Yay! More chapter updations! I'm going to be spending a lot of time on this one since I cant finish my Inuyasha one until I watch the rest of the Final Act…. Anyway, on with the story!

And since there hasn't been one in a while; Disclaimer; I do not own the Code Geass series or any of the characters. 'cept Eve, Dai and a few other characters we'll meet along the way! ^_~

Chapter 15—

R2—3

"Do you really think that it's a good idea to be sitting out there?" Eve asked as she walked up to the window to look out at Dai, who was sitting on the roof of the Chinese Federation building. Looking at Babel Tower as the battle raged on.

"Hey, I only fall 50% of the time now," Dai said defensively.

Eve crawled out the window and sat down next to her. "So, how's it feel to be among the living again?" she asked, half jokingly.

"I'll let you know that I wasn't even dead for twenty-four hours! Thanks for that by the way," she said.

Eve shrugged. "Well, just don't go dying again, because I'm not even sure I could do it again. But you being so klutzy, there's no guarantee of that."

Dai shoved her. "I'm not that klutzy..!...well… maybe a little…"

Eve laughed.

"HEY!" someone yelled from the window making both girls jump. They turned to see a little boy with glasses staring at them through the window. "Whatcha guys doin out here?"

The girls both stared in horror.

"Its like."

"Harry Potter."

"And Lloyd."

"Had a baby."

"Dear god…"

Just then a woman came into the room. "Jeffery! That's where you went! Come, you shouldn't play in here," she said dragging the boy from the room. He waved bye the whole way.

Eve sighed in relief. "That was terrifying."

"H-he was just a little kid…" Dai tried to say, but she too was a bit shaken.

Just then a song saying something about cake that was so delicious and moist snapped them out of their fear.

"Oh, sorry," Eve said reaching into her pocket and pulling out her phone. "Hello?"

"Hey!" the voice on the other end of the line said.

"Gino?" Eve said surprised. Dai raised an eyebrow.

He laughed goofily. "Yep!"

"H-how'd you get my—oh wait I have another phone call, hold on. Hello?"

"Commander Eve! Someone broke into the military archives! The whole place is a mess!" a panicked soldier said.

She sighed. "Don't panic, nothing was taken, just clean it up." She switched back to Gino. "You stole my number out of the archives?"

"Yeah, cuz Suzaku wouldn't give it to me!" Gino complained

She sighed again. "Gino…"

There was a commotion on the other end of the line. "Ah, crap, Eve I gotta go. Call ya later!" then he hung up.

Eve sighed yet again.

"Who was that?" Dai asked, one eyebrow raised.

"No one."

"If it was no one then why are you smiling..?"

Eve's cheeks turned red. "J-just drop it okay!"

Dai laughed. "Alright."

After they'd watched the remains of the Black Knights defeat the Britanians and break into the Chinese Consulate, both girls had crawled back through the window and headed up to Dai's temporary room.

"Dude! This room is huge!" Eve exclaimed as she saw the large space that Dai was staying in.

"I know, its way bigger than what I'm used too," Dai said, throwing the new sword that she'd been learning to use on the bed.

"What, you tired of the little room Xingke gives you? Or you just not used to having to share a room with him?" Eve wiggled her eyes suggestively.

A pillow flew across the room and hit her in the face.

"We DO NOT have that kind of relationship!" Dai steamed. "He's more like my brother than anything else." She flopped down onto the overly large mattress.

Eve noticed something large and black in the corner. "You have a piano in here?" she asked walking over to the large insterment. She sat down the on the large bench and opened it up to look at the keys.

"Yeah, the last person to have this room was a musician I believe," Dai explained.

Eve began to play a soft melody that filled the room. "So, how's my present been doing?" she asked without stopping.

"Well, I'm not as far as I would like to be, Xingke keeps me from going to work on it."

"I'll have to hurt him…" she muttered. Someone knocked on the door.

"Come in," Dai said.

A soldier walked in and handed a letter to Eve. "M'am." He saluted then left.

Eve opened the letter with one hand while the other kept playing. Then she stopped.

Dai sat up and looked at her. "What's wrong?"

"No…" she whispered.

"Dai!" Xingke burst open the door. "Its time for training!"

