rakuen | Returning memories

Characters: Lelouch vi Britannia, Suzaku Kururugi
Format: Prosey
This log is: closed
Location: Lelouch's dorm room
Summary: Lelouch gets some memories back and finds out that yes, he can have the wool pulled over his eyes more than once.
Warnings: Maniacal laughter.

Impatient was an understatement. After the recent round of conflicts with Gino following his recovered memories, Lelouch was determined to regain his own. So he actually started going to class, and participating, flawlessly answering the teachers' questions to gather together some tokens. He wouldn't have been adverse to battling for them, but there weren't any Players this round that could fight and that he could trust. So he chose this route. It was a useful expedient, at least.

So he led Suzaku into his dorm, and he took a seat at the edge of his bed. Suzaku had told him about what had happened to Gino, so doing this here seemed the best option. He reached into his pocket, and pulled out a small bundle twisted up in a handkerchief. He opened it up into his palm, and looked at them. One of these stood a good chance at being the missing pieces that Gino held over him. Or maybe them both together. "If I look like I'm going to pass out, don't let me drop them," he instructed Suzaku. The last thing he wanted was to have to do it twice.

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Suzaku followed Lelouch into the room, he had been surprised when Lelouch suddenly started turning up to every class and had been suspicious when he had participated, answering every question posed, he had never done that not even in Ashford. He had kept his head down and tried not to draw attention to himself. Suzaku had grown suspicious but his reasons when asked had made perfect sense.

Of course Lelouch would want to earn tokens to get memories back. He stood next to Lelouch and nodded once at his words, and watched wondering what he would regain.

Without further preamble, he picked one up between his fingers and closed his eyes. In his mind there was an image of Nunnally, eyes wide as she watched one of the cooks at Aries cook what was to be her favorite for the first time: pancakes. Another image of her smiling with a pair on her plate at their breakfast table at Ashford.

A slow, fond smile came on his face. "I'll have to make pancakes for Nunnally," he finally said. "I'd forgotten they were her favorite." Something so simple, but all of what he knew of Nunnally was dear to him, so while he was still angry that it had been missing, he was glad that it was returned. He clipped it to his bracelet next to the one Euphemia had left behind.

Suzaku watched carefully, hoping it wasn't like what Gino had described, so many memories to make him almost pass out. He also was a little worried that Lelouch would remember something that would make him angry at Suzaku. But Suzaku couldn't think of anything, but there was that fuzziness. Fuzziness that began evertime he tried to think of how Lelouch had gotten from exiled prince to in the world of C becoming the emperor.

He gave a small smile though when Lelouch spoke, Nunnally's faverite food. Suzaku smiled, "She will be happy you have remembered."

He passed a smile back to his friend and he looked back down at the other. There was much he stood to gain, so he decided to handle this a bit more seriously.

When he picked up the second, his eyes squeezed shut and he grunted, lurching forward as though he'd just been punched in the gut. He dropped the handkerchief in his other hand, and put his fingers to his temple. This one was a much more extensive memory than the last. The scenes that played back in his mind were of himself and Rolo, fixing finally on the first time they'd seen each other following C.C. unlocking his memories. No, no, no, Rolo was not his brother. He never had been and he never would be. He was attempting to take Nunnally's place, there as an insurance policy to keep Zero from ever rising again. The entire Student Council's memories had been modified accordingly, save Nina and Suzaku.

Suzaku frowned concerned, he stepped closer, half to do as Lelouch had asked and make sure the memory didn't fall out of his hand half to check if his friend was alright. "What is it?" He put his hand on Lelouch's shoulder, forgetting or not caring that last time he had done this to someone regaining a memory he had gotten punched in the face.

But eventually he settled down, though he didn't move for a moment. His shoulders, did. They shook a bit, in a slow rhythm. Lelouch couldn't believe it. Twice. Twice, someone had been able to convince him that little waste of a Geass was his brother. And twice he'd fallen for it. And that kid had just let him carry that sorry delusion without correction, too. There had never been a moment where something Rolo said made him conclude that Emperor had changed that in his memory. Oh, no, Rolo had every intention of maintaining that facade. It was a shame Rolo wasn't here for him to share this delightful news with.

A low chuckle came from deep in Lelouch's chest in rhythm with his shaking shoulders. Slowly, the chuckle came more rapid, building in pitch. He lifted his head, but his hand remained on his face for a moment. Past his hair, his eyes shot open, into a perfect picture of madness. His laughter built and built until it was at an octave one would not have expected to come from his typically lower voice. He was loud enough for someone in the next room to hear, and possibly directly below them as well.

Suzaku stood awkwardly waiting for Lelouch to tell him what was wrong but instead Lelouch started to laugh, it wasn't happy laughter. It didn't even sound human, Suzaku stepped back a few paces. He had never seen Lelouch like this before. Had he? Fuzziness filled his head and Suzaku tried to think through it, the laughter was making him uncomfertable. It was wrong, strange and...

And what? His head was filled with mist and he just wanted to get out of the room, away from Lelouch because that laughter...

The fuzziness was starting to make him feel sick, nothing was touching his memories enough to make him remember and then forget but it was close but he couldn't think through the mist and why was Lelouch laughing like that.

What had he remembered that was so bad? Suzaku didn't leave but he didn't move back to Lelouch's side, instead he stood a few paces away wondering if the laughter, the madness was ever going to pass.

It did eventually pass, and Lelouch's fist that had curled around the charm unfurled. He took it in his other hand and attached it to his bracelet at the opposite end of the line of charms from where he'd placed Nunnally's. Then he looked up, a dangerous, smirking look on his face. But it wasn't directed at Suzaku. It would have been truly dangerous for a certain blond boy.

"Rolo never has been my brother," he stated. He remembered now, being held down before the emperor by a member of the Knight of Rounds, one eye covered, the other held open, to accept his memory modifications. He stood, still appearing to be on the edge of a dark madness. He pushed a chunk of hair from in front of his face, and lowered his hand again. "I will have to thank him later for his due diligence." For the moment, he was the demon that he would make his people fear.

And then all at once the madness passed, the fogginess and confusion began to lift from Suzaku's mind and he watched as Lelouch clipped the memory charm calmly to his bracelet.

Suzaku frowned, going cold. He knew that Rolo wasn't Lelouch's brother, he had known that Lelouch had forgotten that because of the way he had acted around Rolo when he had been here. Rolo had just been a scheme, sent in to control Lelouch after...

After what? Why would Lelouch had a false sibling, mist flooded Suzaku's mind again and he tried to shake it away. He had never cared for Rolo at all but seeing the look on Lelouch's face he was suddenly glad that the young assasain had disapeared from this school.

He stayed quiet though, just nodded once.

He ran a hand down the front of his uniform to smooth it again. His look returned to something resembling his usual bored aloofness. He returned Suzaku's nod. "We need to return to our mission of bringing this program down. I want to begin by gaining access to that building that is boarded in the center of the campus. Speak to Ms. Himoto or any of the young ladies in her care and find out what they know. They will be invaluable in our efforts."

Suzaku watched as Lelouch calmed down, it was just another reason they had to get out of here. To get out and finish Zero Requiem, to stop these things happening. He ignored the fuzz and concentrated on what Lelouch was saying. Suzaku nodded, though he was not sure how useful Sora would be when it came to knowing what buildings were. After all he wasn't certain that this school was laid out in the same way as her old one, she was forever getting lost.

But it would not hurt to try, Suzaku nodded. "Yes my lord."

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