Bolmung LK: Well long story short I come back July 1st and that's when you'll see shit tons of updates and new stories. Right now I'm taking a break and I wrote this one chapter just because I haven't updated in quite a long time. Let this be a reminder that I am still alive and writing. On July 1st when I actually come back I'll give the full explanation for my absence. I'll give you a hint now, you can buy it in stores sometime between October and November. Bwuhahahaha! Also the 1KFF has started! Go to my profile for more information!
FF#1 Has made me realize something….No matter how much I love writing a story, another story can easily come along and distract me. Hence why I do like four or five at once! If I don't write multiple I end up wanting to smash my other fanfic ideas into the one I'm focusing on, thus making one super-nova-ginormous fanfic with shits tons of plots and details. So I disperse them by writing multiples at once.
Anyways, for those upset about the last chapter, in a couple of chapters ahead you'll understand why the ballroom scene doesn't make sense at a first glance. I swear there's a real plot line to that whole mess.
The Dark Bride
Ch. 11 – Almost The Truth
It was the most exciting news she'd heard all week! Zero wanted her to be a Black Knight again. On the outside she kept her calm composure as she tested out the Guren's upgrades, but on the inside she was beaming. She flipped through all of the buttons and switches inside the Guren's pod; learning all of the new features and weapons. Something caught her attention, something dangling from the ceiling. There were two stuffed animals dangling from strings from the ceiling of the Guren's cockpit.
'What in the…? Zero and Kallen dolls!' she thought as she inspected the tiny, adorable plushies. 'Must be a gift from Zero!' she just about melted in her seat.
"Hey Kallen! How long are you gonna take to inspect the Guren? Dinner in the mess hall is starting!" Tamaki yelled out from the door to the engineering room.
"Oh! I'll be right there!" she responded as she hopped out of the robot and closed the hatch.
Once inside the mess hall she sat down and another Black Knight handed her a plate full of food. She blinked in confusion and quickly thanked them. She then noticed that all of the other Black Knight were staring at her. Kallen blinked again, what's going on?
"So….." the female Black Knight who handed her the plate began talking.
"Hn?" Kallen mumbled as she continued to stare back at her fellow Knights.
"H-how…..how was it?" she finished.
"How was what?" Kallen asked genuinely confused.
"You know…" the brunette girl did a body motion that Kallen did not recognize. Kallen's brow furrowed.
"How was sex with Zero-sama?" a woman from a couple tables down splurted out bluntly. Kallen's eyes were the size of saucers.
"H-how did you guys….find out…?" she blushed madly and looked down at her plate embarrassed.
"So it's true!"
"Is he hot!"
"Does he have sapphire blue eyes!"
"Is he blonde?"
"Is his dick big!"
"Are you dating?"
"Does he have a beard?"
"Is he old?"
"Is his ass cute?"
"We know he's not Japanese, is he white?"
"Sh-shut up! All of you! Stop!" Ougi yelled loud enough for everyone in the room to have to clasp their hands over their ears.
"Thank you Ougi…." Kallen sighed.
"Well…?" the brunette to her side asked quietly.
"The lights were off the whole time! I don't know the answers to any of those questions!" She hissed. All the female Black Knight moaned in complaint.
"…..but his dick's pretty big." She mumbled with a rosy red blush. All the girls giggled, even the one gay male Knight giggled with them.
"Yeah, but are you two a couple. Even if you've never seen him, are you two lovers?" Tamaki asked, he feared the answer because he's always had a sort of crush on Kallen since he'd met her.
"Sort of…not really. We're not a couple…we're not lovers…" Kallen said sadly. The brunette to Kallen's side wrapped an arm around Kallen's shoulders. Kallen looked up at her with sad blue eyes.
"It's okay, just about every girl in this place has a crush on Zero. You're just lucky enough to have of bumped uglies with him!" she said trying to cheer Kallen up. Somehow Kallen wasn't relieved.
"Uh…thanks?" Kallen said sarcastically as the brunette walked away. Lakshata sat down next to Kallen and leaned in to whisper.
"Kallen, dear. Did you sleep with Zero to get that vacation?" the blonde asked as she set her pipe down on the table.
"N-no!" Kallen hissed.
"Oh darn, because I could really use a vacation right about now!" the blonde slumped in her chair.
