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Euphemia li Britannia (friendly_fire) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2016-05-23 11:29:00

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aidan reilly, euphemia li britannia, lelouch vi britannia, suzaku kururugi

Day 377 Closed Roommate Mingle
[This three-bedroom apartment in Sector 4 has passed through many hands already and it might be getting more crowded now. Too crowded?]

(OOC: Open to Euphemia, Lelouch, Suzaku, Aidan, and anyone they invite over.)

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friendly_fire
2016-05-30 08:25 pm UTC (link)

You must have been really tired. [Certainly more than she would have expected, so she picks up on some of those implications.] There is a lot to take in here.

[She nods.] Better than I might have expected. [It's good having him back and even after the shared dreaming brought the geass to the forefront of her mind she didn't have an uptick in nightmares about it.]

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imperious
2016-05-30 08:44 pm UTC (link)

[ A wan smile for her, hey. ] [ Followed by a discomfited beat, where he realizes she doesn't have any reason to know about his now-disordered sleeping pattern and then realizes that she might. The combination doesn't quite let him make faux-sulky commentary about it. ]

[ She slept better than she expected... because of the dreams? Because of not getting her bed to herself? Any other of a dozen possibilities? Lelouch says, slowly, ] I don't mean to put you out.

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	friendly_fire 2016-05-30 09:16 pm UTC (link)
	You haven't. Not in the slightest. [Driving the point home, realizing he may have taken it an unfortunate way.] I liked sharing with you again like when we were children. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

imperious
2016-05-30 10:06 pm UTC (link)

[ That -- brings a small smile to his face. Oh. He remembers that. ] ...I did, too.

[ It hadn't actually occurred to him, though, before this moment. His more recent bed-sharing was with... other people, both the same and very different. ...He might actually -- not sleep all that well by himself, if he'd had to. Or maybe as tired as he's been it wouldn't have made any difference. ]

Your bed here would be a little small for all three of us. [ Sounding... comfortable enough, as he says this. Nunnally isn't here, but that's all right; she didn't really need him anymore, he knew. Even with a slightly-teasing smile. ]

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	friendly_fire 2016-05-30 10:11 pm UTC (link)
	If Nunnally returns we could always look into a larger one. [She likes that thought. They didn't do that before. They should have at least once. So much had changed and Nunnally's time with them was shorter than hers and even Lelouch's.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

imperious
2016-05-30 10:19 pm UTC (link)

[ His smile -- shifts a little. Mmm. It's not a terrible place, so far, even though it's sometimes dangerous... but it's also very much a place of yesterdays. Which is all right for Euphie, for himself; maybe for Suzaku, too, who had his own gravestone in their world. But he wanted tomorrow, for Nunnally. ]

She's been here before? [ Trying to steer away from those thoughts. Were the wardens collecting his siblings for some reason... ] [ Apart from us all being terrible criminals, that is. ]

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	friendly_fire 2016-05-30 10:24 pm UTC (link)
	[She nods.] Yes, and also...a Nunnally from a different reality. That seems like such an odd thing to say, but she was Nunnally and yet her life sounded very different. She even said the version of me from her world was empress. Can you imagine? [The way she says it makes it clear she can't.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1/2 probably? imperious 2016-06-01 02:18 am UTC (link)
	[ He's still processing the idea that one Nunnally -- the usual allotment! -- was here, and remembering with some discomfort that some people think no one ever leaves, when... ] [ Wait, what? ] (Reply to this) (Parent)

nope 2/3

imperious
2016-06-01 02:21 am UTC (link)

[ Well. Parallel dimensions, he's thought before. Different points in time. It's... There's no reason it shouldn't be possible, and it's... probably even the most reasonable explanation for things like Suzaku was taken from three months ago, yet two days ago he was right beside me...

But theory is still different from practice and an additional Nunnally is not typical quantum interference so... ]

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	imperious 2016-06-01 02:33 am UTC (link)
	...I-- I see. [ What... must that have been like. He pushes his bangs out of his face, mostly just for something to do with his hands, and catches sight of Euphie's expression. Recalls her tone, and the last thing she said, and... Shelves his own disorientation to say, firmly: ] Yes. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	friendly_fire 2016-06-01 05:20 am UTC (link)
	Yes? [For a moment she doesn't even understand his comment expecting, well, not sure what to expect with news like that, but it wasn't "yes."] ...You can imagine it? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

imperious
2016-06-01 10:50 pm UTC (link)

Well -- yes. [ It... might help that Nunnally was almost Empress in his lifetime. Lelouch rolls his shoulders slowly, mulling over how to explain. ] ...Maybe it's harder to imagine you wanting it, but -- if you did... I think you'd do well.

