[Backdated to day 3 morning] Disappearing friends [closed]

[swordofzero]

Characters: Suzaku Kururugi, Sora Himoto, Lelouch vi Britannia
Format: Prose
This log is: closed
Location: Red dorm then Black dorm
Summary: Suzaku finds out that Euphie is gone :C and freaks out, finds Sora who has learnt that Yuki is gone :C and freaks out and then they go to find Lelouch who has found out that Rolo is gone :C and wont be freaking out (outwardly anyways) because he's Lelouch.
Warnings: Copious amounts of angst (what can I say? Angst is fun!)

Euphemia had not been at breakfast, well Suzaku did not think she had been at breakfast. She hadn't came and talked to him anyways, she usually did because she knew that Suzaku didn't recognise her so couldn't approach her. He had even asked a few people who he knew knew her and none of them had seen her.

He had asked Mei who had told him that Euphemia hadn't been in bed when Mei had woken. That was strange and so Suzaku was entering Red Dorm to see if she had returned to her room. He knew something was up the moment he entered, it was empty. He moved over to Euphemia's bed there were two objects on it, a charm that Suzaku recognised as a memory charm and a ring. Suzaku went cold and hoping that this didn't mean what he thought it might. Feeling slightly worried he opened the cupboard above the bed, it was empty.

She was not the first one, which was why Suzaku had guessed, people had been disapearing all week. He had seen the girl who dissapeared before everyones eyes in the tournament. All Euphie's things were gone, there was a charm and a ring on her bed....

It hit him... Euphemia was gone... he sat down heavily. He was trembling, she couldn't be gone... she couldn't be... She had been here yesterday, they had spoken and now...

Absantly he picked up the charm, all at once he wasn't in the room in the Red dorm but outside, on grass. Lelouch was there, younger than he had been when Suzaku had met him, and Nunnally, Nunnally walking towards another girl who it took Suzaku a moment to realise was Cornelia, a child Cornelia. They laughed and all of a suddon Suzaku was back in the Red Dorm.

Euphie was gone, yet the charm he was holding in his hand, that was part of her. Her memory, it was in his mind now, like his own memories. Trembling he picked up the ring, it had a symbol on it but he didn't know what it meant. He slipped it on to his finger anyways, it was Euphies. And Euphy was gone.

He was still numb; he had lost Euphemia before and this time she had just disapeared, it was still unreal to him, he stumbled out the room and through the partly opened door into the room oposite saw a flash of red hair. Sora.

"Sora... Euphie, she's gone..." He didn't know why he blurted it out at her, just he knew her and she was there and he had to tell somebody. He blinked away tears.

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[swordofzero]

Suzaku stood silently so many people had disapeared and he wasn't as sure as Sora that they had simply gone home. Surely if people were escaping those that kept them here would have done something by now. They wern't leaving, they were just blinking out of existance, like the girl in the tournament ring. The school obviously knew about it because they had mentioned that some people had left and left some things behind.

What if they were taking them from here to be part of another experiment? Suzaku did not voice his thoughts outloud because he did not want to worry Sora.

He nodded at her words but felt another wave of sadness, because even if he managed to escape and get back home he would never see Euphemia again. He didn't say that either because he didn't want to heap more sadness onto Sora.

"I'm glad you met her too, and I am glad I met Yuki..." His voice caught again and his hand trembled on Sora's shoulder. He didn't cry though, he wanted to but tears didn't come.

[allurprincess]

"Yeah..." Sora half-turned and stood, so she was facing Suzaku with his hand still held in hers. "Thanks, Suzaku," she hesitated for bare seconds, because whilst she desperately wanted to go and find the others, she shouldn't just leave him. And without her memories, she'd never find anyone alone. An idea struck, and she nodded to herself. "Let's go to Black dorm? Lelouch will be there."

[swordofzero]

Suzaku managed a half smile and then nodded sadly. They should go and find Lelouch and tell him about Euphemia's disapearance. Silently and without taking his hand out of Sora's, because she was still distressed he led the way to Black dorm and Lelouch's room.

[veepofchess]

Lelouch had already discovered Rolo's disappearance by the time the pair of knights arrived. He was standing near his desk, adjusting his uniform collar. While he looked unmoved, his mind was a tumult. Rolo's memory hung on his bracelet with his own and ring placed alongside his own. He would gladly carry them in tribute to his brother. His young brother, corrupted and turned into an assassin by the empire. Just another sin he knew they would answer for.

He looked to them when they entered. "Suzaku, Sora," stated coldly as a greeting. Suzaku would recognize the excessive chill as a mask for something else bothering him.

[swordofzero]

"Lelouch," Suzaku's voice was stronger now. He had managed to pull his emotions together as they walked, he glanced at Sora with a worried frown. He recognised this tone of Lelouch's; something had happened, something bad.

Suzaku let go of Sora's hand and crossed over the room to stand next to Lelouch, "What happened?"

[veepofchess]

He smirked slightly. "Rolo has gone." He said simply. Of course Suzaku saw through him. He gestured to the boy's unused bed. "But why are you here?" They usually met up later on in the day.

[allurprincess]

"Rolo-- Your friend?" Sora joined them unselfconsciously, glancing over at the empty bed. She remembered a quiet boy at mealtimes, always with Lelouch or watching him. A boy who looked so much like Shoujou that she'd almost gone to speak to him several times before she realised her mistake. He'd seemed nice. "So many people..." Ah, but Lelouch wouldn't know. She took his hand in hers with all the implacable sympathy of a friendly hurricane. No resisting, no mercy. All the sympathy. "Lelouch, Yuki and Euphie are gone too."

