Storms of the Heart

Ch 15: The Truth Pt. 1

Lelouch X OC

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"What is that?", Adelice asked, staring at the outfit and mask with wide eyes. Lelouch quickly walked around the bed and slammed the suitcase closed. Adelice stayed staring at him with her wide blue eyes. "That's why you didn't want me to pack for you... because you thought I would find this...", she whispered.

"I was trying to protect you.", Lelouch said, turning his eyes up to hers. Adelice crossed her arms over her chest. "Protect me from what? The truth?", she asked, anger shooting through her eyes. Why would Lelouch lie to her like that?

Of course she didn't agree with any of this but this was the first time that she had ever felt betrayed by him. Angry tears filled her eyes as she crossed her arms tighter over her chest. "So you lied to me?...", she asked, a single tear falling down her face.

The pain in her heart was intense as she looked at Lelouch. "I was going to tell you eve-", he started to say. "When?!", Adelice asked, wiping the tear off her cheek. Lelouch's eyes fell a little, he hadn't expected this strong of a reaction from her. "When the time was right...", he answered back, feeling guilt run through his veins like poison.

Adelice rolled her eyes and stared at the now closed suitcase. "How long has this been going on?", she whispered. Lelouch ran his long fingers through his hair, letting a little bit of it fall in his face as if he was trying to cover up his shame and his lies. "Since Clovis' death...", he admitted, watching her reaction.

Adelice eyes flashed dangerously. "You killed him...", she said shakily as more tears threatened to fall from her watery eyes. "How could you?! I know the man wasn't exactly a saint but... he didn't deserve to be murdered... much less by you! ...His own brother.", she yelled, feeling hot tears fall down her face and onto the floor.

Lelouch stayed silent as Adelice crossed her arms over her chest again. "...What makes you think you have the right to take people's lives into your hands and play 'God'?", she whispered. Lelouch sighed a little and shook his head. "I'm not trying to play 'God' much less-"

"Yet you killed him …you knew how upset I was and yet you comforted me and pretended like you didn't know anything. You wiped my tears... when you were the one that caused them in the first place... and not only me.. Nunally too.", she whispered softly.

"Why?", she asked softly. Lelouch stayed silent as he watched more tears fall, a deeper frown forming on his face. "Why would someone do something so horrible?", she asked, speaking of Clovis. He gently tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. "I don't know.", he whispered.

Adelice wiped her eyes with the back of her hand. "It... It isn't true .. what they saw on the news? That Suzaku killed him?", she asked, her voice cracking a little. He pulled her close and cupped her cheek. "Of course not.

They'll find him not guilty, Suzaku would never do something like that. They just made a mistake", he assured her, wiping more tears away. She nodded slowly. "I'm glad to see he's still alive...", she whispered, resting her head on his shoulder as the funeral started.

She couldn't bare to watch as they spoke kind words about Clovis and showed his coffin adorned with beautiful flowers. She could feel Lelouch's gaze rest on her as she clung onto the TV remote tighter, making her knuckles white again with her strong grip.

Lelouch took the TV remote from her, gently prying it from her hand and turned it off. He ran his fingers through her hair. "Did you want to spend the night again?", he asked softly, kissing the top of her head. He felt her nod into his shoulder.

"Please. I don't want to be alone right now.", she answered. He smiled and let her stay nuzzled into his shoulder, running his fingers through her hair until she fell asleep.

"I can't believe that you lied to me...", she said, biting the inside of her cheek. He had not only lied to her, he had lied to Nunally as well. For once, she was grateful that Nunally was out of the house and didn't have to hear them fighting or find out about this horrible discovery.

She could never and would never want to explain to Nunally the truth of what really was going on. "Clovis begged for his life.", Lelouch whispered, making Adelice turn her head up to him in surprise. "..What?", she asked, not exactly sure if she had heard him right or perhaps she just didn't want to hear what he had said.

His voice had sounded so cold as he said that. That was not the voice of the man that she loved. That wasn't Lelouch's voice... that was Zero's voice. "He begged with the same tongue that he used to order the death of countless elevens. What a weak man.", Lelouch answered. Adelice shivered at his words, it was the same voice that Zero had used.

There...there was that cold voice that she wasn't use to hearing, coming from his mouth. It was something she hadn't been expecting and something that she definitely didn't like. Adelice stared at Lelouch. This was definitely not the same man that she knew when she was little. The same 'Lelouch' that she had fallen in love with.

"So killing him is justified then...?", she said, letting her arms fall to the side. More tears fell as she remembered his funeral. The flowers covering his coffin and the big picture of him holding a rose. "It was something that needed to be done...", he whispered back.

"...And you caused Suzaku to be framed.. and almost killed. Your best friend was almost killed because of you.", she said coldly. She couldn't believe at all how he was actually trying to justify his actions. I mean for goodness sake Suzaku practically died because of Lelouch's crazy idea of Zero.

This was beginning to be too much. She could barely even look at Lelouch now that she knew he was the one that had killed Clovis. The man that she loved was a murderer. Murder was never the answer for anything.

"No! That was an accident!", he corrected her quickly. Adelice bit her bottom lip and turned her eyes away. "I didn't know they were going to blame it on him. I never would have imagined.", he whispered.

