Back in the tower

[swordofzero]

Characters: Suzaku and open
Setting: Dorm halls, cafeteria and Floor 7 (swimming pool)
Format: You chose I'll follow
Summary: Suzaku was sent back to his dead world for a week and a bit and missed all the fun language and Ruana happenings. He's back and just sort of gets on with life. Feel free to find him at any point.
Warnings:

The world was as dead as it had been the last time Suzaku had been there, in a way he welcomed the break from the tower. He had needed time to think, time to not be around people who cared more for him than they should. Time on a destroyed world, where he was the only living thing there... Suited him more than it should have.

His thoughts were a little bit clearer when he woke up back in his bed in the tower. He made his way to the cafeteria keeping an eye out for those he knew; mostly Nunnally. But he didn't actively seek them out. He picked up a nutrient bar, noting that it must be Jason's month. Which meant that the month had turned since he was last here. It had gotten colder as well, a fact which Suzaku tried to ignore as he made his way to the seventh floor.

It was far too cold to be a pool cleaner, but Suzaku did his job anyways strapping the oxygen tank to himself and beginning.

When he came up after ten minutes he was shivering dangerously, he wrapped himself in a towel and tried to build himself up for taking a second oxygen tank and going down for another ten minutes, it usually took at least three times before all the parts he was to clean were done.

Comments

[tempus_scorpius]

Other theories? What other theories are there?

[swordofzero]

One of the most common I have heard is that it is an illusion. That our worlds are not gone at all.

[tempus_scorpius]

That is possible...

[swordofzero]

It is. Though it feels real, they have used illusions of our world to punish me before but they were different.

[tempus_scorpius]

What sort of illusions? Why did they punish you?

[swordofzero]

The first time was a 'game' rather than a punishment. I was sent to a world where I had dissapeared. A living world. One where Lelouch had lost and Schneizel won. The second was punishment for dying during an experiment. That world had suffered calamity. [One that had been Suzaku's fault.]

[tempus_scorpius]

Where Nii-san... What was that world like?

Punishment for dying...? What sort of calamity?

[swordofzero]

I didn't see much of it, I had only been there a second before I was arrested as a traitor. Lelouch was in prison also. [And blamed Suzaku, but he didn't mention that.]

It was the opposite of everything we fought to achieve.

[tempus_scorpius]

Prison... What did they do to the both of you?

Just what were we supposed to be fighting to achieve?

[swordofzero]

Doors opened from the tower before they had the chance to do anything, Signless and Minato came and rescued us, though Lelouch was not yet here in the tower and so disappeared when we returned through the door.

[He blinks though he really isn't surprised that Rolo doesn't know.] Peace, a gentle world, equality.

[tempus_scorpius]

Signless and Minato?

I see... [and he falls silent for a while]

[swordofzero]

Signless is gone now, Minato is still here. [But after betraying and murdering them a few times, Suzaku mostly avoided anyone called Minato.]

[tempus_scorpius]

What is he like?

[swordofzero]

He's a good person, always tries to help others. There are two Minato's, the one that saved me is the quieter of the two, more formal.

[tempus_scorpius]

Two? Do they look the same?

[swordofzero]

[He nodded] Almost identical unless you know them well.

[tempus_scorpius]

They are supposed to be the same person from different worlds then?

[swordofzero]

Yes their worlds are a little different, at least their experiences in their worlds are.

[tempus_scorpius]

I see... Are they your friends then?

[swordofzero]

Yes...

[A pause so long that Rolo could be forgiven if he thought Suzaku had stopped there] Kind of. I hurt them...

[tempus_scorpius]

Hurt them...? How?

[swordofzero]

[This is a topic he doesn't like speaking about, but he is trying the whole honesty thing. Especially with Rolo.]

I left one of them to die, he fell in love with a monster. [Suzaku doesn't mention that he fell in love with Minato and fought the monster for his heart... Until the Geass made him run, it's something he tries to forget.] I also killed him once. [To stop him being Euphemia mark two...]

The other Minato... I betrayed him. He died because of it. I fought him, I broke countless promises... I almost caused his friends death, when I was in his body. It was that that finally made him angry with me...

[tempus_scorpius]

[If only Rolo knew that... he would be so touched... ;; A nii-san who isn't a liar...]

... a monster? Is that monster still here? Why did you have to kill him?

I see... So you are enemies now with the other one?

[swordofzero]

I'm not sure, it might be. It was a result of one of Ruana's games, so when the effects wore off he was no longer in love.

[He shook his head] He forgave me... Though he probably shouldn't have.

[He deliberately avoided that middle question.]

[tempus_scorpius]

Ruana...?

[Notices that! But stays quiet for now...]

He... must be a very nice person.