a/n I believe I am once again late... So I will bow down for forgiveness... I'msosorrypleasedon'tkillme TT^TT
Thanks Gloria for helping me again, I wuv you 3
Onwards my pretty minions err, readers!
Do not own, just the plot,oh and Ivy of course ^^
Chapter 15 ~Good-bye~
"You what?"
C.C. flipped her green hair and rolled her eyes, "You heard me, I want in on the money. That's what you're after, isn't it? Euphy was supposed to inherit more than your daughter, and you couldn't except it and tried to get rid of her thirteen years ago."
Guinevere eyed the former girlfriend of her half brother, "Why are you so interested? Aren't you afraid of Lelouch finding out?"
C.C. scoffed, "Him? He dumped me, why should I consider anything about him? I'll take care of Euphy and in return, I want half."
Guinevere's eyes widen, "Preposterous! Why should we give you half?! You're nothing but a prostitute! Mother, let me kill Euphy instead. We don't need the help of a dirty prostitute!"
C.C. gazed at her darkly, "I'm already helping you in killing Euphy and keeping this quiet, don't I at least deserve half? Besides…" She held out her phone, smirking, "I have here the recording of our conversation, one button pressed and you're done for it."
"Tsch…"
"Fine. You may have half, as soon as Euphemia is dead. Before that, delete that recording." The First Consort said pointing at C.C.'s phone.
"No problem." C.C. said plainly before throwing the tiny digital object to the floor, prompting it to split in half, thus rendering it useless.
"Good. Now take care of Euphy." The First Consort commanded.
"Before that, our conversation tonight never happened."
"Of course, we don't know each other." Guinevere said haughtily.
C.C. smirked, "Perfect."
"—ouch! Lelouch! Oi, Lelouch wake up!!!" Ivory repeatedly whacked Lelouch's head.
"Ngggh… That hurts, C.C. go away…"
"Not C.C., you douche! It's me, Ivy! Now get your sorry ass up!"
"Ngggh, what do you want? It's in the middle of the night!" Lelouch asked exasperatedly.
"Oh my…" Ivory brought her hand to her mouth, "What a nice sleepwear, Lelouch…"
"Huh?" Lelouch looked down and realized he chose the wrong sleeping outfit that day.
"LL heart CC? Oh how sweet…" Ivy said patting Lelouch's head. "And yet you act so cold towards her just hours ago~~~ You should be honest to yourself, Lulu~!"
"Wh-what do you want, Ivy?" Lelouch asked looking away.
"Oh, right! Lulu, I saw Euphy being kidnapped in her sleep! I also saw C.C. tailing them, she's kind of daring isn't she? What should we do?!" Ivory asked Lelouch with worry in her eyes.
"She did what?! That girl! Ugh, where is Suzaku?!" Lelouch asked panicked.
"I didn't see him…" Ivy pointed out.
Lelouch got off his bed and rushed towards Euphy's room only to find it empty, "Suzaku?! Where are you?!"
"IN THE TOILET, WHERE ELSE?!" came a reply from the bathroom.
"Euphy's gone!"
"WHAT?!"
FLUSH
BANG
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"Put some pants on."
"NOW'S NOT THE TIM—Holy shit!" Suzaku ran back in to the toilet to get his shorts.
"Smooth, Suzaku… Real smooth…" Ivy said giving him a thumbs up.
"A-Anyway! Where's Euphy?!"
"You're asking us?! That's supposed to be my line! Ivy said she saw Euphy being kidnapped and C.C. tailed them! Where were you when this happened?!" Lelouch screeched.
"Um… In the toilet?" Suzaku said nervously.
Lelouch opened his mouth to say something but Ivory beat him to it, "THAT'S WHY I SAID YOU SHOULD'VE GONE HOME! GOD SUZAKU YOU'RE USELESS!!!"
That left Suzaku in the corner like a lost puppy.
"We have to call the police!"
Before Lelouch could agree and dial, his phone rang and a message went in.
[I have evidence that the First Consort is behind this.]
