Chapter 7: Nice Chat with Uncle VV
One Week After Knights of the Arrived - 8:00PM
"We can't keep this up much longer, those damned agents will eventually just drag him out of the medical bay doctor approval or not," Darlton told Cornelia sharing her frustration.
"I know!" Cornelia snapped back, I'm lucky my plan has worked this far. I bet the S.I.S. thought I just buckle over when they brought in the Knights or when my father lectured me, but I know some legal tricks of my own. I can't take custody of him but so long as I bribe the doctor into not releasing him the S.I.S. can't take him either.
Guildford spoke up, "The plan was a stroke of genius as usual your majesty but the S.I.S. is losing their patience, and that new Knight of Six seems to be taking an unusual interest in Prince Lelouch, we need to take more permanent measures to ensure his safety."
Cornelia didn't respond instead staring intently at the blank wall. She began walking toward the medical bay like she'd done dozens of times before just to see him albeit in a heavily sedated state. As she reached her destination her jaw clenched and she made fist in anger.
"Dam it! What is the S.I.S. up to? Looking for Nunnally, that Shirley Fennette is dead, and now this." Cornelia said exasperated looking at the empty medical cot meant to have Lelouch.
"They took him 30 minutes ago, your majesty," The nurse said timidly.
Cornelia turned to Guildford and leaned in close so that the nurse would not overhear, "I want you do something for me, something that is technically treason, if you refuse I will understand."
"I shall do anything milady deems necessary." Guildford whispered back.
S.I.S. Section of Government Bureau:
"Oh Lulu, wake up. Wake up Lulu," VV ruthlessly mocked. Asleep again, that's what I get for handing him over to Cornelia, she gave him an anesthetic, he'll be drowsy all day, VV thought irately. He took the cattle prod and zapped the sleeping Lelouch lying on the ground.
"Ahhh!" Lelouch screamed as every muscle in his body seized up.
"Oh I knew that would wake you up Lulu." VV said very content with himself.
"Don't call me that!" yelled Lelouch.
"What's the matter? Isn't that what red-haired girl called you," VV sneered, "Don't worry though you won't have to worry about her anymore."
"What do mean!"
"I killed her, or more accurately had someone else kill," VV revealed in Lelouch's scorn before he went on, "From what my man told me she some of her last words were of the goodness of love and how she still and always would love you. Really heartbreaking, I could barely hold back my tears."
"You bastard she helped you!"
"Its not the first time I've killed a woman who was 'helping' me, women have always caused men trouble. Wasn't Eve was trying to 'help' Adam when she gave him the apple?" VV knelt down besides Lelouch's handcuffed and prone form, "But on to your sister. Do you think I'm a fool, nephew? Did you really think Cornelia could protect her?"
"No, Nooo," Lelouch could no longer hold back any longer he sobbed harder then he had in his entire life. Lelouch's heart throbbed as VV dug deeper.
"How long do you think you were out for? By the time you told Cornelia about Ashford Academy we'd had Nunnally in our custody for hours. My surveillance and I team had a good chuckle when Cornelia's men showed up at the entrance. Since then you've been doped up for days while I've been having fun with Nunnally."
Wait, why would he have Ashford Academy under surveillance if he had already abducted Nunnally. Maybe she escaped. Milly or CC or somebody could have gotten her out of there, Lelouch thought allowing a glimmer of hope to enter his mind.
"Show me Nunnally and I'll do anything you ask," Lelouch said.
"Why should I do that, I hold all the pieces boy," VV retorted.
"Because I think you lying. I think your trying to checkmate me with a bishop hoping I'll resign."
"You impetus little-" VV angrily jammed the cattle prod into the unfortunate prince's crotch and held down the trigger.
"Ahhh, Ha ha, Ahhh, ha ha ha," Lelouch laughed with joy and screamed with pain all at once his body and mind battling over his sensations, his eyes seeing spots.
"Why are you laughing!" VV demanded lifting his finger from the prod but keeping it in the same position.
"ha – Because now I know – hah – Nunnally is safe. Your reaction just confirmed it. Haha."
