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]

"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.

[swordofzero]

Suzaku nodded, "She is."

[marriedthebloke]

If the strongest being was also the most childish and unpredictable one, then it meant the Tower was even more dangerous than she had believed.

"What of the other three? Do we know where their powers rank besides the fact that they are all above us?"

[swordofzero]

"Zo is also very powerful, perhaps more so than Ruana I am not sure. But he is just a child. The others are very powerful, not not so much as Ruana, I am not sure how Riki and Jason stand in comparison to one another."

[marriedthebloke]

"And how often do they interact directly with us?"

[swordofzero]

"Actually talk to us... rarely. Very rarely, about four or five times since I've been here. Experiment on us... roughly monthly." He looked down.

[marriedthebloke]

"Is there a specific time for any of the experiments?"

[swordofzero]

"No, and they last different times as well, sometimes a few days sometimes the entire month."

[marriedthebloke]

"What's the absolute shortest time period an experiment has lasted, then?"

[swordofzero]

"I think two or three days." He told her thinking back and trying to remember.

[marriedthebloke]

"So it's just as unpredictable as the rest of this Tower."

She puts her hands around her arms and gives herself a little squeeze. It's perhaps even more horrifying to know that she can't know for sure what would be threatening her.

[swordofzero]

He nodded grimly. "I'm sorry. There's not much of anything positive I can tell you."

[marriedthebloke]

"I appreciate what you have told me regardless. Thank you."

[swordofzero]

"It's fine, feel free to find me if you have any more questions." Suzaku nodded at her again, eyes drifting back to the room.

[marriedthebloke]

All her questions done, Sola-ui turns and leaves without even throwing a glance back at the boy.