"But—"

"No buts! Come on," he said walking out the door.

Dai grabbed her sword and began to follow him, but stopped. "Eve are you—"

"I'm fine," she said.

"You're lying…" Dai muttered before heading out the door.

Eve slowly closed the piano, and rested her head on the lid.

"Abe…"

Dai stood impatiently next to Xingke behind the High Eunuch, who was speaking with C.C.. When they'd first walked in, C.C. looked incredibly surprised that Dai was there (probably because she thought she was dead) but said nothing.

Dai's mind wondered until someone came in the door. It was Kallen, and apparently she'd just had a shower, since she was still in her towel. She spoke briefly, and after hiding behind the glass wall, Xingke's comment seemed very dirty. Dai shoved him.

"You're such a pervert!"

"W-what?" he said, rubbing his arm.

"I know what you were thinking, dirty boy."

"Dai?" Kallen said peeking out from around the corner.

She smiled and waved. "Hi."

"You…you're alive?"

"You were dead?" Xingke asked.

A Black Knight soldier interrupted them and everyone left the room. That's where they found out what Guilford had planned for the captured Black Knights.

Later… at some point in time of which I do not know how longs its really been… -_-'

"Damnit, where is Xingke?" Dai said angrily, walking down the halls of the Chinese Consulate. "Maybe he's with the Counsel General…" she muttered to herself.

She heard Xingke's voice coming from the General's room. So he was in there.

Dai marched around the corner to confront her trainer about her missing poptarts, and stopped dead in her tracks when she entered the room. The first thing she saw was blood flying from Gao Hai's (the counsel general) neck. She didn't like the guy, at all. His squeaky high voice freaked her out, but the blood… she still hadn't gotten over her fear of blood. She quickly turned around and wrapped her arms around her self, trying to squeeze the image out of her head.

Xingke turned around and saw her. "Dai…" He walked over and lead her out of the room, leaving the others to clean up the mess.

After they got to her room he sat down next to her on the bed. "Dai…are you alright…?"

She took a deep breath. "Y…yeah… I just wasn't expecting you to put your plans into action so soon…" Xingke had trusted her enough to let her in on all of their plans to over throw the High Eunuchs.

"Yeah, I'm sorry. I didn't mean for you to see all that, since I know you hate blood and all…" Xingke said. Ever since she'd started living with him a year ago, Xingke had been very considerate about Dai's feelings about things, acting like a brother to her.

"That's alright. Anyway, Where are my poptarts?" she demanded, remembering her original reason for looking for him.

"Eheh, sorry, I was hungry…A-anyway… Zero was going to start his plans to release the other Black Knights soon," he said.

Dai snapped out of her poptart-enraged-mood. "Zero…"

"Yeah, come on," he said standing up. "I want to see how it goes."

Dai pushed herself off of the bed. "Alright."

Once they'd sat down and watched the organized chaos that Zero had created, Xingke noticed that Dai was getting antsy, not sitting still, and bouncing up and down as the battle neared its end.

"Are you all right?" he asked.

"I'm fine." She said without tearing her eyes away from the on coming knightmares.

He raised an eyebrow but pushed the subject no further, and continued to watch the action.

After the Black Knights were saved, Dai couldn't take it anymore. She jumped up into the window.

"D-Dai what are you doing?" Xingke asked, standing up.

She smiled. "Bye." And then she jumped out the window.

Lelouch smiled as he put on his mask to exit the knightmare. Rolo was his now.

He dropped to the ground below and many of the Black Knights cheered. He looked up at the Chinese Consulate building and it looked like…someone was jumping down from a window. The person skidded down the roof, grabbed the edge and flipped down onto the railing, then jumped down onto the ground. Then they took one step and tripped.

Zero laughed to himself. Almost seemed like something that…Dai…would…do…

The person had gotten up and was running towards him, waving franticly. It was a girl. With brown hair. Who looked like just like Dai… and tripped…just like Dai.

She tripped and fell into him, her arms wrapping around his neck. The force of the girl caused Zero to loose his balance, and the spun a complete circle before he got his balance back.

"Zero..!" she said happily, squeezing her arms tighter around the masked man, not wanting to let go.

"…Dai…?"