Lelouch's Final Destination
Lelouch's Final Destination Chapter 7 is finally up! Yay! :)
Chapter 7: Obtaining Info
It was a beautiful day. The sun shone brightly and proud as its rays descended upon the earth. The sky was bright blue, with no trace of rain or thick gray clouds. The grass was lush and green. Lelouch took in all of this beauty and couldn't believe that this was the atmosphere God had chosen to set for a funeral. A funeral for two of his closest friends. Why God. Why Milly and Rivalz? Why have so many people been dying lately? Are you trying to send subliminal messages about something? If you are, this is a really screwed up way to do it.
The funeral slowly ended as the coffins were lowered into the ground, but it was hard for anyone to actually grieve. To most, these two losses were merely an addition to the lost of lives before. Hardly anyone could even tell what was going on anymore.
As people gradually began to leave, Lelouch decided to linger on for a little while. As he peered down onto the graves, he remembered all of the good times he had shared with his friends.
With one final glance, Lelouch headed towards the main office. He had almost forgotten that he had an ugly job to do. A twisted mystery to solve. He realized that now with Milly's passing, he'd have to find a way to contact Mr. Ashford himself. At least he could bring justice to some of his friends passings.
When he got there he was disappointed that the woman at the school had already left for the evening. "Damn." He said. He'd have to wait until tomorrow to ask to speak to him. Lelouch gloomily turned around to go back to his room.
C2 sat in her usual spot on Lelouch's bed. She hungry but hadn't been in the mood for pizza in a while. Why do I feel upset about the sinking when I barely knew any of the people on board? She had asked herself. She gave cheese-kun a tight squeeze and closed her eyes.
The door opened and in stepped Lelouch.
She blinked, surprised. "I didn't expect you be return here so early. Something must not have went the way you wanted it to." Lelouch walked over towards the bed as C2 rose up and switched places with him so that he was now lying down while she stood.
"I just have to wait until tomorrow to talk to Milly's grandfather."
"You really think that this was some sort of terrorist attack?"
"C2! A bomb crashed into the ship."
"Yes, but I don't think that they did it intentionally. Besides, it wasn't a good idea from the start to go out in the open seas with hundreds of people when a war is going on."
"I know but it was something Milly had set her heart out on doing. She had just wanted to cheer everyone up."
"And now many have the pay the price, including you."
Lelouch said nothing after that, so C2 decided to go off into another room and leave him be for the entire night.
"I'm sorry, but I'm not sure that you're allowed to speak with Mr. Asford right now. Especially after all that had happened."
"But I'm sure that he would like to listen to what I have to say."
"You sound confident about that young man."
"That's because what I want to discuss with him is about his granddaughter."
"I don't think he wants to hear about that right now, he's already suffering enough. You shouldn't want to add more to his pain."
"I think the information I have will do more justice than harm."
Silence filled the air until the telephone rang. The woman hesitated before picking it up. "Hello? Mhm... Ok. Oh, and could you please check with him to see if he's able to meet with a young man?" Lelouch smiled at this. "Uh huh. Okay. Thank you." The woman hung up the phone and turned back towards Lelouch. "Be ready in about five hours. I will send someone who will direct you to his office soon."
Lelouch succeeded in not cracking a smile. "Thank you very much."
Lelouch peered over his Calculus book on his desk. Man, it amazes me how I can still even think about studying for Calculus at such inconvenient times like this. He couldn't really concentrate no matter how hard he tried, so he decided to rehearse in his mind what he was going to say to Mr. Ashford instead.
Mr. Ashford, I want to discuss the bombing of the S.S. Ashford…No, I can't be too direct. I might come off as too demanding and lose his voluntary cooperation. Then I'll be forced to use my Geass, and I don't it to resort to that. Let's see...Uh…Mr. Ashford. Sorry about the loss of Milly. She was one of my closest friends…However that's not why I'm here...I-
Suddenly there was a knocking on his door. "Lelouch?" a female voice asked. "Mr. Ashford will see you now." Lelouch went and opened his door and a petite blond woman was standing. "Alright." Lelouch followed the woman towards Mr. Ashford's office. "He's just behind those doors." She said. "Alright. Thanks." Lelouch replied. The woman nodded and walked off.
Lelouch opened the door.
"Hello Lelouch. Please sit down." instructed a tall, thin elderly man with round glasses, whitish blonde hair and mustache and sad blue eyes. He sat at a large mahogany desk stacked with papers. Lelouch did as he was told.
"What is it that you want to tell me? It took a lot for me to arrange this meeting for you. So much to do." Mr. Ashford began.
"I understand that you're very busy, but what I'm here to talk you about is very important. After the sinking of the S.S. Ashford, I developed a theory as to why it happened."
