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[crouching_zero]

Characters: Lelouch and Miles
Location: The roof
Time: During classes
Content: Lelouch is angsting because Nunnally left. Again.
Warnings: Possible makeouts

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[let_it_crumble]

Miles had, of course, noticed Lelouch's collar adjustment. It was so nonchalant that he wasn't sure, really, whether it was a signal or not. In the end, though, he erred on the side of caution and excused himself, about five minutes after Lelouch had left the room.

He went up to the roof, where he saw his friend standing alone. "Lelouch," he said simply.

[crouching_zero]

He snapped his phone shut and glanced suspiciously back at the visitor. "She's gone back to Ashford," he told him. His face softened a bit. "She'll be kept safe there. The headmaster there is sympathetic to mutants." Despite his words he still didn't seem pleased. He looked worried for her, still.

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"Oh." Nunnally was gone, then, again. Miles frowned, and stepped closer to Lelouch.

"Perhaps it's for the best, given the things that have happened here recently."

[crouching_zero]

"She has enough control over her powers to avoid drawing too much attention. Seizures are not difficult to excuse, should she slip." And that may make her a liability. If she saw what he was planning, or saw enough to show her his alternate identity, she became a liability. A major liability if Charles found out what his forsaken daughter was capable of.

He turned to face Miles. "At least her flight home was unharried. The scanners were still not working when her flight left."

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"Ah, so she left on Friday?" How convenient. When he thought about it, Miles had to wonder if Nunnally had chosen that day on purpose. "That's fortunate. I'm sure it would have been a hassle on any other day."

He sighed and looked down over the wall around the roof, down at the ground. "You'll keep in contact, of course."

[crouching_zero]

"Of course. She has a mobile phone." He walked a bit closer to Miles. As he was in his fight, in his life he'd been left all alone. Miles was an old friend yes, but there was a wall between them that just could not be breached. The time they had been separated had placed them onto two very distinct paths. They could come together in parallel, but they could never truly merge. Miles could never know about Zero. He wouldn't understand.

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Miles nodded, continuing to look out upon the grounds. He supposed he could relate; he wondered how long it would be until he next saw Franziska. Since they weren't blood-related, she wasn't likely to wind up enrolling here just by virtue of Miles having done so. And he could see how it would be worse for Lelouch and Nunnally, blood-related siblings who had been together their whole lives, who no longer had any home to go to...

Well, that wasn't quite so. Ashford Academy seemed to serve as a home for them now that they were no longer Lamperouges. "I am sorry," he said in all sincerity, though it would sound false to anyone who didn't know him as well as Lelouch did.