VV scowled hating to be outsmarted, "I should have killed your sister when I had chance those years ago," he blurted out.
Lelouch stopped laughing, "Wh-What are you talking about?" he said breathless.
"I'm talking about when I killed your bitch mother and crippled you pathetic sister." VV smiled at Lelouch's stunned visage.
Guildford eyes widened. Hiding in the rafter above the cell block he could easily hear VV's confession and it shook him to his core. How can this be? Is this child really child at all?He looks far too young to have been able to murder her majesty and yet he wields so much authority.
VV decided to take another approach, "My plan has been in the making for decades, it will most likely take a years or two to complete. I can wait to get CC. But you won't want to drag it Lelouch, I know your deepest fears and I shall make them reality." VV pulled out a small container inside his pocket. He opened the container and retrieved hypodermic needle, it was filled with a clear substance, Lelouch doubted it was water.
VV looked at Lelouch and then spoke in a passive but somehow still sinister tone, "The human brain is an amazing thing. A careful balance of electrical pulses and chemical reactions. It takes remarkable little to disturb the balance and to disastrous consequences for the unfortunate victim – This is formula X. It is deadly neurotoxin that will literally dissolve you brain inside your own skull."
"I not afraid to die," Lelouch spat defiantly.
VV looked into Lelouch's eyes, "No your not afraid to dies... unlike your coward mother, no you're more like Charl-"
"SHUT UP! My mother was a saint and a brave woman!" Lelouch screamed enraged.
VV grimaced, "How little you know boy. Marriane played an idealist and loving mother. In reality she would sell both her children down the river if it'd help advance her goals. And she only agreed to help advance our goals because she was so terrified of dying. She wanted to live forever in the great unconsciousness."
"What goals" Lelouch demanded confused and still angry.
"A world without lies" VV answered calmly.
"Ha, and you would lie to achieve such ends?"
"Yes. Just as you would use war to achieve peace, are you and I so different or was all that preaching you did as Zero a bunch of lies."
"No... they weren't lies. I..."
"Tell me Lelouch are we so different after all, I use force when I need to as do you..." VV puased then started again, "This is your last chance Lelouch tell me where the black knights headquarters are." Lelouch didn't respond.
VV shook his head, "Its a shame such a mind has to go to waste. But luckily there is an antidote to this toxin and its highly diluted. It will about two years for you to die from it, but in the meantime you will feel the effects of your brain dying. Maybe you'll become an idiot and have no choice but to become a puppet That's your true fear isn't it? Or maybe a raging psychopath, one who'll hurt those you care about. Its hard to say exactly but it will be the death of you, eventually. As soon as you yield it will be over. But the damage already done will be irreversible, so the question you must ask yourself is; Will you yield in time?"
VV straddled Lelouch's helpless body and put the needle to his throat. "Last chance Lelouch"
Lelouch's heart was pounding, his mind was all he had left. He would have yielded he would have betrayed CC and every member of the black knights his fear twisted him so much, if not for one thought. Maybe CC took Nunnally to the Black Knights headquarters. I can't let her fall into the hands of this... this maniac. And so Lelouch said nothing his love for his sister allowing VV to unceremoniously stab the needle into Lelouch's exposed jugular.
The liquid put Lelouch in sheer agony, he immediately vomited from the intense pain, but his focus on his own torment was soon disturbed by an explosion that sent both VV and Lelouch flying. Guildford's ears were bleeding for the echoing sound in the rafters, but he stayed in place.
Elsewhere in the Government Bureau:
"What the hell was that!" Cornelia voiced boomed.
A young officer looked pale, "I-Its the black knights your majesty they're attacking."
A/N: So what do you guys think, the next couple of chapters are going to be INTENSE, the chapters up till now have basically been getting the bases set for the real story to begin. That injection for example is going to be one of the most important things in the plot, you'll see.
Also I changed the Summary do you guys think it is more compelling?
Please review and tell me how you think of VV. I really think his character was under explored but I've always seem him as sociopath. Remember the sheer joy he took in electrocuting Rolo or how casually he gunned down Marriane and those servants?