[veepofchess]

"My brother," he corrected quickly. But at the news, his look hardened. He was furious at being teased with the presence of the dearly departed only to have them taken from him again. "And Nunnally?" He pulled his hand out of Sora's. While he had no reason to mistrust her, she was an outsider all the same.

[swordofzero]

Suzaku frowned; Rolo was gone as well. Someone else who was actually dead, who had been brought here through whatever strange means the kidnappers had found and who had now dissapeared. "I'm sorry Lelouch," he did not make any mention of the fact that Rolo wasn't actually Lelouch's brother, Lelouch would just forget it again and it didn't really matter. Rolo was gone as was Euphemia and Yuki. Even if they had somehow gotten back to the world they were meant to be in; both Euphemia and Rolo were dead...

At least he could reasure Lelouch of one thing though, he shook his head, "No I saw Nunnally at breakfast," from a distance but she had seemed fine, "She is still here," for now anyways. He watched Lelouch carefully knowing that he was much more angry and upset then he was letting on.

DON'T MOVE, I'M TAGGING WITH KOTAROU NEXT

[allurprincess]

Sora looked between the two of them for the moment, the need to find Koharu and Tomoko pulsing hot within her. They'd be okay now they were together, right? And she wanted answers. Where could she-- Ah!

"I'm going to ask at the desk," Sora announced, all of a sudden. "Suzaku, Lelouch, don't worry, okay? I'll definitely find out what happened!"

And whoosh, with a final brave smile and burst of radiated belief in herself and everyone around her, she was off.

TAG TEAM GO

[tenwholeryou]

And as she left, the knight nearly mowed down Kotarou. He stopped in the doorway and flinched, and she spun around him with a "Sorry!" and a flare of scarlet hair. For a moment, he stared after her and grumbled, still braced for the collision that never came, and then a glance at his cupped hands reminded him why he was here. Suzaku hadn't been in their room. That meant he'd probably be in the room opposite, with him. He gave Lelouch a sulky look of kiddy dislike, and ran up to the knight instead.

"Ichi's gone!" He held out the two pieces of jewellery in his hands, "See? These were on her bed! What's going on?"

[swordofzero]

Suzaku nodded at Sora, he did not think that the people at the desk would tell her anything but it was worth a try he supposed, he managed a small sad smile and then turned back to Lelouch but looked back around a moment later to see Kotarou enter.

Another one... more sadness flickered across Suzaku's face. Where were they all going? What had happened? He looked down at the objects in Kotarou's hands and shook his head slightly. "Sorry Kotarou, I don't know. She's just gone... Did you see the girl at the tournament, like that..." Suzaku had not seen that actually, he had left with the Guren pilot and Gino by that time but he had heard about it.

"I'm sorry... Is Huashi alright, have you seen her today?" So many people had gone, Suzaku glanced back at Lelouch.

[veepofchess]

He didn't look fazed by Kotarou's disdainful look and subsequent snub. But he was definitely considering what the boy had to say. Rolo, Euphemia, Molly, Road, Ichi, and Yuki. Did they have anything in common? Was it a trick of the hologram system? Or did whatever bring them here send them back, intentionally or otherwise?

"What's been left behind is a memory charm and one of her upgrades," he explained to the boy. The usual edge of arrogance wasn't in his voice, and he sounded downright sympathetic to what the boy was going through. The look on his face was still stony and cold, though. "It's your decision whether you should bear them or if you believe there is someone else here Ichi would find more suitable." He saw these leavings as something of a legacy, to be carried by one most closely connected to the departed individual. Euphemia's was safe in Suzaku's care.

[tenwholeryou]

"Huashi's still eating," he said this with the utmost confidence, before Lelouch answered him and he scowled. His tone at least had Kotarou less wary, and he looked back down at the gems again with fresh surprise.

"Suitable?" His hands closed over them. "There's no-one else! I'll keep them safe for her."

[swordofzero]

Suzaku kept silent while Lelouch spoke to Kotarou and nodded when Kotarou told them he would keep the charms. He had been close to the strange woman who had lived in their dorm.

Remembering the memory that Euphemia had left behind Suzaku unclipped it and handed it to Lelouch, Suzaku would keep it but it was a memory of Lelouch and Nunnally and Suzaku didn't think that he deserved to keep it. After all Suzaku had failed Euphemia and Lelouch was her brother, the memory was more his than Suzaku's.

[veepofchess]

Lelouch understood what Suzaku was doing when he passed the charm over. He accepted it, and let the memory move into his mind. It was pleasant, indeed. He was glad that his own memories of Aries hadn't been touched. Nunnally running and laughing on the grass there. Even the events in the World of C and the truths discovered there couldn't taint this. After relishing it for a moment, he attached it to his own bracelet. He glanced over to Suzaku after he did. If he didn't object, he considered it in his keeping.

"Then they're yours to carry," he told Kotarou. "Take good care of them." He even offered a small smile. Euphemia's memory had clearly done much to improve his mood.

[swordofzero]

Suzaku didn't protest, he had already decided that Lelouch deserved the memory more than Suzaku did but it was strange that now he had let go of the charm he had no idea what that memory had been. From Lelouch's smile though it was a nice memory.

Suzaku looked back to Kotarou and nodded, "Look after them," he gave a small sad smile, Kotarou was far too young to have to deal with this, any of this.