A/N: Before we start I would also like to thank Shiranai Atsune, an avid female Lelocuh connoisseur like myself lol. Thank you for all your reviews and your support! And thanks to everyone who has decided to read this far!

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"Another push and the checkpoint will fall," Leloucia chuckled, watching the lines around Clovis' command center thin. Her brother had just presented her with the perfect opportunity. Now all she needed was to-

"This is B2 group. Reporting enemy presence."

Leloucia frowned and pushed herself, with some difficulty, into a sitting position. "Reinforcements?" That was odd. She'd have thought Clovis wouldn't want to call anyone else into this mess. The Honorary Britannian's he had sweeping the place were disposable and he had even attempted to kill her to keep his secret safe. Who did he have that he could call on now?

No matter though. He was desperate. She had pushed him into a corner and he knew it. This new enemy was a curiosity, but hardly a bother. Just one more piece to knock down.

She sighed, picking up a discarded red chess piece and replacing it on the board near B2. "Real battle is different." She brought the walky-talky to her mouth. "Statues."

"Everyone ejected. But it took out 4 Units in nothing flat!"

"Enemy numbers."

"Just one. I-I think it's a new model. Never seen anything li-Argh!"

Leloucia pulled the walky-talky away from her ear as the man screamed.

"What's happening out there?" she demanded, moving the walkie back. The man didn't respond. "B2-3! Tell me what's happening!"

"It-It can deflect bullets! What do we do!? Argh!"

The transmission cut out once again with a scream.

Leloucia lowered the walkie slowly. It deflects bullets? That wasn't possible. They had to be mistaken.

"Useless so-called terrorists," she muttered, leaning back in her seat as she served the bored. "With all the resources I gave them, their being beat by one Unit..." She brought the walkie up once again. "N4, N5, hold there. When the rear Units arrive, surround that thing."

"Gotcha." They both responded. Only 5 seconds had passed before the walkie faired to life once more. "We can't stop it!" came a panicked voice. "Argh!"

"N Units, what is it!?"

Nothing but static.

Could it actually deflect bullets?! What the hell was going on here?!

"What happened? Something I didn't foresee?" She was shaking. So close. She had been so close. "Clovis had a secret weapon this whole time? No… No. I won't lose. Not to you! Not to anyone! P1, repot!"

Static.

"Can… can it really only be just one Unit?"

Leloucia clutched at the hole in her side. The fear coursing through her now wasn't helping to stem the bleeding. She could actually feel her heart beat with ever drop of blood pumped out, and the shaking wouldn't stop. If she didn't hurry, she would bleed out.

And then suddenly there it was, and her heart nearly leaped out of her throat. A white Knightmare, unlike any she had seen before, moving with impossible grace through the building towards her. How? How had it found her?!

The Knightmare slammed into her unit and she gave a cry of pain as she was thrown about the cockpit, her unit only just able to keep from crashing over from the impact.

Damn it, damn it! Not here. Not now. I will not lose!

"Are you the guy who's in command?"

She almost recognized that voice, but in the din of battle it was too hard to tell.

"You're nothing more than a single pilot! How dare you-!"

The floor gave way and Leloucia and her Sutherland fell.

She didn't know how many stories they had fall, but she found herself in lying in a daze at the bottom of a large hole, the white Knightmare standing over her.

The pain… the pain was to much. She was losing blood; her mind was going fuzzy. Was this… was this the end? All this and she was losing to her own accursed body.

She almost gave a chuckle. Of course only she could defeat herself. Not this blasted Britannian toy. Herself.

Before either one of them could make a move though, s blur of red attacked the white Knightmare.

"Hey! I'm returning the favor!"

She lifted her head weakly. That voice… the girl in the Glasgow?

Leloucia struggled to reach the controls of her own unit as white and red blurs did battle.

It was over almost as quickly as it started though, an advanced Knightmare such as that was an unfair match against a rusted, one armed Glasgow. Still the woman put up a hell of a fight. At least enough to distract him from Leloucia. Not long enough though.

"Why are you doing this? Stop with the mindless bloodshed!"

Lelocuia froze, fingers just scrapping over the joysticks. It couldn't be… could it?

The woman in the Glasgow ejected, sending Leloucia a panicked warning, but she ignored it. The most vital element in battle is the human one, after all.

The white Knightmare turned to her once again, Slash Harkens pointed and ready to go for the kill, or at least the disable.

"Surrender now and I'll do my best to get you a fair trial, I swear."

It really was him. He had saved her once before when he thought she was a terrorist, would he do it again?

She pressed the intercom system, hoping that even with the labour of her breath, he would recognize her voice.

"Turn off your… Knightmare."

There was no response.

"Whoever… gave you that Knightmare… is watching. Listening… Turn it off, Suzaku. Your com piece too…"

Once again there was no response. Was it possible she had been wrong?