[Meet me at Ashford Academy now.]
Lelouch's eyes popped out, whoever could gain such information? At that moment he was already forming twenty different possibilities along with twenty different reasons he should suspect this message sender.
"What is it, Lulu?" Ivory leaned in to check his phone, "What?! Who is this?!"
"I don't know but I think we should go. Get Kallen to call Gino, Ivy." Lelouch said then he glanced at Suzaku, "Get up and help, go tell my father while I go find this guy."
As Ivory woke Kallen, Suzaku got ready to call the emperor and Lelouch tried to text C.C.
[Message not delivered]
"What?! What the hell is she doing?" Lelouch asked frustrated.
"Well, C.C. won't want to be caught so she must've turned it off. We better hurry to Ashford, Lelouch. I already call Gino and he's going to meet us there."
Lelouch gritted his teeth, "You better be safe, C.C."
"C.C., why are you doing this?" The pink haired girl asked the green haired beauty, slightly afraid.
"Whatever do you mean, Euphy?" The stoic face of C.C. asked back.
"What good does it come from killing me?" The Third Princess of Britannia asked furrowing her eyebrows.
"Money." The witch simply answered.
"C.C…. This is not you…" Euphy sadly said.
"You're right…" C.C. stated, her gaze soften up.
"Eh?" Euphy raised her eyebrows.
"Hurry and get out. Run as fast as you can and don't look back, understand?" Golden orbs darted from right to left.
"H-how about you?"
"I'll manage, now get going."
With one last glace at her childhood friend, Euphy took off with the speed of light.
"You! Aren't you Mr. Reid?!"Ivory asked pointing at the blonde man accusingly, "You're the reason Lelouch and C.C. broke up!"
"IVY!"
"…What?" The silver haired nobleman asked innocently.
"Just keep quiet… Diethard Reid, what do you have for us?" Lelouch asked coolly.
"The young lady with green hair asked me to keep an eye on her just now ever since dinner. She said something wasn't right as Mr. Kururugi was constantly receiving stomach pains. Apparently she believes that someone implanted light poison in his food in order to keep him distracted." The journalist explained.
"SHE WHAT?! WHY DIDN'T SHE TELL US THAT STUPID WITCH!!!" By now Lelouch had steam coming out of his ears.
"It seems like she knew what was about to happen and had called me around 19:00 PM. She told me I could get a good scoop and how right she was. Of course I was told to hide so that the First Consort will not suspect anything, but I believe she would be in danger soon enough. Especially if the First Consort finds out about her plan…"
"YOU! WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SOMETHING?!" Kallen whacked the poor guy with all the energy she could muster at 01:00 AM.
"B-Because the young lady told me not to tell anyone! YEOW!" The poor reporter was once again whacked on the head by a very angry redhead.
"C.C. IS IN DANGER, YOU MORON! WHERE IS SHE? HUH? HUH?" Kallen repeatedly kicked Diethard on the shin.
"OW! OW! THAT HURTS! PLEASE STOP! YEOW!" The pitiful guy was jumped on one leg and tried his best to avoid the deadly kicks of Kouzuki Kallen.
"TELL ME, WHERE THE HELL IS MY GIRLFRIEND?!" Lelouch asked angrily while grabbing the injured reporter by the collar and repeatedly shook the poor man.
"She's your ex…" Gino pointed out and received a glare from the raven haired prince.
"SSSSSHEEEE ISSSS INNNN MMMMORRRTEEEMMMM MANNNSIONNNNN!!! PLEASSSSEEE SSSSTOP SSSHAAKIINNNGG MEEEEE!" Swirls were visible in the blonde man's eyes as he begged the Black Prince to stop shaking him.
"Did he say Mortem Mansion?! That's Guinevere's place! Let's get to it then, Gino could you text Suzaku and tell him to head there?" Ivory asked the taller blonde.
"Gotcha!" Gino quickly fished out his cell and texted the Japanese boy.
Lelouch dropped the dizzy reporter and walked over him, "C.C., be safe."
