It maybe takes a full thirty seconds for Lelouch to remember that breathing was necessary for survival. You forget, in this kind of situation. Like your lungs are being crushed. A few words can do that. Snap your ribs like brittle twigs.
A massacre.
( I did this. )
Thousands of Japanese people, dead.
( I did this. )
He hadn't known. He didn't know. He doesn't know. He can't remember being there. Lelouch remembers Euphemia at the last, remembers her fighting it (no, I don't want to do that, please don't make me - ), but now he remembers what he had made himself forget.
Her eyes. Gone.
Oh. Okay. You're right. I have to kill the Japanese.( It's over. Thousands dead and I don't even know, didn't even know
( ... )
"Lelouch?" It's not him dropping to her knees that alarmed her, but the color of his face. Of course she's concerned because Lelouch is Zero. And without Lelouch, there is no Zero. And why was he reacting like this anyway? He knew this happened (of course she didn't know he ordered it to be so).
She knelt down next to him on one knee, wondering what was going on with him. She called out his name again (hoping that she could get some sort of response.)
Kallen calling him jerks him back to reality. No. Can't break down. This isn't the time. This isn't the place. Kallen's here. Kallen can't see this. Kallen can't know that this is his fault. His sin to bear. He's the one who knows the rules here. He's the one who can get them out of here
( ... )
Okay. Suzaku's alive. This is good - it's a decent enough excuse for Lelouch to get a grip on himself. Lelouch Lamperouge would be very relieved to hear Suzaku's survived a massacre, enough to be able to stand and function again. And that's what he has to do right now.
Lelouch manages to put his feet under him and stand up. "Okay, then. All right. Um - " he glances at Kallen again, trying not to very obviously notice how revealing that outfit is - "Kallen, I have bad news for you..."
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It maybe takes a full thirty seconds for Lelouch to remember that breathing was necessary for survival. You forget, in this kind of situation. Like your lungs are being crushed. A few words can do that. Snap your ribs like brittle twigs.
A massacre.
( I did this. )
Thousands of Japanese people, dead.
( I did this. )
He hadn't known. He didn't know. He doesn't know. He can't remember being there. Lelouch remembers Euphemia at the last, remembers her fighting it (no, I don't want to do that, please don't make me - ), but now he remembers what he had made himself forget.
Her eyes. Gone.
Oh. Okay. You're right. I have to kill the Japanese.( It's over. Thousands dead and I don't even know, didn't even know ( ... )
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She knelt down next to him on one knee, wondering what was going on with him. She called out his name again (hoping that she could get some sort of response.)
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How she would love to get her hands around his neck and--
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Lelouch manages to put his feet under him and stand up. "Okay, then. All right. Um - " he glances at Kallen again, trying not to very obviously notice how revealing that outfit is - "Kallen, I have bad news for you..."
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