Okay, this week was a veryveryveryveryveryVERY close run!
The results are:
1: Lelouch has to choose what to give Amaya for her birthday, after 7 years of being apart... (Back due to popular demand) 8 VOTES
2: 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. 7 VOTES
3: Nunnally wakes up in the hospital, blind and unable to walk...and Lelouch has to tell her why, and why their mother and father isn't there... 3 VOTES
The winner, by a single vote, is 1! And so, this story is based just a little before the festival, at Amaya's 17th B-day!
Who says one vote can't make a difference!?
BTW, Guys, there is a wicked new fanpic of Amaya on deviant art , BY MikoSaseko!
The link is
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check it out!!! :)
Lelouch glanced at Nunnally as she beamed, Lelouch's eyes widening at her words.
"...Are you sure?" he blinked, as he glanced at his phone, at the date, giving a sigh as it blinked up at him.
14th March.
The day before Amaya's 17th Birthday.
"We have to get her a present!" Nunnally persisted, leaning forward slightly in thought. Lelouch nodded, leaning back as he sighed,
"Very well. Any ideas?" Nunnally paused for a moment, her finger tapping her chin.
"Mmm...I'm not sure..." she turned to face Lelouch, who sat opposite her at the table. "Could you go shopping after school?" Lelouch nodded, shrugging as he sighed,
"I can post phone somethings, so I suppose so." He made a mental note to push the Black Knights meeting up an hour or two. He glanced at Nunnally as she beamed her thanks.
"Now, what should we get her?" Nunnally paused again as Sayoko came in, as she began,
"How about a necklace, a bracelet?" Lelouch frowned slightly, rubbing his jaw as Sayoko announced,
"Time for class, Lady Nunnally." Nunnally nodded as she took her chair, before pushing her to the door.
"Wait-" Lelouch called, pausing as she called back,
"You'll find something! Just pick something she'll love!"
And thus Lelouch found himself in the Tokyo Settlement Shopping District, in the Shopping Centre where he usually did his obligated shopping.
He stood in the centre, staring at the many shops surrounding him...
And couldn't for the life of him choose what to get. Lelouch released a sigh of frustration as he decided to take Nunnally's advise, and ventured into the jewellery shop, and began glancing at the multiple selections of silver, gold and bronze, with the choice of multiple stones, rubys, diamonds, emeralds...
The shop owner must have seen his frustration, the man smiling sympathetically across the counter at him.
"Need any help, young man?" the man, who seemed in his early 60's, Lelouch would guess, asked. Lelouch let out a sigh of frustration as he nodded.
"Yes, please..." he nodded as the man paused before him.
"Now, just whom are you looking to buy something for?" he first asked, Lelouch promptly answering,
"A friend, a girlfriend...Well, a friend who's a girl." Lelouch hastily corrected himself, the man raising an eyebrow as he nodded.
"Very well...And which kind of jewelery are you looking for?" Lelouch paused, frowning slightly, crossing his arms as he confessed,
"I have no clue..." the man gave a small chuckle before exclaiming,
"Don't worry, many male customers come in with the same answer." Lelouch released a sigh of frustration as the man continued,
"Now, is this girl very active, or very...indoors?"
"Active." Lelouch answered without a moments hesitation. "Uncomfortably so." he added, as the man nodded, smiling as he took out a bracelet.
"A tennis bracelet, perhaps?" he queried, showing him the delicate silver bracelet. "Strong enough so it won't break during sports." Lelouch paused, wondering how this man's expression would change is he happened to add how the sport, was piloting a personalized, very large Knightmare into battles against Britannia.
"...Is there anything else?" Lelouch changed subject, the man smiling as he replaced the bracelet with a necklace.
"For special occassions, we also have a very causal line." Lelouch released another sigh, as he pondered whether Jewellery really was the right fit for Amaya.
The man seemed to guess this too, sighing as he put down the necklace, glancing at Lelouch as he asked bluntly,
"Are you sure that this is what she's want?"
'No...' Lelouch sighed to himself, 'What I'm sure she's want is a new, Hadron Blastor like the Gawain...Alas...'
"Well...Jewelery is what girls generally like in a gift, isn't it?" the man sighed again as he looked at Lelouch, as he exclaimed,
"Not every girl. Perhaps this girl would perfer a book, or clothes?" Lelouch sighed as he nodded his thanks to the man, who smiled as he left the store.
Lelouch took another moment to glance at the bookstore opposite the Jewelery store, contemplating getting one.
'...Yes, how about a copy 'So you want to declare war on Britannia?' for your birthday?'
Lelouch took a moment as he sat down on a bench in the centre, frowning as he thought,
'It was never this hard before...Simply picking a birthday present...' Lelouch shook his head again as he massaged his temples.
'She isn't the Jewelery type...She never was, anyway...' Lelouch felt a dark chuckle escape him as he held his forehead in his hand.
'Has everything changed...? In those years, have we become two different people?' Lelouch froze as he thought of the Amaya he had known before...All this...and the Amaya he knew now.
'Amaya has changed in so many ways...' he sighed to himself,
'Do I even still know...'
Lelouch was pulled from his train of thought as he saw something in a window shop, just up ahead.
Lelouch felt his breath stop as he saw the object, almost magnetically pulled to the window, a small smile spreading across his face as he whispered to himself,
'Perhaps I do know her...'
Amaya glanced at the box before her with curiosity, Nunnally and Lelouch sitting before her, in their home, Nunnally beaming as she egged on,
"Open it, Amaya, you'll love it!" Amaya glanced at Lelouch as he added,
"Hopefully." Amaya glanced back at the box as she remarked,
"It is very...large..." Lelouch smiled as he simply echoed Nunnally.
"Just open it and stop complaining." he did, of couse, have to add his own, unique touch to her words.
Her eyes sparkling with curiosity, Amaya began opening the present, her eyes widening as her hands hovered over the case.
"Lelouch..." she whispered in disbelief, her eyes meeting his as he smiled gently.
"Open it."
She hesitantly opened the case, a small gasp escaping her lips as she looked at the dark wood...
Of a violin...
She hesitantly touched it, running her hands over the strings, which plucked at her skin, her hand continuing over the silk like feeling of the bow...
Amaya felt the feeling of nostalgia rise in her, as she remembered how she used to play when she was younger, with Lelouch on the piano...How she had loved it...How she and Lelouch had bonded so much over the music they would make...
How, afterwords, she barely held one, let alone own one...The last time, was when she played with Lelouch, before she got her Geass...
"You were saying, how you don't have one anymore..." Lelouch began softly, Amaya meeting his eyes again as he smiled,
"Happy Birthday."
Lelouch found himself smiling as she ran her hands over the gift, her eyes alive with happiness as he saw a smile grow ove rher face at the sight of the violin.
'I do still know you, Amaya...' he smiled to himself as he declared softly, Amaya meeting his eyes,
"You were saying, how you don't have one anymore..." Amaya's smile spread slightly as he smiled again, announcing gently,
"Happy Birthday."
And nexgt weeks choices are....
1: Amaya thinks on how she is expected to be strong, in the Chinese Federation, and how she wants the Black Knights to know that she feels the same pain they do. (Songfic)
2: Amaya is alone in her room as they leave Japan, before they arrive in the Chinese Federation. What is she thinking?
3: Suzaku thinks on his sleeping beauty, Euphemia, and the world he is determined she will awake to.
what will win?!
up to you, folks!!!
mostrandomgirl92
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