Running bare foot is an advantage, you run faster and you feel lighter. But Euphemia li Britannia forgot that running bare foot in a pale pink long nightgown would result in falling several times due to the dress hindering her.
Regardless of that, Euphy kept on running and running and running.
Until she crashed into Kallen.
"AUGH!" The redhead was sent rolling backwards along with the pinkette.
"Kalley! Huh? Euphy? Is that Euphy?!" Gino ran towards the tangled girls.
"Owww… Kallen! You should watch where you're going!" Euphy said rubbing her head, amidst her endurance she hadn't paid attention to her surrounding and crashed in to the redhead and banged her head.
"ME?! You're the one who crashed in to me!" Kallen said rubbing her sore bottom and attempted to detangle herself from the princess.
"Euphy! You're safe! Where's C.C.?!" Ivory asked realizing that the green haired girl was nowhere to be seen. "Weren't you with her?"
"Ah! That's right! C.C. is still at that mansion! She acted in front of Guinevere and her mother as if she was after the money. She was really cool! She even threw her cell phone on the floor and it went "CRACK" and broke into two!" Euphy said eyes glimmering.
"That's not cool, Euphy! How the hell are we going to contact her now?!" Lelouch asked frustrated.
"We should hurry to Mortem Mansion! Euphy, you go home!" Ivory commanded.
The pink haired princess shook her head, "C.C. is in danger and I'm going to help her. She already helped me escape, the least I could do is help her."
"Alright then let's go, Suzaku should be there already."
"Wh-what? Ch-Charles… what are you doing here?"
"I never thought you were the one behind this…" Charles said coldly, his large body shadowing the lady before him.
"Wh-what do you mean? Behind what?" The First Consort asked nervously.
"You too Guinevere…" Charles glanced at the lilac haired princess.
"F-Father, what are you talking about?" The normally cool and composed princess feared for the first time in a long time.
"There is no need to feign innocent, I know the both of you were behind Euphemia's case thirteen years ago." Charles said it so calmly to the point that it was scary.
"What? That's preposterous! Why would I do that?" The First Consort asked.
["You heard me, I want in on the money. That's what you're after, isn't it? Euphy was supposed to inherit more than your daughter, and you couldn't except it and tried to get rid of her thirteen years ago."]
The First Consort's eyes widen, "Th-this…"
["Hmph… Why are you so interested? Aren't you afraid of Lelouch finding out?"]
"You thought the recording was deleted and you'd be fine? Unfortunately, not." Lelouch said appearing along with Euphy, Kallen, Ivy and Gino.
["Him? He dumped me, why should I consider anything about him? I'll take care of Euphy and in return, I want half."]
Lelouch winced at what C.C. said, she almost sounded angry.
["Preposterous! Why should we give you half?! You're nothing but a prostitute! Mother, let me kill Euphy instead. We don't need the help of a dirty prostitute!"]
Guinevere was shaking in fear, she had volunteered to kill her half-sister, even if they couldn't prove her involvement thirteen years ago, this newfound evidence is enough to put her behind bars.
The First Consort was furious, "That… that green haired wench… She had the back up all along!"
"Surrender yourself properly and I might just have mercy." Lelouch said coldly.
"Surrender? SURRENDER?! I HAVE TRIED SO HARD TO SURVIVE AND NOW YOU ASK ME TO SURRENDER! BOY, YOU ARE FOOLISH!" The First Consort took out her gun and fired it at everyone.
"Guards! Get them!" Charles' voice roared.
Guinevere had taken out her gun and started to shoot at almost anything, the two men who took Euphy had also taken their guns and shoot at the group.
"Euphy, DUCK!" Suzaku screamed and used his body to shield her.
"Suzaku, before anything happens, I need to tell you something!" Euphy said looking up at her boyfriend.
"Can't it wait?!" Suzaku screamed due to the loud gunshots.
"No, it can't!We might not make it! Suzaku! I was one of them! I worked in the brothel too! I'm dirty, Suzaku!" Euphy said with teary eyes.
