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[restoringpeace]

[ There's a girl sitting in a garden with insanely bright pink hair making flower wreaths! Do you want one? You know you want one. ]

ooc: intro! to the rest of the camp, that is. ♥

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LATER

[thekingsgambit]

[Catching up to after all the flower-frolicing, though probably still has some loose flowers in his hair that he hasn't managed to brush free.]

Suzaku.

[whenknightfalls]

[Looks at him for a long moment, processing a confusion of emotion. Anger, grief, love, regret...finally he gathers himself to speak]

Lelouch. She's here.

[thekingsgambit]

[This look is more guarded, bearing just a trace of uncertainty, guilt.]

That much is obvious.

... She told me that she had found you earlier.

[whenknightfalls]

[Are you going to pick on me for being obvious when I'm having a nervous breakdown?]

Yes. I showed her around camp. It was like...nothing ever happened.

[thekingsgambit]

[Well...

Also, level tone.]

It is better to preserve the illusion. She does not... remember in any case.

[Gaze steadies on Suzaku upon the delayed word.]

... But she knows how long we have each been here.

[whenknightfalls]

I know she doesn't remember! I saw her d...

[Grits his teeth. Lashing out won't help anything, and really he's not upset at Lelouch per se, but unfortunately it's his upset default response]

I am not going to remind her. You're right in that. But she knows about our lives here?

[thekingsgambit]

[Shifts gaze at the initial response, unwilling to let Suzaku find the fear and misery there. He knew Suzaku had taken her back then. It would have been foolish to assume that the knight was anywhere other than her side when she had... succumbed to her injuries.

Now... she was here. Of course, it would be yet another reminder to Suzaku that we was forever beside her killer.]

She knows... that everyone knows about who I am.

[whenknightfalls]

Zero. What did she say...was she surprised?

[And that just reminds Suzaku of the fact that he will be Zero, and how he lied to her, and how much he'd changed from the white knight]

[thekingsgambit]

[The name also instantly shifts Lelouch's attention to Suzaku's eventual fate once he leaves this place.

Still keeping that same detached tone though.]

... Ah, but she was used to being the only one who knew; she was mostly anxious at that being taken away. She said as much.

In fact, she was more concerned as to how you took it.

[whenknightfalls]

How I took it...why would she...

[GOD SO MANY MEMORIES now he's thinking of exactly how he took it]

She wouldn't like it if she knew. About that or...my choices. I'm not proud of them. I'm not...I'm not what she thinks, anymore.

[thekingsgambit]

[Turns back to slowly.]

... Idiot.

You are still Suzaku. That is all she has ever cared about, isn't it?

[whenknightfalls]

[Stares at him]

Lelouch...

[thekingsgambit]

I heard what she said to you that day. Your flaws have never mattered to her. And if you would rather hide behind them than offer her the chance to get to know the true you here, you are more of a fool than I thought.

You told me before, you are tired of guilt. Prove it.

[whenknightfalls]

[Closes his eyes and takes a deep breath]

I did say that, didn't I. You're...right.

[thekingsgambit]

[Steps back and runs his fingers unsteadily through his hair.]

It... can happen.

[whenknightfalls]

[Peers at Lelouch through half-lidded eyes, then moves forward and touches his wrist]

Yeah, well. Just don't get cocky.