Round 4, Day 1

[veepofchess]

Characters: Lelouch, Suzaku, anyone else
Format: Prose preferred, will match commenter
This log is: Relatively open, poke me to join
Location: Hospital wing
Summary: Lelouch finally wakes up
Warnings: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANGST

He'd slept uneventfully, only occasionally getting a bit restless in his sleep. Once or twice he could be clearly heard mutering Nunnally's name during one of these fits. But eventually, early in the morning, he finally woke up. His eyes blinked open, and he raised a hand to his forehead. He remembered keenly the searing pain as the laser had hit him, and it seemed a significant portion of that pain still remained.

He pushed himself up with his other hand, and looked around the room, expecting to see Suzaku with him. "Has it been three days?" he asked, his voice a little rough.

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[swordofzero]

Suzaku had barely moved from his post at the side of Lelouch's bed since he had arrived. At one point the nurses had ordered him to go and get showered and to eat and he had obeyed in a sort of numb, not caring manner. But since then he'd been here.

When he felt brave he snuck over to check on Enki, but for the most part he was avoiding Shoryu. This was all his fault, that they were injured, that they might not wake up.

Others had visited, Nunnally had been here a lot, but she had gone... somewhere... Suzaku hadn't really been concentrating. But the moment he saw Lelouch stir he was on his feet, "He's awake!" He called out of the door and then was back at Lelouch's side.

He nodded and then wasn't sure how well Lelouch could see, "Just about," his voice was almost breaking from relief, "you have to lie down, the doctor will be here in a moment."

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Yes, Suzaku was there. No doubt blaming himself for what happened. But it may have been worth it in the end. "What happened after I was hit?" He asked, obstinately staying semivertical. He massaged his temples with his fingers from one hand. His eyes felt sticky, which made sense since his contacts had been in for three days. He raised his other hand to remove them. They were useless anyhow, he couldn't use his Geass on purpose or otherwise.

While he didn't feel he need one, he wouldn't resist the doctor coming in, either.

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It was so strange, to see Lelouch without contacts and yet without the mark of Geass. Suzaku almost visably flinched when he was asked what happened. Because once again he had messed up, once again everything had gone so terribly wrong.

Like so much had, Suzaku found himself dispairing, how were they meant to carry out Zero Requiem and save the world when they couldn't even rescue Nunnally off Gino!

He shook his head, "It... didn't go as expected..." The doctor bustled in and Suzaku was silent while he checked on Lelouch before explaining that he should stay in a few more hours to check that there were no issues.

When he had left Suzaku continued, "Enki... Enki is unconcious too, Gino won..."

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"Dammit...." he muttered under his breath. He just had to hope that the foundation had been sufficiently laid that her faith in Gino had been shaken enough that she would no longer trust him. But that still remained to be seen.

He cooperated with the doctor, and while he didn't feel like leaving immediately, he was definitely not going to spend the rest of the day here. He had some people he needed to talk to.

"I don't understand the nature of Nunnally's weapon, but it seems my suspicions regarding Gino's claims were true. In that dream you,
Rolo, and I had, mine stopped at a certain point, but yours continued. If Gino were right, I'm certain yours would have ended much sooner." He didn't understand why the sword that was his Weapon looked the way it did. It wasn't one he'd ever seen before. Though it did remind him a bit of the clothing he'd been wearing when he arrived on the tram. The red eye motif was similar. He began to feel dizzy as one did when treading on the edge of a departed memory, only this time, it was amplified by the weakness he felt. His torso swayed suddenly. He changed his train of thought.

He did a quick calculation. "If I attend a couple classes, I should have enough tokens for another Memory charm. That is my greatest disadvantage.-- Do you know who the Players are this round?" If he'd been asleep three days, he expected the new round to have begun.

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Suzaku flinched again, it was all his fault, he should have been able to rescue Nunnally without all this trouble, without landing two friends in hospital. Apologies wouldn't cut it, Suzaku reached out to steady Lelouch. He was thinking too much, he had been in a coma he needed to rest.

Suzaku nodded, "You can attend classes when you feel better. I haven't... I haven't seen the screans yet, I can go and check if you wish?" He didn't mention that he hadn't left this room in three days.

[veepofchess]

He shook his head, and raised a hand when Suzaku reacted to his unsteadiness. He hated moments of weakness like this. He could move through this on his own. "No, not yet. We can look together, later." It wasn't that he was concerned with keeping Suzaku near as a bodyguard, but more that he didn't want to leave Suzaku by himself.

But as Lelouch saw it, he'd been asleep for three days, and thus, he'd had quite enough sleep. He pushed off the blankets and swung his feet to the floor. He wasn't sure when he'd been changed out of his uniform and into some pajamas, but he wanted the uniform back now. He cast his eyes across the room for it, and spotted a set hanging on a hook on the far wall. His Exaclan glove could even be seen beckoning from the vest's lower hip pocket.

[swordofzero]

Suzaku stepped back, he knew Lelouch's hated of weakness but it was also difficult to curb habbit and not want to help. He didn't think Lelouch should be getting up just yet but kept his mouth shut, not wanting to argue.

He stood still but alert completely expecting Lelouch to collapse again and ready for when he did.

[veepofchess]

He stood. It was a bit shaky, not normal in the least. At least for the first few steps. But soon, he forced his body to cooperate. So his stride was normal, aside from a bit of slowness as he stepped to the uniform. He pulled the glove out of the pocket and set it on the end table nearby. He started unbuttoning his pajamas and changing clothes, the process of which passed quickly and without any major incident. He looked a bit pale for the effort, though. He finished by tucking the glove away into his pocket.

"I need a list of everyone at this academy, and what their weapons are, and what they're capable of. If we're going to undo this system from within, then we're going to need every tool at our disposal. We're going to witness as many other battles as possible. I won't let this system continue for any longer than is necessary. And I won't allow Gino to be a distraction either."

[swordofzero]

While Lelouch got changed there was a knock on the door and Suzaku answered it, it was a nurse with a plate of food. By the time Suzaku had closed the door Lelouch was dressed and talking.

"I'll make one, I'll ask Sora, but it can wait while you eat." Suzaku gestured pointedly to the seat, Lelouch had been in a coma for three days, he had to eat before they did anything.

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Two could play at this game, he decided. While he straightened his hair in the mirror, he noticed the difference in his eyes. They were back to normal. But he looked at Suzaku's reflection in his mirror, a bit of a smirk playing at his lips. "Oh? And what about yourself?" If he knew Suzaku at all, it was that he hadn't left his bedside in a fit of self-pity. And it was quite difficult to tell which of the pair of them was more obstinate than the other.

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Suzaku frowned, "I'm not hungry, I'm not the one who was in coma," no I'm just the one who failed to stop Gino putting you into a coma. He looked down his chearful smile fading and tried a different tact.

"You wont be able to bring anything down if you don't eat..."

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"'An army marches on its stomach'?" he commented idly. He'd gotten to a place in another version of Earth's history where a few wars turned out quite different, especially those considering a certain French conqueror. It was interesting to say the least. It explained why the Empire did not exist in the same way in other worlds. It was just as well.

"Then I suppose we'll have to share," he said as he went back to sit on the side of the bed. He picked up the piece of toast, ripped it in half, and held the other half out to Suzaku.

[swordofzero]

Suzaku looked at Lelouch with a raised eye brow wondering where he had found that particular quote. He sighed and sat down next to Lelouch. He was too relieved that Lelouch was awake, and too mentally exhausted from the last few days to be stubborn enough to argue. He took the half of the toast and bit into it, as food hit him he realised just how hungry he was and had finished it in no time.