Authors Note: The next chapter of Letters has arrived. It took a while to sit myself down in front of a computer, but I have finally done it. And if anyone is confused, little Lelouch is now about 6 months old.
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Disclaimer: I own nothing! (except baby Lelouch, but just barely)
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Kallen,
I need to see you downstairs right now!
-Suzaku
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When Kallen picked up the letter she knew something was wrong.
As usual she had hid it in the mail stack that morning. She left it there to take Lelouch on a walk in his stroller.
At nearly six months old, Lelouch, to the obliviousness of his parents, was absorbing everything about his surroundings.
The letters with the funny symbol on the front, he learned, were his mothers. He watched every day as she snatched them from the letter pile and read them upstairs, away from Suzaku.
After their walk, something was different. She went upstairs as usual, but immediately came back down. Not used to change, Lelouch fell asleep in his swinging chair to avoid confusion. Kallen scooped him up and tucked him in his crib before going to talk to Suzaku.
The green-eyed man was sitting on the couch in the living room, staring at the letter in his hands. Joining him on the couch, Kallen was slightly confused. Glancing over at her, Suzaku began to read out loud from the letter.
"Kallen,
As I write you these letters it has occurred to me that Zero Requiem could be a mistake.
A mistake. And that is just the beginning.
Of course nothing will change, but I feel that I need to write down some emotion or I will eventually burst."
Kallen opened her mouth to speak, but Suzaku plowed on,
"I hope that sentence doesn't bring regret. I was thinking, what if Zero Requiem fails? What if I'm sitting next to you laughing at my own stupidity? Sitting in a dark lonely room brings strange thoughts to my mind.
Love,
Lelouch.
I found this sticking out of the letter pile while you were on your walk. Have you been getting these all of these years?"
Kallen nodded, "Yeah, I have. I was under the impression that you were getting them too."
"I used to. They stopped coming about a year and a half ago. (sigh) Is there a reason that you have been hiding these from me? I mean, I noticed that you went upstairs every day after you got the mail, but I never imagined that you were reading letters from Lelouch."
"Well, " Kallen began, "I didn't know what you would say. I guess I don't really know why I did it; I just thought that I should. I am truly sorry."
Suzaku grinned, "Don't worry about it." Then he grimaced, "There is one more line in the letter.
P.S If Suzaku hasn't found these letters yet, then he probably never will.
That is one for the records."
The happy couple grinned at each other, any anger they may have had forgotten.
The sound of crying could be heard, breaking the reverie. Hoisting herself up, Kallen went to check on Lelouch. It was a bit strange that he chose that moment to cry, but she did not think anything of it.
After changing Lelouch's stinky diaper, Kallen washed her hands and tucked the most recent letter away with the rest in the old bookshelf. Aforementioned bookshelf was still standing strong.
Lelouch found himself in his fathers care as his mother went off who knows where. Suzaku had slowly grown on the infant, but he still liked Kallen better.
Lelouch almost got the feeling that his parents used to fight, but that couldn't be possible. He put it out of his mind as Suzaku took him to the park.
He was going forward, then back, then forward, then back, on the swing when he noticed a woman nearby that he knew. Suzaku sure seemed to know her as he gestured for her to come over madly, before being hit in the back of the head by the swing.
She wheeled over with someone Lelouch did not know. Suzakus bright smile turned into a frown as he realized the situation. He dragged the young man away from Nunnally to have a 'talk'.
Pretending like she did not notice, Nunnally wheeled up to Lelouch. He liked this girl. She was kind to him and gave off a warm aura. There also was the slightest hint of darkness, but he was okay with that.
Purple eyes stared into purple eyes, marveling at the likeness.
"Amazing, you have your fathers hair, your mothers spirit, and your namesakes eyes. Be proud."
Lelouch did not understand this statement, as he did not know what a namesake was or what the kind lady meant by spirit.
The slightly confused silence was broken as Suzaku brought the shaken young man back to the swing.
The poor kid hastily said goodbye and promptly ran away.
Nunnally shook her head at the smirking Suzaku. "If you scare all of my dates away, then I might end up old and unwed." Even though she sounded stern, there was a twinkle in her eyes. Lelouch was entranced. Suzaku, however, was not.
Grinning even bigger, he put Lelouch back in his stroller for the journey home. He waved farewell to Nunnally, his grin ever present. Lelouch decided that some day, he wanted to smile like that, never ending. It had an effect, as Nunnally smiled back.
Lelouch decided that he could trust his father. After all, his mother and the kind woman he just saw both trusted him, why shouldn't he?
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End Note: I am so sorry it has been so long since I posted. I started writing this like a week ago and I have been putting it off ever since. If you are confused about the letter being read out loud, I will clarify. Anything in italics is the letter. Sometimes it goes back to normal text in the same quotation marks as the letter passage. This is Suzaku talking. I tried to put him talking on a different line from the letter, but it is still Suzaku talking. Sorry about the confusion.
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