L.K.: Wootness! Chapter three already!
SPOILER BELOW!!!
Okay, I know it doesn't follow Code Geass's plot line EXACTLY. But I squished C.C. temporarily losing her memory into the first season where Kallen didn't know that Lulu was Zero. Just to clear that all up.
Teenage Hormones
They sat on the bed together for hours just talking to each other. Lelouch told her about just why and how he was exiled while Kallen told him about her childhood and her Japanese mother.
"So you're a…half breed" Lelouch asked even though he already knew.
"Y-yeah…although in my records I'm pure Brittanian." He said slowly as she feared that a Prince of Brittania wouldn't marry her for her half self.
"That's ok, my best friend is Japanese." He assured her.
"Really? Wait you mean Suzaku Kururugi, right?" she asked as she remembered the Lancelot pilot.
"Yes, the one from our school." He said as he shifted to sit on the edge of the bed with her.
Leaning her head to rest on his shoulder, Kallen could feel the sleep that threatened to overtake her mind.
"Tired?" came a feminine voice from the other side of them room.
Both Kallen and Lelouch jumped at C.C.'s sudden appearance.
"C.C.! Don't do that!" Lelouch yelped. Kallen furrowed her brow, why was C.C. in Lelouch's room?
'Oh shit! Kallen knows C.C. from the Black Knights! Damn I gotta think of a lie!!' he panicked.
"Ohhh hey Kallen, I forgot to tell you, I found this girl at the school this morning. I knew she wasn't a student or a teacher so I let her use the guest room until her friend came to pick her up!" he spat out quickly.
"I see…." Kallen said as she eyed C.C. suspiciously.
'Oh no, C.C. can be quite the bitch at times….if she reveals that I'm a Black Knight here...I'm done for! But wait, she's a Black Knight too, maybe she won't say anything…' Kallen's mind was put to rest when C.C. played along with Lelouch's game.
"Yes, I got lost looking for my…master. So I happened to be nearby when I bumped into Lelouch here in the courtyard a few days ago. Kallen nodded her head and looked C.C. in the eye.
'But why would Zero's right hand girl be wandering around the school in the first place…?' Kallen though as she stared at C.C..
"Hey, C.C., why don't you and Kallen go order pizza while I find a place for her to sleep. The rain doesn't look like it's going to stop anytime soon so I imagine she'll be staying here.
"Alright, follow me Kallen." C.C. said as she exited the room. Kallen jumped up and ran after her.
Once safely away from Lelouch, Kallen grabbed C.C.'s arm.
"What are you thinking hanging around here? You know I go to school here, don't you?" Kallen hissed.
"I'm well aware of that. But it's like I said before, I got lost. Lelouch was nice enough to lend me his spare room until I find Master Zero." C.C. said in her usual monotone voice.
"Shhh!!" Kallen covered C.C.'s mouth with her hand.
"Don't say that here!" Kallen said through grit teeth.
'Lelouch should really just tell her already…' C.C. thought irritably.
"Kallen…there's something you need to kno-"
"Hey did you order that pizza yet…C.C.?" Lelouch said harshly.
"No, not yet. I was just about to Kallen about myself. How I'm going to be the fairy god mother in the Cinderella play." C.C. said.
Both Kallen and Lelouch did a double take….C.C…..in a play?
"Huh wha…?" was all Lelouch could say.
"You heard me. While you and Kallen were out together, doing unknown things, I asked Milly about letting me be in the play while I stay here at the school." C.C. said as she walked away to go to the phone and order her precious pizza.
This left Kallen and Lelouch alone, together.
XxXxX
After C.C. ordered the pizza, Lelouch decided to take a shower.
"C.C., do you know where Zero is?" Kallen asked as she nibbled on her slice, still not hungry because Lelouch already fed her.
"Maybe…." She answered with her mouth full.
"Why don't you go back to him then? It's dangerous to stay here." Kallen nearly demanded.
"Not really, as long as we don't slip up and say anything we'll b alright. Besides…Lelouch is…nice to me." C.C. half smiled half smirked.
