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Chapter 14—

R2—2

Eve/S9 tossed and turned in her bed, dreaming.

"…Sorry…I'm sorry…I'M SORRY!" she screamed, sitting straight up in her bed, breathing heavily. She whipped the cold sweat from her forehead, and pulled her knees up to rest her head on them. "I'm sorry…"

Suzaku sat in the empty lounge of the Knights of the Round, looking at the pictures in a small heart-shaped locket.

"Hey, Suzaku!" Gino said, walking in with his usual goofy grin covering his face. "What are you doing in here? Hmm..? what's that?" he said, looking over Suzaku's shoulder at the locket. "Is that you when you were small? Haha, look how cute you were…!"

"Gino!" Suzaku complained, trying to fend off the blond headed, freakishly tall person who was now trying to grab the locket from him. And being so much larger, Gino succeeded in grabbing the locket.

Gino flipped the small page-like-middle section of the locket back and forth to look at the pictures. "These pictures of your family?" he asked looking at the picture of four people; a man, a woman, and two children.

"Yeah…" Suzaku said dejectedly.

"You have a sister? Hmm, I didn't know that. So, where are they? In Area Eleven?" Gino asked, totally clueless.

Suzaku looked at the floor. "No… my mom died nine years ago, and my sister died last year, in the Special Zone. This locket was hers," Suzaku said, taking the small piece of silver from Gino, who didn't try and take it back.

"Oh… sorry, I didn't know," Gino said, his smile completely gone.

Suzaku snapped the locket shut. "No. People die. Life goes on." He shoved the locket in his pocket (not meaning to rhyme there) and walked out the door, a cold look on his face. Gino watched him for a moment before going out the door to follow him.

"That's true…" he said to himself, "but that doesn't mean you should bottle up all of those sad feelings, Suzaku…"

Lelouch Lamperouge and his younger brother Rolo, walked down the sidewalk, Lelouch completely casual, and Rolo rubbing his hands nervously.

"Lelouch, why do you keep gambling like this? Isn't it dangerous?" Rolo asked his brother, running to catch up with his quick pace.

"Maybe. But adults don't think much of s students. They wouldn't think we'd be in places like these when cutting school," Lelouch said confidently. He stopped for a moment, and looked a large wall covered in peoples' pictures and names. Incense burned, and small offerings of food sat at the base of the wall.

Rolo stopped behind his brother. "What's the matter Big Brother?"

"Nothing." And then he continued walking.

Rolo glanced at the pictures on the wall.

Miko Kabe.

Takashi Inoue.

Dai Kururugi.

Yukie Yamato…

Those where just a few of the names that he read. The pictures were of people who died in the Special Zone.

"Rolo? Are you coming?" Lelouch said, looking back at his younger brother.

"Oh, uh, yes Big Brother!" he said, running after Lelouch.

"Ah, crap… cant believe I'm late…" Eve said, walking briskly down the hall, looking at the digital watch she wore on her wrist. "Stupid Colaurus (guessing on the spelling) wont let me hear the end of this…" she muttered to herself. Today was the day that the Chinese delegates were coming to Area 11 for a visit, and the Viceroy had ordered her to be there.

She ran out to the runway of the small military airport. "Ah, there they are," she said running up to stand obediently behind the Viceroy. He looked out of the corner of his eye to glare at her.

"You're late," he said to her before turning back to the High Unic and his companions.

Eve looked at the two people accompanying him, and smiled, almost evilly, at one of them. The person smiled back, then a look of minor surprise lit her face, and the girl looked back at Babble Tower.

"Come," the Viceroy said, "let us escort our guests to where they will be staying."

"Yes, sir. This way please," she said turning back towards the building. She stopped and looked back at the person still looking at the tower.

Xingke turned and looked at his apprentice as well. "Dai, are you coming?"

"…Yeah..."