This shouldn’t be happening. This place had been EVACUATED, hadn’t it? Already, the wheels are turning in his head, trying to decipher how much could’ve been overheard between himself and Jeremiah just now ---- what is he even supposed to FEAR the revelation of first? He’d called himself both of those names, hadn’t her ; ( ZERO ) & ( LELOUCH VI BRITANNIA ), all in the same breath. He wants to think he’s made of stone, too aged in the short year he’s spent at the head of this war for him to having shaking hands and a panicked heart, but that’s not the case. He’s still a human beneath his calculative persona, beneath the mask of the one who leads this revolution.
Even that wouldn’t have mattered, though. Every time he’s been caught by her in the past, stuck in an endless limbo of trying to remove himself from her life and memories, he’s found himself frozen all the same, staring at her with the same astonished, frightened even, look.
❛ Shirley!” What is he supposed to do? Play naive? Attempt to use his geass again? In the end, he’s stuck there, brows furrowed, thoughts relentless. “What . . . why are you here? It’s not safe, the terrorists are—”