XxXxX
After being bombarded with hundreds of the most intimate questions she'd ever had to answer, Kallen left the mess hall without eating and went into the captain's cabin upstairs. Upon being allowed inside she sat down on the couch next to C.C. who was eating pizza and watching T.V.. The smell of the pizza messed with her senses, she should've eaten.
"So I heard that everyone knows about you and Zero." C.C. mumbled between a bite of pizza.
"Yeah…" Kallen sighed. "I just wish I wasn't such a moaner…"
C.C. giggled and said "You know…..I happen to know what Zero really looks like." Kallen's eyebrows rose in attention.
"He's very handsome." She whispered huskily. Kallen smirked.
"Oh really? How handsome?" she asked with a goofy smile.
"As handsome as a prince!" C.C. said while she licked some sauce off her lips. Kallen became a tad suspicious. Was this a hint?
Zero came walking through the door holding a box of some sort. He took one look at Kallen before turning to C.C.
"C.C., this is a package for a friend of mine. I need you to deliver it. I can't do it because I have business I need to attend to." He said as he handed the green haired girl with a mouthful of pizza the box.
"Aye aye captain." She said flatly as she left the room with the box.
"Kallen, what time are you going home tonight?" he asked as he glanced at the clock on the wall.
"Oh uhm….anytime I guess. Why?" she asked as she began to smell the delicious pizza again.
"So you don't have plans?" he asked.
"Nope. I mean….aren't I your hostage?" she asked with a giggle.
"Yes, but technically no. Lelouch is probably worried about you so I'm going to make your release public. I'm going to have Ashford Academy, which hosts Lelouch's funds, pay a ransom for your return." He informed her as he sat on the couch across from her. Kallen frowned; she wanted him to sit next to her. She shrugged it off and grabbed the last piece of pizza from the table, god she was hungry.
"How much of a ransom?" she asked after finishing the slice of pizza.
"ONE HUNDRED BAGILLION DOLLARS!" He yelled as he put his pinky up to the 'mouth' of his helmet. Kallen burst out laughing, she loved that movie. She crawled sexily across the table to sit in his lap. Zero was taken aback by her sudden movement. He wrapped his arms around her waist as she straddled him.
"So…everyone's talking about us…" she whispered into the side of his mask. Inwardly Lelouch frowned, this was technically cheating right?
"About that. You're marrying Lelouch. We cannot be together." He said firmly.
"I know that…but I…." she paused as tears began to form in her eyes.
'Why? Why is it that I can't love just one of them!' she thought as her hands covered her face.
Lelouch felt a pang of guilt, he didn't mean to make her cry. He pushed her off of his lap and she sat to his side. She snuggled into him from the side and sighed deeply.
"Kallen, I promise that everything will be okay in the end."
"How do you know that?" she said as she weakly slapped his chest with an open palm. He chuckled.
"You'll see." He reassured her.
"I'm going to go record the public video for your ransom now." He said as he stood up and straightened himself up. Kallen stayed lying face down in the spot he'd just been sitting in.
XxXxX
"This is Zero of the Black Knights. We have your damsel in distresss, Kallen Statfeld. We demand a ransom of a sum of money. Contact us before midnight tomorrow or else we will KILL Kallen Statfeld!"
The Ashford council sat at a large round table as they replayed the video over and over again; pondering their situation.
"Well, we have three options. One is to contact Zero, discuss the ransom and just pay it. Two is to let it go and let them kill her…" The older man said.
"….and plan three sir?" a younger executive asked nerviously.
"Fight him." The room went silent. "Now since there are seven of us, I propose a vote on which of the three we do. All in favor of fighting Zero and the Black Knights to win Statfeld back say I-"
"Why on earth should we worry about a single student! I know she goes to this school, but this is terrorism we're dealing with here! We're in NO position to be dealing this this! We need to report this to the Brittanian army!" the young executive said harshly.
"Jameson, you will hold your tongue unless it is to vote. I do not recall having said an option four in which we call the police. Now sit down!" Mr. Ashford said sternly then cleared his throat.
"Now then, the reason we are going through such a great length to get Ms. Statfeld back is because she is engaged to Lelouch Vi Brittania. If we make any sort of decision that puts his fiancé in a bad position, he will drop us like a rock! Lelouch came to us as a young child asking for housing after abandoning his royal throne. He promised that we'd get nobility once he retook his throne. Do you want to lose that Jameson?" the older man spoke with a strong voice.
