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Chapter 16—

R2—4

Lelouch sat eating lunch with his friends, Rolo and now Suzaku, who'd just shown up at school.

'I wonder if Suzaku knows about Dai…' he wondered. Lelouch had found himself incredibly happy that the girl was still alive. That was one less person who'd been taken away because of his Geass. Maybe Suzaku had lied when he'd told him that she was dead? Probably not. Suzaku wasn't the kind to lie about that kind of thing. Plus, Dai had said she'd lived with Li Xingke for the past year. And boy he hadn't been to happy when she'd jumped out the window to see Zero.

Mini flash back…

"Ow, ow, ow, ow..! Xingke!" Dai screamed as Xingke pulled her by her ponytail back into the Consulate building.

"No more poptarts for a week..!" he said.

"But why? Ow!"

"Because you aren't supposed to use your training to jump out of windows and leap into the arms of random people!" he yelled. 'And scare me like that…'

Dai pouted. "I want my poptarts…"

End mini flash back

What was with her and poptarts?

Xingke still didn't know that she was a member of the Black Knights, and that was probably for the best.

"So, Suzaku, whatcha been up to lately?" Rivalz asked.

"Well I—"

"No! Stop, I don't wanna go to school..!" they heard someone yelling.

"Well you have to!"

"But why?"

"You need to finish you high school education."

They all turned to see a man with long black hair dragging a girl with brown hair down the path.

"You know I'll just skip..!"

"I've already made arrangements. Eve is going to make sure you don't skip."

Eve smiled evilly.

"You're mean…"

"You'll thank me later. Now wait here while I go sign you up," he said, walking into the building.

The girl sighed and crossed her arms. "I don't need to go to school…" she pouted.

"Dai, just suck it up. I have to go with you so you won't be alone," Eve said.

Suzaku stood up, his eyes wide. "Wha… what?"

The two girls looked over at the group sitting on the benches.

Suzaku stumbled over his feet and stood in front of the brunette. "Dai…?" he said in disbelief. "My god… Dai you're alive..!" he cried with joy, embracing her.

"Um… may I ask something…?" she said awkwardly. "Who are you?"

Everyone's eyes went wide, especially Suzaku's. He pulled away and held his sister at arms length. "What are you talking about, it's me, Suzaku."

Her expression was blank.

Suzaku was panicking on the inside. "Dai, it's me! Your brother!"

"I'm really sorry, but you must be mistaking me with someone else," she said pushing away. "I did have a brother, but he died quite a while ago."

"But…Dai…" Suzaku was baffled. What was going on? Why didn't she remember him? He was on the verge of tears.

"It is weird that you know my name though," she said rubbing the back of her head.

Xingke walked back out. "Alright, you start tomorrow. Let's go then," he said.

"Ah, yes sir! Well, then I guess I'll see you guys later then. Nice meeting you!" she waved as they walked away.

Suzaku gave Eve a pleading look. She shrugged, and began to follow the other two.

In the car while Xingke was on the phone, Eve looked over at Dai.

"That was cruel."

Dai said nothing and just stared hard out the window, watching the passing buildings, her arms crossed.

Eve sighed, and reached into her pocket for her buzzing phone. She looked at the caller ID. It was Gino again. She just shook her head and sent the call to voicemail. He'd called her so many times in the past 24 hours…

After she put it back in her pocket it rang again. Angrily, she flipped open the phone and put it to her ear

"Damnit Gino stop—"

"Who's Gino? A new friend…?" a strange, dark and familiar voice inquired; a voice that she hoped she'd never hear again.

Her face was frozen in horror.

Dai looked over. "Eve…?"

"I hope to be seeing you soon," the voice said. "Nice car by the way." And then he hung up.

Eve dropped the phone and began looking out all the windows. "Abe..? Abe?"

Xingke had stopped talking on the phone and was staring at her concerned. Dai grabbed her shoulders and sat her down in her seat.

"Eve, calm down..! What's wrong?" Dai asked.

Eve snapped back to reality, but was shaking. "N-nothing—never mind…" she said sitting back down and leaning against the door, wrapping her arms around herself.

"You said that last time… Who's Abe?" Dai asked.

"No one… just someone… just someone that I knew a very long time ago…"

Elsewhere…

Gino walked into his room after a very long meeting. "Now, where did I put Eve's number…" he muttered to himself, looking at his desk, where he'd last left the piece of paper with Eve's number on it. "Where'd it go…I know I put it right here…!" Gino said rummaging through the papers. As he became more frantic looking for it, papers flew out of his hands, covering his room.

"Gino, are you ready to leave yet…?" Anya asked as she walked into the room filled with raining papers.

"I CAN'T FIND IT!"

"Cant find what?"

"Eve's phone number!" he yelled.

"Commander Eve? I have i—" Before she could finish, Gino had grabbed her phone and was writing her number down.

"Thanks Anya," he said relieved.

"Well, lets go. Then you wont have to worry about calling her," Anya said, walking out.

"Oh yeah, coming!" Gino said quickly leaving his paper-covered room to follow Anya.