"I can tell, ordering you to buy pizza for yourself. Wait, he paid for it right?" Kallen asked, making sure that Lelouch didn't make the poor girl buy it herself.
"Oh no, not at all. Lelouch has a charge account with Pizza Hut. I just give them his name and they deliver the pizza to his already registered address. I think he pays the tab at the end on the month like a normal bill." C.C. rambled on about pizza for a good five minutes until Lelouch came down the stairs in his night cloths.
"I see you two hit it off nicely." He said as he walked by then and picked up the last slice of pepperoni pizza.
"Yes, me and Kallen already know each other." C.C. smiled, knowing this comment did no harm, just frightened Kallen.
As predicted, Kallen's heart leapt into her throat, while Lelouch ignored it.
'C.C….you..bitch!' she thought with a bitter bite.
"That's nice." Was all Lelouch said as he went to the fridge and pulled out a can of soft drink.
"Hey Kallen…" he asked as he set down both her and C.C. a can of soda as well.
"Yes?" she asked in slight fear as she opened the pull tab can.
"Never mind, I was just thinking of something. I'm gonna go sleep on the couch, you can have my bed." He said as he slinked out of the kitchen and into the living room. As he pulled a blanket out of the closet he laid down on the couch to fall asleep.
"Hey Kallen." C.C. whispered.
"Yeah?"
"Do you…love Lelouch?"
"I..don't know."
"Do you…love Zero?"
"I don't know…"
"You know prom is coming up…I wonder if you'll still be the one Lulu asks out." C.C. pondered as she smiled softly. Closing her eyes, C.C.'s face went blank again.
"Do you love Zero?" Kallen asked as she stared at the can in her hands.
"No." C.C. answered unsurely. Even though her voice was strong and unwavering, her heart was not the same.
"C-can I be honest with you C.C.?" Kallen asked as she bit her lip again.
"Of course." C.C. said plainly.
"If you really did love Zero, would you try to take him away from me?" the redhead asked as she gripped her can tighter.
"No, even if I did ever fall in love with that man, I'd never be with him. It's not my position in his life to be his lover." C.C. told her.
"You know, you act older than you look. Like you're wise beyond your years." Kallen noted.
"Thank you, I think. But I can assure you, I'm older than I look." Said the immortal witch.
C.C. stood up and walked to the kitchen door that leads to the hallway where her room, the guest room, resided. "I'm going to sleep, good night Kallen." She said as she passed through the door.
"Good night C.C." Kallen whispered as soon as she was out of hearing distance.
Standing up and walking through the same door that C.C. had just gone through, Kallen made her way to Lelouch's room. She opened the door and stepped inside on the plush white carpet.
Flopping down on the bed the girl felt extremely tired. Turning over on her side, Kallen looked at Lelouch's alarm clock.
'Only eight forty two….I think I have time to snoop around a bit!' the knight thought mischievously.
Standing up again, her feet made pains of protests. But she ignored it and walked over to Lelouch's dresser. On top were ribbons, trophies and other awards for being Student Council V.P.. On the night stand there was his alarm clock, lamp and a book titled 'The Great War'.
But something caught her attention, a picture frame turned upside down. Picking it up and examining it she gasped. It was him, Nunnally and all the other princes and princesses of Brittania all sitting together. Lelouch was a very small child and Nunnally a toddler.
'At least now I know he wasn't lying about the royalty thing. They all look so…happy together. Oh no..Zero killed Clovis! I bet it made Lulu sad…' she nearly allowed the tears to fall as she noticed that the photograph had the King and Queen's faces clipped out of the picture.
Setting the depressing picture down, she tried to force herself to focus on something else. Her eyes lay upon the closet….
XxXxX
Lelouch was nearly asleep when something crossed his mind.
'Oh…hell….I left Kallen alone in my room! What if she finds my Zero outfit! What do I do!?' Lelouch panicked, the fear rising from his chest to his neck. He leapt up off of the couch and made a mad dash for his room.
XxXxX
Just as her hand reached out for the closet door handle, there was a loud knock on the door.
"Kallen!" came Lelouch's voice.
"Y-yeah?" Kallen responded nervously, as if she'd been caught intruding his privacy.