Adelice nodded her head slightly, at least he didn't want to harm Suzaku. "Does Suzaku know... who you really are?", she asked, wondering if Suzaku was also lying to her. They were after all best friends. "Of course not. You know his views on justice... he would never agree with me.", Lelouch answered her.

Adelice sighed in relief... at least she could still trust someone. "With good reason.", she whispered back making Lelouch frown was the answer to her suspicions of why he had been gone some days or why he would be gone till late at night. Why he would skip lunch and why she had to fill the empty space that he had left at home with Nunally.

"...You pointed a gun at me..", she said softly, feeling another tear run down her face. "When I was with Euphie..", her voice becoming softer as the realization hit her. "I wouldn't have ever pulled the trigger, you know that, Adelice.", Lelouch said, his eyes becoming hard and angry.

"Is that the reason you killed Clovis?", Euphemia asked, softly. "No.", he answered her, straight forward. "Then why?! Why did you kill my brother?!", she yelled at him. Zero stayed silent for a moment and then took a step forward.

"Because Clovis was an offspring of the Britannian Emperor.", Zero answered. "That reminds me... you're one of his children too..aren't you?", Zero asked as he lifted up a gun and pointed at Euphemia. Adelice adrenalin kicked in quickly as she pushed Euphemia back with her hand and stepped in front of her, holding her arms out to both sides, shielding her.

"Adelice...", Euphemia whispered, surprised by her action, frowning a little. No one moved as silence fell over them. Adelice glared at Zero who slowly lowered his gun. "You would give your life for each other.", Zero said, more to himself then to Adelice or Euphemia. Adelice hands slowly fell to her side as she slowly nodded to his statement.

"Why would you even do that? Were you trying to test how far I would go to protect my friends? What was the point of even pointing something like that at me?", she asked, shaking her head.

She just could not understand what was going on in Lelouch's head. All of this was complete madness. Why on earth would anyone think that this was a smart idea?

"I pointed it at Euphie, not at you.", he stated. Adelice shook her head. "It doesn't change the fact that you didn't even lower your weapon when I stood in front of her, shielding her.", Adelice answered. Lelouch frowned.

"And if my hand would have lowered? What would that say about 'Zero'? If I would have lowered my hand instantly then Euphie would have though you were in on The Black Knights. I didn't move my hand right away because I didn't want to put suspicion on you. I did it to protect you. All the things that I do... keep you in mind. Keep Nunally in mind. I do it to make a better life for both of you.", Lelouch said as he took a step closer to her.

Adelice, in turn, backed away a little bit. "Don't.", she said, not wanting him to come any closer. She barely trusted being in the same room with him let alone him close to her. She felt as if the rope that had been binding the two had suddenly snapped and now the torn pieces lay on the floor. She didn't even want Lelouch... ...Zero to touch her.

"Let go!", she yelled and ripped her arm from Zero's grasp. "Do not run. If you run out that hall, you will die. I said you two were safest with me. I will return you all safely. You have my word.", he said, not reaching for her arm again.

Adelice stayed still for a few moment and stared up at him, not knowing if she should trust this man. In the end, there wasn't much she could do. The building shook violently as it started to sink into the ground, the sound of the building shaking was hurting Adelice's ears as she struggled to keep her footing.

Smoke started to rise around the room making her eyes burn. She could just barely make out the outline of Zero now as she held Euphemia's hand. She watched as Zero grabbed something from inside his suit and pushed a little device, making one of the windows explode. The smoke rushed out of the opening as she felt Zero put a hand on her back.

She winced at the touch of his hand, desperately wanting it away from her as soon as possible. A shiver ran down her spine as she though of the same hand that was touching her now was the same that he had used to kill Clovis with.

All the memories of that day came flooding back to her. It was like a tidal wave had hit her and swept her off her feet. "Why are you even doing this?", she asked, shaking her head a little. "What's the point of being.. 'Zero'?", she continued. Lelouch looked up at her with eyes that looked drained over color, his skin paler then usual.

"My whole life I've been dead. A corpse existing behind a false life. A life in which I did nothing real. Day to day, I merely went through the motions of living as if I were a zombie and I always had the feeling that I was gradually dying.", Lelouch said, not taking his eyes away from hers.

Adelice glared at him. "Am I not real enough for you?! I've been with you, here! Since the beginning! I never left! You or Nunally!", she yelled. Lelouch flinched at her words. Adelice hardly ever said harsh words of any sort but this was the first time that he had ever seen her this mad.

This was exactly why he wanted to tell her on his own time when she would accept it calmly. "How could you do something like this?! Have you gone mad?!", Adelice said pointing at the Zero outfit. "The world needs to change.", Lelouch said.

Adelice shook her head. "It can't change, Lelouch... you would need a miracle... and no matter of costume or rebel group is going to change that. What are you thinking when you put that on?! That you're finally gonna get back at your father?! … It can't be done, Lelouch! You're living in an illusion.", she stated.

Lelouch shook his head. "That's exactly what I use to think but now that I have power, it is possible.", he said. Her ears perked up at the way he said the word "power". There was something about that word that sent chills down her back.

"Power?... What do you mean by 'Power'?", she asked, a sense of nausea filled her stomach. "The power I gave him.", a woman's voice spoke making Adelice jump and turn to the doorway.

End of Chapter 15

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