"N-no sir…I was not aware that Kallen Statfeld was to be wed to Lelouch-Oujosama….I withdraw my opinion." Jameson sat down and went silent.
"All in favor of fighting Zero and risking death, say I."
The room was silent.
"All in favor of Kallen dying and us losing everything, say I."
The room remained silent.
"All in favor of paying the ran-"
"I!" the entire room shouted.
"Okay then, let's give this Zero a call shall we?" he picked up the phone and dialed the number that appeared on the bottom of the video recording.
XxXxX
The phone line that Lakshata set up for the ransom began to ring. C.C. was the first to respond and picked up the phone.
"Hello, you have called the Black Knights drive-in, how may I take your order?" she said sarcastically.
"C.C.!" Zero roared from behind her and she casually handed him the phone.
"I apologize Mr. Ashford. C.C. is a new Black Knight. I take it that you're ready to talk about the ransom." Zero tried to calm himself, the nerve of C.C…..
C.C., Kallen and Ougi sat back and waited in another room as Zero finished making arrangements with the head of Ashford Academy. When Zero hung up and came back into the room where everyone was waiting after what seemed to be an hour Kallen was the first to speak.
"What was the stipulation? What're they paying for me." She asked as she stood next to him.
"Information." He said flatly. On the outside Zero looked calm and collected, but on the inside he was a raging mess.
"What information?" Kallen asked as she crossed her legs.
"I can't explain it to you with everyone else around. Kallen would you come with me into my quarters?" he offered.
"S-sure…" she stood up and eyed him suspiciously, but she complied and followed him into the room he stayed in while he spent the night at the base.
"So what's going on?" she asked cautiously as she sat down.
"Bad news."
"How bad?"
"You and Lelouch are in dire danger."
"How so?" she screeched as she sat upright.
"I've been researching why the king hasn't killed Prince Lelouch yet. Why he let him just escape and become a commoner. It made no sense, not a shred. I now have that answer."
Kallen braced herself for the horrifying news that Lelouch had a sniper constantly pointed at his head or that the king had plans to execute Lelouch at any given moment.
"The king is waiting for Lelouch to marry a woman and produce a child with her. He will kill Lelouch and his woman then take the child in as a lost heir to the throne. He plans to brainwash the child and make he or she take over the world in his stead. Him doing this also makes me think that the king fears his death is impending." Zero explained as calmly as possible, but was still unable to control the feelings welling up inside of him.
"So…..if me and Lelouch have a child….he'll take it away?" she spoke sadly, her voice was full of fear and sorrow.
"Yes. "
"Then I'll just not get pregnant. I'll start secretly taking birth control. Or better yet, not sleep with him." She suggested. Lelouch's eyebrows quirked.
"No, no! You don't' have to refrain yourself from him! Just…the birth control idea sounded better."
"Why does it sound like you're encouraging me to have sex with Lelouch?" she frowned.
"No! Not that either! Don't you think it'd be odd to be married to a woman who refuses to have sex with you? You'll need to find a way to make sure you don't get pregnant without him knowing that you're not trying to." He sighed as he dodged another bullet.
"Why can't I just tell him I don't want kids yet and just use a condom?" she suggested again. Once again, Lelouch's hormones kicked in.
"Condoms are unreliable, they break easily. Just stick to the birth control idea."
"Oookay then." She gave him a funny look then dismissed it.
"How much longer until the wedding?" he asked trying to change the subject.
"Two weeks and the Cinderella play, that you promised me that you'd attend, is in a week." She crossed her arms.
"Oh yeah, there's that play too…."
Once their conversation was over Kallen changed back into her street clothes and walked back to her and Lelouch's house.
XxXxX
She paused once she reached the front door.
'Really? Is this serious?' she thought as she read a note on the door.
"Welcome home Kallen! Come inside for your very own "YOU'RE NOT DEAD!" party!"
She was tempted to turn on her heel and walk back to the hide out.
Suddenly the door swung open and Shirley practically attacked her with a massive hug. Soon Milly, Nina, Rivalz and Suzaku were joining in on the hug group.
"Okay, yeah I'm alive. Please let me go!" Kallen pleaded as she struggled to escape from her 'friend's' grasp.
"Let's go party!" Milly exclaimed as she pushed Kallen inside and thrusted her in the direction of the living room couch.
