Well, here we are on chapter 2! I'd like to thank everyone who reviewed the first chapter. I was so glad that you all liked it!

Anyway, in this chapter, we'll learn a few things! How Lulu got knocked up in the first place, for one. And also yet another little surprise for our two expecting parents. We also get to see more of the pointless SuzuxLulu fluff we all love, and even a little suspense.

Disclaimer: Once again, I don't own anything. I just squee over SuzuxLulu hotness like the rest of the fangirls out there.

Chapter 2: Discoveries

Anyone standing just outside the door would swear that the two expecting parents waiting for their first ultrasound view of their child were unhappy to find themselves pregnant.

Anyone standing outside the door would be right.

"That nurse is a moron!" Lelouch hissed, prodding his stomach as though to emphasize his point. "I can't be pregnant! I'm male!"

"I know, Lulu," Suzaku said softly, grasping his boyfriend's free hand and squeezing it tightly. "But all the symptoms fit. The throwing up in the mornings, fatigue, a little weight gain, and your skin's been so sensitive. And then its hard to mistake pregnancy hormones in a blood sample."

"Then they must have mixed my blood up with some woman's!"

"Or maybe… I don't know. Maybe you're just… unique?"

"Maybe you're an idiot, Suzaku. This is all just a waste of time! When they take that ultrasound, they're going to find nothing."

"You don't know that, Lulu," Suzaku said calmly. "Let's just humor them, okay?"

"Can we sue them for malpractice if this turns out to be nothing?"

Suzaku couldn't help but smile warmly at Lelouch. "I don't think that's how it works, honey." Leaning over from his seat and letting his face hover just inches from Lelouch's, he stared intently into Lelouch's eyes. "No matter what happens, Lulu, I love you. And I swear I will take care of you."

Lelouch glared at Suzaku, shifting his position slightly to get a better view of the door from his spot on the table. "You act like I'm some damn invalid, Suzaku. I'm fine. I'm not going to die. I'm not going to have a baby, and I'm not going to sit around and let you pamper me when there are much better things you could be doing."

Suzaku sat back in his chair suddenly, a wide grin splashing across his tanned cheeks as there was a tiny knock on the doorframe. Lelouch scowled, not wanting to end their conversation so suddenly. He tried not to look bitter or indifferent as the ultrasound technician introduced herself to the two boys.

"A little young to be expecting, aren't you?" She joked softly. Lelouch grumbled, at least thankful that she hadn't remarked on the fact that she'd never seen a teenaged boy in to get this specific exam.

"Well, we can't exactly say we were expecting this," Suzaku said sheepishly.

The doctor laughed lightly, smiling at Lelouch. 'No, I suppose not. Most same-sex partners don't expect pregnancy." She continued to smile sweetly, making an already grumpy Lelouch want to wipe it off her face. Especially when she directed him to remove his shirt and lie back on the exam table as she fired up the ultrasound machine.

Lelouch sighed and pulled his shirt off over his head, handing it to Suzaku and trying to smile weakly. He leaned back against the table and shivered at the cold paper and vinyl against his bare back. The technician removed a bottle of gel from the cabinet near the machine's black-and-white screen and squirted some onto the Britannian's abdomen, causing Lelouch to squirm a little in discomfort.

"Want me to do that, Lulu?" Suzaku said, a smile in his voice.

"Shut up," Lelouch growled. "It's cold. And being covered in lube isn't exactly comfortable."

"Just relax," the technician said, preparing the probe and bringing it against Lelouch's slick torso. "Now let's just see if we can find you two a baby."

Lelouch stared at the screen, not entirely sure what he was looking at. He tried to imagine what organs would look like based on charts he'd seen, but the thought that he was looking at his own liver was a little disturbing. He felt a large, warm hand twine with his own and he gladly turned his attention from the screen to his boyfriend, their eyes meeting for a long moment.

"Hmm…"

"What does 'Hmm' mean?" Lelouch demanded, tearing his eyes away from their emerald counterparts and going back to the screen. He certainly couldn't see much other than a field of black and faint outlines and spots in white.

