[fic]Will to Live

[vikki.livejournal.com]

This fic is an expansion on a thought that hit me at 1000 mph before work.

Title: Will to Live
by vikki
Characters: Lelouche, Suzaku
Summary: There are consequencses to Lelouche's actions. Spoilers for eps 18-20.



"Suzaku, live!" Lelouche commanded, and Suzaku obeyed.

It's nearly 60 years since everything. Euphemia has passed away; Lelouche is an old man. Suzaku lies before him, his breathing labored, tubes leading in and out of his arms and nose and under his hospital gown. He is white, so white, his hair gone, his skin stretched over frail bone.

Cancer, the doctors had said. Nothing we can do. They had given Suzaku six months to live.

It's been five years.

"Lelouche," Suzaku murmurs. His lips barely move, and his crusted eyes slit open. Lelouche leans forward. He has been there for all of it, from beginning to end. Suzaku is his best friend. "Lelouche, let me die." His hand twitches in supplication.

Lelouche bears it wearily, taking Suzaku's hand. There is nothing he can do. He's tried everything. When he turned up the morphine drip lethally, Suzaku merely slipped into a coma and emerged more ill than before. He is not to be recessitated, but his heart gamely beats on. No matter what he wishes, Suzaku will not die, and Lelouche can do nothing.

The Geass only works once on a person.

Suzaku's irises are red-rimmed twenty-four hours a day. And he will live through everything, until there is nothing left.

fin

dialogue

in all seriousness, I wonder about the Geass. Take the girl that Lelouche has ordered to make scratches on a particular wall every day. What would happen if, for some reason, she were unable to obey? She can never leave the vicinity of that school, because she must obey the Geass. Say she took a trip for a week? Would the Geass compell her to come back to the school every day, come hell or high water, and make the mark?

So far it appears that the Geass can compell people to do everything in their physical power to obey - Jeremiah is an example. So ... anyway. Thoughts are appreciated.

Comments

[clamp-hikari.livejournal.com]

lol same thing I've been wondering. Well I guess you can always shoot the person to death? by cutting his head off?

I want to be geassed like "Be the smartest person in the world!" or "be immortal!"

Then again, I just want the ability of Geass. which one should adapt to me I wonder: command, mind-reading, future sight, or super strengh (so far the types revealed)

[whitedestiny1x2.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. God. Wow.

[nayami.livejournal.com]

You and my brother must share a brain because he brought up this very same topic the other day when we were joking about Suzaku's live command. I'm not sure if it holds water thought since Geass is essentially mind control. I think if Suzaku were rendered unconscious, the effect wouldn't work. With Jeremiah, he was specifically ordered to save Lelouch and Suzaku "with all his strength." It was a different level of command. Suzaku's is simply to protect himself from dying. So I'm not sure he could physically fight off cancer, but it is something to ponder nonetheless.

I'm more concerned about the carving girl. Your points on her frighten me.

About the fic, so depressing. I enjoyed.

[loqi.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, Vikki, I meet you everywhere. XD How are you? (In case you don't remember, I'm that kid who bugged you about your Lotr future-fic.)

Your question reminds me of Death Note, where they created a whole bunch of rules on how much the owner of the Note can manipulate a person before he/she dies. For example, one cannot die in Paris in less than an hour if that person is in Tokyo at that moment.

But Geass is a lot more fleixble I think in that Lelouch can still modify his commands ie. continue control that person, as long as the person is still under Geass. So that girl may never leave the vicinity of the school, or will always come back to school at least once a day, unless Lelouch tells her "You can take go off for a week and come back later to continue drawing crosses".

I'm wondering about what happens to that girl after the Geass though. Will she remember anything at all from the days when she has to draw crosses? Or will she only forget the part where she has to draw crosses everyday?

[herongale]

It's awesome seeing you in my new anime fandom/ obsession. ♥

[sai-rin.livejournal.com]

This does prompt me to think deeper into the results of the Geass' power. It's kind of disturbing to think about it, especially for that schoolgirl. I wonder if it's possible for Lelouch to change his command?

[tatooine.livejournal.com]

I've thought about this and come to the conclusion that Lelouch is a jackass.

Then again, I'm hoping that Geass will work in kinder ways. Certainly, it leaves the Geassed person with some sense of free will, so I'm hoping that, say, in the case of the carving girl, she'll start to think "Oh, well, I want to be a teacher here..." and decide not to go on those sorts of trips.