"Oh Kallen! You and Lulu's house is so big! Why'd you get a house this big for just two people?" Shirley tried to take in the full depth of the house, but was unable to imagine just how many rooms it had.
"Well, the house was given to us by Milly's grandfather as a wedding gift. We didn't pick it out really…." Kallen explained as she readjusted herself on the couch.
"So we couldn't help but notice that you guys aren't done decorating, so we did some for you!" Milly pointed out. Kallen's eyes went from the couch she was sitting on, to the freshly painted walls and then to the new white carpet.
"Wow! Thank you guys!" Kallen's eyes went wide with amazement, these clowns did a good job!
"Come into the kitchen for cake guys!" said an all too familiar voice. Kallen whipped her head around and was met with the site of Lelouch in an icing caked apron. Everyone giggled at Lelouch girly appearance.
"When did you get here Lelouch? I thought you said you were going to be very late." Milly asked as she eyed him suspiciously.
"Oh….like five minutes ago. I walked in the back door because I didn't want to ruin any surprises. I had forgotten to ice the cake so I figured I'd do that now." He explained with an innocent smile. Kallen smirked, was he really male?
"Kallen, I was so worried!" he ran over to her and hugged her tightly.
Once they'd finished eating cake, celebrating the fact that Zero didn't murder Kallen and help clean the house up a bit more they left. Kallen and Lelouch were left by themselves in a giant, empty house.
Kallen and Lelouch were now up in their room doing home work. Kallen was busy typing away on the computer while Lelouch laid on the bed propped up with a pillow scribbling in his notebook. He was only pretending to do homework.
"Hey Lelouch..." Kallen looked up from her laptop.
"Hm?" he mumbled from the pillow.
"Did...you know that when Zero danced with me at the Valanche party he stepped on my feet. I found it to be the funniest thing." Kallen glanced over at him knowingly. Lelouch looked absolutely horrified for a split second.
'Did Kallen find out?' Lelouch thought as he eyed her suspiciously. Kallen gave him a sinister grin, knowing she'd hit him hard.
'Oh...fuck...' Lelouch swallowed the lump in his throat.
"Kallen….." his voice grew to a dangerous level. "What're you getting at?"
"Oh nothing, just…you stepped on my feet too. Thought you'd get a kick out of knowing you and Zero dance alike!" she giggled. Lelouch let out a relieved sigh and flopped his head back onto the pillow.
"Very funny….." he mumbled.
"Oh, did I depress you now?" she whispered huskily. Lelouch recognized this voice pitch well, she was in the mood.
"I was, for like a second. Are you wanting to apologize now?" he said back as he flipped over on his back. She crawled over to him and sat next to him. He pulled her down onto him so that their lips met and meshed together. He sat up and then pushed her down so that they switched roles, but did it without breaking the kiss. They made love as Kallen and Lelouch for the first time.
(((Sorry, I don't feel like spending two hours to write a decent porn scene right now. I'll owe you guys one later in the story I guess! Lelouch is aware that Kallen plans to start taking birth control ASAP and isn't too worried. Yes, I am aware that BC takes weeks to work correctly though, but Kallen and Lelouch don't know that!)))
After their romantic moment Kallen decided to take a nap while Lelouch cleaned things up and prepared for dinner. He walked into the storage room looking for spare boxes when his eyes laid upon his equipment for the Black Knights box. He panicked, picked it up and quickly began looking for a hiding place for it. He ran from floor to floor to room to room in search for a decent hiding place. He came across the attic stairs and smirked.
'Why would Kallen ever go up here?' he thought victoriously.
He opened one of the locking cabinets inside of the attic and shoved it in there and locked it. He put the key in his jacket pocket and walked back down to the top floor. He peeked his head inside the door to check on Kallen. She was sound asleep and his heart rate slowed down. He walked non-chalantly back down the stairs to the store room to continue looking for a spare box.
Kallen's eyes popped open and she sat up.
'What was in that black box Lelouch was hiding?' she thought suspiciously as she stood up and walked out of the bedroom.
She tip toed up the stairs and into the attic where she began looking around. She looked through half empty box after another and even looked under floor boards. She found nothing and she was about to give up, but then her eyes fell on the little cabinet in the far corner. She walked over to it and pulled on the door handle. It wouldn't budge and she pulled harder. She finally noticed the keyhole where it locked and frowned. She was certain that Lelouch had the key. She froze when she heard foot steps leading up the stairs and enclosing on the upper floor. She quickly, but quietly, dashed down the stairs and back into the bedroom where she sat innocently on the bed.
