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When; Thursday, February 10
Rating; PG-13 for angst?
Characters; Euphemia li Britannia and Allen Walker
Summary; Suzaku has left and Allen finds a Euphie in need of comforting
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Euphie waited a day before going to check the hall. As worried as she was when he didn't come home and wouldn't answer her calls, the thought of him just being completely gone was worse. Finally, she'd made herself do it. She couldn't even remember returning to the apartment, but there she was. She'd even walked into Suzaku's room, door still open, and sat on his bed just staring blankly at the sparsely-decorated space.

She felt a little numb. There were tears, but they just hung there on the edge, not quite willing to fall. Some part of her was still trying to deny that she was along now. The last person from her world had left. Her knight. Her first love. Her Suzaku.

Things had been strained and odd between them at times here in the City, but he was always good to her without fail. And, of course, there was a part of her that was scared too. If he was home again that meant he could continue. It meant he could...complete Lelouch's plan.

"Please, no."

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It was hard the first time they talked about some of these things, and not just because of how difficult the subjects were. Neither of them really knew how to open up, and they reacted differently. Still, it felt almost dishonest knowing things about Allen when he knew so little of her and when he didn't know she knew about him.

"The City has a way of making things come out even when you don't mean to share them. It's a hard place to have secrets. I've gotten a little better at talking about some of it. Some of it is just awkward to bring up. Like..." She looks at Allen. "You know about the City!dead, right? People who arrived from their own worlds after dying there? Or people who died while they were here."

"Mm, you told me about the City!Dead when I first arrived here." Allen still didn't like that idea, didn't like how the deities treated life and death with such triviality... Where was Euphie going with this? He was getting a good idea, but what Euphie had told him about the City!Dead people didn't match with her. Her skin wasn't cold, he had felt her heart beat when he hugged her close moments ago...

She nodded. It's always hard to remember exactly what she covers with someone when they first arrived. It's usually the same sort of things, but depending on how a conversation goes something could be added or left out.

"Well, I may have also told you that people can make deals with the deities here. One of the deals that could be made is to give something up in exchange for bringing someone back to life." Quickly adds, "Ah, not in the way the Earl does it."

Okay, time to just say it. "When I arrived I was one of the City!dead, but I'm not anymore."

"You- What?" Allen has to take a moment to process that, something like this goes against everything he knows, every moral fibre in his being. Even if she says it's not the same way as the Earl, even if it's so different, he still can't help but feel that same irrational hatred towards the actions of the Deities.

"How... What did you give up? Something this big..."

"I...died in my world when I was sixteen."

She shakes her head. "I didn't. I didn't even know it was happening until I woke up one day and my heart was beating again. I thought maybe it was a curse, but no one else was talking about it and then midnight came and I was still alive. I didn't know a friend of mine made the trade until much later. He gave up his ability to fight for a time."

"I'm sorry." Allen pulls Euphie close again, hugging her. "I'm sorry you had to go through that. Your friend..." Giving up the ability to fight? And only temporarily? That sounds a little too easy to Allen, and he's sure there must be something more to it than that, but it isn't his place to press that issue. Euphie didn't even know, now wasn't the time to upset her more by pushing delicate matters. He would investigate into deals with the deities later.

"He sounds like a very good friend." Did this mean Euphie could go back to her world alive? Or was it only in effect whilst she stayed in the City? Allen almost didn't want to know the answer.

"It's...it's okay Allen. I've had time to get used to the idea." But she is still grateful for the hug which she returns.

"He is a good friend. He...left the City a little while ago."

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