"C.C….had a bad dream! She doesn't want to sleep alone tonight! Do you mind if she sleeps with you?" he lied as fast as he could.
Kallen walked over to the door and opened it to see Lelouch gripping a normal looking C.C. by the shoulders. Kallen lifted a brow.
As if catching the hint that Kallen didn't believe it C.C. played along with Lelouch's ploy..again.
"I'm scared…." She said as flatly as ever.
"Sh-she mentioned something like she's had a harsh past and doesn't show emotion well." He spat out quickly, hoping Kallen would believe him.
"It's true, I used to be a slave." She admitted.
'Oh that's right, once with Zero she lost her memories and reverted to her old slave self!' Kallen nodded and agreed to let C.C. sleep with her.
As Kallen walked back into the room, Lelouch whispered into C.C.'s ear.
"Make sure she doesn't find anything about Zero." He said as low as possible, C.C. nodded.
Lelouch left to go back to sleep on the couch, his mind at peace now that he had a guardian for his double life.
C.C. immediately went and laid on the bed, leaving enough room for Kallen.
"I just noticed…" Kallen started.
"Hm?" C.C. mumbled.
"Lelouch has a pretty big bed…and enormous room." She finished.
C.C. made no move to answer or comment on Lelouch's room as Kallen laid next to her.
It was about a good twenty, maybe thirty, minutes before they realized that the other wasn't asleep. Nudging C.C.'s arm to alert her that she wanted to talk, but not hard enough to wake her in case she actually was asleep.
"What?" the green haired immortelle groaned.
"I think I love Lulu." Kallen said as if it were no big deal.
"I thought you were in love with Zero." C.C. stated, almost uninterested in the subject.
"I do. But that's the problem, I'm going to marry Lelouch soon. But I love Zero too. What do you think of it?" the knight sighed out.
Instead of telling the other girl that it'll all be alright, or that she should fight for the right to be with the one she loved, C.C. laughed. Not just any laugh, but a laugh of true and utter amusement.
"What's so damn funny?" Kallen demanded as she pounded her fists on the sheets.
"It's just that….you have nothing to worry about." C.C. said now back in her usually voice.
"Say what?" the redhead asked perplexed.
"You heard me, you've got not a thing to stress over." C.C. repeated.
"Listen you, I don't know what makes you so smart assed or calm about such situations…but I swear..you don't understand what I'm going through!" Kallen huffed as she turned the other way.
"Hmph! If you didn't like my answers, then why do you bother asking?" C.C. said before she also turned the other way.
Both, after running over the events in their heads, eventually fell asleep.
XxXxX
"Good morning, Lelouch." C.C. said with a dead voice.
"Nnnnhhmmm…" Lelouch drabbled.
"Hey there Lelouch…" Kallen said as she yawned lazily.
Grabbing her purse, Kallen turned on her cell phone. Gawking at how many missed calls she had, she quickly dialed the number in which they were all from.
"Hello, mom? I'm sooo sorry I didn't call you last night!" Kallen immediately began to explain that Lelouch had told her about the prearranged engagement and how she had come to spend the night with him.
"Ohh dear..I just hope you used protection!" Kallen's mother said woefully over the phone. Much to Kallen's utter horror, both Lelouch and C.C. had heard the remark.
"Oh my god mom….it's not like that! I swear we didn't do anything!!" Kallen yelled into the phone as she nearly fell off of her chair.
C.C. smirked as Lelouch held in a laugh. But Lelouch wasn't one to hold it all in so well. Kallen turned around, cheeks redder than the strip poker event, she saw Lelouch silently laughing to her mock horror.
"Lu…lu!" Kallen screeched angrily.
"I see you've even given the boy a nickname! How charming! Well I'll leave you dears to yourselves." the woman on the phone said before hanging up.
Lelouch was not only smirking to himself but verbally laughing as well as Kallen sunk to the floor, "Why me…?" she moaned.
"It's alright Kallen, as long as no one at school finds out you spent the night, it'll be okay." He reassured her as he handed her a plate of breakfast.
"You're right…thank you." She said graciously as she took the dish.
