New story from hummingbirdxx. This is a story with my own character Markus Reid, whose basic details are on my profile, if you want any more details, then ask me and I will post up links to full detail of all of my own characters, so it's easier for people to understand who to imagine when reading the story. It is written in his point of view, and I will mark who he is talking about in each section. Thanks for reading!! Oh and italic font means it is flash back, thought really. Normal text is the actual events. If that makes sense...
Nunnally;
I said I would always protect you, save you from anything that would even want to harm you. Yet now I stand here watching as you are chained to the moving pedestal that your demon brother sits upon. Your older brother, the one that looked after you through thick and thin, was now the world's most hated man, and you were his prisoner, along with the Black Knights, and this was all while I hid with the frightened royal family and few soldiers. What was wrong with me? Nunnally, I am so sorry. You don't know how much I fight back to urge to run from this building, straight into harms way just to tear you away from such a painful scene. I told you that I'd always be at your side, and I had been there, until now.
"You'll come back won't you?"
Your gentle voice echoed through my mind like a lullaby. Its sweetness tainted with caution and pain as you reached out and took my hand. You had never laid eyes upon me, but you put your full trust in my hands, and I had abandoned that to attend to my own life. It was the same with Milly. I had abandoned everything that was set out before me when I was in Area 11, just to work for a bloody thirsty emperor, and now his demon son, how sick.
"Yeah, I'll be back before you know it! I promised I'll protect you, and when I come, who knows what I'll be!"
You laughed at that, for you always knew that I had potential in becoming something grand. Many times you had told me that being a noble was enough and I didn't need anything more in this world, since that is what you believed, but my dreams and ideas were elsewhere in the world, I wanted to become something stronger, that people looked up to, to protect you further, and in the process of that, I had smashed the dream of the man that had taken me in when my family had died, Ruben. K. Ashford. He longed for his family's honour to be restored before he lay on his death bed, and his grand-daughter wanted that too. It was their choice to either return Lelouch and you, my sweet Nunnally, to the throne, or marry Milly into a noble family. I remembered that I'd been so jealous when I heard that she was engaged to that Earl. It had been your words that had calmed me, your calm, peaceful words.
"Don't worry; someday I am sure Milly will understand who she really belongs with. And that is you. For you already see that your heart belongs to her."
You were right of course. After all, he was only an Early, my family were Counts. Though, it wasn't just about rank that was important here, it was the belonging to another's heart, the idea that you were loved no matter what, that I what I wanted, since well, most others were terrified of a Knight of the Round, due to the carnage the Knights had brought upon Area 11 in the war. Luckily that was all behind us now, right?