"'Hmm' means "that's interesting." The technician said, maneuvering the probe a little to center on two small blips on the screen. "It does indeed look like you're pregnant, Mr. Lamperouge."

Lelouch blinked, and Suzaku could be heard taking in a gasp of shock. "I'm… what?" Lelouch said finally.

"Pregnant." The technician went to the machine and hit a button. The machine began to whir, and a small printer began to excrete a copy of the screen's current image. She handed the finished image to Suzaku as she helped Lelouch wipe off the gel. "Those two little splotches are actually fetuses. I can't explain how, but you definitely do have twins growing inside of you, Mr. Lamperouge."

Suzaku stared at the printout in disbelief, his eyes leaving it only when Lelouch yanked it away from him to examine it himself. "You mean…" Lelouch said, his fingers dancing over the outlines of the two supposed babies. "I'm pregnant with… twins?"

"And they both look healthy thus far," the technician confirmed. "I'd say you're around 5 or six weeks along right now. Though honestly, since you are a very unique case, I can't say for sure how far along the pregnancy is right now."

"Twins…" Suzaku said softly, leaning over to gaze at the picture once again, kissing Lelouch's forehead gently. "And you thought it was food poisoning" he chuckled.

~*~

"I told you that you should have talked to me the other day, Lelouch."

"Shut up, Witch," Lelouch growled. The two were back in the same meeting room where Rolo had revealed Lelouch's relationship with Suzaku. "What does me talking with you have to do with my problem?"

C.C. sighed, her golden eyes sparkling with a slight hint of mischief. "Well, since you would have already conceived, nothing. I was hoping to talk to you well before this, but we were always so concerned with the Black Knights and keeping the Britannians from figuring out it's really you."

Lelouch sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose in frustration. "Just… tell me what you brought me here for, C.C."

"Well, you've already discovered part of it. It's possible for you to get pregnant."

Lelouch turned around to give her his best "no shit, Sherlock" look, his teeth grinding together in his mouth while he tried to bite back a snide remark.

"The second part is it's because of your Geass. You already know that it can have limitations, but it also can have… side effects. Hell, Mao was extremely small for his age before I gave him a Geass, and you know how tall he ended up being. Emperor Charles was perfectly healthy before his Geass, and afterwards all of his hair fell out and he had to use that stupid wig."

"So you're saying the uterus that just randomly popped into existence inside my abdomen is a result of my Geass?"

"Well, it does affect everyone differently," C.C. could tell that Lelouch didn't exactly believe her, but then again, he'd had a lot to get used to in the last day.

"Yes, but the other examples you just gave me were simple changes. How am I suddenly a transvestite? Are you going to tell me that Rolo was once a dog?"

C.C. frowned. "You don't have to be so bitter about it, Lelouch. If you weren't gay, you would never have known about this."

"So now my sexuality is to blame? Or are you just saying that because I'm having Suzaku's baby instead of giving you mine?"

The immortal witch froze, horror mixing with anger and embarrassment on her face. "I don't think we need to discuss that, Lelouch. I told you what I felt obligated to tell you, and you can leave now if you want to. I do have one question, though."

Lelouch turned away form the green-haired girl to avoid seeing the blur of emotions on her face. He nodded, though, indicating that he was listening. "What will you do about Zero?"

"I figured you would ask that," Lelouch smirked, turning back to her, thankful that her normal expressionless stare as back in place. "I've been trying to think about that all day long, and I think I have an answer that will work temporarily, at least. I'll need your help, though."

"Of course you need my help, Lelouch. You always do. I am the only one of the Black Knights that knows your identity that can still move about freely."

"C.C., I am going to need you to don the mask again, for a few months. From all of the research Suzaku and I have done in the past day, we've figured I won't start showing my…affliction for a couple more months. I can still function as Zero until that time. After the obvious signs begin, you will need to put on the Zero costume and act as me. I can establish a closed-circuit listening system, allowing me to hear any comments made toward Zero, and allowed them to hear my voice instead of yours."

"And if someone notices that I am strangely missing for five months?"

"Then I will tell them that I have sent you on a dangerous, private assignment. You are my accomplice, after all, so it would be natural for me to trust you with such a task."

