Okay, chapter three, Stargazing.
You guys would not believe the last few hours.
It was a DRAW.
A DRAW.
…What could I do with a draw?
1: Lelouch and Amaya take a break from both school and the Black Knights. 3 VOTES
2: When Amaya meets Kaguya after the occupation.3 VOTES
3: Lelouch has to decide what to give Amaya for her birthday, after 7 years of being apart... 3 VOTES.
I had hoped, that sometime during the day, I would get just one more, to break the tie…alas, this did not occur…
However, when going through my emails, imagine my joy as I came across an email from a few days ago from my friend, Redzercarebear, voting for…
1: Lelouch and Amaya take a break from both school and the Black Knights.
And so…the Winner is…
1: Lelouch and Amaya take a break from both school and the Black Knights. 4 VOTES!!!!!
Note: Chapter is based right after they leave the Ashford Ball, when they leave.
Lelouch smiled as they wandered the streets, Amaya holding his hand. Originally, they had been heading for the Black Knights Base, however, Amaya had declared that she wanted to wander around the settlement for awhile.
Of course, Lelouch did not argue, feeling almost relaxed by a simple thing as taking a walk, opposed to planning miraculous battles in the name of his alter ego. And as he held Amaya's gloved hand gently in his, he couldn't help but feel a soft smile spread onto his face.
Lelouch paused in thought as Amaya stopped, looking at the view overlooking the docks, the ocean lapping at the industrial compound's edge. Lelouch followed her gaze, as Amaya suddenly announced, with a soft smile,
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" Lelouch gazed at the docks, frowning slightly as he tried to see what was so beautiful. Pausing momentarily as Amaya took a step forward, he asked slowly,
"What is?" Amaya turned to stare at him as if shocked by his answer. Her eyes meeting his, she exclaimed,
"The sky!" Lelouch blinked as he turned his gaze beyond the docks, and into the dark, midnight blue sky. He continued to stare, searching for something in the sky, as Amaya moved next to him, gently touching his shoulder as she declared gently,
"You have to look closely..." There was another pause as Lelouch clenched his jaw, searching the sky closer for what had attracted Amaya's clenched his fists slightly, as he exclaimed lowly, reluctantly,
"I can't..." Amaya took his hand again, her soft hand pressing against his fist as she smiled,
"You need to look at it in a different way." Lelouch raised an eyebrow as Amaya suddenly sat on the grass,kicking off her shoes, before softly pulling Lelouch's hand to follow her. Sighing, yet intrigue getting the best of him, Lelouch followed her, sitting beside her, Amaya staring at him as she ordered, as though it should come naturally,
"Lie down." Lelouch raised an eyebrow of disbelief, Amaya rolling her eyes as she none too gently pushed him down, flopping beside him, the back of her head just touching the back of his, as Lelouch stared above him blankly.
It was the same sky. Amaya tilted her head slightly towards him as she asked,
"Now do you see it?" Lelouch frowned again in slight frustration, this seeing familiar, yet slightly ridiculous at the same time. All he was doing was looking at the sky, the dark-
"Wait..." Lelouch whispered, his eyes widening as he saw what Amaya was looking at...Something twinkling above them, small at first, but as he concentrated more on it, more and more appeared, diamonds coating the whole sky, as though it were made of black silk...
"The stars..." He heard Amaya sigh as she stated,
"Now you see it..." Lelouch did not reply, staring at the stars, trying to remember the last time he did this...Lelouch felt his jaw clench for strength as he realized he had not sat down and looked at the stars, since his days as a Britannian Prince, since Nunnally lost her sight...
The sky had been just that. The black, dark sky.
Empty.
Hollow.
Void.
But now...Lelouch felt his heart ache as he saw the stars, really, saw them, for the first time in years.
"They're..." he struggled to find the words, as the longer he stared, the more he became enthralled with them, the more shapes, memories appeared in the sky...
"Beautiful..."
He felt Amaya's hand close around his own, as they sat in silence for a few minutes. After awhile, Lelouch managed to whisper, shocked by his own statement,
"I forgot..." he felt Amaya turn towards him as he continued, "I forgot...About the stars..." Lelouch paused after his own statement, before adding, as an afterthought, "I mean, I never forgot they existed...But I forgot...Seeing them, when I looked at the sky..."
He felt Amaya's hand tighten around his own as he croaked, still shocked, shaken,
"I forgot..."
"I forgot too." Lelouch paused, as he felt Amaya's head move slightly against his own.
"I saw them, but I didn't see them..." Amaya tried to explain, as Lelouch saw her hand reach out above them, as though trying to grasp the stars. "After everything...I felt hollow when I saw them..." Amaya paused as she sighed,
"Maybe it was because they never changed...Because in some, weird way, I wanted them to stop looking so beautiful..." she paused as Lelouch held her hand, as she exclaimed quietly, "Because they seemed so...wrong, in this world..." Lelouch nodded in thought, waiting a few moments before he added,
"I always saw the sky when I looked at it." he said simply, still staring at the stars as he continued, "The normal, night sky. Dark, large, covering the sky." He paused, his throat closing as Amaya held his hand tighter.
"I think we both didn't forget about them..." Lelouch tilted his head toward her, as she still held her hand up to the sky, "I think we just...couldn't see the beauty in the darkness...The stars in the dark, dark sky..." Lelouch furrowed his brow as she explained,
"You have to look so closely to see the beauty. The small, minuscule lights...Maybe, we just couldn't look closely..." Lelouch paused a moment, before he felt a small smile form on his face. Closing his eyes a moment, he sighed,
"How philosophical..." He grinned as Amaya's hand came backwards, lightly hitting him on the forehead as she grinned back,
"And you weren't?" Lelouch did not reply as Amaya turned to him, as he turned to her.
Lelouch smiled as she did, her eyes, glittering like the stars above, like the rarest emeralds...
"I love you..." he found himself whispering, as his hand cupped her cheek in the grass, running through her raven hair, with the blue shine from the sky above, his other hand intertwined with hers. Amaya smiled back, a small blush building in her cheeks, as she whispered back,
"I love you, Lelouch..."
Slowly, Lelouch moved forward, pressing his lips against her own, her other hand reaching up, running through his own hair, before pulling apart softly.
And then, slowly, Lelouch and Amaya turned back to the stars, Lelouch's arm going around Amaya's shoulders, as Amaya placed her head on his chest, both smiling, as they silently stared at the stars they had lost themselves in when they were young.
Finding, once again, the beauty they had lost, stargazing into the black abyss, where the stars dotted, hundreds turning to thousands, thousands turning to millions, millions to billions, uncountable memories running through their heads...
And not as Lelouch Vi Britannia, nor Fujiwara Amaya, nor Zero and his Lady.
But as them.
As Lelouch and Amaya.
End of chapter! Hoped You Liked It!!
Okay, next weeks choices are...
1: Lelouch has to decide what to give Amaya for her birthday, after 7 years of being apart...
2: The origins of Lelouch's most dreadful secret, a nickname...Lulubelle.
3: Amaya and Lelouch have a debate in class. The subject? What is the strongest part of a person? Lelouch represents Will, while Amaya argues pride...You decide who won.
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