It was to late now though; the pain was making dark spots form in her vision. She couldn't fight back, nor could she run. If her gamble didn't work out, everything was over for her.

The Knightmare turned away from her and the next second, shut down. She watched as the hatch in the back opened and a familiar mess of brown hair and worried green eyes emerged.

She breathed a sigh of relief, relaxing against the seat. It really was him.

The next thing she knew, someone was calling her name.

The blurry shape of Suzaku came sharply into focus and she took a ragged breath as she awoke before dissolving into another fit of coughs. It appeared she had passed out from the pain.

"Leloucia!"

It took her a few moments to realise he was crying.

"Don't cry, you idiot… I'm not dead yet," she muttered, attempting to move into a better sitting position.

They were still in her ruined Knightmare, her own blood staining what had once been a dull grey interior. She hadn't realised she had bleed that much, not until now when she saw it in proper light, but she concluded the fall must have thrown her and any blood that dripped out of her, all around the cockpit like an angry painter.

She groaned, arms struggling to push her up. Suzaku reached out to help.

"How long was I out?"

He wiped the tears from his face with one hand, using the other to keep her sitting up right, and gave a chocked laugh. "Not long. I just got here."

She did her best to smirk. "And yet you're already crying?"

"I opened the hatch and there was blood everywhere and you were passed out and… and I thought the worst."

Her chuckle was weak, but she couldn't help letting it slip by. Even in the midst of battle Suzaku made her feel safe. "I won't die that easily, Suzaku… I've still got things to do, after all."

He fumbled for a moment with the zipper of his uniform, a Knights uniform she realized, and took out a small plastic bag with two yellow pills inside.

"They-They gave me some pain pills to take if it got too bad," he explained, shifting the pills out into his gloved palm and holding them out to her. "Take them."

She shook her head. "Not if they were meant for you…. Aren't you in pain?"

He shook his head back, pressing the pills into her hand. "My, uh, my fathers watch, it deflected the bullet. I'm basically just bruised." He gave a small, guilty laugh, eyeing the red seeping through the lab coat at her waist.

"Ahh. Well, thank you then." She gripped the pills tighter in hand and quickly threw them back, hoping they were fast acting.

He picked her up then, and, had she been in her right mind, she would have complained about not needing help. As it was though, she clung to him as pain arched through her and black spots danced over her vision.

Once again it seemed she had passed out as she awoke to Suzaka calling her name, gently trying to rouse her. They were outside the ruined Sutherland now, Suzaku having lain her out on the ground while trying to wake her up.

She gingerly placed a hand on her side, feeling the blood stain her hand. "That's going to start getting annoying…"

"I'll take you back to Lloyd and Cecil. They can help."

She panicked, sitting up in a hurry only to fall back with the pain. "No! No… he-he knows who I am. He'll use me, Suzaku."

"You're going to die!"

"So be it! I'd rather die than be forced back into that viper's nest!"

Pain flashed across his face, and for a moment she wondered if his wound was beginning to hurt before he wrapped his arms around her and leaned over her, trying to hug her without moving her around to much.

"I just found you again, Leloucia… I can't lose you. Please be reasonable."

"I am… They can't find out about Nunnally, Suzaku. You know that."

It didn't take him long to give into her will. Mentioning Nunnally was what probably pushed him over the edge. Even without her sister's presence, her name was enough to influence either one of them into doing what the other asked, something they had both exploited more than once when they had been younger.

Suzaku leaned back with a frowned. "Alright, I understand. But I'm not about to let you die, alright?"

"As soon as this is all over, I promise you can take me to any hospital you want."

That seemed to pacify him for now, as he helped her to her feet and acted as her crutch as they made their way towards his Knightmare. She would have to question him about that later, but for now she was just thankful to whatever merciful entity was out there that he had it.

It took him a moment, but something seemed to dawn on him as they hobbled closer to the machine. "By the way… What were you doing in that Knightmare?"

She gave him the best smile she could muster, which was much better than she expected. The pain pills must have begun taking effect.

"You gave your life to protect mine. It's only fair that I return the favour, right?"

"The favour?"

"I'm going to stop this, all of this. And I'm going to need your help."

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A/N: I know these are short chapters, I'm sorry if you were hoping they'd be longer lol. Right now I'm just trying to get them out and uploaded but I also want them to end smoothly so I'm trying to find good stopping places, which end up making it a bit shorter of a chapter than I usually intend. I hope my next, much longer chapter, in someway makes up for this lol.

Also, does no one else find it strange how quickly Lelouch got out of that building after Kallen showed up? From the area Kallen ejected out of, their at least 20 stories in the air, quite possibly more, and despite only 15 seconds of Suzaku and Kallen fighting, Lelouch looked to be a good few blocks away by the end of it. Yeah, I know, it's the small things that bother me lol.

Anyway, all the Favorite and Follows are much appreciated and I hope you enjoy what else I have in store :)