Code Geass AU
By: FunahoMisaki
(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter.)
Lelouch, Kallen, Milly, and Sayoko had no way of knowing it but as they were hashing out a training schedule and a basic outline of things they were already planning to change (such as the death of Kallen's brother Naoto and her mothers use of Refrain) several others in all sorts of places snapped Awake as well.
"Villetta are you alright?" Jeremiah Gottwald asked looking alarmed as he looked at his second in command who had been taking a brief nap after finishing her paperwork, only to shoot awake alarmed and with a small scream that she bit down ruthlessly. Her beautiful golden cat like eyes swung to face him looking shocked and then her head snapped every which way as she took in her surroundings and there were tears in her eyes which really alarmed him.
"Villetta?" Jeremiah asked his comrade in arms and most trusted subordinate, concerned by how she was acting.
"I'm…I'm alright. It…It was just a nightmare." She finally spoke as she seemed to gather herself and took a few steadying breaths.
"Do you need to talk about it?" Jeremiah asked sympathetically. They were soldiers after all. He knew well and good the damage nightmares could do.
"No. I'm…I'm fine. I just need to clear my head a bit." Villetta said giving him a grateful smile as she stood from her desk.
"You already finished your paperwork for the day and we're not needed to deploy anytime soon. Consider yourself on stand by for the rest of the day and take tomorrow off." Jeremiah said sternly to her and she nodded with a salute.
"Thank you sir." Villetta said gratefully as she rose and left the room, heading to her private bunk to grab some things before she left the base entirely. She needed to go for a walk and clear her head…and…check and see something.
Pulling out her phone she dialed a number she knew just as well as her own.
"Hello?" The voice on the other end answered almost immediately and sounded weary.
"Kaname?" Villetta asked and she hoped to god that he remembered too. If not she wasn't sure how she would be able to come up with a good excuse.
"Chigusa!" Ohgi said and she felt a smile light up her lips and a small weight was lifted off of her shoulders.
"So I'm not the only one who came back to the past…I'm glad." Villetta said sighing happily that her husband had his memories as well.
"Not at all. I've got my memories and so does Tamaki. I don't know about anyone else but if so they aren't with the Kozuki cell." Ohgi said and he was relieved that she had her memories as well.
"That your girl? Oi Letta! Make sure you hurry up and make a man out of Ohgi here will you? I want my adorable godson back!" Tamaki called through the phone while Ohgi blushed and spluttered, Villetta giggling a bit as she blushed slightly. Thinking of her son with Ohgi. Her adorable little Naoto. Naoto Lelouch Ohgi.
Named after the founder and original leader of the Kozuki Cell that would eventually become the Black Knights and the 'Demon Emperor' who had destroyed the hatred in the world to make it a peaceful place.
The man who had first led Ohgi onto the path of terrorism, and the man who had ended the need for terrorism. Named after one of the most important men in Ohgi's life…and after a man who had been important to both of their lives.
Villetta still found it ironic that her obsession with finding Zero had led to her instead finding the man she would fall in love with and marry. They would have given their son the first name of Lelouch after learning the truth of all that he had done…but their friends had pointed out how that might put a target on their child for being named after the demon emperor himself. And so they had to settle for giving their son Lelouch as his middle name instead, which most people never used and therefore most would not know that they had honored the original Zero in such a way.
Would not know that they had honored the man whom they had betrayed so badly.
"I'll try Tamaki, it's good to hear that you remember as well. Don't go giving my husband a hard time now." Villetta said smiling as she recalled how the man became a respectable restaurant and bar owner after everything and how even before Zero Requiem was explained to them in detail he knew the gist…and how he had been the only one of them who had been present at the time that genuinely had not wanted to kill or betray Zero.
Truly he was a loudmouth…but he was more loyal than they had ever been and much more observant than they had ever considered him to be.
"Eh someone's got to keep this lug in line. But we'll see what we can do about you two hooking up before you did last time. After all we're about four years before thinks kick off give or take a bit. So might as well make the most of what we can do." Tamaki said and she was glad he had told her that, she hadn't thought to see when exactly in the past they were. She was more surprised and then thrilled that they were in the past.
That they had to chance to change things and not screw up so utterly horribly as they had the first time.
It had truly been them acting out of fear and anger that they hadn't seen what they had been doing or how exactly stupid they had been at the time.
They had taken the word of their biggest enemy at the time, the Prime Minister of bloody fucking Britannia, over any sort of common sense or faith they had in Zero. And he hadn't even been subtle after they had stopped and thought about everything after the fact, after the details of Zero Requiem were known to them and they could go back over their memories and mistakes with the regret of hindsight being a fine toothed comb.
Truly they had been fools to think that Zero…that Lelouch Vi Britannia had used his Geass on the Black Knights in order to make them follow him. After all if he had done that to any of them then…
How the hell had they managed to plot against and betray him?
That was the million dollar question that had been screamed in their faces, quite literally mind, by the Indian Scientist and Researcher Rakshata Chawla during her breakdown.
And having Lloyd and Kaguya rip apart every one of Schneizel's arguments that had been presented to them, every one of his honeyed words being pointed out as the lies and poison they truly were…
Having it spelled out just how much they had screwed up, just who Schneizel had left out of his coup of his brother and why… they had all felt like idiots and filth.
Villetta knew that she and Kaname had gone to visit Lelouch's grave immediately after the meeting. Kaname had taken one looked at the grave and dropped into a Seiza with tears rolling down his cheeks. Villetta had been overwhelmed with emotion, and her pregnancy making her hormones and emotions out of whack, and had clung to his headstone sobbing and apologizing and thanking him for what he had done. Because if he hadn't become Zero, she wouldn't have met her future husband and they wouldn't have had their son.
"I already know we're going to try and change things while sticking close to the script until we know for sure who all has their memories and who doesn't. The first time Zero appeared and was known to us…the first time Lelouch was known to us was the Shinjuku massacre, but Kallen goes to school with him. Hopefully she has her memories too because that'd make things a lot easier but…we'll have to make due if she doesn't." Ohgi said and Villetta nodded her head at that before verbally agreeing at remembering that she was on the phone not speaking to him in person.
"I can try and get in contact with him or at least near him if he does have his memories and if he doesn't, I can still try and get close to him and let him know he can trust me…that I'll work for and with him fully this time no matter what happens. I'll have to be extra careful though." Villetta said grimacing because while it had been nice to see Jeremiah without his cybernetic enhancement…the way he had acted had led her to only one conclusion.
"Jeremiah doesn't have his memories for some reason even though he's more than worthy to have them, more worthy than I am, and if we stick to the original way things went he'll be needed for Orange so we can't have him knowing of Lelouch just yet." Villetta said and she was a bit upset. She just didn't understand it. Why the hell did she have her memories but he didn't? He had actually been loyal. He had trusted the Emperor. Had done what Lelouch had wanted and had, after learning who Zero really was, become one of his most devoted and fanatical servants and knights.
"Yeah that wouldn't be good. He'd probably end up causing them to be exposed to the Emperor and that would not end well." Ohgi said with a grimace as he thought about it too.
For at least an hour the two of them talked, Tamaki occasionally chiming in but mostly just listening, and had agreed to meet up as soon as they could while being discreet. But they didn't make any concrete plans yet.
There were too many things up in the air. Primarily the question of who else if anyone had their memories.