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Author Notes: By popular demand, I present you: Jeremiah 'Orange' Gottwald! Btw I am thinking of making chapters for the dead characters too. No they wont be alive but there are in a limbo kind of place where they could observe everything. What do you think? Read and Review!
1000 Cherry Blossom: Oh well I didn't see that drama. Well, just ignore that mistake on my part and assume that this is just before Jeremiah restored their memories. It made me angr too at how easily they were able to be convinced to betray the man that led them to victory. Thanks for the review!
kingrichard360: I really hope that guy didn't become the prime minister. I would have preferred if Kaguya became one. Here is Jeremiah! Thanks for the review!
Terlander: I used the point you made in this chapter. You put it in a really beautiful way and I couldn't resist. The black knights couldn't even be called loyal. At least if it was an ally who had told them all this I wouldn't have minded that much but it was the enemy! Thanks for the review!
Fai's smile: I am glad that you like this story. Here is Jeremiah! Thanks for the review!
Mister Scamandros: Rakshata will be coming up soon. Thanks for the support and review!
KK: Ohgi was a good man who made horrible choices. That's all I can say. And Lelouch being as emo as he is would not blame them for the betrayal. Thanks for the review!
Kairu Kagemori: Glad you think like that. Thanks for the review!
Guest: That is the most irritating thing. Thanks for the review!
Chapter 14: Jeremiah Gottwald
I was once a proud man.
Proud of myself, proud of my nation.
Even after I failed to protect Lady Marianne, I had retained that pride
I created the Pure Blood Faction with the thoughts that only the most noblest and purest of Britannians could be capable of protecting our nation.
What a great fool was I!
Now, years after Lady Marriane's death, I finally understood things that I had refused to acknowledge before.
It doesn't matter who we are or where we are from.
Some of us act all high and mighty but the fact is that we are all humans regardless of our blood, whether we like it or not.
Its the loyalty that one has that matters.
Suzaku Kururugi might have been an ele- a Japanese bu he also stood by you when you needed him the most and he will continue to stand as Zero for the world that needs him.
He trusted you despite everything that had occurred between both of you in the past unlike the Black Knights.
Zero was the man who had destroyed my future.
But that is the one thing that opened up my mind, that made me understand the world so I can never regret it.
If that hadn't happened to me, I might've been as closed minded as I was before.
For a very long time, after our first encounter I wanted revenge.
Even after I was turned into a human cyborg, I still itched for revenge.
It wasn't until I was told who you were that I calmed down a bit.
Of course, I still wanted to confirm it by myself but I was sure that if it was really you, Lelouch vi Britannia, then I would not hesitate to follow you to the depths of hell.
And then, Zero's enemy, Orange, turned into his most loyal ally.
I never thought that the Black Knights would betray you so easily after all you had done for them.
That too at the enemy's, at Schenizel's words.
It goes against my principles and I can never forgive them for that.
I still followed you and my reward for that was the truth regarding what had happened to Lady Marriane.
I was shocked and disgusted by the lengths she had gone through just for a plan, including readily sacrificing her own children.
Bu at the same time it also gave me a sense of immense relief.
I would at last be able to forgive myself.
So, as an act of goodwill, I decided to take Anya under my care.
She is a sweet child who didn't deserve the punishment she had been forced to go through.
She is a great helper at my orange farm (The irony)
People often linked evil with you.
Little did they know that you walked the path of evil so they didn't have to.
I often think of the things that could've happened.
What if this all was not required?
What if you has turned out to be evil?
What if Lady Marriane had never died?
(Would you still be alive?)
There are a lot of 'What if's' I'll never know the answer to.
The only reason I agreed to let you die was that you would've anyway found a way to do so even if I didn't support you.
So the least I could do was to support you till the end.
Even if I would never agree with what you did.
Despite all odds, you turned out to be selfless.
You had all the right to be bitter, to turn to the path of evil but the people in your life kept you on the right tack.
The world might curse you but you will always be remembered by me as the greatest leader who was not afraid to die for his people.
A/N: It's over! I hope that his character was captured properly. Since Jeremiah is so freaking loyal I think he would've been really, really angry at the betrayal of the Black Knights. Who next? Review!