A lost knight [open]

[swordofzero]

Characters: Suzaku and you
Setting: Dorm halls, floor 46 (monster room), outside floor 96 (forgetting floor) and then staircases between floors 92 and 96
Format: either
Summary: Lelouch disappears, cue Suzaku breaking
Warnings: so much self destructiveness, self hating, I'll add if anything else happens

[Discovering] No. He couldn't be gone, Suzaku has seen him yesterday. From a distance, they had still been at odds since the fog incident but Suzaku was his knight so he still watched over him. It couldn't have been more than six hours ago, and now he was gone. Suzaku stared at the nameplate, as if staring at it would bring the name back.

He didn't even bother going to the graveyard, this was proof enough, his things were gone the name was gone. Lelouch was gone.

He couldn't do this anymore, everyone disappeared. He had to find Rolo, he probably already knew, he stalked Lelouch as much as he did Suzaku. But Suzaku had no words with what to comfort him, wouldn't be able to help him at all.

He thought very briefly about going to find Diarmuid, the man had told him he could. But Suzaku remembered his reaction when Suzaku told him about Lelouch, and didn't want to upset him again, didn't want to stir up memories.

[Floor 46] Suzaku jumped off the stair case, his gun out. Monsters attacked him instantly, but that had been the point. It was the quickest way to attract a lot of them that Suzaku knew. He needed to fight, he needed to forget and with this many monsters the Geass took care of that. His eyes flashed red as he dove out of the way, kicking monsters, shooting monsters. Continuing until his body was too exhausted and his Geass forced him back to the staircase.

[Outside Floor 96] He hadn't been to this floor since Diarmuid had told him not to. But he was tempted, he stood on the staircase staring at the white room. Thinking about how easy it would be to forget.

But did he want to forget? Lelouch was gone, gone from the tower, his soul lost. Even if they found some way to free them all Lelouch would be gone, he was dead. Dead with the whole world thinking him an evil tyrant, it may not have happened in Suzaku's world but he knew it would have, if the world hadn't ended.

Suzaku was the only one who knew the truth, except Nunnally who was also gone, and Rolo who was also dead. The only one to know that Lelouch wasn't the monster the world saw him as. He had a duty to remember.

[Staircases] His mood had gotten bleaker and bleaker, hatred turning inwards, anger that he hadn't been able to save Lelouch. He walked up the staircase towards the next floor, and blinked as he found himself back on floor ninety six.

He tried going down, past the ball pool, the darkroom, the hallway, the pyramid and... He was back on the staircase at the pyramid floor and finally understood what was going on. It had happened a couple of times in the past, his Geass keeping him on powered floors.

He sat down on the staircase defeated.

Comments

[marriedthebloke]

"Then why do you stare at it?"

She tries to peer over his shoulder.

[swordofzero]

"It's dangerous because it is tempting." He looked at her seriously.

[marriedthebloke]

She frowns a little.

"What sort of fool's paradise could be within that would tempt one so?'

[swordofzero]

"Forgetting." It took a lot not to glance back at the floor.

[marriedthebloke]

"Did you experience something horrible recently?"

That should be the only reason that someone would want to forget.

[swordofzero]

"Nothing more than everyone else." He shrugged, "It's just a room." He stepped aside as if to show her, "It's just dangerous if you go inside."

[marriedthebloke]

"Just this simple room..."

She can't even sense any sort of bonded field. It's unsettling to think about. That memories could be erased easily.

"Are there other floors like this? That do something strange to you even though they look simple?"

[swordofzero]

"A couple yes, there is a floor of clouds that I hear makes you never want to leave, and one of the islands outside makes you want to jump from the tower if you step onto it." Those were the two he knew of, there might have been more.

[marriedthebloke]

She slowly shakes her head.

"Why all these dangerous floors? Even a prison wouldn't subject their inmates to this."

[swordofzero]

"Even prisons need to be accountable to someone, though many can be corrupt and cruel. Those that rule this place have absolute power."

[marriedthebloke]

"What are they, to wield such abilities?"

[swordofzero]

"Not human." He shrugged, "They seem to be the most powerful beings on this world."

[marriedthebloke]

She makes a disgusted noise.

"Is there no way to guard against them at all?"

[swordofzero]

"Not as far as I know. We can only do our best to survive their experiments and help people get back on their feet afterwards." Escaping, takeovers, rebellions, they had all been tried and failed. Usually with drastic results.

[marriedthebloke]

"That's the most we can do? Survive?"

She tries hard not to let her fear show.

"Then...we're all like toys for them? Has no one tried to fight back at all?"

[swordofzero]

"We have tried." He shrugged, "They have more power and whatever we try they can answer and return tenfold."

[marriedthebloke]

"They...how can such powerful beings exist?"

She rubs against her temples. Everything about this place seemed to go against logic.

[swordofzero]

"I don't know. But they do and they abuse their power." And Ruana had showed her mercilessness towards her own men if they dared become sympathetic towards the prisoners.

[marriedthebloke]

She looks down at her body--a body unchanged from the one she had at home.

"Then why do they allow us our bodies and wills? You said they had a great amount of power to abuse, so why not warp us to unrecognizable forms?"

[swordofzero]

"They have done so in the past, both changed our bodies and forced us into acting differently, seeing things differently. They each have differing ideas of how to treat us though, and each are in charge for one month at a time."

[marriedthebloke]

"Differing? How so?"

[swordofzero]

"Well Jason for example is one who would change our bodies and minds to his liking, Ruana is childlike in nature and prefers to play games with us, Riki doesn't really care about torturing us but likes to play with the tower itself, ignoring all the rules of physics." He shrugged, "Dax was the closest to being on our side, but he died and Zo is just a child, with the strange weather this month... who knows what his motives are."

[marriedthebloke]

"He died? You just said they were beings of great power. How would one of them die?"

She has a feeling she will not like the answer.

[swordofzero]

"Ruana killed him, he tried to help us, showed us something and turned against the others." He looked down.

[marriedthebloke]

She nods.

"Then Ruana is the most powerful among them?"

She does not show much of a reaction at the news of the administrator's death. Knowing that there used to be an administrator who sided with the residents did no good. After all, dead men were of little use to the living.