Once again, I do not own Code Geass. Please review.

Also, I've seen "Euphie" spelt many different ways. Nunnally spells it "Euphy" on that candle thing, but it seems that everyone else spells it "Euphie" and considering Nunnally was still blind at that point, I'm going with everyone else. If anyone knows the official spelling could they please let me know?

Suzaku reached out his hand, and Euphemia took it. It was a wonderful feeling, to touch her soft skin. He never wanted to let go . . .

"Where shall we walk, my lady?" he asked her. And he wasn't calling her "my lady" because she was a princess, he was doing it just to be goofy, like any other couple. Not a Knight and a Princess, just Suzaku and Euphie.

"Wherever the wind takes us," she told him. And so they began to walk down the path that led through the woods. Whenever they would reach a turn, they would close their eyes, spin in a circle, and wherever they were when they stopped spinning would be the direction they went in.

"This is wonderful," Euphie said. She wrapped her arms around Suzaku's neck and pulled him to a halt. "Let's just stay here for a little while."

"But Euphie, it's getting dark out," Suzaku said. He looked up at the trees, they would block out most of the light and it would be hard to get back to the city.

"So we'll sleep out here, then," she said. She pulled his head down so that it was even with her own. "Promise you'll stay with me. No matter where I go. Promise you won't leave."

He kissed the tip of her nose. "I promise, Euphie. And I promise that no one will ever hurt you while I'm here."

But suddenly, he and Euphie weren't standing alone in the woods anymore. She was hundreds of feet below him in the street, standing covered in blood and holding a very large gun. He was up in the air in the Lancelot. Then out of nowhere, Zero appeared, with his gun held out to Euphemia. She smiled at him and began to speak. There was a pause, and then, he pulled back the trigger and -

"NO!"

Suzaku sat straight up in bed, cold sweat dripping from his face. He tried to take deep breaths. Just another nightmare. Just another nightmare.

He grabbed fist fulls of his own hair and pulled. The physical pain was a temporary distraction from the pain that he was feeling in his heart.

When Euphie had died, it felt like a hole had been punched through his chest. And as time went by, that hole was just being ripped wider and wider. And as it ripped, his heart seemed to stop working. Saving people suddenly didn't matter any more; after all, it wasn't like he new them or anything. If Euphie had to die, then they should to. Everyone should. He should. But thanks to Lelouch, that would be impossible, for a very, very long time at least. Dying of old age was his only hope at this point.

There came a sharp knock at his door. "Zero? Are you alright?"

It was Nunnally. She still didn't know that Suzaku was actually still alive, and posing as her brother's alter-ego. He cleared his throat and called back, "I'm fine, your highness!"

On the other side of the door, Nunnally hung her head. "Highness". How dare Suzaku call her such an evil word. She was no higher than he was. But, Suzaku didn't know that Nunnally knew he was alive, so she couldn't say anything. As far as she was supposed to know, Zero was nothing more than a common person who was supposed to see Nunnally as their superior.

She wished she could tell Suzaku that she knew he was there. That Lelouch had shown her all his memories, and she knew he wasn't evil. But it would be selfish of her to do that. Suzaku was so sick of himself, he was happy to fake his own death and be reborn as a new person. For all Nunnally knew, he had totally blocked out any memories of himself being Suzaku Kururugi. She had to play dumb, and pretend she hated her brother for what he had done and pretend that her dear friend was dead.

"You can just go back to sleep, Princess," he told her.

She giggled. "I didn't want to wake you because I feared you might have had fallen ill, but Zero, it's nearly four in the afternoon."

"What?" Suzaku jumped out of his bed and ran over to the window and pulled the curtains open. Nunnally had been right, the sun was up and the birds were singing. "How did I sleep that late?"

"Well, you were up very late last night," Nunnally called from the hallway. "Helping me plan my brother's funeral. But if you're feeling alright now, I'd like it very much if you would get dressed and join me for tea."

"Of course, Princess Nunnally." Suzaku grabbed the Zero Mask off his dresser and tried to convince himself that this was his life now. "I'll be right there."

"What should we do?" CC asked.

"What do you mean 'what should we do'?" Lelouch asked as he began to tread through the water. "Check if it's alive!"

"Brilliant plan but did you forget to take into account that you're dead and I'm missing?" she asked. He paused in the middle of the current. CC grinned smugly. "It's nice always being right."

"No, it's not that," Lelouch told her. "The body . . . It's not a body. It's Kallen."

"What?" CC exclaimed. She ran over next to him to get a closer look. "Oh this is just perfect."

"We can't just leave her here," Lelouch said.

"And why not?"

"Because she'll die!" Lelouch told her, as if it were the most simple explanation in the world.

"Lelouch, she hates us," CC reminded him.

"That doesn't matter, I'm not going to leave her here for dead." He continued crossing the river until he was at the other end. He approached Kallen and knelt down next to her.

Now what? he thought. He checked for a pulse; it was there. She was just unconscious. But why? What could have happened? He began to shake her shoulders slowly.

Kallen groaned as she slowly reentered consciousness. She had been walking when suddenly tripped and bumped her head on a rock near the river.

When she opened her eyes, she was shocked to find the face of Lelouch vi Britannia staring down at her. For a moment, all she could do was blink. Then -

"JACKASS!"

