when I was kidnapped right?" Shirley said.
"There is a lot to that question, but to answer the second part, yes I was there." Euphie asked.
"What I'm about to tell you is top secret, no one knows it except for those in this room and the Ashford family." Lelouch said. "And it may change how you see me forever." Lelouch looked sad.
"If you want to back out now, then you are free to do so, just say the word and you can go back to your room and nothing will change." Suzaku said.
"If you are still the same Lulu that helps an elderly couple when their car gets rear ended, the same lulu that does his best to get home early every night to put his sister to sleep, the same lulu that beat up a prince to save me, then no matter what you are still the lulu I love." Shirley said. Then she covered her mouth and went very very red.
"So you love him do you?" Euphemia leaned towards her getting a good look at her face, she was enjoying the second hand embarrassment. "What do you say to that Lelouch?" She turned to her half-brother who was also in shock.
"Ill be honest buddy this really is not like you, usually you have someone figured out in a heartbeat, are you seriously saying that you didn't see this coming?" Suzaku asked.
"Even I saw it coming." Nunally finally entered the conversation.
Euphemia laughed, then Suzaku figured out the joke, the other two were too stunned to say anything.
"So I'll take that as a yes?, you want to hear the big secret?" Euphemia said cutting through the light atmosphere.
Shirley nodded, she wasn't sure she was ready for any reality shattering truths, but she wanted to know what it was the Lelouch was hiding.
"Lelouch are you able to talk?" Suzaku asked his friend.
"I'm fine, alright Shirley listen close." Lelouch said. He leaned forwards
"No sense beating around the bush here, I'll just come out and say it, I am actually a prince." Lelouch stated not a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
"That is how I knew Clovis at first sight, Me and Nunally have been living in hiding for almost 7 years now. Our mother was the late consort, Marianne, however after her death we were sent to Japan as bargaining chips in discussions about access to sakuradite reserves, that is where we met Suzaku, after the war we ran into the Ashfords who were once retainers of our mother. They agreed to take care of us, and we have been living with them ever since. Naturally the president knows all this." Lelouch finished.
Shirley sat in shock, she was sat in front of a prince, one that she had just confessed her love to no less. She felt like running away, and acting like this was just another one of the crazy dreams she was having. But it wasn't Lelouch was actually a prince.
"I'm so sorry." was all Shirley was able to get out.
"What are you sorry for? You haven't done anything wrong." Lelouch said.
"I have acted so inappropriately towards you for so long, I had no idea." Shirley was panicked If she had only known she wouldn't have done and said half the things she had done and said to him.
"Look calm down you had no idea alright, and I'm still the same person alright so don't treat me any different just because you know who I am, we are trying to keep it a secret after all." Lelouch said.
"Alright then." Shirley was calming down. "But that still doesn't answer my question about you." She said turning to Euphemia.
"Well I'm his half-sister, princess Euphemia Li Britannia. Pleasure to make your acquaintance." Euphie said with a smile. Shirley nearly fainted from shock.
"So you are in love with my brother huh?" Euphemia joked getting a good look at Shirley. "Well you certainly have the body, but your lineage may be a problem, perhaps we can sort your dad out with a knighthood or something." Euphemia looked serious as she said this, Shirley nearly fainted again.
"Euphie I don't think this is good for her at the moment, she has been through enough tonight lets just get her back to her room." Suzaku said.
"Alright then, you do it, I doubt she will be able to stand next to 'lulu' without being overwhelmed right now, and I have some catching up to do with Nunally." Euphemia said turning towards her half-sister. "We have only gotten to talk once since I found you again and I'm not missing this chance."
"Alright then." Suzaku said getting up.
The next day, at the government building.
"Sister, I get that you want to be the viceroy, and god knows I think you will do a great job at it, but you still haven't finished your education." Said a voice on the telephone. "I'm just going to be in charge for two years, until you finish up ok?, now then did you get the papers from the school you picked?"
"Yes sister, I have them all sorted I start tomorrow." Replied Euphemia.
"Good, Work hard, I am a bit busy at the moment so I wont make it to area 11 until mid February so please try not to get in to much trouble before I get there."
"Alright then." Euphemia replied "Goodbye." She hung up the phone. She looked to her wardrobe and saw the uniform hanging there, this was going to be fun, she thought.
In the classroom at Ashford academy
Shirley was not focusing well, her dream last night didn't help, especially since it came RIGHT after she told Lelouch that she was in love with him. A part of her wishes that the whole thing was a dream. After class Lelouch approached her, "You know we didn't get a chance to finish our date." He said, The whole room was aghast, ok now she knew this was a dream, but regardless she still got changed into a nice dress and head out for coffee with Lelouch, so at least it was a nice dream.
"Well Lulu." Shirley started, "Oh sorry, Lelouch." She corrected herself.
"What's up with that." Lelouch asked.
"With what?" Shirley asked
" I told you to not change anything about how you treat me right?" Lelouch answered, "So just keep calling me 'Lulu' like usual. It's cute."
Shirley blushed.
3 people in disguises looked on from around the corner at the cafe entrance. All extremely invested in the conversation the pair were having. Lelouch noticed them and turned to Shirley. "In fact I think we should change how we act with each other." He leaned in and kissed her, on the lips, she was shocked but quickly sank into the kiss. The trio at the door were halfway inside the cafe. "I may not be as certain about my feelings as you, but I think we should give it a shot." Lelouch said to a dazed Shirley.
"Alright." she managed to get out.
At the barracks.
"Are you Suzaku Kururugi?" Asked a man in a lab coat.
"Yes." Replied Suzaku.
"Congratulations you scored the highest on the simulator and have been chosen as the new pilot for an experimental new knightmare." The man replied.
"Really?"
"No this is all a joke." replied the man sarcastically, "Of course I'm serious, now come on we need to introduce you to the team." The man grabbed Suzaku and took him away.
They entered a docking bay with all kinds of computers everywhere, however there were only two other workers there, aside from the one that grabbed Suzaku.
"Alright I've got our pilot right here." Announced the man as he entered the room.
"Lloyd you did ask him if he was ok with it first right?" said a lady walking up to them.
"Of course I did Cecile, he said yes." Lloyd, the man who kidnapped Suzaku, said.
"Really because the way you are holding his wrist makes it looked like you kidnapped him." Cecile said. "Anyway I'm Cecile Croomy, I'm Lloyd here's erand girl here at the Britannian special weapons division."
"The name's Joseph Fenette, I just got assigned here last week so I'm also new around here, nice to meet you." The voice came from a man on the second floor, he was looking down at them. "Hang on a second weren't you the one that helped Lelouch and the princess save Shirley?"
"Yes sir, I'm Suzaku Kururugi, It's a pleasure." Suzaku said bowing.
"Now then lets get you a copy of the manual, this right here is your new knightmare, We are still working on it so try not to break it too badly, though the new guy has a tallent for repairing things that I am certain are ruined so It might be fun to test him out." Llloyd said as he took Suzaku past the knightmare, it was amazing, like nothing he had ever seen before, and he was going to pilot it, amazing. "I can't believe so much has happened in a month." He said under his breath.
Beep beep
Suzaku's phone had a text notification. He opened it up, it was a picture from Milly.
"Holy shit." He yelled as he looked at it. Lloyd looked at the picture on the phone.
"What it's just some teenager's kissing." Lloyd remarked.
"These are probably people from Suzaku's class." Cecile said looking at the picture as well.
"Aw let me see." Joseph said heading down a ladder.
"NO way." Suzaku said closing the phone.
There I think that is everything back where it belongs. Hope you enjoyed it.
"Now then where can I buy crates of chocolate on the internet?"
