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Tweak says, "Moriaty?"

C.C. (tsuntsuntsun) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2016-06-13 12:31:00

Current location:	Sector 3
Entry tags:	c.c., euphemia li britannia, jun kanzaki, lelouch vi britannia, suzaku kururugi

Day 380 [Video/Action][Open]
[ "The rest of your natural life." C.C. wonders how long the technology in this prison was designed to last. The "lush and abundant setting" she wakes up to fills her with a profound sense of unhappiness -- an eternity in a single place isn't what she expected when she made her most recent choices. Will she still be able to find the World of C? Is she going to go back to being all alone, just when she learned the value of not being so?

She's still laying on her back in the middle of what looks like a park, pushing buttons on her communicator to see what it does. Finally, she manages the settings for a video message.

A bored-looking young woman with amber-colored eyes and bright green hair is asking a very important question, fellow prisoners: ]

Is there pizza here?

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imperious
2016-06-21 11:13 pm UTC (link)

[ He had a tease on the tip of his tongue -- multi-level teasing, even -- but that question, the hesitation, all of it... just rounds his shoulders a little. Lelouch is silent for several revealing seconds before he says, ] He lives with Euphemia. I've been staying with them.

[ The stupid, clumsy moment during the heatwave was -- was progress, undeniably. Somehow, progress. But there's still such a... gulf between them. And C.C.'s question, her silly suggestion, is a painful reminder of that gulf. ]

[ Months ago, that's where they are now. Before Baghdad. Before that first awkward night, where they scraped together just enough cash for a single room at an inn. If it hadn't been for C.C.'s impatience with them, that first night would have come to blows.

And yet, it was still just a few days ago that he spent what was supposed to be his last night with C.C. pressed to his chest and... Suzaku at his back. It shouldn't have been comfortable, but it had been. It had been. ]

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tsuntsuntsun
2016-06-27 12:28 pm UTC (link)

[ If she were the type to apologize, she might offer one for not being a little more sensitive to the situation. Suzaku hadn't seemed outwardly angry at Lelouch, but she remembers how he'd been in the World of C. And, aside from his sister's safety, the then Lelouch had always wanted had been for his friend to be at his side. To have achieved that and then lost it...

C.C. just takes Lelouch's hand without comment as they walk. ]

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imperious
2016-06-27 09:21 pm UTC (link)

[ H, hand taken. He glances at her sharply, then away with just as much haste. ...Of the times she's shown him physical comfort like this, they've all had one thing in common. Lelouch works his jaw for a few seconds, clears his throat. Wants to speak like an emperor, a warlock, an accomplice -- not a pitiable child. ]

Apparently, it's not the first time. [ Smooth. Strong. ] We've all been here before. [ And Nunnally. Two of Nunnally. ] I couldn't say whether he let you have his closet space last time. [ Smiling, even. ] We were... from closer to the same time, before, I suppose.

...We told Euphemia everything. [ Apparently, he doesn't repeat. Some version of us, he doesn't add. ] [ And this is not precisely true, or at least the order of events he's presenting is misleading, but. The truth was, as always, complicated. And he doesn't have the energy to sort it out. ]

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	action; tsuntsuntsun 2016-07-26 04:35 pm UTC (link)
	Were we insane? [ She sees you trying to pretend like you don't like her attempt to comfort. She's going to hold your hand anyway. Most of the information he gives washes over her. Except the part about Suzaku makes her sad. ] Telling anyone everything hardly seems like a smart thing to do. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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melioristic
2016-07-26 11:29 pm UTC (link)

[ He's definitely not pulling away. The comfort itself is nice, he just--... he doesn't like knowing that he must visibly need it for her to offer.

But that question gets a short, snoring laugh. ]

You'll have to take it up with our previous incarnations. But she knows about the Requiem. She knows... [ His throat closes, and he can't speak for a beat. ] She knows what happened at the Special Zone.

[ She also knows about his ridiculous crush but that hasn't come up yet thankfully, he would dig a hole and never come out again. ]

Everything relevant to her, and probably several things that are not.

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