"So? You had no choice! You had to do that to survive! Now is a different time Euphy, I'll help you survive! When we get out of here we'll go on many dates and later we'll get married!" Suzaku said still shielding Euphy.
"Suzaku… Suzaku!" Euphy pulled him in to a tight embrace, "Thank you, Suzaku!"
"Will you two please get a room!" Kallen screamed at them.
"Kallen, behind you!" Gino screamed.
One of Euphy's kidnapper hand snuck behind Kallen and was about to tackle her, that is until Kallen kicked him in his private areas.
"THAT'LL TEACH YOU TO MESS WITH ME!" Kallen screamed at the groaning man.
"That's my Kalley!" Gino said giving her a high five.
While the four of them went in to their own worlds, Lelouch was busy avoiding the gunshots coming at him. He was indeed doing a fine job for someone lacking physical abilities, that is until he got tired and slowed down. The First Consort took this chance to lunge at him with a sword, aiming the long blade at him.
"Lelouch!" Ivory screamed, trying to warn the prince.
SLASH
Lelouch's eyes widen, "N-no…"
Time stood still, everyone's eyes widen, including the First Consort and Guinevere's. Everyone froze as the long blade missed Lelouch but found another victim.
"C.C.!!!" Lelouch screamed as he held the limp body of his love.
"Le…louch…"
Blood was flowing down her back as the long blade stuck out of C.C.'s pale skin, the blade missed Lelouch shoulder but had cut a little part of C.C.'s head and pierced her back.
"C.C.! Stupid, you're so stupid!" Lelouch scolded the green haired girl in his arms.
"Really…? I thought that was pretty cool…" C.C. said trying to smirk.
"How is it cool?! Why? Why didn't you tell us just now? What's with you?!" Lelouch asked angrily, tears rolling freely down his cheeks.
"Why are you crying, boya?" C.C. reached for his cheek. "It doesn't suit you…"
"Sieze them!" Charles commanded. "I thought maybe you'd at least surrender, but it seems like I was wrong."
"No! Let me go! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"FATHER, PLEASE FORGIVE ME, FATHER!!!!"
"Enough! I will not listen to the words of pitiful beings like you." Charles said motioning the guards he brought to take the two women away.
"C.C.! Hey, C.C.!" Kallen yelled at the limp girl.
"Kallen…"
"ARE YOU STUPID?! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!" Kallen screamed at C.C.
"We should call the ambulance!" Ivory said dialing her cell phone.
"Victim is a high school female student, she was stabbed in back and her head has a rather large cut. She lost a lot of blood from her head injury, she needs to be sent in to the OR."
"OR? What's going on? Why the OR?" Euphy asked the doctor.
"We have no time, she's lost a lot of blood, there is a possibility that she would get a concussion or worse case scenario is that she'll… die."
"W-Wha—C.C.! The hell are you doing?!" Lelouch asked the weakened girl.
"Le..louch…" C.C. held his hand.
"You were just recently freed! How can you die? Did you ask me to free you only to die several months after that?! You better not die, C.C.!" Lelouch held the witch hand in a death grip.
C.C. smiled genuinely and nodded.
"We don't have time, we need to send her in now!"
"How do I if you are good enough to take care of her?!" Kallen asked the doctor.
"He won't be the one operating on her, Ms. Stadtfeld. I will."
"Oh, Professor Lloyd! Please save her!" Euphy begged the silver haired man.
"Of course, Your Highness. It is my job. We'll save her."
"She's stable for now. Her head injury caused the large amount of blood lost but it didn't damage her brain, her wound on her back is quite deep but not deep enough to cause heavy damage. There might be a scar though… " Llyod told the group.
"Can we go and see her?" Euphy asked expectantly.
"One at a time, she's still weak from the blood lost and she needs rest so please don't make any noise." Lloyd said before waving them good bye casually.
Euphy was the first to enter, thanking the green haired girl for her bravery. Kallen soon followed suit and quietly scolded her, calling her stupid and rash but not before crying and telling C.C. to wake up soon. Ivory was next, she told the sleeping girl that soon she'll be able to have Lelouch back and she squeezed her hand while whispering to her.
