Here we go. And get ready for some more Ex-verse stuff. Hee.
Fic duel:
Fandom: Code Geass
Note: It's kinda trippy. Rather difficult to write in this style, and kudos to you who get it. I figured it worked with the breaking thing. (And yes, I wrote it just like this. Hard to process thoughts this way...)
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And the world turned upside down…
He steadies his gun as best he can and pulls the trigger, half hoping for it to miss, half fearing the same. He holds his breath, waiting to find out which won out in the end.
And now, that world was gone - torn apart.
He can hear his heart pounding in his temple, feel it in his wrists. It’s so strong that he’s shaking - or maybe that’s because the person standing in front of him - sakuradite bomb attached, gun pointed back at his own - is none other than the one person who meant the world to him.
Lelouch. No, it couldn’t be. But it was. And, sadly, he wasn’t surprised. It was… almost obvious. Zero - he had always sounded like Lelouch to him. Especially at the beginning. Always.
A single shot, precisely aimed. The mask - the last barrier between him and the truth, between the guesses and the lies, falls apart, split neatly in two.
BAM!
Here. Here he was, with Zero. Finally. Now he would find out who hid behind the metallic black of his nightmares.
Now was his chance.
*****
Distraction
Fandom: CG
Pairing: SuLu
Rating: PG
Note: I must admit to being utterly amused by the Suzaku figure that I bought at Anime Matsuri. His flight suit is apparently so thin that you can see EVERYTHING. The fact that you can obviously see his belly button and HIPBONES on the figure amuse me to great extent. Hence this fic. (Cuz would I torture Suzaku in person with this? YOU BET I WOULD!)
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“Lu- Zero. I have to-” Suzaku’s words were cut off as he shuddered at the sensation of Lelouch’s fingers skimming his hipbones. His flight suit was far from thick - it covered everything, but seemed to reveal it all at the same time too - and the slightest pressure anywhere could be felt through it.
Lelouch’s hands ran across his torso, moving up and down, outlining him and tracing him, distracting him from what he was supposed to be doing. “Shh, Suzaku…” the other boy whispered, moving one hand to the back of Suzaku’s head, while the other continued to distract him with sensations - fingernailsfingertipswhateveritwasittickledyetfeltsooooogoodgod - on-around-near his hips.
Lelouch became a permanent distraction in his mind when he grabbed the taller boy by neck and waist and pulled him close - close enough to feel body heat and so much more - and captured his lips in an aggressive, passionate kiss.
“Mine,” the other boy whispered as his fingers continued to run twisted, torturous paths across Suzaku’s hipbones, and the Japanese boy knew that any of his resistance that remained had been annihilated - all due to a simple distraction.
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Detention
Fandom: CG
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At first, it had been the two of them together, like always. They both had missed too much school, and had landed in detention together. (Somehow Karen managed to get off most times. Wrote it off as a sickness, Lelouch figured.)
But now it was different. Suzaku had been knighted, and now Lelouch was the only one who found himself without a reason to miss so much school. He was even forced to miss additional days to explain his absences so that they would not solely coincide with the actions of the Black Knights.
Now Lelouch was alone - after school, in life - like he had been for seven years - in detention.
*****
Defection
Fandom: Pokemon
Note: Yes. More crack. Inspired by the Prisoner's Dilemma as discussed in my Evolution class.
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He didn’t know how he got there, and he didn’t know exactly WHY he was in prison, all he knew was that Ash was in the next cell over, and that he was being questioned by a skinny man and a burly man.
“Do you defect?” asked the burly man.
Gary was utterly confused. “What?”
“Or do you cooperate?” said the skinny man.
“I don’t understand.”
The skinny man laughed. “Defect and you may get three years, or you may get none, depending on his response.”
The burly man rolled his eyes. “Cooperate and you may get five years, or you may get one.”
“What will it be?”
Gary could only stare at them as they asked the question in unison. He considered it for a moment, trying to figure out what Ash would do in order for him to come out with the best solution. After failing at that - his friend, rival, whatever, was too unpredictable - he decided to say screw it, and opened his mouth to give his answer…
Suddenly he was blinded by sunlight, wincing and swatting at something that was poking him in the side.
“Gary, Gary!”
Sitting up, Gary glared at the boy sitting next to him. “What do you want?”
Ash just laughed. “I figured you might actually want to leave school today… since you’ll be staying after tomorrow.”
Gary was confused until Ash waved a pink piece of paper at him.
Shit. Detention.
*****
Now for more Execution-verse stuff. Lamentation takes place a bit before Invitation and Confrontation. I should make a time line of these at some point or something... Maybe I'll write one for in between Lamentation and Invitation. 'twould be depressing... Enough rambling. Fic!
Lamentation
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I am Zero.
“Why did you do it, Lelouch?” Nanally asks yet again, but there is no one to answer her.
I did it for you! So that you would have a place where you could be happy!
“Don’t… not for me. Not this. I don’t want…” She shakes her head, blonde locks waving about as she clutches a knife in her hand.
Today, at Ashford Academy a student was found…
Lelouch’s death - planned and executed so perfectly that not even his sister suspected that it had been fake.
...and our thoughts are with his family during this trying time.
“Why, Lelouch? WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME?” Tears stream down Nanally’s unseeing eyes as she laments the loss of her brother, for, while he lives on, she has lost him anyways, and in more ways than one.
So maybe you would open your eyes again…
Nanally’s eyes are open, but they do not see what is before them.
Far away, in a city stained with blood, two fighters launch themselves at each other, unaware of their own loss.
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Invitation (Comes just before Confrontation)
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When the invitation appears in the mail one day, Suzaku doesn’t question how it got there, he only questions the why.
Why would Lelouch invite him anywhere? Why would Lelouch - now going solely by the name Zero - ask him to be anywhere? Though they no longer saw each other off the battle field, Lelouch should know that Suzaku wouldn’t fall for any kind of trap like this… he should.
Suzaku takes another look at the harmless beige paper, and starts as he finally sees where Lelouch is asking to meet him.
Home.
He hasn’t thought of the place in that way since the day he killed his own father, but the word jumps to the front of his mind as he thinks of the temple on the edge of the lake, and the clear view of the horizon afforded by the high ridge of the Kururugi manor.
The first place that he met Lelouch vi Britannia.
Suzaku puts the paper inside his suit as he gets dressed to meet his - friend? enemy? What was Lelouch to him now? - and continues to wonder exactly what this invitation is about.