"Kallen, are you awake? I heard a loud sound. Are you okay?" he asked as he stood in the doorway. Kallen eyed him up and down and saw over four pockets where the key could have of been.
"Y-yeah, I fell off the bed so I woke up. I'm fine." She lied and stretched her arms and legs. Lelouch sighed in relief and sat down on the bed next to her. Suddenly Lelouch's cellphone began to ring and he answered it quickly.
"Hello?" he answered cautiously. Kallen laid back on the bed and rolled over onto her side.
"Understood, I'm on my way." He closed his phone and put it in his pocket.
"Kallen, will you stay here for the night? Nunnally is in the hospital again. I want to spend the night with her there."
"Wha? What's wrong with her?" Kallen became worried.
"She's just having bronchitis symptoms. They're just holding her there to keep her under watch." He explained.
"Okay." She agreed and sat back up.
"I'm going to change clothes and I'll be back around noon tomorrow okay?"
"Okay." She repeated quietly.
"Is something wrong Kallen?" he asked sensing her discomfort.
"Y-yeah! I'm just tired still. I think I'll….go hang out with Shirley and Milly today or something!" she tried to sound cheerful, but Lelouch knew better.
Lelouch changed clothes and left the bedroom and closed the door. He grit his teeth in distress.
'How am I supposed to get the Black Knight supply box out of the attic without Kallen seeing it?' he thought while biting his lower lip. He had to abandon the box and leave immediately without it. He would rather go without it than have Kallen catch him with it and have to explain why he had a box full of Black Knight supplies.
After he left Kallen made a dash for the jacket that Lelouch has tossed off and searched the pockets. Much to her disappointment the pockets were completely empty. She decided that whatever was in there wasn't important and that she should just give up.
Lelouch was on his motorcycle half way down the street from the house when a thought dawned on him.
'If I call Kallen as Zero and tell her that she's needed at the base, she'll leave the house and I can get the box!' he pulled out his Zero cell phone and called Kallen.
"Q-1! We need you at the base immediately!" he commanded.
"Yes sir!" she replied quickly and began to prepare herself.
Lelouch turned his motorcycle off to the side of the road and into some brush and waited for Kallen to run by before going back to the house. Within five minutes Lelouch saw Kallen's red hair run by quickly in the direction of the hide out and he safely drove back to the house. He ran back inside the house and straight up to the attic and unlocked the cabinet. He pulled out the black trunk and lugged it downstairs. As he was passing by the bedroom something caught his eye.
"Kallen...?" Lelouch asked as he peeked inside the small room. Kallen's heart stopped dead in her chest.
"Kallen...why're you wearing a Black Knight uniform?" Lelouch asked as he faked incredibly worry.
'It must've been a different redhead that ran by me earlier…damnit!' Lelouch though angrily, he was aggravated at himself for letting such a silly detail pass him by.
'Shit! It's over! It's all over!' Kallen thought, tears threatened to fall from her eyes. 'I'm sorry Lulu...I'm sorry it has to be this way. I can't let you...find Zero!' Kallen thought mournfully as she pulled her gun out at him.
"K-kallen?" Lelouch panicked for real, what if she really did shoot Lelouch in to protect Zero and herself?
"I...I didn't want this...but Lelouch...turn around and put your hands behind your head. I'm going to handcuff you. I'm officially taking you as a hostage of Zero." she said solemnly. Lelouch cooperated and turned around.
'Shit! This isn't good!' he cursed madly inside his head. 'Why is she changing into her uniform here? Why not do it at the base like always?'
She placed the handcuffs on him in tears and pulled him by the hair to stand back up on his feet.
"Kallen, why?" he asked through a fear shook voice.
"I'm so sorry….you know I'm half Japanese ….this is my resolve!" she held him by the hair with one hand and put get gun down with the other. She pulled out her cellphone and called the base.
"This is Q-1, we have a security breach. I need a transportation unit to come pick me and a hostage up." She called out over the phone.
"I knew." He whispered. Her eyes opened wide. What did he just say?
"I knew you were up to something from the moment I first met you."
"H-how?" she pulled the gun back out on him.
"Staying out late, coming home at random times, being sick only when you need to be. It all makes sense now." He told her with a solemn voice.