"Lelouch isn't honest with himself, but he really cares about you. Wake up soon, C.C."
Gino and Suzaku didn't have much to say which left Lelouch to be last.
The black haired prince entered the room and immediately held the sleeping witch's hand, he rubbed the cold pale hand of C.C. and silently prayed for her to be fine.
"Witch… Why did you do that? You're so unpredictable, it drives people crazy… it drives me crazy…"
Silence engulfed the room, only the beeping of the heart monitor rang throughout the small white room. The black haired prince soon felt his eyes grow hazy and it was not long before he realized that he was crying.
"I'm sorry… If I didn't agree to marry Ivy this wouldn't have happened… That was for you, you know…"
"What… what's that supposed to mean…?" came an all too familiar voice.
"C.C….!" Lelouch gasped and quickly cupped the girl's face. "You're awake!"
"Yes, yes, I am…" The green haired girl said emotionlessly.
"Thank goodness!" Lelouch pulled the slim figure of C.C. in for a gentle embrace.
C.C. silently loved what he did and returned his embrace, but one question was hanging in her mind, "Lelouch… What did you mean by what you just said? What was for me?"
She felt the young prince stiffen, "W-well… Uhhh…"
"Well?" demanded the witch
Lelouch let go of C.C. and looked away, "My father… As long as I marry a girl of nobility then you get to stay… That's why…"
C.C. huffed, "I never asked you to do that."
Lelouch stared at her, how ungrateful! He had sacrificed his love for her and THAT's what he got?! This, this, this witch!
"I did that for you!"
"I didn't ask for it."
"You're so ungrateful!"
"What's to be grateful of? Me staying or you getting married?"
"You get a roof over your head because I'm getting married!"
"Like I said, I didn't ask for that."
"For the love of—Just thank me at least!"
"Why should I?"
"C.C.!"
"What?!"
"I did it because I love you!"
C.C. was taken back with that statement, her eyes widen resembling gold ceramic plates and her mouth was completely locked with an invisible padlock. But because she was C.C. the padlock stayed only for a few seconds and her voice returned to her.
"If you loved me then why are you marrying some other girl?"
"So you get to stay!"
"What's the point of staying when I can't touch you?!"
"At least I get to see you every day!"
"FOR WHAT?"
"TO PROTECT YOU!"
"I didn't ask for you protection!"
"THIS IS GOING NOWHERE!"
Lelouch got impatient and instead of talking her decided that action speaks more than words. So he kissed the green haired girl.
Now that kept the padlock on for a very, very long time.
"Welcome back, Onii-sama, C.C. Onee-sama!" Nunnally greeted the pair as they made their way in to the living room.
"Hello, Nunnally." The green haired girl greeted her soon to be sister-in-law.
Yes you heard it right, soon to be sister-in-law.
"I'm so glad Father reconsidered, the whole thing! Now you guys are getting married!" Nunnally clapped her hands together.
"What happened though?" The younger twin Rolo asked,
"Because C.C. proved to your father that she's above average." Kallen answered for the couple.
"Is that so? Well then, whatever will happen to Ivory-san?" the brunette boy asked furrowing his eyebrow.
"She didn't object at all. In fact, her reaction was rather… over the top." Lelouch said eying the silver haired noble.
"What? I merely asked whether I am allowed to plan the wedding or not." Ivory said casually.
"Yeah right, you already did it without their consent." Kallen quipped.
"Aww… I was just having fun…" Ivory pouted.
"Hey, the news is on!" Kallen said focusing on the LED screen at the center of the room.