MR. Ashford perked up."Go on."
"Sir, I believe the sinking might have been from a terrorist attack... An attack that was possiblty planned from the start."
Mr. Ashford, smiled bitterly. "Well, it sounds to me like you believe that I was part of some conspiracy."
"Not at all." Lelouch said. "I honestly don't believe that you intended to have anyone killed. I just think you were just in the midst of it all."
Mr. Ashford's sad eyes grew even sadder. "Unfortunately that's where you're wrong." He took off his glasses. "I feel utterly responsible for what happened to your peers. I had already known about the dangers of going out to sea while so much conundrum is going on. In fact, when Milly had asked me for a ship, I had flat out told her no. But she was so…set on having this. She cared about everyone so much. But I was wrong for it, and now I, no hundreds of people are paying the price." Lelouch was glad that Mr. Ashford hadn't seen him twitch. He spoke the same way C2 did. Lelouch wasn't in the mood for any Déjà vu moments right now.
"Well, I wouldn't necessarily put the blame on you. That certainly wasn't my intention for coming here."
"Then what is it that you want?"
"Mr. Ashford, do you know where you rented out the ship from?"
"Yes, Elton's Cruise Ships."
"Elton's Cruise Ships…Why Elton's Cruise Ships?"
Mr. Ashford was puzzled. "Why? Because they seemed like a decent business when my secretary had looked them up in the phone book."
Maybe they are, and maybe they aren't. Elton's Cruise Ships could be filled with rebels undercover or who would do anything to harm Britannians. Or Japanese. However, I can imagine how busy Mr. Ashford must've been so he must've just hired the first business he saw without researching anything. A big mistake in today's world.
"I don't suppose that your secretary did a background check on the company."
"As far as I know, she did not."
"Thank you very much Mr. Ashford." Lelouch rose from his seat. "That's all I wanted to know."
"You're welcome. I hope I was of assistance to you. Usually I would never even bother to have this conversation with anyone else-you can't trust anybody these days. However I've known you and your sister for a long time, and you were a good friend of my granddaughter's so I know that for whatever reason you decided to come to me for this information, I know it's for a good cause."
"Yes sir, it is. Thank you sir. Take care."
"You too. And please tell Nunnally I said hi."
As soon as he closed the door to Mr. Ashford's office, Lelouch flipped open his phone to call one of his Black Knights but stopped himself before pressing anything. The Black Knights are already fighting off other conspiracies, I shouldn't just add this to it. I'll do the research on Elton and Company myself.
Lelouch closed his cell phone and started to make his way back to his room.
"Suzaku…Suzaku…Suzaku…SUZAKU!" Suzaku had jumped and turned toward the sound of the human alarm. It had been Cecile with a concerned look on her face. 'You really shouldn't be spending all of your time here." She had said. "You should go back to Ashford Academy. "
"And do what?" Suzaku asked. "Sit there in class or in my room all day playing over that dreadful sinking over and over again in my mind? Cuz that's exactly what I'll be doing if I go back to Ashford Academy where it'll seem like a ghost town cuz nobody's there! People are either at home grieving or are dead!" Cecile became shocked at the outburst and Suzaku instantly felt guilty, but said nothing. He turned away from her and stormed out the supprt unit laboratory. Cecile looked on silently as Lloyd slowly arrived next to her. "Poor kid." He replied quietly.
Now Suzaku was strolling the hallways of Ashford Academy, trying to figure out what he should be doing. Of course he knew what he should have been doing. He should be doing homework, but that was the last thing on his mind. Then to his astonishment, he saw Lelouch. "Hey!" he called and took off towards his friend. "Lelouch!"
Lelouch finally heard him and waited from him to catch up, but didn't reply to his calls.
"Hey." Suzaku said again.
"Hey." mumbled Lelouch.
"It's been a dreadful week. I can't believe you of all people decided to stay on campus when you had an opportunity to leave."
"I have stuff to do here." Suzaku noticed he hadn't said had. He got the hint that Lelouch didn't want to be bothered but he had to keep this conversation going, just to attempt to recapture his old life. "Oh, I see. Studying for Calc?"
"Yes, among other things."
"Oh well, maybe we can catch up later And-oh!" He had just bumped into Lelouch, who had suddenly stopped. At first glance, Suzaku thought he saw a blank stare on LElouch's face, but after observing a little longer, he saw in his friend's eyes a stare that was anything but blank. It was a stare filled with calculating,sorrow, worry, mystery…but no blankness.
" Sorry, but I really have to go." Lelouch said, beginning to walk off. "Talk to you later."
Suzaku stood there. Then out of frustration, he punched the nearest wall and headed to his room.
Hope this chapter was worth the wait. Chapter 8 will be up soon.
~missDluvsIchigo0493