Within minutes a Black Knight vehicle pulled up to the house and Kallen hauled Lelouch into it.
"So it was your fiancé who found out? I knew you being engaged to a Brittanian filth was a mistake." Ougi sighed as they pulled away from the house.
"Indeed, it was." Kallen agreed while holding her eyes deadlocked with Lelouch's. Lelouch knew that Kallen was just playing her cards, but the comment still stung badly.
"Do you really dislike me Kallen?" he asked as tears began to form in the brim of his eyes.
"No. I just can't be with a Brittanian man. I…..I'll always care about you, but I will never-"
"Kallen, we have a problem!" Ougi suddenly yelled from the front seat.
"What's wrong?"
"The base is being invaded and Zero-sama is nowhere to be found! He was supposed to be there giving orders!"
"What? He just called me from the base, he was just there!" she pulled out her phone and checked the call. "Yeah, it's his 'at base' phone."
"Shit!" Ougi cursed. "Well we can't go back to that one. We'll have to go to the main base in Shinjuku."
"Good idea." Kallen nodded and Ougi sped off in that direction.
"So how did this guy breach out security exactly?" Ougi asked once he got onto the highway.
"Lelouch saw me changing into my Black Knight outfit after Zero called me. Lelouch, why did you come back to the house anyways? I thought you left for the hospital."
"I came back for….a bag that has all of my gifts from Nunnally." He lied. He prayed that she wouldn't go back to the house and find what's really inside of it though. "Every gift that Nunnally has ever given me was inside of it, and like an idiot I left it at the house before I left."
"Oh….well, I'm sorry it has to be like this. I'm sorry you had to find out." She turned away from him, unable to look him in the face any longer. "I'm sorry I can't be with you anymore, I don't love you, but I like you. I just hope the punishment Zero will give you won't be death…."
'It's a lie! It's a goddamn lie! I love you Lelouch…..I want to-' her train of thought was disturbed by Ougi pulled harshly into the main base and into a garage.
"Alright, take him to the interview chamber and we'll question him. I'll go see if I can contact the secondary base." Ougi said and took off.
Kallen grabbed Lelouch by the arm and held the gun to his head. She lead him into the base where they got many stares. She sat him down in a padded cell and locked the door. Lelouch sighed and flopped against the wall.
'I never dreamed I'd be thrown inside of my own prison…..' he thought ironically.
"What's with the smirk?" Kallen asked.
"Nothing, you'll find out soon why." He looked up at her with dead sincerity. Kallen squinted her eyes and turned her head slightly, this was her way of examining him.
"How soon?"
"As soon as you take a guess. You've been searching forever, all you have to do is ask and you'll find out…." He said daringly.
Kallen was about to retort, but C.C. walked up beside her and put a hand on her shoulder. Kallen jumped in surprise and C.C. whispered something into her ear. Kallen nodded and took off running. Lelouch gave C.C. a confused look, but figured that she was only trying to help him.
"So the little mouse got himself caught. What do we do about this?" she grinned wickedly.
"You could let me go." He said flatly.
"Oh! I'd be betraying the Black Knights if I did that!" she chuckled and nudged her head up at the ceiling. Lelouch looked up to see a security camera and grimaced. He'd forgotten about the cameras.
"Well, you could always summons Zero for me. That way I can explain myself and get out of here!" he smirked.
"That's a great idea, I'll go do that." She said then left the room to go get "Zero". C.C. quickly changed into the Zero outfit and made her way back to the hostage room. Somehow during the time she changed clothes the whole base was sent into an up roar.
"Zero-Sama!" Kallen's voice called out. "Lelouch escaped! I think C.C. left the door unlocked when she left to go get you!"
"Why would he try to escape? I was coming right back to let him go." C.C. said as she pulled off her mask.
"C.C.?" Kallen looked perplexed.
"Yeah, in case you haven't noticed, the real Zero is missing. Calm down, I know where he is. I'm filling in for him for now. I need you to do me a favor and tell the other Black Knights to let Lelouch go free. Better yet, you be the one to capture him and escort him out." She commanded her.
"Wait, why're we letting him go?" Kallen's eyes went wide.
"Zero has set in order that if Lelouch is ever captured that we mustn't injure or imprison him." She said flatly and put the helmet back on.