Lelouch fell to the ground as Kallen's fist reached back to strike him again. She jumped to her feet and pouncedon him.

"Kallen, stop!" he told her. But it didn't work. She just continued to hit him.

"You. Are. So. DEAD. And. This. Time. You'll. Stay. That. Way!" with every word she punched him again, and each hit was harder than the last.

"I can explain!" he cried.

"I. Don't. Want. Your. Shitty. EXPLANATIONS!"

Lelouch sighed. It would probably be easier for him to just let her release her rage for a bit. And besides, it wasn't like he didn't deserve it.

Finally, after Lelouch's face was bruised and his nose was crooked and bleeding, Kallen's fists began to slow, until eventually stopping. She shook with sobs.

Lelouch pulled himself out from under her, and stood. He offered her his hand, which she slapped away.

"I don't need your help," she growled.

"Will you at least tell me why you're out here?" he asked. CC walked up next to him and stared down at Kallen.

She sighed. "I . . . I guess. If you really must know, I was out looking for Aurthur. That stupid cat ran off again last night and while I was looking for him I fell and banged my head."

"Aurthur ran off . . . to the Chinese Federation," Lelouch said skeptically.

"No, dumbass," Kallen said. "I'm here with Kaguya. She wanted to visit the Empress and I was apparently the only one available to be her escort. I think the real reason is that Ohgi wanted me out of the country while all the affairs of the Black Knights were being settled, but either way . . . That dumb cat somehow got into my luggage and now I'm stuck with him for another three weeks. If I can find him that is . . ."

Lelouch nodded. "It makes sense for Ohgi to have sent you here, it's the safest place."

"Don't you dare start acting like you care about me now!" Kallen screamed at him. "Bastard!"

He sighed. This was all so difficult. It was unfortunate Suzaku couldn't have just killed him for real.

"Kallen, watch Lelouch's nose," CC said.

Lelouch and Kallen both looked at her, but CC just grabbed Lelouch's head and spun it so that it was facing Kallen.

"What the hell?" he asked, but Kallen seemed to understand.

Her mouth dropped. "H-how is that possible? I broke it, I know I did! And it just . . . healed . . . No . . ."

Lelouch held a hand to his face and realized that Kallen was right, his nose had healed already. He still wasn't used to this "immortal" thing. "Now, Kallen, will you let me explain?"

She nodded her head slowly. "Does this have anything to do with how you're still alive?"

"Don't tell me you weren't wondering that before," CC said.

"I figured he had a decoy again. Like how Sayoko did while you were away from school," Kallen explained. "And I'm not the only one. There are lots of rumors going around that you're still alive."

"That's great," CC said sarcastically. "But we'll deal with that later."

"For now, I will explain myself," Lelouch told Kallen. "Firstly, you should know that you are not to tell anyone about us meeting here."

"Yeah, like they'd believe me anyway," she said coldly.

"Second, as you have probably already guessed, I am immortal now. No matter how many times people kill me, I won't die," he said.

"Then why not go back to Britannia and reclaim your role as dictator?" Kallen asked bitterly. "All hail Lelouch!"

"Because then having the new Zero stab me would have been pointless," Lelouch told her.

Kallen pulled herself to her feet and smacked him across the face. "Are you trying to tell me that you told Zero to kill you? Like I'm gonna believe that crap!"

"It's the truth," Lelouch insisted. "It had to be done to bring full unity to the world, and all the countries in it."

"So you died for world peace?" Kallen asked. "Yeah right. You're not that nice."

How could Lelouch argue with that? She was right after all, wasn't she?

"You're wrong," CC said, surprising both Kallen and Lelouch. "Lelouch doesn't like to admit it, but he's actually probably one of the most kindhearted people I know. If you'll look at all of his actions closely, never once did he unnecessarily kill people. He knows the value of human life better than anyone else. He likes to pretend he doesn't have feelings or care, but let us not forget; Lelouch Lamerouge is the world's biggest liar."

"So were you lying then?" Kallen asked him. "When you said you didn't care about me?"

"I didn't care about you in the way you were asking," he replied.

"But do you care about me?" Kallen asked. "At all."

Lelouch was silent.

After a moment, Kallen exclaimed, "Why won't you just answer me already?"

"Because I've decided I won't like anymore," Lelouch told her. "And sometimes the truth is hard to say."

She punched his shoulder, hard. "Then answer this; were you lying when you said you didn't care about me. Even if you cared in a different way, would you be lying if you said you didn't care at all?"

Lelouch sighed. "Yes, that would be a lie."

Kallen swung her leg up in the air and kicked him in the gut. "Jackass."

"What was that for?" Lelouch asked, doubled over.

"For lying to everyone. Now I'm not saying I believe you about faking your own death, but say that were true. What are you going to do now?" she asked.

"We're searching for away to become mortal and die," CC told her.

Kallen's eyes widened. "You want to die?"

"What's the point of living if you just go on forever?" CC asked. "Yes, we want to die."

"Does anyone else know about this?" Kallen asked.

"Nunnally might," Lelouch told her. "I'm not sure. I showed her my memories, I just don't know which ones she saw. It's impossible to control things like that."

"This is insane," Kallen said. "Maybe I bumped my head harder than I thought . . ."