[ As well as anyone could, with Britannia as deeply-corrupted as it was, at least. But especially if you had Cornelia and Schneizel's support, or... were one of the last few heirs remaining, after he'd finished cleaning house... There are plenty of ways to that end that he can see. ]

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	friendly_fire 2016-06-15 01:33 pm UTC (link)
	It's very hard to imagine wanting it. [But she also looks so very touched that he says that. She doesn't think he'd say such a thing just to be nice.] Thank you. [Not that it will happen of course.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

imperious
2016-06-15 02:24 pm UTC (link)

[ Gives her a small, rueful smile. Of course it is. ] You don't give yourself enough credit. You're a natural leader, and you have a formidable will, when you put your mind to things. [ His gaze slides away from her. ...Like fighting a compulsion no one should be able to. You and Nunnally were, are, both such strong people. Diverts! ] Of course, you'd have to put up with being called 'Your Majesty' all the time. It's very tiresome. [ Teasing a little bit. ]

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	friendly_fire 2016-06-21 10:13 pm UTC (link)
	[His compliments all but slip off her, but she finds it sweet that he'd say them. But those are the words that really strike a cord with her.] Is it? [She looks at him, curious, concerned.] You remember being called that? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	1/2 imperious 2016-06-21 10:48 pm UTC (link)
	[ ...What, really? This is new information? ...He didn't tell her before? ...Or already? Damn, the last two days are really just... sort of a blur. ] [ No, Lelouch, "remember being called that" implies she did already know, she just... didn't know that you knew. ] [ This temporal nonsense is... inconvenient. ] (Reply to this) (Parent)

	imperious 2016-06-21 10:50 pm UTC (link)
	[ ...Smile! ] I do, yes. [ Gently, not prodding too much, so casual but very very intent on the answer: ] I didn't last time? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

friendly_fire
2016-06-21 10:55 pm UTC (link)

No. You did. I just wasn't sure how close you were to... [Having Suzaku kill you. But she can't say that. Of course she can't. It's not because he might not know. She's sure he does. He thinks that far ahead and further when he can. She just can't say those words because it's too hard to say them. Too hard to think them. That her brother died and her knight would always have to live with that death. It was too much. It seems she can't even look at him as she thinks about how much she can't say it.] To that.

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	imperious 2016-06-23 10:29 pm UTC (link)
	[ Lelouch -- goes very, very still. ] [ He glances around the room, a quick furtive check, and then... tries to hitch his smile back up a little. ] It's all right. [ Softly. But also a little bit cautiously. Just in case. No matter... what it is she knows, this is still a -- good response. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	friendly_fire 2016-06-25 11:47 am UTC (link)
	[They could leave it at that. Leave it unsaid like they've left so many things before, but she finds herself driving forward.] There was a long time when I didn't know much of what happened back home while I was here. I didn't even know about the massacre. [She manages to say the word evenly and she's pleased for that much.] I know more now. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

imperious
2016-06-25 02:35 pm UTC (link)

[ ...It feels like time itself is slowing down, somehow. Her words coming from further and further away. Like he has all the time in the world to watch her expression, the care she takes with that one little word, and the confirmation that comes after it.

Lelouch starts to open his mouth; finds it dry, swallows first. Clears his throat. Finally, softly, ]

I told you about the Requiem?

[ The word I feels... wrong. Even if it was him, even if it's always been him, memories erased and reset and twisted and (stop) even if it was him... rather than some very slight string-theory variation... it doesn't feel like him. ] [ Some additional degree of separation from even the stranger (strangers) he at least remembers being. ]

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	friendly_fire 2016-07-11 03:02 pm UTC (link)
	Is that what you called it? Yes, you would have had a name for it, wouldn't you? I know what you asked Suzaku to do. I know this place is your second chance too. [Or at least an extension of time for both of them. She feels not guilt wanting him here. Not when he can't be back home with Nunnally.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

imperious
2016-07-11 04:10 pm UTC (link)

[ A faint smile tugs at the corners of his mouth. You would have had a name for it... Of course he would have. Things need names, or at least designations. But her observation is a reminder that he's talking to someone who knows him; someone who's always found him fairly easy to predict, even as he struggled to return the favor. Even when he's thought she was wrong... ]

...What he's done. [ Softly, just. To confirm. ] I came here -- after losing consciousness. [ A little more distant: ] From the blood loss, I imagine.

[ He can't completely keep the wistfulness out of his voice, which is horrible he knows. But it was -- such a peaceful moment.

Dragging himself fiercely back to the present for her sake: ]

It's a strange place for a family reunion, but we're a strange pair to be having one.

[ He's not sorry to be here. He's not sorry to get to see you again. He seeks out Euphie's hand to squeeze. ]

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friendly_fire
2016-07-12 10:40 am UTC (link)

[She learned of it some time ago, but still she fidgets hearing these details. It's happened then or it was in the process of happening. She's glad he's not distressed and yet...he should be distressed! He was dying! That shouldn't be a goal. He shouldn't sound so pleased with it!

She squeezes his hand back but then attaches for a full hug.] Don't ever do anything like that again! [A proclamation from a long-dead princess, and loving sister.]

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	imperious 2016-07-13 10:43 pm UTC (link)
	[ Lelouch is a bit startled by the sudden armful of sister. After a beat -- he smiles, faint, and brings his arms up around her. ] I'd only ever intended to do it the one time. [ are you not reassured??? ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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