After eating in silence, Kallen and Lelouch were only about two hallways away from the school. Each taking their own paths to their classes they parted ways with a goodbye.
XxXxX
Once classes were over, Kallen and Lelouch both went straight to the Student Council room for rehearsals again. This time, C.C. joined them.
"Okay, make-up, dresses, action!" Milly yelled through the speakers as everyone hopped on stage.
"Okay Lulu, it's your time to shine!" Milly gave Lelouch a harsh shove onto the stage.
Walking towards Kallen he bowed and asked for a dance. Taking her hand in his, he put the other hand on her waist as she his shoulder. Once again the two danced in, near, harmony together. Staring into each other's eyes, Kallen noticed that his eyes were such a lively shade of violets and purples.
C.C. rang a large gong, signaling that the spell's power was wearing off and that Kallen now had to run off stage and leave not but a slipper behind.
"My lady, where are you going?" Lelouch called out in a prim and proper voice.
"I must leave you now! My Prince, always remember me!" Kallen cried out as she girlishly ran off the stage and easily slipped out of just one of her hard plastic heels.
Lelouch ran over to the shoe and picked it up. "It is made of glass, no diamonds! The girl is fit to be a Queen!" Lelouch froze…Kallen..his Queen?
'How ironic…if my plans go as hoped, I'll be Emperor and I should be married to Kallen by then..so she really would be my Queen!' he thought astounded.
"CUT!!" Milly called out in misery.
"Earth to LULU!!!!" Milly shouted excessively loud into the microphone.
"Ow! What!?" Lelouch bellowed and covered his ears as he came out of his trance.
"Why did you stop, and what was up with that stupid look on your face?" Shirley asked, she hated having to start over, it just mean more waiting and that they'd be stuck there longer.
"Oh, I'm sorry. It was just…never mind. Can we start over please?" he requested as he handed the shoe back to Kallen.
Milly rubbed her temples and told everyone to go back to their positions.
As the day went on, Lelouch and Kallen danced several more times, Kallen left her shoe a couple more times and Milly sighed…eighty times.
"Can we please call it a day Prez? My feet are killing me and I'm starving!" Rivalz begged.
"Okay, just once more scene and you all can go." Milly agreed and everyone practically cheered.
"In this scene, Cinderella is found by the Prince at her home and he puts the shoe on her!" the bubbly blonde said perking up like she had just had a shot of coffee.
Kallen sat in the chair, this time in her ragged cloths and waiting for Lelouch to come onto set.
"Are you the one, M'lady?" Lelouch said as he kneeled down before Kallen.
Kallen didn't reply, instead she placed her forearm over her forehead and pretended to be wooed by the Prince.
As Lelouch picked up Kallen's foot and slid her dirty shoe off, he tossed it carelessly to the side. Noticing that Kallen's toe nails were painted a bright shade of pink he nearly giggled. He had no idea she was so feminine. Pulling out the 'glass' slipper from just princely jacket, he slid it into Kallen's bare foot.
Continuing to giggle, almost madly, Kallen grew angrier.
"Lulu!" she whispered harshly.
He continued to giggle.
"Shut it boy, I didn't get to shave my legs last night, stop laughing at me!" she hissed venomously.
'Her legs?' he thought innocently as his hands drifted from her foot to her calves.
Slowly sliding his hands up the length of her leg, he felt just her smooth skin. Forgetting that they were in front of several people who knew them both rather well, Lelouch decided to play a prank on Kallen. Letting his hands roam up even further he was officially underneath her dress.
Kallen punched Lelouch harder than she's ever punched any pervert before, Lelouch lost his balance and sprawled backwards onto his back.
"P-pervert!!" Kallen deemed him as she stood up and stomped off stage.
"Lulu you perv! Why'd you do that?" Shirley demanded as she hovered over the wallowing Lelouch.
"He's a 'fallen prince'!" C.C. said sarcastically yet flatly. Everyone besides Shirley, C.C., Kallen and Lelouch burst out into a fit of laughter.
'…damn teenage hormones…' Lelouch cursed his body.
L.K.: Hehe! Poor Lulu! Well review!