Eve sat at her little desk, flipping absent-mindedly through papers, not even bothering to read them. Just then an alarm went off, and soldier burst through her door.

"Commander! There's an intruder!"

Eve sighed. "I have a funny feeling, that I know who it is…" Standing up, she followed the soldier to the knightmare hanger, where three knightmares where frozen in a fighting position, and a fourth was just standing there. Standing below it was a brunette, and a freakishly tall blonde.

"Yep, I was right…" she muttered, walking up to them.

Gino looked up and saw her. "Eve!" he said happily. Suzaku turned around to see. Eve just gave him a cold stare, but she smiled at Gino.

"You really do cause a commotion when visiting," she said rubbing her forehead.

"And he tore his room apart looking for that phone number of yours he lost," Anya said through her knightmare.

Eve raised her eyebrow. "You lost it? After you tore it out of the archives?"

"Yeah," he said rubbing his head. "it was the strangest thing, I'd set it on my desk in my room, and when I went to grab it, it was gone. Couldn't find it anywhere in my room," he explained.

Eve's expression turned worried. "H…he didn't…" she whispered.

"What?" Gino asked.

"It's nothing, "she said shaking her head, and turning to walk away. Gino followed after her.

"What? What's wrong?" he asked her.

"Oh, it's nothing… just thinking about the past…" she said.

His frown deepened.

Her phone buzzed just then. She pulled it out to look at her text, and Gino leaned over to read it.

'Finished your present.'

Eve's face lit up, and she began jumping up and down.

"YES!"

'Well her mood seems to have improved. That's good. I don't like it when she's sad…' Gino thought.

School Festival…

"Milly, is this really necessary?" Dai asked, looking at the long red dress that the class president had just forced on her.

"Yup! We need to get you all dressed up to meet the rest of the students! Everyone but the student council left for the homeland, so no one here knows you anymore. But its weird, Rivalz and Shirley don't seem to remember you," Milly said, attempting to put Dai's hair in a bun, but she shooed her away.

"Yeah that's pretty weird," Dai said.

"For a while I think I'd forgotten about you too… but then I found those drawings of the student council that you made for me a while ago, and it all seemed to come back to me."

"Oh yeah… I remember… I haven't drawn in a long time…" she muttered.

"Hey, Madam President? Are you sure we're going to need—oh, hi, Dai," Lelouch said as he walked in, holding a clip-board.

"O-oh, hi Lelouch," Dai said, embarrassed, and trying to find something to hide the fact that she was in a dress.

Milly raised an eyebrow at her, then turned to Lelouch. "Yes we are going to need it."

"But I didn't even finish—"

"We'll need it. Don't argue."

He just shrugged and walked out. "Bye then."

After he'd left Milly turned to Dai. "You know, you should tell him."

Dai looked surprised. "Tell him what?"

"Never mind, never mind…" Milly said smiling to herself.

Eve walked around the festival with Anya, looking at all the shops.

"You know, I remember the first time I ever took you to a festival," she wondered out loud.

"I barely remember that…" Anya muttered, looking through her phone.

"It was new years, you were only this tall," Eve said, holding her hand down to just above her knee.

"That's just ancient history," Anya muttered. "Long gone."

Eve smiled awkwardly. "Of course."

Eve sat on the grass watching the people dance in the dim lighting. She sighed heavily.

"What's wrong?"

She looked up to see Gino smiling down at her.

"Nothing, just I find all of the hormonal flirting annoying," she said.

"Well, I'm about to drag you into the middle of it," he said holding out a hand.

She looked up at him. "Seriously?"

His smile made her blush.

"Come on, before I drag you out there."

She smiled and took his hand, completely ignoring the feeling in the back of her mind that told her she was being watched.

"God, it feels so good to be in my knightmare again!" Dai said, as she helped the others who were on top of the air-ship that carried Nunnally. Luckily she'd installed wings on her knightmare a while ago. They needed an upgrade, but they still kept her in the air.

A red light started flashing on her dash.

"Crap…"

But the bad thing about those wings was she only had a couple hours worth of power when she used them.

"Damnit, when will she get here?" Dai said to herself.

She heard a childish laugh, and turned just in time to see the Tristan raise its scythe. She managed to doge out of the way.

"You're pretty good!" Gino's voice came over the com.

Dai just shook her head and sighed. "He's such a dork…"

"Looks like you guys are almost done for," Gino said.

Dai looked up to see the number of knightmares on her side had depleted greatly.

"You're at a disadvantage here. Just save yourself the trouble and give up," he said.

Just then the sound of organ music echoed around them.

Dai smirked. "Unlikely."

Gino's knightmare got hit, shaking the interior. "Gah!"

He flew back a ways, and once the screens stopped being static-y, he looked up to see a knightmare had just head butted him, leaving a dent in Tristan, but not a single scratch on its helmet-head.

"Wh-what kind of knightmare…?"

This knightmare was huge, like the old, out-dated ones. And it looked like an impenetrable suit of armor.

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