"And what of your lover?"

"That may be the only problem I won't be able to handle. If Suzaku starts hovering over me during the latter months of my pregnancy, then Zero may be the one going on assignment, while you stay behind to be a link between Zero and the Black Knights. Ohgi can handle most problems, but for the main planning situations, I'll still have to find ways t contact you. Thankfully I know the emperor won't let Suzaku take an extended leave of absence from his duties as Knight of Seven, which means I'll be able to contact you when he goes to work. Or if it's important, I'll relay the message through Rolo."

"So you really intend to keep your secrets from the father of your child?"

"My children," Lelouch corrected, still trying to get used to the idea of having two small life forms depending on him more intimately than he ever thought possible. "And yes. As Rolo told me a couple of days ago, he didn't hesitate to turn me in to my father last year, even though he had kissed me not two hours before. If he found out that I was lying in his arms one minute and running around as a terrorist the next, he'd lead me to the execution grounds himself.

"Now that sounds like true love," C.C. mumbled bitterly.

~*~

"You still haven't told him, have you?"

"It's none of his business, is it?"

"But he's your brother!"

"This is why I haven't told him. Can you imagine his reaction if I just knocked on his door and said 'hey, Rolo, just so you know, I'm pregnant with Suzaku's twins.' I'm not doing it." The two sat in the dining room, sipping tea. Rolo had hidden himself away in his bedroom upon coming back from his afternoon classes, once again hoping to avoid his "brother" and the knight getting involved in a conversation he didn't want to hear.

"Do you want me to tell him, then?" Suzaku set down his teacup and gazed across the table at Lelouch, who was still staring intently at the last cold dregs in his own cup. "I think it would be easier for him to hear it form you, but if you're nervous…"

"He doesn't need to know just yet, Suzaku. I'm trying to find a way to tell him gently, so he doesn't try to kill you for knocking me up."

"How long are you planning on waiting, then?"

"I'm not sure. I'll tell him as soon as I can figure things out for myself. Suzaku, neither of us know anything about raising a child, let alone two! And I doubt we can afford to support them while we're still students. Not to mention that there's already three of us here, and we don't have a spare room to serve as a nursery."

"Well, we'd be much closer to graduating if I hadn't missed a year because of my knight duties and if you would stop ditching classes." Suzaku sighed, debating whether or not to pour himself another cup. "And I make enough money to support us, Lulu, don't worry about that. And I can get another job if I need to. We can get an apartment or a small house, and if we need to, the twins can share a room with us."

Lelouch arched an eyebrow at his boyfriend. "You really want to scar them for life, don't you? Making our children share a room with us while we practice giving them a little sibling." The Britannian laughed a very rare, genuine laugh normally only reserved for Suzaku, as he watched a deep crimson blush spread across the other boy's tanned cheeks.

"Lulu, I…"

"Relax, Suzaku. I was only joking. Of course we'd make Rolo babysit on the nights we have sex. It'll just be a challenge figuring out what to do when the urge strikes us at random." This time both boys blushed, recalling the night before when they had been discussing their pregnancy research one minute and lying blissfully in the afterglow of passion shortly thereafter.

"Speaking of which," Suzaku began softly, spinning his teacup slowly on the table. "Did you find out how long we can…?"

"We can make love all the way through to full term," Lelouch said, his low tone matching Suzaku's. "We just have to be careful."

Suzaku nodded silently, looking back into the amethyst eyes of his lover. "I love you, Lelouch."

"I love you, too, Suzaku," Lelouch chuckled, slightly taken aback by the subject change. "I always have. And I think I love you more ever since I found out…" he gently brushed his long fingers against his lower abdomen, bringing attention to the two other beings in the room.

"I still don't know how it happened, though. I know you're a male; otherwise I might not have wanted a sexual relationship with you. But if you're male, you shouldn't be…"

Lelouch shrugged, though he knew full well how it was possible. "Maybe this is a sign that we were meant to be together. Soul mates."

"Since when do you give fate a serious thought, Lulu?"

