It was cold. It was wet. Most of all it was cold.

Kallen hadn't spoken since it happened. Neither had C.C., but her silence was less uncommon. Tommorrow they would need to find a more permanent shelter, but they were fine for the moment. They were sitting in front of a fire Kallen had built. Kallen had been staring into the fire constantly for the last hour. C.C. knew this because she had been watching Kallen's face intently

"You have powers, right?" Kallen broke the silence. "Not just Geass and immortality, but other things too?"

"Yes," C.C. said quietly.

She didn't resist when Kallen placed her hand across her neck, risingly slowly to caress her cheek. She didn't resist when Kallen moved towards her and wrapped her arm across her back, resting on her side.

She didn't resist when Kallen kissed her. Kallen pulled back.

"Can you make me forget?" Kallen asked. She sounded flat, defeated. It was a question that held no expectations for affirmation.

"No."

Kallen kissed C.C.'s jawline, then rested her head beneath her chin. Her hand slid down to C.C.'s shoulder, then to her hip, then to the ground. C.C.'s arms slowly rose to Kallen's shoulders. Kallen twitched slightly when C.C. embraced her, and she began crying softly.

"It wasn't your fault."

Kallen clutched C.C.'s back and began to cry openly.

The next morning, C.C. awoke first. Her clothes had dried somewhat during the night, but still smelled of the ocean. With no other sets at her disposal, C.C. decided to take them down from the makeshift clothesline.

She went for a brief walk along the beach. The island they landed on didn't have anyone nearby, but C.C. could make out a house in the distance. She made her way back to the lifeboat.

During the night Kallen had had nightmares, but at the moment she looked peaceful. She ran her fingers through Kallen's bangs, pushing them out of her eyes. Kallen arched her neck, wrinkled her eyes, and awoke. She surveyed her surroundings lazily, stopping for a moment to look up at C.C.

"Good morning," C.C. whispered.

Kallen avoided her gaze. She withdrew her hands and hurriedly got dressed.

"I'm sorry, a-about last night," Kallen looked away.

She nearly jumped out of her skin when C.C. embraced her from behind.

"Don't apologize," C.C. pressed her cheek against Kallen's neck.

"You're not mad at me?"

"Why would I be mad?"

"Because I, when I was," Kallen naturally sounded uncomfortable. "I pressured you to..."

"I didn't do anything I didn't want to," C.C. sounded confident. She brought up a hand to touch Kallen's lips. C.C. craned her neck upward to whisper in Kallen's ear. "I love you."

Kallen's knees buckled. Almost spinning Kallen turned to C.C. and buried her face in C.C.'s chest, tears streaming down her face.

"Don't ever leave."

A/N: Starting out, I knew there had to be a fluff chapter. Hell, the fluff was the whole reason I started writing this thing.

This chapter is something of an intermission, since the chapter I intended to place here has been written and rewritten an incredibly irritating number of times.

The logistics are just, just so hard to get right. It's all because I decided to give Kallen a field-based Geass. What's annoying is the only reason it's field based is because I originally intended for a huge dramatic Kallen vs. Rolo knightmare frame fight scene that would take place during the final battle. (Having Rolo survive until the final battle was just one of the many logistical nightmares that prevented this version of the fanfiction from coming to light.) I might, but probably won't, write that as a stand alone, since it's not compatible with this.

I think originally I was going to have Kallen's Geass become permanent either during the final battle or at Zero's Requium, but I guess I eventually just distilled it down to the real reason I was writing this, the Kallen X C.C. fluff. That's what this is about, that's what this has always been about.

Why do I always come up with contrived elaborate scenarios in order to justify my romance stories? I do this even when I'm not working with fanfiction.

Please Read And Review.

Edit: Okay, this is really [upsetting] me off because it keeps screwing up my formatting. There doesn't seem to be a way to fix it, so I'm going to have to leave it as is.