[ Suzaku does not know what do think, or feel, or do. His breathing is not working quite right, and he focuses on the words, sort of, except the implications just unfold before him.
We, Lelouch says.
It may mean a lot of things, but Suzaku has spent far too much time observing Lelouch, knowing him, to miss that the loudest of them, the very loudest, is you and I.
That means that they work together again. It's... complicated, even through the Botani chill, but also not all unwelcome. Incomprehensible, but not unwelcome.
It also means, ]
Your father is gone. [ It's not a question. It's a very faint kind of condolence offering, except not really. He knows Lelouch hates the man. He is... was, still, his father.
The question comes after. ]
Do I die, too? [ Do I die protecting you, at least? ]