Here's chapter two. I know it's a very quick update but I've had this idea since ages. It's probably going to be quite long story for I plan on elaborating on most events of their lives. So the story will develop a bit slowly for the character build up to occur properly.
For lying at the end of the staircase were his mother and Nunnally all covered in blood. Lelouch frantically ran down the stairs and tried to wake his mother but her back had numerous bullet holes. He checked his mother's pulse but there was none. His beautiful and caring mother was forever gone and he couldn't even be next to her during the last moment of her life. All his life he and his sister had been protected by her. It was because of his mother that he had a little bit of respect in the royal family. But, now even that shelter was torn away from him. She was the first person he'd known to have loved. She was the very person who had given him his best gift yet, his sister Nunnally.
Nunnally! How could he forget about her? Witnessing her mother's death was no little thing for a seven year old girl.
It was at that very moment that he saw the awful state that his sister was in. Nunnally's eyes were wide open and she was trembling as if in shock over what had just happened. He carefully tried to lift his mother from Nunnally with the help of his personal guard who had come down to help him. Maneuvering Nunnally out of his mother's tight embrace he couldn't help but think that his mother had protected Nunnally from the bullets with the last breath of her life. She was such a wonderful woman and she shouldn't have been murdered in such a manner.
The moment Nunnally was deposited in his arms she wrapped her arms around him, buried her face in the crook of his neck and let all the feelings bottled up inside her flow out. And these feelings of great sorrow came out as painful sobs and gut-wrenching screams. It was at this moment of seeing his normally very cheerful sister in such a state that the true nature of the events dawned upon him, Marianne the Flash was gone leaving him and his sister to fend off for themselves. He suddenly had a huge urge to cry just like her. He almost lost into that urge but then he remembered his promise to his mother that he would protect his sister no matter what happened. He never really got to act on that promise but he would, starting from now; after all he was Nunnally's big brother.
He bent down to face his sister and tried his best to console her by saying sweet nothings into her ear but couldn't do so for mere words were no match for her pain. He carefully pulled away from her, put his hands on each side of her face and turned her to face him. Nunnally's eyes were clamped shut.
"Nunnally…." sighed Lelouch in a gentle voice, "...Please open your eyes. Please don't shut yourself down. You have to stay strong. We both have to, for mother."
"Big brother… I'm sorry… but I can't open my eyes…. I can't. Please allow me to keep the shut a little while longer…it's much easier to forget horrors of the world this way…Please big brother let me be weak a little while longer."
"Nunnally you are not at all weak. Never say that you are weak, for you are strong in the way only you can be." answered Lelouch aggressively.
A vast number of guards and maids had surrounded them by then and tried to move the two siblings from the stairs. Mutterings of "It'll all be okay soon my dear", "My how pitiful that the Empress had to die leaving her naive children all alone"," I wonder what will happen to them, now that their mother is not there to protect them from the outer world", "Oh! My poor little things what will they do now!" were starting to get on young Lelouch and he was trying his best not to scream at them.
Being a member of the Royal Imperial family he too had his own ego and was not going to allow these mere servants shower their pity on him and his sister. Mustering all the courage he had Lelouch tried to stand up and motioned Nunnally to do so too. But for some reason she didn't move at all. She sat utterly still in his lap.
"Come on Nunnally get up. I'll take you to your room"
The next words that Nunnally uttered made the worst day of his life even more worse, for she said:
"Big brother…. I can't feel my legs."
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