[ 02 ] ✿✿ [ Semi-open ◦ Backdated ]

[moralitypet]

Characters: Nunnally vi Britannia, Lelouch vi Britannia, and anyone else who was invited to a birthday party. Alternatively, anyone who would slip into this lounge in particular.
Setting: Floor 38, backdated to the afternoon of December 5th.
Format: Tagger's choice. Free for all, make your own threads, do your own thang.
Summary: Someone has a birthday today. You should show up to spank him since Nunnally can't.
Warnings: Teenager shenanigans, will tag future stuff.

Not that it would be much of a party in the first place. This month made it difficult to acquire treats, although there may be something special for the birthday boy a little later. Nunnally's made it her goal to invite people to join that she thinks would be there, but since the lounge is public, there's no telling just who might be here. Really, it's more of a gathering of people than an actual birthday party. Minimal decorations are hung up, but in a tower that didn't really provide much for them, preparations are hard to come by. No matter any of that: anyone who wished to attend could find a small group of people mingling amongst themselves with the intent of trying to have a good time despite other incidents in the tower. In fact, a couple of them just might be completely oblivious to what's going on.

Comments

[doublechecks]

As long as that is your intent, then.

[if he actually upsets nunnally.

then that's a completely different story.]

[swordedpast]

Hm, it seems that you care. Are you truly trying to protect her innocence in this place?

[doublechecks]

Whatever is left of it, yes.

[No one person could be called innocent after she fired FLEIJA after FLEIJA when commanded by her elder brother.]

[swordedpast]

Whatever will she do when you're not here to do that?

[doublechecks]

Then I'll have to leave her safety to my...

[There's a pointed emphasis on the word that's coming up.]

Friend.

[swordedpast]

[A moment's pause.]

That's the one you were having a lover's quarrel with earlier?

[doublechecks]

He is reliable when the situation needs it.

[swordedpast]

That's a pointless task you're leaving him, though. Even her innocence will inevitably erode to nothing in this place, if it hasn't already done so in her world.

[doublechecks]

We'll preserve it for as long as we can.

[...]

What happens after would be dealt with when the time comes.

[swordedpast]

Heh, I sure don't envy you that task.

[His tone is light and he's half-smirking, but his eyes are cold.]

[doublechecks]

It is a task that many do not wish to undertake, I'm sure.

[He noticed the cold eyes, it'd be foolish of him not to, after all. But he filed it for later, as considering their standing right now, it'd be useless to speak about it anyways.]

[swordedpast]

But that leaves me a question.

[The smirk fades.]

How well will you protect her if what you're worried about is her innocence?

[doublechecks]

A magician never reveals his trick to the public.

[Except the one time he screwed up and Geassed Yu accidentally.]

[swordedpast]

How trite.

[He keeps staring at Lelouch now.]

You don't really have any idea, do you? How you'll truly keep her safe and happy when it's the image of her you protect.

[doublechecks]

[There's a pointed glare from him as he said that, but fortunately he could reign his annoyance and anger in before he himself exploded.]

You should worry more about your charge rather than mine, don't you think?

[swordedpast]

[A hint of anger flickers into his eyes for a second before disappearing.]

I do, but it isn't your business to inquire after such things.

[doublechecks]

Then perhaps you should know when to speak the right words.

[wow, the tension is so thick it can be cut with a sword really.

maybe]

[swordedpast]

[Let's not give Archer the idea of trying it.]

I suppose a party is no place for this sort of discussion. Even such a poor party as this one.

[doublechecks]

[A rhetoric, that's all that sentence was. But for all he cares about he has NO IDEA what Nunnally sees in... this man who probably is lacking in a few braincells.

Nevertheless, this person is here, and this situation is not one he favors at all.]

I was unaware that you have an eye for the obvious.

[swordedpast]

It would be a shame to be an Archer with bad eyes. I doubt I can say the same for you; can you even fight?

[He can't imagine those scrawny arms wielding a sword.]

[doublechecks]

I have my own means to do so.

[let's just hope he doesn't try it on the other male.

because the temptation's growing every time the man in red opens his mouth.]

[swordedpast]

Good. Don't hesitate to use it for her, and maybe you'll find some sort of life that's worth it in this tower.

[With that, he turns away from the younger man.]