[It was reported that several days ago, the First Consort and the First Princess of Britannia were charged guilty for attempted murder twice. Once for the case of the Third Princess Euphemia li Britannia thirteen years ago and second is the attempted murder of His Highness Lelouch's soon to be fiancée C.C. Apparently there was a slight change and it seems like Lelouch-sama and his former girlfriend are to be betrothed. The Royal Family has yet to confirm the wedding date but it is implied that they will marry after completing university studies. Aside from the shocking news regarding the affairs of the Royal Family, there are rumors that the Knightmare Frame mobile convertibles are to be released--]
"WHATTTTT?????????" Kallen screamed, "I'VE GOT TO HAVE ONE OF THOSE!!! A RED ONE THAT I'LL NAME GUREN!!!"
"Nope, not happening…" Lelouch said bursting Kallen's excitement.
"Boo, you suck. Gino! I want one~~~"
"I'll order one for you as a birthday present, okay?"
"OOOH, thank youuuuu~~~"
"Realistic." Spat the Black Prince.
"Says the guy who immediately agreed when his father threatened him." The spunky redhead retorted.
"Why you—"
DING DONG
"Hm? Who's visiting at this hour?" Nunnally asked curiously.
"Mother perhaps? She was rather… excited to know about our future plans…" Lelouch said sweating a little. Imagining his mother dragging C.C. from one bridal store to another scared him for some reason.
"C.C.-sama, you have guests." Sayako informed the green haired girl who in turn raised her eyebrows.
"Me? That's… new…" The green haired girl got up from next to Lelouch and headed for the front door, her boyfriend following suit.
"It's rare that I… What the hell do you think you're doing coming here?" Venom immediately laced her words as golden eyes feel upon two figures.
"Dear lord, it's really you!" The man said smiling.
"Leave." C.C. said taking a step back.
"What's the matter, dear?" The woman asked concerned.
"I SAID LEAVE!" For the first time C.C. screamed so rudely at someone.
"C.C…. What's the matter? Who are they?" Lelouch asked shocked to see his witch's sudden outburst.
"They are the ones who threw me away… Thirteen years ago…" C.C. said shaking a little.
"Your Highness, it's nice to meet you. We are her parents." The woman said bowing.
a/n AHAH! Did you think because the title was "Good bye" that C.C. would die? Well that ain't happening in MY story, well, this story at least... At any rate! Whoohoo pissed off C.C. is pissed! And w00t they're getting married! *after uni that is* Charles is a good guy actually, he just has a scary face and an ridiculously large body xD And Diethard was tortured, yay! Well onwards to my minions err, readers' review reply:
Haavu - Oh yes, I remember that ^^ Yes, several times would do it. Thank you for reading and reviewing!
SuperCeller - Yesh, uh what's her name by the way xD Oh, that's because you're NOT suppose to hate her, for once the new girl isn't a betch :D Oh, thank you!
PaIN-cAUseD-bY-AddIcTioN - Thank you!
Revior - It's alright, thanks for reading!
patleaon909 - Well yesh he is a bastid but nothing compare to teh betches that tried to kill Euphy no? Ah, Happy Chinese New Year to you too *though it's passed* Yesh, damn that huge man... Well it means what it means, she wants part of the money those betches are going to get. Thanks!
MoonlitxAngel - Thanks Moonie! Oh course, it's just a temporary break up, no way in hell will I let them stay apart!!! Thanks for reading!
sakurahanaalice - Uh-huh... That's right^^ She's the only one who was alert that night. Well Suzaku is fun to pull pranks on xD Thanks for reading!
Aly108. loveSAnime - huahahaha, g donkkk... makasi ly^^
Emperor Doviculus, Ichigo1010 - Thanks :D
DaveisDavis - (Yes, it does sound strange...) Congratulations! Aw, thanks! Yessums, fluff is good stuff :D
ButterflyBroken - M-Master? Now you're making my blush... Lol CHARLIE BOY!!! Right! Thanks for reading!
.red .rose .019 - Of course not ;D It's alright, I like passionate reviewers like you! Aw, don't hate Ivy, she's a good girl! Yes, Charles is annoying... Thanks for reading and reviewing!
nymphik13 - Thanks... Well, kind of, yes, oiran would be what she was before... The high class kind, right? Yes well this is T rated so no lemons or limes or oranges... Thanks for reading!
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