Since I left your family's house eight years ago and found myself falling madly in love with you when you showed up here after so many years. "Since you broke up with me a year ago, came back to Ashford, and we picked up like you'd just gone on another of your little missions." Lelouch hid his eyes from Suzaku again, hoping that the knight wouldn't discover his true thoughts. "Which, by the way… Why did you leave me last year?"

Suzaku gulped, not expecting such a confrontation. Lelouch actually looked insecure! "It's… complicated."

"Suzaku, spare me. I know you left because you caught Zero and then you were granted one of the highest positions you can get and taken under direct command of the emperor himself. But I want to know why you had to break up with me to do it." I need to know if you'd leave me again if you found out I was back leading the Black Knights.

"Lelouch…" Suzaku began, standing up and walking around the table to wrap his arms tightly around the smaller boy's shoulders, kissing his dark hair gently while trying to think of a suitable lie. "It was because you and Rolo seemed so happy here, and I knew that I would have to be in Britannia for a long time. I didn't want to uproot you and your brother just so you could be with me. And I was worried because so many people say long-distance relationships don't work out."

"And you didn't think we'd be different?" Lelouch asked, twisting himself to sit sideways in his chair, leaning his head against Suzaku's shoulder and gripping his arm lightly. "You don't have any faith that I would wait for you? That I would sit at home like a good little boyfriend and stare out the window waiting for you to come back to me?"

"I didn't want you to." Suzaku sighed, pulling Lelouch up and plopping himself in the now-vacated chair. He wrapped his arms gently around Lelouch's waist and guided the boy onto his lap. "I didn't want you to end up like some old war widow, waiting for a man that may never come back to you. You had so many girls tripping over themselves to get a chance with you, Lulu."

"And if you haven't noticed, I like being the girl in a relationship more than having one." Lelouch moaned softly as Suzaku leaned in and kissed his neck gently. "I was just worried that you'd found someone better than me. Someone that actually deserved you."

Lelouch felt Suzaku's chest begin to shake with amusement before he heard the low laugh escape lips that were still firmly attached to a spot directly below his right ear. "'Someone who deserves me'? I'm the undeserving on in this relationship. You took me back after I broke your heart! Hell, the fact that you let me kiss you in the first place was well more than I could ever hope for."

"Nonsense, Suzaku. The perfect knight has a right to choose his bride, does he not?"

Suzaku froze, his body going rigid. "Bride?"

"Not like… I didn't mean…" Lelouch's face glowed red again and he squirmed, trying to get away from Suzaku's iron grasp.

"Do you…. Want me to propose, Lelouch? Do you think we should get married?"

"It wouldn't do us any good, Suzaku. Even if it were legal for two men to marry, everyone would be able to tell that the babies were conceived before the ceremony."

"What babies?"

Green and purple met pink for one horrified moment. Suzaku released Lelouch from his grasp, causing the ex-prince to topple ungracefully to the floor at the knight's feet. Suzaku moved to lift his lover back to his feet, and suddenly…

"Suzaku!" Lelouch cried from his position several feet away from the chair still holding a stunned Suzaku. Rolo stood behind the chair now, the last remnants of a bird-like symbol fading from his right eye. The youngest boy held a small switchblade in his hand, holding it poised against the knight's throat.

"What the—" Suzaku began before a sharp pressure pressed against his windpipe.

"Rolo! Don't hurt him!" Lelouch begged, scrambling up and stumbling toward the other two.

"Not before I get some answers, Lelouch," Rolo said evenly, allowing the assassin inside of him to unleash itself. His hand remained steady against Suzaku's neck as his eyes stared at his false family member. "You're going to talk, Lelouch. You're going to tell me what the hell is going on around here."

Wow, that chapter was a little shorter than Chapter one. But hey, we got a little of everything in this one, didn't we? Explanations as to how Lulu got pregnant, C.C. getting put in her place (and in case it's not obvious, C.C. is one of my least-favorite characters), pointless fluff, and Rolo being… Rolo.

Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, and I hope to see you all again in chapter 3! By the way, if anyone is interested in beta reading this for me (since I'm sure it's full of horrible spelling mistakes), I'd greatly appreciate the help. I can catch a lot of errors myself, but no one's perfect, right?