An Awkward meeting [Closed]

[swordofzero]

It had been a mentally exhausting day, not that Suzaku didn't usually have those but today had been especially trying. He still couldn't believe that Euphemia was alive and here, it made no sense. None at all, she had been dead a year. Suzaku, despite not wanting to, was starting to think those that were speaking of other worlds might actually be on to something. Of couse that didn't explain why Euphemia, who was dead was in this place, this world if it was a different world to his own.

He stood stiffly and nervously waiting for Gino, the Knight had not looked pleased when he had sugested this meeting and though Suzaku knew that Gino couldn't remember anything the Knight wasn't stupid. Not by a long way and so of course he had worked out that things wern't quite right.

He would want answers and Suzaku was not sure he could provide them, because he was missing memories as well and not just his family name. Still Gino had said to meet him so here he was, he stood ready waiting for his Player.

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[trollofthree]

He was right in that - Gino had never heard much about the incident. The entire thing had been hushed by the media, and, if he was brutally honest, he'd been busy at the European front back then and hadn't much cared to listen to news about the nobility. He'd heard the rumours about the 'Massacre Princess', though, but how much of that was propaganda from the Black Knights... Even when he'd been briefed about it before arriving in Area 11, the details had been few and far between.

Judging by his reaction, at least a few of those rumours were true. A Knight and his Princess, romantically involved? He could remember the derogatory comments in the hangars, but couldn't recall feeling anything other than passing interest in the stock footage of the Lancelot. It did, however, mean that his friend stood to get destroyed all over again if this turned out to be a trick.

"Thought so. Kallen said-" he looked away, recalling fragments of a conversation, and then back with a forced smile that faded too quickly. "Well, never mind. Just... be careful. She's gonna find out sooner or later, and you don't look prepared for that."

[swordofzero]

Kallen? Who was Kallen? Suzaku shrugged it off, there was no point in chasing memories, they ran away before you could pin them down properly and now he couldn't even remember the name he was trying to put a name to. He concentrated on Gino and nodded sadly. He didn't want Euphemia to find out, it was hard enough losing memories but regaining them to learn you had slaughtered thousands of innocent people. Well Suzaku did not know anyone who could cope with that. Euphemia definatly couldn't...

He didn't want to think about it and looked at Gino a haunted expression of grief on his face. "I know," he wasn't prepared, she was less prepared. But they couldn't tell her, as had just been demonstrated by Gino telling someone something they had forgotten just made them forget it again.

"She's not either... there's no way to prepare anyone for that..."

[trollofthree]

"Then there's no other option, is there?" He leaned over, and dropped one hand over Suzaku's shoulder as though it would shake him out of his cloud, "You're gonna have to follow her around and steal every memory thingy anyone gives her before she has the chance to use it."

He'd originally meant it as a joke, but by the time he'd voiced it, Gino suspected that was exactly what he was planning. Luckily, there was another option. One he'd checked himself in the rulebook over dinner. To forestall him agreeing with the first idea, he spoke in a rush.

"She's not going to let you do that, and you know it. There's another way, but you won't like it."

[swordofzero]

Suzaku blinked, well that was what he had been planning to do. Or something like that, try and prevent her from remembering because she would not be able to cope with remembering. Not to mention she was dead, how did you forget you were dead? And how did you cope with remembering it?

He sighed, it wasn't going to work Gino was right. She wouldn't let him and she would get suspicious and actively seek out memory charms to find out what he was trying to keep hidden from her. It would not work, but this other way? Suzaku looked suspicious, if Gino thought he wouldn't like it he very likely wouldn't but he needed to know anyways. "And that would be?"

[trollofthree]

"That would be... We get back all of her memories," Gino held up his other hand in front of Suzaku's face to stop him interrupting, and continued, relentlessly. "Think about it. If you lose a charm, you forget all over again. It's right there in the manual."

Or at least in one the sections of the manual he'd read so far; forgetting anything again wasn't high on his list, so the chapter on memory charms had been one of his first. "Get it? Even if she remembers for a second, as long as you can get that thing away from her, it'll be like it never happened."

[swordofzero]

Suzaku opened his mouth to protest but closed it again at Gino's gesture and listened to the other knight. He had a point, and if it was there in the rules of something that would happen... Gino had been right Suzaku didn't like it but it would work.

Controling what memories she was allowed to have seemed even worse to him than just making sure she got no charms at all, but it would be easier to do and she would only have to cope with the pain of the memory for a second and then she could forget it again...

He still didn't like it, messing with peoples memories even in just controling what charms they had was too much like Geass, too much like whoever had brought them here was doing. Still he saw no other way. "It would work..." he said quietly, his tone showing that he did not like the idea, but was willing to work with it, it being the only viable option he could think of at the moment.