"Why though? That doesn't make any sense. Won't Lelouch rat on us to the army?" Kallen's eyes were full of fear at this point. Would Lelouch betray her?
"No, Lelouch loves you far too much to tell the army that you're a Black Knight. Kallen, I've met the guy in person, he's madly in love with you. He'd rather take his life than expose you. Now capture him and bring him back to your house. I'll take care of things here." C.C. turned to walk away, but Kallen caught the edge of the cloak.
"Wait! Where is Zero?" Kallen asked.
"At home." C.C. then continued to walk away, probably heading to the control room.
Kallen turned on her heel and began running in the other direction where Lelouch was last seen. She caught up with a group of Black Knights that were yelling and running through the hallways. She yelled out to them, but they clearly didn't hear her. A scuffling sound to her right caught her attention and she looked in that direction. She saw Lelouch running down the hall with his hand cuffed in front of him. She almost called out to him, but another group of Black Knights rounded the hall and cut him off. They would of caught him had it not of been for Kallen running over and standing between them.
"Guys stop! Zero has ordered us to-"
"Hey, the runt is getting away!" A Black Knight said then brushed passed Kallen to pursuit Lelouch who had begun running away again. Kallen sighed and chased him again. This time Lelouch was cornered and several Black Knights were surrounding him prepared to beat him to a lifeless corpse.
"Get away from him!" Kallen called out, but their cheers and hollers overpowered Kallen's voice. She did a run and jump tackle on one of the Black Knight men and he fell over with her on top of him.
"What's the big idea Kallen?" he scoffed out.
"Zero ordered us to let him go! If you guys weren't so one minded you'd of heard me say so earlier!" she hissed.
"Oh, well if he is to be released then why is he running away?"
"No idea, but we need to alert him that we're not going to imprison him again." She said and then took off in Lelouch's direction again.
'So Zero is so positive that Lelouch loves me too much to turn me in that he's willing to let him go free? Zero is the best tactical predictor ever, why would he put so much faith in Lelouch who is an ex-prince? Something's not right about this." Kallen thought as he rounded another corner to find a dead end.
'I swore he went this way! Wait….the ceiling…' she looked up to see that the ceiling board was misplaced and a whole large enough to fit a human body was exposed. She jumped up, grabbed the ledge and hoisted herself inside elegantly.
There were only two directions Lelouch could've gone; left or right. Kallen at random picked left based solely upon the fact that both left and Lelouch start with the letter L. This was a very weak tactic, but she had nothing else to go on. After crawling through the ceiling's air vents for over ten minutes she finally found a pair of discarded handcuffs. She continued her path until she peeked her head around a corner to see Lelouch kneeling down in front of a whole in the ceiling. He was looking down at the work room where all the transportation vehicles here stored. It was a good twenty foot drop, but Lelouch had no other choice as the air vent dead ends at that point.
Her heart leapt into her throat as she witnessed Lelouch stick one leg out and prepare to jump. She rushed over and tackled him and pushed him away from the whole.
"Ughn!" he grunted as she landed on top of him.
"Lelouch! Stop running, we're letting you go!" she said quickly to prevent him from trying to escape again.
"Y-you are? But why?" he asked.
"Zero-sama's orders. He said you wouldn't turn me in so there's no point. Is it true? Can I trust you not to turn me in?" she pleaded.
"Yes, but I highly doubt you'll still marry me now that I know you're a Black Knight." He turned his face away to hide the grin. "You even said it yourself that you were disgusted by me." He faked agony.
"Th-that's….not true though." She whispered softly. A single tear fell down her right cheek and she wiped it away quickly. "I love you."
He looked back at her with a slightly surprised and delighted expression, this time it wasn't fake. "I love you too, Kallen Kouzuki."
Their lips met for a brief moment, but they were quickly cut off by an odd sound.
"What's that sound?" he asked. She shrugged and before they knew it the ceiling's air vent's structured panels collapsed under their weight and they were sent falling twenty feet down onto a canvas covered truck. Luckily they weren't hurt because the canvas was very soft.
They were quickly released and Kallen was ordered to escort Lelouch home. He made damn sure to grab the black suitcase containing the Zero suit before Kallen noticed it. She left again to go help the main base that was under attack and Lelouch left to fulfill his Zero duties.
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Bolmung LK: I can't tell anymore….am I still doing this right? I think I've forgotten how to write this! If you chose to review please tell me if I've still got the magic touch! *cries*